Monochromatic Outlook

Today I want to find my max heartrate.

I’m read­ing a book about fit­ness myths, and the author cites the “220 minus your age” for­mu­la for deter­min­ing maxHR as one that has neb­u­lous roots in sci­ence. She cites a 2001 arti­cle in the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Car­di­ol­o­gy that says 208 minus age times 0.7 is more accu­rate, but can pro­duce results only accu­rate to plus or minus thir­ty beats per minute.

So since I’m thir­ty-four, my max­i­mum … Read the rest

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Oh yes, please noti­fy me when new works by Homer are released.… Read the rest

OK, so if I were meant to fly, God would have giv­en me wings, right?

And if God had want­ed me to be attrac­tive, healthy, and ath­let­ic, He would have pro­vid­ed me with the means to afford run­ning shoes and shorts, and three bicy­cles and would let me live in a beau­ti­ful city with a nice cli­mate, full of oth­er run­ners and cyclists to keep me company.

I guess I just have to wait, huh?

Lamen­ta­tion—Deleri­um… Read the rest

Just once in my life­time I would like to see a piece of open-source soft­ware with doc­u­men­ta­tion that bears even slight resem­blance to the soft­ware it pur­ports to doc­u­ment. JUST ONCE.

In par­tic­u­lar I’ve wast­ed a day and a half on a MySQL instal­la­tion. The docs say that the default instal­la­tion has no pass­word for the root user, and yet I run up against “ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: ‘root@localhost’ (Using pass­word: NO)”. Of course there’s all sorts of … Read the rest

It’s been a tough week. One more day and I think I get a three day week­end. That’s a good thing.

I’m wear­ing more hats than I like at work, and I’m get­ting spread pret­ty thin. I’m set­ting up a web­serv­er to move our sites to, and as Poindex­ter For­tran likes to say, “beware a pro­gram­mer with a screw­driv­er.” In my case, I’m even far­ther from my core competency.

Today I dein­stalled MySQL 3.23 (I think) and installed 4… Read the rest

Did­n’t get up in time to run this morn­ing, in fact I woke up rather late. I blame the stand­ing in the mid­dle of Mis­sion Street at 3am giv­ing a state­ment to the police for my screwed up sleep. It may be only one fac­tor, but it’s my scape­goat du jour. I made time in the after­noon, and ran three miles.

One inspir­ing moment today was talk­ing to one of the orga­niz­ers of the Pre­sidio Relay I want to run … Read the rest

Melis­sa Auf der Mau­r’s “Taste You” has got to be the best song about a man los­ing an erec­tion I’ve ever heard. I mean, who would have ever guessed you could make a good song out of that?

Taste You—Auf Der Maur… Read the rest

I wore my suit to Rich’s bach­e­lor par­tay tonight. One thing I’m learn­ing is that right after los­ing 50 pounds is prob­a­bly a bad time to have one’s suit altered. It seemed like a great idea at the time, but then after I put 30 of it back on I’m left with a suit that does­n’t fit. Ooops. So I sucked it in and walked around look­ing skin­nier than I deserve to.

But I got­ta say, the light-col­ored shirt unbut­toned … Read the rest