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| Attention Knoxville area: Battle of the Bands @ CatalystBattle of the bands finals are this Saturday at 2pm at the Catalyst in Knoxville. Our own Mercury Griffin will be there with the rest of HateSickLive. They sound pretty wicked - and hell, the drinks are pretty cheap, so they'll sound even better - so come on and show some support. | | |
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| uh ohOur ab and back machine suffered from a meltdown. Specifically, one of the welds broke, and the metal was torn pretty badly. We'd been using the hell out of it, so unfortunately that's not surprising. Bear managed to fix and reinforce it, as she used her powers of unbelievable awesomeness on it - plus a couple of blood sacrifices - so we're good to go for now. I won't be able to use it on maximum resistance, but hey, I'm not complaining. I'll just have to do a hundred more reps to get the proper burn. I'm using the weight vest again for push ups. Started back at 20 extra pounds to give my joints a chance to acclimate. I'll be using it at that weight for stances soon enough. Continuing seeing progress with stretching. I'm almost more flexible (hah) than I was before I got out of shape. My tendons tend to the steel cable variety so that's pretty amazing for me. I still need to work a crapload on back flexibility, but the legs, they're getting better. I hit 30 mph on 4th resistance, actually a little bit over but I'm only counting whole numbers. That's about it. | | |
| PocoLately I've been thinking that while Python's got its standard bag of goodies, as does Java, PHP, Perl, and C#, C++ has been missing out on a lot of love from the community. Granted, it has the Standard Template Library, and that's great for what it is, but after using the higher level languages so much, it felt like something was missing. However, thanks to some judicious digging around, I've found that there's a spiffy library (set of libraries, really) out there called Poco. It's basically attempting to be a treasure chest of things any programmer will have to deal with (database access, socket handling, configuration file parsing, et al), and providing a pretty nice interface for it. Whereas Boost provides handy idioms and tools to build the tools you need for an application, this is more along the lines of "inherit, override, compile, and go!". Kind of like Python or PHP, really. (: | | |
| progress? finallyClosing in on 30 mph with level three resistance. I'll be increasing the resistance soon - which of course will drop the numbers for a little while, but damn, it's nice. Essentially, once I hit the max resistance, 8 or 10, I forget, it'll be the equivalent of reaching that speed at a 90 degree incline. Yeah, I'm pushing it again. Really pushing. Though a tad more carefully than before, if that makes sense. I'm going to be starting my stances in a couple of weeks. I don't know if it'll be with or without added weight, yet, but it's going to hurt, either way. Prior to starting, and after finishing working out, I've been using that leg stretcher. I'm really seeing results from it. Even when I stretched every day, I couldn't get that much out of it. Maybe it's psychological, like I'm focusing more on it, or maybe it's physical, and it just doesn't let me be a bitch about stretching. I don't know. At any rate, it's helping a crapload. Bear is being extremely supportive. I know I'm sometimes, well, frankly psychotic when it comes to achieving goals, especially when it comes to working out. She's helped so much, I just honestly don't know how to convey it. Suffice it to say, I couldn't have gotten to the point I have without her. | | |
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