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Chapter Select!

Lauren
3 rounds of:

- 5 pullups
- 5 KB Snatches (each arm)
- 10 pushups
- 5 pullups
- 5 push jerks
- 10 box jumps

 

So I was talking to a buddy of mine today, about games and stuff.  And inevitably, I was talking about how I never have time to play games anymore, and I can hardly bare getting started on a new one because I hate leaving a story in the middle.  Then it hit me.  Why can’t I? 

If I popped a DVD in, you get a nice little “chapter select” menu that lets you skip to wherever in the movie you want!  And movies only last 2 hours!  Now, imagine I just put in a video game, which I paid $60 plus tax for.  I’m starting at the beginning.  Now I’m bored.  I want to get to the end then go do something else.  But I can’t.  Some designer decided that I should level grind for 200 hours in order to see the end.  So instead of doing that, I turn the game off and do something else.  So now what happens?  I’m pissed off because I paid $60 for a product that won’t let me do anything!

Had I put the aforementioned DVD in, I’d have watched the scene where the kid fucks the pie, then put it away and been satisfied!  If it were an album, I’d skip to the tracks that I wanted to listen to, then put something else on.  Even if it were a book, I’d be able to flip to the middle if I wanted.  Granted, I probably wouldn’t flip to the middle of a book, but I could if I wanted to. 

Video games are simultaneously the most expensive pieces of consumer art you can buy, and by far the most limiting.  Look, if you want to reward people who play through every side quest with some gamer points or custom avatars or whatever, go for it.  But if your game is story based, then I want the option to skip to parts of it!  I don’t care if that’s a violation of your “artistic vision”!  Shove your artistic vision up your ass!  If I can get the core experience of a game in a fraction of the time, it seems to me it’s better to give me that and keep me happy, then have me experience only the first level, not get any story, and be a pissed off customer!

Prizes for the first team to publish a game with said feature!

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UPS

"Chuck Norris Jr."

For time:
25 Box jump, 24 inch box
25 Jumping pull-ups
25 Kettlebell swings, 1 pood
Walking Lunge, 25 steps
25 Knees to elbows
25 Push press, 45 pounds
25 Back extensions
25 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball
25 Burpees
25 Double unders

 

I hate UPS.  That is all.

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Learning Styles

"Lifting Curricula"
3 Deadlift
3 Sumo Deadlift High Pull
3 Push Press
3 Front Squat
3 Thruster
3 Hang Power Clean
3 Hang Squat Clean
3 Overhead Squat
3 Push Jerk
3 Hang Snatch

- Go through that entire set of exercises 5 times.  For time.

 

Now, I noticed an interesting phenomenon the other day, as I was sitting in my multimedia class:  We had a guest lecturer in that day, since our regular prof was off on a conference.  The guy that came in was a generic, quiet, little Chinese guy.  And I noticed something.  Something important.  But let me back up.

This is a class I’ve been doing pretty well in, and I love going to lectures usually, because our prof is hilarious.  He’s this bearded old stoner guy with analogies to Frank Zappa and coffee and things that don’t seem to make any sense.  But somehow I get it.  He’ll "yada, yada" past mathy stuff, just giving you the meat of how something works, and keeping it interesting.  But that guest lecturer made me realize that that approach doesn’t work for everybody.  Apparently our midterm was one of the most poorly answered in years.

Now back to the guest lecturer:  A large chunk of the class is Chinese students on exchange.  And of course, this generic little Chinese guy turned to face the black board, and in the same generic monotone voice typical to this type of professor, he proceeded to grind out in excruciating detail the mathematical definition of the extended Huffman algorithm.  Only this time, when he asked questions of the class, the quiet Chinese kids raised their hands to answer and I found myself completely lost.  Opposite to the situation I usually find myself in.

Then I realized: Fuck!  Maybe the difference in getting an A in a course, and thoroughly understanding the material, and barely scraping by with a C- is just the way it’s taught!  It’s unfortunate, but most classes in Computer Science are taught by boring monotone dudes who love formal definitions.  And unfortunately, I can’t foresee this changing, as the audience is primarily quiet nerdy kids who learn from those formal definitions.

It reminds me of a discussion with Patterson:  Somebody, it might have been Tweety, wrote something down, and when somebody else, let’s say Greasy, looked at it, he was like, "What the fuck is this?"  And Patterson goes, "Hold on there Greasy, this is making sense to Tweety here.  What were seeing is an example of how the Tweety brain processes information.  And it’s gonna be different than how the Ant’s brain works or how the Greasy brain works."

Now if only I could make myself care about mathematical definitions…

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MeeboMe Widget done!

Now you can talk to me via the MeeboMe widget (see the sidebar) when I’m online!  If you want a copy for your website, you can Download Here.

In theory, you’d extract it to your wordpress/wp-content/plugins/widgets directory (It requires the "sidebar widgets" plugin).  Note that it’s currently not really supported, but feel free to give it a try.

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Test Post

Testing ressurecting my blog.

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Disconnect!

As of Friday, I will officially be offline! I’m handing my modem back to the interweb company, and will be done work. This means that if you want to get in touch with me, please send mail to my cell phone.

See you all back in Canada-land!

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On Periodicity and Programmers

“Libery loving, social and independent thinking [is created] by strengthening the degenerated muscle groups of the body, thus liberating man from the shackles of an environment that made him feeble, that allowed his muscles, and consequenty his mental vigor, to decay.”

- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

So, I’ve got two weeks left till I leave Japan and return to the land of maple syrup and hockey hosers, and I’ve got some mixed feelings… which I won’t bore you with. Instead, we’ve got some stories about Japanese office wierdness for you to digest.

First, let me mention the “Diet King”. Our office occasionally has contests / activities to keep people from being bored out of their minds. The most recent of which is termed “Diet King”, and as you may imagine, the goal of this contest is to loose as much weight in 3 months as possible. Now normally, I’ve got no problem with people wanting to loose weight / get in shape in general, in fact, I strongly encourage it. This contest on the other hand, isn’t about getting people healthy, it’s about loosing weight at all costs, which isn’t just counter-productive, it’s also dangerous.

Japanese people are already pretty skinny, and I think it’s due to the diet (a buddy of mine lost 16kg after moving to Japan and doing nothing special). I consider myself to be in excellent shape, weighing 70kg, and for instance, getting 3 muscle ups in a row just recently. (Which comes after my 10 day vacation. Pictures up in the Gallery.) Though, for some reason, in Japan, “health” isn’t based on overall fitness, but on your weight and your waistline exclusively. The free tape measure I got from my gym told me I was bordering on having “Metabolic Syndrome”, and the bioelectric body fat measuring bathroom scale told me I’m 22% body fat, which is bordering on obesity. Now either I’m in complete denial about what a fat ass I am, or the methodology is flawed (Occam’s Razor be damned!)

Back to the contest, a friend of mine is participating, and it’s worrying. He weighs in at 65kg, a full 5kg less than me, and claims he would like to lose about 2 or 3kg. He also doesn’t want to go to the gym, because “muscle adds weight”. The whole thing frustrates me. I’m completely unable to convince anybody to be reasonable…

*sigh* Programmers have no common sense…

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Watch for Falling Objects

Greetings!  And salutations!  Sorry for the mess, I’m actively renovating my site, so it’s kind of in a state of disarray.

Well, it’s been a long time since I actually posted on anything, really, since life has been pretty slow.  And really (as mentioned by Japanmanship) you run out of things to say about Japan.  Okay, it seems pretty normal at first.  Then it’s goofy.  Then you get used to it.

So, after some deliberation, I’ve decided to make this blog a spot for me to talk about technical topics, which, as another of my friends pointed out, will never run out.  As for “technical”, since I am more than one kind of nerd, I can intersperse my ramblings of .NET classes with stuff about proper snatch technique! 

Can I have an award for most obscure blog ever? 

To kick things off, I’ll simply mention that I’m pulling “AudioSphere” out of the closet, since I’ve got some good ideas about stuff I can do with it!  Stay tuned for updates on that!

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Test

Testing stuff.  Apologies for any inconvenience.

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Garbage Day..?!

As I’m sure you all have gathered, Japan is full of wonderful innovations from the future that make everybody’s lives easier.  Things are done more efficiently, and everybody is happy.  Rainbows.  Well, apparently they make an exception for garbage day.

The sign on the wall of my apartment building says that garbage will be collected at 10:00 on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday (different days being for different types of garbage).  That sign is a lie.  Never one to do things much before a deadline, I usually put out my garbage at about 9:30 on my way to work.  Now, if they actually collected garbage at 10:00, that wouldn’t be a problem, but they seem to think it’s more fun to keep people on their toes…  Some days they like to come at 8:00 or 9:00, just so I have to keep my garbage for an additional week.  Sometimes they came at 11:00 or 12:00, and that’s fine, then I’ve got lot’s of time.  And sometimes I think they just don’t come at all.

For a country that lists the time it takes to climb Mt. Fuji to the second, you’d think the garbage men could at least keep their schedule to a few hours!  Jerks!

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