Training Archive: barbIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-03:
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Saturday Nov 3 | ||
| Bicycling 50:00 [3] | |
| To Melrose.
This was surprisingly hard. I suppose I'm out of shape. I think I've been able to go fairly comfortably in gear 3-4 in the past, on this route. But it felt hard today. | ||
| Walking 40:00 [1] | |
| And some jogging, with Gretchen. She sings and plays banjo for my favorite band and told me that one of the people at that party last week was the girl who got arrested for wearing LED art at Logan airport recently. Gretchen is planning a month-long trip to Spain with her kids next summer. | ||
| Bicycling 45:00 [2] | |
| Home from Gretchen's | ||
Friday Nov 2 | ||
| Bicycling 1:20:00 [3] | |
| Arlington | ||
Thursday Nov 1 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
| school, work. | ||
| Soccer 25:00 [3] | |
| Practice with Isabel's team | ||
Wednesday Oct 31 | ||
| Note | |
| Article about team training and hard work for marathoners | ||
| C • Nova 1 | ||
| Note | |
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Why is it, when you bring up the idea of living forever -- even if robust and healthy, not drooling on your shoes -- some people just recoil viscerally? "It's probably the majority that recoils viscerally," de Grey says. "It's what I call the pro-aging trance. "Since the beginning of civilization, we have been aware that aging is ghastly and that aging is utterly inevitable. . . . So we have two choices. Either we spend our lives being preoccupied by this ghastly future or we find some way to get on with our miserably short lives and make the best of it. "If we do that second thing, which is obviously the right thing to do, then it doesn't matter how irrational that rationalization might be. . . . It could be, well, we're all going to go to heaven. Or it could be, we're going to have overpopulation. Or it could be, it will be boring. Or, dictators will live forever. "It doesn't matter what the answers are. It's so important for them to maintain their belief that aging is actually not such a bad thing, that they completely suspend any normal rational sense of proportion." Washingtpon Post | ||
| C • Link? 3 | ||
Tuesday Oct 30 | ||
| Note | |
| Well, yesterday (Monday) was a really tough day emotionally at home and today was a really tough day emotionally at work so I'm hoping for better for Halloween, though I have to give a presentation. It will be nice when the weekend arrives. I am looking forward to Christmas vacation, and also to retirement. | ||
Sunday Oct 28 | ||
| Bicycling 10:00 [5] | |
| Bike sprints to and, especially, from a party on Putnam, 10:40 pm & midnight.
This was quite a party. It featured my favorite band, people who hugged me, a martini made by Blake, people in costumes, time on the porch under the full moon discussing ecosystems in boxes (ruled by fish or frogs and lizards or praying mantises), mostly much younger people, Brownies, and, yes, a naked guy. He was going as a couch. The woman whose house it was, works for a small computer security company. Her job is not only to advise companies but also to attempt to make breaches in security, including physically. For example, this might involve going to a branch office and pretending to be from the main company's security group, and thus getting into a back office with a manager. Then her colleague makes a disturbance in the lobby, which often draws the manager's attention and maybe the manager and then she can do her thing. What a job! I talked to a kid named Matt (heh) who writes software to control large quadriped pack-robots designed to travel through woods. For a company founded by Marc Raibert who made those really amazing dynamically stable biped (and uniped) robots. There must be a youtube video, let's see... "Raibert developed the first self-balancing hopping robots, a significant step forward in robotics. "... OK, here's the current project, the hardware in Matt's playground: Extremely cool. This is funded by us, the taxpayers, and justified, presumably, as a way to keep the troops supplied out there in the wilderness, in the terrain of small scale but vicious battles. But lovely work nonetheless. Lots of rogaine fantasies enter here. Like, you get to a place with a good view and turn around and ask robo-Fido for a martini, shaken not stirred. Or at a water stop, a warm foot bath and Turkish towel. Good for psyching out the opposition. But mainly, it would be nice for the companionship. Maybe it could replace the other human. More reliable physically; wouldn't argue about the route; programmable curses. Would be nice if it could channel a friend via cell over speaker, so you could have a variety of different old friend companions while you ran, even though they wouldn't be physically with you. Maybe they could know your coordinates and have it displayed real time on a map, and help navigate. You know, rogaine fantasies. Come on, we all have 'em. | ||
| C • Wow 11 | ||
| C • robot 2 | ||