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07/18/2011 20:50 #54734

Neverending Web App lists.
Category: i-tech
I was looking up the sheer number of "distraction-free writing" applications and software that exist today when I came across this
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What a hoot!

I never realized that there were as many or even more App review sites and listing sites as there are apps themselves... It's amazing how fast they have sprung up everywhere. There are so many of them that you can make a list of the listings of web apps. For eg.

and a million others. The list just goes on.

Hell, I just created one here.

07/17/2011 23:49 #54726

Wachet Auf!
Category: music
Love this version...

metalpeter - 07/18/11 17:40
That is way to calm it reminds me of Like master piece Theater that I don't watch.... Would be good with right electric guitar though! Ok also reminds me a bit of Bugs Bunny as well... Very Soothing....

07/17/2011 22:21 #54724

Armstrong 170711
Category: goals
Day 1: 17x
Reason for stopping: Arm exhaustion
Status: My arms hurt like crazy. I can't even type this properly. I am wondering if this is a wise idea. OUCH. I am not entirely sure I have the right form. I need to check with my department-mate about this tomorrow.

NB: Hmm... can't tell if this journal format is working.
metalpeter - 07/19/11 16:58
good point I think core means trunk but does it include hips and any of the back is it really just abs???? How far up the sides does it go?
tinypliny - 07/18/11 22:21
They call EVERYTHING core nowadays. I think that term is so overused it has lost it's meaning. I am not even sure what is NOT core anymore.
metalpeter - 07/18/11 18:06
Upper Body strength is so much more then just arms but I'm thinking the push ups are a good place to start........ Shoulder and chest and I assume what they now call "core"......

tinypliny - 07/18/11 11:16
Wow - thanks so much for linking that (e:heidi). Its very useful. I need to improve my form today.
heidi - 07/18/11 00:27
Modified pushups: :::link:::

07/17/2011 20:59 #54722

For, Brutus is an honourable man...
Category: the odes
I memorized this speech back in the day.


Resounds in my head to this day, at the most inopportune moments.

07/17/2011 14:33 #54716

Project Armstrong
Category: goals
(E:strip) has sort of changed for me in the past couple months as more of a personal referencing and note-taking environment. (e:Paul) told me that wildcard searching and grepping could be a likely feature in the near future, so I am pretty excited about how else I can push (e:strip)'s limits.

I started some experimentation with establishing habits through journalling a couple years back but that wasn't so very successful. My "goals" category is littered with decapitated angels of change. I think I murdered them all because I lacked the correct motivation. I think I have it now. The thing is I tried the urdhva dhanurasana just now and could not repeat the success at yoga class from last week. So frustrating! And I pretty much know why. I really really really would like some functional muscles on my arms. They are weak and a complete disgrace to the 13,550,471,400+ human arms on the planet. They have no muscle definition and look like they were grafted on me from an early 1700s graveyard-spare-bones-and-cadavers-department.

So push ups it is. At 10:13 PM everyday, as many push-ups as I can do in 5-10 minutes. (I can't do a "real" push-up yet so I am going to start with push-ups-on-my-knees.)

Of course, now how does (e:strip) come into it? I am not sure yet... maybe a post checking in on success or failure immediately after I finish the task? They say that if you keep it up for 21 days, a habit is established (personally, I think that is such tripe... but I could be wrong. I kind of want to be wrong on this one.) Who wants to be in my accountability peanut gallery and throw rocks? Or better still, does someone else have a 10:13 or even 10:31 goal they want to implement? Brush your teeth every night, perhaps?

A single push-up for me, a giant floss for you? It's project Armstrong!

See you around 10:30-ish.

metalpeter - 07/19/11 16:56
One of the reasons I think you can get there is I've seen this group called the Peking Acrobats and maybe some other group on TV somewhere. The body control they have is amazing things where like they walk on there hands and get them to go past there feet and then raise up the feet and balance (of course starting at age infant helps the body learn all of that).... Yes everyone has certain abilities and strengths and weaknesses ...... But those can be improved and worked on .... Now where the limit is whom knows really
tinypliny - 07/18/11 22:20
Thanks, (e:metalpeter). You are probably the one who thinks I will get *there*. Wish I had your confidence. ;-)
metalpeter - 07/18/11 17:24
I wish you luck with this..... What ever the task is learning to crawl, walk, ride a bike, walk a balance beam once you don't once means you can do it but mastery and making it so you can do it all the time is something else.... You will get there.....
tinypliny - 07/17/11 15:14
YOU ARE BACK. At the risk of sounds ever so stalkerish... OMG, YOU ARE BACK. I have missed you.
paul - 07/17/11 14:56
You should take pictures of your arms so we can watch them grow.