January 2011
5 posts
The Unique Benefits of Low-Intensity Training
Sometimes you read something that fundamentally changes your thinking. I’ve been working through Sally Edwards’s “Heart Rate Monitor Guidebook to Heart Zone Training,” and have learned a lot. I found one passage so interesting that I’ll transcribe it here. (She is describing the heart rate zone where you are at 60-70% of your maximum, and exercise is moderate but...
Referendum to form new nation of Southern Sudan... →
In a month filled with huge events in Africa (Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt), this may be the most consequential. Here’s hoping that independence will better the lives of the Southern Sudanese.
“When I hate my machines, I “hate” them with the quotation marks...”
– Tycho of Penny Arcade, discussing the frustrations and joys of tinkering. I can relate to this.
"Dense ranking" is aptly named
One of my pet peeves is when someone puts together a ranked list, and when they can’t decide between two items, they call a tie, but then don’t skip a number after the tie.
For example, I just ran into this list of the top 5 fried chicken shops in Chicago, where the critic gives two restaurants the tie for first, but then goes on and names a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. This is of course...
