Men's and Women's meet against Penn State yesterday afternoon. Free!
February 28, 2010
February 27, 2010
Not exactly snowbound, but a good workout.
Graph Notes
1. ambitious start
2. chatting with neighbor
3. admiring my mini igloo
4. detailing mini igloo
5. looking at mini igloo and hoping it snows more
Peter, the csv is in the mail. I opted for a 10 second sampling rate to make the graph prettier.
February 22, 2010
February 21, 2010
February 17, 2010
The best seat in all of Columbus
These beer tastings are nuts. Packed house, pizza delivered from down the street, popcorn, candy, a bunch of kids even attended, more than usual. Frankie came with us (we walked). The movies shown on these nights are pretty bad - dreadfully bad, but after a couple hours of beer tasting, a really bad movie is apt. Sunday's feature was the 1991 Clash of the Titans. Absolutely horrible flick, how does Harry Hamlin live with himself? My sincere thanks to the owners for organizing such a great time for the locals.
February 13, 2010
I hope I didn't shave a patch on my chest for nothing
Screaming and kicking through middle age and all the glory that comes with it, I'm taking on the battle against declining metabolism by determining what constitutes a healthy day versus a sedentary-eat-and-ravage-vending-machines day, I've combined a few simple tools and will call on the generosity of friends for the data processing. My simple Polar T1 heart monitor strap (about $50 with wrist monitor) coupled to an Oregon Scientific SmartSync datalogger from Amazon for about $13 (incl shipping -deal!) makes for the perfect tool set with which to wrest the data.
Above is a sample of my heart rate log from about noon to about 3 hours later yesterday; I became obsessed with this (surprise) and took a half day. Obviously, I started out at the gym. I did an interval cardio workout (high heart rate / low heart rate intermittently for about 35 minutes and then a bit of resistance training (to impress the babes) - all about an hour. Then, I took a leisurely remaining couple hours window shopping in thrift stores and then home, where I lost my wireless connection (some logistics to work out).
This was a trial period to see if the logger works. What I plan to do is: assuming my baseline to be about 60-64 beats per minute, I'll make measurments during the middle of the day, 6-8 hours worth, while sedentary (elevator, deskwork, mid-day narcoleptic fits, etc.) followed by several days of taking stairs, parking way far away in parking lots, brisk walks, etc.; simply going out of my way to keep up my heartrate during daily activities and compare the two trials average beats per minute to see how much benefit there is to the daily grind in differnt forms. Weekend mania will always be an outlier and won't be measured.
For data-supported conclusions, I will be calling on my more mathematically inclined better half who laughs at such trivial manipulation of the *.csv files to deliver the numbers.
Should be fun. My chest looks really odd. Thank goodness males do not speak to each other in gym locker rooms.
February 11, 2010
Bad day
Saw this on Olentangy in front of Kroger. Off to the side was a small Ford Focus with a mushed in front. I couldn't figure out how this thing (Liberty, Escape?) ended up like this.
February 10, 2010
February 6, 2010
February 5, 2010
Next month some subtle changes
For some time now, Frankie's site has stopped being updated. I didn't want to continue it for many reasons. However, due to some Google upcoming changes (no ftp support), I have to restructure some things. Frankie's site will be reconstructed into annual slideshows. These should be nice and easy to navigate. The captions will be pulled verbatim from her blog and links to them posted on DavesBeer.com. Changes will be subtle if noticed at all.
February 1, 2010
Miami here we come
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