CrossFit 2013-06-03
Back squats, going deep
* 9-9-6-5-3-1-1
* 40-50-60-60-62-65-70kg
Dessert
* 25 wallballs 12#
Benjamin Espen
How English Sounds to Non-English Speakers
This is comprised of actual English words in random order, but once someone told me English sounds like "sss-sss-ssss" to Chinese people, and it seems true to me, we often accentuate our "s" sounds. Now that's all I hear.
CrossFit 2013-05-29
The Longest Mile
* 1/4 mile run
* 25 pushups
* 1/4 mile run
* 25 kettlebells [20 kg]
* 1/4 mile run
* 70m lunge lap
* 1/4 mile run
Time 13:20
Last time 14:10
Best time 12:50
Dessert
* 10 kipping pullups
Simple Reaction Time Data
There has been a story trending recently in the news about the Victorians being cleverer than us. I've been following this story since Bruce Charlton broke it in February of 2012. I've never been that impressed, but I've thought about looking up the data
CrossFit 2013-05-20
Christine
3 rounds
* 500m row
* 12 deadlifts [50 kg]
* 21 box jumps [20"]
Time 16:51
Last time 15:50
The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling Book Review
by S. M. Stirling
$7.99; 483 pages
I picked up this book [Amazon link] because Stirling co-authored several of the books collected in The Prince with Jerry Pournelle. I hadn't ever read a solo work by Stirling, so I was curious. I have had mixed success with
This is totally not Evangelion
And I want to see it