Slow days. Somewhat malaised this week after binging Cyberpunk Edgerunners; hard not to see its particular flavor of bleak mirrored quite strongly in my actual life.
I would like to retract the comments made in my previous post and apologize; I think the smartphone tripod mount I first acquired was unusually substandard, and made me believe that tripod mounts in general were more unaccommodating to different phone thicknesses than they actually are. I have since picked up a tripod smartphone mount that isn't garbo, and it fits my phone, bulky case and all, just fine. Sorry to anyone who may have been hurt by my statements.
Not sleeping too well, for no reason. Not exercising as much as we should; we only have 5 or so years in our physical prime to build cruel strength and we're not doing it. We have so much free time and use so little of it productively. I've said this before probably, but we really need to get to work.
We have (I think) secured new roommate; we have successfully signed up for internet service since the downstairs neighbor we share internet with is moving out, despite Verizon goofing my order. We have applied for Biden's new student loan IDR, although I think I read that its validity is being challenged in court, which bodes ill; fuck off republicans and let me get my student loan cancelled i ain't even go to an ivy league. What can you do.
We have aggravated something in our thumb and are rehabbing it with a bunch of theraputty work; pullup issue is something in the lat/shoulder at the bottom of the pullup/top of the row, when the hand is pulled to the ribs. Doing a bunch of band pulldowns to rectify and it feels like things are going alright.
Putting this out bec I am not trying to lose weight; the other recipes I've seen are geared toward that and tend to generate smaller meals than I'd like. I personally like OMAD as a timesaver instead - you spend minimal time in the kitchen, you needn't do dishes all the damn time, etc - so calorie cutting I don't need.
They say you reveal who you are via what you ask the oracle, and google is hell closer than Delphi.
To that end, I have recently searched for all the following:
We track habit data in a Google spreadsheet; we link the spreadsheet to Beeminder via IFTTT to enforce completion of this habit or another. We keep forgetting how to set it up, so, for posterity:
They say you reveal who you are via what you ask the oracle, and google is hell closer than Delphi.
To that end, I have recently searched for all the following:
Declaring overall project a tentative success. I started Horror Film Every Day October to toughen myself up; I was convinced that horror films were good art, that I was missing out on by being soft. Not soft anymore. Granted nonzero I just picked weak films this year, but I don't think it's the films. It's me. I am tougher. It is harder for a film to hit me with the Mike Tyson punch of fear now; I may never watch something and be afraid of the dark for a week ever again and I gotta stop being disappointed by that. Gotta make a point of evaluating horror films based on more than their raw ability to terrify/disgust me. Unfortunately didn't realize this until late in the month. Most of my notes on the below films are something to the effect of 'not raw; failed to terrify'; pretty much everything (especially the older 'classic' stuff) deserves a rewatch with a more calibrated state of mind.
Once upon a time I was a kid in high school. I had to take notes for class; in a couple years I'd have to take more notes for more class for college. If I could write faster I could take better notes. If I could write fast enough I could take down a whole lecture verbatim; no information lost. Ultimate note taking. How do I write faster? Think: information dense writing systems.
Read this a while ago. I personally don't know much about Alwyn Cosgrove, and I'd heard of only one or two of the people he interviews in this, but I know the strength and conditioning world is vast and I'm not plugged into it. I've heard good things about Cosgrove from Steve Bechtel and that is good enough for me to assume these people know their stuff somewhat.
This is a set of calculators about hangboarding edge sizes, converting between them and the like. All the math is based on the equations in this study; I wrote more about how I derived everything.
Use note: sometimes these equations will spit out answers that don't really make sense, e.g. negative reps. Checking 'sensible outputs' mitigates that as follows:
It's the card game Memory, but the cards are all falling through the air. You have to stop them from falling while you play. The card designs are inspired by Aesop Rock's old Snapchat stories; they had a similar witchy feel.