I understand that GATTACA.com promises “four to six weeks” to get my genome analysis done. However, I also know for a *fact* that I sent my spit by second day air, like, a billion days ago … and also that the machine only takes three days to run, max!
Comeoncomeoncomeoncomeoncomeoncomeon!
Woke up at 6 this morning to take
“Masters” – 30 and up, open. We jokingly referred to ourselves as the “geritol” division. I took DFL (from a field of 4)
“Seniors” – 18 and up, novice, with a nice small weight class of four. I won zero of my matches. On the other hand, I did get props from the crowd for toughing through a nasty lapel strangle to drag the guy out of bounds. The idea was that I would get (at most) a small penalty for retreating … rather than getting choked out and losing the match (not to mention consciousness).
No serious injuries, although I do have a bruise on my neck.
Does anyone else ever come home from a night on the town, and find yourself under the glass table, looking up at your cat … who is looking down at you, scornfully?
capital_l and technolope, you know I’m looking at you here.
Pictures of a recent exhibition at the Hirshhorn gallery of art made using only a single piece of paper. As
And then there’s LOLcats:
I have a couple of public beatings scheduled for the next few days:
On Sunday, I plan to enter the Mass State Judo Championships. I’m eligible in two divisions: Seniors (over 17) and Masters (over 30). The seniors will be, by far, the larger division, so there will be subdivisions by skill level. I will most assuredly be a novice. Masters will all be older guys. On the positive, we omit the aggressive and uncontrolled 18 year old wrestlers. On the negative, I’ll be up against the entire spectrum of competitors.
My sensei advised me to enter both. He says that the masters crowd will be more fun to work with and have greater overall control so I’ll learn a lot. Conversely, I have a chance of winning at least a few matches in the senior novices.
Then on Tuesday, a unique opportunity has presented itself. Dan was contacted by the local branch of ABC (channel 6). They’re doing a little series on ‘how to protect yourself.’ The first two episodes were about escaping a burning building and something similar. The third will be on “self defense,” for the special case of “someone jumps you in a parking lot.”
I’m to be the punching dummy. I’ll don the padded suit and get thrown around.
It’s going to be an awesome week.
My renewed cello is amazing. I find it effortless to light up those wonderful low registers, and the tuning just seems easier to hold true.
That said, when I was in high school I could easily play for two hours before my hands got really tired. Now, it’s maybe 15 minutes.
On the other hand, in high school I couldn’t run a mile without walking in the middle. Now I take my workouts in two hour chunks.
Things change, I suppose.
The “renewed” cello works.
Yesssssssss, it works quite nicely, it does.
Remember folks: There is no such thing as privacy on the internet.
I took my cello to the shop yesterday, and it was good.
Email me if:
(a) you’re an amazing network / sysadmin, able to set up a Force10 network and a Linux environment for a major research shop in about 2 months.
(b) you’re available to go to Basel Switzerland for about 2 months, oh, now-ish.