8/1/10 - WOD

1 Mile
20 Burpees

1 Mile
20 Burpees

1 Mile
20 Burpees
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US drinking rate climbs up

Boy Scouts trying to evolve

7/8/10 - WOD

Burpee Broad Jumps Around the Entire Block

- try not to look as silly as this dude does

- and my ROUTE

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Soccer In America

Symphonies - Dan Black

Excited that I had "discovered" a quality track, I played the Dan Black song for my sister and my dad expecting them to enjoy the phat beats as much as I did. Much to my chagrin, they gave it pretty lukewarm reviews - perhaps more positive then their actual opinion because I had billed it as "sick" (not sure if my dad knows what "sick" means, but he pretended). It made me wonder why some people enjoy certain songs and artists and others hate them. There certainly is a bit of cultural baggage associated with songs/artists (see Lady Gaga: people either love or hate her; some people might actually enjoy her songs but hate what she represents, namely the union of music and image - kinda reminds me of Andre Agassi and his combination of tennis and image - "Image is Everything" - which peaked with this commercial, these jorts, and that mullet. Cultural baggage can ruin an entire branch of music for someone. At risk of associating with Nascar fans (sidebar: apparently Nascar is freaking popular. However, I do not know a single person that follows it. Nascar fans, where are you? If you do not live in Kansas, where could you possibly reside?), I restrict my country music library solely to Johnny Cash, and he is protected by the label "classic rock." I hate country music; I like to think this loathing is due to the actual crappiness of the music - Big and Rich, Rascal Flatts - but undoubtedly the hillbilliness of country music has some role (sidebar: I have worked more manual labor jobs than about every single person graduating from an Ivy League University so before someone accuses me of being a Yankee, let it be known I have landscaped, painted, cleaned, and put tiny boxes into bigger boxes full-time... I've done as much blue-collar work as anyone who has not devoted their life to it).
Another interesting thing - yeah, thing - about music is that within the first 3 seconds of turning a song on, I can tell if I like it. When I am driving, I can switch through radio stations seemingly faster than it should be possible to recognize what I'm listening to.
Our snap judgments for music seem to be on the money. Interestingly, our snap judgments about food, TV, shows, and people - when a decision for a person is based on interaction - are almost always correct.

6/30/10 - WOD

100 Burpee Pull Ups

Tabata:

Run

Tabata: 20 seconds SPRINT SPRINT SPRINT; 10 seconds REST REST REST; 8 sets
It should go something like this: SPRINT-REST, SPRINT-REST, SPRINT-REST, SPRINT-REST, SPRINT-REST, SPRINT-REST, SPRINT-REST, SPRINT-REST.

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"I go to the same place to write almost every day. I don't bring a cell phone. I don't take an iPod. My mind is thrown on its own resources. I make a little deal with myself. I say, just get five pages out. Five pages, and that's it. You're done. Of course I'll get to five pages and always want to write a little bit more, but without that quota, I'd have a hard time even starting. It used to be that I would work on something new in the daytime and then I would rewrite and work on something new at night, but those were the days when I drank a lot. There was a lot of liquid energy and Bolivian marching powder. " - Stephen King

DAILY AFFIRMATION

6/21/10 - WOD

For Time:

100 Burpees
100 Situps
50 Pushups
50 Dips

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Yin: Jersey Shore Season 2 Preview

Yang: Unknowable Unkowns

RUFIO

WOD - 6/16/10

Tabata:
10 yard shuffles
Dips
Burpees
Sit up/Push up Alternating

Tabata = 4 minutes total of an exercise, 20 seconds of high intensity followed by 10 seconds of rest. The key to it is pushing yourself to the limit. SPRINT!!!!!

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The Real Life Lone Ranger

BRING THE WORLD CUP TO THE USA

ESPN snapshot of USA's bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cups

WOD - 6/13/10

A bit late on this one but it's cool.

Tabata each of these:
Burpees
Sit Ups
Squats
Push Ups

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I can't tell if the World Cup is good or bad for me. On one hand, I am unemployed and able to enjoy every game (which I, happily/sadly have). On the other, I am unemployed and am watching every game, as opposed to job searching.