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04/08/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 8 hours
wakeup =  2 PM
bw = 151
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = none
aches = right tennis elbow slightly, ankles barely
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = tired



Food

2 PM

- orange juice
- greek yogurt
- banana



Session: Afternoon

4:30 PM

run to court:
- 3.88 mi in 29:33
- pace: 7:37 min/mi
- ran a bit better than that, probably 3.88 in ~29:03, had ~30s where i forgot to pause my watch.

jumps at court:
- full recovery, about 10 warmup jumps & 10 max jumps L-SLRVJ: a bunch of 10'4"s
- R-SLRVJ: light, just backboard taps
- did some 'full speed runups' into a weak jump

run home:
- 3.96 mi in 32:18
- pace: 8:09 min/mi

jumps felt decent. running feels fairly sluggish, but good in lungs/etc..



Food

6:30 PM

- 2% milk
- almond joy bar



Food

9 PM

- beef + chili bean soup
- a ton of blue corn chips with fresh hot salsa
- pure sugarless green tea
- peanut butter cookie



Food

10 PM

- hot mint tea
- biscotti



Food

5 AM (soon)

- greek yogurt
- banana



trying to run a little faster to the court & back from the court, if I can.. need quality here when I can get it.

bottoms of both feet a bit achy.. plantar fasciae's sore.. quads/calves seems sore too. otherwise, feel pretty good.

got lots done today with coding but, mostly boilerplate stuff.. these boilerplate days suck.. serializing data structures between haskell & purescript etc.. very tedious but, just need to suck it up and get it done.

gn!

osdfksodfk

ya DamienZ made both the dunk icon and squat icon IIRC.. and that's the video it was taken from, the bulgarians squatting - ironmind training hall video.

(hope I didn't get that wrong about the gif, I know he made the dunk one though)

the running one I found online, which was surprising considering how good it is.

nice jump. that court looks like it has good lighting? love good lighting in a wood floor bball gym.

pc!

raptor, give me a few to check that out. at first glance it reminded me of office space, like LBSS said... if you're down for a comedy, that's a great one, check it out.





yesterday: REST


04/06/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 8 hours
wakeup =  2 PM
bw = 152
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = left quad, left heel, upper back
aches = right tennis elbow slightly, left heal
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = wrecked



Food

3 PM

- boston chicken sandwich
- mac and cheese



Food

8 PM

- big bowl of cheerios + 2% milk + honey
- banana
- orange juice



Food

4 AM

- a ton of blue corn chips
- greek yogurt
- grape fruit juice




left heel/quad feel bruised.. right adductor cleared up.

Started officially studying for Network+ today. Reading one chapter a day of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/CompTIA-Network-All-In-One-Edition-N10-006/dp/0071848223

It's 20 chapters. Found a free pdf of it. Already took all of the quiz questions in the book and made flashcards out of them and put them on Quizlet. From there I download into my phone into my Flashcards Deluxe app. That app makes use of spaced repetition to learn better, as in faster and with less effort and time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition). It'll automatically notify me when I need to study old cards again. Automatically asks me questions that I get correct and less often, and vice versa. I used this app for a huge Cyber Security Essentials midterm I had and I got the highest grade in the class. This was last month. Learned about 165 flashcards in just a week. And some of those flashcards were HUGE. Not one word answers. About 40% of them were  3 to 7 sentence answers. Spaced repetition is the truth!

nice!

ya.. i'm a HUGE fan of spaced repetition/flash cards. Most effective and efficient way to drill stuff into a brain IMHO.

So I plan to read this whole book in 3 weeks and at the same time know the answer to every quiz question (200+) in those 3 weeks. Then a 4th week of taking practice exams wherever I find them online and reviewing stuff I have trouble with. Then take the official cert exam.

cool!

yo will reply tmw.. been struggling with this code all night and i just realized it's > 6 AM

 

this moment-like library has proven alot tougher than i initially thought.. what a nightmare eheh

for tmw: upper back sore from arm swings during jumps, heel tender/hurt but better than last night, left quad feels 'bruised' also

 

Is it true that the school in the USA is that bad? Like what I see in American movies, stuff you do in 11th or 12th grade we used to do in 7th grade or so, lol.

ya I was taking trigonometry and algebra 2 my senior year in h.s.. those are pre-h.s. classes in Europe from what i've heard. If you don't push yourself in K-12 (kindergarten through 12th grade) in public schools in USA, no one will push you (for the most part). So for example, no one really got through to me as to why I should take school seriously at all. It was easy for me. I just took the prescribed classes and passed them. All I cared about was basketball and programming (luckily). I had basketball class my junior year, and twice in my senior year. Believe it or not, I really didn't know what a "final exam" was until I got to college. In H.S., it would just be another test to me; "oh a test? whatever".

Actually I can recall one instance where I did push myself.. In my senior year I enrolled myself in Pascal Programming class.. but they kicked me out because I lacked the math pre-reqs. They put me in BASIC. I remember being very annoyed.. because at that time, I had already been fluent in C and several assembly languages (sparc, intel, mips, alpha). I was writing kernel modules, exploits, client/server code, .. all kinds of things. I tried to show the teacher (some old nasty lady) some code of mine. She refused to look at it.

So long story short.. I just coasted through h.s.. I was mostly reading my programming books while class was going on, or actually programming on paper (to transfer it to the computer when I got home); it was that easy. I was in classes full of knuckle heads, trouble makers, etc.. They would interrupt class, cause disturbances, drag the classes down, make it harder for people to learn. The teachers weren't so inspiring.. In fact, on several occasions I got detentions for reading my computer programming/unix internals books in class.. During "Drop everything and read", I had this amazing thing happen to me. I start reading my "Unix Internals by Vahalia" book. English Teacher comes up to me, and tells me to put that away and to find something enjoyable to read. I laughed and told her that I enjoy reading about software engineering etc.. She handed me a magazine. I gave it back to her.. She ended up giving me a detention. LMFAO. I've mentioned this before in my journal.

So high school was trash... middle school was even worse. I went to a middle school that was VERY bad.

College was better, but still a disappointment. I remember once I really got into my major at FAU (exercise science), a really tough class became easy-as-cake once nearly everyone failed the first test. That was another sad moment that stuck with me. It was a fill-in-the-blank/essay question test for Kinesiology. Really tough but I loved it. Tons of questions, really making sure you knew every insertion, origin, action, plane, etc. So after so many people bombed, every subsequent test was multiple choice. It became a joke.

I also challenged this one teach a few times, even went up to the president on the Board of Education etc. She marked questions wrong, that were scientifically correct. For example, she marked an answer wrong where I wrote "rectus femoris". The correct answer to her, was "quadriceps femoris". So I showed her an anatomy book.. She states; "that's not how I teach it in class". She was referring to one muscle, the rectus femoris, as the quadriceps femoris. Long story short, I didn't win.. Even after taking it to nearly the highest office at the university.

I guess those are some quick lessons in "Lesser education" in America.

Had I gone to really prestigious schools throughout (elementary, middle, high, college), I Imagine I would have different stories. But, I went to public schools in a C rated district, then public college (2 year) and finally FAU (4 year, decent but nothing amazing).

so that should give you an example perhaps.. lol.

pC!

On the other hand, maybe college is better there, although I highly doubt it. College is free here, if you qualify. People learn here, using Romania's state money, and then they leave for other countries

free public college would help here.. too many people stop at 12th grade. It should be K-4yrcollege in our current world.