ChapterTwo

See what you can do with McDonald’s trays…

So I’ve been trying the early riser thing for about a week now. Every single day, it’s been PAINFUL to wake up early. Today, it’s different. I went to bed at 2am last night and I am up now at 7am, WITHOUT AN ALARM! WOOO! And I am gonna get some swimming in before work (after I am done with this post)…

We’ll see if I can permanently be an early riser…

UPDATE: I didn’t go swimming. Once I logged on, I couldn’t log off. Next obstacle, how to become a regular exerciser…

This article says NBA wants to ban players from wearing tights on the court. What’s wrong with wearing tights? Wearing tights are awsome for sports. Tights offer muscle compression and they keep the muscles warm. If NBA wants to ban tights because it is now a fashion statment, they should ban the headbands, armbands, and the rubber wristbands as well. Ridiculous…

Interesting news about students organizing protests via text messages and MySpace.com. And Danah Boyd’s analysis. This is definitely an interesting phenomenon. Crazy kids…

Lastly, another interesting blog post from Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users. This post is titled “Code like a girl”. Interesting read… And if you haven’t subscribed to that blog yet, you should…

I am outtie…

It’s been a pretty crappy day. Here’s why (in no particular order)…

• My going away party was bundled with the quarterly birthday party (BUNDLED WITH THE QUARTERLY BDAY PARTY?!?!?! UGH! WHERE’S THE LOVE?!?!)
• My Yahoo stocks are doing crappy
• My Z’s shocks feel like it is going bad
• I was at work til 9pm on my third to last day at work (doing work)
• People are yelling at me (via email)
• My dinner plans got canceled
• I am hungry
• Lakers are losing right now
• My Google AdSense account got disabled

Pretty crappy day, doncha think?

UPDATE: Lakers lost

FINALLY!

Here’s something cool that Microsoft made that seems to be a fusion of Amazon yellow page’s street view and Google Map’s satellite view.

“Creating Passionate Users” has an interesting post today about Manager 2.0. It is about the “new skool” way of managing people. I hope all the managers in the world read that post and upgrade to 2.0 soon.

Instead of breaking this up into 5 different car posts, here are 5 cool car stuff I came across today…

Picture of Saab Aero concept car getting gas. More pictures here

Spinners are out. These “Pimpstar” wheels are in…

Cool Acura MDX concept drawing…

A 3 million dollars one-off Ferrari based of the Enzo…

Audi R8 test mules spotted (literally)…

UPDATE: Here’s a video of the Pimpstars in action…

I’ve worked out 3 days in a row! WOOO! (3 different sports too)

Today, I went for a medium length bike ride, 16 miles. It is nothing like the bike rides Mike goes on, but it’s enough to get the heart going. Here are my stats…

• Total Time: 1h05min00s
• Distance: 16.1 mi
• Heart rate avg: 82% / 159 bpm
• Heart rate max: 108% / 210 bpm (hmmm, am I supposed to be able to go above 100%?)
• Calories (burned): 854 Kcal
• Speed avg: 14.7 mi/h
• Speed max: 24.4 mi/h

Going toward LB, I was averaging about 12mph. I was a bit sad because I used to be able to average closer to 16mph on the same route. I am guessing I was going into strong head wind going there because coming back, I was averaging about 18mph. It felt GREAT coming back. I would be going 18-20mph at 90rpm with only medium level of effort. I was flyin! I would be happy if I can average 18mph all the time…

Anyway, I am feeling a bit tired now. I’ll probably sleep early tonight…

GO ME!

The stats below is from my jog yesterday morning. I can’t really say I haven’t had time to blog because I had like 7 blog posts in the past 2 days. I admit it. I was just too lazy to blog about my jog. Here’s my stats…

• Total Time: 0h 20min 34s
• Distance: 1.8 mi
• Heart rate avg: 90% / 174 bpm
• Heart rate max: 95% / 185 bpm
• Calories (burned): 293 Kcal
• Speed avg: 5.3 mi/h
• Speed max: 7 mi/h
• Pace avg: 11min 19s/mi
• Pace max: 8min 34s/mi

The jog started out fine. I was going at about an 8:30 pace, but things quickly turned sour. Less than half an mile in, I started feeling the ankle that had been bothering me. I could’ve cut my jog short and just turn around then, but I didn’t. Bad idea. Around an mile and a half in, the pain became unbearable. I had to slow to a walk. Looks like I can’t jog for another week…

Feeling fat, I wanted to work out again today. I wanted to run, but there’s no way my ankle would let me. So I went swimming today. I had a lackluster first 800m. I took 2-3 5 second breathers. Then, another swimmer jumped in my lane. It’s funny how a little competition can really motivate you. He probably wasn’t racing me, but I was certainly racing with him. It wasn’t really a fair race. In terms of speed, he was probably only a little bit slower than me, but he had to take a break every 100 meters or so. I had no problem lapping him a couple times. My goal was just keep lapping him. After the swimmer jumped in, I did 750m, nonstop. It’s amazing what a little motivation can do! I wanted to do 1750m today, but the pool was closing, so I could only get 1550 in. O well, next time… GO ME!