My Daily Workout

5AM: 30 min cardio precor, no food

Labels: cardio, precor, thursday, workout

5AM: 45 min cardio precor, no food

Labels: cardio, no food, precor, wed, workout

Sleep: 8
Time: Evening
Muscle: Chest
Type: Dumbell

1.50/15
2.50/15
3.75/6
4.75/12
5.75/9
6.75/8
7.75/5
8.50/10
9.50/10
10.pushup/9
11.pushup/8

Labels: chest, home, tues, weights

Morning:
45 Minutes on Precore before eating

Labels: workout

I am big believer in what Arnold Schwarzenegger refers to as "exposing your calves". Basically, exposing your weak points, as motivation to work harder. Here is my Saturday workout at the track:

1 mile run
4 200 m sprints
1 100 m sprint
1 mile run

I am aiming for a 10% increase each week, so next week should be:

1 mile run
4 200 m sprints
2 100 m sprint
1 mile run

Labels: track, workout

Run another marathon
Be able to run 8 200 meter sprints under 30 seconds with 1.5 minute breaks.
Play basketball or ultimate frisbee once a week.
Get to around 8-10% bodyfat
Get at least 8 hours of sleep every night, if not more.
Read at least one non-technical book a month
Finish O'Reilly Book
Write an article a month for an online publisher.
Get a non-technical article published.
Release Full Album of Piano Music
Write an ORM in Python
Write a Web Framework Python
Write some other type of framework Python
Write a javascript library, master javascript and DOM.
Write at least one Dashboard Widget
Learn the Python/C API
Learn Erlang
Learn Ruby
Put a cross platform front end on liten
Master Plone
Master Grok, and write at least one complicated Web Application in Grok
Get Certified in 2 of these 4: MySQL, Postgres, LPI Level 2, or 3
Speak Spanish everyday, while improving my Spanish.
Start working on another book
Take a vacation out of the country
Get PeachWSGI or some other Sprint/Conference to come to Atlanta

Labels: 2008, goals

In a scene right out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, Birds and snow have descending on my house.

Labels: birds, hitchcock, snow

It actually snows in Atlanta, GA sometimes.

Labels: atlanta, snow

In the South, people take their BBQ Meat seriously. Here is a shot of a recent sandwich I consumed last week. Note, there is a slab of ribs, "on the side".

Labels: bbq, meat, south

I finally got around to a new release of Liten, the deduplication tool I have been working on. I also added an entry point, so an easy_install of the egg on Python 2.5, will install liten into your scripts directory.

Labels: deduplication, egg, liten

Here are the slides for the virtualenv presentation tonight at PyAtl.


virtualenv.pdf

Labels: pyatl, python, virtualenv

A great video, that I was reminded of from Shannon's post about web frameworks:

Labels: python, training day, web frameworks

So I messed around with Grok over the last couple of days, and have to say, it is pretty sweet. I finally, finally, have my home portal up at: http://www.noahgift.com/

Summary: Grok rocks! Try it out.

Labels: grok, noahgift.com, portal

I am a firm believer that life is not a Zero Sum Game. One of the evils of humanity is a mistaken belief that the only way to win, is to cause another person to lose. One of the reasons why I switched from playing pickup basketball, to ultimate frisbee and running marathons, is that I like battling myself and my own goals, more than causing others to lose. I have an unnaturally high vertical jump and so I enjoyed "dunking" on people, but after a while, it just lost all interest to me.

Phillip Eby, who has some great writing outside of programming, hints at this in his post here.

I think that often IT in general is a pretty good example of a common social trap restated by Larry Ellison, "It's not enough that we win; all others must lose". Of course Larry Ellison thinks this is a good thing. I suppose my response when I observe that type of behavior is great, you can work hard to try to destroy me or compete with me, but I am just going to work at doing my best. I don't care what you do! Hopefully though, everyone can do their own thing and win at being passionate about what they are best at.

Labels: zero sum game

Here is a link to a Google Code Project I started called, python4bash. If you can string together to Bash statements in a row, you can learn Python. It is a far superior scripting language to Bash.

Check out from svn
Download the tar file

Labels: bash, learning, python, systems administration

Thanks to a great comment by Drew, I found a recent Google trend indicates Python is surpassing Perl and Ruby this year. Go Python, readability and maturity count!

Python Trending Over Ruby and Perl. Although, hurray that all Dynamic Languages are doing well, which is ultimately more important.

Labels: perl, python, ruby, trends