7 rounds + 5 L Pull-ups

This is the first WOD with L Pull-ups I’ve ever done. My forearms and Biceps hurt quite a bit.

What’s biomass you ask?

Biomass, as a renewable energy source, refers to living and recently dead biological material that can be used as fuel or for industrial production. In this context, biomass refers to plant matter grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel, and it also includes plant or animal matter used for production of fibers, chemicals or heat. Biomass may also include biodegradable wastes that can be burnt as fuel. It excludes organic material which has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum.

Canada needs to pursue things like this, even if it doesn’t turn out to be a viable energy source, we need to try.

And Gurdonark replied with this list:

• stillstream.com
• hypnos.com
• darkwinter.com
• intelligentmachinery.net

I gave StillStream a shot yesterday and had great results. Sometimes it’s just a bit too quiet working at home and I find normal music is too distracting.

Have I missing any links or streams?

[update:] Gurdonark makes music as well, check it!

Via Kottke, a truly beautiful print of great stuff written to the web in 2008.

Hat tip to @stevej

Warm-up: 5×45, 5×65, 3×95, 2×135, 2×155

Work: 1×175(old PR), 1×185, 1×195, 1×205(fail), 1×205(fail)

I had the bar up for each 205 attempt, but chickened out.

+20 to my PR is ok.

So I just added 10# to my Front Squat PR.

Then 3 rounds, 30s each of:
- 20# Wall Ball
- Burpees

No score.

There is a Google Group and a wiki up as well. Geez, Hacker News people move quickly.

I’m going to do my best to go through SICP and do the exercises in Scala.
When I was coming back to Functional Programming Steve Jenson told me to read SICP.

I’ve put up a github repo for my code.

If you search for sicp on github, you get a bunch of repos from people with similar ideas.

Here’s a wiki with a bunch of SICP chapters in different languages.

It has a diagram per page that summarizes things like Hovercrafts:

And the comparative sizes of fictional characters, like Godzilla and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man:

So awesome!

Setup:

• There exists a user: @some_topic
• I (@tylerweir) follow @some_topic
• @some_topic follows @tylerweir

If I send @some_topic a message, the robot that manages @some_topic retweets it, so everyone following @some_topic gets the message.

Here’s an example, for people that live in the concrete world:
For this example, @some_topic is actually @torontofc. Through my network of well placed sources (aka Google search) I know that Dwayne De Rosario has just signed for Toronto FC and I want to tell all the fans. I send a message like this:

“@torontofc – DDR just signed for us, w00t!”

@torontofc then retweets it:

“RT: @tylerweir: DDR just signed for us, w00t!”

So people that follow @torontofc and not me, get Toronto FC news that I happen to know. They also avoid the garbage that I tweet on a regular basis.

How long until this turns into a spam-reflector? Probably about 4 minutes.

Burner…

8:55

11:51

I’m taking tomorrow off, I need the recovery time.

11:52

Derek, Marius and I, with the help of the community, will be putting together a comprehensive book for using Lift.

We have set up a Google Group for topic discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/the-lift-book

The work will be licensed under the Creative Commons “Attribution-No Derivatives” found here: http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?licensecode=by-nd Works 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

PP was pretty good, considering my recorded 1 rep max is 175#.

It performs a site-specific Google search of

http://scala-tools.org/mvnsites-snapshots/liftweb/lift-webkit/scaladocs/

And you can learn about Ubiquity here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

And I jacked the code from http://jonhnny-weslley.blogspot.com/2008/09/scala-api-lookup-with-ubiquity.html

Happy New Year :)

Here’s the code inline:

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