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Tyler
CrossFit – 2009/10/15 – Push Press – 195#
1-1-1-1-1 of Push Press
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.
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Tyler
BuddhaMachine from FM3
Shawn and I picked up Buddha Machines from FM3.
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Tyler
CrossFit: 20090112
5-3-3-2-2-1-1-1 of Front Squat
95-135-155-17-195-215-235(F)-235So I just added 10# to my Front Squat PR.
Then 3 rounds, 30s each of:
- 20# Wall Ball
- BurpeesNo score.
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Tyler
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
There is a thread on Hacker News discussing a reading group focused on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
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.
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Tyler
Awesome book: Visual Aid
I picked up Visual Aid when I bought Laura one of her Xmas gifts.
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!
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Tyler
Looking for a terrible Twitter idea?
Here’s one I call “Fakey Filtered Tweets:”
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.
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Tyler
CrossFit: 20090109
6 rounds Tabata Pull-ups
2 min of 90# Farmer Carry
6 rounds Tabata Push-ups
2 min of 90# Waiter Carry
6 round Bottom to Bottom Squats
2 min 90# Walking LungeBurner…
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Tyler
CrossFit: 20090108
For Time:
45 Double Unders
45 Hang Power Cleans@ 115# (Yes, Leah, I should have done 135#)
45 Ring Dips – awful
45 Double Unders8:55
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Tyler
CrossFit: 20080106
Less than 12 hours after “Christine”…
5 rounds for time of:
- 25 Hip Extensions
- 10 135# Back Squat11:51
I’m taking tomorrow off, I need the recovery time.
Steve Jenson 1:42 pm on January 9, 2009 Permalink
that is just great.
Tyler Weir 1:45 pm on January 9, 2009 Permalink
It’s a lot of fun. Old school haircuts, Poker hands, wood joinery.
Well worth the $12.
Matt 8:25 am on January 10, 2009 Permalink
How do you hear about stuff like this? I like cool stuff; how come no one tells me?
Tyler Weir 8:33 am on January 10, 2009 Permalink
I wrote a blog post about it, not enough?