The week before this cycle. About any exercise I could think of that's not olympic weightlifting. Also, some olympic weightlifting.
As promised in the last post, I want to do a post mortem of my current training cycle. But first let me talk about my previous training cycle, where I …
moreHere is some documentation about some repranges I have encountered and often at least somewhat played around with. Inspiration for this post was mainly that I wanted to think of the viabilty of the APRE10 protocol for some assistance work, but then did not have the table for the weight …
moreDo you know these people who cannot seem to stop working? Even after a few drinks, they still talk happily about whatever they are working on, gathering new ideas and trying to find answers? Some people think this is sad, as for some reason people should be sad about their …
moreBeing the math guy in my hood and non-academic social circle, I am often asked to give private lessons, most often when exams are coming up, but sometimes even some sort of semi regular arrangement. I love teaching mathematics and helping people, and more often than not, people in need …
moreAs I wrote in a previous note, attention seems to be the scarcest resource an individual can have, as without it even time seems to be worthless. Everything that matters requires our attention. In particular one would think that it is in your employer's best interest if you are focused …
moreToday @TheConstructor mentioned that he'd happily switch to Linux if there was an adoption of the MacOS window management and of course I could not resist to disagree, as the window management of MacOS and Windows is one of the things I hate most about those. In his reply he …
moreSo while there seems to be an increasing awareness of the value of attention, it is often only on the side of advertisers, selling our attention to companies, in order to boost these companies revenues. And it is working quite well. Obviously the advertising industry, lead by companies like Google …
moreAlmost no food has the same down-to-earth ring as meat and potatoes, as not even steak and eggs became synonymous with the basics and fundamentals of things. Given that it has been a staple food in Germany and Central Europe for at least a hundred years and many dishes in …
moreMoney has an absolute value. If you hold a bill, there is a number printed on it, which is determining its value. However, depending on the way you earn money and your financial goals, its actual value for you changes and it becomes all perception.
Say you work for an …
moreA friend of mine lately tinkered a bit with his training and used HLM as a guidance. However, it somehow looked and felt more like a Texas Method. He shifted the days a bit because of his schedule and wondered, whether the difference between the two is just the order …
morevim is one of the tools one can use for years and still discover new features or better ways to accomplish something. One of these features are tabs, which I didn't know exist until today. Although splitting windows is fine for most tasks, sometimes I wish to edit multiple files …
moreCurrently I'm writing my bachelor thesis in mathematics and for noting what I still have to do or mark some difficulties, I used to add comments to the .tex-code. However, when printing the file or viewing the compiled output, these obviously won't be displayed. Gladly a quick search for …
moreThis post is mainly for documentation purposes, since this is a task one does not have to do on a daily basis and it always takes some time to get back into the matter. The scenario is a debian kvm host, running libvirt for kvm virtual machines and shorewall for …
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