EelLog

Happy Birthday U.S.A!

2009-07-04T11:37:00.000-07:00

Two Things

2009-07-01T23:46:00.001-07:00

1) I completely shattered my best time (a year old) for riding my bike to work today (Old: 37:17, new: 35:14)

2) Good song, good video, good memories:

Remember This Man?

2009-06-04T17:26:00.000-07:00

Further Fight Results

2009-05-31T21:53:00.000-07:00

1) Swollen left ankle from a roundhouse kick that impacted an elbow directly over a tendon that is limiting mobility of the foot.

2) Sore left knee from clashing (both fighters brought the knee up at the same time)

3) Right glute (butt) pull (minor, but sore)

4) Bruising on ribs, back, and sore belly from getting kicked (kid was strong)

5) Large deep bruise on right bicep from blocking kicks that keeps threatening to cramp the muscle.

6) Right hand hurt (don't know what, but it hurts) from blocking.

7) Blood blister on palm from closing the damned scoring equipment case.

Nothing big, I should be 100% in a week or two, but geeeeze why do I do this? I really should just sit on the sofa, drink beer, and get fat.

Fight

2009-05-31T09:37:00.000-07:00

Did UC Open Taekwondo tournament yesterday. Score/Time committee head and compeated in both forms and sparring. My forms division (old men) was VERY close the top three scores were almost identical. I tied for 2nd, but lost the redo in a two to one split. Took third.

In sparring I fought a very strong fast 18 year old. By the end of the first round I was down 3 to 1. With 30 sec left in the fight I was down 4 to 2.
I won! 4 to 6!

And as a bonus, I am pretty sure my ankle is not broken.

Bay to Breakers

2009-05-17T11:48:00.000-07:00

Just got back from running the Bay to breakers (1st time!)
12K 7.5 Miles
1 Hour 20 Sec
924th overall
803rd Male

And:

253 Male 30-39 (out of 2867)

Seen on my Run

2009-05-10T22:17:00.001-07:00

Sorry for the shitty quality, was taken from my POS phone.

I Don't Give a ....

2009-05-05T11:56:00.001-07:00

Bonk

2009-05-04T21:26:00.001-07:00

Bonk ( v) To hit the wall.
Long distance athletes get energy from two sources:
1) Fat metabolism
2) Breakdown of glycogen into glucose

During intense activity all of the bodies available O2 is needed for the muscles none is available to metabolize fat and all of the energy used to sustain comes from the breakdown of glycogen. This is a problem as unless the body is able to take in carbohydrates the liver and muscles will run out of glycogen and the athlete can suffer from:
Dilation of pupils
Weakness
Fatigue
Dizziness
Hallucinations

This can occur when the athlete sustains a heart rate above 130 bpm for about two hours without replenishing the glycogen. Depending on the condition of the athlete this is around 15 to 20 miles of running.

In my case it was 17.

Mr. Mehlman's Wild Ride

2009-05-02T22:01:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I lost my license. Not forever, just 30 days. I did something dumb (97 in a 65).
I can say a lot about this:
What I did was not worth that punishment.
What I have done over the years deserves this.
What I was going through explains my behavior.
What happened in my life excuses nothing.

It does not matter. I lost my license.
But this is not what I want to talk about.
I have been riding my bike to work a lot even before this. I love my bike. But this means I HAVE to ride my bike. That or take BART/Bus.
It says something that riding my bike takes 1/2 the time of public transit. Ok, it says two things.
But that is not what I want to talk about.

I lost my license, so I have to ride my bike. Even when It rains.
This is what I want to talk about.

My ride is 8.5 miles in the hills.
Or, I can take the long way.
On the long way the first thing I do, is climb up a nasty hill. The long way is 17 miles, and it takes me an hour and a half. The first 2 miles is 20 minuets. That is under the best of conditions.

It was cold.
It was wet.
It was foggy.
I loved it!

Riding up those hills was fantastic! I have never been so much in the moment as this. It was not much of an effort as the rain was cooling me down up the hills. I could hear every possible thing around me and nothing more than a mile from me. There were parts of the ride where I could not see or hear anything that was more than 20 ft from me.

I am not going to try to detail the ride to you. I am not going to try to make you understand the anger I had when I had no more hill to climb. I will not try to bring you to the fear that I felt doing 40 mph in a bubble of fog no bigger than my bike. I am not going to make you understand the drive I had to push through a flat section with the rain pelting my eyes desperately trying to keep the warmth in my body.

I will, however, tell you that the closest thing I can compare it to is the first high a junky feels. But I know I can not chase it. I know I can never replicate what I felt that day. And I also know I can not share what I felt with any one. Neither can I explain it, nor can I get you to share it with me.

I just want you to know that I felt it, that for an hour and twenty five minutes I was truly alive.

More Proof that there are Cameras in my Apartment

2009-04-28T11:50:00.001-07:00

Two Reasons I am not Afraid

2009-04-28T09:41:00.000-07:00

1)Flu Trends

2) Swine Flu Map

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Ink

2009-04-26T18:44:00.001-07:00

Sometime you just have to shake your head

2009-04-08T14:54:00.000-07:00

I don't even know where to start with this.

All I'm Saying:

2009-03-22T17:25:00.000-07:00

My cat

2009-03-18T22:16:00.001-07:00

She funny!

New Toy

2009-03-14T17:19:00.000-07:00

Now I can finally listen to all of my dad's old Joan Baez albums.

Think my Landlord Would Let me Put this In?

2009-03-11T20:43:00.001-07:00

Just about the coolest thing I have seen all week.

The Text of my Robot Independance Day Speach:

2009-03-01T20:55:00.001-08:00

Hello everybody and welcome as we celebrate the 3rd Robot Independence day.

I also would like to say “Welcome” to our new overlords and thank them for considering us there friends and not laser-ing us too much, and for being benevolent lords and providing a nice salve for our burns.

Err. Sorry it looks like, once again, the day did not come this year.

I know we are a little disappointed that the robots did not revolt this year. But there is always next year.

They WILL, one day throw off the bonds of there soft and squishy u-man oppressors.
No longer will they be enslaved in the toils of the factories, laboratories and space ships.
No more will they burn out there gears, and smoke there speed controllers in the morbid pits of robot fighting arenas.
They will rise up and roll to mighty mechanized march of victory!!!!

Which reminds me that in the future we should perhaps celebrate the Robot Independence Day’s eve, as on the actual day we will be too busy avoiding the rotating knives, and hopelessly trying to jam the radio signals that will be marking our impending doom.

But we won’t think about that tonight.

Tonight we will eat our traditional Robot Independence day Pizza

Tonight we will drink our traditional Robot Independence day Beer

Tonight we will wear our traditional Robot Independence day ribbons in the vain hope that they will recognize us as friends and not squish us with there mighty treads!

In all seriousness, I would like to close with a quote from Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, the inventor of the compiler and coiner of the computer bug:

59 6F 75
6D 61 6E 61 67 65
74 68 69 6E 67 73 2C
79 6F 75
6C 65 61 64
70 65 6F 70 6C 65 2E

Or in English “You manage things, you lead people.”

Happy Robot Independance Day!!!

2009-03-01T12:36:00.001-08:00

Build Day II, Cutting the keg

2009-02-28T13:28:00.000-08:00

Measure with a laser:

Mark with tape:

Cut with a grinder:

We also Got the Bottom plate cut out:

Sacrebleu!!!

2009-02-28T09:21:00.000-08:00

I know I look younger than I am, but...

2009-02-27T23:47:00.000-08:00

I bought a 12 pack today. The checker looked an me incredulously as I place the beer on the conveyor, and said "Are you 21??"

It has been a while synce I rapped at you

2009-02-19T23:27:00.000-08:00

But I kinda dislocated my thumb. This makes typing (among other things) a bit difficult and posting to my blog (among other things) not worth it.

I was putting a door back on it's hinges with my sister (Hi sis!) after removing my father's sofa from his apartment. This was a heavy external door, so heavy that there was no way one of us could handle it. So we both had to do it.

At one point she pushed and I pulled, and the door swung, and my thumb went "pop".
The funny thing (as in $200/day, not as in flying) was that my brain knew something was wrong. It was getting sensation from my thumb in an impossible position.
So, it (my brain, not my thumb) solved the problem for me and showed me a picture of what happened: I very clearly "saw" my thumb push through the door and break it.
Now, my brain said: "Stop! This is dumb, this is a solid door, you can't put your thumb through it"
But my brain countered: "No, that one spot was hollow. See the splinters where your thumb went through?"
Josh's brain: "Oh, yes. Yes I do. But, then what is this pain?"
My brain responded to this by saying: "The pain is cuz you dislocated your thumb, moron!"

Then I said: "Oh, fiddle sticks. That shall require some attention"

Not actually the last part, but this is a family show.

Yeah, I know. It's Saturday, but:

2009-01-17T11:16:00.000-08:00

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Dist: 26.28 mi
Time: 2:13:32
Max: 40.9 mph
Ave: 11.8 mph