Dancing with Free and Orbitron (Circle of Fire crew), and other local bboys at club “LO_FI” (Seattle):
Orbitron is freestyling on the second half of the video.
Listen to 4:23
“… great to see release - my man goes Dmitry is in the circle — he spins and let goes
with the palm on a hand over jacket
grant stand I can grand slam when I got here
Tip the beat, rock and nod, spot the block, till I get off to my forehead
Ya’ll know where its at, ya’ll spin on a hat …”
My ankle is feeling much better! I can finally start dancing again!!!
After having a discussion earlier today about this, as I was driving home … I realized something about this saying - its just not true.
Any kind of excitement and anticipation make it feel like time is sloooowing down. Think about it. Lets say you’re so excited to do something with your friends on Friday. You have these huge plans. The whole week is going to feel like a month, because you just can’t wait for it to be that day!
What do you guys think? Should I keep the stock wing, take it off, or get a little “trunk lip” for my car?
Stock Wing
So, here is a picture of my car (first pic). I think the stock wing is kinda big and silly, but it is functional … if I am taking 90-degree corners at 160 mph.
Campusing is a climbing exercise or “move” depending on your style :-) where you climb up the wall without using your feet. You don’t have to be able to do this in order to climb — There are plenty of climbers who can climb very hard but can’t even come close to doing what you’re about to see in these videos.
Climbing is not all about power and strength, but it is sure nice to have endless supplies of it!
I am going to share some of my very personal ideas on being balanced and staying on top of things. These things I figured out on my own a while back and I have been perfecting them every day. Being a software developer, I constantly trying to find an improved “algorithm” for … well, Living. I can’t give it all away because it’s too personal but here are a few practical tips and ideas:
Powershell gives you full access to Microsoft .NET framework objects. There is a special syntax for accessing static methods and properties (it uses square brackets). For creating new objecects and instantiating .NET classes you use Net-Object commandlet. Continue reading “Powershell and .NET”
As many of you already know my friend Johnny Goicoechea and I are making a climbing movie. We have been going climbing every weekend in areas around Seattle (and further) and capturing the best climbs we can find.
It’s all being shot using a very nice hi-def camera, so 10 years from now when everything is in HD, we’ll look back at it and be glad we did :) The plot of the movie is about us, and is about our training for climbing, using gymnastic rings, campusing and other methods. After showing different exercises, we are showing how they apply in real-world situations.
First of all, I love Powershell. For those of you that don’t know, Powershell is (relatively) new command-line and scripting language for Microsoft Windows platform. The Powershell team has spent a lot of time looking at existing UNIX scripting tools and in my opinion cherry-picking the best features from them. Its the best of Ruby, Perl, Zsh etc. The language syntax is very similar to Ruby and Perl. I am a big fan of both. In this article I’ll try to compare it to other unix shells and scripting languages.
Jackie Chan loves EVOs (Mitsubishi Evolution) and owns all generations of them (which is 1 through 10). Most of his movies have an Evo chase seen - watch “Who am I”, “Thunderbolt”). As you know, he does his own stunts and most of he is also a great driver.
People are always wondering what I eat, or if I do any other training besides climbing. I do lots of other stuff, like martial arts, dancing, gymnastic rings, etc. But as far as foods, I actually do have a system that balances my energy.
Basic Idea: You have a deck of unsorted cards. Lets start a sorted pile. So you take one card at a time from unsorted pile and appropriately place it in sorted pile. You keep doing it until you just left with a sorted pile.
OK, now lets break it down in high-level pseudo code. Lets assume we’re talking about arrays as a data structure.
Mergesort: Split data in two halfs, mergesort each half, then merge these already sorted halfs back into a single piece.
Mergesort and merge are two separate functions. Think of merge as a helper function that does most of the work. Its much easier to explain with a very high-level pseudo code:
Yep, I just made my phone into a brick: I tried installing v2.0 firmware update. It partially updated my phone and left it in locked state. It says to connect it to itunes, but iTunes can’t connect to its servers for whatever reason. I am getting network timeout messages. Probabily too many people are trying to update their phones … but how is that my problem? Now my phone is completely dead and I need to make some calls! This sucks.
You might remember that a logarithm of a number is the power to which its base must be raised to produce your number. OK, that was a mouthful. Its much easier to describe with math examples. English just doesn’t cut it for things like this.
Its kind of funny –commands like ls, grep, find, cat etc are so wired into my hands, I always make a mistake of typing them even when I am using Windows. Its even a bigger problem for me, since I work for Microsoft and I develop on Windows all day. So what I usually do it (1) avoid cmd.exe completely :) and use powershell since it already has these aliases. (2) if I have to use cmd.exe I run these settings to remap things for my brain :) Enjoy.
