Nothing too profound

[flexagon]

Hee hee. Dinner with bluechromis was fun, not least because it's been a while since I've had a longish conversation with someone on the other side of the subway train tracks as we both waited to go home. (Annoying to others? Oh, slightly, I'm sure, but I've been around people making much more noise in T stops with no cross-track convo required. Every now and then it must be my turn). Then I went to the gym and got reasonably pumped up, considering the time of day... even busted a move from blue's description of her crazy workout. :)

And I also broke my nail and put a scratch down my face with it. Smooth move. I look like I was in a catfight.

The sourdough starter in my oven may be close to ready. It's 4.5 days old now, and that aroma just might be the "good sour smell" the cookbook's talking about. I remain a bit afraid of it. Every day it looks different. Is there something vaguely repellent about all very small simple life forms in the aggregate? I can almost hear their yeasty little voices singing the rat song from Coraline.

We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We will be here when you fall.

Oddly, I'm interviewing someone at Politic Frog today... someone who won't even be in my group. I am supposed to find brainteasers for him and see if he can reason things out. I'm gonna ask about the singleton pattern (a puzzle if you don't know the answer) and about the 1000 lockers in the elementary school if I don't get any better ideas before 2:30 today.

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[webrat.livejournal.com]

I hate those stupid puzzles. :P Here's one I got nailed with previously:

Q: Why are manhole covers round?

The answer is basically if they were square, they'd have a chance of falling in diagonally. The larger round manhole lid cannot fall into the smaller manhole hole.

[artana.livejournal.com]

All I can say is that Coraline rocks.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Oh, interviewing! Fun fun. :P The thousand lockers one is a good one.

Glad you had a good workout, and tried that exercise. What did you think?

[flexagon]

It made my knees hurt--maybe because all the rest of my workout was upper-body so my knees were creaky and unlubricated. :(

Maybe it would fit better into a lower-body routine.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Hmm yeah, I would definitely only do it after a warmup. Also, adjusting your stance can help a lot with knee issues. Shoulder-width, toes straight ahead was what she told me.

[webfaery.livejournal.com]

What was the exercise? You can't just talk about it and not describe it!!

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

On a cable machine, with the pulley at the bottom and a short row bar attached, put a moderate amount of weight on, like 30-45 lbs. Take several steps back and put your feet shoulder width apart in a squat-readiness stance. Squat and hold it at the bottom, using the row bar for leverage/balance. Make sure your back is straight and upright, do 5 rows, really focusing on squeezing the shoulders together. Lift out of the squat. Repeat ad nauseum. She had me do this after several other quad exercises, so I don't know if it would be too easy earlier in the routine.

[flexagon]

*nods*

Best children's book I've read in a long long time.

[flexagon]

Yeah, I'd heard that one. Which is one problem with the "flash of insight" type brainteasers--they tend to get around.

I prefer the kind where you can at least watch people crunch painfully toward the answer, like the 1000 lockers one.

Sourdough

[zgirl611.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a house that regularly made sourdough EVERYTHING. It looks absolutely repulsive but the taste is so divine that it is worth it. After all... looks aren't everything!