09.29.08
The Marathon and Half-Marathon : A Training Guide (by: Graeme Hilditch)
I reviewed it here.
Christians are not nuts…
They are electrified pickles…
Now, notice the advisory regarding christianity: Don’t try to do this at home. OK? Because this can be very dangerous. You can hurt yourself, you can hurt something else. You can blow all the electricity in your house. So, don’t try to do this at home.
Christians seem to relate a lot to culinary… They are electrified, cannibalistic, pickles which drink the blood of their prophet as wine and chew on his body as crackers…
Religious people of the world…
It’s time to get nervous, outraged, maniac and to start calling us names for unleashing hell…
Through Pharyngula, a photo from Seattle:
Soon you my be looking into:
I would drop the ‘probably’ though!
Dimensions, a must see…
Sometimes, some people devote themselves to create material for others in order to educate them. Sometimes, a gem comes out… “Dimensions… une promenade mathematique“ is one such gem. Available as a cheap DVD (which you should buy) and as a free download provides you with a very deep insight regarding some excellent and entertaining animations which educate you all the way through the dvds. (with several audio languages available and even more languages as subtitles)
Found this gem through my friend Catarina Dias, the mathematician responsible for QNED. Thank you!
I can only say that students and teachers alike have a lot to learn from this way of teaching mathematics. The chapters on dimensions (dimension 2 and 3) and on complex numbers provides numerous insights not seen elsewhere in this fashion. No book can explain you things this way, no book can provide you so much intuition in such an easy fashion.
If you always wanted to gain insight into mathematics and wished people could just upload the subject into your brain, this is as close as you’ll get to it. Entertaining, fun, educational, this is Dimensions, an awesome adventure into dimensions, complex numbers, fibrations and proof. Get it now and enjoy it with your family!
09.18.08
Charlie Brown becomes a Muslim
In a time of Ramadan, where you cannot eat… here’s something to laugh about:
09.11.08
Frycling and other adventures…
When you start frycling, there’s no turning back…
Well, I could go on telling you a really nice, painless, and effortless story but truth is… I don’t really know how it happened. In the beginning of the year we started running casually, and soon enough I was doing my first 10K run.
A small break was taken after the 10K and soon enough I were back to running. However, an obcession grew in me beginning in the end of July and running became a daily activity. I was quickly joined by a friend and also ECS student Jenny Sorge. We both run several times a week consisting of at least one half-marathon and an accumulated distance of a marathon per week. Besides that, we decided to endeavour ourselves into adventurous cycle touring. To our kind of cycling we called it frycling.
We decided to start training for a Europe Bike Tour to take place next Easter mingled with some [half-]marathons in between. So, to start I will be present in the Lisbon Half Marathon next September, 28th and we will be present in Lisbon Marathon next December, 7th. In the middle we might run Gosport Half Marathon and a couple of long bike rides.
Since this involves a lot of planning and training we decided to put everything into blog form for all of those interested at the blog of our team.
Enjoy!
