Note: this is a follow-up to this post: http://jeffammons.net/2011/04/fencing-tournament-physical-and-nutritional-preparation/ Alright, so I survived two tournaments since posting last. The first one on May 1st was a much tougher crowd as it was a regional qualifier, meaning I was fencing pretty much strictly highly rated fencers. I knew that going in though, and I think I gotContinue reading “Fencing Tournament Follow-up”
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Fencing Tournament Physical and Nutritional Preparation
I signed up last week to compete in a fencing tournament on May 1st. Since then I’ve been contemplating how to approach the tournament. I haven’t done any fencing competitions for 2+ years. I’ve gained a lot of sophistication and knowledge in regards to physical training and nutrition in those last 2 years, so IContinue reading “Fencing Tournament Physical and Nutritional Preparation”
Locational Filtering
If you wanted to find fish, where would you go? Certainly not the desert. Despite trying to avoid this for as long as possible, I’m going to devote a post (partially) to some of my thoughts on romantic relationships. Luckily this concept applies to more than just meeting women though. It just happened to occurContinue reading “Locational Filtering”
Update and review: 100 Pushups Program
I posted a while ago (in February I think) about starting the 100 pushups program to try to get to 100 pushups in a row. I was a bit skeptical at the time of the 100 pushups program but figured it was as good a place as any to start. I quickly became impossible though.Continue reading “Update and review: 100 Pushups Program”
Happiness and Improvement
As humans, we have a constant desire to improve our lots in life (well most of us do anyways). Improvement makes us happy, or perhaps it’s lack of improvement that makes us unhappy. Either way, it’s a good survival adaptation. It stands to reason that the humans with a stronger instinct to improve themselves andContinue reading “Happiness and Improvement”
Rebooting and the 100 Push-up Program
The last few months have been frustrating physically for me. I injured my back a long time ago (December 2009). After doing physical therapy at 3 different places, getting an epidural shot, and working with a few different trainers, I’m still pretty clueless as to what to do. I have an aggravated nerve in myContinue reading “Rebooting and the 100 Push-up Program”
What’s an API? An explanation for the layman
So working as a web developer, I work with a lot of APIs. I’m also frequently asked things by non-coders about our API and the APIs of other sites. The concept of API seems to be that of some magical coding device that solves problems. However, while this is an amusing concept, it’s not entirelyContinue reading “What’s an API? An explanation for the layman”
Mahalo 4.0 Launched
Last Tuesday morning, after 6 months of working on it, the Mahalo team launched our newest version of the site: Mahalo 4.0. I have a lot of thoughts on what went well and what could have been better during the whole process, but I’m going to save those for later. We had a nearly flawlessContinue reading “Mahalo 4.0 Launched”
Life-Mod: No Soap
Back in December, a co-worker sent me an article (this one I think), written by a guy who had decided to give up soap and shampoo for a month and seemed none the worse for it. At the time I was looking for some good things to experiment with and this one required no additionalContinue reading “Life-Mod: No Soap”
Lessons Learned from a Coding Sprint
We spent the month of October at Mahalo pushing really hard on the tech side of things to try to get some new products built. The plan was to set aggressive goals in the past few weeks of September and then spend October trying to complete those goals for every team. If we met theContinue reading “Lessons Learned from a Coding Sprint”