Listening, 2007W52

In week 52 of the calendar year, time for some listening.

[bleh; unfinished...]

ASC concert series

NPR's All Songs Considered podcast was alternating between their regular critique-style show and recorded concerts from the 9:30 club in DC for a while; now the concert recordings both are categorized separately and have been extended in length. The sound quality isn't good enough for hi-fi listening at home, but I find them perfect for background music in the office, for those times when being distracted a bit is okay.

I have a few on which to catch up; now playing is the Nov 9th Nickel Creek show, which I do recommend. (More specifically, I recommend at least the first nineteen minutes.)

Added mid-January: the New Pornographers recording is okay; the Neko Case show is better.

lunchtime seminar

A = Mechanical engineers study robots
B = Biologists study Periplaneta americana
C = Free pizza

AC = Ordinary weekly seminar in the robotics group
AB = Insect-inspired bots

ABC = who thought that was a good idea?

250 km with a thing on my shoe

That's right, Nike+ says I've logged 250 km with their nifty accelerometer. I'm sure they'd be happy to know that it was evenly split between my Adidas and Brooks runners.

Here's the braggart's page.

Training programs

Running:
FIRST training schedules
Hal Higdon's training schedules
Marathontraining build-up
Marathontraining marathon
Pfitzinger HRM how-to article
McMillan training pace calculator

Swimming:
RTK swimming workouts

Core:
JMU Core series
Beginnertriathlete.com
Mayo Clinic
Crossfit 2003 Warmup
Crossfit WOD

Food:
nutritiondata.com

ornithological variety

commercial signage on Mayfield Rd:

ALL BRANDS
VACUUM
PENGUIN
CLEANERS

that advertising two distinct establishments: one dealing in floor cleaning, the other in laundry. I, of course, always read it as "all brands penguin" (maybe the first words are bigger or offset), but catch myself before pulling into the lot to see if they have any deals running.