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Chicago, Illinois, United States (Southbound Larrabee St Sprint)
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Leg day 🏋️
The first superset had my heart RACING. But it felt good to get some strength under the bar for those lifts. I haven’t done them in so long. I had a podiatrist appointment today and had “an honorable discharge” from their care. Unknown location (probably inside)
Note on Hacker News via energy123
AI likes to say vacuous punchy statements like “the final takeaway” or “here’s the rub”. Then contrastive parallelism “connections, not CPU”. Contrastive parallelism should scarcely exist in technical writing, regardless of whether it’s AI generated. FROM: energy123 Hacker News Source
Arm day 🏋️
I’m recovering from another daycare cold so I wanted to take it a bit easier today. Luckily, my brother called halfway through the session so that let me off the hook. Unknown location (probably inside)
Chest day 🏋️
The first superset spent my chest and the rest was hard to get through. But it feels good to have sweat flowing for weight workouts. Unknown location (probably inside)
Hot Run 🏃
This was a push of my Achilles and it felt great the whole time. My legs also felt pretty strong. My lungs were the only things holding me back. I built a little solar fountain yesterday, and it was nice to end up in our yard and hear the water running as well. Chicago, Illinois, USA (Petting Zoo Boardwalk)
Bring Her Back
Oral gore is hard for me and so this hard me tearing at my stomach at points, but I got most sick and teary-eyed at Sally Hawkins s monologue about losing her daughter and the self-torture of wanting her back. It s funny: often you think that fear is strongest for the unknown, the things you imagine but haven t touched. But I m finding that as I get more life experiences, and uncover some of the…
Advanced AI sycophancy via seangoedecke.com RSS feed
There was a golden era where the models were stupid and it was easy to spot right and wrong. We have left that era, and critical thinking is more important than ever.
Pull Day 🏋️
This fell short of the goals set by my Fitbod program. But I went as far as I could in this shortened time and hopefully I’ll be good and sore tomorrow and come back stronger. Unknown location (probably inside)
Leg Day 🏋️
This was short because I had to take a cat to the vet but damn did this feel like a good strong stretch of my legs. I can feel them regaining strength. No pain. Unknown location (probably inside)
Push Day 🏋️
I ran into my personal trainer from when I first started at this new gym and caught him up on the last few months of life. As I explained my Achilles diagnosis and rehab journey, I realized that I had zero pain at all for the last few days. I had to step back a moment in quiet happiness. Unknown location (probably inside)
Simplified Technical English via wikipedia.org
This is an interesting tool to use on super-wordy or super-mixed-metaphorical LLM conversations:
Pull Day 🏋️
This felt much harder than I expected. Unknown location (probably inside)
The Odyssey
Say Zeus’s Law one more time… I was gifted a perfect preview of this film before watching the latest James Cameron Avatar in iMax last year. They just showed a straight 5-10min of the Trojan Horse scene, uncut, from gifting to gating. It was the best preview I had ever seen: continuous music building, tension increasing, a crashing wave of resolution. If only the whole film had been like that.…
Push Day 🏋️
My legs are getting sorer by the minute from yesterday but still no Achilles pain so that is a major win. Chest today was difficult only because I haven’t done it in a while with so much busyness. Im excited to get a bit back more in the habit. Unknown location (probably inside)
Lifestyle by Dux Content
I found this today and played it on a whim. What a jarring surprise! Originally from 2012, I can hear so much of what [True Cuckoo](https://www.cuckoo.no/) and [Disasterpeace](https://disasterpeace.com/) and even 100 Gecs would pick up in the next decade. The initial half is the most distinct but also the most jarring to my ears. The latter half calms down and escorts you out the irreverent…
Leg day 🏋️
My first leg day in a while after trying to let my Achilles rest and work back up to the normal things. I didn’t go as heavy as I could, and even worked in some medium calf lifts. Nothing hurt in the moment and I’m hesitantly hopeful that it won’t in the morning. Unknown location (probably inside)
Drumless Mix by Caribou, Floating Points, & Fred Again..
I’m listening to this again today while the extreme heat and humidity break into thunderous downpours in Chicago streets and damn is it nice to hear strange and challenging songs joined by your favorite artists. It’s not even like every song is good, but the challenge of some minor ones really make the great licks hit.
The Wailing
The bumbling cop kept taking me out of any slowly building suspense. If you want me to be afraid of a zombie, then they need to actually zom-bite. There write some good bites, but they always lost their tooth when sloppily slashing at the main character. My favorite scene was at the end, trying to convince him to stay to save his family. Truly good tension built and it had a good payoff. But not…
Morning Run 🏃
About to leave Toronto so I am enjoying the late morning sunshine with a couple turns around Queens Park. No heel pain in the moment, which was pleasant. Toronto, Ontario, Canada (QP 1 CC)
First Summit Run 🏃
In Toronto for a work conference and the hotel doesn’t have a gym so I guess I’m going to try a real run for the first time in a long time. The lungs were not good! Just these two miles had me spitting. I had hoped my heel would feel good but it did not. Not painful, but sore and uncomfortable through the run. It did feel very good afterward, but let’s see how it feels in the morning. At least the…
Thief
The Chicagoan just wants to do a good job. The Chicagoan knows how to do the job good, if you just leave it alone. The Chicagoan quietly invents, scrapes and scrounges, labors and plans, all to go home at night and silently never talk about the real, emotional problems. And the safe cracks, and it all spills, stinking like the Chicago River. I recognized so much in this movie, contributing to the…
Pushing 🏋️
I’m exercising because I should. It’s good for you. Unknown location (probably inside)
Breathe Well+ by Air Credits
I think BROADCASTED was a fantastic first album from Air Credits but then I was less wowed by their interim releases until this one: this one brings back their theatricality, their futurism, their humor, their fat beats and smooth lyrics. You gotta love when people commit to the bit. Air Credits live in a post-apocalyptic future world and I’m happy to join them for these albums. Or you can let the…
Orange Smoke Day in Chicago
We’re having another wildfire smoke day in Chicago (previously), with air so thick that your nose gets black and you taste it in every breath.