On Saturday, Sensei Hassell visited Mapleton to hold a clinic focused largely on sparring concepts. The first two classes were much more physical than most other seminars that Sensei Hassell holds, which is a very good thing. I think everyone involved had a good time, it was very good to see Sensei Desartes and his […]

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Dad and I got to the dojo a little early tonight, I knocked out 15 Sochin and helped him and through a few Bassai Dai. I was able to sneak in five more Sochin during warmups, which made the grand total for the night 20. The first class was a pretty strong progression through basics, […]

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Slashdot, by way of Variety, is reporting that MGM has announced that they will produce The Hobbit, hopefully with Peter Jackson directing! I’m more than just a little excited about this. 🙂

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Five years ago on this day, I was taking an Honors Artificial Intelligence midterm exam. I was still puzzling over the last question regarding some variation on a backpropagation algorithm that I wasn’t sure that we covered in class when I stepped off the elevator in Stipes Hall. There was thirty people or so just […]

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It’s been a very technology filled weekend for me. On Saturday, my good buddy and I descended on his house to work on the karate club website. We made some good headway, however the pursuits of that coding session lead me to my endeavor for the rest of the evening: find a better debugging environment […]

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20 Sochin this morning. It was solid and casual, just the way a Saturday workout should be. Not much more to say than that right now. Also, crossed the 2/3 mark this workout. Hopefully the last third will be the best! 🙂 Sochin Counter Accomplished / Goal == Percent Complete 1340 / 2000 == 67.00% […]

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Tonight was a night for getting back on the wagon. I got to the dojo around 5:50, so I got an early jump into the kata mix for the evening. Lately I’ve been fighting a stabbing pain in my upper right shoulder when I do the opening move (and anything subsequently that requires me to […]

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Today we bid farewell to my Aunt Gail. The memorial service was PACKED. Being family, we had good seats near the front, which makes the whole experience so much better, let me tell you. Oh wait, no. Much, much worse. I was doing fine through the pastor talking about my aunt’s 18 years of service […]

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For those of you that have expressed concern over our lack of cold food on hand, worry not… we have secured two large foam ice chests that will house our Diet Coke collection for the next few days and on Friday we will have our new fridge delivered. It is a monster stainless steel Kenmore […]

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So I’ve spent a good deal of my free time this weekend trying to get the AJAX Dojo toolkit working in my local workspace. I’m using Eclipse’s WST tools, and for the life of me I can’t figure out what path the stupid dojo.js file is at! I either get fatal errors that it can’t […]

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