Tonight’s workout was taught by Sensei Yaguchi.  He led us through the aforementioned warm up combination, and then into a whole new set of hellacious basics designed to empty out every last ounce of gas that I had.  Tonight’s combination was the following: Step forward into fudo-dachi with opposite side vertical knifehand block (a la […]

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I woke up this morning very out of energy, which probably precipitated a long frustrating day at the office.  I don’t really have a lot to blog about tonight, so here’s to hoping tomorrow night’s karate workout will put me in a better mood and give me a topic or two to blog about! Now […]

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Tonight I made it back to the Denver dojo, unfortunately Sensei Yaguchi got his eyes dilated today and the flourescent lights were bothering him too much to teach.  So Sensei Dale took the helm, and informed  us he’d be sharing the teaching load tonight.  He assigned us each a task, I got “a combination including […]

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Spent a pretty quiet day today, slept in late again (woot!), and then Tasha and I played some World of Warcraft for a bit.  We decided that since it was almost 60 degrees we would take Teddy down to the open space for a walk and it was a lot of fun!  We let him […]

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Yet another side effect of living near a big city… people videotape things.  Here you see somone’s pretty decent video of the opening song at The Killers concert, Spaceman.  The whole concert was great, you scan search for “The Killers Denver” at YouTube and see most of the good stuff in a variety of poorly […]

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Today was the quintessential lazy Sunday.  I slept in, got up and played some World of Warcraft, and we spent Sunday night doing our standard weekly shopping trip.  We had dinner at the world’s least attentive Quizno’s, nothing else exciting happened.  Except that Tasha was able to save us $20 on a mirror we had […]

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Today, after idly searching the Internet for something interesting to read I decided to make good on part of my New Years goals and look at the Natural User Interface Group’s site again.  I’m happy to report that they’ve put up a wiki and have some pretty nice informational articles on natural user interface concepts […]

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We’re going to see The Killers tonight!  I’m going into this one a bit more prepared than the last one… I picked up a copy of their new album “Day and Age” and have been listening to it, I have to assume they’ll do a good portion of that in addition to their old stuff.  […]

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Tonight, I was able to hit the gym and after a 1.5 mile trek on the elliptical machine I decided that the weights weren’t for me tonight.  I noticed the exercise room was mostly empty, with just some older guys on the spin class style bikes in one corner so I offered to run my […]

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The first chapter of my C# book that I’m reading dealt with the .NET Framework, including high level details around the Common Language Runtime, Framework Class Library, Common Type System, and the Common Language Specification.  I found the Common Language Specification pretty interesting… simple interoperability between languages is a pretty neat concept and I’m eager […]

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