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<a href="http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7515/oct10banner.jpg" border="0" alt="Can I kick it?"></a><br>mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-48677608816288275312018-03-17T17:00:00.000-07:002018-03-17T17:02:55.625-07:00Practicing the AbsurdWeird Al's Hamilton Polka reminded me to dig up these old files. For a brief period when the girls were much smaller, I thought it'd be fun, for absurdity's sake, to arrange popular tunes on the melodica.
"Let It Go" from Frozen
"Game of Thrones" theme. (Naomi's baby noises can be heard near the end.)
And, then, well, a melodica in a house with toddlers became a bad idea. If I evermm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-53129032472181440272018-03-11T10:38:00.000-07:002018-03-17T16:05:32.890-07:00The Piano Year Next episodes.
If 2015 was the trail-running year and 2016 was the injury-rehab/Hawaii year, then 2017 was the piano year.
In some future post, I'll go into my 2018 project and how it relates to what I learned by dedicating a year to the piano. Again with the age thing, I'd been considering Gladwell's theory of "10,000 hours to mastery" and how it could apply toward activities that I'd already mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-48506586254186905452016-07-31T06:21:00.002-07:002016-07-31T06:21:15.993-07:00Don’t Waste Time, Get a DXAWhen starting or maintaining a cut, there’s usually some lag-time while figuring out just how many calories you should be eating to maximize fat-loss while maintaining lean-mass.
There’s a lot of trial-and-error. It could go on for weeks and weeks. And when you get into a grove, the numbers are still based on your best guesses. It’s like playing the board-game Battleship, but with moving piecesmm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-28073843766865422702016-07-24T09:18:00.000-07:002016-07-31T12:05:08.340-07:00Keto and Getting Ripped
This is a long post. Pics are at the botttom.
Reading over my old keto-related posts, I may not have
emphasized CICO (calories-in, calories-out) nearly enough. Simply put, CICO is
the only thing that matters in fat-loss and maintenance. Everything else is
nuance. Keto is just a method for managing appetite and simplifying CICO (among many other great things).
Below are the highlights of mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-60238909515593332782016-07-16T07:57:00.000-07:002016-07-23T07:59:15.495-07:00Keto & The Bigger Picture
I’d meant to add this post later in the keto-update series, but world events lately got me thinking about “the man in the mirror.”
What am I doing to help bring light into the world? What am I doing to help ease the suffering? What am I doing about it in real life?
How can I serve? …
I have a family history of heart disease and diabetes. Both my parents were Type-2. My dad, a smoker and mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-22159665383050494842016-07-09T11:33:00.001-07:002016-07-16T06:18:43.028-07:00Keto & Long-Distance RunningTo update last year’s running progress: I did, in fact, finish Brazen Racing’s Ultra Half Series by completing six of their toughest trail half marathons in a year. The finale at Rocky Ridge (Las Trampas Wilderness) was particularly torturous and required dedicated training for the terrain and heat. But I did it. All while in ketosis.
The following is what works for me while training and mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-3030996659623708742016-07-03T07:20:00.003-07:002016-07-16T05:49:05.558-07:00Still Keto: What I Eat Nowadays
According to the blog metrics, lots of visitors arrive here via keto-related research.
I’ve remained in ketosis (or “Primal/Paleo” at minimum) since July 2012. Four years. It still feels great. The next few blog posts will be about what I’ve learned so far over that time.
MEAT PREP
Possibly the biggest reason I wanted to keto-blog again is that my wife and I have gotten really mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-89519068404990864232015-04-18T08:58:00.002-07:002018-03-04T11:43:25.979-08:00Form CheckI decided against doing the full marathon in early May. I worked up to 17 miles on my long run, and it just didn't feel good. It stopped being fun. The extra miles of lactic build-up and muscle fatigue just made me think of things I'd rather be doing. eg, as I write this my four year old is nestled in quietly at my shoulder watching me type. Fleeting moments.
Runner's high is available any givenmm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-26093638599635107782015-01-19T09:15:00.000-08:002015-01-19T09:15:55.608-08:00... Ready to Hope When I started running longer distance again last fall, I loosely targeted Brazen's Summit Rock Half-Marathon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in December. The race date coincided with a neighborhood half that I would've otherwise supported (Walnut Creek Half), but its course was underwhelming (up and down the same major throughfares we use everyday).
But we wants adventure, my precious. To mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-82555127032137190672014-12-06T21:54:00.001-08:002015-01-19T09:21:47.137-08:00Ready to Suffer ...
I would run from sun-up to sun-down if I could.
There are too many smiles in this pic (courtesy of Brazen Racing). I did a pair of Thanksgiving runs hosted by Brazen, a 10K in Point Pinole (above) and a 5K at Quarry Lakes in Fremont. While not among the most spectacular locales in the Bay Area, they still provide a "I-can't-believe-we-live-here" moment.
As a Bay Area transplant, mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-23997311822054419492014-11-30T08:39:00.004-08:002014-12-06T07:58:22.261-08:00To Kill a Mockingbird: Books, 3Q2014While Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was assigned reading in high school -- and I do remember having read it, or at least parts of it -- upon re-read, wow! If I'd paid better attention in my formative years, I might've fashioned myself after Atticus Finch.
In school, I think I remember this portion of the reading list concentrating on themes of place and time; how language and mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-65507628410030084192014-11-27T07:40:00.000-08:002014-11-30T09:05:57.569-08:00Trial of Miles
Time is quick to carry on
certain as the morning tends to
hollow us and turn our words to smoke
In all that is escaped us
and all that we could hold in place
I saw you shining
saw you shining
brighter than before
--L. Gibson
Been running again lately. Above are from a recent trail run at Redwood Regional Park in the Oakland hills.
Speaking of which, and while the pics mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-29522749955639515872014-08-30T07:48:00.002-07:002014-08-30T07:57:07.070-07:00Book Report: Dune Trying something different. I don't do reviews often, but I find writing them helpful in developing a deeper appreciation and understanding for the item at hand. It's also good practice for keeping up my publication-writing chops.
I don't read much science fiction. Dune wormed its way onto my reading list via an enduring board game that was published to coincide with the 1984 film. Dune also mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-53012695831163902982014-08-28T11:31:00.000-07:002014-08-28T11:34:08.015-07:00Missing
the morning
following a great
novel's finish
is like the wake
of silence
left by
dinner guests
who've stayed the night
the wash
of laughter
settling into the ceiling
the flush of
semi-sweet wine
passing while we slept
the tales to tide
us over 'till
new sleeves to bare
mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-80774094442298862092014-08-22T21:18:00.000-07:002014-08-30T07:30:13.886-07:00The 300I finish reading a novel about once a month, according to my entries on Goodreads. That might seem light, but it's about as much as my current day-to-day routine can handle.
That got me thinking; If I extrapolate a book per month over the next 25 years -- at which time I'd be at retirement age -- that would come out to about 300 books. So I'll use that as a ballpark figure, 300, to say how mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-90407739509097759082014-08-21T09:34:00.000-07:002014-08-21T09:34:50.439-07:00Fog Meridian
1:15 in the afternoon
wisps of fog spill over
Sutro and Twin Peaks
bearing northeast down
Market Street flooding sidewalk
Indio stands selling
woolen cable knits in August
gusts of scrap-paper
blow past mid-westerners
caught in short-pants and hasty
long-sleeve drug-store fleece
pulled over hands,
collars pulled over ears
my City --
we'd yet made promises
all those years ago
mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-45664042905338546032014-08-14T21:22:00.001-07:002014-08-20T19:06:48.741-07:00Hustle & Flow
a lone sea bird
before dawn
keeps time
with trains
above West Oakland
sidewalks awash
with gold grass
on thistle,
painted ladies
against purple
darkness of Tilden,
of Sibley,
of Redwood's
rolling crests --
while on headphones,
Chinese Ehru notes glide
above sea swell
sounds from violins
our flights
at such
great heights --
before the mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-43373149551254693072014-08-13T21:08:00.000-07:002018-03-04T09:13:47.759-08:00Days of RosesFound some pics of my old Oakland studio. Tom Waits' "Martha" is perfect right about now:
And those were days of roses, of poetry and prose And Martha, all I had was you and all you had was me. There was no tomorrow, we packed away our sorrows And we saved them for a rainy day.This eventually wound up on the cover of my old, now defunct, arts site, line-in.org. These pics were taken with mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-70389280712796620242014-08-07T21:21:00.003-07:002014-08-20T19:07:07.650-07:00Even the Bookstore
what is
to become of us
of no great art,
of no great will,
of squandered youth?
there's come
a point where
even the bookstore
leaves me with
regret for things
yet done
and reminders
of how little
time there's left.
it doesn't seem
so long ago,
stepping through
the entrance with a jingle
from the door chime
and a creek of the floor,
looking upon rows of top sellers
and staff mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-14594755998495180052014-03-02T09:55:00.001-08:002014-03-02T09:55:24.196-08:004 Days of Fits, 0314
These are all from late 2013, but still rockin' these:
mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-21715646131904774982014-03-01T20:12:00.001-08:002014-03-02T07:22:35.253-08:00How Low Can You Go?As mentioned last post, I started to paint at a much smaller scale, 10mm and then 6mm. For perspective, 10mm is roughly the size of a pinky-fingernail.
I've always wanted an ancients and/or fantasy miniatures army, but the popular scales -- 28mm and 15mm -- are both cost- and space-prohibitive. While the 15mm figs of Battles of Westeros and Battlelore could do (games I already own), the scale mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-41754563408054794992014-02-22T14:46:00.001-08:002014-02-22T14:46:09.856-08:00Domino Effect, Arts & Crafts...I've been able to get in more creative time with the girls sleeping through the night more consistently. Lately, that creative time has gone toward miniatures painting. Thought it'd be fun to document the progress here. If the painting has improved recently, it's all been due to learning new techniques and finding the right supplies.
I think it's also helped that I've been mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-19068458028652027392013-06-23T21:48:00.001-07:002013-06-23T21:48:26.580-07:00So, Why Blog Anymore?
In the hospital waiting room, there was a magazine feature on author Paul Auster. I was there waiting to find out whether the blood I'd been pissing out meant my time was up. The piece on Auster was to promote his latest book -- a memoir on the topic of growing old. How fitting. In an earlier memoir of his professional and financial struggles as a young-adult, Auster told the story of my life upmm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-71279326921472729402013-04-07T21:19:00.005-07:002013-04-07T21:19:55.518-07:00Cabin... Fever...
A weekend stuck around the house convalescing from an owie. Spent more time with the Olympus 790. It suffered one drop and shrugged it off. Pic-quality wise, it doesn't compare to the Cannon (or even our smartphone cameras). But the camera that's easily stowed is the one that gets used.
Parker likes the new backyard space. He's learning that the hill is now off-limits with its gardening mm.salami.da?http://www.blogger.com/profile/06498987946351308926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156937674458499493.post-35277198825374162672013-03-30T22:29:00.000-07:002013-03-30T22:29:04.483-07:00Point & Shoot Trial & Error
Lisa scored one of those bomb-proof pocket cameras (Olympus 790 SW) for my birthday. Below was from the first outing in the neighborhood -- completely ignorant of how to use it.
Then these are from playing with low-light settings and image-stabilization. I also added a grainy effect (via phixr) on a couple pics. Kinda neat.
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