JOHN MEANEY

6.12.11

WHO'S BEEN EATING MY PORRIDGE?

NASA confirms a Goldilocks-zone planet around a G-type star. Blimey. Kepler-22b is the first confirmed planet in the right kind of place, though its composition isn't known yet. I'd like to think it marks another decisive shift away from irrational, parochial, we're-the-centre-of-everything thinking. Great news, anyhow.

4.12.11

TRUCKIN' ALONG

Been under the weather a little, better over the last few days. A couple of good dojo sessions this week, and tonight's 90-minute strength workout went like this:

Hindu push-ups: 100
Hindu squats: 200
Neck bridge: 120 seconds
KB one-arm snatch: 4 x 10 each hand
KB two-hand swing: 4 x 25
Superset: 4 x (10 x DB bench press; 10 x DB squat)
One-arm DB row: 4 x 10 each hand
Triset: 4 x (25 x ab crunch; 10 x lying DB triceps press; 10 x EZ-curl bar biceps curl)
Triset: 4 x (10 x DB calf raise; 10 x DB wrist curl; 10 x DB reverse wrist curl)
1 x Tabata interval on stationary bike
Stretch

(where KB = kettlebell and DB = dumbbell)

Much better now. Will post intellectually coherent stuff soon, like a long-overdue report on just how stupendously enjoyable Novacon was for me.

Brain. Will. Reintegrate. Soon.