The Cockroach in the Machine

Some things that you find are just too cool. While reading the latest issue of “Make Magazine” (from O’Reilly Press), I saw an article about a cockroach powered robot. The cockroach has no brain, but is basically controlled a bunch of nerve cells...

Photo Galleries

I got an email from the RIT Alumni Association that had a drawing of Ritchie the (cartoon) tiger holding a thermometer that denotes the number of donations that the school has gotten this year. For personal reasons, I found this picture extremely amusing, so I...

Mid-Day Workouts

Mid-day workouts are great. You do not have to get up at 5:30 in the morning in order to have time before work to get it done. You do not have to delay dinner until 8 or 9 o’clock at night due to working out after work. You get the warmest part of the day to...

Journal?

I got to thinking today about the structure of how I want the training log to work when I write it. A feature that I definately want to have is a place to keep comments in a journal type fashion about the workouts themselves. When I was in college, that was the best...

New Shoes

I tried a new pair of shoes for this evening’s workout, the Asics DS-Trainer X. The jury is still out a little on whether I like them. We ran a Baxter Woods workout, which is basically a 600 meter down hill trail followed by two sharp turns and a 200 meter...