A little while ago, a colleague of mine came back from a conference. It was a good conference, apparently. But then, he should know. The last one he went on, he came back with a great story that became the blog post “are you a cat or a dog?” When I asked him what he had [...]
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The importance of being: resilient
July 13th, 2010 3 Comments
So far, in an Oscar Wilde-inspired set of off-topic posts, I’ve talked about the importance of being: honest and the importance of being: educated. This time, continuing the theme, I am dwelling on the importance of being resilient. Resilience doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as the honesty but it’s equally important, I think. [...]
Tags: resilience
Things I learned being sick
July 7th, 2010 4 Comments
This is just a short post to say that I was really, really sick last week. I got back from the Alps in the middle of the night on Saturday, 27 June and spent Sunday blogging and getting ready to go back into work. I went into work on Monday, although I was starting to [...]
Tags: soft tissue
Music your mother wouldn’t like
June 9th, 2010 4 Comments
For me, lifting weights goes hand-in-hand with music that your mother wouldn’t like. I know some people who can lift weights in silence or listening to the news on the radio but that just doesn’t work for me. I’m not a music afficianado (like Aaron Friday) and I don’t confess to having a particularly wide knowledge [...]
Tags: Audioslave · Disturbed · Evanescance · heavy metal · Metallica · Motorhead · Music · Rage Against the Machine · Rammstein · Slayer
Getting better every day
May 12th, 2010 3 Comments
Getting better every day is something that my friend Josh Hanagarne at World’s Strongest Librarian has made very popular. At first, the idea seems very daunting. Actually, it’s much less challenging than you might think. The size of each step in the right direction can be very small but the distance you cover over a couple of weeks [...]
