This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

Just finished reading a really interesting book called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. It was written by Joshua Foer and published in March, 2011 by Penguin Press.

Joshua — a man with an average memory — went on to win the U.S. Memory Championship. This book chronicles his path in an entertaining and informative way. Highly recommended.

Cardio at Lifetime Fitness

Mikie and I got in 30 minutes of cardio at the Lifetime Fitness in Atascocita. We used the Octane Fitness elliptical machines. Good workout!

I got in a really great book today that I ordered from Amazon: Matplotlib for Python Developers, by Sandro Tosi. Very well written with just the right amount of detail.

Christopher McDougall, the author of Born to Run was featured at this Google talk:

Triathlon Training, day 72

Strength Training – NROL Strength 1/A (#2) Details

Warm Up: Elliptical x 00:10
Sets:
1. squat: 6/225, 1/275, 7/245, 1/295, 12/245, 15/245
Supersets:
   2. Bulgarian split-squat (each side): 15/22.5, 15/25, 15/25
   3. Step-up: 15/50, 15/60, 15/60
4. Back extension: 12/BW, 10/BW
5. Swiss-ball crunch: 10/25, 12/30
Stretching: 00:05

Swimming – Masters Class Tonight we started meeting at 19:00 instead of 19:30. I like this new time better. Details

Duration: 01:00
Distance: 2850 m

I’m reading a new (for me) book that is really interesting:

The author, Jillian Michales is one of the coaches on The Biggest Loser show. Her advice is sound and concise and backed by good science. Highly recommended!

I found out about it from this post on Barefoot Ted’s blog. It confirmed something I had intuitively begun to feel for quite some time. That is, pretty much everything we’ve been taught about running is wrong.

Running isn’t supposed to hurt. It’s not supposed to mess-up your knees. We, as humans, were designed to run. This book goes into all that and much more. Highly recommended.

• Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design, by Jennifer Tidwell
• Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, by Robert Hoekman Jr.
• Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil
• Universal Design for Web Applications: Web Applications That Reach Everyone, by Wendy Chisholm
• Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition, by Steve Krug
• Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices, by Leon Shklar

And if you find any treasures, please consider adding updates to this post with your recommendations.