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February 16, 2011 Leave a comment
Men’s Health has two wonderful nuggets for us this morning:
The 13 Best New Exercises gives you some of the movements that you are probably not doing now, that will help spice up your workouts.
The World’s Most Efficient Workout reminds us of the importance of mixing up your routines with exercises that your body is not used to.
Useful Stuff.
February 16, 2011 4 Comments
My wife hates when my son and I play catch in the house. She’s always yelling that little kids shouldn’t play with balls indoors. She also thinks my son shouldn’t. (We have a running joke in our household that my wife has three children- our son, our daughter, and me.)
My response is atypical, though. I actually find a way on most days to defend what my wife sees as infantile behavior. I tell her that with each catch and throw, our son is becoming a better athlete. More coordinated. More comfortable. With better hand-eye coordination. What I try to convince her of is that people get better not from the formal practice and training we do. Rather, we get better from the informal events. I tell her that we humans can only have class or practice with our team or group a few times per week. That we can only afford so many hours with the private piano teacher that comes to our home after school. I tell her hat because of work and other obligations, as well as weather; we can only go to the park so often. Read more of this post
February 15, 2011 Leave a comment
In Today’s helping of Men’s Health Tips, they have 6 simple ways to get more out of your workouts. Check it out!
February 12, 2011 Leave a comment
Here’s a great function you can use to generate a random alphanumeric number of any length you wish. You simply open the VBA Editor (Alt-F11), copy and paste this function, then use it [GetRandomNumber(x), where x is the length of the random number you want] as you would any other Excel function.
February 11, 2011 Leave a comment
It happened again. I was working on a project for which I needed a quick list of all of the 50 states and their abbreviations. I probably had it somewhere— I’m sure I’ve needed this information before—but I was too lazy to look for it. If I was in 7th grade, I could probably have just typed them in order from memory. But I’m not and I can’t. So I did what any half-way smart person would do. I googled “State Abbreviations”. The result returned a lot of sites, as you’d expect. I decided on using the one for our good old United States Postal Service: http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/abbr_state.txt. Read more of this post
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