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Hashing

January 27, 2012 Drink / Exercise / Games
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Thanks to Fitoc­racy, I just found out about hash­ing today.

Hash­ing, which is short for Hash House Har­ri­ers. It’s an old British colo­nial game the red­coats would play to get over hang­overs. Basi­cally, one per­son is a “hare” and has a head start on a race. The hare leaves scraps of paper (or chalk marks) as a trail for the “hounds” (other play­ers) to fol­low. It used to be trail run­ning but some groups do urban courses now. There is no fit­ness require­ment because the fast hounds have to slow down to check the trail and so every­one has a fair chance. The best part is that these events usu­ally stop at a pub for the mid­point and always end at one for the fin­ish line.

So it’s a children’s game with beer as a prize. How can you not be excited about that? I don’t think I can do the one tomor­row, but who’s down to check out an upcom­ing hash with me?

Or find one in your area with this site.

Dream Job

March 17, 2011 Board Games / Exercise / Friends / Post-A-Day 2011 / Technology / Videos / Work
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Despite never play­ing EVE Online before, after see­ing the fol­low­ing video, I hella want to work at CCP Games:

Of course, that would involve mov­ing to Ice­land, which sounded like a very cool place until recently, what with the vol­canic and eco­nomic crises. And the video seems pretty staged, but if those two guys are actu­ally going to have a chess­box­ing match, I’ll want to be front and cen­ter to see it.

But yeah, I’ve heard of chess­box­ing before, but I thought it was a joke. Appar­ently, it is very real.

Too bad we didn’t think of putting on an event like this back in Davis. Then again, maybe we can still round up enough peo­ple to put this on. A civ­i­lized man’s fight club, now that we’ve all graduated?

Clearing My Head

March 9, 2011 Exercise / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011
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I had some bad news yes­ter­day (more on this shortly), so I went on a run to clear my head.

Went back to Immi­gra­tion Point Out­look. Man­aged to jog all the way there this time, it took about 5 min­utes:

I don’t know if there’s a name for this spot, but it was about 12 min­utes into the jog:

And I made it to tourist cen­tral after 18 min­utes:

Saw a boat on the way back, so I took a pic­ture of that, too:

All in all, it was just under three and a half miles and took me 51 min­utes — I ran down­hill and then walked back up. Nor­mally, when I run, I tend to focus on my breath­ing to point of block­ing out every­thing else. Just couldn’t help but be dis­tracted yes­ter­day, though.

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