My blog is moving!!
I am moving my blog to leejhinkle.com. Check it out on the "blog" header.
Thanks for dealing with me and this movement! I'm super-excited. I may not quite have the same blog support as with blogspot, but it'll be nice to have other support as well.
Lee J
06 March 2011
05 March 2011
IT Fun
This has been a really fun week for me in IT. I've set up servers at school and at home. And I completely fubarred my home router trying to install dd-wrt on it. It seems like every spare moment I've had has been spent doing mostly useless things in the IT area.
But it's bee very good for learning. I also bought two domain names, leejhinkle.com and leejhinkle.net. It's likely that the -.net address will end up pointing to the -.com one, but we'll see what happens.
Anyway, it'll be fun to try hosting those sites myself. I'll set up IIS on Windows Server 2k8 on my desktop and work to set my sites up and show them to the world. But for now, the blog will remain here.
But it's bee very good for learning. I also bought two domain names, leejhinkle.com and leejhinkle.net. It's likely that the -.net address will end up pointing to the -.com one, but we'll see what happens.
Anyway, it'll be fun to try hosting those sites myself. I'll set up IIS on Windows Server 2k8 on my desktop and work to set my sites up and show them to the world. But for now, the blog will remain here.
06 February 2011
Goals
Always a fun topic, Goals focuses on several things. Or at least brings greater clarity to me of what my goals should be.
Somethings you can jump right into. Other things you have to learn a little bit about and then you can jump in. Others have a completely foreign culture (maybe) and take some getting used to.
I went to Jackson Hole, WY last year with some friends. One of the people I went with talked about doing a bike race from Logan, UT to Jackson (332 km). Initially, I thought he was nuts (I still kinda do), but I spent a lot of time after that trip riding my bike and running some shorter races.
And I realized I am addicted to adrenaline and to competition. I like the feeling of passing people and knowing I can pass more people. Or maybe I just like everyone looking at my butt.
Anyway, I want to do Lotoja (LOgan TO JAckson). One problem. My physiology. I'm a sprinter. This is made very obvious to me by my ability to be good in short bursts and breath heavily for a while and then do it again. And I have a 30+-inch vertical--meaning my musculature is at least 50% and likely 70+% fast-twitch X muscles.
I ran two 5k and one 3k race last year. I felt 5k was a little farther than I'd like to go and 3k is almost perfect (of course, I'd really prefer <400m, but those really don't exist). In any case, I placed very well in the races I ran.
Then I tried a super-short triathlon hosted by my university's tri club. I did it without any training during the two months prior to it and placed very well in my division (the one without the really good triathletes).
So anyway, I've been looking for local 5k to run this year--I want to run at least one a month (or 12 on the year, because January is gone and I didn't run one and I doubt I'm gonna run one in February). Also I've been looking at sprint-distance triathlons (200-800m swims, 10-15 mile bikes, 5k run) and there are a fair number nearby. But then Lotoja is in the back of my head.
For both the triathlons and Lotoja, I have to have a new bike. Period. The 5k obviously don't require a bike. I'll probably get a new bike in June, but if I want to do Lotoja I have to be riding 100+ miles/week prior to June and I don't know if my current bike can handle that.
I think the solution to my dilemma presented itself. Swim and run now. Keep biking to school. Compete in 5k events until I get a new bike, then do triathlons. Biking 10 miles is easy-peasy. Simple to do at top speed, especially on a new bike. Running and swimming are my crappy events anyway. Focus on Lotoja next year. Because I'll need more than 7 months (Feb to Sep to alter my physiology enough to last for 10-12 hours in the saddle). And my musculature may not be the only thing that needs altering. :-/ I love thinking aloud.
Somethings you can jump right into. Other things you have to learn a little bit about and then you can jump in. Others have a completely foreign culture (maybe) and take some getting used to.
I went to Jackson Hole, WY last year with some friends. One of the people I went with talked about doing a bike race from Logan, UT to Jackson (332 km). Initially, I thought he was nuts (I still kinda do), but I spent a lot of time after that trip riding my bike and running some shorter races.
And I realized I am addicted to adrenaline and to competition. I like the feeling of passing people and knowing I can pass more people. Or maybe I just like everyone looking at my butt.
Anyway, I want to do Lotoja (LOgan TO JAckson). One problem. My physiology. I'm a sprinter. This is made very obvious to me by my ability to be good in short bursts and breath heavily for a while and then do it again. And I have a 30+-inch vertical--meaning my musculature is at least 50% and likely 70+% fast-twitch X muscles.
I ran two 5k and one 3k race last year. I felt 5k was a little farther than I'd like to go and 3k is almost perfect (of course, I'd really prefer <400m, but those really don't exist). In any case, I placed very well in the races I ran.
Then I tried a super-short triathlon hosted by my university's tri club. I did it without any training during the two months prior to it and placed very well in my division (the one without the really good triathletes).
So anyway, I've been looking for local 5k to run this year--I want to run at least one a month (or 12 on the year, because January is gone and I didn't run one and I doubt I'm gonna run one in February). Also I've been looking at sprint-distance triathlons (200-800m swims, 10-15 mile bikes, 5k run) and there are a fair number nearby. But then Lotoja is in the back of my head.
For both the triathlons and Lotoja, I have to have a new bike. Period. The 5k obviously don't require a bike. I'll probably get a new bike in June, but if I want to do Lotoja I have to be riding 100+ miles/week prior to June and I don't know if my current bike can handle that.
I think the solution to my dilemma presented itself. Swim and run now. Keep biking to school. Compete in 5k events until I get a new bike, then do triathlons. Biking 10 miles is easy-peasy. Simple to do at top speed, especially on a new bike. Running and swimming are my crappy events anyway. Focus on Lotoja next year. Because I'll need more than 7 months (Feb to Sep to alter my physiology enough to last for 10-12 hours in the saddle). And my musculature may not be the only thing that needs altering. :-/ I love thinking aloud.
14 January 2011
Tolerance and love
While I was at home I ripped the entire series of M*A*S*H to dvd. (Thanks Mom and Dad!) So I've been watching it a lot recently. One of the topics that seems to come up frequently is the need to accept people for who they are and love them. This is evident through the interactions between Major Frank Burns and Captain Hawkeye Pierce.
Burns is a very intolerant person and often refers to the enemy (Korean War ==> Chinese) as "gooks." He uses this dehumanization of people to justify his doing his duty as a US officer. Because all the officers at M*A*S*H are doctors, they have a higher calling and responsibility than just to their country. Their Hippocratic oath is an oath to all humankind--therefore the lesson Hawkeye often must show by example is one of human decency--putting the enemy on the operating table ahead of American soldiers because they are more mortally wounded.
In one episode, Hawkeye starts quoting Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din--a poem about British occupation in India. The poem is linked here. As I read the poem, I was moved by the speaker's brutal honesty. He speaks of the need to fit in with his comrades, but also the need to treat the regimental bhisti with better respect, because he is a better man than the speaker.
The speaker speaks for all of us as we realize that often we act exactly as he did: we see that others whom we treat poorly are better people than we are, but for social reason--and any others--we may not have the inner fortitude to better our actions. And we essentially say with the speaker,
Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
Burns is a very intolerant person and often refers to the enemy (Korean War ==> Chinese) as "gooks." He uses this dehumanization of people to justify his doing his duty as a US officer. Because all the officers at M*A*S*H are doctors, they have a higher calling and responsibility than just to their country. Their Hippocratic oath is an oath to all humankind--therefore the lesson Hawkeye often must show by example is one of human decency--putting the enemy on the operating table ahead of American soldiers because they are more mortally wounded.
In one episode, Hawkeye starts quoting Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din--a poem about British occupation in India. The poem is linked here. As I read the poem, I was moved by the speaker's brutal honesty. He speaks of the need to fit in with his comrades, but also the need to treat the regimental bhisti with better respect, because he is a better man than the speaker.
The speaker speaks for all of us as we realize that often we act exactly as he did: we see that others whom we treat poorly are better people than we are, but for social reason--and any others--we may not have the inner fortitude to better our actions. And we essentially say with the speaker,
Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
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