The island of Santa Catarina is full of pristine, white sand beaches. Some around Lagoa like Praia Mole and Barra de Lagoa are full of beautiful people working on their tans or catching waves on their board, and the businesses serving them. Others, like Praia Solidão, are almost completely empty. Solidão is about 30km from downtown Florianopolis ( Read more... )

I'm in Hong Kong now, fascinated by the pushup debate but not as much as I am fascinated by the fact that there's such a lively debate ( Read more... )

A discussion from dinner.

Poll

Assume there's enough money in it for me to be sufficiently motivated to do it.

8:15. Woo!

I did it to music for the first time. Don't know how much difference that made.

8:42. A whole two-second improvement.

This isn't going to be easy.

Having an eye injury is kind of weird for me. I can't train, yet all my joints are fine. It's a weird thing. I can use the computer okay now, but my vision is still a bit blurry, so I'm not playing poker for fear that my fours suddenly start turning into aces.

So, looking for stuff to do...

There's been a thread on the Sherdog forums for a ( Read more... )

Coming into day 3 of being a one-legged lamer. Starting to get a little stir-crazy. Been going through the websites of all the jiujitsu gyms I've trained at, like a jilted lover obsessively stalking an ex ( Read more... )

I played a whopping 2407 hands today, which I believe is more than I played in any one day of 2007. I guess high-limit hold'em isn't dead for me, after all.

I also went to the dentist, got some banking stuff done and did some hill sprints. Muay Thai gym opens back up tomorrow, and BJJ on Monday. Off to a good start!

Just a quick update while I wait for my massage ( Read more... )

A combination of waking up uncharacteristically early, and some significant soreness as a result of working a lot of can openers (picture) on Wednesday got me convinced that I should try out my first yoga class on Thursday. Conveniently, there is yoga where I train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Vancouver (actually, seeing it on the website was what got ( Read more... )