I found a fantastic vintage clip of Aikijutsu master Don Angier from the mid-60s and it is fricking beautiful. I am amazed at how smooth he is.
I can understand why people thought he was such a big deal. What’s great about this is that, at the time, hardly anyone was doing anything like this in the United States.
Man, I really want a Plone module that has the project management functionality of GForge.
Ideally you would see your top items as soon as you logged onto the Plone page. Honestly the GForge user page shows a bit too much information in a default view.
Oooooh. Want it! Want it! Perhaps I should make one myself…if I could get about a spare MONTH.
Today’s workout
I had fairly brusque but good practice today:
Yang Taiji Long Form Sections 4, 5, and 6
Bagua Wuji Circle Walk (50 steps each way)
Staff Warmups
Seven Star Staff
Yang Simplified Broadsword
Fu Bagua Cyclone Broadsword
Fu Dragon Palm
There is a part of the Dragon Palm where you do Snake Smashes the grass (drop into a deep front stance while smashing downward with a backfist). You then leap out of the front stance and do a rising backfist with the other hand, and then rotate the backfist behind you as you spin around in a 360 degree circle. You then do a front kick and following by a punch with some serious fa jin.
It’s very difficult, so I spent several minutes just trying to do that sequence of moves, wobbling all over the place. I eventually could do the move reasonably smoothly, but the kick and the punch had no power to them. It will take awhile to smooth that out. Fun stuff, though.
One of my buddies sent me a link to Secondlife, which looks like a glorious way to waste one’s time, and most likely, get divorced.
I also discovered SubEthaEdit, which lets remote developers look at (and edit!) the same source code simulaneously!
Well, back to work.
I had a nice workout in Woodland Park this morning from about 7 to 8:30 am.
* Yang Taiji long form, sections 4, 5, and 6.
* Broadsword warm ups
* Yang “Basic Broadsword” form
* Fu Bagua “Cyclone Broadsword” form
* Nine Palace Bagua “Seven Star Staff” form
* Fu Bagua “Dragon Palm” form
I have heard tell that American car manufacturers have a serious blind spot, in that, when they look to see how they are doing relative to the competition they only compare themselves to other American auto makers.
This is part of what gives us such beauties as the Aries K car, and is also what tends to make American cars inferior to most imported automobiles.
I have also heard that Microsoft’s notion of usability testing includes running new applications on computers in the cafeteria, and letting other Microsoft employees rate the usability of the application.
This explains a great deal. An application interface deemed “intuitive” by Microsoft might be intuitive to their own employees, but not be intuitive to your great aunt. Likewise, this may go a long way towards explaining why, inexplicably, Microsoft’s position on tabbed browsers is that “they are too confusing for most users to feel comfortable with them.”
Oy. Vey.