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Archive for December, 2008
Hey Buddy, Can I Borrow $170M?
Squeaking into the news is the AG report that the 2010 Olympics are a healthy $170M over budget and that dubious accounting practices are hiding the true cost.
Nice. I can feel my property taxes rising as I type this!
Emma May’s Ballet Finale
This isn’t the most exciting video in the world, but below you can see our movie clip from Emma May’s Ballet performance last Saturday. She is one cute girl!
Emma May Ballet 2008 from Doug Smith on Vimeo.
Proving It
Conservatives claim constantly that government doesn’t work. And then get elected to prove it.
– PJ Rourke?
Power Testing
As part of my rehabilitation from my scooter accident I decided to improve my heart and leg fitness by doing indoor bike training. Both my GP and physiotherapist recommended this and because of my background in cycling I thought it was a great idea.
My bike setup is pretty basic but it also provides me with not only good training equipment but also valuable technical feedback for monitoring my fitness. I have a Kurt Kinetic Pro Trainer, which comes calibrated for power. What this means is that if I know the speed of the rear wheel I can compute the power that I’m producing. To track the speed I have a “bike pod” (ie a speedometer) that works with my Suunto t6 heart rate monitor, and I can download all of this data to my PC. As well, the trainer came with a cheap bike computer which shows the wheel speed and the power (the Suunto simply shows the speed).
To get all the data into the PC I download my heart rate and speed. I then use a Read the rest of this entry »
