Category Archives: Health

Fitness: push-ups

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Geoff

Lifehacker pointed me at this article in the New York Times: An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up According to the article, push-ups are really good for you. I’ve been doing sets of about 20 very irregularly. The article … Continue reading →

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Hard work pays off

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Geoff

NatureBoy started Kempo Karate classes at the very end of January, and has been working hard. We even enrolled in in Martial Arts camp for this school vacation. Yesterday, he told us that we would be surprised when we picked … Continue reading →

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NPR: importance of play

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Geoff

An interesting story on NPR (one of the most emailed stories for February), about how play has changed in recent history, and the affect that those changes have had. Beloved wife and I have been discussing the quality of play … Continue reading →

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Report from sick bay

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Geoff

So, before Carnage, NatureBoy came down with a pretty bad congested cold. He coughed lots, and felt lousy. So we kept him home from school for several days. On the second day, I decided to take him to the pediatrician, … Continue reading →

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Wet shaving

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Geoff

I may have gone off the deep end, but When I first headed off to college, I took with me a Remmington electric shaver. It had a screen that covered an array of blades — arranged like fins on a … Continue reading →

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A (very) little Burning Wheel

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Geoff

Last night, I got together with couple of friends to play Burning Wheel. I’ve been meeting one of them since January or February, developing a character, running through examples of the conflict resolution systems, and then playing other games like … Continue reading →

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BW’s wisdom teeth

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Geoff

Beloved Wife had her four wisdom teeth extracted on Friday morning. I read a bit more of HP7 in the waiting room, but I didn’t get very far. We arrived at 7 am and we were home around 9. I … Continue reading →

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Yoga info via Lifehacker

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Geoff

I saw a couple of Yoga-related items on Lifehacker, recently. The one that first caught my eye is program in Canada that has developed yoga sequences to perform at your desk. The other is a free yoga video from www.yogatoday.com. … Continue reading →

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Family Aikido

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Geoff

I started practicing Aikido at Vermont Aikido in the Fall of 1992. After a couple years, I took a long break, then started again at another dojo, Aikido of Champlain Valley. I studied there for a number of years, and … Continue reading →

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