Aquatics workout featuring New Original Aquarcises

February 24, four days ago, for the first time in a year I went swimming in the pool. Today I was at the pool again.

The aquatics workout went as follows:

Start Friday February 28 825 PM, End 935 PM; 70 minutes, at Waltham YMCA indoor pool

No unrecorded warmup activity. Pool used is 25 yards long, six lanes wide.

First 40 minutes:

At depths of 4, 5, and 6 feet, engaged in spurts of activity (interval-training style) involving: imitating the movements involved in the Olympic Snatch and 'Clean & Jerk' weightlifting exercises (involved getting as close to the floor of the pool as possible underwater in crouch-position, then exploding upwards); imitating the movements involved in shooting a basketball (also involved getting as close to the floor of the pool as possible underwater  in a crouch-position, then exploding upwards); imitate the movements involved in running (similar to a very slow inefficient dog-paddle type swim).

Next 10 minutes: Swam using two new swimming-strokes I invented on the spot. Stroke F28A: stomach down, body parallel to surface of water, use reverse-breastroke-type arm movement to propel oneself in the direction one's toes are pointing. Stroke F28B: stomach facing towards ceiling, body stretched out parallel to water surface, use arms to propel oneself in direction toes are pointing. Swam 12.5 yds using stroke F28A, then 25 yds using F28B, and then 23 yds using F28A. F28A and F28B intrigued me because I felt the arm-movements involved resembled the arm-movements used in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk weightlifting exercises.

Next 20 minutes: swam crawlstroke: 12.5 yds, rest; 25 yds + flip-turn, rest; 37.5 yds w/ flip-turn, rest; 50 yds w/ two flip-turns, rest; 62.5 yds w/ two flip-turns, rest. Much improved on the flip-turns. Last time I was doing the flip-turns with either left or right arm stretched forwards at the beginning of the flip; today I always had my right arm stretched forwards at the beginning of the flip-turn. I do better leading the flip with the right arm. I believe in ambidexterity but I also believe that after one has mastered a skill with one's favored arm or leg, one is better able to master the skill with one's clumsy side of the body. During the swimming, on the spot, I invented a breathing pattern that served me well, that I had never used before. It involves: alternating between breathing every 3 strokes and breathing every strokes; or, stroke+breath, stroke, stroke, stroke+breath, stroke, stroke+breath, stroke, stroke, stroke+breath, stroke, stroke+breath etc etc.

Never was so much swim-wisdom of such insight invented in so little time by so few.

Weightlifting determined max reps at various weights

For the second time this month,I was out shooting baskets  and weightlifting.

The practice went as follows:

Start Thursday February 27 816 PM, End 945 PM; 89 minutes, at Waltham YMCA

No unrecorded warmup activity. Alternated between shooting baskets (see basketball practice stats) and weightlifting sets.

1 Clean and Jerk, 45 lbs, 8x.

2 Snatch, 45 lbs, 6x

3 Intention: discover max number reps that can be done at 65 lbs (1 second or less rest between reps) on Clean and Jerk. Result: 10x near max.

4 Intention: discover max number reps that can be done at 65 lbs (1 second or less rest between reps) on Snatch. Result: 8x near max.

5 Intention: discover max number reps that can be done at 80 lbs (1 second or less rest between reps) on Clean and Jerk. Result: 6x near max.

6 Intention: discover max number reps that can be done at 80 lbs (1 second or less rest between reps) on Snatch. Result: 5x near max.

7 Clean and Jerk, 45 lbs, 8x.

I wanted the info on the max reps at each weight, to use when planning future workouts.

RGB Rangefinder Notes

RGB Rangefinder Versions

RGB Rangefinder is a program I've been working on solo. These versions are known to work with IE8

RGB Rangefinder v10 March 8, 2014

New Capability: Click R%G%B% as static row button, and you are returned in a table a list of the named colors closest to the color you input; the list tells you how close each color is to the color you input. Problem is that it is still buggy-- when you first click on the 'R%G%B% as static row button' nothing happens and you have to click on it a second time to get the program going. And, after refresh of the page you have to reset the inputs to 100, 100, 100, and run the program with the inputs at 100, 100, 100, or otherwise the program will not work. When you first load the page to get the program going you have to click twice on the 'R%G%B% as static row button' and run it once at the default 100 100 100 setting to get it working. 100 100 100 is the default input.

Tech Notes: Suffice it to say that the javascript engine sometimes behaves erratically while a program is being built, and that such can drive even a sane genius nuts. Too tired to expound at length re all I suffered through now.

RGB Rangefinder v9 March 7, 2014

 Added Capability: Using the percentage rgb button, one can now make a static row that is part of the background/foreground table, represent whatever color you want it to. Unlike the other rows in the background/foreground table, this added row is not changed when a ranging-process is done on a color and returned to the background/foreground table. Sitting at my desk doing deep thinking re the capabilities of the program, I decided that this static row was the top priority.

Tech Notes: Attempted to set up a form in an unfamiliar environment (form encapsulated triple-nested table). Micromanaging CSS via inline CSS became necessary as normal CSS failed due to nesting of table. This created clutter of code. In clutter of code, I failed to realize that I had placed a 'name-blah' tag not in the input tag where I wanted to place it, but rather, in the td tag holding the input. The form being built in an unfamiliar environment, the triple-nested table, with new unfamiliar  content (multiple action-buttons in one form) led me to suspect all kinds of problems aside from the reality of the name-identifier having been placed in the wrong tag. I removed the form from encapsulating a triple-nested table, changed that to encapsulating a nested table, and it worked, but I am not sure if it would have worked encapsulating a triple-nested table.  Have to be aware of how dull sweatshopish work emplacing inline-styles, and the code-clutter such creates, can lead to fatigue/boredom as a result of which one misses basic facts such as the name-identifier being placed in the wrong tag. I suspect that as opposed to tiring myself out working on this program, as a result of which I fail to exercise, I now need to forget programming prioritize exercise and program when resting from exercise, which I have not done for a few days. 

RGB Rangefinder v8 March 6, 2014

Added capability: RGB Rangefinder v8, keeps track of all the color choices you have made in a table which: lists the time at which you took your action; what action you took; the color you applied with your action; the proportional range you applied if you were applying a range; and, the absolute range you applied if you were applying a range.

Tech Notes: according to alert-box, the code of a programmatically-assembled link, was a properly written link, with all the quotation marks in the correct places; but, when this link, was placed in a row, which was then inserted in the history table, the code of the link became distorted and the link became dysfunctional, as a check re the innerHTML of the table verified. The Problem was that upon integrating the row into the table, the js engine helpfully added quotation marks around the javascript:blah() which was inside the inserted table-row, according to the report of the inner-html of the table in question, received from the alert box. This resulted in duplication of quotation marks whenI tried to write out the quotation marks perfectly, result being some of the quotation marks being replaced with question-marks, and the link being dysfunctional. Writing out the function-triggering javascript links without the quotation marks worked fine. And I'm a Sherlock Holmes to figure that out.

RGB Rangefinder v7 March 4, 2014

Added background-changing links to middle columns of bacgkround/foreground table, and added box showing color link will turn background to in outside columns of background/foreground table.

Tech Notes: Suffered from absent-minded mistakes (not that I am especially absent-minded, but in building these things there is so much on the mind that it is easy to miss something). Got distracted by turmoil and confusion amongst programmers who teach and learn via the internet, due to a desire to learn a couple more ways of doing something that I already know how to do. 

RGB Rangefinder v6 March 2, 2014

Added capability: the color loaded as background in the background/foreground table, can now be sent to the rangefinder for processing to show specified ranges for it. I was plagued by absent-minded mistakes while adding this capability.

Tech Notes: While adding this capability, made absent-minded mistakes (need some time off from programming?). The program has become more and more complicated. I find myself drowning in a sea of multiple copies of stylesheets, of external javascripts, and of the HTML page itself; more than once I caught myself, editing the wrong copy of a stylesheet, javascript, or html page.  

RGB Rangefinder v5 March 1, 2014

Added interaction with my own original color-picker, which is mathematically based to produce a perfectly balanced sample of colors.

Tech Notes: production of this version required huge sacrifice in terms of mental stress. The javascript demon was out to make me insane again. There were two comment lines above a call to a function in the opener window (//opener.document.getElementById('hometrigger').click();
//window.opener.alurt();). The function was not working. When I removed the comments, the line below the comments, (window.opener.cponepreranger();) worked. When I put the comments back in, it then continued to work! And the damned javascript is complex enough without such insane things happening. The entire program was held up for at least an hour because of such insane machine-flakiness that was not my fault, that made good code look bad, and that sent me looking for unnecessary solutions (result-me being tortured by false-gurus, verbosities, and obfuscators) and double-testing everything (such machine-flakiness has happened more than once). 

Also, time/energy was eaten up due to another machine-error: an external type .js javascript file I created for the program did not work. When I clicked on the file in its folder, I received a '800A03EA', microsoft jscript compilation error' notice, which I had never received before; restart of PC did not fix things. I did not get this notice with any of my other .js files.   On the internet I encountered much turmoil confusion and bad advice re the '800A03EA' error, and no good advice. My original hackish but effective solution to the problem (born of a kind of thinking produced by never having anyone to help me with programming problems): copy an existing .js file that is working; empty it out; rename it; and then use it. It will work even though for some reason every new .js file you create does not work and gives you an error notice.

RGB Rangefinder v4 February 28, 2014

Added ability to range colors based on name input of color such as 'red', 'green', 'blue'. This is a trick that has completely stumped the programming world till now. The code I used to do the trick is original, not learned from others.

RGB Rangefinder v3 February 27, 2014

RGB Rangefinder v2 February 2, 2014

RGB Rangefinder v1 January 31, 2014

Basketball Shot Drill Results February 2014

I have created a page giving the scored results of the basketball shooting drills (pro-distance 3 pointers, left and right handed, stationary and off 1-dribble slants) I started doing this month:

Basketball Shot Drill F14, February 2014 Results

Outlook Express - Restoring backed up Folders

I was thinking, of the importance of being able to restore backed up .dbx files containing the .eml files in the folders in the superior, classic, famous, once-cutting-edge excellent free desktop email client 'Outlook Express'. If backed-up emails cannot be read: the originals have to be kept on disk, resulting in clutter, space-problems, navigation problems, and program dysfunction problems; if they cannot be read, one can never be certain that the backup-process has indeed succeeded.

I was shocked at the level of confusion and turmoil regarding this simple process. The mere fact that one can find many softwares available whose purpose is to read the .dbx files generated by Outlook Express, indicated that incredibly, huge numbers of persons do not know how to restore the files they have backed up from Outlook Express.

Several of the webpages I visited pretended to divulge how to backup and restore Outlook Express emails, whereas in reality all they did was explain the simple process of backing-up Outlook Express .dbx files -- another sign of trouble.

Finally I found the best solution in result 4 of of "outlook express" "application data" restore dbx - Google Search, at Backup/Restore Outlook Express (subsection entitled 'Restoring Outlook Express Folders when Import doesn't work or is not available').

(Hackish finger-painting type but superior) solution example: 

1) In OE, create new folder, 'backedupstuff'.

2) Highlight this folder in the OE folder list.

3) Right-click, properties, copy address of folder storing .dbx file containing backedupstuff' folder.

4) Open folder containing backedupstuff .dbx file.

5) Close OE.

6) replace backedupstuff.dbx file with another second .dbx file also namedbackedupstuff, which is the .dbx file that you had backed up. You should now bed able to read the files in the second .dbx files named 'backedupstuff', in OE. Using this method corresponds with general Windows methods involving copy and paste into folders.

If you simply add the .dbx file to the Windows folder (outside of OE) that contains the .dbx files that contain the folder contents, OE fails to recognize the newly added folder and continues as if the newly added folder does not exist. The necessary elaboration is that the folder has to be first created within OE using the OE controls, and then after OE is closed, replaced with another folder of the same name containing the .dbx file whose .eml email contents are to be viewed.

Microsoft-authored method (Restoring Outlook Express folders after reinstalling Window, How to back up and to restore Outlook Express data): 1 & 2) copy 'Folders.dbx' (which was current in OE when .dbx you wish to view was current in OE) and .dbx you wish to view in OE, into a folder; 3) click file-import-messages; 4) choose OE version you used to create the .dbx; 5) click 'import mail from an oe6 store directory' radio-button; 6) browse to folder containing the folders.dbx and the .dbx you wish to view; 7) open folder; 8) click subfolder you wish to import; 9) 'click finish!'.

The Microsoft method involves disadvantages: you have to keep a specific Folders.dbx file together with the.dbx file containing the folder the .Folder.dbx file refers to; renaming of the Folders.dbx file or the .dbx file containing the emails, which is summoned by the Folders.dbx file, leads to failure.    

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'Outlook Express' in 2002, was estimated to be the email-client used by 200 million+ of the 400+ million then estimated to use the internet. This year, 2014, out of 2.5 billion email users, apparently only approx 75 million use it.

I remember when back in the days, 'Outlook' was the new better thing compared to 'Outlook Express'; 'Outlook' came with 'Office' which cost money whereas 'Outlook Express' was free; yet inexplicably, with 'Outlook Express' you could code the CSS/html for the email sourece code directly, and even in 'edit' mode use it as (the best free) WYSWYG HTML editor around,  whereas with 'Outlook' you could not even see the code of the 'html emails' you created but had to rely instead on the GUI buttons to add anything beyond typewriter-type effects to your email. I took a sip of 'Outlook', and hustled on back to 'Outlook Express' as fast as I could.

Yet, when the market researchers compile stats re Email-client useage, they always lump 'Outlook Express' with 'Outlook', as if 'Outlook Express' was merely an 'express' or primitive form of 'Outlook', which it is not.

Sapiens (29%) uses Desktop email clients, Neanderthalensis (20%) uses Webmail email clients, and Troglodytus (51%) uses mobile email clients. It's not just the numbers that make an email client important.

Yea, so in 2007 Microsoft switched over to using the 'Word' rendering engine for 'Outlook' instead of the HTML rendering engine for 'Outlook', as a result of which, not only did 'Outlook' become incapable of producing true HTML email, it became incapable of correctly reading true HTML email. Yea, well, that's your problem, if you want to use 'Outlook', which does not read HTML emails correctly, that's your problem. A great artist is not going to change his paintings because some insist on looking at them through sunglasses.

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See:

How Many Email Users Are There? - About Email

Google Answers: Market data - Outlook Express users

Email Client Market Share: Where People Opened in 2013 | Litmus

Email Client Popularity | Campaign Monitor

Microsoft takes email design back 5 years - Campaign Monitor (2007)

dbx reader - Google Search

"outlook express" "application data" dbx - Google Search

"outlook express" "application data" restore dbx - Google Search

"OE 6 store directory" - Google Search

dbx to eml converter - Google Search

Swim Workout- first time in a long time swimming

Day before yesterday I was out shooting baskets and running. Yesterday I did weightlifting. Today, for the first time in at least a year I think, it was swimming.

The swim went as follows:

Start Monday February 24 840 PM, End 940 PM; 60 minutes, at Waltham YMCA indoor pool

No unrecorded warmup activity. Pool used is 25 yards long, six lanes wide. Crawlstroke only stroke used. Always flip-turns at end of length of pool.

1 Swam 12.5 yds, rested.

2 Swam 25 yds, rested.

3 Swam 37.5 yds, rested.

4 Swam 50 yds, rested.

5 Swam 62.5 yds, rested.

6 Swam 75 yds, rested.

7 Swam 87.5 yds, rested.

8 Swam 100 yds, rested.

9 Swam 112.5 yds, rested.


I was never able to continue for more than 50 yds breathing every three strokes. After 50 yds, I always had to shift to breathing every 2 strokes. It just occurred to me, that given my limitations perhaps I should attempt to perfect breathing on EVERY stroke.

I remembered during the workout how, a level of breathing that would be gasping for breath as if extremely winded with the body outside of the water, is like easy breathing, when inside the water. I was thinking, the water holding up the lungs making it easy to breath when in the water, must have positive repercussions in terms of cardiovascular health, which balance out the negative effect of the chemicals used to sanitize the pool water in the United States.

I found it surprising, that I had more endurance today in the water, than I did the last time I went swimming more than a year ago.

The workout described above, was designed to: get me started developing the endurance I need to continue full speed for 50 yds; be relaxing and enjoyable so that I don't stop swimming; be a low-intensity aquatic form of HIIT; collect info useful for planning future swim workouts; provide variety in terms of energy expended during active phases and rest during rest phases. Practically speaking I give it an A. But if I was to criteria-tize stuff like how much effort I put into designing the workout, and the amount of skill or knowledge that went into designing the workout, I might give myself less than an A.

My High Status as A Weightlifter.a Surprise

Facts & estimates extrapolated from data available:

My weightlifting class is the 170-187 lb weightlifting class. USA Weightlifting ranks 592 US male weightlifters from #1 to #592, regardless of age-group, in my 170-187 lb class. The higher their total for the Olympic Snatch and the Olympic Clean & Jerk, the higher they rank.

31% of the US male population age 30-39 is in a lighter weightlifting weight-class compared to me. 52% of the US male population age 30-39 is in a heavier weightlifting weight-class compared to me. 17% of the US male population age 39 is in the same weightlifting weight-class as I am. 20 million US males are in my weightlifting weight-class.

My current max for the Snatch is 43 kg. My max on the snatch is equal to the snatch-max of Samuel Moenning, who USA Weightlifting ranks as #552 in the US in my weight-class, all age-groups included:

# 552 Samuel Moenning
b 1998 age 16,
snatch 43 kg
clean jerk 59 kg
total 102 kg
12/17/2011 Northfield, MN
coach CHAD ANDERSON

This despite the fact that: I have done the Snatch or Clean-jerk exercises on less than a half-dozen days in my life; as an adult I've been weightlifting on average about once a month; as a child I was below average in terms of weightlifting performance, and thin.

Sources-

USA WEIGHTLIFTING 2011 Men's Absolute Year End Rankings

Table 210. Cumulative Percent Distribution of Population by Weight and Sex:  2007–2008...Data are based on National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Weight was measured without shoes.
 
Age and Sex Composition: 2010 Census Briefs. Table 2,
Population by Age and Sex: 2000 and 2010. Sources: U .S . Census Bureau...2010 Census Summary File 1.

That I would (in the Snatch) equal #552 in the nation in my weight-class (regardless of age), out of 20 million males in my weight-class, greatly surprises me. I would have put more time into weightlifting if I had known that I could rank that high with practically zero practice.

Reasons I've been taken by surprise: the top half-dozen or so weightlifters are freaks compared to the rest of us, their amazing performances make us feel weak, though we are strong compared to the population in general; many US males have made me feel weak by way of their huge scores in bodybuilding-type exercises like the bench-press, exercises which are ignored by mainstream competitive weightlifting; the Snatch involves not just brute-strength  in the arms but coordination, quickness, strength of body; many men due to fear of injury, are afraid of doing the Snatch using anything more than light weights.

I realize there are many strong men who never bother with involving themselves in official competitions.

2nd Gym Workout after Long Time No Exercise

For the first time in a long time, yesterday I was out shooting baskets and running. Today I was at the gym again; I had only about half an hour studying webpages on the internet to put together my schedule for what I was going to do; but I feel I came up with a good schedule for the 2nd day of exercise. I now believe that when you only have say a half an hour or less to plan you exercise routine, this can bring out in you good qualities as a result of which the routine you had little time to plan for excels the routine you spent many hours planning for.

The practice went as follows:

Start Sunday February 23 608 PM, End 735 PM; 87 minutes, at Waltham YMCA

No unrecorded warmup activity. I am left-handed.

1 Intention: Determine max number of reps of Olympic-style clean and jerk that can be done at minimum weight (standard Olympic bar by itself, 45 lbs). Result: 16x was getting near max reps I am capable of, given less than 1 second between reps.

2. 3/5 on: 1-dribble, 9' slant to right followed by quick basketball shots from 24' (pro-distance 3-pointer), right of center, shooting left-handed. Jr size 3 ball used so one uncounted warmup shot allowed. For the first time ever in my experience of YMCAs, a normal size basketball wa not available in the gym.

3. Intention: Determine max number of reps of Olympic 'Snatch' weightlifting exercise  that can be done at minimum weight (standard Olympic bar by itself, 45 lbs). Result: 12x was getting near max reps I am capable of, given less than 1 second between reps.

4. 1/5 on basketball shots from 24' center of court (pro-distance 3-pointer), shooting left-handed. Jr size 3 ball used so one uncounted warmup shot allowed.

5 Intention: Determine max weight I can lift doing Olympic-style 'Snatch' and 'Clean and Jerk'. Result: 95 lbs max for the 'Snatch'; 100 lbs max for 'Clean & Jerk'.

6 0/5 on basketball shots from 24' center of court (pro-distance 3-pointer), shooting right-handed. Jr size 3 ball used so one uncounted warmup shot allowed.

After the workout everyone in the shower was complaining about the shower-water not being warm.

The workout described above, was designed to: be suitable for someone who has not exercised for a while; fit into the existing culture in terms of sports played by persons at the gym; combine HIIT principles with weightlifting; be interesting for myself and others; produce information needed for further workout planning. I give it an A-, considering I had only 30 minutes to dream it up.

After the workout using the scale in the gym I found that I now weigh, unclothed, 187 lbs, at 5'10".

Gym Workout After Long Time Not Exercising

For the first time in a long time, I was out shooting baskets and running. I did not have much time to prepare intellectually for the workout be reviewing my past notes.  So I put together the best practice I could, working from memory and from the thoughts going through my mind. The practice went as follows:

Start February 22 630 PM, End 736 PM; 66 minutes, at Waltham YMCA

No unrecorded warmup activity. I am left-handed.

When I say, my intent was to run a lap in x seconds, I mean, my intent was to run the lap in exactly x seconds, not less than x seconds or more than x seconds.

1 Walked 1 lap of basketball court, counter-clockwise,  dribbling basketball with my right hand.

2  Slow jog, 1 lap of basketball court, clockwise, dribbling basketball with right hand.

3. Slow jog, 1 lap of basketball court, clockwise, dribbling basketball with right hand; done in 52.8 seconds.

4. Slow jog, 1 lap of basketball court, counter-clockwise, dribbling basketball with right hand; done in 59.5 seconds.

5.  Intention: run 1 lap of basketball court, clockwise, dribbling basketball with left hand, in 36 seconds. Accomplished in 28.4 seconds.

6.  Intention: run 1 lap of basketball court, counter-clockwise, dribbling ball with right hand, in 36 seconds. Accomplished in 31.6 seconds.

7. 1/5 on basketball shots from 24' center of court (pro-distance 3-pointer), shooting left-handed.

8. Intention: run 1 lap of basketball court, clockwise, dribbling ball with left hand, in 26 seconds. Accomplished in 26.5 seconds.

9. 1/5 on basketball shots from 24' center of court, shooting right-handed.

10. Intention: run 1 lap of basketball court, counter-clockwise, dribbling ball with right hand, in 26 seconds. Accomplished in 24.4 seconds .

11. 0/5 on 1-dribble 9' slant to left followed by quick basketball shots from 24', left of center, shooting left-handed.

12. Intention: run 1 lap of basketball court, clockwise, dribbling ball with left-hand, in 20 seconds. Lost control of ball.

13. Intention: run 1 lap of basketball court, clockwise, dribbling ball with left-hand, in 20 seconds. Accomplished in 20.7 seconds.

14. 0/5 on: 1-dribble, 9' slant to right followed by quick basketball shots from 24', right of center, shooting right-handed.

15. Intention: run 1 lap of basketball court, counter-clockwise, dribbling ball with right-hand, in 20 seconds. Accomplished in 21.7 seconds.

16. 0/5 on: 1-dribble, 9' slant to left followed by quick basketball shots from 24', right of center, shooting right-handed.

The workout described above, was designed to: be suitable for someone who has not exercised for a while; fit into the existing conditions in terms of sports available; build skill in a time-efficient way; be interesting for myself and others; make use of all my knowledge re building endurance and cardio-vascular health. I give it an A+, considering I had no time before the workout started to think out what I was going to do during the practice.

I've unselfishly divulged every detail of the workout, not hiding anything.

How Emailed Teams Projects Characters Correlate with Military Rank

I was thinking, when it comes to the organization of projects such as the emails to basketball or soccer teams projects, how does the status and position of the players, the coaches, and myself, compare to the various ranks of the military? I figured, that if I could make the correlation, then I could take advantage of all the study and research that has gone into the subject of optimizing performance of military officers and organizations.

Researching the question, I came up with the following webpage:

Number Supervised By Various Military Ranks

I looked at it two ways: the sports-oriented point of view, and the human point of view.

From the sporting perspective: during 2012, there were 9.2 million US males in the 18-21 age group; the top 1000 US college basketball teams include about 15,000 players; the top 1000 college soccer teams include about 25,000 players; 1 in 613 US males age 18-21 is a basketball player on one of the 1000 best US college basketball teams; 1 in 368 US males age 18-21 is a soccer player on one of the 1000 best US college soccer teams.

Therefore, from the sporting perspective, college soccer or basketball players who play on one of the 1000 best college teams in their sport, are like Lieutenant Colonels; the coach who coaches their team is like a Colonel; and I, working with 6-11 teams on a project, am like a Brigadier General.

From the human perspective: the players are like privates; the head-coach of a team is like a Sergeant; and I when working with 6-11 teams on a project, am like a Captain.

And so it might behoove me, to study how persons excel at being a Captains and Brigadier-Generals.

Spaceship symbolic of email projects

I got to thinking regarding the kind of office-space, transportation, and other equipment I and my staff might need to administer the emails to sports teams type projects.

I noted that the 6 basketball teams involved in the basketball project totalled about 90 players; the 11 soccer teams in the American soccer project totalled about 200 players; the 11 soccer teams in the Boston project totalled about 200 players.

Looking around, I found an official Star-trek starship, the 'Miranda' class USS Reliant NCC-1864'. This starship carries a crew of 200. It is 243 meters long. It was designed by Mike Minor and Joe Jennings for 'Star-Trek II'.

My photographic composite showing the USS Reliant with an astronaut nearby and the bridge of the USS Reliant:

200 crew member star-trek starship Miranda Class

I carefully inserted under the photo of the starship, an astronaut 'drawn to scale', to make the size of the starship comprehensible. I can't understand why all the highly skilled digital artists, when they produce renderings of their fantasy ships, fail to include an astronaut floating nearby so as to give some visual-scale perspective re the size of the ship.

Analysis of Performance of emailed basketball teams

This post will be updated with latest notes.

Results are shown at:
Emailed College Basketball Teams Performance 2013-14

( David Virgil's Blog: Emailed College Basketball Teams Performance 2013-2014)

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1:06 AM 2/19/2014:

Since I emailed the 6 college basketball teams the poetic prayers or the vision of the cop email at the beginning of December 2013, the teams have played 103 games. During these games, they have done 124 points better than predicted (+1.2/game).

Generally the basketball teams followed the same pattern as the 'American' soccer teams I emailed during the fall of 2013 (in my terminology teams from the Boston area are Boston teams, teams outside of Boston area are 'American' teams): two of the teams started out very slowly but then improved. Similarly, I found that the 'American' soccer teams were a slow study and did not beat the spread at the beginning.

Sterling College did 25 points worse than expected in the first two games (-12.5/game); then 107 points better than expected in the next 16 games (+6.7/game).

FIU did 54 points worse than expected in the first eight games (-6.8/game); then 38 pts better than expected in the next 8 games (+4.8/game).

Not counting Sterling's first two games and FIU's first 8 games, the teams so far have done 203 points better than expected over 93 games (+2.2/game).

Marital Law My Current Doctrine

In My Humble Opinion (IMHO) as of now (AON):

A man should not socially or physically evict his wife, if and when he takes on a new wife. Exceptions to this being cases such as: disruptive wife, wife who brings boyfriend in to live with her.

One might say: Apollo is tormenting the young men by taking their women away from them to make them his wives.

To this one could retort, yea, but Apollo in his youth, was tormented when men older than he enjoyed multiple relations with younger women at his expense.

Men should be at liberty to marry as many wives as they wish, yet simultaneously, every man should be given a fighting chance when it comes to the pursuit of women.

Meaning, women should not face situations wherein they fall into poverty or deprivation of medical care because of who they choose to marry.

The liberty granted to men to marry as many wives as they want, myst be combined with the granting of a 'fighting chance' to every man, with regards to the pursuit of women; no man should have to start a mile behind the starting line in the pursuit of a woman. Else we risk the dominance of genes that excel in terms of the acquisition of wealth but are inferior in other aspects.

Democratic governments tackle issues on a piece by piece basis, result sometimes unfortunately being that legislation A is passed, while legislation B is not passed, this despite the fact that although both A and B being passed constitutes an improvement, A being passed without B being passed makes things worse.

Which Winter Olympians I'd Choose for a Friend

I got to thinking, if I was a billionaire, and I had to hire some Winter Olympics male athletes to do the job of being my friend (I don't mean gay sex servant) and assistant, who would I hire? I looked at the photos of the athleted that were available as of February 7, and came up with a list of nine Olympians who I would bring in for an interview based on mugshots alone (did not know the heights/weights of the athletes). Seems to an extent I chose men who resemble friends I've had in the past who I've felt comfortable with. Looking at my off-hand initial notes, seems what I value in men is: an ability to intellectually and humbly appreciate things that actually matter:

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Klemen Bauer Slovakia,
Looks like smart friendly MIT assistant professor
6'0" 170 lbs Biathlon
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Justin Dorey Canada
Looks like bearded good guy
5'11", 176 lbs. Freestyle-skiing
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Alexander Edler Sweden
Looks like folksy neighborhood swede light beard/mustache
6' 4" 220 lbs, ice hockey
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Moritz Geisreiter Germany
Looks like bespectacled clean-shaven chicago kraut
6' 7" 216 lbs. Speed Skating
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Lars Nelson Sweden
Looks like humble smart clean shaven blond whose goofy hairstyle can be fixed
5' 11", 170 lbs, cross-country
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Maxence Parrot Canada
Looks like feminine but intelligently humbly appreciative of things that matter. clean shaven. After all honor father and mother comes down to honoring things that are honorable.
5' 11", 154 lbs. Snowboard.
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Alex Tasias Spain
Looks like clean-shaven hispanic able to step beyond hispanicism
6' 0" 174 lbs. Alpine Skiing
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Timothy Randall Canada
Looks like humble intelligent ability to appreciate worthwhile stuff, heavy black beard, looks capable of fierce loyalty.
5' 10" 231 lbs Bobsleigh.
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Henrik Tallinder Sweden
 Looks like very smart macho upbeat professor with light beard mustache. a professor Cawelti.
6'4", 216 lbs. Ice Hockey

Winter Olympics 2014 Athletes Mugshots Page

Updated 12:27 PM 2/6/2014

I experimented with redoing the style and colors for the "Athletes - Sochi 2014 Olympics" page.

For the A-M list, I used a palette derived from random number generations, using a random number generator that relies on atmospheric noise currently produced by lightning strikes.

For the N-Z list, I used a palette derived from a software I created called 'RGB Rangefinder'. I plugged one of my favorite colors derived from random number generation used for numerical color-codes, into my 'RGB Rangefinder'.

The makeovers were written in and for the IE Browser. They look the way they are supposed to in IE but not in Chrome.  Results:

2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Athletes A-M

2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Athletes N-Z

Looking at the results of the style makeovers for the athletes list, comparing them to the originals, my reaction: the athletes look more attractive in terms of personality and appearance in the makeovers; looking at the makeover versions, you feel you get a better understanding of the personality of the athlete, empathize with the athlete more.

I resent troubles presented by the sochi2014.com website. You have to keep clicking the more button to load a few more athletes on to a page; yet if you perchance click on some link on the page, leave the page, and then return to it, you will be back to a page that is missing all the athletes you patiently added by clicking on the 'more' link time after time.

Although the Winter Olympics are scheduled to begin February 7, on February 6, almost twice as many athletes were listed at the sochi2014.com website compared to how many were listed February 5. This forced a bunch of busy-work upon me.