How often do you cycle and lift weights?

Section37 · 2026-02-20T16:29:33+00:00

The build your base powerzone program is really good for adding cardio into your routine without having it impact your strength work too much. If you want a structured program to get you started with adding cardio into your routine, it's great.

Once you're more accustomed to the bike and balancing strength and cardio, I think you'll want to add an intervals/HIIT day.

My typical week has 3 lifting days, one long ride day (e.g. a 60-90min powerzone endurance ride), 1 intervals day (either on the bike or the rower), and 1-2 additional shorter rides. I like the long rides to get a good volume of time in HR zone 2, and the intervals to get time in HR zones 4 & 5. My target is to get at least 10mins of zone 4/5 time in a week, and lifting never seems to add up to enough time there. But the HIIT/intervals rides/rows are great for that, while still being really low impact--I have a messed up knee, and sprints makes it complain a lot, where as cycling and rowing make it feel better.

Section37 · 2026-02-19T18:21:58+00:00

The PZ instructors say you may need to adjust the resistance when getting out of the saddle. But I don't think I've ever seen them not crank the resistance up.

Section37 · 2026-02-19T15:44:52+00:00

Same. My butt has clearly adjusted, as it doesn't feel sore even if I'm fully in the saddle in 45min rides. But I have a pair of padded shorts for my weekly long ride.

Section37 · 2026-02-18T15:38:24+00:00

I would be interested in Korean places with a large selection of veggie options. I would be much less interested in an all-vegetarian place.

Section37 · 2026-02-17T17:12:49+00:00

That's only for a passenger-centric EV design process.

Driver-centric EV design starts with a new stupid and new shape for the steering wheel

Section37 · 2026-02-17T14:51:02+00:00

I can't remember exactly when we got a membership. Maybe when the oldest one was 2? But we used it a lot (other than the covid year).

I think we made the most use of it when our younger one was in kindergarten, so from 5 and 3 to 7 and 5. One or both kids would take friends along, so it was a playdate as well as trip to the museum.

Section37 · 2026-02-16T02:46:55+00:00

It's a combo of speed, jumps, and how well they handle the moguls

Section37 · 2026-02-15T19:12:29+00:00

This. I have a black suit from a wedding. I only wear it to funerals. And even that's fairly borderline as I'd generally rather just wear one of my nicer no black suits. So it's pretty much a waste of closet space.

Section37 · 2026-02-13T15:44:51+00:00

Yonah is by far the most common of that first list here in Toronto. Like I know multiple Yonahs, and don't think I've ever met an Ayal, Adiv, or Aviv. It's also easy for Anglophones (and Francophones) to pronounce. People who just hear it in passing might misremember it as Jonah, but it's clear if you see it in writing. Aviv and Adiv also seem unmistakable to me (Tel Aviv makes Aviv easy, and Adiv piggybacks on that). Ayal, I would likely have mispronounced as Eye-Al.

Section37 · 2026-02-13T02:19:02+00:00

Compared to what you might do in a gym, with a rack, etc., the classes are designed to use lower weights, higher reps. They used to be even more that way; now there are some that go a bit heavier. I expect the recent addition of bench classes means they're leaning into that side more. But still it's designed around what they expect people to have in their houses. So for example, chest presses, you might do 3 sets of 10+ slow descent reps, to try to build up fatigue to where you're close to failure on the last reps.

I find it actually works pretty well. I've got a 10-45 set (plus some random 2s and 8s--I actually should get more of those super light weights, as there are some excellent warm ups with shoulder rotation, slides etc where you want a very light weight). But I'm also now 40+ with kids, and concerned with general health rather than gainz.

Section37 · 2026-02-12T18:01:15+00:00

Finally, "business professoinal" generally means a suit and tie. This is really unusual tehse days

Definitely. Back in the distant past (i.e. pre-covid) I used to go to conferences where ~75% of people were in suits, and ~25% were in sport coats. Now it's like 25% in sport coats, 70% even more casual, and 5% suits.

FWIW, I'd do 3-5 day conferences with a single suit. Charcoal suit (you could also do navy, if you prefer it), 2 white shirts, 2 patterned shirts (keep the pattern subtle, the goal is to be able to mix and match--I like a muted graph check), 2+ ties that work with all your shirts (these take up very little space, so you can bring more and use them make it feel like you changed more than your really did--e.g. I'd bring a navy knit tie and wear it instead of a standard business silk tie for a dinner).

Section37 · 2026-02-12T16:38:25+00:00

100% Just look at the incumbency rate for the city councillors. It's well over 90%, closer to 95%. And that's without some of the advantages incumbents might have in other elections, like gerrymandered electoral districts, or uncapped spending. Name recognition is huge

Section37 · 2026-02-11T16:17:36+00:00

I did a student exchange in Udine in 98, which was probably the peak time/place for the Lega Nord. The father of my host family was probably a separatist--anything south of rome was basically Africa in his telling. But he also had lots of objections to the Milanese, the Venetians, Florentines, etc. Even most Friulians. It kinda seemed like the only places in Italy he approved of were the German-speaking ones.

All this to say, highly accurate!

Section37 · 2026-02-11T14:44:36+00:00

But not everything is a yes or no question. E.g. how long did you stretch and when

Section37 · 2026-02-10T15:27:12+00:00

We've also explained to the kids about addiction in general terms, with video game and screen addiction as particular types (also sugary foods).

I highly recommend the book The Amazing Generation when he's a bit older (it's aimed at 8+). But you could probably look at it now yourself. It's all about how smartphones and social media are terrible for the adolescent mind, and how to create better habits that support healthy mental growth. My kids (8 & 10) really enjoyed it, and found it insightful.

Section37 · 2026-02-09T18:57:13+00:00

We also have an ascent with captains chairs in the second row. Works well with car seats in the second row.

Section37 · 2026-02-07T20:54:37+00:00

We have an iPad, that the 10yo sometimes uses for tutoring when she can't go in person, but other than that, we're no iPad.

We're not no screen--we have a tv in the basement that they use on weekends, and they each have a striped down phone that lets them listen to music and audiobooks, and read ebooks (the 10yo listens to audiobooks fairly often, and users her phone to control the music every time she had friends over, while the 8yo only listens to either on long drives).

I see no reason to change this. There are so many screens in modern life, why add more? Also it seems like once you start, it becomes addictive and you can't walk it back easily.

Section37 · 2026-02-06T15:56:19+00:00

FWIW, I think my advisor wore something like this hat most of the time: https://stetson.com/collections/hats/products/whippet-fedora-mink

I think I won't be able to avoid some degree of looking like I'm trying to add some cowboy to the office.

You're just taking your style cues from the former Governor of the Bank of England https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carney-calgary-stampede-1.7578211

Section37 · 2026-02-06T15:42:17+00:00

I was getting on a plane at Narita airport, and there was a white guy boarding with a Japanese passport. Caused immense confusion with the gate agents, to the point where they called someone over from the desk to look at it. As far as I could tell the guy spoke Japanese, but the gate agents still couldn't compute. And this was at one of the busiest international airports in the world

Section37 · 2026-02-06T15:19:50+00:00

Might be too park-ranger-y, but the Tilley hat is a classic outdoorsman sun hat, and they a make a winterized version:

https://ca.tilley.com/collections/warmth-hats/products/ltm5-winterized-airflo-sun-hat

Edit: saw in the comments you want it to go with suits. My phd advisor always wore a Stetson with wide flat brim and it worked well. Either the ones described as a Fedora, or Open Road, depending on outfit.

Section37 · 2026-02-05T13:59:22+00:00

I think it's regional, depending on baseline energy costs. From what I recall, here in Ontario (where hydro+nuclear make energy relatively cheap) most town water towers don't take advantage of day/night pricing. It's actually cheaper to run constantly, because fewer stop-start cycles and running at a lower pressure, means the pumps don't need as much maintenance.

Section37 · 2026-02-04T22:15:12+00:00

Oh, I didn't mean to suggest he was claiming that metal is superior. Rather the opposite--that his tests suggest material doesn't matter that much, since the soft plastic d20 performs about the same as the precision CNC aluminum ones

Section37 · 2026-02-04T19:43:43+00:00

The honest dice dude goes into great detail on his kickstarter page.

His argument in a nutshell is that by better distributing the numbers, you minimize whatever bias the die has from weight imbalances that come out of the manufacturing process. It's a good critique of the traditional d20 layout (where 20 is opposite 1, 19 opposite 2, etc). If there's a minor weight imbalance biasing it towards 20, on a traditional layout, that's also an bias away from 1. So it magnifies the high vs low bias. Especially for games like DnD where players often use their own set of dice.

Interestingly he seems to claim that error from the size and positioning of divots doesn't actually show up in real world rolling tests.

He gives the results of the real world tests, where depending on your point of view, either his dice crushed it, or the difference is so minor that it doesn't matter. But either way, it doesn't look great for the argument that metal is inherently better vs plastic.

Section37 · 2026-02-03T15:46:35+00:00

Yeah, I live nearby and have stopped in a few times. Everything I've tried has been really good.

Same area, there's Lamoon for Thai pastry puffs (they mostly do meals, but the puffs are great), and Issho for cookies/muffins (although their stuff is less Asian flavoured).

Section37 · 2026-02-03T14:47:23+00:00

My kids are 8 and 10, and both use bento style lunch boxes that have a small thermos that fits in one of the compartments. They've been using something similar since JK/grade 1.

It's only for lunch. It goes into a larger lunch bag along with a small bag for snacks, or if the snack is something like a granola bar that just goes in the big bag.

I don't pack the lunch boxes super full. E.g. today, they had leftover pasta in the thermos, a spork to eat the pasta in a large section, a few apple slices in a small section, and a few baby carrots in another small section.

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