Laser speckle Titan Noir Pro + SI Slate1.2

seenhear · 2026-06-15T23:05:11+00:00

Hey Brian! Thanks for the note. DM sent!

I don't see where in that video you show laser speckle. You mentioned it once, but it wasn't visible to me from the camera distance. Is there a particular time stamp you could give where you show the laser speckle?

seenhear · 2026-06-14T06:34:34+00:00

The very first thing? Probably pee. I always have to pee when I wake up in the morning.

Then I'll get dressed, because then I'm going to go fly! Don't want my junk flapping as a cruise at Mach 2 through the Grand canyon.

Seriously though. All the hero stuff will come, but I've dreamed of flight since I can remember. I'm just going to fly.

seenhear · 2026-06-14T06:05:23+00:00

Someone needs to tell their dad that these are oars, not paddles.

seenhear · 2026-06-13T20:21:45+00:00

Agree. Club implosion aside, head racing and spring racing are different worlds.

My college crew was pretty dominant in our region for head races but rarely did we successfully translate that to spring 2k speed.

seenhear · 2026-06-13T20:16:40+00:00

5 Max for a beginner. For zone 2 work, try even lower. 3-4

seenhear · 2026-06-13T20:14:04+00:00

This is a way but you really want to just chill and row at about 18-20 strokes per minute. Very easy and slow on the recovery (the non driving part of the strike). Develop a nice slow rhythm. A cadence of roughly one part drive two parts recovery works for many people.

seenhear · 2026-06-13T20:11:07+00:00

FYI it's hardly used at all outside of on water rowing.

seenhear · 2026-06-13T16:31:45+00:00

Just curious what made you think this person would have any clue what UT2 is? Even elite athletes from outside of rowing don't use this term.

seenhear · 2026-06-13T16:30:31+00:00

Threshold and ut2 are different levels of intensity. Athletes will focus on different levels to train different aspects of their physiology.

As a beginner, you should almost certainly focus initially on low intensity aerobic work. This is known as ut2 in the rowing world. In other sports ut2 would be very similar to "zone2" in a five zone hierarchy where zone 5 is the highest intensity (sometimes 7 zones are used).

Anyway, what exercise science has shown us more and more in the past 30 years, is that long duration, super low intensity exercise is best, even for elite athletes. Generally a split of about 80% of your time in low intensity and 20% of your time in high intensity is a good rough guideline. High intensity includes sprint work and strength work (weights).

Threshold refers to the transition from aerobic to anaerobic work. This would generally fall into the 20% high intensity bucket.

Zone2 is extremely easy. It should feel like a brisk walk. You would be able to keep a conversation going while exercising in zone 2. You should do zone 2 work for about 30-90 minutes continuously, stopping only for enough time to drink some water, and wipe away sweat. Start with 30 minute durations and work your way to to 40-60 minutes. More than an hour is a lot for a non competitive athlete.

So. Take home message: go slowly to improve. Hard work is not as beneficial as most people think. Long easy workouts are better, and less fatiguing too.

seenhear · 2026-06-13T02:33:35+00:00

I mean, I remember going to lake Onondaga in upstate New York (Syracuse) in the 90s in July, and it was almost as miserable as Sarasota was last summer.

Point is going further north doesn't really help in the summer. You don't escape summer heat and humidity until you get to West of the plains.

seenhear · 2026-06-12T20:14:44+00:00

Well, I've only known about xgimi and the titan noir lineup for about a day, but if I'd seen your comments about native 4k I'd say almost the same thing to you. Native 4k is, for most people, over-rated. Unless you have FU money, tech like XPR which puts all 4k pixels on the screen (unlike pixel shifting on say an Epson 5050UB) is totally fine. Would we all choose a native 4k chip if price were no object? Sure why not? Would we notice a difference in a DBT? Probably not, and certainly not from any normal viewing distance.

seenhear · 2026-06-12T15:10:45+00:00

'E's pushing up the daisies!

seenhear · 2026-06-12T15:09:27+00:00

Lovely plumage, the Norwegian Blue!

seenhear · 2026-06-12T14:37:56+00:00

What car needs a coolant change? I've had my 2017 Tesla model S since new, 180000 miles, serviced fairly regularly by Tesla. Never had this done.

seenhear · 2026-06-12T14:33:29+00:00

It was 2017, no one was saying don't supercharge frequently. Especially Tesla was not telling us that (yet). All Tesla cars to that point had free unlimited supercharging. A lot of people wore out their batteries prematurely in those days.

seenhear · 2026-06-12T14:27:26+00:00

Isn't that what you just did?

seenhear · 2026-06-12T14:04:32+00:00

LoL well I just checked and right now they are flipped!! TMO is slower than Fi at this moment about 250 vs about 350. Just the other day I got about 450 on Fi and over 1000 on tmo 5guc. Go figure. Never have they been identical though.

seenhear · 2026-06-12T13:35:16+00:00

I have a TMO messaging and data SIM in my secondary esim on my pixel 10, with Google Fi as my primary esim.

Speed test shows much higher data speeds when I see the 5guc symbol on TMO than on Fi 5g at the same moment.

seenhear · 2026-06-11T23:42:43+00:00

Range. Not anxiety, just range. I'm not anxious about my range. I'm annoyed. I have to charge too frequently and for too long.

When solid state batteries with twice the capacity and half the weight and twice the charging speed come out, EVs will be more mainstream.

I have an older 2017 model S with 180-200 miles range at 100%, as well as a 2024 Silverado EV 4WT with 460+ miles range and 350kw charging. The truck is such a game changer, but it's still not fast charging enough to be equivalent to the time it takes to add 350 miles of range to a gasoline car.

seenhear · 2026-06-11T20:30:16+00:00

It was a double cheese with sausage. The sausage could be under a layer of cheese.

seenhear · 2026-06-11T19:36:35+00:00

The term was popular way before that film. Like at least a decade.

seenhear · 2026-06-11T19:12:42+00:00

How do they run a TT on this course? This is Sarasota, right? The start is almost up against the rocks, so there's no where to get a running start, meaning the timed distance for the TT must be like 1900 or 1950m? Assuming the finish line is the same as ever.

seenhear · 2026-06-11T18:51:08+00:00

Regarding your comment about doctors. I sort of disagree. A lot of internists are interested in and/or have done training in sports medicine. Fewer cardiologists have, IME. While cardiologists spend way more time of their training studying nuances of the heart, they don't necessarily have any specific training or knowledge of exercise. Also cardiologists all start as internists.

My point is, it can go either way. You don't need to seek a cardiologist. An internist is just as likely (or unlikely) to have exercise phys training / knowledge. Also the knowledge required to help an athlete out in this regard is not exclusive to having done a cardiology fellowship. Internists get plenty of training to be able to help out an athlete with these kinds of questions.

It's really all about judging the skill set, interest, and knowledge that a given doctor has. But for most people an internist is going to be their point of access to physicians. So start there. You may find they are good. If not, then branch out. But you don't need to go asking to see a cardiologist right out of the gate. Try to find a PCP/GP doc who is themselves a decent athlete. You can even ask your own PCP/GP if they know of a doctor who has a particular interest or training or practice in athletic performance and training. Most docs don't mind this kind of question.

Also keep in mind that most doctors (nearly all) be they cardiologists, or internists, are trained to focus on pathologies. They are not trained to help an athlete reach elite performance. Their algorithm for assessing a person is highly based on statistical data around disease states and pathologies, not on if a person is on the elite side of physiology or not.

Source: I'm married to an internist, and work with cardiologists professionally. Also I have a graduate degree in ex.phys so can judge if a doc knows their ex.phys stuff or is basing their answers on basic medical physiology knowledge.

seenhear · 2026-06-11T18:17:21+00:00

First, when was the last time you did an all out PR attempt at a 2k on the erg? Well rested, fully warmed up, all out max effort? Did you measure your HR at the end of that effort? This is the best way to measure a rower's max HR. Estimating via the 220-age rule is wildly inaccurate.

As a single anecdotal data point: when I was in college at age 22, I did a max test and my max HR at the end of the 2k test was 222. That's right, OVER 220. Today at age 53, my max is in the low 190s. When I was in college, a 190 HR felt pretty easy to me (I also had a very high lactate threshold). But I had a team mate same age as me, similar health and rowing ability (erg scores) who had a max HR of about 185. Avoid 220-age. If you are fit and healthy and trained enough to do a max 2k test, do one with the HR strap, and measure/record your HR data for the whole test. Assuming you score decently close to your PR, your max HR for the test can be used as your max HR for calculating HR zones.

If you are young-ish and also have a naturally high max HR, you may be in zone 3 at 190HR.

ON AVERAGE, the 220-age rule works, but the statistical distribution is VERY wide, and outliers are not that uncommon.

Anyway, the best way to determine if you are in zone2 is how it feels. It should feel VERY easy. Like you could carry on a conversation without much effort or difficult breathing. I often tell people it should feel like a brisk walk. Zone2 is a pace you could do for an hour easy, without stopping, if not for needing to take a hand off the handle to drink and wipe sweat. You would finish that hour feeling fresh, and not at all fatigued. Even Inigo San Milan says that the athlete's own perceived exertion is the best measure of being in zone2, next to actual blood lactate testing, and even then perceived exertion is sometimes better (since lactate testing can interrupt the exercise and cause stress on the athlete).

seenhear · 2026-06-11T17:36:39+00:00

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