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soccer heartrate plot

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I’m not exactly what you would call “athletic”. But I’ve been trying anyway.

But I’m also a bit of a geek, so I went and bought a heart rate monitor that someone has written linux support for. In this case, a Polar s720i. I wore it when we played soccer yesterday.

Thats a graph of my heart rate over the ~2hours or so we played soccer. Pretty neat. Max was 193bpm, and
average was 134bpm.

I think playing soccer officially counts as exercise.

It’s also got stuff to hook into a bike to graph speed/cadence/altitude, but haven’t had a chance to try that yet.

[view at adrianlikins.com ]

melt bananna

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After another odd day, I headed down to Kings to see Melt Banana. I was running a little late, but was still surprised to see it sold out when I got there. So I waited outside for half an hour or so until enough folks left. In the meantime, chatted with Badger, base10, and other
folks.

Oddly, once inside, it didn’t seem all that packed. Definitely not as crowded as say, The Great Cover Up.

I only caught the last song of Vaz, so can’t really comment on them.

Melt Banana was good, and quite entertaining. But not nearly as loud and as intense as I was expecting. But then maybe I’m just biased in that regard. King’s
pa is a little underpowered for giving that kind of show its full impact.

The odd thing was, people were moshing. Party like it’s 1994. And I remember why that always annoyed me. It makes you pay attention to the crowd, instead of the show, and paying close attention to make sure your not going to get a boot in the head tends to make time go kind of slowly.

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This has been a strange week. Filled with some good news, bad news, folks I haven’t seen in
a while, and some odd coincidences. And it’s only Thursday.

fukadulagon review

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Fukadulaon played last night. Much fun. I think it turned out pretty well.

We were down to a quartet (Anthony couldn’t make it). But that was okay
because the performance space was a bit small. We did three sets, spread
out over the evening. Got to be plenty loud and noisy.

First set was probably my favorite, once we got rolling. Then ending
in particular. Nice crazy crescendo, and some nice call and response
between insane ring modulated guitar and tibetan ritual horn. Second
was cool, with another nice ending. Third set was a bit more laid
back for most of it, with a big crescendo (notice a theme ;->).

Had a blast. Playing with drummer/percussionists is fun, especially
when they are bad ass drummers like John and Will.

Thanks to moonflower, jason0x21, sylvia_wrath,
tree_ish, strontium90, grimepoch, and
any one who came out.

Recording seemed to come out pretty well.

rolling thunder

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This weekend I put the Bonneville on the back of my truck and took it up to my sisters place in northern Virginia. Did a lot of riding with my dad and brother-in-law. About 350 miles in total.

On Sunday, we rode in the Rolling Thunder rally/protest/march. The primary goal is raise awareness of POW/MIA issues. The secondary goal is to get tens of thousands of bikers together.

My dad is a vietnam vet and has been riding every year for a few years, so I went up to ride with him this year. There were a lot of bikes there. I estimated about 10,000-12,000 bikes rode in the parade from the Pentagon, through downtown, and to the Mall. Depending on who you ask, there were between 50,000 and 500,000 bikes downtown in total[1].


The sea of bikes in the Pentagon parking lot.

The ride out of D.C was interesting. If you consider being stuck in traffic on I-95 for an hour interesting.

Most of the rest of the riding that weekend was spent on windy back roads in Caroline county in Virginia. Thats some fun riding.

[1] The event has more than a few political overtones[1], so no surprise the attendance estimates vary greatly.
[2] Not all of which I agree with…