Regular fitness activities require healthy breaks. The body needs to recover from the micro injuries. Muscles grow, the tendons heal. It also feels good.
Walking is not quite the same. We are made to move and we are also not made to not move. Walking doesn’t generate the same stress as strength training. It’s a light activity.
As a result of this thinking, I adopted the strategy to only have breaks when it’s simply not possible to go out. Got Covid or a knee pain? Break. It rains, snows, life is stressful, the project must ship this week, or I really feel like having a break? Go out and walk.
This approach simplifies decision making. I don’t need to ask myself if I am above or below an imaginary line that lets me do steps. I just hope it’s sustainable. Doing something wrong every day comes with consequences. Walking too much could be that as well.
I joined the team for WordCamp Sofia for another year. This will be my third year in a row as part of the organizing team. The last two years were great, the teams were strong, and I hope we’ll have a good time together again.
Just a few photos from last year to add color to the announcement.
A 40-meter Ferris wheel will soon start operating in Sofia. It will run from April 4th to September 14th, essentially from the beginning of the spring break to the end of the summer break. It’s located right next to Sofia University, facing the semi-demolished Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia.
I’m curious to see what would be the view from the top. The central part of Sofia is relatively low, so the view should be nice and unobstructed.
I knew it will be a tough book to read because it had bad reviews. It wasn’t easy but wasn’t too bad either.
Alexander Belyaev has a story about a man who is essentially dead but his head is attached to a machine and is still talking. The head is waiting for a compatible headless body so it can be reattached. The story is called Professor Dowell’s Head. You would expect that Gone Before Goodbye is a crime mystery thriller, where we are trying to figure out what happened to the missing person (who’s gone). But it is, in reality, something similar to Belyaev’s stray head.
The book is very well written in most parts, and well translated too. The first 100 pages were excellent; then chaos set in. Maggie, a surgeon who lost her license, is offered redemption if she performs a difficult and illegal surgery. Once she accepts and sells her soul to the devil, people start flying around the globe like there’s no tomorrow and for no clear reason. Perhaps to show off how rich they are.
The resolution is like the head I mentioned. It’s sci-fi and ridiculous. We also have an avatar, living inside a phone, a common trope in present-day sci-fi. These AIs are usually demigods, who can do everything, and so is Maggie’s AI app. Also ridiculous.
Why three stars and not four, for example? Because it is never really clear why anything really happens. The book contains all kinds of cataclysmic and dramatic moments, and not a single one of them is actually necessary for the story. The explanation for everything is that a head is trying to find a body. Characters fly to Russia, billionaire balls are held, some people chase others, while committing grand acts of bravery without any relation to this problem. It’s not exactly a head but you’ll see if you read it. So I felt a disconnect between the great writing style, nice characters, the grandiose scenes, and setup, and the missing link to the actual story.
I could have given it two stars as well because of the publisher’s decision to compact the 350-page book into 300 pages by making the letters tiny and squeezing the letter spacing.
Despite the review, I enjoyed the individual fragments of good writing. 3/5 because of that.
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