Started doing indoor cycling yesterday and gee did it felt disproportionally tiring and unconfortable after I noticed that running for the similar amount of time would have burned 3 to 4 times the amout of calories. I already spent a few days in seat bone pain hell when I first got the bike and this morning's ride left my palms/arms really numb. Thankfully no leg cramps as I worried originally. I guess efficiency and form does matter in sports. Hopefully all these would payoff in the long run.

Maybe it's not too bad an idea to train a neural net for scoring a Mahjong hand as a fast estimate in place of an exhaustive pattern matching?

The new shade of green Github slapped on the contribution counter is eerily bright. Maybe the colors were chosen with a potential dark mode palette in mind?

I wonder if phonebooks are still a thing at least in some places? If a Back To The Future event were to actually happen, I have little confidence that I would be able to even find the Doc in 2020.

My 3D printer finally arrived. I've sensed a +2 bonus on productivity already! I tried to take it down a notch in the run today, consciously limiting my pace such that my heart rate remained relatively calm, and find myself able to cover a much longer distance while wearing a respirator mask. It's the first longer-than-1-hour-run since March.

I woke up this morning only to find my bike's rear tube was punctured by a thin steel wire, possibly on my way home yesterday. I searched around for emergency reapir tips, and learned that I could get away with tying a knot around the leaky region in a pinch: I clearly underestimated how stretchy bicycle tubes are and this actually worked. The knot did produce an noticable bulge on the rear tire, but this was enough to get me through my commute. I got the tube repaired at a shop on my way home.

Took a detour on the way home today for an hour-long ride on my bike. I was able to cover so much more ground (quite literally) than if I were to spend the same time running. I finally know what's lies beyond my normal running route now. Judging by the fact that most pain is coming from my neck instead of my legs now, I guess I've grew more used to riding.

I finally pulled the trigger on Suunto 9 during the sale a few weeks back. It took a while to arrive and was actually lighter than what I expected when comparing the specs against my Pebble Time Round. With news about the Garmin hack going on, can't say that I didn't feel smug about my choice. One thing I worried about Garmin (Suunto 7 as well), is that they are too smartwatch-like. No, not the Pebble-era of smartwatch-ness, but the Apple-Watch-era of smartwatch-ness, a.k.a. the bad kind that strangles you in an eco system. What I wanted was a dedicated device that is the running equivalent of a bike computer and I think Suunto 9 fits the bill better than most other choices. Pebble will remain my choice for daily routines and notifications. I still haven't logged any runs on the watch due to COVID though, but I did tracked the past few days of sleep on it - doesn't sleeping also count as a sport though?