Author: Shubhadeep B.

Mathemagician – Arthur Benjamin

Arthur Benjamin is both a professor of mathematics and a magician. After wowing the audience with some amazing feats of calculation, he is happy to reveal his secrets. Seemingly impossible problems can often be broken down into more tractable steps and phonetic codes that can be held in memory and processed quickly. Benjamin explores these steps, giving examples of how he is able to multiply large numbers together, or pinpoint the day of the week of any birthday in any year.

You have to listen to this act of his on IT Conversations.
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3501.html

2nd week of the fitness routine

I am into my 2nd week. And I am still on.

My exercise routine is still on & I am very happy about it. From past experience, its the 4th to 6th weeks that is the problem period .. but I’ve never been so determined & I’ve never been so old & unfit earlier. So here we go!

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Back to my fitness regime

One of my new year resolutions for the year was to get fit – after all being healthy was an important dimension of my personal mission statement (better than the ‘run a 10k within 6 months‘ resolution I had last year!). New pair of shoes, a new pair of ear phones for my iPod, etc. – none of these were good enough to help me get over the sleepless nights our just born daughter was giving me.

The daughter is now 9 months old & sleeps through the night. And I am back on the road with my early morning walks. Am starting off with 2 rounds of 10 push-ups each to warm up & then 30 mins of brisk walking. Have to say that am already feeling good about the restart. You read so many times that a fitness routine could be addictive – but nothing to beat the actual experince of the addiction. Will keep you updated.

Resources:
  1. From getting rich to getting fit slowly – http://www.getfitslowly.com/.
  2. If you absolutely need goals to get started & keep at it – check out https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/exercise.html.