George Sudarkoff

Indoor rock climbing

Anybody in Bay Area interested to take on an indoor rock climbing with me?

From The Edge

I just posted a short write-up for The Edge.

Ron Paul Anthem by Aimee Allen

This song gets my blood pumping every time I hear it!

Art of Manliness

Just wanted to share with you a few blogs that I've been enjoying very much lately. It's all about being a better man/father/husband/SO/etc. Enjoy:

• Art of Manliness
• The Simple Marriage Project
• I Am Husband

Back from Extreme Survival Camp

I just came back from a week-long Extreme Survival camp based on the hit survival series "Man vs. Wild". A thorough report with pictures will follow later.

Body energy

I am not the first one to think of this obviously (Matrix movie was partly about that), but how about powering our electronic toys with the energy produced by our own bodies? It'll burn additional calories of course, but maybe we'll even solve the obesity problem along the way. Just don't talk on your phone for too long or you'll starve. Running out of juice will take on a whole new meaning. With all the miniaturization and the onset of the embeddable devices, surely some research should have been done in this area already.

Bad Grouping

Bad Grouping, originally uploaded by sudarkoff.

This is a good example of the bad grouping of page elements. Neither of the text blocks clearly "claims" the illustration. Vertical whitespace below the upper text block suggest that the illustration belongs to the block below it. But the header of the second text block separates it from the picture. It would have been much better to place the header above the image and the rest of the text below it.

100 Miles

Today I reached a 100 mile mark since the beginning of the year. This is roughly 30 miles per month or 8 miles per week - almost three times fewer than I planned. But it still feels good. I don't remember who said it: "I am not running to add days to my life, but to add life to my days." And this is exactly how it feels!

Wilderness survival

Want to spend a week in May at a survival camp near MT Shasta, CA? Drop me a line.

Whiny geeks

What motivates people to whine about deficiencies and flaws in products they never held in their hands and probably can't afford either?

Take the Apple's new MacBook Air for example. What do the omega geeks think will be the reason of its demise? Let's enumerate: (1) it has no FireWire port, (2) it has no DVD drive, (3) battery is not user-replaceable, (4) no ethernet port, (5) no ExpressCard slot and, my favorite, (6) it's too thin! The conclusion: "it looks good but isn't for the power user." Power user, I gather, is the one with the most power bricks in his backpack. So the geeks have spoken: MacBook Air is a failure because the random Joe Shmoe couldn't afford it and therefore had to come up with all those lame excuses to use in a conversation with his fellow losers. Allrighty then!

Now let's see what a person from the intended audience would think about all those deficiencies: (1) what's FireWire?, (2) I can watch, rip and burn DVD's on any of my other Macs, (3) never replaced a battery in my laptop and even if I ever need to, I'll ask that genius at the Apple store to do it for me, (4) with integrated 802.11n who needs ethernet?, (5) what's ExpressCard?, (6) when my colleagues see me enter the conference room with only a manila envelope in my hand and produce a stunning looking laptop from it they'll die of envy!