Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 7th, 2013

February 4, '13 Comments [7] Posted in Newsletter

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. I am a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:31:59 AM UTC

So today was supposed to be a productive day at work... well I guess those links are "productive"

Sanvir Manilal

Tuesday, February 05, 2013 1:15:22 PM UTC

lorempixel is great! But for when you just need something cute and fluffy, there is also:
http://placekitten.com/

Sarah

Tuesday, February 05, 2013 4:30:41 PM UTC

Jeff Moser's blog is amazing. Read it from the beginning, it's full of gold.

Harry McIntyre

Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:03:13 PM UTC

I found the "Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie" article at Men's Journal Magazine to be interesting, but frustratingly short on practical detail. Are you following a workout like this, Scott?

The biggest question I have is how to exercise the "remarkably small number of tiny stabilizer muscles", as recommended by the rehab-specialist, Kevin Brown, in order to avoid "injuries that could set me back for a year."

Will they naturally be exercised by the exercises mentioned earlier in the article (squat, dead lift, bench press)? And isn't strengthening stabilizer muscles the exact point of the gimmicky seeming exercises that the author dismisses, like using stability balls, as having turned him into some "little-girl weak" semblance of a man (wow, gender stereotype much,.. this guy obviously never had sisters)?

I'm a fairly typical desk-job programmer, perhaps more active than most, and over the last couple of years, I seem to injure myself every time I do something physical (tennis, snowboarding, etc.). I'd love to get out of this rut! At the same time, I don't want to charge ahead with squats, dead lifts, bench presses, and the various endurance exercises, and see the stabilizer muscles atrophy and further injuries occur, if that's what would happen.

NickS

Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:32:29 PM UTC

NickS - I tend to agree that folks generally don't do the large gross actions like Squats, Bench, etc and that those DO exercise the small stabilizers. I have no science behind it, though. People who I think of as strong and healthy do big whole body actions.

And yes, his gender-language was as a little much. He could have just said "small child weak" and been done with it.

Scott Hanselman

Thursday, February 07, 2013 3:22:23 AM UTC

It seems your feed email subscription is disabled!
Can you enable it?

Thanks anyway

John

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:56:08 PM UTC

Regarding the typefaces to hate link. My pet peeve is the double space after a period. Here is a book that I think everyone should read.

http://www.amazon.com/Pc-Not-Typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/0938151495

There is anoter version that is for Mac's.

Dave

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