Twitch911

I contacted the webhost (Brian Mackenzie) at brianmac.co.uk and told him about my workout card and asked if he wanted to use it on his site.  Well, he said yes and made a new section and included my name… woah.  This is a big deal for me, since I’ve never been on any webpage before other than ones that I make (Facebook, Myspace, Tumblr, etc.).

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/weight.htm > Under Workout Card

Workout Card

Twitch911 has produced an Excel spreadsheet Workout Card to help you determine the correct weight to use for each exercise based on the required session RM. A set of exercises and the target muscles has been included but these can be modified to the exercises you personally use.

You need to conduct a maximum load test for each exercise and enter the weight and number of repetitions. Your maximum load (1RM) for a weight training exercise can be determined based on a weight and the number of repetitions you can perform to exhaustion for that exercise. The Brzycki’s equation provides a good estimate of the maximum load providing the number of repetitions does not exceed 12. The Workout Card uses the Brzycki’s equation to determine your maximum load and automatically fill in the RM columns. I recommend that you conduct a max load test on a regular basis e.g. every 3-4 weeks.

Twitch was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a Network Administrator and spends about 50+ hours a week in front of a computer. To keep himself healthy, he enjoys exercising and competing in Rugby, Sanshou, and Taiji.

Getting pulled over on the way to see the new Star Trek movie.

1. Turning right at a red light without stopping completely.
-$213

2. Doing 35 in a 20.
-$150

3. Cracked Windshield.
-$100

4. No driver side mirror.
-$100

5. Driving without proof of insurance. (I have it - just had an old card on me)
-$213 and my car gets impounded $$$

Getting out of it cause the cop is a Trekkie.
-Priceless

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Tasty.  Bold.  Different.

I’m a network administrator.  I work with one other IT person, let’s call him Jacob, who does all the data processing.  I come in from 7 - 4, and he works from 10:30 - 7:30.  Jacob emails me and my boss, who we’ll call Jacky, and says that he might need me to cover the night work on the 2nd because he’s going to an FBI meeting.

There was a problem last night with a PC at a remote office, and if I went, I wouldn’t be able to cover the night work.  Jacob said he’ll just come back after the meeting and finish the night work.  This is where the story should end but then I have a voice mail from Jacky when I get in this morning.  Her voice is soft and she sounds confused.  She wants to know why I didn’t cover Jacob for the night work.

I had to explain things slowly so that she might comprehend and not think I’m attacking her (something she has accused me of before).  This is how our conversation went:

Someone called into the place I work because they were concerned about the threat of key loggers.  This person wanted to know what my company is doing to prevent their username and password from being stolen as they logged onto our website.  The phone rep called me because they had no idea what the hell the guy was talking about.  I told them that we have multi-factor authentication (fancy term), which requires someone logging on to answer a question as a second form of authentication (woah, multi authentication).  So the caller then says that the question and answer can be known because of the key logger.

This is the part where I question some people’s judgement and whether the caller made any thought before picking up the phone.  The call ends with me telling the guy to buy anti-virus software.  Isn’t that the obvious solution to this guy’s issue?  Why are you calling me… I wonder if he calls up the police department asking what they’re going to do about someone who can break into his house by knocking down the front door.

I never liked fighting games.  Something in me changed when I met my friend Zaix.  He introduced me to the world of hardcore fighting fans, and my first real fascination with the scene started from when I went with him to Texas Showdown.

He played Street Fighter 3:3rd Strike.  The game was so hard to pick up for me.  It had already been out for eight years and that’s a long head start for the competition.  I also get really frustrated when trying to play fighting games and lose my temper and then tell the game it’s stupid, like it really cares (I think it does, point for me).

Recently, Street Fighter 4 was released, and I started playing the game as soon as it came out.  I want to get decent at the game, but after playing local matches I realize that I have a long way to go.  FPS games come natural.  This shit is muscle memory and split second reactions of whether to block or punish.  Do I have frame advantage?  Will I land my combo or get raped?  What time is it?  Have I really been playing this game for 4 hours straight?  Did I just yell at the TV, “I FUCKING BLOCKED!”  Yes, I did.

So, anyway, what character would you play as if you played Street Fighter 4?

One of my favorite memories from when I was a kid is when I would practice shooting Coke cans with the BB gun that my dad got me for Christmas one year.  I remember, when opening it, thinking about whether or not my mom told my dad, “He’ll shoot his eye out!”  I didn’t care; it was too late for “Santa” to take it back.

Now, many years later, I still find one of the most enjoyable things in life to be shooting at targets, and instead of cans, I’m shooting people with paint.  For anyone who hasn’t played paintball before, it can be extremely addicting.  It seems like this is something that I did when i was 10; I’d run around and shoot my friends with Nerf guns and play war.  It’s the same now as back then.  There’s an instinctive feeling of survival that I really enjoy.  I forget about everything else that’s going on in my life, and during that 30 minute game, it’s just me, the woods, and my gun.

I think everyone should try paintball at least once in their life.  It’s a great game — lots of fun, safe (see video below), and easy to learn.  For anyone interested in playing, check out these videos for beginners.  Props to Tyger for the vids.

I would have to go with Deftones.  This year marks their 20th anniversary of being together… wow.  Does that make me old?

I got to see Deftones at the House of Blues in New Orleans, and every song they played I would say to myself, “I love this song!”  They played for 2 1/2 hours and it never got boring to me.  What an awesome band.

For anyone out there that shares an appreciation for deftones with me, check out Team Sleep, which is Chino’s side project.