As I mentioned in my April recap I’m starting a couple of non-book posts each month, the first was Culture Corner, and this is my second monthly series where I’m going to talk about my workout experiences and holding myself accountable.
Two months ago this past Friday I joined Commonwealth CrossFit which is less than ten minutes from my house. For various reasons I’d become incredibly unhealthy and unhappy over the past year and I knew things needed to change. I chose CrossFit for a couple of reasons, but it took me awhile to start because I needed to make sure I could afford it and was mentally ready for it. Well I finally was able to pay for it, yay new job, but I found out pretty quickly how unprepared mentally and physically I was. But that was two months ago and I’m still going strong so go me! And as no post is complete without a photo, I stole one from the Facebook page. This post is mostly just a recap of what I’ve done the past two months and what I’m hoping to get out of it.
Recently on Facebook, I’ve seen this going around:
You are posting on a social network created by an Atheist (Mark Zuckerberg), using an OS created by a Buddhist (Steve Jobs) or an Agnostic (Bill Gates) or maybe an athiest (Linus Torvalds), that is executed through hardware based on the work of an Atheist homosexual (Alan Turing) that works thanks to the electric networks developed by a free thinker (Thomas Edison).
I’m not going to preach or say anything about people’s views or religions (those without preach/proselytize just as much as those with), but I thought it was interesting to think about. In addition I thought it was pertinent as the next two books I plan to read Alan Turing, whose 100th birthday is this year. I plan on reading The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt, a library book, and The Secret Lives of Codebreakers by by Sinclair McKay, a Net Galley.
I don’t know much about Turing other than he was prosecuted for being gay and took his own life at some point after being chemically castrated. There are still petitions to the UK Government for an official pardon and apology, but little has come from them. However, Alan Turing’s legacy in math, codebreaking, computing and artificial-intelligence lives on. Google recently based on the Turing Machine:
Challenge Progress I made major headway on my challenges as multiple books counted for multiple challenges. Overall for the year I am 20/31 (65%) on challenges and this past month put me over the 50% level on EVERY 2012 challenge!
Mount TBR Reading Challenge
May Progress: 2 books
Overall Progress – 18/25 (72%)
Back to the Classics Challenge
May Progress: 2 book
Overall Progress – 5/9 (56%)
Tea and Books Reading Challenge
May Progress: 1 books
Overall Progress – 7/8 (89%)
The Classics Club
May Progress: 3 books
Overall Progress – 9/100 (9%)
Random Awesomeness
It was an interesting month for finding random stuff about books online. I’ve pulled out the three I found to be most exciting/interesting and they are below.
I rarely post two posts in a day, but I’m out-of-town tomorrow and away from my computer for a few days and really wanted to share this! I found this through a blog I regularly read (Towleroad) and I thought it was a beautiful reminder of what goes into making a book and the entire industry that’s still out there even with the awesome new industry of ebooks.
(Hopefully the embedding works and it’s not just a link – but if it is just the link follow it – you won’t be disappointed.)
