’Ow’s yer ’elf?
This week’s total: one hour of rowing. Better than nothing, but nothing to be proud of. In a couple of weeks I’ll be rowing twice a week instead of just once, but I still haven’t managed to get a running schedule together.
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Beeminder looks cool, although I'm not sure I want someone else that involved in my goalsetting (and getting money from my goalfailures...).
With rowing I get some of the benefits of team sports: I'm paying for group lessons, so there's both the financial pressure not to waste money and the social pressure to turn up. Over the winter I rowed with (in?) a four, but now it's warmer I'm going back to single sculls (hoping to get into a skiff at some point fairly soon).
Typography: I agree, absolutely. But the html quotemarks are autogenerated from plain text, and apparently the regexes they're using aren't up to the task. (To be fair, how do you tell the difference between 'ow' and 'ow?)
Email option: there's probably a plugin for it. I'll have a dig around.
Typography: I agree that programmatically sexing quotation marks and apostrophes is hard, and perhaps even AI-complete. But surely you can just use the pre-sexed UTF-8 glyphs, thus: «’ow’s yer ’elf?». (alt-9 and alt-0 on the US-Intl keyboard layout)
Agreed, and edited to fix, thanks. The problem will be trying to remember where to find them next time I need them...
Individual sports are tricky because you're not letting anybody else down down by not showing up -- Capoeira was always a lot harder for me to skip than running would have been. Not that I'd really counsel joining an eight, because a single scull is so much more fun (IMHO). Coincidentally, I just came across Beeminder ( http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/006130.php ) which looks like a rather neat way to create an external (financial!) commitment to a goal.
Typographical nitpick: surely the omission of an ‘h’ should be indicated by an apostrophe rather than an opening single quotation mark?
Finally (this just struck me), any chance of an option to be notified by email when follow-up comments are posted? The comment form already knows my address, after all.