The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Feedforward? WTF is that?! “Connect” sessions? Changing the names, but are they changing the ways? Workouts in! -6.5km run at lunch, about 6.18 pace -kbell rounds w run for 15 minutes -100 double unders Then x4 rounds of -10 bench jumps -10 one arm pushups -10 half pistol squats And what about that weight gain? High intensity snacking? Lack of sleep?? Lots of mosquitos! Working on Episode 40! FCX...

Tracking foods in, workout calories, and the problems therein. What could I swap out on non-workout days? Or do I just start working out every day? Washing clothes: this is why I used to “bunch up” my workouts, because of the need to do laundry in the winter months.  Newsletter being written. Episode 40 in the works, Episode 42 being talked about. How was Chinese class? Show notes n tracks up on s...

Weekend done! Slept most of it! Workouts in! Lunch: 6.5km, medicine ball After work: maces n clubs Website refreshed, though still might be problematic. And why were so many of your episodes 27m 34s long?? And 9/11 so many years ago yet its changes remain. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good start of week!

Website is down… oops Empanadas for dinner! Workouts in! Runs 100 pull ups 200 push ups 300 squats Total time: 1 hr 14 min 6.81 km jog in the morning… woke up and couldn’t get back to bed. Was thinking I should’ve gone for a run before bed. Seemed smoggy but it really wasn’t, more of a fog than poisonous gases… I think. Rain cleared that out of the air later. Episode 40… delayed, cause of all this...

Maotai n coffee? 怎么样？Dunno, never tried. But apparently it’s the milk that is flavoured. How was Chinese class? Website updated! That generator… What was life like before the pandemic? Show notes n tracks up in stevensirski.com Have a good one!

All caught up on the daily casts? Did you know podcasts were originally called audioblogs (one word) in the 1980s?? Laser internet? IPFS? Two tier internet? What comes after quantum computing? What technology now is in its infancy and seems like a crackpot waste of time, and what was that before transistors were invented? Typhoons a go go as southern China gets slammed again, and that’s pushing up...

Forgot to publish yesterday’s episode!  Newsletter is out! Follow on Substack! Labour day - oil will go down, gold beaten down so it will attract big money How was Chinese class? How many times have I failed? -podcast over the years -blog, newsletter -investing?!? How much enthusiasm do you need? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!

New week! Workouts in! Changed it up a little… Lunch:  -6km run -14kg kbell lifts n swings interspersed with another short run After work: -mace and club swings Newsletter written, needs to be checked Spent allllll day Saturday purging my sites Gotta stop saying it’s getting cooler cause every time I say it, it just gets more humid. Show notes n tracks up on my website stevensirski.com Have a good...

New month! Quantum computing - seems a little ways’ away. Who would’ve thought personal computers would become such a big thing after the 1980s? Workouts in! 5km total: one lap 20 pull ups 40 push ups 60 squats Last round: 40 pull ups, 80 push ups, 120 squats = killer! After work workout: nice n easy heavy kbell lifts. Thinking about getting something new, either a new kbell, a rope or maybe takin...

That’ll do it for August! Apple autocorrect is terrible and iOS lags Android. And to install apps is even worse. Chinese translation class, one more to go. It was hungry ghost festival yesterday Raw or cooked? I’ve heard arguments for both. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good end of August!

That six-month target… maybe not as easy as I thought it would be -Mid-Autumn Festival Sept 29th -National Day break Oct 1 to 5 Hulk Hogan on Joe Rogan - imagine if that was your day job?! Posting the notes from my translation classes on my language substack. Will also be renaming that soon. Japan and their dirty seawater! China bans fish imports! HUGE hit to the industry. Elephants! 44,000 plays?...

Feeling sniffly, not sure if it’s all the construction work or something else brewing… The Trump card! Blacklash?!?! Trump is a brutha now?!? The idea of being arrested to fit in. Prigozhin: an out for the war? Chinese classes: how are they going and what’s the plan? Done with one package of Chinese lessons. Figuring out a bit more of Automator… convert to mp3 = modifying built-in services. Show n...

Last week of August already! Workouts done, but afternoon was a bit gentle cause of nature’s call. 5km 500 skips Wide stance lunge step ups - good for that hip joint Two-arm pushups with alternate leg lifts The value of an hour a day - how much can you progress in a year? Construction and those cameras Saw the Barbie movie - not bad! Oppenheimer comes out August 30, 2023 Is school really all that...

If you knew you could hit a financial target in six months, would you do what’s needed to get it done? If it meant you didn’t have a social life, but you could keep your health up, would you do it? Apparently my website has been busted and I haven’t really been paying attention to it. Oops. Working on Episodes 40 & 41! Piece by piece, will get these done! But… who’s next? Workouts in! Lunch ti...

Episode 41 recorded GOLD moving Prigozin dead, or did he just make it look like it? The life and times of a working traveller! Tough getting up this morning, not just the rain! Workouts must’ve kicked in. Friday night will be a night off! I think. Saturday? CBD beer fest? Finger taps on a keyboard - new track! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!

More cameras up on the compound, and an email about a background check? Nothing suspicious here… Two kids, I’m not sure if they’re making fun of my Chinese pronunciation or what. Try whatever it is you want to do or accomplish for a year and see how it is after that. So what do I want to accomplish in the next year? Another pcast episode scheduled for tomorrow night, then will get to work editing!...

Qixi Day, Chinese Valentine’s Day… again? https://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/double-seventh-festival.htm Picture credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Niulang_and_Zhinv_(Long_Corridor).JPG Voice box is gunky… like before I had the vid the other times. Confucius says… Quote: 学而时习之，不亦说乎？ Pinyin: Xué ér shí xí zhī, bù yì yuè hū? Translation: "Is it not a joy to learn and c...

Is COVID back?!? Again?!? Some apps to consider: -Readwise - email summaries of your readings -Snipd - Podcast player, also does AI transcriptions! Hello productivity boost! Begs the question… How much of this tech do we need? How do we simplify? AI won’t replace any one person, just those who don’t use it. Current ChatGPT hack: record podcast, have otter.ai transcribe, take transcription and put...

Episode 40 recorded! Have a look for it in a couple weeks! Episode 41 next week? Workouts in! 2kms 7 rounds of  5 pull ups 10 pushups 15 squats  2 km run + another 4 pull ups, 8 push ups, 12 squats  Post work workout: 28kg Turkish get ups, plus carries Then podcast… Getting cooler in the ‘Jing Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good weekend!

Thursday night reading night?? I’d really like to get back into reading more. Reading $100M Offer, the romance books I brought from Canada, and lots of comments on my language vlog. Did I tell you about the time I bought a bunch of Stephen King books? Question: does learning another language lead to more job opportunities? And can ChatGPT fix your grammar?! Put some mustard on it Show notes n trac...

Hey, I have been doing things in Beijing! Eating different foods!  Baozi 包子youtiao 油条, doujiang 豆浆 Jianbing 煎饼 and kao leng mian 烤冷面 Jiangbaojiding 酱爆鸡丁 Pollution didn’t smell that bad run outside 6.44 kms 100 double unders 4 rounds of  10 bench jumps 5 one arm incline push ups each arm 5 half pistol squats (5 each side) Question, which would you rather have or do after a workout: f...

Chinese class, how was it and how is it going? Arabic, ever tried? I have not been getting out very much but I see a lot of other people are out and about. I guess the city and the country are open again… but there’s coronavirus on the horizon! Pollution is back in town! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have s good one!

Workouts in! But wow going slow! Weekender, an introduction to microphones and too many beers! China has had some crazy weather, Tornadoes, floods, heavy rain. Why bother saying it’s climate change? Chinese class and the others I signed up for, what’s up? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!

Workouts in! Friday means… pull ups but not going for a hundred Sustainable lifestyling? How is my Chinese going? What’s it like to learn a language where you can’t just read write and speak all at once? Have a clip for you from my Hindi class… Michio Kaku’s Quantum Supremacy book is in… do I even have the time? How could I schedule in a reading day into my week? Have a great weekend! Show notes n...

Are the EVs spying on us? Probably. Another shopping day over, another lovers’ day over in China How was Hindi class? An idea… interview teachers for the vlog? Spray compression, what was the idea? Ibn Battuta once said “Travelling—it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land… it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."   What do...