danceboy

Last week mz_hotspur asked to come to the gym with me sometime. So on Saturday I abducted her from ricevermicelli and off we went.

She was a great lifting partner. She did a LOT. She squatted a 20 lb EZ bar (bear in mind she doesn't yet weigh 50 lbs), pressed a wide grip bar (I'm guessing 10 lbs?), progressed from 5 to 10 to 15 lbs on a lat pulldown, I forget what she managed on the V bar triceps pushdown, discovered that she's just plain too short for the hyperextension machine. She did respectably on the battle rope, she curled a 5 lb dumbbell,... She did all the stuff.

Also, trying to demonstrate & describe proper form improved my form. I squatted more than I have since my medical excitement a year ago, and it wasn't a reach. It felt, well, not _easy_, but I had planned to stay within myself, and I felt like I was doing that despite setting a recent PR.

She wanted to stay there all day and lift all the things. I wanted to get food into her, so we left after she'd done at least some of most everything.

After lunch we hung out at home for a while and read, then off we went to see roller derby. We had a blast, then attended the after party. She saw a circle of women dancing and instantly realized that her place in the universe right then was to be in the middle of that circle, dancing with all of them. So she did. It was her dance floor, she graciously allowed other people to use it.

Three separate people came up to me to let me know that there is junior derby, and I could sign her up, they'd be happy to have her. I think they just want to make sure that she keeps coming to their parties...

Over the last couple of days I've been playing music while making dinner.

Tonight the kids both asked for Barracuda & Ballroom Blitz.

I just very carefully accidentally left their computer open to a British Invasion playlist.

Tonight schr0dinger asked if we could watch West Side Story. I tried to act as though I wasn't dancing inside when I said "Okay".

When we got to America, he was enthralled. Quotes include "Oh _burn_!", "She didn't say that!", and "That's like *rowr*!".

mzhotspur liked the dancing and such, but just didn't get nearly as far into it.

As you might imagine, we're home today. The kids are watching tv.

There is little on this earth as cute as a five year old, in her Superman PJs, head-banging to the "Justice League" end credits theme song.

Does anyone know why it is that in Java 8 List.replaceAll doesn't return the list in question (post replacement (or even better, with lazy evaluation waiting to happen))?

That asked, going back before java 8, does anyone know why List.add doesn't return the list? I think the official reason is so that it can always return true so as to implement Collection.list. But that's kind of terrible...

I mean is there a bad reason, or just no reason at all? The entire point of java 8 lambdas is to reduce the amount you have to type...

I'd like this:
   System.out.println(new LinkedList().add(1).add(2).replaceAll(i -> i*i).add(3));

to generate this:
   [1,4,3]

Instead I have to do this:
   List list = new LinkedList<>();
   list.add(1);
   list.add(2);
   list.replaceAll(i -> i*i);
   list.add(3);
   System.out.println(list);

Is there some java 8 thing I haven't seen yet that might improve this?

That's all.

5 AM November 3rd 2013:

Manhattan is populated by hundreds of surprisingly fit looking people walking purposefully in various directions, none of them really dressed for the weather.

And one group of 5 young ladies who are clearly looking for one last Halloween party for the year.

On Sunday coraline offered to let me borrow the first two books of Dragonbreath to read to schr0dinger. Due to various things, that only happened tonight, and we only got through the first 6 pages. As I was singing him down, he piped up with "sideways beep, sideways beep, sideways beep *giggle*".

I think he likes it.

Yesterday I took mzhotspur and schr0dinger to their respective swim classes. I was trying to watch schr0dinger's class through a window when mzhotspur asked to play hide and seek. Being a bit distracted I asked her to hide where she could see me.

She said "I'll hide under the table.". She walked over, put her hand on it, and said "This one.". She sat down underneath it. I piped up with the requisite "Oh no! Where is mzhotspur?" "I'm right here!" She sounded kind of exasperated.

After reading my last post athenasbanquet was nice enough to invite me to go climbing again on Wednesday night. I had a blast.

I bumped into bbbsg and watched her climb things that I wasn't even sure were valid routes. Then I met a woman who I was sure was queen_of_wands' taller sister, but she denied knowing the name. Finally, as I was leaving I bumped into my parkour teacher. It was his easy night, when he's not teaching parkour, nor doing gymnastics...

Speaking of that, today was parkour, and as I was warming up I was trying to press into handstand. This older guy came over and started offering suggestions on exercises to help with that. Once I came right side up, I did a double take. He's the teacher's father. And he has 14 years of some level of competitive gymnastics in his background. Makes sense in retrospect.

I was really impressed; he wasn't just there to watch. He had 20 years on everyone else there, but he kept up. Also, it was incredibly cute watching the two of them interact.