Programming Throwdown Episode 167 desktop user interfaces.

Take it away, Patrick. As a true nerd figured out a way to make even the things I never thought I would do, nerdy. So, no, I guess I should have. This sounds like a brag, like true nerd. I don't know what that means. I'm not gatekeeping. Everyone can be a nerd. If you're listening to the show, you're a nerd. Yeah, that's right. You're all honorary nerds, even if you just started. I did some amount of physical fitness stuff, you know, in high school, be on some sports teams and then it's sort of just languished when I became an adult. I know a lot of people like play pickup basketball and such is just great. What sport did you play? I played basketball, but I was never very good at it, to be honest.

Yeah, same here. I played basketball. And despite being very tall, I was also absolutely terrible at basketball. It's the, it was that the 100,000 hour, 10,000 hour thing? I just

wasn't willing to put in the, like, I would go to practices, but I'd never like played on the weekends or it wasn't, it wasn't a passion. Yeah, I mean, my thing was, I was, and I realized this now watching my kids play sports. Like, I just don't want to touch anybody else, physically touch anybody else. And so I would see, like, how could I play, you know, the sport, whether it's basketball or

soccer or whatever, in a way we're like, I don't have to even inadvertently, like, touch

anybody ever.

And, uh, and of course, like, you just can't, can't really play most sports that way.

I ended up finding my niche in volleyball, but every other sport, you pretty much

can't work that way. So this all started, I guess for a variety of reasons. A family of a member

of mine started jogging running a while ago, like years and years ago. Now I was like,

man, okay, that's good. So I was visiting with them recently and then it was like kind of feeling bad.

They were getting up to go for their morning run. And I was like, enjoy. I'm going to just sit here on my phone. And then I was, you know, I have, you know, you get these smart watches. So I have an Apple watch or whatever. But I think Goddard wants to do the same thing.

And so it gives you this estimate of your body's like aerobic capacity, so called VO2 Max. I don't know that much about it. You actually get it measured. You go to a, you know, gym and they give you like a face mask that you have to wear. And it measures like oxygen in and carbon dioxide. I don't know. Something like that while running on a treadmill. It has to do with your body's like ability to process and, you know, handle high amounts

of physical activity or whatever. So they estimate it on a variety of other factors that are

correlated with it. And they give you the score. And it says, your cardio fitness is below average.

Now, I'm not like the healthiest person. I'm not going to lie,

but like in general, you know, I like to consider myself healthy-ish. I mean, it hurts when you see

that. You know, it hurts. So, so I have a scale that tells me my body fat is not what it

should be. And a watch that tells me my cardio fitness. So all this

piled up to say, okay, I'm going to do something about this. I'm getting up in age,

you know, it's not going to get any better, right? So it's like, I'm going to start running. But of course, it's not, you can't just run. Like, oh, I have tennis shoes. I'm going to run. No, no, no, no, no.

Like, that was not how I approached it.

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