So tonight I'm swimming in the pool at the health club and I come to the 10x50 kick part of the program (Act 2, Scene 2, added during a quick rewrite before the curtain went up after reading Ande's Swim Faster Faster tip about kicking earlier today). Anyway, I have trouble counting when exhausted (which I will certainly be after even a short kick set), so what's a poor programmer nerd to do? I know! I'll use my zoomers and a couple kickboards to count to 10 on the pool deck in binary! Pointing up is a "1" bit. Pointing sideways is a "0" bit.
(I've done this before when stuck running on short indoors tracks, but there I've been able to count on my fingers without ruining my streamline.)
Am I weird or what?
Skip Montanaro
