Pek’s lesser known evil twin has been spotted in the second installment of the new Batman franchise “The Dark Knight”. Keep an eye out for him at index 22:57. Pek’s evil twin just didn’t take to school growing up. Unlike his more successful twin brother he got mixed up with some Asian gangs. Now he does the Joker’s bidding while his twin brother makes a modest living as a computer programmer in the city of Chicago – which looks a lot like Gotham.
This is my first video review ever. I’ve seen so many late night commercials of this thing, I decided to give it a go. The Iron Gym is a metal bar contraption which allows you to do chinups on your door way. I asked Craig at work about it since he has one and he’s pretty happy with it.
Here’s my 2 cents.
The components were pretty sturdy.
Assembly took 10 minutes. Take a minute and take a good look at the manual and you could end up spending 5 instead.
The bar itself could be a little longer or made so that it’s adjustable in length to fit different size doorways.
I thought the Iron Gym was very easy to use. You can use it to do pushups, dips and chinups, but I’ll probably be using it mostly for chinups. Keep in mind that this thing will most likely only work on standard doorways. If your doorway is too wide or in a weird corner, it may not work. The other thing I have to say is that you are really hanging on your top door frame. That thing better be sturdy. I’m not sure what the maximum weight your doorway and bar will support but I figured that it wasn’t going to be a problem for me since I’m a lot smaller than your average American.
I’m really passionate about martial arts and not just about the style in which I practice. It’s really hard for the average person to grasp the level and ability of professional martial artists. These warriors and athletes are a different class of humans. I can only hope to attain a fraction of the level of skill they possess. My words simply do not do them justice. When I try to explain to other people what these people are capable of, I come away with the feeling that their skills are not truly appreciated and I consider it a failure on my part. I’d like to share with my readers my passion and adoration for what these people do by giving you a taste of some of the most skilled martial artists in the world.
Korean Tigers The K-Tigers is the elite Korean taekwondo team.
Tommy Carruthers Tommy Carruthers is a Jeet Kun Do instructor from the UK. This is the style that Bruce Lee taught. He is insanely fast and powerful. For more videos of him, go to his website.
Beijing Wushu Team I can’t talk about martial arts without mentioning wushu (aka Chinese martial arts aka kung fu). This is a compilation clip of various members of the Beijing Wushu Team in early 2000.
I’m a big fan of TED and would love to attend one of these conferences one day, but the cost is so prohibitive that I will just have to enjoy them through YouTube for the foreseeable future. One such talk that I only recently saw is this hilarious one given by David Pogue, a technology writer, journalist and commentator who spent ten years working in New York as a Broadway musical conductor, arranger, and keyboard player.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
Check out his talk on the frustrations of modern technology – you’ll love it.
This is the book written by the infamous Sarah Lacy who’s fiasco of an interview with Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook at SXSW 2008 caused such a backlash in the twittersphere and blogosphere. I had never heard of her before, but after that interview I was left with a pretty bad impression of her. The crowd booed her and yelled “You suck”, “Ask some real questions” among other things. My friend Craig had read it and thought it was pretty good so I decided to give it a try. I can’t pass up a good book on tech startups.
So anyways, this is her book chronicalling the story of such dotcoms like TypePad, PayPal, YouTube, Slide, LinkedIn, Yelp, Digg, Facebook and Twitter. The book really centers around Max Levchin, who’s 1.5 billion sale to Ebay helped plant the seeds of many of the dotcoms covered in the book. Basically the PayPal alumn, otherwise known as the PayPal mafia, went on to start other successful startups. I’m not going to get into the details of each story but I thought it was a really well written book. All the stories are very interesting and insightful. Sarah writes in a very warm and approachable way, and it makes you feel like you really know these people. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. It was also a very easy read as well as a page turner. I finished it in 3 days.
There are some very interesting bits of lessons readers can take away. One is perseverance. Did you know that PayPal was Max’s 12th or 13th startup? Also, Slide, the popular slideshow started out as a way for Max and friends to view hot chicks depending on who you hear the story from. I highly recommend this book to everyone in the tech startup industry.
Pek Pongpaet is the cofounder of Tapisto - provider of mobile websites for small business. Pongpaet’s expertise ranges from product design and development, and martial arts. Prior to Tapisto, Pongpaet was VP of Product at Spoton, a loyalty and social media company. He's worked at Accenture Technology Labs in the research department coming up with next generation user interfaces. At Roundarch, a technology and strategy consulting firm, Pongpaet’s work included envisioning and designing the dashboard of the future for the Tesla Model S electric car.
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