http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summaryTue, 19 Sep 2006 03:05:06 +0000http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/blogger.htmlRobbie HalvorsonBlogger115http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/116207919588492281Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:26:00 +00002006-10-28T18:46:44.306-05:00TV is important - at least to me. I watch a lot of TV but in the last few years I've tried it make it good TV ( good to me) and not just mindless surfing. Have a Tivo makes it easy. It records all the things I like and allows me to watch on my time. Tivo might be the greatest innovation ever. So here is my list of the 'can't miss' shows. Battlestar Galactica The reimagination of this 70s show http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/10/what-im-watching-on-tv.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/116062039621617477Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:21:00 +00002006-10-14T12:14:29.023-05:00I recently noticed that a lot of animation I did at work last year has found it's way to the internet. They were all done for a CD that is given to patients to help them understand their condition and the heart in general. It was a great project and, from what I heard, well received. It's fun to finally share some examples because most of what I do is considered confidential and is not on the http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/10/animation-examples-online.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/116084405914171709Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:53:00 +00002006-10-14T12:13:54.660-05:00Before the race they had these wrist bands with the mile by mile pace you would need to complete the race in X amount of time. I had the 3:50:00 band. Today I was comparing the splits I recorded with my watch to the band when I realized it would be easier to type them in. So here is each mile, the 3:50 pace time, my time in bold, and my per mile pace. It's interesting to see when I started to http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/10/marathon-statistics.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115988319786974589Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:56:00 +00002006-10-05T07:27:27.026-05:00 This was the big one. This was the race that I've been training for all year. The one I sacrified many of my weekend bike rides for. Last Spring I decided that, if I could run 10-12 miles by April, I would enter the marathon for the first time. Even though they let in 10,000 people, the race fills in a couple weeks starting in April. So I had to decide then. I made the decision and got in. Thehttp://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/10/race-report-twin-cites-marathon.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115880873480434265Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:46:00 +00002006-09-20T22:18:54.966-05:00In a previous post I talked about my first animation. It actually wasn't my first. The first piece we did in that class was a simple 10 second animation done the old fashion way on an animation stand. We had to draw everything then place each drawing under a camera, snap a shot, advance the camera one frame, then repeat. It was terribly boring even with just 60-70 drawings to photograph - imaginehttp://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/09/my-real-first-animation.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115880634820677142Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:17:00 +00002006-09-20T21:39:43.370-05:00 This shot was taken in a narrow back alley of Shinjuku, Tokyo. There were many restaurants crammed in along the way. Roy pointed out one that is famous (or infamous) for serving all sorts of gross things. I wanted to stop in but I was overwelmingly out voted. I didn't notice at the time, but I love that the obasan (old lady) stuck her head out the door as I snapped the shot.http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/09/tokyo-14-shinjuku-alley.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115863311863965970Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:27:00 +00002006-09-18T21:31:58.650-05:00 A nice shot of my friend Jon Freeland on a wakeboard. We were at his brother Jason's cabin this summer. I didn't make it up on the board but did manage to drink lots of beer.http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/09/wakeboarding.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115863029464313633Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:33:00 +00002006-09-18T20:51:12.200-05:00On Saturday night there was a big thunderstorm that roared through the area. A tornado destroyed part of a suburb about 40 miles away but only skirted us. However it put on quite the light show for us at about 11 pm. Linda commented that it was like the movie 'War of the Worlds'. She was right - the sky was almost constantly ablaze. I couldn't resist, I grabbed my camera and headed for the patio.http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/09/big-storm-photos.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115785961639446466Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:10:00 +00002006-09-10T07:40:40.080-05:00Friday night we went to a free concert in the back lot of a church in our town. It seems like Minnesota churches (maybe elsewhere?) have gotten onto the idea of raising funds by putting on concerts and selling beer. Obviously it's working. The band was Martin Zellar, a somewhat famous local singer know for the former band Gear Daddies. If you've ever been to a hockey arena in North America, http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/09/martin-zellar-photos.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115785565858009320Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:08:00 +00002006-09-09T21:34:18.590-05:00VO2 Max is the measure of the maximum amount of oxygen volume a person can use during hard effort like running, biking, etc... I guess it would apply to anything that makes you breath hard. I had a chance to be a guinea pig at work for a demonstate of the test to measure VO2 max. The lead tester is also one of the cyclist at work - a damn good one as a matter of fact - so he was the one who got http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/09/vo2-max-test.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115669578160714552Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:13:00 +00002006-08-31T16:42:46.213-05:00Saturday was Boston Scientific Day at the fair. We got our 3 dollar discount tickets and yellow Boston Sci T-shirt so that hopefully a wandering company person would give us a prize. Neither of us won, surely because there were seemingly thousands of yellow Boston t-shirts. They were everywhere you could look. Linda and I both had people as us about whats up with all the yellow t-shirts. Some http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/08/minnesota-state-fair.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115647287170481538Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:20:00 +00002006-08-25T19:13:36.486-05:00 This subway station looks like it could have been a set for 2001; A Space Odyssey. It's obviously quite new. The walls are glossy and signs are all very graphic and high tech looking. Like the movie it shows a hopeful future - for public transportation.http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/08/tokyo-13-station-of-future.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115617175362204698Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:20:00 +00002006-08-22T08:04:15.623-05:00Time again for the monthly time trial in Stillwater. Same course as before. This time out I was more conservative and felt much better on the course. In the first 4 miles I caught the person 30 seconds in front of me and past him. After the 3rd corner, now heading into some good rolling hills, he had caught back up to me and was just behind me. Drafting is not allowed in time trials or triathlonshttp://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/08/race-report-withrow-tt-aug.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115618348042048321Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:17:00 +00002006-08-21T13:04:40.490-05:00My company is a major sponsor of the race so I was able to register for free. Can't beat that. It was a 10K race (6.2 miles). The night before I started to get a slight cough and sneeze nose so I was skeptical about the race. As it turns out we are into a major ragweed bloom so allergy suffers are doing just that - suffering. However the race went really well. At start time I was getting my watchhttp://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/08/race-report-heart-of-summer-10k.htmlRobbie Halvorsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813724/posts/summary/115613040749400475Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:05:00 +00002006-08-20T22:29:59.576-05:00 Ok, so I've been a little light on the tourist attractions. Here is one of the big ones - literally. We traveled about an hour south of Tokyo to the seaside city of Kamakura to see the 37 foot bronze statue of Buddha as well of some large temples and shines. We once again walked way to much. We bought a map of the area and figured it was an easy walk from one place to another however we found http://www.mnmaya.com/blogger/2006/08/tokyo-12-big-buddha.htmlRobbie Halvorson