The next new favorite conditioning exercise: I've read about them as 'tiger pushups,' but hadn't really tried them till the new head instructor set us to them, with the backing evidence that supposedly Bruce Lee liked them. On hands and knees, put the soles of your feet flat against a wall. Lift your hips into an approximation of downward-dog pose. Then, keeping your body in that upside-down 'V,' do pushups by touching your nose to the floor. Say hello to an upper-pec workout, along with body awareness conditioning (very easy to get almostvertigo during the bottom of the motion, at least for me).
   Secondarily, there are also regular pushups done facing another person; on each up, reach out and slap hands at face-level, alternating sides.
   Thirdly, I don't remember who came up with it in the class, but get another person across your back for a full-hip throw, and start doing squats (can also be an indicator for the lifted person if abs need to be worked). The Honbu variation is apparently to walk from corner to corner of the mats while in that position. Our variation includes interspersing hops during the squats.

      Also, Scott found a great site for parkour (+ Q of the N); at the bottom of that page there is their description of 'flow.' That immediately clicked in my head - it's also the overriding principle/ideal aspiration of jujitsu and some other martial arts (aikido, perhaps hapkido?) in being able to flow without hesitation between techniques as needed on the fly. Ah, connections.

-So this girl can't feel pain. That's crazy and all, but here's Kevin's doublecrazy question: without pain, can she really appreciate pleasure? Whoa. (via Kevin, natch)

-Tea tree oil and citrus listerine is absolutely vile, but if you take it like a shot and gargle it seems to instantly get rid of sore throat-age.

-Blanc Fonce - art

-sculpting geometry - art for math nuts