Jonathan Miller's Blog, page 6
June 11, 2015
Josh Bowen: Did I? The Ultimate Fitness Checklist
I am a firm believer in make everything I can, simple. The more complex things are, the more I struggle with it. So I will work to simplify anything if it will save me time and a headache in the long run. Fitness is no different. I work with a variety of clients and they all have differing opinions on what works for them or in some cases they are trying to figure that out and need my help. I will always attempt to simplify the situation and give them a small number of things to concentrate on...
June 10, 2015
Eli Mitchell: One player away
As the spring signing period passed John Calipari failed to add any additional big name recruits to the 2015-16 class. The class features big name high school players, Skal Labissiere and Isaiah Briscoe, along with Charles Matthews and JUCO transfer Mychal Mulder. ESPN rates the class second behind Duke. A number two rated class doesn’t seem like it’s missing anything but if you look further into Kentucky’s roster another piece would be huge.
Calipari has stated multiple times that he would l...
Lauren Mayer: Useful New Words
Many people (including yours truly) have mocked Sarah Palin for mangling the English language and perhaps inadvertently coming up withnew words. But a few of her creations have caught on, such as ‘refudiate,’ and it turns out creating words is also bipartisan – although perhaps more intentionally, and certainly more ironically, on the left. Gay rights activist Dan Savage sent out a tweet last week suggesting ‘Duggary’ and asking for definitions. So in the spirit of the generation that grew up...
June 9, 2015
Matt Ranen and Steve Weber: Before doing business in big data, consider the shifting ethical landscape
Imagineyou are the product manager in Samsung or LG’s appliance division and you have decided to sell refrigerators at a discount because “the real money will come later,”by “monetizing” the stream of data that will be generatedby all the new sensors included in the design.
But what if the ability to collect proprietary data gets legally and ethically complicated, a few years down the line? Say the government imposes a limit on data collection from durable goods that are not replaced in 5 yea...
June 6, 2015
Eli Mitchell: The Future of Kentucky Football
Mark Stoops is coming into his third full season as the head coach of Kentucky football. There have been a lot of improvements in every facet of the game since Stoops arrived to Kentucky. Stoops has showed his ability to recruit and sign top talent. Year 3 will be a very deciding year for Mark Stoops and his staff. The 2015-2016 Kentucky football roster is stacked with talent from across the country.
Let’s break down the offense and defense.
On offense, the Cats are returning playmakers Patri...
June 4, 2015
Josh Bowen: The Time is Now
Let me set the stage for you…
After finishing my last client for the day (shout out to Lauren) I quickly get ready to go work out myself after a long day of clients and before a super packed Friday. I get in my car and go workout at Lexington Athletic Club, a few hundred feet from Aspire. I finish my workout, get in my car, and as I do every night go back to Aspire;re-rack the weights, clean up and turn the lights out. At this time it is 10pm. I get in my car to go home, get something to eat...
June 3, 2015
Lauren Mayer: Wait, The US Is Less Hip Than Ireland?
I mean to cast no aspersions on the Irish – some of my best friends really ARE Irish – but when it comes to marriage equality, I figured Ireland had quite a ways to go. This is an overwhelmingly Catholic country, quite conservative on social issues, and they only decriminalized homosexuality in 1993. But not only did they pass full marriage equality way before the US, they did it by a huge landslide, with only one out of 43 districts voting against it. (Which would be like every single state...
May 29, 2015
Josh Bowen: Perfection Does Not Exist
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
~George Orwell
The quest for perfection. The perfect body. The perfect life. The perfect marriage. The perfect job. We all want what we consider to be “perfect.” When something isn’t good enough for us, we drop it and move to something else and then the viscous cycle ensues. Nothing is good enough for us anymore. We are chasing perfection in an imperfect world. We want what we can’t have and once we have it we don’t want it an...
May 27, 2015
Lauren Mayer: Viral For Old People
When I started posting weekly political comedy songs on youTube, my teenage son tried to caution me against unrealistic expectations. “You know, Mom, anything over 100 views is viral for old people.” But it turns out there are more fans of political comedy out there than he thought, and even some of us ‘old people’ know how to use computers to check out videos. Not that I’ve rivaled Gangnam Style, or even most funny cat videos, but most of mine get into the mid 3-digits, and some go quite a b...
May 22, 2015
Josh Bowen: The 7 Cardinal Rules of Life
When life imitates art its time to take a step back and evaluate the situation. For some reason it always takes me a few days to get over hard losses, whether its just my passion for Kentucky basketball or I view it as an outlet or some other reason that is not apparent, I take loses to heart. But with every loss there is time to reflect, not just on the season at hand but also on you the individual. For the players, they evaluated where they sat skill and NBA readiness wise and as a fan I ev...
