Metal and Coding

Out of the many random Google searches I did this afternoon, the title of this post was the last one before I thought of writing this post. To my surprise, there weren't any articles on the topic, nor were their any major forum discussions, other than one on ultimatemetal.com. Are metalhead coders that rare ?

Obviously I am on heavy dosage of metal while training, I am so addicted to the music, I just listen to it while doing just anything. As a computer science graduate student, unfortunately I spend a copious amount of time pressing the keys and writing words like #include, #ifdef, std::cout etc (yes, I am doing C++ at the moment). When I am doing that, I listen to metal, yes just the kind that I would listen to, while doing anything else.

Currently, I am listening a lot to the thrash powerhouse from Germany called Kreator. This particular song just blows my mind and I can't seem to get enough of it. These four lines of the amazing lyrics appeal to me the most.

Are you willing to pay the price  
To see what the future will bring? 
Here in the place where the weak become strong  
And the lowest of life become kings

Metal for life ! \m/

Training as of now

So it turns out that my "back-issue" wasn't gone completely as it came back at me when I was clean and jerking a mere 80 kg few weeks back, and forced me to pull out of olympic weightlifting. I didn't feel any pain though, as I did an year back, but I just "felt" it. I know it is ambiguous, but lets just stop at that.

Consequently I am back to powerlifting but still have kept some olympic lifting movements in my regime, like the front squat, push press and split jerks.

Currently I am at 235 lbs for 3 in front squats as in the video above.