See, 100% coverage!

So let’s reformat some code, you know, just ‘cuz we prefer do … end rather than curly braces.

Oops.

Know what your tests do, people, don’t just look for the nifty green bar from rcov.

Just now I realized how freakin’ smart autotest manages to make itself. I changed a fixture yml file and went over to the autotest window to kick it, assuming it wouldn’t run all the tests that use that fixture. Nope. It was happily running all the ones that depend on it. Freakin’ magic.

Now that I get annoyed when autotest isn’t running, I know I’m officially a convert.

I broke 1000, and before they finally changed the site from del.icio.us to delicious.com.

Oh and Aoife, bite me!

I’m one of the lucky ones who has gotten an invite to see the OmniFocus pre-alpha-don’t-hurt-us-if-this-breaks builds. There it is on my dock, taunting me. Do I dare fire it up and end up down a rathole of tinkering with the system rather than Getting Things Done?

I think, yes.

I go to gym, so I can has cheezburger?

Oops. Silly laws, numbers are for people.

PBCOPY(1)                                                            PBCOPY(1)

NAME
       pbcopy,  pbpaste  -  provide copying and pasting to the pasteboard (the
       Clipboard) from command line

Nothing earth shattering, but useful none the less.

I set up a bunch of smart playlists to help me finish this. Each playlist is 3 unrated songs from my library. One playlist per day.

I’ve been rating 3 songs a day for a while now. I still have a ton of unrated songs, but I have found a few gems that I didn’t even know I had.

That said, at this rate (Ha! No pun intended) it will take me over a year and a half to rate them all. That’s assuming I rate all my new music as it comes in… which, in fact, I’ve been very good at.

Now, realistically, a year and a half isn’t all that long when you consider that this incarnation of my iTunes library has existed for over two years now, and I still have 1800+ unrated songs. I just wasn’t getting around to rating vast swaths of my library because, lets face it, that’s boring as hell.

611 days to go.

So here’s what I got…

• Power cage
• Oly bar
• IronMaster adjustable dumbbells, up to 120 each
• Power hooks
• Plate mates
• A ton of oly plates (well not literally, a 1/4 ton, literally)
• FID bench
• Trap bar

There’s some other misc stuff that I don’t fully understand. He had bought the set off of some guy who was apparently very hardcore. He had welded together some pipe fittings to be able to load plates on and work on his outward grip… i.e., put hand in the pipe and push out, then pull up the plates. Ow.

And last, but not least, a picture of all the stuff disassembled in my garage.

ruby script/generate scaffold user admin

It means exactly what it sounds like when you read it aloud, “Generate scaffold for user admin.”

But I had to brag about this… did a 1RM squat test today, hit 335. Back over 300, so I’m officially over the torn quad and torn hamstring that kept me from squatting heavy. Plus a new all-time PR. Can’t beat that for a Turkey Day workout.

Maybe I’m just ultra picky, but it seems to me that Windows has the Mac beat hands down when it comes to recipe management software. I can’t find a Mac app that does what I want. I don’t think I want much just the following:

1. Calculate nutritional information. Partial credit for at least tracking it for me, I can figure it out once… but you have to let me say “I made 1.25 of this thing, because that’s how much chicken I had, figure out the calories.” I could come up with some hacks, but everything I looked at only scaled by fixed amounts, like 1/2, 1 1/2, 2 times, etc.
2. Help me plan my meals for the week.
3. Make me shopping list.

See, it took me all of 30 seconds of googling to find a Windows program that did all this. And then some. It’s really kinda cool looking, and is making me consider firing up Parallels to give it a whirl.

On the Mac side, I’ve tried everything verstiontracker knows about. Twice. Six months apart. They all suck. The ones that track nutritional information of some kind either get it very very wrong (calories, carbs, fat… WTF? Where’s protein?) or they don’t bother and get it all nice and shiny. Why the fuck do I need Spotlight support for my recipes. I’m not going to search my computer for ‘cookies’ and go “oh yeah, those cookies, I should have some.” If I’m searching for food to make, I’m going to have a pretty specific context to it.

Sure, spotlight support is easy, but a the expense of other features? It seems to me that the Mac applications are only about six months behind. Maybe a year. For one guy full-time. What boggles my mind is that they’ve not caught up in the time since I last went looking for a meal planning kind of program, they’re basically frozen in time.

Maybe my dream app will help out with this one. I certainly won’t be able to make the time to write it my own damn self… which is really what I need to do, but Excel is “good enough” for the time being.

The ironic part is that this is a program that everyone has written at least once. It’s like “Computers 101″ for nerds. You’d think someone would have come along and done something different by now. Different like how Delicious Library was different, even though everyone had written (or thought about writing) a database app to track their books.

This last week’s training was:

• Bike 0:30:00
• Run 1:09:58
• Walk 2:18:47
• Total 3:58:45

This last week’s training was:

• Bike 0:23:05
• Run 0:23:01
• Walk 2:14:03
• Lift 0:32:44
• Elliptical 0:10:00
• Total 3:42:53

Yep, I slacked. I think this is where it’s good that I’m tracking time spent rather than days that I “worked out”. Used to be that 10 minute morning session on the elliptical would have counted as a work out when looking back to see how often I was working out. I’m also up a little bit, but I think that’s fluctuation. I’m down 1 pound off the trend, so that’s good, at least. I just can’t let the momentum go away.

I bought a new bike, so I should be getting in a lot more bike time. Something about new gear that makes me want to actually use it. Pictures of that posted tomorrow.