01.26.07

A year and a half.

Posted in General at 11:05 pm

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.

See more progress on: rate all my songs on iTunes

01.07.07

Dude, I got a power rack and…

Posted in Fitness at 2:20 pm

I finally got a power cage as part of a whole set of stuff. I saw it on craigslist Thursday night, and it was in my garage Saturday afternoon. :)

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.

Power Rack disassembled in my garage

01.04.07

What 2007 will not be.

Posted in Fitness at 11:49 am

Anything even remotely like these years:

2002 Weight Chart

2002 Weight Chart

2002 Weight Chart

2002 Weight Chart

01.03.07

Make 2007 == 2002

Posted in Fitness at 10:52 pm

I need to duplicate the dedication I had in 2002 to make this year’s chart look like this:

2002 Weight Chart

01.02.07

I like Ruby on Rails.

Posted in Programming at 5:07 pm

For simple things like this:

ruby script/generate scaffold user admin

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

11.23.06

Been Quiet

Posted in General at 3:33 pm

Yep, I’ve been quiet here. Not really intentionally.

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.

10.29.06

Technorati

Posted in General at 4:14 pm

Claiming my blog. See my Technorati Profile.

10.17.06

One Windows Beats Mac

Posted in General at 12:24 am

I know, blasphemy

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.

09.17.06

Triathlon Training, Day 32

Posted in Fitness at 10:51 pm

Another week down when I don’t post mid-week. Not a big deal, except that I slacked on eating well this week. I only lost half a pound off the trend, and I’m actually up a bit on the actual weight. More training this week than last week, but not enough lifting… none, actually. A new PR for a 5K run, though, which is good.

This last week’s training was:

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

09.10.06

Triathlon Training, Day 26

Posted in Fitness at 5:13 pm

I’ll have to post what my triathlon planner looks like. It blows my mind how anal I am about this stuff. I’ve decided to embrace my ODC tendencies. Hell, in general tri geeks are way more anal than I am. :)

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.