25 Mar 2011 | P90Yum
With one or two minor exceptions, I've been nailing this P90X diet--even better than I've been Bringing It! in the workouts, frankly. But I love food. And with only a month to go until the program is through, I seem particularly aware of every food option I pass up. Though it may seem like a recipe for a post-diet binge, I have been making a mental list of the wonderful foods I've missed most and that I most definitely plan to enjoy in a few weeks. Here they are, in no particular order (crossed off as I get to them):
- pizza
- Boston Shake from Fanci Freez
- french fries
- pancakes
- cheeseburger
- cheesecake
- Tillamook cheddar cheese
- donuts
- Girl Scout cookies
- grilled cheese sandwich
4 Nov 2010 | Sounders vs. Galaxy
Come on, Sounders! Due to the wacky rules of professional soccer, we need at least one goal in Sunday's match against Beckham and his L.A. Galaxy to stay alive in the MLS playoffs. But that's just to keep from losing. It will take a 2-goal margin of victory to win outright. I know! I told you they were wacky rules.
20 Oct 2010 | Ruby
It feels like time to re-design some core aspects of a couple of the sites I maintain. And Ruby on Rails has been calling to me for a while. Friends don't let friends write PHP, right?
31 May 2010 | Football!
World Cup action begins in a week and a half! I've been trying to get up to speed on regional professional soccer--whoops, football--by following Seattle Sounders FC the last few months, but now it's time for the grandaddy of all international action. It's gettin' real up in here! U-S-A!
13 Feb 2010 | OA
Hello, my name is Trevor and I'm an Olympics junkie. It has been two years since I last used. These meetings have been great, but I'm afraid I won't be able to attend for the next two weeks. Something's come up.
22 Sept 2009 | Photopalooza
Corny themes aside, I'm pretty excited to have nabbed a spot as a Windows 7 Launch Party host! Not least among my reasons for excitement is the free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition that accompanies this honor. Yeah, boyyy - I get Ultimate before Windows 7 hits public release. You'll have to come to my party to see how cool it is. Pretty easily the best Windows ever, if we measure in terms of the wide array of things you want to do on a daily basis that it simplifies. I'll leave the Snow Leopard comparisons for someone else. Peace out.
13 Jan 2009 | Baby Bonanza
It's all due dates and diapers around here. Well, not at my place, but for sure among the rest of the family. One sister has a newborn and one's a ticking time-bomb. "What's that [Patrolman] Willard? You found a shell on the beach? That's nice, Willard. Huh? You say it's ticking? OHH, *that* kind of shell." - Bob Newhart
25 Dec 2008 | Merry Christmas!
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=31&search=Isaiah%209:6"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." - Isaiah 9:6
7 Nov 2008 | Win a Macbook Air!
http://share60.wsj.com/k/hEIvCjAiZgkXGYgPBCwKBwkHCg8=/No, not you. Me. :) Turns out the Wall Street Journal must be hurtin' for subscribers. They are offering to put my name in a Macbook Air drawing if I get you to respond to my invitation to try WSJ.com for 60 days free! Not bad. You get all the Wall Street Journal's standard insight and in-depth analysis, plus the cool online features - like portfolio tracking and stock charting (though the charting isn't any better than at some of the free sites out there). Just go here: http://share60.wsj.com/k/hEIvCjAiZgkXGYgPBCwKBwkHCg8=/
24 Oct 2008 | Obamanomics
http://patriotpost.us/"Supposedly, under the Obama tax plan, 95 percent of the American people will get a tax cut. You'd think that at this point the natural skepticism of any sentient being other than 6-week-old puppies might kick in, but apparently not. If you're wondering why Obama didn't simply announce that under his plan 112 percent of the American people will get a tax cut, well, they ran it past the focus groups who said that that was all very generous but they'd really like it if he could find a way to stick it to Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove and whatnot. So 95 percent it is...[O]ur Fact Check Unit ran the numbers on the Obama tax-cut plan and the number is correct: '95.' It's the words 'percent' immediately following that are wrong: that's a typing error accidentally left in from the first draft. It should read: Under the Obama plan, 95 of the American people will get a tax cut. Joe the Plumber expressed his misgivings about the President-in-waiting's tax inclinations, and the O-Man smoothly reassured him: 'It's not that I want to punish your success,' he told the bloated plutocrat corporate toilet executive. 'I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success, too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.' In that sentence about you spreading the wealth around, there's another typing error: that 'you' should read 'I, Barack.' 'You' will have no say in it." -Mark Steyn
19 Sept 2008 | Egg Freshness Test
http://www.texascooking.com/Place the egg in a glass of cold water. A fresh egg will sit horizontal at the bottom: these eggs are suitable for baking (but preferably not meringue) and will maintain a good tight shape when fried or poached and the yolk should stand quite high with a good semi-circular shape. As the egg increases in age and the air pocket gets bigger it will tilt upwards slightly: these eggs are suitable for meringues, baking and will maintain a reasonable shape when fried or poached, though the yolk will be flatter in shape. An egg that sits vertically is stale: these eggs are not really suitable for baking, are best used for scrambling or omelets, will not maintain even a reasonable shape when fried or poached, the white will spread and the yolk will be quite flat. When trying to separate, the yolk will probably break as the egg white that surrounds it will be weak. An egg that floats should be disposed of (carefully!).
3 Sept 2008
http://patriotpost.us/"Now our opponents tell you not to worry about their tax increases. They tell you they are not going to tax your family. No, they're just going to tax 'businesses.' So unless you buy something from a 'business,' like groceries or clothes or gasoline... or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small 'business,' don't worry... it's not going to affect you. They say they are not going to take any water out of your side of the bucket, just the 'other' side of the bucket! That's their idea of tax reform." -Fred Thompson