I’m not really one to do this a lot, but I just wanted to recommend a book I recently finished. On the recommendation of my buddy Lowell, I went ahead and picked up The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle while heading to Boston a few weeks ago.
After about three times reading through the book, I can say I’m honestly quite impressed. The advice given in the book is fairly straight forward and it makes a lot of sense. For someone who’s been into lifting/working out for a few years, it presented a lot of things in a way I hadn’t looked at them. For example, I had stopped using machines a while ago, but I had never really thought about how silly they are for anything but rehabbing, as the human body isn’t meant to work in isolation. Nor had I actually stopped to think about how isolation exercises like bicep curls really don’t do all that much.
While I’ve only just now switched up my workout regiment based on this book, Lowell says he’s seen some pretty impressive gains based on it. I’ll definitely be interested to see how things go moving forward and I’ll be sure to post an update here with my findings in a month or so.
Also, for another interesting read, check out Mark’s Daily Apple. While I don’t follow the diet, a lot of what he says makes a lot of sense. And some of the testimonials are definitely interesting reads. Your mileage may vary, but if nothing else, it’s an amusing website.
Life and Times
I just wanted to send a quick shout out from a plane. I’m currently heading towards making a final approach into Atlanta airport. Having the internet on a plane is pretty badass. I definitely like having this ability in mid air. More on this later.
Life and Times
So, as I had previously stated, I have decided to go farther down the web 2.0 rabbit whole and start using flickr to host my photos. After trying for a couple of weeks to get a plug-in for gallery2 (which I had been using) that would export to flickr to actually work, I just went and checked my backups to see if I had all the pics I had hosted readily available. Since I’m a serious digital pack rat, the answer was yes. I also came upon all of the other pics I had taken with my digital camera. Thus, I am currently uploading ALL of the pics I had taken to my new flickr account.
Now, while the actual mechanics of this import are kind of boring, I’m really enjoying the act of going through all of my old pics. The digital camera I used I recieved as a Christmas gift in 2004, and I had it with me on a regular basis from then until April of 2007. That’s a span of my life that was filled with a lot of change. It’s interesting to look back and reflect on all of the memories from those times in my life. What’s nice is I can look back on those times now and just smile. It was crazy, but my life was good, and for all the change, I’m glad I have both written and photographic evidence of those times.
The other thing I stopped to think about was just how my life on the internet (i.e. this blog) has changed. When I first started blogging over six years ago, I was in the process of coding up my own blog site. I was teaching myself PHP and I was working on doing more complicated design in Photoshop. I built my entire site by hand including it’s photo gallery and guestbook. At times, I’m still really impressed with my handy work, given that I did it all in my spare time. Eventually, maintaining my own site became too much work, as I was tired of dealing with comment spam. So I switched to Wordpress for my blog and Gallery2 for my photos. And that was good for a while, until I got lazy about updating my software and I was hacked. I eventually moved to the latest bits (which included easy upgrading and plug-in support), and all was good until I realized I was running low on hosting space. After realizing that I already had Facebook and Twitter accounts, I finally realized hosting my own pics was silly.
So here we are six and a half years later: I’m typing up blog post number 777 as I watch the flickr uploader push another photoset from my life into the cloud. This post will be pushed to multiple RSS feed aggregaters, facebook and livejournal. My twitter feed is hooked into this site and my facebook account. And when I’m done, I’ll have another Web 2.0 site to throw in the mix.
In the words of Dan Spector: Crazy…
Life and Times, The Internet
I just watched the following:
Now, I am highly conflicted. On one hand, I only kind of like Samurai Showdown, and I’m not sure I like the SF4 treatment this one has been given. On the other hand, I know my best friend, Pat, can’t resist Samurai Showdown and this will probably convince him to save up the cash to buy a 360. Which means I can finally play other games online with him.
Well, I clearly like fighting games as this would be #4 for the year.
Video Games, XBox 360
