never knows best...

dry as toast

From New York Times

I don't understand how the numbers add up? How does 1000 calories make such a large difference between eating essentially grass and eating pork chops? Who the heck eats fermented soybeans and garlic? Personally, I think the meal on the left is more like 1000 calories and the meal on the right is more like 6000 calories...

When I first heard about the whole eat less, live longer thing, I thought it fit me well because I don't think I eat that much. But then again, I eat a bunch of junk food which probably tilts things against me. But then again, I don't eat breakfast, which if I'm eating eggs, bacon, and a stack of pancakes I'm sure cuts out a lot of the "Diet of an average, active human male of 36." But then again, I'm not active. So, that leaves me doing crunches/push ups every now and then to keep things in the balance.

About the only nice thing I can say about Ubuntu after having to use it again to do some programming is that having a large variety of screensavers is nice.



Like this one (FuzzyFlakes) just turned on a couple minutes ago, and I think it is really pretty and soothing. If the flakes were more anti-aliased it would look even better.

I've got a heart like a prune

And when the moment is right, I'm gonna go fly a kite

Changes to Opera I need to make before it is usable:
1. Turn off smooth scrolling (I wonder if I'm the only person who finds it incredibly annoying, I like my scrolling jerky)
2. Turn on the status bar
3. Change the tab cycle order to use the bar order instead of MRU
4. Disable the Wand (I wonder if I'm the only person who finds it stupid to store your passwords with your internet browser, I like to type my passwords)
5. Modify the keyboard shortcuts
- Disable ctrl-Q quit command
- Set alt-D as go to the location bar (I'm too indoctrinated to the IE version of shortcuts to change)
- Set tab to complete the addres in the location bar (the hardest to remember how to do)

In Browser Widget and Widget container bits in keyboard setup... assign Tab to "Next line | Focus next widget"

This blog post is mostly so I have a reference on how to enable the address bar tab complete.

More commercial background music that I appreciate: use of Royksopp's Remind Me in the background of the Geico "So easy a caveman can do it" commercials. I think it just fits really well, it starts out sounding a little bit like elevator music but it turns into Royksopp. Anyhow, it's been my favorite commercial for the past week or so.

I did some short hiking around the Mount Diablo state park area today. It was a what I thought would be a nice day to do hiking (nice overcast cool weather) but I was probably underdressed in shorts, t-shirt, and zip-up sweater. Since I always heard how nice the hiking was there, I figured I should at least try, plus it placates my guilt about not working out.

After driving through windy roads for a lot longer than I thought I would have to I finally reached a parking lot-like area. And from that parking lot I hiked to a slightly higher up parking lot 1.2 miles away. It was ALL UPHILL (or at least 90% of it). So it took about 1 hour to walk up (30 minutes to run/walk down). The views were nice, but the climb was very discouraging, and weather up at the upper parking lot was like walking in mist so I headed back.

I guess there's no real moral for this story other than I think I'll go walking around my neighborhood next time I feel like I need to be active. Beats mall walking at least.