Diet versus Exercise It turns out that diet or exercise are equally effective for weight loss. Muscle mass helps metabolize nutrients but doesn't reduce calories; calories are directly correlated to weight.
Deconstructing a hero Robert Kiyosaki, writer of Rich Dad Poor Dad, is a hero to Generation Y'ers. The generation comprised of now adults aged 22-30 year olds who have aspirations far beyond the baby boomers. We all read his books and we learned of an easy way to use money to make money in the height of our developmental stages of life. He says you have to spend money to make money ,but his success is from a pyramid scheme and writing a book with hypocritical ideas.
"Making money is easy, it's just the first million that's hard." "Do you want to spend your life struggling for money?" "Everyone will have to work sooner or later."
Success involves the arduous task of earning it. =) and investing properly with a goal-oriented mind-set. scroll down to my goals journal
roxik.com/pictaps/ Draw a 2d picture of yourself and watch it dance in 3d.
I am being offered a job at NY life; part time so I don't have to leave my job yet. I need to develope a plan for my mentor. Who am I going to target? -People wanting to get out of debt. -Baby boomers without retirement plans. -Middle class workers wanting to live in the bay area. -Upper middle class workers looking to maximize investments. I think I have a pretty decent list of small business owners I can call. I know contractors make alot of money.
Hawaii was fun! I have pics and a sharkdiving video on the way.
Oprah can sell anything. Look at this load of crap. It's a step by step plan that basically says pay off debt, don't put your kids through private school, and have a garage sale. The reason this plan sells is because Oprah says it's good and because it's easy to read.
TMoney is personal finance for people that aren't idiots. I probably got to make it easier but I incorporated a template for value of saving (Mocha Margin®) =) and I'm going to add one for bond valuation and duration as well as one for buying a home. I'll try to sell it to mymoneyblog or someone similar. I have to simplify it and I also got to make it look pro like pearbudget. Or maybe I can incorporate pearbudget and have daily logs so that people can log their personal expenses and use TMoney to track goals and make spending decisions. Then maybe I can make a website like www.thedailyplate.com and make money off subscriptions or better yet, I can make it free and use Google adwords to make money!
Too bad this isn't very high on my priority list right now. This could be a fun project.
The new iPhone. This thing is awesome. It's an iPod and phone and uses OS X!!! That mean's it can potentially control your mind. The interface is intuitive. It's just a big touch screen. It even has rotation sensors so you can just turn it sideways to look at it widescreen. My friend, Teo, works at Apple. If he told me about this last week, I could have made nearly $.10 for every $1 I have by now.
I would still say that the most productive portable computing system would be a laptop, but this thing is pretty damn close. And it's small.
Living in the Bay Area is a bitch. A rule of thumb for buying a house comfortably is to buy one that costs 4 times your annual income. And that's only with excellent credit. That would mean with a DINK (dual income no kids) income of $80,000 you can only buy a house worth $320,000. A decent home in Fremont costs well over $500,000. In San Jose, houses cost upward of $650,000.
Everyone strives to buy the best house they can with their money. I'd settle with a fixer upper, especially since the housing market is still on its steady decline/slow-growth. The extra money can accrue in a savings account or portfolio. Plus, I think that I would be very resourceful helping the home build equity; I know architects, contractors, dealers, and handymen. Plus I like building stuff.
I don't know why I'm discussing housing rates when I have trouble negotiating whether or not to buy a $2 tea strainer and I get excited when I save $0.44 on a set of roadside glowsticks... Maybe I just need to get paid more.
1. Drink no more than two flavored drink a week, not including tea or alcoholic drinks. 2. Workout 4 times a week including 100+ situps per workout. 3. Drink red wine more often than beer when given a choice. 4. Get a bike. 5. Run a marathon. 6. Earn a good salary with steady savings. 7. ABS Diet
Hump Island 2007(draft)
1. Adriana Lima 2. Jaymee Ong 3. Kelly Carlson 4. Justine Henin-Hardenne 5. Hiromi Oshima 6. Bibee Assavayutthakul 7. Keira Knightley 8. Scarlett Johansson 9. Jessica Alba 10. Evangeline Lilly
Here is a list of many of the things scientists have discovered this year.
like... 2. The part of the brain that regulates reasoning, impulse control and judgment is still under construction during puberty and doesn't shift into autopilot until about age 25. 3. Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night. 17. A gene for a light-sensitive protein in the eye is what resets the body's "internal clock." 19. Red wine contains anti-inflammatory chemicals that stave off diseases affecting the gums and bone around the teeth. 20. A substance called resveratrol, also found in red wine, protects mice from obesity and the effects of aging, and perhaps could do the same for humans. 25. Women gain weight when they move in with a boyfriend because their diet deteriorates, but men begin to eat more healthy food when they set up a home with a female partner. 28. Around the world, middle-aged and elderly men tend to be more satisfied with their sex lives than women in the same age group, a new survey shows. 32. Just 30 minutes of continuous kissing can diminish the body's allergic reaction to pollen, relaxing the body and reducing production of histamine, a chemical cell given out in response to allergens. 38. Most of us have microscopic, wormlike mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth. 43. Sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday can disturb your body clock, leaving you fatigued at the start of the week. 48. Red wines from southwest France and Sardinia boast the highest concentrations of chemical compounds that promote heart health. 49. One of the most effective ways for athletes to recover after exercise is to drink a glass of chocolate milk.
It's time to start thinking of new resolutions and new people on my Hump Island list.
I'm thinking of cutting down on soda and getting back into the whole gym thing. I stopped going to the gym because I was told it was counter productive to marathon training. I'm almost ready to get back on board. I also want a bike.
Dan comes to town for 3 weeks and has to spend the most important week away from everyone. He's going to Spain for a week on the same week people are celebrating the end of the year. Spain should be cool for New Years though.
This christmas I'll be in tahoe with family. Emily will be up there too, with family. We'll probably meet up for pie and crab cakes. =)
I might have a bartending gig on the 30th in Tracy and that way I can go to tahoe the day after. That'd be great because I can use the money on the gig as gas and New Years money.
Snow!!!
The problem with charities is that you never know exactly where your money is going. For your dollar, maybe 20 cents are going to charity personnel, 20 cents going to buy lab equipment, 20 cents going to patient care, 40 cents going to technicians and scientists. At Modest Needs you can see exactly where your money is going. You choose an applicant in need and help him fund his request for money. It's real people who have struggled upon hardships unforeseen and just want a buck to help pay the medical bill. It's interesting reading the about the applicants.
I can't believe I'm running 26.2 miles in less than 48 hours.
I got promoted at my "part-time" job. Not exactly sure to what yet, but it's happening. =)
Holiday shopping markets to dicktards. "Throw in some flattery, make them think that the decision to come to our store was made out of their own free will—that seems to work. Whatever it takes to get these lard-ass nimrods into our stores, we're going to do it." -Target CEO Bob Ulrich
This year I realized that I dislike my Birthday. I've known for a few years now, but now I'm for certain.
There's no fucking way that I'm running 26.2 miles this weekend. I can barely walk around at the great mall without feeling sore from my last run.
Emily got me a VX8600. It's a phone but it's also a good MP3 player. It has hidden MP3 player buttons on the face. Successor to the Chocolate. I'll probably use it on the run because it's going to be so freaking boring. Someone give me a call during the marathon and I'll tell you what mile marker I'm on.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra was cool. It's heavy metal mixed with an orchestra mixed with snow and fire and lasers playing christmas music.
I love doing sales. It's great. It's rewarding and it's profitable. But today, I got the shadiest fuck ever. We gave him 39 boxes of the wrong material yesterday. He has a big project on hand and wants to install the floor right away. Today he said that he already installed it and the customer is pissed off so he wants us to pay for the new floor, and the installation costs. It's not legally our fault but we were prepared to take a loss for the ethical sake. We were going to give him the floor he needed at cost minus the profit we made from the sale. I called him and told him the deal and he said "ok fine" then I said that I was going to get an inspector to go check out the job site. He immediately said, "the floor is not installed yet, I just got a call 1 minute ago, the floor is not installed yet." What a shady fuck. I also hooked him up with the sale at first. Now he comes back fucking with my welfare so he can try and pull one over our heads.
I made crabby patties for Emily's mom and for my folks for Thanksgiving. I'm getting into the whole cooking thing. I found that everything taste better if you make it yourself. Next will be Sushi.
I slept 4 hours last night. 2 after trying to find something to do in downtown SJ on Thanksgiving and 2 in my car outside of Target just so I can be first in line to buy presents for my folks. Also, I didn't shower or shave yet. And I'm not wearing deodorant.
i have bubble wrap under my office chair and whenever I stretch my arms in the air i roll the chair so it sounds like my back is cracking. This is fun. I'm gonna freak out the next person that walks in.
Only need to raise about $550 more
My progress says 53% but I have checks in process.
If I had a dollar for every time I think I'd get a new job soon, I wouldn't need a job.
Goo-Tube is apparently a bad thing. The fact that the two internet video media sources have combined means that the merger's new medium will welcome mass commercialization and discourage independent expression. I don't really care about all that. I just wanna know how I can get a piece of the pie.
Travis Skydiving
Skydiver - Travis Instructor - Dude Cameraman - Cameraman dude Pilot - Pilot dude Other Skydiver - Shawn Marsh
The getting ready song is basketcase by greenday and the falling song is My own summer by Deftones. The sound quality is bad. This went from VHS to compressed digital to youtube rather uncleanly.
Lots of running tomorrow.
Look at my fundraising percentage. 49% !!! It's mocking me. It's like it's telling me I'll have to make a small step to reach the halfway point so it's not even worth it.
I got a new brain for Elly. It's a Magellan Roadmate 500. Emily gave it to her dad, and her dad gave it back. It's a touchscreen, and it's faster and prettier than Jaime's brain.
I've got a bad cold. I took most of friday off and I was supposed to run 16 miles this weekend. I didn't because of this stupid cold. I hope this won't put me back too far. I'm already struggling to hold my 10 minute miles. I spent the whole weekend with Emily, Dexter, and Ozzie. Ozzie is the nobler humble cat, much like a knight. Dexter is the younger devious cat with one eye, much like a pirate. I guess Yai-Yai, Emily's cat, would be the ninja cat because he hides in the darkness and enclosed places and he jumps at you without you knowing. Also, he's all black.
I am really looking forward to going home to sleep.
Current Mood: I have three moods today because they're all so awesome.
TV time! Tonight, someone is supposed to die on Prison Break. I'm not sure who, but I'm guessing it's the pickpocket dude. He's the least significant right now. Tomorrow is a new episode of Nip/Tuck. Wednesday is Lost!
Pat & Beth are in Paris for vacation for the next two weeks and Emily and I are house sitting. I had two crazy dreams ever since I've been living at Pat & Beths. One involved me being at an amusement park on a sunny day with crazy cartoon backdrop. I left an aquarium to go on a ride and I got mad and threw a thermos bottle at my brother. The other dream was on the metal fire escapes of New York and they were filming an action flick staring a deodorant commercial actor. Only there were no camera, my eyes were the camera and I kept going off cue and looking into people's apartments only to find murders taking place. It's rare for me to remember my dreams. I must have had at least a year break between remembering dreams. I remembered these dreams subsequently.
Dreams are crazy because no matter how incognizant you are, the dream can seem super significant. Not that the two are correlated, but it seems that the more incognizant you are, the less significant things should seem. I think that's how drugs work too. An ant walking on your table can seem interesting to a sober person, but I can represent all existence to someone all messed up.
I ran from the bay bridge to the golden gate bridge on sunday. Bridge to Bridge My average pace was 8:53! I can only run that fast for this 12K. Any longer my pace would drop significantly. Was alot of fun though.
All the body panels move up on pneumatic shocks in order to expose the core to fine tuning. The wheels are made of carbon fiber which reduces the the unsprung polar centripal weight by 6.6 lbs. This car has true front ram-air for a mid engine. Extra headroom to allow tall riders.
Acceleration: 0-62 mph 3.2 seconds Top speed: 245+ mph (seconded only to the million dollar bugati prototype) Standing Quartermile: 9.9 seconds, 146 mph Braking distance: 31m (100-0 km/h) Lateral G-force: 1.3 G (on the turns you'll be feeling the lumbar more than the seat) Horespower: 806 (that's twice as much as your supercar) Torque: 678 lb/ft Price: $700,000 Weight: 2601 lbs (that's 290 lbs less than a Prius!) US street legal
It would have been about $5,000 cheaper but I opted for the 8 piston ceramic breaks.
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