6/29/2011 - Self Experiment Week 3 & 4!

Week 3 was pretty uneventful. I didn’t concentrate on my nutrition as I’d have liked. It’s difficult to find foods to carry in a messanger bag that don’t get crushed. I think I’ll try and ride 1 or 2 days a week for the rest of the summer.

Gains:

• Muscle tone in my legs.
• Really awesome tan lines.

Losses:

• Purse. Since I have been riding I no longer need my purse and so have traded it out for a messanger bag.
• Work activities. I’ve had to miss out on some work activities. Our district is large and many times they will have activities at one or two locations that just aren’t convinent for biking. Granted I didn’t try very hard to get a ride, but I didn’t want anyone to have to go out of their way for me.

Lesson Learned:

• Don’t read a light rail schedule on your Android.
• Mercedez-Benz designs their cars to make bikes and bike lanes completely invisible.

6/14/2011 - Self Experiment Week 2

This week was particularly hard, I had very low energy and I believe this is due to my nutrition. Honestly I haven’t been paying attention to my caloric intake, eating pretty much what I normally do, which isn’t enough when I’m riding as much as I’ve been. My knee has also been hurting, although not while riding just after so I’ve been taking it easy this week. I’ve also been pretty burnt out at the end of the day, I can’t imagine doing this with children. Weight has remained roughly the same, although I’m gaining muscle.

I had a conference down town this weekend and I was going to ride the cherry creek trail down to the Auraria campus, however I just wasn’t feeling it and I was afraid my things would get stolen off my bike. I opted to take the lightrail. That was interesting. Schedules and fees are hard to read on my Android which resulted in some mishaps that are particularly embarassing, but I’m learning which is always worth the embarassment.

Usually I’m pretty alert and smart in the morning, so at work I try and take care of the hard things first and leave some of the fluffy mindless work for the afternoon. I’ve noticed that days when I ride to work in the morning, result in me figuring out problems at the end of the day. This never used to happen, I would always figure out problems at the beginning of the day. It’s become quite frustrating figuring something out at 3:30 only to have to leave at 4.

Items to work on for next week: Focus more on nutrition which hopefully will result in more energy and less collapsing on the couch. Change up my work routine to accomodate my morning mushy brain and thus increasing my productivity at work.

Money Spent: $16 lightrail fee

Weeks mileage: 42

Weight: 133lbs

6/7/2011 - Self Expriment Week 1

Doing well so far. I’m feeling fairly fatigued today, but my monthly lover is here (it was bound to happen sometime during my 30 days). I’m just glad that it’s happening at the beginning of my experiment. I have developed multiple large bruses from who knows what, biking is a dangerous sport. I’ve gained some weight this week, which is fine with me, I’m sure I’m not eating enough calories so not losing weight is great. I probably should be calculating what I’m eating, but my lifeTracker software is just not ready. Can you do too much life tracking?

My lovely wife is helping a great deal by giving me rides when I just can’t do the bike. I’m really diggin’ carpooling with her, feels like we get to spend more time together and can laugh instead of cuss at all the horrible drivers.

Drivers have been suprisingly attentive and I haven’t had a run in with a car yet. I love learning things about myself, especially when I figure out I’ve been a complete idiot. The route I normally take to work takes me west on Belleview to University. Why oh why didn’t I think of going Holly to Orchard to Colorado to Orchard? I’ve lived here my whole life, I knew very well that there is a dedicated bike lane on Holly (you can ask my bro about that one), so why would I choose to ride on Belleview and University. You’d think after my run in with a car on Holly and Belleview I’d try to find other routes to work. Live and Learn.

Weeks mileage: 61

Weight: 134lbs

6/1/2011 - Self Experiment No driving for 30 days

I’ve decided to conduct a social experiment and not use my truck for 30 days. Mainly to save gas and the environment, and also reduce my driving stress which is the #1 cause of heart attacks (take that stat with a grain of salt). In May I gathered some data so I can compare. This is mostly going to and from work (28 miles/day) with one trip camping.

May

5/9/2011 - Gas $57.71 - 20.3 MPG
5/18/2011 - Gas $53.65 - IDK lost my receipt
5/31/2011 - Gas $57.23 - 20.3 MPG

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Total Mileage: 723
Total Spent: $168.59 (gas) + $9.50 (tire wear) = $178.06

Starting weight: 130lbs

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I’m not counting insurance, because regardless of if I drive or not I will have insurance on the truck so not really a savings there.

3/2/2011 - Disaster Averted

Today I noticed that my programming SQL page was missing. Strange, and of course I have no back ups of this server. My fault I should have been backing up. However thanks to the Wayback Machine, I was able to pull up the page from 2009 and get most of my page back. Score one for internet archives. Anyway check out my newly created SQL page.

10/10/10 - VOTE!

Don’t forget to vote!

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want someone running the country who is just like me. I don’t want a business person running the country. I want someone who is much more intelligent than myself running the country. I want someone who is openminded enough to take advice from others, and again did I mention insanely INTELLIGENT! Not me, not even someone like me, someone smart please!!

8/2/09 - Indie 101.5 FM RIP

Indie 101.5 FM has ceased to exist after it’s short run on Denver’s air waves. It was by far the best radio station I’ve ever heard in my 27 years of life on this planet. I am deeply saddened by it’s death and cringe every time I have to get into the car and listen to the abhorrent radio stations we have in Denver. How is it a radio station can feel like they wrap you in a warm blanket of love? Now I’m cold, scared and not sure where to turn to next.

But all is not lost. Apparently the guys (and girls) at Indie are starting a web site called www.indie303.com where they will be on the air uncensored. We’ll also be able to stream them live on www.live365.com. I guess it’s time to upgrade my technology so I don’t have to listen to the inane chattering and playlists <cough>93.3</cough> that make me want to swerve off the road just to end it all. Ok now I loved channel 93.3 when I was in high school. Heck I even loved it right up until a few years ago. I participated in music surveys (thinking they actually mattered), became an area93 member the whole 9 yards. That was until I stumbled across Indie and realized what I had been missing. Never before have I bought so much music in such a small amount of time. I spent around $75 in the last 6 months on I-Tunes (that’s a lot for me) after hearing something awesome on Indie. Talk about boosting the economy.

Indie is for REAL humans and while momentarily depressed I look forward to the future and what www.indie303.com has in store. I wish them the best of luck!

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6/4/09 - Bing

As much as I detest M$ I must say bing.com is turning out to be pretty good. I haven’t used it much, but the searches I have done provide better results than google.com. Not really impressed with the look and feel of Bing, but really all I’m after is a search that will understand what I want, so far Bing has exceeded my expectations so props to Microsoft. This is 100 times better than Microsoft’s fucked up search live.com, which has now dissapeared...thank God!

4/17/09 - Pirate Bay

1/29/09 - Facebook

Fine! I gave in and joined facebook this morning. While we are supposed to be celebrating Suzanne Pleshette Day and generally being angry with the media, I take it upon myself to go against every fiber of my being and join facebook. Whatever happened to my morals and my rage against this fad called social networking? Can I not stick with my values of good clean web applications? But here I am jumping on the band wagon and shitting on every good practice of software design. <Sigh> I am no better than the evil that came up with MySpace, only I haven’t made millions with my software design.

<shudder>I feel dirty</shudder>