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im in ur base eating ur foodz
Oct. 30th, 2006 04:16 pmOK, I admit it, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
aprils_cr_diary is kind of dopey. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she isn't trying to come across as obnoxious as she sometimes appears, but I have to say that anyone who describes a large object as "blank-ing
On the other hand I'm going to keep her on my flist for a while, because one thing I discovered quickly about the CR subculture is that it's full of hardcore nerdz, and as such any writer within it emit links to interesting stuff that lay at the intersection of foodiness and hackerliness. Here's a couple of things I have found today:
* CRON-O-Meter is a Mac/Win application intended to be primarily useful to CR dieters, but I think it's more generally interesting than that. It's a nice front-end to several open databases of food items' nutritional information, and gives you an easy way to track how well you're meeting a recommended daily intake of calories, fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals, so long as you're willing to punch in everything that you gobble down.
This begs the question: whose recommendation? Whoever it is, they actually think that, given my age and height, I'm deficient in all of those stats (even calories), except for carbs, of which I am eating enough to fell a wildebeest. Or something.
* Slashfood is exactly what it sounds like: a foodie version of Slashdot, except much nicer looking, and I didn't want to chuck my display out the window based on any of the headlines. I dunno if I'll actually read it regularly but I appreciate that it exists.
aprils_cr_diary is kind of dopey. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she isn't trying to come across as obnoxious as she sometimes appears, but I have to say that anyone who describes a large object as "blank-ing[sic] huge" is undeniably from a different planet than mine.On the other hand I'm going to keep her on my flist for a while, because one thing I discovered quickly about the CR subculture is that it's full of hardcore nerdz, and as such any writer within it emit links to interesting stuff that lay at the intersection of foodiness and hackerliness. Here's a couple of things I have found today:
* CRON-O-Meter is a Mac/Win application intended to be primarily useful to CR dieters, but I think it's more generally interesting than that. It's a nice front-end to several open databases of food items' nutritional information, and gives you an easy way to track how well you're meeting a recommended daily intake of calories, fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals, so long as you're willing to punch in everything that you gobble down.
This begs the question: whose recommendation? Whoever it is, they actually think that, given my age and height, I'm deficient in all of those stats (even calories), except for carbs, of which I am eating enough to fell a wildebeest. Or something.
* Slashfood is exactly what it sounds like: a foodie version of Slashdot, except much nicer looking, and I didn't want to chuck my display out the window based on any of the headlines. I dunno if I'll actually read it regularly but I appreciate that it exists.
A good day
Jan. 6th, 2006 04:02 amSo much Volity I'm seeing spots. Brush my teeth and go to bed.
Thanks to all betatesters so far... I'm sorry I'm being slow in putting out a new Javolin release. But I worked all day on fixing many subtly broken things in the game finder, which is also somewhat prettier now. It will get even better after I've had a chance to consult with my cohorts a bit tomorrow.
But yeah, I hate being a release engineer. What a crummy job. I keep putting it off for more interesting tasks. Really, I'll fix it tomorrow. Er, today.
Seed funding has started to appear, regardless of the fact that our contract with our investors lacks a verb in its first sentence. (Sigh. In consultation with lawyer about this.) Are presently racing to see how fast we can spend it on inventory, hosting, and maintenance for our in-house wizard.
Inventory? Yes. You'll see.
I love using to-do lists, outline-shaped ones with tick-offable items. I use Omni Outliner for this, which works great, except I end up filling up every folder in my home directory with a file called
Thanks to all betatesters so far... I'm sorry I'm being slow in putting out a new Javolin release. But I worked all day on fixing many subtly broken things in the game finder, which is also somewhat prettier now. It will get even better after I've had a chance to consult with my cohorts a bit tomorrow.
But yeah, I hate being a release engineer. What a crummy job. I keep putting it off for more interesting tasks. Really, I'll fix it tomorrow. Er, today.
Seed funding has started to appear, regardless of the fact that our contract with our investors lacks a verb in its first sentence. (Sigh. In consultation with lawyer about this.) Are presently racing to see how fast we can spend it on inventory, hosting, and maintenance for our in-house wizard.
Inventory? Yes. You'll see.
I love using to-do lists, outline-shaped ones with tick-offable items. I use Omni Outliner for this, which works great, except I end up filling up every folder in my home directory with a file called
todo.ooutline. There has to be a better way about this. VoodooPad has outliney capabilities, but they're not nearly as nice to use as Omni's.Microsoft is a bad girl
Feb. 16th, 2002 11:11 amCurious as to why my hard drive was in a state of continual access, clicking with a heartbeat of regularity every second or so, and in so doing draining my battery a bit faster than I'd like, I ran
"Microsoft"? Uh-oh. I installed the Office:mac demo CD yesterday (I am curious to see if writing a book in a WYSIWYG way is more pleasurable than doing it in straight DocBook XML via emacs) but I wasn't running any of its applications at the moment. So:
And thus my hard drive fell silent. More props to Apple (and/or Next): nixing the culprit is as easy as pulling up the Login system prefs pane and clicking the Login Items tab. Yes, there's the Microsoft Database Demon icon, exposed and shivering, awaiting its doom at my fingertips. I just wish there was a system-level thingy that notified me when a program sticks things there; if the demon didn't cause so much real-world noise, I probably wouldn't have noticed its presence for a long time.
My LiveJournal is definitely getting geekier, especially since I took up this latest project. I apologize if I am putting anyone to sleep, but I fear that it's only going to get worse. I should consider dusting off my O'Reilllynet blog and shunting these sorts of posts there, before I start losing Friends.
top and saw this:PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE 337 top 8.9% 0:02.19 1 19 14 196K 320K 436K 1.37M 336 Internet E 0.0% 0:43.90 8 99 157 8.15M 12.6M 14.8M 64.4M 335 LiveJourna 0.0% 0:03.66 3 95 97 2.24M 7.20M 5.67M 52.9M 334 Mail 0.0% 0:26.00 8 117 118 3.16M 8.08M 7.74M 55.7M 332 ssh 0.0% 0:00.10 1 9 19 432K 488K 568K 1.88M 323 zsh 0.0% 0:00.15 1 16 13 184K 700K 708K 1.69M 322 Terminal 0.0% 0:03.18 5 112 140 2.11M 6.72M 4.52M 55.0M 321 Microsoft 0.0% 0:04.76 1 56 76 1.73M 9.26M 3.64M 50.2M
"Microsoft"? Uh-oh. I installed the Office:mac demo CD yesterday (I am curious to see if writing a book in a WYSIWYG way is more pleasurable than doing it in straight DocBook XML via emacs) but I wasn't running any of its applications at the moment. So:
[jmac@endif /Users/jmac]% ps awux | grep 321 jmac 321 0.0 1.4 51428 3732 ?? S 0:04.76 /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/Microsoft Database Daemon /Applica [jmac@endif /Users/jmac]% kill 321
And thus my hard drive fell silent. More props to Apple (and/or Next): nixing the culprit is as easy as pulling up the Login system prefs pane and clicking the Login Items tab. Yes, there's the Microsoft Database Demon icon, exposed and shivering, awaiting its doom at my fingertips. I just wish there was a system-level thingy that notified me when a program sticks things there; if the demon didn't cause so much real-world noise, I probably wouldn't have noticed its presence for a long time.
My LiveJournal is definitely getting geekier, especially since I took up this latest project. I apologize if I am putting anyone to sleep, but I fear that it's only going to get worse. I should consider dusting off my O'Reilllynet blog and shunting these sorts of posts there, before I start losing Friends.
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Feb. 11th, 2002 01:54 amToday I got a little further than halfway through Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, taking notes furiously the whole way. God rain blessings upon PocketNotes for making that possible. While I got annoyed at discovering its incapability to export text, and its interface is a bit rougher around the edges than I'd like, it's still the best outliner I've found for this OS.
Replied to mail about my ISBN webservice thing and ComicsML.
I've spent the most recent three hours or so sorting out finances. Wrote many checks, web-paid many parking tickets, sent out some PayPal funds and sent out email regarding a precious few debts owed to me. Things are not as bad as I feared, and things are still not very good. I will survive, but I do start to have doubt about this whole moving-again-in-June idea. As Noah pointed out recently, none of us have full-time jobs, which makes one wonder how we expect to scrape together the capital to move to any of the neighborhoods we're eyeing. (Davis Square, ideally.)
Chez Chestnut will dissolve soon no matter what happens, though; Charles and SO Leslee want a place of their own as soon as they can manage, so they'll be leaving in September if Carla and I don't wander out before then.
I didn't realize until this past week what a steal our rent is, here; it's apparently comparable to some studio apartments. So Carla, who also receives income in freelancey fits and starrts, would rather not be the one to leave, and I start to wonder if maybe, given everything, I should feel the same.
Yesterday I was surprised to find myself having a mature and honest discussion with my mother about relationships, grown-up to grown-up. What causes my parents to sometimes see me as such, and sometimes see me as a nonautonomous child? Well, anyway. It was a good thing. Mom displayed more insight and wisdom than I would have expected... hrm. Then again, by the sounds of it, she is making a career recently of gently helping my two brothers through their own rocky relationships.
Do you recall how, last month, I cleaned a pile of paper off the dining room table and found a piece of individually-wrapped chocolate underneath it? Yesterday I cleaned off the entire table, and found, when I was nearly done, that one of the items contributing to the mess was, in fact, an entire box of chocolates. Granted, it had only four pieces left in it, all quite stale, and three had bites in them (later positively identified as belonging to Carla), but still. It gives one pause.
I love OmniDictionary. Everyone who uses OS X should use this; it's a wonderful use of the 'Services' menu, which I'm only recently starting to appreciate. After installing it, you can select any word in any application, and, with a keystroke, OmniDictionary grabs that word's definition from the Internet, and displays it. Yay.
Replied to mail about my ISBN webservice thing and ComicsML.
I've spent the most recent three hours or so sorting out finances. Wrote many checks, web-paid many parking tickets, sent out some PayPal funds and sent out email regarding a precious few debts owed to me. Things are not as bad as I feared, and things are still not very good. I will survive, but I do start to have doubt about this whole moving-again-in-June idea. As Noah pointed out recently, none of us have full-time jobs, which makes one wonder how we expect to scrape together the capital to move to any of the neighborhoods we're eyeing. (Davis Square, ideally.)
Chez Chestnut will dissolve soon no matter what happens, though; Charles and SO Leslee want a place of their own as soon as they can manage, so they'll be leaving in September if Carla and I don't wander out before then.
I didn't realize until this past week what a steal our rent is, here; it's apparently comparable to some studio apartments. So Carla, who also receives income in freelancey fits and starrts, would rather not be the one to leave, and I start to wonder if maybe, given everything, I should feel the same.
Yesterday I was surprised to find myself having a mature and honest discussion with my mother about relationships, grown-up to grown-up. What causes my parents to sometimes see me as such, and sometimes see me as a nonautonomous child? Well, anyway. It was a good thing. Mom displayed more insight and wisdom than I would have expected... hrm. Then again, by the sounds of it, she is making a career recently of gently helping my two brothers through their own rocky relationships.
Do you recall how, last month, I cleaned a pile of paper off the dining room table and found a piece of individually-wrapped chocolate underneath it? Yesterday I cleaned off the entire table, and found, when I was nearly done, that one of the items contributing to the mess was, in fact, an entire box of chocolates. Granted, it had only four pieces left in it, all quite stale, and three had bites in them (later positively identified as belonging to Carla), but still. It gives one pause.
I love OmniDictionary. Everyone who uses OS X should use this; it's a wonderful use of the 'Services' menu, which I'm only recently starting to appreciate. After installing it, you can select any word in any application, and, with a keystroke, OmniDictionary grabs that word's definition from the Internet, and displays it. Yay.
