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« on: January 01, 2007, 01:18:40 PM » |
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In another forum I frequent, they have a large thread called the 'hangout'. Essentially, it's a place for posting things that you don't think deserve their own thread, but you would like to make mention of. I decided to create one here, since oftentimes the Random Observation thread gets used for this when people post things that are not particularly random, nor observations.
Basically, nothing is off-topic, and nothing is too trivial. The usual standards of decency and content apply. As with the RO thread, if enough people seem interested in something, I will split it off into a new post.
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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2007, 02:00:41 PM » |
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Nice.
Well.......
I'm gonna try, seriously, to lose weight this year. I hit 210 this year and thats just WHOAH. I have thighs the size of trees and love handles like nobodys business... but I'm sure you didn't need to know that. So I'm going on a diet and exercise plan and all that. I haven't set an exact goal, but 70lbs would be awesome, and it'd only take 1.5lbs a week.
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I was at a resteraunt. I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. Cuz she said "how would you like your eggs?". So I tried to answer her anyhow, I said incubated, and then raised, and then beheaded, and then plucked, and then cut up, and then put on a grill, and then put on to a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while! I don't have time - scrambled! -- Mitch Hedberg
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« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2007, 03:33:44 PM » |
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1.5 lbs/week = 5250 calorie deficit/week = 750 calorie deficit a day. I usually eat a sandwich for lunch; consulting the nutrition facts shows me that my sandwich is less than 750 calories. Thus (for me, at least), losing 1.5 lbs/week is the equivalent of skipping both breakfast and lunch. Not to discourage you or anything  . |
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« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2007, 04:31:47 PM » |
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Yeah, it'll most likely take longer than a year, but hey, one can try. And it'll certainly have to be more than just diet.. I need to exercise more, because right now I'm pretty sedentary. Acording to CalorieKing's software, if I stuck to 2,000 calories a day I would probably lose 4.5lbs a month. (If that's true.. I must be consuming a whole lot of calories now.. goodness.) Which is a bit bellow the 6lbs that it'd take for 70lbs by the end of the year, but it'd still put me down to 156, which would certainly be a huge improvement. I'm going to aim for a lower than 2,000 though. So far today, including dinner, I'm at about 1,500. Now lets see if I can resist snacking tonight Also... the scale we have isn't accurate at all so I picked up a digital scale from Amazon today. I guess I'll see how it all goes once I get it. |
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I was at a resteraunt. I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. Cuz she said "how would you like your eggs?". So I tried to answer her anyhow, I said incubated, and then raised, and then beheaded, and then plucked, and then cut up, and then put on a grill, and then put on to a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while! I don't have time - scrambled! -- Mitch Hedberg
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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2007, 08:35:54 PM » |
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the thread title is inviting and I want to hang out here but can't think of anything to say. can I just bring in some comfy chairs and pillows?
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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2007, 11:10:39 PM » |
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I ate roadkill rabbit for new years............... It's actually pretty darn good.
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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2007, 01:18:49 AM » |
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Josh, you should try "body for life." I know many people (including my parents) who've done it with great results. It's nice b/c it's not just a diet or fad; it teaches you exercise to lose weight/build muscle and helps you learn how to eat healthy. It really just helps you learn how to be healthy overall, rather than being some sort of odd diet. But the regimen seems to help people stick to it. Worth a look anyway; you should be able to get the book from the library.
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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2007, 07:47:11 AM » |
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the thread title is inviting and I want to hang out here but can't think of anything to say. can I just bring in some comfy chairs and pillows?
Comfy chairs are always nice  bethany, thanks.. I'll see if I can find that book next time I'm at the library or something. |
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I was at a resteraunt. I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. Cuz she said "how would you like your eggs?". So I tried to answer her anyhow, I said incubated, and then raised, and then beheaded, and then plucked, and then cut up, and then put on a grill, and then put on to a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while! I don't have time - scrambled! -- Mitch Hedberg
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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2007, 08:39:24 PM » |
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It annoys me when people don't reply to my e-mails. Are you on vacation? Dead? Have I offended you? Did you read my e-mail but found nothing commentworthy? A simple "hi, I got your e-mail but am too busy/stupid/dead to do anything with it right now" would be much better than me wondering if the message got eaten by the intertubes.
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« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2007, 12:55:20 AM » |
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« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2007, 09:29:49 AM » |
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Holy crap.. I lost 5lbs since last Tuesday. I'll take that 1400 to 1600 a day calorie budget, and 30 to 40 minute a day walks. |
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I was at a resteraunt. I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. Cuz she said "how would you like your eggs?". So I tried to answer her anyhow, I said incubated, and then raised, and then beheaded, and then plucked, and then cut up, and then put on a grill, and then put on to a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while! I don't have time - scrambled! -- Mitch Hedberg
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« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2007, 09:35:41 AM » |
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Holy crap.. I lost 5lbs since last Tuesday. I'll take that 1400 to 1600 a day calorie budget, and 30 to 40 minute a day walks. Congrats, man! I'm on a diet, too. My goal is 40-45 pounds. I started last Tuesday, too! So far, I'm down 10 pounds in the first week. None too shabby! But for an old fart like me, it'll start getting hard to lose weight in about 10 more pounds. |
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« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2007, 09:44:16 AM » |
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dgp, how did you lose 10 pounds in one week? I currently am 310-320 and am trying to get down to 260 as a start. I am eating better and drink plenty of water. I just need to walk every day. What other tips?
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« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2007, 10:11:59 AM » |
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dgp, how did you lose 10 pounds in one week? I currently am 310-320 and am trying to get down to 260 as a start. I am eating better and drink plenty of water. I just need to walk every day. What other tips?
Breakfast - cereal, skim milk, and orange juice plus vitamins. Morning snack - beef jerky or soy nuts Lunch - soup (about 280 calories and 4 grams of fat) Afternoon snack - beef jerky or soy nuts Dinner - chicken, shrimp, or lean beef plus a vegetable or salad. Evening snack - low fat ice cream sandwich Some variation of that for a week is what has worked for me. I'm focusing on low fat and high protein foods. Also, I'm trying to exercise for maybe 20-30 minutes a day. Good luck, man! |
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« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2007, 10:42:57 AM » |
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Nice job dgp I'm doing more or less the same.. though not really set foods, but just a set range provided by calorieking and making sure I stay in that range. I've been cutting back on the carbs and fat and hitting the meat and fish for protein. I was surprised how easy it is to stick to a 1,500 calorie diet. It took a little will power, but I wasn't really hungry most of the week. I did miss my sweets and my juice though  |
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I was at a resteraunt. I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. Cuz she said "how would you like your eggs?". So I tried to answer her anyhow, I said incubated, and then raised, and then beheaded, and then plucked, and then cut up, and then put on a grill, and then put on to a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while! I don't have time - scrambled! -- Mitch Hedberg
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« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2007, 12:53:26 PM » |
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yesterday some parts of SoCal saw a dusting of snow and temps down in the teens. the governor declared a state of emergency. I'm bad but I was watching the news and laughing. there was like 1/8" of snow and kids were making snow angels in it. (nice that they're having fun, but it looked more like a mud angel.) the mountains had snow but the freeway was icy and folks couldn't get there. "curse the cold weather; now I can't go ski!"
it didn't get so cold where I'm at, maybe the mid-40's, but still, people were "freezing" and saying stuff like "you know it's cold when you feel it in your bones!" (it does feel colder when you're in an unheated, open building, but I still find it funny how people here are such cold-wimps.)
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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2007, 01:46:38 PM » |
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Haha, that's really funny. When I was in San Jose, people would ask me "aren't you cold?" just because I was wearing short sleeves. When I replied "no, I'm from Virginia", they nodded, as if that explained everything. It's pretty rare, though, that it's warmer here than there (it's about 17 C = 62ish F).
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« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2007, 02:26:17 PM » |
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haha, being from Virginia explains everything.  what I remember from being in that area a few years ago in December and January, the San Francisco area can get pretty cold for not being officially cold. the wind! plus we stayed with relatives, and they went to work during the day and we just sat around in the house. they left the heat off so we were "freezing" all day. 60 degrees is nice outdoors but brrrr indoors! so how was your trip? |
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« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2007, 03:38:32 PM » |
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It was actually quite good. I'm still not able to talk about the job interview (the company is quite secretive, apparently), but the trip itself was pretty fun. It was mostly spent traveling, so I think I saw more of the inside of an airplane cabin than I did San Jose or Mountain View, but I did go out for a walk along one of the somewhat major roads there just to see what it was like. The weather was great (60 degrees indoors is what we have the thermostat set to right now, BTW...), though traffic was crazy. I used to wonder where they got all those insane traffic shots in movies; now I realize that they simply took the camera out to the California streets. The most memorable sight was a guy in what I think was a Honda Civic screeching and drifting through an intersection so fast that smoke actually rose from his tires. It looked like he had played too much Mario Kart and was trying to do a powerslide  . His light was green and nobody was coming, so I have no idea why he did it. I was the only pedestrian who seemed even mildly taken aback by it. I will say, a portable gaming system makes trips go a lot faster. When I flew to Seattle last year, all I had were books and music, and the flight seemed to last a long time. This time, I had my Nintendo DS with me, and it was more like, "geez, we're landing already? I wanted to play some more". I'm a big fan of books and music (I did do some reading on the plane as well), but nothing dilates perceived time like video games. |
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« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2007, 03:55:47 PM » |
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glad California was nice to you. I'm sitting here sans socks and feeling a bit chilly so I turned on my little heater and its thermostat says it's 62 degrees. I'm thinking the time I was in the cold house in San Jose, it must've been colder because we were wearing socks and sweaters and jackets and drinking hot beverages and we were still cold. |
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« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2007, 06:20:20 PM » |
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« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2007, 06:41:38 PM » |
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I love listening to people who don't know anything about computers talk about computers to one another.
"Oh, you have to press that thingy before it will do what you want."
"Why?"
"I don't know, but if you don't press it, it won't work."
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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2007, 04:59:08 PM » |
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« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2007, 06:22:19 PM » |
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I don't know why Red Pen Person is so confused. the elephant is circled and the word "elephant" is underlined. seems Red Pen Person has a pretty clear idea what's going on here. |
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« Reply #24 on: January 21, 2007, 05:38:59 PM » |
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last night I answered a wrong-number call. I don't get good reception here so the call went like this:
me: hello?
phone: noise noise noise
caller: garble garble garble forty-one garble garble
me (archly): forty-one?
caller (demandingly): who is this?
me (snarkily): who are you trying to call?
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how wude! getting me out of bed just to garble "forty-one" at me, demand to know who I am, and then hang up without so much as an apology for dialing the wrong number. forty-one indeed.
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« Reply #25 on: January 21, 2007, 09:56:37 PM » |
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That's another reason I dislike cell phones. Half the time when I'm talking to someone on a cell, it sounds like he has his phone buried three feet up his ass and is yelling into his navel. My friend had this touching conversation with his fiancee:
Him: Hello?
Him: Yes.
Him: What?
Him: What did you say?
Him: I said, what did you say?
Him: I can't hear you. Call me later when you get better reception!
Him: I said, call me later!
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« Reply #26 on: January 21, 2007, 10:02:11 PM » |
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I tend to get inordinately annoyed at the person if there is bad reception on either end. as if it's the other person's fault that I can't understand what was just said. even if the bad reception is on my side, I still get ticked off, as if the other person should have known not to call me.
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« Reply #28 on: February 10, 2007, 06:12:16 PM » |
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Having just re-sewn a button onto a pair of pants, I notice that my stitching is much crappier than the original sewing of the button. I wonder if there's a machine that can do that and, if so, how it operates.
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« Reply #29 on: February 10, 2007, 07:29:44 PM » |
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kudos for sewing the button yourself. modern sewing machines can sew buttons, but a handstitched one (done well) can last longer. because of the way some sewing machines stitch, if a thread comes loose and gets tugged on, the whole thing can unravel. (I've had this happen with pants and shirts before. annoying.) howstuffworks link on how sewing machines work. to sew on a button you would use a zigzag stitch so the needle goes side to side (inside two holes of the button) and set it so the fabric doesn't move forward. the buttons that fell off my clothes must've been sewn on with the chain stitch. hm, I learned something today. and now I wish I could listen to Eleni Mandell's song that goes "needle and thread keep me together". hehe. |
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« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2007, 03:11:54 AM » |
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blah. taxes.
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« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2007, 06:50:15 AM » |
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blah. taxes.
I did mine the day my W2 came. Can't wait to get my sweet REFUND!! |
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« Reply #32 on: February 12, 2007, 10:12:48 AM » |
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The only certain things in this world are death and taxes, and we might get that death thing licked eventually.
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« Reply #33 on: February 12, 2007, 08:18:45 PM » |
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Gotta love the frictionless ramps. Where can I buy one?
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« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2007, 07:24:53 AM » |
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*sigh* Today is the dreaded monthly MUD here at work. That would be Microsoft Update Day, the day when the entire office downloads and installs 12MB of "critical updates" for Windows, thereby reducing network performance to the speed of pouring frozen molasses.
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« Reply #35 on: February 14, 2007, 08:39:44 AM » |
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*sigh* Today is the dreaded monthly MUD here at work. That would be Microsoft Update Day, the day when the entire office downloads and installs 12MB of "critical updates" for Windows, thereby reducing network performance to the speed of pouring frozen molasses.
Hm. Better solutions might be either using the automatic updater, which will download updates and (optionally) install them during off-hours, or starting the update process before you leave for the day the night before. |
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*sigh* Today is the dreaded monthly MUD here at work. That would be Microsoft Update Day, the day when the entire office downloads and installs 12MB of "critical" updates for Windows, thereby reducing network performance to the speed of pouring frozen molasses.
There, better. Does anyone else just feel buried with stuff to do? Maybe It's because I'm trying to sell me car, work a job, and go to college ful time, but... |
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« Reply #37 on: February 14, 2007, 07:41:27 PM » |
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Does anyone else just feel buried with stuff to do? Maybe it's because I'm trying to sell my car, work a job, and go to college full time, but...
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« Reply #38 on: February 14, 2007, 10:38:16 PM » |
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Uh huh. I am currently writing my senior thesis, researching a rather extensive paper on Shakespeare's "problem comedies" and their relation to Elizabethean theories of comedy, working with the church youth group, serving as President of Maryville College's Reformed University Fellowship group and Treasurer of our pro-life group, writing a weekly blog for CT Movies, trying to write music reviews for my own site, and taking a full load of classes to boot. So yeah, I know what it's like to be busy, but it's a good kind of busy. These are (mostly) all things that I love doing.
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« Reply #39 on: February 15, 2007, 06:24:57 AM » |
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Hm. Better solutions might be either using the automatic updater, which will download updates and (optionally) install them during off-hours, or starting the update process before you leave for the day the night before.
I'm not sure why, but we are told not to have the automatic updater turned on. I'm always in early, so it doesn't take mine long to load. It just when everybody else decides to show up and start the process that bogs everything down. |
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