May 31 2006

It’s About The Game, Stupid!

Tag: General, Stuff That Grinds My GearsJohn @ 5:09 pm

Thought I’d share my away message from last night in case someone missed it.

Dear TNT,
It isn’t hard to cover a basketball game. You just have to follow one simple rule: have a camera on the action when a player is touching the basketball. No replays, full-screen statistics, or interviews with the hot dog man when the game is going on. If there’s action you should know instinctively to center the camera on that action. It’s pretty simple stuff.
Love always,
John

P.S. Please keep Charles Barkley from talking about his pee-pee


May 30 2006

Remembering Memorial Day Weekend

Tag: General, Video G4m3z, dietJohn @ 12:22 pm

Had a wonderful extended weekend. I was able to relax so much I even got to work at the early hour of 8am today! Got plenty of peanuts and even some dinner at Logan’s Roadhouse, then played apples to apples (with the ultimate trump cards being Chorus Girls, Atomic Bomb, and the mythical Luda card ). This was followed by the always fast and furious shuffle quarters (patent pending).

What I did the rest of the weekend is also why I haven’t posted in a week. I’ve been pouring my spare time into the sink that is Dragon Quest 8.

Saturday: dragon quest from noon until 5, running/swimming/dinner, dragon quest until bed

Sunday: dragon quest -> tennis -> dragon quest

Monday: see sunday

So now I have 67 hours logged in the game, nearly three whole days. Only about 20 from this weekend though. I just finished the desert last night and the casino is open. I may end up spending quite a few hours trying to win some nice prizes there.

Also, with all the exercise over the weekend I’m down to 192 despite gradually increasing my calories a bit. I even dipped below 190 after losing 6 pounds of sweat yesterday, so that was encouraging even though I knew it wouldn’t last. I may need new pants by the end of the summer.

thinking about setting a 20″ imac as a reward for losing 20+ pounds


May 24 2006

Animal Overpass

Tag: GeneralJohn @ 3:24 pm

BoingBoing linked to an interesting way of keeping wildlife off the highway today and I wanted to share. It should help prevent sights like this along the road.

roadkill

saving yogi from those cars that look like picnic baskets


May 22 2006

Caution: Wet Floor

Tag: Blog News, Tech TalkJohn @ 11:24 am

Found a neat javascript trick for reflecting images on BoingBoing and it’s been plugged into Wordpress for wet floor slipperiness. I have it installed, but I’m not sure how I’ll use it yet.


May 22 2006

Minor Setback

Tag: dietJohn @ 10:48 am

Had a little setback because we went to CiCi’s last wednesday for dinner plus about a year’s worth of water-retaining salt on my chips at Chili’s.  So I’ll end up getting down to 193 this week hopefully and then I’ll be back on track.


May 18 2006

They call me Nade-o-tron for a reason

Tag: General, memesJohn @ 7:00 pm

I think Jason would have guessed that I’d get this result:

Robot
You are 85% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant.
You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don’t bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won’t develop a winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don’t have hearts, silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not gold.) You also won’t be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie was dumb as hell, and because real robots don’t kill–they horribly maim at best, and they don’t even do that on purpose. Real robots are boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years, my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you don’t really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure are delicious.To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.

2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Class Clown.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Emo Kid, and the Haughty Intellectual.

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If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.

The other personality types:
The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

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You scored higher than 73% on Rationality
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You scored higher than 0% on Extroversion
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You scored higher than 27% on Brutality
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You scored higher than 20% on Arrogance

Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

May 17 2006

Thinking Light

Tag: dietJohn @ 10:52 pm

Saw 193 on the scale last night after walking. It may be due to losing water weight but this way I won’t be boring people with another diet update when I actually hit 193. Here’s some pretty graphics to spice up this boring post:

ticker

and here’s some lovely charts showing my progress
weight progress

bmi progress


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