Monthly Archive for January, 2007

Self-Improvement Made Easy with UnderEase

Do you have low self-confidence?

Do your loved ones dread being around you?

Do you have pain that will cause you shame to share?

Been to Cousin Triva’s lately?

Then you need these.

Wiikout

This guy lost 9 pounds over 6 weeks from doing a workout regime using Wii sports. He did a pretty controlled study and was skinny when he started.

I am participating in the Discovery Health National Body Challenge. I start tonight with 8 weeks free to Bally. I’d like to lose more than 9 pounds, but that would be a good start. I just gotta make it through this first week.

Now I just need to eat less of these.

Naked Day

Naked Day

I’m bummed no one told me.

I guess it’s not too late to start. hold on.

Thats better. Happy Naked Day.

Berkeley Podcast

A while ago I showed you how you can take classes at MIT, by reading the teachers notes and taking quizzes.  Now UC Berkeley has trumped them by putting up complete podcasts of all the same classes the students are taking.

You can either listen to current classes or through a dropdown menu choose spring 2007, subscribe to a class in itunes and get the lessons as they are being taught.

Once they start doing video podcasting, then you can just watch them on your tv with this.

Source

In The Beginning

The evangelical ecologist has the materalist story of creation.

The favorite question of both atheists and the religious people who argue with them is “what if your wrong?”.

If the atheist is wrong he “burns in hell” because his sin isn’t murder or lying, his sin is the basis for his whole life, unbelief.

If the religious person is wrong, then well they wasted their whole life, living uneedingly strict, in ignorance and did not advance the cause of “mankind”.

There is one type of person that doesn’t lose. The Jesus follower. The Jesus follower doesn’t have to be a creationist or evolutionist. It’s irrelevant to what their life is about. The Jesus follower lived their life doing good by others. Feeding the poor, clothing the naked. They treated people with dignity and acted with integrity. If the Jesus follower is wrong, then they only left the world a better place.

David Beckham Joins the L.A. Galaxy

I knew it would happen. I was the first person to invite him here actually.

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Everyday I Do a Wonderful Number 2

The Japanese are doing for potty training what Richard Simmons did for exercise.

And by what Richard Simmons did for exercise, I mean nothing. Except for making it a little creepier.

From TvinJapan

Chevy Volt

GM has a new concept car that doesn’t use gasoline to run.  It is a PHEV.  A plug-in hybrid. The car is powered by a lithium ion battery, which when it runs out can be recharged on the go by a 12 gallon gas tank. The car can do 40 miles on one charge, but using the gas it can do over 500 miles. The car will also run on ethanol.

While I would love to drive a car powered by battery only, I think in terms of consumer adoption, this car could be a huge step foward. GM is seemingly undoing what they did by killing the ev1.

I’m looking forward to seeing the technology make it’s way into the Saturn Vue Greenline.

But are hybrids worth the extra money?

White and Nerdy

I’ve never really liked Weird Al. He’s usually pretty cheasy and obnoxious, but this song and video are perfect.

Here is the original song and video:

Riding “dirty” is a term babies use for when they are walking around with poop in their diaper.

Babas Plays the Wii

Flickr Gallery of someone’s Grandma playing the Wii.

I always quietly mocked kids who had different names for their grandparents when I was young.  I have never understood why Grandma and Grandpa weren’t sufficient. I mean you don’t let your child call you “moogu”.  You keep reinforcing that your name is mama and then mom.

Well, now I’ve changed my stance a little bit.  I’ve realized ma and pa are just as much as a made-up slang term as babas, for grandma.  That and one of my nephews calls my dad “put”, which is just about the best name for grandpa, I’ve ever heard.