Seriously, any exercise activity is much easier to do if you've got someone to go through it with you. It could be something as simple as both you hop on a tredmil and gab for an hour, to the weight training courses, or taking up a sport. With a friend it is so much easier to convince yourself to do. In a year I went from 185lbs (83.9kg) to 162lbs (73.4kg) all because I went regularly, thanks to the friend. I have been lax, but hovering at that weight for a while, and have now started up again. My next goal is 140lbs (63.5kg) or so. If you're curious, my height is 5'8" and I have been going the healthy eating route again.
Someone mentioned it earlier but myfitnesspal.com has been a great boon to help me track my food intake. There is no miracle diet or super pill, you just gotta bust your ass for a bit, then it starts to become routine.
Nice colors, pretty docile, good motivator. Can't complain about this monitor!
See for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Monitor
Oh! You mean like, a monitor monitor, the hardware kind? Um... Lemme get back to you. I think it's an HP from the days of old...
Wasn't terrible. Waited 1hr due to machine not wanting to accept ballots for like 20 minutes. Was in line behind an old, vocal harpy. She was easy to ignore in line, however when it was my turn to vote she got in the booth next to me. Her cell phone rang, she took the call and started an interesting conversation about how "Yeah, we gotta vote the President out! Oh, and for the OK Supreme Justices, we gotta vote them out too, they're all bad..." This went on for a few minutes, many of us around her telling her, "Ma'am, please don't do that." or "Please be quiet ma'am!" She was apparently part of some group here wanting to vote a certain way, no issues with that, but at least show the etiquette to not take the damned phone call in the booth!
Can someone humor me, but aren't there rules against this kind of behavior as it can be seen as electioneering?
The pancake/waffle breakfast, of which I invited all of/., now to be served with sides of bacon! Give me a few weeks, working on the coffee heist, errrrr, procurement process.
The market rewards companies like Zynga that sell social gaming
Out of curiosity, rewarding them how? Their stock has been dropping, they're getting bad PR from ripping off other game ideas, and they seem to be the largest plague of spam on Facebook.They don't do social gaming. Asking me to give you X of something in WhateverVille is not being social. It's just begging. The messages are totally automated, so logging in every few weeks and seeing dozens of them is most annoying. Hell, I only have a few people on my Facebook friends list. I've had more social gaming experience with my friends playing paper football at TacoBell. At least then it's an activity with conversation mixed in. Maybe I'm just getting old.
"If you think this is the only issue, you've never seen an accountant freak out when you tell them, "Well, it's LIKE Excel...""
Hey! You know what else is a lot like Excel on Linux? Excel on Linux!
While I was not aware of this particular software, you've kinda missed the point. That point being accountants here seem to hate change, ANY change. It would be yet 'more software' I would have to convince corp. to allow us to install. Then there's the added cost of buying said software for all the accountants (Hint: This isn't a small shop). Plus, from the forums and rating system, the flavor of Office in use here (Office 2010) gets a bronze rating while Office 2000 gets a gold, understandable given it is 12 years old. The comments on using the add-ins system Excel uses with Crossover have me a little nervous given that the solution to many of the problems experienced are 'disable them'. Add-ins are somewhat vital to these accountants. There are some that actually ARE tech savvy. Then there are most of them who panic if a particular window does not look exactly like they remember it. I'm sure all this has been covered before in many many many previous posts of others who have juggled a similar idea.
I do appreciate knowing this exists though, thanks.
"Agreed. I've been begging my IT department to let me run Linux on my laptop, and run our corporate Windows image in a desktop VM, but they won't let me."
You just pointed out the only real problem with Linux in a desktop environment: Incompetent IT Departments.
If you think this is the only issue, you've never seen an accountant freak out when you tell them, "Well, it's LIKE Excel..." Some of the tools won't work on anything else. Although I do see some of my supported software moving away from being an add-in to being a web based interface. Take it for what it is, just my own opinion formed from my somewhat limited anecdote.
I'm for explaining how tides and currents work.. Why the ocean is higher at some point in the day, but lower in others... What's it like beneath the surface when the water is calm... That stuff...
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Good news! It's a suppository!
Some of those, maybe a chainsaw or two. Hatchet if you're feeling adventurous.
Strangest Burma Shave advert, ever.
Seriously, any exercise activity is much easier to do if you've got someone to go through it with you. It could be something as simple as both you hop on a tredmil and gab for an hour, to the weight training courses, or taking up a sport. With a friend it is so much easier to convince yourself to do. In a year I went from 185lbs (83.9kg) to 162lbs (73.4kg) all because I went regularly, thanks to the friend. I have been lax, but hovering at that weight for a while, and have now started up again. My next goal is 140lbs (63.5kg) or so. If you're curious, my height is 5'8" and I have been going the healthy eating route again.
Someone mentioned it earlier but myfitnesspal.com has been a great boon to help me track my food intake. There is no miracle diet or super pill, you just gotta bust your ass for a bit, then it starts to become routine.
Nice colors, pretty docile, good motivator. Can't complain about this monitor!
See for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Monitor
Oh! You mean like, a monitor monitor, the hardware kind? Um... Lemme get back to you. I think it's an HP from the days of old...
I in fact DID NOT get a good deal on my new Sorny 52" plasma flat screen or my Magnetbox bluray player?
Wasn't terrible. Waited 1hr due to machine not wanting to accept ballots for like 20 minutes. Was in line behind an old, vocal harpy. She was easy to ignore in line, however when it was my turn to vote she got in the booth next to me. Her cell phone rang, she took the call and started an interesting conversation about how "Yeah, we gotta vote the President out! Oh, and for the OK Supreme Justices, we gotta vote them out too, they're all bad..." This went on for a few minutes, many of us around her telling her, "Ma'am, please don't do that." or "Please be quiet ma'am!" She was apparently part of some group here wanting to vote a certain way, no issues with that, but at least show the etiquette to not take the damned phone call in the booth!
Can someone humor me, but aren't there rules against this kind of behavior as it can be seen as electioneering?
How did you get the names of four of my eight bosses?!
The pancake/waffle breakfast, of which I invited all of /., now to be served with sides of bacon! Give me a few weeks, working on the coffee heist, errrrr, procurement process.
Do you have any problem distinguishing between a robot and a half eaten apple?
Depends, am I in Japan and how much have I been drinking?
The market rewards companies like Zynga that sell social gaming
Out of curiosity, rewarding them how? Their stock has been dropping, they're getting bad PR from ripping off other game ideas, and they seem to be the largest plague of spam on Facebook.They don't do social gaming. Asking me to give you X of something in WhateverVille is not being social. It's just begging. The messages are totally automated, so logging in every few weeks and seeing dozens of them is most annoying. Hell, I only have a few people on my Facebook friends list. I've had more social gaming experience with my friends playing paper football at TacoBell. At least then it's an activity with conversation mixed in. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Issuing invitation to all of /. for world's largest pancake and waffle breakfast! Bring your family, we have so much syrup to unload...
Hey! You know what else is a lot like Excel on Linux? Excel on Linux!
While I was not aware of this particular software, you've kinda missed the point. That point being accountants here seem to hate change, ANY change. It would be yet 'more software' I would have to convince corp. to allow us to install. Then there's the added cost of buying said software for all the accountants (Hint: This isn't a small shop). Plus, from the forums and rating system, the flavor of Office in use here (Office 2010) gets a bronze rating while Office 2000 gets a gold, understandable given it is 12 years old. The comments on using the add-ins system Excel uses with Crossover have me a little nervous given that the solution to many of the problems experienced are 'disable them'. Add-ins are somewhat vital to these accountants. There are some that actually ARE tech savvy. Then there are most of them who panic if a particular window does not look exactly like they remember it. I'm sure all this has been covered before in many many many previous posts of others who have juggled a similar idea.
I do appreciate knowing this exists though, thanks.
You just pointed out the only real problem with Linux in a desktop environment: Incompetent IT Departments.
If you think this is the only issue, you've never seen an accountant freak out when you tell them, "Well, it's LIKE Excel..." Some of the tools won't work on anything else. Although I do see some of my supported software moving away from being an add-in to being a web based interface. Take it for what it is, just my own opinion formed from my somewhat limited anecdote.
....when the only tool you have is a sledgehammer....
Everything looks like a watermelon?
You mean the episode, The Drumhead?
Part of me thought that the story would at least involve Hot Pockets with a temperature range that high...
How long until we see PAC ads accusing him of being a big smelly poopy face? Wait, those already started? Hmm.
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You feed him for a day. Give a man an assault rifle, and you'll feed him for as long as he has ammo!
Coke Zero Crystal!?
Only briefly, then the recovery crew comes by to recover the wreckage!
I'm for explaining how tides and currents work.. Why the ocean is higher at some point in the day, but lower in others... What's it like beneath the surface when the water is calm... That stuff...
I hate deep water too, deathly afraid of it.
Throw another Tafelspitz on the barbie?
Hidden cost, hard to quantify, doesn't show up on spreadsheets often.
Did anyone else read this in Mordin's voice?
And 45 minutes is them trying to open the clamshell...