Lately I find myself mixing my PascalCase with my camelCase, calling alloc init instead of new, using [ ] instead of (), and writing awfully verbose method names all over the place. I justify my errors with a glimpse at my average day here lately:
I have this theory that contests via which you win a free Apple product are all a myth. Until I win something first hand, I will maintain this theory. This morning I had an email from Sci-Port letting me know they’re having a contest to win an Apple iPad:
Anyone else notice something a bit… um, fabricated about this? Do they know something about the next iPad that we don’t?
I enjoy a good cup of yogurt once in a while. I my recent effort to eat smaller portions and more frequently, I bought some yogurt as a breakfast/morning snack option. Per my brother Ryan’s suggestion, I grabbed a few of the Greek yogurt cups. They have something like 12 or 13 grams of protein in them and they’re only $1 at Wal-Mart. As far as yogurt cups go, they’re terrible. As far as protein sources go, they’re amazing! This has led me to the following relationship:
Note that as the quantity of protein in a food rises, the tastiness plunges. That’s not to say that things with protein aren’t tasty. Steak is both high in protein and very yummy! But if you take a steak and pour protein powder on top of it, you’ve ruined a perfectly good thing.
On the other hand, if you could somehow extract all of the protein out of a big fat juicy steak, you’d have mana from heaven.
On your next visit to the grocery store, find a product that has a second “healthier” version with lots of protein. Buy both and alternate bites. I bet the protein enriched version tastes like Mountain Dew if citrus were poop.
The secret to building a lot of muscle is simple: sear your taste buds.
Yesterday afternoon for a few hours, I ran a java program called IOGraphica. I’ve seen these types of images done before, but never knew how they went about doing it. Download Squad had an article the other day talking about the app. The lines are a trace of my cursor, the dots represent an idle cursor. The bigger the dot, the longer I was idle. For some reason, it also draws a circle around the dot. I’m not sure what determines the size of this circle. I’d love to know. I’d also like to be able to turn this off. It looks like I drew a lot of perfect arcs with my cursor.
I have three monitors:
Given this odd landscape, IOGraphica seems to have done reasonably well at capturing a rectangular image. It chopped off the top 5% or so of my center monitor, but not much goes on there. As you can see, I spend a lot of time on my left monitor. Or rather, my cursor spends a lot of idle time on my left monitor. I’m not sure how this translates to the distribution of my attention, but the tightness in the right side of my neck seems to validate it.
A couple of hours this morning without the dots for an idle cursor:
I think it stopped reading my cursor shortly after an hour though.
As a result of this little experiment, I might swap my monitors around. I think it proves that the ergonomics of my configuration are less than ideal.
I had couple of problems. I tried twice to capture a full day, but both times IOGraphica would simply quit drawing after a couple of hours. The interface continued to respond. It also has an option to capture an image of your desktop and set it as the background. It will only take a screenshot of my primary monitor and stretch it to fill the entire image.
If anyone has any better luck with it, let me know. And send me yours!
Tags: infographic, iographica, mouse path
Months ago when Facebook posted the update for their iPhone app to version 3.1, I immediately grabbed it. For those of us that enjoy using Facebook, I argue that it is one of the best iPhone apps available.
Push notification has been a long time coming, and I’ve enjoyed it as an alternative to email for notifications. The other big feature of the update was contact picture syncing. This wasn’t exactly something I was Jones’n’ for, but a welcome addition. I’ve had the same stagnant pictures of my contacts for years. Many of them came from my old Cingular 8125 via Exchange syncing.
What I didn’t expect, however, was for Facebook to turn my mom into an Asian with some pretty serious Myspace angles:
The thing that’s strange is I have no idea who this girl is. She’s not any of my friends on Facebook. I’ve never seen her. She’s never been in any of their profile pictures that I’ve seen or even in their photo albums.
What gives, Facebook? Have a little mix-up over there?
Tags: contacts, facebook, iPhone, myspace angles
