TWRR Ending April 6

Apr 08,2008

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Ok my goal of 28 miles did not get reached. Nor did my goal of 200 push ups. I did 70 push ups. As far as the pushups go I have no one to blame but myself. I did them for 2 days, then stopped. That was dumb.

With the running I ran a total of 22.56 miles. The trip up to Chicago played a big part in me not running. It was cold and I was tired from the craziness that was going on Saturday. While I am not making an excuse, I know I could have made it.

To help me out since I didn't reach either goal last week, I ran on Sunday this week while I was up in Chicago. It was one of those amazing runs where when I was done, I felt like I could do it again.

This week the goal is 200 pushups again, and a total miles ran of 30. Good luck to me.

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More handy jobs

Apr 04,2008

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So obviously I am fixing up the house because it is going up for sale. One of the things we noticed we had to change out was the door knob on the storm door. Of course it was for a storm door and not a regular door so there will be complications.

The first thing was FINDING a new door knob for it. After all it isn't a standard size. So after much searching I found one. Nearly $50 later and I had a new door knob. Just to compare, a door knob for a regular door would have cost me about $10. Awesome.

So I take apart the door knob on the old door which was the easy part. Putting in the knew door knob, not so easy. After a couple of peaks at the instructions I realized that part of the door knob was backwards. Awesome. Disassemble and put together the correct way. After that it was easy.

The next project is the big one. Crown molding in the kitchen. We shall see if it is as difficult as the book says it is.

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Apple's Aperture

Apr 03,2008

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Ok this is more of a "I love this software" and "I don't know what I would do without it" posting.

About 6 months ago I landed a new client who owns a shoe store. I am taking pictures of every shoe that comes in and needs to go on the website. The problem is, that we don't have enough lighting to really get the crisp pictures that should be on the website.

To help with this, I knew I needed to set the white balance to be, well whiter. The problem was that if I wanted to do it in Photoshop, I didn't really know how. Also, it was rather difficult to do it to multiple images and also to resize them.

So then I downloaded the trial of Apple's Aperture, and it does everything for me very nicely. I can copy any filters, or modifications I make to one image, and apply it to several images. All without ruining the original. On top of that, when I export the images, it automatically resizes the images to be web sizes. Very cool.

So if you are a big time photographer, I recommend this piece of software.

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Song of the moment March 31

Mar 31,2008

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I have two new favorite songs right now. Especially when I am running. The first song is OK Go's Get Over it. See the video below:


The next song is from American Idol last week with David Cook singing Chris Cornel's version of Billie Jean. Video below:


Both of these songs are really enjoyable and get me going when I start my run.

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Random Ebay Item 120239683246

Mar 31,2008

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This is a new feature here at thebwit.com. The idea is that I will take a random word and search for it on ebay. If I find a result that is of interest, it gets posted. With that said, today's word is analogous.

Def: similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar;

Ok now this ebay item is called "1948 ALIEN Attachment Violins Analogous Instruments"

Whatever the hell that means. Basically this person is reprinting patent ideas and selling them to people for the low price of 99 cents plus a whopping $9.99 in shipping. Wow what a deal. Lets reprint someone else's work and sell it to random people.

Clearly I am in the wrong business as this guy has sold a lot of patent prints. Who collects this stuff?

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