So it’s been a while since I posted anything about my goal to drop 30 pounds before my wedding. Well, at this point, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. It seems I’ve hit a plateau at 263 pounds (I’ve been here for the better part of a month at this point). I don’t know what else I can do at this point, but I’m happy with the results thus far. It’s not as much as I wanted to lose, but it’s better than nothing (or gaining 🙂 ). I’m going to keep up with the exercise, though…I’m determined to get down to 250. More news as it develops.
I swore I wouldn’t do this…
But I just couldn’t help myself…my contribution to the lolcats meme… 🙂
This is Smudge…he likes to think he owns the water dish… 🙂
You can view the full-size version here.
Interesting New Advertising Platform
So a while back I signed up for this new web community. It’s called MyMindshare (note, that link is my affiliate link, so if you click it and sign up, it helps me out). Te general premise is that people post ads for goods and services they think are cool (but there are others that are targeted based on your profile and survey answers, more on that in a minute). If a link interests you, you click on it. Here’s the best part…the site pays YOU for looking at content…well, sort of. At the moment, you can’t cash out your account (that will come after the site moves into the black), but you can use your accumulated money to place ads that will pay others for clicking on them.
It’s an interesting system, however, it’s new, so of course there aren’t that many active users. But hey, you never know, this could be the next Digg…
Simply Amazing…
These guys build some incredible guitars. This small pic doesn’t do it justice, so give it a click and see it up close.
As of today…
Akismet has caught 5,072 spam comments since I first installed it.
And in that entire time, I’ve only had to moderate 5 messages (which all turned out to be spam… 🙂 )
So yeah, I’m pretty pleased.
Quote of the day
Found this while reading “100 Bullshit Jobs…And How to Get Them”:
The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity – Patrick Murray
Ain’t it the truth! 🙂
Funny Tattoo
Ahh, the things you find when idly surfing the net. For those not hip to the HTML language, those two lines are the closing tag of the head segment (where stuff like the title of the page is set) and the opening tag of the body segment (the content of the page). It’s not something I personally would do (I’m not a fan of neck tattoos in general), but it’s still pretty funny in a geeky way :).
Father & Son
Once again, I am totally blown away by Jason’s camera work.
Feed Craziness
To those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed, please excuse this morning’s craziness. I finally got around to upgrading to WordPress 2.1.1 this morning, and it looks like it thought some of my old posts were new again.