Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Put my FitBit steps into a heatmap. Red days are really good days. First week of white is when I lost...

Put my FitBit steps into a heatmap. Red days are really good days.



First week of white is when I lost my Ultra and waited for them to send me a new one.



The three weeks in 2013 is when it stopped working and I wasn't watching the output to know, after which I wrote code to tell me n days without a sync and battery != "high".



What I see, beyond that, is that I don't do much of anything on weekends. Need to do something about that.




Friday, June 13, 2014

So, 1 out of 10_000 times a page is used, they might need to change this variable. It should only have...

So, 1 out of 10_000 times a page is used, they might need to change this variable. It should only have one of n allowed values, so I'm using a SELECT.



As a developer, the easiest way is to pull all the values it could be out of the database, pass them to the template, make them OPTIONs in the SELECT, and go from there.



It makes slightly more sense to make an AJAX thing and fill it after page load, so that the IO of getting that list out of the database won't delay the page any.



The coolest would be to trigger the filling of the SELECT when the user wants it, not on page load.



But I have the mechanism to make the first one go now, so I'll go with the first.




"88p – Our Skulls Didn’t Evolve to be Punched" http://ift.tt/1qFVTVL It's my understanding that...

"88p – Our Skulls Didn’t Evolve to be Punched" http://ift.tt/1qFVTVL



It's my understanding that bare knuckle boxing was mostly busy blows, and that it became much more dangerous with concussions when gloves meant that you wouldn't break the delicate bones in your hands with hits to the solid bone of the skull.




Monday, June 9, 2014

"Pale Blue Eyes" at the Opry.

"Pale Blue Eyes" at the Opry.




Maybe one day they'll see it how we see it. Maybe not.

Maybe one day they'll see it how we see it. Maybe not.






Exercise Before Work Not meaning as a rule. "Exercise takes priority over coding." My goodness that ...

Exercise Before Work

Not meaning as a rule. "Exercise takes priority over coding." My goodness that is so not me. Rather, today, I went to the CoRec and ran this morning, showered and went to work. Normally, I lay in bed watching YouTube videos for the extra hour. I hate to eng...




Got 3/4 of my steps in, then another ~1500 walking to the office. # Might have to run before work every...

Got 3/4 of my steps in, then another ~1500 walking to the office. # Might have to run before work every day.




Thursday, June 5, 2014

Football players are getting heavier and taller. I get it. When part of point is to hit and knock people...

Football players are getting heavier and taller. I get it. When part of point is to hit and knock people down, having bulk helps. Getting hit with a paperclip at 30 mph is different than being hit by a semi truck at 30mph.



What I find interesting is that, if you're 6'4" and 240 lbs, or 6'4" and 310 lbs, the league has a place for you, but if you're 6'4" and 280 lbs, it doesn't. Too heavy to be fast, too light to stop others? It'd be good to see more about the data....




Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Maria Menounos shares steps on how she lost weight and kept it off! http://bit.ly/1rJ9hNi Her new book...

Maria Menounos shares steps on how she lost weight and kept it off! http://bit.ly/1rJ9hNi



Her new book The EveryGirl’s Guide to Diet & Fitness is out today, and she names Fitbit as one of her faves. #EveryGirlsGuide http://bit.ly/1mElyzr




I'm seeing lots of prints start, nothing finish, but the last one was about 15 minutes ago. To me, ...

I'm seeing lots of prints start, nothing finish, but the last one was about 15 minutes ago.



To me, that means that a real job has started, which is good, or that something's being worked on and the solution is being looked for, which is good.