02.17.11

P90X – I’m back

Posted in Workout at 23:18 UTC by Richard

I got a new position at West which moved me to daytime hours. For the past three months, I’ve not done P90X at all. This meant tonight I needed to start all over, beginning with the fit test. Here are the results side by side with my original test, in parentheses, back on September 20th. Original heart rate tests were done by counting, so are approximate.

Resting Heart Rate – 62 (68)
Pull Ups w/ 3 bands – 50 (18)
Vertical Leap – 21″ (20.5″)
Push Ups – 36 (27)
Toe Touch – +4.5″ (+0.75″)
Wall Squat – 1:15 (0:52)
Bicep Curls w/ 3 bands – 28 (21)
In & Outs – 27 (15)
Heart Rate Maximizer – 177 (150)

One minute rest – 143 (142)
Two minute rest – 129 (132)
Three minute rest – 119 (124)
Four minute rest – 115 (124)

Not bad for taking three months off after only getting through five weeks of the original go at it.

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10.21.10

P90X – Bring it!

Posted in Workout at 14:04 UTC by Richard

I am in the middle of week 4 of P90X and I tell you what, it’s hard. You gotta work and you gotta bring it! I’m already seeing results, having lost about 5 pounds and my midsection is firming up a bit.

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04.13.10

Dead eVGA 7600GT

Posted in Computer Techmology at 10:00 UTC by Richard

This isn’t a big deal at all, but I have a three year old eVGA 7600GT video card that just died a couple nights ago. It appears to have been due to a failure of all six FZ73 1500 6.3V capacitors that lived on the board, after they failed, the voltage regulator failed. This of course means you get the magic smoke and the hardware stops working. I really wish these chinese capacitor vendors would get their shit together, capacitors are something that should last for years.

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03.18.10

My NCAA bracket!

Posted in Intarweb at 23:20 UTC by Richard

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=4492711
Yep, I picked Vanderbilt to make the Final 4. Whoops!

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01.13.10

Fraudulent CC charge!

Posted in Uncategorized at 14:35 UTC by Richard

This just showed up as a pending charge on my bank statement

01/13/10 APL*MOBILEME WWW.ME.COM 01 $106.92

This was a CC charge to my bank card. I contacted Wells Fargo to report this and they are sending it up to the people who investigate this. Hopefully I get my money back, though I’m not optimistic. For the time being, I have had that card cancelled and am getting a new one.

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08.26.09

Craziness abound in religion

Posted in teh crazy at 01:08 UTC by Richard

Religion is crazy. It is crazy not because of what it is or what it’s purpose is, but because of what crazy things people say or do in the name of their chosen religion. Here’s a quote from the first page of Marilyn Hickey’s book title “Break the Generation Curse.”

One day I counseled with a young woman who was going to divorce her husband. I asked, “Was your mother divorced?”
She said, “Yes.”
I asked, “How many times?”
She answered, “Three.”
“How many children did she have?”
“Four.”
“How many times have you been married?”
She answered, “Three.”
“Do you love your little girls?”
“Oh yes, I love my little girls!”
I said, “Do you know that they’re going to grow up, and they’re going to marry and divorce three times, and they’re going to break your heart because your mother is under a generation sexual curse. She’s been into all kinds of junk. You’re in the same thing; you’re making the same decisions. And you watch–your little girls will too.”

Holy fucking shit. I didn’t go but a few more paragraphs, which I’d quote, but it’s too long and much too stupid. She even uses an example of a christian and an atheist, both male. The christian leads a wonderful life and spawns a family tree of wonderfully successful Americans that help the country. The atheist spawns demon children that create a family tree of failures and blights on America. Way to go cherry picking for the best and worst subjects to prove a retarded point.

The entire point of this book is to sacrifice ones life, even if the marriage sucks or is abusive, to break the “curse” and allow your children to have a better life. Yes, sacrifice to make it better for them, but one should not have to suffer a shitty marriage with a shitty person.

One’s religious belief has little bearing on how shitty a person they become. Good people come from all walks of life and people like Ms. Hickey need to realize this and stop associating non-christians with fire-breathing, evil-doer, satan-possessed demons.

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