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I don’t know why we’re so fascinated with actors in this culture. They haven’t had a thought in their stupid bedhead hairdo mini brains. Why? We must honour this man!’ Why? He pretended to be Bob Johnson! He’s a genius I tell you, it’s genius what he’s doing!Playing dress up and pretend is not genius, ladies and gentlemen. It’s not genius.  Roll the cameras, put on these clothes, stand there, ready - say what we told you to say!

Fantastic! He did it! Give this man a huge golden trophy, he’s a god damned genius.  Walking down the red carpet in these ridiculous outfits like they’re Senators from Krypton, it’s just so stupid.

Here’s a small task I wanted to do. Cut and paste the top 10 from the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists but remove the comments after the “–“, leaving only the name of the guitarist.

A simple regexp replace:

Done:

Notepad++ loads lightning fast and has a nice diff tool in the form of a compare plugin.

No, I don’t know why Slash didn’t make the top 100, I don’t understand it either.

NFL Receiver makes multiple catches while blindfolded.

Zen and the Art of the Receiver.

While the April OS market shares point to a world dominated by Microsoft:

WinXP - 82.65%
Win2000 - 4.42%
Mac OS - 3.89%
Windows Vista - 3.02%

Apple struggles gamely on with a series of hilariously funny attack ads. Here’s one:

You are pointing out Vista’s flaws - Cancel or Allow?

See all the ads

DELL’s US$569 new monster 24″ LCD supports a maximum resolution of 1,920×1,200 which means it is capable of displaying FullHD (1920×1080) the highest resolution HDTV video mode. Think that this is too many pixels for a screen only 24″? Then take a look at the tiny Sanyo-Epson 7.1″ screen which runs a resolution of 1920×1080. Either one of these screens would be perfect for viewing the samples in Microsoft’s WMV HD Content Showcase. The DELL has a built-in card reader for Compact Flash, Smart Media, SD, MMC and Memory Stick and there are also two USB 2.0 ports. It also has portrait mode and can easily be rotated by pushing down on the corner of the screen. Lastly it supports HDCP over the DVI port which means you will be able to watch your HDTV protected content on this screen.

There have been several revisions of the 2407WFP released - make sure you get the A03 revision.

…approximately 600 million computers are connected to the Internet, and 150 million of them might be participants in a botnet—nearly all of them unwilling victims. Weber remarks that “in most cases the owners of these computers have not the slightest idea what their little beige friend in the study is up to.”

Source: ArsTechnica

First we have to make some assumptions:

The average Taiwanese worker makes about NT$30,000 a month and gets two months bonus. Let’s say 1 in 30 people invests half their bonus in stocks. This means an average of NT$500 per person. Taiwan’s working population is roughly 10M so the total money invested is NT$5,000,000,000 or NT$5bn.

The stock market turns over about 120bn per day.

Even if everyone invested their entire bonus that would only be 300bn so it unlikely there is a “bonus effect” in the stock market.

Need to buy two books to revamp my workouts:
Strength Training Anatomy
and
Men’s Health: The Book of Muscle–The World’s Most Complete Guide to Building Your Body
as these two seem to be the most popular books on the subject.

“Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.”

New Scientist - Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers

Fat is the fuel for muscle, in order to burn more fat you need more muscle to burn it. My combined program includes both cardio for fat burning and weight training for muscle building.

Ritual/Habit - Habits are hard to break. Form a habit of going to the gym no matter what. If I don’t feel like working out on a particular day then I decrease the amount of time I spend there. It is not always possible to achieve 100% but you must never break the habit of actually going to the gym.

Short/Intense training - 2-3 hour sessions in the gym is enough to dissuade anyone after a week or two. Better to work hard, keep rest breaks short (30 seconds between sets) and complete the entire session in 60-90 minutes.

Regular exercise - 20-30 minutes per day in the gym directly after the weights workaround helps push your metabolism up.

Zig-zag diet - On weekdays when it is easier to maintain the habit of eating I eat 5-6 meals a day. Breakfast, mid-morning snack, Lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, after dinner snack. On weekends I decrease my food intake dropping below my daily calorie needs. Before my metabolism can adjust and have a starvation effect kick in and slow down it is Monday again and there is a time of plenty, and the first workout of the week helps to tell my body to keep metabolism fast.

Frequent small meals - this helps speed up metabolism, regular food supply, fat stores not required by the body to get through starvation periods because there are no starvation periods - you are constantly eating and digesting. It take about 3 hours to digest a meal so time your meals accordingly.

Supplements - From most to least important

Multi-vitamin - Your goal is always to get all the nutrients you need from diet but in case you don’t quite achieve perfection it is good to supplement with a multi-vitamin to make sure all the necessary vitamins and minerals are there for muscle building. I take half the recommended daily dose and maintain good diet.

Protein powder (whey) - It isn’t always possible to get in 5-6 proper high protein meals a day so you can replace 1-2 meals with protein drinks. Can be cheaper than eating high-protein meals and provides some variety. Make sure you eat only the high protein powders and not the Mass Builder 10 million calorie sugar filled junk.

Creatine - The many benefits to mass building of Creatine are well known. Make sure you cycle on and off and give your body a rest from time to time. Use pure 100% creatine monohydrate.