Odd...

A few years ago, my cholesterol was at 248. Doctor insisted I needed to see a nutritionist, despite my eating the healthiest I ever had. Nutritionist concurred, and I cut out the one remaining cholesterol-laden item in my diet: cheese. Eight weeks of cheeseless hell, and my cholesterol did indeed change. To 272. Quack doctor threw Lipitor at me, and when I complained about *bad* muscle aches and 15lbs of weight loss, insisted I just needed a painkiller... apparently he missed the little tidbit that a full 1/6 of the US population seems to be allergic to statin-class cholesterol drugs, and I was showing the exact signs. Idiot.

Well, recently I've been eating somewhere between crappy and decent, and I haven't been to a gym or sweated in exercise in... months, maybe a year or more.

Yesterday my cholesterol was 223.

Let's hear it for eggs!

Odd...

A few years ago, my cholesterol was at 248. Doctor insisted I needed to see a nutritionist, despite my eating the healthiest I ever had. Nutritionist concurred, and I cut out the one remaining cholesterol-laden item in my diet: cheese. Eight weeks of cheeseless hell, and my cholesterol did indeed change. To 272. Quack doctor threw Lipitor at me, and when I complained about *bad* muscle aches and 15lbs of weight loss, insisted I just needed a painkiller... apparently he missed the little tidbit that a full 1/6 of the US population seems to be allergic to statin-class cholesterol drugs, and I was showing the exact signs. Idiot.

Well, recently I've been eating somewhere between crappy and decent, and I haven't been to a gym or sweated in exercise in... months, maybe a year or more.

Yesterday my cholesterol was 223.

Let's hear it for eggs!

Geek tidal shifts

Every geek has his or her suite of favorite tools that you can pry from their cold, dead fingers... until the next new shiny thing comes along, that is. For some of us, inertia sets in pretty hardcore. (I still use vi for most of my CLI text editing for chrissakes.)

Well, after about three years of using SubEthaEdit on the Mac, it looks like I'm not only switching to TextMate, but I'm paying for the privilege. It's just that much better. Code folding, *insane* amounts of customization (bash scripts anyone?), and (dear god yes!) workspaces, and I'm hooked. I'd heard it compared to Emacs for Macs, and they're just about right. Between all the scripting options, and what all *those* can trigger, and integration with various other tools and systems on the Mac, it's just a giant toybox.

My favorite stupid trick so far? Drop the directory for a project I'm working on, onto the app's icon. I get the entire directory structure as a tree, and can select any file to inspect. I do this everytime I have a new task to do, new bit of function tracing to figure out, data flow to analyze, etc. I do a project-wide search for a tag, open up a file. Figure out what next file to look at it, click on it to open it. Keep doing this until I navigate my way through. Then I save it as a project off to the side of the code directories, and it preserves what files I was looking at, and where I was in them, for that specific investigation, so I can refer back to it later. I love it. This is just beautiful.

Geek tidal shifts

Every geek has his or her suite of favorite tools that you can pry from their cold, dead fingers... until the next new shiny thing comes along, that is. For some of us, inertia sets in pretty hardcore. (I still use vi for most of my CLI text editing for chrissakes.)

Well, after about three years of using SubEthaEdit on the Mac, it looks like I'm not only switching to TextMate, but I'm paying for the privilege. It's just that much better. Code folding, *insane* amounts of customization (bash scripts anyone?), and (dear god yes!) workspaces, and I'm hooked. I'd heard it compared to Emacs for Macs, and they're just about right. Between all the scripting options, and what all *those* can trigger, and integration with various other tools and systems on the Mac, it's just a giant toybox.

My favorite stupid trick so far? Drop the directory for a project I'm working on, onto the app's icon. I get the entire directory structure as a tree, and can select any file to inspect. I do this everytime I have a new task to do, new bit of function tracing to figure out, data flow to analyze, etc. I do a project-wide search for a tag, open up a file. Figure out what next file to look at it, click on it to open it. Keep doing this until I navigate my way through. Then I save it as a project off to the side of the code directories, and it preserves what files I was looking at, and where I was in them, for that specific investigation, so I can refer back to it later. I love it. This is just beautiful.