Paul's Journal

01/13/2009 01:05 #47388

Bebo and stealing music
Category: web

First off, I am so damn tired from working out. Between yesterday with James, then buying the weights last night, then working out this morning and then going to the gym tonight - I am seriously tuckered out.

This evening, I was busy stealing Dj Fresh music from bebo after I saw Bad Company

was playing at Circa this friday in Toronto

His music is pretty awesome if you like that style, which I do

Unfortunately, he is not with them anymore.

I am fascinated with the amount of information people media sites make available to the flash debug log.

It makes downloading the music a snap. Then a little ffmpeg flv to mp3 conversion and I have a new playlist. Way faster then trying to limewire it.

Anyhow, I also found this ultra dramatic buffalo, ny video. Thought someone might enjoy it.

While I was tailing the flash debug log, I noticed that I left debugging of the flash storage for the restore backup button in the journal on, which slows typing down a bit in a big journal. I will fix that for the new site, which I promise is coming out soon.

Here is a screen capture of it, although you can't tell much about new functionality from the screen capture.

tinypliny - 01/23/09 17:49
I can't wait for the new version!!

paul - 01/13/09 22:38
It actually sounds great. Jenks, it has to be something on your computer. What version of flash player are you using. If you ctrl-click/right-click on the upload button it should say.

jenks - 01/13/09 14:54
hey paul I don't know if you saw it in my journal, but picture uploading doesn't seem to be working... at least for me.... could it be related? It acts like they've uploaded, but it says 0% complete, and there are no images. The ones I was trying are just like 20K jpgs. Just FYI.

jason - 01/13/09 10:47
What is the sound quality of the music after conversion?

joshua - 01/13/09 10:46
EVA has videos of the 'hood on YouTube as well... they are essentially promotional videos, Chamber of Commerce style.

johnallen - 01/13/09 02:39
I have like 15 of those videos, they're awesome. They inspire me.....to do what? That I don't know, but they make me love this place that we call home. I truly hope that someone in this great city can find our niche in the world....we have so many "starts" (medical corridor, arts, waterfront,downtown housing boom) I wish someone could put the parts together.

Thanks for the post Paul, hope all is well.

01/12/2009 09:33 #47375

Heavy whipping cream 50 x 32

I knew that heavy whipping cream had a lot of calories but yesterday
evening I read the nutrition facts. 50 calories per serving sounded
reasonable till you realize that it has 32 servings per container.
Holy crap.

This explains ice cream's calorie count. The last time I went to
nutritionist a while back they suggested adding some igh calorie
snacks like ice cream to my diet.

metalpeter - 01/12/09 18:58
In general terms the more costly ones like Hagen Daz and some other brands, taste better (not the right word really) and have more calories and fat. Of course what flavor and what things are in the ice cream are a factor also, but I mean for just the Ice Cream portion.

tinypliny - 01/12/09 09:52
I feel good about skipping lunch when I have ice cream. No wonder.

01/11/2009 15:45 #47370

Working out with James
Category: body

I went to the gym with (e:james) today. It was fun to go with someone who seems really into it. I tried the free weights room for the first time. For some reason I just hadn't done it before. I feel like I would have no problem doing it by myself next time. Using the free weights feels different because you get more movement than the exact up/down, left/right motion that you get with the machines. I think I am going to buy some additional ones.

I wish Allentown Atheletix had the same stomach twist machine that they had at the BAC downtown. I am determined to have a ripped stomach for summer. If only I had some more danicnig opportunities I could make it happen faster.

I want to gain 10 more pounds so bad. It feels liek I am always saying that. I am hoping the addition of free weights and more food will help. This morning I made my protein smoothy with left over heavy whipping cream from last nights dessert (e:paul,47360) instead of milk for extra calories. It tasted so freakin good but then I was in a food coma for like an hour.

Update: I found someone with exactly the body I want, one that I think is attainable for my body type.

imk2 - 01/16/09 21:00
ahh...only if...

kookcity2000 - 01/13/09 21:54
eat peanut butter.

Peanut butter on wheat toast with apricot jam is a good start.

metalpeter - 01/12/09 18:55
In theory you should be able to lift more weight on a machine then with free weights. With a machine you are just using your muscles to push the weight and then let it back down. but if it comes down a bit to fast it just makes a big loud bang and people know you are using to much weight. But see with free weights you use more muscles. The term used to be stabalisers . There are muscles that say keep the bar bells in a bench press for example as opposed to a one using a bar from falling over. I wish I was better at explaining it

paul - 01/11/09 19:03
It was a whey protein and banana smoothy, lol. Normally I use almost milk as the base to mix into, but this time I did half almost milk, half heavy whipping cream. I just added the cream and peanut butter for extra calories.

I need to gain some more fat too. I have no fat reserves and all the olive oil and fish fat I eat does nothing to give me an body fat it seems. I just want some body fat to be warmer. The year before I had a little more fat on my body and was warmer in winter. Since working out I lost like all the of the minimal fat I had and I hate that.

james - 01/11/09 17:41
There are a few dozen exercises that work the same muscles that twisty machine does without the injury that machine usually causes. I could show you a couple next time.

And with calories, quality needs to be balanced with quantity. That extra saturated fat isn't as useful to building muscle as lean protein. Is whey protein a problem? If so :::link::: protein factory has pretty cheap egg white protein and rice protein. And I know how much you love rice. yum, yum.

tinypliny - 01/11/09 15:52
"If only I had some more danicnig opportunities I could make it happen faster."

Ditto. But I am lazy and have poor time management. :(

01/11/2009 00:11 #47360

Human and Tortoise Strawberry Treats
Category: food

Today, organic strawberries were on sale for $2.50/quart. They were pretty yummy.

I bought organic cream, raspberries and ghirardelli chocolate to go with it.

I whipped the cream with out new beaters, it felt like cheating because I have been using the old fashioned crank ones for years, till (e:lilho) insisted we get the electric ones during her visit. I added a little vanilla nd sugar. Then I sliced the berries and rubbed them in a little organic, evaporated cane sugar and hand grated the chocolate over the top.

Basra (e:paul,32584) got a treat out of it too. He loves the strawberry tops.

Speaking of treats for Basra, he got a new UV lamp today and also discovered humping things. I think its like a whole new world for him.

heidi - 01/13/09 12:14
(e:zobar) - those are definitely awesome... (esp minus the cream, sugar & vanilla)

jenks - 01/11/09 21:32
omg zobar I have that thing, and it's pretty much... AWESOME.

libertad - 01/11/09 18:27
It would seem so ridiculous to have an electric knife and not an electric mixer.

lauren - 01/11/09 17:06
i have to say i was a little misled by your title... although i am open to the possibility that anything, including human and tortoise, would go well with strawberries and cream.

metalpeter - 01/11/09 11:07
That looks really good. Now here is where things get silly there is one thing that might make that better in stead of using glass, use Bacon Cups as per who ever wrote that blog, HA.

zobar - 01/11/09 10:52
If you're cool with cheating, these are the best things in the world: :::link:::

Dump in a pint of heavy cream, a little sugar and vanilla, and a bottle of nitrous. Boom: fresh whipped cream, in your coffee, every dang morning. It also keeps the cream fresh longer.

- dpk

brit - 01/11/09 10:22
it was light, fluffy not too sweet, sweet enough...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. This is the kind of dessert you can eat after a big meal without feeling too stuffed

tinypliny - 01/11/09 09:55
OMG! I NEED THAT STRAWBERRY CREAM CHOCOLATE THING!

01/10/2009 21:29 #47359

Possessed by the devil
Category: hair

I cut my beard and then tried to take a pic of my new facial hair.
Each pic came out crappy because of low light. The iPhone is pretty
terrible with low light conditions. This one was especially scary
because it only blurred my eyes.

tinypliny - 01/11/09 09:57
LOL you just need some wings over there...

james - 01/10/09 22:05
Your demonic face makes me homesick.