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AudibleManager Limitations
My internet searches came up fuzzy or empty for these two questions, so here they are, answered: Does the Windows desktop application (AudibleManager) have the same password limitations as the iTunes authorization does, where a password cannot have special symbols in it? Yes, yes it does. You have to change your Amazon password to be just alphanumeric for the desktop client to activate. Does AudibleManager have WhisperSync? I don’t want to have to find where I left off in an audiobook. No, no it does not. These are true as of version 5.5.0.5. I certainly find these two things disappointing, along with the fact that the AudibleManager’s UI is a…
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Post-#SexyShred Thoughts
Or: What Garbage Will I Eat Now? I spent 4 weeks eating “clean” in July and August as part of #SexyShred: no preservatives no pork little beef few oils most cheeses eliminated few processed foods no white rice or white flour organic fruits and veggies no added sugars or sweeteners other than honey or molasses Their version of clean eating is a variation on common styles that might prohibit any added sugars at all, but wouldn’t disallow pork. I felt pretty amazing. I’ve been working through all sorts of food stuff the last few months, discovering what foods trigger more overeating, what foods negatively affect my mood. #SexyShred came at…
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Links! September 13th
Some good reading: "3-Sweep" Software Can Extract 3D Objects Out of a Single Photo | Popular Photography This is incredible. Tone policing: a tool for protecting male power | Geek Feminism Blog "If you still need evidence that there’s a double standard, there it is. I think what’s happening here is that whatever men do gets defined as being effective, by definition, because they are men. It’s a little bit like how women frequently get describe as “emotional”, but this (often pejorative) label is rarely applied to men who are raging out, because apparently anger isn’t an emotion." Programming Comedy – Wat – YouTube This is how a colleague of…
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A picture a day: Iceland
Since I’m apparently being pretty slow about posting some serious meat about Iceland (post-travel slump), here’s a photo: All of the landscape is this kind of volcanic rock, and while there are some grasses, most is mossy like this.
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A Hellacious Tabata
A tabata is a particular kind of high intensity interval training, in which you work a pair of exercises for 20 seconds at a time, with a 10 second rest between them, for a total of 4 minutes. One slice of a tabata workout might look like: 00:00 – 00:20: Pushups 00:20 – 00:30: Rest 00:30 – 00:50: Squats 00:50 – 01:00: Rest You’d repeat that four times, for a total of 8 units of hard work. If you can get the intensity right (which is difficult), it’s one hell of a workout. The way I’ve done them as part of SexyShred has been three sets of the 4 minute…