Good backpacking tent care advice by REI.
http://www.rei.com/expertadvice/articles/caring+tent.html
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Monday, October 10, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Netflix freezing on iPad... and the Fix!
Netflix kept freezing up / locking up on my iPad every time I used it. This started yesterday and did it for every freaking show... but only on my iPad... not on the computer, iPhone or Wii. So what gives? Networking glitch with the iPad. All I had to do was reset my network connection and all is well.
Here is a great description of the fix!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Taco Calorie???
So I went to lunch with a friend today at a local Mexican restaurant, Margaritas. This is a really wonderful place and the food is amazing.... however they flatly refuse to disclose nutritional information. I ordered 4 tacos (hard shell, beef, cheese, lettuce) on their buy 1 get 1 lunch special. So how many calories did I eat?
Again, as they refuse to post this information; Let me be the first to make a guess-estimation based upon several items online.
- Eat this not that: Says I should have ordered a burrito instead of tacos because of the frying process the taco shells undergo. My first blunder.
- The Lose-it app for the iPhone places general crunchy beef tacos at 571 calories each. DAMN!
- Another app, GoMeals, places a taco between 160 - 200 calories depending on ingredients.
- Comparing Margaritas tacos to Taco Bell tacos is not very scientific, but thankfully, Yum! Brands does give out nutritional information. Taco Bell beef tacos come in at 170 calories.
- An unnamed person did a great job of gathering Mexican meal nutritional information. It appears 2 small tacos are: 395 cal.
- Calorie Count website estimates a crunchy taco at 571! The same number as the Lose-it app. .... ugh... I can feel chest pains already.
So there is some discrepancy, so let me break this large fried taco down:
- Taco Shell (large): 100 calories
- Beef: 90
- Iceberg Lettuce: 10
- Cheese: 57
- Salsa: 10
- TOTAL: 267 calories
So... how many calories did I eat at lunch for the 4 tacos? Well I don't know for sure... but I will tend to error on the high side as Margaritas' tacos are a bit greasy (which makes them damn yummy... ya I know I disgust myself). So I'm guessing a Margareta fried taco is around 300 calories each. How did I get to this number. It seems to be within average of the online estimates and close to my estimate. I would love for the large restaurant to offer real hard numbers, but in the mean time, I'm sticking with my number.
Now for the sad part.... because I didn't eat breakfast, I was hungry and ate all 4. They filled me up... and added 1200 calories to my bottom line. Guess I need to get on that treadmill. :)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Twitpic and Your Rights
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Seven Tips to Better Landscape Photos
The New York Times has a good article on 7 ways to take better landscape photos.
Check it out here!
photo credit: paul bica
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Comments back up.
If you have been here for awhile, you noticed I had to take down the comments section due to spamming. It just got to be way to much work to manually filter the spam. Well, its been awhile, and I'm ready to give it another shot. So comment if you wish. (And if you are a spammer... you will be deleted.)
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Sketching & Painting app for your iPad... from Autodesk!!!
Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD and Revit, have a cool drawing / painting app for the Apple iPad. It's called SketchBook and it looks really easy to use and powerful. I will say that Autodesk has a way to complicate the simplest of computer commands (nothing is ever simple with them) but it appears that this interface is very intuitive.
At this writing, I don't own and iPad... but this looks to be one of the first apps I'll purchase and review when I do get mine (here in a few months). If you have used this app, let me know what you think.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Firewall Europe??!!??
The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin” | TorrentFreak: "In February, a secret meeting of the European Union’s Law Enforcement Work Party (LEWP) resulted in a worrying proposal.
To deal with illicit sites on the Internet, the group suggested the adoption of a China-like firewall to block websites deemed ‘inappropriate’. The controversial proposal immediately met resistance from various sides, including ISPs who would be tasked with maintaining the blocklist.
To deal with illicit sites on the Internet, the group suggested the adoption of a China-like firewall to block websites deemed ‘inappropriate’. The controversial proposal immediately met resistance from various sides, including ISPs who would be tasked with maintaining the blocklist.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
How clients suddenly become social media experts!
Wonderful blog posting about client expectations in the social media sphere.... and the pitfalls. Check out the short blog post right HERE
Monday, May 2, 2011
Powerful Image
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Originally uploaded by The White House
Very powerful image of the leaders of the USA receiving updates on the mission against Osama bin Laden.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Mississippi town figures out simple, effective way to stop Westboro Baptist Church funeral protest
Really great article on how a small town combated the Westboro Baptist Church.
A couple of days before, one of them (Westboro protestors) ran his mouth at a Brandon gas station and got his arse waxed. Police were called and the beaten man could not give much of a description of who beat him. When they canvassed the station and spoke to the large crowd that had gathered around, no one seemed to remember anything about what had happened.
Rankin County handled this thing perfectly. There were many things that were put into place that most will never know about and at great expense to the county.
Most of the morons never made it out of their hotel parking lot. It seems that certain Rankin county pickup trucks were parked directly behind any car that had Kansas plates in the hotel parking lot and the drivers mysteriously disappeared until after the funeral was over. Police were called but their wrecker service was running behind and it was going to be a few hours before they could tow the trucks so the Kansas plated cars could get out.
A few made it to the funeral but were ushered away to be questioned about a crime they might have possibly been involved in. Turns out, after a few hours of questioning, that they were not involved and they were allowed to go on about their business.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Safe House
This house can be closed up with a push of a button. Nice for security and when storms come knocking. Really in the closed position it does not exhibit much architecture or design.... but in the open position the building takes on a fine quality of letting the indoors and outdoors intermix. Nicely done KWK!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
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