In addition to the gallery mentioned in the previous post, I put up a few other galleries, using Gallery, a PHP application for image galleries which absolutely rules.
Right now, it's mostly just dorky archives of cars, but I plan on adding a bunch more from the depths of my digicam archives, once I get around to it.
Behold, the new BMW E63 6-series:
http://chris.agenteight.com/gallery/E63
Congratulations, BMW. You've made your ugliest car yet.
Although, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't drool and lust over the M6 when it comes out.
So, I've been on a kick lately of drinking soy milk instead of real milk because it doesn't have lactose, and I've been paying close attention to how the foods I eat rate on the glycemic index.
So, I bought a few brands that I knew had around 4-5 grams of carbs per serving in them which is fine. But a few days ago without paying much attention I grabbed a carton of "Silk" vanilla soymilk.
I poured myself a glass of this stuff when i got home and was taken aback by how sweet it tasted.
So, I look at the ingredients and the THIRD INGREDIENT (remember ingredients are listed in order of quantity) is "Naturally Milled Organic Evaporated Cane Juice", or as the rest of the world knows it, "sugar". I am not making this up.
Hippies of the world: you are being duped! You're drinking a glorified milkshake!
I am going to make a health drink consisting of "Naturally Harvested Purified Animal Lipids" and "Naturally Milled Organic Evaporated Cane Juice" and call it EcoFuel. It'll be the next biggest thing.
I'd just like to point out that one of the current headlines -- HEADlines, that is; not stories -- on CNN.com is:
Angelina and Billy Bob on the rocks
I am mentioning this as a courtesy to those of you that actually thought CNN had an ounce of remaining credibility. ha ha. You didn't really, did you? Ok, i didn't think so.
For about 2 years now, I have been restricting myself to a healthier diet and exercise regimen in an attempt to improve my health and fitness. As part of this, I have adopted a (relatively) low-carbohydrate diet. In conversation on this subject with others, I have encountered a stupefying lack of knowledge, a wealth of rhetoric, and an infuriating amount of blatant non-truths.
Despite having a small amount of knowledge in the arena of nutrition, stemming from both my own reading and personal experience, I found myself powerless to effectively debate this topic with people in casual conversation. I frequently found myself speechless to respond to some of the things people say. Not because they were lucid, well-formed arguments, but rather because I couldn't believe any rational person would say these things. It's a bit like arguing evolution with a Creationist -- you have to be prepared for arguments based on logic that doesn't. make. sense.
So, to help organize myself as far as what I know and what I think, I am providing these top questions/arguments from the many "low-carb haters" out there, along with the most obvious logical rebuttals for each. Some of these are probably quite familiar to any of you who have been so brave as to broach the subject in casual conversation.
Read on, and enjoy!
Everyone on the face of the planet should read this article in the latest NY Times.
It's an article that essentially, although cautiously, debunks the last 50 years of health and nutrition. In doing so, it cites numerous health experts that are finally coming around to the unfortunate reality that a large percentage of the theories on health and weight loss have been woefully wrong, and that low-fat diets can actually be counter-productive and detrimental to health where low-carb diets succeed.
On a similar (health-related) note, GQ published the letter to the editor that I wrote a few months ago. Look, ma, I'm famous!
Any good network administrator uses SSH extensively.
Of course, any network administrator also interested in security uses public/private key authentication as opposed to password authentication. ssh-agent adds a wonderful convenience to this system, eliminating the need to enter your password for every host you SSH to. Combined with ssh-agent forwarding (-A or ForwardAgent in ssh_config), you would only have to enter your password once when starting ssh-agent the very first time. See this article for a good lesson in how this works.
In addition, any good sysadmin probably uses screen in some pretty sick and twisted ways.
The problem is: screen and ssh-agent don't really quite get along. This is because ssh-agent uses an environment variable to point at a socket that ssh uses to pass authentication requests to. If you're re-attaching to a screen session, however, this environment variable will no doubt be out of date.
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