Fit by 60! - TomO's Pledge

Statistics? Favorite Class? You?

Come on....... ;) (I would have quoted page one, but you know....)

TomO said:
And here's a 2nd page, purely for my own benefit.

February 2007 Results
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Tom, there is not even one small, minuscule , tiny, little shred of doubt in my mind that your favorite class was statistics. I would be willing to bet teachers pet too..... ;) Thats some talent. One I have always been envious of. My friends were always programmers and mathematicians, number crunchers, but even though I was full on nerd too, I was all hardware. I could fix and rebuild their computers like no other, but looking at big pages of numbers, letters, statistical type stuff always hurt my melon. I really don't know how you guys can do it, but I really wish I could have.... Those guys always made the big bucks....

My only question is, once you are lean and mean, what will you then turn that statistical whirlwind onto next? World Hunger? a Cure for Cancer? Colonization of Mars?

The mind boggles.....

However, when it comes to those plateaus, I dunno, I would try something a little different. Maybe stop the numbers for a night and throw a big old monkey wrench into the whole statistical approach. Be creative! People for 1000's of years have offered sacrifices to the gods to achieve their goals. These days it is not particularly "politically Correct" to utilize virgins for this purpose, so perhaps a wild night of rampant edible sacrifice is required! Stab that pizza! Drain that beer bottle of its vital fluids!! Show that hamburger who's boss!!! Never know, might appease the scale god.....

Maybe in China we have different scale gods......

sirant
 
Sirant, this was a stat class for an executive MBA program. The teacher was in his 70's and the average age of the students was 40. So there weren't too many teacher's pets. :)

You know, hardware people and software people are fundamentally different. I hate hardware. I despise it. There is nothing I hate more than opening up my CPU box and tinkering around with the chips. But software I feel right at home with. I'm on my 9th computer language now, hopefully my last!

Plateau #3 is just getting started -- too early to give up! I've only build up an accumulated deficit of around 7,000 calories on #3, so I've only begun to fight. But if I get to 15,000 calories or so, I'm going to do exactly what you suggest -- go to the favorite pizza place, and down a whole one, along with 2 or 3 beers.

Your Chinese scale gods are infinitely superior to ours, that's clear. They know where the best incense is.
 
9th computer language? 9th!?!?!

TomO said:
Sirant, this was a stat class for an executive MBA program. The teacher was in his 70's and the average age of the students was 40. So there weren't too many teacher's pets. :)

You know, hardware people and software people are fundamentally different. I hate hardware. I despise it. There is nothing I hate more than opening up my CPU box and tinkering around with the chips. But software I feel right at home with. I'm on my 9th computer language now, hopefully my last!

Plateau #3 is just getting started -- too early to give up! I've only build up an accumulated deficit of around 7,000 calories on #3, so I've only begun to fight. But if I get to 15,000 calories or so, I'm going to do exactly what you suggest -- go to the favorite pizza place, and down a whole one, along with 2 or 3 beers.

Your Chinese scale gods are infinitely superior to ours, that's clear. They know where the best incense is.
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Wow. My brain would explode. I am definitely a tinkerer. At HP I was known as the guy that would fix anything. they would give me service calls on computers LITERALLY older than me! (Punch cards!?!?! What the??) I would gladly go, and somehow fix them. On the flip side I would also go a fix multi-million dollar systems for the government and military that I had never been trained on, and not look like a big dummy. But ask me to write a simple IRC login script or create a simple C++ program and I am lost. Gonzo.

yes, the incense is good, cheap and easy to come by. However my neighbor below me is constantly burning other sacrifices which are less appealing. Another traditional prayer here involves burning fake money printed on sheets of cheap stock paper. Unlike incense, there is nothing fragrant or lovely about it. Smells like something is on fire that shouldn't be, Blech! I am sure the fumes are as unhealthy as they are unpleasant. Luckily the incense is more commonly burned than the money....

sirant
 
LOL, I started my programming career on a Radio Shack Model 2, with COBOL. We had 64k (yes K) of ram, and a 3 megabyte hard drive. State of the art in 1980.

Then we graduated to our first networked system, an S100. You had to have a slave card for each dumb terminal. We got the system shipped to us in a bunch of big cardboard boxes. The slave cards could go in either way, although only one way was correct, and of course there were no instructions at all. Each slave card cost around $500. So I put the first one in, plugged everything in, and. . . ZZZZZZZTTTTT! Smoke started coming out of the box and I thought I had fried the whole system, around $25,000 at the time.

Fortunately, it was just the slave card, but after that, I tried to keep away from hardware as much as possible.

The trouble is, with your family, people just think of you as the "computer guy." You can't say to them, "I only do software." So you get stuck with a lot of hardware related tasks that you hate -- er, that I hate, I mean. You probably love them.

I think if I had to do hardware for a living, I would be burning real money, not the fake stuff your neighbor does. :)
 
haha no problem. i can reallly see the difference from your old one. you look wayyy younger in this one. well done you!
 
lol! i sure hope not! i am pretty determined to have a fairly stress free standard of living. and why not eh :)
 
Good morning Tom! Ditto on the new avatar! Definitely see the difference and you do look younger! :)

Didn't pick up any dried blueberries at Coscto...I actually have a big bag of frozen ones still in the freezer and Bruce is in Maine this week...and bringing me home some, too...yummm.
 
Hi Steve, Kim & Beth. Today looks like another beautiful day here. Sunny and 75 degrees on the coast.

Weighed in at 236.2, which is certainly an improvement over yesterday! BP was up very slightly, but resting pulse went all the way down to 47.

Food yesterday was pretty good - quality 4 out of 5, and 2,120 calories total. With the weight training and gardening I did yesterday, I ended the day with a deficit of 927 calories, and a month to day accumulated deficit of 2,777 calories.

Technically, I guess I'm still on plateau #3, but it's not really bugging me yet. If I get past 35 days, I'll start to fret.
 
TomO said:
Hi Steve, Kim & Beth. Today looks like another beautiful day here. Sunny and 75 degrees on the coast.
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I think our heat spiked up a bit higher than predicted today....my car thermometer was reading 86 coming out of downtown this afternoon at 4:00 pm! It's nice out right now.

From visiting various diaries, yesterday was gardening day....it was nice to be out, but definitely used a different set of muscles with yardwork. :)
 
Hey TomO, just checking in to say hi and see about the status of this dumb plateau we're on. Best of luck for tomorrow's weigh in!
 
Blancita said:
Hey TomO, just checking in to say hi and see about the status of this dumb plateau we're on. Best of luck for tomorrow's weigh in!
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Thanks, Blancita. I have a feeling it won't be very good. Today was an off day, and I ended up with a 400 calorie surplus. Felt really hungry today. But I did have gobs of protein today -- over 200 grams.

I had some buffalo burgers for dinner. Very low in fat and high in protein. Raised organically. Good stuff.
 
Hi Tom, I just came from Renee123082 diary, and she's needing a little guidance and I think you might be able to help her out. Would you mind reading her post and see if it's something you know more about. She's really needing some lift me up and reassurance I think. I just don't want to give wrong advise.
Thanks!
Kim
 
400 calorie surplus!:eek:​

Acutally, I had surplus too for the past 2 days. It's cool, we'll be fine. It takes 35000 calories to make an entire, real pound (and not water or glycogen). I always have to remind myself that :p Have a great night and thanks for the email!
 
400 calories!!!!!

TomO said:
Thanks, Blancita. I have a feeling it won't be very good. Today was an off day, and I ended up with a 400 calorie surplus. Felt really hungry today. But I did have gobs of protein today -- over 200 grams.

I had some buffalo burgers for dinner. Very low in fat and high in protein. Raised organically. Good stuff.
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Buffalo burgers!!! And only 400 calories surplus!!! You have some butt kicking self control buddy!!! Me thinks the scale gods might be a trifle amused, but personally I dont know if I could held back to just 400 extra myself...... Mmmmmm Buffalo....

Must be tough to raise buffalo organically. Pretty much have to follow them around all day and make sure they are only eating the stuff that grows on the ranch, not stuff that blows in.....

Tough job... "Hey, whats that in your mouth?!?! Bad Buffalo Bad!!! Spit it out.... Come on.... Spit it out......." The old saying says hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned...... I think the person who coined that never met a pissed off buffalo..... :D

;)

sirant
 
LOL, you might be right -- the organic part could be all hype, but it's GOT to be better than the way regular beef is processed. Did you ever see the movie, "Fast Food Nation"? If I weren't such a dedicated meat eater, that would turn me into a vegan.
 
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