- just had delicious turkey burgers with smoky aioli and sharp white cheddar from this month’s Bon Appetit. Easy and highly recommended. #
- RT: @nprnews: Woman Beats Bambi To Death With Shovel http://tinyurl.com/n27qat – complete with video, though sadly not of the beating #
- List of things that can actually hurt your credit if you charge them to your credit card. Consumerist http://bit.ly/uW8bN #
- Broke the high temp record, 105 today. Previous high was from 1925. Please let it cool down, pretty please with cherries on top. #
- http://twitpic.com/9xq24 – at branch bbq having dinner then bowling #austin #wellsbranch #bbq #
- http://twitpic.com/9y3nw – bowling with tel west #
- Awesome Infographic – How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck – Visual Economics http://bit.ly/A97l9 #
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- http://twitpic.com/8k9ax – baking bread with J. Here she is stirring the biga (a pre-ferment) #
- My children are hobbits. Big on second breakfast. 1st breakfast comes insanely early. 2nd breakfast at the time they should have woken up. #
- http://twitpic.com/8pchh – outside looking at cockroaches in the compost bin. #
- from the national weather service: OPPRESSIVELY HOT AND DRY WEATHER TO CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY #
- finishing 24 straight days of 100+ weather. might even rain today! And the predicted high? only 95F #
- http://twitpic.com/8upv1 – So much oil on the road now that we have rain the freeway looks like foam on a beach #
- Running after 2 wks off is awesome because you haven’t run in 2 wks. For about a mile…then it sucks because you haven’t run in 2 wks. #
- Has hell frozen over? RT: @planetmoney: WalMart backs Obama’s push require large employers offer wrkers health insurance http://bit.ly/mq6mY #
- FYI Hell hasn’t frozen over, but it is raining here. Walmart is still evil. Just so we are clear. #
- Lady stuck in the elevator between 7th & 8th floor. She won’t stop ringing the bell even though building management already talked to her. #
- If public insurance is going to be so terrible why are Republicans so scared it is going to run private insurers out of business? #
- #healthcare “Opposition to paying any additional taxes ranges from 40%among lower paid voters to 52% among those making more than $100k” #
- The sun is rising over Austin now and it looks just like those shots of the African savanna. Fire Red and enormous. #
- When will people learn that just because a yield sign has only 3/8ths the sides of a stop it doesn’t mean you only look 3/8ths of the time? #
- Nearly Naked Fireworks in Puyallup. They sure know their market. Next year: Beer! article: http://bit.ly/WMMpg photo: http://bit.ly/6zvzN #
- I should note the sign in the Nearly Naked photo: “Don’t be afraid to stare, that’s what there[sic] here for…” Classy and educated! #
- Hasbro has instructions online for lots of their toys and games. 7245 in all. http://bit.ly/AElKW @myEN #
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The site, hundredpushups.com, has a simple concept. It provides a plan for training just about anyone to go from being able to do just a few to being able to do 100 consecutive pushups. The site uses a well known method of increasing and decreasing numbers of repetitions in a set. You do pushups three days a week, some days doing more and some days doing a few less, but on average for the week you increase total numbers of pushups. For example I do at least 152 total the first week and at least 740 the last week (not counting the final 100 pushup test).
Amber and I started the program this week as a way to mix up our usual workouts. It provides an attainable goal and a little bit of a push without having to do any planning or thinking at all. It is easy really. You just start with the test, then use the results to figure out which of three plans you should follow. Now do the exact number of pushup repetitions and sets the site says. At the end of six weeks you go for it to see if you can reach 100 pushups without stopping. I’ll let you know how it turns out in the end.
Other sites with similar, single fitness purpose:
Situps: twohundredsitups.com
Squats: twohundredsquats.com
Running: Couch-to-5K
This week Flickr has introduced a great new feature: The ability to post and update to Twitter directly from Flickr. They even have their own URL shortener to make the links much more usable. Setting it all up is easy, but not exactly obvious. So here are the quick and easy steps to quick and easy photo (or video) posts on Twitter.
- The first thing you need is to get a Twitter account if you don’t already have one. To do that just head over to Twitter.com and click the “Get Started” button.
- Once you have that head over to Flickr and sign into your account. Once you’ve signed in click on the “You” menu and select “Your Account”
- On the next page click on the “Extending Flickr” menu.
- Next click the “Edit” link in the “Your blogs” section.
- Click on the “Add Another Blog” link
- Select Twitter from the dropdown menu and click “Next”
- Then just do what it says on the page. Click the big button and head over to Twitter automatically to give Flickr permission to post to your Twitter account.
- Enter in your Twitter login info (if you aren’t already logged in) and then click the “Allow” button.
Now that your accounts are all set up you can post to twitter a couple of different ways.
- By using the special email address you can send your photos directly to Flickr and create a Twitter update at the same time. Your new post to Twitter email is exactly the same as your old post to Flickr email, but adds “2twitter” before the @ sign. They show you this email address when you finish your Twitter/Flickr setup, but you can also find it in your Account under the “Email” tab. As the photo below says, “The subject line of your email will be your tweet and the title of your photo…”. Keep it to 116 characters or less to leave room for the link.
- The other way is directly from Flickr.com. Simply head to your photo, click the blog this button and select your Twitter account from the list. The photo needs to be public before you can post the link to Twitter. You get the chance to make it public if it isn’t already. Then you will get the chance to write your tweet and it even shows you the link of your photo using the new flic.kr url shortening service. Click “Post Entry” and you are set, your new tweet is winging its way to all your followers with a link to your photo on Flickr.
The key to this whole thing is the new Flic.kr URL shortening service. It takes the extremely long link to your photo, the one for the photo above is http://www.flickr.com/photos/hunterji/3671184555/, 49 characters and shortens it. In this case: http://flic.kr/p/6ApMgr ,23 characters. One great thing is that you don’t have to actually post to twitter. Just get to the last step, before posting and grab that link. Because Flic.kr is using a Base58 algorithm to create the shortened URL, everyone of your photos already has a short URL regardless of if you’ve created a tweet or not. Just copy the new short link from the page and use it however you like.