I have to admit, I've been a little delinquent on my work so far today. I poked around at the code for a few minutes, and then spent some time diving into Replica Island to see how they a few different things. Pretty much a lot of nothing happened today. My goal is to make up for some missed time by doing an extreme coding weekend, since I did that the first week and I felt really productive and happy about it.
But that's okay, because I found this: http://tinyurl.com/chrome-stayfocusd--a quite configurable extension for Chrome that helps you stay on task by limiting the amount of time you can spend daily on a list of blocked websites. I found it looking for a way to block google reader for free, without having to block all of google.com along with it (the HOSTS trick failed when I discovered google.com/reader in addition to reader.google.com. Alas.)
Anyway. This thing looks super-amazing! I'm so psyched. I struggle pretty hard with procrastination, and I can use this to take out my largest outlets (particular websites) where I tend to waste my time. I mostly only use chrome now, so while it's still possible for me to fire up FireFox or IE to go waste time, I can't really see myself doing that. Both of those browsers feel so slow and bloated now that I've continued to drink Google's Kool-Aid.
Also, Summer is apparently over. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. Most of today was spent in the 50's, with a 6pm high of 68 degrees. When I got home the windows were open and before it even got dark I had to put on a sweater. A SWEATER.
Here are some depressing graphs, courtesy wolframalpha:
Note the precipitous decline to the pre-summer period of Jun 14 - Jul 4. This is even worse:
Note that today apparently isn't on that chart, or else it would be back down there with the rest of the temperatures between September and June, excluding the week or so in December it dropped below freezing.
Oh, so, I didn't really mention this, but I'm not going to stay up (too) late killing myself working on the project. Instead, I'm going to work out a little in the morning! The ! is because I'm scared. I've never really had to or tried very hard to take care of a body before. I wonder what it will be like. I also bought some multi-vitamins, that's how you can tell I mean business. Workout courtesy myfitstream.com, which actually looks a lot different back when I was beta-testing it I confused with fitstream.com (understandably, I hope you'll agree). The site's still in beta, I suppose, but the initial pitch is this: free accounts get a new work-out every week of some pre-recorded VODs (think youtube) of exercise routines that target the areas they want to work on, and use the equipment they have indicated they have available at home. Premium accounts get access to that, plus they get custom-made VODs (basically, a virtual personal-trainer), and maybe something else. I'll try it out and report back whether the exercise kills me.
[Update]: My wife is drinking hot chocolate.
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