Status Report: Fruit Diet
Posted by Rex Pechler in Misc on July 3, 2010
Okay I need to start blogging this somewhere. So it’s a sunny Saturday morning here in Menlo Park. It’s wonderful but I’m feeling lazy because I’m still recovering from the work week: I biked to work two days, played two soccer games, sustained some minor injuries, then didn’t eat enough, or didn’t drink enough water, and did not get enough sleep. Today I’ve had about 5 bananas for breakfast, and I’m about to go for a short (~3 mile) run in a bit, and then have a ton of orange juice (30 oranges) for lunch. And then go for a longer run before it gets dark. And then I’ll eat like 15 bananas. And then maybe a simple low-fat raw vegan salad of some sort after that.
Gourmet Raw at Google
Posted by Rex Pechler in Misc on June 8, 2010
So there’s a chef in one of the cafes at Google who makes some relatively fancy raw dishes each night. Check out tonight’s menu: Read the rest of this entry »
Running in the Desert
Posted by Rex Pechler in Misc on May 24, 2010
Just got back from Phoenix area, Arizona… where my nephew just graduated from High School. Behind their house, I ran up this hill, and took some pictures:
I bought an iPad
Posted by Rex Pechler in Mobile on April 4, 2010
Obligatory post from iPad. This WordPress app is slick. I love this device already. I think I’ve been waiting for a touchscreen computer for my whole life. I just didn’t expect the onscreen keyboard to be good enough that I could actually type at a decent speed. I’ve actually been playing TypeRacer at http://play.typeracer.com (there’s an option to play as Guest). So far, I’ve been getting between 35 and 45 words per minute, and I expect that to improve with practice. For comparison, I can type about double that speed on my laptop, on a good day. So, already significantly faster than on my mobile phones, that’s for sure. It’s amazing how I don’t even need to look at the keys. I was worried that I’d miss the keys because you can’t feel them, but somehow it’s working really pretty well!
Going Back to Firefox + Gmail Tasks for GTD
Posted by Rex Pechler in Hacks, Personal, Productivity on November 25, 2009
Just decided to switch back to Firefox (I’ve been using Google Chrome for Mac primarily for over a month) so that I can use Gmail Tasks in my sidebar: http://lifehacker.com/5145357/add-gmail-tasks-to-your-firefox-sidebar
Also, going to try using this tool as my method for Getting Things Done for a bit: http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/03/16/getting-things-done-with-gmail-tasks/
Curious to hear if anyone else is using Gmail/Google Tasks for GTD…
Update: I’m back to Google Chrome, it’s just so much faster. There’s even an extension now that enables fullscreen-tasks view called New Tab. Highly recommended,