I’ve been working for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Continuing Education department as a web developer/computer specialist for just over a year now, and I’ve been working for Beeline Design out of Burlington, WI for slightly longer than that. It just dawned on me that there are actually a few things that I’ve been largely responsible [...]
It’s time once again to review my diet progress, now at two months in. The last week or so of the month were a little dispiriting, as I felt I had fallen into a dastardly plateau (and also a little “bounce” around the 15th) that I couldn’t break out of. I only lost about ten [...]
Lifehacker just ran a good article about the importance of pet projects, the most interesting part of which, to me, was the section titled “The Joys of Creative Constraints.” In his book, Chuck Amok, Chuck Jones talks about how the set of rules he and the other Warner Brothers writers set down for their cartoons [...]
The red line is the “trend” line, the one that matters. The green lines are my weight each time I’ve measured it, but they’re not as important as the overall trend. So, I lost 18 lbs. this month, which means if I keep this rate I will reach my goal weight in mid November. Onward!
After reading an article about Getting Things Done for students on Lifehacker, and also considering the Hipster PDA, I’ve adapted these into my own “workflow” which I will attempt to follow for the coming semester (and, if it proves useful and doable, the rest of my college carrer). I’ll be using what I call a [...]