Massive Health - Carbs Are Killing You [infographic]

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Cool chart about what fat isn't the villain when it comes to making us fat. I've been stuck at 187 lbs for a couple of weeks now. So I am considering getting on Atkins diet for awhile. I lose about 10 lbs a week on that diet. What I do is to go through its induction stage, then ease back into my regular diet habit. But I love carbo too much and I really need to change that lifestyle if I want to stay healthy. I will document my diet here.

I also do an hour brisk walk on a treadmill everyday. And that really helps.

My Dad used to

I was listening to radio on the way home a few days ago and it was some kind of a talk show where its host was interviewing this writer or director. One thing I noticed was that the interviewee was mentioning his Dad a lot during the interview. "My Dad used to take me ..." or "My Dad used to do this with me ..". 

Then I thought about my childhood and my Dad. Unfortunately I really didn't have that type of tight relationship with my Dad. He was always working. Don't get me wrong. I did live comfortable life thanks to him and I can still depend on him if some bad financial hardship hits me. But I just didn't have enough bonding time with my Dad. I never really knew who he was. 

The radio show gave me an idea what being a good Dad was all about. I want my kids to bring me up whenever they talk about their childhood long after I am gone. I wish my Dad was part of my life, but I can guarantee that I will always be part of my children's lives. At least I will try.

Google's Broken Promise: The End of "Don't Be Evil"

In a privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users universally across all its services—Gmail, Search, YouTube and more—and sharing data on user activity across all of them. So much for the Google we signed up for.

Google still is a one trick pony; they sell advertisers your information. So this news doesn't come as a surprise to me. They will sell more and more of your information. Android is just one of their billboards where they can put their ads on.

I just want Google to stop pretending like they are one of the few good ones.

Code Academy

I am using "Code Academy" to learn JavaScript. Here is my profile. This is the 3rd week and I am keeping up with it pretty well. And I find their way of teaching great.

  • You learn it with your hands
  • You learn it by repetition
  • You learn it by doing a small tangible project

Coding is a great skill to have and I think it really helps you to become more logical. I love coding because there is no maybes in programming. It's either true or false. And these thousands and millions of true/false make up an application that millions of people use.

And if you are into web development, JavaScript is THE language right now. If you get really good at it, you will have a very comfortable life.

Here is my profile.

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The iPad: In the middle (of nowhere)

What’s the outlook for the iPad? There will be long lines on the day it becomes available, because a million or so die-hard Apple fanatics will buy anything Apple puts out, even if it is a brick.  Seduction and lust is a powerful emotion and it will drive sales for a while. Once the early adopters have forked over their money, the rest of us will start to ask difficult and incovenient questions about the value relative to the price.  And Apple will be forced to make some drastic adjustments to the pricing and the connectivity fees.

What annoys me about these APPLE haters is that they just can't grasp this reality that's actually happening in front of their eyes because they put their values in different things. Here is a fact; a lot of folks enjoy nicer things.

That part of world will not magically disappear for you because you don't enjoy nicer things. I am not really into dinning at a restaurant where an average dish costs $50. But I don't call their patrons "fanbois" or "fanatics". Again. Repeat after me. People value different things.

From what I see, there are a LOT of folks who enjoy nicer things that APPLE makes. Just acknowledge that everybody is different. It's that simple.

Apple - Press Info - Apple Reports First Quarter Results

Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 44.7 percent compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Great results as always.

My thoughts on the games yesterday

Ravens and 49ers had every opportunity in the world to come out as winners, but they didn't. But you can't really put all the blames on one play or one guy. 

To me, 49ers were just dominating. It's not that Manning didn't have his A game; it's that 49ers didn't allow him to have his A game. But Manning showed his toughness. When I see Manning, I see a true leader. He doesn't get overly excited. He is soft-spoken. He is always calm. He leads his team with his actions, not his words. 

In sports, I judge players by how they play when they don't have their A games. Anybody can have a great game when he is hot. Your true greatness is when you manage to get a win when you are having an off-day. Manning played tough. In football, you may manage to win a championship with a mediocre quaterback, but you will never have a dynasty without a great quaterback. And Alex Smith is not there yet and I doubt that he has tools and mentality to ever get there.

I heard people were making death threats to Kyle Williams. What the fuck. It was a football game. That's all there was to it. Get over it. A sport team should occupy about 0% of your life. 

I always wonder; people have that much time left to care about sports? I have no spare time. I got kids to raise, a wife to get nagged at, parents to look after, technology to keep up, books to read, etc. I watch a few games while I exercise on a treadmill. But geez. This country is filled with dumb people who care about sports and waste their brain cells on memorizing players and their stats.

Get on with your life, losers.

2012 NFL Playoffs -- San Francisco 49ers' Kyle Williams received death threats - ESPN

I'm used to the years of criticism and threats on my life from time to time, but I have to hear about threats on your son's life while you're watching TV and it certainly makes you question our culture of sports as it stands," Kenny Williams said.

It was a fucking football game. If you believe that this is part of you and part of your life, don't make death threats; go kill yourself. You are kinda wasting my air.

By the way, being Dad really gives new perspective on life. I can't even begin to imagine how I would feel if people make death threats to my kids. I would probably track them down and tear them apart with my bare hands and eat their raw flesh.

Fixing my email addiction

I don’t know about you, but I find myself checking emails for no good reason on my mobile phone. Is any email that urgent for me to check every second? It’s just me running away from doing what really matters to my life. So I thought about it yesterday and decided to do something about it.

First, I dug out my old rarely used email account last night to use only for my family. They deserve my immediate attention. So they can get through me all the time.

Then, there are friends and some potential employers. To start off, I will use my 2nd email address and check once a day. But I am planning to stretch that out to every 2 or 3 days eventually.

Then, rest of the world gets my 3rd email address and I will check that account once a week. 

UPDATE: Actually I figured this method could create more work for me. So now I added a filter with "from:-(familymember1@xxx.com OR familymember2@yyy.com OR familymember3@zzz.com), skip inbox" 

So only emails from my family gets to my inbox and all the rest skips the inbox. So I can just check other emails at any interval I like.