Just picked up a Withings WiFi body scale because it is a pain to manually punch in my weight into iFitness every morning. I exported the data into a CSV and imported it into my Withings account.
Full graphs here.
Why should a financial engineer be paid four times to a hundred times as much as a real engineer? A real engineer builds bridges. A financial engineer builds dreams. And when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.
— Andrew Sheng, chief adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission
Bill Zeller was a talented programmer whose work we’ve featured on Lifehacker. He took his own life on Sunday and left an explanation that I think it’s important you read.
Long Beach Cruisin. from The Fly on Vimeo.
Some friends at DC Shoes made this amazing little video for the FA11 line. Since they have no interest in showing it to the domestic general public I’m uploading it here because I like it and it will embarrass Mark. Ha!
Starring: Mark Winn (and his Mino Denti)
Film by: Tobin Yelland
Edit by: Justin Smith
Saw this vid at Mission Mission a while back…
Kindda took a hiatus from my blog, was browsing around NYT and found this pretty interesting…
According to one study, joining a group that meets even just once a month produces the same happiness gain as doubling your income. According to another, being married produces a psychic gain equivalent to more than $100,000 a year.
Most people vastly overestimate the extent to which more money would improve our lives. Most schools and colleges spend too much time preparing students for careers and not enough preparing them to make social decisions. Most governments release a ton of data on economic trends but not enough on trust and other social conditions. In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most. They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones.
via Op-Ed Columnist – The Sandra Bullock Trade – NYTimes.com.
Tomorrow is Sierra‘s opening day, and we plan to be there! Oh yeah! We will see how the Smart car performs at the mountains. I don’t think the back gates or West Bowl are open yet, but I don’t care, just riding down a bit of Sugar-n-Spice and Lower Main will already be hella fun.