Diet 04-18-2006

Today I was a bad boy. *nods*. I ate fries from Wendy’s. :-/ Someone spontaenously bought them for me along with a tripple cheeseburger and a side salad. As though the side salad was supposed to make it healthy. heh heh. Anyway, I won’t eat the burger, but I appreciate the gesture and figure that the fries won’t hurt too bad.

Other than that, erm, I don’t really remember what .. oh yeah.

Had some of that blue berry cereal that I eat often along with the vanilla silk soy milk. That’s actually a pretty tasty combination.

Bananas.

The first paragraph…

I’m sure that there was something else, but I’m not remembering what it was.

As far as fitness is concerned I think that I will brave the night time mosquitos. It is becoming stiffling hot during the day and it’s difficult for me to do anything that I’m not forced to do. The nights are much more managable once it nears a half-hour to an hour before midnight, so, at the moment I’m thinking of working out at that time. Then showering and then hitting the bed.

With any luck I’ll have something long sleeved and that covers the full body, such as my gi, to wear at night to help prevent becoming smorgasbord for the bugs.

As for tonight, I’m going to do my sit ups and push ups after posting this, and I’m finally starting to get tired. So I shouldn’t be awake too much longer.

Tomorrow I have a walk with my mother scheduled.

G’night,
~Steph

Mysterious SuicideGirls Browser Call

I’m browsing a couple of my usual tech sites at the moment, nothing new there. The throbber in the top right continued to spin after the pages had finished loading so I glanced at the browser’s status bar for an idea of which server was hanging. If any. It likes to do that from time to time “just because”.

Turns out that the browser was trying to load something from SuicideGirls.com. Now mind you, this isn’t a huge deal to me because I actually rather like the look of some of the ladies there, but I haven’t loaded that site in months. So why was it making a call to their site at all? Hmm..

After a quick CTRL-F to find the word “Suicide” on any of the three pages turned up nothing I switched to the page source. Repeating the search in the source of each page also turned up nothing. If someone on Digg, for example, was using an avatar hosted on SG then it should’ve found that line in the HTML.

As you’ll see in the screen shot I run both NoScript and AdBlock (sans filterset.g). So I suppose that it’s possible that either Digg or Slashdot has ads for SG and my browser simply isn’t displaying them. However, it doesn’t make sense (to me) that it would make a call to their server and then block the ad.

So, out of curiosity more than anything else, do either of these sites have ads for SuicideGirls? Or, was the call being made in such a way that a search on the page and in the source wouldn’t turn up the reference?

Not that I’m expecting an answer, of course, but such is the nature of blogging I suppose. :p

You’ll need to click the image @ imageshack to enlarge it in order to read the text.

…and, yes, I had done a search for Diane Mizota on Google. You would think that it was an image search, but you would be wr… er, okay, half-right. After watching InDigital and seeing the old Filter podcast feed in iTunes I was curious if she’d got another gig. Who wouldn’t click over to pics of such a cutie? I mean, duh! lol ^_^/”

Diet 04-15-06

Today’s diet was:

• CousCous mixed with chicken
• Oatmeal squares cereal, /w vanilla Silk soy milk
• Smart Start cereal, /w the same milk

I’ve had a lot of couscous today. :p It’s actually not too bad, especially with a bit of healthy butter mixed in with it.

…and, of course, water. It’s too hot to drink tea. :/

~Steph

Oblivion Mod / Tweak

The Raimen of Valor is a suit of armor that you get for gaining the “Grand Champion” title in the arena. At level 10 I had a total of 3 more AC than this suit provides, but I went kept the arena armor for its look and the 10 point bonus to health and fatigue.

This armor has a very low V cut on female characters. Here’s a screen shot of it:

What you can’t see in that shot, despite the low V cut, is Tel’andra’s necklace. With more than enough room to display it this makes no sense. The restriction is most likely due to the male armor and the fact that the game can’t seperate the two; they share settings.

I decided to tweak the armor a bit since I play a female character. After all, I’m sure that ladies would like their pretty necklaces to show.

Okay, so that necklace isn’t so pretty, but maybe I’ll toss on something flashy for a wallpaper shot.

It’s a simple matter of unchecking a box in the construction set and saving the file in your game’s Data directory. However, you can download it here (possible 15 day time limit) if you don’t want to mess with the construction set.

Have fun.
~Steph

So Hot

I don’t know how to translate fahrenheight into celsius. The numbers that you see here have been translated using this page at noaa.gov. The numbers seem suspect, but it’s what I have to go on. :p

So far it’s hit a high of 91^o F / 32^o C here and it’s currently 87^o F / 30^o C. Yet here I sit, considering going out back to work out. :p

I spent most of the winter wondering how I was going to handle these and hotter temperatures while still continuing to work out. I procrastinated and decided that I’d cross this bridge when it got here. Well it’s here. :/

Most likely I’ll just do what I usually do for however long I can stand to do it and then have a nice, long cold shower after.

If it wasn’t for the mosquitos I’d wait until after night fall.

Anyway, I’m just stalling and venting. Time to start hydrating for 20 to 30 minutes and then do some serious sweating. Bleh!

~Steph

Diet / Fitness 04-11-06

Not that I’m in the mood to post this, but, anyhow..

• Some Smart Start cereal
• Couple of salads
• an apple
• finished off the South Beach Diet wrap
• maybe some other odds ‘n ends that I don’t recall…

For fitness I walked half way to my mother’s job and then walked around for a bit with her. This was arranged yesterday. The walk was only 30 minutes max, but it got the legs moving anyway.

…and there’s that. I really should remember to do my sit ups and push ups, but tonight is for thinking. Not working.

~Steph

My Audigy 2 Seems To Have Died

Well, this bites. My Audigy 2 NX has died. I’ve gone over the plugs and wires and can’t figure out what it’s problem is, it simply stopped working.

It flickered for a moment, coming back on long enough to make Windows think that it had detected new hardware, then turned back off. No ammount of wire jiggling or socket swapping has caused its little lights to come back on again.

I’ll have to fiddle with it and hope that it’s a simple solution, but I appear to be without sound. Possibly for a good long while.

Diet 04-10-06

• Breakfast
Same as yesterday, Granola cereal /w vanilla soy milk
• Brunch
Cheese sandwhich, worse thing I ate all day
• Lunch
Salad (Romania lettuce, spinnach, & broccoli) /w I think blue cheese ranch
EDIT: Oh yeah, and some mixed nuts.
• Dinner
Same as breakfast. ^_^
• Drinks
Finished off the Perfectly Protein drink
…and of course water

This is as best as I can remember today’s diet. :p

Tel’andra Wallpapers

My little Tel’andra, at only level two or three, is already wearing a full set of steel plate. This was achieved without using cheats of any kind so I’m guessing that it’ll be like the Dark Brotherhood armor; she’ll wear the same suit for ages.

Anyway, I’m currently using one of these two shots as my desktop wallpaper. I’ll need to take similar shots in a better setting, but they do well enough for now.

Figured I’d post them for the heck of it. Enjoy ‘em if you want to use one of them.

~Steph
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Fitness 04-09-06

Today’s work out consisted of a 35 to 40 minute walk around the extended neighborhood and park. There’s not much to say about the walk other than it got a bit too warm for me.

I was going to work out as I normally do but my mother asked if I’d like to go for a walk, so sure why not. My legs were sore from working out the other day anyhow. The walk done them some good.

Oh yeah, I still need to do some push ups and sit ups. :p

Anyhow, there’s that.

~Steph