Apple announcements are today and the rumor mills have been churning non-stop. Here are my predictions/thoughts.
1. Apple will announce a new apple tv called iTV that connects to the iTunes for movies music and most importantly app store. That means there would be netflix, hulu, and abc apps to watch your tv shows and movies. And I bet you’ll be able to start tweeting right from your tv and more. Please no stupid foursquare app where you check in from your tv.
I also see a big potential market for games. I think this will be apples way to break into the whole console gaming to compete against xbox, playstation and nintendo. People would use iPhones as controllers. It would be the most high tech controller there is with gyroscope and retina display. Imagine playing poker with friends and your iPhone becomes your cards you play. Or imagine playing a racing car game and your iPhone becomes the steering wheel. ORRRR imagine playing tennis and you swing your phone around like a wii controller. All plausible.
2. Obviously the iPods and touch will get a refresh. Rumors says there will be a smaller nano with touch screen. Also new ipod touch with front facing camera and new form factor. I’m pretty sure facetime will be on the itouch as well.
3. Just being hopeful… new ios 4 for iPad and new ios update for the iPhone 4 to fix the proximity sensor. Please apple. Come on!!!!! Fix the proximity sensor damn it!
I’ve been itching to get back on the bike and start cycling again but none of the fools I trained with for MS 150 want to bike. So I went searching for people to bike with and I found a meetup.com group called, “Come Ride With Us“. They get together every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sundays and cycle together all over the greater Houston and some other places around Texas. I first rode with them last Thursday and I had a great time. Everyone was pretty laid back, and welcoming. Thursdays are usually a moderate pace ride at around 15 mph and it was a nice 22 mile ride around Houston inner loop area. If you want to ride, come on out, it’s a lot of fun when you cycle with other people.
I rode with the group again yesterday and I decided to use my new iphone 4, with the map my ride app, and map the course out. So here it is:
Found this note on craigslist. Some good straight forward advice.
Advice to Young Men from an Old Man
Don’t pick on the weak. It’s immoral. Don’t antagonize the strong without cause, its stupid.
Don’t hate women. It’s a waste of time
Invest in yourself. Material things come to those that have self actualized.
Get in a fistfight, even if you are going to lose.
As a former Marine, take it from me. Don’t join the military, unless you want to risk getting your balls blown off to secure other people’s economic or political interests.
If something has a direct benefit to an individual or a class of people, and a theoretical, abstract, or amorphous benefit to everybody else, realize that the proponent’s intentions are to benefit the former, not the latter, no matter what bullshit they try to feed you.
Don’t be a Republican. They are self-dealing crooks with no sense of honor or patriotism to their fellow citizens. If you must be a Republican, don’t be a ‘conservative.’ They are whining, bitching, complaining, simple-minded self-righteous idiots who think they’re perpetual victims. Listen to talk radio for a while, you’ll see what I mean.
Don’t take proffered advice without a critical analysis. 90% of all advice is intended to benefit the proponent, not the recipient. Actually, the number is probably closer to 97%, but I don’t want to come off as cynical.
You’ll spend your entire life listening to people tell you how much you owe them. You don’t owe the vast majority of people shit.
Don’t undermine your fellow young men. Mentor the young men that come after you. Society recognizes that you have the potential to be the most power force in society. It scares them. Society does not find young men sympathetic. They are afraid of you, both individually and collectively. Law enforcement’s primary purpose is to suppress you.
As a young man, you’re on your own. Society divides and conquers. Unlike women who have advocates looking out for them (NOW, Women’s Study Departments, government, non-profit organizations, political advocacy groups) almost no one is looking out for you.
Young men provide the genius and muscle by which our society thrives. Look at the Silicone Valley. By in large, it was not old men or women that created the revolution we live. Realize that society steals your contributions, secures it with our intellectual property laws, and then takes credit and the rewards where none is due.
Know that few people have your best interests at heart. Your mother does. Your father probably does (if he stuck around). Your siblings are on your side. Everybody else worries about themselves.
Don’t be afraid to tell people to ‘Fuck off’ when need be. It is an important skill to acquire. As they say, speak your piece, even if your voice shakes.
Acquire empathy, good interpersonal skills, and confidence. Learn to read body language and non-verbal communication. Don’t just concentrate on your vocational or technical skills, or you’ll find your wife fucking somebody else.
Keep fit.
Don’t speak ill of your wife/girlfriend. Back her up against the world, even if she’s wrong. She should know that you have her back. When she needs your help, give it. She should know that you’ll take her part.
Don’t cheat on your wife/girlfriend. If you must cheat, don’t humiliate her. Don’t risk having your transgressions come back to her or her friends. Don’t do it where you live. Don’t do it with people in your social circle. Don’t shit in your own back yard.
If your girlfriend doesn’t make you feel good about yourself and bring joy to your life, fire her. That’s what girlfriends are for.
Don’t bother with ‘emotional affairs.’ They are just a vehicle for women to flirt and have someone make them feel good about themselves. That’s the part of a relationship they want. For you it is a lot of work and investment in time. If they are having an emotional affair with you, they’re probably fucking someone else.
Becoming a woman’s friend and confidant is not going to get you into an intimate relationship. If you haven’t gotten the girl within a reasonably short period of time, chances are you won’t ever get her. She’ll end up confiding to you about the sexual adventures she’s having with someone else.
Have and nurture friendships with women.
Realize that love is a numbers game. Guys fall in love easily. You’re going to see some girl and feel like you’ll die if you don’t get her. If she rejects you, move on to the next one. It’s her loss.
Don’t be an internet troll. Got out and live life. There is not a cadre of beautiful women advertising on Craigslist to have NSA sex with you. Beautiful women don’t need to advertise. The websites that advertise with attractive women’s photos and claims of loneliness are baloney. All they want is your money and your personal information so that they can market to you. The posts on Craigslist by young ‘women’ seeking NSA sex, and asking for a picture are just a bunch of gay troll pic collectors. This is especially true if the post uses common gay lexicon like ‘hole’ as in ‘fuck my hole’ or seeks ‘masculine’ men, or uses the word cock (except in the context of ‘Don’t send a cock shot.’) There are women on Craigslist. They are easily recognizable by their 2-5 paragraph postings. Most are in their 30′s or older.
When you become a man in full, know that people will get in your way. People who are attracted to you will somehow manage to step in your path. Gay guys will give you ‘the look.’ Old people will somehow stumble in front of you at the worst time. Don’t get frustrated. Just step aside and go about your business. Know that these are passive aggressive methods to get you to acknowledge their existence.
Don’t gay bash. Don’t mentally or physically abuse people because of who they are, or how they present themselves. It’s none of your business to try to intimidate people into conformity.
If your gay, admit it to yourself, your parents, your friends and society at large. Be prepared to get harassed. See rule 14. If someone threatens you or assaults you, call the cops. Have them arrested. You have no obligation to self sacrifice because of who you are. As a gay person, you’ll have more social freedom than straight men. Use it to protect yourself. Be prepared to get out of Dodge if your orientation makes your life unbearable. Move to San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, or New Orleans. You’ll find a welcoming community there.
Don’t be a poser. Avoid being one of those dudes who puts a surfboard on top of their car, but never surfs, or a dude with a powder coated fixed gear bike and a messenger bag, but was never a messenger. Live the life. Earn your bona fides.
Don’t believe the crap about the patriarchy. More women are accepted and attend college. More degrees are awarded to women than men. Women outlive men. More men commit suicide. Men are twice as likely to be victims of violence, including murder. If you consider sexual assaults in prisons, twice as many men are raped as women (society thinks prison rape is funny). The streets are littered with homeless men, sprinkled with a few homeless women. Statically, women are happier than men. The myth that girls are being cheated by are educational system is belied by the fact that schools are bastions of femininity, mostly run by and taught by women. Girls outperform boys in school. It is the boys in school getting fucked over, and prescribed ritalin for being boys. Real wages for men are falling, while real wages for women are rising. Just because someone says something enough times, doesn’t make it true. You have nothing to feel guilty about.
Remember, 97% of all advice is worthless. Take what you can use, and trash the rest.
I’ve been training since January and it paid off big time. Almost every Saturday, I woke up at around 5am, drove out an hour and trained for the big ride and it was tough to do it every weekend. But every week that passed by, it got easier and easier, and hills were becoming less of a nuisance. Also going to the gym 3 times a week helped in heaps. My legs are stronger, my arms, my back, even my ass was stronger. MS 150 was 100 times easier this year than last.
But one thing was still a road block. My uncontrollable runs. My first day of the ms 150 was going great. I was ridding through it pretty easily and I had about 7 miles left of the 100. I would almost say it was a breeze but I don’t want to come off arrogant. But I spoke to soon, cause my stomach started to hurt, hurt REALLY REALLY bad. I only had 7 miles left and I needed a toilet asap. I skipped the last stop and there were no other rest stops left and I started getting desperate. I got so desperate I was looking around to take a deuce even in the woods. I was looking left to right for someone to be outside on there porch so I could beg and plead to use there toilet. I had no choice but to push through and get to the finish line as quickly as possible.
I thought maybe if I biked hard enough, the pain in my legs would overcome the pain in my stomach, but that didn’t work. I could only hope it doesn’t explode in my bike shorts. After what seemed like the longest 7 miles I’ve done, I finally get to the finish line, and run to the first port-a-potty I saw. I’ll just sum up it up and say that I barely got it all out.
I could barely hold down food the first night, and same thing for the morning on the second day. I was worried I would have to call it quits and head to Austin in shame. But as soon as I hopped on the bike, I felt much better. So I pushed on.
So first day was good besides the toilet fiasco, and 2nd day was much better. I took the challenge route this year, and I’ll admit, it was the toughest route I’ve ridden so far. It had some really steep hills that I barely made over. I didn’t have to walk my bike at all this year. I pushed through and made it pretty easily. Well not that easy, but much easier than last year.
I had no injuries besides my knee acting up. My IT band is super tight and causing my knee to hurt. Feeling better but going to take it easy for the next week or two.
I ended up finishing both days at around 2:30pm. Beat my last years record by 4 hours! lol. Can’t wait for the next MS 150. I hope to beat this years record by atleast another 2 hours. Photos and videos to come.
This week has been jam packed with wedding stuff and I’ve had no time to hit up the gym. I finally had sometime yesterday so I got a nice workout. Feeling a little sore today, but ready for my 51 mile ride tomorrow in the hill country. Last weekend I biked a total of 84 miles! Most I’ve biked in a week.
Thursday 04.09.10
Since I didn’t get to workout this week, I did an all around workout for all upper body. No legs. Got to keep my legs fresh for the weekend. Also my weight has been fluctuating a bit. Gained a few lbs but I’m back down again for a total loss of 21 lbs. 15lbs to go before the wedding.
Also next weekend is MS 150. I’m pretty pumped and excited this year. I’ve been training hard, losing weight, and my stamina is the highest it’s ever been in my life. If you can, come out to Austin and meet us at the finish line!
Today I worked out alone since my workout buddy bowls on Wednesdays and I couldn’t workout yesterday since I had pre-marital counseling. Man, my hands are jacked up from lifting and rowing. Blisters everywhere. I need to buy some workout gloves.
Wednesday 03.31.10
Back and biceps tonight.
5000 meter row machine.
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