I'm currently stressing over Game 7 between the Penguins (GO PENS!) and the Capitals (DIE OVI DIE!)
If you've never watched playoff hockey, I HIGHLY recommend you tune in to two solid Game 7 matchups: PGH vs. WSH and ANA vs. EDM.
There's nothing like the NHL playoffs, and Game 7's are always incredibly intense.
Just a few things reading back through this thread:
-It begins and ends with diet. You can workout as much as you want, but if your diet isn't on point, the pounds aren't going to come off as quick. I eat super clean during the week and splurge a little on the weekend, and it's a fine balance for me. Also, having healthy snacks around is key, especially when I take my....cough MEDICINE cough....
-High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is shown to burn calories and fat at a higher rate than typical cardio. So you run/elliptical/row as fast as you can for a 30-60 secs, then walk/jog/whatever at a slower pace for 60-90 secs, repeat for 10-20 mins. I prefer it because of the variety as compared to just jogging for a long time.
-If running or jogging is hard on your joints, go for the elliptical. Great alternative with low impact.
-If you can't afford a gym membership, bodyweight exercises and kettlebell exercises are great alternatives. Push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups and squats at a high volume can give you great results and a great cardio workout.
I held on to the high school mentality of being the biggest and strongest bro for too long, and now after a few injuries, I've reworked how I approach fitness and I'm in better shape at 31 than I ever was at 17.
@gjacobse said in Fitness and Weightloss:
@ChrisL said in Fitness and Weightloss:
Here's a fun workout to do at home: Get a deck of playing cards, assign an exercise for each suit--- Pushups = Diamonds, Squats = Spades, Situps = Hearts, Jumping Jacks = Clubs
Shuffle the deck, and pull the top card. The number is the reps, the suit is the exercise. Pull a 6D = 6 push-ups.
Face cards are 15, Aces are 20.
Do the whole deck.
6D - Ha,.. not able to do a single currently - Though any exercise can be tailored to the current state - A full pushup may not be doable,.. but a modified - 'half' pushup could be. Start by standing two feet from a wall and perform the push up that way....
Any push-up counts as long as you're trying 
@Nic said:
@JaredBusch yeah but we all side-load apps, right?
Nope. There's no app I need that would ever need to be side-loaded. I don't trust that stuff one bit.
@scottalanmiller said in Thank you for the wonderful time at MangoCon...here's a coupon code!:
@SamieWalters said in Thank you for the wonderful time at MangoCon...here's a coupon code!:
Oh hey friends! For the record, surprisingly, Chris did not kill me the next day. I think I killed myself - 2 hours of sleep, solid decision.
Oh no, not the next day. He's waiting for the right time. Like a "How I Met Your Mother" slap bet.
I totally play the long-con.
@scottalanmiller said in Is it right or is it theft/fraud?:
What's funny is that for me, going to a sporting event or a movie is a punishment, not a reward. Making me sit through a sporting event had better come with a pretty big alcohol budget.
I've been to a few with a friend who worked for a big time insurance company when they didn't have any clients to take, and we were always in box seats with an open bar.
One time, as part of a new promotion package from STAPLES Center, my friend and I got to sit in between the benches during a Kings game. It was so awesome.
@scottalanmiller said in Epic Road Trip!:
@travisdh1 said in Epic Road Trip!:
A couple notes for road tripping from a former truck driver. Pilot stations have the best bathrooms (actual walls between stalls), and Petro stations are generally the largest, nicest, everything in one stop places. Also, Petro2 sucks.
And Sheetz has the best food. And Buck-ees is the most... um, ridiculous. But has great bathrooms.
I lived exclusively off Sheetz the summer of 08.
@Minion-Queen On the road again! Just can't wait to get on the road again!
Are you and @art_of_shred going the southern route? There's an amazing BBQ place in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE in TexArkana that has the best fried green tomatoes I've ever had in my life.
@Dashrender Hey Dash--our typical 1U in our top LA facility starts at $75 with all bells and whistles and goes up from there. Send me a message and maybe I can point you in the right direction.
@scottalanmiller said in STEM Innovation Grant:
Very cool!
It's so cool. When we see the kinds of programs this helps and the diversity that it attracts--not only in the programs themselves (I WANNA GO SAILING), but also in the students that engage in these--it's really amazing and worth it.
@coliver I fully stand by the claim that the breakfast biscuit with double meat and double cheese will cure literally any hangover. I've done EXTENSIVE field research.
@FATeknollogee said in ColocationAmerica:
@RojoLoco said in ColocationAmerica:
So the question remains.... for a regular, small-time, nondescript, everyday customer, why should one consider Colo America vs. the competition?
^^ The question remains unanswered
Our standard, base-level 1U server comes with 2 Amp 120 V power, 5TB of bandwidth and starts at $75. Quadranet's is 1 Amp 120V, and 300GB of bandwidth and starts at $79. Their single servers don't even go to 5TB bandwidth (+$10 to get an additional 500GB, 800GB total), and to add the extra 1 Amp, it's +$35.
That's why, the regular, small-time, nondescript, everyday customer with a small-business budget should come to Colocation America--value for your dollar.
Plus, we have a cool mascot.
It says I have 19 unread notifications, but when I click on it, it says "No New Notifications". Weird.
@RojoLoco said in Shark Week:
@momurda said in Shark Week:
Of course not. There is that fable about a scorpion and a goat that need to cross a river...
I am saying that out of tens of millions of man beach hours per year, only half a dozen people are attacked. You are more likely to be killed by police, or a lightning bolt in a given year.Mosquitoes are waaaaay more dangerous than sharks.
Discovery just announced Mosquito Week.
Mecha-Squito in production currently.
@scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:
They are a marketing company and so a ton of the staff are marketing roles. Whether it is physical stuff like graphic artists that make ads to marketing consultants for vendors. Then they have a massive media department that does full TV style production with studios, editing, writing, etc. Then there is the normal IT staff, but that's like three or four people. Lots of management. Community management I feel was five or six people last that I was there. There is a content generation department. Sales was a huge department. There is a group that does conferences. Account management. Regional management. And then there was a group that made the software too and that team was enormous. You'd think that it was just one or two people but they had dozens of them; even almost ten years ago. What they all do we could never figure out, but there were tons. Then there is product support teams, Q&A and stuff like that.
More to this end--I deal with 3 people directly for our account.