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DEMO

Today is DEMO 08 day.  Demo is one of the more interesting micro events that occurs every year, I think it actually occurs twice a year now.  Its mini conference where new technology, applications and ideas are presented.  DEMO always has something interesting to watch.  Lots of great 2.0 web companies and other ideas have spawned outa DEMO days.

ReadWiteWeb has a good primer for getting in tune with what's gonna roll out over the next few days from DEMO.  If you want to bypass all that junk, go right to their RSS feed covering the event.

Playing with Options

My brother Tom and I have been playing the options game in the stock market lately.  My knowledge of how the market works has been lack luster over the years.  I've just recently dived back into and this time I'm taking it seriously.  I've always had a knack for picking out decent stocks I think.  Maybe more of trends that were going to mature and deliver, that I think I've always been pretty good with, but turning that into cash, that's never been good.  Tom likes playing the options game, betting on chance that a stock will rise or fall on a given hour, day, week.  He's pretty good at it. 

The Workout

Saturday I worked out for the first time in about a year.  Yep, that fateful first workout.  I had to do it.  I had to get my ass back to the gym.  It was hard.  I had been listening to Ender's Game on CD in my car, and I was on disc 8, I had a hard time leaving Ender in the car as I walked into McConnell drudgingly. I've read Ender's Game before, but the other day I saw it at the library on CD and thought what the heck.

I like audiobooks.  I also picked up the Google Story and I think mentioned this before, parts of it were ok but too much of it painted Larry and Sergay as pioneers of the ultimatie society, some grand place the narrator must keep pounding into that you will never attain.  Also I find it interesting that much of what Google is, in terms of sheer wealth is based on ads I never click on in my 10+ years using their service.  So much for not being evil.  But every biz is a bit I guess.

Weight Progress

I've weighed myself on saturday- 21 pounds gone so far.  I'm officially back in the 60's, 369 that is.  I'm disappointed in my influence over myself though.  I keep doing things that I think will motivate me but they don't.  Like Joining Jillian Michaels website, an impluse move i had to kick my own ass like Jillian would yet, the minute I joined I lost interest.  So typical for me I think, its another danism in a long line of danism's I need to fight off and undo or do right.  I'll probably discontinue the service due to budget constraints and go all natural dan, just like I've been doing with my lifestyle eating which I don't call a diet cause the word diet implies short term fix, and I'm here for the long haul.

Tags: weightloss, workout, jillian, demo08, readwriteweb, endersgame

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