Jon's Notes

Nutrition for 2010-01-22

2010-01-23T04:34:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)

Lunch
6x Chicken Nuggets (252c)

Dinner
Plate of mac and cheese (380c)

Snack
4x Cans of HFCS-Free Mt. Dew (680c)
3 servings Blue Diamond Wasabi & Soy Almonds (510c)
Total: 1190

Total cals for day: 2142

Nutrition for 2010-01-21

2010-01-23T04:24:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
1/2 cup mixed berries (45c)
Total: 365

Lunch
McDonald's Angus Mushroom & Swiss (770c)
McDonald's Medium Fries (380c)
McDonald's Medium orange drink (240c)
Total: 1390

Dinner
Brat (200c)
1/4 cup small curd cottage cheese (120c)
Total: 320

Total cals for day: 2075

Nutrition for 2010-01-20

2010-01-23T04:19:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
1/2 cup mixed fruit (45c)
1 beef sausage patty (150c)
Total: 195

Lunch
3 slices Pizza Hut Dan's original (1020c)

Dinner
3 slices Pizza Hut Dan's original (1020c)

Total cals for day: 2235

Nutrition for 2010-01-19

2010-01-23T04:14:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1/2 cup mixed fruit (45c)
Total cals: 665

Lunch
Culvers hot dog (386c)

Dinner
1/4 cup small curd cottage cheese (120c)
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
6x Chicken Nuggets (252c)
Total cals: 692

Total cals for day: 1743

Nutrition for 2010-01-18

2010-01-23T04:03:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
1/2 cup blueberries (35c)

Lunch
Taco Bell steak grilled stuft burrito (640c)
Taco Bell chilli cheese burrito (370c)
Total: 1010

Dinner
Beer Brat on toast with mixed cheese (380c)
1 slice of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (160c)
1/4 cup blueberries (18c)
Total: 558

Total cals for day: 1603

Nutrition for 2010-01-14

2010-01-23T01:46:00.000-06:00

Lunch
Sandwich (700c?)

Dinner
Ribs (500c)
Other stuff (300c?)

Total cals for day: 1500?
Once again, eating at conference so I'm not really sure what I'm really eating.

Nutrition for 2010-01-15

2010-01-23T01:39:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
Blueberry muffin (420c)

Lunch
2x Generic tacos (1000c?)

Dinner
Messy airport dinner bagel (1000c?)

Total cals for day: 2420
Once again I'm not sure exactly how many cals were in lunch or dinner. I'm guessing roughly based on feeling relative to other foods.

Nutrition for 2010-01-16

2010-01-23T00:59:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
Mcdonalds McSkillet (610c)
Large Orange Juice (250c)
Hash brown (150c)
Total cals: 1010

Lunch
Sandwich (400c)
Lays classic potato chips (150c)
Total cals: 550

Dinner
Taco Bell Beef Grilled Stuft burrito (730c)

Total cals for day: 2290

Nutrition for 2010-01-17

2010-01-23T00:30:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
1/2 cup of mango chunks (60c)

Lunch
9 pices chicken nuggets (378c)
1/2 cup of mango chunks (60c)

Total cals for day: 498
Is this really all I ate?

Nutrition for 2010-01-13

2010-01-23T00:03:00.001-06:00

Breakfast
2x pancakes with maple syrup (298c)

Lunch
Subway 6 inch turkey melt, vinager salt chips, orange fanta (910c)

Dinner
Rodizio salad and meat (1200c? Wild guess)

Total cals for day: 2408

Nutrition for 2010-01-12

2010-01-22T22:54:00.001-06:00

Breakfast
2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1 cup blueberries and mango chunks (71c)
Total: 371

Lunch
Airplane sandwich, cookie, chips (600c?)
Total: 600

Total cals for day: 971

Caloric intake tracking

2010-01-12T00:53:00.004-06:00

I have been running a sort of experiment for the past week to see if I can learn to pay attention to what I eat. Every day I recorded what I ate, which meal period I ate it in, and how many calories I consumed.

Perhaps I should have titled those notes “consumption” instead of “nutrition” as I did not record any breakdown of nutrients.

Here is a chart of the number of calories I consumed per day for the past eight days.
I think the chart will become more useful after I record a few more weeks of data.

Specifically, I want to see if my caloric intake is cyclical and if it is cyclical discover what its frequency is so I can compensate.

If I can predict that I'll be more hungry than usual on a specific day I can pack a bag of frozen fruit or something instead of doubling up on fast food.

The overall good news from this experiment is I think I'm learning to recognize the correlation between portion size and calories.
What I can comfortably eat in one sitting rarely goes over 800 cals unless it is extra sugary.
A ice cream type treat or general confections are a example of something that can easily take me over 800 cals in a meal sitting but they are not as appealing to me as they once were.

Nutrition for 2010-01-10

2010-01-12T00:18:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
10x Whole Strawberries (450c)
3x Beef sausage patties (450c)

Total cals for day: 900

I seem to recall waking up, Playing World of Warcraft, eating breakfast, playing some more, and then going back to bed. Blame it on sleep debt from last week.

Nutirition for 2010-01-11

2010-01-12T00:14:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
9x Chicken Nuggets (378c)
Total cals: 378

Snack
2x Quick Trip glazers doughtnuts (380c)
Total cals: 380

Lunch
Taco Bell Steak grilled stuft burrito (325c)
Total cals: 325

Snack
McDonalds Brat (guess 400c)
McDonalds medium fries (380c)
Total cals: 780

Dinner
11x Chicken Nuggets (462c)
Total cals: 462

Total cals for day: 2325

I should have had more fruit and less chicken for dinner.

Nutrition for 2010-01-09

2010-01-12T00:06:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
9x Chicken Nuggets (378c)
9x Whole strawberries (405c)
Total cals: 783

Snack
9x Whole strawberries (405c)
Total cals: 405

Lunch
1x Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich (300c)
Can of Cambells Select Harvest Potato Broccoli Cheese soup (300c)
Total cals: 600

Dinner
1x Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich (300c)
Total cals: 600

Total cals for day: 1788

The Cambells soup was bland.

Nutrition for 2010-01-08

2010-01-10T16:19:00.001-06:00

Breakfast
6x Chicken Nuggets (252c)
Total cals: 252

Dinner
McDonalds Brat (guess 400c)
McDonalds medium fries (380c)
Total cals: 780

Dinner
2x Hu Hot noodle plate (guess 800c)
Total cals: 800

Total cals for day: 1832

Nutrition for 2010-01-07

2010-01-10T16:02:00.001-06:00

Breakfast
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
1 cup blueberry, banana, peach, strawberry mix (70c)
2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1 cup ConAgra Southwestern style egg beaters mix (30c)
Total: 720

Lunch
Subway 12 inch Big Philly Cheesesteak (618c)
Total: 618

Dinner
9x Chicken nuggets (378c)
Total: 378

Total cals for day: 1716

Sausage and Chicken Nuggets are all Walmart store brand. Fruit is Dole frozen fruit bags.

The liquid egg mix was nasty. I think the problem was I tried making it in a microwave oven instead of on a skillet. There were microwave instructions on the carton, which I followed, but the result was such that I threw out ¾ of the finished mixture.

Nutrition for 2010-01-06

2010-01-07T07:21:00.004-06:00

Breakfast
1x Domino's Buffalo Chicken sandwich (841c)
4x Domino's Buffalo Chicken kickers (210c)
Total cals: 1051

Lunch
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
1x Campbell's Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits (380c)
Total cals: 700

Total cals for day: 1751

Nutrition for 2010-01-05

2010-01-05T21:13:00.004-06:00

Breakfast
2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1 cup blueberry, banana, peach, strawberry mix (70c)
2 cups grape juice (320c)
Total cals: 690

Lunch
Angie B'z wrap - chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, other stuff, some dressing (guess 900c)
Angie B'z Chicken Tortila soup bowl (guess 800c)
Total cals: 1700 I guess. No apparent info but it can't be good. Work bonus lunch again.

Snack
Small Dairy Queen Turtle Pecan Cluster Blizzard (700c)
Total cals: 700

Dinner
McDonalds Brat (guess 400c)
McDonalds medium fries (380c)
Total cals: 780

Total cals for day: 3790

Today was not so good. I work up late and didn't have enough time to cook scrambled eggs.
Lunch was bad, again. I don't know the official cal count so I'm guessing but it was a bit much again. It was yummy but I should have ditched the soup. Snack was just one of those group things. I usually have a DQ Blizzard every quarter year so this one will count for December, January, and February.

Nutrition for 2010-01-04

2010-01-05T00:12:00.000-06:00

Breakfast
2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1 cup blueberry, banana, peach, strawberry mix (70c)
2 cups grape juice (320c)
Total cals: 690

Lunch
Work bought Taco Bell for everyone due to daily sales reward program.
1x Steak Burrito Supreme (380c)
1x Steak Quesadilla (510c)
Total cals: 890

Dinner
Walmart store brand canned Spaghetti & Meatballs (560c)
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
Total cals: 880

Total cals for day: 2460

Pretty much what I'm aiming for so far as food. I should have added scrambled eggs for breakfast and had mixed veggies for lunch instead of the Steak Quesadilla.
I think I'm doing OK so far on avoiding HFCS.

Social Security

2010-01-04T12:40:00.000-06:00

I recieved a letter from the Social Security Administration the other day.
It said I'm more than half way to having paid in enough to retire. I turn 25 in three months.
Then then the letter said I can't start collecting until I'm 67 and that without changes by congress there wouldn't be any (or as much) money for me when I became eligible to collect.

Here I was thinking that I could retire at 30, use Social Security to pay for rent & food, and do a startup without worrying about a job.

This is, of course, yet another way the older generation takes unsustainable advantage of the following generations.

This is discounting the availability of Social Security in case of disability. I'm not sure what I think of that yet but I do think it should be moved into whatever National Health scheme we end up with.

AT&T's 3G coverage

2009-12-18T12:48:00.002-06:00

At work we have a Samsung Moment on loan from Sprint for Testing. I'm checking to see if it will be an acceptable replacement for my Blackberry 8330. So far it looks like it will do everything I need and more.

I started the Last.FM app just for fun and up comes a AT&T 3G network ad.

This is pretty funny because I had a AT&T 3G card and plan before switching to Sprint 3G through work.
On AT&T would regularly get 3-5Mbps in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Salt Lake City.
Service anywhere in-between? EDG/GPRS at 128Kbps. On Sprint I get 3Mbps to 400Kbps in most areas.

This is not to say Sprint is perfect. So far as pure coverage my AT&T card worked everywhere. I know of several areas where I have no Sprint voice or data coverage and I have OK AT&T voice coverage and low speed data. The difference is I can drive 5 minutes to leave the dead zone to get 3G speeds on Sprint. I have to travel to a major metro to get 3G on AT&T.

Verizon's depiction of AT&T's 3G coverage matches my experience.

Does the FCC understand the Internet?

2009-12-17T18:26:00.001-06:00

The FCC recently released the Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking for Network Neutrality.
I just started reading it, but section 14 on page 5 caught my eye (emphasis mine):

The rules we propose today address users’ ability to access the Internet and are not
intended to regulate the Internet itself or create a different Internet experience from the one that users
have come to expect. Instead, our proposals attempt to build on existing policies (discussed below) that
have contributed to the Internet’s openness without imposing conditions that might diminish innovation
or network investment. We seek to create a balanced framework that gives consumers and providers of
Internet access, content, services, and applications the predictability and clarity they need going forward
while retaining our ability to respond flexibly to new challenges.

This proposal is, in fact, a proposal to regulate the Internet. A computer that is “accessing the internet” is part of the internet. This proposal does not regulate the flow of information between your eyes and your computer screen. It regulates the flow of traffic between your computer or router, a node on the internet, and the rest of the internet.
This is perhaps a pedantic point, but it shows that the FCC is still thinking with shades of cable access or telephone (CO->Handset) while they try to ensure internet consumer node equality.

2009-06-01T02:03:00.001-05:00

Is this thing on?

2009-05-15T00:36:00.004-05:00

Its been awhile since I've written something so I'm writing something mostly to make sure the publishing process still works.

Work has been intense for the past year or two. I've been so engrossed in my job that I haven't taken the time to stop and think like I used to back when I was part time and in school.

The washing machine for my apartment building is broken.
I have a meeting tomorrow (later today, actually) and needed something to wear so I drove to the laundromat on the other side of town.
Turns out their dryer drys my clothes much faster than the dryer outside my apartment.
Anyway, I took the opportunity to get caught up on some of my Kindle reading. I've been reading The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes. It is quite interesting but I need to read and think on it further before I comment on it.