DonGar

As people know, I’m pretty lazy and also a bit plump (aka FAT). It’s pretty clear to me that the former led to the latter. In addition, my attempts to rectify the later have failed because they run counter to the aforementioned former. Anything that leads to sweating will generally fail to fit into the whole lazy thing.

So, I’m taking a new approach that’s intended to be more lazy friendly. I’m buying prepackaged food that’s designed to be reasonably healthy. Instead of having to go out and buy my food at a restaurant, I just wait for it to show up at the door. And it’s better for me than pizza.

This sounds like the lazy solution that could work. So, we’ll see.

Here’s a site that reviews these types of services:

http://www.dietdeliveryreviews.com/

Here’s the food company I’m trying first:

http://www.diettogo.com/0108web/

Ever have one of those small moments when you realize how much things have really changed over the years?

I just saw a TV ad in which the president of the United States was promoting a web site (usaservice.org). A sitting president was pushing a website….

That’s in contrast to all kinds of little voices in the back of my head. *The internet is for geeks like me, not real people* *Websites are flashy things, not really prime time* *The President doing a TV ad?* That sort of stuff.

It was just an oddly shocking moment.

I had a hard drive in my laptop fail. I went out and bought a replacement and got it inserted, then went to try restoring from my Time Machine backup. I was feeling a little nervous, as I always do when trying out a new backup mechanism after a failure.

However, things went pretty smoothly. It took about 4 hours to restore 120G of data, but afterwards I booted the laptop and everything was just normal. I did have a few glitches.

1) The first sync with .Mac took a LONG time. It seems that all sync data was lost, and I had to be smart enough to say “Replace all data on computer” as the way to resolve the merges. This did get me back a few notes I would have lost otherwise.

2) My iTunes account was “unauthorized”. I had do “deauthorize” then “reauthorize” the laptop to get that resolved attempts to simply “authorize” reported me as already authorized.

3) All podcasts that were on my hard drive were lost. It seems that Time Machine doesn’t really back them up. That was the most hassle, and I had to unsubscribe/resubscribe to every podcast to get back the missing episodes.

However, over all I was pleased. It was less hassle than I usually go through to rebuild a machine, well, until I started updating all of the software and had issues with a VM Ware update, but that’s another story. ;>