I finally got around to updating my picture page, seen here. A couple of albums that were just floating around are hard-linked now, including the awesome V-Day pictures.

Lazy Saturday update: Here are some stats from our music library, courtesy of Media Monkey ( which rules, and thank you Metalfrog for introducing me to it )

Here’s something new, I’m going to write about my recent weight loss activities using Wii Fit ( and also the flu )

For starters, if you are serious about losing weight or maintaining, I highly recommend signing up for a profile at Calorie Count. I’ve been looking for a site like that for months now, and was about to just give up and build it myself.

Basically you have a Food log and an Activity log. Each has a very handy search function that allows you to simply punch in what you ate ( or did ), and it will bring back calories, fat, etc in the food and calories burnt for the activities.

They even have a recipe analyzer to let you know just how healthy your concoctions are. I ran my M Yass Chili through the interface and got an A on the nutrition rating

When I was in college I used to be able to eat two Hungry Man meals a day and not gain a pound. I was weighing in around 145-150lbs in 2004 ( at a height of 6′ ).

After I got a real job and was able to afford food, and had a girlfriend that knew I was way too skinny and unhealthy, I started gaining weight. At first it was a good thing, but then I gained a bit too much and found myself at 234lbs in 2008.

Thanks to that recent bout of the flu, my stomach had a chance to shrink and I started listening to my “no more, Im full” alarm. At the end of March I was 223lbs thanks to a limited calorie intake and “light” activity.

I’m not afraid to admit it, I have a sedentary lifestyle. I work in an office, with a very expensive cushy chair, and I go home to either work in my home office in a cushy chair, or sit on the very cushy couch that we have.

This apparently burns about 70 calories an hour. Hell even drinking a glass of water will burn a few. But it doesn’t do much when you’re intaking 2000-2500 calories a day.

Since I do enjoy the videogames and my parents bought us a Wii Fit for Christmas, I decided to push activity into my life via the Wii Fit and a simple run on the treadmill. Right now I’m up to 20mins daily of moderate activities on the Wii ( that includes Fit and Sports ), and starting tomorrow I will add a quarter mile jog on the treadmill ( 4-5mph, nothing too intense ) three days a week.

The WiiFit activity alone has helped knock off 0.7-1lb per week for me. I figure if I add in the treadmill and gradually work up to a half, then full mile, that will put me at ~2.0lbs per week, which is the healthy limit for weight loss. Anything more and you will rebound and put it back on naturally.

The most important thing to remember is that it’s all just a game of numbers. According to my CalorieCount profile, I need to intake 1850 ( or less ) calories per day and burn 2650 in order to lose 2lbs per week. Amazingly I burn about 1400 calories a day naturally, just by moving around, walking in the office and working ( sitting at a computer and working burns around 80 per hour ). With WiiFit+Sports activity for 1 hour I can add ~350 burnt calories to that, and the treadmill will burn around 700-800 per hour.

My current goal for April 11th is 220lbs, with an overall goal of 185-190lbs.

Apparently the “fine” bloggers over at RedState have started to run out of things to blame Obama for, so they decided to start making things up.

Most of you have probably already heard about the Microsoft bridge that will connect West & East campus, which currently is separated by a public highway. If not, here is the original CNN story.

Basically the Mayor of Redmond applied for $11mil in stimulus money to help build the bridge, which would alleviate traffic on the public highway and connect the two sectors, and Microsofts campus’.

Erick Erickson of Redstate.com, a mouth-breather neocon version of DailyKOS, somehow found a way to blame Obama:

Instead of the blue screen of death, let’s call it the blue span of death. Like the bridge to nowhere, Microsoft has somehow gotten its hands on $11 million of the stimulus dollars to build a bridge that will connect Microsoft to . . . well . . . Microsoft.

This is another example of Obama deciding he knows what’s best and us winding up with a raw deal.

Apparently Erick doesn’t do the whole “reading comprehension” thing, since the article he goes on to link states that the Mayor applied for the funds, and Microsoft has footed a little less than half of the bill for the bridge, which would be open to the public.

Last I checked, there are funds available for public infrastructure projects, and the Redmond Mayor took advantage, although Erick seems to think that Obama personally cut Microsoft a check for $11mil. Due to the low IQ of Redstate readers, the comments on the story are basically an echo chamber.

After nearly three years and some pretty impressive numbers, Christy and I have decided to part ways with our company.

The primary reason actually isn’t because of money or the recession, but that I absolutely love the projects that I am working on for Citizant, and I’ve decided to leave the private sector entirely and focus solely on my work at Citizant.

Operating E29 was a blast, and I definitely learned a lot from owning my own startup. I’m planning on writing a few articles here on Kinderism about what to do and what not to do if anyone is interested. Trust me, all those “don’t do this” articles you see on the net and then ignore? Yeah, definitely don’t do that.

In other news, I came down with the flu last week and have been out of commission for an entire week. I’m going to get back into the swing of posting to Kinderism ( and TehDevs! It’s back! ) here soon.

Yeah, it’s been a while, I have more posts coming, I just wanted to toss this tidbit up there.

I played the demo for that Wheelman game recently, the one where Pontiac paid bundles to have the “official” car in the game be a G8, even though they are begging for taxpayer money to keep the company running.

But that’s another rant.

Anyway, the car in the game sucks. Bodyroll to the heavens, can’t hold a corner worth a shit, and the rear end looks like the rear of a Civic you would find deep in the Valley. As I previously wrote, Pontiac had this cute campaign going after the BMW 5 series, saying that the G8 was superior.

If they wanted an even more stupid comparison, they should have attacked the BMW 330 for not being able to do 0-60 as fast as their precious G8. Nevermind that the 330 has about 200 less horsepower, it’s all about the marketing angle right?

So, I posted up another comment on the Youtube video for the 5 versus 8 commercial:

kinderstod

Ok let me get this straight… Pontiac creates a 6.2L engine that is only capable of getting ~400HP, and a car that can only pull a 0.9 on the skidpad. ( Protip: To the ones saying “This is better than a Mustang” the Mustang gets .87-.88, so you’re right there with them ) The MSRP is $45,000

Then, they go after the stock 5 series?

You know what you can get for $45,000?

A 2005 BMW M5 with a 5L engine that gets 500HP ( Since the Germans know what the fuck they are doing ) and 0.99-1.1 on the skidpad.

And I don’t see BMW crying to their government for a handout either.

I’ve gotten quite a few flames so far, one from “buyamericanyounazis”. This is the average intelligence of the Pontiac G8 fanbase: they would rather spend $45k on yet another crappy American sedan/coupe that can’t hold it’s own against other cars in it’s class, than buy a superior sports car ( or even sedan, the M5 SEDAN gets better times than the G8 coupe ) just because it’s BY GOD AMERICAN ( built in Australia ).

Even better, if we’re not counting price range, for $70k you can get a BMW M3 with an even SMALLER engine that STILL gets more horsepower than the G8.

Maybe they should use that bailout money to hire better engineers, rather than starting a pissing match against another car company that can kick the shit out of you.

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It’s fun to look through the stat logs for Kinderism and find out where some of my stuff is ending up.

I’ve actually gotten three trackbacks through to MichelleMalkin.com using a subtle and different title tag for my MM bashing posts.

Apparently MuadDib from Dexter, MO found my Vampire Subculture picture funny and put it as her “About me” section: Interpals.net

John Dvorak’s site has a link back to my “GradeA Bullshit” picture as the “gov’t page” for Gerald Celente.

The GradeA Bullshit picture is popular ( and I yanked it from somewhere else ), folks over on FreeRepublic are using it to troll each other.

Again with the Bullshit picture, WordForge.net users are trolling each other in the politics forums.

Somewhere in this SodaHead thread about “hatin on christains[sic]“, someone got mad over something I said ( probably the TraditionalValues thing ) and linked to it.

I’ve got the market on “suze orman criticism”, “suze orman is an idiot”, and “tanglewood apartments manassas”. Next up, I’m going for “michelle malkin sucks” or something.

And last but not least, I get a lot of reads from Lithuania, Slovakia and Estonia. Probably because my grammar sucks so bad that they think I’m not a native speaker

So Miley Cyrus did the Asian eyes thing in a photo, and someone in Cali decided to file a $4billion lawsuit over it.

Apparently they think that this no-talent hack has $4billion in the first place, or that she has any relevance other than trying to become sluttier and sluttier so she can eventually pose nude at 18.

Anyway, the real point is that Michelle Malkin, like a true hypocrite, has flip-flopped on Asian racism. When the Spanish b-ball team did it, she called them racial bigots, and her readers called for the Chinese to bomb Spain, et al.

When Cyrus does it, she says that she posed for a “stupid photo” and then throws some Asian self-hate into the post. Never wanting to be outdone in the race for King dumbshit, one reader somehow connected the lawsuit to Democrats. Seriously:

Ok, so blowing people up – or your girlfriend blowing herself up under your direction – is ok and results in a Profesorship and juice at the White House. Pulling your eyes back results in a $4 billion lawsuit. Yes, the Dems have made their mark.

And on the Spanish thread, one reader said:

That being said, I dislike Spain. Those pansies were “neutral” in WWII

Yeah, apparently we’re still hung up on WWII and how awesome America Fuck Yeah! was, and how Japanese import cars should be banned, etc.

A bit of non-news first: Stephen King came out and said Stephanie Myers is a shitty writer.

In the reddit thread that followed, teflonbob came up with a hilarious plot for a book:

That could be the premise for Kings next novel, a post-apocalyptic world where Meyers, Rowling and King each control a faction in the burnt out wastes of America. Meyers rules the tweens and 40 somethings, Rowling rules the pre-tweens and King has a raging horde of twenty-to-forty-somethings which ravages the country side and occasionally raids civilization.

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I can see it now..
“Who run muggle town?”
“ROWLING RUN MUGGLE TOWN!!” – proceeded by JK Rowling ripping the head off of a Meyers’ follower.

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Phillip K. Dick unfortunately dies in a firefight soon after the bombs drop. Before he died he took out numerous FBI and CIA agents who were at the time tracking him (he was right all along!)

Terry Pratchet, Margrett Weis, Tracy Hickman, Richard Knaak, R. A Salvatore and the re-animated corpses of H.P Lovecraft and J. R. R. Tolkien find refuge up in the free-states of Canada. Piers Anthony lived with them for a short time however he was kicked out because his Xanth series was just too wierd for even a group that lived with two re-animated corpses. They are guarded around the clock by fanatic fanboys (and fangirls) who fancy themselves druids in a system reminiscent of LARPing.

Arthur C. Clarke (who had faked his death in 2008 to join Stanley Kubrick on the monolith circling Saturn) returns to Earth to teach the wasteland children the fundamentals of survival in a scene very reminiscent of the 2001:Space Odyssey ape scene in Africa.

Douglas Adam’s left years ago with the Dolphins and thus was unaffected by the chaos. Upon hearing about the decimation of Earths civilizations he simply states ‘Took long enough, but now where am I going to get a good cup of tea?’

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I would but it would only end up being some wierd hybrid of a biopic fanfiction that would never see the light of day. It would be reviled by millions and adored by only a small cabal of readers on 4chan and maybe an irc newsgroup.
Just by the authors involved you know that in one chapter you would find out there was a secret romance before the ‘end time’ between two of the ‘Author Overlords’ and that child is the rightful heir to not only one but two of the ‘Provinces of the Book.’ King’s royal tabbard would have either a car or a tower silhouette. Rowlings would be a lightning symbol or a wand while Meyers would be a set of vampire fangs or a tear drop (or perhaps a slashed wrist.)
Ugh, this shit just rights itself when it comes to a lot of these authors. :\

I think teflonbob should get on this, I would definitely buy it. I would say “If he doesn’t, then I will and give him credit”, but I don’t know enough about each of authors to make it convincing.

Seriously, “ROWLING RUN MUGGLE TOWN!!” made me choke on my coffee.