Over the last week, I had a few different people hit me up about how the standing desk has been going… It’s been over 3 weeks and I have to say I have trouble going back to sitting. Like I said before any abductor pain and tightness is gone, as is any knee pain I had. I could feel my knee being a bit loose the last few weeks (not sure of the cause) and while I can still feel it when I’m playing football, it’s fine in every day situations now. Not sure if it was correlated with the tight abductor but it was my left abductor and left knee that was bothering me. I find that now, when I do sit down, I make sure not to slouch.
In terms of setting your own desk up, one thing I may have done different would be to make sure the desk is the right height. I put my external monitor and my laptop on some books to raise it up a bit as I felt the previous height was too low. With a laptop monitor you can’t really help it but now at least when I stare at my external monitor, it’s the same height as my eyes. Oh yeh I’m sure the ladies don’t want to hear this, but I do as though my calves are getting bigger ahah and they seem stronger. This is good cause I’ve always had pinner chicken leg calves.
-Eugene
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China Corner
#1. China’s Internet Giants May Be Stuck There
China’s Internet landscape seems like its own biodome, nobody can get in and survive and likewise, Chinese companies can’t leave and make it globally.
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#2. Swedes Struggle to make sense of a new diet trend
Sweden’s not alone, a lot of people don’t understand high-fat, low-carb diets. But as you’ll see in a huge 6-part Leptin article at the bottom, I’ve realized low-carbin’ isn’t the best way to go always.
#3. Video: The INVENTION OF DR. NAKAMATS Trailer
A look into Japanese inventor, Dr. Nakamats who boasts an impressive 3,357 inventions… seems a little arrogant though but then again he’s designed some crazy things that we’ve all used at one point in our lives.
#4. Pictures: The Big Picture: World Water Day
Just cause it didn’t take the lives of a few thousand people in one fell swoop, doesn’t mean it’s not an issue.
#5. Pictures: Nathan Sawaya “Brick by Brick”
LEGO is just getting bigger and bigger by the day… somebody bring Play Doh back as the next contemporary renaissance art medium.
#6. SSS – The Full-Figured Bra Is Booming, and Oprah Is Its Champion
TIG’ OL BITTIES
#7. Video: R/C Drifting Monday
Not everybody can own let alone rip around in a few thousand pound car, much safer and probably about 75% as fun.
#8. ***SSS – My Village Threw Me An Indian Goat Party
I’ve been promised this once I return back to Edmonton… but I have to provide the goat.
#9. Indian Students Wield Tests For College Spots
What does a test really prove?
#10. ***Meal Frequency and Energy Balance
Breaking down the dogma that you NEED to eat every 2-3 hours or your metabolism shuts down.
#11. How to Guide: Standing At Work
I guess if you want to prepare some evidence to present to your employer why you NEED a stand-up desk… cause my anecdotes won’t “stand-up” haha.
#12. SSS – Is a Frugality Tip That Saves You a Quarter a Waste of Time? Some Notes on Economies of Scale
Ah yes, economies of scale… how to save money repeating.
#13. ***Bodyweight Regulation: Leptin Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
So basically, leptin… it’s a protein hormone found throughout your body. In abundance, it regulates hunger as well as increases metabolism. When it’s low, the opposite happens. It’s related to body fat percentages as well as having sexual functional involvement (hence why obese little girls are hitting puberty earlier and earlier). If you diet hard, fast, cut out carbs it goes down. So the goal is, how do you manipulate it so that you can take benefit of its usages for cutting… enter the carb-up and the cycling of carbs. Part 5 is probably the one that offers the most bang for your buck if you’re not going to read it all.
#14. Picture: Chicken Fried Steak Gets Bigger in Texas
$69.95 10lbs Fried Chicken Steak… fugggg and you gotta eat the potatoes
#15. Pictures: The Big Picture: Haiti, 70 Days Later
#16. Pictures: Steve McQueen: 20 Never Before Seen Photos
Who is the 2000s’ equivalent of Steve McQueen?
#17. Pictures: South African “Makarapas”
The snazziest construction hats you’ve ever seen.
#18. ***Video: CHATROULETTE? | Chatroulette Bingo Card
Chatroulette is picking up STEAAAAAM… and yeh bingo cards ensue. The video has some interesting insights into what effect the person participating has, that is girl, vs. guy, vs. both and who makes up most Chatroulette users.
#19. The Life of a Groundsman at Manchester City
#20. ***The Internet Is Raising Perverts
I wonder how the fuck I’m going to raise a kid when I eventually have one… there is so much shit out there that has the ability to negatively affect a child. I’m not saying don’t tell them about it, but you do require a certain bit of life experience to understand what particular things mean and what effect they have in society. How do you explain to a 9 year old who stumbles upon a video and explaining why those two girls are naked and playing with poop…
#21. ***SSS – The Focused Email Flowchart Helps You Power Through Your Inbox
All in that goal of achieving that ZERO inbox. But I have been hitting the delete button more and more frequently and boy does it feel GOOD.
#22. ***Food Stamp Beer Reviews
My cheap beer of choice in first and second year of university was Big Bear… probably not relevant to these reviews cause they’re all low % beers but fuck, for $3.76 for a 40 oz, you couldn’t go wrong.
#24. ***Evian: We’re All Babies Inside
Simple little campaign.
#25. SSS – Who Needs Plastic Bags?
A little ingenuity inspired by nature.
#26. ***Pictures: They Survived the Rwandan Genocide
As a ten year old, my parents would always listen to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in the car and since it was more often talkshow based, there was obviously a great focus on this at the time. You never really knew much of what it represented, and what “ethnic cleansing” meant, but now you get a greater grasp of what it means. Can you imagine this going down and the widespread media attention it would garner?
#27. ***Video: Lady Gaga – Poker Face by Applegirl
BEST YOUTUBE VIDEO… EVER
#28. SSS – Michael Jackson’s Fatal Drug Syringe To Go On Sale
Get a fucking life dude…