Author: chris

Steak for Lunch

I took a late lunch again today, I had thawed some frozen Costco steak since Sunday night and needed to use it today. It was surprisingly tasty after being in the freezer for a week and didn’t have a bad smell at all which is always a good sign. I followed Alton Brown’s rib-eye steak instructions but ended up having to cook the steak longer than desired (about 11 minutes vs. 5) to get it up to temperature. I may need to leave it on the counter (on a plate) longer than an hour to bring it up to room temperature. I did try something new afterwards, I tried making a reduction to have some sauce. I used some heavy cream and butter to deglaze my cast-iron and make a sauce. Is that the right term? To De-glaze? In any event the sauce came out delicious and complemented the steak wonderfully. I’ll need to follow Alton’s advice and use cognac if I can get some to deglaze and try that. The heavy cream and butter just made a delicious fatty sauce but its good to experiment. I’d just thought I’d share!

New Diet, some exercise

I fell off the Power 90 exercise program I was doing 5 days a week last November. I was down to 212, I then ballooned up to 232. I knew something had to change so I did some research and settled on a low-carb (<20g/day) diet high in Fat. I’ve been eating burgers, bacon, eggs, almonds, peanuts, cream cheese, and steaks for the last couple of weeks. I even managed to keep up with it on a business trip to San Diego thanks to a breakfast buffet where I could load up on pork sausages and bacon. So far I’ve lost 16 lbs on just diet alone. I’m almost down to 212 which was with whole grains and regular exercise. I’ve also had energy to do a couple of 2 mile walk/runs. Overall, I’m really looking forward to continuing this diet! On a side-note I also have a constant level of energy throughout the day, I can pig out on a double-double protein style or something low-carb and I won’t get the afternoon blues. I’ll continue to post things about this diet on here as time progresses.

 

SSL Certificates and updated forum

I decided to upgrade my forums from vb 3 to vb 4 which involved changing the name. I decided to also grab an SSL certificate just to see the process and it was surprisingly easy. I decided to purchase one through namecheap.com and it was only about 10 bucks for the year! I’m glad there is more competition in this space. Back in the 90s to register a domain you had to use Network Solutions and the cost was $35 for a year, now it is $10 and there are many different places to go, its great. In any event, the new forum is now called Techno Badger, dedicated to various technology topics. I also have a CMS and blogs to deal with so we’ll see how the community grows. No more psx-dude.net it looks like. And wow, that site looks old!

Some thoughts on the future of media.

One thing that strikes me as kind of odd is why don’t more tv networks offer their content online? It seems with Google and Facebook’s large databases you could easily find the best targeted advertising for advertisers. Would I rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads that might not reach my intended audience or targeted advertising that targets the viewers interests and location so much better? It makes so much more sense to host more content online and just have ads.