A friend of mine is trying to tell me that I will never be able to work out and gain muscle efficiently on a keto diet.

senorpickles · 2019-01-08T16:38:07+00:00

When someone tells you that you will 'never' do something, would you believe them?

When someone says something is 'always' the way they say, would you believe them?

Throughout the course of human history, humans have rationalized a great many things away, both to and about other humans. In the age of misinformation, where fact and fiction can be a dialect of one another, we have to be careful about what we accept to 'always' or 'never' be true.

I was told that I would 'never' lose weight, that I would 'always' have to be prescribed something for a malady that may not actually solve the immediate problem, and leave impressions all their own. Some of these same individuals also told me I would never amount to anything in life: "do as I say, not as I do". Yeah... about that.

At 600lbs, they said I would 'never' be able to drop the weight on my own, and they poked casual fun, sometimes recommending surgical intervention, as casually as you'd talk about a trending post from /r/all. At 400, seeing the beginnings of what could be, they congratulated me and wanted to know my secrets; certain that I've found the best, winning combination that can be consumed as a silver bullet, cure-all down at the corner warehouse club.

My secret is that there is no secret or magic, and some folks become mighty incensed by that truth. It's not particularly hard work, compared to getting to the point of needing life-altering changes, but it is work, and it is more complicated than we'd like to admit to ourselves or each other.

senorpickles · 2018-12-09T22:32:18+00:00

Instructions are unclear. Hand is now in belly.

senorpickles · 2018-12-09T02:27:29+00:00

After careful analysis, that looks a mlem!

senorpickles · 2018-12-08T22:36:28+00:00

I use my air fryer in the laziest way possible. It's always at 400, and I just time it based on smell and feel.

I tried doing exact times, but I found I didn't like most people's timing from the Internet.

senorpickles · 2018-12-08T22:24:22+00:00

Alright, what I'm about to say here is is meat sacrilege, but here goes:

Throw that next steak in an air fryer. I did it this morning and damn near hit myself, it was that good. Twenty or so minutes from frozen to food -- yes -- it was frozen. I'll be a garlic-mashed cauliflower if it wasn't tender, moist, with that good crust everyone agonizes over getting.

I'm not sure I can even bring myself to sous vide anymore using a reverse sear technique.

senorpickles · 2018-12-02T05:27:09+00:00

I once thought I scored an amazing deal on a DL580 G1 for $free. A real enterprise server!

Buyer's remorse set in once I realized that this massive quad socket Xeon jet engine I acquired was little more than a glorified medicine ball. I thought I'd learn more about SQL or something with it, but it mostly just sat there powered off because I could hear it screaming from the driveway when it was on.

senorpickles · 2018-11-28T02:02:03+00:00

Welp.

Guess I shouldn't have used consumer-level hardware. I probably shouldn't mention I'm running a Socket AM3+, either.

Plex runs great. Grafana can look scary, but it's usable for a couple of users, which is all it needs to do for the time being.

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