Cold Chilli

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bcbeatty — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:02:01 PST

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Go Steelers!
Happy "birthday" Craig - from Brightkite

Chicago 3/4 way

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:53:27 PDT

I went to a fast food place this weekend. They had a new take on the
combo. Italian sausage and gyro meat instead of Italian.
This gives me a new idea for Chicago food. The 3 way 1/2 Italian
sausage 1/2 polish cut long ways. Topped with gyro meat. The 4 way
same as the 3 way but with italian beef. And to top it off the Chicago
5 way top all that off with hot peppers.
What would your Chicago 3/4/5 way be?

How to lose 40 pounds

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:36:27 PDT

"Under 300 pounds for the first time in 12 years!"

How I did it: Not sure how I'm doing it it. But in the last 6 months I've lost about 40 lbs.
Most likely I've reduced the quantity of food I've eaten. using smaller portions and cutting out appetizers and deserts.
I'm more active socially rather than staying at home watching TV.

Lessons & tips: I'm drinking more ice water over soda.
Smaller Portions
No appetizers.

It took me 6 months.

It made me surprised

See more progress on: lose 40 pounds

How to attend a live broadcase of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" in Chicago

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:51:09 PDT

"It was a great time in Grant Park. The show was very funny"

How I did it: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me had its annual free out door show.
The weather was awful. But it cleared up by showtime.
The show was at Millennium Park instead of the Chase auditorium.

It took me 2 years.

It made me Laugh

See more progress on: attend a live broadcase of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" in Chicago

Speed up your podcasts, part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:16:55 PST

I listen to a lot of podcasts during the week. But that doesn't mean I like to listen to long casts. With podcasts longer than ~40 minutes. I like to get some of my life back. I do this by speeding up them up.
I used the Juice pod-catcher and converted the file using WMP9 Encoder, detailed in this post

Now that I use an iPhone I've stopped using Juice infavor of iTunes
iTunes/iPhone/iPods can play the audiobook/podcast "faster". Approx 1.8x speed.
It does adjust the pitch so people don't sound like chipmonks.

How to do this:
1. Convert the mp3 to AAC.
2. Right click on the file and select "Show in Windows Explorer"
3. When the conversion completes rename the extension m4a to m4b (Audiobook) and delete the mp3 file
4. Add the m4b file to the Audobook folder in iTunes.

Good news is that it will maintain the mp3 tags and embeded images.

More tips:
Create a smart playlist that filters by time and Kind contains mpeg

Scott Sigler reading Contagious

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:54:18 PST

Harlem Globetrotters in Columbus

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:11:38 PST

Yes We Did!

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:38:19 PST

Obama crowd looking toward the city

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:57:37 PST

Camera boom for CNN

I voted!

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:50:25 PST

No Way, No How, No McCain

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:24 PDT

Lovie's post game responses summed up for 2008..

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:51:40 PDT

Lovie's post game responses summed up for 2008...

Game 1 - Kyle Orton is our starting quarterback

Game 2 - Kyle Orton is our starting quarterback

Game 3 - Kyle Orton is our starting quarterback

Game 4 - Kyle Orton is our starting quarterback

Game 5 - Rex Grossman is our starting quarterback

Game 6 - Rex Grossman is our starting quarterback

Game 7 - Rex Grossman is our starting quarterback

Game 8 - Rex Grossman is our starting quarterback

Game 9 - Kyle Orton is our starting quarterback

Game 10 - Kyle Orton is our starting quarterback

Game 11 - The starting quarterback will be a surprise

Game 12 - I have no idea who our starting quarterback will be

Game 13 - Brian Urlacher is our starting quarterback

Game 14 - Devin Hester is our starting quarterback

Game 15 - We never really had what you would call a "quarterback"

Game 16 - I'd like to introduce the 2009 head coach for the Chicago Bears..

Caprica Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:43:23 PDT

Caprica Trailer. The new prequel to Battlestar Galactica coming soon

Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:18:30 PDT

Using a Mac is like living in a downtown penthouse. You have everything done for you and it all looks very slick, but you pay a high price. You have a doorman to pamper you and somebody else takes care of the maintenance, but you can't make a lot of changes to the property.

Using Windows is like living in the suburbs. You get more square footage for your dollar but you have to mow your own lawn and when something goes wrong, you have to fix it yourself or pay someone extra to do it. You can make changes to your property but you might have to deal with deed restrictions or city ordinances or homeowner association rules.

Using Linux is like living out in the country. Compared to the other options, property is dirt cheap and you can do whatever you want to it without having to follow codes and get inspections. But you'll probably have to do a lot more of the work yourself and you need a lot of building expertise or else you may get yourself into big trouble and find your house falling down all around you because you didn't do it correctly.

from VistaNews

Good Morining Zoey

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:50:24 PDT

Good Morining Zoey
Originally uploaded by bcbeatty.

BSG Top 10 List

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:40:28 PDT

Season 4 Starts Soon!

Bush's Tax rebate

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:07:38 PDT

(Don't send this to the Gov of NY....He was ahead of this e-mail....)
How to use the rebate
As you may have heard the Bush Administration said each and every one of us would now get a nice rebate.
If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.
If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs,
If we purchase a computer it will all go to India,
If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will all go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatamala,
If we purchase a good car it will all go to Japan,
If we purchase useless crap it will all go to Taiwan
and none of it will help the American economy.

We need to keep that money here in America, so the only way to keep that money here at home is to buy prostitutes and beer, since those are the only businesses still in the US.

Sincerely,
Client #10

Three Things to Ponder

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:15:50 PST

Three Things to Ponder: They've been around before, but maybe we need to go through them again.

1. Cows?

2. The Constitution?

3. The Ten Commandments?

COWS

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic, our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.???

THE CONSTITUTION

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we are not using it anymore.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS

The real reason that we cannot have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery," and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...It creates a hostile work environment.

Two Metra trains hit van in Hinsdale, Illinois

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:02:11 PST

I take this train into work every day. Luckily no one was hurt

The Dark Knight Trailer. IN LEGO!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:49:33 PST

OLPC at Chicago Bloggers Meetup group

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:48:11 PST

Stop choking: Aussie-style

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:23:56 PST

A woman sitting in an Adelaide restaurant suddenly began to cough. After a few seconds it became apparent that she was in real distress, and two locals, Kenzie and Brian sitting at the next table turned to look at her.
" Kin ya swaller?" asked Kenzie
The woman signaled 'No!', desperately shaking her head.
"Kin ya breathe?" asked Brian.
The woman shook her head No!!!
With that, Kenzie walked behind her, lifted up the back of her dress, yanked down her knickers and ran his tongue up and down the crack of her arse.
This shocked the woman into such a violent spasm that the obstruction flew out of her mouth and she began to breathe again.

Kenzie swaggered back to his table and took a deep swig of his beer.
Brian said in admiration "Ya know Kenzie, I'd heard of that bloody Hind Lick Manoeuvre, but that's the first time I ever Seen somebody do it!"

I'm a Genius

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:56:55 PST

Heroes: Volume 3: Villains Sneak Peek

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:45:13 PST

They managed to film parts of Episodes 12 and 13 of Heroes before the strike.

ITunes: Deleting Dead Tracks From ITunes

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:58:03 PST

I just got a new iPhone and I'm converting my music from Media Player to iTunes.

There are some key differences between these apps.

1. Media Player gets properties off of the actual file or folder. iTunes saves some information in its database and some of it is in the file.

2. Media Player puts an album art file for album art, where iTunes puts the album art in a Album Art folder, then under some convoluted database that doesn't match back to the album. Neither of the players will look for the other, so converting is not fun.

3. iTunes copies files when organizing its library, iTunes copies creating duplicate files. Media Center Moves the files underneath my consolidated library.

4. iTunes doesn't know if the file system deleted a file or a new file exists in the library. Media Player continually looks for new music, pictures and movies.

This is why I found the following code, in the Apple SDK, that will delete dead tracks from you iTunes library.

dim ITTrackKindFile

ITTrackKindFile = 1

dim iTunesApp

set iTunesApp = WScript.CreateObject("iTunes.Application")

dim deletedTracks

deletedTracks = 0

dim mainLibrary

set mainLibrary = iTunesApp.LibraryPlaylist

dim tracks

set tracks = mainLibrary.Tracks

dim numTracks

numTracks = tracks.Count

dim i

while (numTracks <> 0)

dim currTrack

set currTrack = tracks(numTracks)

if ( currTrack.Kind = ITTrackKindFile) then

' yes, does it have an empty location?

if (currTrack.Location = "") then

' yes, delete it

currTrack.Delete()

deletedTracks = deletedTracks + 1

end if

numTracks = numTracks - 1

wend

if (deletedTracks > 0) then

if (deletedTracks = 1) then

WScript.Echo("Removed 1 dead track.")

else

WScript.Echo("Removed " & deletedTracks & " dead tracks." )

end if

else

WScript.Echo("No dead tracks were found.")

end if

The Server 2nd Movie Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Cold Chilli) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:32:41 PST