Joel Slowik

Smoothie

2012-02-03T09:00:00.004-05:00

Spinach smoothie #1:

1 Banana
1 cup frozen unsweetened blueberries
1 Clementine
4-6 cups spinach (not cut, ~168g or ~4 handfulls)
1.5 cups water
1-2 cups ice
Yields 4 cups. Fruit is predominant in taste.
Nutrition data: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/recipe/2428436/2#ixzz1lKK1L82G

Spinach smoothie #2

2 Clementines
3 cups spinach
1 cup frozen unsweetened blueberries
1.5 cups water
1-2 cups ice
Yields 3 cups
Nutrition data: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/recipe/2440800/2

Learning Tower

2012-02-02T10:26:00.000-05:00

Plan from anna-white: the little helper tower.

Used 2" hinges so it can fold; depth is reduced to 4" but length extends to around 3' when folded.

My wood kept splitting past the pocket hole. I could not find self-tapping screws at the hardware store that didn't require a socket wrench so I bought brass wood screws.

Also bought premium pine which was unnecessary since I painted the wood. Project came in under 50% retail but could have been 75% without the premium pine and even less without the hinges.

Didn't sand since the pine was pre-sanded but I should have anyways; the arcs on top were particularly rough. Painted every surface at the same time and when disassembled which led to the paint sticking to the work surface. Overall a less than perfect end-product but good at least.

Protein consumption

2012-01-25T15:53:00.003-05:00

For my age group - CDC says .66 grams of protein per kilogram of weight per day. The CDC also says that my ideal weight is 144-194 pounds based on height and BMI (i have no idea who this 6'2" person is that weighs 144 pounds!)

As much as the number sounds great, I think 165 pounds might be an impossible goal since the last time I weighed that much was before high school. 175 pounds doesn't seem unreasonable though. So 175 pounds is 79.38 kilograms, which means my ideal protein intake is about 52 grams per day.

And here is a fun chart of various veggies, legumes, and grain that contain protein.
http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/articles/plant-food-protein-chart.pdf

FUN FACT, the sandwich bread recipe I use would contain somewhere around 40 grams of protein in the entire loaf.

sources:

Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Estimated Average Requirements: http://www.iom.edu/Activities/Nutrition/SummaryDRIs/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Nutrition/DRIs/5_Summary%20Table%20Tables%201-4.pdf

BMI Chart: http://www.win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/better_health/bmi.jpg

If you want to ruin your night

2011-12-14T16:15:00.002-05:00

unless of course you hate children, in that case this might entertain you? You're sick if that's so.

http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/CFRP%202011.pdf

Are you smarter than a __ grader?

2011-12-13T19:19:00.001-05:00

Fun fun fun for killing time:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrlsx/landing.aspx

Scoville heat units

2011-11-22T13:20:00.001-05:00

If by chance an argument gets strung up about the use of pepper spray; be sure to keep this in the back of the pocket:

Source: http://blogs.plos.org/speakeasyscience/2011/11/20/about-pepper-spray/

And - APPARENTLY - you can just buy pure capsaician:

Earth

2011-11-18T11:57:00.001-05:00

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

Generate a list of outlook folders

2011-05-26T12:47:00.000-04:00

http://help.wugnet.com/office/print-Outlook-folder-lists-ftopict953144.html

http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76159

Sort emails in outlook using a macro and a regular expression

2011-04-14T11:46:00.008-04:00

On startup or manual execution (after macro is allowed to run), macro will go through all emails in the Inbox folder. For every email whose subject line matches the pattern in the regular expression, email will be moved into a subfolder where the title is the result of the pattern match. If said folder does not exist, it will be created.

Example: An email comes in with subject line "Review Case #12345.00", email will be moved into folder "Case #12345.00" (The code below does "Case #"+Pattern when creating a folder)

In Outlook -> Tools -> Macro -> Visual Basic Editor -> Paste code into ThisOutlookSession.
Change the regular expression to whatever pattern is required.

' Adapted from code by Bryce Pepper (bpepper@kcsouthern.com)
' I found here http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-39527-outlook-macro-creating-folders
'
' Searches for emails whose subject line contains a case number (ex. 12345.00)
' and files them in a subfolder with the case title (created if one does not exist)
'
'   Date:       Modified By:    Modification Made:
'   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
'   20110412    Joel Slowik     Added support to iterate through emails in main Inbox folder

Dim WithEvents objInboxItems As Outlook.Items
Dim objDestinationFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Sub Application_Startup()

    Dim objNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
    Dim objInboxFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
    
    Set objNameSpace = Application.Session
    Set objInboxFolder = objNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
    Set objDestinationFolder = objInboxFolder.Parent.Folders("Inbox")

    
    'Due to how vb script collections work, start at the top and work our way down
    'the list of emails: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155748(v=office.10).aspx
    For count = objInboxFolder.Items.count To 1 Step -1
        Call objInboxItems_ItemAdd(objInboxFolder.Items.Item(count))
    Next count
    StopRule

End Sub

' Run this code to stop your rule.
Sub StopRule()
    Set objInboxItems = Nothing
End Sub

' This code is the actual rule.
Private Sub objInboxItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)

    Dim objProjectFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
    Dim folderName As String
    
    ' Search for email subjects that contain a case number
    ' Subject line must have the sequence of 5 numbers + . + 2 numbers (CPS case number syntax)
    Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
    objRegEx.Global = False
    objRegEx.Pattern = "[0-9]{5,5}\.?[0-9]{0,2}"
    Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(Item.Subject)
    
    'For all matches, move those matches to respective folder (create folder if it does not exist)
    If colMatches.count > 0 Then
        For Each myMatch In colMatches
            folderName = "Case #" & myMatch.Value
            If FolderExists(objDestinationFolder, folderName) Then
                Set objProjectFolder = objDestinationFolder.Folders(folderName)
            Else
                Set objProjectFolder = objDestinationFolder.Folders.Add(folderName)
            End If
            Item.Move objProjectFolder
        Next
    End If

    Set objProjectFolder = Nothing

End Sub

Function FolderExists(parentFolder As MAPIFolder, folderName As String)

    
    Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
    objRegEx.Global = False
    objRegEx.Pattern = folderName
    
    For Each F In parentFolder.Folders
        Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(F.Name)
        If colMatches.count > 0 Then
            FolderExists = True
            folderName = colMatches(0).Value
            Exit Function
        End If
    Next
    
    FolderExists = False
End Function

Contraction Records

2010-10-18T19:51:00.003-04:00

We started monitoring contractions about one to two hours in if I had to guess; Ally would be able to speak to that better than I could. I didn't think it would be necessary to track contractions until we were absolutely sure they were at regular intervals. I guess one to two hours in just based on how quickly things started to move from there. We called vickie, our midwife, at 12am to let her know to be aware Ally was in labor. This is what we were told to do, make a call to let her know that we will need her in the future, so expect another call soon.

By 4am Ally and I both realized that she was at the point in labor where we no longer had much useful control over the labor process and that vickie should come over. I stayed by Ally as much as I could, at the same time continually heating up water to put in the tub to keep it warm.

Vickie showed up at around 5:30am and brought herself, her midwife assistant, and a student midwife Calla (whom we both adored); oh she also brought her young daughter because where else is she going to put her at 5:30am? Thinking back, maybe we could have called a half an hour earlier, but no I don't think so. They came at just the right time. Once they entered the door my usefulness had dried up and it was all them; I was simply there for moral support for the remainder of the time. Almost 4 hours later at 9:25am Milo was born.

I'm not sure how I feel about the charts I made from our contraction data. Numbers (the spreadsheet software from Apple) made creating them more trouble than it's worth. The x-axis ought to be start time from the first column of data but Numbers (the mac spreadsheet software) would not have that.

Really if you see that the charts do not make sense (Ally I am looking at you, because I know you read this), then please inform me. I will gladly change them so that they make sense, and that it looks like I know what I'm talking about.

I used the iPhone/iPod Touch app 'Contraction' (free) to monitor frequency and duration. It was a simple app with one button, start/stop. The start time was recorded plus how long it's been since the start of the last contraction and end time is recorded with the duration of the contraction. I stopped recording contractions once the midwives came in to take charge and I was a bit sloppy every now and then which can be seen in the charts. I kind of wish I kept at it all the way through, but there was no time at that point to focus on anything but Ally.

From Capt. Slowik

Start	Stop	Duration	Frequency
11:10:45 PM	11:11:30 PM	00:45	00:00
11:17:01 PM	11:17:52 PM	00:51	06:16
11:25:46 PM	11:26:44 PM	00:58	08:44
11:33:13 PM	11:34:01 PM	00:48	07:27
11:37:48 PM	11:38:21 PM	00:33	04:34
11:42:45 PM	11:43:32 PM	00:46	04:57
11:48:32 PM	11:49:06 PM	00:34	05:46
11:54:50 PM	11:55:19 PM	00:29	06:18
11:59:15 PM	12:00:01 AM	00:46	04:24
12:05:49 AM	12:06:33 AM	00:43	06:34
12:09:59 AM	12:11:52 AM	01:53	04:09
12:16:29 AM	12:17:17 AM	00:47	06:30
12:20:59 AM	12:21:45 AM	00:45	04:29
1:47:02 AM	1:48:30 AM	01:27	26:02
1:51:48 AM	1:52:28 AM	00:40	04:45
1:53:28 AM	1:55:08 AM	01:40	01:39
1:59:15 AM	1:59:57 AM	00:42	05:47
2:03:43 AM	2:05:19 AM	01:35	04:28
2:06:54 AM	2:07:28 AM	00:34	03:11
2:11:53 AM	2:13:05 AM	01:12	04:59
2:15:11 AM	2:15:43 AM	00:32	03:17
2:19:14 AM	2:20:01 AM	00:47	00:02
2:20:51 AM	2:21:50 AM	00:58	01:37
2:26:34 AM	2:28:25 AM	01:50	05:42
2:34:46 AM	7:00:00 PM	00:00	08:12
3:46:02 AM	3:46:03 AM	00:01	11:15
3:47:52 AM	3:50:20 AM	02:28	01:49
3:52:36 AM	3:53:54 AM	01:18	04:44
3:56:05 AM	3:56:30 AM	00:24	03:29
3:58:36 AM	3:59:47 AM	01:11	02:31
4:02:31 AM	4:02:31 AM	00:00	03:54
4:04:59 AM	4:05:47 AM	00:48	02:28
4:06:03 AM	4:07:09 AM	01:05	01:03
4:10:38 AM	4:12:07 AM	01:28	04:35
4:13:24 AM	4:14:16 AM	00:51	02:45
4:16:41 AM	4:18:29 AM	01:48	03:16
4:22:33 AM	4:23:21 AM	00:47	05:52
4:23:56 AM	4:24:50 AM	00:53	01:23
4:26:22 AM	4:27:26 AM	01:03	02:25
4:28:41 AM	4:29:45 AM	01:03	02:19
4:30:31 AM	4:31:28 AM	00:56	01:49
4:33:21 AM	4:34:35 AM	01:13	02:50
4:36:36 AM	4:38:08 AM	01:32	03:14
4:38:43 AM	4:39:38 AM	00:54	02:07
4:40:13 AM	4:41:30 AM	01:17	01:29
4:43:39 AM	4:45:00 AM	01:21	03:26
4:46:07 AM	4:47:12 AM	01:04	02:28
4:48:10 AM	4:50:00 AM	01:49	02:03
4:51:49 AM	4:52:58 AM	01:08	03:39
4:54:13 AM	4:56:35 AM	02:22	02:23
4:58:41 AM	5:00:03 AM	01:22	04:28
5:01:56 AM	5:03:22 AM	01:25	03:15
5:05:03 AM	5:06:28 AM	01:24	03:06
5:06:35 AM	7:00:00 PM	00:00	01:31
5:09:33 AM	5:10:36 AM	01:03	02:58
5:11:56 AM	5:12:52 AM	00:55	02:22
5:13:39 AM	5:14:33 AM	00:53	01:43
5:16:22 AM	5:16:24 AM	00:01	02:43
5:19:57 AM	5:20:26 AM	00:28	03:34
5:28:11 AM	5:28:51 AM	00:40	08:14
5:30:15 AM	5:30:42 AM	00:26	02:03