August 2008
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Lie to Me Jerry!
This is basically an extension of the last post.
My scale refuses to lie to me. Not even once to make me happy. In fact, it simply CAN’T lie to me.
I got on the scale. It registered 11.2% fat. I’m thinking, “Sweet! Since I’m still wearing boxers (extra weight), all I gotta do is take them off and I’m in the 10’s!” So I take the boxers off, get back on.
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Come on, man. Lie to me, Jerry! What the fuck you doing, Jerry? Put a stick...”
– Chris Rock (and how I feel when I step on the scale)
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142's What's Next 130's?
Last night I had Papa John’s pizza (only 1 slice of “The Works”) and an icecream sandwich. While that may not sound like a big deal to someone like 6packsumo (he eats 4000+ calories a day), it’s a big deal to me. I haven’t had pizza in weeks.
Then why you might ask, am I eating pizza and ice cream when I’m so close to the “finish line” - i.e....
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I'm Not Hungry
Seriously. I’m not hungry.
I’ve been consuming what is for me an abnormally low amount of calories (see my caloric input/output here). Over the past week I’ve broken 2000 calories once. But more importantly, I haven’t been hungry. Not even once. It’s strange but I think the “I’m hungry” button that my body used to press when it would get low on blood-sugar, got turned off or something....
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Guitar. FAIL.
Found this little gem on flickr
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Weekend Update: Birds, Tennis and Pasadena Night...
Since taking reception of my D3, I’ve revisited and expanded my favorite photographic subjects. I’ve always been fascinated with hummingbirds and have dedicated a lot of time learning about them and trying to capture them on camera. I’ve recently rehung feeders outside my house and spent some time trying to capture them on camera again. With the high ISO capabilities of the D3...
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Photosynth
Move over Apple, Microsoft has just overtaken the photo-organization-3D-recreation-Idunnowhatyoucallit technology with Photosynth. Here are two videos that showcase its capabilities:
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Change
Each of these likely deserves its own post but for the sake of keeping short and sweet, I’m going to lump them all into one heading called “Change”.
On Saturday, 8/16/08 my Mom and brother flew into town. They’re here to adjust to the time difference prior to the wedding and run some errands. Fortunately for us they are also helping us with some of the final wedding...
1 Week in Review... Actually 2
There’s quite a bit of analysis that needs to be done on the past two weeks. I won’t do the same depth of analysis but here are the highlights:
Week of 8/4 - Downward trend in weight - Decrease in fat % - Increase in hydration - Fat % “peaked” in middle of week dropoff towards end of week - Felt great! There’s obviously less fat around the stomach
Week of 8/11 -...
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Domain Registration
On Friday August 15, 2008 I registered charlesyeh.com for myself. It’s interesting that while there are at least 2 other Charles Yeh’s in the world, neither of them (or neither of us up until this point) figured to register charlesyeh.com for themselves. On a side note, one of the other Charles Yeh’s has a Ph.D. and the other is a hardcore Christian. Up until this point I just...
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Cop. FAIL.
Note: I’ve replaced the original video with this one.
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A Day at LAX
Well actually it was just a couple hours but while I was waiting to pick up my mom and my brother, I figured to take some shots of LAX with my Canon SD630. Post-processed in Microsoft Office Picture Viewer! LOL :P
Here are some of my favorites!
And here’s a non-cart picture. Actually if you look really closely you see that the dude is pushing a cart ;)
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Pictures. Wordless.
At times I’ll post the pictures that I’ve taken or processed on my tumblr blog. Sometimes I’ll make comments, other times I feel like the pictures don’t need to be described.
At the beginning of the week, I embarked on a pretty serious photography mission. It included learning High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, flash photography, using the latest noise reduction...
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Sidetracked: Photography and Computers
Yesterday I got extremely sidetracked by two issues:
1. Flash photography and photography in general 2. Dealing with spyware and beefing up my computer’s defense
Issue #1: By not working out, I had an extra hour in the day to experiment with some flash photography on hummingbirds, since ther was still some daylight when I got home. I had an extremely frustrating and inconsistent session...
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The 6-Pack Challenge: Day 84 of 104
larrychi:
I’m getting sick of this shit. Look at what I eat every day. I’m going to throw up if I eat another banana or another bowl of Joe’s O’s cereal (f-you Trader Joe). I’m going to pierce my eardrums with a chopstick if I listen to “The World’s Greatest” one more time (f-you R. Kelly).
I’m starting to think that it’s biologically impossible for me to get rid of the final few inches of fat...
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flickr API
Found this badass flickr API website that turns your flickr site into a beautiful flash-based presentation of your galleries and pictures. Check it out here.
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Affliction - The Cycle of Conditioning Part II
In Affliction - The Cycle of Conditioning I posted a diagram of the Cycle of Conditioning that I never explained. It’s been a few weeks but I’m going to explain the diagram via an example. Click on the diagram to see a larger image.
Contact: At every beginning of every “cycle”, all that exists is a pure and independent stimulus. Something “happens” (for lack of a better description). For example,...
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D3 Pictures
Upon taking reception of the D3, I’ve gone to places that I never would have shot before. Here are the results:
The inside of a pub at the “Art Walk” in Santa Ana
My friend’s cat Kiki in his studio
On one of the rocks at Stoney Point
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Three 11's Does Not a 10 Make
Yesterday I weighed-in within the 11% range again. While I’m happy that I’m now pretty consistently in the 11% fat range, I know that I’m not in the 10’s yet.
But I’m so close.
I haven’t let up all week. Training has been spot on. My nutrition has been pretty consistent. But it’s hard. I’m getting cranky because I eat faster (cuz I’m...
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Men's Fitness: Get Ripped in 7 Days
Click here to see the original article.
I’m sorry but this is false advertisement at its best. Look. No one is getting ripped in 7 days. I don’t care who you are or what you do, but unless you’re already ripped, you ain’t getting diddly in 7 days.
I’m not saying these exercises aren’t good. In fact they’re great. Some of these are ones that I swear by....
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Wii FAIL.
11's Revisited
Upon weighing myself again yesterday, I realized that I was once again in the 11% fat range. Even more surprisingly was that I was at 11.1% fat. Admittedly I was well hydrated but that’s not unusual as I weigh typically myself as late as possible to rehydrate from my workouts.
The thought that I could potentially break into the 10’s crossed my mind yesterday. Although that would be...
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Advice. FAIL.
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Breaking Into the 11's
I thought I’d share my excitement about breaking into the 11-12% fat range. For the longest time (before I started trying to get a six-pack), I was in the 14-17% fat range. I was not “fat” but in retrospect, I wasn’t that “thin” either. At the time I did not think I was carrying around that much extra weight, but I never made an effort to shed fat while...
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Weekend Update
6 mile run Friday
D3 arrived!
Studio photography at Charlie’s
Dinner and Art Walk in Santa Ana
Lunch and shaved ice with TAS Los Angeles
Tennis/Basketball with Larry
Great weekend!
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Week in Review
149.25lbs. 12.60% fat 62.16% hydration
These are my weekly averages. This is the first week that I’ve convincingly broken the 150lbs. mark. I’ve also (mistakenly) included my prior week’s average (the 2nd row) for reference. For that week you can see that my average was poor as a result of my bout with food poisoning.
For this past week however, I think I’ve done rather...
Pray for Rain
In a place like So. Cal. for it to rain during summer (or at all for that matter), is a special occasion. The forecast calls for *possible* thunderstorms over the next 3 days (not the picture above). So I’m praying for rain. In my experience, rain always seems to mark a momentous event in my life. If it were to rain today, I’m not sure what it would represent but I would thoroughly...
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Simply Amazing
Today, I took reception of the Nikon D3.
After all the hassle I went through with Dbuys.com; calling their customer support 5 times and being on hold over an hour total, it’s finally here.
As I mentioned in a previous post, the Nikon D3 is the successor to the D2X which was the successor to the D2HS which was the successor to my D2H. This replaces the 5 year old professional Nikon body...
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Cardio Calisthenics Kicked My Ass
I’ve decided to incorporate a set of Cardiovascular Calisthenics into my week. While browsing the web I came across a site called www.iwantsixpackabs.com where the author suggested a certain calisthenic-type resistance training for getting a six-pack.
I tried it. I got my ass kicked.
Here’s what I did:
A1: Slow Pushups A2: Body Squats
B1: Stationary Lunges B2: Pullups...