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fitday.comSeptember 8, 2007
I tried out
www.fitday.com today which is about the best UI I've seen for entering what foods you ate in a given day and then having it give you stats on how many calories you consumed, what the fat/protein/carb breakdown is, etc. Still, the UI could use some work. Ideally, it would be cool if you could enter what you ate into a text area and have a system smart enough to parse it, match the foods, etc. One potential way to implement this would be to use the
language I have thought about using to implement a domain-specific search engine. In other words, you should be able to say:
"2x white bread"
"2x bread, white"
"2 slices of white bread"
etc.
... and the software should be able to accept either one and match it against the same food. To use a complete example, the software should be able to take a day's food log such as the following and do its calculations without any additional clicking:
4 slices of white weight watchers bread
2 tbps of 50% fruit jam
2 tbps of peanut butter
3 medium chicken breasts (breaded)
0.3 cups pork tenderloin
3 pieces of pizza
4 handfulls of Lays Ketchup potato chips
3 glasses of orange juice |
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Do what you don't want toSeptember 8, 2007
Sometimes I play a game with myself when I feel like I've been procrastonating for too long. It goes like this: What do I absolutely dread doing at this very moment? Ok, I'm going to go do that. But it doesn't stop there... as soon as you're done, you ask yourself the question again and then go and do that thing, and so on and so forth. After a few hours, a very pleasant sense of relief and accomplishment ensues!
Some random cottage memoriesSeptember 8, 2007
  | When I was about 10 I slept on a small single bed out in the porch at the cottage. I remember the sheets were purple and the quilts were varied patchworks, but I mostly remember the one that had reds, whites, and yellows. I would often wake up to a fly landing on my toes, which would be sticking out from the end of my blankets. Being out in the porch, the sun came up pretty early! |
| Last week I suddenly recalled back to before the time when I was comfortable swimming under water. I remember wading out into the lake with my older sister Rebekah and my dad. They were encouraging me to just dive under but I was timid. The second part of my memory is some short time later, maybe even the same day, when I had finally mastered this diving under the water thing, and my grandma would sit on the beach and watch as I'd run into the water and dive. |
| When I was pretty little I loved to collect things. At home, I would collect the plastic liners from underneath bottle caps. I loved the smell of them, and even now, smelling them brings back good memories. When I was at the cottage, I would roam the beach looking for those little unicorn-like sea shells that are only half a centimeter long. I'd collect them and keep them in a glass jar. |
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