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// August 26th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog
Having a little fun with photoshop. Had Pizza and Salad for dinner last night and thought, “This is the perfect Yin-Yang Meal. Got your good and bad on the same plate.” I’ll be back with some real content soon. Recording a podcast tomorrow with Justin Vactor and RJ Hudecek.
// July 28th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog
Thanks everyone that showed up for the Southeast Texas tweetup. This had to be one of our biggest turnouts to date! We had the tweetup at Starvin Marvins Bar & Grill, a new restaurant/bar that opened up here in the last two months. I was fortunate enough to reserve their private room for free. It was nice being in a cool air-conditioned room instead of out on the patio in muggy Texas heat. We had a good mix of new and old faces. We had tweeters, facebookers and a couple that were neither. I counted 14 people in total. That’s a lot in lil Beaumont,TX. It was a far cry from our humble beginnings of 4-5 we had at the first tweetup. I think everyone had a good time. Some people socialized while others took the opportunity for some social networking.
I did make up some nametags this time around, where I had people write their twitter handles instead of their real names. This gave people the opportunity to match up a face to one’s twitter identity. Since we had a lot of people who used social media at the tweetup, I also broke the news about the Social Media Club of Beaumont that Justin McCullough and I have been working on the past few months. All in all a great event and I can’t wait to have the next one soon.
Thanks to @409now, @beaumartian, @beaumontbeth, @cookingoutloud, @curatorgirl, @irishplague, @jess_benton, @laurawxx @mccjustin @mickster09 @reneeintx , chad and steve.
UPDATE 07/30/10: Justin McCullough sent in this video he took from his Droid.
// June 16th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog, News
We are on our way to Seattle, Washington for vacation for a few days. So that means there will be no podcast this week 
I will try blogging while I’m there. If you want to keep tabs on me, be sure to watch my twitter stream. I’ll also be using posterous as well for pictures and videos.
// June 14th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog
Plugins are one of the many features that set WordPress apart from a lot of the other blogging systems out there. This post is in response to a question a friend of mine had on what plugins to use for his WordPress site. Well here is the list of my favorite plugins I use for bryansays.com. I’m not saying these are the best plugins in each category, they are just the ones I’m currently using and like the most. To see all fifteen plugins I regularly use, keep reading.
// April 12th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog
Started the 100 Pushups program today as part of my plan to lose weight and build muscle. I did five sets of varying reps according the table under week 1 of the program. I could tell at the end of the five sets, I am definitely out of shape. I also needed every second of the rest between sets. For my last set, I managed to squeak out 13 reps. I tried doing 14 but my arms gave way on the way down.
I added a reminder in google calendar for Monday, Wednesday, Friday this week to keep me on task. Included in the body of the calendar event is a list of all my sets. If you want to share your progress, do so in the comments of this blog post or you can join the group of us on Friendfeed.
// April 8th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog, News
Well time for a ME ME ME post. I know, how cruel of me. As some of you know and most don’t, I’ve been doing weight watchers now since January 28. I’ve lost a total of 15 lbs. I’m very close to my goal of being under 150 lbs but my progress has slowed in the past couple of weeks. I used to lose an average of 1.4 to 3 lbs per week. Now I am down to 0.8 lbs per week. I need something to help me burn the remaining lbs I have left.
I think I found something to” push me” forward. The program is called the One Hundred Pushups Challenge. Sean Loyless (a friend on friendfeed) turned me onto the program. The premise is very simple and its something you can do without a gym membership. You start off with an initial test of how many pushups you can do until you collapse in a sweaty heap on the floor. This gauges your fitness level and determines how many sets and reps you will do for your first week. I did my initial test today and was able to do 28 pushups. Yay me! I won’t go through the whole program in this post but I will say that I will be starting this program next week and keep you guys updated on my progress. The cool thing is there are a number of ways to track your progress. The site has a iphone app or you can track your progress on the 100pushups site. Leave me a comment if you’ve had any experience with this program or you want to join me in this quest.
UPDATE: If you are on Friendfeed and want to participate with us, join the Hundred Pushups Group and share your progress with us.
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