Surgery and Diet Update

Haven’t given an update in a while, so I decided it was about time as quite a bit is going on.

I am working 12 hours a day, 5 to 6 days a week, so up to 72 a week, and I am tired. Exhausted in fact. This job is really burning the candle at both ends. And before surgery I know I would either be sick, or getting sick, and I am not sick at all, which is a huge change. Before the surgery I know this much stress and this many hours would have made me really sick. I had asked my cardiologist about it, and he had said it had nothing to with my condition, but post surgery I am not getting sick as easily. I wonder if anyone else with hyper trophic has experienced this?

Of course things aren’t all good. I has been doing a 2.1 mile walk every day, then taking the subway to work, and getting over 10,000 steps every day. Unfortunately, I somehow managed to sprain my left foot quite badly. I don’t know how, and I do know it is at least not broken, but I am walking with a cane. I have some prescription anti-inflammatory, but I am almost out. The worst part is that I have not been doing my walk because of it, so have been getting only about 5-6000 steps a day which is affecting my diet.
I am still on the 8 Hour Diet, but the getting up at 3 in the morning thing makes it so hard to not eat till noon, and I haven’t made it every day, plus have eaten up till 9 some nights, but even before my foot, and eating well I have been staying about the same. Had gone from 258 to 236, but now am hovering above 240, going up a bit, but always back down, but not below 240. Hopefully when my foot heals I will be able to walk more, and when not working 5:30 AM to 5:30 PM, the weight will start coming off again.
Scar is about the same. Still a bit sore and am still using a pillow over it in the car, but I think that is likely because of the 3 bags i carry to work, that rub against it on the subway. I ave my backpack with my lunch and spare t-shirt and towel, an original xbox bag with 2 big full water jugs, and my briefcase/messenger bag with iPad and kindle. And I get a good 4500 steps walking from my car to the subway and from the subway to work and back every day, plus quite a few flights of stairs!
Looking forward to the job ending, and hopefully a couple of weeks off before getting a nice long term job! One can always hope!

Canon EOS 70D DSLR Announced

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PhotoRumors has the story on the newly released Canon EOS 70D. It is $1199 for the body, $1349 with an 18-55mm and $1549 for an 18-135MM. 20.2 Megapixels, with built in WIFI and the swing out lens of it’s predecessor. And Dual Pixel CMOS Auto Focus while you shoot video. And can shoot at 7 fps in still mode!

This sounds like an awesome replacement for the 60D! If only it had RAW Record built in! And lets hope Canon didn’t block MagicLantern’s access to the very cool new RAW features they have found!

PVC Posts 25 New Features of AVID Media Composer 7

Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition has posted 25 new features of AVID Media Composer 7.

Let’s hope the cached waveform redraw is great, as this has been a sore point with AVID forever!

Spanned Markers is a cool idea for sure.

Masks on output monitor is awesome, especially for center cut shows done in widescreen, which I often have to do!

Changing audio gain in timeline is a great addition.

AVID has released Media Composer 7

AVID has released Media Composer 7. And it is now $999.00 and the upgrade from 6.5 is $299 and the upgrade from Previous version is $399.

I would love to give it a run as I have 6.5, but can’t afford it right now. And honestly AVID never changes that much that most post houses that use it won’t be upgrading, so it isn’t as important to learn as say Premiere Pro that many people are now considering and most editors don’t have much experience with.

How will the new MacPro work with BootCamp?

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Of course Apple has announced the new strange MacPro, though not answered all of our questions about it. And my biggest question at the moment is about BootCamp, which because of Windows limitations of only being installed within the computer.

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I know on Laptop’s the only solution then is to partition your SSD harddrive and install windows there, but on current MacPro’s you can use an entire secondary hard drive as your bootcamp partition.

The new MacPro is run by a single SSD harddrive, so as of now it looks like you will have to partition, and install Windows on that, which means you will need a very large and expensive SSD drive to fit a full working windows environment and a full working Mac environment.

My current MacPro’s boot drive is a 3TB hard drive, which has 1.43 TB used. And 902.4 GB of that is used by my user. The scary part of that is that is with all of my extensive iTunes library on an external SAS. And that still leaves 500GB of data for my system and applications on Mac, which is pretty big for an SSD drive. I know there are ways to move your user to a separate hard drive, but it isn’t easy and is easy to really screw up your system! And honestly I wouldn’t really want my user to be external to the system.

Of course much can be moved out of my user, I have 219 GB in Parallels, which I could easily stop using now that I use bootcamp. And I have 117 GB in MobileSync files, which seems like an awful lot of iOS backups. And I just looked and After Effects CC has 107 GB of Disk Cache in my Application Support folder! Youch! Need to figure that out. Hell I have 14.3 GB of Mailboxes for Mail! Youch that is a lot of files, but still files within my User folder that would take up too much space on a single SSD drive!

Well it is a moot point right now, as I have my old MacPro, and couldn’t afford a new model even if it was out and all the questions were answered, but what freaks me out the most is see myself leaning more towards building a bad ass PC, and I really don’t want to give up on Mac as a platform. So maybe a Mac Laptop and a PC, or so I got he Hackintosh route? Some say they are so unstable and hard to upgrade (as you have to wait till files are updated and hacked so you can upgrade), but then I could have a Mac and a PC and have what I really want, a tower bigger than a current old tech MacPro. Something like the ASUS z9PE-D8 WS motherboard in the EEB form factor with dual Xeon’s. That could literally stomp on the single Xeon in the new MacPro and i could run Dual NVIDIA Geforce for Titan’s for graphics. That would be an amazing machine, expensive sure, but I would have so much fast internal storage and I wouldn’t have to invest in a ton of money in Thunderbolt peripherals (especially since Thunderbolt has not really caught on, and it doesn’t seem to be catching on very big in the PC world which means it will always be a niche product).

Digg updates iOS app, still too little too late?

Digg has updated it’s iOS app to work with digg reader, but is it too little too late? Again as with the Digg web browser, my rss feeds are totally out of order, and can’t be re-ordered within the app. There aren’t many viewing or share options (it uses iOS’s sharing feature).
Hopefully this gets better, but for now I will stick with Mr. Reader 2.0 syncing with Feedly!

Mr Reader 2.0 for iPad iOS

MacStories has a great article on the new version of the iPad RSS reader Mr. Reader 2.0.

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Mr. Reader 2.0 an awesome $3.99 iOS iPad RSS reader, that gives Reeder a run for it’s money, and more so right now since it works with may more services than the iPad REEDER app which has not been updated in a while (though the update is promised).

Mr Reader 2.0 is fast and works with BazQux, Feedbin, FeedHQ, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and Fever. It also works with 1Password if you use that (please add support for SplashID Safe my password record keeping of choice).

Even more imprressive is it’s incredible sharing features! First off you can view the entries in the original RSS, a Full Web Version (far superior to Feedly’s pitiful web browser with no back and forward controls), Instapaper, Readability and Pocket. Then you can use a ridiculous amount of sharing services that you can re-order and do with as you please. You can add other browsers, other apps, like Hootsuite and many others, add mail actions, or even bookmarklets, so if you are viewing the web version you can share to Pinterest which no other RSS reader that I know of lets you do! And you can even download custom color schemes for the app!

This is an awesome program! So awesome I wish they had a paid web browser version that was this good, as I would totally use it, and use another service as my backend. It is so much better than the web interfaces of Feedly, Feedbin, Digg or BazQux!

This is an awesome app, and currently my iOS RSS reader of choice!!! You can get it at the iTunes store.