I am setting up shop at
http://www.benzado.com/blog/
and probably won't post here any more.

I react to the first two reviews of FatWatch:

mangaphreak complains, in a condescending way, that it should include metric units. This is frustrating to read, because it does. In fact, I worked pretty hard so that a user can switch between pounds, kilograms, and stones instantly.

Brent Wood says nice things about it, but that it is overpriced ( Read more... )

FatWatch is now available for sale on iTunes!

jillmorris makes a cameo in the primary screenshot.

Ruboku Reviews are in! Well, one review, but it's 5 stars!

The reviewer's complaint about the orange and red is actually fixed in an update that is stuck in the App Store Review Pipeline.

FatWatch is still In Review. It looks like $9.99 was a good price, since the other health tracker programs are either free or $14.99.

In retrospect that last post was a little bit stupid, since I was pretty much already certain I was going to use the name FatWatch anyway. It's an app for iPhone or iPod touch which helps you monitor your body weight. I submitted it to iTunes this morning and set up a hastily designed website for it. No idea when it will show up on the App Store ( Read more... )

What do you think of the name "FatWatch"?

Please respond with a statement, not a question.

This weekend I learned how to eat boiled crawfish and play poker. I also installed a set of full spectrum compact fluorescent light bulbs in my bedroom which seem to have generally improved my mood. It is uncomfortably hot to be here.

Watching RAGNARÖCK's debut at Harold Night last week, I realized that The Invocation would be the perfect opening to use for an improvised novel. If I'm lucky enough to keep my freelancing lifestyle through November, maybe I'll get a chance to find out for sure.

Plans:

Finally see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with my father (I am not interested in your opinion of the film)Marvel at the low prices of things ( Read more... )

Noam Chomsky used the following two sentences to illustrate the idea that some form of grammar is built into the human brain:

1. "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
2. "Furiously sleep ideas green colorless."

Both are completely meaningless, but Sentence 1 feels more correct than Sentence 2. Chomsky observed that all human languages have some ( Read more... )