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I'm a lifestream designer, podcaster, & MFA candidate at UT Austin. Below is a reverse-chronological view of my life.
mood: excited to go. We ran the entire four miles at 14:26 and it felt perfect. I have experienced a complete cognitive shift in my attitude towards food and exercise. I feel compelled to fuel my body, not trash it with empty calories. And I want to push it as far as it can go with the best fuel I can give it.
nutrition: 2 bananas and some pistash 40 minutes before. No complaints.
weather: humid, 60s, sunny, dazzling, exquisite.
conversation: kindness, the trip, the trip, the trip
effort: 1/5. Aside from some fleeting knee pain (do I need glucosamine?), this was my best run yet. This is the trip.
I am working on doing just that.
1. Install the Firefox add-on Pearl Crescent Page Saver. This allows you to take screen grabs of an entire site, not just what’s visible on your monitor. Set your blog/lifestream site to display a small amount of posts per page (I’m working with 10 a page for my first site). Then “Save Image of Entire Page” using Page Saver for every page of your stream. It will save as PNGs.
2. Open Photoshop and create a new document. If you are printing your pages to put up on a wall like I am, then it’s important that you determine how much space you have to work with. I can fit about 10 8.5×11″ sheets of paper in my space, so I’m working in a document that is 8.5×110″ at 300 dpi.
3. Paste in your PNGs and scale them to fit the width of the paper. I had to scale mine to 179%.
4. Test print. First, make a selection (using the fixed selection tool) that is 8.5×11″. Select the first page worth in your image, and print. In the print dialog box, be sure to check “print selection”. I am using a Canon Pixma iP4200 with borderless printing, so I had to set that up in the page setup. After you print the first page, make a guide at the bottom of the selection and move the selection down to the next 8.5×11″ area. This is when you have to see how much is getting cropped by your printer or in translation. I have to start my next print 3/16″ before the 11″ mark, because I lose that much in the printing process (I have no idea why).
5. Remove truly frivolous ink waste. My lifestream has a black background, and there is no way I am going to print over 400 pages of black strips. So when I take my screengrabs of my current lifestream, I will change the background color to white temporarily. The visual effect will be slightly weakened but a fair trade for cost.
A printed lifestream is like a trail behind you. You can see everyone’s in lifefuckcity. Your mobile device is your connection to individuality, to your physical self. Lifestreaming is a way for your physical self to prepare, remember, and know. It can be a map, or a ticket. Technology is a shoddy hack, but it will bring you faster to the realization that EVERY DECISION MATTERS. And everyone knows.
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- Set a timer. 24 minutes. 6:00p.
- Check paperwork. Bills? Notices? Unopened mail? Sort, pay, and share.
Omg you’re kidding me. My ‘loan servicing’ has been transferred again, away from the government. I do not understand this. Now I have to enroll in yet another online service, at a later date (mygreatlakes.org). - Check email inbox for ’starred’ emails of due bills. Pay and un’star’. Document.
Paid loan:
Had to pay another $420 in tution:
- Go through receipts. Add shared expenses to daytum account.
I need to pay my half of the renter’s insurance (21.20/2). But first I’ll see if Kel owes me anything in hosting charges. There is a pending 247host charge but I’ll wait on that. I’ll just put the insurance money in (the full total – I have to double what I contribute since we share the account if that makes any sense.)
- Check balances at Chase twice, Citi, Discover, student loans. Make appropriate payments, screen shot often.
Nothing due. - Check calendar for upcoming due dates or milestones.
- travel funding. Can I get funding to be a guest critic at UIUC? DO THIS SOON OMG.
- I have to put my paypal money in the joint account, minus $9 for an individual signup. Then we need to make TPP subscribe buttons tpp paypal buttons instead of paying my email. The subscription package goes to jessicamullendesign, as does the single TPP premium feed subscribe. Our system is flawed. It’s also really janky if the podcast shows up locked in my lifestream even though you’re logged in. I hate having the podcast in my lifestream. I think it needs a different display.
- powerbook logic board (will I ever deal with this? no.)
- dentist appt
- taxes. ughhhhh.
- REDUCE JOINT CHASE CREDIT LINE
- With any remaining time, log into Wesabe and/or Mint and tag expenses, work on specific projects, etc. Too bad so sad.
Actual time to write this post: 44 minutes. Twice as long! Jesus.
Mood: starting to get more and more panicky about having to support myself come summer. And excited.
Mood: Feeling damn good. Had a very positive attitude, in large part because running to the gym is so much better than biking. It shaves off 5 miles from what we have to do at the gym and I really welcome the change in scenery. Plus, parking on campus is a nightmare. During the run I felt great. We only walked about 2 miles of it! Somehow our time is still 16:40, but that’s with multiple bathroom and water breaks, as well as walking through the gym to the track.
I almost forgot! We meditated before leaving for this run! It was amazing. We are trying to do it once a week now, before our long runs.
Nutrition: fruit salad and 2 magic energy pellets (new term for our energy bars) before. Half a pellet bite at mile 2 at the gym, then another bite. Then a Gu with caffeine at mile 5 or so? I forget exactly when we had what. Basically had a bite of pellet every time we felt hungry, and then had another on the way home. Digestion was fine! We could have done with one more Gu maybe, Kel was crampin up. But we just need to bring our energy cocktail next time.
Weather: warm and cloudy. Pleasant.
Conversation: so much! We planned our meals for the week. We decided to quit drinking (a week trial…). We talked about the last week’s accomplishments and failures. We talked about how to move forward with TPP and Lifefuck. We talked briefly about lifestreaming and gender, and how lifestreaming may empower any gender.
Effort: 3/5. It was getting pretty hard during the last mile or two, but we were very comfortable and cheerful. My knees started aching a little… My worst running nightmare is knee surgery, ugh.
Log in for a video journal recorded Friday morning. The last brown-haired video journal, I discuss my ongoing body modification journey. [Duration: 00:06:40 | Recorded: 3.6.10]
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