Football Epilogue

I recently found this gem (above) from the college days. Well actually my daughter found/presented me with it as it came out of some stuff from her mom's house. This was my freshman year and was likely sore enough that the face is expressing legitimate discomfort.  For some reason I only recall taking Freshman and Senior year (below) pics. Maybe I skipped them the other years in favor of napping or dinner?  It is an interesting contrast to look at the two. There's definitely some size differences, not to mention freshman year was the only year I tanned up well. I guess I got smart and learned how to stay out of the sun. 

As mentioned in a previous post, I procured myself a new fitbit. This allowed for me to compare the Fitbit One to the Samsung Health App I've been using on my phone. While the comparison will be going on for a while and I could get into all the minutia about the different accelerometer chips used in the different device, I thought it would be simple and handy to just use the two for a while and see how they compare.  I've had the Fitbit for roughly a week. The first figure shows the step comparisons between the One and my phone. As you can see they track pretty closely. There are a couple of deviations though, namely on 6/12 and 6/18.  To more closely see the variation I evaluated the difference between the two devices as shown in the second figure. Positive values are days the Fitbit counted more steps and the negative values are where it counted less steps. 6/12 and 6/18 are clear on this chart and also correlate with days I charged my Fitbit, i.e. it sat on t...

I went out to dinner with my family last night for my birthday. During the evening we started talking about my son and his standardized testing at school. One part of the conversation focused on his teacher recommending the students get some protein to help keep them through the day. My son then asked me if I could cook some bacon for him this morning. My mom went on to say, "just have some peanut butter, it's better for you". My sister supported, "yeah bacon is all fat which is bad for you". I have some serious disagreements with the last case as I think it's largely been proven that fat doesn't necessarily cause fatness, as opposed to sugar and other carbohydrates. Curious, I thought I'd do a label comparison of each and for kicks throw oatmeal and yogurt and eggs into the mix. Contestant #1: Bacon I selected Hormel black label bacon as it's common, especially up here in MN.  Screenshot from http://www.hormel.com/Brands/Black-Label-Bac...