I’ve spent so long in my left brain trying to build my knowledge of computers, the world, trying to figure it all out…trying to relieve this anxiety, fear, sadness. My right brain has atrophied, I’m cut off from it, I feel dead because of it. I pursue spirituality to help me get it back, but I still haven’t found it quite yet. How sad it is that our culture requires this of us, how it cuts us off of our innate talents of imagination that we felt and enjoyed as children.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/11/intuition-vs-rationality/

There is the pain you create through a process of having negative thoughts, which result in anxiety or emotional pain, and then a combination of the thought and feeling continues to cycle the same types of thoughts and same feelings. You can exercise and eat better, which will help your body feel better and make you less prone to this cycle, but at the same time you must try to stop these thoughts. Realize that they don’t serve you, they only stress you, cause the pain.

The other type of pain is the type that is repressed. It surfaces in various ways and influences our behavior. It causes us to unconsciously defend ourselves in various ways, brings about behavior we wish we didn’t have. We hate ourselves for the behavior, and because pain isn’t pleasurable, or on some level we mix it up with the type of pain we create, we avoid it. We eat, or smoke, or anything else we can to avoid it. Ultimately the rule is that if you allow yourself to feel it, it will be gone and you will be more at peace.

"object".methods.sort.each do |method| puts method end

If you want to get only methods with a certain string inside them, use this:

"object".methods.sort.each do |method| puts method if method.to_s.index('search_string') end

I found that ‘git push origin :branch_name’ will delete the repository from the remote server if the branch has been removed locally.

$ git push origin :rails3
To git@redconfetti.com:myrepo.git
 - [deleted]         rails3

I’ve been thinking of getting more involved in a hobby which I’m motivated to follow and invest my free time and resources into, which is relatively low cost, and that also might help me make contacts in person and online with like minded people. I might even be able to provide a website with resources (starting with this blog post), or even use my existing skills to make a website application specially tailored to compliment this hobby. It might turn into a business. This is what I need.

One of the things that interests me is survivalism. My main strength in this world is my knowledge of technology. Without electricity, and agreed upon methods of communication (i.e. the Internet), my skills are worthless. It’s important that we remember how to do things to meet our own needs, instead of being dependent on this system that currently exists. It’s important that we create a hub of resources that can serve as guides to survival in any horrible scenario that realistically could occur during our lifetimes. I’m not talking about apocalypse, but economic hardship, or civil conflicts, or even natural disasters.

I want to cover topics like sewing (making clothes), agriculture and animal husbandry (making food), finding sources of water (including well drilling), making or finding shelter, etc. etc. I’d even like to cover ways of keeping technology in various ways, such as solar power or minimal fossil fuels. One way I do this right now is by using a motorcycle for transportation. My transportation costs are way down because of this.

I love the spirit of the internet to provide open source software to benefit humanity. Just the same there is a community of engineers contributing their ideas to the open source community, known as Global Village Construction Set.

Global Village Construction Set in 2 Minutes from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.

I was on a similar regimen called The Primal Blueprint for several months. I went from 310 lbs to 275 lbs. Unlike the vegetable/fruit juice diet in this movie, I ate steamed veggies and meat without worrying about fat content (similar to how cave men eat).

Overall the concept is the same. Cut out all the flour, sugar, and processed foods. Get more nutrients in your diet. Your body will adjust, and will require extra water to detox and convert to ketosis. You will feel better, exercise will be more enjoyable, and you’ll see clearly that you are finally making progress and it will lift your spirits.

When I was on The Primal Blueprint lifestyle (diet and exercise), I didn’t crave the bad foods as much. I walked through an aisle at a grocery store that was filled with cereal, and it really didn’t temp me so much.

Any time I had tried to fast, I always ended up getting a horrible headache that got close to being a migrane. If someone told me to do some sort of extreme diet, I would totally consider the idea crazy, because I did not want to put myself in such pain just to feel defeated afterwards.

I learned that you won’t get a headache transitioning into the diet if you get fat, nutrients, and drink a lot of water.

Fats are okay. It’s best to start the diet and allow yourself to have as much fat as you want in the beginning. You won’t necessarily feel the need to have a bunch of fat later. I got to the point eventually where I was fine with extremely lean grilled fish and veggies with very little butter. Don’t even think about fat as an issue. Have Bacon, eggs, and veggies with cheese in the morning, have two uncured premium hot dogs with a bunch of steamed veggies for lunch, and then have a nice grilled chicken, steak, or fish for dinner with a bunch of steamed veggies as well. Mix it up. Asparagus sometimes, brocolli and cauliflower other times. Zuccini. Use as much butter as you want, with a little salt, or even alfredo sauce.

If you had protein (meat), fat (also in meat/animal products), and vegetables (fiber/nutrients), for your first meal, that will be the best transition to the diet for you. If you feel you need something still, eat more. You don’t have to count or measure. Your bodys natural feeling of needing more, or needing to stop, will kick in. It’s no longer being thrown out of whack, with blood sugar spikes and abysmal dips, so you won’t get a headache from blood sugar irregularity.

You might get a headache from dehydration that you’re unaware of though. I didn’t know it, but my body needs water every time I start on the diet again. If I drink a lot of water, and just ignore the bloating look I get (especially the 2nd chin), it subsides in a day or so and I become leaner looking in the neck than I did before going on the diet. It’s like my body goes into detox mode, and to do this well it needs water…or else I do get a headache.

It was so amazing to find out that I was only experiencing intense cravings for food every 3-4 hours, including sometimes symptoms such as headaches or even shakes, just because of the flour, sugar, and processed foods. Those foods are easily available, long lasting, and addicting, and it seems like this is important for the world to realize. We’ve slowly become part of a system where junk food outlets and the medical system have locked us into a perpetual dependency, which is plummeting our culture into a major imbalance and major dysfunction. Health care costs are up because of the cost of keeping us alive. Our productivity and sense of life, mentally, physically, and spiritually, is down because of how we are poisoning our own bodies. I am so glad that I’ve found a cure, and this movie above is just another two or three examples of how change is possible.

I was on the Primal Blueprint for about 3 months and lost 35 pounds. I’ve been off the Primal Blueprint for over a month now, and I’ve put about 5 pounds back on. I plan on getting myself into the right space where I’m motivated to get myself out of this addiction to junk food (especially bread). I’ve already shopped for groceries which have no flour or sugar. Time to get back on track.

When setting up a new website manually on an Ubuntu server you need to establish a user account with a home directory, and Bash shell access to the server.

useradd -m testuser -s /bin/bash

After creating the account you’ll want to assign a password for the account.

passwd testuser