Big Bang Theory

This post has a little of everything. I love the show "Big Bang Theory". It has a great mix of comedy for all and comedy for some. The characters have their own identity and some depth. The writing is good; they always seem to come up with a funny sarcastic comment or two that I would not have thought of. Most episodes have a joke or two that are grounded in some realm of science or technology that may not be completely clear to the masses but do work in general too. Last weeks episode had two that not everyone would pick up on completely.
The first was a joke about research data and statistical analysis. The comment was: "I heard about your experiment, 20,000 data runs and no statistically significant results, way to go!" Of course he was being sarcastic he was basically saying big experiment and the data results don't work to prove or disprove his theory. Yes it was not the roll on the floor comedy but it was funny and I was excited I knew the full meaning.
The second joke was when Sheldon was climbing a rock wall and stopped because of being afraid of heights. He said "I fell like an inverse tangent function approaching an asymptote." They guy he was with said "Are you saying you are stuck." And Sheldon's reply to that was "What part of an inverse tangent function approaching an asymptote don't you understand?" This one was funny especially with the actors delivery but I was also again very happy I knew what they were talking about. At the end of the show there is always that Chuck Lorre Productions white screen with some writing on it. I have paused it a few times to read and things time I noticed they had the inverse tangent function graphed with an explanation. Well this I thought was really funny. So I though there must be a website where you can read these. Someone out there I am sure put them on the Internet. So with one quick search I found the website. Chuck Lorre Productions Vanity Cards; and the one from this show was #238. Isn't the Internet just great!

It is time #1 - 300

I want to lose weight. I have been thinking about it a lot for about a year now. I don’t just want to lose weight though. I feel very week at times; hauling my ass up stairs or having to move boxes or furniture. I can just tell that I don’t have the strength that I once had not all that long ago. I know when I was in the military I did not led the healthiest life but I did a lot of physical activity while working plus I worked out more than I do now. That lifestyle from the military followed me for the next eleven years, all except the physical activity and working out. That now makes fifteen plus years where I mainly ate fast food or at chain restaurants and made the usual bad choices on what to eat. During the last eleven years with the exception of a few month spurts here and there I have been very inactive and the combination has caused me to go from 186lbs at the end of my last deployment to 300lbs now today.

Here are two pictures of me from the last month in the military around October 1997.

From Photos of me... through time and space

From Photos of me... through time and space

My hope is that this public display of my current status and the public announcement to make at least one update a month on my progress or lack of progress however it goes will be some extra motivation to at least try to make some progress each month. I say each month because I plan to try to change my lifestyle not go on a diet and workout some and that progress may be slow at time so to keep myself from not seeing progress I am only going to weigh myself once a month on or around the 10th of each month.

Here is a picture of me today. I am not comfortable posting this picture but again this is supposed to be bad that is the point right; more motivation for me.

From Photos of me... through time and space