Justin Reinhart

World’s Longest Living People

Jan

5

2015

50 Secrets of the World’s Longest Living People Some time closer to 2005 I was reading a book called 50 Secrets of the World’s Longest Living People. Although I don’t agree with everything it claims, it is an interesting take on health. Here are a few notes I took while reading the book: Okinawa Around ...

Alton Brown Diet

Jan

4

2015

It is the start of the new year and a lot of folks are choosing to double their efforts at losing weight with their New Year’s resolutions. This seems like a perfect time to post the following treasure that originally aired January 4th, 2010. (That’s 5 years ago to the day.) There’s an episode of Good Eats named ...

What Melatonin Feels Like

Sep

15

2014

If you haven’t had a good night of sleep in a while, you’ve probably forgotten what Melatonin feels like. Melatonin is the counter-regulatory hormone to cortisol and is largely responsible for the sleepy feeling you get to prepare you for bed. In healthy individuals, melatonin release occurs at sundown and steadily gets stronger until you ...

Installing New WiFi card into Hackintosh

Jun

19

2014

I have a Dell Latitude e6510 laptop which came with a Broadcom 1501 wireless card which is completely incompatible with a hackintosh installation. I can tell you definitively after hours of research that the only solution to this problem is to replace the wireless “card” with a compatible model. The desirable model for me was ...

Solved Mac OS X 10.8.5 WiFi failure with Simple Rollback

Jun

19

2014

I was experiencing major problems with the Mac OS X 10.8.5 update I solved them by rolling back to 10.8.0 (via USB stick) and then updating manually to 10.8.4. Symptoms after updating from 10.8.4 to 10.8.5: Mac OS is slower to boot up Keyboard and mouse and external USB devices do not work for 10 ...

Hedonic Treadmill Access Granted

Apr

23

2014

I updated my phone from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 5s. I managed to move all apps, contacts, data, everything, except audio. Why no audio Apple? It was a huge disappointment that I couldn’t transfer the audio from my old phone to the new one without syncing with a PC that is in storage ...

Capturing Decision Energy

Apr

21

2014

It is always advisable to capture any decisions you make so that you don’t have to keep making the decisions over and over again. If I find my mind wandering about a project, I also find that my mind is trying to solve the problem. I let it. Any new information about that project that has been generated (e.g. who to call, next ...

Diet vs Autoimmune Disorders 2

Apr

6

2014

When I mentioned it was my birthday and that I would be spending it alone in an unfamiliar area, a person I just met took me to the beach in San Pedro, CA. We talked all night looking at the ocean, talking about life. At some point they began to tell me about their health problems. ...

Happy Birthday To Me

Apr

5

2014

It is my 30th birthday today. I’ve carefully taken inventory and yes, I still have all my limbs. I’ve never given birthdays appropriate attention or fanfare. They have a tendency to creep up on me and happen amongst the existing, all-important plans I’ve already made. Therefor I never imagined on this day I’d be on ...

Negative Feedback

Mar

27

2014

Today, as a #developer , I had to deal with some negative feedback on one of my Chrome extensions. A user believes my software isn’t working properly and did not provide details for how to reproduce the issue. The user has been contacted (no response yet) and there is no way to remove the negative ...