This Week’s Life Hacks
- You can set a locked maximum volume on your iPod. I like loud music. I always want it a little bit louder. I want to feel like it’s inside me – even when I’m on the subway. But, I’d also like to be able to hear when I’m 60. So… Settings —> Volume Control. Set a locked maximum volume. So no matter how much I try to slide that volume bar up, it stays put right at safe listening level.
- You can screw with the Date Added date in iTunes by changing your system date and time.My cat likes to stomp on my keyboard and delete songs from my iTunes library. When I then add them back in, they’re all out of position (since I sort primarily by date added). Solution: figure out what the time is supposed to be, change the system date/time, add the track, change it back. Yay. Play count is a different issue :/.
- Acorn squash has lots of potassium. The RDA for potassium is about 4700mg. The RDA for sodium is 1500mg. The basic idea is that you keep your potassium intake at double your sodium intake. Do you have any idea how impossible this is?? A large banana has 450mg potassium. A serving of pretzels has 450mg of sodium. Eat basically anything prepared at a factory or in a restaurant and your salt intake is going to exceed the 1500mg mark. It’s going to be more like 2500mg. Hence the ridiculously high potassium requirement. It’s like they are adjusting for our excessive sodium intake. Acorn squash is the jackpot – 900mg potassium and 8mg sodium per serving.
- Omega 3 fatty acids boost mood. The average American eats an Omega 6: Omega 3 ratio of somewhere between 14:1 – 20: 1 (Omega 6: Omega 3). The recommended ratio is between 10:1 and 5:1 with some experts suggesting that even lower (4:1 – 1:1) might be ideal. My diet right now is 6:1. Something to work on.
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5. Multivitamin + 400 IU Vitamin E + 1000 IU Vitamin C + 1000 IU fish oil + 1 apple + 1/2 cup oatmeal = years without the sniffles, and low cholesterol.
6. Stay 2 car lengths, or 15 paces, away from all rednecks. They are unpredictable, and most likely armed.
You sort by date added? Like in High Fidelity? Holy crap.