I just made my 2010 Oscar Predictions! Make yours with the Official Oscar iPhone App.
Music (Original Score): Up, Michael Giacchino WON
Animated Feature Film: Up, Pete Docter WON
Costume Design: Nine, Colleen Atwood NO
Writing (Original Screenplay): The Hurt Locker, Written by Mark Boal WON
Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side WON
Visual Effects: Avatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones WON
Cinematography: Avatar, Mauro Fiore WON
Film Editing: The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis WON
Sound Mixing: Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson NO
Art Direction: Avatar, Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair WON
Best Picture: Avatar, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers NO
Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart WON
Documentary (Feature): The Cove, Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens WON
Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson WON
Makeup: The Young Victoria, Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore NO
Actress in a Supporting Role: Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air NO
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds WON
Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon, Germany NO
Documentary (Short Subject): China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill NO
Music (Original Song): The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart), from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett WON
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): In the Loop, Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche NO
Directing: Avatar, James Cameron NO
Last year during Tim Horton’s Roll Up the Rim contest, I started to post by results to my twitter account after each rim i rolled up. It started with a very dismal 0-18 record, finally winning around my 20th coffee.
After each post, I tagged my tweet with the hashtag #rolluptherim. Turns out, I wasn’t the only one:
From the National Post:
“Each year, the waning of winter means many things to many Canadians: the NHL trade deadline, last-minute dashes to the slopes, and the crisp sound of rolling coffee cup rims.
It’s quite likely that over the past week, you or someone close to you, has participated in the nation’s favourite contest: Tim Horton’s Roll Up The Rim To Win.
In the old days, if your rolling turned up a winner, you’d simply just high-five your buddies, or do some sort of happy dance in the middle of your local Timmys.
However, in these modern times, aside from practicing your rolling skills online you can celebrate your winnings and vent your frustrations via Twitter.
Using the hashtag #rolluptherim, Twitter users across the nation are keeping a tally of their winnings and failures with the contest.”
With this years contest coming at the end of February, I decided that it would be a good opportunity for myself to learn the iPhone SDK and go through the app development process. I was interested in doing a quick test project to learn some basic functions and social networking integration, as I am about to develop a full scale application that will be a very large iPhone/iPad app.
So, here it is. RimRoller, my first iPhone/iTouch application.
The idea behind the application, is pretty simple:
Enter you twitter login info
Buy a Coffee
Roll up the Rim
Press either the win or lose button in the app
After this is done, it keeps a tally of your Win/Loss ratio, and posts an update to twitter stating if you won or lost and your current win/loss ratio.
This is a very 1.0 release with a very crappy UI. I just wanted to get something out to market in time for the 2010 Roll up the Rim contest. In future releases, I plan on including Facebook connect, and the ability to specify what exactly you won.
Sticking with a quote that i read recently, “If you aren’t embarrassed by v1.0 you didn’t release it early enough” The RimRoller app was conceived, programmed, and released on the App Store in 8 days time.
Resources i used during the app development:
So, it’s been 6 weeks since I’ve posted any progress on my Couch to 5K. It’s not because of a lack of activity, but more of a series of events that have come up.
Starting with my completion of W2 of the program, I had a hard time getting around due to my knee acting up after completing W2. We were in the middle of moving houses and then on the 30th of August, my wife, Tracey was hit by a car.
I attempted to do W3 of the program, with little luck as my knee was in major pain and I couldn’t run the 3 minute portion without letting up. I tried redoing the running starting with W1’s regiment, but still no luck. My last run during this period had me in so much pain that I couldn’t stop shaking and my teeth were chattering (an odd side effect). I decided that I needed to give my body a rest, so I stopped and took 2 weeks off.
In that 2 week period, i received this email:
“I just came across your webpage after running a Google search on ‘”couch to 5k”. Being an iPhone user for the last 3 months (got a 3GS), I have been amazed at the number of apps available. Also, I just recently spent some vacation time in Spain with a childhood friend who made several indirect references to me carrying a few pounds (or even kilos!) too many. As a result, I found a few exercise apps, including Get Running and RunKeeper Pro, which I have been using to try to lose some weight (was at 175 lbs when I got back from my trip, now down to 165lbs, were I was at for a long time before this summer).
I see you have been trying the c25k plan (your page states you were finishing your second week). I actually completed the 2nd day of my 2nd week but had to take a break for a couple days because of leg pains (which even prevented me from sleeping at night). I think I am going to do my 3rd run for the 2nd week today. Have you started the 3rd week? It is a tough plan, and I guess I am looking for some inspiration to move forward.
Sorry to take up your precious time (I see you have many other passions) but I wanted to let you know that you may have inspired at least one person by posting on your site”
I thought this was a joke at first. How could I inspire somebody to get fit. Kind of absurd if you ask me. Turns out the person is real and recently moved from Belgium to the states. He has been sending me his C25K updates via Facebook, and I the same. Turns out we are now both at the same week on the program.
After reading his posts, last week I decided that instead of of jumping into W3 unprepared, I would do Week 2 over again.
Here is the breakdown of Week 2 (Mark II):
Starting weight: 188.6 lbs
Ending weight: 186.0 lbs
KMs run: 12.39KM
Fastest KM: 6:36
Couch to 5K – Week 2, Day 1 (Mark II):
Run felt pretty good, I was pleased with my results here, finally breaking the 4KM mark.
Couch to 5K – Week 2, Day 2 (Mark II):
My fastest and furthest run yet. Near the end of the run, I was attacked by a small dog that got away from a little girl.
Couch to 5K – Week 2, Day 3 (Mark II):
Had a 3 day rest after the second run and it made this one a tougher run, plus add to the fact that the day before I was shooting an event for 6 hours and was pretty sore from holding a camera rig all day.
All runs were tracked using RunKeeper Pro. I have totally abandoned the C25K iPhone app as Runkeeper will allow me to program my intervals in, and give me audio cues while I run. Now, If only the people at RunKeeper would add the C25K program into the application, they dominate the app store when it comes to C25k apps.
I now feel that I am ready for W3. I know it will be challenging having run it before, but I’m ready.
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