Adam C. Hegedus

Mmmmmm

Adam — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:12:14 +0000

Bethany Blues. Ribs. Run, don’t walk. Even Clara liked them!

Getting older… and lighter in the wallet.

Adam — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:56:18 +0000

I messed up my back this weekend. I tried to pick up Maggie and the next thing I know, I’m laying in the middle of the street and I can’t stand up straight. Sucks. But what’s worse is that today I went to see my doctor. The same doc I’ve seen for 15 years. But now they tell me (after my appointment) that he’s a specialist now, so my co-pay is higher. Nice. So I saw a pulmonary specialist about my back, and that’ll be $35. Want to know the real kicker?

Wait for it..

I didn’t even see him, I saw his PA. So I paid more to see a specialist’s assistant in a field that isn’t his specialty. I think our health care system is on the right track, don’t you??

Beautiful… huh…

Adam — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:39:14 +0000

Today’s ride brought me to a scenic little gem called Coopers Gap. About a 20 minute or so drive from Tussey, in what can probably safely be called, the middle of no where, is the aforementioned gap. Five of us met up at the side of a road somewhere between Lewistown, Penn Roosevelt State Park and Rt 322. When we arrived, let’s just say it was raining… hard. But we drove all the way there, so let’s mount up. The names of the trails were a little bit of a blur, but I know that skittaka, dear tick and beautiful were all included.

Coopers Gap Ride (8/2/08)

All in all it was yet another fantastic ride. Unfortunately for me, I had a fair amount of trouble keeping the rubber side down on all of the wet rocks. So after a little blood, a few bee stings, and some tired legs, I had another great time. Beautiful was a trail I had heard a lot about. It’s a lovely trail that rides along the ridge of what ever mountain we were on. It was fantastic… and rocky… I lost skin.

Big thanks to Greg for the GPS tracking and both him and Nick for waiting for me!

Get on your bikes and ride.

A spectacular ride

Adam — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:23:31 +0000

I had a chance to ride with the Mountain Bike club this evening, and had a really great time! Carrie and the girls went to visit Mame and Bop (that would be Carrie’s parents… no idea how those names came about), and I got a chance to get out and ride.

This was today’s ride. The ride along the Tussey Mountain trail (also called the ridge trail) was really great. Beautiful views, rolling terrain and a smattering of tricky rock gardens all made for a good time. Then a super fast descent on the Camp trail made me remember why I love this sport so much.

Get out and ride… you won’t regret it!

Another must see.

Adam — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:41:25 +0000

Tonight was a great night. It started with a great meal at Alto with Carrie. After that Carrie gave me the night off and I went to see Ironman with some friends. I recommend this one. It had good action, funny dialog, and lots of explosions. All the makings of a good guy flick. As Rey put it so eloquently, run, don’t walk.

Ahhh, technology

Adam — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:05:33 +0000

I’m writing this using the brand new wordpress app for my new iPhone 3g. Where would I be without this thing!!

By the way… Tap Tap Revenge is a truly great game for the iPhone. And this is my current best.

Funny stuff!

Adam — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:18:34 +0000

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Putting the green in energy bills

Adam — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:36:39 +0000

I haven’t said much about my current job here, but I’m excited about what I’m doing so I thought I would drop some info. At present (and hopefully for the distant future because I enjoy it that much), I’m working for a small software company in State College, PA called Good Steward Software. Our primary function is creating software for medium to large businesses and government entities to track energy usage and expenditures. I know that may not sound like much fun, but when your company is the best at what they do, trust me… it’s fun. Because of our position in the market, we get to push the envelope a bit and run with ideas instead of just maintaining the status quo. That’s where I come in.

I was originally hired here to do implementations of EnergyCAP, our main product. But when I mentioned that I’d like to get involved with future web app development, I got my wish. For the past six months or so, I’ve been managing design and development of a product that will be released in September. I’m excited about it because it’s all I’ve done for six months, and it’s going to be fun to see what people think.

I can’t go into much, but I’ll say this. This product will allow home and small business owners the opportunity to track energy bills. With this information they can answer questions like:

What is the actual cost of energy is for my home/office?
How does the weather effect my energy usage?
Were the new windows I had installed worth the money?
How does my energy consumption compare to similar properties?
Just how much Greenhouse Gas am I producing?

And on top of all this, it’s going to look great (I like to think of it as the GQ of Energy management), and free for end users.

Sounds good, huh? More soon…

Great technologies should be shared.

Adam — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:30:39 +0000

I just recently decided to look into a new GTD (Getting Things Done) solution for myself. I want a tool that I can use on both my Macbook Pros, and and my iPhone. Ideally, they should be able to sync with each other. Bonus points if the iPhone syncs wirelessly.

Anyway, I’m looking at two great looking products. The first is OmniFocus. This is a really nice looking product. Very complete, with tons of features and a lot of flexibility in how you GTD. Based on OmniOutliner, which is also a very well designed tool.

The second is called Things. The nice thing about this product is that it is really well designed. The folks at Cultured Code definitely put a lot of thought into this great app. It looks great, it has nice features and even though it’s slightly more limited than OmniFocus, it’s still extremely usable.

The one thing that’s not included (yet) in Things is syncing. I’m hoping that this is done soon, but in the mean time, I heard about a great technology that makes syncing Things between Macs a snap. It’s called Dropbox.

This is very similar to .mac, however it syncs on the fly, instantly. So you have a folder called your Dropbox, and every time you copy a file to it, it automatically syncs it to the Dropbox servers. Then you can access your files from any machine (Mac or PC) or even via a web interface. Public files can even be accessed through a web link by anyone.

This is really great technology, but unfortunately it’s not quite ready for prime time yet. It’s still in beta and if you want to get a look at it, you need an invitation. I was lucky enough to get an invite from Eric Belanger, and now I have 10 invitations that I can pass on. So if you want to take a look at Dropbox, post a comment here. I’ll send invites to the first 10 to ask.

I’ll give my take on GTD apps next time.

Forget about Blockbuster and Netflix… what’s in the RedBox.

Adam — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:34:44 +0000

Last week Carrie and Clara were sick, so Carrie’s parents came and took Maggie for a few days. It was tough, we’ve never been away from Maggie before. We got over it quickly though… it was like a vacation! The house was so quiet! So we rented a movie for the first time in months! We rented No Reservations, which was cute, and the new Die Hard movie.. which I liked :).

What we rented and the fact that we rented is not the point. What was cool was where we rented. We went to the Redbox.

For those not in the know, Redbox is this new thing that keeps popping up in grocery stores and places like McDonalds. We have 3 of them here in State College, so as far as I’m concerned, they’re everywhere. But all you do is go there, swipe a credit card and get a movie. Easy. What makes it better is that you can go online and see what’s in the box and check it out. Then you just go there, swipe the card and it spits it out at you.

And it’s cheap too, a buck a day. Return it by nine pm or you pay another buck. Blockbuster no longer has a return by date… so they can charge you more. I don’t need it for two months, or two weeks even. Sometimes I want to rent a movie and watch it. Boom. One dollar. Nice.

So check it out, it a good thing. Check out what’s in the box.