I just found out I have until November 28th for my reunion diet goal.
That’s quite a long way from now. Maybe I should expand my mission?
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I just found out I have until November 28th for my reunion diet goal.
That’s quite a long way from now. Maybe I should expand my mission?
Note the drool
Near the end of day two in Hong Kong we collectively noticed there is an awful lot of pork in our meals. Pork dumplings at breakfast, sweet fried pork dumplings for dessert, minced pork Shanghai dishes and on and on and on. I thought about it for a moment and realized that I had eaten some form of pork at every single meal since I arrived.
Immediately I took it on as a challenge to see if I could eat pork at each meal for my entire ten day stay. I’m about half way there and I’m optimistic I’ll succeed in my mission.
Apparently there is historical rational for this phenomenon. Basically every other kind of meat has gone through some kind of phase of health related disaster at one time or another. Currently you can’t get fresh duck due to some kind of outbreak for instance.
So over here in
Enter Google.
I searched for the “sodium cyclamate” which the can listed next to Aspartame (NutraSweet) and discovered Stevia.
Its name is Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni. … 300-400 times sweeter than sugar and not artificial anything. Stevia is 100% Mother Nature in the form of a green herb plant of the Aster/Chrysanthemum family, the leaves of which yield its naturally-occurring sweet substance, glycoside, or stevioside. Best of all, it has been shown in numerous research studies to have no ill effects on the human body. In fact, in
The FDA has refused to approve it as a food additive in the
“Mr. Secretary, thank you for your hospitality, and thank you for your leadership. You are courageously leading our nation in the war against terror. You’re doing a superb job. You are a strong Secretary of Defense, and our nation owes you a debt of gratitude.” -Bush
Dick Cheney says, “Don Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had. . . . People should get off his case and let him do his job.” [via Paul Krugman]
Really best ever? Huh. I disagree.
UPDATE: Also read Slate’s War Stories – Fred Kaplan
I have long suspected that Karl Rove has been dreaming about engineering a high profile arrest close to the election. Even if they captured somebody now they’d probably just come up with some bogus reason to hold him in secret until the political climate is more attractive for maximum possible votes.
Just to pass on some added information, about which we’ll be saying more. There is chatter in Pakistani intelligence circles that the US has let the Pakistanis know that the optimal time for bagging ‘high value’ al Qaida suspects in the untamed Afghan-Pakistani border lands is the last ten days of July, 2004.
So I made it to the other side of the world. The flight is fucking long – no joke. 21 hours with a stiff head-wind. Thankfully our otherwise stingy company flies us business class internationally so we get to sit upstairs on the 747 and sip champaign and eat warmed nuts. Personal on-demand video provided me with a few movie options and I chose 21 Grams based on a recommendation from my traveling coworker compainion. I liked the movie, but I don’t know if I would have made it through the whole thing if I had not been captive. (Side note, did you know that Benecio Del Toro is the “attorney” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?) I started reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson and browsed Cargo magazine, which has been described to me as a Lucky for men.
The buffet at our hotel (Kowloon Shangri La) has a diverse “station” selection which can easily induce over-indulged, cross-culteral food sickness. An omlette does not go well with mu-shu Pork. Similar to the KFC/Taco Bell where you can’t decide so you opt for the #12 taco/fried chicken combo and regret it big time afterwards.
Photos forthcoming.
I’m a big Formula One fan. Tivo is taking care of recording this Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix race, but I won’t be home for two weeks to watch it. The one side benefit of the almost total lack of state-side F1 coverage is that most likely I’ll be able to make it that whole time without finding out who wins and spoiling it for me.
Side F1 note: When I first met Hollie’s brother (1995?) who introduced me to the sport, he called me Schumacher cause I kindof look like him. He still calls me Schumacher, which is fine by me because he has since become the all-time winningest driver in history and makes up near $100million/year.
I was just introduced to the binary scale. Assign 0 for you wouldn’t, 1 for you would. Excruciatingly beautiful in design and execution.
Replace your outdated, inefficient 1-10 opposite sex ranking today.
Just in case I haven’t offended enough people yet.
Average IQ by state and how they voted in 2000
State | Avg. IQ | 2000 | |
1 | Connecticut | 113 | Gore |
2 | Massachusetts | 111 | Gore |
3 | New Jersey | 111 | Gore |
4 | New York | 109 | Gore |
5 | Rhode Island | 107 | Gore |
6 | Hawaii | 106 | Gore |
7 | Maryland | 105 | Gore |
8 | New Hampshire | 105 | Bush |
9 | Illinois | 104 | Gore |
10 | Delaware | 103 | Gore |
11 | Minnesota | 102 | Gore |
12 | Vermont | 102 | Gore |
13 | Washington | 102 | Gore |
14 | California | 101 | Gore |
15 | Pennsylvania | 101 | Gore |
16 | Maine | 100 | Gore |
17 | Virginia | 100 | Bush |
18 | Wisconsin | 100 | Gore |
19 | Colorado | 99 | Bush |
20 | Iowa | 99 | Gore |
21 | Michigan | 99 | Gore |
22 | Nevada | 99 | Bush |
23 | Ohio | 99 | Bush |
24 | Oregon | 99 | Gore |
25 | Alaska | 98 | Bush |
26 | Florida | 98 | Bush |
27 | Missouri | 98 | Bush |
28 | Kansas | 96 | Bush |
29 | Nebraska | 95 | Bush |
30 | Arizona | 94 | Bush |
31 | Indiana | 94 | Bush |
32 | Tennessee | 94 | Bush |
33 | North Carolina | 93 | Bush |
34 | West Virginia | 93 | Bush |
35 | Arkansas | 92 | Bush |
36 | Georgia | 92 | Bush |
37 | Kentucky | 92 | Bush |
38 | New Mexico | 92 | Gore |
39 | North Dakota | 92 | Bush |
40 | Texas | 92 | Bush |
41 | Alabama | 90 | Bush |
42 | Louisiana | 90 | Bush |
43 | Montana | 90 | Bush |
44 | Oklahoma | 90 | Bush |
45 | South Dakota | 90 | Bush |
46 | South Carolina | 89 | Bush |
47 | Wyoming | 89 | Bush |
48 | Idaho | 87 | Bush |
49 | Utah | 87 | Bush |
50 | Mississippi | 85 | Bush |
[Via MetaFilter “Morons for Bush?”]
UPDATE: Great quote from the comments on MetaFilter
It is well known that IQ is not a relevant way to measure “true” intelligence, and that many factors go into determining the political makeup of a stare’s electorate, including historic tradition, perceived affinity with the candidate, differences in campaign targetting, media influence, and haha ha hahaha ha ha ha!