About six weeks ago, my wife Lisa started a weight loss program. So far she’s lost 17 pounds and counting. I lost 12 pounds during the same period. Our secret? Weight lifting three times a week, cardio two to three times a week, and keeping calorie intake at moderate levels. We really wanted something we…
August, 2003
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A lot of people are linking to Dennis Kucinich’s whining and moaning about all of the security checks, etc. that he has to go through when he travels by air. Well, duh — Kucinich voted for the final version of the Aviation and Transportation and Security Act that gives the TSA the authority to do…
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Thi Slashdot entry claims that, “Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office.” Of course if you actually read the article that is linked to — something Slashdot editors stopped doing years ago, you find that the story doesn’t quote a single person from the movie industry as even suggesting that text messaging has impacted…
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China’s Ma Lihua has set a new solo record for domino toppling, after spending six weeks setting up more than 300,000 dominos in a chain just to topple them. The dominos stretched for 15 km, according to the BBC, and took six minutes to fall. Source: Domino record toppled in Singapore. David Bottomley, BBC, August…
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The BBC had a story about performance enhancing drugs which addresses some of the issues raised a couple years ago in this thread at Seth’s web site about the use of PEDs in cycling (if you don’t follow cycling, the short version is that the sport has had a series of high profile scandals involving…
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Dave Winer complains today that a story about RSS left out any mention of Radio Userland. According to Winer, There are two schools of thought about aggregators. One says that they should work like a mail reader, the other that it should work like a weblog. The former shows you each feed as a separate…
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Dave Winer apparently believes government spending is like private investment, His homilies were hackneyed and dishonest, for example he repeated the story pols love to tell, about passing on debt to the next generations, as if anyone who thought borrowing for growth meant they don’t love his grandchildren. It’s misleading, the grandchildren get to live…
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I haven’t been much of a fan of conservative columnist Mona Charen, but her book Useful Idiots is an excellent look at the cast and crew of Left-liberals who were willing to look the other way or make excuses toward the Soviet Union. Unfortunately I didn’t get very far into it before I got a…
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I’ve read a lot of negative things about Tiger Direct over the years, but I have never had any problems with them. Until the other day when an e-mail arrived in my in-box that apparently originated from the comapny. Specifically, the e-mail claimed that Tiger Direct had changed its security system which necessitated resetting the…
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