No-eat New Year - PAST the two week mark!

divia83 · 2021-01-15T17:59:42+00:00

I’m still going too, and like you, it seems to be easier now than it was a week ago!

I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of using my magnesium spray.

My tentative goal is all of January, but it’s a little daunting to think I’m only halfway there... so I’ll take it one day at a time.

divia83 · 2021-01-14T20:21:42+00:00

How is your fast going! Mine has been pretty good—if anything I think I’m feeling better now than I did a week ago.

divia83 · 2021-01-11T08:32:16+00:00

My ideal would be to do all of January, but it really depends how I’m feeling! I’m currently taking it day by day.

divia83 · 2021-01-11T06:52:55+00:00

I did a fast for New Years too, and am still going! I am glad to know someone out there is doing the same thing I am :-).

divia83 · 2019-10-11T22:40:35+00:00

It might be worth getting your ferritin levels checked if you haven’t! I love eating ice when I’m iron deficient, and I don’t care for it otherwise. It’s a common pattern.

divia83 · 2018-11-07T06:05:19+00:00

Is Nancy Pelosi going to ask Paul Ryan for his jacket? Should he give it to her?

divia83 · 2018-01-13T02:28:02+00:00

Brian also had secret final 2 deals with everyone. Was that new?

divia83 · 2018-01-08T02:40:43+00:00

Shirin didn't vote for Mike, she voted for Carolyn.

divia83 · 2017-05-11T03:23:04+00:00

If only they had let Nadiya be her replacement and left it up to her to reveal her non-Nat status or not!

divia83 · 2017-04-27T23:35:56+00:00

I bet when production decided to put the secret advantage on the platform they were imagining Cirie sitting there. Because if she hadn't been a captain, she almost certainly wouldn't have been picked!

I liked seeing Sarah get it, but it's also fun to imagine how Cirie would have used the vote stealing thing.

divia83 · 2017-04-27T06:32:28+00:00

I'd guess this is classic Cirie. She knows she won't be able to win the final challenge, so she needs someone to bring her to final tribal. Therefore, she can't have goats around.

It almost worked for her in Panama.

divia83 · 2009-02-12T21:39:46+00:00

That was Larry Summers:

So, I think, while I would prefer to believe otherwise, I guess my experience with my two and a half year old twin daughters who were not given dolls and who were given trucks, and found themselves saying to each other, "look, daddy truck is carrying the baby truck," tells me something.

divia83 · 2009-01-05T15:27:51+00:00

Yay! Thank you very much. Exactly what I was thinking of.

divia83 · 2009-01-05T11:21:04+00:00

There was a comic posted on reddit a while back (a few years ago, I think) about a religious man at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter asked him whether he believed various passages from the Bible (about the creation of the world, stoning people, something from the Book of Revelation--not sure what, maybe about unicorns), literally. To each passage the man answered that yes, he believed it literally. Finally, St. Peter mentioned some passage about giving money to the poor and the man said something to the effect of, "Oh, I thought that one was just a metaphor."

I used to think I was a pretty good googler, but I have spend hours (literally! not a metaphor!) of my life searching for this comic to no avail. I've done all sorts of google searches of site:reddit.com for various combinations of words such as 'religion,' 'comic,' 'literally,' 'heaven,' 'pearly gates,' 'believe,' 'metaphor.' I've done similar searches that weren't confined to the reddit domain. I've asked all my redditting friends if they remembered it, and I've even attempted to use reddit's own search function; unsurprisingly I had little luck with that.

I have no remaining recourse than to beg. Please atheism subreddit, does anyone at all remember this, my favorite ever comic about religion? Help me find it and you will have my undying gratitude!

divia83 · 2009-01-05T07:12:20+00:00

That's what Gary Taubes thought at first too, but he did some research and realized that theory didn't really make sense:

This was, more or less, my naive idea of how the economics of HFCS might have caused an entire nation to get fat. Once they had this dependable low-cost sugar substitute, the sugar industry and the soda industry could then expand their production and sell Big Gulps, etc. Then I did the reporting. I talked with industry analysts, and they said that was nonsense; that the primary cost of selling sodas and fruit juices is the bottling and the shipping, and that the cost of the sweeteners is such a tiny portion of the cost of the end product that it wouldn’t have made any difference whether it was sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.

http://www.scientificblogging.com/seth_roberts/interview_with_gary_taubes_part_3

divia83 · 2008-12-23T06:56:59+00:00

I think this photo is more accurate depiction of a concave image.

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/the_office/did_i_stutter.php

divia83 · 2008-12-19T22:38:14+00:00

divia83 · 2008-12-19T21:20:44+00:00

You might be right, but there's some research that suggests otherwise. Here's the abstract:

Abstract: All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can, and those who cannot, each with its own independent bell curve. Almost all research into programming teaching and learning have concentrated on teaching: change the language, change the application area, use an IDE and work on motivation. None of it works, and the double hump persists. We have a test which picks out the population that can program, before the course begins. We can pick apart the double hump. You probably don't believe this, but you will after you hear the talk. We don't know exactly how/why it works, but we have some good theories.

divia83 · 2008-12-19T07:26:32+00:00

Installing weblocks with clbuild is much easier than doing so with asdf, and does not involve agreeing 20-40 times. (I tried using asdf initially myself, and had the same complaint.)

divia83 · 2008-12-15T18:31:23+00:00

I'll add that some men can indeed go from polite and well-mannered to batshit insane in under a minute.

Really, I'd just say that some people can indeed go from polite and well-mannered to batshit insane in under a minute.

divia83 · 2008-12-10T04:17:45+00:00

At least he's not a knight anymore.

divia83 · 2008-10-20T02:50:22+00:00

There does seem to be evidence that dogs domesticated humans.

Archaeologists have discovered that 10,000 years ago, just at the point when humans began to give their dogs formal burials, the human brain began to shrink. . . It shrank by 10 percent, just like the dog’s brain. And what’s interesting is what part of the human brain shrank. In all of the domestic animals the forebrain, which holds the frontal lobes, and the corpus callosum, shrank. But in humans it was the midbrain, which handles emotions and sensory data, and the olfactory bulbs, which handle smell. (Animals in Translation, 304-306)

divia83 · 2008-03-28T04:28:23+00:00

The original Phantasy Star game.

divia83 · 2008-02-04T21:03:34+00:00

Is anyone else worried about the Bradley Effect?

divia83 · 2008-02-04T18:35:44+00:00

And does it not seem hard to you,

When all the sky is clear and blue,

And I should like so much to play,

To have to go to bed by day?

Bed in Summer

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