tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69723231601461791052012-01-30T16:09:55.618-06:00Waving his arms like a tiny Mike Teeveezimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05072367389475963710noreply@blogger.comBlogger2511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972323160146179105.post-51560512193474817292012-01-23T20:53:00.005-06:002012-01-23T21:01:14.750-06:00

we received a meat grinder for xmas (this one) and last night made some sausages!the recipe was for a Romanian Jewish beef sausage. we had most stuff on hand, except beef suet, so we used lamb suet instead. and guess what -- it tastes like gyros. really tasty gyros.no casings on our first try, we made patties and rolled up a few, seen in the photo.only one mishap, seems the forward/reverse

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the gf has two cats. when we started dating, over 4 years ago, her cat Smokey was large, inactive, and was unable to navigate the stairs to the 2nd floor.over time, and with a diet change (removal of grains), Smokey has lost weight, become more active (i've even seen her run at times), and frequently changes floors. it seems her previous life was not without damage, as she takes stairs slowly and

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this was the 2nd batch in a week, with some modifications to improve upon the first (and double the yield, since the first batch was small). preliminary taste tests indicate success; i'll wait for an overnight freeze for the real test.dairy for this batch was not as top-notch as the first, but it seems to have worked out.1 cup heavy cream2 c. whole milk3 c. half and half3/4 c. sugar2 pinches

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in Krakow, on a day with a big lunch, we opted for a light, easy supper: a shared chicken doner sandwich around the corner from the hotel.into the pita went a reasonable amount of shaved chicken, a whopping amount of cabbage, some tomatoes/onions, and a mixed sauce of yoghurt and "hot" that looked like 1000 island dressing."wow," i thought, "that's a lot of cabbage."happily, given that there was

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this was the lightest i've packed for a (nearly) 2 week trip, taking only my MEI* purple backpack.i normally take a slightly larger Kelty backpack -- main body is about the same size, but it has a couple wings. the difference is enough where i can reasonably carry-on the MEI, but no the Kelty.this was an experiment. it mostly worked well, but there was no room to spare. my rain jacket and thicker

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there's a lot to love about Polish rail.you get your typical (mostly) on-time European performance. the stations have reasonable signage and platform information. it's cheap -- three intercity trips for three people, in first class, came to under $300 USD total.but it gets better. there is a generous mix of new carriage and (very) old, depending on the line/route. i traveled with my mom and my gf

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this spring, we joined the CSA program from Tomato Mountain. this week, the first of the tomatoes come in. in addition to three (3) [yes, only three] red tomatoes, we received a basket of these smaller, orange tomatoes.they are delicious! i'm hoping for bushels of red tomatoes in the coming weeks -- i'll get out my food mill and make some sauces for the winter.

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this is enough to put me off tomatoes of unknown origin.The tomato fields of Immokalee are vast and surreal. An unplanted field looks like a lousy beach: the “soil,” which is white sand, contains little in the way of nutrients and won’t hold any water. To grow tomatoes there requires mind-boggling amounts of fertilizers, fungicides and pesticides (on roughly the same acreage of tomatoes, Florida

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in the news this week: niacin study stopped early after lack of benefit found, and perhaps even negative benefit found.e.g. this MSNBC headline states, "Niacin doesn't stop heart attacks, major study finds"i read the press release. The second sentence of the press release is:The trial found that adding high dose, extended-release niacin to statin treatment in people with heart and vascular

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Einstein walks ten miles to a party. When he arrives, the host says, "wow, you spent a lot of energy getting here."Einstein replies, "es machts nicht."

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mere days after telling my boss that between my iphone and macbook pro, i have no need for a tablet, all employees were presented with Motorola Xooms (oops).this is not only my first experience with a tablet, other than a few minutes with an ipad, but it's also my first experience with Android. the xoom comes with a version called Honeycomb, which i'm told is new and designed with tablets in

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"sweet sixteen""final four"i'm sorry, but "elite eight" is not an alliteration, and it sounds forced and a little clumsy. either make it actually alliterative ("able eight"?) or just make it better without the alliteration ("great eight").unless we're going to carry it all the way down ("terrific two"? "wonderful one"?), feel free to break out of the literary device.

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i am in awe of the GOP, for mostly two reasons. first is their ability to consistently get people to vote against their own interests. second is their ability to control the debate and get their way, even when in the minority.the recent events in Wisconsin and Michigan highlight recent brazen attempts at power grabs and attacks on democrats' power bases that underscore what i see as outright

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Shelley Boyle says having a vegan food option for her dog, Cleo, allows them to share the same ideology.oy, ve.can we get a quote from the dog, please?

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i know they're true, because i saw them on the TV.1. this evening, the local ABC news reported on a woman who would NOT BE STOPPED as she needed to get her child to a doctor's appointment. the anchors spoke of her ingenuity and great spirit, as she put her child on a plastic sled and dragged her TWO ENTIRE BLOCKS to a COMPLETELY FUNCTIONAL CTA RAIL SYSTEM which took her to the hospital. amazing!2

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1. in the final 2 minutes of a half, a fumble cannot be advanced by the offense2. if the 3rd QB is put into the game before the 4th quarter, the #1 and #2 QBs cannot re-enter the gamei disagree with both, especially the second. where's the harm in freely subbing in your QBs? How does this recent flurry of wildcat formations factor into this? are there any other positions where you have to declare

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from this guide on how to lose weight:Example:Mary's BMR is 1400 calories and she burns 900 calories in daily activity with regular exercise, walking around and doing household chores. To maintain her weight, she should be eating 2300 calories but, after keeping a food journal, Mary finds that she's eating 2550 calories every day. By eating 250 more calories than her body needs, Mary will gain

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i mean, i'm having far too easy a time parsing what you mean by this:"My number one criticism of President Obama is he promised to and he's trying to fulfill his promise of fundamentally trying to transform America," Palin said. "We don't need a fundamental transformation, we need a renewal and a restoration of what is good about America."huh?

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my casual observation is that, in the mens' room, 40-60% of guys wash their hands after urinating.i started at a new client 3 weeks ago, a downtown bank, and am shocked to note a full 100% handwashing compliance. further, there are a lot of guys doing a pretty thorough job of it.somehow, it's strange: maybe Big Brother-like, maybe Stepford Wives-like. a religious handwasher, i now feel as though

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i found this photo courtesy of Mark's Daily Apple. it's quite a claim, obviously, but aren't such claims meant to be accompanied by the standard "not verified by the FDA" language?most likely this manufacturer is in violation. or are these claims blessed by the FDA?update: I quickly found this page on the FDA site. Seems these claims are definitely not blessed by the FDA.Carbohydrates raise your

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all the pre-season hype about the Heat had them besting the Bulls 72-10 record that season. i really enjoy pre-season hype, especially that by the Dallas Cowboys and their "first superbowl homegame" predictions.the Cowboys are at a stunningly delightful 1-7.the Heat are 5-4, just 6 losses away from *not* getting their 73-9 season.love it.

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without getting into the length of time post-incident being related to the damage extent of the act, i will say, "you have to wait until it's common knowledge."late on Friday, i said this to the IT guy at work:"hey, those printer cartridges you ordered from Yemen never arrived."he and a couple other guys gave me a confused look. none of them had read any news for the day.timing is everything.

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... the Rams throwback uniforms worn today vs the Panthers don't look very old at all.then you research how long ago this was, and these uniforms are from 2000, when they won the Superbowl. Kurt Warner was quarterback, Christina Aguilera was part of the halftime show.i don't feel so old after all.i'll go back to thinking about the remake of Valley Girl currently being filmed.

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i visited the apple store yesterday to get some hands-on with the wee macbook air. i have very little actual need for such a machine, but damn is it excellent.not quite enough for a main machine: there's no firewire port, so it couldn't support recording audio. and the screen may be a little too limiting to be able to run Eclipse/FlashBuilder and actually see enough of a file to code.but aside

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must fruit continually get larger? this does not look appetizing to me, it just makes me feel that the growers 1) concentrate on embiggening fruit without regard to taste or health, and 2) believe size is all that matters to consumers.i like to think that a piece of a particular kind of fruit has a fixed amount of flavor, and that flavor is distributed throughout the fruit. strawberries larger

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three times the heat of *what*, exactly?i stopped a shopper and pointed at the sign which i thought was so hilariously ambiguous. not understanding that i was pointing out a flaw, she was dually impressed that this item did, apparently, offer three times the heat.realizing she didn't quite get it, i said, "do you see? it says three times the heat. but three times the heat of what?""wow, that's a

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guy on train the other night rocking a 1998-era PowerBook running os9. vintage!

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some time ago, i think in the early 90's, i picked up a purple backpack at Uncle Dan's by MEI. at the time, i had no idea who MEI was, what kind of fan base they had, or how they would almost disappear as a company (now they only sell direct).earlier this year, the good people at MEI were (or is it good person at MEI was?) incredibly kind to repair two broken straps on the bag, completely free of

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Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, running against Mark Kirk for an Illinois US Senate seat, has an approved vox pop commercial. The people-on-the-street are all saying negative things about Mark Kirk. Pretty typical stuff, "he's out of touch," "how can he vote against middle class tax cuts," and so on.but the last person says, "i would not trust him with my left shoe."i'm not sure what she means, and

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i'm tired of "half the distance to the goal line."a penalty is a penalty. does it put you into your own endzone? too bad. more safeties!

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Q: what are you eating under there?A: pants.

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for the 2nd time, i had my doctor order an NMR lipo profile to ensure that my small LDL particles were indeed increasing in size (they are).the results of the 2nd test, which i received today (and from a different lab than the first), had a summary measure of all the other numbers they measured. this overall rating put me in the 25th percentile on the scale of "insulin sensitive" to "insulin

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i receive a junk email to my inbox in Outlook. the following quick steps are all i need to deal with it:1. select the email2. right-click and select Junk email/Add sender to block list3. observe that a new, unread email is now in my junk drawer4. select the junk drawer5. re-select the email6. right-click and select Mark as Read7. right-click and select Deletesimple and straightforward. good.now

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my first exposure to Nell Carter was in 1979, when I saw her in Milos Forman's Hair. i then remember her becoming a household name a few years later, in Gimme A Break. while certainly not the first overweight/obese TV performer, i do recall her weight being a frequent topic, and kind of a big deal.i'm looking at NHANES weight statistics, that i found here.now, i don't know Ms. Carter's weight in

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why can't escalators in the US haul ass, like they do in Hong Kong? i'd like to save time *and* my knees.

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i was having a lunch with a co-worker yesterday, discussing nutrition. he asserted that most people actually eat less protein than they need. naturally, i asked how much protein i should be eating."you should be eating half your body weight.""really? over what time period?"he seemed thrown by this question, as the answer was obvious: "every day."i agreed that, by that measure, i am certainly low

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some years ago, when i would occasionally buy a dozen eggs from the grocery store, i was completely lost when trying to figure out the difference between eggs labeled "cage free", "free range", "organic" and "omega-3".i was also unsure how i was supposed to decide among all the providers.with the recent salmonella outbreak, traced to two large producers in Iowa, i'm seeing that it doesn't really

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that's paraphrased from the man himself, and it's reason #1 that what i'm doing isn't Atkins.(i should be doing some weight training, i admit, but after a 9-10 hour workday, where dinner ends up being somewhere between 9-10pm, i'm not particularly keen to spend an extra hour in the office building)i haven't read the Atkins books, but from their site, i also find these differences:1. Atkins

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Chicagoans are large. and getting larger.since i've gotten down to BMI-category "normal", i've really started looking around me. what i'm seeing, in nearly everyone in this area, are guts, double-chins, bulbous butts, puffy faces, and arms and legs that look like encased meats.and really massive people, as well. in excess of 300, 400 pounds. several examples there, just in the past 3 days. i'm

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i've seen coupe-types turned into convertibles, but never the reverse. wtf were you thinking, woman?

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for a 2-day training seminar, I recently found myself in the suburban hell known as Downers Grove, IL. (as the joke at work went, "I can't recall the name, something like Upper's Meadow").Chicago is one of those cities that, given a feature limiting its expansion (specifically, a giant lake), has grown on a hub and spoke system. this has given rise to a number of communities that sprang up along

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cellartracker.com seems to be the site to use if you want to track your wine collection. cor.kz seems to be the iphone software to use if you want to integrate with cellartracker.as the gf and i have been buying more and more wine lately (our collection now stands at a "mighty" 17 bottles), and personally i cannot recall the relevant details needed to re-purchase a bottle we liked, i thought it

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I regard Band of Brothers as some of the finest film-making i've seen. without trying to get up my hopes too much, i eagerly anticipated the airing of The Pacific. i think it helped that there were 9 intervening years.what didn't help is that: the Pacific isn't very good.or at least i should say, "when compared to Band of Brothers," as comparisons are inevitable.the Pacific is certainly watchable

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what's up, CTA, with your silly fare structure?like the Oyster Card, i do appreciate the simplicity of my Chicago Card Plus. but i thought the advantage of buying into the low-personnel-involvement solution was savings passed on to the rider. perhaps not. looking at the fare structure, it's minimal.further, it costs me $2.25 to get to work, taking a bus first and then a train. the reverse, with

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i think they mean the food is affordable, as i like to think that the prices are free. "How much for a burger and fries?" "I'll tell you for only twenty-nine cents."

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though i've known about it for some time, today i finally signed up for tripit, a mobile-friendly site that organizes travel info.the two cool things about it, for me, are:you can forward email itineraries to them, and they'll parse out the planseasy integration with the iPhone app Flight Update ProFor my upcoming trip to England, I forwarded my AA email, and within minutes that info was on my

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image from here.i suffer from chronic lower-back pain, though weekly massages and adjustments keep that at bay. i also suffer from chronic knee pain, which flares up after i've been doing a lot of walking, like i've been doing over the past month or so.climbing stairs is the worst, which i can make bearable by applying a slight downward pressure at the top of my kneecap while pushing off.both my

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i get a little frustrated with Mythbusters sometimes (often?).i recently watched a show where they were testing the idea that Hungarian horsemen, firing arrows into people, could generate twice as much power as they would if stationary.part of what frustrates me is the sloppiness with terms. "Power" is a specific term that can be measured, but at no point did they go about defining what they

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at least if one wants to duplicate the convenience of apple's Time Capsule.i've been combing over posts @ readynas.com, which is an excellent resource for Netgear NAS products. though it seems easier than ever to run Time Machine software with non-Apple devices, there are still a lot of issues. upgrading osx versions, running multiple Time Machine users, and running Parallels caused issues for a

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many of the crosswalks in Chicago have timers, conveniently letting you know how much time you have until the yellow light.only it's not so convenient, as the countdown isn't, in fact, expressed in seconds. It's insidious, somewhere around 7-8 tenths of a second.i know this, but can't get used to it. it's so ingrained for me to think of that "14" to mean 14 seconds.it does not.who do they hire to

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today I learned about NAS: network attached storage.now that i've moved into the 21st century with the purchase of a new mac laptop running Snow Leopard (previously was running Tiger, skipping Leopard entirely), AND designating my laptop as my new "main machine", i thought it high-time to modernize my backup procedures. And to get the gf's machine running regular backups, as well.naturally, i

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how about starting off like this:our offices are now closed, but we offer a number of automated options you can access now. to hear our hours, press 1. for automated access, press 2.i'd like that better than spending 5 minutes navigating your system, hearing all kinds of automated payment information, and then being told your offices are closed when i'm finally presented with an option to speak

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i visited the apple store again and re-ran XBench for the 13" 2.66 GHz mb pro, providing results that i think are closer to reality (correcting that out-of-whack UI Interface value)..nobrtable br { display: none } MB Pro 2.53GHz C2D (Nov 2009) 13" MB Pro 2.66GHz C2D (Apr 2010) 15" MB Pro 2.53GHz i5 15" MB Pro 2.66GHz i7 RAM, gig 4 4

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i last did this back in November, but with this week's release of the new laptops, I thought it was time for new benchmarks.So tonight I stopped by the AppleStore tonight and grabbed some figures, with the same version of XBench (1.3). Again, usual caveats apply wrt variances from test to test, most notably with the User Interface score for the new 13" MB Pro. Sadly, I did only one run. More

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from down the street, i had misidentified this Tesla as the chrome orange Lotus Elise i would love to have. good looking car!

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not unsurprisingly, my walking tends to decrease during the winter months in Chicago. i really try, year round, to avoid driving/being-in-a-car on weekends, much preferring to run errands by walking, shopping locally, etc.yesterday i had to be in Uptown and decided to walk. combined with the rest of the walking i did yesterday, i logged about 5 1/2 miles. sadly, much higher than i'd been doing

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i'm about one month away from my first year of Eating Better. labels are always a bit tough here, as the Food Plan doesn't really fall neatly into any already-named category, but loosely what started as something like South Beach has become something like Primal.i can't argue with any of the results, the standouts being weight and some other lab-measured values.as a side note, Google docs to the

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youtube has a nice warning system in place, letting me know recently that my version of Firefox would soon no longer be supported by their site. And they made some recommendations, including FF 3.5.so i went to see what version of FF i was running on my (vintage 2004) ibook: FF 2.0.0.20.okay, that's a little old, let me go to "Help / Check for Updates..." and see what I can get. Mozilla makes it

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i recently picked up Gran Turismo 5 Prologue for PS3, which is a great bit of fun. lovely graphics, good gameplay, boatloads of depth and addictive -- what's not to like? you race, you get money, you buy new cars for your garage. and then race those (complete car list here).you can pit your mini cooper against other hot hatches, like the Ford Focus ST, or you can be a dick and race your Ferrari

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i *finally* found that chart i'd recalled seeing but couldn't recall where. it was part of this Whole Health Source post. here's the chart and some accompanying verbiage:The ideal ratio is probably very roughly 2:1 omega-6:omega-3. Leaf lard is 6.8, beef tallow is 2.4, good quality butter is 1.4, corn oil is 45, cottonseed oil is 260. It's clear that a large qualitative change in our fat

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I'm declaring it such after spending a week opening/closing the damn thing myself. having a working automatic garage door is a minor thing in the overall scheme of things, but damn is it a nice daily convenience.props to the gf for calling around for estimates ($300-400 to replace an opener?!?) until she got someone on the phone who not only correctly diagnosed the issue over the phone, but

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i created a new table with the data from the last two cooking fat posts, plus, per pyker's suggestion, data indicating the total mg amounts of n3 and n6 fatty acids in a sample (here, 100g). This does reveal more than the simple ratio.i've added a PUFA% column and color-coded it against the "not to exceed 12%" standard. i've not bothered color-coding the mg/100 g column. i have color-coded the

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i pulled this image from a pdf i found online (linked to from the comments section of this Mark's Daily Apple post on cooking oils).for better or worse, this datasheet was put together by Monsanto. funnily enough, it's meant to extol the virtues of Canola oil. if we look at this data as suggested by the original commenter, we should avoid the fats where the red and green percentages add up to

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i watched this film today. there's lots to love here: some amazing characters, lovingly shot (even the horrific images), expertly assembled and edited, plus i agree with a lot of the viewpoints of the filmmakers.but...there are some missteps. Given the message and those bringing it to us, i guess i shouldn't be surprised the filmmakers' viewpoints are so obvious. i think they overdid it, and an

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damn, this info is kind of hard to come by. I had found a chart somewhere online that included pasture butter, lard and others, but for the life of me I can't find it. I did see this page today, which is from Cordain's site. they link back to the USDA site for where they got their data, which is a horribly organized site with a terrible search engine. so i'm grateful for Cordain's summary data,

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some fantastic reporting in this CNN article called "Too much TV may mean earlier death":Compared to those who watched less than two hours of TV per day, people who watched four hours or more were 80 percent more likely to die from heart disease and 46 percent more likely to die from any cause. [...]Each additional hour spent in front of the TV increased the risk of dying from heart disease by 18

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at some point during the Ravens / Patriots game (i think just before half), the software package that "draws" first downs and play counts on the field failed.and i love it.i *like* having to be more aware of the down. and i like having to look to the sideline to see the first down marker, just like the players do.i reckon i won't get to enjoy this again, unless i watch games from "the old timey

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i should probably just ignore loud-mouth NFL receivers, but the Bengals receiver (I can't even bear to type his now-legal name) just irks me. It is his stupid name change, I will confess; I didn't have much of a problem with the player named Chad Johnson.in last week's typical pre-game smack talk, before the Jets annihilated the Bengals in a fashion unseen since the Bears pasting of the Patriots

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it's dipped to single digits in Chicago and, along with my much-lower fat profile, I finally admitted that my $50 Sears Carharrt coat, purchased some 13 winters ago, was no longer up to the task.so i bought a new coat, a Cloudveil Down Patrol, that I'll describe not only as the warmest coat i've bought, but probably the only warm coat i've ever owned.i still layer! With a mid-day temp of 8

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i made hummus last night, first time in a long time. this was to go with the lamb patties and taziki (sp?) sauce the gf made.mistake #1 was dumping two cans of chickpeas into the food processor, without taking into account that not only was there not enough tahini for those two cans, but i was meant to leave some spare for the taziki sauce.mistake #2 was dumping a good portion of that tahini

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i don't mean as an end-user, i mean as a developer.What I want, as an end-user, is that if i program it for 2 minutes @ power level 5, for it to run at half-power for 2 minutes. No microwave oven I know of does that, so I suspect there may be an issue with running at less than full power. Let's take that as a given.Thinking as a developer, I now have the task of running the oven for 2 minutes,

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currently on: Penn State (10-2) v LSU (9-3) in the Capital One Bowl. Gator Bowl features West Virginia (9-3) v Florida State (6-6).What? 6 and 6 gets you a bowl bid these days?Granted, I don't really follow college ball, nor am I familiar with the agreements in place for determining who will play in which bowl. Heck, maybe Fl State did so well in their division with 6-6 that they got an automatic

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The Le Creuset double-sided grillpan was my main xmas gift to the gf, who had apparently been dropping hints throughout the year (let us credit my subconscious for picking up on that, and question either my cluelessness or forgetfulness for thinking it was my own idea).I've lost count how many times we've used it in the last week, but every time we've been pleased. last night, we did up a couple

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two years ago, at xmas, my sister played a "hilarious" joke on me. she packed a pair of sweatpants into a fake gift box from the Onion, "Salt of the Month Club." from the Onion shopping site:No, the products aren't real. But the empty boxes are. Wrap your otherwise forgettable gift in an Onion decoy gift box, and watch their faces fall when they realize there is no such thing as...I was indeed

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just spreading the word on this smart-ass site.http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+time+is+the+midnight+buffet%3F

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i've never seen his show, but i was "treated" to this quick-spot just now, with him dressed in scrubs and holding a football:Why do we need all those electrolytes in sports drinks? Because without those delicious charged ions, your muscles wouldn't contract.so there we have it. drink Gatorade or risk collapsing to the pavement, unable to move your pathetic bag of bones to an upright position.i

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from various web sites: "old computer system", "used generically to distinguish the existing or old system from the new or planned system", "existing or inherited system", "based on mainframe computer or older programming languages", "has a considerable investment in", "old or outdated", "original designers and implementors are no longer available to perform the system's maintenance"...some years

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photo (taken on nyc subway) and comment courtesy my friend Emily M.

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i just watched an Eagles defensive back turn to the ref to signal "no catch", while a Giants receiver, untouched, picked himself up off the ground and ran past him.it seems that anymore, with no regard to what happened on the field or how bloody obviously a catch was made, the defense frantically turns to the refs to plead the case that there was no reception.you would think that no receiver ever

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gf "threw together" a lovely dinner tonight, after a day of making (and me eating) xmas cookies. the rack came with yesterday's CSA pickup from Mint Creek, who feature grass-fed lamb.and i really must toss my worse-than-completely useless Oxo meat thermometer. the lamb ended up being perfect, but the Oxo unit hindered much and helped none. i strongly suspect i'll be ordering myself a Thermopen in

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linkThe above description is a dramatization of real events that happened recently in Springfield, Missouri, where the state has decided to spend considerable taxpayer resources running a sting operating against a family that was caught dealing -- gulp! -- raw milk in a parking lot.Yes, both the Missouri Dept. of Health and the state Attorney General (Chris Koster) have decided that prosecuting a

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Lincoln Square finally has a grocery again, complete with a/the neon sign from Meyer's. Gene's is more of a Euro-style grocer than simply a butcher, though a glance at the butcher counter did look promising, including some grass-fed options.Last time I went, there were some sausages hanging in the front window, and today was cow (see photo). It has a second floor that overlooks the first. Very

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it's not really crustless, it has a crust of sausage. i still think Lou's has the best deep dish pizza -- and that includes the bread crust -- but now that I'm off bread, the sausage-crust pizza is an excellent alternative to scraping.i've tried 3 so far: no toppings, pepperoni, green pepper + mushroom. Actually, the no toppings works the best. obviously, lots of sausage in every bite, and that

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from Home Depot today, i bought a 25' outdoor extension cord and a can of black spraypaint. with tax, it was $6.23.from Microcenter, i bought a tiny screwdriver set, packaged as a pocket pen. it was 79 cents, pre-tax.these items are worth more to me than what I paid for them. i'd pay $20 for a good 25' extension cord. for a good set of screwdrivers, i'd be happy to pay $15. i have no issue with

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i am not digging the new (not sure how new) NFL rule that, when kicking off, you cannot have fewer than 4 players lined up on either side of the kicker.i like seeing all 10 guys bunched together, or 9 guys on one side then kicking it towards the lone guy.was this a competitive advantage to the kicking team? who cares? onside kicks / recoveries are exciting. i say encourage it.

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i upgraded from my iPhone 2G, and what a good idea. The performance things bumming me out about my original iphone were not so much 2G v 3G related, but some things just seemed to take forever:stopping a page load in Safarigetting to the point where i could open a new page in Safariswitching appsconnecting to the Exchange server at workupdating the emails from said Exchange serveropening the

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my office xmas party was last night. sadly, not at Fogo de Chao, but I still ate very well at Texas de Brazil. Though rather aware of how much corn-raised beef I was eating in the process, I kept signaling for the Meat Wanderers to stop by and fill my plate.We were offered the salad bar first; I took this opportunity to load up on some cheese, plus tomato and roasted red pepper, to nibble on

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i found this disturbing mannequin at Nordstrom.

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Here's just the results for the laptops, making the comparison more interesting. I may add Macbook data, once I get it. I think the faster MB Pro with an SSD would really kick butt.green = best score for category, red = worst..nobrtable br { display: none } MacBook 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

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I'm shopping for a new mac, not sure what I want. The other day I went to the Apple Store and ran XBench on a number of models. Figures are below. Note that I ran these one time only, so some results may be an outlier.With the exception of the Air, all the laptop drives were 5400 RPM. The Air had an SSD drive. Also, I'm pretty sure the tower was the Quad core, not the 8-core, but I'm not certain.

zimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05072367389475963710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972323160146179105.post-17649943231333447602009-11-23T22:49:00.003-06:002009-11-23T22:52:29.581-06:00

the Titans just beat the Texans as the Texan kicker missed a FG wide left that would have tied the game with time expiring. clearly, Jeff Fisher would call a timeout to ice the kicker.but no! he didn't, and I honestly think that affected the kicker.i have no particular stake in the game, but huzzah!

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Verizon just started running a new Droid commercial with stealth fighters. here is a link, though i'm not certain for how long it will be good.i must say, in this post-bush era, the image of US stealth fighters dropping payloads onto american soil is a little disturbing to me. and maybe it's simply my cold-war era sensitivities, but seeing missile streak through the skies while people watch from

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on her last doctor's visit, i had the gf request some additional bloodwork, including 25(OH)D, TSH, T4, T3 and HbA1c. (if i'm dosing her with fish oil, vit D, kelp et. al., i want to make sure i'm not off base). she called today to get the results and, basically, was told by the nurse to f*** off.initially, the nurse was unwilling to say more than "your cholesterol is good," and the gf had to pry

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from the other day, on the phone:me: i'd like to order a pizza for carryout.her: pickup or delivery?me: carryout.her (very uncertain): uhhhh.... delivery?me: okayyyy, pickup.her (back to normal): okay!maybe i'm being naive, but i'm rather under the impression that a pizza phone answering job 1) isn't terribly complex, and 2) has a rather limited jargon set. there are really only four terms for

zimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05072367389475963710noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972323160146179105.post-59130612628920834052009-11-03T20:02:00.002-06:002009-11-03T20:05:20.476-06:00

i just had installed a TDI FrostHeater -- a 1000w electric heater/pump that circulates the coolant. this morning was my first start after a cold-ish (mid-30's) night. instant heat! no blue engine temp light!the coolant was already 175 degrees F, the oil about 125. i'm very curious to see how well it does when it's 20 below.

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first off, let me say it was with the best of dietary intentions with which i began our trip. i knew from last time that i could get tapas (or larger) of jamon serrano and queso manchego and be perfectly fine with my food plan. i was also planning on eating less olive oil, though i knew a lot of dishes would be prepared with it (and not eating bread is a great excuse to not dip into the olive oil

zimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05072367389475963710noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972323160146179105.post-5647613859878112572009-09-26T16:10:00.003-05:002009-09-26T23:25:26.520-05:00

from the comments for this chest freezer.I purchased for my son, he bakes all the time and was using all my freezer space.

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indeed.

zimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05072367389475963710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972323160146179105.post-27553667218231056432009-09-21T21:41:00.001-05:002009-09-21T21:42:35.494-05:00

something crazy is going on with the Miami Dolphins. they're tearing up the Colts defense by running the wishbone! who said it couldn't be done in the NFL?

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