¿ question of the day ?

[lukkucairi]

(1) ¿ are you in love ?

(2) ¿ what love are you in ?

[brightpearl]

No freaking idea. It's hard to trust anything, even me.

I'm just trying to go with the flow and hope the path I've already traveled looks clearer a ways down the river.

I had a dream the other night that an old friend told me it'd be easier if I realized water doesn't need a boat, hahahaha.
:D

[lukkucairi]

^ a boat? what's that? ;)

(1) yes

(2)
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs148.snc1/5491_119056662413_511972413_2761400_1081449_n.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

yes i am in

[Stephi_B]

(1) Hell, yes! (all else is unhealthy ;))
(2) The interestingly NEW! and s l o w kind

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

1. no
2. :mad:

NEW! QOTD
¿What name - if any - did you give to your computer/laptop/abacus?

[brightpearl]

Well, I never named it consciously, but when I do speak to it directly I typically call it


OH COME ON!!!

[MoJoRiSin]

^ :D :D :D

[Peregrine]

I'm an IT guy. All my computers are named so you can find them on the network. I go with street names, based on where I happen to be living when I buy them, or former addresses, or the address of whoever I build the computer for.

The media server is Nason, the laptop is Charlotte, the Windows box is Somerset, the Linux box and the Mac, I'm not going to post their names for various reasons. And the staging server, when I get around to building it, will be named Britain.

[lukkucairi]

the last one I named was Euclid

[Jack Flanders]

not named but yelled at frequently by me with the comment, "Damn you, Erik!!!!"
and other four letter words. (His games ****up my machine.)

[Odbe]

All the computers on the network are named after Egyptian deities - this one's Nephthys.

[Marcus Bales]

When do you think Kaskeens will do her Dictionary Game judging?

[lukkucairi]

december 21, 2012

[Coffee]

Monday...I mean Sunday.

[Brynn]

Pick one:

a)as soon as you fully explain to everyone why you didn't judge for 3 (+?) months yourself and apologize profusely for the delay.
b)when she feels inspired
c)as soon as she kills a chicken for the voodoo doctor
d)when my mother stops watching Fox News
e)the day after you give up

[Marcus Bales]

I did judge, and said I'd be away for a while, but the zefrank board mechanism seems to have not accepted the post. By the time I got back you all had resolved the issue without me, and good for you.

When the DG began people were prompt in judging but now they're not -- and I think they're not because they enjoy the way the players get inventive with game-referential definitions. Back in the prompt days when people didn't have time to do the whole judging thing they just chose someone and, though everyone was disappointed in not getting to read the judge's clever remarks, the game just went on.

So it seems to me that judges who do not simply post a "So and so wins" post, when they haven't got time for the whole megillah, are soliciting the game-referential posts, and enjoying the process. The notion that comic tweaks about how long it's been since someone judged, in the context of the whole game where it happens pretty frequently, reducing anyone to tears is simply ludicrous. No one takes it that seriously.

And if they do, well, the solution is still to just pick a winner and move on, and then bail out of being the judge if they win again. There is, after all, an explicit mechanism in the non-rules about how to bail out of being judge if you don't want to be.

So I hope Kaskeens kills that chicken soon.

[Frieda]

^micromanagement thread

[Brynn]

and the "reduction to tears" may belong to the hyperbole/tongue-in-cheek thread, filed under the ":rolleyes: baiting Marcus :rolleyes:" section. Sorry. You really are a good sport about it all, considering. :D

[Marcus Bales]

Just tryin' to get along, darlin'.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2009/07/clean-blue-crap.jpg

NEW! QOTD
¿What might this clean blue crap actually be?

[Stephi_B]

I don't know, but now I want to have a pack or two of it! ;)

[lukkucairi]

beats me, but it's a product of China

[Frieda]

NEW! QOTD
¿What might this clean blue crap actually be?
smurf phlegm

[Brynn]

I'd say carp, but I don't want to sell tickets to Obviousville :)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I think they mean GLEAN GLUE CRAP

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I'd say carp, but I don't want to sell tickets to Obviousville :)

it could be crab, too, obviously - although I secretly think it's the clap that's on sale; supplies, supplies!

[Frieda]

^:D

[Frieda]

~ nieuw ~ nieuw ~ nieuw ~

~ vraag van de dag dd. 25 augustus 2009 ~

Caster Semenya:

A) man
B) woman
C) both
D) neither
E) extraterrestrial
F) SUHT UP

:confused: :confused:

[zero]

~ nieuw ~ nieuw ~ nieuw ~

~ vraag van de dag dd. 25 augustus 2009 ~

Caster Semenya:

A) man
B) woman
C) both
D) neither
E) extraterrestrial
F) SUHT UP
G) anagram

:confused: :confused:


G)

[Stephi_B]

all of your letters :)

[Frieda]

QUOTDnew

probiotics-- good stuff, or bunch of BLABLABLA?

spill!

[zero]

i have no idea but i like when the lady's voice sings ♪mmm..danone♪ - she's been singing that same sing-logo ♪mmm.. danone♪ thing for years & years. surely it must be one of the must successful sing-logos in the whole wide world.

[zero]

ok i googled myself and they're not called sing-logos at all. no it's called sound sound branding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_branding) - i am so susceptible to sound branding and welcome it!

[brightpearl]

There's some evidence linking the milk-loving ones to obesity
:(
But don't despair...I think some of them will turn out to be good. Probably an individual thing. I'm taking a sort of nutrigenomics this semester and will let you know what I'm told.
:)

[MoJoRiSin]

as far as i know kombucha tea has probiotics
once i used an ounce of the stuff from the store to
try to culture my own (grren&black sweetened) tea
+i added a single kefir grain for good measure
WELL ....i am not sure what it is that i have been
making all this time but it only takes 24 hours and it is
REALLY good and i am fairly certain it is good for me
whether it is kefir tea or kombucha i am
not sure of

[xfox]

fresh is good, in season.

[lukkucairi]

probiotics work

[Frieda]

There's some evidence linking the milk-loving ones to obesity
:(
But don't despair...I think some of them will turn out to be good. Probably an individual thing. I'm taking a sort of nutrigenomics this semester and will let you know what I'm told.
:)

i think i can see how that works-- if the bacteria make digestion more efficient and you don't change your eating patterns, you'll absorb more and might grow an ass, or a belly or something. or maybe even broccoli butt, like me.

anyway i'm trying to deflate my bloated belly-- for some weird reason "normal" yogurt with the regular cultures doesnt exist anymore, they always add cream or milk powder or a bifidus strain or other weird bacteria.

[lukkucairi]

I got really sick when I was looking after my mother in the IOM - my digestion got all out of whack from the month of weird food and the constant stress.

Yoghurt doesn't cut it for me. I fixed what ailed me with non-dairy kefir (coconut milk), some over-the-counter probiotic pills, kombucha, and the occasional glass of water with a bit of raw apple cider vinegar in it (the kind that's cloudy with the crud at the bottom - the clear stuff doesn't work).

I can't eat any grains except for rice and corn, and I can't eat refined sugar on anything like a regular basis or I'll bloat up like a blimp. Everyone's body is different and everyone's intestinal flora are different - you just have to play around with diet and probiotic formulas til you find what makes you feel good.

My sister-in-law swears by ThreeLac (http://www.amazon.com/Threelac-Probiotic-Dietary-Supplement-053-Ounce/dp/B000F4H5U4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1251462848&sr=8-1), but I haven't tried it.

[Frieda]

i've used yogurt once every 3 days for years, and it all went fine until a couple of weeks ago, a mysterious acute spell of coeliac disease turned up with bloating and itchy arms and all that, probably caused by some weird virus or maybe that overripe melon that i ate. i guess i'll never know.

just saw this on a dutch website-- i think i'm going to try it: healthy start kit (http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Start-Kit-Dairy-Free/dp/B000GF3L3W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1251464744&sr=1-1) from Natren, no other stuff, just the bacteria. and i guess i'll have to wait with the bifidus culture until the smaller intestinal issues clear up a bit, or else i'll fvck it up again!

[brightpearl]

They figured out a couple of years ago that there are often intracellular changes after an intestinal illness that may take some time to reverse themselves. Those lining cells are so delicate.
Lulu is right that there's no telling what will work for you...I'm glad you are trying trial and error.

The nice thing about probiotic treatments in terms of obesity risk is that they have little to no hope of changing your natural flora and fauna over the long haul. When you stop taking them, your body's preferred profile will return. So, if whatever you take does make your calorie extraction more efficient (your logic is correct :D ), it will stop when you stop taking it.

You might also look into prebiotics, which are substances that deliver support for the beasties rather than deliver the beasties themselves.

Your mentioning the species names made me laugh...most of those printed on yogurt containers and such are totally bogus nonscientific claptrap. They just don't want to tell you that they've put something with the species name faecalis in it, so they make up regularis or whatever.
:D

[Frieda]

^oh are they? i don't eat anything from the dairy department except bulgarian yogurt and those are pretty obvious.. thankfully i read up before i buy :)

that reminds me of something weird i came across when i was reading-- some people consider e.coli a useful probiotic, i usually try to avoid it by cooking meat properly. i wonder what that's good for??

[brightpearl]

oh, now you've gone and brought up stuff I can't help going on about...
I'm moving the rest of the discussion to the bowel movement thread to avoid taking over the qotd

:D

[zero]

¿NEW!

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/if_then.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

if you seek
then you will find

[xfox]

if not ventured, then nothing gained

if you don't trouble trouble, then trouble won't trouble you

if you make hay when the sun shines, then you can rest when it rains

if you have a canvas, then you can paint

if today is Friday, then tomorrow is Saturday

if you reach out your hand, then I'll take it

[brightpearl]

If a compound is chiral, it will have a non-superimposable mirror image.

*sigh*
:(

[trisherina]

source of insecurity -> like -> make happy
-> dislike -> make sad

[lukkucairi]

if I go to sleep now, then I will have disturbing dreams.

[zero]

what are the main ones of yours attributes or something, whatever? (http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html)

[12"razormix]

hi :)

[zero]

howdy pardner :)

[brightpearl]

The sentence was weird...did say "moms" which is oddly connected, sideways. Also said phoenix (Nope -- not the Arizona kind, anyway) and some other things I don't remember.

I don't understand the colored bars at the end. Is is supposed to be a summary of the algorithm? All the bars were the same width...doesn't seem right.

It did make me want to see the whole thing. So I guess it's doing it's job.
:)

eta: figured out how it got "moms", but it wasn't through the actual me. Interesting coincidence.

[brightpearl]

Aha.
I have kind of an unusual name. I tried the names of a couple of friends with more common names, and the increase in data made it do REALLY NEAT THINGS.

:D

[brightpearl]

I tried just my first name, and that was neater in my case.
I am a graduate in music. I am strong and fought well before my death. I have another surgery scheduled. I am seeing someone new and my mother is very happy about it. I am a defender. My knowlege is helpful. The hotel named for me is popular and comfortable. I provide comfort to the small.

The bar at the end...lots of sports.
Which is not true. But watching it get there was fascinating.

[MoJoRiSin]

^:)

(here's a good one: try ze frank)

[Brynn]

Okay, that was a little freaky. I also plugged it in five or six times and it came up as something different each time. Every snippet of it pertained to me, so I imagine there aren't many people out there w/ my name. I wonder most about the "illegal" category - ?
Could it be something to do with all the times I've joked about smoking crack? (Sorry, I guess that would be a question for a whole different day).

Big chunks of movies, art, politics, smaller chunks of professional, family, religion and "illegal" and mysteriously, "management"

[trisherina]

what are the main ones of yours attributes or something, whatever? (http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html)

social, then art and management tied, then design, education, books etc. whatever.

[lukkucairi]

genealogy
education
news
social/musical

there are two of us, mainly - and she gets most of the attention :)
most of the others are dead, and there are a LOT of us that are dead

first name only:

social
sports
education
illegal
books
online

:D

[MoJoRiSin]

books first by only a slight margin
a tie for second place:: aggression music and art
^this was on my second try

on my first try aggression was in first place by a landslide

[Brynn]

btw, I like your aggressive new avatar!

[lukkucairi]

¿ what were you burning this year ?

http://www.gradientmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/burning-man-2009-01.jpg

[brightpearl]

midnight oil

[trisherina]

round about 94 octane

[zero]

my arse

[Stephi_B]

^:D metoo

[Brynn]

my dreams and desires

[MoJoRiSin]

^^^^^

i ripped it off ~"~
the other day i was showiny my
nearly computer illiterate husband
how to navigate the harley(sportster)
message board (V-bulletin)
when i spotted it
this was cery close to the time i was
posting something that was loosely
related to babies
so there ...
signed
(aka thief)

[MoJoRiSin]

not related to wuestion of the day
Lukku ::

http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,39616455001_0,00.html

[lukkucairi]

^ thanks :)

I burned a larger path for myself this year.

[MoJoRiSin]

¿ What sort of music (if any) did you listen to between fourth and seventh grade ?

[MoJoRiSin]

mo: interesting that you asked that question (slight reminiscent smile but one without the corners of mouth curled up)
When i was in the fourth grade when my parents asked me what i wanted
i just wanted the Beatles Rubber Soul album. ((I don't remember that i got anything else))
which i listened to over and over and over and over
other than that my sister and i owned jointly a few 45's
which were ours jointly since we shared a room and a "mono" record player which mo had received for her third birthday oh shoot i forgot when i was in the third grade my present was that small record player and the album "Something New" but i did not listen to that even one tenth of the time i listed to Rubber Soul
Alright to cut to the chase my sis and i had a few 45's (maybe) 5 motown labeled Cant hurry love by the supreme's was one of them another was by the temptations byt i can't recall the name of the actual record..
Later a friend gave me "all things must pass" by george harrison but i only listened to that for a month or two
SO to cut to thew actual chase: because mo had a brother 2 years older than herself who had albums galore (not that he would let mo put a finger on them) That was ll the music mo ever owned up until she went to college.
This is the truth
per usual
-over

[Brynn]

Good question -
For me it was mostly the radio and old 45's. I had thirteen that my older brother or sister gave me because they were sick of them or the records were scratched. I stacked them up and played them over and over and over until finally my brother would buy me a new one of my own once in a while just so he didn't have to hear the old ones any more. I almost never played the b sides because they sucked.

"The Night Chicago Died"
"Mrs. Brown You Have a Lovely Daughter" (Herman's Hermits)
"All I Have to Do is Dream"
"Close Your Eyes, Look At Me"
"Monster Mash"
"Everything is Beautiful" (Ray Stevens!)
"I'm Not In Love"
"Me and Mrs. Jones"
"Smoke on the Water"
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T"
"I'll Say A Little Prayer"
"Midnight Train To Georgia"

The last seven were from my brother. He had better taste in music than my sister.

When I finally figured out how to make my own money, the first album I bought was "Tapestry" by Carole King

[lukkucairi]

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[Brynn]

new ?

What do you really want to do

[trisherina]

get it right

[Frieda]

save the cheerleader

[Stephi_B]

finding THE clue to health and a life with a minimum of work and a maximum degree of pleasure :) (....of latter I just have vivid images in my mind.... :D)

[zero]

peas

[lukkucairi]

be a wider, stronger conduit

[madasacutsnake]

garden

[brightpearl]

act in accordance
and then immediately afterward, take a nap

[MoJoRiSin]

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
(Edgar Degas)

W H E N ?

[Jack Flanders]

garden

:) It is a profession. And it is fun. Except for poison ivy and stingy waspy bee things. And crappy clients. But it is rewarding. :confused:

[Odbe]

Every year, school leavers at my school have to write a short passage about their 'future ambitions' that gets published in the yearbook.
Mine:
'to become a hermit and live with a pack of dogs'

[Hyakujo's Fox]

^it's much harder than you think.



to not have to think about what I want

[lukkucairi]

to found a commune.

yah, hippies!

[Stephi_B]

^Can I bring Mo, me and all the muses? :)

[Brynn]

I want to be Blanche - write humorous books, throw lavish fund-raising parties for various causes in my NYC upper west side loft, and refuse to see the irony in that.

[lukkucairi]

^Can I bring Mo, me and all the muses? :)

o'course :D

that's what a hippie commune is FOR.

you gotta at least load the dishwasher though. she prefers vodka, but whisky will do in a pinch.

[Stephi_B]

^The Lukkommune's dishwasher runs on vodka?! How divine is that.... :)
(As a matter of fact I'm just reading a very serious & scientific book about vodka which looks thus http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51inCmc3qWL._SS500_.jpg)
Of course I'll do the dish washer loading thing :D

[Stephi_B]

¿
¿ NEUE! Frage des Tages ?
?

?
¿ Where (or what or who or when or whose or whicheverwordyoulikewhichstartswith'w') is the minimum ?
¿

[MoJoRiSin]

wis for strong words wombat and worm
of course there is "work" which is neither strong nor weak
when it comes write down to it

[zero]

http://news.google.co.uk/news/search?aq=f&um=1&ned=uk&hl=en&q=%22is+the+minimum%22

[MoJoRiSin]

WE

[MoJoRiSin]

the upside down of me

[Hyakujo's Fox]

dy/dx = 0, d²y/dx² > 0

[trisherina]

Synthroid, Dicetel, Pentasa, folic acid, Ca++, Vit D, Chloraquin, and of course our good friend MTX.

[lukkucairi]

everything I've got

[brightpearl]

It's only in my mind.

I keep it there right next to the maximum, so I get them confused a lot. :rolleyes:

[zero]

http://letters-numbers.com/slides/itisgoing_01.jpg

?.............

[xfox]

a brand new boy

(truly a wonderful wee laddie)

[lukkucairi]

just fine :D

[Brynn]

a real doozy

[MoJoRiSin]

a few more days....
please hang in there
OX L,Mo

[madasacutsnake]

Another good mark, I hope.

[trisherina]

all right

[Odbe]

Q25th Sept:
I bought some shiny sequins. The back of the packet said:
FOR CRAFT USE ONLY.

?What else could they be thinking of using them for?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

In certain circumstances I might attempt to eat them.

Um. Is witchcraft a kind of craft? Or wizardry?

[brightpearl]

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4602515/contactlenses-main_Full.jpg

[zero]

...shiny sequins. The back of the packet said:
FOR CRAFT USE ONLY


i was just reading about this last week. it's a warning. you see, tiny people of less than 6" in height were using them in the discus event at the tiny people's olympic games but the crowds of tiny spectators and the tiny cameramen & commentators were getting dazzled by all the multicolour flashing reflections. so they were banned, hence the warning..

[madasacutsnake]

No zero. You should check snopes before you post. The real reason is that the sequins have very sharp edges and sliced the heads off all the tiny spectators in the first row.

[trisherina]

Eye test for toddlers with limited language: scatter shiny sequins on high chair tray table. If toddler can pick up a sequin, chances are vision is not impaired enough to warrant correction.

(but if you don't want your toddler to eat sequins, you can always use candy sprinkles)

[lukkucairi]

you can't use sequins as series reflectors for high-power lasers. they pose a risk of fire.

you are also not advised to use them as salad garnish.

[Jack Flanders]

funky mulch. not bio-green but may add texture and improve the porosity of soil. just saying. :)

[Brynn]

maybe they meant graft?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

excessive consumption can result in cases of Anachronistic Cockneyism

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Pearlykingandqueen.jpg

[Marcus Bales]

Synthroid, Dicetel, Pentasa, folic acid, Ca++, Vit D, Chloraquin, and of course our good friend MTX.

Whoa -- you sure know a lot of computer languages!

[Marcus Bales]

Q25th Sept:
I bought some shiny sequins. The back of the packet said:
FOR CRAFT USE ONLY.

?What else could they be thinking of using them for?


My family labored in the sequin mines of Tennessee for generations. My own grandfather died of sequinosis, barely able to bend at all from the scaly adhesions, and the company denied that it had anything to do with his 50 years of deep-sequin work. And those craftpeople are no better! If there weren't such a demand for sequins, people like my grandfather wouldn't be forced into lives that end with them looking like immobile parti-colored lizards. Those craftpeople are the reason there is a sequin-mining industry at all. The only thing worse is the rhinestone mines!

[zero]

quote- j kottke - michael pollan asked his readers for suggestions for food rules, and condensed all the answers down to 20:
michael pollan's food rules (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/10/11/magazine/20091011-foodrules.html)



¿qotd - what are some of your thoughts & comments +/or do you have any such rules of yours own to share?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

We had a rule about radishes, it went like this:
radishes are poison in the morning,
food at lunchtime,
medicine in the evening.

[Frieda]

at least 3 colors on the plate-- green/red for vegetables, brown for meat and yellow for carbs.

[xfox]

Three meals a day and snacks in between.

[brightpearl]

I think a healthy diet is about more, not less.
All foods fit...we just need to find a way to enjoy oranges and spinach as much as pizza and chocolate.

[trisherina]

Hunger and satiety come in the same basket -- if you lose contact with one, you lose contact with the other.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

milk and cereal for dinner - it's not the great solution it initially seems.

black pepper is the bachelor's best friend.

[Jack Flanders]

Our four legged friends appreciate the food (that we hate) from our plate that we share (under the table) with them.

[12"razormix]

blablablah... any such rules? do you now, huh??very funny! :mad:

[zero]

^zormix we both know you solely abide by the law of nutella so here try some nice wee nutella-poking biscuits for yours TEATIME

http://juststuffifind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/finger-biscuits.jpg

[12"razormix]

nutella is the devil!

[zero]

if nutella is the devil then SATAN THE GOAT must be an impsotor!

:mad: this is awful

[Stephi_B]

avocado & honey slightly salted & peppered is divine, all by itself :)

In general, but not excluding exceptions of the rule once and for all, colourfulness shall meet proteinrichdom in tasteful understanding.

Oh, and a day without a handful of nuts and a cuppa hot lemon or lime (with honey, of course) is a lost day!

[lukkucairi]

cheese is always a good idea.

[Brynn]

drink a full glass of water before every meal, don't eat more than what can be held in two cupped hands, and don't eat after 6pm.

[zero]

... don't eat after 6pm.

:( but.. you mean... not at all? not even a wee biscuit & drink of milk?

[Frieda]

^mmmmm yeah, i dont get home from work till 7:30ish so i`d be one very hungry Frieda if i were to stop eating after 6!

[Brynn]

Well, some rules are made to be broken, aren't they?:) My nutritionist was assuming that everyone goes to bed at ten, like she does. I almost never go to bed before midnight or one, so I move it to 8:00pm

But dinner is really just to get you through the rest of the evening, and very often, unless we're headed to the gym after work, those are calories that just never quite get used.
You can adjust that time according to when you settle down to bed - anything not burned before that mostly gets stored into your cells as fatness. Or so it was explained to me.

I love Michael Pollan's books - I have several sayings of his that I wrote down and stuck to my fridge: "Pay more, eat less," and "Don't eat anything pre-packaged that has more than five ingredients in it."

One more thing - not from Michael Pollan, just something we all say to each other in my family -

Never eat anything bigger than your head.
It's a bad idea.

[madasacutsnake]

The first bite is bliss. After that, it's just more of the same.

[trisherina]

But dinner is really just to get you through the rest of the evening, and very often, unless we're headed to the gym after work, those are calories that just never quite get used.
You can adjust that time according to when you settle down to bed - anything not burned before that mostly gets stored into your cells as fatness. Or so it was explained to me.



If this is a registered dietitian telling you this, she should be reported to her professional body and required to do some retraining. This is completely inaccurate and people pick up this kind of stuff reading articles about sumo wrestlers and night eating syndrome in Star Weekly.

Your body uses calories continuously, including while you are asleep, to support organ function. Though it is widely reported that you can increase the rate at which calories are used (both during activity and at rest) through engaging in aerobic exercise, there is no mechanism that directs calories to be stored into your cells as fatness at a given time of the day.

[Stephi_B]

^Trish speaks true!! :)

It's not the when, but the what that fattens - for theoretically there fit's a lot of chocolate or similar energy-dense food into my two cupped hands, oh yes! ;)

But then, I was only recently engaged in some nutrition discussion (or battle?) on me thyroid forum ( where I've already irritated folks nutritionally with my unfaltering love of sushi and similar iodine bombs :rolleyes: ) and got in between the "carbohydrates are evil" and "proteins are evil" front lines with my "proteins are essential and a wee bit of these carbohydrates, particularly of these lovely complex ones - like in my honey :) - don't harm neither, and even a bit fat ain't bad, in particular these nice omega-3 thingies" approach - so I run off now.... & fast! :D

[Brynn]

:cool: Trish, I can't tell you how happy this makes me! I'm doing a happy dance right now.
It's after 7:30pm and I'm about to tuck into a nice meal.
Thank you!

[zero]

qotd

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Ethan-Breckenridge.jpg

where?......................

[Stephi_B]

where?

There where the night heals souls.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

home

[Jack Flanders]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Wetlands_Cape_May_New_Jersey.jpg

[Jack Flanders]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Wetlands_Cape_May_New_Jersey.jpg

kayak the wetlands to the shore!! heaven.

[Jack Flanders]

sorry for the double post. but the pix is good, so enjoy. the wetlands purify our water and are SO important to keep the ecosystem balanced and healthy.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ what a beautiful aquatic maze!

[trisherina]

http://www3.telus.net/hthate/IMAGES/Christina%20Lake.jpg

[brightpearl]

http://style-files.com/images/bed500-4.jpg

[Brynn]

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/images%202/040530-199..jpg http://www.stanwoodcamanoarts.com/images/Baker-Multnomah%20Falls.jpg http://k53.pbase.com/g3/39/611339/2/57067654.WalkingtheGorgecopy.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

http://soulcurrymagazine.com/sc/wp-content/uploads/awaken-to-your-breath2.jpg

[madasacutsnake]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/deck6.jpg

[lukkucairi]

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs262.snc1/8920_140710472413_511972413_3056030_8377202_n.jpg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

^ I always wanted to be a timelord.

[Marcus Bales]

Hey, when is Hyakujo's Fox's birthday, anyway?

[brightpearl]

Hard to say, as he's apparently still counting down to 500 (http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/gateless-gate/2.html).

[Stephi_B]

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs262.snc1/8920_140710472413_511972413_3056030_8377202_n.jpg

This is so deliciously cyberpunked!!
I ♥ it :):)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Hard to say, as he's apparently still counting down to 500 (http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/gateless-gate/2.html).

It's not so much the birthdays as the the rebirthdays you struggle to remember.

[brightpearl]

new qotd for Wednesday

Anything you're allergic to?
Extra points for entertaining symptoms.

[madasacutsnake]

Penicillin, bactrim, erythromycin, voltaren. Death probably isn't very entertaining depending on whether you like me or not.

[Jack Flanders]

http://ivyblaster.com/poison-ivy.jpg

poison ivy

http://img.medscape.com/fullsize/migrated/475/190/pn475190.fig3.jpg

and it was worse that this. landscaping + poison ivy = not so good.

[Coffee]

nothing...well, lead perhaps if it is moving fast enough.

[Stephi_B]

----the rather boring part:
pollen - grass, some herbs (but not! WEED :D) and rye (but it was OK for me to read this book there by Salinger, and rye bread is fine too ;))


----the more interesting part (which unfortunately was not in the test there at my throat-nose-ear doc):
* conventions like dresscode, ritual blabla, ritual lies etc (causes extreme boredom in the best case, severe aggressions at worst)
* tussis (a certain type of dumb+superficial women, I did a successful hyposensitisation therapy however! :) meanwhile I only react on them with a mild smile)
* alarm clocks and phones which have such similar ringtone sounds (cause a stop of my heart for a second, induce extreme pissed-off-ness and nervousity)

[Frieda]

lanolin, wool alcohols, wool, glue, dust mite, dog hair, pollen.

[Brynn]

Penicillin, wheat :(

I love good crusty garlic bread, crackers, pasta, Italian food, cookies - I sneak bites. Few things smell as good or taste as good as wheat to me - not polenta, not corn tortillas, not rye, not spelt, not garbanzo bean flour, not quinoa, not rice pasta - nothing tastes as good as wheat. So grains aren't a big part of my diet.

If I over-do it, I get excema on the left side of my face, and if I ignore that over the long term, colon cancer.

[Peregrine]

Cat epithelium, dog epithelium, dust, mixed feathers, mite farinae, mite D.P., tobacco, alternaria, helminthosporium, hormodendrum, birch, Orchard, Perennial rye, Timothy, cat pelt, cockroach, tree pollen, grass, meadow fescue, red top, sweet vernal, cocklebur, dandelion, Green pea, spinach, string bean, clam, lobster, scallop, banana (Ray Comfort was right in one case at least), peanut, mussels, buckwheat, lima bean, salmon, tuna, sunflower seed, cantaloupe, and coconut.

Mostly, I just get stuffed up. except for the seafood, which makes the back of my throat swell up.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I don't know yet.

[MoJoRiSin]

mo is allergic to wheat if she eats it more than once a week
whole wheat is worse than white so for instance if she goes to a resturant where they put bread on the table she eats it but not otherwuse :confused:
^^peregrine :: mo wants to get a grant to study this
runny/and or stuffed up symptom as it relates to food allergies
(wheat and petrochemicals in particular)
my question is this :: one hundred years ago did people who had food allergies have these (hay fever ?) symptoms ?
I never heard of this even in the 1980's

[zero]

...Cat epithelium, dog epithelium, dust, mixed feathers, mite farinae, mite D.P., tobacco, alternaria, helminthosporium, hormodendrum, birch, Orchard, Perennial rye, Timothy, cat pelt, cockroach, tree pollen, grass, meadow fescue, red top, sweet vernal, cocklebur, dandelion, Green pea, spinach, string bean, clam, lobster, scallop, banana ... peanut, mussels, buckwheat, lima bean, salmon, tuna, sunflower seed, cantaloupe, and coconut ...

give them a rub

[Peregrine]

Mo, most of my food allergies are mild, except that they tend to lower my resistance to the environmental allergens. Some of them might make my skin itch a little when I handle them. It was annoying, but not critical. I used to work at a restaurant, and my hands tended to itch for a while whenever I had to prepare shellfish.

People probably had allergies for as long as there have been people. They just... tended to die from them. I'd imagine industrial pollutants and thing like tobacco use tended to make mild reactions more pronounced, and therefore noticeable, but also medical science has progressed to the point that symptoms that used to be fatal are now severe, or at least survivable if properly treated. So either inadvertently, or by design, we've corralled the disease into a smaller space where it can be diagnosed and studied more effectively. That's my guess, anyway.

Also, doctors have actually become competent and learned to give a shit in the last century or two. Where previously they wrote it off as a cold, or an imbalance of the humours, or something.

[MoJoRiSin]

^ Peregrine your arguments have won me over
you are most certainly correct
thank you for correcting me in this matter

oh yea > mo is very allergic to walnuts as well

[lukkucairi]

I'm drawing a line between sensitivities and proper allergies -

allergies to every pollen released by western U.S. trees, and at least half the weeds and bushes; all proper tree nuts; mangoes; dust mites; poison ivy...

sensitivities to all grains except rice, corn, quinoa, and amaranth. I don't break out in hives if I eat wheat, rye, barley etc., but they give me a cranial neuralgia that feels like a sadistic dwarf sitting on my shoulder and stabbing me in the head with an ice pick :)

[brightpearl]

give them a rub

I think you mean "tapeworm." (http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0Z-lndxRzgoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=%22Capron%22+%22Parasites+and+Allergy:+2+Tables %22+&ots=Z4qWR8cjuE&sig=a242dxAhKghPuWLPrx4QXwyNim0#v=onepage&q=&f=false)

[lukkucairi]

^ nothing like a little therapeutic parasitical infection

[brightpearl]

Well, hopefully now that they've figured out what the worms do to your immune system to reduce allergic response, they can synthesize it, and you can take a pill rather than...you know...some eggs.
:eek:

[brightpearl]

Or you could do this.
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I'm actually open to some of the things mentioned, but it's still funny. :D

[Peregrine]

Paging Doctor Avogadro! Code grey, Emergency!

[lukkucairi]

qotd 20091023

¿ can I play with your teddy bear ?

[Brynn]

Of course you can, but you have to promise to sew it back together and take the LEDs off when you're done.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

it's possible.

[trisherina]

He's cut out of pale blue plush that I was using to sew robes, and held together by staples (Maus made him for me when she was much littler, and his name is Winston). You can hold him gently so that his staples stay in. See the pretty ribbon around his neck? And the happy little face drawn on with Sharpie?

[lukkucairi]

it's possible.

mother-may-I? ;)

[brightpearl]

All right then, but have him back by midnight.

He's a bear when he doesn't get enough sleep.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Mine is imaginary, but here, you can cuddle Teddy for a while. If you're careful enough, you can recognise the faint outlines of the head and the bulging belly.

[MoJoRiSin]

of course !!

[zero]

¿bbbbbbotd

blah blah blah blah blah blah?

[MoJoRiSin]

what is hidden will be revealed

[12"razormix]

revealed my arse!

[Odbe]

^ :eek: How daring!

[zero]

you can say that again!!

[lukkucairi]

don't be ridiculous.

<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eUyLwXhqlWU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eUyLwXhqlWU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>

[MoJoRiSin]

^ &^^ are you a doctor ?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

In a way, yes; but no. I can't heal myself.

[Frieda]

i can, but i have other issues.

[Odbe]

No but he is.
http://www.drafthouse.com/westlakes/admin/Images/doctor_who_david_tennant.jpg

[brightpearl]

^Who's that?


Hahahahaha.

[craig johnston]

is that the new question?
or was that?
or is this?

:confused:

[xfox]

New QOTD:

What is the life span of a laptop?

[lukkucairi]

5 years, or til the cat knocks it off the kitchen table, whichever comes first.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

my last laptop got taken out by a glass of red, oh the humanity!

[Peregrine]

My mom got a 486 laptop from her former employer during the Pentium III era. Probably around 97/98, or so; I was in university at the time. So it was old even then. Ran Windows 3.11. Gave it away 2 years ago, and it still worked.

You can't kill a 486. Those fvckers were resilient.

[Bman]

Laptops never really die, they just become obsolete.



EDIT: ...or coasters, whichever comes first.

[trisherina]

2 years.

[Odbe]

A day longer than its warranty.

[lukkucairi]

2 years.

2 years is when you buy the replacement out of frustration. 5 years is when the HDD dies :p

I have a 7 year old Dell shelved between old vinyl records and about 4 years' worth of handwritten dream diaries in the spare bedroom. It still boots if you hold your breath and squint at it just right. I'm almost sure I can't remember the password any more, though.

...and no, we don't own a cat ;)

[Marcus Bales]

Permanent Fatal Errors, A Semi-Ballade
for Lew Grossberger

The laptop on my table here today,
As elegant and vanishingly small
As any warranty that salesmen say
Is unimplied if unexpressed, seems all
And more than anyone could ask if they
Could get all that they wanted to install --
But software jargon holds no greater terrors
Than this brief message: "Permanent Fatal Errors".

No keyboard stroke produces any play;
No mouse-click gives some give -- the letters loll
Unmoving and unmoved as teens who lay
Around with chores to do; the words enthrall
With primitive attractiveness, the way
An accident slows traffic to a crawl,
For software jargon holds no greater terrors
Than this brief message: "Permanent Fatal Errors".

And as I sit here, staring at the wall
While trying to remember how to pray
Or who among my friends if I should call
Might offer something more than “****in’ A!
You’re screwed like Adam was after the Fall”
I feel my final nerve begin to fray:
The software jargon holds no greater terrors
Than this brief message: "Permanent Fatal Errors".

Envoi

Lew! The portents pile up to appall
And hope for help has faded into gray --
This software jargon holds no greater terrors
Than this brief message: "Permanent Fatal Errors".

[topcat]

^^^that is one long ass answer

[Stephi_B]

I don't have a fukken laptop! Ha! :mad: (now you really know all my blackest secrets :p)

I wait for a smaller thing, like a cube with round edges maybe, that is unkaputtbar (http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/unkaputtbar.html), at least within my lifespan :D

[madasacutsnake]

I've got one of those dinky little things that fits in my handbag and on an airline fold down table if Qantas should ever change its policy on using electrical gear on board. I hope it lasts forever.

[brightpearl]

new q:

How many messages in your spam folder? Bonus points for subject lines that sound interesting.


I have been remiss of late and have accumulated 37, and there is one from a game my son plays, Adventure Quest, which promises a Harvest Festival battle with a Velocigobbler.

[MoJoRiSin]

i have recently switched my email so my answer is none
(null)

[12"razormix]

zero :)

[zero]

i would never spam you xormix















<blink>XanexValuim - Winter Sale!</blink> .......

[MoJoRiSin]

^:D

[lukkucairi]

I do not care at all about the electronic detritus of my online life - it accumulates like fallen leaves, and I leave it to mulch:

on facebook:
516 unread messages
184 updates
99 notifications

on gmail:
945 spam
345 unread in inbox
2 drafts

on yahoo:
223 spam
8276 unread in inbox
3 drafts

on bulletin.zefrank:
all boxes: 0 unread, 0 spam :D

[xfox]

good question. Very little actually.

[Peregrine]

I don't even pay attention anymore. i just scan the addresses, and make sure nothing got sent there accidentally, and then empty it.

But let's check my Boxbe account, and see what's in there...

72 in the past month.

The trend lately has been "Facebook updated account agreement" and "Facebook Password Reset Confirmation" which are obviously phishing scams

There's one guy who laments that he gave me shelter.

"And they fastened it down with a pin" - no idea what that's about

"Bathed in light" - what?

"Iswhen beneath the sod"

"I saw that I was in my own bed" - um... that's nice.

"Special Teacher Thank you special teacher" - you're welcome.

"Do you think I'm stupid?" - Yes.

"Zipper-tearing supplement!" - I don't want to know.

That's all my interesting spam. Nothing else but online degrees.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I think I've got 2 this year.

[brightpearl]

:eek:

What's your secret?!?!?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I didn't know I had one.

[Marcus Bales]

Didn't know you had one WHAT?

[trisherina]

:eek:

What's your secret?!?!?

That QOTD is asked elsewhere.

[topcat]

the QOTD courtsey of trish and pearl.


whats your secert? or whats your dirty little secret?

[lukkucairi]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/SvX5epTQLaI/AAAAAAAAKP8/Do_yXATWHl8/s400/hardcore.jpg

:)

[12"razormix]

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[zero]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_kfCmm01p0fg/SjzzIwmZzcI/AAAAAAAABHI/sBktbqRIMzc/albireo100.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

i have no secrets

i am an open book

edit: my ancestors were coolies?
is that a secret?
no

[Brynn]

The cobwebs around my front porch light must be at least seven years old.

[zero]

http://j-walkblog.com/images2/moonwater.jpg

new!¿q?: now that water has been found on the moon, what might be some of the side-effects of drinking this NEW! moon water?

[Brynn]

It'll give us all flying dreams anytime we want them.

[lukkucairi]

a cure for heartbreak

http://ninetymeetingsinninetydays.com/images/heartbreak.jpg

[brightpearl]

chicken feet

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2928478781_a640740e4f.jpg

[Stephi_B]

moon faced ness

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lArDhHJk8i8/SZum1Ng8ASI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/X9uEtWC2D7Y/s400/moon-face551x514.gif

[lukkucairi]

snow

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/37000/37261/US_snow_TMO_2009062.jpg

[lukkucairi]

the growth of mandelbulbs on the forehead and the back of the hands

http://mandelbulb.s3.amazonaws.com/q85/honeycomb-heaven-small.jpg

[Brynn]

^ drinking bilge water does that too.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

a fanciful light headedness

gradually leading to lunacy and premature cratering.

[Marcus Bales]

Oh god i've never told anyone this before but i might as well admit it: i've written ... poetry

[MoJoRiSin]

Following the imbibing of new! moon water
one begins thinking that there is a meaning
behind the actual meaning
of everything
especially this :: n e w !* m o o n w a t e r
which leads to this :: t h e c o w j u m p e d o v e r t h e m o o
which leads to rereading about
shtetls
which makes mo feel needed
for some reason she can't explain
*exclamation point[/COLOR]

[zero]

mo have you been hitting the New!moonwaterNew! bottle?

[MoJoRiSin]

The soul of all is one soul, and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan


ps mo has only been drucnk twice in her life
once at 15
once at 24
that is all she is going to say about this
matter

[zero]

^that zazrat fellow sure sounds platitudinous

[Coffee]

Poverty...as the shipping costs will be prohibitive for all but the very silver spooned.

[zero]

new!¿q?¿: excluding when you have a cold, how often do you typically sneeze per day/week, and could you please describe your sneeze style +/or sound (try to write the noise of phonetically to give us an idea) in comparison to other people's sneezes that you hear as you go about yours daily business?

i heard a lady sneeze today in that most ridiculous, overdramatic way you sometimes hear, you know - with a silly, musical singing note at the end of each of sneeze. i hope this comment doesn't offend any of you who might do the same thing. not looking at anyone in particular, but i have my suspicions.

[Frieda]

i sneeze about 5-10 times a day in non-hay fever season

i am told i have a cat's sneeze-- i tend to try not to produce so many decibels so i burst out in smaller portions. or something.

also, it helps if you're eating and have to sneeze. it's safer that way.

[MoJoRiSin]

i sneeze zero times a day when i do not have a cold

i sneeze not too quietly nor to loudly into the sleeve of my right arm (shirt)
when i do


this may or may not be useful::
you may have a sever allergy to
dustmites if you suddenly start having
a runny nose day in day out that doesn't
go away
even if it appears to be food related
^my husband suffered for 1+years
(basically subsisting on pinto beans quinoa and vegatables)
before being properly diagnosed.
mo's 2c worth : )

[madasacutsnake]

Hayfever so lots of sneezes. I sound like Donald Duck.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

A loud pfffttss! accompanied by a generous spray of dispersed saliva and/or snot droplets; not everyday nor weekly; when I have a cold, but more often in the summer, especially when I'm enthralled by the sun.