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If genderless singular "they" and "their" was good enough for Shakespeare and Jane Austen, it's good enough for me. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Spidra Webster, Scoble, Alex Scoble, Walt Crawford and 7 other people liked this
Ah, but the Grammar Cops weren't out in full patrol back in those days--I note that the article includes a sound knuckle-rapping from Lieut. Strunk & Leit. White of the Grammar Patrol, for example. (I regard "they" and "their" as by far the most lucid and appropriate gender-neutral singular forms, and have for years. And generally see them get EDITED OUT AS OBVIOUSLY, TERRIBLY WRONG when my stuff is formally published.)
- Walt Crawford
Big time.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Y'all, Bee Dub has me reading about Michael Jackson's kids in the news.
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Bee Dub is diabolical.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
These linguistic maps plot individual data points and show more than the top four responses - Dialect Survey Maps and Results http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL...
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"What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road?" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL... — it occurs to me that this is not a very common sidewalk/roadway feature in L.A. I don't have a word for it.
- Victor Ganata
"What do you call the area of grass that occurs in the middle of some streets?" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL... — I've always heard this called the "median" (which is just a generic term for any structure that divides the two sides of traffic—whether it's grassy, made solely of concrete, or if it has a Jersey barrier. I guess "grassy median" is an attested term.
- Victor Ganata
"What do you call the long narrow place in the middle of a divided highway?" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL... — "median" is better represented here. But I don't think you ever see expansive medians on So Cal freeways. The closest ones I can think of are on I-5 once you're past the Grapevine (which is like 80 miles northwest of downtown L.A.) or on the way to Cabezon and Palm Springs after the I-10/CA-60 merge (which is also like 80 miles east of downtown L.A.)
- Victor Ganata
"What do you call the game wherein the participants see who can throw a knife closest to the other person (or alternately, get a jackknife to stick into the ground or a piece of wood)?" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL... — I'm not sure why I even know what "mumblety-peg" is. I definitely grew up past the time it would've been acceptable to bring a switchblade to school to play with at recess :D And we played on asphalt anyway.
- Victor Ganata
"What word(s) do you use to address a group of two or more people?" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL... — Heh. "Youse" pretty much clusters around exactly where I expected to.
- Victor Ganata
"What is the thing that women use to tie their hair?" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL... — is it weird that the term I know is "scrunchy"?
- Victor Ganata
Not at all. I bet you were a fan of Seinfeld back in the day. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
it means you had a sister who was a teen in the '80s ;-)
- DJF
"What is 'the City'?" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL... — LOL, SF *still* gets dissed. I've never heard *anyone* call L.A. "The City" but it still got its own label.
- Victor Ganata
I mean, hell, Journey *always* calls SF "The City" in their songs.
- Victor Ganata
59. What do you call the game wherein the participants see who can throw a knife closest to the other person (or alternately, get a jackknife to stick into the ground or a piece of wood)?
- Rachel Walden
For 59, there was no answer option for "What is wrong with you people?!" I'd like to know who the individuals are who had a word for that, so I can avoid them.
- Rachel Walden
Looking closer at "The City" map, and noticing the distribution of "other", it makes me wonder what people in So Cal actually *do* consider "The City".
- Victor Ganata
The City? Nuh-uh. Maybe "LA proper".
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I think the most common term I've heard for the City of L.A. is "L.A., L.A.", e.g., "So you're from L.A.? You mean So Cal, or L.A, L.A.?"
- Victor Ganata
Is there a more modern recognized term for a web server becoming incapacitated by a deluge of incoming hits due to being referenced by social media? "Slashdotted" just seems so last decade.
Jennifer Dittrich and Scoble, Alex Scoble liked this
Scobleized? ;)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Perhaps some kind of positive spin on DDOS?
- Curtis (a) Jackson
from Android
Heh, Alex, I've come to think of a server getting "Scobleized" more like a social media site crashing catastrophically because your brother has convinced multitudes to sign-up all at once.
- Victor Ganata
FriendFeeded
- Brian Johns
Pinterested?
- Brian Johns
Sodium Reduction in Populations Insights From the Institute of Medicine Committee - JAMA http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article...
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This is a good example of the need to individualize treatment plans even if it's a systems problem.
- Victor Ganata
Not that it wouldn't be nice if we could somehow get food manufacturers to cut down on the amount of salt that they use, right?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
With evidence like this, though, it seems quite likely that food manufacturers would be justified in decrying the heavy hand of the state if they set strict targets like previous recommendations. This study *did* still find a (much higher) upper limit where salt will probably kill you, so I guess they could target that, at least.
- Victor Ganata
Yeah, not to mention that if you use too heavy of a hand and don't take into account unintended consequences, you'd likely push them towards using more sugar which may be even worse than the amount of salt they were using before.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If one person is dealing with a specific health issue, look at the person. If a large swath of a country is dealing with that same health issue, look at the system.
Eric, Pea Bukowski, imabonehead and 10 other people liked this
Yes. This is called "public health." ;-)
- Jessie
Are we talking about my green penis again?
- SteVe C
TMI, Steve! TMI!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@SteVe: does that mean it's a sustainable penis?
- Joe Silence
No, Steve confused it with the alligator penis cake: http://friendfeed.com/soup...
- Anne Bouey
can't see, not subbed to that private feed.
- Joe Silence
You forget I'm a nurse (was head nurse on a urology unit at the VAMC years ago), Cristo, and I grew up with four brothers. Penis has been in my vocabulary for a long time. ;-P
- Anne Bouey
HB, here's the link: http://penispans.com/page2...
- Anne Bouey
Okay, I give up.
- Anne Bouey
Penis Pans. the UFO cake is awesome.
- Joe Silence
Haha, Cristo. You can continue with Akiva instead. :)
- Anne Bouey
:(
- Akiva
I missed all the Cristo comments. :(
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Until I realized that first penis pan cake was supposed to be a wizard, I was seriously concerned as to what those two black dots were supposed to represent. And the white marshmallow fringe also had me a bit disconcerted, though there are a few possible explanations for that in the design.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
The alligator cake and the lighthouse cake are actually really cool. The rest of them (except for the Christmas Tree, which was cut to shape) still look like penises to me.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Okay, my earlier comment was based solely on the wizard cake. Realizing later that there are other cakes on the page, I returned and scrolled through the entire roster. Some are quite clever. But to those who think you can furtively present one of those at your next family get together, or church potluck, let me just say this: They all look like penis cakes wearing semi-effective...
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- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Also, when the comments were collapsed and only my previous comment was visible, it looked really really strange in juxtaposition to/with the opening post.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
LOL.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Back to the OP, though, you still have to remember you're treating individual people, even if you're implementing system-wide changes.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I'd disagree, Victor, but it might just me being contrary, so I'll hold off for now.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If there's an outbreak, you don't put antibiotics in the water.
- Heather
No, you quarantine the sick in New York. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If you're implementing a policy that covers the middle part of the Bell curve, that means you're missing 33% of the cases. That's probably not going to succeed in stopping the progression of a deadly epidemic.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
If I'm implementing a policy that only covers the middle part of the Bell curve (does it have to be capitalized?), I'm not being a very good tyrant am I? Hmm, you are sick? Ok, off to New York with you and everyone who lives with you or works with you!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
How will you know someone is sick without examining them?
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Spies. Lots of spies. What could possibly go wrong?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
In my case, you can tell because I can't shut up about it. If I have a migraine, everybody within 20 feet knows it. And probably what I just took for it, and how well it's working. I only recently learned to be discreet about taking handfuls of meds on the tennis court.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
I mean, even if it's an infectious disease, but the transmission rate is only something like 1 in 100,000 cases per year, imprisoning everyone who's infected on the island of Manhattan and maintaining armed robot guards to prevent escape seems like a vast waste of resources.
- Victor Ganata
Not to say that studying the system isn't worthwhile, just that assessment is only at most half of the solution, and it's worthless if you don't have a plan, and plans pretty much have to be individualized if you want them to have a modicum of success.
- Victor Ganata
Yeah, complex problems usually need to be attacked on multiple fronts. If you have a systemic health issue, whether it be disease, smoking, automobile related fatalities, etc., there are things that need to be done at the macro level and at the individual level if you want to have success. For instance, in the infection example, a country can make sure that there's plenty of supply of...
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- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Too Many Passwords and No Way to Remember Them. Until Now. http://nyti.ms/10ZhXgq
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Stephen Mack #TeamMomo, Steven Perez, John (bird whisperer) and 4 other people liked this
Sounds very interesting. Anyone using the previous version care to comment?
- Curtis (a) Jackson
The features listed doesn't sound all that different from all the other password managers.
- Rodfather
I don't get why there's so much bias towards Dashlane. All the passwords managers are pretty much the same.
- Rodfather
Yeah, I didn't see any compelling reasons for me to pay $8 more a year for it over LastPass.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I've been uncompelled to use a 3rd-party password manager given: (1) none of them work on every site (so still have to remember some passwords); (2) none of them give me warm fuzzies that my info is as secure as I want, from them or from data loss; (3) good luck if someone gets physical control of your phone; (4) the master password is a single point of failure. Diversification is harder, but all eggs in one basket has never seemed like a solid strategy to me.
- Tinfoil 2.0
LastPass works with every site, even if you have to copy the password to your clipboard temporarily. I've already covered how LastPass secures your data and protects you from data loss. If the security they offer isn't enough, nothing ever will be. There's no reason that the master password has to be a single point of failure. If someone gets a hold of my phone, they still have to unlock the pin to access LastPass and can't change my master password without knowing what it is.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
They've already thought about all of the problems that you describe and have dealt with them in a reasonable manner.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm glad it works for you, Alex. It doesn't work for the way I work.
- Tinfoil 2.0
This is why Windows is effectively dead as an enterprise OS. They release a critical patch for IE. Even if you want to just push that patch out to all of your systems...just that one patch. Sorry, you need to reboot. That isn't scalable. That isn't manageable. Microsoft has had 10 years+ to fix the patch problem and they've failed.
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i was confused about what you were talking about and had to read it several times. I thought you were talking to Microsoft when you said, "Sorry, you need to reboot. That isn't scalable. That isn't manageable." LOL
- Jimminy
Jimminy, Microsoft does indeed need to reboot the Windows OS if they want to be a long term player in the enterprise space.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I know, which was why it was confusing.
- Jimminy
Or this one?
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I can't tell any real difference between the three. Except I guess the first one has longer bangs. So yeah, that, bangs are good.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Bangs, a little difference in the fullness on the sides and more or less texture on the top. Also a little difference in how long it is overall ... It's a girl thing, lol.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
this one gets my vote
- t-ra: confounded
*testing testing*. Does this thing still work?
Headless Gnad Kicker, imabonehead, Kelli H. and 12 other people liked this
We've missed you!
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
It does, Sir.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Turn it down, too much feedback.
- ronin
What's been going on around here lately?
- chrisofspades
oh.... nothing...
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Yep
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Sounds about right.
- chrisofspades
Testes, testes...
- Headless Gnad Kicker
To anyone who's ever gotten unasked for advice from me, I humbly apologize.
Stephen Mack #TeamMomo, Joe Silence and Anne Bouey liked this
Particularly if you've ever purchased something and I said something like "why the heck did you buy that?"
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If I had a robot butler, one thing I would have it do is follow me around with snacks, like a walking TV tray.
John (bird whisperer), Jennifer Dittrich, Scoble, Alex Scoble and holly #ravingfangirl liked this
I'd have it help me rob high end jewelry from houses. Then again maybe not. My name isn't Frank Langella.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
and if it had more than two arms it could hold my food and feed me too. I guess the ultimate expression of technologically enabled laziness is still the Wall-E floating chair, though.
- Andrew C (✓)
Steam punk has a meme of powered jaws to do your chewing for you
- WarLord
At the time when @rodfather implored others to do better, as a joke, it was hilarious. But now I'm like, "Man, I /do/ want to do better."
Yvonne, Iván Abrego, Stephen Mack #TeamMomo and 2 other people liked this
Yeah, except I was the one who really said to do better and not as a joke.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Haha, sorry Alex. I only saw Rod's post. :)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
I will do better.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
It's impossible to do better than me. I frickin rock.
- SteVe C
Spell better, SteVe.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Pretty doesn't spell Zulema :)
- SteVe C
You're more than a pretty face, do better. (Seriously, I could "do better" all day! But I won't, it's bedtime.)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
So is the lesson here that you should buy up Mojave Desert acreage and get ready to transform it to farmland? You better hurry, because when currently fertile areas fail and succumb to drought, the famine and mass migration is really going to put a dint in civilization.
Kelli H., Steven Perez, Greg GuitarBuster and 5 other people liked this
And you better secure your water rights now, too.
- Victor Ganata
Water capture, water retention ponds, hugelkultur beds, swales, etc and you are set for water.
- Todd Hoff
I think the timing is going to be tricky, because the desert isn't going to turn into arable farmland overnight, and developing a working farm that produces nothing before climate change has really set in is going to be expensive. They who control the water control the planet.
- Victor Ganata
Buy it for natural resources now and for farming later.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You can green the dessert now with a lot of effort: http://www.youtube.com/watch.... The water control issue is for factory farming, which is broken, not an issue when you change your model.
- Todd Hoff
Gold Bugs should be buying water rights if they really want a hedge against disaster....
- WarLord
OK, that's true, the desert is plenty sustainable if you're just going to be subsistence farming. I guess you can't really avert the population crash without prolonging unsustainable models.
- Victor Ganata
we were born to die, sonny Jim. all mothers give birth straddling the graves of their children. and one day the last human will die. nothing will matter. imma give oblivion a big sloppy kiss on the mandibles just before it bites my head off and swallows.
- Joe Silence
Yeah, in the long run, we're all dead, but I'd still rather not be stuck with only two choices: either starving to death or fighting to the death over scraps. #GrimMeathookFuture
- Victor Ganata
all hail the mountain of corpses.
- Joe Silence
That gives me an idea about how the Zombie Apocalypse is going to start. Famine –> cannibalism –> kuru –> insane frenzied cannibals running amok
- Victor Ganata
if someone mentions chemtrails as a cause of the Zombie Apocalypse i'll log out for a month.
- Joe Silence
Everyone knows the Zombie Apocalypse will be caused by the explosion of a giant blow fish arriving from space.
- Todd Hoff
Joe, don't expose your buttons to the internet. People here love to press buttons, even if they are of the big red "DON'T EFFING PUSH THIS BUTTON" variety.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex. may i call you Alexander? Alexander, i was only joking. :)
- Joe Silence
also, my buttons aren't connected to anything anymore. i tore out the wiring behind the panel.
- Joe Silence
Oh, in that case...the Zombie Apocalypse will be caused by the CIA's secret chemtrails project.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Water 'rights' don't mean much if water never gets that far down "the pipe." First dibs on nothing is nothing. At the rate we're depleting underground aquifers, those won't be of much help either. Perhaps the prevailing model for agricultural food production warrants revision? Let's see how long it takes ADM, ConAgra and Cargill to buy into that.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
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wow, this shirt is kind of loud. well, loud-for-me, at least.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Heh, Holly. I can still hear you over that shirt.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Fixing obesity is not complicated - http://www.kevinmd.com/blog...
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"Hard, yes; complicated, no!"
- Victor Ganata
"I have compared obesity to drowning before, but want to dive more deeply today into the implications for fixing what ails us."
- Victor Ganata
"For, you see, drowning is complicated. There is individual variability — some people can hold their breath longer than others. Not all water is the same — there are variations in density, salinity, and temperature. There are factors other than the water — such as why you fell in in the first place, use or neglect of personal flotation devices, and social context. There are factors in the water other than water, from rocks, to nets, to sharks."
- Victor Ganata
"The argument could be made that anything like a lifeguard is an abuse of authority and an imposition on personal autonomy, because the prevention of drowning should derive from personal and parental responsibility."
- Victor Ganata
"The argument could be made that fences around pools hint at the heavy hand of tyranny, barring our free ambulation and trampling our civil liberties."
- Victor Ganata
"We would, if drowning were treated like obesity, call for more personal responsibility, but make no societal effort to impart the power required to take responsibility. In other words, we wouldn’t actually teach anyone how to swim."
- Victor Ganata
"Were we to treat drowning more like obesity, we would have whole industries devoted to talking people into the choices most likely to harm them — and profiting from those choices. One imagines a sign, courtesy of some highly-paid Madison Avenue consultants: 'Awesome rip current: Swim here, and we’ll throw in a free beach towel!'"
- Victor Ganata
"If we treated swimming and eating more alike, we would very willfully goad even the youngest children into acts of peril. An announcer near that unfenced pool would call out: 'Jump right in, there’s a toy at the bottom of the deep end! And don’t worry, the pool water is fortified with chlorine — part of a healthy lifestyle!'"
- Victor Ganata
"If the 'pool lobby' were to address drowning the way the gun lobby addresses gun violence, the solution would somehow be more pools, fewer fences, and no lifeguards. But that will have to be a rant for another day, so let’s not go down that rabbit hole."
- Victor Ganata
"It’s hard, because profit and cultural inertia oppose change. But it’s not complicated."
- Victor Ganata
At this point, if you're starting the conversation by talking about how you're going to "fix" obesity, I consider pretty much everything out of your mouth on the subject suspect. If you want to talk about reducing weight related diabetes, fine. If you want to talk about joint damage, fine. But that's not what's happening here.
- Jennifer Dittrich
That's exactly what's happening here, Jennifer. He's talking about fixing the health problem of obesity. A health problem that leads to a multitude of other more serious conditions.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
+1 Jennifer
- Todd Hoff
The way the title is phrased made me wary as well, but I feel like there's something to the thesis that no one really wants society as a whole to do something about obesity and obesity-related complications and simply expects each individual to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and take care of it themselves. Sure, there's no-one-size-fits-all magic bullet "solution" and this doesn't really address the sociocultural issues around obesity, but there do seem to be forces actively working at cross-purposes.
- Victor Ganata
Alex, the conflation of healthy/thin and unhealthy/fat is precisely what I'm referring to. The "health problem of obesity," isn't just that. Pointing at a fat person and saying they're unhealthy is just stupid, and doesn't help address any of the "weight related" diseases that they may or may not have. Victor, I do agree that he has somewhat of a point, it is just clumsily stated (the...
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- Jennifer Dittrich
Obesity does not equal fat just as healthy does not equal thin. This guy is a doctor so I'd expect him to use the term obesity in the clinical sense.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
It does equal whether you're in the right BMI range, which is your weight divided by height, so I'm not sure how that refutes anything I just said.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Real BMI is not height divided by weight. Or rather, BMI is a poor metric. Percentage of body fat, which can only be measured by calipers (or if you require better precision another method is required http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ), is a much better metric for overall health.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I don't know, I think the drowning metaphor successfully emphasizes the libertarian and/or puritanical mindset that surrounds obesity and obesity-related complications. I agree that he does nothing to address the sociocultural issues around weight, but I kind of assume he's coming at this from a clinical guideline/public health perspective.
- Victor Ganata
No, that's right. BMI is weight divided by height squared. Realistically, though, there's evidence that BMIs greater than 40 are associated with serious health complications.
- Victor Ganata
Yeah, I changed my comment.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I still feel like you dismissed what I had to say by quibbling over a definition, rather than addressing my central point. For me, ignoring the socio-cultural component is unhelpful in the short and long run. It's what contributes to health care professionals providing dramatically worse care to their obese patients. Treating a whole group of people, regardless of actual health as the "other" generally leads to bad public policy and bad health care.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I mean, we're talking proxy measures here. Even body fat percentage measurements aren't perfect. There's no shortcut to evaluating someone's health status. No sane clinician is going to just measure someone's BMI or body fat percentage and recommend a treatment plan without taking a history and doing a physical exam and doing some basic blood tests.
- Victor Ganata
They shouldn't, but there've been a number of studies showing that being obese in the exam room is a shortcut to a bad diagnosis. Not because the problem is more difficult to diagnose because of weight, but because the perception of obesity itself as a problem skews the diagnosis. If a patient who is obese comes in to talk about their knee pain, they're likely going to be treated differently than a thinner patient, even if both of them have the same injury.
- Jennifer Dittrich
As someone who is obese myself, it's not like I'm personally ignoring the sociocultural impact, but I also have patients who have serious health complications from obesity and from that perspective I don't think it's helpful to label every type of advice or intervention for obesity as "fat-shaming" which is the direction it sometimes seems to go. Yes, there's evidence that bias against...
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- Victor Ganata
I'd agree that going the other direction isn't helpful either - I'd never argue that there aren't weight-related diseases, or that bringing them up at appropriate times wasn't a good idea. It just feels like labeling this 'obesity epidemic' lets a lot of people off the hook for a complex analysis of a myriad of different problems. Diabetes and heart disease might both be weight related...
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- Jennifer Dittrich
+++++++Jennifer
- Russian Space Lizard
from FFHound!
I can't help but blame the mainstream media's relentless drive to dumb everything down. I'd even blame our cultural tendencency towards favoring reductionism. Because all these diseases are complex problems. Their inciting causes vary considerably, no two people are the same, and we don't necessarily understand why exactly it all goes down. It's only the final common pathway that we have a tenuous grasp of, where we are capable of intervening decisively.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I mean, it would be patently ridiculous and absurd for me to recommend nothing except weight loss to treat something like cardiovascular disease. Your arteries aren't going to magically unclog even if you do manage to lose a lot of weight. But by the same token, would it help? Probably, if it was done in a gradual manner.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Yeah, I agree with all of that, but I also think he was focusing on it as one would focus on smoking or any other similarly widespread health issue. The problem isn't necessarily the people who may or may not be eating healthily, the problem is stuff like this http://www.nytimes.com/2013... When you have industries...
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- Scoble, Alex Scoble
On the other hand, something like impaired glucose tolerance? Weight loss might make the insulin resistance decrease or go away entirely. Even in the early stages of type 2 diabetes, diet and exercise are reasonable options, and a lot of patients go for it because they don't want to take pills everyday. For others, it's only delaying the inevitable. Most of the time, there's no way to tell ahead of time until you get to know people.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
If someone is addicted to cocaine or heroin, I don't think it would be very effective for a doctor to say "stop using <your drug that you are addicted to>" without offering treatment solutions that make it bearable to kick a habit. The more I read about the food industry the more I think they are just like drug pushers. The problem isn't that people are overweight. The problem is that an entire industry is against you eating healthy.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
++ Alex :D
- Jennifer Dittrich
from FFHound!
Yeah, I agree with that angle. The fact is our culture simply prioritizes profit over health. I mean, even the tobacco industry isn't dead even after all the cancer they've caused.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
according to a variety of doctors i've met, all i need to do is let them resection my upper digestive tract and...majik will appear. so will alot of money in their accounts.
- Joe Silence
So I just saw that the American Beverage Association is running ads decrying mandatory calorie count posting as intrusive government intervention. Yeah.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I think another problem is that there is profit in both making people unhealthy AND shaming them to trying to change it. You see commercials for pizza and diet pills in the same commercial break. The food industry and the "fitness" industry want people to stay unhealthy.
- Heather
^^^ THIS
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from iPhone
sick = profitable
- Joe Silence
This one?
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- Shannon - GlassMistress
from email
Like I said...this one...bangs = cowbell...the more the better :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I think I agree, but the red one I like too. I want some bangs, but the too much bang Ive got going on now is part of what's making me crazy.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
When I read *A Game of Thrones* I was totally shocked when they killed Ned Stark then and there. I had expected Bad Things to happen to him and thought that the Lannisters would get him in the end, but I didn't think he'd get a surprise public execution….
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The night is full of terrors.
- Todd Hoff
So I kind of knew that [redacted] was going to die, too, and I remember reading *A Clash of Kings* and *A Storm of Swords* with dread. I guess, after that, even though lots of characters still die or suffer other horrible fates, it was kind of smooth sailing. (Although when the show gets to whatever season will feature *A Dance With Dragons*, I expect viewers are going to be *seriously* pissed.)
- Victor Ganata
Since I knew some kind of blood bath was going to ensue in *A Storm of Swords*, I think the thing that shocked me the most was who ended up living. Well, kind of living.
- Victor Ganata
Entire books can be skipped without losing anything, it will be interesting which direction the show goes and if the dragons will show up on westeros much earlier in the show.
- Todd Hoff
I don't know about that. I think Season 1 and 2 were pretty much on point. Sure, they skipped some sequences, but they touched upon the main plot points. I haven't watched any of Season 3 yet, and I know there are some divergences, but I can't imagine they're going to go crazily off the rails. I know they're pulling in some info from later books, mainly because the timelines intersect....
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- Victor Ganata
So basically, they could be theoretically through with a lot of *A Dance With Dragons* after next season. And I don't really expect *The Winds of Winter* being out before Season 5 comes out.
- Victor Ganata
Quite a few changes: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index....
- Todd Hoff
Oh, I don't doubt there are significant changes, but I feel like there haven't been any "The Elves of Lorien show up at Helm's Deep" or "Faramir takes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath" moments yet. Then again, I've only really read the first five books ASoIaF once, often in a hurried frenzy in the middle of the night, so there may have been some significant plot points I've missed :D
- Victor Ganata
I think they've had moments that have verged on that significant, but they've been so well done that the audience has mostly accepted them. In many cases it is a change in timing, or a very necessary condensing of actions by dozens of characters (both for plot and ease of casting.) The one that stands out the most to me is Arya's stint at Harrenhal last season. It was a huge change, but a good one.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Probably the only episode that I thought changed Daenerys's character a little too much was the one where they stole her dragons, which never happened in the book. But even that was fairly brief.
- Victor Ganata
The body count of major characters, in particular, Sean Bean's, is a major reason why I haven't bothered to get into the show. Not my cup of tea.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I was thrown by Sean Bean's exit, only because he was the majority of the reason I started watching it (never read the books). But I got used to it. I still watch it, although I have fallen two weeks behind. I like the fact that it breaks the norms of "normal" American TV. It is fresh to see and I like seeing how the plot develops.
- Chris Topher
If you think about it, really only two major characters have died so far. :D
- Victor Ganata
I thought casting Sean Bean totally telegraphed Ned Stark's fate :D I was all like, well that should make it a whole hell of a lot less surprising when they lop his head off.
- Victor Ganata
LOL it wasn't until after that fateful episode that I found out its a common occurrence that his characters die.
- Chris Topher
The irony is that GRRM is totally a writer for American TV. But I guess "The Twilight Zone" and (the original) "Beauty and the Beast" aren't really conventional shows, either.
- Victor Ganata
I think Alex' point is interesting, because I usually get irritated with stories that arbitrarily kill off main characters. In this particular series, it hasn't struck me that way, because what happens to those characters rarely feels arbitrary. Whatever act finally catches them might be a whim, but the path they took to get there is pretty clearly defined by their choices (or lack of...
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- Jennifer Dittrich
If The Elves of Lorien showed up in Game of Thrones that would be quite the departure. Though interesting.
- Todd Hoff
I'm convinced that the Valyrians are basically the Westerosi equivalent of elves or half-elves. So basically the Targaryens are the Westerosi equivalent of the line of Isildur :D
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I mean, Daenerys and Viserys even have elven-like hair :D
- Victor Ganata
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Wait, Ned Stark dies?
- Ken Morley
See, I expected him to die early on. He was trying to be a bit too noble for that world and I didn't think he'd last long in it.
- Katy S
Isn't breaking your word the opposite of noble?
- Todd Hoff
Ned Stark broke his word? Or you mean Robb? Yeah, I actually figured Robb was doomed as soon as he claimed the crown of the North. Even more doomed when he killed Rickard Karstark. And totally doomed when he married Jeyne.
- Victor Ganata
Ned noble? Someone so incapable of politics that he dooms his entire family can't be thought of as noble.
- Todd Hoff
It really depends on what you define as "noble". Certainly he had a noble lineage and he valued honor and truth too much over realpolitik. While most noble families in real history had to be able to practice realpolitik in order to not get mercilessly slaughtered and exterminated from the earth by other noble families or by commoners, I don't think people naturally associate nobility with base treachery and corruption.
- Victor Ganata
I mean, Littlefinger may be a (petty) noble, but he's certainly not noble.
- Victor Ganata
And, anyway, it's not like Ned doomed the Starks all by himself. Catelyn, Robb, Sansa, and Jon Snow have all definitely done some really stupid things to totally further screw themselves all on their own.
- Victor Ganata
Tony
- Joe Silence
I meant it in the common usage of possessing fine qualities, not as a reference to his lineage. How about this: he tried too hard to be honorable in a world that doesn't reward honor. Recognizing that fairly early in the book, I didn't think anything good could possibly happen to him. Maybe I read too much dystopian fiction. :)
- Katy S
I don't know if it showed up as much in the show, but in the novel, the horrible thing is that Ned actually knew he was totally doomed, but he couldn't figure out how to get out of King's Landing without everyone he cared about getting killed anyway. It was stupid of him to trust Littlefinger and Slynt, but he didn't really have any choice. And he actually would've made it out alive if Joffrey wasn't a total psycho.
- Victor Ganata
Totally! (I know, I sound like a teenager)
- Katy S
Ned's nobility is one of knowing one's place and acting according to duty. It wasn't a sense of honor in service of a civilizing sense of chivalry. Because of that I don't think he was noble or honorable. He sacrificed his family for a poor reason and worse cause.
- Todd Hoff
I think that only partially explains his actions (and there are some we still don't know the full extent of.) He didn't have any duty to inform Cersei of what he had planned, but he felt that he should give her a chance to repent. That opportunity could have been afforded to her after he made a move, but she and her children wouldn't have a chance to escape punishment at that point. That's where the nobility/honor bit kicks him in the ass.
- Jennifer Dittrich
The death in A Dance With Dragons is the first shocking and disappointing death I've encountered in the series. I knew about Ned Stark's death from reading articles ages ago and it was that death that actually got me interested in the series and finally convinced me to pick up the books.
- peamageddon
But in the end, Ned *doesn't* sacrifice his family. He sucks up his honor and abases himself. If anything, it might serve as a moral lesson that there's no point in losing your integrity, since you're going to get killed anyway.
- Victor Ganata
I'm still hopeful about the apparent death in ADwD because of this GRRM interview **DO NOT CLICK** **MAJOR SPOILERS** http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011...
- Victor Ganata
Yeah, me too. But it'll be ages before we find out if that's really true. :D
- peamageddon
When he naively confessed he took himself out of the play and left his family completely unprotected.
- Todd Hoff
I don't know, when you consider that Cersei was totally going to let him go free (well, free to take the Black) and keep his daughters safe as hostages, really, the only (admittedly severe) flaw was underestimating how bloodthirsty and insane Joffrey is.
- Victor Ganata
Pellet cookers. Would it be cheating to use them for making *authentic* BBQ?
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A pellet smoker like a Traeger? Absolutely not cheating IMO.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
AmazonFresh local grocery delivery reportedly expanding to LA, San Francisco this year | The Verge - http://www.theverge.com/2013...
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"AmazonFresh, the experimental Amazon service that delivers groceries in the Seattle area, could be poised for a major expansion. According to Reuters, AmazonFresh will be coming to Los Angeles as early as this week, and the San Francisco Bay Area will get service later this year. Based on these test runs, Amazon could launch it in 20 other domestic and international markets in 2014, anonymous sources say. AmazonFresh launched in Seattle in 2007; it offers overnight home delivery of meats, fresh produce, or other groceries. AmazonFresh has stayed local for years; some have speculated that Amazon has held off on expanding because it could increase its sales tax liabilities. With sales tax on internet purchases becoming more common and Amazon expanding things like lockers, though, that limitation could be fading away. In late April, Amazon said it had "nothing to announce" regarding AmazonFresh, but the time could now be right for Amazon to take on one of the last bastions of local shopping."
- Me
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CAN HAZ PORTLAND?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Want More Productive Workers? Adjust Your Thermostat | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - http://www.fastcompany.com/3001316...
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"When people feel cold physically, they're also more likely to perceive others as less generous and caring. In a word, they view them as cold." <-- hey, another potential explanation for the Pacific NW Freeze!
- Andrew C (✓)
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btw, it's freezing in the workroom today. Oh, there's a cold draft, as well.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I need to pass this on to admin. /currently sitting outside at lunch, thawing myself out.
- holly #ravingfangirl
from iPhone
I may be an outlier, not in that I work better when I'm cold, but that my sense of what cold and warm are is different. 68F to me is totally fine, but 77F would be unpleasantly warm.
- Andrew C (✓)
I'd be the exception to this. If it were much warmer in here, I'd have to go camp in the server room. I get seriously grumpy when I'm too warm. (That said, it is rarely below 74 in here, so we don't get all that cold either.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I agree with Jennifer. In my mind, you can always put on more layers in order to feel comfortable.
- Chris Topher
Don't work at the Ed Sullivan Theater, then.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I went to one Letterman taping many years ago. I remember being bored and disappointed a lot more than being cold.
- Andrew C (✓)
Yep, it's generally accepted in the HVAC industry that the usual range you lock thermostats to is between 72 and 74 or 75 degrees. Most people will be comfortable working within that range. Outliers will want it either hotter or cooler, but they are locked out because while their productivity might increase, everyone around them will be suffering.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Of course properly setting up thermostats doesn't do much if they are poorly placed and if the building isn't properly balanced (where all rooms in a given zone are kept to the same temperature). And from what I understand balancing the HVAC systems of the typical office building can be very difficult.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
works in an unbalanced building ---------------------->
- holly #ravingfangirl
Heh, Holly...yeah, I work in a basement where I have to wear a jacket year round.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Last place I worked was in a converted warehouse. Big open-plan space with double-height ceilings. With the number of computers and monitors and console dev kits per desk, the AC just wasn't capable of keeping up with the heat generation on a hot day. The roof was already painted white and we tried adding insulation to the previously un-insulated roof. Still no good.
- Andrew C (✓)
Guess they should have installed a bigger HVAC system. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yup. But we were told it would have taken a week-long shutdown to do so.
- Andrew C (✓)
Heh, wonder how many man years of lost productivity they've had since making the decision not to do the right thing.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Well, we also lost a bunch of productivity with massive mandatory OT, so there!
- Andrew C (✓)
OT with or without pay?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
With, cause this is California.
- Andrew C (✓)
EA is in California. Your argument is invalid. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Pretty sure the class action lawsuits are what got all the game companies in CA to start paying OT.
- Andrew C (✓)
Palo Alto push for Nikola Tesla statue - San Francisco Chronicle - http://www.sfchronicle.com/technol...
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"Nikola Tesla's name inspired Elon Musk's electric cars. It's a measurement unit for a magnetic field and even adorns a rock band. Yet many still consider him an underappreciated inventor, not only because of the long shadow of Thomas Edison but also because he often eschewed financial glory for creativity, making him a compelling role model for today's Silicon Valley. Now Dorrian Porter, a Menlo Park entrepreneur, wants to erect a statue of Tesla in downtown Palo Alto to remind everyone that today's digital connectivity would not be possible without the Serbian American inventor. The statue would also be a free Wi-Fi hotspot. "I think every chance someone has to look him up and learn about him they will be surprised they didn't learn too much about him in high school," Porter says. He's launched a Kickstarter campaign with accompanying videos to muster support and financing. But the project has bigger goals than just a tribute to one of science's great minds. Porter hopes that when...
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- Anne Bouey
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"In the late 19th century, Tesla argued very publicly with Edison over which type of electrical current should underpin the United States power grid: Tesla's alternating current or Edison's direct current. Both held patents for devices using the respective principles. Photo Credit:, World Wide Photos The debate over AC/DC raged on, sometimes violently, for years in what became known as...
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- Anne Bouey
"he often eschewed financial glory for creativity, making him a compelling role model for today's Silicon Valley." -- which Silicon Valley is that?????
- Andrew C (✓)
That's what I was thinking too, Andrew. $ilicon Valley is all about the greenbacks, isn't it?
- Laura Norvig
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Serbia and Croatia already have (at least) one each. Are you guys throwing yourself into the fight now? :)
- Eivind
more on the Valley's culture of eschewing financial glory: http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
- Andrew C (✓)
Heh, tl;dr, but I just ... uh, ... creating an LLC to plan/run your wedding? THAT is SV, my friends.
- Laura Norvig
People in the valley eschew financial glory up front for a much bigger payday later...or at least that's how startups used to work.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Must admit, when I was working there, it never struck me that Silicon Valley was all about the greenbacks. For some of the folks, yes, but there's a lot of love of innovation there.
- Walt Crawford
Bustling Cronut Business Spawns Copycat ‘Doissant’ Industry - http://www.grubstreet.com/2013...
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"Dominique Ansel's cronuts may be trademarked, but that hasn't stopped the inevitable wave of copycat "doissants" from popping out of over the world. Eater's Raphael Brion noticed them in D.C., where they're filled with hazelnut cream and pistachio-topped; they're also in Indianapolis, where they go for $2 a pop. There are copycats in Australia and in Los Angeles. (Pillsbury gets an honorable mention just for being up on current events.) Are any of these knockoffs as good as the original? Whatever; every Transformers will have its Transmorphers. Let us know when doissant holes go on sale."
- Eric - Too Hot
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WANT!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm buying this bike light this week http://store.dinottelighting.com/dinotte... as it's already back to getting dark at 8pm again. Only question is if I should mount it to handlebars or wear it on helmet.
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helmet. You need the handle bars for your woven basket and fringe
- sofarsoShawn
from iPhone
OK, so that's one vote for handlebars. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Helmet. You have to save the handlebars for when Robert comes to visit so you can recreate your childhood.
- Kristin
LOL
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
you should have a handlebar mounted headlight and a seat-post mounted flashing light.
- Bren
And strobe lights for each pedal
- sofarsoShawn
from iPhone
Good buy. I love my Dinotte light. I use mine on the handlebars because I find it a bit unwieldy to put something on my head that also needs to be attached to a battery pack. I also use a cheap LED headlamp. The combo works very well.
- Spidra Webster
Already got a rear flashing red light that is on my seat bag, Bren.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Sirens, don't forget those when you're in a hurry
- sofarsoShawn
from iPhone
Yeah, Spidra, I have yet to see any light on par with the XML-3 for $250. It literally is good enough for them to charge $500 for.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Given the price, I'd put it into a vault.
- Chocolate Connoisseur
I bought a cheaper model but buying a BRIGHT light like this for high visibility when biking at night sure is cheaper than an ER bill. Or a funeral.
- Spidra Webster
This is the new winner in the lumens/dollar sweepstakes http://www.amazon.com/MagicSh...
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Handlebars
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Do you do mostly mountain trails or regular work commute?
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
I love the comments in this post. Especially deadpan Shawn.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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My wife is doing a fundraiser for her classroom so she can buy some Kindle Fires and ebooks to use with her kids. http://www.donorschoose.org/project...
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If you are interested in helping out in the next seven days donations will be matched dollar for dollar if you include the code "INSPIRE". Thanks :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If you're one of those people on my feeds who only posts political stuff that is obviously hostile to anyone with a different viewpoint/worldview, I implore you to do better. You aren't going to further your agenda by doing what you are doing. You are only making the situation worse.
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Post things that make people think, not stuff that make people want to flame you or ignore you. Do better.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
doughy testies
- Joe Silence
Johnny, you raise silliness to an art form.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
"Leave No Trace" is code for "Don't poo on the track. Bury it" http://instagram.com/p...
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Ah, not going to carry everything out that you carried in? :P
- Curtis (a) Jackson
Wow, that's hard core.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Are you not walking through a national park?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Doodoo better
- Mo Kargas
This is how large corporations corrupt the messages coming from the media related to science http://m.guardiannews.com/environ... Phillip Morris did it with the effects of 2nd hand cigarette smoke and Exxon used the same tactics to confuse the message about climate change.
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Make no mistake, though, at the end of the day, the science is clear on both topics. 2nd hand smoke is real and harmful and climate change is real and a serious threat to our society as we know it.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Who paid these guys ? http://select.nytimes.com/gst...
- Eric
How many people post links or stories that run counter to their beliefs/worldview? Not many. I try to be different. I'm hugely in favor of increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans and corporations, but here's an article that has a decent counterargument http://www.businessinsider.com/wealth-...
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That we'd get better results by getting the wealthy and corporations to understand that they do better when they create value instead of just creating profit.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I think a number of progressives have argued that for some time. I remember my econ prof at UCLA saying that "the rich will only buy so many refrigerators". In a consumer culture, you have to have enough consumers with some money in their pockets.
- Spidra Webster
Yep, Spidra...thanks for the link, btw.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I do, if I think they're interesting. Often times, I just don't.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I will, on occasion. I'm no atheist, but I find a lot of articles from that point of view very refreshing (I actually find various religious views interesting most of the time.) I am not going to post something that advocates something I find abhorrent, because I often don't want to encourage any advertising money going to those groups.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Without tax reform increases are effectively shouldered by small businesses. I am not opposed to higher taxes on multinational corporations many of whom pay effectively nothing in taxes which is absolutely ridiculous. I am opposed to the corrupt system that our present tax code is. The vitriol on both sides of most debates is more divisive than ever and people identify with one party or...
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- Eric
I think "convincing the overclass" is a ridiculous notion. We got where we are now because the overclass consciously pushed to benefit themselves ( http://www.nationalmemo.com/inequal... ). Sure, one could argue that in the long run we're better off -- maybe even the superrich -- with more equality, but in the short run, it is rational for them...
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- Andrew C (✓)
And anyways, the goal in "convincing the overclass" would be to cut down their propaganda that keeps [enough of] us proles voting against their own self-interest. Seems to me directly convincing the 99% would be a less circuitous route to that goal.
- Andrew C (✓)
Bored + Lonely = Bonely!
Baloney?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
It has a first name.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
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