"In this week’s Science Times, the Personal Health columnist Jane Brody reviews Michael Pollan’s latest book, “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,” which offers a collection of simple ways to improve eating. And she even changes one of her own eating habits as a result. She writes: In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in (this) slender, easy-to-digest new book. … I suspect that this little book, which is based on research but not annotated, can do more than the most authoritative text to get you motivated to make some important, lasting, health-promoting and planet-saving changes in what and how you eat."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
My husband is reading Food Rules, and loved the book's forerunner. The ideas are wonderful, from what Ive heard and read so far.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
from iPhone
I dunno... This guy is starting to seem like a one-trick pony.
- Brad Greer
"In human sexuality, making out is a sexual euphemism of American origin dating back to at least 1949, and is used synonymously with the terms "necking," "petting," and "hooking up", though "hooking up" is also used to imply casual sex. Making out covers a wide range of sexual behavior, and means different things to different age groups in different parts of the U.S. It typically involves kissing, including prolonged, passionate kissing (also known as French kissing), intimate contact, including heavy petting, that is, skin-to-skin contact, or other forms of foreplay. Making out is usually considered an expression of affection or sexual attraction to a current or prospective sexual partner. An episode of making out is frequently referred to as a make-out session or a make-out sesh depending on the speaker's vernacular."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Y'all are so sweet. We should start a make-out club. Er...
- Ayşe E.
When I was in high school, we got into a discussion in English class about how to make the phrase 'making out with' grammatically correct (since you're technically not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition) in a sentence such as 'That's the girl I was making out with'. You come up with really stiff (heh) sentences like: 'That's the girl with whom I was making out.' But, if you also consider that 'out' is also a preposition... Ah, high school.
- Akiva
Making out is the best. Everything else just seems too complicated and can be disappointing.
- Christian (Simply X)
yeah, we all read what you said......shame shame
- suzanne
I did know, but I keep forgetting because it *seems* like the kind of room that should be private. If Friendfeed didn't have such great google juice I wouldn't care, but now it seems I always have to think twice before bitching.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
oh thank goodness its a big step and having support is the best.
- just ZONED
Yay! I'm so glad he has a supportive family. Good for him for being true to who he is. I can't imagine giving anybody anything but love and support.
- Lis
Y'all can hate, but I wouldn't support my kid in that. Still love him, yes. Support, no.
- Jenthemum
No hatred intended, Jenthemum, but it's that kind of lack of support that led me to attempt to take my life. Love, notwithstanding.
- Derrick
That's awesome! (eeek. awesome at your original post, not what's going on above my comment)
- Tamara
Choices are choices. I am not of the opinion that homosexuality is inherent.
- Jenthemum
Congrats to your student, Derrick. But this thread? Uh..
- Rochelle
Out of sight, and out of mind. I've been gay for three decades. This isn't my first rodeo.
- Derrick
I imagine that that kind of love isn't much comfort when you know that your mother doesn't approve of your life or anyone who might mean the world to you, Jen.
- Yolanda
If it helps at all, I wouldn't support my kid shacking up with anyone, either, regardless of gender.
- Jenthemum
It's not love to pretend that anything and everything people do is fine. It's love to remind people they can do better.
- Jenthemum
The Onion wrote an article just for this thread today (given the fundamentalists contributions): "Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian" - http://www.theonion.com/content...
- Eivind
Prediction: This thread isn't going to end well.
- Derrick
Yeah, Derrick, didn't you know you can "do better"? Just try harder!
- Rochelle
And a link to the blog post I recently wrote about my bouts with depression due to my feelings of inadequacy brought on by my coming to terms with my sexuality: http://geekandahalf.posterous.com/the-gif...
- Derrick
Derrick, so happy for your student and happy that you are still here with us so that I've gotten the chance to know you.
- laura x
Dear God. I'm f*cking sick of it. tiffany, I'mma need to borrow your new moniker.
- Ayşe E.
Let's all think happy thoughts. Like of meat! oh...wait...
- Katy S
I am so happy he found love and support. That is awesome. *ignores rest of thread*
- aden {Chickadee}
That's awesome that your student got a good reception - congrats to him/her for being brave and congrats to the parents for being open-minded and supportive. Parts of this thread remind me of a bumper sticker I saw yesterday: "A closed mind is a wonderful thing to lose." Just sayin'...
- Cassandra
Someone posted a pic the other day that was just a saying that i loved : "A mind is like a parachute, it only works if open".
- Scott (Honey Boo-Boo!)
If I fell for any tomfoolery, I'd long be gone by now. People are entitled to their thoughts and I'm not going to tread water on it for too long, but I'm a gay black man in a largely straight white world. There isn't anything that anyone can say that hasn't already been said, with regards to religion, faith, morality, Leviticus, lying with man like with a woman, sodomy, Prop 8, gay...
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- Derrick
OMG, 3,000 miles simply cannot stop the force of my love for you right now, D. Perspective, indeed. Give yourself a hug for me, please, 'til I can get there to do it myself. IT'S JUST A FRIENDLY HUG, KAIA!!!! *runs*
- Ayşe E.
I like vagina but I'm not a dick about it :)
- Johnny
His name is "Delany". I always add the extra 'e' to his name too. His most recent book, Dark Reflections, is about a gay author living in ... New York, I think. Not SF, very good. It was a Lambda Literary Award nominee in 2007.
- DJF
Equating being gay with being addicted to heroin? Very rational! I think I just found my second and third block subjects ever on friendfeed.
- Bren
from iPhone
Regarding Delany, Dhalgren seriously blew my mind, but I actually think The Fall of the Towers is my favorite. I never read Neveryon, though.
- Victor Ganata
okay, not reading the whole thread, just the tweet I just have to say: <3 awesome
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Dhalgren was fine until the "transcription" stuff at the end. That's where I lost track. His Nova and Triton are much more accessible, if you want to look at his SF
- DJF
and once again, we prove that being a librarian is not a "choice."
- DJF
Several years ago, I was on an AIDS fund-raising marathon-training-run through a park that that day had become the campground for a large number of black families who were in town for the Gay Pride parade. The young black woman I was running with that day was very surprised to see them. She said she didn't know there were black gay people. She thought gay people were all white. [!!!!!]
- Betsy
Just wanted to say that you guys are the best. I couldn't have imagined a better crowd. To D's point, why would a black man "choose" to be gay given the climate in this country?
- MoTO Bott
I like the question that somebody else once asked, "And when did you choose to become heterosexual?"
- DJF
Awww. The student just came by with his mom. She wanted to meet me for being so nice and understanding with her son while he was going through his coming out process.
- Derrick
I'm a big fan of the new deadly sins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I'm torn between Financial Gluttony and Taking Drugs (with a soft spot for Human Experimentation).
- Greg Schwartz
You'd've thought they'd've taken a lesson from the original Deadlies. One word = great marketing. ;)
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
Greg, why are you and I always in sync?????
- Mary Carmen
Every morning, there are little feet that titter tatter to my room and jumps in my bed. It usually happens when I am heavily asleep, so I don’t notice until I get up and see a bunch of brown curls next to me. A little girl is attached to this pool of curls sleeping away. [...]
- Shevonne
I've never had my kids sleep in my bed unless they were sick, and that would be less than 3 times each. However, there was a period when my oldest was almost 2, where he was in pain equivalent to labor for 8 straight weeks, and I slept in his bed each night until 3-4AM.
- RAPatton
"According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, prepared foods may contain an average of 8% more calories than their package labels own up to and restaurant meals may contain a whopping 18% more. Worse still, as far as Food and Drug Administration regulations are concerned, that's perfectly O.K."
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet
"No one would deny that the 18% calorie overload on restaurant menus is a problem. The additional 8% in frozen foods sounds less serious; in a 500-calorie entree, after all, 8% adds only 40 calories. That, however, is in a single meal. Over the course of a year, consuming just 5% more than you need in a 2,000-calorie diet can mean a 10-lb. weight gain. "The 18% and 8% figures are just what you need not to lose weight," says Roberts."
- Katy S
It's amazing how quickly the calories disappear from bread on those counters.
- suzanne
Tune in tomorrow, when I try and look even more horrific.
- Steven Perez
i should take a camera phone shot of myself just after i take off my CPAP mask in the morning. i look like a fscking corpse, and not a fresh one.
- Joe The Sausage
I think I just won the Embarrassing Photo Meme. Forever. :D
- Steven Perez
...you look like Tony muthaf*&@#n Soprano! how about some gabagool and provolone with that face. .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
Yeah, those t-shirts I wear are klassy. :D
- Steven Perez
Bumping for the sheer horror of it all.
- Steven Perez
Awwww... you're so sweet, trying to replace the horror of my barefoot working photo with your own terrifying visage. :-)
- Ladyepiphanybug
I am. Its been a while since the bionic GI tract has had something that hot & spicy. (yeah,I prolly just set a bunch of y'all up there - go for it)
- Mary Carmen
I dunno. There are a bunch of folks who still claim that it's all an "Andy Kaufman" style gag, all to promote the documentary that Casey Affleck is doing about his supposed hip hop career. I wouldn't put it past him.
- Fleagle
"There are precious few children’s shows out there that are really immune to generation gaps, but Fraggle Rock stands the test of time with its humor and the easy-to-grasp lessons of morality worked into each episode. With Fraggle Rock The Complete First Season ($27) you get 24 episodes of this Jim Henson creation. Enjoy original music and learn some life lessons with over 700 minutes of Fraggle fun. Bonus features include interviews, documentaries, and a replica of Jim Henson’s notepad."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
I tried to get my kids into it. I was bummed when they didn't enjoy it as much as I did :(
- Shevonne
they've got a complete series as well...they've actually released it twice as a complete series. i have the 1st release, tis awesome. Shevonne you should buy it for yourself! :)
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Same here, Shevonne. Fraggle Rock was such a great show. I still think my kids are just weird.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
and sorry, it's a bench. not a bed. my bad. still looks awesome though!!!!
- Morgan
Oh, the idea can be transferred to something for a bed to get the same cool factor. I might have to break out the sewing machine and do it. :-D
- April
ok, I am thinking of this rather seriously, and I am wondering what to do about bed pillows. What do I do with them for pillow covers to make them fit into this scene without looking out of place? Mini ice cream sandwiches? Little popcicles?
- April
Here is how I am thinking about how to do it: 2 comforters, made with foam (for more shape support) in addition to the traditional fiberfill, and a fitted sheet made with a knit material that covers both box spring and mattress, instead of just the mattress. (knitted material will give a tighter fit, and covering both would avoid the appearance of a split in the ice cream) Without a bed frame, placed directly on the floor, you'd have the same look as this bench.
- April
I don't think strawberries would work. bed pillows are not strawberry shaped and cramming them into a shaped pillow sham might not work well.
- April
order will be canceled if strawberries are present. :-)
- Morgan
I was thinking of maybe both small ice cream sandwich pillow shams and twin pop ones. The ice cream ones would be made essentially same as the bed covering, with 2 quilted pieces for top & bottom of it with a strip of white material between them, which is where the pillow would actually be. The popcicles ones would be 2 pieces of material with a layer of foam between them for shape,...
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- April
Morgan, if I do this and you are serious about buying one, what size bed did you want it for? Twin, full, or queen? (I think twin would look more realistic and match the image shown here)
- April
How fitting for today: "The most important lesson of all is this - don’t be an asshole. Lots of smart people tend to develop rude, antagonistic behavior patterns. Sometimes, they’re just jerks by nature."
"Other times, they’ve seen this behavior exhibited by people they work with and admire (something which used to happen a lot in the Microsoft of 10-15 years ago). Some hackers mix up being rude with being forthright and blunt. Don’t - there’s a world of difference between the two. You can be blunt, call out someone’s BS without being nasty. In fact, some of the people who I admire most...
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- Mary Carmen