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An anecdotal data point for you all. I have a "theoretical" interest in the subject One "book" I've read that resonated with me is The Hackers Diet, written by the founder of AutoDesk who explains in the preface " I'm an engineer by training, a computer programmer by avocation, and an businessman through lack of alternatives. From grade school in the 1950's until 1988 I was fat—anywhere from 30 to 80 pounds overweight. This is a diet book by somebody who spent most of his life fat. The absurdity of my situation finally struck home in 1987. “Look,” I said to myself, “you founded one of the five biggest software companies in the world, Autodesk. You wrote large pieces of AutoCAD, the world standard for computer aided design. You've made in excess of fifty million dollars without dropping dead, going crazy, or winding up in jail. You've succeeded at some pretty difficult things, and you can't control your flippin' weight?” " He takes an approach to weight loss as an engineering problem to be solved, and the human body as a system where Energy In - Energy Out = Energy Change And energy is stored (efficiently) in the body as Fat. A pound of body Fat = ~ 3500 calories - so if you ran a 500 calorie deficit a day, you'd loose a pound of fat a week. I mention this because at the weekend I had an interesting chat with a Brit, who having had uterine fibroids removed, was told by the surgeon to loose 30 lbs. She'd managed to loose 20'lbs this year, so far with the aid of http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ and http://www.mapmyhike.com/ Given her height / weight / age , lifestyle (sedentary) and old diet - 3000 Calories a day , and her intended weight loss rate, it recommended a baseline intake of 1500 calories a day. So she budgeted 400 Calories for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lunch has been a small Trader Joe's Salad for the last 72 Days. That's the baseline, any extra calories you burn off by exercise, walking etc, you can add to your baseline. So as an example, she gets up early, walks to a coffee shop for some green tea, and the walk covers the calorie cost of the green tea. Myfitnesspal gives you the tools, and lets you keep a food / exercise blog. mapmyhike calculates the calories burned when out walking , which you can feed back into myfitnesspal It all seems to be working, and doesn't involve any magic, just a plan, and tools that let you monitor / manage your execution of the plan. I may even be tempted to take it up, in practice, some time

Amazon < $15 http://www.amazon.com/Infrared-Laser-Non-Contact-Digital-Thermometer/dp/B004KV4DN0/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1364425841&sr=8-15&keywords=ir+thermometer Rosewill $25 Neweggs http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=ir+thermometer&x=-836&y=-112

CJ, Doctor recommends Clogs? http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/565263

Just as well there was cake in the break room/kitchen

Fax Please!

^ Didn't pay much attention to the non Brits, other than to notice the parties of students who seemed to think that a trip to Muir Woods was a high-fashion outing

Met up with a bunch of Brits and played tourist in Muir Woods. So engrossed in conversation, that our group ended up with a four mile walk rather than the planned two mile loop on the flat. Just for Justin, it was spring-like, in spring.

Good job its not a Spare The Air (If you barbecue, use a gas grill instead of charcoal) day, Mikey

Indeed. A fun game for less than the price of a cup of frothy coffee, that will last longer. 4 player co-op with team co-ordination on d-_-b vent, that you host on your (my) machine ... Whats not to like. A different kind of crunchy zombie killing fun than KF. Also has reasonable single player mode to get the game mechanics down.

Comcast claimed this in an email this morning Dear Valued Customer, Great news! We've increased your Internet speed! Now the download speed on your Performance Internet service is up to 66% faster with speeds up to 25 Mbps and we have more than doubled your upload speeds up to 5 Mbps. for once they may not be speaking with forked tongue. And all without a cable modem reboot.

Helped Joanne make a Space Rocket cake for book club. EDIT: Book Club admires the finished result

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2013/02/the-macallan-the-flask-with-oa.php

Yeah, CJ when you qualify, if not before, could you operate on your left hand, using your right hand?

Only One Thing For it Happy Birthday DOTU!

You do want an offsite backup to avoid local geographic points of failure, House Fires, Zombie Outbreak Quarantine, small asteroid strikes, those sort of things.

Happy Birthday Larry. Pew! Pew! Pew!

Al, The IT staff at your office must be curious about your recent web searches. They probably think it has something to do with that whole Apple/Samsung thing. Yeah, that would explain it

This combo works. Yum indeed!

Happy Birthday, break out the Top Hat!

Adjusted far too many clocks by an hour, even though they are all software driven.

Probably because "Till then only you, me and the Governor will know about it. It'll be our little secret"

Happy Birthday Bonnie, May your transports be suitably sedate

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/06/173630819/alvin-lee-is-going-home-ten-years-after-guitarist-dies http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21688814 R.I.P. Alvin

For those of you that like UK TV, and are in the Mac/iTunes/AppleTV ecosystem. This http://tom-tech.com/iplayer_automator/iPlayer_Automator/Get_iPlayer_Automator.html Makes it so simple, even Mac Users can use it (plus beef it up with additional info from here http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-GB.htm ) The BBC iPlayer (ipad / android/ desktop ) works great with VPN's which may be your only option for now as "Although US availability was also anticipated in 2011, an American launch date has yet to be announced as of the end of 2012. Reports from the summer of 2012 claim that American cable providers threatened to dropBBC America if the iPlayer, which duplicates much of the content on the cable channel, was made available in the US market. In a statement on the difficulties facing the US rollout, BBC’s Head of Communications for Global iPlayer Tessa Matchett said “The United States is a very complex media market. Currently, we have one very successful cable channel in BBC America, and we’re looking into what options we have to roll out additional platforms in that country.”[138] In addition to BT there is also usenet Things like http://predb.me/?cats=tv make getting it easy from both sources