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Yesterdays come easy, looking back at you

So, now’s kind of a weird time. I mean, since everything is happening in massive parallelism now, of course it’s going to be weird. But as with the future, the weird is not evenly distributed so there seems to be pockets of higher than normal concentration of weird. I suspect that the distribution of weird follows a power law, with most of the weird trapped in pockets of really weird shit, floating in a omnipresent medium of significantly less weird.

Anyways, I found myself sucked into one of these over the last – what has it been now? – few months. I model this phenomena as akin to big globs of water floating in zero G. Once you come close to one, surface tension just sucks you inside before you even know what hit you. And so I brushed up against some that just happened to be floating my way and I soon found myself surrounded by it and quite unable to figure out how to escape it.

Now, before you ask let me say I really can’t give you an accurate description of the phenomena. Much of it is personal and so it would be just meaningless blather to pretty much everyone except a select few who know of such events intimately. But you wouldn’t get an accurate description from them, either. Odd how much context this stuff takes before you can even get a tiny hope of using efficient communication protocols instead of hilariously long conversations about a single concept, axiom, or perspective transfer. But thems the breaks. It’s how this shit is done in the real universe.

photoBut there’s a lot of stuff that can be spoken of. For example, I got this bitchin’ tattoo while I was down south.  It was a thing.  Been wanting one on the back for quite some time.  Seems like I have been planning one for years, you know?  Never could really think of what the hell I wanted to put there; what the hell I wanted to bind there for as long as I have skin.  At least for the two tattoos I have, they’re bindings of particular times and places.  Emotions, complex state vectors.  That kind of shit.  Since I’m fully expecting to get more tattoos, I’m sure I’ll come up with even more pretentious reasons as to why I got them.  But hey, I mean, you’re having stuff carved into your flesh that never goes away.  So, if you can’t have pretentious reasons for doing that, it’s my general opinion that you haven’t had things permanently etched on your soul before.  That shit is the very definition of pretentious.

And so that happened.

I think it looks pretty good.  But of course I would think that.  No one else has one of those, though, as it’s original artwork.  Everyone asks me what it means.  I just kind of grin and out of mercy I simply don’t launch into a 15 minute recitation of the executive summary of my wacky inner world and how that expresses itself.  Nor do I expound on what the artist was thinking because, frankly, I can only likewise guess.  But it seemed to capture what I was looking for exactly.  Or maybe it simply became a focus for such energies once it appeared in my visual receptors.  I’m not sure I could tell the difference and the brain being the rationalization machine that it is could come up with any logical sounding explanation for that.  So I don’t really bother at this point.  It is what it is and at least it means something to me.

It’s enough.

But that’s not the really weird part to tell you the truth.  As most people’s lives go, that’s probably well within their boundaries given that a significant percentage of the population know someone who has tattoos.  Hell, they work with people who have tatoos these days.

No, life is weird beyond my normal ken because of an odd confluence of events that, perhaps in retrospect, were not entirely random.  For instance, it’s not random that scheduled events occur.  Planes regularly fly.  People take them to destinations.  They stay at hotels.  It happens with planning and usually at least some sort of conscious intent.  I like to think that shit doesn’t just happen.  But then, who knows.  Sometimes people do things impulsively, for no reason they can themselves discern. People have whims, of course.  Usually these are relegated to small scale space time events, such as buying a package of M&Ms at the checkout stand.  Sometimes they change the foundations of their life on a whim.

So I was a part of some of that.  Weird stuff of the kind that you experience when a person or persons go through life changing events that will leave a permanent mark on their soul – well, while they still have it.  They say that even that, in the fullness of time, eventually fades away.  Or gets crushed inside the last black hole of the universe.  I’m unclear as to whether everything is going to simply dissipate or ultimately get crushed when inflation ends.  But regardless, that’s as good as forever to small scale, time bound entities like we find ourselves to be.  Sometimes an hour seems like an eternity to me, so I’m not too picky on my scales wrt this domain.

And experiencing tumultuous changes turns out to be a pretty sensitive time.  Because everything in your life is shattered, it sometimes turns out that one can experience things that normally would be too subtle – or too strong – to be noticed.  Myself, this borders on the painful, at times, because – hey – when my life is in turmoil, you don’t see me running headlong to find more to jump into.  Well, at least that’s the theory that I have which has oddly failed to generate any empirical evidence in support.

But hey, who needs evidence based reasoning anyway?  Highly overrated.  People who are shattered are, by definition, vulnerable to suggestion.  And perhaps that’s why the do even weirder shit than normal.  I don’t know.

But you can have some pretty good weird times when you’re trying to put shattered self back together.  I think the key is to have some damn strong people around you that care for you.  Or at least don’t suck and aren’t mean.  But given you really can’t schedule these events (unlike airplane flights), you kind of have to take what you get.

Sometimes that shit works out and the result of the shattering of your life is that you can rebuild it from the ground up.  Do it enough times, and sooner or later it becomes easier to do and not as much of a shock when it happens yet again.  Through these cycles, sometimes you even get a glimpse of what remains despite the shattering of everything.  Kind of the form that remains sort of stuff.  Nothing revelatory, but I’m sure you understand what I mean.  Also, too, it sometimes feels pretty good to simply shed all of what you thought was real, decided and for really, really sure and just stand naked in the middle of the pieces that no longer fit together.  There’s a certain freedom in not knowing what comes next or how on earth you’re ever going to put things back together after all that shit went down.

So there’s that at least.

But people can’t stay shattered forever.  Well, I mean they can.  Obviously.  But they don’t generally remain around that long.  There’s a reason why we’re tool using creatures and build shit like homes, cars and frickin’ lasers.  You can’t remain naked in a universe that is no safe place for the naked.  Pretty soon you have cobble something together if you’re simply going to remain warm at night.  And then there’s all those strange glowing eyes in the trees peering down on you.  When you’re naked, you’ve got precious little to kick those would be predator’s collective ass.  Well, I suppose if you’re the Buddha, you can.  Eight fold path and all.  But for the rest of us caught in māyā, we’re pretty much fucked if we don’t get our shit together pretty soon.

And so it goes.  Eventually you find the boundary of the highly concentrated pocket of weird you find yourself trapped within and manage to swim out of it into the cool mist of weird that everyone else inhabits.  You carefully note the blob of weird for future navigation, take a shit load of pictures and upload them to Instagram or something.  You giggle at how lucky you were to be a part of that and wonder how on earth you survived for so long in such a high concentration of weird.  And the memory settles into a bin that you label, categorize and file away for future replay.

Because, in some sense, we don’t really have the now.  What we have are memories of the past.  And replaying the weird times never really ever gets old, does it?

Especially when the universe starts reminding you as to why you’re a tool using creature and suggests that you might want to pay more attention to those glowing eyes that appear to be growing larger as they quickly approach.

New Frontiers In Eating The Poor

A while back, a gentleman named Jonathan Swift made a modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country and for making them beneficial to the public.  His proposal was simply to eat these indigents and thus recycle the mass that has been unwisely entrusted into their care for the good of society.  Granted, this was back in the early 1700’s and perhaps society could be forgiven for wielding such a crude bludgeon on the eternal problem of those who simply can’t seem to get with it and make something of themselves like the rest of us are able to do.  After all, we have come a long, long way in the 300 years that have passed since then.

In the 21st century, we have figured out far more humane and efficient mechanisms for extracting value from those who would otherwise be considered valueless drains on society as a whole: We leverage their worthless mortgages to create wealth for the deserving of our society on a scale that would make Croesus green with envy.

For the last 20 or so years, I’ve been watching my friends and acquaintances in the financial service industry accumulate bonuses and income that defied imagination.  Pretty much all the best of the best were eventually sucked up into the industry and quickly earned sums that made my eyes bleed when they indicated the order of magnitude that they were making in salary and bonuses.  And mind you, these were just software jockeys.  Sure, they were brilliant.  Sure, they were really damn good at what they were doing.  But the blokes they were working for were the ones making the real money.

Money, pointing out the obvious, which was all just a figment of everyone’s imagination.

It boggles my mind to think about it, but what these jokers were doing was simply leveraging people who couldn’t really afford to buy a house through some obscure mathematical function which transformed them from huge liabilities waiting to explode into gold lined yachts and extremely fast cars filled with babes that defied evolutionary norms.  All the while, these jokers were laughing at the very people they were squeezing like the proverbial turnip, manufacturing the blood in lieu of the reality of no there “there”.

And even after the curtain has been pulled back and the wizards of Wall Street have been revealed to be nothing more than common pond scum, they still have the gall to blame all their troubles on those they convinced to sign their lives away to line their pockets.  Granted, those poor should never have gotten themselves into the Faustian bargain these jokers were peddling, but I really have a lot more sympathy for the mark than I do for the swindler who knows damn well the mark can’t afford what they’re peddling.  I mean, after all, anyone who has perfect knowledge and is somehow immune from scams raise their hands – we’re all looking for an easy way to our dreams and we all make the perfect mark for these sharks.

But it really didn’t stop at the sharks.  The beauty of the whole scheme is the sheer amount of wealth it generated for anyone who was able to parasitically attach themselves to the poor schmucks.  Because, when you think about it, a large part of what we in the valley tend to call “VC” money had its root in the same tainted flow.  Which, in retrospect, shouldn’t have been surprising because – lets face it – pretty much the entire “Web 2.0″ experience has been nothing but a con game of equally gigantic proportions.  When your money is ultimately being minted from the dreams and soul stuff of the unsuspecting, what’s the problem with pissing almost all of it away in social media start ups which don’t have a clue as to how the fuck they’re going to make money other than “sell ads”.

And I guess “selling ads” is pretty much what we should be putting on the tombstone of this whole decade of crap that we’re desperately trying to flush down the toilet.  I mean, the whole thing was largely a charade – a Tiffin phantasm woven into a fleeting semblance of reality by those who reckoned themselves half again as smart as they actually were.

Jonathan Swift would have been struck silent in stunned awe at the sheer audacity of the whole scheme.  After all, he just suggested we eat the poor.  Thanks to MIT graduates, we leveraged their very souls into wealth that boggled the mind.

Coyote Ugly

gold bars.jpgI guess it’s really true that hard times bring out the real personality behind the mask.  I suppose that goes 10x for economic disasters that supposedly happen on the order of once every 100 years or so, because the masks seem to be getting ripped off and what they’re revealing is pretty darn ugly.

Lately, I’ve been getting an earful on how despicable union workers are from some of my colleagues here at House Harkonnen – especially auto workers.  If there were not actual people who were affected by all this crap, I suppose the whole thing would be comical but considering that there’s going to be a lot of human carnage throughout this journey through linear miles of concertina wire that our captains of finance have cleverly laid out around us in all directions, I pretty much cringe whenever I think of what this new year is going to bring us.

Now, I work in an industry that literally makes products that no one stands behind.  Unique, apparently, in all commercial industries (except, of course, the financial industry), the Software industry basically sells shit that they barely guarantee will install.  The entire industry literally does not guarantee that the products they sell will do anything at all – all they warranty is the DVD or CD ROM you have will be able to be read.  The fact that your computer blows up, loses all your financial data and regurgitates all your personal information to some site in Russia… well, that’s just the way things work in Software you see.

Which is why it’s literally hilarious to hear anyone in this industry talk with disdain about union workers of any type.  I mean, say what you will about auto workers, but at least their products don’t randomly blow up and take out half a city block in the process.   And given the numbers of time wasting morons that add less than zero value to anything that is done, it’s even more hilarious to hear anyone in the Software industry dis the teacher’s union.

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Don’t We At Least Get A Kiss?

Well, the Senate has decided to just fuck over the progressive net roots by bending over and letting Senator Lieberman to ram the shears and keep his position as head of the Homeland Security.
Just a note to Harry Reid, etc:
I put up with eating lots and lots of shit over the past 8 years. And now, with you in a position to finally do something, you pile on the biggest helping of shit of all.
Let’s just say that I’m now at the end of my rope and you’ve used up any and all credits that you had. This was the last straw. If you don’t pull fucking gold out of Lieberman’s ass and produce magic ponies bearing the fruits of progressive victory, then you can kiss your majority good bye. And if Lieberman so much as barks the wrong way on ANY issue, then you can likewise kiss your majority good bye.
I know you don’t give a damn about us here in the trenches, but I’d say you have 2 years as Senate majority leader.

Send Not a Note For Whom The Dick Swings; It Swings For Thee

A while ago, Robert Reich had a blog post up regarding the upcoming (now hopefully in progress) swing from liaise faire capitalism – where things have been for the last 30 years or so – back towards another era of more regulation. He ends his post with a typical centrist sentiment

Now the pendulum of outrage is swinging back against large corporations. America is heading toward another era of regulation. The real question is how smartly we go about it, and whether we can keep the pendulum from swinging too far.

Again, Reich wrote this before the great (and still far from over) disaster of the last 2 weeks. In any kind of sane world, where we have just experienced the entire meltdown of the entire global economy, there would expected to be a back lash. And “boo hoo” to those who are concerned that the reaction “swings too far”.

But clearly Reich didn’t have much to be concerned about, given the way things seem to be shaking out.

The Bush administration on Saturday formally proposed to Congress what could become the largest financial bailout in United States history, requesting unfettered authority for the Treasury Department to buy up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets.

The proposal, not quite three pages long, was stunning for its stark simplicity. It would raise the national debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion. And it would place no restrictions on the administration other than requiring semiannual reports to Congress, granting the Treasury secretary unprecedented power to buy and resell mortgage debt.

Please read these two paragraphs again. I’ll wait. Done? Pick your jaw off the floor? I mean, the 700 billion dollars is a figure almost unimaginable, for one. The 11.3 trillion dollars of debt we’re going to have after this (almost 10% of this was added just by this fiasco, I’ll note) is truly a number that defies imagination. But that really isn’t the stunning part. The stunning party is

requesting unfettered authority for the Treasury Department

Yes. Unfettered authority. For the Bush administration. Apparently, having the unfettered authority that they (read Cheney) claimed because of 9/11 wasn’t quite unfettered enough. Now they simply want the authority to spend almost a trillion dollars (and god knows, I’m sure that the amount they currently want isn’t going to be enough – it never is).

Got to admit they have some pretty big brass balls.

Your Typical Financial Disaster Apologist
(a picture of your typical financial apologist)

But really, the pair that Hank Paulsen is strapping on simply doesn’t compare to the planetary sized balls that the collective financial wizards are in the process of strapping on (after all, such balls will greatly affect your gait and require a new wardrobe to accommodate them).

What seems to be shaping up as the explanation for this multi-trillion dollar meltdown in our economy and the subsequent multi-trillion dollar bailout (again, I need only point out that $700 billion is simply the first installment Paulsen will be asking for – and this is only what the USA, itself, is shoveling into this gaping maw) is that the reason why things are so fucked up, the reason why everything went south is…. Wait for it:

Government regulation.

Yes, that’s right folks. The reason why we’re having a melt down on a global scale, the reason why we’re pouring sums of money that boggle the imagination down the toilet in a desperate attempt to plug the hole these wizards of Wall Street have blasted through our global financial system is simply because they were regulated too much.

See, what happened is that the poor fellows in the financial community were forced – forced I say – to create almost unbelievably complicated financial pretzels based on obviously worthless loans that would never, ever be repaid is because the government regulations forced them to.

I mean, geebus. Paulsen has nothing on these jokers who are going to start pushing this pile of bullshit.

Back in the old days, it used to be that when someone offered you a deal that was obviously bogus, we’d reply “yes, and I have a bridge I’d like to sell you in Brooklyn”. Now a days, selling someone (repeatedly, mind you) the Brooklyn Bridge is simply a consequence of over burdensome government regulations.

I guess we’ve reached the point in our evolution where The Great Filter is about to be invoked. I mean, seriously. If we let these bozos get away with this, then we simply cannot believe that we’re fit for extraterrestrial expansion. I have a feeling that the aliens watching this hilarious sit com we’ve been putting on for them must feel the same way.

I think the absolute last thing they want running around the galaxy is a bunch of dufuses who are too stupid to responsibly regulate their own economy and a species that always ends up holding the bag for a tiny fraction of their own which ends up fleecing the rest.

An Observation

There seem to be a non trivial percentage of women who look far better without clothes than when wearing them. Naturally, as a good liberal, I blame the patriarchal culture that dominates our lives.
However, I must say that poor fashion choices seem to also account for an unnerving percentage of these data points. Again, I blame society. Self image is largely shaped by peer perception and mass media is our peer perception in these modern times.
Although the repressed libertarian in me (don’t worry, I’m doing my best to eradicate it) can’t help but wonder if a mirror or two might help matters. Doesn’t matter when they’ve shed their clothes, of course, but still. One would think that observing the ill fitting clothes in a reflection would lead to better fashion choices in the long run…

Okay! I’ll confess! Just give me the papers to sign! Please make it stop!

croc_tears.gifI must be well into my fourth day of sensory deprivation because I’ve seemingly passed the hallucination stage, blew right past the psychotic stage of the second day and have been transported a place where newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take me away.

For example, I don’t think that I could have ever – in a million, zillion years – made up both the post and especially the comments over at the BreakingWindOfChange.

First off, the moniker “Armed Liberal” has always made me snort milk through my nose everytime I actually see it in black and white. And following the joker for the past 5 years or so (seems like an eternity, believe me) I have to say that he really gets better and better at his gig the longer he’s at it.

One of the commenters there does us all a favor and nicely sums up the ArmedLiberal (snort!) for anyone who’s coming to this party late and is wondering what all the laughing is about. There’s more, of course, but those comments aren’t the hillarious ones. The hillarious ones are from the AL himself (sorry, I am drinking a Sierra Mist and the carbonated water hurts my nose). My favorite is

Steve – really? You don’t think Althouse or Reynolds talk to an audience that could vote for Obama? I certainly think they do, and that reaching that audience ought to be a really damn high priority for the party.

Again, I’m snorting up my Sierra Mist. I simply love how the only way that liberals can survive is if they somehow find someway to pander to people who literally would gnaw off their own arm before voting for them. Brilliant

But really, what could possibly compare to the triple threat posed by the McMegan/Althouse/Drum trinity? McMegan and Althouse were both expertly skewered in the piece by Roy (the man!) and naturally their feelings were very hurt. All this is to be expected, naturally, by a piece of sardonic wit.

But then Kevin Drum, our favorite slightly left of center liberal, demonstrates the keen insight and tenacious capacity to dig into the heart of an issue which led to his support of the Iraq war, has to pile on in a more utterly clueless fashion than usual, apparently buying McMegan’s whiny post about sexism in the blogosphere as the god’s honest truth. As Roy points out in his live blogging of the reaction to the VV piece, McMegan’s follow up is simply priceless

McUpdate: “Yes, I know the many uses of the phrase ‘lipstick lesbian'; indeed, I count several as friends and loved ones.” Yet in my mouth it’s a horrible slur. Either I poison everything I touch — the theory endorsed by my family and ex-girlfriends — or victim status is the new Gold Standard.

And that’s what I think has finally convinced me that I must be on my fourth day of sleep deprivation: Teh Victim Status.

I mean, really. This is the Village Voice. McMegan can ho-hum Torture memos coming from the very heart of this government, but my lord! A frank look in the mirror provided by Roy in the Village Voice! Bring the ambulance. And to have Kevin Drum fall hook line and sinker for her drivel is simply bliss beyond compare.

One of the most inexplicable tropes of the liberal blogosphere is its howling disdain for Megan. I guess it all goes back to the moronic “two-by-four” controversy, but it really ought to stop. She writes a perfectly sane, opinionated, moderately libertarian, occasionally obsessive, sometimes provocative blog. I don’t often agree with her, and at times I find her maddeningly obtuse, but I’m sure she feels the same about me. In other words, she’s a totally normal blogger. Michelle Malkin she ain’t.

Totally normal, dude. And people wonder why mentally deficient urchins like David Brooks rise to the top in Drum’s world.

Okay, back to my regularly scheduled psychosis. Just had to share this gem with y’all in case you were encased in concrete, living in total sensory deprivation like I am.

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Posted 9/17/2013

For The Record

The Hesston Area Senior Center will sponsor a Driver Safety Class for senior citizens.

The class will be held Wednesday, Sept. 25 and Friday, Sept. 27 at the Hesston Area Senior Center at 108 E. Randall.

Meeting time for the class will be 8 a.m. to noon on both days.

The instructor for this class will be Rodger Pfaff.

Insurance companies licensed in Kansas give discounts for three years on auto insurance for drivers completing the class.

The program is designed for drivers 55 years and older, but anyone may attend.

The class curriculum is designed to remind participants of skills and techniques they once learned but may have forgotten. It will also update participants on rules of the road.

This class does not include road-driving or written tests.

The fee for the class for AARP members is $12 and non-members $14.

AARP members must bring their membership cards for the lower rate.

Advanced registration is appreciated. Contact the Hesston Area Senior Center at 620-327-5099 to register.


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I doubt he said all that, anyway. Anyone that's heard how Rad talks knows that he's not capable of such high-level thought.
Agreed. I doubt that any of the words attributed to him were actually spoken by him. I'm guessing the media department of the KHL just drafted a nice little report to issue to the media to squelch any more comments about Rads leaving. Don't want to harm the legitimacy of the league any further.

Good timing with this. I'm sure all the KHL players are just enjoying their stay in Russia. I mean, after all, who wouldn't want to play in the KHL, where the on-hand medical personnel rivals that of your average U.S. middle school football game?

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So my wife's boss was rubbing in the Bruins lead to her. She kept quite and let things play out. He comes back into the office tomorrow. I made this background for her. I thought I'd share it:

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Having an appetite and the ability to hold down food and liquids is definitely a plus. In a couple of days you'll be back to normal.

On a side note, I love how ****ing complicated people will make things so long as it does not affect them.

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I'm taking into consideration that you're in contention mode, and you're center/goalie depth is pretty damn good.
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How is this thread ridiculous? Ted Nolan should be responsible for HIS ridiculous comments. As an organization or fans of an organization, you have no choice but to deal with perfectly logical threads such as these.
Fine, then start a thread titled 'Nolan is a ***** for claiming Hollweg embellished' . At least an argument can be made that he was eluding to the Simon incident through his comments about a completely separate incident.

However, Nolan's comments in no way, shape or form blame Hollweg.

The thread title is: 'Islanders brass blaming Hollweg for Simon assault'

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Diabetes; endothelial damage

Just in case anyone thought that it was only your myocardial cells which die as a result of hyperglycaemia, those lining your aorta are queueing up at the same time.

The people doing this research are extremely clever. The molecular mechanism looks complex and finding a drug to block the effect is certainly going to need people who are very bright to do it.

Of course you could cop out and do the simple thing, which is to avoid the hyperglycaemia in the first place. Unless you're a Kitavan that looks like LC eating to me. Where ever you live, the secret appears to be to live within the limits of carbohydrate intake dictated by your ability to maintain normoglycaemia. Of course eating less carbs than this shouldn't be a problem. More just might be.

Once the endothelial cells are dead they will leave a cell sized open wound on the lining of the aorta. This will be repaired by the endothelial cells adjoining the wound dividing or by endothelial progenitor cells from the blood stream settling down on the wound (or both). These cells need energy and cholesterol to grow or divide. Sugar caused the problem in the first place so I vote energy from lipid. Any sensible system would be set up to provide lipid and cholesterol. Perhaps the surrounding cells should up regulate their LDL receptor numbers? Note especially that a loss of glycosoaminoglycans from the endothelial surface also markedly up regulates LDL particle internalisation. These endothelial cells are not taking in LDL cholesterol particles to kill themselves. Glucose does that.

Bruce K said...

These studies aren't too convincing for me, as they are using a refined glucose, and not honey or potatoes. The problem might be calories, plus nutrients. If you eat too much, and deficient food at that, then you're in trouble whether your blood sugar is high or low. But if you eat just enough and lots of nutrients, there might not be any problem. Replacing refined sugars and PUFAs with SFAs, MUFAs, or proteins is good starting point. From there, potatoes and raw honey look good.

Fruit is risky as it's often picked under-ripe, and then shipped a long distance. Fresh local fruit that is ripe the first time you see it must be a priority. If that's not found, frozen, canned, or sun-dried fruits (without added sugars) are the next safest bet. Avoid food that is sent from thousands of miles away and is not naturally ripe or fresh. That's potentially a big problem. Somebody here commented on another forum how about eating a green (unripe) apple tore them up "something awful."

So, just something to consider. And also the theory that it'st he mixed diet which causes a lot of problems today. Namely mixing starch, PUFAs, trans fat, protein, refined sugars, and maybe some alcohol too.

Try reading on the Hay Diet or Food Combining or Sequential Eating. The theory is similar to low-carb, with different conclusions. You can have carbs, but not sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, doughnuts, cookies, and the other modern abominations.

Peter said...

These are test tube studies at the molecular level looking at the switches which control life or death on a cellular basis. There's obviously a lot more involved in real life. It is worth noting that the endotheial cells in this study were of bovine origin and the standard nutrient for most cells in tissue culture is foetal calf serum. Even an grain fed cow will be putting primarily saturated fats in to its physical structure and in to the serum of its calf. Which ever way we manage glucose on a macronutrient basis by diet, pushing pure glucose, the form it occurs in the plasma, above 22 mmol/l will flip switches that make for dead cells. However saturated my fat intake I'd still be loathe to crank my blood glucose up there in to acceptable ADA levels.

Personally I find this sort of study useful in context.

Troy said...

hey peter,

I think you should put up more examples of how you eat! I was wondering, after fat and protien, what order do your carbs come in....veggies, potatoes, fruit, grain, or something else? What carb source do you find most effecient? Thanks, and great blog again!!!!

Bruce K said...

I don't like test tube studies. Too many complexities in life. I prefer studies that look at mortality, and morbidity, pref over a long time. I often cite one study to show really how bad PUFAs are and how good SFAs are. You won't find a study of this sort nowadays. It's all short-term, indirect markers, cultured cells in test tubes, epidemiology, etc. This is not very reliable.

Animals were fed high-fat diets and each group got a different type of fat. They were injected with poison that caused diabetes and frequently death, but the animals fed coconut, MCTs, stearic, or palmitic acid had remarkable protection against death and disease. Even at more than 3.5x the dose, they had less mortality and morbidity than animals eating PUFA oils.

Another interesting result was that partially hydrogenated oil actually reduced mortality 37% and incidence of diabetes by 34% over the regular sunflower oil. This makes sense, as the partially hydrogenated oil had an iodine number 31% lower than the regular sunflower oil. 31-34-37. It suggests to me that the high iodine number was deadly. Meanwhile, those eating coconut oil and aturated fat had almost total immunity (71-95%) to the poison, even at a far higher
dose. It can't get much more clear.

The Scientific Debate Forum has all sorts of posts and articles arguing that glucose is beneficial and lack of it is harmful. He mentioned one study where adding more carbs to a person's diet reversed the problem of high triglycerides alleged to be caused by carbs by the carb-phobes. This is the other side of the issue that low-carbers ignore.

Peter said...

Hi Bruce,

The diabetic rats are very interesting. Kwasnieski specifically states in Homo Optimus that the rats which had been fed on his Optimal Diet were remarkably difficult to euthanase at the end of the experimental period. He was using ether overdose. Control rats went a lot quicker than ON rats. No data supplied (as always). So I have no problem with the results.

I can see that the PUFA rats died rather more easily than sat fat rats in this paper. Is it possible to extract whether the high death rate in the PUFA rats was due to? I can't find this. No one was measuring insulin in those days.

What I mean is, were the rats protected from pancreatic beta cell failure by sat fats reducing the toxicity of alloxan or by sat fats protecting against hyperglycaemia?

If PUFA propagate free radicals to facilitate total beta cell failure under alloxan, the rats may well have died of acute insulin deficiency. They would obviously have had the highest glucose levels but glucose would not remotely have had the time to be causative in death. I'm not sure that this paper gives me the OK to accept hyperglycaemia under the protection of saturated fats. Is that what you meant?

Hopefully no one visiting here would ever purchase sunflower oil!

Peter said...

Hi Troy,

Lost the message in weekend work... I'm not sure I have any preferred carbs really. Neat fructose and combined fructose in sucrose are undoubtedly my least favourite. I don't think there is any real info on vegetables without fruit. They're probably neutral but are loaded with fiber, which I avoid as much as possible. This leaves things like potatoes and other root vegetables. It's a kind of default option, least harm to get your liver supplied with an oxaloacetate precursor in moderation... I certainly eat green leaf vegetables because I like them, but I don't hold out any great hope that they are nutritional panaceas!


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Everybody knows Willie Nelson has a big heart, but you probably don’t know that he keeps it on a polished mahogany shelf next to the sturdy leather chair in the back of his fabled tour bus. ”The big red heart,” as Nelson calls it with a warm smile, is made of battered tin and once held a two-pound assortment of sandwich cookies; but when Willie pops the lid now, the sweet scent of marijuana hits you like a fragrant trade wind. Inside his heart, at any given moment, may be a half-ounce of pre-cleaned, finely ground cannabis. No sticks, and certainly no seeds.

“It’s a mixture,” Willie explains—a jambalya of all the good ganja that comes his way, combined via coffee grinder. He plucks a few fingers from the tin and throws down. I pull out a dense nug of Sour D and break it up to add to the mix. The HIGH TIMES interview has begun.

It’s hard to believe, but the world’s most beloved stoner has never before sat down for a sesh with the world’s most infamous marijuana magazine (see The Message on page 5). There are more reasons than anyone can remember, especially once we start smoking some Willie weed, but the logic goes something like this: While Willie Nelson occupies a unique position in marijuana culture, and remains an outlaw in every sense of the word, not all of his fans are fans of the plant—not by a long shot. And though he’s been smoking for half a century, and been openly unabashed in his affection for Mary Jane for over 35 years, his support for all things cannabis has had little negative impact on his very mainstream career. And his handlers would like to keep it that way.

When it comes to grass, Willie’s fans divide into three distinct camps: stoners like myself who view Willie Nelson as a sterling example of humanity; politically conservative country folks who dislike the pot thing but cry in their beers whenever he sings “Crazy”; and, finally, fans who don’t smoke and don’t care, but remain mildly amused by Shotgun Willie’s outlaw ways. So, unlike most marijuana activists, Nelson doesn’t preach merely to the converted. Arguably, on the strength of his art and his living example, he’s helped change more minds about marijuana than any other American.

“They’re watching me,” Nelson acknowledges. “I’m like the canary in the coal mine. As long as I can remember the words to my songs and do a good show, they say: ‘Well, it may not be affecting him that much.’”


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We refer to the letter “Indians back to square one, pre 2007 – By Rally Optimist.” We note the somewhat “fair comment” but wish to make the following observations.

100_0823 Hindraf is alive and well. Hindraf, learning from the letdown from the PR coalition after it rallied the Indian votes to PR in the 12th GE has made a strategic decision to create an Indian vote bank to enable the negotiation of a better deal for the future of Indians in this country, something which has eluded the minority Indians for all of their existence. Of course this vote bank will be led by Hindraf – more specifically its political wing, the Human Rights Party. Hindraf continues to match the situation as the hrp flag 2 blue situation develops.

And of course there are plenty of people out there who are affected adversely by this move. Obviously, the UMNO led establishment will not have it .Using their large arsenal, they attempt in all ways to kill off the nascent movement. Using their Police Special Branch, by associating Hindraf with LTTE, by portraying Hindraf as an extreme group in the mainstream media, by bribes of money, perks, and other privileges they give out to opportunistic individuals and organizations, by the illusions of a splintering community, by the creation of new mosquito Indian political parties and by treacherous tactics, they try to kill off Hindraf.

PAKATAN RAKYAT The PR coalition too for their part are also affected by Hindraf’s move to create the Indian vote bank and to lead it. PR responds by attempting to marginalize HRP and HINDRAF by branding them as racists. Unfortunately the Indian Mandores in their fold work with them on this initiative. All, so they can continue to keep the Indian votes they got in the last elections – for cheap and hopefully without too significant an obligation. Examples abound where the PR coalition has reneged on this implied obligation. The latest being their refusal to speak up for even the 13As Indian SPM top students who were denied their rights only because they are Indians. They are denied JPA scholarships, Matriculation and University places – also scholarships in Petronas, Shell, Mara, Khazanah, Tenaga, Telekom, 13 State Yayasan and scores of other public and private corporation Banks and Industries scholarships. PKR, DAP and PAS do not get any political mileage by championing the Indian poor cause, worse they fear losing Malay Muslim votes.
Hindraf pre-25th November 2007 was not ready to deal with post Nov 25th, as it was a tiny and almost two man show led by P. Waythamoorthy and P. Uthayakumar who caused that significant eruption after a 16 year struggle. For this reason Hindraf was never in any position to have a plan to deal with the mighty UMNO and the emergent PR post Nov 25th. All of this creates a situation now where people like the writer of the article conclude that Hindraf is back to square one.
umno-najib0 It was the case of a giant (UMNO) versus the then tiny Hindraf from the word go. There is no issue of Hindraf going back to square one returning to pre 2007, where a puny team is fighting “everyone”. If anybody else fought for the Indian poor then we won’t be seen to be fighting “everybody”. Because nobody else is standing up for the Indian poor, they (everybody else) do not like it when we do stand up and ask all these ugly questions to them. So, it looks like we are up against everybody else. But that has always been the case. Nothing new about that. It is just a lot clearer who stands where now. In fact Hindraf and HRP would be out of a job especially with PKR, DAP and PAS multiracialism, if their policies truly were inclusive and encompassing of the Indian issues. Up to date there have been zero takers for the issues of the Indian poor.
Given all of this and given the passage of time since Nov 2007 slowly but surely the lion inside Hindraf is growing from strength to strength day by day as you can see in our website The illusion of going back to square one is what the detractors of Hindraf would want people to believe. But Hindraf’s cause is a true and necessary and Hindraf will continue to struggle on – square one, two, three ….. whatever it takes, but not to stay at square one. Maybe two steps forward and one step back as often happens in any struggle, but forward always.
BN or PR do not have the answers for the future of the Indian community in this country. Only when they have meaningful answers will Hindraf become irrelevant and under those conditions Hindraf does not mind becoming irrelevant – mission would have been accomplished. Until then Hindraf and HRP will be there for the Indian community in the country and moving on step by step towards that ultimate goal.
One of the current initiatives embarked on by HRP is the gearing up for the 2012/2013 general elections, to realize the Indian minority vote bank via it’s Project 15/38 . P3210052 Project 15/38 is the creation of Indian majority Parliament and State seats and winning in these 15 Parliamentary and 38 State seats respectively to gain true representation for the minority Indians.
The unharnessed Hindraf energy after 2007 is slowly but surely being reharnessed – this time in an intelligent and organized way This phase of Hindraf is gathering more steam as the “bad boys”, the opportunists in Hindraf have been exposed or have left the struggle for greener pastures elsewhere leaving Hindraf with a passionate and sacrificing group of activists to lead the struggle.

While Hindraf and HRP is committed to end the 53 year old reign of terror by UMNO, we are not prepared to give PKR, DAP, PAS and P.R a blank cheque to Putrajaya either and risk waiting for another 53 years. Via our Project 15/38 we will find our own future, no matter the naysayers. We will be a check and balance on PR when they get to Putrajaya. In short we are not prepared to trust PR like how the Indians had blindly supported UMNO and BN for 50 long years. Nor are we prepared to become the mandores of PKR, DAP, PAS and PR either.

You may be right. Uthaya may have already become a legend had he been a mandore for BN or PR. but he chooses to remain the puny individual fighting “everyone” along with his band of passionate and sacrificing activists. But that fight is real one, one that moves the politics of the country and creates new history.

Indians back to square one, pre-2007

As far as Hindraf is concerned, consider that Umno neutralised it even before ‘The Game’ started. It was a knockout by default. Holding the Hindraf5 under ISA really did the trick. Today the Hindraf is in tatters. While under ISA, Umno successfully split up the Hindraf detained leaders, turning some Hindraf leaders to Umno’s side. They demonised Hindraf, making it lame, tame and powerless and even managed to get them to go against Pakatan Rakyat causing it to lose the community’s support.

It was even rumoured one of the Hindraf 5 is an undercover Special Branch agent. Umno’s tricks are boundless. Where Umno is concerned, it has achieved what it wanted. MIC’s win in Hulu Selangor gave Umno the credibility it needed.

Hindraf burst into the scene at a time when Indians were frustrated with their lot after 50 years of neglect. This included the Indians in estates (the lower income and the less fortunate), university graduates, middle-class and also many professionals. In the past 30 years, they have had only one Indian leader, S Samy Vellu who is both despised by many but worshiped by some who readily sit at his feet.

During the 1980’s, the Indians woke up because of the many NGOs and social activists. Many of them began to question the sincerity of Barisan Nasional and in particular, Umno. Nevertheless, few dared to even vote against BN hence the successful 2004 results during Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s regime.

From the 1990s, many individuals, groups and network of NGOs have been airing their frustration with regards to the insensitive Muslim conversions, lack of education opportunities (especially the allotment of scholarships), the poverty level, the unjust and forced eviction from estates and lands, the high rate of street crimes within their communities and the manner in which they were thrust into hostile and congested city slums from a quiet, rustic estate environment.

These social ills and economic frustrations were never addressed by MIC, who is their political spokesman. Since the 1990s, MIC has won every single seat it was allotted except during the Lunas by-election, giving it a winning rate of almost 100% for its candidates. However, the grovelling and kissing-up to Umno, its thuggish behaviour and their callous disregard for its people, has made Indians begin to see beyond the veil and smokescreen of the MIC-Umno wayang.

The media has already reporters of a whole Indian village which was without electricity and water for over 50 years.

The advent of Hindraf gave the Indians a venue to vent their pent-up frustration and anger. By sending the memorandum to the British Embassy in a strategic move, Hindraf got Umno’s attention. Umno took immediate action on the 30,000-strong crowd in the street, creating a war-like zone with tear gas canisters, batons and heavily armed FRU and police presence to beat them back into their hovels.

It is my intention to inform your readers that there were ‘hundreds’ if not ‘thousands’ of professionals and businessmen at that Hindraf rally in 2007. You could even spot some ‘millionaires’ among the crowd gathered to hear the speeches that Nov 25. The Indian community solidly supported Hindarf en masse something which never happened previously.

Umno responded quickly. On Dec 13, Umno, fed-up and not wanting to drag Hindraf through a messy court trail, made its move. Abdullah dumped the five into Kamunting instead and the rest is history. Everything happened accordingly to Umno’s plan.

Since then, what has happened to these people? There was a lot of buzz on the ground, vigils, gatherings, prayers, numerous meetings and even campaigns that were initiated. P Uthayakumar probably didn’t anticipate such a success for Hindraf after 2007. Maybe, that’s why there was no plan B to harness this energy that was created. Such energy that was not used, dissipated and thus wasted. With no proper plan B to take over the leadership, it just could not compare with Samy Vellu’s huge, organised political-structure – the MIC.

There was such a huge energy among the people for Hindraf then. ‘Makkal Sakthi’ groups were formed across the nation and many individuals organised themselves with a new sense of awakening following the rally. The ballon of fear was burst open and the people began to come out of their shells, discussions were open and everyone wanted to do something. We did not want to go back to MIC as we had burnt our bridges to it but we were burning with desire to do something for the Indian community.

Among us was not just the labourer class of Indians as the media portrays but also the working class, the professionals, the educated and also the English-speaking. Unlike what has been labelled of us, we, too, had a reason to fight on and stay here, for the love of our country and to help the downtrodden and we did whatever we could in whichever way we wanted.

Can we be blamed if it didn’t turn out exactly as what the activists wanted because we were groping for our way? When Umno realised their mistake, they systematically had an exit planned. Never would they have wanted Indians to support Pakatan.

They wanted the community back for themselves, so we can see the sabotage and traitors who could be bought over as we saw during the following by-elections. The Maklal Sakthi Party is a prime example of sabotage. Will the Indians bite the bait? it seems to have been by the looks of Bagan Pinang and Hulu Selangor..

What went wrong for Hindraf? There were no plans to get appropriate people to work for the community on the social, economic and political levels. The Indians had no other choice but to run into the arms of Pakatan Rakyat. Socially, many individual bodies and networks were created with no links to Hindraf. Economically, many wanted to help but once Umno got Hindraf banned (a smart move), the rich did not want their names into a bad ight..

The ‘third force’ that is coming up is a dream come true for Umno. It is the best way to alienate the Indians and Pakatan. Umno has got two mangoes with one stone. Hindraf has turned the tables against the very people who it used to work with. We can only sit and lament at this conclusion taken by Hindraf.

All we wanted was to be rid the shackles under Umno and to start rebuilding for a progressive community after 50 years but we are back to square one, returning to pre-2007, where a puny team is fighting everyone. Uthaya is a leader who could have been a legend..


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Brkf$t Club – “The Fellowship” [VIDEO]

I got an e-mail from a rapper the other day, I opened and read it (Public Enemy reference, FYI), it said: “Hi my name is Calez and i’m not a struggle rapper.”*

After laughing, I got to the part where Calez mentioned his crew Brkf$t Club; the formal collaboration of MCs out of Chicago that are part of a larger collective called 2008ighties. The name was already familiar and true to his words, Calez and the rest of his clique (Julian Malone, Fonz-E Mak, Legit, Johnny St. Cloud, UG and Sani) are from struggle rappers (and producers). They possess clean flows and a taste for fresh beats while their youthful exuberance on the mic feels like they’re spitting for the love, rather than a quick check. Peep Brkf$t Club’s video for “The Fellowship,” which samples Grizzly Bear (if you’re into those sort of tunes), below or download it here. Peep 2008ighties’ YouTube channel to hear more of their music now because with eyes on Chi-Town Hip-Hop, you certainly will hear more later.

Also, try to keep the inevitable Odd Future comparisons to yourself.

P.S. This tactic will not work again. The Brkf$t Club is nice, you struggle rappers, not so much.

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Federal authorities said Tuesday (June 4) that a  suburban New York mom was arrested for running a multi-million weed  grow house out of a building in Queens. Andrea Sanderlin, of Scarsdale,  is a mother of three. Her “greenery” supply is estimated at $3 million.

The feds were tipped off  by a confidential informant, who was charged in an incident that may be linked to Sanderlin.

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A federal complaint says Andrea Sanderlin, from Scarsdale, N.Y., operated a warehouse in Queens that contained a “sophisticated operation to grow and process marijuana.”

The complaint was filed May 20 by Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent David Lee. It was first reported Tuesday by The Smoking Gun website.

Sanderlin’s attorney, Joel Winograd, did not return a message or email seeking comment Tuesday night.

Lee says law enforcement agents entered the warehouse using a search warrant to find two rooms designed to grow marijuana. He says each room had state of the art lighting, irrigation and ventilation systems.

Sanderlin was first pulled over then taken to the location, where authorities asked if they could search the unit. She has been charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute the massive inventory.  Further investigation found 1,000 kush plants growing under artificial light, plus 2,000 others plants that were being dried out to eventually be sold.

The 45-year-old raised suspicion over a sky-high light bill that would reach as much as $9,000 a month –and was always paid in cash. She has no criminal record, lives in a home worth between $1.2 and $2.4 million, and is proclaiming innocence. If convicted, she faces a minimum 10 year  sentence.

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The annual meeting of the Modern Language Association is the gift to the lazy blogger that keeps on giving, isn’t it, friends?  Rate Your Students has posted more updates from Skeptinautica and Layla, but today’s must-read (so far) is “Does Anyone Know How to Interview?  Ten Mistakes from Yesterday’s MLA.”  Yes, folks–read it and weep.  Ten interviews, ten boneheaded blunders.  (Remind me:  why is it so hard to get a job teaching humanities these days?)  Some of my faves:

Candidate 1:Admitted [to a department with a 4-4 load] that teaching was relatively low on his priorities. “I really don’t want to lose the momentum I have in my own work.” Also apologized for arriving late becaue he assumed the time we set for the interview was his local time, not the time in San Francisco.  [Ed. note–unless he arrived from Alaska, Hawai’i, or Asia, wouldn’t he have been extremely early rather than late for an interview in the Pacific Time Zone?]

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Candidate 4: When asked if she had any questions for us, asked, “What time zone are you in?”

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Candidate 8: Brought out a banana and a yogurt (with metal spoon!) mid-interview, and said, “I have an interview right after this and no time to eat. Do you mind?”
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Candidate 10: Came one hour early, explaining that he’d never been out of “NYC,” and couldn’t find a clock in the hotel showing local time. Also asked if he could substitute his comp teaching for graduate courses in fiction.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot with the time zone confusion?  (Helpful hint:  Turn on your mobile phone when you deplane–it automatically knows what time it is wherever you land!)  These tales smack of Eastern cluelessness and that special provincialism of people who have never lived outside of the BosWash corridor.  I’d be just plain wary of hiring anyone who hasn’t yet mastered 30-year old clock radio technology.  (And a special note to the anti-Hunger Artist:  you don’t look like you’re in-demand when you eat during a job interview, you just look like a jerk.  Would you like a side of slightly used Chapstik with that?)
But enough with the cautionary tales–Tenured Radical has posted yet more sensible advice for earnest job-seekers about how to dress for the AHA, which is coming up immediately after we ring in the new year.  Now, just close your eyes and pretend that everyone from the West coast showed up 3 hours late for every interview and displayed as much active incompetence in discovering local time on the East coast.  Can you picture it?  Yes, my darlings:  that’s how dumb you Easterners look to us.  I have half a mind now to campaign to bring the AHA to Phoenix sometime in the next decade just to smell the toast burning as Easterners try to figure out whether or not Arizona is in the Mountain or the Pacific Time Zone.  (Hint:  it’s both!  But that’s how things are in Wonderland, where nothing is as it seems!)
UPDATE, later this morning:  RYS has posted a reply from Hank the History professor, who seems entirely too earnest to be published there, but who offers some excellent advice for job candidates:  “For God’s sake, eat an energy bar!”  Hank, you’re such a caring guy.  Why not offer them as door prizes for your job candidates next weekend at the AHA?

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  1. I grew up in Indiana, when it was pretty much all in its own special non-changing timezone. We were always acutely aware of everyone else’s changes. Still, I can’t imagine how little research candidates are doing about their prospective universities and about the conference interview, itself, that they commit these egregious faux pas. It does make for fun blogging!

    I think you’ve got a great idea with campaigning to have the AHA meet in Phoenix sometime soon. Both for the fun of watching unprepared candidates’ heads explode and for the joy of holding it in a lovely, southwestern city.

  2. Thanks, Janice–quite frankly, I don’t understand at all why the AHA insists on meeting in snowy northern cities in January. Doesn’t Miami-Dallas-Phoenix-L.A.-San Francisco-Seattle seem much more enticing, not to mention manageable travel-wise?

    Indiana is “spayshul” in that anti-Daylight Savings stance, too. I used to think it was the shared anti-government politics that led to Indiana’s and Arizona’s insistence on staying on Standard Time all year long–you know, “the gummint’s not gonna tell me what time it is” thing–but having visited Tucson a few times recently, I’ve come to appreciate why places like Arizona want to extend their after-dark hours in the summers rather than “save” daylight. It’s frakking hot when the sun shines, and people can get outside and do stuff when it’s dark again.

    (I used to live in Ohio 7 miles from the Indiana border, with a person who worked 1 day a week in Indiana. He was a time traveler on those days!)

  3. Dear Historiann –

    At last I have found a place on the internet for professors to commiserate.

    I am clinically deaf, which resulted in some hilarious “dialogue” throughout Red Rackham’s Treasure, but really hurt my chances at this year’s round of MLA interviews. A typical exchange –

    “What is your name?”

    “Oh, no thank you, I just ate.”

    “YOUR NAME !!!!”

    “Oh, I think you will see that this proof is just so.”

    “Billions of blue blistering barnacles!!”

    Sincerely –

    Professor Calculus

  4. I’m not going to add anything brilliant here but wow that’s stupid. I’ve lived on the East Coast my entire life (except for the time I’ve spent out of the country) but things like time zones just are not that difficult. That’s just stupidity. There’s no “Eastern cluelessness”; that’s straight up stupidity.

  5. Hey, we in the west have plenty of stupidity to go around, but not knowing what time it is *in the west* is almost by definition Eastern stupidity. (Even our idiots know what time zone we’re in, and when to re-set their watches. We send the really, really stupid ones to Arizona because they don’t have to ever change their watches there!)

    And, undine–agreed, agreed. I wonder if they remembered to pee first AND brush their teeth before their interviews?

  6. Fair enough, we can call it Eastern stupidity. I’d call it reason #who knows to not get hired: if you can’t take the time to sync your watch to any of the following things: the announcement in the plane of the local time, your cell phone, your hotel alarm clock, the tv. I get where you’re coming from, historiann, I guess my brain just can’t get around somebody from wherever they’re from not getting onto local time, to say nothing of mentioning it in an interview along with your PhD credentials. It’s very “the dog ate my homework.”

  7. When I moved to Indiana, the state still didn’t have Daylight Savings Time. I figured that there must have been a deep feeling against it in the political establishment. Yet when Mitch Daniels was elected governor, with instituting Daylight Savings Time as part of his platform, the legislature immediately worked out a bill to catch the state up with the previous century. It passed easily. The only real points of contention were exactly how the boundaries of the Eastern and Central time zones were to be drawn. Apparently, everybody who cared about the issue was in favor of the change. There was a lot of support for the change from the business community. (I recall my wife complaining how confusing it was at work coordinating teleconferences with colleagues in Michigan.) Year somehow, the state had never gotten around to adopting DST (except for a few counties in the west that were on DST illegally).

    Confusion about Indiana’s timekeeping practices was also problem when we had visitors to the physics department at IU. There was little trouble with people coming from far away, who had to fly and change their watches. But people who drove into the state often showed up an hour late.

  8. Wow, Buzz–I had no idea that Indiana had joined the 20th century! So much has changed in the 7-1/2 years since I’ve left my sweet little border town on the western edge of the Eastern time zone.

    I know exactly what you mean about locals being confused about which local time you observed. Medical clinics on the Indiana side had to remind patients coming from Ohio that they were on Indiana time, and Ohio clinics had to remind Indiana patients that they were on Ohio time. The need for this extra layer of confusion was totally beyond me, so I’m happy to hear that everyone’s on the same clock now.

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I have always been fascinated by the history of ancient Rome and this is one of the topics, I always wanted to know a little bit more about.

The rumor about Nero himself giving the order to burn down parts of the city is a widespread assumption about this part of history. In some books I read about Tacitus mentioning Neros involvement, at least when it comes to accusing the Christians of setting the city on fire.

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One way to determine this is to go to a translation of the source, which should provide you with all the Tacitus you can eat on the subject.

In short, Tacitus suggests that Nero may well have been the primary motivation for the fire starting where and when it did, although Nero himself was in Antium when the fire started (again, according to Tacitus).

As far as alternate theories, I'm not aware of any, but that's not to say they don't exist. If you don't buy into the whole "Nero wanted to build himself a bigger house in the middle of Rome" angle, I think the next most reasonable guess would be that a fire accidentally started in the wrong part of town at the wrong time, and grew out of control. Accidental fires in Rome were hardly uncommon, even if this particular fire was a whopper.

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Thank you for your answer. Interesting point and link about Tacitus, thanks. I'm accepting this answer now, altough I was hoping to maybe get a bit more about alternative theories :) –  GNi33 Oct 19 '11 at 11:35

The alternative theory is put forward by Suetonius (Nero, 38-39) who strongly supports the idea that the fire was Nero's doing, and that common people saw his agents with torches but didn't dare stop or detain them. 'Nero fiddled while Rome burned' is a reference to Suetonius's account of Nero singing a poem (probably of his own composition) about the fall of Troy, standing atop Maecenas's tower on the Esquiline (the exact location of the tower is not known, but it could be on or near the spot of Teatro Brancaccio in today's Rome).

Incidentally, Nero couldn't fiddle, of course, because string instruments of that kind were not invented yet.

Both sources agree that Nero led a major relief effort after the fire, making the city safer and cleaner. One should keep in mind that our main sources were written during the reign of dynasties hostile to Nero, and badmouthing him could be a side effect of that. Also, Nero committed suicide when he was only 30, so the idea of a lecherous and depraved old or at least middle-aged man on the Roman 'throne' is not very realistic.

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In my hometown there was once a major riot that burned down the "black side" of town (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot ). Afterwards, a lot of the newly abandoned land was snapped up by white developers and early "urban renewal" proponents. This started conspiracy theories among the victims that those folks purposedly caused the riot somehow specifically so they could have the land. This story about Nero always struck me as the exact same kind of conspiracy theory. I think Hanlon's Razor needs to be applied here. –  T.E.D. May 7 '12 at 18:50

In a recent book, "The Great Fire of Rome" Stephen Dando Collins puts forward the theory that Tacitus didn't say that Nero blamed the Christians, but that he blamed an Egyptian sect for the fire. Later writers, "knowing" that Nero persecuted Christians, changed the text.

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What evidence does Collins marshal for such a claim? –  Felix Goldberg Jan 11 '14 at 17:55
Part was that there were too few Christians to be threatening or credible. Another bit of evidence that burning or tearing apart by dogs would have been religiously 'unclean' for that sect and not Christians. –  Oldcat Jan 13 '14 at 20:33
What is that whooshing sound I hear? Oh, right, Occam's razor is nearby... :) –  Felix Goldberg Jan 13 '14 at 21:30
Besides the new theory, the book does go into detail on the timeline of the fire and the theories about Nero's culpability that the original post is asking about. It's worth a look as a more in-depth view than we can give on this site, and then you can judge the theory as you like. –  Oldcat Jan 13 '14 at 22:34

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Effa Manley became the first woman elected to the baseball Hall of Fame when the former Newark Eagles executive was among 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues chosen yesterday by a special committee.

This year's Hall class -- 18, including former reliever Bruce Sutter -- is the biggest in history. The previous record was 11 in 1946.

Manley co-owned the New Jersey-based Eagles with her husband, Abe , and ran the business end of the team for more than a decade. The Eagles won the Negro Leagues World Series in 1946 -- one year before Jackie Robinson broke the major league color barrier.

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Monday, August 9, 2010

monday randoms: puckdaddy, mostly....

- i'm once again flattered to have been asked by greg wyshynski, over at puckdaddy, to contribute a female perspective on NHL issues. i'll link to it tomorrow (or whenever it's up).

- another thing happening, currently, over at puckdaddy: the mount puckmore exercise. in a nutshell, they've got team representatives from all 30 NHL squads picking which four people best describe the history of their teams (aka: which faces would be carved into your team's mount rushmore). i've been thinking about this alot, actually, and i decided to share my decisions with you in advance of the actual unveiling of our monument [ps: which of you is writing it, hunh ???]

1. the obvious two
there's no way anyone can try to convince me that the first two faces on the flames' mountain would not be lanny mcdonald and jarome iginla. without a doubt, these two franchise players define the class and leadership displayed in their respective eras and any conversation about the history of my club would be incomplete without their names.

2. the third
after lanny and iggy, it's a little more difficult. i have been hugely vocal about wanting theoren fleury's #14 retired to the rafters at the dome, and i think he should be the third face on puckmore for all of the same reasons. he's a former flame recordholder in scoring titles (until iggy came along), and he's overcome so much adversity in his non-hockey life. also ? the fans effin' love the little dude. personally, i'd be hard pressed to imagine this shrine as complete without theo's scarred mug up there...

3. and finally....
the last guy's tough. REAAALLLY tough. if you think about incredible team players, you've got a few left to choose from (kippy, and gilmour come immediately to mind) but most of the other big names would appear on other teams' foursomes (mcinnis & niewendyk are good examples here). håkan loob is somewhat entitled, being the only swede to have ever scored 50 goals in one NHL season (a record that still stands), but the majority of his hockey contributions have come overseas as GM of eliteserien oft-champions, färjestads BK. oh, and just because mikey V lucked out and has a banner in the rafters doesn't mean it deserves to be there....

no, the fourth guy should be a non-player. some good options, here, are doc seaman, bob johnson, and cliff fletcher.... but to ME the last face on mt.puckmore should be this one:

not only does he boast one of the best nicknames in pro sports, but he was an active part of two cup runs, had a thirty-some-odd year career, and was the first professional hockey athletic trainer to be inducted into the hall of fame. additionally (as if we need more reasons), he remains a community ambassador to the Flames, and his on-bench celebratory dance is one of the most memorable in the 89 cup win. i heart bearcat murray.

**UPDATE: hayley wrote up the puck daddy mt.puckmore yesterday, and you can find it here. i have no idea why sarahM (who alerted me to the aforementioned article in the comments) deleted her note. meh.

i guess that's it for today.

walkinvisible said...

um. wow...

<3 hayley, but that post is a fucking disaster.

how do you not pick lanny mcdonald ??!

plus, bearcat is a WAY better pick than cliff fletcher, due to the worst trade in franchise history (until the series of jokinen deals, of course).

RobWoolley said...

Wow, no consideration to Jim Peplinski? Doug Risebrough? ;-)

shep said...

Swedish mt rushmore:
Roger Johansson?
Jonas Bergqvist?
Mathias Johansson?
Tomas forslund?
Niklas Sundblad?

Macinnis would be on my list, 13 seasons, 803gp, 212-609-822, +241 from the blue.

wrkd4it said...

I have to go to bat for Haley a little bit (though I don't think her post shows) ...Re "there's no way anyone can try to convince me that the first two faces on the flames' mountain would be lanny mcdonald and jarome iginla." I know what you MEAN, but what you say is that you are NOT convinced that these faces should be the first two! You mean quite the opposite.

And I would have MacInnes on my list, too.

walkinvisible said...

GSN (for ol' times sake):
pepper's cool but not better than the alternatives. and risebrough was awesome as #8 (why i remember these trivialities, i have no idea) but was in no small part the cause of the dark ages in the '90s.

did you not put forsberg on that list just to hurt me ? and how in GOD'S NAME does jonas höglund make the potential cut before börje salming and bengt-åke gustafsson (for his work as a coach) ??!?

duly noted and edited. macinnis will be on the st.louis blues' shrine (the way there's a statue of him outside scottrade and a banner in the rafters), so he needn't compete with the rest of the '89 team here.

mikeH said...

I really like Hayley's stuff, but I'm thinking Lanny is would be my first choice for Mt. Puckmore. He has been such a great supporter of hockey in Calgary for 30 years (and counting), its tough to think of anyone else.

Iggy has definitely put himself in line. With Fleury, I think you could make the Ken King argument about retiring #14 ("some time needs to pass"), but otherwise, he was the best of the '90s.

The 4th spot is pretty open, but I like the Bearcat suggestion. He's such a great guy. Fletcher took us to a cup before losing his mind I guess.

I have some better questions: When they put Gretzky on the Oiler mountain, will Semenko be behind him? If Fuhr goes up, will they powder his nose? Will the Vancouver Mt. Puckmore just have Linden and Naslund, twice? Will the L.A. Kings have Peter Pocklington on theirs? Will New Jersey carve in Kovalchuk at his current age (27) or wait and carve him as a weathered 44-year old?

shep said...

hehe, i meant for swedish flames players :)

walkinvisible said...

my roommate suggested harvey the hound instead of bearcat (along with lanny, iggy, and theo).

i fully support this.

that makes WAAAAAY more sense.... and hilarious that i didn't even consider that, i just looked at your list and was instantly shocked by the omissions... ;)

SarahM said...

I deleted my note? I have no idea why I did that either, as it was completely unintentional and, in fact, I have no recollection of doing it. Hmmm, Internet ghoulies at work?

mikeH said...

Looks like Al Mcinnis didn't make the St. Louis Mount Puckmore, so I guess he just ends up snubbed. Funny that they built him a statue in real life, but when it comes to fake statues, he doesn't even make the list.

Mount Puckmore: The four faces of the St. Louis Blues

A Z R said...

I dont want to hate, but im going to. Haley, what the fuck? Honestly, why the fuck was I not tagged to write that thing? I usually read her stuff, but I couldnt even make it through the fletch shit. That asshole swung a trade that ruined the 90's. You put him on your mountain?

Here are the 4, just so you know. Lanny, obviously. OBVIOUSLY HALEY.
#14, Iggy, and for fucks sake ED WHALEN!!! God...why wasn't I tagged to write the post.

walkinvisible said...

i think that after lanny (OBVIOUSLY), iggy, and theo, you can make good arguments for the following:
-bearcat murray
-ed whalen
-harvey the hound
-håkan loob

but everyone and anyone else (including mikey V and cliff fletcher) are the WRONG choices.

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I performed an audit the other day and one of the homeowners' largest concerns was a funky smell in the ducts that serve the upper stories (of a 3-story row home in Washington, DC). The smell is similar to that you will find in a bouse house (i.e. porta-John).

The smell came while running the heat.

The HVAC unit for the upper stories is an air-source heat pump.

The heat pump and ducts were recently installed by the guy who was flipping the house. An HVAC permit was not pulled.

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The HOs are super-busy around the holidays so they have not had the time yet to have me back in their house since the initial visit.

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