hi!
I wrote this entry almost a month ago, but didn't have anywhere to put it. Which helps explain why I'm back on LJ. Hi, LJ!-----My 35th birthday was earlier this month, but I still want to stop and...
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ready.squid
E posted on facebook about her horizon-expanding experiences with squid preparation. In case you ever have to prepare squid, I'd like to direct you to this set of helpful infographics. It is the...
View Articlerunning
Just got back from a 2.5 mile run! I am slowly clawing my way back from the absolute bottom. There may be something to this trendy biomechanically efficient running everyone is going on about, since...
View Articlewhat is the unit of harm in meat-eating?
Is there anyone else here who eats animals, but still considers it morally suboptimal? Like, you're willing to do it for health or hedonic reasons, but if all other things were perfectly equal, it...
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Trivia: Some google searches that did not answer the side-question I encountered while writing the previous post:"How many chickens per cow""1 cow in chickens""chicken cow conversion"
View Articleplease note
Dear UCSF sysadmin who is monitoring my activity: I am not looking at porn at work. I am testing the "ignore adult websites" feature of the website tracker we want to give people in our exercise and...
View Articleblessing scams
The Richmond is full of posters warning Chinese residents against blessing scams. They're a con in which a "psychic" comes up to you on the street and warns you that your family is being attacked by...
View ArticleThe New Challenge
Tonight is a big night in Kingdom of Loathing. The new, secret challenge path for Fall rolls out at 8:30 PM. The /hardcore chat channel will be full of laughter and roaring arguments and ingenious...
View ArticleActually, I kind of liked it.
Culinary discovery of the evening: You can make hummus where you replace the tahini with pureed sardines!Second culinary discovery of the evening: You should not.
View ArticleThe window of dread
Today I had three projects that I was absolutely dreading. They were boring, confusing, frustrating, interminable. So I grit my teeth, forced myself to set up at my nice standing desk, and started a...
View Articlediet experiments
Six months ago I went on a paleo diet. I wish I'd been blogging about it the whole time, because now there's so much stuff built up that every time I try to write about it I get bogged down and give...
View Articlecontinuity edit
Today, I hereby dub thee "Saturday, the day when I wasn't expecting to get a lot done anyway." Tomorrow, you will henceforth be known as "Friday, take 2." I think this will be best for everyone.
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hiking
Last weekend nfnitperplexity and I went for a hike around Angel Island. This fulfilled three goals at once:* I've been meaning to go to Angel Island for almost a year, and it was on my latest list of...
View Articlepaleo diet conclusions
When I last posted about my diet, I was lamenting my misapplication of a reduced-carb paleo approach. I never made a really concerted effort to become fat- or keto-adapted, and as a result I ended up...
View Article214
My life is a little boring. But I don't think it has to be. For several years things were a bit of a mess, but now they're looking up. There are so many possibilities! Earlier this month, on the plane...
View Articleasthma
I finally started talking to a doctor about the fairly obvious exercise asthma problems I've had ever since I moved to the Bay Area. If this had happened back when I was running it would have been a...
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For someone who believes that tarot cards are a source of random input to provoke thought, I seem to get a lot of uncannily incisive readings. I enjoyed doing a reading with the Homestuck tarot! That's...
View Articlecurses
One day I was walking home with a tote bag of groceries and cursed the foolish designers who made the straps just long enough for the bag to drag on the ground. Another day I was on the bus with a tote...
View ArticleBay to Breakers
It's almost a year since I made my carefully-considered foolhardy vow to do Bay to Breakers in 2014. I made it hoping to encourage and inspire myself, and it succeeded at that -- I made a number of...
View ArticleNew diet experiment
I'm long recovered from my informative but unfortunate experiment with paleo eating, and I'm ready to try something new. Tomorrow I'm starting a low-carb ketogenic diet. I have a lot of reasons for...
View ArticleBay to Breakers
Well! I walked a Bay-to-Breakers equivalent distance, which ended up following the actual BtB route about halfway. I got out there late enough that it had basically dissolved into a drunken ramble...
View ArticleDiet phase 2
I set out to go on a ketogenic diet for a month. And I did. Go me! It was an interesting challenge and took me through a variety of entertaining mental and physical states. There were definitely some...
View ArticleFODMAPS
I have chronic and sometimes severe stomach pain. I've gone through a few different dietary and other experiments, and I'm now looking at the FODMAPS diet. I have a good feeling about it, just from...
View ArticleBouncing back into the game
Sometimes I just get so upset over simple, trivial things. I'll drop something and it'll roll into the one corner of the room that's hardest to reach. My phone will die 10 seconds before I get it...
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