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Read more: Mmmmmm….
Mmmmmm….
Whoever got the muffins and croissants for today’s “all-hands” meeting also got fresh blueberries and sliced mixed fruit (grapes, mango, kiwi, strawberries, pineapple and mushmelon). Yum…. :)
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
5 things I’m grateful for today :) Seattle Snow. “Seattle Snow”, to my mind, is short-lived, scant, and doesn’t interfere much with daily life. It’s a fun surprise to wake up to and is gone by afternoon. Today’s snow looks to be in this category. :) Icepacks. I just finished icing my knee, and my, the absence of pain is a goodness. Beef with barley soup, which the…
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Read more: Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday
Today always reminds me of the friend who gave up Catholicism for Lent one year. :) I grew up born-again, in a church that was a megachurch before megachurches were cool, in a small, fairly fundie denomination. I was so “low church” I didn’t know what “low church” was. I was baptized Episcopalian at St Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle when I was 27. I realize it’s not…
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Read more: Long time no post
Long time no post
Work was insane for a couple of weeks. The anniversary / Valentine’s / President’s Day weekend that we’d planned to spend out of town? Turned into “Friday the 13th at a local hotel, then rush home Saturday morning to work.” The rest of the weekend was spent tied to the computer. Things did wind down at the end of last week. Unfortunately, I noticed some…
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Read more: Oh, Right
Oh, Right
Remember the post about the FDA’s warning on weight-loss supplements? It’s receiving “comment spam” about newer, better, safer … weight-loss supplements.
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Read more: Playing with Wordle
Playing with Wordle
I was reminded of Wordle, a creation of the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab. Above is an image of the 5 most-viewed-of-all-time posts from Living ~400. Below is a bunch of the most recent comments. What do you think?
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Read more: Warnings: weight-loss supplements
Warnings: weight-loss supplements
The FDA has issued more warnings about “weight-loss supplements”. As the NY Times reports, [T]he main law on dietary supplements gives the F.D.A. jurisdiction only after the products go on the market. Rather than reviewing the supplements and approving them for sale, as the agency does with drugs, the F.D.A. is limited to spot-checking manufacturers and distributors, and testing products already on store shelves. Even the F.D.A.…
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Read more: Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
I’m reading Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession. I think the book is trying to be shocking. The first essay is about fat in Nigerian culture (good if you’re female, bad if you’re male). Another is on the Andean legend of the pishtaco, a bogeyman whose objective is to extract fat from the bodies of his victims. But the one that’s boggled my mind is … Don Kulick‘s…
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Read more: Breaking out in hives…
Breaking out in hives…
Not sure why, but I’ve got itchy red bumps on my chest and the bottom half of my face, and right eye feels swollen. There isn’t much that’s only touched my chest and face, other than my facial moisturizer, which I have stopped using just in case that’s the cause. I’m taking enough Benedryl and Claritin to make me want to fall asleep, and using Benedryl…
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