Look Alike Meter Mayhem

Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I have seriously been neglecting this nifty little blog over here. And the three-in-a-row Look-alike-meter posts that I just deleted? Those were supposed to appear on my daughters private family-only blog. If I'd actually been participating on THIS blog, I would have noticed their appearance. As you may have guessed from the fact that there were THREE posts, I DID notice their absence from my child's blog.

My point?

Time is playing tricks on me. I need more of it. Not for trick playing, but for stuff-doing.

My other point?

Sorry about those lame-O posts. You chics gotta tell me when I do stupid shit like that.

Delusional Movie Quiz

Watching way too much TV lately... but thought this would be fun. It's the delusional movie quiz. To play, simply name an actor and the film in which he/she has played a schizophrenic delusion. :-) Betcha I know which one's Jane's gonna go with... be fun to see how many we can all think of.

Sesame Street Rated "not safe for your preschooler"

Here is the sadness that is our entertainment industry.

They've just released the original Sesame Street episodes on DVD, but they are accompanied by a precaution that they are not recommended for today's preschoolers. Why? Because Cookie Monster still eats everything in sight, Snuffy is still invisible to everyone but Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch is dismally grouchy, etc and so forth.

So, since today's parents can't hold a conversation with their child about why it's not good to eat paintings and chairs and railings and too many cookies, we're being issued a warning.

Give me a break TV Land! Entertainment is just that. If our kids learn the ABCs at the same time, good for the them. But, in the end, TV is entertainment. And entertainment is often fiction. As in, blue monsters don't really exist! Therefore you would be best to not follow his eating habits!

I could go on forever.

Go read it for yourself and let me know what you think.

Santa's a pimp and he gets his latte faster

Seems everytime I log onto the internet lately I'm tripping across some new piece of absolute moronicness from somewhere on the globe. The funny thing is sometimes the reporters realize it's moronic... like the mall in Australia who told their store santa's to say "ha ha ha" now because they thought "ho ho ho" might be offensive to women. Newsflash mates -- Saint Nick was around long before Snoop Dog.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115/wl_asia_afp/lifestyleaustraliachristmasoffbeat

Another stupid thing that annoys me is I keep reading all these moronic studies that colleges are conducting. One article reported recently that coffee houses discriminate against women, because it takes women an average of 20 seconds longer to get served their coffee drinks. I don't know about you, but personally stuff like that kind of makes me want to send those researchers to find out how long it takes to get a latte in Darfur, or Afganistan perhaps.

Another study from Great Britian claims that 1 in 4 people would NOT give up their cell phone for a month for a million dollars. Actually that one's kind of encouraging, because really I think that just shows that 1 in 4 people in Great Britian have a sense of humor. Perhaps there is hope for us yet.

Tigerlily

insulin resistance is a bigger problem than we knew

Research on the brains of Alzheimers' patients seems to show that toxic proteins render neurons which are responsible for learning and memory insulin resistant, leading them to label Alzheimer's "Type 3 diabetes". Wow.

exercise doesn't make you lose weight

Exercise to feel better, not get thinner. So says the latest research, apparently. I loved the willingness in the article to question assumptions. I know that for me personally, I lose weight when I don't eat, not when I'm working out a lot. It does make me want to yell at the scientific establishment, "Will you make up your minds?"

Also, I am somewhat insulin resistant, and according to the article, foods that spike insulin (pasta, breads, sweets, beer, rice, potatoes, pastry) are what actually make you store fat. I don't like the way I feel after I eat them, anyway, so I don't, usually, but it's so interesting that this is physiologically borne out.

Breast Feeding

Read this.