Supposedly I write stuff called "software" that makes shiny pretty things move around on your "computer" while traversing the planet through a series of tubes. Completely apropos of nothing, I'm also interested in this thing called User Experience Design and all the front-end web hoo-ha the kids are into these days. For my daily bread, I work as a Senior User Interface Engineer for a red envelope DVD by mail / electronic streaming movie company.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I’m tempted to complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a few thousand more words. I’ll try to resist but will go ahead and add a couple more details to flesh out the advice.
via nytimes.com
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Death by plastic
more at chrisjordan.com
Albatross chicks killed by ingesting plastic from their parents on the remote Midway Atoll
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Using the techniques of animal training on recalcitrant husbands
We went to a counselor to smooth the edges off our marriage. She didn't understand what we were doing there and complimented us repeatedly on how well we communicated. I gave up. I guessed she was right — our union was better than most — and resigned myself to stretches of slow-boil resentment and occasional sarcasm.
Then something magical happened. For a book I was writing about a school for exotic animal trainers, I started commuting from Maine to California, where I spent my days watching students do the seemingly impossible: teaching hyenas to pirouette on command, cougars to offer their paws for a nail clipping, and baboons to skateboard.
I listened, rapt, as professional trainers explained how they taught dolphins to flip and elephants to paint. Eventually it hit me that the same techniques might work on that stubborn but lovable species, the American husband.
more at the New York Times
No that I know what's happening, it will never work on me.
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