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jwz, a nifty BBC doc on the making of Blade Runner, featuring many of the principals involved.
jwz, a nifty BBC doc on the making of Blade Runner, featuring many of the principals involved.Oct. 30th, 2006
I just learned that Bank of America bought MBNA in 2005; it took a while for the change to work its way down to the customer-interface level. (I acquired an MBNA credit card last year, apparently just before the purchase happened.)
My first thought was "there goes a big chunk of Maine's GDP" and lo according to this page I was right. BoA hurriedly set about shutting down most-perhaps-all of MBNA's Maine call centers, shifting work to various locations in South America. Sucks.
OTOH they gave me a promotional 2% APR on the big rent-paying balance transfer I took out last month, so, um, yay.
My first thought was "there goes a big chunk of Maine's GDP" and lo according to this page I was right. BoA hurriedly set about shutting down most-perhaps-all of MBNA's Maine call centers, shifting work to various locations in South America. Sucks.
OTOH they gave me a promotional 2% APR on the big rent-paying balance transfer I took out last month, so, um, yay.
im in ur base eating ur foodz
Oct. 30th, 2006 04:16 pmOK, I admit it, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
aprils_cr_diary is kind of dopey. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she isn't trying to come across as obnoxious as she sometimes appears, but I have to say that anyone who describes a large object as "blank-ing
On the other hand I'm going to keep her on my flist for a while, because one thing I discovered quickly about the CR subculture is that it's full of hardcore nerdz, and as such any writer within it emit links to interesting stuff that lay at the intersection of foodiness and hackerliness. Here's a couple of things I have found today:
* CRON-O-Meter is a Mac/Win application intended to be primarily useful to CR dieters, but I think it's more generally interesting than that. It's a nice front-end to several open databases of food items' nutritional information, and gives you an easy way to track how well you're meeting a recommended daily intake of calories, fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals, so long as you're willing to punch in everything that you gobble down.
This begs the question: whose recommendation? Whoever it is, they actually think that, given my age and height, I'm deficient in all of those stats (even calories), except for carbs, of which I am eating enough to fell a wildebeest. Or something.
* Slashfood is exactly what it sounds like: a foodie version of Slashdot, except much nicer looking, and I didn't want to chuck my display out the window based on any of the headlines. I dunno if I'll actually read it regularly but I appreciate that it exists.
aprils_cr_diary is kind of dopey. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she isn't trying to come across as obnoxious as she sometimes appears, but I have to say that anyone who describes a large object as "blank-ing[sic] huge" is undeniably from a different planet than mine.On the other hand I'm going to keep her on my flist for a while, because one thing I discovered quickly about the CR subculture is that it's full of hardcore nerdz, and as such any writer within it emit links to interesting stuff that lay at the intersection of foodiness and hackerliness. Here's a couple of things I have found today:
* CRON-O-Meter is a Mac/Win application intended to be primarily useful to CR dieters, but I think it's more generally interesting than that. It's a nice front-end to several open databases of food items' nutritional information, and gives you an easy way to track how well you're meeting a recommended daily intake of calories, fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals, so long as you're willing to punch in everything that you gobble down.
This begs the question: whose recommendation? Whoever it is, they actually think that, given my age and height, I'm deficient in all of those stats (even calories), except for carbs, of which I am eating enough to fell a wildebeest. Or something.
* Slashfood is exactly what it sounds like: a foodie version of Slashdot, except much nicer looking, and I didn't want to chuck my display out the window based on any of the headlines. I dunno if I'll actually read it regularly but I appreciate that it exists.
CR in the NYT
Oct. 30th, 2006 09:53 pmBlah blah. I think I'm posting about this slightly more than I care about it, but it seems I hooked onto the topic just as it's starting to become really visible, so here we go.
CR made the NYT. One is tempted to speculate about this diet getting fad-famous, but I just don't think so; it's proponents seem to treat the weight loss as merely a side effect of their real goals, and I don't think these are goals that tons of everyday people would be willing to starve themselves over, especially with that whole not-actually-proven-with-humans wrinkle.
It's probably getting more attention due to the mix of "Cool, more research into living longer" and "OMG, look, freaks!" The photographer did a good job contrasting that guy's handsome face with his alarmingly scarecrow physique. The monkeys are cute though. Who's a hungry monkey.
CR made the NYT. One is tempted to speculate about this diet getting fad-famous, but I just don't think so; it's proponents seem to treat the weight loss as merely a side effect of their real goals, and I don't think these are goals that tons of everyday people would be willing to starve themselves over, especially with that whole not-actually-proven-with-humans wrinkle.
It's probably getting more attention due to the mix of "Cool, more research into living longer" and "OMG, look, freaks!" The photographer did a good job contrasting that guy's handsome face with his alarmingly scarecrow physique. The monkeys are cute though. Who's a hungry monkey.