So the wife’s doing a game of blog tag over at her blog. You have to go to photobucket.com, and type in the answers to various questions, in the search form. Since I’m lazy, and not really into this kind of stuff, I just took the answer to my favorite kind of [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Wrong, exercise actually boosts energy, as pointed out in this article at webmd.com.
It doesn’t need to be a lot either, just 20 minutes of low intensity exercise 3 times a week helps fight chronic fatigue.
So what’s stopping you? Get on it.
It seems that not everyone thinks so, and it may not help so much in certain sports like the marathon.
Several pithy quotes from the article:
And don’t worry about becoming too muscular, Dr. Kraemer said. “The
fear of getting really big is not plausible for most people,” he said.
Competitive distance runners and cyclists, who are naturally slender
and [...]
Hehe.
So I took this pic on my way to work the other morning, and haven’t got around to posting it until now.
The splendors of a Maine morning.
from webmd.com comes this article.
The headline really bugs me, because it’s such a misnomer. “Healthcare” and “health spending” is so untrue, it’s illness, or medical care, and spending.
Health spending would be on stuff like good, clean foods, exercise equipment, gym memberships, etc–stuff that keeps you healthy in other words, not spending on things to [...]
Article on WikiLeaks
Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Comics Reporter
Steve Gerber died on Sunday. His Howard the Duck (the comic not the atrocious film) was probably one of the highlights of my youth, and one of the things that made me the person I am today.
More about him here, and Howard.
Oud Hout
Diederick Kraaijeveld (Oudhout/Oldwood, The Netherlands, 1963) builds classic and modern icons in vintage reclaimed wood; an Airstream trailer, a Porsche 911 or a pair of Chuck Taylors (All Star sneakers)…With sometimes century-old painted planks, salvaged during intensive trips along dumpsters, old Amsterdam canal mansions, run down farms and faraway coasts, Kraaijeveld “paints” photo-realistic images… [...]
I’m one of the artists featured on Skull-A-Day’s Skull-A-Day: Braincase XXVII
Here’s the piece in question:
You can see it on my Etsy shop also.
It looks like males will soon be irrelevant to the survival of the human race.




