Month: July 2004

Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal with banana slices, a glass of orange juice, and a cup of coffee. I weighed 158 pounds.

I had a meeting in the Telecommunications Building this morning. The weather was nice, so I walked — about three miles, round trip.

I walked over to the HUB at lunch with some of the guys from the office — also about three miles, round trip — and had Panda Express orange chicken with mixed vegetables on chow mein noodles and a fortune cookie.

Avoid

taking unnecessary gambles.

Lucky Numbers 12, 14, 17, 20, 28, 36

On the way back we walked by the Penn State Creamery so I went in and got an orange vanilla sundae cone.

For dinner, Gretchen made lo mein, and I washed it down with two bottles of Saranac Pale Ale.

Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal with banana slices, a glass of orange juice, and a cup of coffee. I weighed 158 pounds. Yes, I gained three pounds in four days on my trip. I guess that is what eating like a pig (oink!) will get you.

At the office I had another two cups of coffee.

Over lunch I walked over to the HUB and had Panda Express Sushi — four California rolls and three Inari — and a green tea boba.

Dinner was a sautéed onion and mushroom pizza, a Caesar salad, and two bottles of Saranac Pale Ale.

Clickable Link Backgrounds

Is there any harm in documenting a seemingly rudimentary and obvious CSS technique? I tend to think not, and so the following may (or may not) turn out to be enlightening for you, depending on the level of your CSS-ness.

The Goal

A bulletproof unordered list of links, each with a unique (purely decorative) left-aligned icon that is referenced with CSS — but that is also clickable.

Ask the pilot

Can we stop bombs in our baggage? And, how do pilots amuse themselves at 30,000 feet?

Don’t Focus on Statins Alone

Tougher federal guidelines for blood cholesterol levels could lead millions more Americans to take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. But whether your cholesterol is already too high or you just want to keep it from rising, experts say food and fitness remain key allies in defending against heart disease and stroke.

U.S.D.A.’s Testing Problem

In the past seven months — ever since a case of mad-cow disease was discovered in Washington State — the United States Department of Agriculture has been working hard to reduce the risk of the disease spreading. It is slowly introducing restrictions on how the most susceptible bovine tissues can be used, and it has found money to begin developing a national animal-identification system. But there are still gaps in the department’s efforts to guarantee a safe meat supply. One is chronological. America squandered a decade in which it could have been absorbing the lessons learned from the British mad-cow crisis. The other critical failing is the U.S.D.A.’s testing program itself.

Seeking a Fuller Picture of Statins

Among cardiologists, it has become a running joke: maybe the powerful drugs known as statins should be added to the water supply. Not only do statins greatly reduce cholesterol and lower mortality in people at risk for heart attacks, but some studies also suggest that they might help to prevent or treat a wide range of ailments, including Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, bone fractures, some types of cancer, macular degeneration and glaucoma…

Yet some experts say statins are more complex than their status as the latest wonder drugs suggests. Like all drugs, they can have side effects that are in some cases potentially serious.

Homemade Spice Blends and Mixes Recipes and Information

Humans have been using spices almost as long as they’ve been eating. Just as classic recipes evolved, so did spice blends. By making your own mixes, you can adjust flavors to suit your personal needs. From curry powders to dessert mixes, I’ve selected many recipes for spice blends you can mix up at home.

Spinach salad with walnut sauce

Hosenso Kurumi-ae

(spinach salad with walnut sauce)

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch Fresh Spinach
• ½ cup Walnuts
• 2 tablespoons Soy Sauce

How to Cook:

Wash spinach and boil for a few min. Drain and squeeze spinach and remove the excess water very well. Cut spinach into 2 inch lengths. Grind walnuts well and add soy sauce. Mix the sauce and spinach together.

Makes 4 servings.

Enjoy the steak, but try to make fat grams rare

Having a good steak is not just about eating. It’s about indulgence — stuffing yourself until you can’t eat any more. And while steakhouses are not exactly known for serving up “health” food, there are a few tricks that can help you navigate the menu.

How Long

Find how long in years and days between today and any date past or future. How long since Elvis died? How long till Christmas? Will not accept invalid dates such as February 30. Assumes the usual Gregorian calendar in common use. IE only.

JavaScript Central

This is the place for documentation and references about the JavaScript programming language. This section is dedicated to the language itself, however you will also find pointers to other centrals where JavaScript is in use in combination with other technologies.

Counting Carbs

One in six U.S. households includes a low-carbohydrate dieter, according to an ACNielsen poll conducted earlier this year. Until last October, Jody Gorran of Delray Beach, Fla., was among them. Despite having followed a sensible, low-fat diet most of his life, Gorran says that by his 50s, “middle-age spread” was developing. So, he decided to try a new diet. Picking up a book by Robert Atkins, Gorran embraced the low-carb lifestyle and avoided foods containing sugars and starches. For 2½ years, he says, he lost weight, felt great, and bragged about his diet to anyone who would listen.

That was until Gorran experienced chest pain last fall, and an X-ray scan of his heart showed 99 percent blockage in a coronary artery that had been clear a few months before he started on the Atkins diet. Gorran underwent balloon angioplasty to clear the artery, and then on May 26, he filed suit against the Atkins company and Atkins’ estate. The Atkins diet “gave me heart disease,” he claims.

Americans Abandoning Low-Carb Diets

More than half of all U.S. consumers that have tried following diets that eschew carbs such as bread and sugar have given up, a survey released on Wednesday found, and interest in the popular regimens appears to have plateaued.

According to research firm InsightExpress, which conducted the survey online, fewer than 10 percent of Americans are currently on popular low-carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins, South Beach and The Zone.

In contrast, a survey conducted in December of last year by Opinion Dynamics Corporation found that, at the time, 11 percent of Americans were on low-carb diets.

The latest InsightExpress poll of 500 Americans also found that of survey participants who were not following low-carb diets, fewer than one in five would consider buying a low-carb product because they perceive a diet low in carbs to be unhealthy.

Make Your Own Juice Popsicles

Is there nothing better than an ice-cold popsicle on a sweltering summer day? No need to wait for the icecream man’s truck to make a pass through your neighborhood. It is easy to make your own popsicles. Cheaper too. You can make them with juice on hand for a healthier treat than the standard commercial popsicle.

Quick Nutritious Healthy Recipes Menus

What makes a recipe healthy? I’ve been looking through cookbooks and on the internet, trying to pull together my definition of healthy foods. To me, healthy eating means consuming a wide variety of whole foods, eating lots of fruits and vegetables, limiting fat and sodium intake, trying to exceed the minimium Daily Value (DV) vitamin and mineral recommendations set by the USDA.

Because my education is grounded in science, I’m sticking with the American Dietetic Association’s stance that eating based on the USDA Food Pyramid is still the healthiest plan.

Food pyramid not to blame for obesity

Despite the recent backlash against the government-issued food pyramid, this nutritional tool is not responsible for causing the current obesity epidemic in the U.S., according to researchers.

Recently, some experts have said that the pyramid oversimplifies the food groups and stresses such food as bread and pasta at the expense of more proteins and unsaturated fats. This heavy reliance on carbohydrates and fear of all fats has left the nation seriously overweight, they argue.

However, in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Dr Jeanne P. Goldberg and her colleagues note that most Americans do not follow the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) food guide pyramid, so it cannot be blamed for the average adult’s excess pounds. “I only wish the pyramid were powerful enough to have an influence on the American diet,” Goldberg told Reuters Health. “Because if it did, we would be eating extremely well.”

The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. This new edition includes 150 new full color illustrations and a special section in which John Seymour the father of the back to basics movement explains the philosophy of self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. More relevant than ever in our high-tech world, The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.

Krispy Kreme introduces glazed doughnut frozen beverage

The chain introduced a new line of frozen drinks Wednesday, including frozen original kreme — a drinkable version of the company’s signature doughnut…

Breakfast was a bowl of Kellogg’s Raisin Bran, a yogurt parfait, a serving of orange juice, and a coke.

On the way home we stopped at Arby’s for lunch. I had a number 4 combination — a Super Roast Beef Sandwich, curly fries, and a Coke.

For dinner, Gretchen made zucchini pancakes that we washed down with two bottles of Saranac Pale Ale.

Breakfast was two pancakes, a bowl of rice crispies, two 12 ounce bottles of orange juice, some fruit — two slices of cantaloupe, two slices of honeydew mellon, and two slices of pineapple — and two cups of coffee.

Lunch was a Caesar salad and two Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats.

For dinner, we walked back down to the brewery district and went to Barley’s Brewing Company. I had a rack of Jamaican Jerk Ribs, two glasses of their Pale Ale, a glass of their ESB, and a taste of their Russian Imperial Stout. I would say that all three were better than the Columbus Brewing Company’s beers we had at the cafe the other night.

Breakfast was a bowl of Kellogg’s Raisin Bran (1⅜ oz) with 2% Milk (8 oz), a Dannon Mixed Berries Yogurt (6 oz), a Minute Maid Orange Juice (4 oz), a slice of quiche, a cheese danish, and a cup of coffee.

We just had a morning break and I had a Columbo blueberry yogurt (8 oz).

Lunch was a turkey sandwich, some macaroni salad, some potato salad, and a can of Sprite.

We just had another break and I had a can of Coke.

In case you have not guessed yet, a conference is an excuse to eat like a pig. Oink!

Yet another break and more food. I had a bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and a maraschino cherry.

We walked to the Cap City Diner for dinner — about three miles each way — where I had a knife and fork chili dog and two glasses of Columbus Brewing Company Pale Ale.

Breakfast was a bowl of scrambled eggs, three slices of toasted Italian bread, a glass of orange juice, two cups of coffee, and a slice of blueberry pie.

I went to the ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop at Ohio State today. I will be here until Wednesday. I drove out with three other guys from the office and we stopped at Wendy’s for lunch. I had a large chili with cheese, a small French fries, and a small Coke (total 680 calories, 160 from fat).

After the I2JT sessions, I went and worked out in the Hotel Fitness Center. After that, we went down to the brewery district and went to The Claddagh Irish Pub (seriously broken Web site) on 585 South Front Street. I had a bowl of their seafood chowder, and the largest plate of shepherd’s pie I have ever seen. There must have been a pound of ground meat in it. I only managed to eat about two-thirds of it. I also had a 10 ounce glass of Smithwick’s and half of another 10 ounce glass of Fuller’s ESB. They were both really tasty, I would have finished the Fuller’s, but I was so stuffed from the shephers’s pie that I could not find room for it.

This guy oversees the brewery district.

This sign hangs over the door to the pub we visited.

After today’s I2JT sessions I went to work out in the fitness center at the Holiday Inn we are staying at. They had a quite nice, all-in-one exercise machine that included a surprising number of quality exercises. Here is what I did:

1. Treadmill: 5 minutes @ 4 mph (warm-up)
2. Reverse-grip pull down: 12@80, 10@90, 8@100, 4@110, 8@80
3. Shoulder press: 12@50, 10@60, 8@70, 6@80, 12@50
4. Compound Row: 12@50, 10@60, 8@70, 6@80, 12@50
5. Pec Fly: 12@60, 10@70, 8@80, 12@90

Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal with banana slices, a slice of focaccia, and two cups of coffee. I weighed 157 pounds.

Today was a work day at the CSA. We harvested garlic — 1,100 bulbs worth. For lunch we had a garden salad, zucchini parmesan, corkscrew pasta with pesto, green beans with roasted red pepper vinaigrette, and blueberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream. When we got home, Gretchen and I had a bottle of Saranac Pale Ale.

The cobbler was so good that we bought blueberries to make a pie.

Gretchen made lo mein for dinner using red cabbage and sweet red onions from the CSA. For dessert we had a slice of the blueberry pie. We washed it down with a glass of Bella Sera Pinot Grigio.