The main goal of MarsEdit 1.1 is to handle the most common bug reports and feature requests.
Site Updates…
No! Not this one. AltonBrown.com! I don’t know if you’ve noticed yet, but Alton has a new site design and…
“Pretty soon there will be a darned clever podcast, video, all sorts of goodies for the eyes and brain alike.”
I’m psyched! 
touch everybody-eats.blog
I thought I would make sure that I had at least one post per month. I know I haven’t been saying much lately, but there are reasons… that I may explain at some point. 
Some Extra Heft May Be Helpful
People who are overweight but not obese have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight, federal researchers are reporting today.
The researchers — statisticians and epidemiologists from the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — also found that increased risk of death from obesity was seen for the most part in the extremely obese, a group constituting only 8 percent of Americans.
Does lycopene reduce the risk of prostate cancer?
Men who eat plenty of tomato products, especially tomato sauce-laden foods, have a lower risk of prostate cancer. Why? So far, the search for the tomato’s “active ingredient” has homed in on lycopene, the molecule that gives tomatoes their red color. “Lycopene accumulates in the prostate. That’s its favorite place to hang out,” explained Holly Hantz, an undergraduate who is doing research on lycopene’s effects. In one of the few cases of processed foods trumping fresh-picked, research suggests that cooking tomatoes, even briefly, releases the lycopene and makes it easier for the body to absorb.
Probing Question: Does lycopene reduce the risk of prostate cancer?
Bloggers Pitch Fits Over Glitches
Somehow I didn’t think it was just me.
Does Google want to incur the wrath of the blogosphere?
It’s a utility. It had better keep the lights on. Or else.
Still Here
Yes. I am still here. Many events have been conspiring to keep me from posting. Not the lease of which was an inability to load anything from blogger.com. After some correspondence with support@blogger.com, clearing of cache, and deleting of blogger.com cookies I was able to get going again.
Last time I posted I was talking about starting my vegetable garden plants indoors. There was progress after that.
This is what they looked like after three days…
…and after eight days…
…and after fourteen days.
Starting Garden Plants From Seed
Gretchen and I have decided to try starting our vegetable garden plants from seed this year. We borrowed some grow lights from Gretchen’s Dad and bought some trays, seeds, and planting mix.
We started out by moistening the planting mix. We just used an old (cleaned out) soda bottle as a watering can.
We filled up all the little partitions in our planting tray without compressing the soil too much.
We used a pen with a little piece of masking tape on it to make holes of the desired depth for each type of seed.
These are Leek seeds. They’re pretty small, but ended up being just about the largest seeds we started.
With seeds that small you have to be careful about how many you plant in each hole. For the most part, we planted more than one seed per hole. We’ll come back and prune later, leaving just the healthiest plant.
Since they just look like dirt until the sprout — and even then aren’t too easy to distinguish — we made sure to carefully label each of the blocks of seeds.
We went ahead and put the newly planted seeds under the grow light on a timer so they’ll have good light as soon as they come up.
Airport Food
I just got back from a business trip to Salt Lake City, Utah. I did not have a car, so I ate at the hotel most of the time, which was not too interesting. However, I did fly out via the Cincinnati, Ohio airport. It turns out that they have pretty good food selections.
On the way out, I had to have a bowl of Cincinnati 5-way Chili — spaghetti, chili con carne, kidney beans, chopped onions, and grated Cheddar cheese — from Gold Star Chili.
On the way back through I had a Pizza Margherita at the Wolfgang Puck Airport Cafe.
WSJ.com – Herd Instinct
WSJ.com – Herd Instinct: Will Rogers: “If you’re riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there.”