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But not today. Today is just awesomeness like all the rest.

Good lord. The internet really is a phenomenal waste of time.

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Have you heard of this phenomenon of getting RickRoll’D?

Here’s the play: you get a link to a video saying it’s something or the other, cute puppies, or your brother falling off the roof or something equally funny. It might come in an email or an online forum or blog comments or whatever. But instead of being a video of what was advertised, you get this, and now you’ve got that song stuck in your head all day.

Not very nice. But kind of funny if you’re on the right end of it.

I have this bad habit recently of leaving Safari windows open to sites with interesting things I want to blog about. And then inevitably for some reason I have to shut down Safari or restart the computer, and I forget to save the pages and it is all gone.

Damn infernal bewitched machine!

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

-Michael Pollan

This guy is a fantastic journalist. He has a remarkable ability to take ridiculous technical information and boil it down to basic advice. I think the advice to shop around the outside of the grocery store (because all of the more processed and less nutritional foods are in the aisles, while the fresh produce and meats tend to be at the perimeter) can be sourced to him. If you haven’t read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, you should.

“Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.”

-Oscar Wilde

Thanks.