Highly recommended: http://xkcd.com/

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Slept like heck Friday night. Up too early but instead of going for a walk, I checked e-mail, drank decaf and chatted with some folks hanging around. The walk might have been the better choice. The talk was nice but I could have used the energy generated by walking. At 7a, I attended the morning [...]

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Nothing especially important happened today, except that on Monday evening, I was too tired to write. Therefore, here’s some history from Wikipedia, so don’t believe any of it: Events 1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1250 – The Seventh Crusade is [...]

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I use Google Mail. It’s the best web e-mail client I’ve used. I could do without the ads but sometimes they’re fun. Recently I received an ad for bariatric surgery. I clicked on the link and was delivered to a website that included a free-standing video of a well dressed man with a Mexican accent [...]

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Trust: The right of decision, based on trust, makes effective leadership possible. How important is trust and how hard was it for me to extend this to others or even myself? When I was in my disease, I didn’t trust myself to make good choices and I didn’t trust you to do what you said [...]

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I use Google for lots of stuff including my iGoogle home page. That page includes daily WikiHow articles. Today, they had an article I wish I’d seen some years ago: How to Know Your’re Hungry (and Avoid Eating When You’re Not). I particularly enjoyed this tip: Are you really hungry or just bored? At times, [...]

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The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility to do so, they often don’t know what to say. The vast majority of doctors have little or no training in weight management [...]

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LAS VEGAS – The head of Sony Pictures suggested Monday that movie theaters offer healthier snacks to help fight obesity and give audiences a broader range of food choices. I remember the first movie I went to abstinently. It was one of the Harry Potter movies. Maybe the first one. I shared about it at a [...]

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Father: (knocking on bathroom door, two teenage girls inside) I gotta go soon please. Daughter: (from shower): Number 1 or number 2? Father: Number 1 Daughter: Can’t you just go outside? Father: No. Welcome to my world.  Still waiting.

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See, still room for improvement.

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