Monthly Archives: February 2009

Week 12 in the Program

Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 310.6 | -6.6 | -57.8 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 112 | 86 It seems I’m back on track. I primarily credit the recalibration of my … Continue reading

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Week 11 in the Program

Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 317.2 | -0.8 | -51.2 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | n/a | n/a Not a terribly uplifting week, not that I expected one. Coming off being … Continue reading

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Week 10 in the Program

Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 318.0 | -0.8 | -50.4 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 112 | 84 Well, this is the week I plateaued. I can feel a little proud … Continue reading

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Strip Polka — another silly Facebook meme

OK, this is another silly Facebook object trouve meme. Let’s see how this turns out. INSTRUCTIONS:: 1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the “next” button to get your answer. 3. YOU … Continue reading

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A Picture Worth 800 Billion Dollars

In case somehow you think all the talk of “an economy in free fall” is somehow just hyperbole: This graphic, printed at Swampland, makes clear: We are already in deep trouble. The current stimulus bill is, in anything, too small. … Continue reading

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Burning Down the House

Listening to the Republican leadership on how to fix the economy is like listening to the arsonist on how to put out the fire. Somehow the debate on the stimulus package has shifted to the Republicans and their criticisms.  Legitimate … Continue reading

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The (non) Importance of Caring

A former student of mine at some point had a facebook status that read, Why should I study something I don’t care about?  Why should teachers teach something they don’t care about? Actually, to be 100% accurate, the student’s status … Continue reading

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Week 9 in the program

The truly observant will notice that somehow I skipped from Week 7 to Week 9. I’m not a time traveler… I had miscounted earlier. *sigh* Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 318.8 | -6.6 | … Continue reading

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25 Things

There is a viral meme going around Facebook about listing 25 random things about yourself. It’s not accurate, since people spend some time crafting the 25 things (so they’re not really random … it’s not like people write 500 things … Continue reading

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Somewhere Beyond the Bitter End

This is another in my intermittent series of posting things I’d written long before, so that they’re out there on the Net. I wrote this one quite some time ago, back when I was in the Bard Writing Workshop that … Continue reading

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