Stem Cell Method Seen as Success - NYTimes.com
This has got to be the best news I have heard (in the news, that is) in a long time. I hope they can continue to make discoveries in this field….
Yesterday, I stumbled across this article on (of all places) the Onion. Make sure to take a look at the date it was published.
I thought it had to be a joke, it’s the freaking Onion, right? So I did a little digging (actually, it was very little digging thanks to the wayback machine). It appears that either the Onion is in cahoots with the people who are archiving the internet, or that article actually was published some 8 years ago.
Maybe I should start getting more of my news from the Onion.
You all probably know that health insurance (and health related things) are a fairly prominent theme in my life… so when I read commentaries like this one I get seriously freaked out. Krugman is a little over the top at times on the “political scale” (perhaps “off the left” would be more accurate than “over the top”). But I think he makes some very interesting points.
I’ve heard this $5,000 vs $12,000 thing before and I am pretty sure that it is at least semi-accurate. My family policy (which isn’t all that great) costs me nearly $4,000 a year of my own money. That doesn’t include anything that the company might be contributing in addition. I have a lot of trouble believing that our current government would do a good job managing health care, but I am fairly certain that it would be better than if we cut all the strings entirely.
So I have had my bike for a month (and I have yet to post any pictures). I’m still riding to work everyday. Actually, I’ve only missed one day and that was because I woke up late. The funny thing is… I imagine it took me as long to get to work in my car as it would have if I had taken my bike.
My legs don’t hurt so much anymore. The tops of my thighs are still a little tight sometimes, but it’s pretty reasonable. The problem with my backside hurting has essentially gone away. Either I’m getting better at avoiding the big bumps or my butt is getting more tolerant (probably a combination of both). All in all I would recommend to anyone that, if they can, they should give a bike a try. I feel healthier, we’re saving money on gas, and what the heck… maybe I’ll do my part to help “save the planet”.
Now to just see how my body handles the weather as we start to head into fall and cooler temperatures.
I was working on a project today at work and I stumbled onto a problem. I was displaying the “total size” of a bunch of files. The problem I ran into wasn’t very difficult (I was simply adding Kilobytes and Bytes), but it did bring up a somewhat interesting question. How many bytes are in a kilobyte. I knew it was either 1000 or 1024, but I wasn’t sure. A simple google search yielded the following interesting read:
§ 84. How many bytes does a kilobyte contain?
It just reminds me of a couple things… 1) computer people are silly people at times and 2) I really ought to read Through the Looking-Glass
So I logged on to my computer here this morning and what did I find… nearly 100 spam messages in my gmail inbox. Usually gmail is pretty good about filtering out spam (I get a couple hundred a day normally, they just don’t usually make it to my inbox). All of the them were sent to cool-stu.com accounts (not my gmail account). So I am turning off my auto-forwarder for a little while. All that means is, if you are sending mail to anything@cool-stu.com, I won’t get it. Send it to my gmail instead.
I was flipping through my feed reader and stumbled across this story:
I also found this link which backed up the story.
That’s just insane. I suppose it puts some perspective on McDonald’s dollar menu.
So I went riding a couple times over the weekend. Nothing very far or difficult (just a couple miles down the Jordan River Parkway). I live just a block or two from one of the entrances, so it is pretty convenient to hop on my bike and go. More importantly, my body doesn’t really like to sleep in (against the wishes of my head at times). So when I wake up at 6-6:30 on Saturday morning my choices are get on the computer and play some video games, or go out and ride. This weekend I chose to ride.
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