Pete-isms

Slightly exaggerated minds think alike.

Stupid Pete Problem #17
It's 1:30 and wonder where my cleaning lady is. She is never this late. Never. I always get a text.

DERP
Wrong week, she is coming next week.

DERP

words

ab·sti·nence - the fact or practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something

On my way to losing weight - Insane unexpected life changes

So ... I lost a bunch of weight by going on a low carb diet.  My only goal was to lose weight.
I expected that this would improve health measures. BP, glucose, cholesterol, happier knees, etc.  What I didn't expect was all the other odd changes.

1) Walking - what the fuck - my pace increased. I wasn't walking faster to try and lose weight, I just started walking faster, naturally. And am annoyed by slow walkers.  More energy I guess.

2) Dandruff - lolwut?!  I went from leaving dandruff everywhere; back of the couch, my shirts and jackets, everywhere; to wait, what, where did it go. I still use prescription dandruff shampoo, but mostly because meh, I already have it and like it. lolwut?!

3) GERD - I used to live on Prilosec.  I used to have to sleep on my left side only.  If I rolled over to the right, 100% chance that I would wake up. UNHAPPY.  I long since stopped taking it.  Still have to go sleep on my left, but, I no longer wake up in the middle of the night from events.

4) Energy - HAHAHAHAAHAH - Seriously. Nothing like eating steak and eggs, losing weight, and having energy.

5) Knees - since switching, my knees stopped hurting.  This wasnt from losing the weight. Nope.  When I "cheat" now and have carbs, TADA, my knees hurt. LOLOLOL

6) Beer - Dammit.  I used to love beer.  All kinds of beer.  Now I can pretty much only drink IPAs.  Your taste buds change??

7) Food

8) Sugar Addiction - everything is way too sweet now. YAY.  But do not discount the REAL effect of carb addiction.  Quitting carbs is like quitting anything else.  You will have headaches!! You will crave and suffer.  Suck it up nancy.

9) Jealousy - hahahaahahaha Seriously.  Other fatties will hate you. Or join you and love you forever.  My best friend talked his wife into doing this with him. "It will make it easier for me."  Together they are down over 100 lbs and falling. And healthier!!

10) Cholesterol is better than before the diet.

11) BP meds are cut in half. Working on the next half.

12) Glucose is completely out of the "pre-diabetic zone".

13) the list goes on and on

Don't Diet - Change Your Diet

1. http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259
   Shut up, buy this book, NOW.  Seriously interesting science book.  Not a diet book.  Not selling anything.  Just Facts.  You know. Science and Stuff.
1. Do you know how diabetes used to be treated before modern medicine started using drugs to treat it? Why not?
2. Do you know that almost everything that you think that you know about diet and nutrition is false?
   
2. Do not go on a diet, change your diet.
   
3. If you are trying to lose less than 5% or less, of your current weight, 5lbs out of 100, piss off.
   
4. You didnt gain the weight in one week, you wont lose the weight in one week.
   
5. What ever you have done so far doesnt work. Stop doing it.
   
6. Until you have reached your target, there is no such thing as a cheat day, or cheat weekend.  Grow the fuck up already.
   
7. WHI (in the book) - End result of years of data? Women lost weight, but gained inches.
   
8. Stanford A to Z Study (in the book) - Guess which study won? And won on multiple measures:
1. weight lost
2. ease of diet
3. improved blood numbers
4. AKA the best diet
   
9. No one cares what works for you.  That is AWESOME.  The rest of us are not you.  Seriously, if what you did worked for everyone, that everyone would do it. Piss off.
   
10. Hypothyroid, esp if you have Hashimoto's - You are almost certainly being under-dosed because the doctors are worried about bone density (and other hyperthyroid issues).  Get your actual numbers.  Talk to a specialist.  One that treats your gender, including weight issues, and gets it.  If you have no energy, weight problems, and hashimoto's; you are being under-treated. Period.
    
11. Fraudulent Study - the FDA recommendations from the 1980s were based (at least in part), on a multi-country study, that was fraud.  What else would you call a study that excluded countries that didnt fit the desired results? Yup. Fraud.  And 35 years later we are starting to come around??? sigh
    
12. Wear a belt - cinch it tight.  So you are uncomfortable? Good. Stop wearing nice comfortable sweat pants. HAHAHA How else did we get fat in the first place?!
    
13. Estrogen aka Hell for Women - Estrogen and fat absorption are inversely related.  Lower E, leads to increased fat storage.  (re Wade - in the book)
    
14. Vegetarian - Vegan - Sorry, did you want to lose weight or belong to a religion?  Sure you can "blah blah blah blah".  If your diet was so awesome, than you wouldnt be fat.
    
15. OWN IT - you got fat. OWN IT. SHOUT IT OUT.  Tell people.
    
16. Fitbit etc - anything that can track data for you automatically is AWESOME.
    
17. Doctors - have they helped you so far?  Are they stuck in the "we would have to admit that we were WRONG" trap?  Dietitians? HAHAHAHAH Can we at least admit that what they are selling is not based on science?!
    
18. Most of the current FDA recommendations are not actually based on any science.  I call that a religion.  All myth, no facts.
    

option 4

Who knew that GOP 2016 would be even more amusing than GOP 2012?
Seriously. A rational party would have taken steps to prevent a repeat of the 2012 primary from happening.
Looks like all of their steps have lead to ... an even more entertaining version of 2012.

Option 1) kick Trump from the GOP party.  Trump runs as an independent.

Option 2) hope Trump burns himself out by opening his mouth.  Trump is gaining in the polls by being a bigot.

Option 3) attack Trump in a concerted effort. Trump has gained sympathy and increased support.

Option 4) convince all but the most moderate candidates to drop out, rally behind him and hope Trump goes away. 

Eyup
Option 4 is pretty much their only option and there is no way it will happen.

the ice age is coming

RagnarDanesk: You do understand that though out history the climate has changed, no one debates this, in fact only the left seems to try and argue that its always been exactly the same until we invented the internal combustion engine. We have proof that the Vikings once lived and grew grapes for wine in northern Canada so clearly the climate changes. That does not mean its caused by man.

all stats are about cherry picking your data

you can craft different stories depending on where you start and where you stop

BUT CO2 is up during the recent period.
And the ocean is more acidic during this same period, so the ocean is in agreement.

 

LONGER period
 

LONGER ....
 

What's missing in all these graphics, is ... whenever the Co2 spiked this high, we got another ice-age right after.
We are JUST in latest short local period of warming.  There will be ice again!! :D

1) did we cause it? doesnt matter. it is real, it is here now, it is getting higher. (yes of course we caused SOME of it. all of it? no. most of it? probably)
2) can we fix it by changes just in the US? hahaha no ... India and China are adding more Co2 per year, than the rest of the world are cutting. Slowing the acceleration wont help at all.

3) can we fix it with tech? hahaha we have all kinds of SCIFI ideas: iron in the ocean to bloom algae, sulfur in the atmosphere to make clouds. so we could fuck with the thermostat if we want.

4) will species go extinct? lol of course. like they always have and always will. are we forcing some early extinctions? duh of course. nothing new.

5) will humans suffer? yes. um ... the same humans who are most likely to suffer the most are suffering NOW from other problems, but we are doing NOTHING. Why should we do something because of CLIMATE but not for those other reasons? derp.

so yah, I'll be dead soon enough. everyone will be dead soon enough.

planet will go back to doing what it always does ... up and down, back and forth

anthropocentric fool

...

anthropocentric - I am the center of the universe

geocentric - the Earth is the center of the universe

heliocentric - the Sun is the center of the universe

reality - we are so far the center that the concept has no meaning

1) there are an infinite number of planets (close enough to make no difference) (no really) (figure ~10^21 stars in observable universe, figure ~10^22 planets - close enough to infinite)

2) the idea that the earth is the ONLY planet in the universe with life is so laughable that only an anthropocentric fool would even pretend that it must be the case

3) the only intelligent life - same story - apologies to fermi and his paradox, but yawn. we can assume that intelligence is a function of time. we already have a number of animals that we know are pretty damn "close". the idea that we are the only ones? see anthropocentric fool

but tell me again how your god, out of the millions of gods that humans have worshipped over the last 100,000 years is the only one

do you even have a clue what money is?

I always cracked up when the show would go as follows:
1) federation has evolved beyond the need of money
2) crew is playing poker

it is impossible (completely uninteresting) to play poker with using a token of value. Call it MONEY.

That token could be a chit for exchange of services. You take my watch. Clean my room. Any service.

This is the definition of money. It is the value of our time.

The idea that the federation didnt have money was "stupid".

2016 GOP prediction #001 - 2015 08 02 - because I am an idiot.

But seriously ... do you think that 2016 will be a repeat of 2012 for the GOP? Front runner of the month, implosion, rinse and repeat?

My current .... guess ... is that Trump will stay in for the first 4 primaries. Those primaries SHOULD cull the numbers down to .... 3-5 contenders which oust Trump by super tuesday.

Frak, I should write this down to see how close I come.