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Commenter brilliance – Arwen edition.
I’m not sure if you all know, but the comments section here is often the best part of this whole ice-cream social. Up till now, I’ve just been too lazy to pick out some of the gems for you, but I’m going to start. There are too many hilarious, touching, and/or informative vignettes to let…
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Diet Pop Culture – Choice Quotes from Diet Paperbacks
I have a sort of unofficial hobby of collecting diet paperbacks — something about them fascinates me in the same way I am fascinated by infomercials. Not only are they often unintentionally hilarious, but they have a certain formula and flavour that promises to reveal something about how marketing, emotion, and motivation interact. So I’ve…
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A couple of links for my poor little neglected blog.
We’re getting ready to move, so that partially explains my absence. We’re also in the midst of renovation hell at my current building, which means we’ve been without heat (during a freak cold snap), without laundry facilities, without hot water, and sometimes without any water. And the electricity in one half of my apartment randomly…
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Site will be offline…
…sometime today for a server upgrade. Expected to last an hour-ish, but you know how these things can go. Just FYI.
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“Worthless” foods.
This has become a theme among so many of my clients right now, that I was going to write a really long, involved post about this, but really…I’m exhausted. So I’m just going to do this instead: ALL FOOD CONTAINS NUTRIENTS. NUTRIENTS ARE GOOD FOR YOU. NO, REALLY. I’M SERIOUS. Thanks for playing. Hug it…
Got any book recommendations?