Since it's a robocam, would the 6th amendment be applicable?

 to be confronted with the witnesses against him;

I started the low-carb diet again last Wednesday, after seeing photos of myself from the F2F... lost four pounds already. Hil, your intensely veggie diet would leave me sick at my stomach. I always find it interesting how people's reactions to food differ. Humans - not all the same. Weird.

Fanfic warnings: I wrote a Sentinel fanfic after the end of... whatever season ended with Blair's faux death. People wrote to me saying they liked what they read, but refused to finish it because they couldn't handle Blair dying. I couldn't stand people not reading my Special Snowflake, so I put a not-warning in the header: No character death! It didn't bother me to do that - the story wasn't about him not dying, it was about how and why he didn't die.

I don't quite get why a writer would rather upset, piss off, and drive away her readers than reassure them that some awful thing doesn't happen, or warn them that in this fic the awful thing does happen. Isn't the point of writing and putting it out there to get people reading it? If someone gets burned by one of your (generic you) fics, they aren't likely to read any more of them. You want your reader's trust. They've got to be willing to go where you're taking them. You can pull the rug out from under them and spin them around, but if you stab them in the gut, they won't be back.

I started the low-carb diet again last Wednesday, after seeing photos of myself from the F2F... lost four pounds already. Hil, your intensely veggie diet would leave me sick at my stomach. I always find it interesting how people's reactions to food differ. Humans - not all the same. Weird.

Low-carb generally makes me feel sick. I've done South Beach and done OK on it, but wasn't able to sustain the weight loss. The one I'm trying now is Eat To Live. The basic focus is to try to eat foods that have the most vitamins and nutrients per calorie, which means lots of vegetables and fruit. Also practically no added sugar to anything, and very low fat. The way it's described, the only fats come from nuts and seeds and avocado and other stuff like that -- no oil at all. I think I'm going to keep on using oil for things like stir-fries, and just trying to use as little as possible, because I really just have no idea how to cook without any oil at all.

Also, in the recipes at the back of the book, he uses canned pineapple to give an "Asian" flavor to like half the recipes. I'm allergic to pineapple. I've got plenty of recipes that I like that fit into the guidelines here, though, so I'll just stick with those. Lentil soup, stir fry, chili, salads (lots of salads), vegetable curries, and so on.

A few of the statements in this book kind of made me raise an eyebrow a bit, but I've never yet encountered a diet book that didn't have at least a few things that seemed weird that I just ignored. (Like the part where he says that if your skin turns yellow from eating too many carrots and sweet potatoes, that's actually a good thing, and it's the people with non-yellow skin who are unhealthy. Um, no thanks.) But the basics of the plan seem good, so I'm just not following it quite to the letter.

your skin turns yellow from eating too many carrots and sweet potatoes

Wasn't that an episode of House?

A few of the statements in this book kind of made me raise an eyebrow a bit, but I've never yet encountered a diet book that didn't have at least a few things that seemed weird that I just ignored.

I'd kill to have that kind of slop factor in my diets. I can frell myself out of the achieving half the promised results by such seemingly insignificant errors as not scraping off all the minced yellow onions (less than a teaspoon, and the plan specified that only red onions were allowed, yellow were forbidden) from an otherwise on-plan meal. I mean, who knew yellow onions were so evil? Did that twice in one month, and I might as well eat three big muffins every day for all the weight I can expect to lose. Bitter much? Nah... not me.

We finally got internet - only six weeks after moving in. Customer service - when did it get so *bad*? Gah. But, yay for internet. Just in time for me to head back to uni. Heh.

Have only skimmed thread due to missing 1000 posts. Hope everyone doing well. I got a distinction on my first module result (which is based on the paper I was losing the plot over last month) - still waiting for the second result, but this bodes well for my PhD plans. We are planning both a 'wedding' and a blessing. Turns out this is complicated and tricky. Who knew? Kristin, best of luck with your venue planning!

It's a nerve-wracking enough situation when the relationship conforms to expected norms; when you step outside that box, be it cultural or societal or whatever, it just adds to the stress-factor. I remember being petrified at meeting Lewis' family because they were Jewish and I wasn't and had no intention of converting, nor did he want/expect me to. Worked out okay in the end, but it was initially rather scary for me.

Yup - the cultural difference thing is interesting. I think it helps that I'm Anglo-Irish, and used to some culture clash. It will help even more if I can learn Hebrew, but dear Lord that's a difficult language. I took a class and gave up as the letters were just impossible with my dyslexia. I plan to try again with a private tutor! Thanks for your advice and experience. Nice to know others have been in this situation.

I started the low-carb diet again last Wednesday, after seeing photos of myself from the F2F... lost four pounds already.

I'm on that diet at the moment. It is truly the only one that works for me. I lost four pounds and promptly put two back on, but it's a start.

The only diet that's had lasting success for me is the Weight Watchers plan. Quite simply, I think it's the measuring/looking up the calorie content/writing stuff down that keeps me on track. I can live with that kind or restriction. As in, I think I could keep that up indefinitely.

What I don't take too so well is having the types of food I can have restricted.

Right now, my big problem is getting my exercise back on track after being sidelined with the neuroma and the fibro flareup from hell.

I mean, who knew yellow onions were so evil? Did that twice in one month, and I might as well eat three big muffins every day for all the weight I can expect to lose.

What makes yellow onions so bad? (I have virtually no onion knowledge, since I try to avoid all of them.)

Priceline, baybee! Or, you know, stay with friends. But Priceline should get you under $100.

I've never used Priceline. Reviews please.

Welcome back, Seska. hugs internets - can't live without

DH is on low carb again. I should try it again. After being so thin for many decades I seem to now fail at finding a way to diet successfully. In my case it is a combo of eating too much, not exercising enough, being 55 and well past menopause. Stupid uncooperative body. Want to eat pizza and sit with my laptop and stay thin.