I had a whole section about civic pride.

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Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Zenkitty - Jan 20, 2016 12:18:23 pm PST #13806 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Keep his feet warm! Drink coffee!

according to my mom, drinking coffee cured gout. but mom drank a lot of coffee and never got sick (except for when she was dying) so theoretically she could say drinking coffee cured almost anything and it would be hard to prove she was wrong. worth pointing out she smoked all her life and did not ever have lung problems. possibly because she gave them to ME but never mind that now

Fingers crossed for gout, is what I'm saying. Because RA sucks.

Largely, though, my focus is on activity, because that's what research shows improves/maintains health a great deal, independent of weight.

If there's a magic bullet, it's exercise.

What's your blood type, Steph? Do you know? I ask for an informal "study" I've been doing for a few years.


Steph L. - Jan 20, 2016 12:40:56 pm PST #13807 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

What's your blood type, Steph? Do you know? I ask for an informal "study" I've been doing for a few years.

A+ (which I make sure to say as "A plus, baby!").


Zenkitty - Jan 20, 2016 1:01:11 pm PST #13808 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

You are skewing my data. I shall therefore ignore you.


Scrappy - Jan 20, 2016 1:01:50 pm PST #13809 of 30003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

My skinny non-drinking mom got gout a few years ago. It lead to a lot of jokes along the lines of "Mayhap you quaffed too much port to have thus afflicted your limb" to her. Needless to say, those jokes were from me.


Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2016 1:02:53 pm PST #13810 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

You are skewing my data. I shall therefore ignore you.

When you submit the paper to Steph for publication, she's going to be pissed when you don't give her all the data.


Hil R. - Jan 20, 2016 1:05:31 pm PST #13811 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Awesome, thanks! The Van's website claims they have them at my local supermarket, so that's perfect. I also just found a simple recipe, so I'll see what I feel like closer to game time. (And how likely it is that the one vegan actually comes.... she's a solid maybe for baby reasons.)

I just checked -- the Van's Organic waffles are the ones that are vegan. I've also got a waffle recipe that I really like, but it's not too simple -- they're yeasted, so you've got to make the batter the night before and then let it sit. (Which I actually like, because I am so not awake enough to measure ingredients in the morning before I eat.)


Sue - Jan 20, 2016 1:06:07 pm PST #13812 of 30003
hip deep in pie

You are skewing my data. I shall therefore ignore you.

It's her cat DNA.


-t - Jan 20, 2016 1:07:20 pm PST #13813 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

What's your hypothesis, Zen? I'm curious now.

Also, didn't I read recently that having too precise a correlation in test results was a sign of systematic error? Which is to say, if you include Tep you might actually be more convincing.


EpicTangent - Jan 20, 2016 1:16:52 pm PST #13814 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Also, didn't I read recently that having too precise a correlation in test results was a sign of systematic error? Which is to say, if you include Tep you might actually be more convincing.

The exception proves the rule?

What's your hypothesis, Zen? I'm curious now.

Me too, esp since I only recently found out my blood type, so I wanna contribute!


Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2016 1:17:20 pm PST #13815 of 30003
brillig

I was part of a survey for the radio station I worked on in college. We got random numbers that may or may not have been phone numbers, and we called around the local area to see if anyone was listening to us. Most of the people didn't even know who we were. After an hour of calling rural Pennsylvania farmers and small townsfolk with no good responses, I fell to evil and falsified the next fifty responses. I had most of the people following the trend of not knowing who we were, with a few people who listened, then I threw in some outliers like the grandma who adored progressive rock and the teenager who was big into classical music.

At the followup meeting, another girl was chewed out for falsifying the data, but she'd made all her surveys identical. IE, make your data interesting.