Category: allergies
01/20/09 11:30 - 12ºF - ID#47470
Allergies and Winter
Today, I started to think about the reasons why in Buffalo you would be so allergic to all that is natural, flower, animals, tree, dirt, etc and it hit me. You know how they say that children raised in sterile environments get allergies because their immune systems don't get the chance to properly develop. Well, first of all my mom's house is super clean. However, I was also born during the blizzard of 77 in January. There was no exposure to outdoor stuff until way into may I think. P.S. my birthday is on thrusday and I will be 32.
In general all people in winter climates have no exposure to pollen etc for months on end followed by massive exposure all at once.
Summary: In general, winter provides months of sterile outside. I wonder if that in turn leads to more allergies.
I guess there are some relations between cold month babies and asthma
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
01/20/09 10:05 - 17ºF - ID#47458
Recalling Peanut Butter Clif Bars
I thought they used organic peanut butter, in line with their food philosophy but I guess not.
You can check the date using the guide below
On January 19, 2009, we announced a voluntary recall of certain products including CLIF Bar, CLIF Builder's, CLIF MOJO, CLIF Kid Organic ZBaR and LUNA Bar, in the U.S. and Canada because the peanut butter in those products was sourced, for a limited period of time, from the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). PCA is a manufacturer and supplier of peanut butter for many food companies and manufacturers.
PCA is under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a recent Salmonella outbreak thought to be caused by tainted peanut butter. In light of this investigation, and with an abundance of caution, Clif Bar & Company has enacted a voluntary recall. We take the health and safety of our consumers very seriously.
In the U.S, the following 14 products are included in the recall. Only bars with wrappers that have the following BEST BY or SELL BY codes1 on them, in all sizes and packages, are being recalled:
CLIF BAR Chocolate Chip Peanut Crunch
BEST BY/SELL BY:
21JUN09 to 01OCT09 and
03NOV09 to 28NOV09
CLIF BAR Crunchy Peanut Butter
BEST BY/SELL BY:
21JUN09 to 01OCT09 and
03NOV09 to 28NOV09
CLIF BAR Peanut Toffee Buzz
BEST BY/SELL BY:
13SEP09
CLIF Builder's Peanut Butter
SELL BY:
19JUL09 to 30SEP09 and
05NOV09 to 18NOV09
CLIF Kid Organic ZBaR Peanut Butter
BEST BY:
07JUL09 to 05SEP09 and
12NOV09
LUNA Nutz Over Chocolate
BEST BY:
29JUL09 to 03OCT09 and
11NOV09 to 14NOV09
LUNA Peanut Butter Cookie
BEST BY:
02OCT09 to 03OCT09 and
11NOV09 to 14NOV09
MOJO Honey Roasted Peanut
BEST BY:
30APR09 to 21JUN09
MOJO Mixed Nuts
BEST BY:
30APR09 to 21JUN09
MOJO Mountain Mix
BEST BY:
30APR09 to 21JUN09
MOJO Peanut Butter Pretzel
BEST BY:
30APR09 to 21JUN09
MOJO Dipped Chocolate Peanut
BEST BY:
30APR09 to 21JUN09
MOJO Dipped Peanut Butter and Jelly
BEST BY:
30APR09 to 21JUN09
MOJO Dipped Fruit and Nut
BEST BY:
30APR09 to 21JUN09
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: estrip
01/18/09 11:52 - 24ºF - ID#47437
I am not a literatary critic
I thought the first one could have been about me - but I was not sure what precipitated it and just ignored it. Maybe they meant net culture and was angry about my review of some other site, etc.
01/08/09 21:56@99.50.25.16 Guest wrote:
Hey "idiot," Who died and left you the czar of culture?
Followed the nine days later by:
01/17/09 21:07@99.50.25.16 Guest wrote:
Since you are the Czar of Civilization, at what great university did you gain your credentials as a literary critic?
Since I absolutely hate reading I assume this message was not intended for me. I freely admit that I have not read any literature since I was forced to in primary school, and then some additional German literature in college.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/18/09 01:03 - ID#47434
Wegman's organic banana from he'll
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Words: 91
Location: Buffalo, NY
01/18/09 12:57 - ID#47433
Pavlovas are delicious
I made pavlovas for dessert. I have a smeaking suspicion that each
one is over 600 calories of goodness. It's a giant meringue base
covered in whip cream and strawberries in syrup with grated dark
chocolate over the top.
I think I might have burnt out the beaters trying to whisk it into
stiff peaks. It's really time I get a stand mixer.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/18/09 12:52 - ID#47432
Beef Roast
Megan made a beef roast for dinner this evening. It had coriander
seeds on the outside. Tgey make for such a good taste. It was so
delicious. I finally got to use my silver roast serving tray and my
new electric knife, which (e:mike) got me for Jesus' birthday. They
really do work like magic.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/17/09 04:31 - ID#47431
Buddha's hands at wegman's
called Buddha's fingers. I don't understand where the fruit is. It
looks like 90% pure rind. Seriously, who pays $14.99 for this. I
think $4.99 sounds like too much -they do look cool though.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: web
01/17/09 12:41 - 6ºF - ID#47427
Playstation 3/Wii Youtube Interface
Sadly, they don't make it available for viewing it on the computer.
But you can make it work on your computer.
The way they check is by checking your playstation 3 user agent. Luckily, you can make your computer pretend to be a platstation.
The playstation user agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00)
There a lot of different ways to fake your user agent. I am going over how to do it with Safari on mac.
First you need to enable the "develop" menu in Safari. To do this open the terminal application in /Applications/utilties/terminal.app. Then type the following into:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
Once you do that, restart Safari and you will see a new "Develop" menu between the "Bookmarks" and "Window" menu. I know its weird because the command says IncludeDebugMenu and then you get a Develop menu, but just trust me. Click on Develop and choose, User Agent-> other from the drop down.
In the box that pops up type the Playstation 3 user agent from above.
Then visit the new youtube TV interface:
http://youtube.com/tv
Remember to switch back to the default safari user agent when you are done using the same menu.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/16/09 02:18 - ID#47424
Wegman's empty parking lot
Last night I headed to wegman's to get some more of that tummy organic
sirloin but they were all out. Not just that, they were out of a
significant amount of organic things - even organic bananas. I wonder
if I just hit the down day or if more people buy organic now. I mean
I get why the organic wegmans brand peanut butter is out with that
salmonella scare, but why beef and bananas.
So the title of the journal has to do with this picture. I think it
is the first time I saw wegman's so empty. It was only like 9:30pm
but I guess it was like -5F
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Words: 117
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: warcraft
01/15/09 01:08 - 7ºF - ID#47412
Gayloch the blood elf
Its not like other video games he used to play where he could pause. It is a totally consuming experience that transforms (e:Terry) into gayloch for like up to 12 hours at a time. What's worse is that if we do force him to stop he friends in the game get mad or worse yet, his family in las vegas who all play with him.
Should I have seen this coming. Well maybe with all the fantasy books and stuff, I just never thought it would be so totally consuming being a blood elf in world of war craft. Its like his total everything. I would rather that he be a drag queen. At least there would be more downtime.
He even has the dorktastic headgear now so that he can totally immerse himself in the experience. He thinks he is the only one that can hear the other dorks talking.
I have a feeling this is what he is going to look like just before (e:matthew) murders him someday.
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Words: 239
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Allergies used to be very uncommon in India. You could argue that this was because of the "hygiene hypothesis" but it could also be because breast-feeding is heavily stressed and practiced. In recent years, allergy rates in young kids have been increasing - probably because young mothers no longer take long maternity leaves and return to work leaving their kids in daycare. Breast-feeding is slowly on the decline as my country slowly sinks into workaholism. :(
Interesting References:
1. Strachan, D.P., 1989. Hay fever, hygiene, and household size. BMJ 299, 1259â€"1260.
:::link:::
2. Garn et. al. Epidemiological and immunological evidence for the hygiene hypothesis Immunobiology
Volume 212, Issue 6, 27 June 2007, 441-452 :::link:::
3. Mutius vE. Allergies, infections and the hygiene hypothesis â€" The epidemiological evidence
Immunobiology Volume 212, Issue 6, 27 June 2007, Pages 433-439 :::link:::
I don't know that much about why people have allergies. There are different kinds of them some people don't have the enzyemes to break down milk sugar and other things. But then there is the kind where what makes you allergic is that what your body is exposed to will do you no harm, but for some reason your body reads it as a danger and that is what causes the problem. You bring up a good point about things being to clean. You see these ads for cleaners where they say it kills everything and keeps your baby safe. That isn't true Babies need to be exposed to germs, I mean you don't want to make the kid sick on purpose. But they need to get a little bit of germs so the body can learn how to fight it off, and then over time get stronger. Yes there are exceptions like with premeies or anyone with a not fully devolped Imune system sorry I don't remember the medical term for that.