Category: health

01/09/11 06:10 - 23.ºF - ID#53418

Flouride in the water

This controversy seems like it has been going on forever. I don't think they should add it to the eater but what I want to know is, what does (e:tinypliny) think? Here is a listvof 50 reasons why they should stop the prgram

Floruide is one of the reasons I went reverse osmosis with our water. Sure, it wastes a bunch of water to make our water clear but I think its worth it considering flouride, the industrial chemicals, living down stream from west valley, the hexavalient chromium issue, etc. I mean, I know I am paranoid south stuff like this but we all agree the great lakes water is pretty gross.

tinypliny writes at 10:07:29 01/13/11 - Comment #60205: I believe in water fluoridation for many reasons that I probably need a post to explain it. I will do a detailed post justifying my stance maybe next week... One the surface, some of those 50 reasons sound logical (some of them are really silly!) but many of them are not really based on the principles and practice of epidemiology.

The controversy is when people forget or are not very clear that the concept of "population health" is never the same as "individual risk". The dynamics and statistics operate differently in each group for good reason. If public health measures were based on individual risk, we would never have had vaccines, never had antibiotics, never had any public hygiene... the list would go on. And you can see how widespread the confusion is because there are groups of people who oppose vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurization and whatnot - all measures with evidence based benefits for population health.

I really need to make a detailed post about this. I think that would be good point to then agree or disagree with me. Because no science is perfect, I expect people to bring up logical fallacies in my thought and disagree. Should be interesting...

libertad writes at 06:18:01 01/11/11 - Comment #60196: The big question to me is why are we still putting fluoride in the water when there are so many reasons not to? I use the Britta filter but you really do have to change and clean those frequently. I was also thinking of getting a shower filter too. Does anyone have any ideas on those?

heidi writes at 06:47:24 01/09/11 - Comment #60185: I'm not (e:tinypliny), but I'm interested in the topic. I've found that and other lists of reasons before and I've also looked at it in the context of Appalachian dental issues. The mountain range's residents have about the worst teeth in the country. Bad dental health correlates with poverty and rurality. Places with fluoridation don't have lower cavity rates than places without. Seems kinda ridiculous.

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Category: hiking

01/09/11 04:42 - 23.ºF - ID#53417

Tifft Nature Preserve

I hate winter but since the gym closed and my life seems so stressful I need to start some other form of physical fitness.

Seeing as the car is on its last leg we decided to stay close by and headed to Tifft Nature Preserve. Only in Buffalo do you head to a landfill/nature preserve for a day out I'm the county.

The best part was having little chickadees land on my hand. I felt bad that I had no food in my hand but they don't allow it. Clearly people do as they were all over me.

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Category: work

01/09/11 01:41 - 21.ºF - ID#53416

Crappy Weekend

It is getting to the point that I work as much on the weekend as during the week. This week I worked ~60 hours. The few minutes I am not working I don't get to spend having fun because I am too exhausted and/or nervous I will need to handle some work emergency.

Its like being a doctor on call with no other doctors around. I handle all of my own issues and then everyone comes to me for their own. I need an assistant so bad. I asked for one. Let's hope there is money for it in the budget in April. Honestly, if I don't get one - I give myself two more years and I am finding another job or having a heart attack.

A picture is worth a thousand words. This is how I feel.

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Category: food

01/08/11 06:31 - 22.ºF - ID#53413

Fat Bobs Pig

Nameless Bitch and I hit up Fat Bobs for lunch on Friday. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of the food because my hands were too damn sticky for phone use. The smoked wings appetizer was very yummy. They were much different that the ones at one eyes jacks in lockport in that they were massive, consisting of all three parts of the wing and that they didn't so much fall off the bone. I assume the one-eyed jack's wings are smoked much longer.

To me smoked wings are a million times better than fried ones. I can also eat a lot more of them as they are not so greasy.

Then for the main course I had the smoked half chicken with collard greens and fries. Also delicious although once again, the meat stuck to the bone much more than at one eyed jacks.

I think my favorite part is the skin. I could probably eat a whole meal of chicken skin which is precisely why I love chicken legs and wings.

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Category: random

01/08/11 06:18 - 22.ºF - ID#53412

Snail Fingers

I keep trying to take a picture of this and it never comes out how i planned it so I decided to just post it anyways. I feel like it might have more potential against a very blue sky or very green grass.

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Category: food

01/08/11 06:14 - 22.ºF - ID#53411

Coconut Gelatto and Brown Rice

This is my new favorite thing. I didn't want to eat rice plain but I figured I should eat some carbs because my meal consisted of only vegtables and smoked chicken breast.

I decided to combine the cooled brown rice with icecream. I suppose it draws inspiration from rice pudding and add a good amount of fiber yo the dessert component of my meal. This one is coconut gelatto based.

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Category: web

01/08/11 06:04 - 22.ºF - ID#53410

Tron Guy - Net Neutrality

Maybe all you fbookers saw this already but I just stumbled across it today and found it quite entertaining. I wonder if this is how I come across sometimes.

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Category: home

01/08/11 12:26 - 22.ºF - ID#53409

Forced Air - Furnace Filter

16x25x1. I am sick of not being sure what size filter I need so I figured I would write it down here instead of on some random piece of paper. I wish so bad I had radiators instead of forced air. I feel like it is killing me. The years I had radiators I breathed so much better.

I wonder just how expensive it would be to convert to modern radiators. Anyone have any experience with this.

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Category: weather

01/07/11 12:08 - 26.ºF - ID#53403

The snow is so shiny

I wish I had a better camera than my phone. It is the shiniest, sparkliest snow ever but my phone won't do it justice.

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Category: work

01/06/11 11:47 - 27.ºF - ID#53402

Colors

At work I designed and programmed the new intranet over the last year. Instead of jamming a color scheme down people's throats I decided to let people choose there own color and then created a formula to scheme from there.

People seem to like it because out of the ~1,500 people that use a computer each day, almost 1,000 chose a color.

You would be surprised at how many people pick hot pink/peach and bright oranges. There are even a few hot sea foam greens. To be fair there are many more woman, but even some guys have pinks and purples.

Its funny because the corporate push/marketing designers would be for corporate blues and boring greys but clearly, the people voting with colors picked much brighter hues.

This fire orange, I copied from (e:tinypliny) who had it for a while.

The saturated areas are the parts you kind of ignore, like you links to most used content, etc. The white space is then focused on things like the search and content areas.

You can pick pastels too but I really like the bright colors.

Each one of those dots on the quilt represent a color swatch that people chose. The color scheme is from one of the users.

Today the videographer told me that my work is ugly because I am not a designer. Ugly is so subjective. The ironic part is I actually have an MFA in computer media studies. I wonder if he does?