"separated at birth?" written by Zobar on estrip.org

Category: food

07/26/08 02:37 - 80ºF - ID#45151

separated at birth?

I admit it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I've just always thought bacon looked like Norway.

- Z

Permalink: separated_at_birth_.html
Words: 22
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

07/24/08 02:50 - 66ºF - ID#45125

thinspiration

So suddenly I'm a poster-boy for size acceptance, go figure! A reporter from the Buffalo News discovered (e:dragonlady7,43746) where she goes on about size acceptance, which he is writing about but couldn't find any local experts. He came over to do an interview with B while I was working in the next room over. The topic of me came up, and he was kind of like har har he's so skinny. And I was like, dude: it would be extremely rude if somebody came up to you and said 'you're so fat, here have some carrot sticks.' But when somebody comes up to me and says 'you're so skinny, here have a milkshake,' it's totally acceptable! [For the record: it's not original and you're not clever.]

'Size acceptance' is not the same thing as saying 'So what if I'm fat?' Size acceptance is recognizing that it is possible to be healthy even if your weight is not within one standard deviation of the statistical mean. If your body is healthy and your mind is sane, is not worth risking your physical health with an asinine diet; your mental health by obsessing about every calorie; or your happiness with awful food. Not all fat people are overeaters, and not all skinny people are bulimic.

I'm sure he thinks I'm just playing the devil's advocate [and to some extent perhaps I am] but it doesn't make it any less true. Regardless, they're doing up some portraits of the two of us to put in the paper.

Edited to add:

- Z

tinypliny writes at 10:13:44 07/24/08 - Comment #37376: I am kind of torn about that video. Its all nice and empowering to assert that you like food, and you will eat as much as you want and not care about the consequences etc. I think the sentiment is great if you eat wisely. If you don't eat wisely and just eat as a kind of hobby, see your health (and mental status) get worse, then I think its time to take your head out of the sand and eat with moderation and consciousness.

Not all fat people are overeaters. But, as of today, in this country and abroad, most of them are. Most of them don't follow the four rules in (e:dragonlady)'s post. You could argue that some of them have bad diets because it is expensive to eat well. But energy balance is a personal choice. You cannot possibly say that it is expensive to eat in moderation and stop when you are hungry. Because you made a conscious decision to go with that triple butter-cheese-triple-meat burger when a smaller serving/healthier choice that could have sufficed was available for the same price.

janelle writes at 04:12:26 07/24/08 - Comment #37358: When I was a lot skinnier, I got a lot of comments from people about being too skinny as though I was anorexic or bulimic. Very annoying.

Every time I picked up a diet soda or said I was going out for a run, I got those nasty comments. I didn't have time to explain to every person that I drank diet to protect my teeth from cavities and I run for good health. The skinniest person is not naturally the healthiest person.

I got the comments just the other day when I went out to lunch for work and got a salad instead of a heaping plate of spaghetti smothered in cheese that I didn't really want to eat before going back to work. But I'm totally going back some time to get it!

I think the bottom line issue is why people feel they have an innate right to comment on individual choices.

Permalink: thinspiration.html
Words: 264
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: misc

07/21/08 09:26 - 73ºF - ID#45094

these things are made out of meat!

Before I'd even woken up this morning the most adorable cat in the world had killed her first sparrow and was tossing it around the backyard like a feathery beachball. We shut her out of the house so she wouldn't bring it in. After about fifteen minutes of this we started wondering how to explain 'you break it you bought it' to a kitten. After she'd pulled all the feathers off she discovered out on her own that they were full of meat and devoured everything except the head, which she left rolling around on the driveway. Circle of life and all that crap.

Spent three days on retreat with (e:dragonlady7)'s parents in Darkest Schaghticoke. It was very restorative. As always, I had some surreal conversations with her dad, who is cool, but a different kind of cool: 'So your car has a continuously-variable transmission.' 'Yup.' 'I don't know how that works.' 'Neither do I.' Then, an hour of talking in circles, including visual aids from a Vietnam-era military manual which, oddly enough, doesn't make anything clearer. Then: cheesecake!

- Z

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Words: 187
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: cats

07/15/08 08:57 - 65ºF - ID#45024

for e:paul

- pictures for sad children

- Z

Permalink: for_e_paul.html
Words: 12
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

07/13/08 11:05 - 68ºF - ID#44998

i hate brussels sprouts too

- tinfoilraccoon @ flickr

Just for the record, I worked 64hr in five days last week. Those of you who are not suitably impressed should keep in mind that I am a total slacker and one of the reasons I work from home is so that I can generally get away with working about half that. I don't live to work, I work to live.

The office manager [who can never seem to remember to pay me] asked why I don't work full-time at the office instead. Among other things, I said, when you work 'part-time' you get paid hourly. [It seemed unprofessional to say that I do better work with a kitty on my lap and bangin' tunes on the stereo.]

So when I totalled up my invoice [and it was a lot of money - it would have taken me a month to make that much at my old job] I looked at it and (e:dragonlady7) looked at it and she said Hm! and I said yeah, that's nice but I think I would rather have eaten and slept instead.

The good news is I think I'm done.

--

The problem with working for such a large client is their ubiquity. I went with (e:dragonlady7) to the Century to forget about life for an hour or two. But while we're eating our wings a baseball game comes on and my client had bought all of the advertising space in both dugouts. Another guy on the project went to Las Vegas last week and one of the first things he saw was an enormous billboard advertising their products.

But my boss has the worst story: so he's on vacation in the country - no cell phone reception, no internet access, no buildings even. He's walking through the woods and he sees one of their products on the ground. He's like no, you're kidding me. Picks it up and sees the logo. KHAAANNN!!!

- Z

Permalink: i_hate_brussels_sprouts_too.html
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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: hell yes dogg

07/05/08 05:57 - 78ºF - ID#44872

rock-afire explosion

So ... apparently even though Show-Biz Pizza Place

[old school holla!] went out of business, the company that made their robot animal band

stuck around. They have at least one complete Rock-Afire Explosion

in stock that they've dusted off so that the founder and a new choreographer can take requests

- HELL YES.

The documentary is coming out this fall. See you at the theater.

- Z

Permalink: rock_afire_explosion.html
Words: 87
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: bleh

06/27/08 07:31 - 73ºF - ID#44805

fuuck thiis shiit

I've sort of dropped out of posting on (e:strip) but reading it keeps me going. (e:tinypliny) I have read a couple of your transient chatter-rants and I think perhaps you're cracked.

I'm putting in serious overtime on a project that's due Monday but needs at least another week. The people upstream were two weeks late getting us what we needed, so it's a moral victory that we've managed to gain a week on the deadline. But it's rough being the anchor on a relay race - the other guys aren't the ones who have to cross the finish line last.

[Z: nobody cares. Can you at least put in a funny

somewhere? Thanks. -ed.]

I (gave notice to|asked permission from) my (client|boss) that I was taking some me-time after we're all done with this. I know it makes me a total wuss but this is some seriously intense shit I've been doing and I need another break already.

Either that or I'll go to the next open mic night down at Stimulance and start reading selections from the Adobe PDF Specification Anthology 1.7 while a beret'd buddy jams out on the bongos. (e:tinypliny) and (e:james) I don't know what the fuck you're doing but here's my entry in the Batshit Translated Poetry Contest. Funny, I didn't realize Adobe was deploying the National Guard to Acrobat 8 in order to protect the economic situation.

PDF is sufficient, and that trend xobject more graphics (including the achievement of the objectives, articles, photographs and see an example). May Xobject often in the form of wages - is more than a few pages of all these elements on the page - if you want to do with the same results, so far the only country at this time, and pictures. This is a typical representative of the definition of 'hands to protect the economic situation is very popular, The National Guard and the most popular activities to enhance the color. As a result, reusing memory xobject.

- Z

Permalink: fuuck_thiis_shiit.html
Words: 350
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: weather

06/16/08 07:11 - 73ºF - ID#44671

look what god did to us man

Tequila & pomegranate with hail. [Two icecubes from the freezer and one from Upstairs.]

- Z

Permalink: look_what_god_did_to_us_man.html
Words: 18
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: dang

06/03/08 10:12 - 62ºF - ID#44535

food for thought

We have not had a president with facial hair in 100 years. The last president with a moustache was William Howard Taft [1909]. The last president with a beard was Benjamin Harrison [1889]. The last president with sideburns [muttonchops] was Chester A Arthur [1881].

- Z

Permalink: food_for_thought.html
Words: 42
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: computers

05/25/08 04:30 - 70ºF - ID#44448

ugh

I've got an original MacBook [2GHz Core Duo, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD (20GB free)]. If I upgrade the RAM to 2GB and the drive to 120GB, would that be sufficient to run Fusion + Vista?

Also, Latvian music is crap [see below].

- Z

Permalink: ugh.html
Words: 43
Location: Buffalo, NY

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