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So I’m headed to a data center in Colorado Springs for the next ten days (Dec 11-20). During that time, I’ll be staying at a nice hotel with a gym, but I gotta ask: what do you do to stay in shape while traveling? In particular, how do you handle all the eating out?

I think my suite has a kitchen. If it doesn’t, wow, this is going to be a rough week for sticking to my eating plan 🙂

I’ve never in my life considered fitness opportunities when traveling. It’s a new experience!

–Matt

So this picture captures the feeling of the average American citizen toward the Big 3 auto-maker bailout (note: language alert!):

Thanks to the Rampant Coyote for the link.

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal that Barack Obama was not a natural-born citizen due to his dual British-American citizenship at the time of his birth. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/08/scotus-rejects-appeal-questioning-obamas-citizenship/ . In sum, he was born on American soil, to an American mother, despite a father who was a British subject.

One claim is still finding its way through the courts, challenging Obama’s recorded birth in Honolulu, Hawaii.

I’m just glad to see this particular bit of idiocy die.

Say Congratulations to the new IT Manager at Tiny-But-Growing-Corp!

I feel dumber already 😉

Weed

The combination of ‘online’ and ‘misrepresentation’ hasn’t reached standard household, or geek-hold, term status. But it might soon. Real soon.

I’m fascinated by the outcome of a court trial in which a MO woman was convicted of ‘accessing computers without authorization’. She had assumed a false identity online to cyberbully a younger teenager and that teenager went on to commit suicide. For her criminal conviction she faces the maximum penalty of 3 years in jail and a $300K fine.

Going deeper into the story, what you find out is that this MO woman created a fictitious identity on MySpace and used that faux persona to berate some girl who had previously wronged the MO woman’s daughter. Once that girl took her own life it appears some CA prosecutors got on board to find some available legal channel by which to allege a crime. MySpace is headquartered in CA. I’m sure the reason this case even reached a judicial decision, resulting in conviction, was because of the heinous outcome and the media attraction. That and the fact that the CA courts are pretty friendly terrain.

Now, what I believe this means for the greater public is a potential enormous shift in online mores. This kind of thing has resulted in death. How soon until ‘accessing computers without authorization’ gives ways to a more relevant term used in this case – ‘online misrepresentation’. Everything that falls under tort, contracts and criminal code is in play. How soon until people pretending to be other people online, resulting in harm, becomes regularly qualified as criminal?

Online providers are typically immune from this kind of liability because of everything in their ULAs. My belief is that these providers will do everything they can to continue staying outside of liability by releasing details of their users who are involved in criminal activity. Much like copyright infringement. They will just get out of the way and turn detail over. So, thinking about screwing someone over on eBay? Going incognito on Facebook?

Better think twice.

One of the really annoying things that happens is the constant revival of ‘My Pictures’. This thing will not die. No matter how many times I manually delete this folder continues to return. Help on putting this thing in the grave once and for all?

Happy Thanksgiving from me to you! I know it’s been a bit quiet around here lately. I have a whole boatload of blog ideas that I plan to unleash this coming Monday. Think of this as the calm before the storm…

We all know THOSE kind of Christians. Yeah. This lady lets us know in no uncertain terms that she’s not one of THOSE kinds of Chrisians.

A well-known side-effect of a low-carbohydrate way of eating is the production of “ketone bodies” by the liver as a by-product of metabolizing fat to fuel the process of converting proteins into glucose to provide the body’s daily carbohydrate needs. Muscles, organs, and the brain all lap up the ketones as an energy source, and even function more efficiently on ketones than glucose. In fact, the human heart functions much more efficiently on ketones than on glucose, and this increase in efficiency is part of the reason a low-carbohydrate diet can be successfully used to treat those with heart problems.

But in the last few years, the easy availability of breath-analysis equipment both installed in vehicles and for police at roadside stops has brought with it a new danger for those living a low-carbohydrate lifestyle. The breathalyzer cannot distinguish between isopropanol as a by-product of ketone metabolism, and ethanol which is usually found in alcoholic drinks.

Analysis here: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/uncategorized/low-carbers-beware-the-breathalyzer/

Teetotaling pilot cleared of drunk flying charges following low-carb defense.

On the plus side, for those of us who like to imbibe from time to time, alcohol almost stops ketosis/lipolysis cold, resulting in a 73% reduction in fat metabolism for hours to days after drinking. So there’s little risk of isopropanol stacking with ethanol in your breath at that roadside stop.

I guess the message might be don’t low-carb and drive. Or if you do low-carb and drive, insist on a blood test rather than a breath test, since a blood test will tell the truth and not be fooled by isopropanol.

And no, this doesn’t mean you can carry around a carton of Slim-Fast or an Atkins Advantage shake with you all the time and get out of a DUI. A blood test will determine the truth quickly.

Here it is.. “I like this ship! Exciting!!”

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