After getting diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, I followed the diabetic nutritionist’s guidelines and was very careful with what I ate. I lost nearly 40 pounds over the winter! Dropping those pounds really helped me feel better, but so far it was mostly on accident that I lost weight. So, I decided to get serious, what I’d been taught was that I needed to eat less and exercise more. I got a Fitbit tracker to track my progress, I started walking every day and eventually biking to work. [ Read More… ]

My family history lead me to a near-vegetarian diet, which I followed for almost two decades. Red meat gives you heart disease and fruit, vegetables and pretend meat made out of soybeans are healthy. I felt I did moderate exercise, I got tired of going to the gym, but continued to walk and bike when I could. That should have been enough to keep me healthy, right? In my mind I had no real healthy problems, just sleep apnea, but my mom has that, so that must be hereditary, not because I was overweight. [ Read More… ]

I have explained this story to enough people that I think I’d better write it down so I can both share it with other people who are interested and so I don’t forget anything. Once I started writing it, I got to the point where I never thought I’d finish, so I’m breaking it up into parts so I actually get somewhere. Here’s the first part… My dad’s side of the family has had heart problems. [ Read More… ]

Using laws to prevent access to guns to, in turn, prevent gun violence is foolish. It is foolish in many ways, for instance there are already laws in place that say you can’t kill people and if someone isn’t going to obey that law, why would they obey another one?

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A while ago I heard something (from my brother-in-law’s cousin) that resonated with me: humans invented money; poverty and so many problems are due to money, why did we let this happen?

Since the events in Ferguson, MO, I’ve been tuned into many occurrences where the police have threatened or shot innocent people in our country. In fact, you are six time more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist in the US.

For some reason I was thinking back to the TV series “Lost”, and for some reason I thought of the character Rose. If you don’t remember, she was cured of cancer while she was on the island. Besides the candy and other supplies they found and a few fruits they found, they seemed to hunt for boar and fish for most of their food. I know it’s fiction, but maybe that diet was what caused that miracle. [ Read More… ]

I heard the phrase “we made it to Pluto” in regards to the New Horizon mission reaching the faraway (dwarf) planet. The word “we” made me stop and think. It is not “we” = NASA, it’s not “we” = Americans, it is “we” = humanity. That’s pretty awesome, this goes up there with other accomplishments that are too big for someone, some group, some nation to claim. There aren’t too many things like that (good or bad – “we” did WWII too), events that define history, that get to use that word to mean everyone, all humans. [ Read More… ]

I recently got a drive enclosure that allows it to be connected via eSATA or USB2. I got a nifty ExpressCard eSATA adapter for my MacBook Pro since eSATA is theoretically faster. Guess what? It is a lot faster!