More 191.6…
Monday, 31 December 2007I posted my weight loss post late last night, and I realized that there are several things that I forgot to mention. Inspirations – My program was inspired by The No S Diet, which I discovered a couple of years ago, and by Mark Forster’s adaptation thereof. The inspiration from No S is that I [...]
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191.6
Sunday, 30 December 2007So, I’ve started a weight loss program. (I won’t call it a diet because it’s not a diet and I don’t believe in diets.) I started a few weeks ago, though, so it can’t properly be called a New Year’s Resolution. But that’s just as well, anyway, since everyone breaks those. When I started this [...]
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Hilton Family Reviews
Sunday, 30 December 2007So, an aside from a friend about getting hot chocolate chip cookies at a Doubletree got me thinking about my substantial Hilton Family experience. And I thought that I might be able to do a useful community service by quickly running down the major brands in the Hilton Family. So, hopefully this is useful to [...]
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Cell Phone Woes
Sunday, 30 December 2007Our cell phones are dying. The screen on Becky’s phone went kaput a few weeks ago. You can still make and receive calls, but it’s not exactly a full featured experience. And now my phone’s battery seems to be crapping out. This is probably mostly my fault since I have become so inconsistent with charging [...]
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Shout Out to The Roanoke Times
Sunday, 30 December 2007I called on Friday to drop our Roanoke Times subscription from daily to Sunday only. We’ve never really gotten that much out of getting the paper every day, although I have enjoyed it from time to time. Since Charlie was born, though, we hardly even look at it. And we’re left with nagging guilt every [...]
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Terrific John Gruber…
Wednesday, 19 December 2007John Gruber’s Daring Fireball is my favorite Apple blog. He provides excellent links and short commentary multiple times a day, with an occasional thoughtful longer piece. Today, he dissects a piece of drivel about Apple which is masquerading as journalism as the cover story in the December issue of Fast Company. If you read Gruber’s [...]
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