Rethink that “Diet” drink

globeandmail.com: Artificial sweeteners may cause weight gain
Another confirmation that natural is always better. I’ve been avoiding most highly processed foods and those containing artificial ingredients for about a year now. I have not been eating less, probably more than I used to. The difference is the food is real and fresh. […]

Engineer quotes

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Quote: Engineer and the Glass Half Empty

“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be”

My favourite is: “Leave it to an engineer to take 3 hours figuring how […]

Waste of a good beach

Neatorama » Blog Archive » World’s Largest Swimming Pool

Seriously, can somebody tell what the point of building the World’s largest artificial swimming pool at this location? It is not landlocked or in a desert. It is in Chile, right on the shore of the World’s largest natural swimming pool, THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

I was attacked — by a squirrel

So I’m sitting in front of JHE, the Engineering Building at McMaster, listening to my iPod and reading through the my Ph.D. registration package. I feel something brush my left foot… I look down and there is this cute little black squirrel on my foot nibbling at the bottom of my jeans.
I lift […]

World Water Day & BRTC

Wars have been faught over gold and coal, they are currently being faught over oil, soon it will be over water. In North America and Europe we are sheltered from the fact that clean water is becoming an ever scarce resource. When that fact is realised by the masses the […]

Enviro perspective

Toronto Star Podcasts: Linwood Barclay - Mar. 9
There has been much ado about Al Gore and David Suzuki who have been on missions to spread the word of the impact of climate change have been hypocritical. Go and have a listen to Linwood put things into perspective.

The shades of grey

Freakonomics Blog » On Good Guys and Bad Guys
That’s when Anya asked her excellent question: “Do ‘bad guys’ call ‘good guys’ ‘bad guys?’”
Why you should avoid those that see the world in two tone from the perspective of a 5 year old… and those sunglasses are too cute.

Social voyeurism

Voyeurism: is a deviant manifestation of sexuality that involves looking without being seen in order to obtain sexual pleasure.
I have been unlike many my age, those that grew up in the age of the Internet. I have had a tube to the webs and the googles since the web was 3 years old. […]

The Sin Heptagon

Via BoingBoing, originally from indexed:.

What’s your favourite chord? For me it is a toss up between Gluttony/Sloth = Saturday, and Gluttony/Pride = Fat men in speedos.

Maven or monkey?

So I’ve been doing a lot of reading of late, trying to improve on my preparation to really contribute to society. (Luck/Success = Preparation + Opportunity) I have an enormous (but self-under-valued) skill set in my field of study (Software Engineering –that is, use of software to solve engineering problems–), little of which I […]

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