2-egg scramble, turkey dog, onion / red pepper / spinach pan-fried in a couple splashes of Sutter Home cab, and a slice of cheddar all wrapped in a Flatout lite tomato wrap. So good that I did it all over again with a spinach wrap. 36.36 g protein and 477 kcal per wrap for .0813 index value. Two of those was my protein for the day. Making the dogs and veggie mix was time-consuming, but now I have 3 dogs and veggies for at least a couple more wraps. Excellent run, a post-reboot record in fact. I was c... (...more)

The world was positively inferred to be spherical as far back as the 3rd century BCE by Aristotle, based on differences in star maps, and how the Sun did or didn't cast a shadow at the summer solstice, at different latitudes. Around 240 BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference with 15% or less error. As Islam spread, Muslims needed a way to figure out the direction of Mecca, as well as what days to plan for religoious observations determined by the lunar calendar. Or more properly, they ne... (...more)

When I was in high school pre-calc, must have been 11th grade, I was writing D&D campaign material into the wee hours many nights. One of my more manic projects was to number and assign a location to every magic item above a certain arbitrary power level in my game world. For example, one of the penultimate treasures for mages in AD&D 1E - Staves of the Magi. By some method factoring in both the xp value of the item and dice randomization, I determined there should be only 5, or maybe it was 7 or 12, whate... (...more)

I thought I was going to do a bunch of things today. Well, I thought that yesterday too, and all the way back to Thursday I said I need to make up a pot of bean stew, which never happened. Also, laundry - I think I'm almost out of clean A-shirts for gym wear. The newer Toxic Sickness gabber sets from Soundcloud have gotten rather old rather fast. I don't understand why gabber DJs universally feel the need to ruin a nice flow with crude and ragey movie dialogue samples. So it was timely that Chris Cali p... (...more)

Was mighty sleepy by 10:30. I know I woke at some point, maybe ~6AM, but I rolled over and went back to sleep until noon-thirty. Why so tired? Or BQ: why so relaxed? Because when I'm worried, of course I can be tired as fuck-all and still not sleep well. But I've got a little breathing room between worries right now, and I guess I graduated a Kuebler-Ross stage too. A half-strength instant coffee to wash down vitamins. 90 minutes of aimless internetting later, the second-to-last burrito trio. Castle ... (...more)