I am not praising China because I want to emulate their system. I am praising it because I am worried about my system. In deliberately spotlighting China’s impressive growth engine, I am hoping to light a spark under America.
Thomas Friedman, Too Many Hamburgers? in the NYTimes
you have every reason (except a good one) to keep what you can for yourselves
Michael O’Hare, A letter to my students
One of the funniest and most engaging/interesting lectures I’ve ever watched/listened to. Seriously worth the full 2 hours.
http://fora.tv/2010/07/27/Jesse_Schell_Visions_of_the_Gamepocalypse
It’s also full of great quotes and insights. One of my favorites is,
So let me explain social networking, it’s a fancy term that means: Facebook.
I eat a ton of oatmeal. Yum.
And apparently oatmeal was created by Ben Franklin. I did not know that. Where are your glasses, Ben?
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From supermarkets in the UK (and Sukhwant Lota’s Posterous). Honestly seems more relevant/useful than the color coded Terrorist threat level.
Maybe it should include warnings like on cigarettes as well:
Warning: eating this product contributes to a higher risk of heart disease, type two diabetes and may make you fat.
If you google ‘Asshole’ my face may very well pop up 2 pages into the search.
Kanye West (http://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/22975067665)
Is that in regular search or image search?
“Eat this, not that” is a recent guilty pleasure. Reading the name and discovering the stats of those entrees and meals at the pinnacle of the obesity epidemic is similar to rubber-necking a car accident. After all, what’s not to love about White Castle’s “Surf and Turf Sliders” which feature both a fried fish patty and a burger (yum?). 2 are only 1080 calories! [http://eatthis.menshealth.com]
Anyways, recently I’ve been watching and counting what I eat (almost obsessively) in an effort to be healthier, lose a little weight and look better. I’m stoked with the results; but the downside is that I’ve become hyper-aware of calories I ingest (or consider ingesting) and guilty for deviating from my prescribed daily diet. Which makes drinking beer (my favorite beverage/food) very difficult.
In celebration of a great 2 months of healthy living recently I went out and bought some expensive beer favorites: Young’s Double Chocolate Stout (perfect for breakfast…jk) and Dogfish Head’s 90 Minute IPA, which I would agree is possibly the best IPA. Ever. Accordingly, while kicking back to enjoy one I unlocked my phone and looked up the calories in a 12 oz bottle (like I said, I’m a little obsessed). Well, in the fashion of “Eat this, not that” 1 bottle of 90 Minute has a greater caloric impact than eating a Snickers. No joke, the sweet hoppiness and high ABV (9%) pack a lot of sugar (~ 35 grams of sugar/carbs) which makes this a great and amazingly flavorful beer. If you’re saving the beer for dessert (like I did) it’d be slightly better than eating a half pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Frozen Yogurt.
If you have more than one, multiply accordingly.
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA, one 12oz bottle = 294 Calories (9% ABV).
Eat smart today because you’ll have to do it again tomorrow.
Eat This, Not That! (page 16) David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding
Thoroughly enjoying the quips in the writing and getting totally grossed out by chain restaurant menus.