Category: Personal

Drink this, not that.

“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).

“Superman is not real”

“One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist,” Canada says in the film. “I read comic books and I just loved ’em …’cause even in the depths of the ghetto you just thought, ‘He’s coming, I just don’t know when, because he always shows up and he saves all the good people.’ ”

Then when he was in fourth or fifth grade, he asked, “Ma, do you think Superman is actually [real]?” She told him the truth: “ ‘Superman is not real.’ I was like: ‘He’s not? What do you mean he’s not?’ ‘No, he’s not real.’ And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real. And I was crying because there was no one … coming with enough power to save us.”

From Thomas Friedman’s “Steal this Movie, too” from the NYTimes (quoting Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone)

Quote – College Dropout Factories

As a result, without much thought, we’ve applied a binary mindset to education: elementary and secondary students are children; if they fail, it’s the fault of the schools. College students are adults; if they fail, it’s the fault of the students.

Ben Miller and Phuong Ly from the Washington Monthly article “College Dropout Factories”