November 2009
1 post
Changes
This site will stay open, but I have decided to concentrate my limited blogging to a new website: http://beartrap.wordpress.com
Thank you.
July 2008
1 post
Unpopular Healthy Foods →
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/the-11-best-foods-you-arent-eating/?em&ex=1215144000&en=aae8f317805e7437&ei=5087%0A
The New York Times posted a blog today featuring 10 foods that are healthful, but not necessarily popular amongst people. The author admits, that she only had 2 of the 11 in his home cabinet. I guess my “score” comes close, 4/11, but only for the...
June 2008
2 posts
Finances
I spent 2 hours today trying to put in order my finances and past taxes (some of which I never recieved my refunds for)—various calls to HR Block, my state Tax and Revenue Office and the IRS rewarded me with the knowledge that I actually owe a balance of $157 in taxes.
Probably not the best use of my time. I won’t be looking at that again considering that my economic stimulus check...
Nutrition and the Free Market
Today I am wondering about the ability of the free market to regulate our nutrition as individuals. Currently, farm subsidies support the growing of corn and related to this, we have a large amount of corn-derived foods in our diets. While corn is notable for it’s ease of being grown, it also goes to note, that it may be the cheapest food to produce. As a food, it is target of the most...
February 2008
1 post
How to Take a Shower - wikiHow →
There are even links to how to enjoy a shower.
January 2008
5 posts
“The remains of an estimated 20,000 forgotten people lie under Washington Square...”
– 3 Skeletons Discovered in Washington Sq. Park - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
What is Waltzing with Bears?
Our Uncle Walter's not right in the head He's been that way all his life, my mother said Its not that he's violent or falls down the stairs Its just he goes waltzing, waltzing with bearsHe goes wa-wa-wa-waltzing, waltzing with bears Raggy bears, shaggy bears, baggy bears too There’s nothing on earth Uncle Walter won’t do So he can go waltzing, wa wa wa waltzing He can go waltzing,...