BONUS POST: Awesome TJ tribute

I just had to.

This is one woman wrote, well, its not really an essay, but its not a pictorial, either.

What it is is a clever, unique, creative and prettty powerful and interesting look at one of my fav of fav historical figures (that would TJ, Thomas Jefferson).

Please take a minute or five and just read through it. I don't know the author, but it really is great.

http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/

Just something fun

Yesterday was very busy at work with breaking news. I was exhausted afterwards. Tried but failed to write. I was just too tired. So today I'm taking it easy and posting a little comic...

Hey, look, just another reason BMI sucks

This webmd story says...

Rather, the studies generally suggest that people with a BMI of 25 to 29.9
-- which is considered overweight but not obese -- have a survival advantage
over people with higher or lower BMIs.

BMI, which is a measure of body fat based on a person's height and weight, is used to classify people into weight categories -- underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese.

That's pretty much OK for yours truly, with a BMI of 28.6. But if the BMIs between 25 to 29.9 live the longest, is <25 really "normal?"

More...

Compared to people who fell into the normal-weight category:

Those classified as underweight were 73% more likely to die.

Those classified as extremely obese with BMI of 35 or greater were 36% more likely to die.

Those classified as obese with BMI 30-34.9 had about the same risk of death.

Those classified as overweight with BMI 25-29.9 were 17% less likely to die.

The study appears online this week in the journal Obesity.

Good news from SCOTUS

The court said a school's strip searching of 13-year-old Savanah Redding violated the Fourth Amendment. Maybe there is hope yet. More at my other blog, as well as here & here.

So much going on

Renee is back in the state & in house! Yeah.

I tried writing last night, but got nothing done. Well, I added like 8 words to a past piece. I had an ending all planned, but now I'm thinking that a similar ending earlier in the story might be more relevant. I'm going to end it that way, and maybe write an addendum that I can always add later. Now, its occuring to me that the original ending is redundant to the new ending.

Our new furniture (coach, chair) came today! Yeah.

I'm in the middle of my work outs. Week 4 of 8, I believe. Or 3. Not sure. It doesn't really matter much. This time around the workouts don't change weekly.

Finished my video game, clearing the way for more writing time.

Plan on reading more.

Work today has been crazy busy.

Whew.

Green with envy

More BMI fun from the pages of comics...

The Hulk's BMI (7 foot, 1040 pounds): 103.6. 103.6!

Bruce Banner's BMI (5.9, 128): 18.9. Nearly underweight, which is 18.5. Guess all that metamorphosis is taxing on the body. Plus, its hard to eat at restaurants when a simple slip up by the waitress or some slight bit of undercooked potato could have such disasterious results.

A thought on books

I recently did some research on agents and what not for my soon to be finished book, so I'm in a book mind anyway. But then I read a post about audio books.

How did audio "books" get the distinction of being a book? OK, ok, they are the exact words written in the book. Fair enough.

But isn't it sorta like calling movies "visual books?"

I mean, neither are really books at all. Not in any way, shape, or form. Sure, audio "books" follow the exact narrative of the book, word for word. But in a lot of ways, so do movies. Should these visual "books" be condemned just becuase their medium allows for different presentation? And if so, how come audio "books" aren't held to the same standard?

Just some light thoughts for a Friday.