Natural American Spirit Cigarettes

Posted July 22nd, 2008 and filed under rants.

In addition to one of the standard Surgeon General’s Warnings, packs of Natural American Spirit cigarettes are labeled: Made with 100% additive-free, whole leaf, natural tobacco. No reconstituted sheet tobacco. No processed stems. Up to 25% more tobacco than other king size cigarettes. All of that would, in some convoluted way, probably lead a smoker… Read more »

Eating 100 Treadmills

Posted July 16th, 2008 and filed under asides, comedy.

With my special training program, anyone can eat 100 treadmills in 7 weeks.

Receptor-Site Upregulation and Acetylcholine

Posted May 26th, 2008 and filed under News.

From a Special Report in the June 2008 issue Men’s Health magazine: Research has shown that a few puffs of cigarette smoke plug fully half of the brain’s natural receptor sites for acetylcholine … After as little as seven cigarettes over the course of a single month, a nicotine virgin’s brain has begun compensating by… Read more »

This Pounding in My Head

Posted December 7th, 2007 and filed under My Life.

Awesome. When I woke up today I thought to myself, “I really hope that there is someone pounding on the other side of the wall behind my head with a hammer all day.” It looks like my wish has been granted!

Random Eye Infection

Posted April 28th, 2007 and filed under images, My Life.

I uploaded some gnarly photos — of the sudden, random eye infection I got this morning — to my Flickr page. I’m fine now, thanks.

What Lies Beneath

Posted February 2nd, 2007 and filed under News, rants, technology.

The author of The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook, writes a weekly column for ESPN.com called Tuesday Morning Quarterback during football season. I didn’t get a chance to read it Tuesday because I was still in Vegas. I love Easterbrook because he’s not afraid to tackle social issues in the middle of discussing the merits of… Read more »

Go, Pam!

Posted May 17th, 2006 and filed under My Life.

My best friend’s wife’s mom — which sounds like many more degrees of separation than it really is — was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. This is definitely something to file under “Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?”, and I truly, truly despise that folder in my life. His wife is going to… Read more »

Abnormally Large

Posted February 13th, 2006 and filed under My Life.

So I went to the doctor’s today. I have what is probably the twentieth sinus infection I’ve gotten since I moved to LA 5+ years ago. This one is really killing me, especially since I thought that I had gotten over it last week. I am on Round Two of antibiotics. Blech. Didn’t Ms. Curie… Read more »

49ers lineman dies at 23

Posted August 22nd, 2005 and filed under sports.

“Herrion was 6-foot-3, 310 pounds — fairly average for an NFL lineman, but considered obese within standards routinely accepted by the medical community.”

Public Health Warning

Posted August 22nd, 2005 and filed under News.

Fish Oil Supplements: Is The Brand You’re Taking Safe? (from Oceans Alive) I don’t know. It just sounded like a funny title for an internet article to me — like the pathetic teasers for the 11 o’clock local news or ’50s horror movies about coffee and / or pre-marital sex. Interesting to see that K-Mart… Read more »

Bobby Bowden Syndrome

Posted June 16th, 2005 and filed under College Football, News.

“Suspended Florida State quarterback Wyatt Sexton was taken to a Tallahassee hospital on Monday evening by local police after causing a disturbance in the street, then identifying himself to police as ‘God’ and the ‘son of God.’Sexton was not arrested.”

GIANTmicrobes!

Posted March 28th, 2005 and filed under comedy.

Here’s one for the “weird” file: GIANTmicrobes! I always wanted a stuffed rhinovirus! We make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes — only a million times actual size! Each 5-to-7 inch doll is accompanied by an image of the real microbe it represents, as well as information about the microbe. link via 8 Ways… Read more »