I have a new pan. It’s already proven its use with an eggplant/tomato/pepper sautée. It’s big. It goes in the oven up to 450 degrees. It has a nice lid. It’s nonstick. IT IS MY NEW FRIEND.

My pan, adore it!

http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.md.chess18may18.story

College chess recruiting scandal. It’s so Simpsons. The underage sex arrest thing just makes it perfect.

Ganked from metafilter. Metafilter is really annoying but about 1 link in 10 is quite fine. I shall be your metafilterfilter. 🙂

Idol Finalists Credit God

If anyone needs me, I’ll be polishing my golden calf.

I’ve nattered about this before, but here’s a good bit about Richard Thompson’s 1000 Years of Popular Music from his own site: http://www.richardthompson-music.com/catch_of_the_day.asp?id=117

Whoops, I did it again..

Ganked from Metafilter:

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/caple/030522.html

HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW [coughing fit]

I love it when blimps are punctured.

According to my physician, I am at risk for, or may already be in, insulin resistance syndrome. It’s now called “metabolic syndrome” which seems insufficiently precise to me. But he makes a convincing case.

Therefore, the best thing I can do for myself is to get to my target weight of 200 lbs in one year. This will be ~50 lbs, or 1 lb per week.

I repeat, I have to lose 50 pounds in one year.

Aiiigh.

I’m already eating a much better diet than I was a year ago. This is why I weigh ~250 rather than 275, which is where I started on this journey. However I suck at the exercise. There is an exercise machine in the house that my mom used before that I can make use of, so I shall. I sweat like a freaking PIG when I exercise and hate to do this in front of strangers so the health club is a big washout. Paxil is great for making the depression go away but it makes me into a kind of perspiratory fountain apparatus.

And walking is to smile. It burns like 1 calorie per 1000 miles. Anyone else tells me to try walking, I’m splattering lipids all over them from my bulging midriff.

It surprises me that I am overweight. I was always a skinny kid. Stupid depression, stupid depression meds. Blurg.

2 pm or after at my place on Monday. Email me if you need directions. If at all possible, involve a cow.

I’m thinking of having a small BBQ on Memorial Day, since this is what we do in the U.S. instead of actually remembering our war dead. Anyone who feels like coming over, let me know.

Livejournal has this feature in which you can find kindred spirits, birds of your feather, future friends! And this is done by matching interests using some kind of fabulous technology magic.

Number three on my list of matches is dictator88 who appears to be an actual Hitler-type Nazi.

What the HEY?

Ok, so they’re a big grown-up law firm. They litigate for people like UPS. They have lots of money and suits and Boxsters and toupées and those faggy little slipper shoes that rich white guys wear. But their url and their nickname are pretty funny, and at least they get the joke.