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How I lost 65 pounds
This graph would have been far more dramatic if I hadn’t been too embarrassed to weight myself at my heaviest. It’s almost New Year’s and that means it’s time to make a New Year’s resolution. For many people, “lose weight” is their resolution this year, and probably was last year as well, and the year…
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Joel from MST3k Halloween costume
This year for Halloween I’m just another face in a red jumpsuit: specifically, I’m Joel from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Much like last year’s costume, this is one of those where you either get the reference or you don’t. If you were watching a lot of Comedy Central in the 90’s (or you had friends…
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Poorly Drawn Robots In Space
Yes, I had to resort to taking these screenshots with my phone. Recently I started poking around an old hard drive I found and uncovered a treasure trove of old selfies, homework, and even a diary listing the first time I ever kissed a girl (January 13th 2000.) Among other historic artifacts was a game…
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One weird trick to induce lucid dreams and out of body experiences
What if I told you that I have one weird trick to help you have a lucid dream and/or out of body experience? This particular trick has been well documented elsewhere, but if you don’t want to read an entire book I’ll give you the quick version here. Also note that this is intended for…
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Assassin’s Creed Halloween costume
Nothing is true,Everything is permitted. – The Creed Assassins. Seems like they’re everywhere these days, murdering it up. So for Halloween this year I made my own modern-style Assassin’s Creed costume. The white hoodie is pretty much standard as far as assassins go these days. The felt patch on the hood is a tribute…
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What I learned from my HyperCard middle school digital portfolio
In middle school we were all required to build a “digital portfolio” of our work. They taught us HyperCard so we could link each essay we wrote and our photos into a personal HyperCard stack. It was a portfolio that “we’d add to until we graduated” because computers were the future, or whatever. But what…
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30 days without wheat: the end, and looking back
Now that I’ve had some time to reflect on my wheat-free diet, I thought I’d post the results. But first, let’s recall the ground rules: Based on those rules, I had a few potential results in mind to look out for: There were two main factors I was looking for in this experiment: weight and…
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Do you get canker sores? Read this.
Time for another gross health-related post! It used to be I’d get canker sores once a month, often more. They come with a subtle pain that never quite goes away in your mouth. Nobody should have to endure this, and if you get canker sores I might have the solution for you. The problem started…
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30 days without wheat: the first 20 days
What a difference ten days makes. Ten days ago (more or less) I told you about my 30 days without wheat diet self-experiment. I decided to try going for a month without eating any wheat at all. No breads, crackers, pizza, wheat beers, etc. for a full 30 days. It’s now been 20 days since…
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30 days without wheat
Could wheat really be bad for you? While reading BoingBoing the other day, I happened across a post claiming wheat is addictive, responsible for many health problems, makes you fat, caused the Holocaust, etc. Some of the claims are really out there. But let’s assume for a moment that there might be a grain of…
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