Still not dead...
...though I did sleep for something like 36 of 48 hours this weekend.
NY Times Blog: Stand up while you read this
Your chair is your enemy.
It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting - in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home - you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you.
New gay theater has more love than politics
These productions about gay life make little or no mention of H.I.V. or AIDS and keep direct activism at arm’s length, with militant crusading portrayed with ambivalence more than ardor. The politics of these shows are subtler, more nuanced: they place the everyday concerns of Americans in a gay context, thereby pressing the case that gay love and gay marriage, gay parenthood and gay adoption are no different from their straight variations.
I am only slightly ashamed to admit that when catching up on my Dreamwidth reading page just now, I laughed out loud at the Legolas panel of this comic
In related news, I framed the two xkcd prints I bought myself for Christmas. Now to decide where to hang them, and whether I really need more Story People prints, or whether the five I already have are enough.
I am going to watch The Hurt Locker, then sleep, then get up tomorrow and try to start the habit of keeping up with the internet again. Even though when I say it like that, it sounds like a really horrible idea. If I've un-addicted myself, isn't that a good thing? I'm doomed to feel guilty either way.
I haven't watched any of the Olympics but for about 20 seconds of speed-skating and a Today Show segment about poutine. Why, precisely, there was an Olympic food segment about something so ridiculously unhealthy, I have no idea.
NY Times Blog: Stand up while you read this
Your chair is your enemy.
It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting - in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home - you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you.
New gay theater has more love than politics
These productions about gay life make little or no mention of H.I.V. or AIDS and keep direct activism at arm’s length, with militant crusading portrayed with ambivalence more than ardor. The politics of these shows are subtler, more nuanced: they place the everyday concerns of Americans in a gay context, thereby pressing the case that gay love and gay marriage, gay parenthood and gay adoption are no different from their straight variations.
I am only slightly ashamed to admit that when catching up on my Dreamwidth reading page just now, I laughed out loud at the Legolas panel of this comic
In related news, I framed the two xkcd prints I bought myself for Christmas. Now to decide where to hang them, and whether I really need more Story People prints, or whether the five I already have are enough.
I am going to watch The Hurt Locker, then sleep, then get up tomorrow and try to start the habit of keeping up with the internet again. Even though when I say it like that, it sounds like a really horrible idea. If I've un-addicted myself, isn't that a good thing? I'm doomed to feel guilty either way.
I haven't watched any of the Olympics but for about 20 seconds of speed-skating and a Today Show segment about poutine. Why, precisely, there was an Olympic food segment about something so ridiculously unhealthy, I have no idea.