Strained metaphors

[purplebean]

This article, on "why you shouldn't hit your kids," on Slate, attempts to link the addictiveness of cigarettes with the addictiveness of hitting your kids!   I would have liked to have read more details about the studies that the article alludes to, but it was still interesting.  For instance, I didn't realize any countries had actually banned

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[r_transpose_p]

Clearly I should start running!

I've been forced to choose between cigarettes and food a couple times this summer -- which helps one realize that it is much easier to quit for a couple days than one would otherwise think.

Its also much easier to quit if you think "Oh, I'll just start up again once I have money!"

[slgarrett]

I never knew you smoked either.

God... I feel so... ignorent of people I thought I knew. So much changes over the course of the years. Weird.

[szkoda]

I second this. ( I knew about purplebean, but not r_transpose_p.) The internet is lacking sometimes -- it seems like so many things get communicated, but then there are these every day things that I miss out on.

[slgarrett]

We should stage a Gauge Cave reunion. We could do it in 2010! The year Hal gets reactivated!

[purplebean]

Oooh! Except instead of sitting around doing homework all night, we can smoke and drink and reminisce about the days when we did homework all night!! While, you know, hoping Hal doesn't kill us all.

[slgarrett]

We might work a ceremonial E+M problem.

[r_transpose_p]

That is my 10 year undergrad re-union.

[purplebean]

Running is not all it's cracked up to be! I know, I tried it for a couple of minutes once :)

I third those who didn't know you had the habit (though my memory may be shot; have I ever seen you light up?) -- when did you start? I think it's much easier to quit for a while if you don't smoke too much and also if you didn't start very young. And I agree, it's hugely psychologically easier if you know you're taking a break rather than quitting for good!

[r_transpose_p]

I smoked when L and I went to Solvang / Santa Ynez / Santa Barbara.

Tobacco smoke was actually a great fly and mosquito repellent for campers.

I did quit for two years, during which time I got up to running 3 miles a day.

My running strategy is this : Find someone whose ass you like to stare at who runs regularly. Start running with them, but slightly behind, chasing the person's ass the way a greyhound chases a rabbit.