Inert Ramblings

Month: July 2003

  • Lunch

    • Grilled roast beef with cheddar, lettuce, onion and pickles on low carb bread with bleu cheese dressing (8 carbs)
    • Side of egg salad (2 carbs)

  • Three day induction plan…

    Kelly will be trying Atkins again and has posted her last will and testament. Although I won’t go into any specific details, she has come up with a few interesting motivators to keep herself from cheating. Teehee. So, she has asked me to come up with a quick three day meal plan to get her started on the road to induction.

    The first thing to keep in mind is that, for the first few days of induction, water intake is extremely important. This will help reduce the risks of dehydration as well as keep energy levels up as the body gets used to not having many carbohydrates to fuel itself. The next thing to keep in mind is that induction is the most important time to make sure as few sugars and carbohydrates as possible get into the system. Use the Atkins Carb Counter as a cheat sheet to figure out general carbohydrate totals.
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  • Is that a Hulk in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

    When I was six or seven years old I played a game of Whack-a-Frog at the Old Orchard Beach fairway. The game consists of placing a rubber frog onto a lever and then whacking the lever with a rubber mallet. Get enough frogs into the rotating floating lilly pads in the middle of a small pool and win a prize!

    Although I never won anything quite as weird as an anatomically correct bootleg Hulk doll, I did manage to take home a rather large stuffed frog that appeared to have been assembled in a third world country using street urchins for slave labor. To top things off, halfway home in the car, I started to get a headache and didn’t know why. We got home, the frog went into a box of stuffed animals, and that was that.

    Years later the box was found, nostalgia set in and I went through all of my old stuffed animals. I found the frog and pulled it out. Memories flooded my brain and then I smelled kerosene. I held it close to my nose and sniffed…kerosene. Check the box…nothing else smelled. Just the frog. I punched a small hole in the back of the fog and found it stuffed with, you guessed it, dirty rags.

    So, beware of fair prizes. They’re difficult to win because the games are fixed and, if you do manage to take something home, toss a match at it and see if it goes up like kindling!

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  • No Dimensional Warp Generator for me!

    After receiving the Dimensional Warp Generator and teleportation dropoff emails, I was intrigued enough to check out the alleged delivery point on Monday, July 28, 2003. The location was only ten minutes from work and I figured, why not? At worst, no one would show up and I’d sit there alone for ten minutes. At best, I’d get a good laugh and snap some fun photos! Little did I know that there would be some characters there who were taking the whole thing so seriously!

    Update (08/29/2003): Wired reported on the Dimensional Warp Generator and linked to me. Turns out that the time traveler’s family is concerned about him…
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  • Lunch

    • Cajun stir fry chicken with cheddar, lettuce, onion and pickles on low carb bread
    • Side of egg salad

  • Meet the time traveler!

    Now is your chance to meet the Dimensional Warp Generator time traveler in person! He’ll be waiting at the corner of Cummings Ave. and Village Street in Woburn, MA at exactly 3:00 PM today! You’d think he’d be more careful about passing around this extremely sensitive information. I’m sure that government agencies around the world would be interested in this info…

    As always, you can keep incredibly up to date on his activities by checking Feedster or Google. Just be careful…they are watching you! Also, if you decide to head to Woburn this afternoon, you’ll more than likely meet Dave or Jeremy as well!

    Update: There were actually people at the pickup point this afternoon!
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