I have never considered myself a thin person. I like to consider myself as a big boned person as opposed to being plain fat. I try to watch what I am eating as the effects can be devastating. But the environment you’re in plays a big part of on you. For example: everyone here in [...]
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Browsing the blog archives for January, 2009
18 Jan 09
The Wonder Diet
One of the common concerns of people in America is the way they look, so naturally they are concerned about their weight. Nothing weird here: you are judged and labeled within 30 seconds you meet a new person. That label won’t go away to easily. So you naturally want to look your best. The problem [...]
17 Jan 09
The Dream Over The Hedge
Over the Hedge is a nice animation movie that came out somewhere in 2006. In the movie a furry raccoon (RJ) gets in trouble by trying to steal food from a [zoo] bear. What gets RJ in trouble is not his ability to actually sneak around and steal the food but his greed. To be [...]
16 Jan 09
Your satisfaction guaranteed
Almost all the products that you can find here [in the USA] have on their label/box something like this: “bla bla. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! If you are not completely satisfied with your product, you may return it within 30 days for a replacement or full refund. bla bla”. How can one make such claims? [...]
15 Jan 09
Is the American Dream a Biological Impossibility?
I came a cross an article on blog.wired.com which states no more or less that the American Dream is a biological impossibility? What does it mean? It means that biologically speaking we’re not fit for the dream. What is the dream? In the own words of Peter Whybrow, head of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience [...]
10 Jan 09
Pulp Fiction
This is not a post about Pulp Fiction, the movie. It’s related to the movie but not about the movie About a year ago I heard two work colleagues exchanging lines from the famous Tarantino movie. What caught my attention was that these were not two average Joe that were trying to do something interesting. [...]
7 Jan 09
political, political correctness
One of the things that you need to know if you want to live in the US is how to be politically correct. That means you suddenly become aware that people around you are different.You should learn to accept these differences. Sounds nice? The fact is that everybody is somehow different. Groups of people that [...]
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