Coffee.... one of five Surprisingly Healthy Foods

http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/5-surprisingly-healthy-foods?page=3

One real benefit for java lovers: your morning wake-up call can help satisfy your body's daily fluid needs. Studies show that coffee does not dehydrate habitual drinkers, as once believed, and can count toward your daily fluid quota, says Zied.

Another plus is that coffee is naturally calorie-free. But if you load it up with cream, sugar, whipped cream, and/or flavored syrup, the extra fat and calories can undermine any potential benefits.

There  has been this big discussion around here as to whether coffee counts toward daily fluid intake.  According the the above it does'  of course I realize that there's an argument that six cups of coffee a day isn't a good idea,  but at least I get my fluids

[daily dose of imagery]

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/

guy puts up photo every day with interesting design elements.

a favorite show... Bump in the Night

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_in_the_Night

NOT available on NetFlix

Latest Work By Eddie [Breen]

http://edbreen.livejournal.com/

This is wild "piggyback" art

eddi breen, artist

http://eddiebreen.com/abouteddie/abouteddie.html

Art can neither be good or bad, only interesting or boring, says Eddie Breen, the leading practitioner of piggyback art. He takes paintings that he considers boring or incomplete, and inserts nuns, flying jesuses, flame people, or demons, changing the meaning of the composition in ways to suit his visions, to co opt the elements and create his own worlds.

Crisis in local newspapers...

apparently local newspapers are really biting the dust.

Dave Winer had an article (and proposed solution) about it at

http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/24/troubleAtTheChronicle.html

referring to this...

SF Chronicle in Trouble?:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/sf_chronicle_in.html

One point by Winer is that newspapers should give blogs to people they interview,  thus tapping both expertise and the new "citizen" journalism.

AustinBlogger added me ( Jeff Imig ) to his "twitter" friends

http://austinblogger.com/blog/ <- I have no idea why this guy added me to his list.  Maybe promoting something.  Maybe because I'm a follower of http://twitter.com/davewiner

Me (jeff) on http://twitter.com  :  http://twitter.com/mutualaid  <- thats me "mutualaid"

The whole idea of twitter is answering the question "what are you doing now?"

I'm not even sure what the whole point of twitter is,  but it's growing by leaps and bounds; seems that as long as your list of friends stays short it would be of use,  but if you have 2 or 3 THOUSANDS of friends,  how do you keep up with one friend?

I am seriously looking for the answer of that.  Am I just missing the point of it?  etc

Unitarian behavior process and covenant

http://tinyurl.com/2btzog <- Google Search This is so boring. "Right Behavior" for example: http://tinyurl.com/2azqdv <- Emerson UU What has happened? Suddenly we can't cope with bizarre behavior anymore? We going to beat up on people because their craziness disturbs us? Like a leading promoter of Right Behavior says... this has always been with us. Ok... lets see a list of "Wrong Behavior"...

• Dribbling pea soup when you eat.
• talking too much
• Smelling of wine when you come to church
• Smelling when you come to church
• wearing a hat in church (my fav because I'm guilty, no complaints but constant questions)
• wearing the wrong kind of hat
• not wearing a hat
• women wearing sweat pants instead of nice dresses. That just disturbs some people no end. Really.
• Blue jeans?
• Wearing flag pins?
• Not wearing flag pins?
• Not standing at the right time?

I'm tempted to say "what a bunch of panty waist bullsh!t", but that would definitely be bad behavior. Oops. Polish The Pitchforks, Please.

Obama's Pastor Speaks Out « Skeptical Brotha

http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/obamas-pastor-speaks-

out/

about the pastor's interaction with the New York Times.

Hero

I just watched Hero (with Dustin Hoffman) again.

I had forgotten that a major theme was about newspapers.

But the 'true' story was about many things, and it just devastates me.

Truth, caring, love, poverty, and Heroism.

Jeff

How do you read 3000 pages of anything by this Friday?

You get a popular blog to point their readers to it:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002809.php

A better organizing system might be nice, but what the heck!

SkyScout $400

http://tinyurl.com/2z6kwa  (BH Photo Video)

$400 is actually pretty cheap for what it does.

SkyScout ... International Academy of Science

http://www.science.edu/TechoftheYear/Finalists/SkyScout/SkyScout.htm

a gps unit built into a hand held telescope... tells you a) what
you're looking at, or b) how to find something you're looking for.

with indicators in the field of view.

Nice, compact unit. I'm not even going to try to find the price :-(

I would consider it a sort of "Reverse GPS" unit... I'm here, then
it tells me where what I'm looking at is.

[Is that twisted grammar? Ha.]

The Zen of Basement Reorganization & Cleanup

Ok, Maybe it's Tao, or even Feng Shui.

I sit for a while in the middle of the chaos and stare at it.

Eventually I see a puzzle piece that fits. Move Z127 to A013 for
example.

The next day, move something.

Then stare some more.

Great Memories of Ballroom Dancing

Digging around down here in the lab I got to thinking about "Old times" Those were the days o yes they were... Foster and Judi Lampert at http://dancelovers.com:

DanceLovers.com: Who Are We?

We have a passion for dancing and a love for teaching! Our instructional videos are a way to reach thousands across the world as we share the joy of learning to dance. The positive emails, phone calls, and mail we receive is gratifying and overwhelming. We've never boasted to be world-class dancers but we are first class instructors. When we owned a ballroom in Illinois, we taught up to 1000 a week. Our students were thrilled when we came out with videos... they loved "taking us home with them."

She Sorts Her Books By Color

On the Today show (http://todayshow.com) this morning there was a bit
about managing small living spaces. They had a young woman there who
was bragging about how she did a makeover of her apartment.

One item was the open shelving. She attached shelves to the wall,
lots of them. then she arranged her books in stacks on the mid to
upper shelves, and explained how she arranged them by colors to
liven up the space! What a brilliant idea!

Why hadn't I thought of that. And I'm sure she's going to (or has)
publish(ed) a book about it.

I'm such a laggard.

The True Stature Of Our President

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070227/483/0dffe2f5ac744ca3b6a5a353620f971d

oh yeah! go look.

What I had for lunch today...

After reading the whining WSJ article about "live blogging" today, I feel compelled to describe what I ate for lunch... Suzie's Chili Dogs from Morton Illinois. Boy were they good. Rosella didn't think they were so hot. I suppose that's not really LIVE blogging, but I didn't have my Blackberry with me :)

Do NOT Disturb the Kitty

Ms Pretty does not take well to being awakened!

Britney Spears & the Themes of Our Lives...

video link: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/02/022107.html

have I said I like this guy? This is why.

jeff