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Celery Man

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  1. I have not been paying attention to this at all, but I'm curious about how far they see the modular personalization bit of this going and also wondering how much of this they are seeing as... doing lean product development on an entire car, seeing how this works before moving on to the slightly refined version, the truckier version, the coupe, whatever.
  2. I love the idea of having some basically go kart type vehicle for quick drives around town. LIke a Willys Jeep or a Thing or something, except I don't want to be a jeep guy and then it comes down still needing a real vehicle and not wanting three cars in my normal upper middle class house.
  3. Got a full physical. Doc is happy. I finally caved and bought new pants again. Two pairs of Levi’s 30x32. I wore a fitted shirt today and it stayed tucked in all day long. Hell yeah. For me, I love my protein shake. I’ve been in the office all week and I hate that I haven’t gotten to have it. Delicious, filling, and I can stretch it with ice if I want more volume. I’ve never ate so much spinach.
  4. Still loving this little buck. It’s small enough to not feel in my pocket, so I carry it all the time now.
  5. Just make it into the dip from Chuy’s and you can pretend it is salsa.
  6. I have (had) Reverb pegged as an interesting potential employer. I used to be much heavier in DevOps, which is a field where Etsy was pretty pioneering, and I wouldn't mind living in Chicago where they are HQ'd and of course, a tech/digital company that is guitar focused - that would be perfect. Anyways, just from the randos I've connected with at Reverb on LinkedIn I've noticed some "Farewell!" posts over the past year or so, no idea if that's related. Curious how it goes. I'm almost bummed that the Etsy/Reverb thing is gone just from a career interest thing but also I'm not deep in that niche any more and I don't even know if Etsy is still a leader in that space and meh.
  7. Nobody is crying when you pull the little bottle of ketchup out of your purse.
  8. oh yeah i agree, was just making a fairly politically inert joke about our current president's eating habits that did unlock a memory I had almost completely forgotten of being 18 and taking a girl who I was a bit on the fence about to a "fancy" dinner (for me for then, I think it might have been Birraporetti's before a movie at the angelika) and she stuck her gum on her knife on the table and immediately asked for a side of ranch. And as soon as she said "ranch" I made up my mind that I was about to move to Austin and she would stay in Conroe and that would be that. She was cute, I wonder what she looks like now.
  9. We had a Fruitopia vending machine in my intermediate school. Which was fine, since it offered something that looked like juice which of course is healthy and I'm pretty sure part of that whole food pyramid thing.
  10. That’s how they got PnB Rock
  11. That kinda money can certainly insure some prompt service 😉
  12. If you're a decent person and you've ever spent any time around families without.... a generational structure of wisdom, it's easy to be compassionate towards people who grow up that way and for whom making what seem like obvious good choices to folks like most of us is much much less obvious and much more difficult. And just a rudimentary understanding of the world and numbers and statistics can inform you how you should understand things in the aggregate while also recognizing that people aren't limited to whatever "their" average is and have the ability to make choices to change their lives. Poor people (in the aggregate) eat like shit because it's generally cheaper and easier and the wisdom of making different choices has been spoonfed to them less and their lives are fucking hard. I feel a lot of compassion for those folks, and also I posted in the thanksgiving thread about the wife's little 1 year old second cousin from Louisiana walking around with coke in a baby bottle, holy fuck wow. Maybe it was a cherry coke, had a little vodka. I dunno. That little baby is probably going to be feeding her own little baby cheetos in 16 years. Or maybe not. Goddamn. Anyways, it's structurally more difficult for poor folk in the aggregate to be thin for a multitude of reasons. Most not all of them could make different choices and not be fat, but it's not easy to make those choices and I'm not sure anyone here is arguing that it is. even this is really saying the same thing that people who swear by calories in/calories out are. those folks recognize that you can plateau, your body can slow down if it thinks it is starving, its harder to keep a deficit if you're eating shitty calories, not everyones body burns calories the same way all things equal. But there's no such thing as magic.
  13. The shit with kids food is bananas. Wife and I are much much more “target” than “granola” but have always paid a lot of attention to that with the kids, and it’s jarring to be around even other people highly similar to us with little kids. We left our daughter with my sister for a day and were mouthing “oh fuck” to each other when we came back to find her strung out on capri sun. I’m constantly intercepting “snacks” made mostly out of corn sugar. Why would they even need to eat that shit? our kids are great sleepers, and I think we’ve done a good job with sleep training and schedules and routines and whatever but I also think what a lot of parents are doing to fuck themselves up is stringing their kids out on sugar water and fruit snack candy all day long and then expecting their kids to go down.
  14. I *think* i remember getting down to about 175 at some point in college and I got down to about 175 after rehab (at 30) as well. I wasn't really eating food anymore in late stage alcoholism, i couldn't stomach it. And so my appetite was all weird and I mostly ate cereal and salad bar. I think if I just *had* a salad bar available all the time it'd be easy to eat well. Anyways, I'm sure a food addiction is complicated by not being able to abstain from food. I couldn't drink just a little bit, that's kinda one of the first things you have to deal with in recovery. I think from the little reading about and talking to I've done with people who have big food issues, it sounds like addiction stuff to me. Kids was raised as a reason why people might not be able to stick to a good diet, and I'll raise again the thing that i discovered, which was that I could structure good choices in a way where the good choice solved the same problem that was being solved by bad choices. I had to stop snacking and make some different choices and what have yous but really for me, I enjoy the cup yogurt/scoop protein powder/tbsp peanut butter powder/bigasshandful of spinach/banana/handful of frozne strawberries/bunch of ice cubes/vitamix goes brrrrrt even more than I enjoyed the grilled cheese sandwich and plate of chips or whatever shitty thing I used to grab for lunch because I don't have any time or emotional energy to make a plan. I had to get into the habit of not eating every time I got the urge to eat. I've discovered that being pretty hungry for every meal makes most food really delicious, so whatever thing it is the wife wants to do for dinner these days is usually great. And I discovered that i'd been fucking myself up by being afraid of counting calories and stepping on a scale every day. It is not that big of a deal (for me, non food problem having person) and I can budget whatever choice I want to make and most of all I *know* quantitatively what it is that I'm doing and I can see the number change on the other side. Which of course is also a big deal because it took a few weeks for my pants to get loose and for me to really be able to tell that I looked any different.
  15. Quitting drinking is as easy as not ingesting alcohol any longer, and yet many people don’t really have “choice” in the same way that others do, and there are a lot of reasons for that. It’s not helpful for non-alcoholics to simply profess that people who can’t seem to put the bottle down are choosing not to and are morally or otherwise weak, and it also displays their own ignorance on the subject. For folks who get a lot of pride out of beating that drum, it speaks to their character as well. But the path to sobriety also involves rigorous accountability. I’m not addicted to food, but I always imagine it is exactly like that for some people. And I’m guessing the problem with some rx drugs is that they give you an insatiable appetite? And of course there’s the problem that the easiest diet to eat in America will kill you. While recognizing that I don’t have a food addiction, I do think that part of what made losing weight for me very easy this time around is the amount of practice I have shutting out that voice in my head screaming for the thing.
  16. Matthew 7:22-23
  17. Mentally and proportionally, yes
  18. I've found it incredibly easy to lose weight this year just by a) being so goddamn busy and b) eating healthy as a family. I put it on since kid #2 by being busy - too busy to think about groceries or what to do for lunch and then I'm just making grilled cheese sandwiches with pretzels or chips or whatever. I turn 40 this year, decided I'd get back to college weight by running on a calorie deficit. I figured out a 500 calorie meal replacement protein smoothie for lunch, eat that almost every day (or something in the 5-650 calorie range near the office if I'm up there) we have a healthy dinner in the 5-700 calorie range, cottage cheese and hot sauce for breakfast, those little italian ices for a snack/dessert before bedtime, somewhere from 15-1800 calories a day. Making the same damn lunch smoothie every day solves the same problem (too busy to plan or think) that grilled cheeses were solving and being too busy also makes it easy to not think about food. Counting calories makes it so I understand *what* I'm doing rather than just vaguely doing a thing, and taking my weight every morning means i unerstand the effect it is having and have had no issue staying motivated/understanding if it is working or not. I've never been a great big fat person but i've been overweight my whole life and am currently at a 21 BMI. Staying busy, counting calories, measuring weight.
  19. Al Qaeda and our conservative christian friends serve the same lord.
  20. That sucks man, wishing you the endurance to get back through it. I’m going to suggest that this search will revert to the mean and go much more quickly.
  21. didn't even clock who this was at first and just thought "ah, meth explosion"
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