The Daily Mail has a useful article about Hay Fever and how to kick it (yes you can!). There seem to be a variety of different methods.
I link to it not for my own benefit as I generally don’t suffer from hay fever but I have several friends who do, and it can sometimes be a nightmare for them. As such I think the more info there is around about dealing with it the better!
Gotta sort out my eating. I’ve taken a step backward. Stop eating so much.
Well it’s been over a week since I last posted, partly from a ‘I just can’t be fucked’ mood and because I’ve been busy. However I can’t go too long without posting something asinine and idiotic on here so here goes.
Right now I’m listening to a kick-ass cover of ‘Sunday bloody Sunday’ by Ignite. Certainly beats U2’s version, even though that’s pretty good. There is something about so-cal style punk covers that just do generally rock. Funnily enough this reminds me of a website I came across a while ago that might interest some, the coversproject.com. The only seeming problem with the site is that it isn’t collaborative so is maintained by a small group of people, so there are omissions. Time it changed its structure to Wiki.
Well I have been doing the Atkins diet since Tuesday and it seems to be working. I’ve lost something near 12 pounds and it’s only Sunday. As you could imagine I’m pretty pleased by that and it gives me the incentive to keep this disgusting diet going; Because it is disgusting. You wouldn’t believe how constant your craving for carbs becomes. Every meal you eat, you think to yourself "this is missing rice/pasta/bread/sugar" and then cry a few tears into your food, making it too salty to eat. Wah. If you are seriously thinking about doing the Atkins then you will need this pdf, it is a list of common foods and their carb/protein values. Also I might recommend giving Adobe Acrobat Reader the finger and getting the extremely dapper and lightweight Foxit Acrobat reader. It’s free, but most importantly it opens pdf files in a fraction of the time compared to the Adbobe pdf plugin. Also if you want to keep Adbobe Acrobat running, say if you’ve bought it, then read this article about setting Firefox to download pdf files rather than open them in browser and freezing it.
Next I would like to talk about this rather marvellous ant to the left. Drawn entirely with Biro this little guy is just one of the creations over at biro-art.com. It seems these days that people are finding more and more wonderful ways to create art. This guy, known as NobbyNobody is incredibly talented and I suggest you check out in particular ‘Headcrab Porn‘ and ‘Inhuman Pyramid‘.
In other news I am battling on with the mediawiki syntax, which isn’t too annoying after all. As I find myself suggesting alternative software to people so often, I thought I would compile a list of the best software I’ve used. This isn’t to say that these are the best of their given category on the web, but the programs I prefer to use. Some of them are well known favourites like Firefox, others a little more unknown like the excellent mp3 player xmplay, which I particularly enjoy for its excellent streaming ability. The list is in its early stages so lots of software isn’t on there, and some of what is has not been linked yet. Check back regularly as I will update it as often as I can.
Anyone else ever get really annoyed when a group of major characters get killed off at the end of a shows season, only to be miraculously OK the next season. Watching Stargate SG1’s 10th season kick off I find that every major character which it had suggested had been killed in the massive battle with the Aurai are actually fine. This is a total cop out, as it makes the finale to the previous season completely worthless. I’ve seen this kind of syndrome in the silvers recently, in X-Men 3 of course. SPOILER ALERT - Swipe the text below to read - When Professor X dies and Magneto loses his powers we find it suggested post credits that this is not the case for either of them, invalidating massive events that had previously happened in in the film.
Well it’s another sweltering Sunday, so I better find something productive to do for the rest of it. This is nemo, signing off. May your heads explode in a confetti of gore.
O.K., this is it. In 4 days I will begin my Atkins diet, nothing will stop me - except a sense of futility; But I laugh in the face of despair. I can do it, run Forest run!
It’s a comin’, the diet freight train is chugging down the slow curve of my life and slowly catching up wit’ me. Unless I want to spend another Summer hot and irritable, sitting inside with clothes that don’t fit me then I have to heave too and pull myself onto that train as it pulls by.
It won’t be hard, I have lots of reasons to just stick my head in the ground and go on as I am, if I could be happy as I am I would but this is not the case. Each time I look at myself it’s a struggle to meet my gaze, so if I can’t even do that it’s time to change.
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