You may have noticed some changes on the blog recently. I've decided to take my wife's advice and listen to one of the little voices in my head to create a more focused blog.
What does that mean?
It means a few things.
One, the Barry Atric blog is now going to focus on what the title says. Weight loss, diet, food, medicine, bariatric surgery and my personal updates on my progress from the surgery. Most of the entries that are not related to those items, directly or tangentally, have been removed.
Two, there are now four blogs. Click on my profile for links to the new ones, but now there is the Barry Atric blog, New Author Chronicles detailing my attempt to become a published author, I Think Users Must Hate Me detailing my trials and tribulations dealing with technology in society and my job, and A Teaspoon of Skepticism and a Cup of Reason, a blog about...well... skepticism and reason.
Three, my schedule is changing. I used to try having at least one new blog post in the morning on my blog. I was proud that every day I had something in the feed ready for people if they wanted to follow my witty online banter. No more, I'm afraid. I still am trying to keep things updated, but there's no way I can keep a journal, work on a manuscript, work a day job and keep four blogs updated every day. Instead I'm posting things as they occur to me in the appropriate blog. That means that maybe the New Author Chronicles will fill three days in a row with material (maybe more now that NaNoWriMo is here!) while it may take a week to get something new in the Teaspoon blog. It's okay. I'll do my best to keep material going and not neglect the blogotubes.
If you're interested in all my topics, please do subscribe and link to each of the blogs! Please! If only one, feel free to link to and spread the word about that one blog. I'd appreciate it!
Four, I'm still working on cleaning up the blogs. The Barry Atric blog is getting stories flushed out that don't belong (most migrated to the other blogs) while simultaneously having the links on the side moved, and the other blogs are getting some additional of-interest blogs linked to them (for example, moving Phil Plait's Bad Astronomer blog to the Teaspoon blog rather than here). It's going to take time, but it's getting there.
What this all means is that I'm conducting an experiment on whether a focused blog will garner more attention on the webbertubes, maybe a little more love from from the Googlesphere. If you were just interested in medical/food/WLS information, you won't come here seeing my rants against organized religion, and vice-versa. If you liked my style, or what I had to say, or were at all interested in my opinions, you can still aggregate everything by subscribing to all the feeds and following in your favorite reader.
Hopefully I'll see some significant difference in using this format in the coming months!
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tasty Fried Food
I avoid fried foods now. I've had a bite once in a great great while, but overall I avoid it simply because fried foods make me feel a little queasy (psychosomatic, maybe?), but fried foods aren't very good for you anyway.
One of my guilty post-op pleasures is following the This Is Why You're Fat site. Every day, a new culinary concoction. Such as this one which sounds intriguing and scary at the same time.
There's so many things that people have whipped up and posted. I admit I've made some oddball things in the past, but I don't think I've come up with things that these people do. I'll also admit that I've seen a couple of these things at county fairs and carnivals, though.
In case you never actually looked around the site the This Is Why You're Fat site is listed on the side panel of this blog. Every day. New scary food. Take a gander. Recoil in horror. I won't tell anyone that you secretly wondered what it would taste like.
One of my guilty post-op pleasures is following the This Is Why You're Fat site. Every day, a new culinary concoction. Such as this one which sounds intriguing and scary at the same time.
There's so many things that people have whipped up and posted. I admit I've made some oddball things in the past, but I don't think I've come up with things that these people do. I'll also admit that I've seen a couple of these things at county fairs and carnivals, though.
In case you never actually looked around the site the This Is Why You're Fat site is listed on the side panel of this blog. Every day. New scary food. Take a gander. Recoil in horror. I won't tell anyone that you secretly wondered what it would taste like.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Health Care Reform Proposal
The Junkfood Science blog has an entry regarding the Democrat's proposed healthcare plan, and if the 10,000 foot overview looks like spaghetti from this diagram then it's probably too complex to actually manage in any practical sense.
You might be able to find the blog article from either the link I embedded above or the blogroll on the right side of this page to find Junkfood Science and check it out.
It's so disheartening what a complex mess healthcare is. I enjoy the Junkfood Science blog; the posts are thought provoking and packed with good information. But I do think there's a bias towards strong opposition to the Obama health care proposal; which is fine. Everyone is entitled to an opinion on their own information site...you won't find much praise for Windows on this blog, for example (is there any? I don't think so...I know I have some good things for it though, just not good enough to have posted about it yet).
What I haven't really seen on the Junkfood Science site is a counterproposal or explanation as to why nothing proposed could work. Maybe she has posted the information and I've just missed it (like I said, I enjoy the site or I wouldn't waste my time there). There's something I learned relatively recently (meaning in the last couple years) and that is that if you have a complaint, fine, voice it. It's good in a team or group to have someone that can see the flaws in an idea and point them out. But try to have a counterproposal or solution as well. Just whining about the problems accomplishes nothing but makes you a poisonous element to any team or group.
Now that Obama is in the hot seat everyone is focusing on how we're hoping the healthcare reforms he'll start...and it's important to say it'll only start, not complete, since changes with government occur at a glacial pace...but that it'll probably fail. Every lobbyist and company with a stake in it is making sure they can yell, "I TOLD YOU SO!" when it doesn't work for everyone.
On the other hand, what is the alternative? I'm in my thirties and I don't recall any time aside from Hillary Clinton's efforts hearing about a concentrated effort to help American citizens get healthcare that didn't leave them thinking it would just be better to crawl into the corner and die rather than sort through the bureacracy to get better.
Republicans and insurance companies are saying that the government will stifle competition (yet I keep getting packages from UPS and FedEx...didn't we have a government-run group that delivered packages at one point? I think it was called the postal service...).
After three decades we're still in a mess and not the Democrats or the Republicans have done squat to help their constituents. The Democrats have been and are trying now to find a remedy. Politics as usual between our defacto two-party system is trying to hamper even that effort. Meanwhile we have 46 million Americans (as of 2007) without insurance and with the economy tanking the last couple years there's little doubt that number has risen significantly.
I'm begging. Stop bitching about the planned reform and find a solution. If you think you know better, then propose it. The last time the country actually set it's collective sight on a goal we managed to land an astronaut on the moon in surprisingly short time. Now why can't we get vaccines and medical care to our neighbors without putting them in debt for the rest of their lives?
Bueller?....Bueller?....
You might be able to find the blog article from either the link I embedded above or the blogroll on the right side of this page to find Junkfood Science and check it out.
It's so disheartening what a complex mess healthcare is. I enjoy the Junkfood Science blog; the posts are thought provoking and packed with good information. But I do think there's a bias towards strong opposition to the Obama health care proposal; which is fine. Everyone is entitled to an opinion on their own information site...you won't find much praise for Windows on this blog, for example (is there any? I don't think so...I know I have some good things for it though, just not good enough to have posted about it yet).
What I haven't really seen on the Junkfood Science site is a counterproposal or explanation as to why nothing proposed could work. Maybe she has posted the information and I've just missed it (like I said, I enjoy the site or I wouldn't waste my time there). There's something I learned relatively recently (meaning in the last couple years) and that is that if you have a complaint, fine, voice it. It's good in a team or group to have someone that can see the flaws in an idea and point them out. But try to have a counterproposal or solution as well. Just whining about the problems accomplishes nothing but makes you a poisonous element to any team or group.
Now that Obama is in the hot seat everyone is focusing on how we're hoping the healthcare reforms he'll start...and it's important to say it'll only start, not complete, since changes with government occur at a glacial pace...but that it'll probably fail. Every lobbyist and company with a stake in it is making sure they can yell, "I TOLD YOU SO!" when it doesn't work for everyone.
On the other hand, what is the alternative? I'm in my thirties and I don't recall any time aside from Hillary Clinton's efforts hearing about a concentrated effort to help American citizens get healthcare that didn't leave them thinking it would just be better to crawl into the corner and die rather than sort through the bureacracy to get better.
Republicans and insurance companies are saying that the government will stifle competition (yet I keep getting packages from UPS and FedEx...didn't we have a government-run group that delivered packages at one point? I think it was called the postal service...).
After three decades we're still in a mess and not the Democrats or the Republicans have done squat to help their constituents. The Democrats have been and are trying now to find a remedy. Politics as usual between our defacto two-party system is trying to hamper even that effort. Meanwhile we have 46 million Americans (as of 2007) without insurance and with the economy tanking the last couple years there's little doubt that number has risen significantly.
I'm begging. Stop bitching about the planned reform and find a solution. If you think you know better, then propose it. The last time the country actually set it's collective sight on a goal we managed to land an astronaut on the moon in surprisingly short time. Now why can't we get vaccines and medical care to our neighbors without putting them in debt for the rest of their lives?
Bueller?....Bueller?....
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