It’s my world

maybe this year I’ll post more, maybe I’ll post less, only time will tell.

I’m hoping that sometime this year my area gets a decent snowstorm. I miss snow.

taken from this bbc article…

Professor Chris Higgins, vice-chancellor of the University of Durham, said: “There should be no room for doubt - creationism is completely unsupportable as a theory, and the only reason to mention creationism in schools is to enable teachers to demonstrate why the idea is scientific nonsense and has no basis in evidence or rational thought.”

What I really find interesting is if you talk to a priest who’s also a biologist (it happens!). Try it out. If you need to find one I suggest checking your local catholic high school. Also I recommend a Jesuit, they’re my favorite priest-types…

Everyone as probably heard the advice, “Tell the smart girls they’re pretty and the pretty girls they’re smart”. I’m beginning to wonder if we have reached a new era socially were you can add: “Tell the dirty girls they’re sweet, and the sweet girls they’re dirty” or something along those lines.

Think about it…

According to this article Alabama is going to start using Body Mass Index to determine if state employees are overweight and charge them monthly for insurance if they are.

I’m all in favor of encouraging people to live healthy active lives. I believe people should eat well and take care of their bodies.

BMI is not the metric to use for something like this though. BMI is based on a comparison of a persons weight and height. My BMI puts me at overweight but just shy of obese (around a BMI of 29 if you’re curious). I play full court basketball for around an hour 4 times a week. I eat around 2200 calories a day. I don’t get sick. I rarely catch a cold, I don’t have heart trouble, my cholesterol was in the good range last time I had it checked (which reminds me I’m probably due for that again)

At my lightest adult weight I had a BMI around 26. This was a period in my life when I was lifting weights 6 days a week, running 3 miles a day, and eating a high protein, low fat diet. A BMI of 26 is considered overweight.

What’s my point? I’m just saying that peoples bodies are built differently and that it’s not impossible for a person to be healthy and still have a high BMI. BMI is not meant to be used as a stand alone metric, it’s meant to be used as a guide and part of an overall health assessment.

In short I don’t believe that BMI is the right thing to use to enforce an employer’s health policy.

But you’re so cute when you’re frustrated, dear
Yeah you’re so cute when you’re sedated, dear
I missed you

(Interpol - PDA)

Bitches ain’t shit but hos and tricks.

Back in the day a typical email sig was around 3 lines with some contact information and probably a favorite quote or something. It was stored in a carefully formatted text file watching that 72 character line widths were observered lest you be subjected to flames galore.

Today I realized that the bigger someone’s signature, the less I care about what they have to say. Maybe that will be my new sig…

Who doesn’t like those?!?

I think they were high when they wrote that shit

So I walk into work this morning about 9:30 (that’s actually early for me!) and find one of our testers being escorted out of the building. In the next 2 hours 4 more people are asked to leave. All were told their positions had been eliminated. In the last 3 months we’ve added 5 off-shore “resources” several of whom are going to be here locally over the next several weeks for training and knowledge transfer of several development projects.

Is there any reason for me to believe anything other than this is me being asked to train the person (people) who will take my job?