Two thousand pounds of pot washed up on a beach in Santa Barbara, California yesterday. Authorities give it a street value of $4 million dollars. It will be held in the SBPD office lost and found for 60 days. If not claimed the city is planning a large celebration and bonfire sometime in July.
I have a Twitter account. I've never used it. Today is Twitters 7th birthday. The person with the most followers is Justin Bieber (this guy is everywhere) with 36 million. So, all these people know when Justin takes a leak or eats a hot dog. And, if you believe the media, a girl from Japan holds the record for most tweets with a whopping 36,402,262 sent.
I have no idea how long it takes to tweet a tweet. But giving it three seconds this girl has spent about three and a half years doing it. Her parents must be so proud. By the way, Twitter suspended her account.
I watch what I eat and try to exercise five or six times a week. Nothing fancy or strenuous, I do step aerobics in front of our Nintendo Wii. In the three years I've been doing this my weight's dropped around 35 pounds. I was about the same size until I hit fifty. Then several things happened; I quit smoking and started eating, my metabolism slowed down, and Older Daughter Jennifer bought "The American Test Kitchen Cookbook."
If cooking with fresh ingredients, lots of butter, eggs, and heavy cream sounds good to you, I heartily (no pun intended) recommend the cookbook. Fresh salmon cakes, chocolate biscottis, cookies, and the best chicken pot pie ever, made this my downfall. I love good food and I was cooking darn near everyday. When I started looking at jeans with a waist size of 38 I realized I was getting close to the danger zone and put the cookbook away.
So, now I'm careful about what and how much I eat. Here are a few 'myths' about 'low fat' foods.
1. Two-Percent Milk Is Much Lower In Fat than Whole. Two percent of what? Whole milk has roughly 3% fat, so 2% is only 1% less. A low fat food must have no more than 3 grams of fat per serving and 2% milk has 4.9. You can do the math or switch to nonfat. When I met Wanda I was a die hard butter and whole milk guy. She used nonfat and eventually I switched. It only took about three years to get used to the non-taste of non-fat.
2. Brown Eggs Are Healthier. This isn't true. When it comes to eggs, the color on the outside has nothing to do with the nutrients on the inside. The egg man says to choose brands whose packages say they're rich in omega-3-fats. It's not the color but the feed the little peckers eat that makes for better eggs. Depending on your health, two to four eggs a week are all you should eat. This gets too confusing, eggs, egg beaters, brown or white. Maybe you should buy what's on sale. Like they say, when life gives you lemons etc. etc. so, buy eggs, make egg salad.
3. Turkey Bacon Has Less Fat and Sodium. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. To get turkey to taste like real bacon several things are added, like salt and fat. You'll have to read labels or your turkey bacon may be higher in calories, salt, and fat than real pork bacon.
4. Fresh Produce Is Always the Better Choice Over Frozen Fruits and Veggies. The experts say this isn't always true. Out of season produce loses nutrients when it's shipped and it can be expensive. Frozen is a healthy choice because it's frozen at peak ripeness. Look for brands without additives like sugar. Or, buy fresh and freeze it yourself. Wash, cut it to size, put in a bag, and store it in the freezer. See how easy that is.
5. Salads Are Always The Best Choice. Not always true. A plain burger can have 250 calories and 9 grams of fat, while a Caesar salad with grilled chicken can have 380 calories and 23 grams of fat. Chicken, eggs, shrimp, cheese, bacon bits, croutons, and creamy dressing all add lots of fat and calories to salad. Always go for a simple salad with a vinaigrette type dressing.
Other things to consider are, low fat or sugar free cookies, swapping juices for soda, reduced or low fat peanut butter, eating frozen yogurt rather than ice cream, and various replacements, like margarine, for butter.
After spending two hundred years in a cryogenic chamber, or as he said, "A Birds-Eye wrapper" Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) is revived by a group of scientists who want his help to overthrow the 'leader' of their government. This is the premise of the 1973 film, "Sleeper."
Miles owned a health food store before he was frozen. This conversation between two of the doctors who revived him.
Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat grem, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragin: Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or...hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy...precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Like low fat milk and brown eggs or turkey bacon? I'm not saying eat a hot fudge sundae or deep fired candy bar for dinner, but lunch, why not? You will have all day to work it off. Eat whatever makes you happy, add a lot of self control and exercise often. Remember 60 is the new 50 or is it the new 40? I can never remember.
Swedish police said a drunken 20-year-old apparently wandered into the wrong house and crawled into bed with a 70-year-old man. The elderly man woke up around 3:30 a.m. Sunday to discover the young man sleeping next to him.
"He got a bit of a shock. He'd been sleeping with earplugs as it was quite noisy in the area." a police spokesperson said.
Police arrived and awoke the young man, who they said was apologetic. He explained his house was less than a mile away and he must have simply entered the wrong house in his intoxicated state.
"We let him walk home and sober up in the fresh morning air. He definitely needed the walk. I'm guessing he found his way home. He is not facing any charges. There was no malice involved, he had no bad intentions." The officer said.
"We let him walk home and sober up in the fresh morning air. He definitely needed the walk. I'm guessing he found his way home. He is not facing any charges. There was no malice involved, he had no bad intentions." The officer said.
The 70-year-old man said, "It was kind of exciting. It was the most action I've had in bed in a long time."
A Japanese printing company said it has created what it believes to be the world's smallest book, with pages measuring only .03-inches in each direction.
Toppan Printing said the book, which contains names and illustrations of flowers, cannot be read with the naked eye and is being sold with a magnifying glass and a larger copy for $305. Toppan has applied to Guinness World Records which currently lists the world's smallest book as a 30-page Russian book called "Chameleon."
My only question is, WHY?
No joke. Savoir Beds, a British mattress manufacturer is producing, in limited supply, a "Royal Bed" with a $175,000 price tag.
Each mattress will require more than 700 hours of labor. It will contain "masses and masses" of curled Latin American horse tail, "mountains" of pure Mongolian cashmere, and enough specially woven silk to be strung more than 1,600 miles.
You can order a mattress with your family crest or initials or even a nice slogan on it. Only sixty will be produced and you'll need to be patient, there is a sixteen week wait.
Again, WHY?
You can order a mattress with your family crest or initials or even a nice slogan on it. Only sixty will be produced and you'll need to be patient, there is a sixteen week wait.
Again, WHY?
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