203.4

yesterday consisted of lots of walking...

coffee for breakfast, light lunch and a sensible dinner is in store

tomorrow should start to see some results

You'll See Yourself

Vietnam is a former French colony and has a considerable French influence.  French movies and music played a major role influencing Vietnamese apparently.  I just get to enjoy listening to new music.

I vaguely recall taking French in pre-school but basically I remember Oof (egg) and Bacon (apparently bacon is universal, except if you're Muslim or Jewish [oh the irony]...)

This is a video of Ann-Marie David singing in Luxemborg in 1973.  The song is called Tu Te Reconnaîtras.  The title basically means You'll Recognize Yourself.



I found the following site which provided a translation into English.

Tu te reconnaîtras	You'll recognise yourself
Dans les rêves de l'enfance	In the dreams of childhood
Dans l'élève que le maître a puni	In the student that the teacher has punished
Dans la gare où commence	In the train station where
La première aventure de la vie	The first adventure of life begins
Dans celui qui doute	In the one who doubts
Dans celui qui croit	In the one who believes
Tu verras, tu te reconnaîtras	You'll see, you'll recognise yourself
À chaque instant dans chaque joie, dans chaque larme	At every moment in each joy, in each tear
Tu verras, tu te reconnaîtras	You'll see, you'll recognise yourself
Dans cet enfant, parmi ces gens, tous comme toi	In that child, surrounded by those people, just like you
Dans les rêves de l'artiste	In the dreams of the artist
Que la gloire n'a jamais couronné	That glory has never awarded
Dans ce monde égoïste	In that egoistic world
Qui renie ce qu'il a adoré	That denies what it has loved
Dans ceux qui ont peur	In those who are scared
Dans ceux qui ont froid	In those who are cold
Tu verras, tu te reconnaîtras	You'll see, you'll recognise yourself
À chaque instant dans chaque joie, dans chaque larme	At every moment in every joy, in every tear
Tu verras, tu te reconnaîtras	You'll see, you'll recognise yourself
Dans cet enfant, parmi ces gens, tous comme toi	In that child, surrounded by those people, just like you
Tu verras, tu te reconnaîtras	You'll see, you'll recognise yourself
Dans cet amour que j'ai pour toi	In that love that I have for you
Oui, tu verras, tu te reconnaîtras	Yes, you'll see, you'll recognise yourself

Translation by Morgan Trouillet.

203.2

203.8

White guys are screwed.  We get chubby, pale, surprisingly hairy in spots and develop freckles in the damnedest places...

I managed to consume my body weight in Thanksgiving turkey last year and had some time to reminisce on the evil, diabolical scheme that somebody, years ago (who probably had designs on opening a fitness chain) decided to have Thanksgiving and Christmas a month apart.  Just enough time for you to completely lose the ability to diet and exercise and gain weight like a sumo.

So I've become rather corpulent.  Time, yet again, to go on a diet.  Dammit.

I'll be posting my weight on a daily basis.  Which will be a pain, but I think it'll help motivate me to get re-svelte.

In other news, there is no other news.  Sweet Girl and I are happy and that lil' bastid is in love with his duck.  I'll post a photo of him and his duck lovers later.

Peace

Man I love this girl

My Sweet Girl is a passionate person.  Meaning that in addition to caring a whole lot about lots of things, she yells when she sees stuff that she doesn't like! 

As well she is a pretty passionate person about life. 

Tonight she told me that she hates it when I trust people.  And I agree that I tend to trust people more than I probably should.  But it's awfully hard to be a jaded dick for me.

I'm just not wired that way.

Of course I'll bet you that history is littered with the corpses of those who shared that delusion.  So I try and be as perceptive as possible.  It's not easy sometimes.  But it's necessary.

I hope you have someone in your life as wonderful as my Sweet Girl.

Serious Sciencemonger Global Warming Information

An unholy alliance of Santa and Al Gore?

Unless your head is permanently stuck into a posterior, you've heard Al Gore and his merry band of global warming alarmists carrying on about how ice is melting, polar bears are starving, penguins are dying, the north pole will be devoid of ice last year, this year, next year, in some indeterminate period of time, etc, etc.

I was curious about the carbon being evil meme after seeing that Domino Sugar actually came out with a version of sugar that is "Carbon Free".  And no, I'm not making this up.  Found it on various places and sure enough, there's an actual statment on the Domino website that they have carbon free sugar.  Which, as you probably know, is no mean feat as a preponderance of the chemical makeup of sugar is, you guessed it, carbon.

Carbon

Atomic Number:	6	Atomic Symbol:	C
Atomic Weight:	12.011	Electron Configuration:	2-4
Shells:	2,4	Filling Orbital:	2p2
Melting Point:	sublimes @ 3500oC	Boiling Point:	4827oC
Uses:	making of steels, filters, pencils and many more uses

Since carbon is an element found in sugar, without it you have no sugar.  Here, this is the chemical makeup of sugar.  Source is wikipedia.  See all the C's in there?  That's carbon.  You cannot have sugar without carbon.

While it is, to me, irritating that Domino is so desperate to be "Green" that they actually claim to have carbon free sugar, I decided to put aside petty differences and instead look deeper into the ramifications that this new and improved carbon free sugar has to offer.  What I found totally amazed me...

Enter the Get Stewed Sciencemongers.  Tasked with determining how this new and improved sugar could actually be sugar sans the element carbon the Sciencemongers dove in.  They cleaned the pizza boxes off, donned lab coats, started up those spinny things, some put tape on glasses and all joined the ranks of the pocket protector club as science oozed forth as if gifted from the firmament.

Firing up the Get Stewed Posi-Tronic Scienc-ey Micr'skope they bustled about hurriedly for hours before ushering me into the boardroom and showing me that the carbon in Domino Sugar had been replaced by a new element.  Amazing.  Earth shattering news, and my humble band of Sciencemongers figured this out all by themselves in just a few hours.  Amazing what a lab coat and a few spinny things can do eh?

The image below shows the new element contrasting the previous presence of Carbon:

You can clearly see a new chemical element where the carbon was.  What is the new element?  Simple, it's Algoricol.  A new element.  The Sciencemongers gave Algoricol the abbreviation of MBP for Man-Bear-Pig.

Now this is earth shattering and interesting and all that.  But what, you may ask, does this have to do with an unholy alliance between Santa and Al Gore?  Because that is what this is really all about you see.  Well, I'll tell you.  The chemical makeup of our base sucrose sugar is; C₁₂H₂₂O_11. When the C_12. is removed, you're left with H₂₂O_11.

Another way of writing this is H₂O x 22.  What does this leave us with?  HHo  As an Hh creates a silent second "h", we get Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho!

Which can only be either Charlie Sheen on a two night coke bender, a snippet of a sermon by Jesse Jackson or Santa.

Forget media bias, union thuggery, or even racist Tea Partiers, the real danger here is Al Gore and Santa working in unison to bring us a world barren of snow and carbon. 

Now if I don't win a Nobel Prize for science after this, the whole thing is rigged.  RIGGED I SAY!!!

What do you live for?

Stop, Hammertime!

Ice Ice Baby

The largely unexamined dangers of the microwave burrito...

Global Warming Strikes

6-12"...  Did Algore come to Georgia?

It's snowing.  I can't sleep.  I'm trying to work but it's largely an unsuccessful endeavor.  I'm resisting the temptation to put on some warm clothes and find something to sled with...