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    A fat rant

    The visible comments on YouTube for this comment are not enlightening — your typical array of, “Yeah, don’t hate fat people!” “Fat people are all going to die at age 30 of heart attacks!” and “Fatty fatty fat fat!” Yeah. Anyway. I think she raises some valid points. A lot of people do put their lives on hold for an arbitrary weight. Plenty of people who’ve been overweight for years or decades have no realistic idea of what their “ideal” weight should healthily be, but they get fixated on some number (usually around 130 lb. for women) and strive to hit it, closing their eyes to how they look or…

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    News(?) from Georgia Tech

    After not hearing a damn thing from the Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. Program for months, I emailed them to ask if there was some problem. All my documents show as being in, all letters of recommendation done months ago, etc. The response? “A first round of offers was made, and all other applicants were placed on a waiting list. Unfortunately, it appears that the class will fill up and no offers will be made to applicants on the waiting list.” So presumably, I’m on that waiting list. Which is really a rejection list, since no offers are being made to them. Regardless, I’m questioning further, just in case I was offered…

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    This Week’s Del.icio.us bookmarks

    Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Irrsinn Make your own protein bars — I totally need to try this! It sounds yummy and is less creepy than the stuff buyable in stores. Tagged as: [food] monkeybicycle.net – Can I just point out how racist I’m not being right now? — Funny stuff. Tagged as: [racism] krustukles: Yesterday, wasting a little time… — On a post beginning with the phrase, "I’m not racist, so…" Krustukles lays it all out rather nicely. Tagged as: [racism]

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    Popsicles!

    2 cups frozen stawberries 1 cup frozen blueberries 1 tbsp sugar (or substitute of your choice) 3 tbsp orange juice 1/2 cup water (or however much to get the damn thing to blend) Blend. Put into popsicle holders with sticks. Freeze. Consume! I couldn’t find popsicle holders… or popsicle sticks. So I used ice cube trays and cut straws. So very yummy. It’s even good as goop, which you can see in the blue bowl. Not unlike sorbet, actually.