RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi!
You brought up a point I hadn't mentioned: I do have dairy allergies. When i was born my mom had to give me soy milk because of that. When I drink milk or eat dairy, I immediately get mucous buildup exactly as if I had a head cold. It's one reason I try to stay away from dairy. This past week was a rare breakdown. Not sure exactly what meat is bad for me, but I know how my body feels sluggish when I eat certain types. When I did my vegan thing, I slowly re-introduced meat, and was able to note the specific effects of different types as I ate them. Red meat is of course the worst, so I limit my consumption of hamburger or beef to something like once a month. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M C Jennings Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 02:03 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! I hear you, Keith! I LOVE Vanilla, and/or the smell of it. I get vanilla flavored Rice Milk and/or Soy Milk. It helps. I used to be an ice cream fiend, tooPistachio! The doctor I went to after my stomach and hemhorroids became acutely bloody told me that cravings like that are a red flag for foods we're allergic to. He was right. I hated him for ruining my one true addiction. I thanked him later when I was was able to tie my bleeding directly to the dairy products. Now, I'd rather eat Crisco than Ice Cream. Not an option either, by the way! LOLLOL! Man, that cycle you were forced into this past week has got to have a name. It happens way too much! I remember spending nights sleeping in chairs back in the day, making software fixes, re-writing code on a customer's site, and testing. You're bringing back great memories, my friend. Thanks! Hope that doesn't happen to you often...! Maurice ---Original Message--- From: Keith Johnson Date: 08/19/05 22:12:32 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! Had a bad week for some reason. It may because I had to be at work at 5 am three days out of the last five, doing five-hour server upgrades each time. I was too tired to workout like I needed, yet my schedule kept me from eating well (I usuallly take time to prepare breakfast, lunch, and snacks to eat at work so I avoid the pitfuls of eating out). So I'd get home tired yet hyper, pissed off, and hungry. Next thing I know I'm downing ice cream shakes. I've polished off three gallons of ice cream in the last week. So I'll be hitting the road about 7 in the am tomorrow to run off some of the calories I picked up. It's amazing how one can be biochemically configured to respond favorably to various smells or tastes. I consider myself to be very disciplined, but ice cream is a true weakness. I also have an amazing reaction to the smell and taste of vanilla. Give me a vanilla bean pod and I'm like a cat with catnip. I probably drop two tablespoons of vanilla extract into each milkshake I make.The smell has an amazing affect. The same with the smell of roses for me. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 14:22 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! The same with me and rootbeer or gingerale ice cream floats... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ha-ha! The one addiction I have is to ice cream. I try very hard to only eat ice cream on the weekends. Try to leave hamburgers and stuff to the weekends too. That usually works, unless I start the weekend early. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 19:53 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! I have to ask...What about those Coke and vanilla ice cream floats??? Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I stand 6'1, weigh about 210 pounds, yet eat very little meat for my size. Everyone expresses surprise at how little meat I eat. I workout a great deal and always seem to have high energy. A few years ago when this weight consisted of more fat (now it's hopefully more muscle with a little fat left) I went cold-turkey vegan for three months. Though I missed the barbecue, Mexican food (beef), and ham with my pancakes, I did surprisingly well. My wife, however, had a terrible time. She could barely last two weeks, and was always craving meat. It wasn't until much later that you and others made me aware of the whole blood type thing. I'm type AB, which according to that Web site you (?) posted, doesn't need much meat. Indeed, AB needs to stay away from a wide range of meat and dairy products. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi!
Amen! What kind of IT work did you do? Still in it? I'm trying to move from the LAN admin stuff I'm doing (which is a very broad category that can cover everything from grunt work to fairly high-level sys admin stuff, depending on the company or on the particular needs at the moment). Goal is to move more toward the strategic planning arena. I like IT, but finally at the point where I'm tired of having to be up on the latest technology all the time. Doing it for myself is fine--I'm currently in the process of building a Linux server--but the often hectic pace of becoming an expert for a job is getting old. Also, I'm really serious about this writing thing (as my long e-mails often state!) and I can't afford the extra time such jobs demand. You're always having to study and check and keep on top of things, and that usually means little downtime to goof off at work, and a need to do more work at home. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M C Jennings Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 02:05 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! Murphy says...Fixes don't, software isn't, and upgrades aren't! Maurice ---Original Message--- From: Astromancer Date: 08/19/05 23:13:14 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! Um Keith...I think you response to vanilla is more Pavlovian than biochemical...lol...and you're starting to frighten me...I am thinking about going into the maintenence side of the computer field, but if you keep shring these 'delightful stories' about five hour upgrades, I might bolt and run... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Had a bad week for some reason. It may because I had to be at work at 5 am three days out of the last five, doing five-hour server upgrades each time. I was too tired to workout like I needed, yet my schedule kept me from eating well (I usuallly take time to prepare breakfast, lunch, and snacks to eat at work so I avoid the pitfuls of eating out). So I'd get home tired yet hyper, pissed off, and hungry. Next thing I know I'm downing ice cream shakes. I've polished off three gallons of ice cream in the last week. So I'll be hitting the road about 7 in the am tomorrow to run off some of the calories I picked up. It's amazing how one can be biochemically configured to respond favorably to various smells or tastes. I consider myself to be very disciplined, but ice cream is a true weakness. I also have an amazing reaction to the smell and taste of vanilla. Give me a vanilla bean pod and I'm like a cat with catnip. I probably drop two tablespoons of vanilla extract into each milkshake I make.The smell has an amazing affect. The same with the smell of roses for me. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 14:22 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! The same with me and rootbeer or gingerale ice cream floats... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ha-ha! The one addiction I have is to ice cream. I try very hard to only eat ice cream on the weekends. Try to leave hamburgers and stuff to the weekends too. That usually works, unless I start the weekend early. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 19:53 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! I have to ask...What about those Coke and vanilla ice cream floats??? Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I stand 6'1, weigh about 210 pounds, yet eat very little meat for my size. Everyone expresses surprise at how little meat I eat. I workout a great deal and always seem to have high energy. A few years ago when this weight consisted of more fat (now it's hopefully more muscle with a little fat left) I went cold-turkey vegan for three months. Though I missed the barbecue, Mexican food (beef), and ham with my pancakes, I did surprisingly well. My wife, however, had a terrible time. She could barely last two weeks, and was always craving meat. It wasn't until much later that you and others made me aware of the whole blood type thing. I'm type AB, which according to that Web site you (?) posted, doesn't need much meat. Indeed, AB needs to stay away from a wide range of meat and dairy products. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M C Jennings Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 14:25 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! Everybody does not do well as vegetarian(s). Check out your blood type. If
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi!
Thank you for those 'encouraging' words, Maurice... M C Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Murphy says...Fixes don't, software isn't, and upgrades aren't! Maurice ---Original Message--- From: Astromancer Date: 08/19/05 23:13:14 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! Um Keith...I think you response to vanilla is more Pavlovian than biochemical...lol...and you're starting to frighten me...I am thinking about going into the maintenence side of the computer field, but if you keep shring these 'delightful stories' about five hour upgrades, I might bolt and run... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Had a bad week for some reason. It may because I had to be at work at 5 am three days out of the last five, doing five-hour server upgrades each time. I was too tired to workout like I needed, yet my schedule kept me from eating well (I usuallly take time to prepare breakfast, lunch, and snacks to eat at work so I avoid the pitfuls of eating out). So I'd get home tired yet hyper, pissed off, and hungry. Next thing I know I'm downing ice cream shakes. I've polished off three gallons of ice cream in the last week. So I'll be hitting the road about 7 in the am tomorrow to run off some of the calories I picked up. It's amazing how one can be biochemically configured to respond favorably to various smells or tastes. I consider myself to be very disciplined, but ice cream is a true weakness. I also have an amazing reaction to the smell and taste of vanilla. Give me a vanilla bean pod and I'm like a cat with catnip. I probably drop two tablespoons of vanilla extract into each milkshake I make.The smell has an amazing affect. The same with the smell of roses for me. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 14:22 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! The same with me and rootbeer or gingerale ice cream floats... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ha-ha! The one addiction I have is to ice cream. I try very hard to only eat ice cream on the weekends. Try to leave hamburgers and stuff to the weekends too. That usually works, unless I start the weekend early. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 19:53 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! I have to ask...What about those Coke and vanilla ice cream floats??? Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I stand 6'1, weigh about 210 pounds, yet eat very little meat for my size. Everyone expresses surprise at how little meat I eat. I workout a great deal and always seem to have high energy. A few years ago when this weight consisted of more fat (now it's hopefully more muscle with a little fat left) I went cold-turkey vegan for three months. Though I missed the barbecue, Mexican food (beef), and ham with my pancakes, I did surprisingly well. My wife, however, had a terrible time. She could barely last two weeks, and was always craving meat. It wasn't until much later that you and others made me aware of the whole blood type thing. I'm type AB, which according to that Web site you (?) posted, doesn't need much meat. Indeed, AB needs to stay away from a wide range of meat and dairy products. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M C Jennings Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 14:25 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! Everybody does not do well as vegetarian(s). Check out your blood type. If you're a type 'A' like I am, vegetarian is the way to go. On the other hand type 'O', the original type, is a meat-eating type. Got it from the original diet. Type 'A' evolved after humans settled down and began to grow stuff. Type 'B' is mostly Asian, and AB is the latest evolved type. VERY sketchy, but since I've started paying attention to my diet according to my blood type, I've had a lot less trouble because of food reactions. When I stopped eating red meat, my cholesterol dropped way down into the normal range even though I still pigged out on some really ugly foods. After I had a recent operation, I let my craving for protein lead me to red meat, and my cholesterol is way up again...I'm getting it back under control ... Maurice ---Original Message--- From: Meta Date: 08/18/05 11:43:22 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, g123curious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feeling depressed? Are you disappointed with the current crop of sci- fi TV shows and films? Are you upset with your government and the
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi!
My diet mostly consists of yard bird, but every once in a while, I have to have my spaghetti and meat sauce (much to the chagrin of Nurse Aaron) My protein needs are mostly taken care of by beans and vitamin supplements...and lots of water...Still fat though...I'm lazy on the excercise...lol Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:You brought up a point I hadn't mentioned: I do have dairy allergies. When i was born my mom had to give me soy milk because of that. When I drink milk or eat dairy, I immediately get mucous buildup exactly as if I had a head cold. It's one reason I try to stay away from dairy. This past week was a rare breakdown. Not sure exactly what meat is bad for me, but I know how my body feels sluggish when I eat certain types. When I did my vegan thing, I slowly re-introduced meat, and was able to note the specific effects of different types as I ate them. Red meat is of course the worst, so I limit my consumption of hamburger or beef to something like once a month. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M C Jennings Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 02:03 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! I hear you, Keith! I LOVE Vanilla, and/or the smell of it. I get vanilla flavored Rice Milk and/or Soy Milk. It helps. I used to be an ice cream fiend, tooPistachio! The doctor I went to after my stomach and hemhorroids became acutely bloody told me that cravings like that are a red flag for foods we're allergic to. He was right. I hated him for ruining my one true addiction. I thanked him later when I was was able to tie my bleeding directly to the dairy products. Now, I'd rather eat Crisco than Ice Cream. Not an option either, by the way! LOLLOL! Man, that cycle you were forced into this past week has got to have a name. It happens way too much! I remember spending nights sleeping in chairs back in the day, making software fixes, re-writing code on a customer's site, and testing. You're bringing back great memories, my friend. Thanks! Hope that doesn't happen to you often...! Maurice ---Original Message--- From: Keith Johnson Date: 08/19/05 22:12:32 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! Had a bad week for some reason. It may because I had to be at work at 5 am three days out of the last five, doing five-hour server upgrades each time. I was too tired to workout like I needed, yet my schedule kept me from eating well (I usuallly take time to prepare breakfast, lunch, and snacks to eat at work so I avoid the pitfuls of eating out). So I'd get home tired yet hyper, pissed off, and hungry. Next thing I know I'm downing ice cream shakes. I've polished off three gallons of ice cream in the last week. So I'll be hitting the road about 7 in the am tomorrow to run off some of the calories I picked up. It's amazing how one can be biochemically configured to respond favorably to various smells or tastes. I consider myself to be very disciplined, but ice cream is a true weakness. I also have an amazing reaction to the smell and taste of vanilla. Give me a vanilla bean pod and I'm like a cat with catnip. I probably drop two tablespoons of vanilla extract into each milkshake I make.The smell has an amazing affect. The same with the smell of roses for me. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 14:22 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! The same with me and rootbeer or gingerale ice cream floats... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ha-ha! The one addiction I have is to ice cream. I try very hard to only eat ice cream on the weekends. Try to leave hamburgers and stuff to the weekends too. That usually works, unless I start the weekend early. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 19:53 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Reality is often more interesting than sci-fi! I have to ask...What about those Coke and vanilla ice cream floats??? Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I stand 6'1, weigh about 210 pounds, yet eat very little meat for my size. Everyone expresses surprise at how little meat I eat. I workout a great deal and always seem to have high energy. A few years ago when this weight consisted of more fat (now it's hopefully more muscle with a little fat left) I went cold-turkey vegan for three months. Though I missed the barbecue, Mexican food (beef), and ham with my pancakes, I did surprisingly well. My wife, however, had a terrible time. She could barely last two weeks, and was always craving meat.
[scifinoir2] Nanotube sheets come of age
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050815/full/050815-8.html News Published online: 18 August 2005 Nanotube sheets come of age Clear, conductive sheets produced at high speed. Mark Peplow They're soft, strong, and very, very long. Large, transparent sheets of carbon nanotubes can now be produced at lightning speed. The new technique should allow the nanotubes to be used in commercial devices from heated car windows to flexible television screens. Rarely is a processing advance so elegantly simple that rapid commercialization seems possible, says Ray Baughman, a chemist from the University of Texas at Dallas, whose team unveils the ribbon in this week's Science1. Nanotubes are tiny cylinders of carbon atoms measuring just billionths of a metre across. They are light, strong, and conductive. But for years their promise has outweighed their utility, because the complicated processes involved in making devices from nanotubes were too slow and expensive to be used in large-scale manufacturing. But now, nanotubes have gone into warp drive. Baughman's team can churn out up to ten metres of nanoribbon every minute, as easily as pulling a strip of sticky tape from a reel (see video - http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050815/multimedia/050815-8-m1.html ). This ribbon can be up to five centimetres wide, and after a simple wash in ethanol compacts to just 50 nanometres thick, making it 2,000 times thinner than a piece of paper. The ribbons are transparent, flexible, and conduct electricity. Weight for weight, they are stronger than steel sheets, yet a square kilometre of the material would weigh only 30 kilograms. This is basically a new material, says Baughman. Nanoforest Scientists have been weaving carbon nanotubes into fibres and sheets for several years (see 'Yarn spun from nanotubes' - http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040308/full/040308-10.html ). But until now, the most common way of making large sheets of nanotubes relied on a labour-intensive technique much the same as that used by the ancient Egyptians to make papyrus. Nanotubes suspended in a solvent were slowly filtered to create a mat, which was then dried and peeled off the filter. Baughman's team instead start with a 'forest' of half-millimetre-long nanotubes sticking upright on an iron-based platform. Pulling gently from the edge of the forest with an adhesive strip, such as a Post-It note, uproots a row containing millions of nanotubes. As these nanotubes pull out, they tangle with the next row, and so on. The nanotubes tangle together just enough to keep a ribbon growing, without jumbling up into a huge ball. They've found the magic spot, says Ian Kinloch, a materials scientist at the University of Cambridge. A lot of people will now try this out with a Post-It in their own labs. The team says a one-centimetre-long forest of nanotubes can produce three metres of nanoribbon. The researchers had previously used a similar method to draw strings of nanotubes from a forest2. Getting them to knit into a wider fabric is a bit trickier, but Baughman says that scaling the work up to produce large sheets will now be easily do-able. Patent bonanza Nanotubes are already replacing graphite in certain commercial devices such as batteries. But this technique could now propel many more nanotube products into the marketplace, agrees Kinloch. The team has already proved the sheets' usefulness in several applications, filing patents as they go. They have sandwiched a nanoribbon between two Plexiglass plates, for example, using the heat of a domestic microwave oven to weld the layers. This forms a transparent, conductive sheet ideal for a heated car window, they say. And since bending does not change the electrical properties of the nanotubes they could be used to carry current in a 'rollable TV screen', something that has long been promised by nanotechnologists. Things move quickly if you can prove that the supply of the material is good, says Baughman. References 1. Zhang M., et al. Science, 309. 1215 - 1219 (2005). | Article - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1115311 | 2. Zhang M., Atkinson K. R. Baughman R. H. Science, 306. 1358 - 1361 (2004). | Article - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1104276| PubMed | ChemPort | Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hch8q2q/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124572079/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
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