More crushes!

No surprise: more nerdy guys.

Chris Kratt from Kratt’s Creatures!  And Martin is cute, too!
Adam Savage from Mythbusters
Nigel Marven

Opening up a CAM of worms

According to this article on Yahoo News, most people who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) don’t mention it to their doctors.

Sixty-nine percent of those who reported using CAM had not discussed it with a doctor. Why? Forty-two percent said because their doctor never asked; 30 percent said they did not know they should; 19 percent felt there was not enough time during the office visit; 17 percent didn’t think the doctor would know about the topic; and 12 percent thought the doctor would be dismissive or tell them not to use CAM.

I suppose it’s the doctor’s responsibility to ask the patient what alternative therapies they are using, but what are doctors supposed to say after that? What if a patient is using a treatment that clearly has no scientific basis (e.g. homeopathy) or may be harmful (e.g. certain herbal remedies)? Of course a doctor would be dismissive and even strongly urge the patient to stop the therapy — thus confirming the patient’s fears that discussing this with his doctor was a bad idea.

It’s like an evangelical Michael Moore!

This is just too creepy.

(From the trailer at: http://www.chick.com/default.asp)
“Are you a blaspheming thief?”
“I sure hope not.” (nervous laughter)
“Come on.”
(laughs) “… No.”
“No?? You just told me you stole.”
“Because I don’t mean to do these things, so …”
…
“So you’re an adulterer, a thief, and a blasphemer.”
(laugh)
“Yes?”
“Yes.”
“Does that concern you?”
“… Um, just a little bit.”

Now let’s turn to the Book of Valjean:

Jean Valjean:	Javert:
Believe of me what you will	Men like me can never change
There is a duty that I’m sworn to do	Men like you can never change
You know nothing of my life	No, 24601
All I did was steal some bread	My duty’s to the law - you have no rights
You know nothing of the world	Come with me 24601
You would sooner see me dead	Now the wheel has turned around
But not before I see this justice done	Jean Valjean is nothing now

Oh musical theater. Is there anything you don’t know?

Fits and starts

I do things in fits and starts.  It took me three or four different tries to sign up for a blog — first on Blogger, and then I decided to delete it because I had nothing to say.  Then I wanted to learn WordPress.  Then it was picking a username.  Writing my first entry.  Etc.

So perhaps if my first entry set the bar low enough, it would make me more likely to update on a regular basis.  I’m not looking to do this professionally or anything, so no need to write essays or worry too much about format.

Here are a few actors I’ve got crushes on as of now:
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Greg Kinnear
- Aaron Stanford
- Jason Bateman
- Ewan McGregor

Here are other things I like to talk or think about:
- organizing things
- religion (pretty obvious what that makes me)
- human nature
- attraction

 Great!  It’ll be easy to go uphill from here.