This week I read a news report that people are getting sick of low-carb diets. A survey indicated that 50% of people who had tried the diet had given it up. I know I’m sick of hearing about carbs. America has been bombarded with a low-carb media frenzy recently, and yet I haven’t met anyone who seems to actually like eating that way. It seems to make a lot of them surly. Apparently, eating things like bread and pasta releases serotonin, the “happy chemical” in your brain. (All those people scarfing down pizza really are happy!)
Anyway, I sure won’t miss carb talk one little bit once the fad finally runs its course. As far as I’m concerned, any diet talk is boring to those people who are not on the diet. I’m a vegetarian, but I shut up about it unless I’m talking to another vegetarian. No one else cares and some people are even disturbed by it. I sure hope vegetarianism never goes mainstream; it would be just as boring as Atkins.
In more nerdy news, I’m hoping to put the Summer issue of Computor Companion up this weekend. I’m still waiting for articles from a couple of people. (Hint, hint…you know who you are!) We’re also planning to put up a discussion board system, so people can ask computing questions at either the Logical Tips or Computor Companion sites. If we can get it to work (this is technology after all, so there’s always an “if”) we plan to add a board to the Pet Tails site as well, so people can exchange stories about their goofy pets.
And speaking of goofy, a client sent the following missive to me today:
“Go to Google, enter dastardly deeds, then click on the I’m feeling lucky button.”
It might not be the same anymore, but when I did it this afternoon, Google came up with a Logical Tips musings article about my experience installing firewall software. I was totally amused.
Of course, it also begs the question: why was he typing “dastardly deeds” into Google in the first place?
So far, he’s not telling 😉