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09 Dec 08:18
Paus i kostdebatten?
by Tommy
Det är sällan jag kommenterar aktualiteter men Stefan Rössners artikel i DN idag måste jag bara kommentera lite.
Jag tycker alltid att det är kul när ”Mindre mat och mer motion” är det ända rätta. Det går inte att gå ner i vikt utan att röra på sig. Skitsnack. Jag tappade 40kg utan att ta ett enda extra steg. Jag var mätt och belåten hela tiden och var aldrig hungrig. Jag räknade aldrig kalorier i förväg och höll aldrig igen på maten. Jag såg bara till att äta rätt mat. Dvs inga kolhydrater och mycket bra fetter. Tittar jag på siffrorna från den tiden så kan jag visserligen gå med på att jag åt färre kalorier än vad jag förmodligen gjorde innan men jag styrdes som sagt inte av kalorierna alls utan nivån hamnade där den hamnade.
Idag äter jag ungefär lika mycket kalorier som jag åt de första två åren ”på” LCHF men jag rör mig betydligt mer. Någon slags traditionell rössnerlogik borde väl då säga att jag borde fortsätta tappa vikt. Jag ligger i princip på ett kaloriunderskott varje dag men ändå ligger jag kanska stadigt mellan 82 och 86 kilo… Kalorier in, kalorier ut… Njae… Det är inte så enkelt.
Nåväl, det är väl inte så många som läser DN i alla fall så ingen skada skedd…
Idag har jag testat lite olika varianter av ostkexen men jag får inte till dem. Jag testade ren stilton (och Kvibble ädelost) och så olika blandningar med ost. Det vill sig helt enkelt inte. Det jag faktiskt tycker mig märka är att ädelosten verkligen tappar sin karaktär när det blir för varm. Så även den rena stiltonosten smakar i princip vanlig ost när den stekts en stund. Så ädelost ska nog serveras aningen över rumstemperatur för att smaka bäst. Birgitta tipsade om sina sesamkex och de ska jag nog testa. Kim hade också en idé som borde funka, dvs ett vanligt ostkex med ädelost på och så smöret. Det borde också kunna funka då ädelosten inte behöver tillredas. Jag får testa runt lite nästa söndag. Idag har jag ätit alldeles för mycket under experimenterandet så jag är lite trött på ädelost.
Middagen blev en riktigt god köttfärssås som gratinerades med lite ost och så naturligtvis broccoli till. Köttfärssåsen kokades i pottan i över 6 timmar och förutom nötfärs hade jag i fläskfärs, bacon, selleri, lög, vitlök, vit vin och grädde. Jag kryddade med lite tomatpuré, örtkryddor och lite chili.
(I verkligheten är det ungefär lika mycket köttfärssås som bilden visar men tallriken skulle inte bli så ”snygg” med all den sörjan på så jag tog bilden innan jag fortsatte ösa…
Intagen blev idag efter all ädelost
Vikten i veckan har legat lite högt. Mellan 85 och 86 hela veckan.
Snart är det dags för årsbokslut och om jag känner mig rätt så kommer det kanske ätas en del över julhelgen hemma hos föräldrarna. LCHF fullt ut givetvis, men förmodligen ganska mycket mat rent allmänt.
Tittar man lite långsiktigt så gör naturligtvis inte ett kilo hit eller dit någon skillnad. Diagrammet som börjar 2009 ser ändå rätt trevligt ut…
/Tommy
07 Dec 19:34
Store Sour Cream or Cottage Cheese Upside Down for Longer Shelf Life
by Mihir Patkar
Sour cream and cottage cheese have a short shelf life, usually 7-10 days after being opened. But if you want to store one of them for longer, then all you need to do is invert the container and keep it in the fridge, says the One Pot Chef.
    
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07 Dec 19:33
Prototyp för Motorolas modulära mobil redan klar
by Lars A
I en intervju med amerikanske teknikvideobloggaren Marques Brownlee berättar Motorolas VD Dennis Woodside att det redan finns en fungerande prototyp för Project Ara – företagets satsning på modulära och uppgraderingsbara smartphones.
Idén är att användare får ett skelett som håller fast en uppsättning komponenter vilka enkelt går att ta bort och sätta dit efter behag. Vill du ha en mer kompetent kamera? Skaffa en bättre modul och sätt dit den istället.
Prototypen är tydligen ”rätt nära” att färdigställas. Den slutgiltiga produkten kan eventuellt hitta fram till Moto Maker, vilket i nuläget är Motorolas verktyg för att skapa anpassade exemplar av toppmodellen Moto X.
Woodside säger avslutningsvis att anpassning av telefoners hårdvara och estetiska design är något Motorola kommer fortsätta satsa på.
07 Dec 08:18
Existence is its own justification.
The ongoing discussion about diversity in fiction is, well, ongoing; that's sort of what ongoing discussions do. (Also, I have been neck-deep in edits for the past month, so the fact that I used "ongoing" three times in the prior sentence feels deliciously naughty.) On the one side, you have people saying "representation matters." On the other side, you have people saying that the urge for diversity in fiction is "selfie culture" (and somehow that's bad?), and that fiction should show us new things, not just be "a representative of the self," and that it's "jarring" when they encounter "minority characters" who don't somehow fit a list of cultural and social ticky-boxes that would justify those characters existing as anything other than straight, white, male. "Cis" doesn't even need to be spoken. There's no way a trans* character could exist for any reason other than to talk about their genitals, and that would be the ultimate in jarring, thanks.
And people wonder why I spend so much time wanting to set the world on fire.
I think it's very telling that the people who say it's wrong to want representation in fiction are almost overwhelmingly white. If I want to read about white people having amazing adventures and doing incredible things, being heroes and villains, simple and complicated, handsome and hideous, loved and hated, all I need to do is pick up a book at random. There is a literally 90% chance that I will get all those things from whatever book I've chosen, especially if I'm going for the "classic literature" of the science fiction/fantasy/horror world. 90%! And that may honestly be low-balling the number! If I were a straight white man, of course I wouldn't see any issue with representation in fiction—I'd be on every page I turned! Even as a straight white woman, I'd be on a lot of pages, even if half those pages would have me either naked or screaming (or both, if I had happened to grab a Gor book). There's no problem with representation here!
But I've never been a straight white man. I've never been a straight white girl, either. I was a bisexual kid with a lot of questions and not very many answers, and it wasn't until I encountered ElfQuest that I actually felt like I saw myself on a page. No, I didn't think I was an elf, although I sort of wished I was, because elves are awesome, but it was Cutter and Leetah and the rest who introduced me to the idea that I could love boys and girls, and not be a bad person. I wasn't indecisive or wicked. I just had a lot of love to give, and my set of criteria for who got it wasn't based on gender.
Let me restate that: I was already bi. I had already been attracted to girls, guys, and a kid in my class who went by "Pup" and refused to be pinned down to either gender (and my second grade teacher never forced Pup to commit either way, which was pretty damn cool of her, given that this was the 1980s). Books did not make me choose my sexuality; books told me a) that my sexuality existed, and b) that it was okay, it was natural, it was not proof that there was something wrong with me. And especially in grade school/middle school, sexuality is invisible in a way that very little else is. No one knew I was queer until I came out. It wasn't even a matter of openly hiding it; sex wasn't on the table, I didn't feel like sharing, I didn't share. No one knew that I was different. Everyone thought that when they read their books about little white girls having adventures, they were reading about me, too.
You know what's not invisible? Race. "I don't see race" is bull. When we read those books about little white kids having amazing adventures, we knew that it was white kids having adventures, because adventures are for white people. At the age of eight, we all understood that our non-white classmates were not represented in the books we read, and very few of us had the sophistication to jump to "this is a lack of representation." Instead, we jumped to "I guess Oz doesn't like black people." Because books shape your view of the world, books remake you in their image, and the books we had said little white kids go on adventures, little kids of any other race are nowhere to be seen.
This is a problem.
So some of us grew up, and for whatever reason—maybe it affected us directly, maybe it affected our friends, maybe it was just pointed out—we started trying to show a world that looked more like the world we actually lived in, where everything wasn't a monoculture. And for some reason, this is being taken as a threat. How dare you want little Asian kids to go on adventures. How dare you want queer teenagers to save the world. How dare you imply that transwomen can be perfectly ordinary, perfectly competent people who just want to not get eaten by the dinosaur that's been eating everyone else. That's selfie culture, that's diversity for the sake of diversity, that's wrong. And after a great deal of consideration, I have come to this conclusion:
If that's what you think, you can go fuck yourself.
That's not politic, and it's not nice, and it may cause a couple of people to go "what a bitch, I'm done," but I don't fucking care. Because I am tired of people needing to thank me for making an effort. I am tired of receiving email that says it was distracting when so-and-so turned out to be gay, or asking why I have Indian characters in three separate series (and the fact that having an Indian woman show up and never speak a line is apparently enough to put Indexing on the same level as Blackout for some people just makes me weep for humanity). I am tired of "oh you feel like you're so open-minded" because I write about gay people, bi people, poly people, people who are exactly like the people that I know. I want to be unremarkable for my casting choices, and only remarkable for my characters being awesome (because let's face it, my characters are awesome).
A lack of representation in fiction leads to a lack of self-esteem, because selfie culture is important: we need to see ourselves, and the people who keep trying to dismiss that as somehow selfish or greedy or narcissistic are the ones who've had a mirror held up to them for so long that they don't even see it anymore. White becomes so generic, so default, that it's not mentioned when describing a character ("blonde hair, blue eyes" vs. "oh, she's black, of course, that's the biggest thing"). Humanity is huge and diverse and amazing, and saying that only a small, approved sliver of it belongs in fiction is a dick move. If diversity is distracting, it's because it's so rare.
We can fix that.
And people wonder why I spend so much time wanting to set the world on fire.
I think it's very telling that the people who say it's wrong to want representation in fiction are almost overwhelmingly white. If I want to read about white people having amazing adventures and doing incredible things, being heroes and villains, simple and complicated, handsome and hideous, loved and hated, all I need to do is pick up a book at random. There is a literally 90% chance that I will get all those things from whatever book I've chosen, especially if I'm going for the "classic literature" of the science fiction/fantasy/horror world. 90%! And that may honestly be low-balling the number! If I were a straight white man, of course I wouldn't see any issue with representation in fiction—I'd be on every page I turned! Even as a straight white woman, I'd be on a lot of pages, even if half those pages would have me either naked or screaming (or both, if I had happened to grab a Gor book). There's no problem with representation here!
But I've never been a straight white man. I've never been a straight white girl, either. I was a bisexual kid with a lot of questions and not very many answers, and it wasn't until I encountered ElfQuest that I actually felt like I saw myself on a page. No, I didn't think I was an elf, although I sort of wished I was, because elves are awesome, but it was Cutter and Leetah and the rest who introduced me to the idea that I could love boys and girls, and not be a bad person. I wasn't indecisive or wicked. I just had a lot of love to give, and my set of criteria for who got it wasn't based on gender.
Let me restate that: I was already bi. I had already been attracted to girls, guys, and a kid in my class who went by "Pup" and refused to be pinned down to either gender (and my second grade teacher never forced Pup to commit either way, which was pretty damn cool of her, given that this was the 1980s). Books did not make me choose my sexuality; books told me a) that my sexuality existed, and b) that it was okay, it was natural, it was not proof that there was something wrong with me. And especially in grade school/middle school, sexuality is invisible in a way that very little else is. No one knew I was queer until I came out. It wasn't even a matter of openly hiding it; sex wasn't on the table, I didn't feel like sharing, I didn't share. No one knew that I was different. Everyone thought that when they read their books about little white girls having adventures, they were reading about me, too.
You know what's not invisible? Race. "I don't see race" is bull. When we read those books about little white kids having amazing adventures, we knew that it was white kids having adventures, because adventures are for white people. At the age of eight, we all understood that our non-white classmates were not represented in the books we read, and very few of us had the sophistication to jump to "this is a lack of representation." Instead, we jumped to "I guess Oz doesn't like black people." Because books shape your view of the world, books remake you in their image, and the books we had said little white kids go on adventures, little kids of any other race are nowhere to be seen.
This is a problem.
So some of us grew up, and for whatever reason—maybe it affected us directly, maybe it affected our friends, maybe it was just pointed out—we started trying to show a world that looked more like the world we actually lived in, where everything wasn't a monoculture. And for some reason, this is being taken as a threat. How dare you want little Asian kids to go on adventures. How dare you want queer teenagers to save the world. How dare you imply that transwomen can be perfectly ordinary, perfectly competent people who just want to not get eaten by the dinosaur that's been eating everyone else. That's selfie culture, that's diversity for the sake of diversity, that's wrong. And after a great deal of consideration, I have come to this conclusion:
If that's what you think, you can go fuck yourself.
That's not politic, and it's not nice, and it may cause a couple of people to go "what a bitch, I'm done," but I don't fucking care. Because I am tired of people needing to thank me for making an effort. I am tired of receiving email that says it was distracting when so-and-so turned out to be gay, or asking why I have Indian characters in three separate series (and the fact that having an Indian woman show up and never speak a line is apparently enough to put Indexing on the same level as Blackout for some people just makes me weep for humanity). I am tired of "oh you feel like you're so open-minded" because I write about gay people, bi people, poly people, people who are exactly like the people that I know. I want to be unremarkable for my casting choices, and only remarkable for my characters being awesome (because let's face it, my characters are awesome).
A lack of representation in fiction leads to a lack of self-esteem, because selfie culture is important: we need to see ourselves, and the people who keep trying to dismiss that as somehow selfish or greedy or narcissistic are the ones who've had a mirror held up to them for so long that they don't even see it anymore. White becomes so generic, so default, that it's not mentioned when describing a character ("blonde hair, blue eyes" vs. "oh, she's black, of course, that's the biggest thing"). Humanity is huge and diverse and amazing, and saying that only a small, approved sliver of it belongs in fiction is a dick move. If diversity is distracting, it's because it's so rare.
We can fix that.
05 Dec 11:39
odditiesoflife: Ten of the Best Storybook Cottage Homes Around...
Ten of the Best Storybook Cottage Homes Around the World
These 10 fairy tale inspired cottages with their hand-made details call to mind the tales of the Brothers Grimm and other fantasy stories. All of these cottages are real-life homes from around the world. From stunning cottage houses to mystical stone dwellings, these 10 storybook cottage homes provide inspiration and inspire the imagination.
- Hobbit House - Rotorua, New Zealand
- Winckler Cottage - Vancouver Island, Canada
- Akebono kodomo-no-mori Park, Japan
- Wooden Cottage - Białka Tatrzańska, Tatra Mountains, Poland
- Blaise Hamlet - Bristol, England
- Willa Kominiarski Wierch - Zakopane, Poland
- Forest House - Efteling, The Netherlands
- Cottage in the Hamlet of Marie Antoinette - Versailles, France
- Cob House - Somerset, United Kingdom
- The Spadena House - Beverly Hills, California, United States
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05 Dec 11:21
maxistentialist: Dan Harmon: Your mind is a home, with an upstairs and a downstairs. Upstairs, in...
Your mind is a home, with an upstairs and a downstairs.
Upstairs, in your consciousness, things are well-lit and regularly swept. Friends visit. Scrabble is played, hot cocoa is brewing. It is a pleasant, familiar place.
Downstairs, it is older, darker and much, much freakier. We call this basement the unconscious mind.
The unconscious is exactly what it sounds like: It’s the stuff you don’t, won’t and/or can’t think about. According to Freud, there are dirty pictures of your mother down there. According to Jung, there are pipes, wires, even tunnels down there that connect your home to others. And even though it contains life-sustaining energies (like the fuse box and water heater), it’s a primitive, stinky, scary place and it’s no wonder that, given the choice, we don’t hang out down there.
However, your pleasure, your sanity and even your life depend on occasional round trips. You’ve got to change the fuses, grab the Christmas ornaments, clean the litter box. To the extent that we keep the basement door sealed, the entire home becomes unstable. The creatures downstairs get louder and the guy upstairs (your ego) tries to cover the noise with neurotic behavior. For some, eventually, the basement door can come right off its hinges and the slimy, primal denizens of the deep can become Scrabble partners. You might call this a nervous breakdown or psychotic break, it doesn’t matter. The point is: Occasional ventures by the ego into the unconscious, through therapy, meditation, confession, sex, violence, or a good story, keep the consciousness in working order.
From Dan Harmon’s Chanel 101 post on story structure. A great read.
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04 Dec 14:58
How to make a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster (on Earth)
by Rob Bricken
We're missing more than a few ingredients on this planet to make the infamous cocktail from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — unless someone has a reserve of Arcturan Mega-gin they're not telling us about — but this enterprising young man has concocted a recipe that may give Earthlings a semblance of the drink that tastes "like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon, wrapped 'round a large gold brick."
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04 Dec 13:55
‘Bombshells’ Lands!
by priscellie
Today marks the release date of “Bombshells,” a novella from Molly Carpenter’s point of view, set between Ghost Story and Cold Days! It’s a part of the anthology Dangerous Women, edited by George R. R. Martin and Garner Dozois. You can pick up a copy in hardcover or Kindle in our store, download the audiobook from Audible, or support your favorite local independent bookstore!
You can also check out a podcast interview with Jim about Ghoul, Goblin, the original graphic novel story released in hardcover last week. It’s streaming on Publishers Weekly.com, or you can download it on iTunes. If you haven’t picked up a copy of Ghoul, Goblin yet, it’s also in our store!
Next, an exciting announcement: With a delightfully spooky 16,666 votes, Cold Days won the 2013 Goodreads Choice Award for Paranormal Fantasy! Thanks so much to all who voted, and congratulations to the other winners!
02 Dec 14:27
Keep Hunting After Landing a Job to Keep Your Network Strong
by Alan Henry
It seems like common knowledge that once you land a job, you stop looking for new ones, right? Hannah Morgan explains that's not the case. In fact, if you want to futureproof yourself against layoffs or a job that's a terrible fit, and keep your connections and network strong, keep looking after you're signed an offer.
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02 Dec 07:22
Smaug the Dragon revealed in Auckland
by The Hobbit Team
Air New Zealand today revealed Peter Jackson’s theatrical interpretation of the mythical Dragon Smaug to the world, ten days ahead of the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in theaters.
A Boeing 777-300 aircraft with the 54 metre (177 feet) long Dragon emblazoned on both sides was unveiled in Auckland this morning, making Kiwis the first in the world to see the iconic Dragon in all his glory.
Weta Digital designed the graphic especially for Air New Zealand. “Capturing Smaug’s presence and the amazing detail in his design while accommodating the windows, doors and wing shape was quite a different experience for us,” said Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Saindon of Weta Digital. “It was great to see Smaug brought to life, and he appears even larger in the film!”
The aircraft is headed to Los Angeles, arriving just in time for the premiere on Monday, December 2.
02 Dec 05:47
The Republicans are winning the war on abortion
The Republicans are winning the war on abortion:
“It’s hard to look people int eh eye and say they don’t have a job anymore — not because of anything they, or we, did in correctly or because we weren’t caring for women in a fabulous way.”
Around one dozen clinics in Texas have shut down or stopped offering abortions after Republicans in the state successfully pushed through legislation that requires doctors performing procedures to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.
Other laws in neighboring states — such as laws requiring the widening of hallways or the installation of high-tech surgical sinks — have caused abortion clinics to fire workers and shut down.
Legislation in Republican-controlled states counts for half of the 73 clinic closures since 2011. The people hardest hit by the shifting laws: Poor and minority women.
Women who live near McAllen, Texas — many of them poor — will now have to drive 150 miles to Corpus Christi if they want an abortion. Their other option: The local flea market, where illegal do-it-yourself drugs cost around $15 a pill.
Republicans have stopped challenging Roe vs. Wade. Their new tactic: Make it harder to get an abortion. So far, their strategy is working.
More: The Vanishing Abortion Clinic (Bloomberg Businessweek)
01 Dec 15:28
The Doctor Who kids play hide-and-seek with a Weeping Angel
by Lauren Davis
It's a good thing that everyone can fit inside the TARDIS, because when you play hide-and-seek with a Weeping Angel, there is no second round.
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30 Nov 15:59
Concept art from the Pippi Longstocking movie Hayao Miyazaki never made
by Lauren Davis
In 1971, animators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata began preproduction on an adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking books, but in the end, were unable to secure Lindgren's permission. But we can still see Miyazaki's watercolor concept art of the strongest girl in the world.
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