Idiotprogrammer: Texas Literary Blog

Month: April 2008

  • Settling down…and settling for less…and extending one’s life for 5 Years

    I read an article today about how marriage increases life expectancy five years. So staying single poses as much a health risk as smoking, yippee! Here’s a summary of the existing research . Interesting conclusions: It affects the incidence of depression and access to health care: Effects on Health Care Access, Use, and Costs. Marriage…

  • March OLPC Meeting Houston (Notes)

    Hi, I wanted to provide information about the recent meeting of the Houston OLPC meeting, which featured Samuel Klein, the director of community content.   I don’t know how much of these nuggets of information was off-the-cuff and how much is official; use your own judgment. After the meeting, we met at Beck’s Prime for Hamburgers.…

  • My Strange Campaign (Tips for Losing Weight)

    Started June 13. Goal is Jan 1, 2009=200.  That’s about a pound to lose every 7 days. I expect to get to 210 without major effort, but under that will be tough going. Google, curse you for archiving this for eternity! For those random surfers, this refers to the weight naked on my bathroom scale…