A friend of mine took this photo at a Mall in Aurora, Colorado. It is real--not Photoshopped. There's just so much wrong in this photo!
You know, the entire first season of DA I thought Lord Carnarvon's castle was in the Southwest of England near Wales or Cornwall. I was quite surprised when I later learned that Downton Abbey was supposed to be near York. Wouldn't the serving staff have a Yorkshire accent? Or does York and Yorkshire mean separate things?
This is probably not for you unless you remember what a 6510 CPU is (Commodore 64):
LONG LIVE THE C=64!
The holidays have come and gone and for me it's time to take off those extra pounds gained over the last couple of months; I have found a website that is very helpful and it's free so I'm not talking about losing " 's " as in British Pounds Sterling or stones as in the "family jewels" but the other more abundant and "less desirable" kind.
It's called The Daily Plate and it allows you to track what you're eating with a free online food diary. It has an enormous database with about every food known to man. And by man , I mean mankind --or just in case you demand even greater gender specificity--to all humankind. I only mention that because there are some members of the human family who chauvinistically believe that male members of the family only know two kinds of food: Meat and Potatoes, chicken wings and beer, hamburgers and soda, or fish and chips.
But The Daily Plate has foods known and eaten by both men and women. Pretty handy huh?
Here's how it works. You sit down for breakfast and eat some bacon and eggs with whole wheat toast. When you're finished just type in bacon and hundreds of brands will appear. Choose your brand, the number of pieces, servings, etc. and the time of day (or meal) and the calories are added to your total for the day. Not only does it add up the total calories but breaks down the amount of fat, cholesterol , sodium, etc and records it for you automatically. Perchance your food choice is not there? No problem. Click add to database and copy in the values on the back of the label. Your choice will be there the next time you or other members eat that food.
If you're at a fast food joint you can type in Big Mac and voila ! it is already there. So you can eat anywhere and even enter your food items on your phone.
Did you walk for an hour? Enter it. The Daily Plate automatically calculates the number of calories you burned during that process based on your height and weight then deducts those calories from your daily total.The exercise database is as impressive as the food database and it's all free. Think about all the quid you spent putting those pounds on. Why spend even more taking them off?
A couple of nights ago Phyllis and I took our granddaughter to our local Hibachi Grill. For you folks in Atlanta I think that chain is known as Hibachi Grits... Anyway, I had octopus among my choices. When we arrived home I thought, "I'm sure the Daily Plate won't have octopi listed among its food choices. But those squiggly little things were! So bon apptit!
http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/
Thanks Jeannie. You seem to be very informed on this subject and your observations are appreciated. As an observer from afar, one thing that has bothered me about the current economic situation in the EU is that I can see a de factoTreaty of Versailles, as it were,arising without signatories or ratification. That is: I foresee the young and especially the children of Germany saddled with a mountain of debt ran up by others.The irresponsible members of the EU seem to have the attitude:Vis pour le prsent. When Europe's economy lies in ruins because of the overindulgence of its ever procrastinating, so called, "adult" politicians, what will arise in its place? In the past we have seen terrible things arise from ruins. The same is true for our adolescent President, who, for all appearances, has the mentality of a third grader who has absconded with his parent's Visa Gold Card. Our current spending binge has no parallel in history. And, seemingly, to no effect! As the economy worsens and as the patient grows ever weaker, the only solution offered is for more and more morphine. If we ignore thesymptoms today perhaps the tumor will go away tomorrow? All this whilst he and his future-be-damnedgroupieshost a glamorous, glutinouscarnival backed by the promise that somehow, someday, our children and grandchildren will gladly pay for ourwantonnesstoday!
I have no opinion either way. But we do have an acquaintance in Edinburgh (my daughter's age) who is quite keen on the idea of Independence for Scotland.
Will Britain's loan of the Stone of Scone become permanent?
Russia Today discusses the goings on in the House of Lords.
Will Scotland leave the United Kingdom followed soon after by Britain withdrawing from the European Union?
Those critics are credentialed! I thought Russel Crowe would have been better if he "talked on pitch" like Rex Harrison rather than sing his lines. He wasn't off key or anything but somehow I his performance would have been even better.
And this criticism may seem a little odd, but I thought the underground scenes in the sewer were less than impressive. These were supposed to be the sewers built byNapoleon. Hugo thought of them as one of the "wonders of the world" in their size and engineering.The movie version seemed small and cramped.
After the wedding guests are waiting for the Best Man to offer a toast to the bride and groom when one of the guests stands and begins to sing:
This is the best review of the Les Miserables (movie version) I've seen yet:
Went to the movies with my wife. We saw this obscure movie I had never heard of, some French foreign film. They must have been giving away tickets because the lines were out the door, Anyway, the movie starts and Wolverine is singing his guts out. Then Catwoman starts crying and singing, and it's all very moving. The only problem was, the girl next to me, who had apparently read the book or something, starts singing along, It was very distracting, So Wolverine is on the run from the Gladiator because Catwoman had a baby at Borat's house, but now she wants Wolverine to care for her. Time skip. A bunch of kids get shot, and in the end everyone dies. Four stars. Sam Richardson
