Rumor has it there’s a pill on the horizon that makes your body think you just exercised, causing you to lose weight.

I like that our bodies are largely a reflection of our dedication and commitment to our own health. If I pig out for a week (or, more likely, spend a week straight drinking at Seattle tech events), I have to jump up and down to get my jeans to zip, which at least keeps me partially in check. (I recognize this and am careful never to own pants larger than a size four.) Last week I biked home five blocks from yoga class and could barely make it, which was a kick in the head that I am no longer the fit chick who spent 90 (productive) minutes a day at the gym.

Now it is a question of my personal integrity and dedication to my health: will I return to my fit chick habits, or will I allow myself to deterioriate?

It makes biological sense that size is tied to our perception of beauty - we want a healthy mate to make healthy babies, and a larger person is probably not healthy. Since I cannot have and do not want any babies, I like to think it’s not just about “health” as an abstract term. When I’m consistently eating right and hitting the pavement for a run, sure, I’m thin. But I also need less caffeine. My mind is clearer. I get (even) more done. My libido quadruples. I sleep hours less a night. My neck doesn’t hurt. I’m happier, and calmer.

Will a pill give me all that? No. (Well, perhaps a hefty cocktail of pills could - ha.) And I wouldn’t want it too. It may, technically, be “efficient,” but at far too high a cost, personally and societally. If I want benefits, I want to earn them.

(Final note: I really do understand that some people have medical conditions that affect their size. But it’s a very small percentage of people, and, to be frank, nature is also giving a warning sign here that your system’s not working quite right.)

Finally, a way to flush your money down the toilet without wasting water!

(Seriously… why would someone buy carbon credits? Do people need another way to feel like they can change the world from their couch? I would be happy to be proven wrong. I fear I am right.)

I don’t care if Merriam-Webster says it is, this is NOT A WORD.

If everyone took care to perform their job — garbage collector, parent, grocery store patron (return your damned cart!), efficiency consultant — to the best of their abilities, the world would be an infinitely better place.

If your job is to blog, I think you can take two fucking seconds to spellcheck your posts. One pro-blogger in particular seems to have a handful of egregious grammatical errors in every post. Cut it out. If I could find the Unsubscribe button in my German Firefox build, I’d click it!

Apparently it is illegal to own a dildo in the state of Texas unless it is for “a bona fide medical, psychiatric, judicial, legislative, or law enforcement purpose.”

Below is an episode of “Dildo Diaries” chronicling this legislative embarrassment. (This is not safe for work. Duh.)

This whole mind-boggling issue aside, I am most struck by the truly enviable level of professionalism displayed by the store clerk at the sex store. Wow. I would trust her with top-level government security work any day. Not just anyone can stand behind a glass case of dildos and tell you, completely seriously and with a completely straight face, that they do not sell dildos there.

Source: http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/03/05/its-about-life-babies-life-babies/

Doesn’t this just make you want to put birth control in the water supply?

A 16-year-old Argentine girl has given birth to female triplets - for the second time.

The girl, named only as Pamela, had her first set of female triplets aged 15, having first given birth to a son when she was just 14.

All seven children were born prematurely but without any kind of fertility treatment.

So, how do we discourage her continued procreation, and discourage her peers from repeating her mistakes? Why, build her a house, of course!

Pamela’s family already receives help from the provincial authorities, which donated land and built them a house when the first set of triplets was born.

Pamela’s mother, who cleans houses to support her daughter and rapidly increasing number of grandchildren, says they will now seek more assistance from the government for the new additions to the family.

Not common sense! Nooo! Not that!

Some Argentines are arguing that perhaps what Pamela needs is more advice on contraception.

Source: BBC News

A stay-at-home mother should never be compensated by society for sitting at home doing laundry.

If her partner decides that she is worthy of a token salary for doing the laundry, then it’s the partner’s personal and private decision to compensate her. If her adult child decides that her staying home provided a tangible benefit that should be rewarded, then that adult child can retroactively compensate her accordingly.

If you think it’s acceptable, or even mandatory, for society to compensate full-time parents, then you had better equally support those same stay-at-home parents compensating their children if they do a shoddy job.

Every other job is tied to performance and deliverables, isn’t it? 

Then maybe you should stop selling your companies to Microhoo or Google.

You should definitely stop building new companies that have selling to Microhoo or Google as an exit strategy (or worse, goal!).

When you let a week go by without being at Inbox Zero, and allow 127 (mostly important) emails to accumulate in your Inbox, you will somehow mistype a GMail macro shortcut and DELETE all of the emails in your Inbox, and then have to individually look at all 2787 emails in your Trash folder to hunt down the important ones, and be left wondering what important ones you still missed. (I know of at least two emails that I lost for good.”Frustrating” is an understatement.)

If you’ve been expecting a reply from me, and don’t see one by tomorrow, it might not hurt to drop me another email. Sorry. I’ve learned my lesson!