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And again, Day 1 – Whole30

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I’m back to doing Whole30, although this time is more like… Whole A Lot (note how I was too lazy to count the actual days I’ll be doing it this time around). The idea was to start on the 1st of November and continue all the way to New Year’s Eve. Yep. I wanted to go on a restrictive diet during the season in which you pretty much drink and eat non stop. Then, Oummou told me she wanted to do it as well, but she wanted to finish it before her wedding (second wedding, the civil one) which is at the end of November. I, in my Whole30 knowledge, did some calculations and the only way she could manage to finish it properly, reintroduction and all, was to start today. So, here we are. Unfortunately, that means my fridge wasn’t really ready for this. I had bought some non-compliant ingredients (that I know my brother won’t eat, like cheese) and other stuff. But, then again, it’s not my first time doing this, so I …

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This week I read an article on The Guardian that made me think. It was about the fact that handwriting is obsolete and that schools are stopping to teach cursive as part of their curriculum. You can read the article here While generally I’m quite forward-thinking and I enjoy adopting new trends and technologies, I am also quite traditional in certain areas. True, I am not afraid of chopping my hair off, download the latest app to tell me what’s going on in my town, or learn how to program. I think it’s good to evolve and look towards the future. However, it’s also important to retain a sense of the past. I am still not convinced about ebooks. Sure, it saves paper, but they use batteries, and their manufacturing and components aren’t that safe (batteries and all that). True, one ebook device can hold many books, which would have otherwise been made of paper, but if I read on an electronic device, I have no sense as to how long the book is, how …

A rose by any other name…

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Last evening, I started drafting a post for today. It was a good start, it had positive statements, plans for projects, I talked about my friends. The usual stuff I love writing about and you love reading about. It was a draft I was planning on reviewing and improving today. Later in the evening, this happened: When I saw my friend Joda’s post (or @krisiku, if you’re on Twitter), my first reaction was to believe I had misread it, as you can see. Oh, yes, that’s me… That’s the name everyone calls me in real life. Weird, huh? Ha-ha! Go ahead, click on the image, click on it! And read. I know that replacing characters with newer, better, sleeker, hotter, up-to-dater versions is not a new concept. It’s been done time after time. That’s one of the reasons X-Men have so many different series with parallel universes and stuff like that. You have a character, then you get bored writing about it, you kill it or do something to them so that a new character …

The last frontier… on a travel card?

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It seems the Kepler Space Telescope might not be operative anymore… It won’t discover any new planets. When I read the news, I thought about it, and as usual, I was filled with questions, but the main one that popped into my head was Given the chance, would you just jump on a spaceship to leave Earth and live in a different planet? Mind you, I’m not talking about the whole Earth being destroyed in some sort of apocalyptic situation and us having to evacuate. No. The scenario I have in mind is the following: suddenly, we hear on the news that a new planet has been discovered somewhere in space, and it can hold life. It’s pretty much like another Earth, only farther. We now have the means to ship a bunch of people off to the New Earth, so they’re, I don’t know, selling tickets? Of course, the journey would be long… Think of either living in a spaceship for many years (maybe even too many years, and only your children setting foot …