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		<title>Gaming, Misc Projects, Jobs, and Media (a.k.a. I Suck At Making Relevant Post Titles)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>My current site project right now involves bunches of icons, and I wish I had more time for it. I&#8217;m also trying to get myself in gear <a href="http://ptocheia.net/2010/02/04/gaming-misc-projects-jobs-and-media-a-k-a-i-suck-at-making-relevant-post-titles/"  >&#187;&#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My current site project right now involves bunches of icons, and I wish I had more time for it. I&#8217;m also trying to get myself in gear with the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest. I&#8217;ve never written a pitch before and it&#8217;s a tough slog at this point. My writing tendencies are entirely too stream-of-consciousness for their own good, and I need to focus more on a decent packaged whole when I write. In other news, I&#8217;ve eaten Mexican food every day this week except yesterday.</p>
<p>I finally beat Oasis on Insane. Were this 2004, when the game actually came out, it would likely be much more exciting. Nonetheless, Oasis has provided me with months of gameplay, and was totally worth the $6 I paid for it. On a similar note, rumors have it that a version of Civilization will be coming to Facebook this June. Aside from my occasional Scrabble obsession (and whenever someone flings a Pathwords invite at me), I&#8217;m not a big Facebook gamer. Yoville got tedious, and I haven&#8217;t logged into my account in months now. There&#8217;s a bunch of others (Mafia Wars, Farmville, etc.) I signed up for, played once, and then promptly forgot about. I think a problem with these games is that they&#8217;re mostly about doing the same thing over and over to acquire more stuff and build your character. None of which is all that interesting to me. One thing that is immensely interesting, however, is Civilization. </p>
<p>Job prospects = still slow. Didn&#8217;t get the job I interviewed for this past Friday. They might have a temporary use for me for a project that may or may not happen, however, which would be nice. I&#8217;d like to get more hours at Liberty, as though the pay is meager, it&#8217;s actually pretty fun to jump around by the side of the road all day long. Also, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever felt this healthy in the middle of winter before. </p>
<p>I wish another Chick-fil-a would open up out here. This is because I want to do another First 100. Preferably without the blizzard this time around. I also really just want to eat chicken constantly, because it is so freaking good. </p>
<p>I finished reading &#8220;Jonathan Norrell &#038; Mr. Strange&#8221; by Susanna Clarke recently. It was fabulous, a very British early 1800&#8242;s take on magicians and magic, quite long and involving with quirky characters, I highly recommend it. I&#8217;m currently reading &#8220;Nature Girl&#8221; by Carl Hiaasen, which is quite funny. </p>
<p>Finished watching Evangelion. Apparently the ending was poorly executed due to budget issues, and I thus need to see a movie called &#8220;The End of Evangelion&#8221; for proper fulfillment. I really liked the concept behind the ending, and we can hopefully get our paws on the movie sometime soon. Started watching Bleach, am enjoying it but with mixed feelings. The more it veers away from the &#8220;I need to kill this giant Hollow&#8221; plots, the more I like it. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, I totally scored some free fabric off of Craigslist. Giant bag, some scraps and some decent-sized pieces. I&#8217;ve got a pair of black shorts with a drawstring that never really fit me right, and I&#8217;ve got this great idea to convert it into a skirt, adding some fabric to the bottom in ruffles or something. I&#8217;ve got plenty of fabric to do this, now it&#8217;s simply the matter of locating said shorts. There&#8217;s this black hole that follows me sometimes, and likes eating things I&#8217;d prefer not to have eaten. I picked up a tank top from Old Navy with the final dregs of my gift card, and as a tank top it&#8217;s entirely too long, but with some fabric on the bottom it would make an awesome dress. I need to find a fabric really similar to the tank top&#8217;a fabric to execute this, however. Now, once I have made these items, I need to find or create circumstances where I would actually wear a skirt or a dress. Pants are just such a nice default, but it&#8217;s a shame that I keep making all of this crap and never wear it anywhere for the most part.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, crispy chocolate in my near future. Old Towne Arvada is having some sort of chocolate festival, whereupon I will enter items into their cookie contest and, with any luck, will win a giant pile of chocolate. Which would be good timing, as our Christmas chocolate is slowly running out!</p>
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		<title>Random musings on weight loss ads, etc</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t help but feel that much of the discussion on anorexia that takes place online is a bit of a waste. I got distracted and ended <a href="http://ptocheia.net/2008/11/23/random-musings-on-weight-loss-ads-etc/"  >&#187;&#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t help but feel that much of the discussion on anorexia that takes place online is a bit of a waste. I got distracted and ended up reading <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/170528?GT1=43002" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.newsweek.com/id/170528?GT1=43002&amp;referer=');">this article on Newsweek about anorexia</a>, particularly as it pertains to online groups, on facebook. And it&#8217;s like, I read about how pro-ana groups are promoting weight loss of wacky proportions, and I can&#8217;t really see how it&#8217;s any different then the ads I encounter pretty much every day online. Just right now to see, I go to my food blog and check the Google ads at the top of the page, and there&#8217;s two that talk about losing 12 lbs of fat every two weeks. That&#8217;s 6 lbs a week, which is insane considering that 2 lbs a week is the maximum amount that one can lose and still be healthy about it. And I find it weird that anyone could enter into a discussion about online weight loss groups, and the crazy things that they&#8217;re encouraging, without examining these ads as well. The article specifically mentions a facebook group that got shut down, along with the account of the group&#8217;s founder, because the founder used the group to &#8216;encourage others to post their pictures online and then harshly detail their &#8220;problem areas.&#8217; This reminds me of an ad I saw online just a little while ago, showing someone&#8217;s midsection who happened to have a bit of a muffin-top (like, not obese or anything, just a bit of a muffin-top), with the text essentially detailing the problem area. it just seems like layers and layers of imitation to me, whereupon when one get&#8217;s labeled &#8216;anorexia&#8217;, it&#8217;s bad, but any other circumstance is just people doing whatever it takes to become thin and &#8216;healthy&#8217;.</p>
<p>To me, it seems like anorexia, and, for that matter, obesity, are just symptoms of other circumstances, things that aren&#8217;t as glamorous to talk about or as easy to pretend to solve as just shutting down a few websites.  </p>
<p>In any case, Google Adsense has an ad review thing they&#8217;ve added recently, which I just stumbled up on today, and I&#8217;m going to use it to filter out some of the ridiculous weight loss stuff on my site. I don&#8217;t like the idea that the ads are gunking up my site, and, as I hate it when I go to recipe websites and see weight loss ads, I don&#8217;t want visitors to my site to have to experience that as well.</p>
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