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Re: The Paleo Rodeo #004

curiousyellow — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:49:15 -0000

have recently started a paleo diet, lost some weight, and found myself able to go off one diabetes med and cut the dose of the other in half, with no blood sugars above 150!

I am reading the Mark Sisson Primal Blueprint book. However, Cordain's low fat diet sounds compelling based on his animal fat studies of wild ruminants. Can anyone who prefers the Sisson approach tell me why, other than the fact that they (like me) love bacon, cheese, butter, duck fat, etc.?

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:12:17 -0000

I am not aware that "doof" or a similar-sounding word is used in Yiddish. The Urban Dictionary has one of several definitions of "doofus" which designates its origin in the German word "doof." In http://dict.cc which is an online English-Germanan dictionary, "doof" is an "umgangsprachlich" (colloquial) word for dummy, etc., as you indicate.

I would provisionally conclude that "doofus" is an Americanization of the German "doof," with a bogus Latin ending. No Yiddish involved, it appears.

Many thanks for your Coffeeblog comment.

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog: Cinema

curiousyellow — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:12:43 -0000

Thanks! I enjoyed writing that blogpost.

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:03:11 -0000

Hi, WWK. It's been a while. Glad to have you comment on this. I think I left a Haggadah at your house at a semi-unjew Passover Seder some years ago. Thanks for posting on the Coffeeblog.

I basically agree with what you wrote about the distictions between what Jesus reportedly said, the Christianity promulgated by Rome, the Jewish zealots who fought Rome and lost, and the early Christian church. I'm not all that familiar with the Gnostics, Thoreau, and Mary B. Eddy.

—Jonathan

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:53:50 -0000

Sorry it took so long to reply. In my opinion, Jesus was a Jew, not a Christian. He did not appear to belong to any particular Jewish faction of the period. He spoke Aramaic, and therefore was not a fully Hellenized Jew.

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:09:48 -0000

Thank you, Sintagma for your reply. This dialog is what the Coffeeblog is all about. The image I used is in the public domain from Wikipedia who obviously mis-labeled it as from Greece.

I am glad that you mentioned the bombing of Serbia and the fact that Serbia supported the US in the Second World War. I was not aware that the US under Clinton, who also sided with the Kosovar Albanians, supported Croatian ethnic cleansing of Serb Krajina and parts of Bosnia. At the time it was happening, I did not support the intervention.

There are many Serbs as well as Albanians living in the US who are good citizens. As it happened I just saw this link on Twitter about the ongoing Kosovo situation: http://shrt.st/2mm

Personally I think that the US should leave the Balkans alone and not get sucked into local Balkan ethnic conflicts or history-based European interventions into the Balkans, unless the US is directly threatened by Balkan nations. For example, if Muslim terrorists attack the US from bases in Kosovo, then the US should get involved. I do not expect that to happen.

The claim that Kosovo will "never again" be part of Serbia is shocking to me as it shows how ignorant of history are some of the officials in the US Government. If they want to, let them tell Mr. Putin that Georgia and the Ukraine will "never again" be part of Russia. They don't dare.

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:39:03 -0000

Thank you for your comment, Marko. I get what you are saying, and I am sorry that you interpreted my blogpost as blaming the Serbs for Kosovo. Perhaps the phrase "allegations of horrific Serbian massacres" is what made you think so, plus the fact that I did not criticize Albanians. I am suspicious of those massacre allegations because I think that they were part of the plan by Clinton, Bush, and the European Union to take sides in a Balkan conflict, and to take the side of a Muslim nation against a Christian nation like Serbia.

Although I did not state it very strongly in the blogpost, and only hinted at it, when the US and the European Union sided with Muslim Kosovo Albanians against the Serbs, they abandoned the moral high ground of non-intervention in regional affairs, which made it easier for the Russians to justify invading Georgia, a country which is much closer to Russia than Kosovo is to the US or France. Also, I am still not clear as to what kind of national security threat that Serbia has ever presented to the USA.
As for the State Department's claim that Kosovo will "never again" be part of Serbia, I consider that just plain ridiculous.

What I did mention, and you echoed in your critique of Albanians, was the concept of "Jihad as-Sayf," or Jihad of the Sword, in Islam, which for many Muslims refers to self-defense, but during certain periods of Muslim history, including today, has been an excuse for invading innocent nations, and killing nonbelievers including Christians and Jews. The recent murders by Muslims in Mumbai, India are another example of Jihad as-Sayf.

There are some who believe that we are already involved in World War Three.

—Jonathan

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:53:22 -0000

Thanks, Adrian Bye, for the info about Natara Bonsai. I just checked their website and they don't have a Mac version. I got a trial license for OmniOutliner, which you should consider since you now have a Mac.

I am using 3 outliners right now: Mindnode freeware, which creates an OPML visually as a mindmap. It's a great little program, but it doesn't support text attachements to topics like Omni does. I also use Tinderbox and CarbonFin which I mentioned in the blogpost.

Jonathan

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:33:20 -0000

Hello, and thanks for your question. I have been unsuccessful with
various attempts exporting OPML from Tinderbox.

I am downloading the OmniOuliner beta to see what it can do with
Tinderbox exports. OmniOutliner works well with OPML. If I have any
success I'll add a comment here.

--- JDL: Sent from my iPhone

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:49:12 -0000

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Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:25:39 -0000

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Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog: Gods & Myths

curiousyellow — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:07:58 -0000

Coffeeblogger: Changes Made

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog: Gods & Myths

curiousyellow — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:01:02 -0000

How do you like the new format of the Gods and Myths page. It should download much faster now.

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:02:41 -0000

Coffeeblog Fixed! (Almost)

Re: Cousin Mikey is taking an interest in Twitter (Scripting News)

curiousyellow — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:07:27 -0000

Big Bucks?

Re: Twitter and the importance of architecture

curiousyellow — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:55:56 -0000

I'm with MikePK (and Scoble). It's easy to criticize Twitter with hindsight, but how did they know how many users and tweets they would have to deal with? More importantly, Twitter, like Grazr, has now written a new chapter in start-up history. Twitter will become legendary for its scaling problems, and for its openness about dealing with these problems.

Re: Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble

curiousyellow — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:46:44 -0000

I love it. Cap and trade for tweets. My daughter joined a few months ago and only sent one tweet. Soon she'll be rich.

Re: It’s Time For FriendFeed To Kill Twitter

curiousyellow — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:04:59 -0000

Twitter is still the Golden Goose. Friendfeed is great but it does not replace Twitter. Once the scaling problems are solved, this whole discussion will be forgotten. If someone wants to start an open-source non-proprietary rival to Twitter, as the discussion has suggested, why not? However, nobody appears to be doing it.

Re: Podcasting and RSS at Berkman (Scripting News)

curiousyellow — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:05:18 -0000

Thanks.

Re: JohnMcCain.com - John McCain | News from Presidential Candidates, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House

curiousyellow — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:00:46 -0000

Love your Streisand covers. A sense of humor is good. Maybe you could help your friend and colleague Senator Obama to find his.

Re: Twitter: An admission of failure, a call for help

curiousyellow — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:32:15 -0000

Something new?

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog: Homepage

curiousyellow — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:12:44 -0000

Welcome to Jonathan's Coffeeblog Homepage

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog: Homepage

curiousyellow — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:39:16 -0000

To see Jonathan himself give the raspberry to his own Coffeeblog, go here and scroll down to the comments:

http://www.doublesquids.net...

Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:07:34 -0000

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Re: Jonathan's Coffeeblog

curiousyellow — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:04:52 -0000

If you don't know what a raspberry is, watch the video.