State of the Bear

(cross-posted to mdlbear and healthy_fen)

My weight this morning was down to 182. It hasn't been that low in... don't remember. Close to a decade, at any rate. Somebody at Baycon remarked that I'd lost weight. The diet is basically just low carbs, low glycemic index, and only high-protein snacks, Starting with a large high-protein breakfast. I lost about 2 pounds over the weekend.

I also noticed that I seemed less tired than I used to be during packing and load-out from Baycon. I worked efficiently and remained functional and cheerful during the whole morning. This was true of the last few cons, too. Some of that may well be the fact that the weekend didn't start out with a day of driving, but it may also be the combination of nose-watering and the facehugger giving me better breathing during the day and night respectively. Whatever it is, I'm not complaining.

During colds and allergy season, I seem to need to water my nose three or four times/day. Wish it was practical to do it around noon at work...

QOTD: from an IM exchange about songwriting

Naomi: "Do not have affairs with bards for your name is funny and scans to Greensleeves."
me: "Have affairs with bards, for your name is beautiful and scans to almost anything"

Ubuntu Netbook Remix coming in June

Interview: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu | Technology | The Guardian

TG: Will you be coming out with a tailored version of Ubuntu for the ultraportable sector?

MS We're announcing it in the first week of June. It's called the Netbook Remix. We're working with Intel, which produces chips custom-made for this sector.

TG: Do you think that GNU/Linux will ever become a significant force on the desktop?

MS I think that depends on how people define a desktop. If people continue to define a desktop as the thing that they run Microsoft Word on, then Windows will retain its position. My sense, though, is that people are increasingly defining the desktop as the thing that they get access to the internet from. In that case, there's a real possibility that we're able to shift people onto different platforms. I think it's the emergence of the internet as the killer application, the thing that describes what you want from the computer, that opens the door to us.

(via engadget