I tried a cleanse a few years ago that involved three to five days of raw foods, and both times the headaches by day 2 were so intense that I caved. I was told that was normal, but why volunteer for head pain?

There is a Fruitarian joke in another movie, but I can't quite remember it. Maybe Peter's Friends, as I rather imagine Rita Rudner saying it in my head? I've never seen Love, Actually, but I learned about Fruitarians in a movie. I think.

ETA:

Apparantly it was Notting Hill, and it was Hugh Grant saying it. Somehow in my brain I mixed up Hugh Grant and Rita Rudner.

Julianne Moore's character in Safe goes on an all-fruit diet, but I don't think the word "frutarian" is used. It was definitely a running gag in The Kiki & Herb Show (it's why Kiki only drinks Alizé), but I don't know if anyone else on the board would have seen that.

This is too fucking cool:

There is an important sequence of numbers called "the moments of the Riemann zeta function." Although we know abstractly how to define it, mathematicians have had great difficulty explicitly calculating the numbers in the sequence. We have known since the 1920s that the first two numbers are 1 and 2, but it wasn't until a few years ago that mathematicians conjectured that the third number in the sequence may be 42.

My dumb question of the day:

This was linked on LJ

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What do I click on to take the test? Is there something wrong with my browser? Or my brain? I can only find 2 potentially correct links on the page the "take the test" which refreshes the page, and the logo in the upper left, which takes me to the home page.

That's not a dumb question; I don't get a link either.

Thanks for looking bonbon-- I now know I am not going completely craxy! I was in fact wondering if it was the test-- finding the link.

Hmm. Maybe it's all a big hoax. Psych you/pscyh me and all.

Also, I think the movie I was thinking of with the Fruitarians was Notting Hill and not Love Actually. Romantic comedies and London and Hugh Grant. They all bleed together.

Also, also, Alize is spectacularly nasty (and stank). I had some wanna be mack give me a bottle once. Ptui. Yet another reason to dislike the raw foodists.

Allyson, Tim is welcome to stay with me. Somehow I doubt the hide-a-bed or aerobed is what he will be looking for in luxury accomodations though.

ION, I just spent 3 HOURS! at the Dr, office to have 2 forms filled out and a TB test. 3 HOURS!! It was like keystone office personel.

Before Humans started killing and eating dead animal carcass

There is every reason to believe that proto-humans ate insects, eggs, small animals and carrion with great delight, just as baboons and chimps do now. It's silly to think that they had a diet resembling the one endorsed by the raw food movement.

But a resturant specializing in bugs, leaves, roots, and roadkill could get us close to our evolutionary past, if that's what they want.

That sucks, msbelle. I hope you told them to eat it.