I originally had my rubber chicken hanging by its neck here in my cubicle until a friend pointed out the "choking the chicken" reference and I turned it so it was hanging by one of its feet, instead.

So I went to Chipotle, and they aren't serving the tomato salsa! Bullshit, I say.

At least they made the corn salsa less spicy! I think that's thoughtful.

I went to the gym this morning, and ever since I got back I am filled with lassitude. I can't work. It's weird.

Let's all not work, together.

At least they made the corn salsa less spicy! I think that's thoughtful.

Yeah, that's something. I have also decided that maybe I actually like the burrito bowl better, since then I can move the ingredients around the way I like them. Huh!

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a daily vitamin w/calcium?

I've read that calcium and iron (which most multivitamins have, esp. those for women) shouldn't be taken together, because iron inhibits calcium's absorption.

And it's really hard to find a kids' multi-vitamin that doesn't have both. (I take a kids' multi-vitamin because adults' multi-vitamins have 100% or more of the RDA, which I don't need, given that I eat relatively well. A kids' multi-vitamin has 50%-ish of adults' RDA, which is enough to cover any gaps my food intake leaves.)

A study found when looking at the habits of thin people, that they do weigh themselves every day or every other. And when I was working on maintaining or losing weight that's actually what was recommended. I also know that when I am bad about eating right and I know I'm gonna gain I avoid the scale. Hence the daily weigh in.

Yeah, I have to get back on the daily weigh in habit, but I'm waiting until I am feeling slightly more settled. Then I can start working on the 20lbs that have snuck back up on me over the last year.

Let's all not work, together.

What we do every day...

I'm so happy that I don't live in Japan. Because I stress enough about my own weight already.

Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44 percent of the entire population.

Those exceeding government limits — 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women, which are identical to thresholds established in 2005 for Japan by the International Diabetes Federation as an easy guideline for identifying health risks — and having a weight-related ailment will be given dieting guidance if after three months they do not lose weight. If necessary, those people will be steered toward further re-education after six more months.

Mr. Ogushi was actually a little harder on Americans than they deserved. A survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found that the average waist size for Caucasian American men was 39 inches, a full inch lower than the 40-inch threshold established by the International Diabetes Federation. American women did not fare as well, with an average waist size of 36.5 inches, about two inches above their threshold of 34.6 inches. The differences in thresholds reflected variations in height and body type from Japanese men and women.

Still and yet, the controversy rages on: Astronomers Argue Pluto is a Planet

Disgruntled scientists renewed their vows this week to call Pluto a planet despite an international governing body's latest ruling to reclassify the tiny world.

On Wednesday, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) declared that Pluto will henceforth be known as a "plutoid," a new class of objects that has two members (the other being Eris, a small body beyond Pluto). The IAU, considered in charge of naming celestial objects, has been around since 1919. It demoted Pluto to "dwarf planet" status in 2006.

The latest decision was announced by email to the press, and it took researchers by surprise. Even IAU members and astronomers who discovered Eris and other objects that might eventually be called plutoids were not consulted or informed.

That's left many scientists peeved that the IAU developed the new term and its definition behind closed doors. They accuse the IAU of being secretive, out of touch and of failing to consider basic physical characteristics that researchers use to define planets.

"The derision for this group [the IAU] is now spreading virally," said Alan Stern, former assistant administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA and lead investigator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto.

Stern has also hinted that a rival group to the IAU might be formed. When asked about this possibility, he said: "There is a disturbance in the force. Enough said."

As if the controversy isn't geeky enough - they gotta throw a Star Wars reference in there....