What, nobody sucks the juice off their fingers anymore? And she needs two hands to eat a peach?

And by "that thing," I mean this thing.

Vitamin C aside, fruit juice is just as bad for you as soda is.

I wouldn't have enough to buy another dime.

This made me chuckle...and reminded me of a recent Nova episode where a sociologist did an experiment where he auctioned off a $20 bill. It sold for...$26. Yep, some sap paid more than the legal tender was worth!

That sounds like that stat I read in freakonomics where a ridiculously high amount of stuff on ebay eventually sells above the original "buy it now" price.

Vitamin C aside, fruit juice is just as bad for you as soda is.

Apart from having equivalent sugar, how is juice as bad, Tom?

I'm curious because I've been reading all this stuff about calcium leeching from bones and acid effects on the stomach associated with soda.

That sounds like that stat I read in freakonomics where a ridiculously high amount of stuff on ebay eventually sells above the original "buy it now" price.

I didn't pay enough attention, but the Nova ep suggested that there is a neurological connection with money and competition that makes such things happen. They further suggested that money effects the brain in the same ways that sex and food do. Interesting evolutionarily speaking.

I think there was something about similar effects in Predictably Irrational - iirc, the explanation had to do with wanting to make sure your competitors didn't get it more than wanting to get a fair price for yourself.

Damn, it is cold and windy out. I am under-dressed. We're not having the day we planned, uncle g is tending mac who refused to leave the house. I am supposed to be out doing something enjoyable. So far I've got coffee and donuts and sat reading at D&D, but now I have no idea what to do. The mani-pedi place in my hood is closed. It is ick to be walking around in. The library is closed. Ideas?

Movie!