I’ve added a new gizmo to the blog, over on the right hand side there is a list of interesting links. These are articles I’ve read that are interesting enough for me to click on the “Share” button, but not interesting enough to actually blog about.
Read and enjoy, or mock mercilessly, if that’s your thing.
I’m normally about as anti-union as they come (and I can go on at length as to my own negative experiences with unions, although in fairness I’ve only worked for one — They tried to steal my pension, went out of their way to reduce my benefits, and attempted to have a few other goodies clawed back. Best of all, I paid union dues to fund these efforts. Thanks guys!)
However, the studios have really gone too far this time, and I’m 100% behind the writer’s guild.
Why? Well, the short version is that the agreement the studios are proposing pays out zero royalties to writers for non-traditional medias. In other words, writers get paid royalties when their work is shown on broadcast TV, cable, satellite, when DVDs are sold, etc, but NOT when
For those not keeping up, read the Writer’s Guild of America’s official position — Now obviously this is a biased viewpoint, but having read a substantial amount of information on both sides of the debate, it seems to be more or less reasonable.
So, even if it means we lose out on some kwality programming this season (or next, since the studios probably have enough scripts on hand to keep up more scripted dramas for a short time, although some of my favourite shows including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will go off the air more or less immediately), in my opinion, it’s worth it.
Welp, it’s that time again. Summer is over, no more camping, no more sweltering in my 30C office because I’m too cheap to buy an air conditioner, no more wearing my favourite cargo shorts, no more quick runs to pick up a pizza without grabbing a jacket, no more iced cappuccinos (not that I’d let a little cold weather stop me, normally. Heck, we’ve already had snow this year. SNOW. Who does that?
It’s also time to get back on the low carb deal. Low carb seems to work reasonably well for me when I’m at home, but when I’m traveling, camping, or otherwise too busy to cook, I don’t find myself caring enough to stick with it. With summer over, I’m more likely to be at home a lot more, and with temperatures falling, standing in front of a hot stove isn’t as painful an experience as it is during the summer.
So we’ll see how it goes.
In the mean time, we ate most of the “bad” food in the house, just one thing to go… Cinnamon Buns! And they were delicious!
My goal is to go as close to zero sugar carbs as possible, stay under ~25-30 grams of carbs daily. And for what it’s worth, my experience has been that net total carbs is a complete waste of time, if you’re going to do low-carb then do it, don’t play math games with fibre.
I’m also going to work on getting caffeine out of my system entirely, so on that note, I’ll close by sharing a comic from one of my favourite cartoonists.
