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Friday, December 14, 2007
Underwater Hotel: Sleeping with the Fishes...
The swankiest new hotel may not be a high rise - but rather a room 20,000 leagues under the sea...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Jinx of the 13
I just broke my jinx of the 13 - I had to - :)
So this is it - these two lines break that jinx :)
So this is it - these two lines break that jinx :)
What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?
Thanks to Wade Meredith for this post - puts Coke in a new perspective for me :)
Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.
*FYI: The Coke itself is not the enemy, here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid. Things which are found in almost all soda.
Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.
*FYI: The Coke itself is not the enemy, here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid. Things which are found in almost all soda.
Further Reading/Sources
- What Happens To Your Body If You Stop Smoking Right Now? [internal link]
- This Is Your Life On Caffeine [internal link]
- Wikipedia - Sugar
- Wikipedia - Caffeine
- Processed Sugar Can Cause Addiction and Depression
- Counting The Many Ways Sugar Harms Your Health - Dr. Mercola
- How Caffeine Affects The Body
- I also had a practicing MD and member of The American College of Surgeons consult on this article about some blood chemistry issues. He mainly just looked over the article after I had written it and, after correcting a few time line issues, said that it was on the up and up.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Nokia N Zone
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
New transport!!!!
My family and I are now the proud owners of 2 new cars (that brings our cumulative total up to 4). Now I realise its a touch much but the elation equals none that we all have our own personal car.. NO MORE SHARING!!!
ok...
The cars we had so far??
1. Toyota Innova - spacious (understatement really!!!) and did i mention it is HUGE!!!!!!! 8 seater with boot space to spare.. a powerful 2.5 l diesel engine with great performance.. 10 km to the liter!!! and its HUGE!!!
2. Toyota Corolla ver 2007 :-) - This is my parents car!! Their pride joy !!! Us brothers are not allowed to touch the driver side without prior authority.. needless to say we do (most of the time at least)
Now we added two cars for our own personal use!!!
1) Hyundai Santro Xing - A beautiful car with a perfectly matched 1.1l engine. robust. and its BRIGHT RED!!!! My brother and I share the cost for our first car!!!
2) Maruti Suzuki 800 - This car is the Indian equivalent of "The Blueee Prius" (as made famous by Jeff Dunham in Sparks of Insanity - all descriptions below of the car hold true for both vehicles). It is not a car actually, it is a lunchbox!!! On the highway, if you put your hand out the window, the vehicle will turn!!!! And it is so small you can drive under a 16 wheeler, say thats dirty and drive right back out!!! and the Horn is a squeeky irritating "EEP EEP". But it has killer mileage and is the car my mother is most comfortable driving..
Anyway - now with the onset of 4 cars in our household, my brother has decided to brush up on his driving, my mother will sputter around in the 800 and I will share the Santro with my brother to go to office!!!
I thought I forgot how owning a new car feels, but last night was just ecstatic... THE SIBLINGs FIRST CAR :)
ok...
The cars we had so far??
1. Toyota Innova - spacious (understatement really!!!) and did i mention it is HUGE!!!!!!! 8 seater with boot space to spare.. a powerful 2.5 l diesel engine with great performance.. 10 km to the liter!!! and its HUGE!!!
2. Toyota Corolla ver 2007 :-) - This is my parents car!! Their pride joy !!! Us brothers are not allowed to touch the driver side without prior authority.. needless to say we do (most of the time at least)
Now we added two cars for our own personal use!!!
1) Hyundai Santro Xing - A beautiful car with a perfectly matched 1.1l engine. robust. and its BRIGHT RED!!!! My brother and I share the cost for our first car!!!
2) Maruti Suzuki 800 - This car is the Indian equivalent of "The Blueee Prius" (as made famous by Jeff Dunham in Sparks of Insanity - all descriptions below of the car hold true for both vehicles). It is not a car actually, it is a lunchbox!!! On the highway, if you put your hand out the window, the vehicle will turn!!!! And it is so small you can drive under a 16 wheeler, say thats dirty and drive right back out!!! and the Horn is a squeeky irritating "EEP EEP". But it has killer mileage and is the car my mother is most comfortable driving..
Anyway - now with the onset of 4 cars in our household, my brother has decided to brush up on his driving, my mother will sputter around in the 800 and I will share the Santro with my brother to go to office!!!
I thought I forgot how owning a new car feels, but last night was just ecstatic... THE SIBLINGs FIRST CAR :)
Monday, November 5, 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007
New things in my world
I have the following new things in my life:
Lenovo laptop - Y410 - 1.5 GHz C2D, 1 GB ram, 160 GB HDD, 14.1 WXGA, excellent value for India :). My brother got himself a Dell Vostro 1400. My dad got hiself an Acer Aspire!!! all three are State of the Art machines and cost between 850 - 1500 $ (bro - 1500, dad 850 and me 1250)
Bought new handsets for my folks - bought dad a Moto Razr V3i, and Mom a Nokia 2630. I got myself a Nokia 9300 communicator, my brother got himself an E61i. my girlfriend also left no stone unturned... she got herself a Sony Ericsson Z610i.
I got me a Canon digi cam (its a 3.3 but i got a nice setup)
New eye-glasses - increased number but its new all the same!!!
This last month has been very expensive for our family in toto
But it does not matter, its amazing all the stuff we have !!!!
Lenovo laptop - Y410 - 1.5 GHz C2D, 1 GB ram, 160 GB HDD, 14.1 WXGA, excellent value for India :). My brother got himself a Dell Vostro 1400. My dad got hiself an Acer Aspire!!! all three are State of the Art machines and cost between 850 - 1500 $ (bro - 1500, dad 850 and me 1250)
Bought new handsets for my folks - bought dad a Moto Razr V3i, and Mom a Nokia 2630. I got myself a Nokia 9300 communicator, my brother got himself an E61i. my girlfriend also left no stone unturned... she got herself a Sony Ericsson Z610i.
I got me a Canon digi cam (its a 3.3 but i got a nice setup)
New eye-glasses - increased number but its new all the same!!!
This last month has been very expensive for our family in toto
But it does not matter, its amazing all the stuff we have !!!!
Ever thought about this?
Ever thought about this??
Why do people die for money - even I do.... but then still why do people run after money....
Forget that for the moment - what started this entire craze for money???
In the before (goddamn Orbit ads in India) - Man stayed in caves, grew what was needed to eat and survive, lived very rudimentary lives. Then came the era of specialisation (why is specialization so important - when everyone can be self sufficient - which is what everyone aims at right now anyway - confused individuals)
Specialisation meant that every man knew how to do one thing only - which meant that (assuming, I was alive in the cave era) I would be good at only growing vegetables or hunting and that I would gather enough meat or veggies for the entire clan (yea we were a sticky lot even then) and then if someone else was good at cooking or stitching, then I would "exchange" meat for clothes and stuff. Still no money.
We were content and there was no anger or tension then...
Then suddenly somebody discovered Gold and it was "awe"-some. It was perceived to be of so much value, and it became freely exchange-able with anything. Whether it is the meat I collected, or the veggies grown by my neighbour... thus started money... lazy bastards, all of them went out to go collect the gold, and then started the whole stream of I WANT MORE THAN THE GUY NEXT DOOR, I KILL YOU!!!!
Then people wanted to create a quantifiable method of measuring gold to convert into services (stitching, washing) or products (meat, veggies etc). Fast forward to 17th century
People want cars, lights, big houses, more land to grow veggies, and people to service their every need and I mean EVERY need...
The concept of Money and luxury are unknown to me. I feel that it is practically useless... and come to think of it... if some asshole did not discover gold, then we would have no pollution today... can you make the link??
Please comment....
Why do people die for money - even I do.... but then still why do people run after money....
Forget that for the moment - what started this entire craze for money???
In the before (goddamn Orbit ads in India) - Man stayed in caves, grew what was needed to eat and survive, lived very rudimentary lives. Then came the era of specialisation (why is specialization so important - when everyone can be self sufficient - which is what everyone aims at right now anyway - confused individuals)
Specialisation meant that every man knew how to do one thing only - which meant that (assuming, I was alive in the cave era) I would be good at only growing vegetables or hunting and that I would gather enough meat or veggies for the entire clan (yea we were a sticky lot even then) and then if someone else was good at cooking or stitching, then I would "exchange" meat for clothes and stuff. Still no money.
We were content and there was no anger or tension then...
Then suddenly somebody discovered Gold and it was "awe"-some. It was perceived to be of so much value, and it became freely exchange-able with anything. Whether it is the meat I collected, or the veggies grown by my neighbour... thus started money... lazy bastards, all of them went out to go collect the gold, and then started the whole stream of I WANT MORE THAN THE GUY NEXT DOOR, I KILL YOU!!!!
Then people wanted to create a quantifiable method of measuring gold to convert into services (stitching, washing) or products (meat, veggies etc). Fast forward to 17th century
People want cars, lights, big houses, more land to grow veggies, and people to service their every need and I mean EVERY need...
The concept of Money and luxury are unknown to me. I feel that it is practically useless... and come to think of it... if some asshole did not discover gold, then we would have no pollution today... can you make the link??
Please comment....
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