Go See The Parrot Movie!
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is probably playing at an artsy theater near you. You'll love it. What are you waiting for? Go see it! Now! Run!
Roger Ebert reviews it here.
blogjack - Life, the universe, and when to hit a soft eighteen.
Roger Ebert reviews it here.
According to one web event guide:
At 8pm every Friday night, 300 to 500 avid skaters meet at the corner of Bryant Street and the Embarcadero in the shadow of the Bay Bridge ready to skate The City and they would love you to join them. The skating takes you to Pier 39, through Marina Green, the Stockton Street Tunnel, and Union Square before heading back to Bryant and Embarcadero by 11:30pm or so. There are stops along the way if you need to catch your breath. Event is free; helmet required.
Seth Robert provides some follow-up on his earlier experiments, including the sugar-water diet I mentioned earlier:
Friends noticed my fructose-induced weight loss and told their friends about it, and some of those friends contacted me, asking how to do it. I told them (a) 90 ml (6 tablespoons) or less of fructose per day should be sufficient to cause substantial loss of appetite and weight loss; (b) that the amount of water in which the fructose was mixed did not matter, but that it must be unflavored; and (c) the fructose water should be drunk between meals. To lose weight they would have to consume fewer calories than usual, I said, but the fructose water should make it possible to do so without unpleasant hunger. Three of them tried it and kept records[...] The fructose water, they found, made it much easier to eat less and lose weight.My immediate results have been consistent with his - hunger was greatly reduced from day 1. I'm going to stick with his precise plan at first to verify that it works over time. But I don't find his explanation of why it works all that convincing.
Alex Tabarrok of MarginalRevolution writes:
Seth Roberts is a psychologist at Berkeley who for the past twelve years has obsessively kept data on himself in an effort to generate and test new ideas. In a recent paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences he explains some of his methods and findings...Roberts, for example, drank 5 liters (!) of water every day for 4 months to test a theory of weight loss (he lost weight but he couldn't keep up the drinking!). He also began standing for more than 8 hours a day, initially to test the affect on weight loss but instead he found that standing, especially 10 hours or more a day, dramatically improved his sleep. Eventually, he did find a novel form of weight loss involving fructose water (read the paper). Some of his findings seem bizarre, such as watching faces on tv in the morning improved his mood the next day but lowered it that night.