Snacks
Just comparing some of the snacks I regularly take into work, or buy from the charity boxes or fundraiser boxes.
| Snack | Sultanas 40g | Banana 118g | Apple 182g | Giant Freddo Frog 40g | Carmans Apricot & almond muesli bar | Mars Bar 60g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | 536 kJ | 440 kJ | 396 kJ | 884 kJ | 796 kJ | 1150 kJ |
| Protein | 1.1 g | 1 g | 0 g | 3.3 g | 4.7 g | 2.1 g |
| Fat – total | 0.2 g | 0.5 g | 0 g | 11.8 g | 8.2 g | 10.4 g |
| - saturated | 0.0 g | 0 g | 0 g | 7.4 g | 0.8 g | 6.2 g |
| Carbohydrate | 26.0 g | 27 g | 25 g | 22.9 g | 22.8 | 42.3 g |
| - sugars | 25.3 g | 14 g | 19 g | 22.3 g | 4.7 g | 36.7 g |
| - dietary fibre | 2.4 g | 3 g | 4 g | ? | 3.3 g | ? |
| Sodium | 18 mg | 1 mg | 2 mg | 36 mg | 13.5 mg | 89 mg |
| Potassium | 324 mg | 422 mg | 195 mg | ? | ? | ? |
Source: Bananas, Freddo, various packets. Recommended daily intake.
So the energy (which of course if unused turns into fat) in a Mars Bar is about triple that of a banana or apple. Yikes.
I feel like going for a jog.
See also: Recommended daily intake levels
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Some pics from the last week
Sunday afternoon, waiting for the 6:40. Yes, people with grey hair use laptops too.
“Mind the gap” is something familiar to Londoners (where some of the gaps really are worth minding), but this warning has recently shown up at Footscray.
Monday the 16th was not a good day on the Frankston line. I didn’t have long to wait when I got to my station, but the train was full to overflowing by the time we got to South Yarra, and this pic spells out how it was running for time:
And now for something completely different. This amusing sign at ACMI, but I think they have their dimensions mixed-up… it’s clearly two dimensional.
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Fiddling with the web server
Fiddling with the web server. Comments will be disabled for a little while, and you may notice some other glitches in the next little while.
Update. Moved to new server. Consolidating hosting plans.
Not as smooth as I hoped. WP2.7.1 broke some bits of it. 2.7 looks better.
Thursday morning. Just waiting for the DNS changes to propogate. If you can see this, they’ve reached you.
And yes, I’m still fiddling with the blog template in response to comments on it.
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Deprecated
I always used the term depreciated, but according to Wikipedia it’s deprecated. It’s not trying to say it’s lost it’s value; it’s trying to say you’re discouraged from using it.
In computer terms it generally means something that has been replaced by something better/newer, but it’s still kept around for backwards compatibility.
I officially launched toxiccustard.com on 2nd December 1996. It followed on from the Toxic Custard email list that was started back at uni in 1990, about four web sites hosted in various places by some kind mailing list readers who offered space on their servers. Actually from time to time I still encounter people who read the Toxic Custard list back in the 90s, and have found themselves scarred by the experience.
I’m not even sure at exactly what point “blog”-type posts were appearing on the web site — I think it would have been late-1996, but certainly archive.org has one from July 1997. Back then nobody called them blogs of course. (My diary posts from 1994 to 1996 were dug out from the email list archives.)
Over the years a bunch of other stuff got posted onto the site. Highlights included all the Shakespeare spoofs, the video destruction, the Doctor Who spoof and my History of the World.
But my blog has taken over most of my online content creation time, and in March 2005 I moved the blog over to danielbowen.com. I’ve tried to find the time to keep updating toxiccustard.com, but other things have occupied me.
I’m arguably less attached to some of the content there too… as I get older, some of it seems increasingly… well, immature.
So as of now, toxiccustard.com is deprecated. I’m going to leave it running, but I’m steadily putting banners up on all the pages to say I’ve stopped updating it. (And Google ads, so hopefully it can pay for its own hosting.)
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Snake tales
A story I heard a while back…
Friend of friend driving along an unsealed country road. As is common in dry weather, the car was causing the dirt and rocks to go flying around. Driver had his arm out the window.
Something hit his arm. At first he thought it was a stick. He glanced into his mirror and saw a snake flying through the air.
Stopped the car and looked at his arm. Two puncture marks in it.
Went to hospital. The verdict was that although the snake bit him, no venom made it into his arm, so he was okay.
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The iron
I just dropped the iron. No, it didn’t cause any kind of comical foot injury, but it did cause a crack in the iron. Time to go shopping for a new one.
It’s a Sunbeam iron. Lasted 15+ years I think. I’ll happily buy another one. I wonder if they’re on sale anywhere this week? Will check Catalogue Central — though it looks like some of the big retailers don’t have their latest catalogues shown there.
PS. Myer and Harris Scarfe both have one on sale for $55. Seems reasonable… I once knew a lady who spent many many hundreds of dollars on an iron. I never did figure out how she thought it was good value for money, especially when I discovered that despite the cost, it had no capability to iron the clothes for you.
The old iron appears to still power on, but in my book when a device that involves spraying scalding hot steam about the place in close proximity to humans has obvious damage, it’s time for it to be replaced.
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That picture again
That picture showed up again, this time in an article I wrote for Planning News. I like the blur they’ve put on it.
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Medicinal reasons
I’d been meaning to write about this anyway, but one of Richard’s Twitter posts reminded me: If only more medical problems could be solved by simply ingesting more caffeine. The world would be a better place.
Indeed.
The cluster headaches I suffered from last summer did return this year, but happily the medication has been very effective at curbing them.
When there is a twinge over and above what the medication can handle, as the Wikipedia article notes, caffeine can make a difference.
I don’t normally drink Coke — overall it’s not a very healthy thing to consume — but have found slurping down a can provides of enough of a burst of caffeine to help a lot.
So as my sister commented (when she gave me some unwanted cans), I drink Coke for medicinal reasons.
PS. It appears that Coke Zero contains the same amount of caffeine, but no sugar, which might be a better option when one requires a medicinal caffeine infusion, though in fact a cup of tea appears to be an even better option.
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