And while I'm on the topic of asking Paras questions regarding human biology:

How come raw spinach makes me shit like a motherfucker???

Gawdang, I shit green every time I eat spinach, and it fucking assplodes out of me like the great hindenberg of turds.

Is that normal? I suppose maybe my body can't deal with that much cellulose at one time or something... I don't know. I like eating it, but I hate shitting it. It's painful and it makes my stomach very upset too.

Paras, maybe you can answer this for me:

In the entirety of my life, it has been my experience that girls have cold hands and cold feet. I don't know why. For the longest time I just assumed that this was just a fluke random trait about the girls I had met in my life. But lately I've started wondering if this is really the case or not. In the course of the last year I've made a point of asking girls why their hands/feet are so cold whenever I noticed it (wondering if there was some sort of credible explanation for this; maybe the room was cold while I was wearing a big sweater or something like that). But to my great astonishment, the answer has thus far always come back the same:

"it's because I have poor circulation in my hands/feet".

That was not an answer I expected; not the first time, not the second time, and certainly not the third time. But it's invariably ALWAYS blamed on circulation. Now, I don't get intimate enough with girls so regularly that I have a great number of chances to hold hands/touch feet, but of the most recent THREE that I HAVE, the answer has been the same.

So my question to you Paras, is four-fold:

1. Is it true that women generally have colder hands and feet than men?

and if so:

2. Is "circulation" a viable explanation, or is this just a canned response that's used when they really actually have no answer to the question themselves.

AND:

3. If circulation is a viable explanation, AND if women generally have colder extremities than men, does that mean women in general just have poorer/slower/whatever circulation in the tips of their fingers/toes than men?

AND:

4. Supposing all of the above is true, is there a biological reason for this?



This has been bugging me for a while now...

Ah, no way! Jimmy Stewart is like one of my favourite actors! I love how "down home" of a guy he always seems to be. He was awesome in "The man who shot Liberty Valence" which is probably my favourite western movie of all time.

I don't know what you think is pink, but the links are easy enough to make more visible. That'll go on the list.

(As well as, apparently, letting people writing a message know that a new message has been posted in the eternity they've taken to make their post "right". Oops.)

When I first met our new resident, I couldn't help but think there was something familiar about him. I mean, sure his hairstyle is a little old-fashioned (not that I'm one to talk about trendy hairstyles), but that wasn't it. Or maybe that wasn't just it.

He also has a weird way of talking. A little slow, a little deliberate, with a little bit of a funny accent. Which is strange, because he's from Edmonton.

Still I couldn't place it.

Today, though, was the first time I actually saw patients with him. And, as I'm wont to do with doctors I'm unfamiliar with, I sat back for the first patient and observed his style (it's always nice to crib parts of a doctor's rapport for your own use later.) But that familiar way of talking and familiar look became even more so.

And that's when it hit me. The 1940s hair. The slow talking. The slightly off voice.

Our new resident is Jimmy Stewart.

(And you have no idea how hard it is to work the rest of the day and have no one to say that to.)

whoa... this beta thing is shiny and new... though I'm not sure about the pink...

AND, Par, imo the links should be more noticeable than they are. the subtle colour change of the text is just too subtle. unless we're looking to covertly link things, which I'm not sure most people are.

I love how bad links (e.g. links that forget the colon in 'http://') send you here. not that it does any of us non-computer-savvy any good, but still... lovely little dose of "this is what you're doing wrong."

Speaking of the Rambo movie, who would like to see it this friday?

It's also $6 for us working stiffs if you see the matinee (7 o'clock show).

Yes it was a good movie, makes you really think about just living life and taking nothing for granted. Just really appreciating everything you can do. Also the imagination of your mind and the power it has. Like Alison said really heavy stuff. Probally my top 10 for the year along with Juno, and No country for old men, still holding a spot for the upcoming Rambo movie.

So, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly was a good movie. not a good movie to go to while trying to ignore a headache (funny how the subject of strokes makes a minor headache seem more, uh, major), but all the same, so well-done, and such an incredible story. (and $6 for students) it's just... heavy.

I wonder if Jean-Dominique Bauby's book is available in English...