What gives?! Yesterday in my office it was psychotically cold! (Big drafty windows equals me wearing my down filled jacket in the office.) Now today it is psychotically hot! (I could wear my board shorts!)

Finally, an inspiring choice in the upcoming provincial election! Rhinos horn in on election:

Some Alberta Rhinos' pledges:

- Annex Saskatchewan to create more room for affordable housing;
- Push British Columbia into the sea, so Albertans can enjoy oceanfront property;
- Abolish the environment because it's too hard to clean;
- Legalize pot. "And pans. And spatulas."
- Rename the province "The People's Republic of North Montana" and make Medicine Hat its capital, since the party couldn't concoct a funnier name;
- Get drunk and throw money at more problems, not just the homelessness;
- Merge with the Tories to stop splitting the "silly vote;" and
- Above all, it promises to not keep any promises.

Well, generally I just put the spinach in my sandwiches and it seems to have a laxative effect that usually hits me in the evening if I eat them in the afternoon. Sometimes the leaves are in pretty whole and recognizable condition which seems pretty surprising. But the other day I ate a bowl full of spinach (and I threw some carrots sticks in it and put some dressing on and called it a "salad") for lunch and I had really bad stomach ache that night and it made me super gassy and I had to shit pretty bad, hahaha.

If I don't eat spinach, I don't have any problems, but I really like spinach (I much prefer it to lettuce) so I can't help eating it even when I know I'll probably get a stomach ache if I eat too much of it.

Somebody was telling me just the other day that the packaged spinach (which is what I buy) had an e.coli outbreak earlier this year that had something to do with sewage water getting mixed in with the irrigation water. I hadn't heard about this previously, and I really highly doubt that's the case anymore even if it's true, but it really does upset my stomach.

Funny you should mention that Paras. I ran about 3 or 4 blocks to get to the metro theatre in the cold tonight. But all the running started making me breathe very heavily, and by the time I got to the theatre I had an incredibly sharp pain in my chest! The air is too fucking cold to breathe!

Also, coming back from Calgary on highway 2 was fucking insane. I've got some videos that I'll post on facebook later where entire semi-trucks disappear completely in fog when they're only 20 metres in front of you. That was the most fucked up driving experience of my life! There are parts in the video where the whole screen goes white and you can't even see the road. I actually feared for my life, haha.

Also, -38ºC isn't a temperature, nor should Environment Canada pretend that it's anything other than a condition in which one's alveoli freeze shut.

the ketchup conundrum -- Malcolm Gladwell.

How much raw spinach are you eating? Could be the cellulose and how your body doesn't digest it completely. When spinach is cooked, other fibres soften in the process making the spinach easier to pass through. Might want to load up on the water as fibre causes bulking, which can cause passing it after really painful.

nice, thank-you for the postulations, paras. It all sounds very plausible, though like you said, further study would be needed to say with any certainty whether or not women DO generally have colder extremities. But for the most part, it does leave me satisfied that this is in fact a halfway good reason and not entirely impossible. It would be (somewhat) interesting to do a study on something like this. I would assume though that since there's a joke about why women have colder hands than men that I'm not the first (or only) person to notice this temperature difference.

As for those photographs, I saw an entire hardcover book full of those at Urban Outfitters when I was there before Christmas. That photographer has some pretty uncanny look-alike models, and for the most part they're pretty funny.

This circulation thing reminds me of a joke T-bot told me:

T-bot: Do you know why women hands are always cold?
Al: No why?
T-bot: So they'll be more willing to hold a man's hand.

Wount Wount (Suppose to be the onemtopeia(sp?) of that bad joke horn)

the pink is in the "beautiful blue" shading of the white... very peachy.

wrt Taylor's question and the subsequent explanation, I think this deserves a study!

hey Par, where's the cursor? I don't like this...