"Byetta can give you better control of your diabetes."

Yeah, and your ass fat. I'm gonna update my memestreams with my progress on this stuff.

The BYETTA (exenatide) injection Site from Amylin and Lilly

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Delta has cheap deals every week, if you wanna take a break. $120 to Portland round trip sounds nice, at the moment.

Weekly Web Fare Specials from Delta for weekend and last-minute getaways

Oct. 24, 2005 — Exenatide (Byetta) appears to promote weight loss in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), according to new research findings. The drug is currently approved as a glucose control agent for type 2 diabetes when used in combination with metformin and/or sulfonylureas.

Exenatide helps maintain glucose control by mimicking the actions of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and it enhances glucose-dependent insulin secretion. The agent, the first in the class of incretin mimetics, has been shown to reduce glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in patients with DM2.

Many antidiabetic agents are associated with weight gain in patients with type 2 diabetes, who are often already overweight or obese. Thus, a weight loss effect with an antidiabetic agent would provide additional benefits when treating these patients.

The amplitude of my weight loss is 100 pounds. The period of the sine wave is 1.5 years. I am at the top of the sin wave. My doctor prescribed me this diabetic medication that will act as a "chemical gastric bypass," by making my belly feel full more quickly, because it will empty its contents slower. I inject with a pen-thing across my belly in 4 spots, 15 minutes before I eat. Thats it. 3 times a day you get that feeling of "stuffed" much more easily.

Since I'm already exercising, this should be very effective. I will let everyone know.

Exenatide Promotes Weight Loss in Overweight Diabetic Patients

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Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object--beautiful or utilitarian--but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us these stories from an industry insider's viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The innovators he interviews--including Will Wright, creator of The Sims, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, and Doug Engelbart, Bill Atkinson, and others involved in the invention and development of the mouse and the desktop--have been instrumental in making a difference in the design of interactions. Their stories chart the history of entrepreneurial design development for technology.

Moggridge and his interviewees discuss such questions as why a personal computer has a window in a desktop, what made Palm's handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO--how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.

Designing Interactions is illustrated with more than 700 images, with color throughout. Accompanying the book is a DVD that contains segments from all the interviews intercut with examples of the interactions under discussion.

Interviews with:
Bill Atkinson • Durrell Bishop • Brendan Boyle • Dennis Boyle • Paul Bradley • Duane Bray • Sergey Brin • Stu Card • Gillian Crampton Smith • Chris Downs• Tony Dunne • John Ellenby • Doug Englebart • Jane Fulton Suri • Bill Gaver • Bing Gordon • Rob Haitani • Jeff Hawkins • Matt Hunter • Hiroshi Ishii • Bert Keely • David Kelley • Rikako Kojima • Brenda Laurel • David Liddle • Lavrans Løvlie • John Maeda • Paul Mercer • Tim Mott • Joy Mountford • Takeshi Natsuno • Larry Page • Mark Podlaseck • Fiona Raby • Cordell Ratzlaff • Ben Reason • Jun Rekimoto • Steve Rogers • Fran Samalionis • Larry Tesler • Bill Verplank • Terry Winograd • Will Wright

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Designing Interactions

Regular Expressions

Perl users will like this one.

HAhahaha

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

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Developed exclusively for Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, the Grand Bed Sleep Set features a made-to-order no-flip pillow-top mattress for an exceptional night's sleep.
The Grand Bed features a three-part Comfort Support System (CSS), designed to help you sleep soundly and wake refreshed. The UniCased Edge Design ensures the mattress retains it shape, resists body impressions and provides long lasting comfort. The Posterpedic Innerspring System provides orthopedically correct back support. Pressure Points Materials reduce tossing and turning to provide a restful night's sleep.
Each Grand Bed custom Sleep Set includes a 13 1/2" pillow-top mattress and 9" Shock Abzzorber Plus spring unit with a 10-year warranty.

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Every time I stay at a Hyatt, I sleep like baby. Like little happy baby. I slept last night as I have not slept in weeks. My god, it was glorious. I woke up 5 times in the night, and for once in my life, I was shocked at how refreshed I felt in relation to how much time was left until my 6:30AM wakeup call.

I ended up getting up at 5:30, because I didn't need more than 7 hour sleep. Suck was the quality of the sleep.

So it turns out you can buy anything in a Hyatt room, online. One of these, in King, will be mine. Oh yes... it will be mine.

The Hyatt Grand Bed :: Hyatt At Home

Running from Carmel, 150 miles south of San Francisco, to San Simeon, Big Sur's mass of tight mountains pushes brazenly against the Pacific swell. Kelp forests sway at the feet of rugged sea cliffs. Deep valleys shelter some of the southernmost redwoods. The only way through this fastness is along winding, breathtaking California Route 1.

Other helpful data:

On Foot in Big Sur Country
Big Sur Hiking Trails
Ventana Wilderness - Santa Lucia Mountains
Sierra Club - Santa Lucia Chapter
Ventana Wilderness Alliance

Also worth a stop, despite its touristy qualities, is nearby Point Lobos State Reserve.

Wow, good links. Always wanted to hole up here for a few weeks since I read the book.

Big Sur Without the Crowds

ZFS Best Practices Guide

Great blog on administering ZFS.

ZFS Best Practices Guide - Siwiki

Creating and Destroying ZFS Storage Pools

By design, creating and destroying pools is fast and easy. However, be cautious when doing these operations. Although checks are performed to prevent using devices known to be in use in a new pool, ZFS cannot always know when a device is already in use. Destroying a pool is even easier. Use zpool destroy with caution. This is a simple command with significant consequences.

Making ZFS Storage Pools.

docs.sun.com: Solaris ZFS Administration Guide