Dolemite wrote:
] ] But while there's nothing particularly bleeding-edge
] ] about eating the hamburger but not the bun, now that
] ] low-carb dieting has gone mainstream, the diet does
] ] appear to hold a special attraction for hackers,
] ] programmers and other close-to-the-machine dwellers. For
] ] some geeks, the low-carb diet is itself a clever hack, a
] ] sneaky algorithm for getting the body to do what you want
] ] it to do, a way of reprogramming yourself. Programmers,
] ] who are used to making their computers serve their will,
] ] are now finding that low-carb diets enable the same kind
] ] of control over their bodies.
] ]
] ] Doctorow, who lost 75 pounds by cutting out
] ] carbohydrates, sees a natural affinity between his
] ] brethren and the diet: "Read the
] ] alt.support.diet.low-carb FAQ, and you'll find people
] ] attacking their bodies like they would attack a logic
] ] board," he says. "Substitute 'faster bus speed' for
] ] 'metabolism,' and you've got something pretty close to an
] ] overclocking FAQ, he adds, referring to a practice
] ] popular with hardware hackers in which computer
] ] processors are tweaked so that they run faster than their
] ] out-of-the-box speeds.
]
] I've been trying to convince Dementia to join me on a revisit
] to the land of Atkins after I get back from China, because one
] thing you do need is moral support. You gotta have someone
] that's in it with you. Anyway, I thought this was a very
] interesting article in the fact that (1) Cory Doctorow wrote a
] story about hacking his body and now we learn that he has
] pretty much done that and (2) it's timely in accordance with
] what I've been doing and want to ramp up in another week.

I'm with ya fat boy. :)

RE: Hackers on Atkins