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Tag: diet

  • A Three Rings development sub-team seems to have developed a habit of making production server changes at in-person events, right before meals are served. On at least one previous occasion this has led to them missing out on dinner as they monitored and maintained at-risk servers when they ought to be eating.

    Until the servers are stable, they don't get their food.

    They call it the "crash diet".

    • Note
    • posted 3 October, 2026
  • An open Oblique Strategies box with the face card showing: "The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten".

    [Bloganuary] A Different Diet

    I periodically aspire to veganism, or at least something slightly-closer to it than where I stand right now. From an environmental/sustainability perspective, that is.

    Read more (250 words)

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 7 January, 2024
  • Image representing post: The Meats I Miss

    The Meats I Miss

    After a year and a bit of being vegetarian, Dan looks back and considers the things that he misses more or less than he expected from eating meat.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (535 words)

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    • 20 comments
    • posted 4 April, 2012
  • Image representing post: How Can You Have Any Pudding If You Don't Eat Your Meat?

    How Can You Have Any Pudding If You Don't Eat Your Meat?

    To those of you that don't know already, I have a confession to make. After years of picking holes in and finding flaws in their various ethical or other arguments and of mocking their dietary choices, I've become... a vegetarian.



    Okay, this probably wasn't actually a shock to anybody. Between the observations of the barbeque food โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 10 minutes (2183 words)

    • Article
    • 18 comments
    • posted 7 August, 2011

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