Hey

What's cooking these days? Well, I have survived Christmas and the annual Boxing Day party on Bornholm (two parties this year :o). I've successfully stopped and somewhat reversed my midsection expansion - was 78 kgs, now at roughly 73 and working on staying there - with the help of www.gyminee.com, a website that lets you keep track of what you eat and how it's put toggether - and if you work out you can register your exercises to have Gyminee calculate how manu calories you've burned. Quite neat .. and free. Only downside as I see it, is that the foods already registered are from American supermarkets, so you need to build up a base of Danish products - or learn how many grams are to an ounze, or a cup?! At any rate I've found I'm eating way too much fat and too little protein. A minor adjustment and wham - lost 3 kilos in two weeks.

In other news, I'm taking another stab at reading GEB (Hofstadter, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach), I got this book 8 years ago and could't get started on it.. After all the foreword alone is 30 pages or so, and it nearly killed me. Anyhu, now I'm making real progress, squeezing in 10-20 pages every now and then, and it's a very interesting read (or it probably wouldn't have beed awarded the Pullitzer).

Here's one for you from GEB:
If moving from Point A to Point B, you first need to cover half the distance. But before that you need to cover 1/4 of the distance, and before that 1/8, 1/16 ... etc. In total the 1/ 2^n distances covered will eventually sum to the distance from A to B, so we will get there. Only it would have to be done in an infinite number of 'steps', which is impossible. Therefore movement is an impossibility!

The logic behind Zeno's paradox is undeniable - but the reasoning isn't. Just goes to show you can overthink simple problems :o). And I need to tweak the stylesheet to allow for some sort of spacing between paragraphs.