Weigh in today was 283, which is down 1 pound for the week, and 8.8 pounds total. So far I've lost at a rate of about 1.6 lbs per week. I'd like to lose faster, but I'm just delighted that I'm losing at all. Especially considering the somewhat halfassed way I've been doing this. Portion sizes: I'm doing pretty well on this part. The times I have larger portion sizes, I'm aware of it and I count it. I've found that reasonable portion sizes really aren't that bad at all! I used to always get a foot long sub at…

This is a very good article by one of my favorite authors, no less: So it's pretty hilarious to hear record company executives and movie studio executives get all righteous about copyright. They've been manipulating copyright laws for years, and all the manipulations were designed to steal everything they could from the actual creators of the work.