Marital Status
For the purposes of the Beneficiary designation, you are not considered married if you are divorced, widowed, or never been married. You should consult an attorney or applicable state law for clarification of your status.
[This is from a form I was filling out recently.]
You can read this
and burn 5 extra calories a day, or you can follow this method and burn 200:
1) Tear up a tea bag and throw the leaves on the kitchen floor.
2) Bending your knees (both to protect your back if you are over 30 and to exercise your legs), pick up ONE leaf.
3) Walk to the trash can, and toss the tea leaf in there.
4) Repeat steps 2–3 until the floor is clean.
For an additional 50 calories, take the trash can to a different room before you start.
Albur elegante
(See below for a sort of translation to English)
“Y yo que te hacía un niño”, “a la larga te acostumbras”, “agarra mesa grande”,…
Pues sí, son finos. Si hasta me dan ganas de tener una sección con “el albur del día”. Pero qué le vamos a hacer, no dejan de ser albures —aunque la mona se vista de seda…
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There is really no translation for this. “Elegant vulgarity” would be somewhat close.
Just like your mom told you, don’t rush, eat slowly:
Eating Fast Until Full Triples Overweight Risk
Which, by the way, supports my view that the problem is not the food, but the habits.
Now helping the government track flu cases:
It’s been two weeks only, and it already feels like… well, I shouldn’t say “like home,” because one is not supposed to feel at home at work. But sort of.
I haven’t gained weight, which is already a good thing —some people call it “The FatWorks,” not surprisingly considering the free breakfast on Wednesdays, the cookies on Fridays, lots of fruit for you to grab every day in the morning, etc.
One of the main reasons why it feels so right is because I spent the whole day working on stuff I really like. There is stuff that I already knew, and I just need to refresh my mind. There is stuff I always wanted to learn, and now it makes a lot of sense to invest the the time to learn it, and learn it very well, beacuse it’ll pay off down the road. I talk to my new colleagues, and I understand what they are doing. I get e-mails from the mailing lists, and I follow what they are talking about, and I update my “mental maps” of topics, people and teams. I understand where the boundaries are between different teams, and I also understand why those boundaries are flexible, “fuzzy” —and I really like they are not rigid.
Anyway, just for the record: I like The MathWorks.
(Update Nov. 10: This was published one day after I wrote this note: “Top places to work - boston.com”)