Daily Archives: December 31, 2004

Burrrrp

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300 or 400 pound kids?  This story is almost too insane to believe!

Dr. William Cochran, a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutritionist for the Geisinger Clinic in Danville, Pa., said he sees many youngsters in his weight management clinic who weigh 300 to 400 pounds. He is also seeing more and more children with diabetes, high blood pressure, even liver disease.

I remember cartoons and futurists predicting humans would have huge heads and little bodies, since robots would be doing all the work and humans would be doing all the thinking.  Guess they got the body parts mixed up.

I could blame this on our instant, TV dinner, no attention span society where no-one has time to bring up the kids, but I’d be repetitive now, wouldn’t I?

I gave

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I have to say that overall, Canada’s and the world’s generosity has been fairly amazing to the earthquake victims.  I just gave what I could to the Red Cross – it sure was easy and fast.

Many of my Tamil co-workers are collecting their own money.  Apparently they don’t trust anyone to help them, as they are of course at war with the Sri Lankan government.  I am more leary giving them money directly, but they may have a point. 

Here’s a neat link describing a wireless project to rebuild communications networks.  Obviously wireless can be rebuild far more quickly than the old ways. 

BoingBoing pal Mike Outmesguine gives us an update on the blog-driven project to provide free wireless communication services to areas cut off by the disaster: