This site, Stack Exchange: English Language & Usage, gripes me no end. You have to have a ‘reputation’ on the site to post anything and (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
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08/11/2018 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsFor your security we need you to verify your account, in other for us to update your account back on our system data base. This (Continue Reading)
Assisted living? Not yet.
10/25/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor some reason, negative chin-ups with one arm crept into my thoughts. I spent about one tenth of one second lowering myself from a chin-up (Continue Reading)
Crossover point in program
10/10/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentYesterday’s workout did seem to mark a crossover point: the prone cobra and one-legged squat were actually relatively easy (emphasis on relatively); on the squats (Continue Reading)
Effects of diet on b/p
09/26/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentRecently Lance wrote to me: “Yep, it works. The oil/fat binds with caffeine creating a slow release/timed release amount of the drug rather than a (Continue Reading)
Update – coffee with ghee
08/31/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentUpdate to the health log: we went to a Doctor Richard Jacoby way up in Scottsdale, a long trip for us. My wife has been (Continue Reading)
Exercising the last few weeks
08/26/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentNot a daily log but anything that prompts discussion can go here. I’d like people to chime in with what they have found works for (Continue Reading)
Heading into my w/o …. nap first
08/14/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentNot a daily log but anything that prompts discussion can go here. I’d like people to chime in with what they have found works for (Continue Reading)
New category: health
07/18/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis category began some years ago as “Diet”, so I inserted that entry first but decided to broaden it out so as to discuss issues (Continue Reading)
Disccusing health in general, diet & exercise in particular
07/18/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentSat, 11 Apr 2009: Diet This is a new category. I am on a listserv for so-called “Paleo” dieters. Paleo dieting is defined and discussed (Continue Reading)
Exploring prescription and Prescriptivism
10/28/2014 Pat Barrett Add CommentLet’s clear up a terminological confusion first. We all prescribe. Whenever we mark a double negative in a book report turned in by a student, (Continue Reading)