I understand the need for CAPCHA (because of the annoying scumbag spammers) and I'm used to seeing some with less than clear images or squiggly characters. But this one takes the cake…
Please enter all letters having a 
below.
Seriously? This is what it now takes to avoid spammers and robots? It took me a few tries, but I finally deciphered this as being "L9DC". Insanity.
Loren Feldman has dead-on take on blog comments entitled Comments Are Not Conversation:
I used to get relevant comments on occasion, but it's pretty much a one-way street for this blathering idiot. I've used outbound trackbacking, but I don't recall that I've ever had a legitimate trackback to one of my entries. At this point comment and trackbacks seem to be giant spam magnets more than anything else. But in any case, I do keep my comments here and don't plan on outsourcing them anymore than I've outsourced the rest of the things on my site.
So I recall coming across Polyphasic sleep —the practice of taking short naps every few hours instead of the normal long period night-time (monophasic) sleeping, previously. But I never really had time to explore it further. I have to say I find this very intriguing, but there's no way I could ever do it. It would be incredibly difficult with my family and work schedules as well as my wife's virtually certain objections to it. This is from several years ago (2005), but Steve Pavlina did it for about six months. I haven't read his entire history with it, but I did read enough to know he liked it and could have stayed on this schedule had he wanted too. I guess I need to go read up on his entire adventure…and maybe now you want to as well!
In the past weeks I've come across several articles regarding vegetarianism. First there is Vegetarian myths, debunked and Why I stopped being a vegetarian and then reading the paper the other day I found Breaking bread with vegans was fun.
I agree with some aspects of all three of these articles. I'm not a true vegetarian although I mostly eat that way. I do eat dairy (lacto) and eggs (ovo) regularly and fish and seafood (pesco) when I can. And I don't see ever becoming a vegan because I really like lacto-ovo-pesco food. But then again there was a time I couldn't have imagined I'd be a vegetarian. I can certainly say I really doubt I'll go back to eating meat…but never say never, right? It really doesn't appeal to me; and now that I've been away from it for about a decade, it generally puts me close to physical illness if I accidentally find I'm eating it. And eating very much of it certainly makes me ill at this point as my body no longer knows how to process it.
One thing I'm definitely not is evangelical about by vegetarianism. Mostly because my reasons for becoming one were healthy eating based, not ethical. If you want to club a cow over the head and eat it, go right ahead. But in return I've appreciate not being labeled as some sort of weirdo because I choose not to eat it. Why should you care if I eat meat or not? After all, it's more for you right? Without a doubt I certainly run into more obnoxious meat-eaters than tree-hugging leaf munchers. But I know they're out there. And I'm pretty sure I'd find the as annoying at the militant meat-eaters. So how about everybody just chill out let the other eat what they want, OK? Thanks.