Tell us what's happened to you recently (that's interesting)

Alistair · 2010-05-03T15:47:33.000Z

Where were you singing? My fiancee is from Madison.

JonRowe · 2010-05-03T22:42:56.000Z

Umm, we sang at 2 local churches. Trinity Lutheran and Good Shepard Lutheran.

Song List.

The entire Liebeslieder Waltz
(Intermission)
Il Gondilieri and La Passigiata (2 operatic Rossini pieces)
A collection of american folk songs arranged by Edwin Fissinger

Some Folks Do, Go Way From My Window, Nelly Bly, Black is the Color of my True Love’s Hair, and Skip to My Lou

And than to close we sang Sartaningen (Swedish)

Overall, it was definitely the most challenging concert I have ever done, but probably the most rewarding. It was great being in such a talented group of individuals.

BaconTastesGood · 2010-05-03T22:46:17.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

Who the hell ingests cinnamon capsules? What’s the point?

— Alan

Here, let me Google…oh, nevermind.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Cinnamon improves glucose and lipids of people with type 2 diabetes.

A Khan, M Safdar, MM Ali Khan, KN Khattak and RA Anderson, Diabetes care, Dec 2003

The objective of this study was to determine whether cinnamon improves blood glucose, triglyceride, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol levels in people with type 2 diabetes.A total of 60 people with type 2 diabetes, 30 men and 30 women aged 52.2 +/- 6.32 years, were divided randomly into six groups. Groups 1, 2, and 3 consumed 1, 3, or 6 g of cinnamon daily, respectively, and groups 4, 5, and 6 were given placebo capsules corresponding to the number of capsules consumed for the three levels of cinnamon. The cinnamon was consumed for 40 days followed by a 20-day washout period.After 40 days, all three levels of cinnamon reduced the mean fasting serum glucose (18-29%), triglyceride (23-30%), LDL cholesterol (7-27%), and total cholesterol (12-26%) levels; no significant changes were noted in the placebo groups. Changes in HDL cholesterol were not significant.The results of this study demonstrate that intake of 1, 3, or 6 g of cinnamon per day reduces serum glucose, triglyceride, LDL cholesterol, and total cholesterol in people with type 2 diabetes and suggest that the inclusion of cinnamon in the diet of people with type 2 diabetes will reduce risk factors associated with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

That’s the first non-fruity non-hippie hit I get. TL;DR it helps with triglycerides and blood glucose levels.

Alan_Dunkin · 2010-05-03T22:52:51.000Z

But is that what you take it for?

The mere fact that no one else who didn’t take them seemed to know, combined with the all the fruity hippie-ish pulls it got in google, makes my question extremely relevant and ignorance-shattering for everyone else out there.

— Alan

Strato · 2010-05-04T01:56:45.000Z

krayzkrok:

Just had a friend’s 11 year old kid up for 10 days. I think we broke it! The kid, I mean. We exposed him to too much awesome. First we did a film shoot with Grimlock, so he ended up swimming in a large dam with a croc…

So, you took on the Qt3 suggestion of Grimlock then?

And damn, that’s an awesome story. I wish my school holidays were as adventurous as that when as a younger lad.

Anyway, I got nothing interesting myself.

Aeroplane · 2010-05-04T06:08:10.000Z

Jon Rowe:

Umm, we sang at 2 local churches. Trinity Lutheran and Good Shepard Lutheran.

Song List.

The entire Liebeslieder Waltz
(Intermission)
Il Gondilieri and La Passigiata (2 operatic Rossini pieces)
A collection of american folk songs arranged by Edwin Fissinger

Some Folks Do, Go Way From My Window, Nelly Bly, Black is the Color of my True Love’s Hair, and Skip to My Lou

And than to close we sang Sartaningen (Swedish)

Overall, it was definitely the most challenging concert I have ever done, but probably the most rewarding. It was great being in such a talented group of individuals.

Wow. You certainly didn’t shy away from languages. That’s excellent. I enjoy the Liebeslieder Waltz. I’m not familiar with the others (well, excepting the American folk songs, though I don’t know those arrangements). It does sound like a challenging performance. Congratulations!

Kalle · 2010-05-04T06:24:30.000Z

Jon Rowe:

And than to close we sang Sartaningen (Swedish)

I’d like to figure out what song this was as I think you’ve mangled the title, but I have no idea where to begin. Google has no idea and it’s not a case of simple å/ä substitution for the a’s.

WarrenM · 2010-05-04T06:28:03.000Z

I voted today for the first time since becoming a US citizen. I’m participating in Democracy, hooray!

TheTrunkDr · 2010-05-04T07:47:36.000Z

WarrenM:

I voted today for the first time since becoming a US citizen. I’m participating in Democracy, hooray!

Wouldn’t that be the first time you vote in the US at all?

Omniscia · 2010-05-04T07:52:37.000Z

TheTrunkDr:

Wouldn’t that be the first time you vote in the US at all?

People in Canada have elections, too.

WarrenM · 2010-05-04T07:59:12.000Z

TheTrunkDr:

Wouldn’t that be the first time you vote in the US at all?

… yes. Perhaps the wording was unclear. I voted for the first time in the US because of becoming a citizen. I haven’t been voting illegally, I swear! :)

Gwende · 2010-05-04T08:38:11.000Z

Congrats Warren. :) I’m finishing up my own residency paperwork today, so I can only imagine how good that must feel for you.

Houngan · 2010-05-04T08:42:10.000Z

WarrenM:

… yes. Perhaps the wording was unclear. I voted for the first time in the US because of becoming a citizen. I haven’t been voting illegally, I swear! :)

Suuuure.

Casper: Tom, you know O’Doul and the mayor.

Tom: I oughta, I voted for him six times in the last election.

Mayor: And that ain’t the record . . .

WarrenM · 2010-05-04T08:42:33.000Z

Gwendraeth:

Congrats Warren. :) I’m finishing up my own residency paperwork today, so I can only imagine how good that must feel for you.

Thanks! Yes, it definitely made it all feel much more real for me. I’ve been a citizen since the beginning of the year but voting just sort of solidified it for me. Woot!

Leah_C · 2010-05-04T08:59:07.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

But is that what you take it for?

The mere fact that no one else who didn’t take them seemed to know, combined with the all the fruity hippie-ish pulls it got in google, makes my question extremely relevant and ignorance-shattering for everyone else out there.

— Alan

I don’t have time to dig around at work, but I had this bookmarked since it’s relevant to why I take it. The article itself isn’t relevant to most here since PCOS is a lady problem (though there is evidence that it’s been totally named wrong/misdiagnosed and there’s a male equivalent going unchecked - my family’s part of the research study and they found a gene that causes it in me and are looking at my brother’s DNA!). There are citations at the bottom if you’re interested in reading more: http://pcoscoach.com/Herbs_for_pcos_cinnamon.html

I know several people who take it. They’re either other women with PCOS who are pre-diabetic or people who are pre-diabetic for other reasons. I don’t know anyone who takes it for the other reasons mentioned.

I started taking it because being treated with Type 2 diabetes drugs was pretty harsh on my system since I’m not actually diabetic. I had some of the warning signs though and after starting cinnamon, some of them disappeared. I worried at first that it was a bunch of hippie quackery but the symptoms that changed weren’t ones I could just imagine away. It was stuff like cycle changes and skin discoloration. These studies have been in the news on and off for the last ten years or so and have been picking up over the last 3-5 years. All of my doctors in the UCSF Endocrinology Dept recommended it and they’re some of the top endos in the country, so I trust them when they say it’s not hippie crap.

I’d say I’ll post more articles later when the kid does her long nap but I’d probably be lying because I am way lazy today. If you google the plant names rather than cinnamon, you will get less fruity bullshit and more real studies.

BaconTastesGood · 2010-05-04T09:11:43.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

But is that what you take it for?

No, obviously it’s for the awesome cinnamon burps.

JonRowe · 2010-05-04T09:25:34.000Z

Kalle:

I’d like to figure out what song this was as I think you’ve mangled the title, but I have no idea where to begin. Google has no idea and it’s not a case of simple å/ä substitution for the a’s.

It is pronounced Shart ah ning en

Balasarius · 2010-05-04T13:12:02.000Z

Leah C:

I don’t have time to dig around at work, but I had this bookmarked since it’s relevant to why I take it. The article itself isn’t relevant to most here since PCOS is a lady problem (though there is evidence that it’s been totally named wrong/misdiagnosed and there’s a male equivalent going unchecked - my family’s part of the research study and they found a gene that causes it in me and are looking at my brother’s DNA!). There are citations at the bottom if you’re interested in reading more: http://pcoscoach.com/Herbs_for_pcos_cinnamon.html

That’s cool that it seems to be working for you, but there has yet to be a definitive scientific link between cinnamon and insulin resistance. Existing studies (the ones sourced in the article you linked) have been called into question.

Link

Leah_C · 2010-05-04T13:52:22.000Z

Balasarius:

That’s cool that it seems to be working for you, but there has yet to be a definitive scientific link between cinnamon and insulin resistance. Existing studies (the ones sourced in the article you linked) have been called into question.

Link

Interesting! I’d read the study with post-menopausal women before but hadn’t heard of the German study nor had I heard about it possibly being reclassified.

Nellie · 2010-05-04T15:50:49.000Z

OK so it’s not quite Krayzkroc level of interesting, but I split my beehive into three over the weekend and got stung a few times in the process, but if it works out then I’ve got one colony making me lots of honey and two smaller colonies to build up over the summer and hopefully triple my stock. I’d like to say I’m two finger typing, but it feels more like mashing the keyboard with my puffy swollen stumps that used to be fingers right now.

I’ve also decided that I hate contracting for large companies and that I’m going to try and provide IT support/Development to smaller companies. While I don’t really relish fixing laptops and printers again I’ve got a nice little contract on the go at the moment developing a Product Tracking system for a small Engineering company and it’s already apparent that my utopian dream is just that, the problems are different working for 1-10 man companies but just as frustrating. That said I’m enjoying it, I get to offer more than just be the DB guy.