Soylent | Replace Food With Fuel

<script src="http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=853&height=480&playList=517724239" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span><b>ood can be a great sensual and social pleasure. But today many individuals feel that they are too busy earning the money to purchase food and other stuff to spend the time it takes to plan, shop, cook and clean up after a good meal. What if you could occasionally engage in a leisurely meal and the other times just drink a tasty food beverage that quickly and easily mixes with water and supplies all your nutritional requirements.</b><br /><br />Rob Rhinehart is a 24 year-old electrical engineer and computer scientist from Atlanta whose work doesn’t afford him the luxury of dealing with food several times a day. So he used his engineering skills of problem solving to determine what a body requires to survive. He discovered that it’s not necessarily fruits, vegetables and meat that human bodies need but the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, carbohydrates and fats contained within those foods.<br /><br />Rhinehart identified the exact nutrients the body loves and needs and put together a super-food compound that would give him 100 percent of his daily recommended intakes. The result is Soylent which is mixed with water, tastes good and costs less than $150 per month. No cooking, no dishes to clean up and a diet that supplies all your body needs to function optimally and maintain healthy weight. <a href="http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424" target="_blank">Here’s a list</a> of what’s in Soylent. <br /><br />Below from an <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rob-rhinehart-no-longer-requires-food" target="_blank"><span id="goog_1195120470"></span>interview with Rhinehart<span id="goog_1195120471"></span></a> at vice.com. <br /><br /><blockquote>Hacking the body is high risk, high reward. I read a textbook on physiological chemistry and took to the internet to see if I could find every known essential nutrient. I started to think that it’s probably all the same to our cells whether it gets nutrients from a powder or a carrot. <br /><br />It [Soylent] tastes very good. I haven’t got tired of the taste in six weeks. I’s a very “complete” sensation, more sweet than anything. Eating to me is a leisure activity, like going to the movies, but I don’t want to go to the movies three times a day.<br /><br />Not having to worry about food is fantastic. No groceries, dishes, deciding what to eat, no endless conversations weighing the relative merits of gluten-free, keto, paleo or vegan. Power and water bills are lower. I save hours a day and hundreds of dollars a month. I feel liberated from a crushing amount of repetitive drudgery. Soylent might also be good for people having trouble managing their weight. I find it very easy to lose and gain precise amounts of weight by varying the proportions in my drink.</blockquote><br /><i><a href="http://robrhinehart.com/?p=507" target="_blank">In Defense of New Food</a></i> by Rob Rhinehart.</div><br /><script src="http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=853&height=480&playList=517731292" type="text/javascript"></script>

Soylent | Replace Food With Fuel

F ood can be a great sensual and social pleasure. But today many individuals feel that they are too busy earning the money to purchase food ...

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gTar

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gTar

T he gTar is a fully digital guitar that enables anybody to play music quickly and easily with the help of LEDs and a docked iPhone.

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A New Railroad Under New York City

<iframe allowfullscreen="" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="480" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.cnevids.com/embed/518aa07868f9da4dd8000011/5176e89e68f9daff42000013" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/05/fa_tunnel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Wired</span></b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">160</span><b> feet underground, The East Side Access project will connect the Long Island Railroad to New York’s Grand Central Terminal via a massive tunnel under the East River. </b></div>

A New Railroad Under New York City

Wired 160 feet underground, The East Side Access project will connect the Long Island Railroad to New York’s Grand Central Terminal via a m...

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Downloaded | The Story of Napster

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Pocket Knives

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQbC3Uq7oMupeFOVLvQazLL5sp6JoiwQmk9Cl041Z-2jaZs0Jclh6SacKJOh7Kmj_x9dJ11iZcKXBkJUjiLe6VwMeAQ-UgpIUwqHmUn_2g9ULMUI1QyD9o5cb-o2ErEXglG2wkJB4Ip4/s1600/IMG_6265.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQbC3Uq7oMupeFOVLvQazLL5sp6JoiwQmk9Cl041Z-2jaZs0Jclh6SacKJOh7Kmj_x9dJ11iZcKXBkJUjiLe6VwMeAQ-UgpIUwqHmUn_2g9ULMUI1QyD9o5cb-o2ErEXglG2wkJB4Ip4/s200/IMG_6265.JPG" width="200" /></a>My recent bout of KAD (Knife Acquisition Disorder) is somewhat under control now. I have accumulated an acceptable collection of knives, and I'm not really itching to make another purchase just yet. Of course, I'd love me one of those <a href="http://www.chrisreeve.com/" target="_blank">Chris Reeve Sebenza</a> knives, but the price tag keeps my fiscally responsible side well-grounded in reality. I don't think that last sentence makes sense, so let me rephrase it: I can't afford it.<br /><br />When I was a wee lad I carried a pocket knife to be cool, carve my initials into wooden objects, and play mumblety-peg with the neighborhood degenerates. I recall having a cheap single blade folder and a medium sized Swiss Army Knife way back when. However, I stopped carrying pocket knives after getting out of high school (yeah, back then pocket knives were allowed in school), and never really missed them or gave them much thought until a few years ago.<br /><br />So what happened a few years ago? I was on a weekend hike with another family, and my friend broke out an absolutely enormous Swiss Army Knife that I immediately ridiculed and scoffed at. No, it wasn't <a href="http://www.wengerna.com/giant-knife-16999" target="_blank">THIS</a> monstrous, but still. After getting my friend on the defensive, he explained all about the practical utility of having an EDC pocket knife: sawing logs for a lean-to; spontaneous tooth picking; and blah blah emergencies blah blah. He was very convincing. So, I dug my old Swiss Army Classic out of my drawer and started to carry it on the regular. I soon decided to get something different, and that led to the acquisition of a Buck Scholar knife.<br /><br />KAD took over in 2012, and I really went haywire that year. My knife purchases went like this: Spyderco Dragonfly2 in May; Spyderco Manix2 Blue Lightweight in June; Benchmade Mini-Griptilian in July; <a href="http://dailyacquisition.blogspot.com/2012/09/new-pocket-knife-cold-steel-tuff-lite.html" target="_blank">Coldsteel Tuff Lite</a> in August; <a href="http://dailyacquisition.blogspot.com/2012/11/my-two-cents-on-gerber-dime.html" target="_blank">Gerber Dime</a> in November (returned to Amazon in November); <a href="http://dailyacquisition.blogspot.com/2013/04/leatherman-juice-s2.html" target="_blank">Leatherman Juice S2</a> in early December; and <a href="http://dailyacquisition.blogspot.com/2013/02/spyderco-native5-knife.html" target="_blank">Spyderco Native5</a> ordered on December 31, 2012. Wow, that's a little overboard, but the lineup looks great:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQLA_Iz1trP4WoKhgNwrYBLuP7D-u7V2UgiSiKj4sMUonX2kzRYpF-geq6qs7XW5P73cSIw8hDHefCjd5W_nwKtGtN_8Ggsmm95sHv7dZWnKD3NkJwlgxYs_7jM6eST-bEaseN1rFrDeY/s1600/IMG_6264.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQLA_Iz1trP4WoKhgNwrYBLuP7D-u7V2UgiSiKj4sMUonX2kzRYpF-geq6qs7XW5P73cSIw8hDHefCjd5W_nwKtGtN_8Ggsmm95sHv7dZWnKD3NkJwlgxYs_7jM6eST-bEaseN1rFrDeY/s200/IMG_6264.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br />The knives are shown in chronological order according to when I got them: top row left to right, then bottom row left to right. So my oldest knife is the SAK Classic, and my newest is the Native5. I don't really carry the Classic or the Scholar these days, simply because I prefer the other knives as EDC items. I rarely carry the Manix2 because I don't want to scare or intimidate any sheeple in the neighborhood. Seriously, the Manix2 is only a "pocket" knife in theory or if you're rockin' giant baggy MC Hammer pants.<br /><br />I guess that I can do some retroactive posts related to the Dragonfly2, Manix2, and Mini-Griptilian knives. So be on the lookout for those posts. Unless, of course, KAD kicks in again and/or a Sebenza magically appears in my mailbox. If that happens, I'll write about it immediately.

Pocket Knives

My recent bout of KAD (Knife Acquisition Disorder) is somewhat under control now. I have accumulated an acceptable collection of knives, and...

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