I think I'll have the ... water. Oh—and with a side of water, please.

From an article:

"Restaurant food is bad for us. You may assume that anything you order at a drive-thru is less than sterling in a nutritional sense, but, in fact, the majority of what we eat at restaurants — even ones with helpful waiters and real tablecloths — is worse for us than we might ever imagine.

A study from the University of Arkansas that found the average diner in this country underestimates his or her caloric intake by up to 93 percent when eating out. Translation: Every time you eat at a restaurant, you're probably eating twice as much as you think."

Yikes! Now, i'm always a little wary of stats that say "up to" x percent ... but still pretty interesting.

Too lazy to walk 20 feet to the door, really?

Would it be unreasonable to find out where my neighbor's ride to school lives, go to her house each morning 30 minutes before her alarm goes off, and honk my horn twice right outside her bedroom window?

Wednesday, April 9

Afflatus is from Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare, "to blow at or breathe on," from ad-, "at" + flare, "to puff, to blow." Other words with the same root include deflate (de-, "out of" + flare); inflate (in-, "into" + flare); soufflé, the "puffed up" dish (from French souffler, "to puff," from Latin sufflare, "to blow from below," hence "to blow up, to puff up," from sub-, "below" + flare); and flatulent.