From what I’ve seen with my patients (diabetics), they lose some weight, but it doesn’t continue indefinitely. The range seems to be about 20-50 lbs.  They’re blood sugars continue to benefit, though.

Interesting thing about the Black Hole. I think Disney was convinced they had a Star Wars-type hit on their hands, so they went on a similar merchandising blitz of tie-in products. Obviously, it didn’t happen, but you would see various toys and other ephemera linked to this film showing up in yards sales almost into…

I appreciate Tron, and it is an entertaining film, I’m just not convinced its a particularly good one.

As I got into the teens of this list, I realized there was probably going to be at least one major omission for live action films. Really, no 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Great story, great cast, the special effects still look convincing, the design of the Nautilus being the prototype of steampunk, and Kirk-freaking-D…

Ach, I just noticed that Tangled didn’t make it!

Yeah, frequent E. coli contamination is a very interesting definition of “fresh”.

Add to that list shell fish, particularly crab or lobster.  Especially blue crab.  There is no way not to make a mess eating these otherwise thoroughly delicious creatures.

It’s “healthy” in the same way Chipotle is somehow “healthy” with 2,000 calorie burritos for lunch. Because it’s “fresh” and “whole” or something like that.

Being somewhat of a Disney nerd and reading some of the Disney park blogs, most of the objection to retheming Slash Mountain is a fear that Disney will do it on the cheap. The ride is extremely popular, not because people love Song of the South (very few under the age of 40 have actually seen it), but because it is…

And most of us never get those days off anyway.

The downside of the Toronto apartment is that another building will spring up within a few years that will likely block the view.

For people that are bipolar, medication can really help them stop annoying the hell out of other people.

“Right! The people with the “consensual adults!” line never want to examine why a 40+ year old man wants to date someone so much younger than them. It’s obvious that it’s about sex and having sex with young women, in our culture, is the ultimate achievement.”

As someone who was once a man in his 20s... I readily admit, there wasn’t much I could have brought to the table.  Hence, my sparse dating life until I was established in my career.

I would rather live in a world where entertainers get paid proportional to the income that they generate rather than determining pay based on some vague concept of societal worth... because that won’t negate the income they generate, and a higher percentage will just flow to the parasites who get to decide this…

Yeah, that’s a fantastic bit of low key acting in that scene. I interpreted his reaction a little different (more scared that he now needs to be a father, something he has no concept of how to do), but I guess you can read it multiple ways.

I’m still not convinced. Several recent Disney and Pixar characters were performed by famous actors and their voices really stand out for being so generic and non-distinct. In Strange World, for example, only Dennis Quaid is really noticeably different from everyone else.

On Dick Winters, now that I think about it, you’re right.  I remember being impressed that Damien Lewis even managed to catch a few of the nuances of how someone from around Lancaster PA would speak. These are incredibly subtle, but having cousins from that area, I found it remarkable that a British actor could match…

Some observations that nobody asked for:

“there was plenty of speculation by Europeans about how non-European architectural marvels might have been built.”