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With a capital Smooth!

Penfolds cabernet sauvignon 2004.

Someone emailed this to me

MSNBC has an interesting article on an Italian study on alcoholism. While the obvious notion of overconsumption of alcohol being detrimental to one’s health is supported, apparently drinking it in moderation can actually extend your lifespan. A study on over 1 million drinkers and 94,000 deaths yielded the results: “According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.”

Also good news:

“According to the BBC they are going to make a number of their shows available on the Azureus network. A number of old favorites will be available such as Red Dwarf, Doctor Who and even Little Britain.”

“This news is a little late, but on November 20th WarGames 2: The Dead Code began filming in Montreal. (I only became aware of the new production when I read that MGM is suing the rightful owner of WarGames.com for his domain name.) The film will be produced and distributed by MGM — distributor of the original WarGames — and directed by Stewart Gillard, director of such gems as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3. Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, the team behind the original film, are not involved. The plot revolves around a hacker breaking into a terrorism-simulation computer.”

A new scientific study suggests that people who frequently experience positive emotions are less likely to catch colds. Psychologist Sheldon Cohen and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University interviewed 193 healthy adults daily for two weeks and recorded the positive and negative emotions they had experienced each day. The researchers then exposed the volunteers to a cold or a flu virus. Those with “generally positive outlooks” reported fewer cold symptoms. From the article: “‘We need to take more seriously the possibility that a positive emotional style is a major player in disease risk,’ Cohen says… Although a positive emotional style bore no relation to whether participants became infected, it protected against the emergence of cold symptoms. For instance, among people infected by the influenza virus… 28 percent who often reported positive emotions developed coughs, congestion, and other cold symptoms, as compared with… 41 percent who rarely reported positive emotions.”

On the __ of Christmas my true love gave to me:
01 A totally insufficent dowry
02 Too nosy in-laws
03 Three buttered chicken
04 Four Hare Krishnas
05 Five Indian games (5 minutes of fame on the 12th day)
06 Six IT graduates
07 7-eleven workers
08 Eight Bollywood films
09 Nine telemarketers
10 Ten-minute yoga
11 Eleven-syllable names
12 Twelve cricket ball tamperers

Check out the animated clip on You Tube Classic! Apparently they are getting signed up to do a South Park type cartoon based on the characters singing this song!

Brisbane-based Ashwin Segkar (a video game developer at New Farm) is releasing his album “Boymongoose, Christmas in Asia Minor” through Rocking Horse Records.

I finally bought Sienna’s present thanks to Lisa’s suggestion. Yesterday morning we went to Mr Toys Toyworld at the local shopping centre and let her go nuts.  She rode on a pink pony which made noises if you squeezed it’s ear, rode on a few bikes and cars but found a nice blue scooter which she rode all around the shop asking “Daddy! Can we buy this one??”. So, I bought it.  $39.99! Bargain!  I also found a kite there (at the shops right near my place where I should have looked first! heh!). $9.99 for that one, so if she’s not interested it’s no great loss.  I was tempted to get a stunt kite for myself but I think I’d be busy helping her fly her own kite and not have time for mine.  Maybe when she’s older and can control her own kite.  I’ve wanted one since flying one about 15 years ago at my cousin’s place.

Now I just need to find something for mum and dad!  Well.. a few more days to go so plenty of shopping time.

While in Crazy Clark’s Saturday night I found a DVD for $10 about “How to make money playing Texas Holdem Poker”. So I bought it heh!