Squibs

[anhinga_drafts]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squib_%28linguistics%29

"In linguistics, a squib is a short article that is intended to ignite thinking and discourse by others on topics of theoretical importance - e.g., see MIT Press's journal, Linguistic Inquiry. Often, squibs outline anomalous data but do not suggest a solution. A squib may also develop a minor theoretical argument.

A particularly interesting variety of squibs are the so called snippets, which are "the ideal footnote: a side remark that taken on its own is not worth lengthy development but that needs to be said". The online journal Snippets is dedicated to this type of squib."

We need those in the other fields too..

Meanwhile, I am trying a strange "diet", based purely on a mild "neural hack". Ask me in four weeks whether it works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-La_Diet

Comments

[cema.livejournal.com]

What's the goal of your diet?

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

The goal of the "diet" is to lose weight and to maintain the reduced weight long-term :-) The desire to do so is partially motivated by joints problems in my case (the specifics here is that extra weight provides extra stress on the joints making it worse, and joint pain interferes with physical exercises, and insufficient exercise leads to weight gain, so it's a bad situation I am getting tired of, something needs to be done about this)..

The quotation marks come from the fact that this "diet" does not really contain any restrictions on food consumption :-) It's a "neural hack", based on some mild interference with association between flavor and calories :-)