Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

Read this article, and pay close attention to the very last sentence.

Here, for your disinterest, is a list of my favourite foods:

Licorice, Bubble tea (taro milkshake), Chocolate (especially dark chocolate), Pizza (particularly Mediterranean with feta cheese and kalamata olives), Ice cream, Butter tarts, Butter chicken, Roast potatoes, “Home fries,” Chicken shawarma, Miss Vickie’s sea salt and malt vinegar chips, Hardbite honey mustard chips & Rold Gold honey mustard pretzel chunks, Count Chocula, Golden Grahams & Reese Peanut Butter Puffs, Four cheese tortellini, Syrupy ball desert found in Indian restaurants, Henry Weinhardt’s Premium Draft root beer, Yams with brown sugar, Wasabi peas, Peanut M&Ms, Bridge Mix, Chai tea.

From that list, here’s what I was able to eat/drink on the MediFlat diet: Chai tea (after a fashion).

However the MediFarce thang is pretty much at an end. I’ll still be eating differently than I used to, but I won’t be denying myself anything anymore, just trying to make sure I don’t overdo it. When Stewie asked me if I wanted anything from Germany, I asked him to look out for exotic Ritter Sport (good quality chocolate) flavours. He totally came through for me with a package of tiny bars featuring three new flavours. I’ve been enjoying one of the tiny bars each night for the past few nights. The old me would have the package done in an evening. Tonight is the drawing class for Slackademics and there’s no way I could partake in a potluck while sticking to the MediFool regimen.

After Mutants & Masterminds on Monday we sat around for over an hour talking about ghosts, UFOs, hypnotism, science and religion. Ken and Caleb believe (to some extent) in…well let’s call it the supernatural (lumping little grey almond eyed aliens in there) just to give it a grossly broad label…while Joe and I do not. Ken’s told the story of his father experiencing a UFO, and why his dad would have no reason to make it up. We countered with “that doesn’t mean there are greys visiting Earth – it could be weather balloons or secret govt experiments etc etc.” That led to discussion on Occam’s razor, how we can’t understand reality we can only observe it with the 5 senses given us, and how science is telling us that we change reality by our very observation. But on the subjects of ghosts and god and whatnot, my question was “what is the value in believing in this that have no proof?” to which Caleb’s reply was “for the experience.” And I can’t deny that for some that would have value. However, it is a very short leap from that kind of thinking to anyone calling himself a doctor and conning sick people out of their money, and to people being burnt at the stake for witchcraft. Which, I will point out, still happens to this very day in many places.

Speaking of science, here’s a very interesting article on the recently discovered ‘bug’ that causes ulcers, and how it can help track the origins of mankind, and both cause and prevent cancer (yes, I’m being deliberately imprecise, read the article) http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2005/10/03/a_prize_bug.php