How come I haven't heard of Flock?!

lovin it!

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Saw Inglorious Basterds last night - don't bother

weak plot, weaker acting, and too long. The only minor saving grace was Shoshanna

Making better choices when eating out

I stopped reading Men's Health a long time ago, but I came across this article which is a great source of information and a reference on the nutritional (!!) content of the menus of about 60 restaurants http://ncane.com/a93. Worth a read imo.

Just signed up for my third Twitter account!

http://twitter.com/BernardDeCunha. wish i could just copy all my stuff from my old account instead of doing it manually

Only 23% of high school grads have the skills to succeed in college

and the bar is set low: have a 75% chance of scoring a C or higher in entry level courses. http://bit.ly/1v92kl

This is another important and complex issue - well it shouldn't be that complicated but it is. Maybe I'll talk about why it is complicated and some potential solutions in a future post.

Just signed up with Twitter Feed

http://www.twitterfeed.com/ a tool to automatically send tweets based on your blog postings so that eliminates one step.

Got the idea from http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/

I already have my Twitter feeds going to my Facebook page, so now all I need is something to post to Linked In. Any ideas?

The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare

John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods on 8 common sense and practical things we can do to reform health care without spending trillions of dollars http://ncane.com/clyq

My first charity bike ride

I heard of and managed to get a 'rider scholarship'. Very excited to be doing my first charity bike ride. The ride is from Boston to Provincetown and riders have a choice of doing either Boston to Sagamore Bridge, Sagamore Bridge to P'town, which are each about 63 miles or the whole thing which is 125 miles.

I'm going to do the first leg, and then at Sagamore Bridge decide whether I want to go further or not - at or after that point if you decide you've had enough all you have to do is get to the next rest area - they're 15 miles apart - and they'll drop you at Ptown.

Earlier this year I did a 44 mile ride which is the most I've gone in a single day. The most before that was 30ish but I haven't been riding much since. Hopefully I'll be able to rack up a lot of miles before the ride.

Go to http://www.harbortothebay.org/ for more info and let me know if you'd like to support me for the ride ie contribute to the cause which is AIDS, and for the me the really cool thing is that 100% of all contributions go directly to the cause, in part because they are fully staffed by volunteers. Happy riding!

Boston to get bike sharing program

Just saw this - implementing this would be just a great step for so many reasons:

- reduce pollution

- reduce noise

- reduce gas consumption

- ease pressure on other modes eg bus and train

- reduce traffic congestion

- improve physical fitness

- improve heath

- reduce health care costs (something we desperately need with the 'success' of our universal health program :-)

- save money

We have a long way to go before we catch up to other cities. NYC added 200 miles of bike lanes last year. Boston? 5 miles. Bicycling mag named Boston the worst city to bike in THREE times!