Hadn’t done an update on this in a while. After three years of changing my diet (I won’t say I’m on a diet, because I’m not and have never been), I am still within five pounds of my goal weight – below, actually. I continue to maintain approximately 27% below my peak body weight.

At one point I had lost too much weight and was too gaunt, but now I am stable and feel incredibly healthy. My knees no longer give me any real issues and my diabetes risk is much lowered.

I realize most people cannot lose and keep off weight, but I can and I have.

The strangest part is that if I increase my physical activity even a little, I start losing weight again really quickly – for instance, when I went to the UK and to a lesser extent Vancouver, I found I had to eat an additional 400-800 calories each day to avoid losing weight and feeling tired.

But it’s gone incredibly well and is probably the best health-related thing I’ve ever done.

Dammit, I am so tired of hearing about Lance Armstrong.

I guarantee you 99% of anyone who won a major cycling race in the past two decades has been doping. More likely 100%.

Armstrong was just targeted as he was so dominant.

I just realized that by the standards that have been promulgated lately by most US feminists, almost every relationship I’ve ever been in has been age-inappropriate – that is, there has been a 5+ year age gap between me and the woman in question.

When I was 19, however, I was brutally and horribly “taken advantage of” by a 25-year-old woman. Huh, funny, how it doesn’t seem to apply when the man is younger. Odd. I really hate hypocrisy, did you notice?

And a 36-year-old teacher told me when I was 18 and still in high school that if she weren’t my teacher, we’d be happenin’, probably all over her desk.

Note: I have never dated a minor as an adult. Note 2: I consider myself a feminist.

Mainly, I hate dogma of all stripes.

There are people my age who I’d never get in a relationship with under any circumstances. And just as likely I am sure there are more than few 18-year-old women out there that I’d be compatible with.

It’s not that age doesn’t matter – it does, to some extent. It’s just that humans are more variable and more interesting than that.

Remember that case that the conservidiots always prattle on about to justify tort reform (that is, eliminating the right of people to sue large corporations), where a woman was burned by coffee served too hot at McDonald’s?

Well, this is what her burns looked like.

I don’t know if she chose to release the photo or not. In this case, I think the public right to know the truth trumps the right to privacy – especially since this case has been used as an attempt to eliminate any right to redress against the abuses of large corporations.

I now even more severely despise everyone who made fun of Stella Liebeck for her burns.

I truly hate conservatives. I do not want to understand their point of view. I do not care about their concerns. I do not want to work with them. I do not care why they see the world the way they do.

If there is a revolution, I will be in the militant wing of it until I am killed or injured enough that I can’t continue to fight. That’s all I am good at it, so that’s what I will do.

Back years ago, when cable modems were new and computers still very insecure, I’d use port scanning tools to find other cable modem users with computers on the same LAN segment as my cable modem.

It was easy, and I didn’t mean any harm. I would just print funny things to people’s printers like, “Your computer is alive and is watching you. Put on some pants, dammit,” and other prankish shenanigans.

I just mention this to point out that what I did then was about a million times more illegal than what Aaron Swartz did. The difference being that I didn’t piss off or embarrass anyone with real power. I just did whatever I thought was funny at the time.

I wouldn’t do this now, but then I thought it to be pretty hilarious.

I could’ve done much worse – it turns out that many people store (or used to) all their credit card numbers on their computers, in plain text. Along with baking information, etc. If I had been truly malicious, I could have also installed keyloggers and all other manner of dirty tricks as well.

But even now as I no longer perpetuate such foolishness, I still use techniques like these (and will use more in the future), to preserve some privacy and security.