According to the statistics here, I'm currently up to somewhere between 260 and 550 mgs for the day (it is currently 08:52 am).
I'm guessing that my weekly average is somewhere in the 1.5 to 3 grams range. Reserach suggest that a fatal dose for humans is somewhere between 3 and 20 grams of caffeine ( depending on body weight and tolerance) taken in a given day.
I conclude that I'm well within the healthy range and that I should drink more.
And what exactly might I be doing while drinking all this coffee you might ask. Well, this morning, I have spent the last three hours watching MMA on youtube while deleting all this spam that keeps coming to my email box.
Maybe I should start a new category for stupid things said on commercials. Just 5 minutes ago, I heard this:
"Thanks to Indian casinos, our family is no longer on welfare."
Here is a logic question. Let's see who can get it. Cathy has six pairs of black gloves and six pairs of brown gloves in her drawer. In complete darkness, how many gloves must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match? Think carefully!!
Answer: tomorrow
Friday, August 31, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
A little about me...
The following is what happens when you start asking yourself who you are and what you've been doing with your life at 2 o'clock in the morning. When loads of stuff is running through your head and you had a few cocktails. Well here it is about four hours later after off again on again sleeping at the computer, this is what I came up with. Thank goodness for my addiction to caffeine. Good Morning!
Dubbed "the rebel" by his mother, for his rock-star look and blunt observations about the world, life, food, and everything else, Tony Mejia is not your typical celebrity. A 29-year old, veteran of life, food, and writing. Tony knows that one man’s poison is another’s delicacy but he isn’t afraid to poke a little fun at the local fare or himself. He is willing to infiltrate markets and restaurants in order to savor the local cuisine - even if that means chewing on crickets, worms, bugs, eggs with legs, gulping down the world's smelliest fruit (Durian) or polishing off a lamb’s eyeball.
Mejia is currently a senior at the University of San Diego, in beautiful San Diego, California. He entertains and educates with his exotic tales of travel and lessons learned from the trenches. He shares his passion on topics ranging from "Great Cuisines" to "The Celebrity and The Culture of Arguing." He also imparts his drill-sergeant approach to running with whatever life gives you. "The fantastic mix of order and chaos," he says, "demands a rigid hierarchy and a sacrosanct code of conduct, where punctuality, loyalty, teamwork and discipline are key to producing consistently."
In late 1999, Mejia set out looking for, as he puts it, kicks, thrills, epiphanies and the "perfect life." Mejia's travels have taken him across the United States twice with extended stints in Florida and Colorado. He has also been given the distinction of honorary New Yorker by friends in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. In 2004 Mejia's time was spent in the Orient, Southeast Asia as a matter of fact. Learning the culture, customs, and cuisine, just ask him to tell you about the often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures.
Following his wanderlust will take you to far-out and familiar places, from Southeast Asia to Europe and to our very own United States of America. Caveat Emptor (buyer beware), the views and opinions expressed by Tony maybe at times heartless, and even offensive. Usually, he doesn't mean it, but he is quite expressive in how he explains things. Mejia travels the world seeking the authentic experiences that flavor the world's cultures to which he can make his own by the process by which both cultures (immigrant and host) meet and fuse, into an enriched culture.
Mejia gives us some quick info on some culinary experiences; In Southeast Asia there is a saying, "If you can catch it, you can eat it." Shredded pig's-ear spring rolls, civet-cat coffee and Vietnam's most famous food -- pho (beef noodle soup), bun cha (which is Mejia's preference), green papaya salad with dried beef, rice-flour dumplings filled with minced pork, and blood pudding on a stick.
Think Mexico offers nothing more than tequila shots and wild spring breaks? Well try these tacos on for size. But here, the fillings aren't your typical cheese and ground beef; instead, they're pig skin, Tony gets things going by going right after the stomach taco, beef snout and even a few eyeballs, washed down with a cup of beef-head consommé, with chopped tongue. Mmm!
OK, if that doesn't tickle your fancy, then how about right here in our very own Cajun country. Getting a fill of pig feet, chicken livers, some good old-fashioned chitlin's or pig intestines, boiled and then fried in bacon grease. Fried alligator, fried pickles, fried green tomatoes, it all gets dipped in the deep-fryer before being served up. He ate a part of a grouper that rarely shows up on a menu if ever and a mullet fish, which is a bottom-feeding fish that really isn't eaten anywhere else in the country. One thing is certain: In the food-obsessed world, Tony Mejia has carved out a distinct place as a gastronomic Indiana Jones.
Mejia is a contributing authority for Team Gorillas Baseball Blog. His work has appeared in such publications as Blogger, and Word press, and as Team Gorillas Top-writer, culinary adventurer, drinker, smoker, hedonist ... the list of descriptors could go on and on. He describes his work as "Julia Child meets Full Metal Jacket." He also enjoys television shows on Discovery, Travel, History, Independent Film, the Foreign News and Film Network, basically anything that he might learn something from.
He was born and raised in San Diego. After on and off again misspent years at Southwestern and San Diego Mesa Community College's, and now upon returning from Asia, he attends USD, followed by nearly a decade of working with technology. He is fluent as a Spanish speaker, intermediate with Italian, and can understand and speak some Thai and Vietnamese and he wants to learn Tagalog. He lives — and will always live — in San Diego.
Dubbed "the rebel" by his mother, for his rock-star look and blunt observations about the world, life, food, and everything else, Tony Mejia is not your typical celebrity. A 29-year old, veteran of life, food, and writing. Tony knows that one man’s poison is another’s delicacy but he isn’t afraid to poke a little fun at the local fare or himself. He is willing to infiltrate markets and restaurants in order to savor the local cuisine - even if that means chewing on crickets, worms, bugs, eggs with legs, gulping down the world's smelliest fruit (Durian) or polishing off a lamb’s eyeball.
Mejia is currently a senior at the University of San Diego, in beautiful San Diego, California. He entertains and educates with his exotic tales of travel and lessons learned from the trenches. He shares his passion on topics ranging from "Great Cuisines" to "The Celebrity and The Culture of Arguing." He also imparts his drill-sergeant approach to running with whatever life gives you. "The fantastic mix of order and chaos," he says, "demands a rigid hierarchy and a sacrosanct code of conduct, where punctuality, loyalty, teamwork and discipline are key to producing consistently."
In late 1999, Mejia set out looking for, as he puts it, kicks, thrills, epiphanies and the "perfect life." Mejia's travels have taken him across the United States twice with extended stints in Florida and Colorado. He has also been given the distinction of honorary New Yorker by friends in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. In 2004 Mejia's time was spent in the Orient, Southeast Asia as a matter of fact. Learning the culture, customs, and cuisine, just ask him to tell you about the often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures.
Following his wanderlust will take you to far-out and familiar places, from Southeast Asia to Europe and to our very own United States of America. Caveat Emptor (buyer beware), the views and opinions expressed by Tony maybe at times heartless, and even offensive. Usually, he doesn't mean it, but he is quite expressive in how he explains things. Mejia travels the world seeking the authentic experiences that flavor the world's cultures to which he can make his own by the process by which both cultures (immigrant and host) meet and fuse, into an enriched culture.
Mejia gives us some quick info on some culinary experiences; In Southeast Asia there is a saying, "If you can catch it, you can eat it." Shredded pig's-ear spring rolls, civet-cat coffee and Vietnam's most famous food -- pho (beef noodle soup), bun cha (which is Mejia's preference), green papaya salad with dried beef, rice-flour dumplings filled with minced pork, and blood pudding on a stick.
Think Mexico offers nothing more than tequila shots and wild spring breaks? Well try these tacos on for size. But here, the fillings aren't your typical cheese and ground beef; instead, they're pig skin, Tony gets things going by going right after the stomach taco, beef snout and even a few eyeballs, washed down with a cup of beef-head consommé, with chopped tongue. Mmm!
OK, if that doesn't tickle your fancy, then how about right here in our very own Cajun country. Getting a fill of pig feet, chicken livers, some good old-fashioned chitlin's or pig intestines, boiled and then fried in bacon grease. Fried alligator, fried pickles, fried green tomatoes, it all gets dipped in the deep-fryer before being served up. He ate a part of a grouper that rarely shows up on a menu if ever and a mullet fish, which is a bottom-feeding fish that really isn't eaten anywhere else in the country. One thing is certain: In the food-obsessed world, Tony Mejia has carved out a distinct place as a gastronomic Indiana Jones.
Mejia is a contributing authority for Team Gorillas Baseball Blog. His work has appeared in such publications as Blogger, and Word press, and as Team Gorillas Top-writer, culinary adventurer, drinker, smoker, hedonist ... the list of descriptors could go on and on. He describes his work as "Julia Child meets Full Metal Jacket." He also enjoys television shows on Discovery, Travel, History, Independent Film, the Foreign News and Film Network, basically anything that he might learn something from.
He was born and raised in San Diego. After on and off again misspent years at Southwestern and San Diego Mesa Community College's, and now upon returning from Asia, he attends USD, followed by nearly a decade of working with technology. He is fluent as a Spanish speaker, intermediate with Italian, and can understand and speak some Thai and Vietnamese and he wants to learn Tagalog. He lives — and will always live — in San Diego.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Quotation of the Day...
"Not one sperm in a billion accomplishes its life mission--thank goodness--but each is designed and equipped as if everything depended on its success. Sperm are like e-mail spam, so cheap to make and deliver that a vanishly small return rate is sufficient to underwrite the project" (59).
~Nelson Pike (as quoted by Dan Dennett, Breaking the Spell)
~Nelson Pike (as quoted by Dan Dennett, Breaking the Spell)
Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinis alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!
The title above translates:
"If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!"
I have officially terminated all my other blogs and have started anew. I realized that I had really stopped doing what I enjoyed and got side tracked, so I figured it was time to get back to what really gets me going. Writing!
I will begin with a list of the various things that have occupied my summer. Classes start next week, so with a week of summer vacation left, I don't think it's too early to summarize this past summer. It's been a very good summer in any number of ways. I'll break the list down into a number of general categories.
Personal:
~I helped coach the Gorillas 11 and under travel baseball team to a Third place finish at the BPA Western World Series.
~I helped coach the Gorillas 12 and under travel baseball team to a First place finish at the Triple Crown Fall National Qualifier.
~The Gorillas travel team went to the beach for the Jr. OTL National Championships for the second year.
~I will be coaching this weekend, at the Triple Crown So. Cal. State Championship Tournament for the Gorillas 11 and under.
~I am still going to school, full-time now from summer through fall, unlike last summer, when I took the summer off.
School/Research:
~I did a lot of reading this summer, especially on Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Marriage, and Ethics.
~Books I read included: Dantes Divine Comedy, The Bible, The Gospel of the Flying Spagehtti Monster (Behold the Church of the FSM, today's fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion), Marriage and Sacrament, and the Ethics of Aquinas.
~I wrote many papers for school this summer. This was my first real experience with writing philososphy/theology papers and I think it went fairly well. The exception being my arguments about the existence of God and what Jesus' dying meant to me... Although they were great agruments they didn't go over so well with some of the Hard-core bible thumpers at school.
Other stuff, including family:
~As mentioned above, I'm on my week vacation from summer school now and awaiting fall semester to begin.
~Adrian moved away from San Diego to Montana this summer and I guess it is going ok for him at the moment.
~Mikey is doing great with his construction estimating job. He also has finished up a ton of classes at SDSU for construction management.
~My Dad is still working on his backyard, he is almost done with his fountain. I will post the pics when Mikey gives them to me.
~My Mom is still working at Children's hospital and talking about work stuff daily when she gets home. I guess everyday there is so much crap a that place that she needs to vent, so we listen. =)
"If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!"
I have officially terminated all my other blogs and have started anew. I realized that I had really stopped doing what I enjoyed and got side tracked, so I figured it was time to get back to what really gets me going. Writing!
I will begin with a list of the various things that have occupied my summer. Classes start next week, so with a week of summer vacation left, I don't think it's too early to summarize this past summer. It's been a very good summer in any number of ways. I'll break the list down into a number of general categories.
Personal:
~I helped coach the Gorillas 11 and under travel baseball team to a Third place finish at the BPA Western World Series.
~I helped coach the Gorillas 12 and under travel baseball team to a First place finish at the Triple Crown Fall National Qualifier.
~The Gorillas travel team went to the beach for the Jr. OTL National Championships for the second year.
~I will be coaching this weekend, at the Triple Crown So. Cal. State Championship Tournament for the Gorillas 11 and under.
~I am still going to school, full-time now from summer through fall, unlike last summer, when I took the summer off.
School/Research:
~I did a lot of reading this summer, especially on Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Marriage, and Ethics.
~Books I read included: Dantes Divine Comedy, The Bible, The Gospel of the Flying Spagehtti Monster (Behold the Church of the FSM, today's fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion), Marriage and Sacrament, and the Ethics of Aquinas.
~I wrote many papers for school this summer. This was my first real experience with writing philososphy/theology papers and I think it went fairly well. The exception being my arguments about the existence of God and what Jesus' dying meant to me... Although they were great agruments they didn't go over so well with some of the Hard-core bible thumpers at school.
Other stuff, including family:
~As mentioned above, I'm on my week vacation from summer school now and awaiting fall semester to begin.
~Adrian moved away from San Diego to Montana this summer and I guess it is going ok for him at the moment.
~Mikey is doing great with his construction estimating job. He also has finished up a ton of classes at SDSU for construction management.
~My Dad is still working on his backyard, he is almost done with his fountain. I will post the pics when Mikey gives them to me.
~My Mom is still working at Children's hospital and talking about work stuff daily when she gets home. I guess everyday there is so much crap a that place that she needs to vent, so we listen. =)
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