xybermatthew

• tasks are done now its time for dinner #
• @Brian_Scaglia you in Denver? #

• enjoying a great cup of kenya coffee ….ummmm…. #
• fyi followers — I’ve been living a vegan lifestyle for over a week now and haven’t felt better (have a look at http://www.goveg.com/) #
• note to self don’t eat banana peppers new the computer — the juice goes everywhere when you bite in to it! #
• in a groove today #

• Whatever the Politics Demand – http://tinyurl.com/5u4y37 Really??? I’m so confused! #
• I forgot that having a kid really messes with your internal clock #

• pictures and video of noah http://web.mac.com/xybermatthew/iWeb/Site/ #

• I’m a daddy; 18″ long, 5 lbs 15 oz. Born at 14:43, Aug. 19, 2008, Boy. Name = Noah David Henry Moore #

• about 24 hrs to baby!! #
• great weather today — enjoyed my walk after lunch #

• @Shpigford for the same reason a “designer” should also know how to program — makes no sense to me; I feel they are two diff. camps. #

It all started a few weeks back when I saw a show on one of the educational channels; sorry I can’t remember which one it was. But they had a brief history on the cattle industry, specifically the processing of the animal for human consumption.

What concerned me the most was that Mad Cow Disease can’t be removed by any know methods including freezing or cooking and if infected can cause incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is ultimately fatal. Some of the symptoms include dementia, memory loss, and tiredness.

Though it is believed it can only be transmitted to human beings when they eat the brain or spinal cord of infected cows there isn’t enough conclusive evidence to state otherwise and that in itself has scared me. What made it even more scary is a video I saw yesterday on goveg.com where they tell us that cows with other diseases, infections, bruises and other unhealthy issues are deemed fine by the USDA for human consumption — if you saw these animals in person you’d think twice before eating it. Furthermore, the USDA even allows cows that can’t walk off the trucks to be be dragged off into the slaughter house — in other words your eating spoiled food.

Anyway, I’m doing my research and thinking a lot about all the flavors and textures my palette would miss if I did turn vegetarian, but on the other hand discovering how that going vegetarian is so much more healthier as well as very good for the environment.

• i think wikis for business tasks and projects are FUBAR!!! as well as a PITA! #
• yo ppl, @refreshdenver is looking for topic ideas and speakers for the months to come — reply to @xybermatthew or @refreshdenver #refresh #
• today was the longest day in a very long time #

This past weekend we’re suppose to go camping with my parents and siblings at Boyd lake in Loveland. But the wife is 38 weeks pregnant and her doctor put his foot down because he was concerned that the baby wasn’t getting enough food. In fact he was so concerned that he even called in a specialist to meet with her first thing this morning. Needless to say we had to cancel.

Anyway, but because we were slated to do some family time I got in big trouble for not having a Plan B. I didn’t think it was going to be such a big deal since we did a family thing last weekend with the in-laws and we are planning to do more this coming weekend (western welcome week) I thought I would use the time to catch up on some sleep and work on my side project I’ve been developing.

Point to note (and self), communicate with your spouse your thoughts and get your spouse to do the same with you. That way nobody’s feelings are hurt nor are their expectations.

Oh I should mention we still went out to dinner as a family – here a pic have a happy wife: