Comments on: It’s a wrap!

By: Win

Win — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:25:55 +0000

Dr Mike - all those files on your desktop might be slowing down your system (can depend on how much memory you have installed & how many windows you like to have open at one time) see:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051117154624368

Check out this desktop humor!!
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1280

BTW - You can set _where_ your browser downloads files TO. I’m using Safari - under Safari/Preferences/General there’s a setting for “Save downloaded files to:” If you don’t like the current setting, click on the arrows, then click on “Other…” which brings up a file selection (finder) window where you can specify.

I have a folder named “Downloads” that’s in my Library where all my downloaded files go. I download a lot of PDFs ’cause lots of times just bringing them up in the browser the type is too small to read and I can’t resize it (or can’t figure out how). If I download it and open it w/ Preview, I can resize the type just by dragging the corner of the window larger (you may have to have the Preview preferences set to “Scale large images to fit windows”). The Downloads file is not as in your face as having all the downloads on the desktop, but they’re all contained in one place where I know where they are and I can read them and file them at my convenience. [I'm running OS X 10.4.11 - and have been for a few years. At this point I can't remember what the default location was for downloads - I _think_ that I created the Downloads file [at the urging of computer professional DH] and set that as the default location for downloads, but I can’t remember]

Now for some desktop humor - check this out!!
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1280

Thanks for the tip. Probably why my machine is running so slowly.

By: Megan Bagwell

Megan Bagwell — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:28:46 +0000

OK, he’s quite a bit older than me (10 years!) but he has a baby face! Is that your oldest son? I remember reading that you have 2 sons in your book. Is Emma your only grandchild?

Nope, he’s not the eldest. The eldest is 38, and he has a real baby face. You can see the youngest here. We have 3 sons and 3 grandchildren (here are the grandsons); Emma is the youngest.

By: Megan Bagwell

Megan Bagwell — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:10:24 +0000

You’re looking hot, Dr. Grandpa Eades. Don’t take that the wrong way, I’m probably younger than your son in the pic with you on July 4th. He’s a cutie, too. Good looking fam! (precious granddaughter) Anyways, you’re aging well. There must be something to that low carb diet…

I’m ready to read your new book!!

I never take it the wrong way when some young woman tells me I look hot. BTW, son Dan is 35. Emma is 4. Uh, and that’s Dr. ‘Baba’ Eades.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Full Blown Blossom

Full Blown Blossom — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:11:55 +0000

Best of luck with the publishing process! And if its not too late - a conversion chart for those of us not in the US who are on metrics would be awesome. PP is an old ‘bible’ - and even though I cant always use the recipes because of products not available here in Australia I try and work things out from the carb lists. Having something that reminds me what 1 oz is roughly in gms would be great. And thanks for your commitment to those of us with middle-aged middles!!

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll see if the publisher will let us do it. There are some things we have no control over.

By: David Matthews

David Matthews — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:05:38 +0000

Must feel like finishing one of those college term papers where 50% of your grade rests on the one paper, and you waited until a week before it was due to get started. But what a relief when it’s over. And as soon as you hand it in, you think of a dozen other ideas that you just know would have upped your grade. At least we didn’t have to put up with those skanky copy editors — our work was our own. And what do they know anyway? Did Dickens have a copy editor? I hope not.

Copy editors are worth their weight in gold. It’s just a pain to deal with all their questions.

By: Peter Silverman

Peter Silverman — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:40:56 +0000

I was having an email argument with someone who assured me that arguing about the details was a “waist of time.” After chuckling at the misspelling, I realize there’s a title for your book:
Waist of Time: the middle age belly. Beats Good Calories Bad Calories at least. Peter

Thanks for the tip. We fooled around with a zillion permutations of ‘waist’ before we settled on the middle-aged middle both for alliterative reasons and the population of readers the book will appeal to.

Cheers–

MRE

By: None Given

None Given — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:01:39 +0000

Who needs a honey tree when there is low carb cheesecake?

By: Blaise

Blaise — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:30:57 +0000

Your disclaimer about depuffing with Photoshop really made me laugh! I’m looking forward to my middle’s depuffing after your new book hits the stands!

I’m sorry that copy editing isn’t on your list of top fun activities. In defense of my trade, all I can say is we’re doing our best to enhance your reputation.

Yeah, I know, I know, about the copy editing. The first time I ever got a copy-edited manuscript back I thought I was going to commit sepuku until I went through it and began to understand. MD and I do appreciate most copy editors we’ve worked with, but a few have been a little too anal and have aggravated us to no end. As I’m sure you know, the line editing stuff is pretty easy to deal with - and doesn’t even have to be done. Most editors I’ve worked with tell me that they figure they’re lucky if their authors accept 50 percent of their suggestions. MD and I usually do a lot better than that, so our editors love us. Copy editors, as you know, are a different story. Every single one of those little yellow flags has to be dealt with in writing, and it can be a monumental pain if is too, too anal.

Cheers–

By: Lark

Lark — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:08:12 +0000

Congrats on the manuscript, I’m looking forward to seeing the book. I might actually buy one of your books on Amazon this time. I usually buy them in the book store (I’ve bought several copies each of the original PP and PPLP in paperback because I keep giving them away) but PPLP has been getting hard to find.

Off topic - speaking of coffee - I recently tried cold-brewing. You can get a special device for cold-brewing (a “Toddy” brewer) but I just use my French press. The coffee comes out with lots of body and deeper notes but less acid which is nice as I’m somewhat sensitive to it.

Hi Lark–

Thanks for the book buying support. It’s all the same to us wherever you buy it. One of the things most people probably don’t know about the book biz is that authors are paid on the cover price irrespective of what the book is actually sold for. That’s why everyone (including yours truly) wants to be on the New York Times Bestseller List. Barnes & Noble, Borders and all the chain bookstores put the books on the NY Times list at the front of the store in the Bestseller shelf and discount them substantially. It’s great if you’re an author because you get the same royalty even though the books are basically sold at almost a loss to the store. But the big discount keeps the books selling. Which is why once a book gets on the NY Times list, it seems to stay there forever.

As to the coffee…cold pressed tastes fine to me. The problem is it contains a ton of caffeine, and I can’t drink much until I start getting an uncomfortable buzz. Caffeine is water soluble, so the longer the grounds stay in contact with water - as in a French press - the more caffeine leaches out and ends up in the coffee. That’s why I like Cafe Americano so much. It has great flavor, but the steam passing through doesn’t spend much time with the grounds so it doesn’t pick up as much caffeine (about half as much as regular coffee) but does pick up the aromatic and tasty coffee oils and flavors. So you get a strong, rich coffee without a lot of caffeine. If you haven’t seen it, here is a link to a video I made about making Cafe Americano.

Cheers–

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:31:06 +0000

Great pic.

I can’t help but think of how much fatter, puffier and pastier Ornish would look at a similar point in the writing of his latest low-fat tome.

I looked fat, puffy and pasty when I was finished, but I fired up the ol’ Photoshop, and Voila!

Cheers–