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Researchers at Warwick Medical School link sleep deprivation with obesity.

Now, that's interesting, because I know for a fact I had a great deal of problems sleeping as a kid (OK, OK, I still have a great deal of problems sleeping as an adult, too, but that's not my point). I went through pretty much every day with only four or five hours, and then caught sleep on the weekends.

I know that sleep apnea can be caused by obesity, but has anyone studied if it occurs more frequently in children who become obese?

Either way, neat development, and unfortuantely, proof that you can't cut corners on sleep without it coming back to hurt you in more ways than one.

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Man, a ton of people have birthdays today.

Happy birthday, kids. I guess October was pretty boring for your parents.

Beyond that, I'm trying to put A Scanner Darkly into words after seeing it with dklegman tonight, and I'm honestly failing. Yes, the story's a little predictable, when it's not fucking with you, but it's also good, and probably the most faithful film adaptation of a Phillip K. Dick story you could hope for. The rotoscoping's used as a fascinating tool throughout the movie, and adds a layer that pure animation or pure live action would have lost, I think.

Plus, it contains lines like "You Albino-lizard bitch!"

There's some very good acting from Keanu Reeves (partially because they let him be a man much closer to 40 than 20), which is a bit of a surprise, and while I think Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson were basically just being themselves, with the dials turned up a bit from their regular volume, I think they carried their parts well. In addition, Rory Cochrane managed to play Benicio Del Toro so well that untill I looked him up on IMDB, we were convinced that he was Benicio under a pseudonym, so that was pretty cool.

All in all, it's a difficult movie to explain if you haven't seen it or read the material it was based on, but I reccomend it if you get a chance.

Oh, also - if you are not one of the Beautiful People, avoid The Happy Greek down by the Gateway like the plague. The food's great, but the treatment from the waitstaff ruins the experience.