Tea Is Better Than Water!

From a recent article on the Beeb, Tea ‘healthier’ drink than water:

Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water and may even have extra health benefits, say researchers.

This makes my plan of drinking several pots of tea a day seem even better! The article then goes on to state:

Tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can also protect against heart disease and some cancers, UK nutritionists found.

and:

[Dr Ruxton] said it was an urban myth that tea is dehydrating.

“Studies on caffeine have found very high doses dehydrate and everyone assumes that caffeine-containing beverages dehydrate. But even if you had a really, really strong cup of tea or coffee, which is quite hard to make, you would still have a net gain of fluid.

Hooray for Tea!

Superman is a Sissy

I’m a Spider-Man fan. I don’t think it naturally follows that I wouldn’t like Superman. I just don’t. It’s hard to take someone seriously when he’s basically a minor god. So every time we walk past the Sharper Image store in Los Gatos with its enormous statue of Superman, I make it a point to tell Molly that Superman is a sissy.

Today, Anna tells me that as they walked past Sharper Image, Molly pointed at the Superman statue and said, “Superman is a sissy.”

Did I mention that Molly loves the Spider-Man theme song?

A New Face

I’ve updated the theme for our site. You might notice the interactive archives at the bottom of the page and the swanky flickr images at the right.

This is still a work in progress: the flickr images aren’t cached so I’m pinging flickr each time the home page loads. The old photo album plugin (FAlbum) is broken — it just stopped working — so I need to find all the references in our older posts and fix them. Plus I need to bring back the search and contact features, but at least the new face is up.

Because we no longer live in Newburyport, we changed the name back to just metrocat. The server changed names some time ago, now the site reflects that.