Obesity 肥胖

Is obesity a disease?
肥胖是病嗎?

This is like asking if being alcoholic is a disease. (Welll, alcoholism has been classified as a disease in recent years.)
Someone will say yes, because the wiring in your brain is actually changed when you become an alcoholic, so it's out of the person's control.
Someone will say no, because you can choose not to drink and thus you will not become an alcoholic in the first place.
這像是問酗酒是不是病一樣。 （其實酗酒在這幾年已經被歸類成病症了）
有些人會同意，因為酗酒會改變腦內的神經分布，所以酗酒者無法控制自己的行為。
有些人會反對，因為你可以克制自己別去喝酒，這樣從一開始你就不會酗酒。

My personal opinion is that obesity starts out as a choice and ends up as a disease...pretty much like how people starts smoking for whatever reasons, gets hooked, and develops lung cancer at the end.
個人認為肥胖是從行為變成疾病...就好像一個人開始吸煙（不論是為什麼開始），上癮，而後引發肺癌一樣。

While I think it's good to provide medical help for those who are determined to get out of the condition, I wonder if it'll encourage the thinking that "it's a disease (ergo it's completely out of my control)" and takes out the aspect of personal responsibility associated with the condition?
我雖然覺得提供醫療幫助想努力擺脫肥胖的人是件好事，但是這樣一來會不會助長「這是一種病（所以完全不是我能控制的）」這種想法，而讓人疏忽造成肥胖的個人責任？

Dangerous thinking indeed.
這種想法是很危險的。

Bonecraft 骨細工

Things I've learned while leveling crafts in FFXI:

1. Plan ahead -
Don't buy crystals when it's new moon or full moon, as crystal price usually goes up to twice or even 3 times during those moons. If you're planning to do a skill run on an upcoming new/full moon, buy it when it's cheap.

2. Farming sucks -
If you're cheap & poor like I am, you'll farm instead of buy the ingredients needed for your craft whenever you can. Check out the subcrafts you need, and with a little planning you can farm for both at the same time:

Giant femurs: dhalmel leather.
Ram horns: ram leather.
Tiger fangs: tiger leather.
Saint/hermit's rings: copper/brass ingot, glass fiber.

So on so forth.

3. Moon helps -
I personally find full moon lightsday really good for the 7+ skill gaps (you'll need advanced support). However when the skill gap is very small (<3), quatermoon with dark/weak moons are the best in my personal experience.

4. Whining works -
Complaining about the lack of skill ups to my LS while synthing helped a lot (people in my LS can testify how many times I report a 0.1 right after I whined, complained, or raged about not getting skill ups), but annoy your LS members at your own risk.

Boo

I wanted to use the new labeling feature and can't figure out how the hell to switch from blogger to blogger beta...so I'll just copy the old posts into a new blog. XD