The Hacker's Diet

I'm getting tired of looking at my own ass (there is, after all, a reason it's behind one most of the time), so thought I'd put up another post about something--anything!

What I came up with, in part as a result of having just made such an--ahem!--large ass of myself, is a novel diet plan, designed by a multi-millionaire software engineer, John Walker, who describes the origins of The Hacker's Diet thus:

The absurdity of my situation finally struck home in 1987.  ``Look,'' I said to myself, ``you founded one of the five biggest software companies in the world, Autodesk.  You wrote large pieces of AutoCAD, the world standard for computer aided design.  You've made in excess of fifty million dollars without dropping dead, going crazy, or winding up in jail.  You've succeeded at some pretty difficult things, and you can't control your flippin' weight?''

Six months after this aha moment, Walker was down from 215 pounds to 145, and stayed there.  His diet book is a free download. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but I like the idea of diet as an engineering problem. Though I still have my doubts. There seem to be plenty of nerds who treat sex as an engineering problem, and look where that's gotten them....