The computer diet

I was talking to one of my kids about how difficult it seems to be to lose 20 pounds. “Maybe you should become vegan because then if you eat less meat, you will feel like you are doing something good for the world” I was told, because weight loss seems to happen more easily when linking with some world cause perceived as “good”.

HMMM, well I do know some who survive on veggies, but I do not see myself as enjoying a vegan menu, so that will not work for me. I was intrigued by the idea of linking weight loss with something I thought of personally as “good”, however.
As I thought about what would motivate me, I realized there is one thing that I think needs to change, and it is not cow emissions, (especially since so many people own dogs which eat THREE TIMES as much meat as humans eat… why not encourage people to stop having meat consuming pets instead of preventing people from enjoying their foods of choice?) I said this thought out loud, to a family member who told me that I should stop eating meat because it was bad for the world, but this person has a dog, (more like a wolf) that eats three times the meat of any human.

When this person was confronted with the fact that their dog is consuming a butt load of meat, which is hypocritical of their no meat stance, this person admitted being “conflicted”. I do not feel wrong or bad suggesting that anyone who thinks eating meat is bad for the planet, out of principle, should not fund or maintain a pet who eats meat. Why should people, human beings, suffer, particularly in areas of abject poverty, where protein such as meat, is necessary to maintain health, in order to support dogs and cats? Makes no sense to me? But back to the idea of what might help the planet and help people at the same time…

I think I would be doing “good to the world” by helping reduce the propaganda data computers produce, and on a parallel path, also reduce human consumption of such propaganda. If computers “dieted”, I think that would be GREAT for the world and it would motivate me personally to consume less.

Just think of how each “byte taken” by a computer, then has to be stored and maintained, is costly, and produces great amounts of heat which needs to be dissipated to prevent environmental heating. Unlike freely choosing individuals who exercise and burn off their bites, a computer, is constantly force-fed “bytes” and does not “burn off” any. As the computer continues to consume bytes, it continues to grow, continues to need more energy and continues to need more memory to sustain itself.

So my novel idea is to have an ultra simple weight loss eating plan called “the computer diet” that incorporates humans and computers. It is really simple actually.

The human part…

Eat only thirty bites a day. (each meal appx. 10 bites)
Clear fluids do not count toward bites.
Lettuces or cabbages with vinaigrette dressing do not count towards bites.
Take a multiple vitamin.
Maintain moderate exercise…and stretching.. (this diet is an experiment and is not for little kids)
That’s it!

In collaboration with my “computer diet” for humans, I want to include a parallel computer diet for computers incorporated in conjunction with the human diet.

The Computer part…

Every individual on this diet must also limit data creation on computers to thirty items a day, that which is helpful, uplifting and necessary, deleting any that are over that number in a day.
Delete obsolete or large unnecessary or duplicate files and delete emails once acknowledge, printing those which need to be kept in files.

By limiting what data bytes that we keep or store, we are helping conserve energy, preventing alzheimers in computers, and helping computer systems from becoming slow, cumbersome and inefficient.

Today is my first day on my own creative “computer diet”. So far so good, but, if you do not like this computer diet of mine…”byte me”. Haha, just kidding. I will let you know how it works in a month or two. Till then, remember, computers have a much harder time dieting than we do. =)