August 18, 2003

Diet Sleuth OSX 4.1.0

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Oh, sweet Saint Smaragdus, why must our fatty thighs be lambasted with yet another “nutritional database and personal health logbook”? How do you expect us to survive the harsh Tennessee winters without a protectively dimpled layer o’ lipids? It just ain’t feasible. But perhaps we are a pampered bunch of thumbsuckers these days — you know, expecting our apps to actually open when we click them in the latest cutting-edge fashion.

Diet Sleuth takes us back to a simpler time — a time when neighbors sit on their porches and drink untold juggage of Thunderbird and chat vivaciously about their stubborn love handles while they wait for Diet Sleuth to complete its laborious task of copying a seemingly infinite number of files (foods, weights, nutrients, gerbil-oriented porno, whatever — we don’t really care about anything by now) and the electric-blue bar of progress moves slowly, tantalizingly, like the pulsating anal droplet of a lekking fruitfly.

But when the copying is at last completed and the Earth has entered a new Ice Age and the woolly mammoths have returned for their sweet, sweet revenge against the hairless primate upstarts — yes, that is precisely the moment when the freshly fragrant promise of Diet Sleuth fails to measure up to the rancid stench of reality. One example should suffice, and it is here: This fustian app’s food list shows a zero-calorie value for tap water and, separately, a zero-calorie value for ice cubes made of tap water. It would take a corybantic wine snob to create such a pinheaded distinction. And don’t even get us started on the Recipe Editor function that expects us to bake brownies without white flour or our secret ingredient (vanilla — shhh!).

We think it’s only fair to expect a more squid-like app for $34.99 (or 10 jars of Nutella in a bearish market) but perhaps our painful loss of the ancestral tulip farm has tainted our hitherto rosily dike-plugging outlook in ways that can never be fully redeemed. Black Cat Systems, you are the unlucky recipient of a flammably butter-based 7.3. But only because we are so sad now, remembering the small yet delightfully tangy pfeffernusse of our lost homeland.

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Comments

People who bother to sit down and chart out the minutia of their eating habits in order to lose weight would probably be better off getting up and getting some exercise instead.

Posted by: Tub O'Lardy on August 19, 2003 01:28 AM

Third Post!!!

Posted by: Average Moron on August 19, 2003 01:29 AM

Shouldn't ice cubes have a negative caloric content?

Posted by: more moronic than average on August 19, 2003 01:51 AM

OK, once you get past snacks, corn-based, extruded... does it really matter if it's made with enriched masa flour? Rule of thumb: if it's extruded, it has no value whtsoever. It can be nothing but bad. You don't need software to tell you that.
Think of the things that Norm extrudes, especially when he is a penguin.

Posted by: extruded poster on August 19, 2003 02:04 AM

The cold of an ice cube would actually have a preserving effect on your body by slowing down your metabolism. The ice, though sans calorie, would make it more difficult to loose weight.

Posted by: Previously Insane on August 19, 2003 07:11 AM

It occurs to me that if you sit in front of a computer long enough to tally up that shit with this ap then you probably don't give a rat turd about your caloric intake. Just a thought.

Posted by: Nick on August 19, 2003 10:13 AM

Water, in all its forms, has a caloric content of zero because burning it for fuel to determine it's calorie content is impossible. If there is anything I remember from chemistry, its definitely calories.
Maybe if this program was for PDA's the person would walk around while entering all their information, the walking being to relieve the stress of having to enter so much info through such a slow process. THEN it would have some benefits. As of now....diet programs (for the computer) are all flawed and stupid.

Posted by: Laemkral on August 19, 2003 10:53 AM

I am noticing a pattern here...hmmmmm...It is naomi who reviewed this program and the previous program called "FrenchDiet 1.0.2". Me thinks there is a connection here... hmmmmm...The only question remains is, does naomi want to gain weight or lose weight, or both!

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on August 19, 2003 11:11 AM

The only diet that matters and is guaranteed to work is the Norm O. Tidwell diet. Shove a piece of shit in your mouth and chew thoroughly. You will never want to eat again! I guaranteed you will lose at least 50 pounds before you die or double your money back after you are dead. So buy my program now and get on the Norm O. Tidwell "Eat Shit and DIE-t" plan and lose all the weight you can!

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on August 19, 2003 11:18 AM

Laemkral, Laemkral, Laemkral. I am disappointed. The standard flame-calorie burning test is “one” way to test calories (or more accurately Joules of energy that can then be easily converted into calories). The problem, however, lies in the fact that substances like Pepsi © are difficult to burn. There are other tests for caloric value. I am not purporting that water has a significant calorie value, although tap water probably would have a measurable level of proteins and carbohydrates, just thought you should know.

Posted by: Previously Insane on August 19, 2003 11:23 AM

Considering I had a public school education, what did you expect my knowledge of the art of determining calories to consist of? Of course there are other ways of determining calories besides burning the substance, though one could theoretically dehydrate the food, thus removing the water, and THEN burn it.
As for tap water, of course it'll have carbs and proteins. That's why I drink Powerade. More of the stuff in tap water without the stuff in tap water, and its still okay to drink if green.

Posted by: Laemkral on August 19, 2003 01:06 PM

With the tap water around my area we have a little saying... "If it's borwn, drink it down. If it's black, send it back." It's served us well. That's why I buy Corpells brand water jugs :)

By the way, I had a public school education as well. I just used it for socializational puposes whilst I learnt on my own time. I found it to be both affective mentally as well as phsychologically.

Posted by: Previously Insane on August 19, 2003 01:40 PM

Subscribe to the Comment Space Waster Pro™ newsletter and get a lot of junkm.... ehm, I mean a free edition of MacWorld magazine... I think. Whatever. Just buy this app.

Posted by: Comment Space Waster Pro™ on August 19, 2003 02:34 PM

Did you really think you'd get away with using the phrase "Dike-plugging?"

Posted by: William Williamsburg, Ohio, Jr. on August 19, 2003 03:26 PM

hey!

Posted by: Plugged Dike on August 19, 2003 03:29 PM

You wanna bust one in yours?

Posted by: capped ass on August 19, 2003 03:50 PM

a cap I mean. Not a dike, you pervert.

Posted by: capped ass on August 19, 2003 03:51 PM

And that's in your ass! )0(

Posted by: capped ass on August 19, 2003 03:52 PM

Uh oh, rotelli-o.

Norm has deftly uncovered an incriminating pattern of diet app reviews. Once could be accidental, but twice? Not bloody likely.

Yes, it's true that I could stand to lose a few pounds in the temporal lobes, but surely the pain that lies beneath my pathological fascination with food-listing software cannot be so easily dismissed -- it's an obvious cry for help, people!

And by "help," I mean doughnuts.

Posted by: naomi on August 19, 2003 06:53 PM

If you fish around in the dumpster behind Kwik Trip, you'll not only find donuts, but lots of hobos with poop on them who want to be your friend. I know because I am their friend, too. And I have poop on me.

Posted by: fuddes on August 19, 2003 08:29 PM

Dear Mr. fuddes,

If you got poop all over you, doesn't it occur to you that you may be hanging out with the wrong crowd!? Earth to fuddes, earth to fuddes, your buddies behind the dumpster are trying to tell you something. Get a life you dumb ass poop slinger and go bother someone else. They don't want you spewing explosive diarrhea with them any more. They say you are careless where you aim and have gotten it all over them. Me and my friends are resolute in our decision to reject you since you are out of control with your poop. If I follow your poop trail, I can tell where you have been for the last ten days and that is a little more information than I care to know about you. I am definitely hooking your name in my copy of "Dead or Alive 1.0."

Geez, go home and use some toilet paper you donut sucking poop abuser. Next time I won't be so polite about this situation and then the shit will hit the fan!

Remember, when you eat some, you get the poopies. Have a nice day.

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on August 19, 2003 10:10 PM

Norm, by saying that fuddes is a "poop slinger", are you in any way connecting him with the monkeys of the GMC? Because if you are, I would like to use him to insert some of my Inquisitorial spies into the GMC. I need to know what their next move is, as they haven't responded to any of my chess-by-mail opening moves. And I have made at least 4 opening moves. In 1 game.

Posted by: Laemkral on August 19, 2003 11:56 PM

That's good thinkning, Laemkral.

Posted by: Nick on August 20, 2003 12:29 PM

Must be a lot of people packing fat in their thighs giving on the negative feedback about the idea of watching what you eat. Hellooooo puddin' Butts.

The idea of diet slueth is good but it doesn't provide enough relevant information (at least on the screen shot's I've seen) about what your nutritional intake is (vitamins, minerals, etc).

Fitday.com provides most of the basic answers that this software appears to and it's free. Too bad as I keep looking for a good piece of nutrition software.

Posted by: RJD on August 20, 2003 01:51 PM

Dear RJD,

You wrote, "Too bad as I keep looking for a good piece of nutrition software." It is my sworn duty to inform you that "eating" your software will not provide you with any nutrition. There is no software that provides any nutrition whatsoever. Try eating regular food.

On second thought, keep eating your software, I am sure you will also popup up in "Dead or Alive" soon enough. Good, problem solved! I am so proud of myself. At this rate, I will be the only stupid person left in the world! Patients, must have patients to see my evil plan unfold.

If you are fat, stop shoving organically grown chocolate covered lard burgers down your pie hole and/or use a high pressure butt plug and some super glue to back up your digestive system thus stopping you from over eating.

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on August 20, 2003 02:43 PM

I'm not fat. It's just an illusion I use to keep attractive women away from me. Also, to not see my penis. It seems to be working. My plan is a success!

Posted by: Nick on August 20, 2003 05:38 PM

Dear Nick,

No matter how fat I get, I will always be able to see my penis. Alas, this is my curse in life. Woe is me, my penis to large to be covered by a pot belly. I have been thinking about penis reduction surgery to cut off a good 18 inches. I feel like a freak!

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on August 20, 2003 05:52 PM

Mmmm, extruded skunk cabbage... Rghlghrrrraaaaaaaglhlhhhhh!

Posted by: Double Worsted on August 20, 2003 08:09 PM

Dear Norm,

One man's curse is another man's enormous wang. I think Socrates said that. Or not. The point is, when I go in for my completely unneccesary penis enlarging surgery, I just hope that he who has to remove 18 inches also happens to be an organ donor, in the most biblical sense.

Posted by: Nick on August 21, 2003 11:58 AM

None of you will be back,so LAST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Balthazar on August 21, 2003 07:59 PM

You think your sooo clever.

Posted by: Nick on August 21, 2003 08:10 PM

Indeed I do!
psst-last post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Balthazar on August 23, 2003 08:25 PM

or not

Posted by: truly tedious on September 2, 2003 06:38 AM
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