Huh?

The USDA has a spiffy (if excruciatingly slow) new website to promote its new, rainbow-striped 'food pyramid'.

There's a handy tool to calculate your desirable calorie intake. It asks for

Amount of moderate or vigorous activity (such as brisk walking, jogging, biking, aerobics, or yard work) you do in addition to your normal daily routine, most days.

Huh?

So if you're already doing it as part of your routine, it doesn't count? How does that work?

6 degrees

Try this: hit LJ's 'Random Search' function. Then put the username you get, and your own, into this page and let it try to find a chain of friends-list links from you to the random user.

I've tried several, and so far I haven't hit one that took more than six hops, except for one empty journal with no listed friends. (It doesn't work on communities, which do sometimes turn up on the random-search function.)