Are diet soft drinks bad for you? If so, why exactly would that be? The problem with regular soft drinks obviously is the sugar. In a diet drink, its artificial sweetener, so that pretty much eliminates the problem right? If you go attempt to do any sort of research on the subject, all you can find is conspiracy theorists that say saccharin or aspartame killed their sister, or they drank diet drinks for two years and got brain cancer, etc.. This is all bullshit. If these ingredients were truly harmful to humans on any measurable level, thousands of people would be dying each day. The point of the diet drink in the first place is to cut out the calories from the sugar. The rest of the ingredients appear to be more or less inert.

It is my opinion that diet drinks are nothing more than artificially flavored water, and therefore do not harm or help a person, and it is perfectly OK to drink as many as you want. The user gets to decide the brand, so the user gets to choose whether to have one containing caffeine or not.

I recently bought some club soda, and I thoroughly enjoy it. The only ingredient listed on the can is "Carbonated water". I'm sure someone out there would say that CO2 causes your balls to shrivel up and fall off, because it happened to their grandmother's sister.

So what's the point here? NOTHING!


I think starting tomorrow, I am going to dedicate a good portion of the weekend to seriously cleaning my computer room. I have crap in my closet that I have had for 20 years, that I am 100% certain that I will never need. I will retain some items for archival purposes, but for the most part, its an "everything must go" scenario. Perhaps I will photo-document interesting items that I discover. You never know, I may find something of value that I can sell on eBay.

I am also going to the Scarborough Faire Renaissance Festival this weekend, so I should have plenty of interesting photos from that. A group of us goes each year, but I ALWAYS forget my camera. This year I will try and remember it.