December 2010
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Rants: Post-Holidays Fat Talk
There are two main reasons I hate going to the gym after the holidays:
It’s crowded full of people who are starting their new year’s resolutions/post-holiday diets
Said people won’t shut up about why they’re starting said diets.
You know, people. STFU. I workout all year and I go to the gym in the winter mostly because I don’t want to run outside when it’s...
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Stir Crazies and the Psyche
No, it’s not the name of a new band from Brooklyn. It’s what happens when there’s a blizzard and the streets where you live look something like this:
And unless you’re extremely hardcore — harder-core than Kilgore in Apocalypse Now, for instance— you’re not going out running. I suppose if you’re coordinationally gifted, you can ski or snowboard...
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A Chorus of Jenny Craig Angels Sang: A Christmas...
Merry Christmas to all the Christians, lasped Christians, atheists who like presents and…everyone else who likes candy canes, murdered conifers or men in red velvet.
Since I’m currently listening to a really lively discussion between my Mom and Dad that is evolving something like this:
Mom: Get the casserole dish outta the fridge!
Dad: What?
Mom: the dish. it needs to sit out.
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On Not Taking Shit, or Breaking up with The Book.
You will notice something new here. In the mid left column, there is an icon to friend me on facebook. It should be shortly filled with a generic icon for fb and shortly, i will be removing the module totally as soon as I have time to retool the code on this website without leaving a gaping hole where that stuff used to be. The Facebook group for this page will still be monitored and updated.
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Thoughts on Equilibrium: Fluctuations, baby.
Chemical equilibrium is characterized not by a state of constancy, but by a lack of net change in the system irrespective of the competing, opposite reactions. Something like when the process of A+B—>C is occurring at the same rate as C—>A+B.
That said, things can change where a system will reach its equilibrium point or steady-state. Things like heat, pressure, volume of the...
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Slow-Carb Diet. 4-Hour Body? I still hate...
People, anything that tells you that you can become superhuman by following rules is just silly. The tenants of this particular diet:
RULE 1: AVOID “WHITE” CARBOHYDRATES.
Avoid any carbohydrate that is, or can be, white. The following foods are prohibited, except for within 30 minutes of finishing a resistance-training workout like those described in the “From Geek to...