“It takes no special training, beyond learning to relax and trust the robot.”
I find that I don’t have the heart for even a perfunctory Ironman reference. Make it up yourself.
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PT sucks. These people are canny. They know how to watch the opposite hand and increase the weight until I’m still not complaining, but am crushing all hell out of the handful of curtain I’ve grabbed. They tend to turn up the pain to “sheen of sweat on the forehead.” I’ve been warned that tomorrow . . . → Read More: Update Brooks has a decent Op-ed piece in the NY Times today. In their arguments with Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, the faithful have been defending the existence of God. That was the easy debate. The real challenge is going to come from people who feel the existence of the sacred, but who think that particular . . . → Read More: Neural Buddhists In case you missed high school civics, here’s how the US political circus works: 1) The parties have a strong financial interest in tightly contested elections: Political donations scale with the perceived importance of the election. Therefore, the political parties have a financial incentive to keep the races close. The parties, by which I mean . . . → Read More: Close race … There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Now this is some data recovery. Columbia’s fragments were painstakingly and exhaustively collected. Amongst them was a 400MB Seagate hard drive which was in the sort of shape you think it would be in after being in an explosive fire and then hurled to earth from several miles up with a ferocious impact. The . . . → Read More: Most incredible data recovery EVER! Much though I try to avoid it, I sometimes accidentally read a newspaper headline. Today’s seemed to indicate the same damn thing I read back in January “OBAMA WINS! HILLARY IS TOAST!” I doubt very much that it’ll stick this time around either. I *want* Hillary to stay in. Here’s why: I really, really hope . . . → Read More: My political dream 1) Approximately how much real value has dropped out of the economy with this housing mess we’re in? I’m talking about the bottom line, which really ought to be just the debts that won’t be paid when people can’t cover their mortgages. We’re currently shuffling the chairs around, but I’m curious how much the banks . . . → Read More: Questions for the world Ironman is a damn good movie. It’s not high art, it’s only notionally “about people,” but I consider my entertainment dollar well spent on that one. I started a batch of beer last week. An “american cream ale” out of a kit. I’ve got the makings for a whole bunch of different batches, as well as a year’s worth of home-grown hops in the freezer … but I decided to test out the new kitchen gently. Plus, I want some beer . . . → Read More: Unusual trub |
