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"The society which separates its scholars from its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."–Thucydides
I’ll be honest: while I was prepared to allow significant leeway from the absolute MASTERPIECE that is The Lord of the Rings when Hollywood set out to do a movie adaptation (I simply assume that they are too incompetent to do an accurate portrayal), I lost most of my interest in the franchise in the …
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I was just doing some year-end blog-cleaning, and ran across this draft from… quite a while ago. I’m going to go ahead and publish it now, despite being very much incomplete, and perhaps I’ll get around to addressing the article itself in the future. Missed opportunity? The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has released an …
Dear Makers of Windows 8: If I had wanted to run MAC OS, I would have bought a MAC. Please make Windows 9 immediately, and make it run like Windows XP. Thanks.
Exercise: I have a lot of physically-oriented goals this year, since I finally find myself in a good place to start moving forward again. My training (I don’t ‘work out’; I train for specific goals) regimen will largely based on past successes. Sunday: Rest Day (Church) Monday: Daily Seven, Treadmill Tuesday: Daily Seven, Powerlifting A/B …
Items in bold italics have been accomplished: Bench Press: 125# Squat: 120# Deadlift: 185# Power Clean: 95# Treadmill: 5.9 mph @ 1% incline x 45 minutes (Close-Grip Supinated) Lat Pull-Down: 120# x 5 Reps Half-Squats x 10 Reps Elevated Australian Pull-Ups (5) x 10 Reps Full Push-Ups x 10 Reps Flat Leg Raises x 10 …
My best friend recently shared his epiphany regarding the tradition of ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ with me: If it’s something that you have to specially resolve to do on one day of the year, it doesn’t matter enough for you to stick with the rest of the year. I think that this is perfectly accurate. In …
I have my initial fitness assessment after work today, with my new trainer. Or ‘a’ trainer, at any rate, at the new so-called gym I have joined (the price is right, and the equipment is… adequate. Barely. For now.). Afterwards, I shall head down to my local organic butcher to pick up a beef heart …
Hello, folks! It’s good to be back. I just had my first powerlifting session since returning and, while I am a bit, er, “more cuddly”, I’m still on track with my goals. Just before I left, I came across this post by Siriusbizinus. I started to reply to him, then decided that it was worth …
Hello, all! I’ve been gone for several weeks, and I’ve got a stack of potential entries to catch up on. Thanks for your patience!
Here are a couple of documents supporting the Aramaic primacy of the New Testament. The second one is a bit interesting, as the author has subsequently denounced his own work and declared himself an atheist. I don’t blame him; it happens to the best of us–and I think that he actually succumbed to academic peer-pressure, …
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