February 2012
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WOD
400m lunge
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“I’m not Jesus Christ, but I can turn water into Kool-Aid.”
– George Watsky
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Your children cut their hands... - Margaret Atwood →
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Your children cut their hands on glass by reaching through the mirror where the beloved one was hiding. You weren’t expecting this: you thought they wanted happiness, not laceration. You thought the happiness would appear simply, without effort or any kind of work, like a bird call or a pathside flower or a school of silvery fish but now they’ve cut themselves on love, and cry in...
A couple of days ago, my WOD included an hour-long bike ride in the countryside, dead-lifting 335 lbs, and clapping pull-ups. My hand is sprained now. Imagine overextending the muscles between your phalanges (deep in your palm). It’s a weird feeling.
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“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“I discovered at a very early age that if I talk long enough, I can make anything...”
– Jeff, on Community
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waiting-on-my-timelord replied to your quote: Tri it before you bi it.
omg. I love you. We are studying cardio in my anatomy & physio class and I have been trying to come up with a good way to remember. I love this!
:) Glad I could help. I’m in A&P 2 at the moment. Oh, and this is a pretty interesting cardio-related story.
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“Tri it before you bi it.”
– The way to remember that blood in the heart flows through the tricuspid valve (which has 3 cusps) before the mitral valve (which has 2 cusps).
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“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love,...”
– John Green (via xenium)
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“Stand Up” - The Flobots
An excellent...
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Top Chef.
I’m about to invent a stovetop chicken recipe.
Likely ingredients:
Chicken, of course
Blueberries
Orange juice
Pineapple chunks
Extra virgin olive oil
random spices, chosen on a basis of smell
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“This is how men are programmed to prove their masculinity. We fight. Or we...”
– Max Andrew Dubinsky
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“My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually —...”
– Rep. Stacey Campfield of Tennessee.
In some African countries, one in three women have HIV. I guess we have to say that Africa is just full of lesbians. Who knew?
What decade is she living in? I certainly didn’t elect this woman.
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“What doesn’t seem to be acknowledged at the cultural level is the rise in body...”
– Jasmine Peterson, Bigorexia
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January 2012
42 posts
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An interesting question from class. Answer away.
There is a national narrative which attempts to classify everyone as part of a middle class, with vague subdivisions into categories like “upper middle” or “lower middle.” What would it take for you (Americans, I mean) to consider yourself to have dropped below “middle class” status?
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If you haven’t heard this yet, it’s...
I think I’ll be revising my bucket list soon…
Also, expect some selected quotes from All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren coming up in the near future as well.
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“You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.”
– Congolese Proverb (via dynamicafrica)
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NEWT GINGRICH WANTS ENGLISH TO BE THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHATTAFOOL.
THAT WOULD BE IDIOTIC.
(ROMNEY APPARENTLY THINKS IT ALREADY IS. IT ISN’T. THE NATION DOESN’T HAVE ONE. SOME MISGUIDED STATES DO.)
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“Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental,...”
– Michael Jackson
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“In This World” - Moby
This has been...
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An experiment.
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“Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as if I were...”
– Frank O’Hara, excerpt from Meditations in an Emergency
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“Meaning and significance are assured only when our learning fits in with a grand...”
– Michael Wesch, “Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance”
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“The Sun Is Shining Down” - J.J. Grey...
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I NEED SOME ROLLERBLADES.
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Pascal's Wager →
We don’t need to be 100% sure that the worst fears of climate scientists are correct in order to act. All we need to think about are the consequences of being wrong.
Let’s assume for a moment that there is no human-caused climate change, or that the consequences are not dire, and we’ve made big investments to avert it. What’s the worst that happens? In order to deal with climate change:
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All poetry aside: "The poet has come back..." -... →
allpoetryaside:
The poet has come back to being a poet after decades of being virtuous instead. Can’t you be both? No. Not in public. You could, once, back when God was still thundering vengeance and liked the scent of blood, and hadn’t got around to slippery forgiveness. Then you could scatter incense and praise, and wear your snake necklace, and hymn the crushed skulls of your enemies to a...
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Early in the Morning - Peter, Paul & Mary
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