I think I was remiss in not highlighting this wonderfully descriptive image in this post, specifically the link to Mark Sisson.
It concerns doing lots of cardio, which makes you hungry, especially for carbs, which spikes insulin, driving the carbs to fat and making you even more hungry, so you do even more cardio.
It’s like digging a hole to put the ladder in to wash the basement windows.
That could apply to a whole lot of quotidian clusterfuckery I observe.
Steve Jobs doesn't need a sales force because he already has one: employees like the ones in my company.
So, you tell me: is Steve Jobs ever going to screw up?
Greg Swann quoted the best part. I'll take on the second best.
And now here is Ben Stein, sneering and scoffing at Darwin, a man who spent decades observing and pondering the natural world — that world Stein glimpses through the window of his automobile now and then, when he’s not chattering into his cell phone. Stein claims to be doing it in the name of an alternative theory of the origin of species: Yet no such alternative theory has ever been presented, nor is one presented in the movie, nor even hinted at. There is only a gaggle of fools and fraudsters, gaping and pointing like Apaches on seeing their first locomotive: “Look! It moves! There must be a ghost inside making it move!”
The “intelligent design” hoax is not merely non-science, nor even merely anti-science; it is anti-civilization. It is an appeal to barbarism, to the sensibilities of those Apaches, made by people who lack the imaginative power to know the horrors of true barbarism. (A thing that cannot be said of Darwin. See Chapter X of Voyage of the Beagle.)
And yes: When our greatest achievements are blamed for our greatest moral failures, that is a blood libel against Western civilization itself. What next, Ben? Johann Sebastian Bach ran a slave-trading enterprise on the side? Kepler started the Thirty Years War? Tolstoy instigated the Kishinev Pogrom? Dante was a bag-man for the Golden Horde? Why not go smash a few windows in Chartres Cathedral, Ben? Break wind in a chamber-music concert? Splash some red paint around in the Uffizi? Which other of our civilizational achievements would you like to sneer at? What else from what Waugh called “the work of centuries” would you like to “abandon … for sentimental qualms”? You call yourself a conservative? Feugh!
For shame, Ben Stein, for shame. Stand up for your civilization, man! and all its glories. The barbarians are at the gate, as they always have been. Come man the defenses with us, leaving the liars and fools to their lies and folly.
The whole thing: A Blood Libel on Our Civilization.
This is just too good to quote any of it. You'll just have to go read the whole thing, as Peter -- the very smart UK veterinarian -- ridicules the "calories in / calories out" oversimplification.
Stephan has commentary, and Mark, looking great at 54, has prescient insights into exactly what Peter is talking about.
Read it all. Then, consider being of some help to your family and friends who've suffered too long under the Diet Delusion. You very well might save their life.
My bother emails some funny religious predictions for the end of the world as we know it, circa 1970.
Well, David Cook made it through, which is good, because I think he's got the most edge and talent. I could definitely get along with he and Syesha in the final, but it'll probably be Archuleta and one of the other two. David A. has a great voice and all, but he seems to have only one game, and I really dislike the phony coy humility. I'm much more a solemn nod kinda guy, like Cook gives off.
My main reason for blogging this, however, was that one of my two favorites across all the series is Bo Bice, and he turned in a pretty good guest performance last night. Played electric guitar, too. My other favorite was Daughtry.
Here's an example of why I dig Bice, from very early on in season 4, Whipping Post:
I've been neglecting email. For two, I've got Adam, my cousin, and Ronny over in Japan (Ronny: I lived in Hayma in Honshu for five years; '84-'89). They both want to know about the working-out aspect of EvFit.
The truth is, I'm not the person to ask. This is the one aspect of the thing I've surrendered. By happenstance, I've got a trainer who knew short, intermittent, variable, and intense. I see him twice a week, and seriously: I'm 'yessir' all the way; literally, to the point I enjoy saying "yes sir" (I've had it said enough to me: my turn). He barks orders; I submit and obey. I wouldn't have it any other way, in spite of the reality that it's normally me in command of all that's around me. I read the stuff about various exercises, and I'm immediately at a loss because I don't even know the names or descriptions of the stuff I do, which is various and at different times and different days, random. It's my trainer's job; you get it?
Here's what I'll advise, because I'm certainly not qualified to advise on weight training regimes: follow Chris' blog, Conditioning Research. He is very good at tracking just about every relevant thing out there, he seems to know a lot about training, and maybe he'd even be kind enough to do a beginner's workup, if he can't point you to something already done. Chris: the trouble I find with a lot of stuff is that beginners don't know the names/descriptions of exercises (me included). To them, it's like saying, "Do 3x10 of aklkjdlka alknlllasdd's." In terms of finding exercise diagrams on the Internet, I find it hit & miss. YouTubes are probably the solution, and better anyway.
Finally: think. Think evolutionary and functional. If I had no specific knowledge and lived out where I didn't have access to facilities like a gym, I'd do stuff like climb trees and rocks, hike hills with weight strapped on, do a lot of jumping -- with and without weight -- and a lot of short burst sprints of random duration. In essence, think about the functions you might have to perform if you were living by your own means in total, and try to duplicate those functions with the intensity that your life depended on it. Can you imagine trying to catch a rabbit when you haven't eaten in three or four days? Solving that problem has 2 million years of cellular evolution behind it, and to the extent you can simulate and duplicate it is the extent to which you express your genes, which of course want you to be lean and mean.
And apparently, nobody is buying shares in the Republican Party.
And in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to “save them” in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves.
On a plain practical level, I can't understand why a person in the world would give a hoot about the Republicans, when they can simply get The Real Thing™ from the Democrats.
It's far and long from the time and place where there was any difference between Coke & Pepsi worth caring about, if there ever really was.
(Via a link from Billy)
Wanna know how stupid they think you are?
"Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict"
Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.
Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Yeah, uh-huh. Until 2015. Right. Got it.
This is how it begins, folks. They're never going to just come out and admit to being the self-serving-at-your-expense con men they all are, with the thief and liar Al Gore at their helm. Instead, they're going to bank on how dreadfully illiterate and stupid most of the world's population is.
Setting the ethics of it aside, it's a damn good bet. Even when temperatures begin to decline, who do you think will be taking credit, and how many will extend it?
(link: McPhillips, who also links to a interview of Roy Spencer, author of Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor. That interview ("H3: Obama's Judgment") begins about 10 minutes in and you can just advance the slider bar to get there.)
My company, Provanta, begins releasing it's weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly results for its clients.
Not often mentioned, but a hearty round of applause for the major credit card banks who recognized financial hardship, and voluntarily agreed to these settlement agreements in lieu of more forceful options at their disposal.
Later: Monthly results for April are now posted.
...Where self-sufficient entrepreneurs serving a market of mutually-voluntary trade now find it necessary to kill themselves rather take in all that American can be.
Well, I guess if you did the "crime," but can't do the time...right folks, you freedom-loving people, you?
Here's an email out to a friend, who thinks he's not religious. I beg to differ.
J:
In reference to our discussion of religion yesterday...
In view of what is now at stake, such quasi-religious incantations masquerading as science are something we can no longer afford. We should get back to proper science before it is too late.
[emphasis added]
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Climate Audit, by Steve McIntyre, the guy who in 2006/7 got NASA to admit to a Y2K bug in their climate model, which had established 2006 as the warmest year on record (i.e., the last year for which complete data existed). Once the error was corrected -- which I doubt you heard even a whisper about in the mainstream media -- 2006 falls to number 4, with 1934 being the warmest ever recorded, followed by 1998 in second, and 1921 in third.
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Anyway, on the Antarctic ice pack, from yesterday, just a few hours after our conversation:
Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Reaches "Unprecedented" Levels
On a global basis, world sea ice in April 2008 reached levels that were “unprecedented” for the month of April in over 25 years. Levels are the third highest (for April) since the commencement of records in 1979, exceeded only by levels in 1979 and 1982. This continues a pattern established earlier in 2008, as global sea ice in March 2008 was also the third highest March on record, while January 2008 sea ice was the second highest January on record. It was also the second highest single month in the past 20 years (second only to Sept 1996).
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Warren Meyer, probably the best layman out there. Not a professional scientist, nor beholden to anyone, he's nonetheless Princeton and Harvard educated. He has a Climate Skeptic Blog, and his approach is somewhat unique, as thoroughly outlined in his 10-minute video presentation. Guaranteed you've never been exposed to anything remotely like this in the mainstream, though I've been thoroughly aware of it for some time.
Don't Panic - Flaws in Catastrophic Global Warming Forecasts
He has also put together a book: A Layman's Guide to Man-Made Global Warming
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The floating garbage...I'd heard about it, but curiously have never seen a picture (like satellite, or even from an aircraft) that demonstrates that "a floating island the size of Texas" is a proper, accurate, and honest metaphor, rather than, say, "an area the size of Texas where the trash is X times more concentrated than on average."
I've spent years at sea, and I've seen my share of trash, every now and then (I've traveled in both those areas, i.e., off Hawaii, and off Japan -- extensively so the latter). Sometimes the encounters are more frequent, i.e., the concentration is greater, but it's never, ever remotely anything like an "island." That's just true-believe hysteria for the consumption of alarmists and human-haters.
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Back to Anthropogenic Global Warming. I'm quite certain there has been some warming, but the amount attributable to industrial civilization and to other factors like solar cycles and cloud-influencing cosmic radiation is simply not determined with any sort of the confidence that ought to be necessary before we go off and starve the third world by using their corn in our gas tanks, standing in the way of their industrial development, and instituting policy changes with economic impacts in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Back when the last IPCC report came out that declared "consensus," and that the "debate is now over," I said with some degree of confidence that that point will one day mark the high-water level of this whole fraud, and it's tracking right on course. Climate scientists, who were once content to sit by the sidelines and not make waves, figuring the science would get sorted out one way or the other, didn't like being lumped into a contrived, fraudulent consensus, and they've been coming out of the woodwork in droves. Just now, in the last year, skeptical pieces have been showing up in mainstream media. It'll be another 2-3 years before the public at large realizes that what they "knew" was an element of their ignorance and general gullibility.
...Or, you can just keep reciting your enviro-catechisms.
How to begin?
Mi Latina, Beatrice, loves Cinco de Mayo. It's rooted in family and memories -- nothing else. She shopped (we have Patron, for tomorrow; entertaining, again). On the heals of a great dinner last night in the Oakland hills, in a house rebuilt after the fire (the only thing left was the big iron thingy of a piano on which strings are mounted), and a fabulous brunch this morning for eight close friends, she's got Carlos Santana permeating the loft on the stereo, whilst I'm sitting up here YouTubing and such.
Here was my first hit, and it's good enough.
The question is tongue in cheek, of course, but then there's the political overtones. Barack and Michelle Obama can go fuck right off. Get Carlos together with any number of white guys, black guys, and "homies," and you'll get some harmony. Here's what I've always thought: Carlos is the only guy in the world with the legitimate right to use that "people of color" smear ('cause it wouldn't be about genes). He can rock it (or groove it, funk it, rhythm it, soul it...) any way you want it.
Later: Groovin' with a white guy.
More Later: He can groove with a white guy in a cowboy hat.
Finally Later: He rocks and rhythms everyone.
Can't Stop Later: Uh, Blues. Don't dare miss it. It's a one-off.
Best For Last Later? You judge, but Santana and Clapton jammin' on Jingo together? Damn.
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