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Sun, 19 May 2013 21:48:16 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 20:01:38 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 18:21:48 -0400

Another winner from yesterday.

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:17:13 -0400

Another winner from yesterday.

“Oh, you know, just walking down the street with my big...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:24:42 -0400

“Oh, you know, just walking down the street with my big lizard and binoculars. What, is that weird?”

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Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:42 -0400

So my gym now just has some swords out on the countertop....

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:24:32 -0400

So my gym now just has some swords out on the countertop. That’s normal.

trashhand: house fire | Chicago, IL

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:55:23 -0400

trashhand:

house fire | Chicago, IL

wolframalpha: Africa is huge. Obligatory West Wing clip about...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:38:44 -0400

wolframalpha:

Africa is huge.

Obligatory West Wing clip about the Mercator projection.

Star Trek Enterprise vs. Star Wars Millennium Falcon: Which Ship is Fastest?

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:56:57 -0400

Star Trek Enterprise vs. Star Wars Millennium Falcon: Which Ship is Fastest?

You magnificent bitch of a city. [much larger view, but...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:21:39 -0400

You magnificent bitch of a city.

[much larger view, but don’t look too closely, because handheld pano with a fisheye, so, ugly details]

Political objectivity.

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:46:58 -0400

I think I’m reluctant to criticize Obama because he’s the first president who’s “mine”; the first winner I’ve voted for, the first nominally liberal president that’s been in office in my adulthood, he’s from Chicago, he’s not a standard-issue straight white old guy…

It’s possible I’m feeling something resembling empathy for people who remained loyal to Bush during all his bullshit. Despite my protestations of clinical detachment, I guess tribalism does play a huge part in who you root for in office.

Canon EF 200-400 f/4L IS 1.4x Lens Review

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:28:14 -0400

Canon EF 200-400 f/4L IS 1.4x Lens Review:

Only $11,799 with free shipping on Amazon. Just in case you were saving up for a birthday present for me in October.

Hacker News Discusses the 7-Minute Scientific Workout

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:22:58 -0400

Hacker News Discusses the 7-Minute Scientific Workout:

So my guilty internet pleasure is reading any Hacker News thread related to diet or exercise. Any story that involves nutrition in any way, shape, or form will eventually converge on low-carb Gary Taubes worship. And fitness? Ahem:

Weightlifting is great, but there are other methods that work well for a lot of people. You can get strong enough to bench-press 400lbs simply by doing bodyweight exercises, so it’s not like someone has to choose between lifting weights or being a weakling.

Oh fuck you. You have to be in the 95% percentile to bench over 400 pounds, unless you weigh 300 pounds. And that’s after years and years of dedicated training. Unless you are doing pushups in a goddamn DBZ gravity gym, candy-ass bodyweight training is going to get you to about a 185 pound bench.

As for the actual study behind this system, I’m really confused why they don’t include rowing motions. Our computer-based work environments have us all hunched over keyboards, which draws your shoulders forward. You need rowing motions to balance that hunch out.

Scientific Review of Robert Lustig’s Fat Chance [PDF]

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:25:34 -0400

Scientific Review of Robert Lustig’s Fat Chance [PDF]:

Important facts are misrepresented and omitted throughout Dr. Lustig’s book, leading the reader to think his arguments are science-based, when in reality many are not.

Implications of Creative Cloud

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:34:09 -0400

Implications of Creative Cloud:

Best analysis I’ve seen of Adobe’s new business plan. Trenchant section:

Apple’s Approach: FCPX

For years, everyone complained that they wanted to just buy FinalCut Pro – not the whole FinalCut Studio. It was bloated with software they did not need, and that they did not wish to pay for.

But the problem was that if Apple was going to make FCP stand-alone, then they were going to make a third or less of the amount of money with every unit sold. In the end, Apple did just that, making the product stand-alone, thus making it cheaper to acquire FinalCut Pro. But the cost of making it cheaper was that they also had to make it more consumer friendly so that it could widen the amount of people using it (i.e., So that they could sell more units to cover the cost of lowering the price.)

For a lot of people, that didn’t work out too well. I happen to like Final Cut Pro X, but many professionals don’t feel it’s a professional editing tool anymore. Many of you jumped over to Adobe, who continued to address your professional needs.

No Effects of Gluten in Patients with Self-Reported Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity Following Dietary Reduction of Low-Fermentable, Poorly-Absorbed, Short-Chain Carbohydrates.

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:38:46 -0400

No Effects of Gluten in Patients with Self-Reported Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity Following Dietary Reduction of Low-Fermentable, Poorly-Absorbed, Short-Chain Carbohydrates.:

In a placebo-controlled, crossover re-challenge study, we found no evidence of specific or dose-dependent effects of gluten in patients with NCGS placed diets low in FODMAPs.

Or, people with ill-defined “tummy troubles” didn’t get any better when they took away gluten. It’s almost like people are gullible hypochondriacs who now believe we’ve developed a civilization-wide “intolerance” to a food we’ve been eating for thousands and thousands of years.

Oh, you lost weight when you went gluten-free? Magic, or maybe you stopped eating a bowl of goddamn pasta every night?

Hands on with CONTINUOUS raw recording on Canon 5D Mark III

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:06:20 -0400

Hands on with CONTINUOUS raw recording on Canon 5D Mark III:

That’s an incredible hack.

You better have one hell of a computer to tackle these files, though. Dual, big video cards to start.

merlin: Boom.

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:48:14 -0400

merlin:

Boom.

Congress to Look Into Drug Known as DMAA

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:41:13 -0400

Congress to Look Into Drug Known as DMAA:

Three Republican members of a powerful House subcommittee have opened an inquiry into the safety of an amphetaminelike substance in some popular workout and fat-burning products sold at GNC.

Mr. Murphy said in a phone interview on Thursday, “If it’s dangerous, I’m curious as to why it’s still being manufactured and sold.”

I fully admit to be willfully contrary about DMAA; it may, in fact, be quite dangerous for untrained, sedentary populations who aren’t used to stimulants. The fact that they’re going to crack down on GNC makes me incredibly happy, because that place is a horrible snake oil emporium that peddles shit like micronized creatine, hydrolyzed casein, and harsh stimulants to newbies who think dumbbell curls and pilates are going to get them lean tone muscles but not too bulky, bro. Your workout of crunches and chatting on Grindr doesn’t mean you need $5/serving protein shakes, twink-o.

But, c’mon, the hypocrisy of a Republican legislator trying to ban something that may be dangerous is just laughable. Dangerous things Republicans have 0 problems with:

Coal
Tobacco
Methane
Unregulated credit default swaps
For-profit “colleges”
Guns

The House can’t regulate bullets, but they can ban Jack3d. ‘murica.