Chim Chim

Today I am starting the British Army's fitness program. This is definitely a commitment, and if nothing else, I will be able to catalogue my efforts going through the whole 16 week program. I actually started it halfway through last week, but I have decided to restart it today.

Even though I have not really lost ground in my seemingly endless quest to lose weight I just finished a month long break in working out so this guide came at a good time.

This is the plan for today.

• Walk-jog for 20 minutes (jog for 2min, walk for 2min, etc)
• 1 x press-up max score
• 2 x 5 dorsal raises
• 2 x 5 tricep dips
• 1 x sit-up max score
• Rest 30-90sec between sets

Wish me luck.

Needs to be said...

I am friends with this girl who I carpool 3 days a week with to school. She has a parking pass, I drive more often. It is a good system. The only problem is that she is one of the most hate filled people I have ever met. I mean, we are all cynical and neurotic to a degree. I can be an asshole too. The thing is, she secretly hates more or less everyone. She talks trash about every single person that we know. Almost everything makes her mad, and everything anyone says offends her.

I just kind of feel that I have to put this out there just to say that I do not condone her bullshit in any way at all. I want to make clear that i think the way she sees the world is contemptable.

This is for me more than anything, and I just needed to get this off my chest.

The Cult of Done

This is something I found recently and thought that it was necessary to post. I amd definitely starting to push more towards this. Trying to keep getting things done rather than sitting around and wasting time (blogging = doing something BTW (by the way, @Danica).

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

Amazing

Step 1: Go to Wing's website.

Step 2: Listen to Wing sings AC/DC

Step 3: Buy all of Wing's records.

Why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11?

Another great feature from one of my favorite sites Slate. This is a series that is looking at eight reasons why america hasn't been attacked from the least worrying to the most worrying. The articles are relatively short, considering the topic, but are very well put together and are the product of Timothy Noah's interviews with a bunch of terrorism experts.

They are posting one per day and are halfway through, but it takes no time at all to catch up and is definitely worth reading.

Why hasn't America been attacked?

What have we become...

This picture pretty much made my day.

Meh.

An awesome twitter post(s) about how the word meh is truly garbage!

hodgman: Did I ever tell you people how much I hate the word "meh"? Nothing announces "I have missed the point" more than that word. It is the essence of blinkered Internet malcontentism. And a rejection of joy... By definition, it may mean disinterest (although simple silence would be a more damning and sincere response, in that case) but in use, it almost universally seems to signal: I am just interested enough to make one last joyless, nitpicky swipe and then disappear.

http://waxy.org/2009/02/john_hodgman_on_meh/

Classic.