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Started a sourdough, but have been screwing up bulk fermentation and ending up with piles of goo that are unbakeable. Still, fun to putter and I'll get the baking groove back. Gardening too. Took over a little patch of mulch outside our apartment and planted loads.

You might need to request longer straps for the stirrups and a touch more reinforcement. Otherwise, you're good to go.

https://www.osprey.com/ot/en/product/poco-POCOCHS20_191.html The linked pack is an update, but I've been out on the trails with my almost four year old and 15 month old and have carried them both a ton. This pack is amazing if you've got kids. I can carry the 38 pounder and he can even fall asleep ...

From a few years ago in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/us/c ... sault.html

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Working on the Bible in a year with a generic pacing plan. Is it a two-track plan, like one for OT and one for NT, or is it a cover to cover plan? Two track. Three-ish chapters of the OT and slower through the NT. I like the two track for variety's sake, especially reading it before bed. I'm a hist...

Working on the Bible in a year with a generic pacing plan.

Working on Range, by David Epstein.

Working on From Dawn to Decadence, 1500-Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, by Jaqcues Barzun

I enjoyed it and watched the Wilks/Cresser back and forth. Currently trying vegan(ish) for a bit to see if I have more energy and feel good. Currently, I do. Sure, it's probably less junk, but what do I care? I've hunted and fished, but I also know that there's an ethical component to food that I ge...

Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is fun and based off McGee's On Food and Cooking , which is lots of science related to cooking, but not necessarily cooking per se. Some bread baking books are fun for a mix of science and recipes. I have Forkish's Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast , Robertson's Tartine Bread...

Crew is an interesting thought experiment. Guys have been tall for a bit, but now they're tall and thicker. Like hoops, the heroic 'little' guy in the 2004 US mens eight was 6'1 in a boat that averaged 6'4+. The Canadian mens eight in 2008 was 6'5 and 225 or so, if I remember right. -Wooden shells w...

Supreme Court appointees are the distilled politics at the moment of appointment preserved in amber and broadcast forward for the life of the justice. --Samuel Issacharoff Issacharoff is a Yale guy who spoke this summer at a conference I attended. This statement was particularly striking, given that...

Finished Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections' a week ago. I liked that a lot. I fucking loved "Freedom". Purity was amazing, but the Annabelle section was so tough to read that I dropped the book for like six months or a year. Very, very glad I finished it though. It was excellent. Good t...

Finished Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections' a week ago.

Just finished Cormac McCarthy's 'All the Pretty Horses' last night.

Wonder how much of the code has to do with floods and earthquakes though. Not that it's an excuse, but the New Yorker article on Seattle's seismology that came out a year or two ago was bonkers.

Antifragile by Taleb. Hopefully it gets better. Not sure how it'll end up being a book. Command and Control by Schlosser. Fascinating and terrifying history of America's nuclear arsenal and who gets to do what with it interwoven with an account of the Damascus Incident, when a Titan II's fuel blew ...

but any non-elite just needs the threshold and then needs to stay below it for ever (for 2k erg tests). The blood doesn't lie you've confused me. stay below the lactate threshold for long-steady state. got it. but what's that parenthetical bit about 2k erg tests? also, do you have an rule of thumb ...

JD this is some really interesting shit you've posted here. So if I understand you correctly your goal is to keep moving the lactate threshold upward and by knowing at any given time what your LT is you can dial in your training relative to baseline, recovery, and interval to move the LT upward. Th...

I'd start with lactate testing if you're serious. Find a reputable lab or coach who has done the testing lots and figure out what your wattage is to stay under 2.0 m/mol. It's usually slower than most realize. Get tested again in 3-4 months. Heart rate, breath work, RPE all fail compared to lactate,...

Not bad at all! I've got a predictor workout you might like. These numbers are based on a 6:48/1:42.0. Give yourself a solid warmup, more than you think you need, and set the machine for 4' work 1' rest. Put a sticky up somewhere visible with these numbers. Hit exactly these numbers for the 4'. If y...

I don't always think Gladwell is honest with his pop science, but his piece on 'thresholds' was pretty interesting given the previous two shootings. The idea is that some people have a threshold of 0, which means they are psychopaths. Someone with a threshold of 1 needs to to see the psychopath doin...

Best definition I've heard was from a young black woman who was advised to straighten her hair for job interviews and, while waiting for the interview, read an article on how white girls could simulate kinky hair and an afro. That's a little different from the fact that chicken tikka masala is from ...

I've never heard a good defense that the Clinton's aren't at least grifters extraordinaire or full blown kleptocrats. I've never heard a credible & specific charge that merited a defense. Do you have one, or is this just more name-calling? This isn't a charge. If a legal charge and conviction i...

I've never heard a good defense that the Clinton's aren't at least grifters extraordinaire or full blown kleptocrats. I've never heard a credible & specific charge that merited a defense. Do you have one, or is this just more name-calling? This isn't a charge. If a legal charge and conviction i...

Lines up well with this article from a year or so ago. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/the-math-revolution/426855/ I'd always thought it interesting that in Chinese the number 37 is said three tens seven ones. Place value is built into the language. Think it was in Gladwell's Ou...

Same but different with Steven Pinker, who uses a good bit of Haidt in 'The Moral Instinct' from the NYT a few years ago. I've used it in my Global Issues class.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magaz ... ogy-t.html