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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
It's good to hear from other CrossFiters outside the community. I spent the weekend at a level I cert and loved every minute of it. The highly intense workouts are both always interesting (and always painful) and highly results oriented.
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
I disagree that CrossFit doesn't train you for a marathon. It might not train you to be an elite marathoner but it does train you to be an adequate one. Greg Admundsen who is a fairly well known Crossfitter did nothing by main page workou
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
After doing crossfit for a year, I think I knew this semi-consciously but it's interesting to read about it being backed by science. Short, highly intense training sessions lead to very large gains in fitness because most of your training
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
The irony that you're talking about an Apple product and control in the same sentence is truly rich. Since when has Apple been concerned in the least with giving users full control?
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
The US Savings Rate briefly fell into negative territory in Q2/Q3 of 2005. It has been positive in all other quarters. In 2008 it was well above 2%. People quote the low US savings rate like it's a doomsday scenario but in reality, it's
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
Except for that whole deleting e-books of customers' Kindles without telling them thing, I agree. EDIT: I'm curious about the downvotes. I think deleting books of customers' Kindles is in direct opposition to customer service being their n
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
Yes, all kids who grow up in suburbs turn to drugs and wild women because they are convinced the whole world is boring. I really enjoyed the essay but making sweeping generalizations about kids raised in the suburbs is ridiculous. Also, i
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
That's not what the article says. The article seems to draw its conclusions entirely on this statement: "After 10 hours of being awake, the early birds showed reduced activity in brain areas linked to attention span, compared with the nigh
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
Aren't we just comparing apples and oranges here? Is it really that counterintuitive that people who get up at 5 AM tend to not be terribly mentally acute at 3 PM? Is it counterintuitive that night owls would be more mentally acute later
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
As I mentioned in a comment above, Southwest currently has a process in place in several airports that allows you to cut in the security line sans background check.
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
Southwest Airlines has priority lanes at the security checkpoint in several airports for their Business Select and A-List customers. You get to move to the front of the screening line if you pay for those tickets. This is exactly what Cle
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by scotch_drinker 17y ago
I've used ActionOutline and it seems to be pretty good though I'm certainly no expert. It's a desktop app for Windows.