Entries from June 2007

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

iPhone Mania

As I know some of you suffer from non-Bible approved feelings for the new iPhone, I thought you might enjoy this interchange between Jon Stewart and Daily Show correspondent, Rob Riggle: [on selling his body to get money for an iPhone] Jon: How much have you raised so far? Rob: Four hundred thirteen dollars and [...]

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Test post

Hamster!

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Baby cakes

Hmmm…tasty.

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Bat for Lashes: What’s a Girl To Do?

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Michael Pollan’s Ten Commandments of Eating Well

Via The New York Times: 1. Eat food. Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. there are many foodlike items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer?); stay away from these. 2. Avoid food products bearing health claims. Margarine, one of the first industrial foods to [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

INCIDENCE OF INJURY IN PROFESSIONAL MIXED MARTIAL ARTS Competitions

INCIDENCE OF INJURY IN PROFESSIONAL MIXED MARTIAL ARTS COMPETITIONS Gregory H. Bledsoe, Edbert B. Hsu, Jurek George Grabowski, Justin D. Brill and Guohua Li Combat Sports Special Issue Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ABSTRACT Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) competitions were introduced in the United States with the [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

First MMA class

So I attended my first MMA class at Undisputed Boxing . My knees are skinned, my arms ache, and my calf is cramping. But man, that was FUN!!! Fortunately, my partner was much more experienced than I was. And the instructor, Tim Lacyk, was pretty good. He emphasized basic wrestling moves, and he didn’t go [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Paprika

Paprika: a visually gorgeous film that began with an interesting premise — what if you could build a machine that allowed you to enter the dreams of others? But I think it fell into the trap that plagues many movies that toy with the question “What is real?” I think that compelling drama arises when [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

The Tale of the Slave

Via Econlog “The Tale of the Slave” from Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, pp. 290-292. Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you. 1. There is a slave completely at the mercy of his brutal master’s whims. He often is cruelly [...]

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years