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This thing on?

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Very brief thought regarding the internet.

If the best thing on your resume is that you are a "Social Media Expert," it actually means "I have no appreciable skills."

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Speaking of, there are rules to being in bars in New York. For those who are 21, these are specific and non-negotiable. Know what you want to drink when the bartender asks you. (As a corollary: do not order mixed drinks in a bar with a jukebox.) Do not be a jerk about being asked to show ID. Say please and thank you. And tip well on every round of drinks you purchase. Seriously. Every round.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/dining/hey-mr-critic-young-love-on-a-low-budget.html

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I spent the first six months of 2011

getting my physical health together. I succeeded extraordinarily well. I will spend the second six months of 2011 doing my best to become financially independent to the point where I can quit my day job.

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Eating and Exercising (?)

So, yeah, 2011 has been a solid year for my health. As I've written before, I'm having great success burning lots and lots of fat (and a little bit of muscle) by simply changing my diet. This has resulted in a significant reduction in my weight. I woke up this morning about 55 pounds lighter than I was on New Year's Eve, and approximately 82% of that loss has been fat. I weigh less now than I have at any time since 2003, including when I moved to New York in the summer of 2008. All good. 

My impetus for losing weight in the first place was that my knees bothered me constantly when I was so large. It hurt to do anything. So, reduce the weight, reduce the skeletal stress. This has worked very well. (Also, no more acid reflux, bizarre stomach aches, indigestion, related bad feelings. I'd recommend his way of eating to anyone.)

The down side is that frankly I don't feel like I've earned it. I haven't done any exercise whatsoever. During the month of January, I worked out a few times because I didn't think that a change in diet alone could give me the results I wanted. Then I got lazy and stopped. The fat loss continued, so I never started exercising again. I also realized that I don't enjoy cardio whatsoever.

Naturally, I've reached a bit of an impasse. I want to continue losing pounds because I'm still a bit "heavy" even for my body type and size, but I don't want to do cardio, and I'm feeling a bit unfulfilled by my non-exercise success. 

Since I'm not trying to put on muscle, I suspect the solution is to break my kettlebell out of storage, and swing it a few times each week in conjunction with the continued diet. I know for a fact that I won't be able to walk for a couple days after the first workout, but that's OK, I think.

For the record, today is Binge Day, and I just hammered a stack of Oreos and a glass of milk. WOO!

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A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5, and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewster, United States Attorney General (1881-1885).

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I'm as sympathetic to the plight of teachers

as anyone else is, but man... I'm pretty sure you don't get to take the summer off and then complain about only being paid for nine months of the year.

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Sounds about right.

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This appears to be a real thing.

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It was Mahler’s freshly imagined interpretive style of orchestral performance, its special qualities of instrumental blend, dynamic nuance and rhythmic plasticity that both inspired the musicians of the Philharmonic and mesmerized New York audiences all those years ago. What did a typical Mahler concert sound like? We will never know. But the sheer expressive boldness of those vast, risk-taking late-Romantic symphonies tell us that Mahler the composer and Mahler the conductor surely inhabited the same musical world.

Times critic Peter G. Davis on the centennial of Gustav Mahler's death.

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Q. I would love any of your suggestions for where to take my girlfriend to dinner, either in Manhattan (where we both work) or Brooklyn (where we both live). I love to eat out, but she is a vegetarian (no meat, no fish; dairy and eggs, fine) who prefers to eat light. The easy choice, Italian, doesn’t really meet our needs. Usually, we end up at the pan-Asian places, but there is only so much stir-fried tofu, soy protein, etc., that one man can eat. We have had mixed results at vegetarian places (like Candle Cafe and Wild Ginger; disappointed at Candle 79; hated that raw-food place in Union Square). Do you have any other ideas? A. Between us? That’s a nightmare you’re living. You should abandon all this pan-Asian nonsense immediately and start going to only good restaurants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/dining/06mrcritic.html

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I understand and I have the knowledge and the background and the experience to make the right judgments [to capture Bin Laden]. Senator Obama does not…Obama doesn't know how -- how the world works nor how the military works.

Senator John McCain, September 3, 2008.

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I think the reason we have high unemployment

is honestly that only about 20% of college students can string together a coherent sentence. You ought to see some of the resumes and writing samples I get!

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The truth about grad school?

It must not be too tough, because many people I know who are currently in grad school find time to update their facebook status multiple times each day to tell the world how tough grad school is.

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Oh, college.

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kuwahara:

No you can’t scan this :D

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Aaron Paul FTW, forever and ever.