Delightfully cool open-top bus ride. Total tourist thing to do, but Paris sure is b-e-a-utiful by bight. Notre Dame and the Seine. Of course.
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The first leg home
Our first leg is a car ride into Paris. We’ve a hotel room tonight so we are closer to the airport tomorrow morning. Stand-by (or sit if you wish) for photos from tonight’s open-top-bus tour of Paris. Bunch more fun videos from today too that I have to post from Tracy’s phone.
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Dangerous Place
The world is a dangerous place to live; Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
~ Albert Einstein
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US fructose consumption trends
1970: 42.5 lb/year of added fructose.
~ Stephan Guyenet from, Whole Health Source: US Fructose Consumption Trends
2007: 50.6 lb/year of added fructose.
At 19%, it’s not a staggering increase, but it’s definitely significant. I also think it’s an underestimate, because it doesn’t include fruit juice or total fruit consumption, both of which have increased. Other notable findings: grain intake has increased 41% between 1970 and 2005, due chiefly to rising consumption of processed wheat products. Added fats and oils have increased 63% in the same time period, with the increase coming exclusively from vegetable fats. The use of hydrogenated shortening has more than doubled.
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And the amount of average exercise has INCREASED as well since the 70s. We [Americans] have not become sedentary… our diets is killing us, and we’ve been partly stemming the tide through exercise. Reduce your added sugar intake, reduce your processed grains intake. You don’t have to go to extremes… just make small changes. ‘Big ship, small rudder’ but you are still at the helm.
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Pioneering scientist Erwin Chargaff on the power of being an outsider and what makes a great teacher
If there is such a thing as a great scientist … that greatness can certainly not be transferred by what is commonly called teaching. What the disciples learn are the mannerisms, tricks of the trade, ways to make a career, or perhaps, in the rarest cases, a critical view of the meaning of scientific evidence and its interpretation. A real teacher can teach through his example — this is what the ducklings get from their mothers — or, most infrequently, through the intensity and the originality of his view or vision of nature.
~ Erwin Chargaff from, Pioneering Scientist Erwin Chargaff on the Power of Being an Outsider and What Makes a Great Teacher – The Marginalian
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The Seine at dawn
This one’s for Jesse (who’s currently on an expidition sharing Parkour in South Africa) who asked for more photos. This is a shot of the Seine near dawn as we were walking to Notre Dame (in Paris, in case that’s not obvious.)
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I surrender!
‘cavalier’ leg-swing qm box-jump repeat repeat repeat *gasp* shady and not quite as hot, but eventually I had to lay down. Done for the day. All of tomorrow’s options apparently include ‘some running’. “Hello? US Embassy? …yes, I need asylum.” #stoopidLifeChoices #soakedInSweat #happyAsAclam
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THE Cathedral in Èvry
Spent all day here… push bend jump qm run vault parkour all the things!!! One more ‘section’ to go as soon as our training partner returns from a coffee run.
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I spy Tracy!
She spent today in Evry chasing a familiar face!
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Mom, calm down…
It’s only a splinter! I usually only show the rosy side of travelling and jumping on stuff. Well, seems I picked up a wee sliver of England at RDV XI. (ask me about the barefoot bail into thorns) Yes my tetanus immunization is up to date. THIS is why you should always travel with your personalized med kit… #DIY Tracy trained all day while I did my “wimpy lion with a thorn in its paw” imitation. Hopefully good to go tomorrow #famousLastWords (PSA: early symptoms of Tetanus include jaw spasms, drooling, excessive sweating and irritability? …oh i’ve had that for 45 years then :P
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Familiar faces at the Louvre
Liberty leads the people of France to victory; The Mona Lisa and her famous smile; The raft of the Medusa (a famous shipwreck); Venus sans her arms
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Sizzling hot in Paris
We spent most of the day wandering around the Louvre which is sorta mostly kinda no not really climate controlled. Today I learned the French are straight-up allergic to air conditioning.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Chapel of the Holy Cross
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French Bakery
I have, apparently, died and gone to heaven. We were walking, and everyone going the other direction was carrying baguettes… hmmmmm, might be a bakery ahead. carbs. more carbs. ohmagerdCARBS!!
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Musée d’Orsay
This lady seems familiar…
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Eiffel Tower
If you’re going to be tourists, I say go ‘all in’. Not crowded at all, zipped right in. Still breezy and cool this morning!
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Welcome to Paris
Notre Dame at dawn!
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A generation of men raised by women
Without male mentors, many men of this generation have felt adrift, unsure of how to deal with an indescribable but acute lack in their lives.
How did we get to the point where it is possible, as Edward Abbey put it, “to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood?”
~ Brett McKay from, A Generation of Men Raised by Women | The Art of Manliness
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Mental badassery: Becoming aware of the stories we tell ourselves
Now, telling ourselves stories is natural — we all do it, all the time. There’s nothing wrong with it. But if we’re not aware of the stories we tell ourselves, we can’t understand how they shape our happiness, relationships, moods, and more.
~ Leo Babauta from, Mental Badassery: Becoming Aware of the Stories We Tell Ourselves – Zen Habits Website
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Overly simple energy-economy models give misleading answers
It is not intuitive, but complexity-related issues create a situation in which economies need to grow, or they will collapse. See my post, The Physics of Energy and the Economy. The popular idea that we extract 50% of a resource before peak, and 50% after peak will be found not to be true–much of the second 50% will stay in the ground.
~ Gail Tverberg from, Overly Simple Energy-Economy Models Give Misleading Answers | Our Finite World
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