Fitness →

Published Mar 24, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 24  ·  ,

Fitness is not about being better than someone else,
it’s about being better than you used to be.

~ unknown

Elsewhere, this is 4a281. — slipbox

Importance of the afterlife →

Published Mar 22, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 22  ·  

Consider a hypothetical scenario. Suppose you knew that although you yourself would live a long life and die peacefully in your sleep, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed 30 days after your death in a collision with a giant asteroid. How would this knowledge affect you?

~ Samuel Scheffler from, The Importance of the Afterlife. Seriously.

Elsewhere, this is 4unyte2. — slipbox

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Throwback Thursday: 1973 Hot Cycle →

Published Mar 20, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 20

1973 brought some sick new styling for the Hot Cycle line! Christmas morning, age two… man, it was all down hill from there.

I have some sweet memories of that Hot Cycle; Cruisin’ for chicks, hangin’ with my homies, and smashing out four front teeth in a 3 Hot Cycles pile-up into a railroad-tie retaining wall… I blame the Hot Cycle’s brakes, by which I mean: Complete lack of brakes. (Unless you count the ability to run over your own legs as brakes.)

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Virtus →

Published Mar 18, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 18  ·  

Without an adversary, virtus shrivels. We see how great and how viable virtus is when, by endurance, it shows what it is capable of.

~ Seneca

Elsewhere, this is 4a13. — slipbox

Everyday craftsmanship →

Published Mar 16, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 16  ·  

Over time, the ideal of craftsmanship was cordoned off to just the technical arts. Physicians and legislators no longer thought of themselves as craftsmen, but as philosophers and natural scientists who were more concerned with the theoretical as opposed to the practical. Such a shift is a shame, for the principles of craftsmanship truly do apply to every man, whether he makes furniture or crunches numbers. Below we take a look at how these overarching principles of the traditional craftsman can apply to all areas of your life, no matter your profession.

~ Brett McKay from, Measure Twice, Cut Once

Elsewhere, this is 4uaome1. — slipbox

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Stone Henge →

Published Mar 14, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 14

Stonehenge.

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Specialization is for insects →

Published Mar 12, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 12  ·  

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

~ Robert Heinlein

Elsewhere, this is 4a25. — slipbox

Are you tough? →

Published Mar 10, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 10  ·  

Everything is harder, or rather, I should say everything is more complex. The result is that I learn how to tolerate stress, both mental and physical, and how to adapt to make something work despite the fact that the environment is not cooperating. I deal with it or fail. When I’m out there, it doesn’t matter that I can deadlift 3x my bodyweight on a bar, because that doesn’t change the fact that a rock is completely off-balance and seems to be actively trying to roll onto my toes. And that doesn’t change the fact that I’m picking it up and carrying it up the mountain anyway.

That is the definition of tough.

~ Brett McKay from, You May Be Strong . . . But Are You Tough?

Elsewhere, this is 4uaoyo1. — slipbox

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Big Ben →

Published Mar 8, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 8

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Stand erect →

Published Mar 6, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 6  ·  

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Elsewhere, this is 4a157. — slipbox