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MaxDiet Week: Introduction
I occasionally mention my diet, which has spawned some questions in a recent thread as well as in my survey results. So this week I’m going to explain my diet in detail, focusing on what I eat, why I eat it, and the facts behind the food. The ideas aren’t mine originally, and I’m certainly…
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mygoals.txt
A couple days ago I read a book recommended by Tyler, whose blog is the only blog I read religiously. Anyway, the book is about mastery, and it really rang true for me. In it the author talks about the different types of people who are NOT masters, and I am pretty clearly one of…
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Things I Will Never Know
Boy Meets World was my favorite show ever. I bought a huge clunky VCR from a garage sale, ,and would use it to record every rerun I could find. On Fridays I couldn’t wait to go home and watch the new episodes. But besides providing a world of entertainment and a huge crush on Topanga,…
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Things About America I Didn’t Know While I Lived There
We’ve lived in three countries now, which has given me some perspective on America that I didn’t have before. Sure, I’d been to a bunch of countries before (only 15 total!), but things are different when you live there. You learn how the city and the people in it tick. When I left I expected…
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Your Ad Here?
To try to justify the amount of time I spend writing here and to help fund future adventures, I’m going to put some ads up here. My first preference is to have ads from readers, but I guess I’ll get Google ads if I don’t get enough interest. The ads will be 125×125 and will…
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I Guess I’m a Writer
In a plane, one of my favorite places to be, I filled in the form on the tray table. If I designed customs forms, I would make them with a crease in the middle so that they could easily fit into a pocket. As is it’s a bit of a predicament. I don’t want to…
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Yakushima Island Part II
When you’re in a foreign country, you don’t question signs as much as you might have if you were at home. You’re just so happy to see a sign that makes sense, that you follow it. I don’t know if there was anything that should have made us second guess our course, but if there…
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Golf Darts
Our dorm building had a square footprint. In the very middle were three elevators serving the dorm rooms which were all positioned along the edges of the building. In between the elevators and the rooms was a square hallway that ran in a loop. This was to be our arena for Golf Darts, a sport…
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Survey Results
Wow. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I got a ton of awesome feedback from you guys. Some people literally wrote a page or two. So first of all… thanks a ton. I read every single reply (over one hundred total) and got a ton of good info. I’ll share some of the…
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Yakushima Island Part I
I’ve always hated anime. I never really gave it much of a chance as it combined two things that I didn’t care for: cartoons and words I couldn’t understand. One night I was at my friend Charlie’s house, hanging out in the living room. Someone in his family put on Hayao Miyazaki’s anime mastepiece, “Spirited…
