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| # Posted 2008-03-26 06:22:32 | |
| jjcote: | People might be less chatty about this if you'd explain how you're taking so incredibly long to do so few reps. Is there a lot of other miscellaneous nautilus work going on in addition to the bench pressing? |
| # Posted 2008-03-26 14:26:22 | |
| jeffw: | Posing and flexing. Don't you guys know anything about weight lifting? |
| # Posted 2008-03-26 16:33:12 | |
| kissy: | And then there's the time it takes to oil up first. |
| # Posted 2008-03-26 16:37:43 | |
| cmorse: | looks like you're going to get just as much crap either way, so you might as well post it.... |
| # Posted 2008-03-27 06:19:27 | |
| Rosstopher: | or just post the pictures of the flexing and oiled-ness... |
| # Posted 2008-03-27 15:18:25 | |
| Charlie: | I always assumed that the prospect of getting a lot of crap was sort of motivational. |
| # Posted 2008-03-27 21:16:22 | |
| PG: | I always assumed that the prospect of getting a lot of crap was sort of motivational.
True, usually, but every once in a while it just pisses you off. |
| # Posted 2008-03-28 02:02:13 | |
| eddie: | I ran across this book in the library at work today:
On Bullshit I then proceeded to type "bullshit" in the keyword search of our library catalog and sure enough, we have precisely one title. Not that there isn't more bullshit in our library, but thats the only one we have with that keyword. I was then told that there is a permanent copy in the director's office, which made me laugh. |
| # Posted 2008-03-28 12:10:29 | |
| PBricker: | Harry Frankfurt was my colleague and squash partner at Yale through the 1980's; I just had dinner with him two weeks ago when he gave a lecture at Amherst College. "On Bullshit" was an amusing, but philosophically serious, 30 page article that, through some genius of marketing (and font choice), was turned into an 80 page book. It has sold, I believe, some 500,000 copies, the most ever by far for a book published by Princeton University Press (because people like Eddie's director like to have it on display in their offices). Harry has always been among the most prominent, well-repected philosophers; now he is also among the wealthiest. At the urging of the Press, he followed it with a slim book, "On Truth", which (surprise!) hasn't been selling quite so well as "On Bullshit" did. |
| # Posted 2008-03-29 02:58:22 | |
| Ricka: | Swampfox - could you check if lots of Wyoming cattle ranchers thought that the former title was a technical training manual? (or perhaps grabbed up by aspiring politicians?) |
| # Posted 2008-03-29 06:06:28 | |
| eddie: | Wow, that's cool. I thought he looked a little like Karzai minus the fez. One of my early advisors got me started naming files "crap" and "shit," "crud" "shit1" "shit2" etc - following his lead. I was 7 years younger and very impressionable. Anyways, this always leads to problems because I can never remember exactly *which* crap I was working on most recently. Its great fun when the boss comes in to look at my work and I use a unix command to display the file contents: "cat crap" or "more crap" |
| # Posted 2008-03-30 04:52:52 | |
| PBricker: | My kids leave their homework files on my computer desktop, so (since I dare not delete them) I've created folders named "Nora's Crap" and "Adam's Crap".
Of course, there's a big difference between crap and bullshit. I give PG a lot of crap (to return to the host of this little discussion), mostly flinging back what he dishes out, but I rarely bullshit him. Bullshit is crap posing as something more. Maybe I'll write a book on the topic. |
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