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  We Ride At Dawn (or Physics Is A Harsh Mistress)

  September 8, 2010 / Building Back Up, More Rants

  For me, today is yesterday. Not that I’m listening to Culture Beat as though it’s current, tuning my TV with rabbit ears, and wearing corduroy pants in a non-ironic way (or, indeed, in any way. You can keep ‘em, hipsters). I mean literally, it’s still yesterday for me. I’ve not yet been to bed. Last night a buddy of mine popped ’round. Because he’s a molecular biologist and I’m a nerd, we talked about things like free-forming infinite length carbon [...]

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  Living In A Deserted City

  August 29, 2010 / Building Back Up, More Rants

  Ever feel like you’re alone in a crowd? Now take away the crowd. How do you feel now? One of the most important parts of my recovery has been about being around people again. I require a lot more personal space, and certainly more ‘me’ time, after having spent 100 days alone virtually every day. Counterbalancing this is a core group of good friends who know that getting over the starvation is as much about re-acclimating my head as it [...]

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  If You Love This Planet…

  August 26, 2010 / Building Back Up, Food Science, More Rants, News

  Lately I’ve been spending far more time outdoors, enjoying the waning summer. The fresh air and exercise is helping me to get back into shape, and when you get back to the human scale of living – jogging through parks, riding along trails, etc. it reminds you that our presence on this planet is more than moving from box to box in slightly smaller four-wheeled boxes. There’s a whole living world out there beyond the concrete, in the gaps between [...]

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  Strength Through Joy?

  August 22, 2010 / Building Back Up, More Rants

  Many people enjoy listening to music while working out. Lately I’ve been throwing on the MP3 player and going for a 24km bike ride around the river valley every day. Well, a recent study quantifies just how we respond to the beat. The study participants were given categories of music to choose from so that they were listening to styles of music they actually like, then made to pedal on a stationary bike. This is actually an important psychological thing; [...]

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  The Unbearable Lightness of Being… Well, Lighter

  August 14, 2010 / Building Back Up, Nutrition & Fitness

  I feel like a teenager again. That is to say, my body mass has changed so rapidly my co-ordination is struggling to keep up. I’ve become an uberklutz. It was to be expected, I suppose – I lost 1/4 of my mass in 100 days, then put 1/3 of that back again in about a week. Of the weight I regained so rapidly it went from water weight to replenished fat stores to muscle in a month, redistributing itself and [...]

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