Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
#25 Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar -19 Year-Old Isaac Newton’s List of Sins
Wade loses about five pounds per game, so his postgame meal tends to be as important - if not more so - than the pregame one. Ingraham tends to keep things simple: chicken breast, turkey breast, that sort of thing. On occasion, he says he’ll make one of Wade’s former favorites as a treat, but for the most part Wade sticks to the better choices.
that’s a lot of weight.
Heat star Dwyane Wade changing diet, and seeing benefits - NBA - SI.com
Big swell coming.
Slater’s front side 360 against Taj Burrow in NYC was awesome to see live. Surfer Magazine puts together the best heats of 2011.
In ancient Greek writing, the ‘essence’ of a baby was provided by the ‘universal seed stuff’ of the male. This procreative ingredient was derived from animal spirit, a physiological material necessary for muscular activity. The animal spirit was manufactured from arterial blood at the base of the brain and was transferred to all parts of the body through the nerves
Sugar, Aspartame and MSG is killing you.
It will also make you miserable while you are alive.
Top 5 Articles of 2011
A Q&A With A Vacuum Cleaner Salesman | The Awl
Written in 2010. So funny. So sad. So perfectly captures the struggle of trying to live the American Dream.
Rodrigo Rosenberg’s Murder in Guatemala : The New Yorker
Felt like watching The Wire. You were just reading it.
Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) | The Wirecutter
I remember when Lam wrote his first post about meeting Jobs when he was at Gizmodo. I also remember the iPhone 4 drama as it unfolded and finally how Lam wrote this story on the night Jobs died. It just got me and is one of the last things I’ve read that is directly related to Jobs. I don’t want to read anything else on him for awhile.
California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair
Total Michael Lewis. His depiction of Arnold made me love and hate him at the same time. The rest of the story, well, damn California, I hope they can work it out.
Consumed The Story of Hendrik Coetzee | Outside Athletes | OutsideOnline.com
Crazy story about a guy that beat to a different drum. Found his fellow drummer and was expecting to live happily ever after.
Bonus
Kelly Slater and Andy Irons, Surfing Rivals - New York Times
This story is 5 years old but it is a good one that I didn’t read it till the beginning of this year. I became a bit obsessed with Irons since his death in November of 2010. I guess I’m intrigued by people that have trouble getting older and also people that feel they’ve lost their competitive edge. I hope Irons found peace in the end.
I’m equally intrigued by Slater. The man who has never lost his competitive edge and is straight as hell but the competitive demons, I’m sure, make for late nights of thinking and he seems to be a loner. He won another championship this year. My biggest takeaway from watching him this year is he simply doesn’t seem to age. Pretty amazing and equally amazing that for a good-looking, American born athlete, he remains largely unknown by the general population. Slate tried to understand why he isn’t more popular in this article back in 2010.
There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
