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#misc.
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Essays
Paean
This royal shape of kings, this scepter'd trunk, This bodiment of majesty, this form of Mars, This other ecstasy, demi-delight, This figure built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand…
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Essays
Hey dude,
like I was totally waiting for you.
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Mindset
Communication
They say some large percentage of communication is nonverbal.
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Convergent Evolution
It's great when things say what they are.
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Essays
Burn
The wind blows, clouds flow, rain falls, sunshine, moonlight, wind, rain, hot, cold.
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Essays
InfiniDinoPro™!
Dear Bob Dude -- Thank you so much for your fantasticInfinite Dinosaurs Program ™!
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A Few Observations
Beautiful: because caprice is delightful, and meaning is invented, and because butterfly wings do not cause chaos; ...
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Essays
A Brief Bio of FW
Across countless millennia, mere men have admired, nay, revered FW to the fullest extent that the human heart is capable.
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Nutrition
Big Suppluh
All this talk about Big Pharma.
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★ Featured Mindset
P-Factor™!
P-Factor™ is the willingness, the eagerness with which we give ourselves P ermission to P Hail.
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Essays
Kiai!
This one is laughable, several times.
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Essays
Economics According Two Cows
Versions of this have been around for 80 years.
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Essays
Do you...
suppose you should buy this book: "Correctly English in 100 Days(Shanghai Correctly English Society, 1934)"?
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Essays
Wax Man
No, this time he's just gone too far.
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Essays
Ever Faithful
United States Marine Corps Corporal Jason Dunham died April 22, 2004, of wounds sustained April 14 from an ambush in the Iraqi town of Karabilah.
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Essays
A Few Non-participants in the CrossFit Ethos
Emperor Nero Germanicus, Roman Emperor (54-68 AD) Vlad III, akaDracula, Prince of Wallachia and Impaler, 1431-1376 Donatien Alphonse François, author and Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814 Oscar Wilde, poet…
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Training
The FitWorks Promise:
After a nice pre-workout protein drink, and a little warmup, how about some core work?
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Mindset
Commonalities
It's sad, when we look at each other with harsh, with impersonal eyes.
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★ Featured Essays
Jack LaLanne
Died, January 23, 2011, age 96.
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Essays
Still Crazy
President Garfield was killed by Charles Julius Guiteau, who wanted to be made ambassador to Paris.
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Training
Apples to Apples
The workout that the FW crew did onJan 6 is a good demonstration of the power of the Power Grid.
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Essays
Incurring Debt
Bob Dude sent FW an email, asking that it be posted, with the above title.
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Essays
The Memory of Roses
George Will has written in achingly poignant prose about the long decline of his aged mother into the oblivion of dementia and the final release of death.
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Mindset
Human
Poignant isn't the right word.
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Essays
Tisquantum
That's "Squanto's" real name, in Algonquian.
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Mindset
Faults
There's a part of us that might ask, what's the use.
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Mindset
Boxes
It seems intimidating, at the beginning.
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Mindset
Mindful of Small Things
God? Who is this "God" person people keep yammering about on TV and the radio?
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Essays
Marketing
Are you sad? \— \— Distres sed?
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Essays
A Product Review
I made the mistake of going to the so-called "Infinite Dinosaurs Total Fitness Personal Training Boutique" for about three times.
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Bob's Photo Album
Bob is a bodybuilder.
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Strength through Joy
This is the original sketch for the KdF-Wagen — Kraft durch Freude.
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Bob's Abs
If we could read minds, what, what indeed might we discover?
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Essays
Blink
Monsieur le Docteur Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent that instrument which bears his name.
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Mindset
Time's Arrow
It is not possible to reach back through the years and take hold of the child we once were, distraught over a skinned knee or a broken toy or an absent loved one.
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Mindset
Looking Like Something Else
It's great to be what you are.
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Essays
Poto and Cabengo
Isn't it hard? Isn't it hard, being human?
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Mindset
Departures
Dignity is in our bearing, not some incidental of environment or happenstance.
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