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POSTED BY MICHAEL | POSTED 26 Jun 2008 | FILED UNDER Fitness
Man I’ve had a lot going on. I’m on the final stretch for weight loss now so I’ve been bearing down and working hard, unfortunately to the exclusion of too many other things in my life. I’ll find some kind of healthy balance eventually.
I’m approaching 72% of the way to my overall goal and am now 84% of the way to a normal BF% and am way, way below what was my lowest adult weight. I’m hoping to hit a normal BF% in the next two months, but we’ll see. It’ll happen when it happens and I’m sure putting the work in.
Current routine is weight lifting three times a week and and 1-2 hours of cardio 7 days a week.
Speaking of which I need to get to sleep so I can get up at 5 for more cardio.
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Wait, what?
POSTED BY MICHAEL | POSTED 26 Jun 2008 | FILED UNDER Politics
Mugabe is stripped of knighthood as ‘a mark of revulsion’
Robert Mugabe was last night stripped of his honorary knighthood over his “abuse of human rights” and “abject disregard” for democracy, the Foreign Office said.
The move comes as the Zimbabwean leader faces condemnation from around the world ahead of tomorrow’s presidential run-off.
Good. He absolutely should be str–wait a second, why the hell did Mugabe have a knighthood in the first place?
The Queen has approved the annulment of Mr Mugabe’s knighthood, awarded in 1994, on the recommendation of David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary.
It’s not as if Mugabe has recently turned into a monster, his abject disregard for democracy began with the 1980 elections and has continued uninterrupted ever since. I’m not sure what’s more stunning, the fact that they just NOW got around to revoking it, or the fact that a man daft enough to suggest that a homophobic, racist, murderous brutal dictator should be knighted is still in government.
Apparently this is a wide-spread problem.
Mr Mugabe is the first foreigner to be stripped of an honorary knighthood since the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, shortly before his execution.
Ceausuecu? Really? Have you guys gotten around to revoking Stalin’s knighthood yet? Does Pol Pot have one by any chance?
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Welp.
POSTED BY MICHAEL | POSTED 25 Apr 2008 | FILED UNDER Politics
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Unholy
POSTED BY MICHAEL | POSTED 15 Apr 2008 | FILED UNDER Around Town
There’s a certain sub-class of businessman that seems to occur with some frequency around here. When you first see them they look like ranchers that have somehow elevated into the corporate world. They’re always well dressed, about 5′9, stocky with fingers as thick as sausages. Not fat really, just bulky.
They’re all hyper-aggressive and only exist at one age–exactly 53 years old–though they sometimes seem older due to hard living. Whenever I see these men my first thought is usually “That man looks like he can destroy a bathroom.”
I can tell on sight when someone can really detonate a bathroom. One of these guys works out at my gym, he comes in just after my workout so if I don’t time it right he darts into the bathroom before I have a chance to go in and change. So far as I can figure he must start every Saturday with a giant bowl of beets so he can accurately record his bowel transit time to synchronize his defecation schedule perfectly.
He then counts back the proper amount from his expected gym arrival time and sits down for a meal that must consist of fermented cabbage, fermented prunes, lutefisk and a few small rodents in various states of decomposition. For when he finally unleashes his rectal fury on that poor, poor bathroom the results are so unspeakable, so unholy that it overpowers you before you even get to the door.
It’s like Danny DeVito in Twins, everything wrong about him is fired out of him in the space of a few minutes, leaving emotional wreckage in its wake. If I somehow procuded something APPROACHING this–a thought I cannot even imagine–I would drop everything I was doing and rush to the hospital. Clearly whatever my body would be doing would be very, very wrong and would likely require medical intervention. Or at least a comfortable death.
How can you not only produce something so horrible, but also produce it with such shocking consistency? I can barely wake up at the same time every morning much less SHIT EVIL on a schedule.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
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Quick Update
POSTED BY MICHAEL | POSTED 09 Apr 2008 | FILED UNDER Fitness
I didn’t realize I hadn’t updated in so long. There’s been a lot going on here, most notably working hard on the weight loss front. I still need to update one of the charts to the left, but the bar graph is at least accurate. I hit the 62% done mark today and am now below the lowest weight of my adult life.
How am I doing this? Allow my trainer to explain:
