Wednesday Zeitgeist

My whole body hurts from training. At trivia last night I was so zonked by the hour of boxing I did prior to going I sat there in a daze, mostly missing the conversation. We won and earned another case of beer though. That makes two. A couple of more cases and we're going to have a party.

• A brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from the ice cap of the vast Arctic island.
  
• Hungry men like bigger women.
• Favourite Punch:
  

  The Rip
  The Rip is really a hook thrown to the body. The angle can be played to land the punch coming slightly up and across to really get underneath the floating rib.
  
  Technique
  From the guard position (for a left rip):
  

  
  
  1. Load up the shot by rolling the right shoulder slightly toward your opponent. Your left arm should start coming down to just above waist-height here.
  2. Starting the movement from the hip, snap the striking shoulder out, moving your fist in an arc across your body.
  3. As you move, pivot your lead foot (left foot for an orthodox stance), flicking the heel out.
  4. Keeping my right hand in guard, I pull my right shoulder back away from the opponent as the strike connects for extra leverage. Depending on the angle of the punch, you can push up on the lead foot as well ... this drives the punch even further.
  5. Pull the hand back into the guard position.
  
  

  
  Serving Suggestions
  I like to follow the Left Rip with either a Left Hook or Right Uppercut. A Left Hook needs to be loaded up, but you should find the Right flows quite naturally. I like a Left Hook after a Right Rip - the Left is already loaded once the Right connects.

• Stephen Colbert on How to be An Expert On Anything:
  

  USE THE WORD ZEITGEIST AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.zeitgeist, bildungsroman, doppelgänger – better yet, anything Latin. But avoid paradigm. It’s so 1994. If you say the word paradigm, everybody knows you’re a poser. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don’t really know their definitions:

• Expert Minds. How do you make good decisions quickly?
• Some tips for Sleeping Better. In my case, it measn buying a doona that doesn't bunch into one corner of the cover and leave poor Mrs Android (ne: Crush) freezing to death. Also, petrhaps I should close the winodw in August?
• WorkFriendly. Makes everything look like Microsoft Word and bypasses proxies to boot. Yay for technology!
• Computational History Thought for the Day:
  

  War for territory between two cultures necessarily involves genocide. I am including cultural assimilation in the definition of genocide. The two most successful Empires, the Roman and the British, basically had a franchise model. US/Western imperialism (until recently) involved a similar cultural hegemony.

• Training Soap. For those little Androids in your life.
• Ah ... the Liberals are so democratic. Either vote with us or don't vote. That's democracy people, and why, when I finally wrest control, the system will be overhauled.
• Ketamine treats depression.
• Ruby on Rails is the best thing ever. OMGWTFLOL!!1
• I would like one of these:
  
  
  
  
  It shoots rubber bands
  

  
  
• The CATO Intsitute has released an analysis paper on terrorism. News Flash: by scare mongering and creating fear, the terrorists win:
  

  Even with the September 11 attacks included in the count, the number of Americans killed by international terrorism since the late 1960s (which is when the State Department began counting) is about the same as the number of Americans killed over the same period by lightning, accident-causing deer, or severe allergic reaction to peanuts.

  
  
• I'm glad the US didn't get angry about the peanuts and invade Kingaroy. Those deer need to be taught a lesson though.