Skin Deep
fitness, vanity, sartorialism, and first impressions
Mirror, mirror on the road on January 31, 2012
“Oh Mirror, Mirror on the road—who has the prettiest C30 that has been sold?” During the summer it used to be me by virtue of being the only 2012 C30 that had been sold in Austin (at least according to Roger Beasley Volvo), but that changed today when I saw two 2012 C30s within a span of about [...]
The Perception of Perfection on January 18, 2012
Emma is my Chameleon Blue 2012 Volvo C30, and she’s the closest thing I have to a girlfriend right now. It’s pretty ideal, really: wherever I want to go, she just comes along without complaining. In return, I spend hours—that’s right, hours—every week keeping her clean and shiny. People tell me all the time that [...]
One if by land, and two if by sea
on August 13, 2011
Pretty... Pretty expensive, that is!
225 Is a Great Number on January 03, 2011
I have a few longer posts that I’m working on for the coming weeks, so I’ll keep this one short. Indeed, it deserves to be as short as possible, since it amounts to what is essentially a lot of bragging. But as far as bragging stories go, I think this one is marginally acceptable because [...]
Vibram FiveFingers: A Review on December 02, 2010
This is another blog post brought to you by airport idling. This time, it’s because of some heavy wind and rain in the NY metro area that’s causing delays at all major airports in the vicinity. I was originally supposed to be on a 5:30pm US Airways flight to Charlotte and a connection shortly thereafter [...]
Mr. Keyboard (2008-2010) on September 24, 2010
Well guys, it sucks to say this, but there’s been another death in my family of beloved possessions. And the worst part is that it happened on the same day I patched up Mr. Pursuit, who you’ll remember from a couple of posts ago (you do read all my posts, right?). I’m still not sure [...]
Paleo Before/After
on September 04, 2010
On the left is an example of what a USDA-healthy wheat-filled diet would routinely do to me: puffy, bloated, and highly inflamed. It was taken in April of 2010. I discovered the paleo diet a month later and never looked back. The picture on the right was taken just four months later in September. I did not change my activity level at all (I have gym logbooks to prove it).
As I write this from January 2012, I would like to point out that the proper conclusion to draw is not that the paleo diet fixes everything, nor that it is the only diet that can fix things, but rather just that the conventional wisdom is clearly broken in some way. Look for your own answers. Don't settle.
Primitive Camping
on May 30, 2010
My first-ever camping experience was pretty rough and tumble. I ended up hating it because it was so hard to use all my requisite skin products (this was right at the time I was transitioning to paleo). My hygiene kit back then was approaching princess proportions, and these days I don't even need one. Can we agree that that's freedom?