Milo and the Calf

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    Review: Gay’s Hunger A Memoir of (My) Body

    Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxanne Gay A gut punch, a wake up call, a deeply effecting book about race, sexual assault, food, immigration, class, writing, love and America. Really a must read. I’m someone who cares deeply about health and fitness.  I struggle to make the right food choices, and hit the gym,…

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    Longo’s Longevity Protocol — The Fasting Mimicking Diet

    I was very impressed with Valter Longo’s book The Longevity Diet and have implemented most of his recommendations on diet, exercise and fasting in my own life. For my own reference, I’m documenting those recommendations here. This is the barebones of the recommendations with my own comments, but without the extensive evidence Longo provides in…

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    Longo’s Longevity Protocol — The Exercise

    I was very impressed with Valter Longo’s book The Longevity Diet and have implemented most of his recommendations on diet, exercise and fasting in my own life. For my own reference, I’m documenting those recommendations here. This is the barebones of the recommendations with my own comments, but without the extensive evidence Longo provides in…

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    Review: Okorafor’s Who Fears Death

    Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor I’ve been reading science fiction and fantasy for most of my life. I devoured William Gibson in my teens, got deep into new wave in my twenties, and learned the classics in my thirties. I’m not an expert in the genre, by any means, but I’m also reasonably well read.…

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    Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate

    The Obelisk Gate N.K. Jemisin This is the follow up to Jemisin’s incredible, mind blowing, the Fifth Season and its good. Very good, even. Jemisin’s prose is top rate, and the story churns forward revealing more about our characters and the world they inhabit, while still keeping up the mystery and allure that made Fifth…

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    The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire – Simon, Raymond and Benard

    This is a cool one, and a first for the project. Three runners from the same club all qualified at the same race and sent in a joint response! For two of them, it wasn’t the first time they bq’ed, but for one of them it was. Its also worth mentioning that Bernard Onsare is…

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    The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire – Dave Munger

    Name Dave Munger (http://mungerruns.blogspot.com) Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 44 Height: 6’2″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 190 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Richmond 2011 Tell us a little about the race. Richmond was the perfect race to qualify for Boston — perfect weather, perfect…

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    Reset: diet

    Here is what my blood tests, DNA tests, and time on the toilet all tell me: If not entirely allergic to, I am at least highly sensitive to dairy and gluten I gain weight easily, especially when eating a diet high in saturated fats. I need significantly more fiber than i get on the diet…

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    Review: Armstrong’s Buddha

    Buddha Karen Armstrong A simple, stupid, introduction to Buddhism perfect for someone like me who knows less than nothing about one of the world’s most important philosophical systems / religions. What it has: a concise overview of the life of the Buddha and the central tenets of the system as it was understood at the…

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    Review: Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget

    You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto Jaron Lanier Lock-in is apparently a concept well known among engineers, but I was unfamiliar with it until this book. It’s worth thinking about. Basically, the concept is that in large complex systems, simple, often arbitrary, decisions can have long lasting effects, which when compounded, can limit the…