Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
Eat some skinny people to balance it out, perhaps?To much of the population is overweight
What was that book on cannibalism someone posted a thread about a short while ago? I think it was Yeekim.
Eat some skinny people to balance it out, perhaps?To much of the population is overweight
To much of the population is overweight
Anyway, John Adams was...okay. I read like the first bit before stopping. Just not ineterested.
The shorthand solution is "Diet and exercise", but too many people think of the horrible health foods when they hear the word diet, and the stressful activities that aren't too fun when they hear exercise. You gotta find the good tasting healthy fare (yes, it really exists, honestly) and find activities you find fun.
Activity is the key. When you are typing, do crunches or leg lifts, hold in your abdominal core, and have weights available for the periods you are reading... or just go out and take a walk, tend the garden, play basketball or baseball, whatever. Make passionate love to your lady... frequently (if you're old enough of course). Take a walk at lunch. Laugh. Working up a sweat at least once a day is a good thing. As with all things, start easy, and improve over time, and you will meet eventual success.
It's not a secret why our nation is overweight, and the solutions are, individually, rather simple. I think our psychology works against us. Read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin for some simple tricks and mindset to get what you want.
Stolen Rutters said:The shorthand solution is "Diet and exercise", but too many people think of the horrible health foods when they hear the word diet, and the stressful activities that aren't too fun when they hear exercise. You gotta find the good tasting healthy fare (yes, it really exists, honestly) and find activities you find fun.
Stolen Rutters said:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin LeFevre
Almost-but-not-quite: Livy's Ab Urbe Condita? The year numbering system itself!Speaking of crappy Gavin Menzies books, when did this fascination with using years as titles begin? 1066 and All That (or whatever it's called) is the first I've heard of it.
Well, I meant recently. I remember a couple of monastery-produced texts with years as titles as well.Almost-but-not-quite: Livy's Ab Urbe Condita? The year numbering system itself!
1434 is waiting for me at the library.
More like the entire world stole its history from China.So, has he gained any sense since the last one, or has China stolen the entire world's history?
You'll be looking for awhile...Dudes, books on the history of China please, for every era; even-handed and critical of Chinese sources, preferably.
Dudes, books on the history of China please, for every era; even-handed and critical of Chinese sources, preferably.
I thought the KMT was formed when Sung merged the Brotherhood with several smaller political parties in 1912? Can't remember the exact date - which is problematic, since the other window I have open right now is an essay I'm writing on Sun Yat-sen's career, and it's somewhat important - but that's when I've always counted it from. So's every other non-Taiwanese source I've come across. Is it wrong?China Since 1911, by Richard T. Phillips. He's my lecturer in uni.
Word of warning with that though is that you must read the language very carefully. (e.g. he uses the official declaration of the KMT party to determine the KMT's age whereas the KMT uses the beginnings of the Revive China Society to count its age - I personally feel the former is more accurate, but most Western scholars claim this to be a factual error)
Dudes, books on the history of China please, for every era; even-handed and critical of Chinese sources, preferably.