Home brewing. From Art of Manliness [http://www.artofmanliness.com/2017/04/12/homebrewing-101-make-great-beer-home-kit/] : > If you’re wondering why you need an article on how to make beer from a kit, if it already comes with directions, know that while the kit simplifies and streamlines the brewing process, there are still sticky points the first time you try it. While the first batch of homebrew I made a few years ago was okay, I was pretty clueless about the whole operation. I didn’t really…
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…and not a caricature of what normally think a smart person is (sortof like Colbert used to play a caricature of what liberals *thought* conservative commentators believed, when parodying what they actually did would have been both more honest and funnier). Eric Raymond was encouraged to view a clip of the Big Bang Theory, [and wasn’t impressed](http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7451):> Bleagh. This is supposed to be a show about geniuses? It’s not. It’s a show about a dimwit’s idea of what bright peop…
I’m far from the world’s greatest lifter, but over the last few years have come across a few things that seem to make sense. While “Art of Manliness” is a hit or miss site for me, they certainly have provided a few useful insights in the past. Here’s a series of vids they did with lifter and coach Mark Rippetoe.…
In a recent posting [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/01/social-media-and-threat-to-status-quo.html] Vox Day notes that the ability to dox effective opponents of the leftist narrative has reached a point that anonymity, even moderately strong steps, can no longer be considered effective to protect oneself from blowback if your lifestyle is not antifragile. In the comments he notes: > There is nothing veiled about it. The situation changes. 10 years ago, it was possible to remain anonymous. The…
I joked in my 2016/2017 post that the “dark secret” of this blog was that it’s as much for me to develop a set of habits, to do something every day, making it a priority, as it is about anything else. Providing at least some useful insights or interesting info is how I hope to get and keep an audience, but without putting up posts, I can’t put up good posts either. So buried in Nick Cole’s recent post on platforms [http://www.nickcolebooks.com/2017/01/11/platform-you-need-one/], was this: > He…