The human spine is surely strong evidence against intelligent design. When building the human body from scratch, what engineer in his right mind would put us up on two legs, supported by this stupid stupid stack of nerve and cartilage and bone that fails when we bend or walk or sit or back walkover? I look forward to the day I can have this ( Read more... )

I've said it before: I was not born to run. I thought that it was perfectly normal for running to involve about ten minutes of relative comfort, followed by a sensation not unlike trying to breathe while drowning in the Arctic Circle. This sensation continues for however long I can stand it - usually another twenty or thirty minutes - until I stop ( Read more... )

I should be happy ( Read more... )

Oh my meat suit, you and I were getting along so well. I was doing a reasonable number of pull-ups. I kept up with the more terrifyingly fit people in my aerial conditioning class. My stomach was very nearly flat and it was possible to discern where most of the muscles were. I was a little bit smaller than I'm used to being - not so small that I'd ( Read more... )