I've argued before about the value of a periodic fitness test. These are the current United States Army standards, perfect and passing, for each exercise, courtesy of Outside Magazine. Deadlift Lift the heaviest weight you can three times. Max (100 points): 340 poundsPass (70 points): 180 pounds Power Throw Launch a ten-pound medicine ball over your head … Continue reading Army Fit
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Observations on the Long Take
"It is thus absolutely necessary to die, because while living we lack meaning, and the language of our lives (with which we express ourselves and to which we attribute the greatest importance) is untranslatable: a chaos of possibilities, a search for relations among discontinuous meanings. Death performs a lightning-quick montage on our lives; that is, … Continue reading Observations on the Long Take
