It started with this and continued to night via this.
Positives:
We also talked about competing between men and women and if losing to a woman would make you feel less manly. The areas I presented were telling: I don't care about bowling, wrestling or golf, but am more interested in finally winning in Scrabble. I initially thought I'd feel embarrassed if my better half was smarter on me. After thinking about it, I realized I'd be okay with it. Then I could say, "Have fun helping the boys with their math homework. I'm going to go see how my mead is doing..."
Tonight I had a boring bench workout:
Warmup: 7 chinups, just backpack with no plates
Workout: Bench press: 5-205, 5-205, 5-205, 5-215, 5-225
Cooldown: 5 115lb Power snatch
Meal consisted of two burger patties, two over medium eggs and assorted sausages, covered with butter and hot sauce. The steaming cup is Earl Grey tea, hot.
Project for tomorrow: deployed refrigerator Early Grey iced tea:
Positives:
- you might be able to download your consciousness into a robotic brain
- you could ask advice of your deceased relatives
- Steve Martin gets to say "I told you so!"
Negatives:
- Loss of soul?
- How do you really know that is what so-and-so would say in this situation?
- This or this.
Somehow, this turned into how men and women react and think differently about situations. Not surprisingly, my notes cover the movies this brings to my mind. On our first date I talked mostly about movies and my wife thought, "This guy is sooooooooooo lame. He gets two more chances." So, in popular culture:
- "When Harry Met Sally" - can men and women truly be platonic friends? How many men (like Harry) think of women as potential mothers of their children, regardless of the status/level of their friendship?
- "I Love you Man" - Is the concept of male friendship different from female friendship? I don't think I have that many true friends and I am fine with that. We also discussed the possibility of tiered friends. Option 1: Tier 0 = you are a brother to me and Tier 1 = every other male on the planet. Option 2: Tier 0 = you are a brother to me; Tier 1 = close work friends, maybe some neighbors; Tier 2 = acquaintances; Tier 3 = I'll pick up your mail but not you from the airport; Tier 4 = people who say je ne sais quoi, au contraire and other French phrases in their speak to sound smarter than you; Tier 5: everyone else.
- Dune (novels mostly) - The future could mean smarter humans with the memories of their ancestors floating in their head. Also, the potential for cloning someone and then awakening their past memories. Spoiler alert: the ending of the series concludes with a merging of humans and machines, similar to the ending of Battlestar Galactica.
We also talked about competing between men and women and if losing to a woman would make you feel less manly. The areas I presented were telling: I don't care about bowling, wrestling or golf, but am more interested in finally winning in Scrabble. I initially thought I'd feel embarrassed if my better half was smarter on me. After thinking about it, I realized I'd be okay with it. Then I could say, "Have fun helping the boys with their math homework. I'm going to go see how my mead is doing..."
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| This is a homemade melomel, hone-wine with blueberries. |
Tonight I had a boring bench workout:
Warmup: 7 chinups, just backpack with no plates
Workout: Bench press: 5-205, 5-205, 5-205, 5-215, 5-225
Cooldown: 5 115lb Power snatch
Meal consisted of two burger patties, two over medium eggs and assorted sausages, covered with butter and hot sauce. The steaming cup is Earl Grey tea, hot.
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| Let's just hope the burgers are from cow and not horse. |
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| I'll take oil of Bergamot for $500, Alex. |
