Category: real life
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At the Gym, Volume 6
I was getting pretty unhealthy there for a while. A combination of slower metabolism, a sedentary job, and eating an entire cake after every meal eventually got to me, adding pounds and inches. Having recently become single only brought more attention to this fact, because if my observations of the human race have been accurate, the…
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A Hole
A breakup isn’t just physical separation from a person. It’s cutting off the opportunity to form new memories together, and to refresh old ones. Memories are half of who we are, so when we form a lot of them together we literally become a part of one another. When we stop forming them, it changes…
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Nostalgia as the Downfall of Mankind
A while ago, Peter Jackson showed a small audience some scenes from his upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit. With The Hobbit, Jackson is pulling a Cameron and trying to advance the very nature of filmmaking. It was filmed at 48 frames per second (fps), which is double the usual 24 fps of movies today. That…
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