lifestyle

We’ll use the shit out of the iPhone 4S.

December 13, 2011

Paul Graham wrote a great piece on “stuff”, and how the trend of recent decades has been to amass an inordinate amount of it. It’s a message that some other bloggers have made as well, because there really is something to be said for the simplicity of having less stuff and living a more streamlined [...]

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First take on the Jawbone UP.

November 7, 2011

On Friday, we drove by two Targets, a Best Buy, and an AT&T store to see if anyone was selling the Jawbone UP early. None were. The reports we heard about UPs selling early must have been very isolated experiences, though it seems people had more success at Apple stores, who apparently are more likely [...]

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Why we’re getting a Jawbone Up.

November 3, 2011

Firstly, Jawbone products are good. Sure, we had problems with the Jawbone 2 earpiece because of a particular weak link, but overall their products are stylish and innovative. We don’t use a bluetooth headset at the moment, but we did receive the Jawbone Jambox as a birthday gift this year, and we love it. When [...]

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Thoughts from the 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium.

August 12, 2011

Over at Naturally Engineered, David Csonka gave a brief rundown of important take-aways from the 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium. We found several of these thoughts particularly interesting. Per Dr. S. Boyd Eaton, for example: During the paleolithic, male and female equality was greater than anytime since. This is the second time we’ve heard this. The [...]

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Baseline blood tests.

July 21, 2011

Over the past couple months, we talked to several people about blood tests, and what exactly to test for. Most people place the subject squarely in the hands of their doctors, and care little about delving into the subject themselves. But as we’ve come to learn, many doctors base their findings on conventional wisdom, which [...]

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Violence is human.

May 17, 2011

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight introduced us to Thom Hartmann’s concept of Older and Younger Cultures, the differences between the two being rather stark. In Hartmann’s view, Older Cultures embody sustainability and peaceful existence, which Easy to be Green summarizes thusly: Political Independence Egalitarian Structure Getting their resources from renewable local sources Having a [...]

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