Not Slaving Away

So I recently attended the 2012 Comic Con International in San Diego California.  I went dressed as Slave Leia.  A large number of fans marveled at my abdominal muscles which I do not really take care of that often.  In fact I hardly do any exercising.  While sitting in bed watching the TV in our hotel a commercial came on for Insanity!  Seems kind of "Duh" to me.  They are yelling all this bull about a years worth of exercise in 60 days.  No, its 60 days worth of exercise in 60 days.  I feel like anyone who works out should know how interval training works.  They are basically doing tabatas of body weight exercises easy peasy.  Look if you work out really hard, you will get in shape.  If you go to the gym everyday you will build muscle.  If you watch your diet you will lose weight. If you jump around like a nut job you will burn fat.  If you do any of these half assed, you will get half assed results.  So I decided to do my own Insanity workout for my week at Comic Con.  My workout was to have bacon with every meal.  Boy was it fun.  I ended the trip with "The Hat Trick".  This is a burger found at Slapshotz Bar in the Detroit airport.  It consists of a Kaiser roll, a beef patty, cheddar cheese, grilled onions, ham, bacon, and one fried egg.  Delicious! I am so jacked now.

Iron Mind shares with Iron Body

South Korea was shaped
in America's Image

from:		Greg Hafer
to:		Mark Hafer
date:		Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:51 AM
subject:		China's not that old.
mailed-by:		gmail.com

Brother! If you were a state, you'd be Markansas!

North Korea was shaped in
the Soviet Union's Image

So, I got stuck on a Wikipedia binge, opening a bazillion tabs, one for every link that I knew nothing about, usually pertaining to preceding dynasties or governments or empires. The history of East Asian is crazy. After a few hours, my favorite tidbit is about Korea. Korea was a long standing Empire for a bazillion years until Japan invaded and took control for merely a few decades. Then, after WWII, we essentially did the same thing we did with Germany, broke it up into zones. The Soviets got the top half and the US got the bottom half. Forget reinstating the Empire that existed before the Japanese invasion, the empire that shaped the culture, customs, philosophy, and language that is still dominant in Korea today, let alone entertaining the idea of even keeping the country intact. No! We had to split it into two countries, a compromise between the US and the Soviet Union. So, today, the Koreas have turned into caricatures of their creators. The Soviets modeled North Korea's government after their own crazy-ass Leninist single-party socialist state, so now modern NK is seen as the least-free, most isolationist, dictatorial nation in the world. The US modeled South Korea's government after their own crazy-ass self-indulgent free-market I-am-entitled-to-a-plastic-bag-for-my-crap-at-any-store-I-go-to-along-with-a-thorough-taint-licking-from-an-underpaid-worker system, so now modern SK has the fastest Internet in the world, 24-hour video game channels, and some of the best shopping centers anywhere. Crazy! I feel kind of stupid that I didn't know why there are two Koreas and why they are so different. That was one of 28 tidbits that I enjoyed tonight. The other one is about China.

People keep saying "China is the oldest civilization in the world." I'd be pissed hearing this news if I were from Mongolia, which was established a decade before the Qin Dynasty, which later gobbled up Mongolia. And Mongolia is still around, even after breaking away from the Qin Dynasty in 1911. But none of that makes a difference anyway because guess what? There is no more Qin Dynasty. It's gone my friends. You know what isn't gone? Mongolia. Sure it's a bit different, a modern democracy, not like the preceding Mongol Empire. You know what else isn't an empire? The People's Republic of China, which is only 62 years old and encompass a different geographical region than any of the governments proceeding it. No one makes claims on the age of the civilization now called the US by factoring in the British Empire or the Iroquois tribes or even the Paleo-Indians. I'd love a presidential candidate to throw that one out on the campaign trail. "America has been hijacked by the radical left and is moving further and further away from what our founding fathers intended for this great nation. Take my favorite founding father, Zugzug. The late Pleistocene era was a trying time in US history, but brave men like Zugzug had vision. They knew that if they fashioned a stone spear tip just right, they could take down a heavily armored glyptodont quite easily. And as we all know, those glypyodonts had thicker skulls that most Democrats. Am I right? Am I right?" If the age of a civilization had to do with an organized group of people occupying a geographical area, the US would be as old as Zugzug. If it had to do with its ties to previous political systems, the US would be as old as the tribal system established by homo sapiens in the British Isles during the Bronze Age. China is 62 and the US is 235. Anyway, I wouldn't brag about how old my civilization is if most of my people don't have hot running water. China is a new country, and as such, the next generation has an amazing opportunity to shape New China into something great. But lest we forget, this supposed "oldest civilization" is still a developing nation. You know which country has a higher literacy rate than China? Mongolia. Oh snap!

Anyway. Asian history is fun. I'll save my other tidbits for later. This email is getting too long. We should just start a blog that consists of our emails to each other. People would read it. We could call if something like "TO: Hafer CC: Everyone Else."

(gh)

Google Chat that night:

4:55 PM me: Jimmy

  I've been doing some research of my own

 James: oh yeah

 me: on The Duck family geneology

  very peculiar

  lotta gaps

4:56 PM lots of parents neglecting their children

  no wonder Huey Dewey and Louie were trouble makers

  their family kept shirking them off onto other family members

4:57 PM Della gets pregnant with a mystery duck and can't raise her triplets so she ditches them off on Donald who gets enlisted in the Navy

4:58 PM so He dumps em on his Uncle, who is an old scottish codger that hordes money

 James: woot

The most boring post I ever made

I was originally trying to gain mass so that I could play Rugby.  Checking in at 155lbs just isn't going to cut it on the Rugby pitch.  I joined the gym for the 1st time in my life and started a healthy dose of squats and deadlifts.  I packed on about 7 pounds in 3 weeks.  Then I went to Bangkok, then I started Hashing.  Now I don't really care about playing Rugby anymore.  My new goal is to be in shape for any and everything.  My new regiment will consist of two days of heavy lifting (4x8) at the gym.  Two days of body weight exercises that populate a majority of this site and static hold style exercises for the other two days. Running long distances, sprints, boxing and other cardio workouts are peppered throughout my week as well. I routinely injure myself doing stupid things like jumping over fences so as long as I am not dedicated to a sport I can exercise some part of my body and not let anyone down.
If you are one of the many  people that come here for the ridiculous pictures and sexual inuendos, I apologize. I will bring them back soon enough.