Shaved Aggression

When you shave your head, you become more aggressive. In high school, I was on the swim team. In preparation for the state championships, we would follow the tradition of many swim teams across the world and shave our bodies. The theory behind it was to cut down on drag. More hair meant more drag. More drag meant more effort required to swim fast. So we shaved our arms, legs, chests, backs, and even our heads in the name of eliminating drag. Freshly shorn, we swam to victory. Looking back, I think we gained as much from the feeling of being shaved as we did from having less drag. ...

April 4, 2005 路 3 min 路 jtalbot

and so it begins

how do you start a blog? this is the question that鈥檚 been on my mind ever since i installed wordpress and created my about page. actually, i wrote a first entry at that time, but i was messing around deleting users and found out that deleting a user also deletes all the posts of that user (too bad they didn鈥檛 warn me of that when i clicked on delete). but it wasn鈥檛 anything worth worrying about losing. ...

March 31, 2005 路 2 min 路 jtalbot