Tom Lambert

I drink tea and look out the window. Sometimes I climb or ski or run or read or write or drive a snowplow. I'm not an expert in anything. Read accordingly.

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@zbitter Many people think PEDs are magic and maybe, just maybe, they would bike like Lance or have quads like Ronnie Coleman if they just took the right PEDs. It’s much harder on my ego to accept that no matter what drugs I take, I will still be slower and weaker than a natty w/ talent

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@Brady_H This is like saying that if cars were invented today the legal limit would be 15km/h because they kill 1.19 million people per year. https://t.co/pXLMhz9f46

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@Brady_H It’s tempting. Recovery at 63 is an exercise in patience. So much harder to get volume. I dislike the idea of having a dependency, but if I felt it would improve my health/life, I wouldn’t give a second thought to the concept of “cheating” (I don’t enter sanctioned events BTW)

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@CycleThom @trollietrolly @Brady_H PPS - the Coros HR armband however I absolutely love. As accurate as my chest strap and waaaayyy more comfortable. It turned me into someone who actually wears a monitor (which I guess can be good or bad depending on how you feel about that)

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@CycleThom @trollietrolly @Brady_H PS - maybe the better way to say it is that I found Coros specs on battery life while using GPS to be accurate. If that matters to you and the Coros specs look good, maybe that’s an argument for a switch. Other than that, I was happy with both brands.

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@CycleThom @trollietrolly @Brady_H Just a guess. It’s rare that I would go 3 weeks @ 1hr/day. I was sick from Jan 27 to early March and don’t think I charged it that whole time. But I don’t care about that - I wanted to lay down a GPS track for >12 hours and Garmin at the time wasn’t close.

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@CycleThom @trollietrolly @Brady_H PS - if I only use the GPS and hour a day, I can probably go three weeks.

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@CycleThom @trollietrolly @Brady_H I mean six hours with GPS and HR monitor running. With the Coros I get at least 24 hrs in high res mode and 120 hrs of GPS in power saver. I think Garmin still isn’t there. And yes it was several years ago, but that is why I switched.

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@trollietrolly @Brady_H For me, it was battery life. Back when I switched, my Garmins would die after six hours. I got sick of that and wanted to see of the Coros hype on battery was true. If anything, they have been better than advertised. Garmin has gotten better too though, but they lost me forever

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@CharlesCMann @AllanBalliett And yes, reading on a screen is tough, though on a reader (e.g. Kindle, Nook), I find it pretty close to paper. I mostly miss the sense of progress and find my memory of where something is in a book is partly spatial - how much was I holding in each hand when I read that part?

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@CharlesCMann @AllanBalliett I used to use live in libraries and use ILL a lot. But when your local library is open two afternoons a week... but thanks for the https://t.co/STd4fTujYR link. I donate but always forget you can find older books there. Thanks!

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@CharlesCMann Thanks for the recommendation. Added to my wishlist. One of the few sadnesses of rural living is small libraries - no Malaparte books in this county!

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@CharlesCMann This runs through Cioran as well. Like Malaparte, Cioran was a fascist but more committed and fascist until 1941, a fact that he tried to hide after the war. https://t.co/UvUDJvleNE

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@CharlesCMann Yes, it’s a great passage. I’m not familiar with Malaparte let alone this recent book, but it struck me as an echo of French intellectuals sense of betrayal post WW1 followed by the betrayal of fascist intellectual across Europe in the 1930s.

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@AndyRenfree @GregoryCrouch author of China’s Wings might be interested or know people who are

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@Brady_H @bryan_johnson Beware Goodhart’s Law.

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@CharlesCMann See also, Benda, La trahison des clercs (circa 1927?) and Emile Cioran… in general. I could possibly dig up more specific citations from something on Cioran I wrote 40 years ago (shudder… how did that happen?). Cioran himself is a bit of a problematic character

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@Brady_H What?!?! Didn’t you hear? Fruit ages you. 😀😀😀

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@hjluks Honestly, I wouldn't care about this study at all... if people didn't insist on telling me from time to time that I'm ruining my knees. FTR, I have less knee pain at 63 than when I was 25... of course, I can't string 6min miles together now either. Or 8min miles really 😆😆

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@Brady_H WRT fitness, I often think, "I should keep my thoughts to myself since I'm not an expert." I think I am doubling down on that policy.