Come On In!
New Features, Photos, and Other Cool Stuff
What's up, man? Welcome to my new home. Nah, go ahead and leave your shoes on; I’m not too worried about the carpet. Unless you stepped in dog shit on the way over. Let me see the bottom of your shoe. Ok, cool, go on in.
Oh, you brought me a six-pack? Why thank you! So thoughtful.
Yeah, go ahead and take a look around.
Over on the right you'll see a place to put your name in email in to receive two special reports and a brand new workout from yours truly. Yeah, it's free. No, there's not a catch. I just like helping out.
What? Oh, them? Just ignore them, man. I tried beating them with a broom earlier but they still haven't stopped kissing.
Let's see, let's see...
Oh, there's a link to Humblecock, a t-shirt company a few of my friends started. If you like high-quality tees and a brand that stands for something you should check it out. I like the name, too. Humblecock. HUM-BULL-COCK. It's just fun to say. And the rooster logo kicks the shit out of a moose and eagle. Yeah, I'm talking about you Abercrombie and AE.
Man, the right side has a lot of new stuff, actually. Now you can check out the most recent entries without having to hit the "back" button, add me as a friend on Facebook, check out my Twitter updates, and look through some photos. Go ahead and click on one of the photos. See what happened? Isn't that freakin' cool? My web guy kicks ass.
Yep, the blog format has changed too. Glad you noticed that. We think it's easier to use and looks better this way.
So, I guess that’s about it. How are things on your end? Anything I can help with?
You know, I plan on updating this blog more often with articles and videos about lifting weights, eating well, cooking, dating and girls, lifestyle, productivity, and other cool stuff.
And if you put your name and email address in at the right (or at the bottom) I'll send you exclusive newsletters every few days with stuff that will help you build muscle faster, lose more fat, become more athletic, make you less stressed and more confident with the ladies, along with other things I think you'll like.
Cool?
All right, well, I'm gonna get to writing. Crack open a beer and hang out as long as you want. Hell, invite a girl over if you like. Just don’t do anything I wouldn't do.
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(Yes, this was cheesy)
Posted Nov 11, 2009 by Nate Green.
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Comments for This Entry
Sup swole, I really like the new blog. It caught me off guard for a moment. I thought my computer or your site was all messed up. To my relief you just upgraded the site.
Hey Nate,
I really like the new updates, except for a few things. Call me anal, and forget about it, it's not a problem. Here's a few thoughts I had, I'll be blunt, to avoid taking longer to say something then needs be...
Firstly, as us humans are very visual orientated, having pictures is incredibly helpful for cognitive memory. This means that by taking away the thumbnails on the main page, you have removed the brains ability to quickly look at a page and associate memories with a particular picture. When I see the pictures, I automatically associate the blog post with the particular picture. I would suggest putting the thumbnails back in, even if it's just smaller. Plus, it just looks nicer :)
Next, is your plug for the email signup on the right hand side. I personally think it looks ugly, with the two people kissing on it. They look sleazy, and it detracts from the nice clean layout of the website. Makes it look like a cheap online dating company. And the guy? Comon, he's dressed in white skinnies, a white singlet, and a girly brown belt. From a blog about manliness, it makes it look more like sleazy haven!
I personally think, that it would look a tad better without the couple making out.
Also, I hope the link underneath your blog to signing up for you newsletter is for this blog only..
If that's underneath every one, it just becomes like you're desperate for people to sign up, and puts you in the vote with the thousands of online newsletters out there who just keep asking you to buy their product and providing you with useless information. It also looks bad and takes away from the flow of the blog :P
It would also be nice, if the signup boxes for the newsletter dissapeared once you filled them in. I have no need to see them any more :P
Other then that big rant, I'm very impressed with it! I like the clean style, and just feel the signup boxes, and lack of pictures detract from that.
Either way, your writing still rocks, and that's what matters!
Hope I don't sound like a 'vaginal cleanser', you know I'm a massive fan.
Cheers,
Keep it real.
Awesome!
I'm sorry you're sick (and this is "good" for us) but I'm happy anyway.
Congratulations and keep doing the great job, I'm looking forward to see the new articles on nutrition you promised!
Thanks guys.
@ Chris
The thumbnails will be back up. And sorry you feel that way about everything else. Thanks for signing up and commenting!
-Nate
@ Nate
Hahaha.
Thanks for having the thumbs back! :)
And don't worry, I'll put up with the rest of it :P Your awesome writing overrules all else! But please, take off the people kissing ;) Kidding!
My anal retentive whine is over now, rest assured it's a good update!
H1N1 sux. I have it too, but my diagnosis was even more vague than yours. Mine was delivered through my wife, who was taking our son to the doctor for a totally different thing. The doc said to not even bother with an appointment, that I had H1N1, and I should catch of on General Hospital.
The only joy it gives me is the fact I can call it "heinie" in public. It's not much but at this point I'll take what I can get. I hope we both get better soon.... but me faster... nothing personal.
Nate,
The new blog looks awesome! I love the clean look.
Much better site Nate! Clean and elegant , just the way i like it. You watch Food, Inc. yet?!
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Inc-Eric-Schlosser/dp/B0027BOL4G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1258032933&sr=8-1
I'm glad to read that the thumbnail photos will come back.
I do like the design of NGE blog v.2.2. The sliding effect that happened after clicking on the blog to read its entirety was cool, but a bit visually distracting. I'm not missing it.
I have a question about your workout sample. For how long should one be doing this workout?
And one question about your tips: What is your approach for balancing the fact that you're a bad ass organizer and the aim to not let time control all of your life? Is it that you are a bad ass organizer during your "work time" and during the times that you have to do the usual errands (i.e. get an appointment to get your tires checked out before winter comes, get your furnace checked before the cold hits hard, setting up a new banking plan, etc.) and you're a laissez-faire person when it comes to your "play time"?
I'd like to see some kind of forum that would allow NGE readers to share their experiences, stories, or tastes for each of the tip on your tips sheet. For example, suggestions of various great bands of a genre that you may not know of.
It's great to see that you keep striving to make improvements all the time. Way to go, Nate!
Nate,
Damn Son! The new site looks BA.
I will be getting me a Humblecock tee because the moose head and eagle stuff quit fitting a while ago. Plus it just sounds cool.
Keep up the great work and site man!
And as for Chris' complaint about the guy and girl kissing? If you want, just put 2 girls kissing. I will understand.
Hey Nate,
I like the new layout, but when I tried to enter my email it said that it was invalid, anyway to fix that? Thanks
Evan
@ Canada_K
I feel your pain. I'm in the recovery stage right now. :)
@ Mark Young
Thanks man!
@ Pat
Yep, I saw Food Inc a couple months ago. Scary stuff. I highly recommend reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (he was interviewed for Food Inc).
@ Jonathan
I'll be doing a blog post about the workout today.
@ Chase
Good suggestion. :)
@ Evan
I'm not sure what's up with that, man. Try it again with a different email? I haven't had anyone else who's had trouble.
-Nate
I'm going to echo most of the same criticisms CG made in post #2 (except the thing about the images, now that that's fixed).
I know it's technically tricky to suss out who's clicked the signup link or not (I dunno if it can be done with a cookie or not, which might result in duplicate signups for guys like me who might be checking from the office or at home - Yo, web dude? Am I making your brain explode yet? ;-) )
I personally thought the mouseovers on the front page were a fantastic element. Strongly encourage bringing them back.
Here's hoping matching my email address with my gravatar makes the right picture show up....
Nate...
I'm no computer nerd so the site is A-OK w/ me. You can rest easy now. Not much to add except that I would still like to hear how your homebrew turned out. My second batch (a red ale) will be ready to drink this weekend. WOO-HOO! The IPA I made was tasty, so here's to hoping this one follow suit.
Dear Nate,
I am a 20 year old bad-ass all the way from Holland. I am a big fan of both T-nation and your blog. Because of your blog and book I have learned a lot about strength training and nutrition. Enough background on me...
I am currently following the major: International Sport Business on the Johan Cruyff University (Johan Cruyff is a famous (old) soccer player from Holland). Part of this major is writing a master thesis. My idea is to compare a dutch gym (company) with Biotest (company) on the following areas: marketing, sales and communication.
I was wondering if you could answer some of my questions? I really didn't know where else to post this stuff. Sorry.
- What is the organogram of Biotest (organisation structure)
- That is the targetgroup of Biotest?
- What was the main reason for the formation of T-nation?
- What is the businessmodel of the T-nation site? Or easier sad: What keeps the website alive? Only sales of Biotest products, advertisement (don't see it)
If you could answer some of these questions I would be very excited!
Thanks for all you do!
With kind regards,
Michael Kramer
e-mail: mkramer.persoonlijk@gmail.com (if you want to e-mail me..instead of posting)
I am currently on your blogs newsletter list
OK, I admit that I let the "What Women Want" series of downloads marinate in my inbox for quite a while before I actually read it. You see, beign married I'm a lot less interested (read:not at all) in picking up chucks because after 13 yeara the wife is pretty much a sure thing at this point. But I really enjoy your writing style, so I tend to read most of what you crank out, whatever it may be.
I read "17 Tips On Getting The Life You Want" and I'm impressed. I consider myself to be pretty well put together mentally (and physically thank you very much), but it was a long, painful process of learning stretched over years of f##k-ups and bad decisions, and nasty life events. Mr. Green, you're a remarkably well put together and self-actualized guy considering you're... what... 12 years old?
This is probably the wrong place to post this, but I just wanted to pass on some well deserved praise for just being a wickedly smart dude. Just one piece of advice you won't learn in advance: after 30, no matter how efficient your metabolism, or how dialed in your nutrition choices are, your body stops processign slcohol like it used to. Hangovers get much nastier, and they are much MUCH easier to get. It's why I quit drinking.
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