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QOTD: Your Superpower

This is not a blog. 

No. This is the Hall of Justice, my friends.   

Many of you do not know this, but I spend the hours I am not chained to a microphone as a mild-mannered reporter in the pursuit of  justice.  Specifically, I am the Traffic Avenger.   I seek to bring a kind of cool equilibrium to the travels of the American Public.   I snap the necks of those who do not use turn signals and those who use high beams on crowded roads and those who tailgate.   If it’s your first offense, I may merely smash your windshield and flip your car over.  Continue reading →

Crassercise: you did better than I did

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Well.

For all of my best intentions, I made it to the pool twice.

Hit me with your results and I’ll add them to this post.

Name What you did How you feel
SWC 2x Swim Feeling okay, but unimpressed
MOL 3xYoga; 2xWalk/Elliptical; some other

I’m not going to make any excuses for myself, so I’ll give you one of my favorite one mile swim workouts. It’s a broken mile. It’s easy, but you do have to keep track of things in your head – AND you have to pick up speed as you go. Take about 10 seconds in between each.

1×275 (11 lengths of the pool) – warm up
1×250 (10) – moderate
1×225 (9) – moderate
1×200 (8) – faster
1×175 (7) – faster
1×150 (6) – faster
1×125 (5) – faster
1×100 (4) – sprint
1×75 (3) – sprint
1×50 (2) – sprint
1×25 (1) – sprint

Then do a 100-200 cool down.

…but isn’t typing exercise?

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Who doesn’t want to be 1,000 pounds and featured on Gawker’s homepage? We don’t!

I’ll try to make this a weekly post where we can check in, ass kick each other, and brag about how tough we are. In convening our first meeting, this is the agenda (and, since I’m initiating it, my philosophy).

1. In general, I think exercise leads you to eat/take care of yourself a bit better, so this ain’t about dieting or calories.
2. Start where you are and be reasonable in your goals.
3. Help me name our exercise group.
4. Tell us what you plan to do/want to accomplish.
5. Keep track of the number of miles run, biked, swam, etc.

I like data, so I am going to be tracking my swimming and biking on Map My Ride, which also has Android and iOS applications (the Android one is free right now, just FYI). The cool thing about the mobile apps is that you can start the GPS at the start of your ride and it will track you automatically.

So that’s it – tell us how you want to report your results, I figure we can do some group tracking and whatnot and let’s exercise more than our fingers!

Book Club

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Hey there folks, I just want to throw out a few possible rules/guidelines/decisions for the upcoming book club. Feel free to disagree, and/or add more of your own.

1.  Book Club discussion will be posted every third Sunday of the month at 7pm EST.  While it will be nice to have a lot of us at that particular time, feel free to add to the discussion at your leisure.

2.  If it’s your turn to host book club please choose a book that is widely available and preferably also available in paperback.  I guess Kindle availability would be a plus for those folks, but I don’t that it’s absolutely necessary, right?

3.  Try not to pick the same genre or author as the previous Book Club selection, let’s mix things up.

4.  Whether or not you are hosting, as you read the book think of some questions to ask your fellow readers so we can keep the discussion going.

5.  If you are hosting, pick the next host before your Sunday so they have enough time to chose a book.

6. New book selections should be posted in a separate post the third Monday of each month.

7.  If you have any suggestions for future picks, or problems with that book, post your comments in that post ^

8.  You don’t have to stick to traditional book club books though you’re welcome to.  Add in the classics, graphic novels, sci-fi  (if you must), anything that floats your boat. Expand our horizons.

9.  If you don’t have an intense debate commenting account get one now!

10. If you are hosting, you’ll need to have a Crasstalk account.

11. Even if you think you are going to hate this book/genre why not give it a try.  You can tell us exactly what you dislike in the discussion.  And if I’m going to give sci-fi a try, I expect you all to give everything a go.

So if you have any book suggestions, questions, or general comments this is the place to let me know about it.  I’ll post my selection a bit early just in case we need to work out any kinks.  So the book will be announced next week, and the first discussion will take place on February 20th.

Edit –  Now that I think about it, is posting the book on the third Monday okay? Will that give you all enough time to go get the book and read it? Or should we post it earlier? So many decisions!!!