The exercising I do now has three main benefits. First, it's helping me control/lose weight. Second, it should hopefully have longer-term benefits when I get older if I keep up with it (for the heart). Third, it allows me to be the one who can walk up stairs, or do more active things without feeling incredibly like ass after doing even the mildest of physical activities.
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CougTek
Hairy Aussie
The way you described your health and overweight issues in the past, I'm very surprise to read that you can actually run...even more so to run 2.5 miles. I thought you were fat like...FAT. Morbid fat. You must not be that bad after all. You certainly didn't look obese in the picture you posted online a few years ago.
Keep it that way so that we can have you around many more years.
ddrueding
Fixture
One good thing to say about WD Raptors. They still have Molex power connectors on them. It's a good thing since I snapped the SATA power connector off when dropping in my new CPU.
Buck
Storage? I am Storage!
When you're 6'2" it's easier to hide extra weight. My ideal weight would be 13 stone 8, but I'll settle for 14 stone. My health has been the primary reason for exercising, not necessarily my weight. Even when I'm overweight, but exercising, my health is much better.
ddrueding
Fixture
Using wonderful Google to convert from rocks to an actual measure of weight; and considering we are the same height, you actually aren't that heavy. I'm 13 stones myself, thought I should probably loose 5lbs and re-allocate 10-20lbs.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
BTW Merc, the passover was a death sentence for the wicked. It was the tenth plague. Probably more apropos.
I was going for a kind of non-sequitor thing with that post. Humor isn't as fun when you have to explain it.
ddrueding
Fixture
lose. damnit.
Buck
Storage? I am Storage!
Re-allocating is always the issue. : ) Currently, I'm 15 stone 10, once I was 17 stone 2. It was fun, but unhealthy.
PS: Even when plural, it's still stone.
ddrueding
Fixture
I know. I'm actually familiar with the measurement, I just think it is silly and am giving you a hard time. Merc was right, it's less fun after you explain it.
Buck
Storage? I am Storage!
I think it's a ridiculous measurement, that's why I like using it.
ddrueding
Fixture
That was actually about my max as well. Strangely, that was when I was in my best shape (age 19). Seriously strong, I was teaching/competing in sailboat racing every day for nearly a year.
I'm consistent on that one. Both running 25m or swimming 25m would have me gasping for air
Even I can run or swim 25 meters.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I can run 25m alright, but I don't float (not enough body fat) so the only way I'm going to make 25m in water is down and at 25m below the surface, I would be gasping for air.
paugie
Storage is cool
Yeah, Coug, you don't have to tell us you don't have enough body fat, we can see it from the picture you provided. (j/k of course)
I was in the hospital Saturday attending to my bro-in-law who was suffering from symptoms of kidney stones. When the nurse took his blood pressure, I asked if I could have mine taken, too. The nurse obliged and said it was 120/80, which is my best reading since year 2000 when I started maintenance pills for my hypertension.
Got to thinking, is this because I am getting some exercise nowadays? If true, very good!
I was in the hospital Saturday attending to my bro-in-law who was suffering from symptoms of kidney stones. When the nurse took his blood pressure, I asked if I could have mine taken, too. The nurse obliged and said it was 120/80, which is my best reading since year 2000 when I started maintenance pills for my hypertension.
Got to thinking, is this because I am getting some exercise nowadays? If true, very good!
I think you should buy floatation devices. It only takes a little boyancy to make swimming easier.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
<homer simpson>Mmmmm.... Ice Crreeaamm....<drooling></homer simpson>
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Works for me.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Also, Duke Nukem Forever was announced 10 years ago today.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Just watch it. It's cool.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
COME GET SOME!!
Incidently my voice is the perfect pitch imitate Duke.
Incidently my voice is the perfect pitch imitate Duke.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Not a joke. It's only that they had one texture for the drums and applied to to all of them.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
I read Inflation, Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression, which led to Countdown to a Meltdown. Depressing.
ddrueding
Fixture
I hate stupid people. Especially if they are neighbors and have guns.
ddrueding
Fixture
Lunar,
This is a great neighborhood. This is the first shooting here for 7 years. It just happened to be 4 months after we moved in and 10 feet from our front door. The person who did the shooting rode their bicycle 10 miles to get here and shoot up the place.
I can discount it fairly easily as an isolated incident, I just hope it brings down the housing prices a bit
This is a great neighborhood. This is the first shooting here for 7 years. It just happened to be 4 months after we moved in and 10 feet from our front door. The person who did the shooting rode their bicycle 10 miles to get here and shoot up the place.
I can discount it fairly easily as an isolated incident, I just hope it brings down the housing prices a bit
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Meh.
The places I have lived since I moved out of my parents house, gunfire is generally something I expect to hear a few times a week. Hell, I lived in a place for several years where I could expect to see muzzle flash a few times a week.
I suspect these facts might have some bearing on my position about who should and should not have guns, and what kinds of guns they should have.
The places I have lived since I moved out of my parents house, gunfire is generally something I expect to hear a few times a week. Hell, I lived in a place for several years where I could expect to see muzzle flash a few times a week.
I suspect these facts might have some bearing on my position about who should and should not have guns, and what kinds of guns they should have.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
From the PC Gaming thread...
Actually I am taking a friend to a concert in a little over a week. It is not a date (she is a taken woman) but she is a real woman.
Last time I took someone to a concert she turned gay a few months later. But that was Melissa Etheridge and this one will be Norah Jones, so hopefully THAT won't be repeated this time... But yes I really do think about things like that.
This time I have some enthusiasm for the music, so I'm actually looking forward to going. But I am also completely nervous because I do not know how well I will do with being in that particular set of unfamiliar social settings. I am worried that I will make myself sick or say/do something that is completely wrong.
Actually I am taking a friend to a concert in a little over a week. It is not a date (she is a taken woman) but she is a real woman.
Last time I took someone to a concert she turned gay a few months later. But that was Melissa Etheridge and this one will be Norah Jones, so hopefully THAT won't be repeated this time... But yes I really do think about things like that.
This time I have some enthusiasm for the music, so I'm actually looking forward to going. But I am also completely nervous because I do not know how well I will do with being in that particular set of unfamiliar social settings. I am worried that I will make myself sick or say/do something that is completely wrong.
ddrueding
Fixture
All that I learned about dating I got from old movies. I still open doors and tuck in chairs for women. All doors/chairs for all women, always. I try to speak just enough to keep the conversation going; it's not my job to drive the conversation, but it is my job to stop it from dying. Pay as much attention as you can without staring.
And of course, the hardest part, be comfortable with the concept of physical contact without wanting it or fearing it. Physical contact is something that occasionally happens, and people with little experience can make it very obvious that they have little experience. Mistake #1 is to try and avoid all physical contact as a sign of respect. This makes it obvious that you aren't comfortable, and that you interpret any physical contact as something more serious, making the next mistakes that much more obvious. Mistake #2, make it too firm. Usually demonstrated by a firm pat on the shoulder, women don't like it. Women (actually, all people) like to be touched, but respected at the same time which leads to the next mistake. Mistake #3, Velcro contact. Usually demonstrated by a gentle touch on the shoulder that stays for way too long. This shows to the other person that you were thinking about it, had difficulty doing it, and are now trying to savor it/play it out. Makes them feel like an object; bad.
Keep in mind, most men mess up most interactions with women. So your primary objective is to not mess it up! If you can also manage a "good time" and maybe even "funny" or "witty", those are bonuses.
I know she is taken, so consider it low-stakes practice. I'm sure she has single friends.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
She does not know any other women either.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I can't handle this not having work to do. I don't have any contracting work scheduled until June, and my teaching schedule is more-or-less clear as well.
I slept 34 of the last 48 hours.
No idea how I'm going to make it through next week.
I slept 34 of the last 48 hours.
No idea how I'm going to make it through next week.