You can't control the gait of a crocodile.
Sofa king great. "I'll be your best friend!" Прекрасно.
Relatedly, I can't wait to see Kooky Returns.
Wait, neb, you speak Russian?
Heh. Чай...чемодан...чебуреки...
Could I have made a lamer joke? Why do I comment on this goddamn site anyway.
I was thinking of that because I just noticed somebody opened a crossfit place not far from my secondary office. I had no idea it was getting to be that big of a deal.
Wait, neb, you speak Russian?
No. There are subtitles.
There were even advertisements for Crossfit "trials"--you have to try out for it?--in Heidelberg last month. Crazy!
That's weird. I don't see subtitles. And I don't mean that in the sense of "I don't see race."
Maybe you have to try out for Crossfit to make sure you're not going to have a heart attack, or faint, when you begin.
Do they have beginner, intermediate, and advanced Crossfit? It would only make sense. Just as you wouldn't want a neophyte to just jump into yoga either.
That's weird. I don't see subtitles. And I don't mean that in the sense of "I don't see race."
You have to click the "cc" thing at the bottom of the video. You know, the way it says to do at the beginning.
Crossfit really is for everyone, even weaklings like me (they just scale the workout to your ability, but you can participate) but you usually have to do something like a 4 week class to learn some of the movements before just going straight into the workouts.
Just as you wouldn't want a neophyte to just jump into yoga either
Thanks to Wii Fit, you can start that in your own home.
15: Makes sense. So I guess they have professionals on staff who can gauge individuals' physical states and wellness. (I'm just remembering that list of workout tasks you posted once, which seemed utterly undoable for an awful lot of people, and dangerous.)
It's more of an individualized program than I realized. My conception is probably flavored by that article about a related heave-ho-style regimen that I read in Outdoor magazine -- I mentioned it here at the time. That didn't describe something for everyone, so I may have gotten the wrong idea.
Crossfit "trials"--you have to try out for it?
They're legal trials, like they had in Germany for another bunch of fanatics.
Well, it's independent gyms doing the same program, not a hierarchical organization, so different gyms have different levels of professionals assessing you. But in general the coaches will assess how good you are and allow you to scale in a way that matches ability. The goal is to leave everyone exhausted at the end of a single workout, which is actually kind of egalitarian; you, the novice, should be just as blown away at the end of 20 minutes as the dude who can deadlift 400 lbs, run a mile in under six minutes and crank out 50 pullups no problem. As opposed to Superman working through your easy workout in a breeze and laughing at you, or you simply being unable to do anything and collapsing.
Also, apparently my particular gym has a reputation as the "bad boys" of Crossfit. Which makes me a bad boy, by extension.
You have to click the "cc" thing at the bottom of the video. You know, the way it says to do at the beginning.
Apparently I didn't notice.
20.1: Right, and good. I just keep thinking -- I have triple-D (D3, degenerative disk disease) in my lower back, which means a couple of my vertebrae down there are slowly disintegrating around the edges, such that the disk between them is blurping out to one side sometimes, pinching the nerve going down my right leg, and so there are some things it is just bad and wrong for me to do, lest I make it worse. I can't be heaving tires around (if they're on the ground first and I have to pick 'em up and heave 'em over yonder). I can do a bunch of other stuff, but I can't do that, or at least, even if it doesn't hurt a lot in the moment, it is extremely unwise.
I don't mean to say that crossfit is awful; the above was just a long-winded way of saying that it seems a little one-size-fits-all, even with the adjustments you describe.
I suppose for "disk" I should say "disc."
I suppose you can roll the tires mostly, but you'll have to get help to put them on the wheel balancing machine.
I don't get it. Why would a crocodile have so much milk?
You can milk anything with nipples.
To be clear, I know crocodiles don't have nipples. I just don't care.
In Camino, the video on this post is Heebie's Spanish workout dance video from a few days ago.
I spent quite a while being utterly baffled by this comment thread (and by the post itself, although lessly because I often just assume that Ben's jokes are too subtle for me) until it occurred to me to try the site in firefox. It turns out there's an animated video that includes Russian words and a crocodile.
I often just assume that Ben's jokes are too subtle for me
whyyyyyyyyy do so many people seem to think this
(obscure, maybe; subtle, not too often.)
28.1: In Camino, the video on this post is Heebie's Spanish workout dance video from a few days ago.
Hmm, I had that on Firefox on two different systems (and similar to when the Roy Orbison video was actually the Marshmellow Test for me a few days ago). It was the right one on other browsers on the systems, and was fixed after exiting and re-starting Firefox (simply clearing the cache did not work). A bit odd, examining the page code yielded the right video both times, yet the older one is what appeared--I was thinking it was related to the Plugin-container which I think is new in Firefox 4 (and which I can and should turn off), but I assume that would not plague Camino. Nothing too exciting, but seemingly a weird little glitch; I was going to ask if other Firefox users had experienced it.
33: Haven't experienced it, but while we're on the subject, have you found that Firefox 4 is an even bigger memory suck than the previous versions?
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I've found that the last track on Blut aus Nord's album The Work which Transforms God is called "Procession of the Dead Clowns", which is hilarious.
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34: If that is true, I'd like to know before I upgrade. I actually did download the upgrade on the work machine yesterday, and ZoneAlarm told me that it was a malicious/corrupted file, so I aborted anyway. If Firefox 4 is a huge memory suck, I won't bother to figure out what the problem is.
34: Yes, it does seem to be somewhat. And one of my systems the plugin-container process has absolutely blown up several times since 4 (apparently it was added sometime in 3.6 but I've only really noticed it since I've been at 4). IE8 pigs it out as well ... and Safari is lame, maybe Google really does know best.
33: Yep. Me too. Couldn't figure out why everyone was dancing to a Roy Orbison video (or find the booty shaking). I have Firefox 4.