"You know that photoshop whiz kid friend of yours? The one that plays his keyboard like a Steinway as he dodges and burns his way to photographic perfection?
That could be you.
Be the pinball wizard. But for Photoshop (or Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, After Effects, or Logic Pro)!
You wouldn't learn how to type on a keyboard with no letters on it, why try to learn keyboard shortcuts without the shortcuts right on your keys?" - Mona N.
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Remember the Seinfeld epsiode about Good Vs. Bad Naked. Totally Bad Naked. - Kyle Hebert
"So she coughed."
"Coughing? Naked? It's a turn-off, man."
"Everything goes with naked."
"When you cough there are thousands of unseen muscles that suddenly spring into action. It's like watching that fat guy catch a cannonball in his stomach in slow motion."
"You spoiled spoiled man. You know how much mental energy I expend just trying to picture women naked?"
"But the thing you don't realize is that there's good naked and bad naked. Naked hair brushing - good. Naked crouching - bad."
- George and Jerry, in "The Apology" - RAPatton
Unfortunately, in real life, the naked people probably don't look like what's in his calendar. - Jason Shultz
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Simply.. WOW! Will we have Nude Programming soon? - Winston Teo
TV.com is your reference guide to CSI: NY episode All in the Family. Episode guide, cast and crew information, analysis, polls, reviews and more. - Elliot Tucker
"The D700 features an FX-format first introduced with the Nikon D3. Highly praised for its outstanding features, the D3 established a new level of professional performance in terms of overall image quality, extraordinarily low noise, ISO sensitivity range, continuous high-speed shooting, color gradation, image crispness, durability, weather-resistant operation, system versatility and more.
The new D700 incorporates an extensive array of features that boast a level of performance that is in many ways comparable to the D3. At the same time, it derives a wide range of benefits – including functionality, flexibility and operability – from the more agile D300, Nikon's flagship DX-format D-SLR." - RAPatton
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People have been speculating that Canon has the 5D MkII ready but wanted to wait for Nikon's announcement and then steal their thunder with their announcement a few days later. Just like Nikon did last year with the D3 and D300 announcement just days after Canon's 1Ds MkIII. So, for the 5D MkII it might be any day now. Or as late as Photokina. - Ole Begemann
List price is something like $3,260 and the map price is $2,999. Street price will be $2,999 at least for a few months if the D300 and D3 is any indication. @Elliot Tucker grab some extra dough when you rob the bank. Anyone want to buy a D300 :-) - gfurry
Yeah, the 5D is much cheaper now. But it's 3 years old and it too started out at $3000. The 5D MkII will probably be closer to $3000 than $2000. - Ole Begemann
I agree Ole, my guess is the new 5D comes out around $3,200 on launch which would pit these two cameras directly in competition. I wish they'd release that damn 5D already. - Thomas Hawk
Ole: I guess we will all have to wait for a short time to see where the new 5D sits in price and features. I suspect it will be well below the D700 though - Brian Sullivan
I can't image it wouldn't be very close in features to the D700. I could see it having a higher megapixel count. - gfurry
My guess is that the new 5D will have a higher ISO sensitivity range, anti dust cleaning technology, more FPS, and a handful of other less significant features and will be priced at around $3,200, at least for the first six months because the early adopters will probably pay more, then followed by price drops to put it in position with this camera. - Thomas Hawk
Love the first sentence of Ken Rockwell's post: "The Nikon D700 is Nikon's top new amateur camera." Just about everything in this camera screams "pro" IMO. But goes to show how much we amateurs are prepared to pay for the newest gadget. - Ole Begemann
If this is any indication of what the Canon 5D Mk2 will be like I can't wait. We should know what Canon has to offer very shortly. - Jeff P. Henderson
Yeah, hey, when any of you upgrade to this and feel like selling off your old camera (you know, for cheap ;-) ) let me know. - Jordan Hofker
Jordan, I don't think anyone would ever want to buy my old 5D, I beat the hell out of it and it's well beyond the 100,000 frames advertised shutter life. I've been thinking when I upgrade I might turn it into an infared camera. Still not sure. If you want to buy a used camera, your best bet is always from someone who bought one and never used it. - Thomas Hawk
I'm a Nikon guy, so I've been waiting for an affordable full frame sensor camera to compete with the 5D. I'll probably have to wait a few years to move to something like this ($$$). Hopefully my D50 doesn't crap out before then! - Matt
@Thomas I found a great place to buy and sell used camera equipment. I've sold a bunch of old gear to them. They are quite reputable. KEH.com Check out their web site. - Jeff P. Henderson
Bloody hell, my D300 is barely six months old and already it's being put to shame. - Eric P
Well, sites like Twitter still have about a year before true mainstream acceptance. Something like FriendFeed is probably 18 months or more from mainstream acceptance, and it would need more filtering capabilities to get there. Video on a mobile is probably a little closer, but not sure about the publishing aspect. - Rob Diana
Rob: try again. Blogging still is barely mainstream and it's been out for 10 years now. Facebook just got to 110 million users. How many people in the world are there? Six billion? Funny how we consider things "mainstream." - Robert Scoble
Well, if 110 million users isn't "mainstream", then yes, I will change my estimates :) I think twitter (or microblogging) will go mainstream soon because it is so simple, and IM-like. "Real" blogging requires too much work and thought, and that is probably why it took so long. That and the tools have not been around for the full 10 years. Not sure when things like LiveJournal and WordPress really came about. - Rob Diana
LiveJournal was out in late 90s, I remember seeing it 2001 and I'm sure I wasn't early. WordPress came out shortly after that. Probably around 2003. Yeah, microblogging will probably be more popular than regular blogging. I'd agree with that, but it has a long way to go. Twitter has, what, a million or two users, not all of whom are active? - Robert Scoble
What's amazing is it seems that you guys beat the mainstream by days, not hours- for example, Andreesen/Facebook - Dino
LiveJournal, early 1990s? Try 1999, as late 1990s as it gets. ;o) - Fraser Smith
Sorry, I meant early 2000's. I'll fix that. - Robert Scoble
you are talking about heads down researchers from the nihs hp though robert :-p - mike "glemak" dunn
LiveJournal is huge in Russia, apparently. And the biggest search engine there is something called Yonex (useless info 4 the day alert) - john conroy
For me, I've gotten used to think in terms of mainstream for techies and mainstream for the general public. - Joey Lo
@Rob Diana - You're wrong - FriendFeed does not need more filtering to become mainstream. Mainstream users don't filter, they expect it to work and that's it. You're also wrong about FriendFeed becoming mainstream anytime soon. People don't use many services, therefore FF is useless for them. Not even blogging is mainstream, and probably won't ever at a scale like Facebook. Most people haven't got interesting things to tell. - sebmos
I still find it amazing that people continue with Twitter (myself included) despite it's hilariously fragile state. - Jonathan Beckett
I'm no techie, compared to some of the folks around FF anyway. I know "just enough to be dangerous," according to my wife's IT dept. But I rely on posts from folks like Scoble et al. to expand my knowledge of the tech world. FF is invaluable for that, but even though I signed up for it months ago, I didn't really start using it until the last 4-6 weeks. I think new sites and apps take a little getting used to, esp. if you're not really "out there" in terms of knowledge and know-how. - steplow = Steve Lowe
Interesting tweet Scoble. I wish I could get unlimited data here in Canada so I could Qik. - Granteezy
This says more about the researchers being out of touch than it does about social media. - Sam Pullara
@robertscoble - what you say about mainstream is exactly how I've tried making the point before that not only are services like Facebook reaching less than 10% of active Internet users, but most the world still needs to get connected! when people talk about Twitter going mainstream I want to scream "learn your orders of magnitude" - Julian Baldwin
I use my father and brother as 'touchstones' for mainstream. My dad, at 71 is an attorney who uses the computer for work only, doesn't regularly use email for personal reasons (but does for work) and can use the internet (he tracked down my twitter!) but doesn't see the need for it. My brother, at 44 is a judge who majored in CS & Psych in undergrad. He's a computer geek, but more into gaming than SocMed. They keep me from buying into the 'echo chamber' - yes, we are that far ahead. - Lucretia Pruitt
The Fins sold us the phones. So maybe we're not that far ahead. :-) - Dave Winer
I agree with Scoble,blogs, twitter, friendfeed, plurks won't be mainstream for a while. There is actual nothing in them that would give people a reason to hop on them in droves. E-mail yes, IM yes, static webpages, forums yes. And that's all. - Roland Hesz
I asked a bunch of people I work with regularly about Friendfeed and 1 person knew what it was. I work in the web industry. Maybe I was asking the wrong people. - Kate
Our focus is different. I don't know jack about sustainable architecture, for instance, but my friends who don't give a damn about blogs are all about green energy, sustainable city planning, etc. That's something that a lot of people on FriendFeed don't understand or care about. "Ahead" is a relative term. My dad is on FriendFeed, but he just sees it as another way to follow what I'm doing. My mom barely knows how to use e-mail, but she knows all about advances in wound care that I don't understand, but will be increasingly important as the population gets older and increasingly diabetic. Different strokes for different folks. - Steve Lynch
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I like what Steve Lynch replied, re. his friends/other people having a different focus, especially the bit re. his friends "who don't give a damn about blogs are all about green energy, sustainable city planning, etc. That's something that a lot of people on FriendFeed don't understand or care about. 'Ahead' is a relative term." I see that in my own communities of interest, where people are comfortable with forums (ew!), have made tentative forays into FB, but don't get blogs, much less Twitter, FF, etc. - Yule Heibel
@steve - that's a well stated point..I need to spend more time thinking about my understanding of mainstream and how it applies to sub-populations - Julian Baldwin
This discussion is a bit self-congratulatory, wouldn't you say? I would frame it a different way: how out of touch with the mainstream are we? The answer, of course, is very much so. Another question: are we out here on the cutting edge or just hunting snipe? - Juan Aguilar
I doubt Twitter will ever go "mainstream" if we define mainstream as a majority of the people who are online via computers or cellphones. Blogs, wikis, RSS, none of that is mainstream. Browsing, email, SMS...those are mainstream. - wrecks
now that it is mentioned, SMS reached mainstream pretty quick. - Ruben Llibre
@Jua Aguilar Hunting snipe. It's not in any way a cutting edge. It's just a way to pass time. - Roland Hesz
@wrecks: Good point. Maybe it would be better to talk about functionality rather than platforms, then. I'd say that social networking and IM are mainstream. I think real-time video on cellphones (for example) could go mainstream in a few years, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that "Qik" goes mainstream. I think wiki-like functionality will become more common... because it is very convenient. I think the functionality of a lot of Web 2.0 apps will be incorporated into mainstream devices, which is how it will become mainstream.... Torrents and Mp3 sharing was once for tech-heads only.... - Steve Lynch
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Lots a of great points, regarding Robert's original post I think that online video is finally taking off in a big way thanks to YouTube and that speaks more to the mainstream than any of the social applications we use to create and share content and conversation. Live mobile video broadcasting is still relatively new but video chat with Skype seems to be reaching a mainstream audience thanks to Oprah using it on her show and recent New Earth web casts. How much does the generation gap play into this? - Larry Kless
I just started work at fav.or.it, Nick is working to bring at least blog reading and following to the masses. but its hard work. - Tim Hawkins
R U KIDDING ME!!!!! OMG no wonder HP is not in touch anymore..dang! - Susan Beebe
The BBC have tried some mobile video in the last couple of months, Rory Cellan-Jones has a post up about it here http://is.gd/A6F (even includes a link to you Robert) - Mat
For US TV broadcasts (over the air) I seem to recall there is a requirement/regulation that XX% of your broadcast be of a certain 'broadcast quality' level and only YY% be of a lower quality (i.e. camcorders or cell phone video). - Andrew Leyden
this is much more about cost containment than lack of desire for some robert - cnn has been doing cellular video reports for awhile - mike "glemak" dunn
Mike and Mat: yeah, I know that there are some exceptions. But this was to a future of journalism conference. There should have been more. And a Nokia phone is a VERY CHEAP way to get photos and videos on scene at stories. So, if cost containment is a big deal, they should be handing these things out like water in the desert. - Robert Scoble
don't disagree regarding cheaper and should be handing out but when you look at the scale and day-to-day issues in media companies - cost containment is always an issue unfortunately - mit media lab is doing a very interesting project called civic media focused on this exact issue - mike "glemak" dunn
Robert - "future of journalism conference", in that case, Sigh++ - Mat
Tools and techniques are just that, got to put them to good use if they are going to be useful. In that respect, perhaps Journalists will be better at that when they learn how to use them. - Mário Pires
AFP has been using the N93 for over a year now. We have about 40 deployed throughout our network. Some journalists shoot, edit and FTP to Paris right off the cell. Some shoot and return to the bureau to edit and transmit off their desktop. - Jon Dillon
I think that's just a quality issue Robert. Qik does not look good at all on a T.V. - Erik Weese
"Tech" people should be ahead of journalists w/ tech stuff, that's what they do. Plus I wouldn't call Qik a fully fleshed out "cell video" service. Basically, you have one phone N95 (plus iPhone). Many tech people--early adopters still complain about the N95 flakiness. - Pokai
I hope it will be only Friendfeed soon. Doesn't anybody else get tired of all these different kind of networks? Sometimes monopoly is a good thing. Let's all head over to MSN ;-) - Rutger Blom
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mine is a little more extreme - friendfeed mostly & twitter rarely - i do push my ff's to twitter & i check my twitter replies & dm sometimes - i would like to get to the point where all my friends are in friendfeed and i no longer need to go to twitter at all - i used to like whales ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Agree. They are different and both ueful in different ways. I see no need to choose between them just yet. I'm using Plurk too, which is different again - very informal conversation. - jjprojects
Disagree. Reason? Time. I don't have time for multiple services. For me, right now at least, it's FF. - Steve Rubel
You don't need one to use the other but they sure are handy to use together - JohnBfromMemphis
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Haven't maid up my mind yet, but it seems that the different services and their approaches fill different needs. Undecided for now! - tekspectator
Exactly! Why does it have to be "either" "or"? - Steve
I definitely agree. It is frustrating to have people insist one is better than the other. Two totally different beasts. - Shawn Farner
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could not agree more. probably the best twitter, FF comment in a long time. - Bastian
Agree! At this point, FF's comment functionality isn't good enough to replace Twitter for me. With Twhirl, it doesn't seem like tool overload to use both. - jen robinson
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Apart from twitter's SMS interface.. what is missing (for you) in FF? @ ? - Kishore Balakrishnan
Its FF only. reaons against Twitter : (a) Twitter whaling to often (b) not easy to track/thread twitter replies together. FOR FF (1) FF stable (2) FF Conov enabler/agggreagator (3) I like it better :)- - Peter Dawson
An integrated solution with both would be best. Twittering out of FriendFeed - that's my dream! - Matthias Schwenk
Oh definitely agree. They are symbiotic beasts - Deepak
Agree absolutely, when social media tools complement, the sum become greater than the parts - Charlie Hope
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@ Matthias you can comment back from FF in Twitter already... - Charlie Hope
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and, and, and... there's Utterz, Flickr, blog, etc. etc. etc. -- so, yes. It all goes together. FriendFeed has a chance to become a hub (the way Twitter is foe me now, but more so), if it can somehow tame itself - Doug Haslam
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Funny how this comes to my attention now as Twitter is not updating for me, but FF is. I love how I can reply to FF via @Twhirl. That is a dynamic combintion. - Tracy Lee Carroll
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@Matthias I wonder if someone has created a tool that takes your own FF posts and makes a tweet from it? You'd need to turn off tweets in FF otherwise there would be a feedback loop that would eventually destroy the universe. - Elliot Tucker
elliot: twitterfeed does that, put in your ff atom feed and remove your twitter feed from ff - mike "glemak" dunn
Agree....finally somebody comes out and says it as it should be said :) - Arjun
it's both right now - if you have group of people in Twitter then it is both - otherwise the conversation is moving more into friendfeed on a greater range of topics so for those not so tied to twitter it is twitter or friendfeed - riaz
Disagree. Twitter has crossed the line. It is dead to me and too much of the time it is dead to everyone. - Dave Slusher
I kind of agree. There's too much noise on FriendFeed to have simple, conversational, exchanges. - Bill Bittner
If Twitter doesn't get its act together, it will be FriendFeed and no Twitter. I'm revisiting FriendFeed today after a nice hiatus - Michael Koby
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This is be being real: I love Twitter, and don't get me wrong, I think FriendFeed is cool, too.. but I think Facebook will ultimately adopt the killer features of both and wipe them out. - Shawn Farner
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Elliot, you can try feeding your FF entries feed into Twitterfeed.com. - Dewald Pretorius
And probably many other services we'll adopt - Sally Robinson
Agreed. FF, to me, is more of a reading rather than authoring experience - Michael Lehman
Agree. Friend Feed is my Twitter extension for comments and groups - Jon Bishop
Agree; tell me though, does Pownce = Twitter + FriendFeed [or vice-versa] or am I just being thick? Twhirl posts to Pownce for me as well, but taking Rafe Needleman's advice and not tracking multiple communities. FF good for posts too long for Twitter - Justin Guy Souter
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FriendFeed > Twitter for me. I feel more value when I post here first. - Steve Isaacs
agree, and, in between Twitter and Friendfeed , many other indispensible things are included. - Nikos Anagnostou
Both - but grudgingly. Honestly? The only reason I go to FF is because some of my Twitterpals migrated here and won't come back. Twitter is my main gal - FF is my Friday night stand-in. If I could do away with FF I would. - Lucretia Pruitt
Twitter is too myopic to last much longer. Our online lives are a lot more complicated than 140 characters. - David Weiner
How much time to we all have?? There are use cases for both twitter and friend feed. Some people WILL choose one or the other. There are functional aspects that i like about both. For me it is both. - Rodney Rumford
Its neither - it's what fits your structure and how you want to connect. If you want actual conversations and build on relationpships, IMO, Plurk is good at that. FF seems too cluttered but aggregates a lot information together. Twitter is still good for me and is a great broadcast tool, some communication, and a lot of industry heads that you can learn from. - Sonny Gill
What the heck, throw in Plurk and you got a deal. - Rick Wolff
It's becoming less and less so. I'd much rather have one service I can do it all on and FriendFeed satisfies that much better. Twitter still has things FF doesn't though so for what FF doesn't satisfy, I will continue to use Twitter for. - Jesse Stay
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I suppose I could go with the AND if FF offered a pure stream like twitter. I really don't like the threaded conversation presentation ... but maybe that's because I mostly use twirl? - Clint
You're almost right. I get what you're getting at. But the two are different and will grow separate paths with some common features. - phil baumann
phil, if they do grow in separate paths, that's great! I'll continue using both! However, I will not continue to use both for the same reasons. I'm removing the duplicate effort lately and consolodating what I can over to FriendFeed, leaving the remaining effort to Twitter. - Jesse Stay
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My other concern is that Twitter just doesn't have the expertise up high to make it a successful service. You will see the FF founders frequently engaged in conversations about FF on their service. I have yet to see a single Twitter founder engage in any of the critiques or compliments about their service on Twitter. - Jesse Stay
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FF ideal for social discovery as long as folks hooking up enough of their services. I like the "noise" of FF. - Stephen Francoeur
...and Plurk, and Facebook, and Pownce, and Jaiku, and more to come. Twitter for its simplicity and all the add-on apps and all the others for conversations or smaller groups with specific interests. - Brenda Young
$20 is ridiculous, some countries enforce $150-200 fines. - Amit Morson
In Ireland "Motorists who use hand-held mobile phones face an EUR 435 fine, three months' jail and a six-month driving ban." Yep, you guys have it pretty easy. And only $4 a gallon of gas! You're so lucky. - Elliot Tucker
$20 is silly, but drivers using cell phone in CA face bigger risks if they cause an accident. You might see even manslaughter charges brought up if a cell phone distracted driver causes a death since using a cell phone has been compared to driving while intoxicated. See LA Times story:http://www.latimes.com/news/lo... - mark ivey
@mark ivey: I'm sure the guy who died in the accident will really appreciate it... - Amit Morson
I guess the $20 is more like $100 after you factor in court costs etc. All I know is they won't be getting me. - Johnny Baker
And how much does the cop that pulls you over get paid per hour? Sounds like a potential for loss if you ask me. - Jesse Stay
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It'll take him a lot less than an hour to write your ticket. - Brian Norwood
Amit--if it's me dieing at the hands of a cell phone toting motorist, I'll be sure to leave the proceeds of any post-mortem lawsuit to you..In all seriousness, if hte fear of this stops one fatal accident from happening,what's wrong with that? - mark ivey
Dont forget, it might be only 20 bucks each, but if you have hundreds of people getting pulled over, those start to add up. I think they put it that low to get as many people popped as possible. - Johnny Baker
Brian yeah, but add to that the cost of the gas he used to pull you over, the time he spent waiting to give you the ticket, and the donuts he ate while waiting, I still smell a loss. :-P - Jesse Stay
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Well yeah, when you count gas AND donuts..... plus dry cleaning to get the jelly donut stains off his uniform.... - Brian Norwood
Is it true that you can still legally text message and drive? I mean, what the...that's more dangerous if you ask me! What about all the ladies who insist on putting on their face while driving? - paisano
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Texting and driving is just flirting with a Darwin Award. I just hope they go into a tree rather than killing some innocent, smarter person who doesn't text and drive. - Brian Norwood
I always wonder about this type of fines: what will the cop do if you fake a phone call with a can of tuna? - Ruud van Wijngaarden
Lots of cities in Texas are enacting laws like this in active school zones. - ha3rvey
We've had this in Ireland for a year or so now and it makes roughly zero difference...roughly. - Elliot Tucker
went into effect a couple of years ago in DC. other than the first month, I've seen no difference. - Apollo Gonzales
..but amazingly, texting is still allowed in CA after tue...they're working to close the loophole - mark ivey
I think its a good idea... I need some external motivation to help me stop the stupidity. In Washington (state), texting was illegal Jan, handsfree goes into effect July. - Leif Hansen
"A group of Lego UK employees built the 35,310 Star Wars Clone Trooper mini-figs in just six and a half hours to raise money for The National Autistic Society. The National Autistic Society is a british organization dedicated to helping 'people with autism and Asperger syndrome live their lives with as much independence as possible.'" - Mark Trapp
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I dont drive , so I walk to the transit stop, which is a little over 1KM. so everyday I do a min of 2KM walk avg. OVerall, most of the time its like 3Km /day of walking , every day for the last 4yrs :)- Keepin in shape da easy way ! - Peter Dawson
More than moderate, more than three times a week. - Julian Baldwin
I do - but only because my shoulder is so messed up from being in an accident and typing all day. - Gina
i try to lift or do cardio at least 3 days a week. more in the winter - Eric Schurr
Aside from walking, like Peter, nothing else and I should be doing something else. @Jeremiah three times a week is a very good number, it's keeps you fit and active without wearing you down. That's what I used to do. - Andrés David Aparicio
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