Surely ankle weights would have little or no effect on the effort expended on a bike? You know, because the one pedal is directly connected to the other, so the weight on one leg is counterbalanced by the weight on the other leg. If anything, I'd say the weights would give you a slight assist.
- Slippy
My thighs respectfully disagree :)
- Johnny
from iPhone
It works as an opposite. While yes the extra weight would help on the down stroke, I still have to lift my other leg with the weight on it. I eaither have all that weight on the up pedal whicj means I have to push it up on the down stroke or lift my leg with the weight on it. Add to that I now have 2Kg strapped to each ankle, that forces me to adjust my balance, working my core.
- Johnny
from iPhone
Might get some and see what a difference it makes
- Mo Kargas
I can get that, and I'm not going to argue with your thighs, obviously, but the weight on your left foot on its downstroke is assisting the right foot in its upstroke. I think. My physics-fu is rusty from years without training. Of course, if you lift off the pedal on the upstroke, you're making both legs work at the same time, increasing the workload throughout.
- Slippy
buuuut also increasing the chance you'll fall off the exercycle.
- Slippy
I think Slippy is right. All the work is on the downstroke, and that is alternated between the legs. While one works, the other rests. That's how you ride a bike.
- April
for the record, Johnny is also wearing nipple weights. But we aren't sure why
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
*reads last line* *SELF: memory.get(lastline).delete()*
- Mo Kargas
I wonder if there's anything I could say to past me that would convince her to try allergy shots to get rid of our seasonal allergies. I remember thinking "Oh hell no." at the time but I've seriously reconsidered.
I've been wanting to watch Heathers for about 2 years now, but none of our local video stores have it. I'm not a member of Netflix or anything, so I haven't been able to watch it. :(
- Curdy G
I have some Wild sauce from Buffalo Wild Wings here, it's no Blazin' but if I dabbed the little fiend with it, I'm sure it'd be awful
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
I'm thinking of picking a random friend on Facebook and just switching my status to "married" to them. So far the top candidates are, in no particular order. Melly, Pea, Holly, Katie, MC, or Johnny. I would then wait 2 days, switch it back to single at 2:35am, and proceed not to log into Facebook for a solid week.
The odd thing is that Facebook will show (at least some) relationships even if the other party doesn't consent O_o (I have some cousins I refuse to acknowledge - my sibs know better than to try that ish on me).
- Tinfoil 2.0
D. Want me to come in and anonymously slap anyone who is out of line for you? They don't have to know we know each other, just give me the nod towards the offender and it will be done!
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
I wasn't offended, I just wonder why of all songs to sing, they were singing that one.
- Derrick
My friend gave me access to his SWTOR for a couple days to see if my graphics card can handle it (because he needs an upgrade) it finally finished downloading, and now the dog won't get off my lap so I can play!
so now I'm in an awkward position. I want to keep playing. But not on my friends account lol. So I may cut myself off til I can get myself a copy (Improv classes come first) So that is why I haven't met up with anyone in game yet. Ooh, but important question! If I go with a Smuggler, do I eventually get a kickass trenchcoat?
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
From what I have read, the Rebel classes have armor that is what you would expect them to have, so it could be likely.
- Chris Topher
My smuggler (at level 30) has a longcoat. Doesn't look like a trenchcoat, but it reminds me of Mal so that's good enough.
- Arlan K.
sweet! True story, in Star Wars Galaxies, I made quite a bit of money because I became a tailor (or whatever the equivalent was called, I can't remember at the moment) and specialized in Firefly themed outfits.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
I've seen navel lint that's more helpful than yooz guyz.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm not trying to be funny. I've been speaking to a lot of triathletes and they wear triathlon race suits ( which is made from the same material as bike pants) cause they can transition from the swim to the bike leg and it's dry within seconds. You're going to get wet anyway... but the key it to have a quick drying and semi-waterproof solution.
- Johnny
Yes, but "bike pants" is entirely too generic. Are we talking about tights shorts? Thermal tights? Bib tights? Full leg tights? It's kind of like if someone asked me where to find J-Wo and I said "Australia".
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm looking at stuff from Pearl Izumi, Showers Pass, Gore, etc. and trying to find something that would fit with the rides that I'm likely to do. Bike season is about to start at work. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Is it cold where you live? Buy long bike pants. Is it not? Get shorts. #ThatEasy
- Johnny
The difficult with bike rain pants is that they often don't breathe. So you get wet inside just from your own sweat pooling up against a waterproof surface.
- Spidra Webster
My $11 training pants I got from our local Walmart equivalent has vents built in.
- Johnny
If I were going to design a bike pant, I'd design one that was waterproof or water resistant on the front but breathable in the back. On an upright, the tops of your thighs are where you'll get the most rain anyway. It's important to get fenders. They'll take care of a lot of the mess.
- Spidra Webster
So, business in the front, party in the back?
- Eric
LOL, Johnny, it's rainy and coldish (45-55 deg F most of the year).
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
That's why I expressly said "COMIC BOOK MOVIES" and not "SUPERHERO MOVIES". This is a very close and 'true to spirit' adaptation of the Chester Gould comics. It never took itself to seriously and never tried to be anything it couldn't be. It was a straight-up comic book movie.
- Johnny
Didn't you know that once someone famous dies you are supposed to forget about all the mistakes they made in life? It was on the memo about TPS cover sheets.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
why does "Mirror, Mirror" Spock look more like McCoy, tho?
- Joe The Sausage
I've gotta be honest, as much as I love Star Trek...I don't really wanna see his face when I'm looking at a naked woman's chest. That'd be too distracting.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
also, "shut. the. fuck. up." would be popular
- Mary Carmen
Your twitters mist be interesting to read.....
- Uli- #10
from Android
most of the worst ones i see are ones that i run across while doing searches. not necessarily people i follow. though sometimes they'd get it too. ;)
- holly #ravingfangirl
My mum would anoint you with olbas oil, tell you to put on a vest (singlet?) and go to bed early with honey, lemon and a tot of rum or whisky. And no TV. Or music. Or enjoyment of any kind. You would be allowed to do a decade of the rosary or read some psalms. But not the exciting ones.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I know, Katy. It's a choice I had to make. A little red wine now and then, but no liquor. :(
- Derrick
It was a half-joke. My great grandma would have prescribed something along those lines for almost everything. I don't really subscribe to that approach.
- Katy S
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Drat on you, Micah! I meant what's a good site to use that is specifically tailored to making photoblogs?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Posterous is all about that these days. Or I can set you up a WordPress install with a choice of themes on one of my BlueHost servers.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Good to know, Mary, and thanks for the offer, but this isn't for me.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Or, really, the dead-easiest thing to do is ourdoings, which does it for you. You upload a bunch of pix to a special DropBox folder and it organizes the shots based on the metadata. Then, go back in and add whatever text you want to tell the story. http://ourdoings.com
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
And it's our own Bruce Lewis - so it stays in the family. We ought to promote that more.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
For public consumption I use Posterous (not actively, lately) http://wittman.posterous.com and Smugmug's API + a PHP app I wrote for private family photos.
- Micah
I've tried Posterous, Tumblr, Wordpress, Smugmug/Flickr/Picasa hackery, Instagram, Zenfolio and 500px for various mutations of photo posting/blogging, and for something public, I'd just just go with Tumblr these days. I think the community trumps any sort of technical whizbangery. Particularly since other tools (e.g. Instagram) will post to it natively.
- Ken Sheppardson
Friendfeed remains a choice, if not a popular choice.
- Andy Bakun
ourdoings seems nice for telling a story, needs nicer skins though (considering calling a favor from a friend to get one done). And it links to FF like nothing else does (and g+ and more). Blipfoto is nice if you want to try to be more consistent and encouraged in taking photos. I have found blip to be easy, friendly, clean. Also, it's a scottish startup. There's also european ipernity, which feels like a clone of flickr except with better support for telling a story/blog around a set of pictures
- Iphigenie
Bruce, Bootstrap looks cool. If you're thinking of doing skins, Bootstrap doesn't look any harder than messing with WP themes*, and that LESS business just about made me swoon. If people want custom skins, I'd be happy to design them! *I can't say I build whole themes from scratch - don't have the php chops for that. It's more like I restyle existing themes - Genesis child themes, or I also have a developer license for Elegant Themes - with client trade dress (type, colors and imagery).
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Bruce, I will ask. Strangely enough Bootstrap was exactly what I was using messing with my skin for my old tired site (wish I'd enjoy that kind of design more, but i dont). I don't know if bootstrap would make a huge difference but I think having a well structured and documented (or self explanatory) template would help, and bootstrap or some other framework would help you in creating...
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- Iphigenie
Dunno, got an odd feeling from one of the instructors who was at the show tonight. Ran not him for a minute in the way out said hi and all, then he said, I dunno in a different way "we'll talk in class." I'm hoping I'm reading more into it than it is... It was a tone thing.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
What was the context? Maybe he was just in a hurry and thought you had a question about something class-related?
- joey
But regardless, stop worrying about that. You just started focusing on your skills in a class setting. When I started acting, I was TERRIBLE. Now I'm mediocre. Someday I'll be good. Hopefully someday excellent.
- joey
Just found out level 2 classes start march 13. Time to get serious about money! I might die if I have to take a break. Worst case I'll pimp my fan for bday cash early muahahaha
My friend sent me a picture of this awesome shirt he saw while out and about. While it is very awesome and I would like it, does anyone else besides me see what is wrong with it?
I don't understand why people think you want to know (like years later) that they had a crush on you. Apparently when you're about to get married it becomes a confessional up in here.
I think it's often meant as a compliment or affirmation... something that went unsaid then, and they regret not doing so. I've had people tell years later that they had a crush on me, and it didn't seem that they still carried those feelings or expected any response "in kind." But maybe I'm just obtuse. #catharsis
- Mark J
from Android
I've gotten comments made to me by guy friends, "if I wouldn't have married so in so, you'd be the one". Seriously?!?!
- Jenny...
Dear MC, I have a crush on you... kids in the hall style! *wacky accent* I'm am crushing your head withs my fingaz! /accent
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
A different point of view - as someone who is quite sure they were never the object of someone's crush it would be mice to hear that I was wrong.
- Alan
from BuddyFeed
MC, I love you! Don't marry Scott, run away with meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
This Aussie friend I had a one night stand with called me the night before my wedding. Awkward, indeed.
- Cristal Blue Persuasion