[Wrathblood]

Cool. Shardik had said it was perfectly fine and and possibly expected that some folks would do this. Hope to see you back in Cata!

[Sobeyet]

Kbore, on 27 August 2010 - 10:52 AM, said:

Yes you will, just bored and need something to keep me entertained till then

I have so much spare time from not playing wow that I ran 13 miles yesterday.

[Innocence]

lol sobe

[Forte]

Yeah I'm pretty much bored as hell without WoWs to play. I'm trying to learn how to draw and it's going pretty poorly

[Wrathblood]

All at once, Sobe? Or was it like a whopping ton of 30 foot increments to the fridge? If all at once, I'm curious what was chasing you and why it was so persistent.

Forte, feel free to post. I seem to recall Yssa being a pretty good artist and her taste seems like it might have some overlap with yours. Potential for helpful suggestions, anyway.

[Innocence]

Yssa and Forte make a heresiarch web comic imo, i am fucking sure it would be popular with just what used to go on between dalok, mucknip, sobe, myself, velk and bullzor, and kimina and, like half a dozen other heres vets


I i am so sad i can't see my strat for Yogg any more D:

[Sobeyet]

Wrathblood, on 01 September 2010 - 10:47 AM, said:

All at once, Sobe? Or was it like a whopping ton of 30 foot increments to the fridge? If all at once, I'm curious what was chasing you and why it was so persistent.

Was a half marathon, my friend's running in the NYC marathon in nov and I'm tagging along during his training. Too late for me to qualify this year, but I'm thinking about running in next years.

[Wrathblood]

Nice. Good use of newly freed up time.

[Sobeyet]

Yeah, and it's actually kind of fun, tons of different paths I can take and I get to explore the city. Running over the bridges are nice too, spectacular views. Just have to make sure I don't push the back too hard, not even going to bother with +20 mile distances until next year. And it's a great excuse to take a break from smoking; once a year I quit cold turkey for a few weeks just to prove I'm not addicted. I'll probably start back up when I can comfortably run ~8 miles an hour. Hoping to get a time of <3:30 for the marathon with a +year of training, I'll see how it goes.

[Wrathblood]

Huh, smoking seems like it'd be bad for your cardio, though it never stopped my brother. Athlete AND a smoker. I remember a family get together post-college. He spent the first couple days laying on the couch, eating pizza, watching movies and smoking. Finally, my dad (a tremendous athlete) badgered him enough that he got off the couch and joined in a run. After a mile or so of warming up, my brother took off and finished his 10 miles in a little over 60 minutes. It was pretty astonishing. He was in good shape in high school (starting linebacker on the varsity football team as a sophomore and he ran his first marathon before turning 18) but in college he did nothing but smoke and drink. He had to finish quickly, he told us, because the only place that sold the cigarettes he liked closed early and he was almost out.

Are the outer boroughs good for that? Manhattan was kind of a deathtrap. Mrs Wrath and I used to bike in Central Park a lot pre-kids and it was great, but getting there was a test of your personal survival skills. After she got doored a couple times our interest dwindled rapidly.

Oh, also : http://failblog.org/page/2/

I know you're a hippie rather than a hipster, but I saw this and assumed you used them for your move. Any ironic facial hair yet?

[Sobeyet]

Wrathblood, on 02 September 2010 - 11:12 AM, said:

Huh, smoking seems like it'd be bad for your cardio

Well yeah, it's pretty obvious that smoking makes it harder to run 26 miles. But I don't really find the difference noticeable so I'm going to start back up soon enough.

Wrathblood, on 02 September 2010 - 11:12 AM, said:

Are the outer boroughs good for that? Manhattan was kind of a deathtrap. Mrs Wrath and I used to bike in Central Park a lot pre-kids and it was great, but getting there was a test of your personal survival skills. After she got doored a couple times our interest dwindled rapidly.

I actually run into Manhattan, running from my house to the top of central park and down to union square is 13 miles, so that's the path I usually take. Haven't had any issues with crashing into anything yet.

Wrathblood, on 02 September 2010 - 11:12 AM, said:

Oh, also : http://failblog.org/page/2/

I know you're a hippie rather than a hipster, but I saw this and assumed you used them for your move. Any ironic facial hair yet?

You fail at linking, but I'm guessing you're talking about this: http://failblog.org/...s-poster-win-2/ (It's on page 4 now)

Well I live in Park Slope, not Billyburg, so don't see too many hipsters. Have some art students that creep over from the pratt institute in Clinton Hill but it's a decent source of impressionable young girls so I can't complain. Can't stand the way hipsters dress, but I've talked about that before. I've read Proust, Nietzsche, and Freud but find most of the old stuff to be overwritten and boring. Alas, I couldn't grow an ugly beard if I wanted to - Asian genetics, I don't have much in the way of facial/body hair. Still better than turning into a silverback gorilla when I hit middle age though. I shave and shower more than once a week so I don't think I qualify as a hipster. Oh and I don't own a bike or a giant stroller, which is a bit odd for this neighborhood.

So what makes me a hippie anyway? You've called me that before but I'm not sure what the impetus is. I love exploiting the environment for personal gain - I got about 14 mpg in the city in my Porsche, <10 mpg when I was autocrossing - I'm nowhere close to a vegetarian/vegan, and I'm an elitist with a streak of misogyny - not exactly the "free love and peace to all mankind" type. Maybe giving up the potential-seven-figure-income-to-be-broke-doing-something-I-like-thing? I'd say that makes me an anarchist more than a hippie.

[Forte]

Wrathblood, on 02 September 2010 - 11:12 AM, said:

Huh, smoking seems like it'd be bad for your cardio

In the military the smokers always said that smoking helped them out before a fit test. /shrug

[Sobeyet]

Forte, on 03 September 2010 - 12:06 PM, said:

Wrathblood, on 02 September 2010 - 11:12 AM, said:

Huh, smoking seems like it'd be bad for your cardio

In the military the smokers always said that smoking helped them out before a fit test. /shrug

Well it's the air force, they just need to be fit enough to climb that little ladder into the cockpit. And not even that for the UAV pilots.

Smoking always helped steady Snake's aim with the sniper rifle so it must be a good thing.

[Shardik]

Forte, on 03 September 2010 - 12:06 PM, said:

Wrathblood, on 02 September 2010 - 11:12 AM, said:

Huh, smoking seems like it'd be bad for your cardio

In the military the smokers always said that smoking helped them out before a fit test. /shrug

I knew a couple people that were hard core smokers. Once they tried to stop smoking their run times would go down a great deal. Then again I knew a guy who could smoke and still run 5 min miles without breaking a sweat. People are just built differently.

[Forte]

Sobeyet, on 03 September 2010 - 12:12 PM, said:

Well it's the air force, they just need to be fit enough to climb that little ladder into the cockpit. And not even that for the UAV pilots.

The harder part was putting the ladder up to the jet honestly. Big 'ol metal thing we had to lug over and hook onto the side of the jet.

[Wrathblood]

But could he run the miles WHILE smoking? That would be the better test.

Breaking addictions, even ones not generally considered serious can be rough on people. I have an old friend who I was roommates with for a bit right out of college. She was a heavy coffee drinker and decided, kind of on a lark, to give up coffee and caffeine just as she was starting her first project (she was an analyst for a big management consulting firm). The first day was fine, but then she started getting the shakes and cold sweats. After a couple days of that, she realized it was probably an actual physical addiction she was breaking rather than just a habit. Since she actually really liked coffee and randomly shivering and sweating and feeling wretched while attempting to fit in at a new, high pressure and stress job wasn't a good idea, she started drinking coffee again. Didn't actually give it up until years later.

Sobe, yeah, that was the one. I do indeed fail at linking. Eh, I wasn't able to come up with a better word at the time and I've used it as a humor-crutch since then. I found using the term mildly amusing, because it had a couple aspects that worked yet was overall obviously wrong. Hipster probably would have been better, your dislike of their clothing not withstanding. Park Slope? Really? You may as well have stayed in Manhattan.

[Shardik]

Wrathblood, on 03 September 2010 - 03:28 PM, said:

But could he run the miles WHILE smoking? That would be the better test.

My first day of the Ranger Indoctrination Program (R.I.P), we saw this RI running a group of people while smoking. At that point we knew it was going to be a bad three weeks...and it was. I was very impressed and very scared.

[Wrathblood]

Yikes. Hopefully it wasn't a cigar.