Don’t forget to be like this sea lion and go for regular walks ????? pic.twitter.com/jsjFjb74Ik
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 9, 2020
WATCH: Two penguins take a walk in a nearby forest with their caretakers pic.twitter.com/FMkPgSDwKc
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 9, 2020
I hope the dog is actually enjoying this, which has to be the most ridiculously British clip of the week:
A man was spotted cycling down empty streets in London with his pet dog strapped to his back pic.twitter.com/7ZozZmLANV
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 9, 2020
germy
My wife and I took a long walk together a few days ago. Usually we’ll walk for a half hour or maybe 45 minutes. This time we walked for two hours, all over the neighborhood and up and down a long trail.
We had our masks, but many of the people we encountered were barefaced. Plenty of distancing, though.
While on the trail, two young women jogged by, no masks. We crossed over to the other side of the trail as they passed and one girl told us “thank you”
germy
I’m not sure if the dog is enjoying that. It actually looks like a kidnapping.
Another Scott
OT – Something has apparently changed here (or with Chrome) in the last day or so. Or with the way tweets are embedded?
Videos in Tweets no longer play inside the B-J page any more. “The media could not be played.”
If I click on the tweet itself, a tab opens and I can play the video fine.
It’s only happened to me in the last day or so – but it happens with every tweet with a video.
Chrome on MBP (Catalina 10.15.4) with uBlock Origin. (Turning off uBlock Origin makes no difference.)
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
Doing core exercises every morning and riding 5-6 days a week after work.
zhena gogolia
@Another Scott:
Same here.
CaseyL
I try to get out a couple of times for long walks over the weekends. Today was Too Damned Hot. Tomorrow will be a little cooler; maybe then.
My neighbors/friends who have a place in Ocean Shores keep asking if I want to spend a few days there. Which I do, but they’ve been in and out of the house every week, so probably not a good idea. Also, the beaches there are closed. (At least, I think they are, but if they’re part of the state park system they might have re-opened by now.)
Chetan Murthy
If there’s anybody here who’s really into physical culture, who has suggestions for ways to work the lats, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Some constraints:
(1) no place that’s safe to hang a pullup bar (old house, old/old/old wood, honestly, I’d be afraid I’d damage something)
(2) can’t do dips (shoulder operations)
So …. any advice appreciated.
NotMax
“Switching to a dog has significantly cut back on snide remarks from when I did this with my pet monkey.”
:)
mrmoshpotato
@Another Scott: I’m not getting embedded video either in Duckduckgo on Android 9.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Well, if the dog escapes and tries to kidnap a baby…
debbie
@Another Scott:
Google for whatever version of Chrome you have. I remember seeing something a week or two ago, but I moved on after seeing it wasn’t the version on my laptop.
Emma
Hrmmm this counts as respite for me, because I’m a twisted human being, but I’m celebrating a benchmark in my de-lurkerization today!!! I’ve been following B-J and LGM since 2006, but never bothered commenting until last year, when I was like, eh, fuckit, I think I’m mature enough to laugh at idiots insulting me, I can handle this internet shit. That has never been tested… until today!!! By an LGM commenter who called me an “over-educated prig”!!! And whose reply to my post was “look who I’m related to!” and implying that he’s more Chinese than me!!! I know I’m overusing exclamation marks, but I’m still laughing my ass off!!! (I don’t think he comments here, BUT I’M HAPPY TO BE PROVEN WRONG)
Anyway, if you are similarly inclined, please join me in a toast to being aware of all internet traditions!!!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Chetan Murthy: I’m not, but having already slacked off from the gym before this all hit, I’ve started to realize I’m going to atrophy into a puddle if I don’t figure something out.
After a morning spent getting sticker shock over dumbbells, I decided to go with resistance bands as being able to support most of the immediate exercise needs. I’m pretty sure that there are resistance band routines for most upper body workouts. Not sure about the lower body, but I also ordered a foldable rowing machine that looks like it might work out well.
Space was also an issue, and both of these look like they won’t have huge storage demands.
NotMax
Off to town in a few minutes. Hoping to return before the rain from threatening looking clouds kicks it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Chetan Murthy: I am not the person you want to ask about exercise, especially resistance, but until Adam or someone else who knows shows up: do you have a place you could set up resistance bands? lots of YouTubes
I’ve got to get back to weight/resistance training myself. I’ve been walking and doing yard work, but not enough of either and not much else, and I’m using the rona to rationalize cookies. I have managed to resist cakes and (mostly) ice cream.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chetan Murthy: Have you considered TRX?
ziggy
@Another Scott: same here
I’m going to look like that sea lion soon. The Coronavirus Pie Days continue, today is lemon meringue. It looks beautiful if I do say so myself.
Another Scott
@debbie: Good idea.
Let’s see. I just updated to the very, very latest:
Version 81.0.4044.138 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Same thing – Twitter videos don’t play inside B-J any more when they used to work fine.
Apparently issues like these are common, going back years. I’ll try the old Winders fix next – “Have you tried rebooting it???!”
:-/
BRB…
[eta:] Same issue after reboot. Oh well.
Cheers,
Scott.
LeftCoastYankee
Dog: So relaxing, I think I’ll just pee now….
PsiFighter37
Exercise has consisted mostly of running outside and doing lots of indoor cardio exercise. If going by weight, I am doing pretty well – I have lost 20 pounds over the past 3 months and am below the weight I ran my marathons at – but my upper body strength has definitely been shot. Holding my 8 month-old (crazy how time flies) definitely makes my arms sore. Unfortunately, I do not think there is anything I can meaningfully do until I have access to a gym…I have a set of dumbbells, but it’s just not enough to make a dent.
schrodingers_cat
@Chetan Murthy: Resistance bands. Free weights. Try high reps instead of heavier weights.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Just wait until all of the snow around the islands hits.
zhena gogolia
@Chetan Murthy:
Do you have dumbbells? Dumbbell row is a good one.
menshealth.com/fitness/a25940847/best-lat-exercises/
Citizen Alan
@germy: Dognapping, surely!
mrmoshpotato
@LeftCoastYankee: Dog: Or maybe this experience deserves a dump.
debbie
@Another Scott:
I have 80.something and the videos play in the tweets without issues.
Another Scott
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Be very, very careful with resistance bands and the like. Check them for wear every time you use them. (Recall that Harry Reid suffered eye damage when one broke (on a Bowflex or something?).)
Good luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
Chetan Murthy
@zhena gogolia:
Do not. Looking at getting a kettlebell. But so many brands, not sure which would be best (I read that the less-good ones will do a number on your palms. …. maybe I shouldn’t worry about it, but dunno).
Another Scott
@debbie: Thanks. Earlier versions worked for me too, but I’m reluctant to downgrade (in case there are security issues that have been fixed). I’ll suffer with the additional click until it’s resolved.
At least I’m not the only one seeing the issue. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Emma
@Chetan Murthy: my knowledge of “physical culture” only goes so far as Jazzercise classes, but dumbbells and/or resistance bands is the first thing that comes to mind. Otherwise, and this is if you don’t care about toned muscles, I find that pumping and swinging my arms around while doing a dance-cardio routine ensures that I’m working the muscles there. There are also strength routines where you squat while stretching your arms out to the sides and doing quick rotations, but I don’t know if that fits your bill…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
A valuable reminder. Nobody ever got hurt lying on the couch watching TV
well, nobody but Dubya
Scuffletuffle
@PsiFighter37: do kettleball execises using the 8 month old as the kettleball. Bonding and exercise all in one.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Did you recently change to Catalina? It’s my understanding that Catalina changes things.
Steeplejack
@Chetan Murthy:
Bent-over rows with a dumbbell or kettlebell.
Sure Lurkalot
@Chetan Murthy: I have an exercise band with handles and a thingamabob that you thread the band through and then put the thingamabob in a door that closes. Sorry for the shit description but you can do lat pull downs, seated rows, modified pull-ups, chin-ups….
Ruckus
@Chetan Murthy:
The answers I’ve seen are exactly what I use.
Stretchy bands and TRX. Lot’s of upper body workouts available with those. TRX does a great upper body/core work out.
Another Scott
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Dunno.
MayoClinic:
;-)
Another bit of exercise that might be worth considering is the humble jump-rope. When my J was in college and ran every day and had a resting pulse rate of about 35 (seriously), she would often spend an hour jumping rope, too. (She was a bit insane about exercising back then!)
I’ve been thinking about getting a modern one – it might take some searching around to find a good one for < $35 or so (the cheapest ones on Amazon make me nervous).
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: My Catalina upgrade on this machine was months ago.
(As I understand it, the main change with Catalina was finally getting rid of 32-bit app support, but that’s not an issue here.)
(The videos in the tweets play fine if started directly from a tab with just the tweet – they just don’t play within the B-J tab, so that wouldn’t seem to be indicative of an OS issue either.)
Thanks. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Feathers
It snowed in Cambridge, MA this morning. Not really enough to be called snow in January or February, but in May, it was fucking snow. I am saying this is my reason why I did not get out for a walk today. I really do need to be getting out, my knee is starting to get too used to being inside all day.
Rob
I love the penguins video!
Feathers
@Another Scott: My guess is that there was an update to either Chrome or YouTube that broke something in the other. Within a few days there will probably be another update to fix it. This is why I always have a favored browser, Firefox at the moment, but always have at least two others installed, currently Safari and Chrome.
Rob
@Feathers: Flurries were a possibility here in the suburbs north of DC this afternoon but they never materialized in my area. It dawned cold and windy: just above freezing, going up to 50 degrees. Tomorrow morning is going to be as cold as this morning, but it least it won’t be windy.
Sure Lurkalot
I don’t have a prescient bone in my body but I took up video fitness over 2 decades ago. Prior to that, I went to studio classes but my job got more demanding and I found it stressful to get out of the office and to the classes in traffic and/or inclement weather, also getting exercise clothes in the bag in the morning. So I have tons of DVDs, all with variations, cardio, weight work, yoga, etc. Dumbells from 2 to 20s and a barbell, lots of bands. It’s an everyday habit for me, but 45 minutes to an hour and I’m good. Walking and cycling I like to go longer because I love being outside.
None of this makes me any less susceptible to the Rona or any more or less likely to have a poor outcome. I’m an old and have plenty of not so good habits (thank dog).
arrieve
I was shocked when I weighed this morning and discovered that I’ve actually lost eight pounds in the past several weeks. Some of it is just anxiety, I think. I live in NYC and don’t go out much at all these days because I find wearing a mask so uncomfortable, and I miss walking.
But I march/run in place while watching TV, and log 16-20K steps on the Fitbit most days. It keeps the anxiety at a manageable level and apparently burns off the popcorn and ice cream I’ve been eating too much of.
Jeffro
@Emma: Cheers!
MomSense
@Chetan Murthy:
Nordic Walking poles are amazing for the lats-and abs too.
Sloane Ranger
Lovely day here In Northamptonshire, UK. Blue skies and high of 23. Have never been big on this physical culture thing, but make a point to take a walk outside for at least 15 -20 minutes every day. As I hate walking just for the sake of walking, I try to pick a goal like our local museum or the Anne Frank tree to visit. (For clarity the museum is closed for the duration but it’s a nice walk through a local park to get there.)
Adam L Silverman
@Chetan Murthy: TRX. Use the door attachment (attaches over the top of the closed door with a soft, weighted tether to prevent damage to the door). There are multiple different TRX exercises that will work your lats.
Emma
@Jeffro: *clink* :)))
Adam L Silverman
@PsiFighter37: Have you considered curling, tricep kick backing, shoulder pressing, and bench pressing your baby? Low weight, high reps. Aim for no less than 14 reps, 3 sets per exercise. Ideally till muscle failure. Just don’t drop the wee bairn!
Spanky
@Adam L Silverman: Kids puke. Fortunately never happened to me, but I did witness a friend bench pressing his daughter when she let fly from on high.
trollhattan
Portland will not be outdone!
Here’s one from more “normal” times.
zhena gogolia
Well, my husband couldn’t stick with ALW’s By Jeeves. I’m kind of sorry to miss it, although you sort of have to be a real fan to watch it, I guess.
LeftCoastYankee
@mrmoshpotato:
Lol. I think in my mind I was remembering a very nervous chihuahua that I dog-sat for a long while. Poor lil fellow seemed to pee at the most inopportune times.
mrmoshpotato
Too weird not to share.
LeftCoastYankee
@trollhattan:
I saw him in a remote corner of a Fred Meyers parking lot one hot summer day, practicing. I drove by thinking “yeah, sure, why not, it’s Portland.”
I wonder how he’s received at the Naked Bike Ride?
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: That was one of the greatest things that the Internet has produced. I am in awe.
HumboldtBlue
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Jim, you asked about the Medicis in an earlier thread.
There is one mini-series where Sean Bean plays the rival banker with about as much grace as he does Richard Sharpe. It just wasn’t convincing.
Now there’s a series that I found even more clumsy because as I watched the first episode I thought to myself, “self, that looks like Dustin Hoffman but why the fuck would they cast Dustin Hoffman as a Renassaince Italian banker?” and when I finally checked the credits it was him.
I watched maybe two episodes and quit.
mrmoshpotato
@LeftCoastYankee: Probably very well. The flame-shooting bagpipes probably not so much.
different-church-lady
Re, Cole’s shopping cart tweet: Not only do I return my cart, but when I’m going into the store I grab a misplaced cart out of the parking lot and take it in with me so that the cart guy has one lousy cart less to have to push inside. BECAUSE THE ENTIRETY OF REST OF THE WORLD SUCKS AND I AM THE LAST DECENT PERSON ON EARTH.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@HumboldtBlue: thanks for the follow-up. Too bad it’s not better, it’s such rich subject matter, I would definitely watch a show like that if it were well done.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@different-church-lady: amen, I came out of the grocery store last week on a windy day, and was cursing under my breath (behind my mask) as i saw all the carts just left in the middle of the lot, and when I got to my car, sure enough there was a cart up against my passenger door. No damage that I could see, and I don’t get worked up about nicks and dents anyway, but the fact that so many people can’t be bothered to walk twenty-five feet to put their cart in a rack….
I understand Aldi has a quarter deposit to get a cart, and you have to put it in a rack to get your quarter back. How is this not SOP?
HumboldtBlue
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Don’t rely on me, though, one factor at play was watching a series of shows where the protagonist must deal with the whole spectrum of difficulties the guys from the other show had to deal with just with different accents and flavors but still tinged with the same story arc.
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: You set your expectations too high. The first two seasons of the Medicis were fine. The actors were better looking than the historical people, everything was far cleaner than a Renaissance Italian city would have been, and they weren’t speaking Italian for some reason, but other than that they were fine as historical soap operas as opposed to history.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@different-church-lady: In pre-COVID-19 days I would also pick up a cart left in the parking lot, I don’t do that now.
different-church-lady
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I bet a lot of people would be like, “Hey, I can buy a shopping cart for only a quarter? Quick honey, help me load this thing in the SUV!”
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
Again, the costumes change, the setting is different the voices are varied and somehow there’s a rape, a fire, a resurgence, a double-fire-rape, a calm, an awkward pregnant pause and then a halting step forward and BAM! Here come the fucking DANES/CELTS/SLAVS/TURKS!!!
Somehow they never show the fleas.
Jay Noble
@PsiFighter37: You have an 8-month old – why do you need weights? They like to be curled and dead lifted and snatched :-)
Seriously there are of course YouTubes on this
Jackie
I don’t either. The cart retrievers return the carts and hose them down with disinfectant. I’m worried if I return them, they might not get disinfected.
J R in WV
@Another Scott:
My Linux laptop running Firefox latest version does that too.
I do have some security stuff tighter than some people, but I don’t mind clicking on the twits to see funny pet videos…
J R in WV
@different-church-lady:
I used to be like that, but now at Kroger’s they have a process of bringing the carts into the cart storage space, and disinfecting them pretty throughly with a spray disinfectant. Plus, wife pointed out, taking your cart back is like stealing work from the union workers who would otherwise be doing that work on the clock. Same as self-checkout.
And I see that lots of folks want to let the store staff disinfect the carts! Good!!