What movie cliché would you most like to live out in real life?
Submitted by Wes.
The one where the space hero saves the universe/world/galaxy. Mostly just because I want my own spaceship.
So, I'm sharing the love:
What's the longest boat ride you've ever been on?
Pirates of the Caribbean.
No, not really. I'm sure I've been on longer rides out water skiing. We'd cruise around Lake Isabella a while looking for a fishing site. Maybe it just seemed like hours when I was a kid. So basically, an afternoon would be the longest boat ride I've been on.
Show us the view looking north.
Submitted by homebody.
I should start carrying my camera around again.
What do you absolutely refuse to eat?
Lima beans. I will consider eating them if I am starving. And not just, "I haven't eaten today, I'm starving", no, "I've been in the middle of the desert for two weeks and I'm starving", kind of starving.
Books: Show us a great beach read.
I'm debating rereading this. I only read the first 4 books of the series, it was losing its punch and I didn't want to end up hating the series by following it too far down. But anyway, this is a well-written, interesting story with a libertarian slant and it is rather refreshing to agree with the author's politics. Also, it's like 800 pages, so you can read it all day, or weekend, depending on time spent gazing at passer-bys and/or naps.
I guess I should get my annual summer reading plan in line. I can't believe it's June already. I think it's going to be a very Baen summer. I guess I'll read the rest of the Harry Potters, although my enthusiasm waned after the first three, I have no emotional ties to the books so I might as well finish it.Toss in something educational <pixies>IT'S EDUCATIONAL!!</pixies>, a classic, and I should be set.
Video: Show us the first video that appears when you search your name on YouTube.
First and last name come up with only one, a trailer for a Danish? Swedish? Dutch? film, Trigger, a heartwarming tale of a girl and her horse:
Just first name:
I have no idea who these people are.
Show us something fluffy.
Submitted by little♫miao.Although they are both soft and fluffy, as the state of my furniture will attest, Isis is the fluffier of my two kitties, so she gets the post:
I didn't die. There was a point, well several points, where I wanted to. Or at least just stop and wait for someone to come find me.
The race started, I ran into beautiful Medical Lake, found a fairly open spot and started swimming. The swim only lasts 10 minutes or so, but I was a quarter of the way there and all I wanted to do was stop and turn around. That feeling never left for the next 85 minutes. So I decided just swim as fast as you can and get it over with. Well, that was too fast. I came out of the swim 12th.
Transition one, no glasses so I can't really see what's going on. I just headed for the area. Remembered to get my wetsuit halfway off on the way up, had a bit of problem with the legs. Darn timing chip. Put one of my socks on upside down. So I was a little slow there. There's a definite draw toward just sitting and resting a minute that I had to fight. Took a swig of Monster and hopped on my bike.
I couldn't make my legs go. The first 5 minutes of any bike ride are always miserable as my legs get used to the idea, but this time the misery lasted 4 miles. About 40 people passed me. Talk about discouraging. Somewhere in my 5th mile that I found my pace and started passing some of the people back. #41 and I traded passes. I learned I can't do hills. I can do downhills. I don't know what these people are thinking, but they don't take advantage of gravity. Silly people. So the last few miles of the bike, I started feeling good, no longer wishing to just stop. Cruise into the transition area in 42nd place, 62 minutes into the race. The winner finished while I was coming in to transition.
Transition two consisted of taking off my helmet, taking a swig of water and running off. Up a hill. Who planned this course? Jerks. Nearly killed me. Got the worst side stitch I have ever had. So I ran/walked the first mile. Finally I found my legs and fell into my 11min/mile pace.
Finish time: 1:29. I don't know my ranking there yet, somewhere in the 40's no doubt. I don't really know how I finished so quickly. But I met my goals of finishing and finishing under two hours. w00t!
While I was racing I thought, this is the dumbest thing I've ever done, just stop now. Half hour after I finished, I was thinking, next time I'm going to do this and this and that. So I don't know how I feel about it. I look forward to not having to get up early on Saturdays anymore, I do know how I feel about that.
Why are there so many more Georgia quarters than any other? Any given handful of quarters will have a Georgia quarter in it. Did they dump them all in Idaho?
Also, I just noticed I was having two separate email conversations with two of my friends (I guess they're friends, I eat enough of their food. Still, it sounds weird. I guess because they're older than me. Anyway, beside the point, we can delve into my psychological problems later) about an Office mini-marathon tonight. We will all be seeing each other at bible study tonight, why couldn't all this wait until we're all in the same room instead of dragging it out over the afternoon in a series of one sentence emails? I don't know.
