Thank you, people! You have inspired me to start swimming. I (finally) picked up some goggles and a swim cap today since not having those is one of the major reasons I never actually use the pool at my gym. Any tips for a beginning swim routine that I can build on?
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Jul 05, 2011 7:47:43 pm PDT #15438 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
beth b - Jul 05, 2011 7:49:43 pm PDT #15439 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I have a friend who took a picture of that dust storm . She was out hooping ( she is going to hoop the Susan G korman 3 day ) and she got home just before it hit
Kat - Jul 05, 2011 8:02:04 pm PDT #15440 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Pix, what are you looking to do? Some people prefer just to get in and swim as hard and as far as they can stand. I like novelty so I have several workouts that mix things up.
OH! And I swam 100 yards of butterfly today for the first time in, oh, FOREVER. I only felt like I was drowning myself once or twice.
Consuela - Jul 05, 2011 8:05:49 pm PDT #15441 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Shrift, what happened with the hotel?
ION, NEW PUPPY. My sister's new golden retriever arrived today: she's a little tubby round furball with sharp little teeth. SO CUTE.
And the St. Bernard has not tried to eat her, although he does seem a little uncertain about what's going on.
Scrappy - Jul 05, 2011 8:11:38 pm PDT #15442 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
What's hooping?
Pix - Jul 05, 2011 8:30:01 pm PDT #15443 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
I can't butterfly, Kat, but I'm a good swimmer otherwise. I was thinking maybe alternating freestyle with breast stroke to start. I am tying to get in shape, basically, but I'm really out of shape at the moment.
beth b - Jul 05, 2011 8:31:28 pm PDT #15444 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
What's hooping?
hula hooping
Pix - Jul 05, 2011 9:41:30 pm PDT #15445 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Having returned from the gym, there was no swimming. Pool heater broken (and yet still crowded), so I did weights instead. Hoo boy am I out of shape.
sumi - Jul 06, 2011 4:41:28 am PDT #15446 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Woo hoo, new puppy!
So glad somebody else asked what hooping was. . . (I was imagining somebody running for three days whilst rolling a hoop not hula hooping.)
re: pool heater - I thought that people who swim for fitness or competitive swimmers generally prefer the water cooler? (At least - when I worked in the PE dept, the pool temp was raised for the non-team folks and lowered for the team.)
tommyrot - Jul 06, 2011 4:56:58 am PDT #15447 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
'Giant wombat' skeleton found in Australia's Queensland
Scientists in Australia have found the skeleton of a "giant wombat" which lived some two million years ago.
The plant-eating marsupial would have been the size of a four-wheel drive car and weighed three tonnes, experts say.
Its bones were found on a farm in north-eastern Australia's Queensland state.
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Prof Mike Archer, a professor of biological science at the University of New South Wales, described the discovery as extraordinary.
"We found the most gigantic marsupial ever known," he told the BBC.
"These were very huge animals but with pouches. If one tried to visualise what this thing looked like, you'd have to sort of think of a gigantic wombat on steroids."
ION, this is funny and cool: Historic LOLs After Dark: Bill Nye’s Biggest Fan
Especially appropriate for women who like science.