I've been to church with Donald Rumsfeld, and he only had a couple fo secret service guys around. It wasn't inconvenient at all.
I've been to church with Donald Rumsfeld
I thought services at the Necronomic Chapel were open only to initiates.
Did any of you hear that awesome TAL that included a story about some Afghani-American who was suspected of bad intent towards Rumsfeld's daughter?
A few years back, I heard a noise outside and opened my blinds to see a big Black Hawk-ish helicopter hovering at eye level right outside my 9th floor apartment window. It was so close, I could have shouted back and forth to the guy inside. Scared the crap out of me. (It ended up being a search and rescue copter looking for someone who fell into the Hudson on a booze cruise.)
I wouldn't suggest coming to Austin to swim in our Barton Springs (constant temperature of 68 degrees).
I suffer from surfer's ear which is a narrowing of the ear canal due to repeated exposure to cold water.
Downside- I can't hear that well.
Upside- mp3s sound the same as cds.
Sure. I've swum in Lake Michigan, which is certainly colder than 68, and in some little lake in the mountains in Colorado, which was just plain frigid. But swimming laps was worse than I would have guessed, because the water seemed about 20 degrees colder when it was passing over my body (and into my ears).
I don't swim laps regularly- my lifeguard cert is long expired, and when I tried swimming recently I was shocked by how horrible I am now (I think my muscle / fat distribution has changed so I sink in the wrong places.) But anyway, I'd think that cooler temperatures would be better for exercise than for just bathing or playing in the water, since you're heating up. Is that not the case?
Or, to put it as a philisophical question- What is the smell of a sweating swimmer?
Cold water in my ears very quickly makes me light headed and dizzy.
I suppose cold water would tend to make one streamlined in the wedding tackle area but I think the heat gain from exercise is dwarfed by the heat loss effect of current-chill.
I'd think that cooler temperatures would be better for exercise than for just bathing or playing in the water, since you're heating up.
Indeed. Recreational "swimmers" like the water to be somewhere between 82-86 degrees. Totally comfy for splashing around. People who are working out like it to be around 78, maybe even a little cooler if they're hardcore. But 68 is just too damn cold.
I remember once when I was still swimming having a couple of practices in a pool that was, because of various problems they were having with the heating, somewhere over 80 degrees. I was skinny and very often felt cold when I wasn't moving, but that was still way too hot. Even worse was the day the chlorine was messed up and the water was so white that we had to do the entire practice with kickboards in order to keep our heads out of the water.
Working out it a too-hot pool is actually kinda dangerous, because it's easy not to notice that you're overheating and dehydrating. The poor people who manage the pool where I swim are always caught in the middle of temperature requests from the more serious swimmers who want it chilly, and people who just like to paddle along. Luckily, there's also an indoor pool that they keep in the high 80's, where the kids and old folks swim.
A drunk couple fell asleep in a hot top, and in the morning you could stick a fork in them.
I wanted to use that idiom when Korey Stringer died of heat exhaustion at training camp, but no -- bad taste or something.
I also wished that someone had used the "Di Dies" headline, but once again, no. Though some sicko sites are doing it.