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long ago & far away
Jun. 24th, 2011 09:44 pmIn an article in a Rolling Stone near the end of 1977, Mark Hamill lamented that when he & his wife went to Toys R Us at Halloween, all the Princess Leia & Han Solo costumes were sold out, but there were piles of Luke Skywalker costumes stacked on the shelves. (how do I remember stuff like that?) I guess decades later someone at Think Geek had similar thoughts, because when I was looking for an infant-sized LS costume for Arthur's niece's son Luke, none was on offer.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geek-kids/newborn-infant/b38b/
In other fictional space thoughts, there is this call for papers for a book entitled
"Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Works of Joss Whedon."
https://sites.google.com/site/raceinwhedon/
Also sort of related, my It's OK to be Takei buttons arrived, too late to wear to Pride. Maybe what I need is a Star Trek convention.
What I really need to be buying is a heart-rate monitor that works, with a noise to alert me when I'm cranking it too high. I made the claim to a patient the other day that I thought I could run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes. I went down to the track this evening and it turns out to be true, barely, but I don't think it was necessarily a good idea. If my quick estimate of my ending pulse was accurate, I was pushing quite close to my maximum heart rate, and after an hour it's still a little above my usual resting rate. The long slow distance run I did on Sunday (from home to Alewife) was about 9.5 minutes a mile, and once I'd re-hydrated I felt pretty good. I must learn to listen to my body instead of to my ego.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geek-kids/newborn-infant/b38b/
In other fictional space thoughts, there is this call for papers for a book entitled
"Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Works of Joss Whedon."
https://sites.google.com/site/raceinwhedon/
Also sort of related, my It's OK to be Takei buttons arrived, too late to wear to Pride. Maybe what I need is a Star Trek convention.
What I really need to be buying is a heart-rate monitor that works, with a noise to alert me when I'm cranking it too high. I made the claim to a patient the other day that I thought I could run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes. I went down to the track this evening and it turns out to be true, barely, but I don't think it was necessarily a good idea. If my quick estimate of my ending pulse was accurate, I was pushing quite close to my maximum heart rate, and after an hour it's still a little above my usual resting rate. The long slow distance run I did on Sunday (from home to Alewife) was about 9.5 minutes a mile, and once I'd re-hydrated I felt pretty good. I must learn to listen to my body instead of to my ego.
