indyfabz

I saw that episode of "Seinfeld."

Velo Vol 

BillyD

BillyD

BillyD

Velo Vol 

This is really something.


#Trainspotting

seedsbelize 

Nobody had stars by their names. And there were a lot of people. Clearly that can't be, but it appeared that way. Even jschaar was banning people. You know, for the kids.

seedsbelize 

Just in from my ride. If it wasn't so early in the day, I'd wish for a Guinness right now.

indyfabz

Pretty light for 6' 2" with a big frame (e.g., broad shoulders). I had gotten fat in college--up to 265 lbs. Lost 90 lbs. in 9 months solely through riding and diet change. Since I have more muscle than I did when I was 175 I don't think I could get back down to that weight without losing muscle. Maybe 190 would be more like it.

rjones28 

Moderator is not a lifetime appointment.

WhyFi

I've Strava-stalked my old bike since selling it.

Velo Vol 

I'm of above-average height.
Wow, I've basically stayed within a 20-pound window my adult life. It would be closer to 10-pounds had I not had autoimmune woes.

indyfabz

In college I drank a lot of beer my first three years and worked around food (in the cafeteria) during three of my four years and during the summer before my senior year at a deli-cheesesteak place. I was a stock room boy during my last two years in college. Always on my feet lifting and carrying heavy things. The union employees loved me as I was a Philly native and not some spoiled Penn student from somewhere else, so they would often make me special stuff. When the head chef, Marge, had a birthday my senior year I was the only student worker invited to her party at a bar off campus and near where I grew up. Place had Colt 45 in 12 oz. bottles.

Anyway...My feet started to hurt. Went to see a doctor thinking I had stress fracture. After examining me it basically went like this:

Dr.: You know why your feet hurt?
Me: No. Why?
Dr.: Because you're fat. You need to lose weight.

That last line is a direct quote. One of the best pieces of medical advice I ever got.

BillyD

BillyD

Lol I had a similar experience except back then I was a rake, 6'4 and 160 pounds. It was all genetics, beer and food had no impact except when I got the job in the school cafeteria where I could eat at will, up to 5 meals a day. The cafeteria ladies used to joke - "If his hand isn't going up to his mouth, it's coming back from his mouth". Finally I was able to balloon up to 165 pounds. But soon as I went home for the summer I immediately dropped back to 160.

indyfabz

Wow! No posts since 2:46? What's up with that?

Bah Humbug

I have no idea. Y'all are slacking.

Me, I was working.

BillyD

Slow afternoon, must be taking happy hour.

#TGIF

MoAlpha

Took on an undergrad with autism spectrum disorder this summer. I almost returned her after a few meltdowns, but she turned out to be freaking brilliant and fun to have around. We had some interesting conversations about what life, learning to act normal, and maintaining all day, was like for her, i.e., not easy.

We gave her a project using structured equation modeling to make sense of a bunch of functional brain imaging data and she simply killed it. This p.m. she gave about the best undergrad talk I ever heard, in front of at least 100 people, as cool as a cucumber and hitting questions out of the park. I guess talks don't make you nervous when you simply don't deal in the concept of what other people are thinking. Big learning experience for me.

Bah Humbug

New shoes, not for slow days.

Rowan

Great post about a brilliant realist. I want her here on this side of the world. Some of the people I have come across two or three months after my life-threatening accident have demonstrated almost zero ability. Nasty as it sounds, but that is way things can happen in medical care slightly more complicated than simple.

Up going out see Machka at a graduation ceremony for her uni. Some nice to look forward to.

MoAlpha

seedsbelize 

Craft beer has arrived in Mexico in a big way just in the last year or so. On my last two trips to the affluent part of the city, I picked up a variety of singles to try. Last evening I had a stout, which wasn't very, and now I'm sipping on a double malt. None of these beers stand out, but all of them are drinkable. I rarely drink more than one at a time anymore, and I've never been able to get down your run-of-the-mill horse piss beer. Summertimes are looking up.

seedsbelize 

@MoAlpha. I was recommended the book "The strange case of the dog in the night". Do you know it? Autism is the paradigm of the book. I've yet to read it, other than a short intro.

MoAlpha