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yendi(Five things make a post, etc. Which is horse hockey, because we've all seen posts that have one thing, at most. Some are totally content-free, or so stupid they end up with practically negative content, the way eating celery is supposed to lead to negative calories.)
1. As some of you know from 'song's post, Victoria's in the animal hospital, getting her broken leg repaired. She won't be home until tomorrow, and it's a giant gaping hole in my routine. She's normally there to greet me when I come out of the shower, to meow at me a million time a night when I walk past her, and to get head scritches, and not having her just feels wrong. I'm really, really glad I wasn't there when she got injured, as I'm generally just a wreck even thinking about her in pain.
Which is not to say that I won't call the contraption around her neck a "cone of shame," of course. :-)
ETA: Update here, with pictures and info for those who might be willing and in a position to help out.
2. I've hit 1.3 miles on my runs. I managed that on both my Monday run and my run this morning, so I guess it's now in my wheelhouse. My first non-treadmill run, back on June 29, was .89 miles. I'm not trying to overdo my distance increases, of course, but I'm happy to see steady progress.
I'm also making good progress on the hundred push-up program (just completed Week 2, Day 2), and at the gym on between-run days. And I'm generally doing a lot of walking -- I've done 2.65 miles today on top of that run, and will likely get another 2-3 miles in later, and I hit 5.5 miles of walking on Monday (when I took care of errands). I'm not sure I'm seeing any change in my calf muscles (which have always been well-defined -- being overweight and walking a lot in general kept them solid), but I'm definitely noticing some definition in my thighs.
3. The only thing worse than some of the reader reactions to the new Ultimate Spider-Man is the reaction of some retailers (trigger warning for vile racist language on that second one). It's hard to love an industry that's so heavily populated by people I can't stand. That said, as Arturo García notes, the success here is at least partially dependent on how readers vote with their pocketbooks. Of course, the "Death of Peter Parker" storyline was dreadfully written, but if this one is decent (and Bendis is, even today, capable of greatness, something that only Ed Brubaker, of the other Marvel Architects, can claim), I intend to support it as best I can (although I just logged into the Marvel Comics app and saw that the books are going for $4 a pop, which is yet another reason I hate comics right now).
4. In other comic news, I read issue 1 of the new Daredevil, and it's easily the best Marvel Universe title I've read in years. Like, since either Nextwave or Waid's run on FF ended (whichever was more recent). I'm not a drooling Waid fanboy -- I consider Kingdom Come to be one of the most vastly overrated and barely-readable stories of the last twenty years -- but he nails the character and does some great storytelling here. I fully expect it to get cancelled (or for Waid to be pushed aside for someone with half his talent, as was the case with FF or Cap) within two years, of course. I do hope that all of Marvel's other current writers -- who collectively (excluding the two I named in #3) have never written an issue this good -- learn from this.
5. For those looking for some cool games to support you can find the Humble Indie Bundle on sale for, well, whatever you'd like. That's five games for Mac, Windows, or Linux, for however much or little you want to pay, with the profits going to the developers, charity, or both (you can pick how the money gets allocated, too).
1. As some of you know from 'song's post, Victoria's in the animal hospital, getting her broken leg repaired. She won't be home until tomorrow, and it's a giant gaping hole in my routine. She's normally there to greet me when I come out of the shower, to meow at me a million time a night when I walk past her, and to get head scritches, and not having her just feels wrong. I'm really, really glad I wasn't there when she got injured, as I'm generally just a wreck even thinking about her in pain.
Which is not to say that I won't call the contraption around her neck a "cone of shame," of course. :-)
ETA: Update here, with pictures and info for those who might be willing and in a position to help out.
2. I've hit 1.3 miles on my runs. I managed that on both my Monday run and my run this morning, so I guess it's now in my wheelhouse. My first non-treadmill run, back on June 29, was .89 miles. I'm not trying to overdo my distance increases, of course, but I'm happy to see steady progress.
I'm also making good progress on the hundred push-up program (just completed Week 2, Day 2), and at the gym on between-run days. And I'm generally doing a lot of walking -- I've done 2.65 miles today on top of that run, and will likely get another 2-3 miles in later, and I hit 5.5 miles of walking on Monday (when I took care of errands). I'm not sure I'm seeing any change in my calf muscles (which have always been well-defined -- being overweight and walking a lot in general kept them solid), but I'm definitely noticing some definition in my thighs.
3. The only thing worse than some of the reader reactions to the new Ultimate Spider-Man is the reaction of some retailers (trigger warning for vile racist language on that second one). It's hard to love an industry that's so heavily populated by people I can't stand. That said, as Arturo García notes, the success here is at least partially dependent on how readers vote with their pocketbooks. Of course, the "Death of Peter Parker" storyline was dreadfully written, but if this one is decent (and Bendis is, even today, capable of greatness, something that only Ed Brubaker, of the other Marvel Architects, can claim), I intend to support it as best I can (although I just logged into the Marvel Comics app and saw that the books are going for $4 a pop, which is yet another reason I hate comics right now).
4. In other comic news, I read issue 1 of the new Daredevil, and it's easily the best Marvel Universe title I've read in years. Like, since either Nextwave or Waid's run on FF ended (whichever was more recent). I'm not a drooling Waid fanboy -- I consider Kingdom Come to be one of the most vastly overrated and barely-readable stories of the last twenty years -- but he nails the character and does some great storytelling here. I fully expect it to get cancelled (or for Waid to be pushed aside for someone with half his talent, as was the case with FF or Cap) within two years, of course. I do hope that all of Marvel's other current writers -- who collectively (excluding the two I named in #3) have never written an issue this good -- learn from this.
5. For those looking for some cool games to support you can find the Humble Indie Bundle on sale for, well, whatever you'd like. That's five games for Mac, Windows, or Linux, for however much or little you want to pay, with the profits going to the developers, charity, or both (you can pick how the money gets allocated, too).
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Date: 2011-08-03 03:45 pm (UTC)That's awesome.
The first two miles suck forever, but once you do get beyond that, the difference between 3 and 6, which is the longest I have ever managed, is only felt after.
I saw a little of the Spider-Man reactions and, yeah. No. I will set people on fire if I have to listen to any more. Comic fans and tabletop gamers don't seem to realize that their either being or tolerating people who aggressively suck is why there aren't more ($person we'd like to get into the hobby) involved in the hobby... Maybe one could start be not being so miserable to the very peopledkglajgalkgghsfkldg gfsdgjklgs and the struggle continues.
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Date: 2011-08-04 10:49 am (UTC)What gets me is that people who otherwise don't come across as racist seem to fall into the trap of thinking that white is some kind of "default" for characters that aren't specifically written as another race. Whenever a book is made into a film, any character that wasn't written as being a specific race is apparently "supposed" to be white, and it really seems to bother some people if they're cast otherwise.
To me, if a character's race isn't critical to that character's history/origin, it really shouldn't matter what race the actor is who plays them. Not only do I see no reason that the new Spiderman character has to be white, I don't really see any reason that Peter Parker has to be white either.
*shrug* Maybe that's just me though.