NorthSideSox72

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 14, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) Starting very soon here, I'll be doing something I did years ago, that is a great way to get in better shape, tone lower body and a little core, and get an aerobic workout in while commuting. I'm going to bike to work. My ride is about 6 miles each way. I do it on an MTB with knobbies, which is a lot more work than a road bike with skinny tires, but that is part of the idea. I go basically all out for 30 minutes to get downtown and park the bike at the gym. Do 3 or 4 weight sets (upper body and core), shower and change, walk to work. Go back there to change after work, bike back home. At a high pace of biking for 30 minutes / 6 miles each way, I'll burn 600 to 900 calories (depends on what source you look at), get in two aerobic workouts, save myself the $75/month for the CTA pass, and not add any extra time to my day (since I have to commute anyway)... its fantastic. And I need it, bad. I've gotten into terrible shape the last few years - I clock in at 6'3" and 250-ish right now. Need to be about 200. I figure if I do this all summer and into fall, I should be back down to 200 by the end of the year. If anyone here works downtown and lives somewhere else in the city, I highly recommend this option. Anyone else do this? Update... I started riding in May, not sure exactly when, but I think around mid-Month. I try to ride to work every day, but some weeks I miss a day or two for various reasons, so I probably average 4 days a week. 6 miles each way for 12 round trip on the MTB, I do it in anywhere from 23 to 27 minutes each way depending on traffic, weather, and how I'm feeling that day. That's an average of 14-16 mph, which includes slows and stops for traffic, so I'm probably doing more like 18 while moving, topping out in the low 20's on longer stretches. Started at 259 (I had thought I was closer to 250, but when I weighed in on starting, I was basically 260). Now at 25, so I've lost 14 pounds in 1.5 months of riding. And this is with no other significant additions to exercise (other than the weekly softball game, which isn't really exercise in a meaningful way). So it works! 7 weeks for 14 pounds, I'm doing 2 pounds a week, just as I thought. If I can ride through the end of September, I would lose about 24 more pounds, and be at 221. Not quite to my 210 goal for the end of the year (was 200, but I started later than planned), but most of the way there. I'd just need to find something to do in October-December to lose that other 11 pounds. I highly recommend riding to work!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 12:13 PM) But, since war spending doesn't actually count, it might be the only way we can get additional spending actually passed. Then we don't get more spending, which I think is good anyway. I don't think spending more is a good idea. I think I'd rather we found ways to speed the money from the stim bill to the present. And I wish the bill was a lot more focused than it was, specifically on infrastructure and energy, but we can't do anything about that now.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 11:56 AM) War-as-stimulus is just a broken-window fallacy, though. Better to spend that money on tractors instead of tanks. Absolutely, and for so many reasons.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 11:46 AM) Like most of Obama's proposed banking reforms this is a good idea, I'm just not sure it goes far enough. There is a lot of complexity in doing that correctly, though. Many of those large firms got big, in part, to mitigate those very risks. What risk calculations would the government impose? If some big equity player buys some large FCM, do you allow for the general risk mitigation between asset types? Do you get specific, into index presence hedging against the equities while the rest stands alone? What if the positions they would take (assets against risk) are already hedging at one level, but could be hedging factors against something else? Do you re-use collateral for hedging at a %, or only allow one-to-one holding against holding risk abatement?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 11:47 AM) Should you allow them to opt out on religious grounds? Good question. Sounds good on its face, but, how do you enforce that? People would use that as a reason fraudlently.

Have a happy one wite, and enjoy the summer day in North Dakota. You only get a few of those a year.

In looking at the parallel with car insurance, you need to decide if health care is a right or a privilege. Driving is of course a privilege, and so the state or federal government is well within its right to levy rules and protections such as requiring car insurance. Using that logic, requiring health insurance seems logical and understandable as well. EXCEPT ONE MAJOR PROBLEM. If you choose not to drive, you don't need car insurance, which of course makes sense. With health insurance, you wouldn't have that option. So let's break that part down. Virtually everyone uses health care in their lives - but it is not truly everyone. There are Christian Scientists who refuse such things, for example, but they are they very small minority. So how similar is it to car insurance, really? Can we use it as a parallel example? I personally would be OK with a requirement to have health insurance of some kind, getting my choice of whatever private or public options are available to me. I'm also OK with the federal government providing some subsidy to their base level insurance plan, as a backstop for those who get into dire situations, or just plain can't afford it. But they too would still need to pay into it.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 11:26 AM) Well, those I-Phones are more important to buy and have plans for then health insurance. Think about it. I tried to think about this, and now my head hurts. Could you explain please?

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 02:17 AM) I remember awhile ago addressing this issue of winning the lottery. It's the WORST thing that could happen to your life. Money changes everything; relationships, friendships, suddenly everywhere you go people want something. The most important part for me wouldn't be what I spend it on, but how I remain anonymous. Here's what I'd do, and I know I said it before -- I'd offer a proposal to someone rich (like Donald Trump) to split the winnings in half if there is absolutely no public acknowledgment of my involvement. Set up someone to claim the prize and address the media, do whatever you feel, but I in no way want anything tied to me. Even if that means lying to everyone and being selfish, aside from just my closest family members/wife, it's better in the long run. This way I could live comfortably, but not have the burdon of a large family (and my dad was from a family of 13, mom 11, so this applies to me) looking for handouts and wondering why they cant have a few thousand here or there. Totally agree on this one. I'd rather win $1M, than some huge jackpot. With a million, you could pay off mortgages, set up college funds for your kids, maybe go on a vacation a little more luxurious than normal, invest a little... but still not have anyone know it happened. The minute everyone knows you won some gian bog of money, your life is screwed up.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 07:58 AM) Nepotism isn't a terrible thing, but in the 6th round it is. Sheesh. Exactly. Taking him in the 55th round, fine. Heck, given the pedigree, one could even argue they are more likely tham similar players to succeed anyway. But 6th round? Seriously?

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 08:13 AM) The smileys are in every thought. Yeah, but they're all violent smilies.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 07:52 AM) No one said welcome to soxtalk...I remember feeling very hurt and unaccepted. This is the best response...here is your get out of jail free card sir. I've started a new SLaM thread for first posts. I'm actually pretty proud of mine, if you read the responses I got in that thread (which looking back are now kinda funny).

SHIPPS was in a desperate search to find his first post on SoxTalk. Turns out he was letting us know the % of dust that is human skin. Found mine - and I opened my SoxTalk career by starting a new thread. Apparently, I really liked smilies back then: QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 12:02 AM) OK, that's it. This is the time to make my first post on this site. I've seen enough. Would people please get past the panic thing here? In case no one noticed, this supposedly collapsing ballcub is 8-5 in September. We're also 32 games over .500 I believe. We have a 5 game lead on first place with 2 weeks to play. We play teams we dominate during that period. Why are we in panic mode? Yeah, the defense has been untimely lately. And Garland and Buerhle have had off games. But does anyone actually think we were grand imposters of picthing and defense for 130 games, only to show our true colors now? Give me a break. One other thing. In case no one noticed, the slipping lead is mostly due to Cleveland's stellar play, not our downfall. That team was well under .500 for a while, and hovering around it until fairly recently. Cleveland will not keep playing .800 ball. They are good, but not that good. So yeah, we should be ready to battle. We should know we'll have to play near the top of our game in the post-season. But who thinks that this team and this manager won't do that? We'll battle. And I think we'll show some people what we can do. :finger

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 12:43 AM) Imagine this - note the topic... We should have known then what kind of poster we had on our hands. Oh how enlightening it was... http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?s=...t&p=1271809 That is a pretty good first post, actually. Kinda too bad no one seemed to notice it.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 5, 2009 -> 08:33 PM) "hmmm..... no deal. I want to use normal tanks" No no no, if its Rummy talking, its more like... "Would we consider using hybrid tanks? Sure, if it made sense. But you guys, you people in those seats who are supposed to be reporting the facts, aren't reporting facts. Have you ever seen a hybrid tank? I don't think so. Next question."

QUOTE (MichaelF @ Jul 5, 2009 -> 09:59 PM) The other night I saw the Kannapolis club take a double-header at Hagerstown. In game 2, their DH was Kenny Williams. Does anyone know if he is related to the Sox' GM? (This Williams went 0 for 3, striking out each time.) Welcome to the board! As stated earlier, he is KW's son. He was drafted in the 6th round of the 2008 draft. Many (read: most everyone) saw this as an insane overdraft of the GM's son, who many scouts said was a late rounder at best, and wasn't even on the board for some teams. It was a little embarrassing, as a Sox fan, to see that. But the Sox claimed he'd surprise some people, and that they didn't see it as an overdraft. He did have an injury (as noted earlier also), which may be having an effect. But the reality is, he was terrible in a short stint at Great Falls (rookie) last year, and has been pretty bad at Low A Kananpolis this year while DH'ing most of the time (KW's value was said to be in his athleticism, he isn't a power hitter).

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Jul 5, 2009 -> 01:52 PM) What? No one likes Gino's East deep dish sausage patty pizza??? I think you've missed the point of the discussion. We aren't talking about good pizza - we're talking about crappy chain pizza for people who live in places where there isn't any good pizza.

Well, my two AAP catchers are really in the crapper right now. Donny Lucy has apparently become the backup in Charlotte now, after posting an average just over .100 in June. I wonder if that knee injury, which he did hitting, is still messing with him. Kevin Dubler so far in Great Falls is hitting .100 in 20 AB. He is starting to lose playing time to Blackwood and Santos.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 4, 2009 -> 11:03 PM) All spending is good spending. we can just print the money. Only if we use hybrid tanks.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 4, 2009 -> 06:16 PM) Man, Danks was out forever, I hope it's nothing that lingers. QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 4, 2009 -> 07:17 PM) Danks singled in his first AB. Guess it didn't.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 4, 2009 -> 05:43 PM) That picture, next to your avatar, is a priceless pair.

TCQ in LF for CHA, hitting 3rd.

What the... Also, why do they keep calling him FORMER QB? Did he retire and I missed it? I thought he was still out there playing somewhere. Shows how little I've followed football the last couple years I guess. Sad news, very disturbing.

Palin's successor, Lt. Gov. Parnell, would like you to know that Sarah Palin is the greatest gift Alaska has ever given the United States. Apparently Sarah Palin is better than the Alaska Pipeline, better than the greatest protected wildernesses on the planet, better than the Cold War security Alaska's presence provided the nation, and better than anything or anyone else to ever come from Alaska. So many things to say, I don't know where to begin.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jul 4, 2009 -> 11:31 AM) I bet a lot of his success comes from deception. He's got a very high leg kick, at least according to this picture: Deception is always helpful. But he's seeing teams a bunch of times now and still getting them out, plus a scout was quoted as saying he had the best control in his league, which is saying something. Even all that though, still probably couldn't explain the K numbers being so high. There has to be some combination of movement and velocity there as well.