- I downloaded Bad Wolves’ cover of “Zombie” yesterday and ended up down a rabbit hole of googling about the Cranberries. I like the homage of their music video to the original.
- Does anyone else who uses iTunes to make playlists want to vent with me about how annoying it is, and how it doesn’t sync half the time (and overwrites your computer with old playlists from your phone)? Or am I the only one still using iTunes?!
- This article (pdf here) about the movie The Truman Show is interesting. It’s the twenty year anniversary of the show, and they’re reflecting on how when they made the show it blew their mind that people would be interested in watching what a total stranger is up to all day… fast forward twenty years, and that is a lot of the entertainment business, with reality shows and social media!
- There’s not enough pictures to break up all this text, so here’s one Steven sent me when he was picking up meds for Data at the vet’s office yesterday.
- I finished reading Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, and didn’t care for it. It’s well written/researched, and has a plethora of studies referenced, but didn’t do it for me. There was one MAJOR happy outcome of reading it though! The book mentions the swirl and spit sports drink study that Runner’s World has been touting for years, usually as advice to lose weight (grrrr, so messed up). The study was done to find out why we get benefits immediately from a carbohydrate sports drinks, before they enter the bloodstream – not to come up with silly ways to cut on calories. It’s because as soon as you have the drink in your mouth, parts of your brain react to it, and immediately act as if you’d taken in the carbohydrates, whether you ingest it or not. This is the data Runner’s World was using to give their stupid advice, but I hadn’t seen it in this unadulterated form. I’m glad the study was done for legitimate scientific reasons, and it’s just Runner’s World spinning it strangely.
- I started reading Bart Yasso’s Run Forever… but when I got it from the library I could tell I wouldn’t care for it. It’s an advice book, on how to, you guessed it, RUN FOREVER! There was nothing new in there for me. I mostly skimmed it, and returned it. I’m not really in to advice books right now.
- So now I am reading the hard copy of Artemis (I had the digital version on my phone but prefer hard copy). Steven finished the audio copy yesterday. I am behind in Book Club for Two!
- The last time I shared this chart, it had a slight incline at the end. Ideally, it would still be gently sloping down, but if I can maintain my weight during this very busy month, I will be glad!
- We had our yard and house sprayed for bugs last Saturday, and the spray left the windows SUPER streaky. Ick! Luckily, I have tons of anxious taper energy and could spend a few hours cleaning them yesterday after work. Ha! I’m actually glad I’m so busy this weekend and the weekdays leading to the marathon so I don’t think as much about how little I am running.
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Wow, I love the Truman Show but didn’t realize it had been 20 years! It really is crazy how much it predicted.
I couldn’t believe it’s been twenty years either! We watched it a few months ago and it’s still so relevant!
I still use itunes. My playlists on my phone have been acting funny!
Steven’s and the kittens eyes match you should get it :p
That looks like a big loss so it probably good (to keep your metabolism going) to maintain for a bit before loosing more anyhow!
Queen Khali inspecting your work lol.
Yeah, mine too. I have to try several times to get the ones I make on my computer to sync to my phone, and sometimes it syncs my phone back instead – so if I’ve added to one, those added songs are gone! I’ve started saving the .itl files so I still have a copy somewhere.
I was thinking that too! Ha!
I just hope my body can lose a little more without me having to watch my food like a hawk. Doubtful!
Exactly! I was glad she didn’t get scared and run away from the squeegee!
I switched to Google Play for my music and what do you know, I always have the playlists I want! Itunes is so glitchy and frustrated me too often.
Hello tiny kitty! So cute. And I didn’t know Steven’s eyes were blue!
So there is science behind that swirl and spit – OK I get that now. Probably we should be swirling the first swallow of Gatorade/sports drink BEFORE SWALLOWING to get that hit of carbohydrates. But RW had to dumb it down so much that I just ignored that advice, grrr.
Our windows got sprayed so badly by our bug guy the last two treatments that I was just pissed enough to put the quarterly service on hold. hashtag irritated.
I should probably do that, too. I just can’t deal with how annoying it is to make and sync playlists in iTunes now.
I am glad you saw the clarification on the swirl and spit thing. I even recently read about an elite doing that at mile 24 of a marathon cause she knew that the carbs actually wouldn’t get through her body before the end of the race, but wanted the boost. Why RW had to make it weight focused?! Who knows.
Yeah, it’s so streaky and bad. I get why it’s that way – it is when we spray too. It’s just so freaking annoying to clean!
I was thinking about reading “Endure” because I really liked “How bad do you want it” (Honestly, I like almost everything that he writes). Good to know that it’s not ALL that different. I will forgo it!
But – too funny that it broke down that study so you could actually read about the data. But, still…
On the theme of running books, I’m re-reading Haruki Marukami’s “What I talk about when I talk about running”. He’s such a gifted writer, and I have admit that I just love this book. It is an exceedingly NON-advice book, by the way! And he talks about how he wouldn’t ever give advice to people about running. Or say that anyone “should” run. He’s very funny.
I like most of what Fitzgerald writes too! You know how How Bad Do You Want It? kind of had one overarching story that defined each chapter? Endure’s overarching story is Nike’s sub 2:00 attempt, and then each chapter will sometimes have a big story, but it’s A LOT of little studies. He researched it so well, but I found it hard to focus and take it all in because of the details.
Ha! But yes, I am so glad to see the origin of the swirl and spit!
I need to read that!!!!!!
Glad to hear the actual science behind the swirl and spit “advice”!
Are the bugs pretty bad at your house? When we were at the forest preserve the other night, as soon as I stopped running the mosquitoes swarmed us. I think I killed 10 on my arms and I could see them buzzing around Holly’s head. Good motivation to keep going ha! Next time I will be using bug spray!
Good! Now that we know it’s legit, it feels, well, more legit to use!
OMG they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad. Ha! Steven was like “Are you sure you can live at this house, with how bad they are?” (they love me). Yes, they keep you moving at the preserves around here!!! Def keep some spray in the car!!!!
ha yes! Even though I won’t be spitting it back out! But maybe I can use that knowledge to help give me a boost when I need it!
Ugh! That’s too bad! I feel like many of the things that make your house really nice – land, trees, pond – also leads to a higher mosquito population! Hopefully the bug spraying helps!
I haven’t seen “The Truman Show,” but I bet it would be interesting to watch it now.
Is your weight chart daily and then smoothed out for the month view?
I thought it was interesting that you thought the “swish and spit” study was a “happy outcome.” It made me indignant to discover that RW was spinning a legitimate study!
Oh yeah! It’s actually very interesting! Let me know if you watch it. I think it was on Netflix a while ago. Or maybe Amazon.
I can view the weight chart daily, weekly, and monthly. So yeah, the day and month have WAY more peaks and valleys, and the month smooths it out all nice. Ha.
RIGHT?! Like, it’s creative to use the data that way, I will give them that, but still, messed up to me that it’s for a weird weight loss tip.
Ahh! I don’t remember where it was (it might’ve actually been in RW, since I can’t think of where else I would’ve read this), but I recently read a blurb about the swish-and-spit method that touted it as a way to get an energy boost if you can’t tolerate Gatorade (or whatever) while running. As soon as I read it, I was like, “I must tell Kim immediately! She needs to know there is good that can come from this!!!” Hahaha. But then I didn’t, until right now. Oops. Haha.
I don’t remember the last time I used iTunes! Sometimes (by which I mean “exclusively when I’m in an airplane without access to the internet) I listen to the albums I bought via iTunes (by which I mean “exclusively the Hamilton soundtrack,” haha) with the Music app on my phone, but if I want to actually listen to music, like at work or something, I really only use YouTube and Pandora (mostly YouTube). Though if I used my phone for music when working out, I’d probably use iTunes more!
Buah ha ha. I love that you thought of me! They did mention it in either the most recent or previous method of RW, again. (and yeah, it was if you can’t stand sports drinks) I wonder if it was in that new weird issue we were complaining about to one another?
How does it work to use YouTube to listen to music? Do you go to a list someone made? Or does it have a shuffle feature?
So, the best way to listen to music on YouTube (in my experience) is to know what you’re going there for in the first place (in my case: ALL OF THE BROADWAY. Hahaha. I’ve been on a soundtrack kick for the past year that just won’t quit.) If you do that for long enough, the “My Mix” playlist YouTube puts together for you will pretty much get the job done in terms of giving you the music you want to listen to. But you can also search for playlists (you have to search for what you’re generally looking for, then filter the results to see playlists), and that’s pretty good, too. You can shuffle playlists, so it kind of has a shuffle feature in that sense!
Oh, wow! I will have to check this out sometime! I love that you are still on your Broadway kick! What are you listening to now?
So many, haha. My current heavy rotations are Newsies, In the Heights, and Les Miserables. I also recently discovered a YouTube channel with all the Tony performances dating back to the 1960s, I believe, which I am LOVING.
Oh fun!!!! And have you seen all those?! I am not familiar with In the Heights!