Posts tagged “rowing”

• Fun Stuff
  • Nick Holmes posts cute and funny things.
  • I’ve always wondered exactly how potholes are formed. Now I know.
  • Need some cool wrapping paper? Try rapping paper.
  • Thinking about the Monty Hall Paradox always makes my head hurt.
  • Do you feel like you’re too old to start getting into shape? Listen to Charles Eugster, who is a champion weightlifter: “I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn’t seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.”
  • I, for one, am very happy to get to go to Mars. You can go, too.
• Sports
  • I love this photograph of a guy painting the hash marks on Florida Field.
  • Agree +1 with this tweet from @drsaturday: “I like Tim Tebow but I don’t think I can convey in 140 characters the visceral hate I have for this commercial.”
• Parenting
  • The British newspaper The Independent has published a list of 50 books every child should read. YMMV.
  • The website PoshTots has a section devoted to luxury playhouses, which cost upwards of $10,500. Comment unnecessary.
  • Don’t Touch the Screen is a podcast for webnerds with kids. (iTunes)
  • Ten Jaw-Droppingly Awesome Infographics on Education is exactly what it says on the tin.

I am seriously considering buying myself an erg. There are two craptastic ones at my gym, and I haven’t rowed on a nice one in so long that I have almost forgetten how tremendously painful it is. We have plenty of room on the back patio for it. And I’m not exactly going to lose any weight by wishing on a star in ’09. </thinking out loud>