Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.

Buffy ,'Him'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Dec 05, 2013 2:38:34 pm PST #13825 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I think they'll cancel school tomorrow

For a long time, CPS never EVER closed -- fire and brimstone could be raining from the skies and Walnut Hills was still having exams (okay, more seriously, I remember in maybe 1998 or so there was a storm where it snowed for over 24 hours straight, and CPS stayed open...although bus service was cancelled) -- so I'm always a little taken aback when they do the sensible thing and close.


Consuela - Dec 05, 2013 2:46:19 pm PST #13826 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Would it work for someone who walks rather than runs?

Steph, sorry I never replied--I went out and just got home a little while ago.

Zombies, Run! works for walking just as well as running. There's an interval-training element to it, but it doesn't mean you have to run, you just have to pick up the pace by 20% or more. And, of course, all the chatter from the radio operator is about running.

But it works for running or walking or cycling; on a treadmill or elliptical (using the accelerometer rather than the GPS); and Dana reports that it works on a stationary bike!


Hil R. - Dec 05, 2013 3:00:04 pm PST #13827 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My cable company's On Demand selection includes several Charlie Brown holiday movies, but not A Charlie Brown Christmas. Boo.


Steph L. - Dec 05, 2013 3:03:20 pm PST #13828 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Zombies, Run! works for walking just as well as running. There's an interval-training element to it, but it doesn't mean you have to run, you just have to pick up the pace by 20% or more. And, of course, all the chatter from the radio operator is about running.

Excellent!


Connie Neil - Dec 05, 2013 3:09:13 pm PST #13829 of 30000
brillig

Yay, we reached a high of 14 degrees today! Woo hoo!


Dana - Dec 05, 2013 3:15:33 pm PST #13830 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

I'm watching The Sound of Music live broadcast on NBC, and it seems like it's designed to maximize the amount of Audra McDonald so far. Which isn't a choice I disagree with, exactly, but maybe it's a sign you shouldn't have cast Carrie Underwood?


-t - Dec 05, 2013 3:22:28 pm PST #13831 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Is it really sad when a 95 year old man dies?

It's sad for the world to longer have Nelson Mandela alive in it. So, yeah. Really sad.

I do not understand this "using less oil" as a good thing for popcorn. One of the perqs of working in a movie theater was being able to make ourselves batches of popcorn with double oil. So good.

Thanks for the Zombies Run rec and explanation, Consuela, that sounds worth checking out. Interval training, I am not good at it.


Dana - Dec 05, 2013 3:27:09 pm PST #13832 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Actually, I guess they're adhering to the stage musical, which I've never seen, rather than the movie.


Hil R. - Dec 05, 2013 3:28:05 pm PST #13833 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Actually, I guess they're adhering to the stage musical, which I've never seen, rather than the movie.

Yeah. The Reverend Mother has a much bigger part of the first few scenes of the musical than the movie.


Amy - Dec 05, 2013 3:29:43 pm PST #13834 of 30000
Because books.

I clicked past before, and Maria was singing "My Favorite Things" to the Mother Superior, which was confusing.

Live-on-TV stuff like that makes me weirdly nervous. I want to watch from the hall in case something goes horribly wrong.