[opendtv] Re: News: TV Sales Becoming Litmus Test for U.S. Economy
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:48:16 -0800
You are speaking of "exertion". For it to be "exercise" you must raise your
heart rate at least to 80% of maximum. Once you have maintained that rate
for 20 minutes, you can say that you have exercised.
Don't get me wrong: exertion is good, but exercise is better.
Heck, I can "feel better" by doing a few minutes of stretching exercises,
when that's all the time I have.
John Willkie, who once had the opportunity to correct a cardiologist on this
point.
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Tom Barry
Enviado el: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:34 AM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: News: TV Sales Becoming Litmus Test for U.S. Economy
Walking to a bus stop may consume only a trivial amount of calories.
But I have noticed that if I manage to make myself do only about 5
minutes of exercises the first thing in the morning it seems to up my
metabolism somewhat for the rest of the day. Maybe something like that
is in play.
- Tom
John Willkie wrote:
> Oops: I made a big boo-boo.
>
> I should have said "all civil servants of pallor" not all civil servants.
> Washington's many fine African-American civil servants tend to be third or
> fourth generation natives of the District of Columbia.
>
> John Willkie
>
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> De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
> nombre de John Willkie
> Enviado el: Saturday, November 29, 2008 8:03 PM
> Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: [opendtv] Re: News: TV Sales Becoming Litmus Test for U.S. Economy
>
> Seems to me that one cannot lose weight walking a few mintues to/from the
> bus, even on both ends, repeated once daily.
>
> However, if one examines the whole transportation cycle, I think one can
> easily recognize that buses don't stop at every 7-11, but cars can.
>
> If that's the Mexican restaurant that's a few doors to the East of the
> Biograph (or where the Biograph was for such a long time), I can say that
> the reason it doesn't have many patrons is because that hoity-toity "black
> beans ane the only Mexican beans attitude" isn't authentic (except for
> Chelangos [those that live in or near Mexico City, or want to]) and the
food
> sucked each time I tried it, not to mention the server's attitude.
>
> Also, the average Washington civil servant goes home to Pittsburgh for
> Thanksgiving, and even if they don't they tend to have extra food at home
> just after thanksgiving. (Yes, most Washington, DC civil servants are
from
> Pittsburgh; just ask a few. If you were from Pittsburgh, it's the closest
> city with jobs, after Steel moved on.)
>
> Much better to go to the Austin Grill on upper Wisconsin Avenue. Some
folks
> call that Georgetown, because it's on upper Wisconsin Avenue, but it's
> actually a few blocks North of Burleith.
>
> John Willkie, a former resident of Burleith, and a former regular at the
> Austin Grill. Hey, Tex Mex is better than no Mex! And, just for
reference,
> the house I lived in was at the SE corner of 37th & Whitehaven Parkway,
> Washington DC, NW. "everybody knows" that Georgetown doesn't extend North
> of 33rd street.
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
> nombre de Albert Manfredi
> Enviado el: Saturday, November 29, 2008 3:18 PM
> Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: [opendtv] Re: News: TV Sales Becoming Litmus Test for U.S. Economy
>
>
> This sort of article really makes me wonder.
>
> It's a bit like articles I've read about people who had to start using
> public transportation, when the price of gasoline went to $4.00 and more.
> They were saying how much weight they had lost just by making that one
> change in their lives. To which my reaction was, huh? Just how sedentary
> must you be, if the mere act of walking a few minutes to the bus stop
causes
> a sharp weight loss?
>
> In this case, one can only wonder how much money consumers habitually
throw
> out the window, if the effect of some prudent level of household savings
> causes such a drastic downturn. What, they were never concerned before
about
> "I'm a stable provider. They may turn to me."??
>
> Last night, we went to our favorite Mexican restaurant in Georgetown.
Could
> be partially due to the long weekend, but I was surprised that there were
> very few patrons. How come? Much of their clientele is no doubt civil
> servants, whose jobs are not affected that much by the economic woes, at
> least not yet. So where were they? Or said another way, how close to the
> brink were they before, when the place was typically packed on Friday
> nights?
>
> Seems to me, in spite of what Craig keeps saying, FOTA TV could make a
> comeback. Thanks to the economy and to the DTV conversion.
>
> Bert
>
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