GinohnBlog The Human Ginohn Project 2009-02-01T10:36:10-05:00 Ginohn http://wunderland.com/WTS/Ginohn/blog/index.php ginohn@gmail.com tag:pivotpowered,2009:GinohnBlog Pivot Copyright (c) 2009, Authors of GinohnBlog Strong Quote 2009-02-01T10:34:00-05:00 2009-01-31T14:05:00-05:00 tag:pivotpowered,2009:GinohnBlog.5 "Over and above any considerations of performance for sports, exercise is the stimulus that returns our bodies to the conditions for which they were designed. Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort. Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which there will always be problems. Exercise is the thing we must do to replicate the conditions under which our physiology was adapted, the conditions under which we are physically normal. In other words, exercise is substitute cave-man activity the thing we need to make our bodies, and in fact our minds, normal in the 21st century. And merely normal, for most worthwhile humans, is not good enough."  Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength "Over and above any considerations of performance for sports, exercise is the stimulus that returns our bodies to the conditions for which they were designed. Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort. Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem— it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which there will always be problems. Exercise is the thing we must do to replicate the conditions under which our physiology was adapted, the conditions under which we are physically normal. In other words, exercise is substitute cave-man activity— the thing we need to make our bodies, and in fact our minds, normal in the 21st century. And merely normal, for most worthwhile humans, is not good enough."
— Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength

This paragraph really made an impact on my exercise philosophy. Recent research has shown that exercise combats depression as well or better than prescription drugs. But maybe the implied metaphor, exercise-as-a-drug, is wrong. Maybe this special kind of human behavior—good exercise—is integral to the human animal, like the other pillars of human normalcy: good nutrition, good sleep, good learning, good social interaction, etc. A person can survive without the support of any one of these pillars, but thrives with all of them intact. After all these years of using exercise as a kind of therapy, I've finally begun to think of good exercise as a necessary part of sane, healthy living. ]]> John Is this thing on? 2009-01-31T13:58:00-05:00 2009-01-18T04:16:00-05:00 tag:pivotpowered,2009:GinohnBlog.4

Ahem. I'm not making any guarantees here, but with this new blogging system you might be hearing from us more often. So, what have we been up to the last 2 months? I will try to summarize.So, when we last left off, we'd gone to a butt load of parties. The fun didn't stop there. We also went to see comedian Paul F. Tompkins, who was totally awesome. I'd heard good things about him recently, but wasn't sure about him since he didn't really make a good impression when he was on the excellent Mr. Show. But I was laughing so hard it hurt at one point. The pitcher of beer we shared (me, John, Dave and Rich) didn't hurt my mood any either. Be sure to check out his VH1 show, that you can watch on the internet: Best Week Ever. Aparna Nancheria opened which was a nice surprise since we'd enjoyed seeing her before. I bought Paul's cd and got it autographed after the show and that was fun too. When we finally went to the car, I hopped in the driver's seat then suddenly realized I was in no condition to drive (this was funny). Fortunately, John was alright. Ahem. I'm not making any guarantees here, but with this new blogging system you might be hearing from us more often. So, what have we been up to the last 2 months? I will try to summarize.

So, when we last left off, we'd gone to a butt load of parties. The fun didn't stop there. We also went to see comedian Paul F. Tompkins, who was totally awesome. I'd heard good things about him recently, but wasn't sure about him since he didn't really make a good impression when he was on the excellent Mr. Show. But I was laughing so hard it hurt at one point. The pitcher of beer we shared (me, John, Dave and Rich) didn't hurt my mood any either. Be sure to check out his VH1 show, that you can watch on the internet: Best Week Ever. Aparna Nancheria opened which was a nice surprise since we'd enjoyed seeing her before. I bought Paul's cd and got it autographed after the show and that was fun too. When we finally went to the car, I hopped in the driver's seat then suddenly realized I was in no condition to drive (this was funny). Fortunately, John was alright.

Also back in November, we saw some movies, celebrated Renata's birthday at a great party, and I played with PMC, or precious metal clay, with Diana and Lei. I made 5 pendant that session, and we did it again a few weeks later and I made some more, but I have yet to do anything with them.

At the end of November we went to see They Might Be Giants with Dave at the 9:30 club. They performed their album Flood in it's entirety, then all the rest of their albums too. Okay not really, but that's what they said they were going to do. And they did give us a sampling from each, I believe. Plus a new song that is yet to be released - it will come out on their upcoming Here Comes Science album. Yay!

The next night we went over to Alex and Renee's to help decorate their Xmas tree and play games. We did both. It was fun.

In December I sold pottery with Greenbelt Pottery at the Festival of Lights. Our booth did really well and as it turned out, so did I. I did the usual wheel demo as well.

I went to Constantia and Sean's tree trimming party and had a great time there too.

We went to Politics and Prose to see Play With Me perform, but first stopped by Comet to enjoy a beer. It was a very fun show and afterwards we went back to Comet and Joe and Andy plus some friends of theirs joined us. That was fun too.

Later in the month my Mom came up for a visit. Then I went to Florida and the 'rent's house for a week and so did my brother and we went running and cleaned the house and shampooed the rug and I made smoothies every day for everyone. We took a little trip up north and an old good friend, Michelle Biggerstaff, came down a bit south with her two boys and we met up in a little town and found a Golden Corral to eat at (pretty good buffet with salad bar) and got caught up. For that I can say "Thanks, Facebook," for helping reunite us.

I was back home for New Years and we spent it at Alex and Renee's this year again - dinner, gaming, and making lots of noise when the ball dropped. Good times (Happy New Year everybody!).

Some of my classes have started back up, but otherwise I've been moving slowly in January. We've seen some more movies, John bought a giant humungous tv, and we're trying to figure out how to set it up. Actually, we've been kind of agonizing about it. Do we buy a small, cheap, simple stand and have all our stuff lying around it? Do we spend a lot on a large entertainment center? Can we find one that will fit in our space, AND hold the TV, and all the other stuff it needs to hold, and not cost too much? Do we butcher the one we have and try to restructure it to hold the behemoth? Or maybe pay our friend Frank to build us a custom one (also likely expensive)? We're looking at taking the current one apart and see if we can't make it work.

Meanwhile, Lee Moyer came to the East coast for the first time since he moved to Portland 6 years ago. We saw him this past summer, of course, when we stayed with him and Annaliese for a week. And I had seen him at Gen Con a couple years before that. Anyway, he was seeing folks over at Greykell's on a movie night so we went to that and saw Lee and other folks we don't see much. Along with the movie Speed Racer (which I enjoyed) and part of Death Race (?). A few days later Lee came to visit us and a friend, Leslie, came to see him here and we all went to Franklin's and Kevin met us there and we had a great time.

The New Deal put in a new bar and we went to check it out. It's nice. We got some beer and drank at it. Then we went to the movie and came back and drank some more and closed the place.

That was tonight so I am all caught up! Yay!

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