LuckyXIII

DDR effin' rocks. Which version do you have?

Weekly check-in: Sunday Weighed in at 201 lbs. Started a DDR routine - burned 300+ calories. Monday Increased daily DDR routine to 400 calories - did 405. Started old weight routine - switched it up a bit to maximize efficiency. Did 50 crunches. Tuesday DDR knocked off 449 calories. Wednesday 400 calories exactly New weight routine - felt a lot better about it this go-round and was able to add FLY's and rows and knocked out 100 crunches. Thursday DDR - 416 calories Friday Weighed in at 199 lbs - 2 pound weight loss for the week! DDR - 406 calories Hit the weights, went through all the exercises, 100 crunches. My diet has been two eggs, toast and OJ for breakfast. Lunch has been some beef, pita bread and hummus, and salad. Dinner has been chicken sandwiches at work (Barnes & Noble) with those awesome chocolate chunk cookies - I did not have a cookie tonight. The goal for next week is to up the caloric burning to a 500 minimum on DDR and to increase my max in the weight routine. May add 25-50 crunches to it, too. And going to try going with no sweets until the end of the week.

That's really cool. A story of a similar vein: When I worked the electronics boat at Super Target a gentleman of the senior variety came in and bought the re-release of Zelda 2 for the GBA. I asked if it was for a grandchild and he said it was for himself. I thought, "cool" and figured that was the end of that. A few days later he came back, asking for help on how to get into the 6th palace. Taken aback, I regained my composure, verified with him the location of the palace and told him about the flute in level 5, and also where to get the thunder spell and the location of the secret village. One of the coolest conversations I've had with any customers, especially given the stereotype-breaking demographic of the man. And stuff like Tentacle's story makes old age seem less bleak.

Looks like this boy has a problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xIRD4EYs0o And its mate: http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01242/ We may need to stage an intervention. It would be the loving thing to do.

I just finished Identity Crisis by DC which is pretty good. Now going through Batman's The Long Halloween and it's r0xx0rzing my b0xx0rzings right now. The classics, aside from Sandman, which are great are Kingdom Come, Marvels, Watchmen, Weapon X, Batman: Year One, and The Dark Knight Returns. Unfortunately, I'd reckon he's probably read all or most of those based on your description and the fact that my comic readership has been sporadic over the last several years. I hope all comes out well for your friend, though.

Weekly Check-In: Started off alright - as mentioned in a previous post I overdid it a bit in weights and walk/jogging. I took Thursday off of w/j and then unexpectedly took off yesterday as I was called into work a couple hours earlier than anticipated. Therefore, I exercised today - or rather, tonight. I'm going to chalk this week up to a calibration week. I pulled out the ol' DDR mat and spun up some MAXX action and I think I'm going to make this part of the routine, too. Especially on days it's raining (and so long as the apartment below me remains vacant). At the end of the first week, weighing in at 201.

It makes SciFi Channel original productions actually look kinda good.

Back in '04 I became a DDR demon and lost ~70 lbs - from 230ish-160ish. I also drastically changed my diet as well, but I was doing...hmm...I was doing it on workout mode and with Maxx2 did the 20 song-in-a-row thing. My own progress report for this friendly fit competition though: So far this week I've done weight routines twice - once on Monday, once yesterday. I think I overdid it on Monday as I was still a bit sore yesterday so I toned it down a bit and I think I've found a groove, so to speak. On Tuesday I started the walk/jog part and did it again yesterday. However, I fear I overdid that as well on Tuesday as yesterday my legs were sore every time I'd go up and down stairs and I wasn't able to maintain a steady jog for any goodly amount of time. So I took today off. Tomorrow I'll go back to the lake and hit the irons. To tell you the truth, I don't know if it's psychological or what, but yesterday and today my pants felt a little looser...

It looks like Wayne's basement...but...that's not Wayne's basement...

Currently reading: Pride & Prejudice ~ Austen 1984 ~ Orwell Good Omens ~ Gaiman & Pratchett Have read this year: Ruthless Trust ~ Manning Anansi Boys ~ Gaiman Invisible Man ~ Ellison Cash by Johnny Cash Ender's Game ~ Card

Please forgive my ignorance and going for the cheap laugh, but...Grand Theft Auto orientation?

I would have to say I like that plan better.

GOAL: Drop @ least 20 lbs - from 200 to 180. I'd really like to regain my singular chin and not have hybrid fowl/double. And I want to look sexy in my OCR shirt, not...like I do now. PLAN: Diet - Reduce fat intake (going for more skim milk in my coffee) - Reduce soda intake - Reduce junk food intake in general - Increase veggie consumption Exercise - Run at least 3 times a week around a nearby lake - Working out with weights every other day (routines found here: http://exercise.about.com/cs/exerciseworkouts/a/weight101_2.htm?p=1) Thanks for the idea of getting this whole thing going. Aside from random posts and frequent lurking I actually feel like I'm getting somewhat involved in the community!

This is fun...

..and my axe! Er...I'm in, too.

HAH! Wow...is it just something you hear over the ending or is it Jim talking to you?

NICE. Is it possible to obtain the whole soundtrack?

reminds me of tim & eric

lol'd minimum of 10?

Roger that.

Niiiiiice... I've not been following the thread too closely so please forgive my tired ignorance, but how can I get one?

a couple years ago I spotted a guy wearing a shirt at Crabtree mall in Raleigh and said hey to him. I think he posted about it later. I used to work for Time Warner Cable and there's a guy who wears an OCR shirt every now and then. He said he didn't really know much about the site (or he didn't get on much - one of the two) but someone got it for him for his birthday.

I never played this game so I didn't think of actually listening to the track until I saw it featured in that column posted about the top ten tracks from the Zelda games. After listening to the sample of the original theme from the game I was intrigued and immediately looked in my library and found this remix and I digs it muchly. Someone previously mentioned that the strings remind them of Bond, and I also am reminded of the stringed vixens. Two thumbs up on this one! EDIT: so much so that I made the first musical phrase of the melody my ringtone

Oh yeah, I had nearly forgotten about the Blue Vacation...but I was kind of hoping for something...different. And good heavens...JJT's version is sublime. I guess what I really want is just the original soundtrack... But a remix that takes the theme and expands on it would be cool. I look forward to your Red Canyon mix. And I realize Metroid has a lot of good remixes, however I have this idea in my head of a smooth jazz rendition of Red Brinstar that could go well with both Maridia themes actually. First we hear the intro from Red Soil, but with low trumpets and sax with a syncopated ryhthm - this plays throughout almost the entire piece. Then...maybe a sax plays the flute part, jazzy though, and melancholy. Then it segues into the Rocky Underwater Area theme with the original flute part still being covered by a sax. Then it at some point the music seamlessly goes into the melody of the Drifting Sand theme. I'm thinking kind of a Dave Brubeck style, here, and since it's underwater it makes me think of the Arabian Dance from the Nutcracker as visualized in Fantasia... Hope that helps clarify a little..

Has anyone considered doing an F-Zero album? It'd be interesting to hear what could be done with Big Blue and Red Canyon. And with Metroid, I know there's Relics of the Chozo, but the other day I got in my head a smooth jazz version of Red Brinstar and the Maridia themes from Super Metroid. So perhaps a smooth jazz Metroid/Super Metroid project could work?