crawling back to life. also backstroking.
Monday, 11 June 2012 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kWow I love swimming. Some days I want to prune myself for hours. I've finally learned, however, that sometimes the best thing is to exercise less, so I have some wherewithal remaining for the remains of the day. It's also an intriguing social scene. Members' average age is around 50. I've advised many folks about the ups & downs of wheelchairs, and in turn learned about all the marvelous places women have been working and traveling in the last 90-some years. The most exciting was Gerda Lerner, who reminded me, even in the depths of George W.., it wasn't 1939 Germany.
I'm also using a treadmill, which is surprisingly good. I don't have to worry about tripping on cracks in the sidewalk. I don't have to prevent myself from swiveling to admire the scenery (head turns can make me faint). I can swing my arms freely without gripping canes or sticks or walker. I can read. And when I'm tired, I can just stop, without concern for how I'll get back home.
So Sherlock BBC fandom has eaten my brain. Given that three years of SGA fandom has resulted in three recs posts, don't expect many Sherlock recs. Fortunately, there's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
221b_recs where the very best do show up.
I got the DVD box set, but discovered my DVD player was spewing rainbow snow every 23rd second. I tried to research Region 0 players, but only ended up with Google Search Fugue. In that fugue I passed what used to be our University bookstore's "Computer Outpost," but out with the new and in with the badger t-shirts. BOING! At the University Bookstore mothership, they had stacks of electronic stuff cheap, including a 1st gen Blu-Ray player (which still has RCA connectors, hence captions will survive) for $50! Wow!
OK, now I watch all the episodes, but I want more.
Turns out our local library has To The Ends of the Earth, a three x 90 minute miniseries which features Benedict Cumberbatch in almost every frame. (I have an uncontrollable urge to refer to him as Cumbersnatch -- or maybe Gingersnatch -- in conversation, but fortunately I won't do that here.)
Criminally, although it was broadcast on both the BBC (who do great subtitles) and PBS (who do grand captions) the disk is published by an US firm who don't give a shit about access. So take review with salt as I missed around 35%.
Benedict does an excellent job portraying the lead character, who grows from an over-educated, under-socialized ruling-class twit into a slightly better-socialized, ruling-class land owner who's foolishly in love, heroically harmed in ways I won't spoil, on the very long journey from Plymouth UK to Sydney Cove Australia immediately after the end of the War of 1912. Previews at the link above.
I'm also using a treadmill, which is surprisingly good. I don't have to worry about tripping on cracks in the sidewalk. I don't have to prevent myself from swiveling to admire the scenery (head turns can make me faint). I can swing my arms freely without gripping canes or sticks or walker. I can read. And when I'm tired, I can just stop, without concern for how I'll get back home.
So Sherlock BBC fandom has eaten my brain. Given that three years of SGA fandom has resulted in three recs posts, don't expect many Sherlock recs. Fortunately, there's
221b_recs where the very best do show up.I got the DVD box set, but discovered my DVD player was spewing rainbow snow every 23rd second. I tried to research Region 0 players, but only ended up with Google Search Fugue. In that fugue I passed what used to be our University bookstore's "Computer Outpost," but out with the new and in with the badger t-shirts. BOING! At the University Bookstore mothership, they had stacks of electronic stuff cheap, including a 1st gen Blu-Ray player (which still has RCA connectors, hence captions will survive) for $50! Wow!
OK, now I watch all the episodes, but I want more.
Turns out our local library has To The Ends of the Earth, a three x 90 minute miniseries which features Benedict Cumberbatch in almost every frame. (I have an uncontrollable urge to refer to him as Cumbersnatch -- or maybe Gingersnatch -- in conversation, but fortunately I won't do that here.)
Criminally, although it was broadcast on both the BBC (who do great subtitles) and PBS (who do grand captions) the disk is published by an US firm who don't give a shit about access. So take review with salt as I missed around 35%.
Benedict does an excellent job portraying the lead character, who grows from an over-educated, under-socialized ruling-class twit into a slightly better-socialized, ruling-class land owner who's foolishly in love, heroically harmed in ways I won't spoil, on the very long journey from Plymouth UK to Sydney Cove Australia immediately after the end of the War of 1912. Previews at the link above.
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Date: 12/06/2012 01:39 am (UTC)Yeah... that's kind of important, isn't it?
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Date: 12/06/2012 02:23 am (UTC)Just saying.