Somebody Else Celebrated Sunday Night

Team Six?

It doesn’t exist. Never existed. Never will exist. It’s not now known as the Special Warfare Development Group aka Dev Group.

FYI, the pretraining (not a real word) for BUD/S is crazy. We’re talking a minimum requirement of 400 pushups, 400 sit ups and 100 pullups and running 4 miles in 22 minutes.

I was happy doing 200/200/40 and 4 miles in 25 minutes (not anywhere close to that now.)

@ManchuCandidate: I could probably get that done in 22 days, with regular pizza and beer breaks of course.

@ManchuCandidate: I could not do a pullup to save my life.

@Dodgerblue: An old Eugene friend, now also in Sandy Eggo, asked me the other day how I did in high school, to which I trotted out an old line I haven’t used in years: “Straight A’s. And a Gentleman’s C in P.E.”

@Dodgerblue:
Actually I couldn’t either in High school. I think I nearly gave myself an aneurysm.

The first time I ever did 10 in a row was one of the happier days of my life.

FYI, Firefox 4 sucks. It clogged up my once smooth running Macbook. I ended up reinstalling 3.6.17 and dumping 4.

@ManchuCandidate: Mr Cyn loaded that piece of my crap on my Air and I hate it–crashes everything. His computer got broken on the hellish return from Oz so we’re sharing. I don’t like sharing. Never did.

@Mistress Cynica:
Especially Firefox 4. That’s cruel.

Firefox 4 is working well on my Vaio. As a webdev, I program on the worst browser so I know where the low bar is. I don’t bother using anything but Safari on my Mac, though, unless I’m testing applications. In which case, FF4 for OS X does seem to suck it big.

@ManchuCandidate: @hunkamonkiman: and Mistress Cynica, too. Thanks to you all for confirming our lucky escape. My husband tried to load FF4 on our Mac OS X twice, to no avail. I am no more computer-savvy than he is, but I don’t have tremors and I’m no longer afraid to just try things and see if anything works, so I tried to load it and concluded it couldn’t be done. Now I see that we were lucky that we failed to load it.

@lynnlightfoot: FF may be fine on PCs, but it does not play well with Macs. I use Safari or Chrome on my Mac and Chrome on the PC at work. FF seem to have become IE-like bloatware.

@hunkamonkiman: I work the opposite direction: Safari first, looking over my shoulder at Mac FF, while I’m developing, because that’s how a site is supposed to look. Then I switch to the Dark Side and see what Explorer fucks up.

Although in most cases I can now very happily ignore IE 6, which makes life a lot easier.

@Mistress Cynica: I’ve heard that Chrome allows for a work around to the NYT paywall. But I’m all about surfing Safari.

@Nabisco: Chrome incognito window evades the paywall.

@Mistress Cynica: The crow flies at midnight.

Speaking of the New York Times, here is a real clue/answer combo (121 across) from the Sunday crossword:

Best-looking rear ends?

Top bottoms.

why are you all speaking in tongues when MC has disputed something BIG. ‘splain MC!!!

@redmanlaw: HAHAHA