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1. I've been given a membership to Comic Con, and will be there probably Friday and Saturday. Who wants to meet up?
2. Some people I know are signing up for a Japanese class. My Japanese could certainly use all the help it can get. However, the class is on Sunday afternoon, which is a good time for me to either write or relax, and which prevents me from taking a two-day weekend in Santa Barbara. I'd really like to get back into the Japanese groove, and that's a lot less inconvenient than another City College class. Hmmm.
3. I am taking time off from karate and have begun lifting weights three times per week in an attempt to not have my back hurt all the time. About two weeks in, I feel pretty good, my back is definitely improved, and I find lifting pleasantly meditative. Does anyone here lift weights seriously? How much improvement in strength can I reasonably expect if I persist?
I also walked three miles yesterday. Go me.
4. Today I finished and sent in revisions for Secret Project GW that I'm doing with Sherwood Smith. Go us. This makes me feel better about not having accomplished anything else this week.
5. DO NOT SPOIL ANYONE IN COMMENTS IF YOU CAN FOLLOW THIS but having recently hooked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oyceter on Naruto and knowing that she was a fair way into the chuunin exams arc, I e-mailed her, "Have you gotten to [so-and-so]'s past yet?" She replied, "I think so, so-and-so mentioned such-and-such, which was interesting." I wrote, "Never mind, you're not there yet."
I knew exactly when she got there when I received an e-mail with the subject line: [so-and-so's spoiler-protected name]!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The flashback which completely changes your view of a character is an old and very frequently well-done device in manga, and one which Kishimoto uses to good effect in several places in the series, but [!!!!!!!!!] is the best take on it I've come across yet.
Order the series from Amazon: Naruto, Volume 1
2. Some people I know are signing up for a Japanese class. My Japanese could certainly use all the help it can get. However, the class is on Sunday afternoon, which is a good time for me to either write or relax, and which prevents me from taking a two-day weekend in Santa Barbara. I'd really like to get back into the Japanese groove, and that's a lot less inconvenient than another City College class. Hmmm.
3. I am taking time off from karate and have begun lifting weights three times per week in an attempt to not have my back hurt all the time. About two weeks in, I feel pretty good, my back is definitely improved, and I find lifting pleasantly meditative. Does anyone here lift weights seriously? How much improvement in strength can I reasonably expect if I persist?
I also walked three miles yesterday. Go me.
4. Today I finished and sent in revisions for Secret Project GW that I'm doing with Sherwood Smith. Go us. This makes me feel better about not having accomplished anything else this week.
5. DO NOT SPOIL ANYONE IN COMMENTS IF YOU CAN FOLLOW THIS but having recently hooked
oyceter on Naruto and knowing that she was a fair way into the chuunin exams arc, I e-mailed her, "Have you gotten to [so-and-so]'s past yet?" She replied, "I think so, so-and-so mentioned such-and-such, which was interesting." I wrote, "Never mind, you're not there yet."I knew exactly when she got there when I received an e-mail with the subject line: [so-and-so's spoiler-protected name]!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The flashback which completely changes your view of a character is an old and very frequently well-done device in manga, and one which Kishimoto uses to good effect in several places in the series, but [!!!!!!!!!] is the best take on it I've come across yet.
Order the series from Amazon: Naruto, Volume 1
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I would also recommend stabilizing exercises--squats in a squat cage rather than on a press machine, for example, and squats on a wobble board. Also, pull ups on an assisted pull up machine. If you don't care about building popping muscles, exercise muscle systems rather than isolating.
Also, I will be helping man the Random House and Mysterious Galaxy booths. Come find me!
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I will look for you at the con!
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Also, this site rocks:
http://www.stumptuous.com/
Also, are you familiar with "Granny Got A Vibrator"? She's a woman in her fifties who lifts, and is generally a mad radical wonderful creature.
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Um, yes I did.
Sorry, I'm very fragged out right now. In the dead parrot sense.
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I'd love to seeing if Cinderella can make it to the ball. =)
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HA HA
The flashback which completely changes your view of a character is an old and very frequently well-done device in manga, and one which Kishimoto uses to good effect in several places in the series, but [!!!!!!!!!] is the best take on it I've come across yet.
It is my utter favorite manga device, and Naruto kicks ass it; every Naruto character who I hated passionately before their spoilery flashbacks, especially [Main Spoilery Character In Question], afterward became among my favorite characters of the series. (I have the LJ equivalent of [!!!!!!!!!] with old posts tracking my Naruto reading from [Spoiler] needs to DIE to OH MY GOD [SPOILER NAME] OH MY HEART.)
[Spoiler] gets the best [!!!!!!!!!] EVER IN HISTORY.
Also, I am going to do a massive Naruto fanart-recs post soon-ish; any requests? (Massive but by no means comprehensive, as the fandom attempts to make up for its lack of decent fanfic by having oceans of really kickass art.)
Comic Con eee! Go poke your head in on Matsuri Hino for me! Maybe someday there will be a decent manga track at Dragon Con for me.
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Really, there are oceans of kick-ass art? Great, I'm looking forward to your post. The only ones I can think of offhand to recommend are the realistic angsty Gaara that you pointed me to, I think, and to browse through
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Making list here, partially for your benefit and partially for
Naruto Memorial Project (http://www.ninja-monkey.com/NMP.htm) index - This was organized by
Kung-Foo's NMP entry (http://www.deviantart.com/view/10385455/), done at a time when we didn't know if this character would survive or not.
Wredewrat has a few things, including her entry (http://www.deviantart.com/view/11532160/) for the NMP, for the same character I did.
Croaky (http://www.deviantart.com/view/8192898/) has a metric assload of Naruto stuff including lots of Jiraiya, and several OCs including a female version of Kyuubi called Bitch!Kyuubi.
chibitensai (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6758700/) - that one was done with ball-point pen.
Elledupomme (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6233532/) - great Gaara picture. :D
Ralein (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6311441/)
Paintpixel (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6173463/), who most people know for being one of the poeple colorizing covers of scanlations.
Frostius (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6002743/)
Prodigy Bombay (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6072264/)
JenZee (http://www.deviantart.com/view/4574597/)
Yamiza (http://www.deviantart.com/view/3952005/)
Technoelfie (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6020024/) has some cool stuff, including OCs, and, say, HALF-NAKED NINJAS (http://www.deviantart.com/view/5176783/).
Chelsee has wonderful Naruto art, including this one (http://www.deviantart.com/view/8104045/)
Many things by daruma123 (http://daruma123.deviantart.com/)
Ninja Skillz (http://www.deviantart.com/view/10427354/). Funnier if you've seen the canonical image of Itachi crouching on a light pole silhouetted by the moon and have read that bit of Sasuke's past.
Operation: Revival Uchiha, by duneboo (spoilers for post-chuunin exam)
Part I: http://www.deviantart.com/view/7671657/
Part II: http://www.deviantart.com/view/7833863/
Part III: http://www.deviantart.com/view/8677984/
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*bookmarks shinyshiny new things*
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:D Lots of Naruto art recs, I can do. XD And actually any search on "naruto" on DA will produce a lot of gold among the
massive amounts ofdross. A search for "nartuo" will bring up a lot of dross, unsurprisingly. XD What's surprising is that "naurto" has no results at all.I dunno if the search is still restricted to paid members or not.
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By the way, is the sexy picture of Naruto grown up in these? (I feel dirty liking it now, but I saw it before I really read the manga!)
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EEEEEEEE!!!!
Am still not over it yet!
Ohhhhhh if you are still doing fanart recs, Rock Lee! Or Master Guy! I love them so much! The eyebrows! The stick lashes! The round eyes!
Also, anything of Sakura and Ino. Or actually, anything with the women.
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Paintpixel, above, has a few of the chicks. :D
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http://www.deviantart.com/view/6647034/
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And a bonus Master Gai/Guy! BRAIN BREAKAGE IMMINENT
http://www.deviantart.com/view/2492190/
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I only clicked on the last one too!
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But let me know if you do want to meet up.
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How do you define improvement? I would expect that, starting reasonably, you would be able to increase the amount of weight/resistance after two weeks of regular training. But functional strength follows a weakest link pattern: you're only as strong as the weakest muscle that you need to use. For example, massive quadriceps aren't as useful for kicking if the hip flexors are weak. I agree with
How do you define persistence? On the one hand there's the classic twice-a-day, three-on-one-off Schwarzeneggerian regime. On the other hand there's the half-dozen times a month plan come rain or shine but in addition to other training. To me it's less about the number of times per week and more about maintaining the plan for some time. I think three months of consistent, three-times-a-week training will show a noticeable improvement in strength. Eventually (I can't come up with a good estimate right now for some reason...brain...failing...) you will feel different if you train for functional strength. It's hard to explain but the closest I can come is that you feel more effective in interacting with your environment. A few percentage points increase seems to have a qualitative effect.
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Go you on the exercise, indeed. I'm glad your back is improving.
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My e-mail is Rphoenix2@hotmail.com.
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I'm sending details to your email now.