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Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by ncmncm »

aerostable_slug wrote: post #111
dionidium wrote: post #83

> I will end by saying, as a guy, I have never had any problems from other people. In all my years walking all over. But that it is sadly very very different for women. He's either only walking in exceptionally safe areas, he's very large, or I have a particularly punchable face. I biked every road in St. Louis a few years ago, which required biking every street in some high-crime neighborhoods. I was frequently made…

I would invert your statement and posit you were riding in very dangerous areas. Most of the US is very safe compared to St. Louis, Chicago, Oakland, Richmond (CA), Detroit, Atlanta, etc. Don't go to stupid places filled with stupid people doing stupid things and you'll likely be okay — and this includes bars after midnight just about anywhere. Nothing good happens after midnight, but I digress. I agree with you that…

My son likes to relate what he has found going on in the world online.

But I have one injunction: I don't want to hear about stupid people being stupid. There is just an astounding amount of that, always has been, and everybody seems to want everybody else to know all about it, in detail.

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by balfirevic »

at_a_remove wrote: post #141

I was thinking of taking up walking again, despite getting stopped by police more than I would really like. But I considered getting some kind of MP3 player and have gone down the bizarre rabbit hole of trying to find out if those even exist now, do they use .m3u playlists, and so forth. I haven't had as much time to listen to my music and I am not a user of streaming services (I want to listen to what I want to list…

> I want to listen to what I want to listen to

If you mean streaming services like Spotify or Deezer, is that not exactly what they allow you to do?

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by analog31 »

I normally ride my bike to work every day. When the lockdown started, I missed my ride. I heard about the "fake commute" where you pretend to be commuting but end up at home again. I made it a habit to go on a long walk every morning at the same time, to get my blood flowing and clear my mind. During the winter, while I do continue riding to work, I prefer walking if I don't have to cover any kind of real distance.

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by ncmncm »

hanoz wrote: post #153
aaaaaaaaaaab wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>As for safety, always look left and right when you cross * or right and left, if you're in the UK

Or as we were taught, by Batman, "Look right, look left, look right again" . https://youtu.be/_awciO_uFdc

Odd. I thought UK doesn't have citizens, it has subjects. Maybe that changed when they got the vote?

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by jjtheblunt »

squidbot wrote: post #155

I used to be an avid walker, at least an hour a day back and forth to work, and long walks with the dogs around my home (lucky to live in a beautiful area in the PNW with close beaches and lots of trees, so plenty to enjoy.) I've been walking since I was a kid, as it was the only way to get back and forth to school and town growing up in the Berkeley hills. Though I resented it as a kid, I grew in to loving walks. I'…

osteoarthritis correlates to all the walking?

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by themodelplumber »

runjake wrote: post #160

Based on the author’s advice, I downloaded that Overdrive app and signed in with my library card. So far, every single audiobook I want to check out is reserved at least 6 months out and more commonly a year out. Is there some other scheme for borrowing audiobooks? I used to subscribe to Audible but it wasn’t a very good deal.

Does your library also use other apps? For example mine subscribes to Hoopla so I have access to a lot more content above and beyond Overdrive content.

With Overdrive / Libby I tend to sort by what's available, rather than searching for what I want. (It's similar to going to the library to browse shelves, in that way)

Anyway usually the local librarians know the smartest ways to combine apps and such.

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by munificent »

balaji1 wrote: post #122
munificent wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> allows me time to process existing thoughts as opposed to consuming more inputs This can't be stressed enough. With phones and the Internet today, most of us consume way more information than we have time to really process, organize, and reflect on. It's like we do a shopping spree every single day and never spend any time in our house unpacking any of the grocery bags. Our minds are a chaotic mess of piled up worr…

There is a benefit of re-listening to certain audiobooks, lectures or podcasts. If there was a sophisticated way to just have content on-repeat, that would be cool. New content all the time is over-consumption, while repeating could be used for learning. Also if walking alone, people should try calling friends and family. It's a great way to reconnect and stay connected with friends. Handsfree, heads up, it's good fu…

> Also if walking alone, people should try calling friends and family.

Ah, this is such a good suggestion too! I've been doing that more lately too and it's really valuable.

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by killerdhmo »

runjake wrote: post #160

Based on the author’s advice, I downloaded that Overdrive app and signed in with my library card. So far, every single audiobook I want to check out is reserved at least 6 months out and more commonly a year out. Is there some other scheme for borrowing audiobooks? I used to subscribe to Audible but it wasn’t a very good deal.

The limitation is the inventory of the library you chose (bizarre and stupid) but why he recommended adding more libraries. Not sure if you have friends in other places you could borrow their card?

The app I use is called Libby, but I imagine it is pulling from the same inventory.

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by themodelplumber »

at_a_remove wrote: post #141

I was thinking of taking up walking again, despite getting stopped by police more than I would really like. But I considered getting some kind of MP3 player and have gone down the bizarre rabbit hole of trying to find out if those even exist now, do they use .m3u playlists, and so forth. I haven't had as much time to listen to my music and I am not a user of streaming services (I want to listen to what I want to list…

I got the Oakcastle color MP3 player for my birthday last year. I had an AGPTek I think, before that. I like them. AGPTek is a good brand in my experience.

I do try to pay a bit higher than the baseline $20 USD range to get a better quality player, and sort by newest-to-market first, to get fresher batteries & firmware.

For walking or hiking the ones with buttons and clips are really great. They are very easy to use without looking at the screen. Mine do support .m3u playlists and have built-in playlist systems as well. You can shuffle files or shuffle playlist entries.

The FM radio features are also usually really convenient if you have wired headphones and any good stations or scheduled programming near where you live.

(I also have a ton of songs on my phone's card and I use Musicolet for that, which is great, but completely different in terms of experience, and I prefer not to walk or hike while holding my phone)

Re: How to Walk (12 miles a day)

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Post by at_a_remove »

AlbertCory wrote: post #176
at_a_remove wrote: post #141

I was thinking of taking up walking again, despite getting stopped by police more than I would really like. But I considered getting some kind of MP3 player and have gone down the bizarre rabbit hole of trying to find out if those even exist now, do they use .m3u playlists, and so forth. I haven't had as much time to listen to my music and I am not a user of streaming services (I want to listen to what I want to list…

> despite getting stopped by police more than I would really like. Really? I don't think I've ever been stopped by police just for walking. I did find, at Google, that almost every time I was out, someone would stop me and ask where the Google Store was. Weird.

Honestly, I think it is a function of being large and a bit odd-looking. Some big pallid dude walking the neighborhood just sets off something on the cop-dar.
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