LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[bg]

And don't forget the Christmas pickle! In fact, this pickle business has now spread to candy canes....might be an acquired taste...your kids might not forgive you...

i've been known to drink pickle juice :]

[Kona2]

High fives! And five days to the Holiday Challenge launch....

Getting the spirit moving....always a challenge with our erging routines from time to time. But wait! Here's another option. Some may have thought I was kidding when I suggested decorating your erging machine. Not really. Now that I have the "rowing" running lights on my lunar bound erg steed, I am sure that I am ready for the upcoming Holiday Challenge. With less than 15 feet of wiring, and 18 microlights to place where they wouldn't get caught up in the erg motion, I was a little limited. Happily, the little battery box sits easily next to the flywheel and doesn't move about. Fun stuff.



MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

850 K bg
650 K K2

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m A palindrome!
William H 2,000 m
Kerry 2,513 m
Danno 6,006 m ...A palindrome!
Jonas 6,897 m
David T 7,000 m
Jane 7,777 m ... a lucky 7 palindrome!
Kevin 8,584 m
David A 8,968 m
Ed 10,000 m
K2 10,073 m
bg 10,213 m

[bg]

love the lights :]

[Thor MW]

love the lights :]

K2, you are just so cool. haha. To say more would likely get me a face slap. Grin.
On the other hand, you sighties ...

[Kona2]

Ah...Thanksgiving Week 2016 looms large! For those of you who are in travel mode, safe journeys. For those anticipating the arrival of family and "the grands" as Danno calls the grandkids, good luck and don't talk politics. And no matter WHAT you have planned, know that you have FOUR days...a mere 96 hours before the onset of The Holiday Challenge. Still lots of time to do other things...

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.1 MM Steve W
1.5 MM Louis

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Chuck E 5,000 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Dan O' 5,025 m
Patrick Hmr 5,454 m ....a double double!
Sharon 5,977 m
David W 6,512 m
NW1 6,539 m
Kerry 7,009 m ....good one! Building up your meters!
Patrick Hsr 7,197 m
AJ 7,277 m
Jonas 7,603 m
Jane 8,228 m ...a palindrome!
David T 9,000 m
Danno 10,000 m
Ed 10,000 m
Jeff M 10,546 m
danwho 11,011 m ....a double aught double palindrome!
Minnie 11,111 m ....a palindrome of the first kind!
Louis 12,000 m
Howard 12,489 m
Will S 20,830 m
Cheryl 21,097 m ...she moons us!
Steve W 21,097 m ....he moons us, too!
Doug G 23,893 m
Tombeur 26,437 m

[Kona2]

There are some opportunities ahead....

Hooboy! The Holiday Challenge may be less than 72 hours away, but the Lunies might have been having a throwback Sunday...throwback to Skeleton Crew Challenge...as we were a small, but mighty force!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

4.7 MM Ed
2.05 MM David A
400 K William H

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

David T 1,000 m
K2 5,345 m
Peter G 5,813 m
Sharon 6,831 m
William H 7,284 m
AJ 7,726 m
Jeff M 9,222 m
Minnie 11,011 m ...a double agent palindrome!
Katie 14,200 m
David A 20,021 m
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome!

[DavidA]

Ed 10,000 m

You feely okay Ed?

David A 8,968 m

Not a palindrome, but it is the same if you turn it around.

David

[Edscapade]

Ed 10,000 m

You feely okay Ed?

Hi David. A little jet lag from the 32 hour flight kicked my behind. I'll try to make it up. Ha ha

David A 8,968 m

Not a palindrome, but it is the same if you turn it around.

David

[Kona2]

David A 8,968 m

Not a palindrome, but it is the same if you turn it around.

David

Behold (a good seasonal word) the dihedral ambigram (you had to go there, hahaha!). A dihedral ambigram is a natural mirror-image ambigram consisting of numerical digits. An ambigram is "a word, art form or other symbolic representation whose elements retain meaning when viewed or interpreted from a different direction, perspective, or orientation." Well, once again I have learned something because a teammate sent me down a bunny trail!

From Wikipedia (a favorite, but not always correct, resource...but do check out their article for the sources in the section I've lifted from it): Ambigrams became more popular as a result of Dan Brown incorporating John Langdon's designs into the plot of his bestseller, Angels & Demons, and the DVD release of the Angels & Demons movie contains a bonus chapter called "This is an Ambigram". Langdon also produced the ambigram that was used for some versions of the book's cover.[6] Brown used the name Robert Langdon for the hero in his novels as an homage to John Langdon.[10]
In music, the Grateful Dead have used ambigrams several times, including on their albums Aoxomoxoa and American Beauty.

In the first series of the British show Trick or Treat, the show's host and creator Derren Brown uses cards with rotational ambigrams. These cards can read either 'Trick' or 'Treat'.

Although the words spelled by most ambigrams are relatively short in length, one DVD cover for The Princess Bride movie creates a rotational ambigram out of two words: "Princess Bride," whether viewed right side up or upside down.[11]

The Transformers movie series have logos that are a robot face whether viewed right side up or upside down. There are two such logos, one for an Autobot, and one for a Decepticon.


Thanks, David A !

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.15 MM Tombeur
950 K Minnie (hooboy! all she wants for Thanksgiving week is a MILLION meters!)
800 K AJ
600 K Jeff M
250 K Howard
50 K Sharon

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...another dihedral ambigram palindrome thing....whew. You started all of this!
Jay R 2,023 m
Kerry 2,030 m
Dan O' 4,017 m
Howard 4,080 m
Matthew R 5,000 m
Tom M 5,550 m
David T 6,000 m
Minnie 7,007 m ...secret agent palindrome returns !
AJ 7,158 m
Sharon 7,744 m ...doubling down!
Jeff M 8,026 m
David A 10,070 m
Will S 10,126 m
Tombeur 11,523 m
Stuart 16,161 m ...a palindrome that could also be an ambigram!

First we had palindromes, and now we have ambigrams. I've said previously that there are times that your grocery total comes out as a palindrome...and there were a couple of times that I said "it's a palindrome!" to the cashier...who looked at me as if I were speaking a foreign language. I was. I will try to resist the temptation to explain an ambigram...

[Kona2]

Million Team Meters! Way to go!



Of course, tomorrow will come – and we’ll be ready. I’m ever an optimist.

Cartoon Annie’s story, and that of her trusty Airedale-looking dog Sandy, and the host of characters that filled the comic strip for oh so many years is one that fits these times better than you might expect. Annie was always a resourceful, hard-working 12 year old…and she never grew up.


Our countdown to the Holiday Challenge is complete...tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow...the reindeer dash starts! Who will be the first 7 reindeer?!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

750 K Ron !
666,666 m K2...double devilish!
600 K Will S
400 K TOm M
300 K Ted

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Steve W 2,000 m
Kerry 2,170 m
Matthew R 2,522 m
David T 3,000 m
Jeff M 3,011 m
Patrick Hmr 3,109 m
Tom M 4,773 m
Chuck 5,000 m
Danno 5,995 m ...a palindrome !
K2 6,117 m
Rick 6,181 m
Dan O' 6,267 m
AJ 7,023 m
Patrick Hsr 7,250 m
David A 10,112 m
Minnie 13,131 m ...a lucky 13 palindrome!
Will S 13,816 m
Tombeur 20,944 m
Ed 33,333 m ...a stateside palindrome...and he's feeling alright!
Ron 33,494 m ....and there he is! We do miss your 'voice' !
Ted 54,000 m ..a great update!

[Thor MW]

666,666 m K2...double devilish!

I wondered about that devilish glint in your eyes. The devilish smile? either way.

[danwho]

All this counting down to Thanksgiving, and I'm already thinking about the leftovers. Arf!

[danwho]

Double agent palindromes. That was quite revealing.
I'm onto you now, Mata Minnie.

[Thor MW]

All this counting down to Thanksgiving, and I'm already thinking about the leftovers. Arf!

What’s all this talk about thanks giving. You Americans. In Canada we know that thanks giving in the States is merely a dress rehearsal for Christmas. And speaking of great Americans, George Carlin once said, “How would you like to be a … left over”? Even though I feel like a … left over now and then, I don’t think I’d actually want to be one. Having said that turkey and stuffing sandwiches, Yummmy!!!!
Then there was also the Canadian Howie Mandel also said something relevant to the upcoming eat until you burst festivities. “Living in California I learned that everyone wants to get in shape. The shape I’ve chosen is a circle.” I love that one. Haha.
Fortunately, the good folks at C2 in their infinite wisdom have also given us the holiday challenge to help combat the shrinking pants syndrome.
Another great American Dudley Moore as Arthur said, “I hate it when that happens.”
Happy thanks giving to all my wonderful American friends. I am thankful to you and all the Luna-Tics.
Mighty Thor MW

[Steve W]

All this counting down to Thanksgiving, and I'm already thinking about the leftovers. Arf!

Happy Thanksgiving to all Lunies. Need to keep a 38 year running streak alive today, but looking forward to joining all in the holiday challenge to do good for charities and waistlines .