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

[bg]

Whoop, whoop and woohoo! Many of us remember watching the TV show The Six Million Dollar Man and ace test pilot Steve Austin, rebuilt as a bionic man after a near fatal crash. Ron's had to fight his own way back after a hand injury, and looks like he has been wildly successful! Congratulations to a Lunie Six Million Meter Man! We wish you many, MANY more!

woooooooo hooooooooo and congrats :]

[Drivetofast]

Nyquist will be early favorite for Kentucky Derby

[Thor MW]

Whoop, whoop and woohoo! Many of us remember watching the TV show The Six Million Dollar Man and ace test pilot Steve Austin, rebuilt as a bionic man after a near fatal crash. Ron's had to fight his own way back after a hand injury, and looks like he has been wildly successful! Congratulations to a Lunie Six Million Meter Man! We wish you many, MANY more!

Congratulations Ron! Made me laugh K2 - my younger brother acted like the six million dollar man... The problem was he ran in slow motion all the time.

Happy rowing,

Ed

Ed, that meant your brother was going no where fast. I hope things changed for him. Grin.
I was in touch with our row bro Ron telling him of our well wishes on the 6 million. He is having trouble yet again with the forum. He asked me to pass on a hello and thanks.
This makes me the Miky in the middle I do believe.

[Kona2]

We're still SEVENth!



MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

9.7 MM Richard T
9.05 MM Ed
6.0 MM Ron
5.7 MM bg
350 K Noel

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

Tony 2,222 m ...two by two by two by two palindrome!
Dan O 2,333 m
John B 3,412 m
Andre 5,000 m
Collin 5,000 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Stuart 5,000 m
William H 5,000 m
Bernie 5,010 m
Norma 5,555 m ...high five palindrome!
David T 6,000 m
Jim M 6,014 m
Howard 6,125 m
David A 6,375 m
Paul B 7,016 m
Jean M 7,041 m
James 10,000 m
Ken 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Nathan 10,000 m
Virginia 10,000 m
Noel 10,035 m
bg 10,073 m
Jeff D 10,329 m
danwho 12,021 m
Chris W 13,087 m
Doug G 13,188 m
Rich M 13,425 m
Jeff M 14,326 m
Ron 20,002 m ...a palindrome for a 6th million!
Richard T 32,195 m
Ed 42,195 m ...another full moon to howl at!

[Drivetofast]

Goooooooo UCONN

[Drivetofast]

Goooooooo UCONN Women

[Kona2]

We're in 7th !

1 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual 15,303,854m 208 73,576m
2 Age Without Limits Virtual 14,634,598m 168 87,111m
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health/Fitness 14,096,982m 325 43,375m
4 Free Spirits Virtual 13,705,803m 135 101,524m
5 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health/Fitness 9,937,464m 163 60,966m
6 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual 9,465,227m 19 498,170m
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual 7,553,764m 81 93,256m

Our seasonal teammates, Overcoming disAbilities, are nearing the half million milestone for the Challenge in the average meters per team member stat. There are two "teams" ahead of them, one team has 2 people and one has 4. Personally, I think it is much harder to maintain a high meter per team member average with a larger team. You have to have a really committed group of folks to make it work. So well done, OD. Yep, the high road.

Another episode....

Tomorrow is the fourth Square Root Day of the century....

It's another Math Holiday! What? If you've not heard of Math Holidays, well you must be a newbie. We celebrate them...from Pi Day to Mole Day to Fibonacci Day...and now Square Root Day. Square Root Days (there are nine of them in a century as you would imagine) occur when the day, month, year form a square root. Since some of us may wish to put a square root day number into the mix for our meter piggy banks tomorrow, thought I would bring this up today. You could erg meter amounts of 4416, 5525, 6636, 7749, 8864, or 9981 for example. So many choices! Favorite quote about Math Holidays (from Ron Gordon): These days are like calendar comets---you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day--and poof--they're gone!

Of course, just thinking about how to "draw" the square root image sent me down a virtual bunny trail. There is a way to make that symbol (who knew it was called a radical? I'm sure that brain cell vanished in college) in a Word document, but an image seems to be the only way that we can accomplish this on the forum.

Square root celebrations...apparently the default celebration is to cut root vegetables (carrots, turnips, radishes, potatoes?) into squares...go square dancing...but my favorite one has to be a page put together by Ron Gordon, the fellow who started all the discussions around Square Root Day. This Square Root Day coincides with Opening Day for Baseball, a time for Cubs and Rockies fans to say "maybe THIS is the year", so it is sure to be an extra special celebration day. http://squarerootday.net/



Awesome!

For those whose eyes glaze over at the very mention of the word Math...or those who have said "Math is just not my forte" instead of "Math is just not my forte...yet"...it is NEVER too late to learn to enjoy math and science. Thanks to all the teachers (and we have several on the Lunie team) who do make these subjects fun.

And that, gents and gals, is how time gets away from me...snort.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

9.75 MM Richard T

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us! And playing number games!

Dan O' 3,276 m
Jeff M 3,865 m
Ryan 4,000 m
Stuart 5,000 m
William H 5,000 m
Heather 5,937 m
David T 6,000 m
Minnie 7,007 m ...ah the Spectre of James Bond forms her palindrome!
AJ 7,008 m
Tom R 7,089 m
Jean M 7,557 m ...high fives in a lucky seven bookended palindrome!
Jessica 10,000 m
Ken 10,000 m
Larry 10,084 m
Chris W 10,132 m
Noel 10,517 m
Howard 11,266 m ...a different kind of double...two...double
danwho 12,021 m ...a palindrome!
Tombeur 15,014 m
Steve W 15,015 m
Ron 18,881 m ...special eights in that palindrome!
Thor 22,277 m ...a triple double!
Ed 42,195 m ...full moon over the desert...must be working on his full marathon time!
Richard T 47,727 m ...another full moon and then some

[Edscapade]

Whoop, whoop and woohoo! Many of us remember watching the TV show The Six Million Dollar Man and ace test pilot Steve Austin, rebuilt as a bionic man after a near fatal crash. Ron's had to fight his own way back after a hand injury, and looks like he has been wildly successful! Congratulations to a Lunie Six Million Meter Man! We wish you many, MANY more!

Congratulations Ron! Made me laugh K2 - my younger brother acted like the six million dollar man... The problem was he ran in slow motion all the time.

Happy rowing,

Ed

Ed, that meant your brother was going no where fast. I hope things changed for him. Grin.
I was in touch with our row bro Ron telling him of our well wishes on the 6 million. He is having trouble yet again with the forum. He asked me to pass on a hello and thanks.
This makes me the Miky in the middle I do believe.

Thanks Thor! He did grow out of it - and grew tall 6'9 so been looking up to him most my life. Tell Ron always wishing him the best...
Ed

[bg]

Goooooooo UCONN

yessssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[danwho]

Tomorrow is the fourth Square Root Day of the century....

A clock or the day ...


But if you're feeling your nines, you can still get back to your roots with this one.

[bg]

Tomorrow is the fourth Square Root Day of the century....

A clock or the day ...


But if you're feeling your nines, you can still get back to your roots with this one.

thanks for posting....i think math is soooooooo cool:]

[Kona2]

Woohoo! Baseball season is here! Root, root, root for the home team!!

Still Seventh!

1 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual 15,850,503m 208 76,204m
2 Age Without Limits Virtual 15,264,369m 168 90,859m
3 Free Spirits Virtual 14,227,274m 135 105,387m
4 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health/Fitness 14,141,594m 325 43,513m
5 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health/Fitness 10,248,951m 163 62,877m
6 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual 9,916,304m 19 521,911m
7 LUNA-TICS Virtual 7,839,746m 81 96,787m

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

9.8 MM Richard T
9.1 MM Ed
3.55 MM Tombeur
3.15 MM David A
900 K Jeff D

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

Tony 2,222 m ... a palindrome!
Steve W 3,097 m
Dan O' 3,101 m
John B 3,631 m
Bernie 4,125 m
Jim M 4,716 m
Steve G 5,000 m
AJ 5,028 m
David T 5,500 m
Jean M 5,500 m
Jeff M 5,614 m
Stuart 6,446 m
Chris W 7,005 m
Minnie 7,007 m ....it's a movie marathon! 007 palindrome! Secret agent Minnie!
Howard 7,137 m
Jane 8,008 m ...a palindrome!
Janice 8,888 m ... a special eights palindrome!
Ross 9,286 m
Ken 10,000 m
Paul 10,000 m
Larry 10,148 m
Jeff D 10,380 m
Tombeur 13,118 m
David A 18,900 m
Salvador 25,030 m
Ed 33,333 m...a palindrome!
Richard T 54,002 m

[Drivetofast]

The square root of Corky is 8.367 I think thats right He will be 8 months on the 17th He is a lean mean retrieving Machine

[Thor MW]

The square root of Corky is 8.367 I think thats right He will be 8 months on the 17th He is a lean mean retrieving Machine

8 months already. Wow, where does the time go.

[Drivetofast]

Gooooooooooooo UCONN One more river to cross. Penny sang this after Secretariat won the second jewel of the Triple Crown. Penny was the Owner