Comments on: Math and Mass http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:55:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: One Stop Pool Supply http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-110180 One Stop Pool Supply Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:58:00 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/#comment-110180 Funny article, If we could harness the expended energy we could probably power the pool pump and send energy to help power a swimming pool heater. Keep up the exercise routine - As a pool builder it's nice to at least see a swimming pool being used and not just "looked at". Funny article, If we could harness the expended energy we could probably power the pool pump and send energy to help power a swimming pool heater. Keep up the exercise routine – As a pool builder it’s nice to at least see a swimming pool being used and not just “looked at”.

]]> By: Nicole http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-109007 Nicole Thu, 01 May 2008 09:41:59 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/#comment-109007 heheheh...yup, Im not a scientist but I'm guessing you may want to now use a gym instead of the pool. I recall reading that cleopatra liked to bath in "calories" as well. Us Kiwi's prefer not to share the "calories" around, we prefer the trusty shower!! <strong>jb says</strong>: Kiwi's are very sensible people by the sound of it. heheheh…yup, Im not a scientist but I’m guessing you may want to now use a gym instead of the pool. I recall reading that cleopatra liked to bath in “calories” as well. Us Kiwi’s prefer not to share the “calories” around, we prefer the trusty shower!!

jb says: Kiwi’s are very sensible people by the sound of it.

]]> By: nicole http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-109004 nicole Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:43:04 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/#comment-109004 If the setting was shifted to to a gym, are we oblivious to being ankle deep in calories/energy? Are these calories leaving some kind of thin veneer all over the floor/gym equipment/changing rooms. I now appreciate how obsessive compulsions start! Perhaps John as an experiment, you could go back to the pool on the scheduled day for "ladies aquafit" but go a bit early, measure where the water line is on the pool, then go back after they have finished and remeasure - viola' you will then know if the calories vacated the host, or if its all a load of cobblers, and its just excess oxygen in the body fluctuating, or that all the tomes on calories is a conspiracey to give scientists/nutritionists something to do/say. <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Nicole. I did what you suggest. After the ladies had gone there were 4.7 litres more liquid in the pool. I hesitate to leap to a conclusion as I'm not a scientist. But a huge lady scientist I know told me there might be other factors at work. If the setting was shifted to to a gym, are we oblivious to being ankle deep in calories/energy? Are these calories leaving some kind of thin veneer all over the floor/gym equipment/changing rooms. I now appreciate how obsessive compulsions start! Perhaps John as an experiment, you could go back to the pool on the scheduled day for “ladies aquafit” but go a bit early, measure where the water line is on the pool, then go back after they have finished and remeasure – viola’ you will then know if the calories vacated the host, or if its all a load of cobblers, and its just excess oxygen in the body fluctuating, or that all the tomes on calories is a conspiracey to give scientists/nutritionists something to do/say.

jb says: Hi Nicole. I did what you suggest. After the ladies had gone there were 4.7 litres more liquid in the pool. I hesitate to leap to a conclusion as I’m not a scientist. But a huge lady scientist I know told me there might be other factors at work.

]]> By: Julia http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-16579 Julia Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:08:09 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/#comment-16579 Sounds like a lot of fun. Go for the burn! In a few weeks that pool will be simmering. <strong>jb says</strong>: Why are these thing just for women. D'you think it would be possible to get a guy in there? (not me, mind you.) Sounds like a lot of fun. Go for the burn! In a few weeks that pool will be simmering.

jb says: Why are these thing just for women. D’you think it would be possible to get a guy in there? (not me, mind you.)

]]> By: Cailleach http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-16558 Cailleach Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:37:29 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/#comment-16558 Hi John - your post made me laugh, it's the sort of thing the kids would say to me! It also reminded me of last year when I went to swimming lessons (being one of those not quite confident in the water). Our lessons clashed with the aqua-fit trainer doing his stuff on the side of the pool to music, as his ladies followed on through, and our instructor vying with shouty-pants to get her intructions out to us (in through the mouth and blow out through your mouth). <strong>jb says</strong>: Crazy world, eh? Hi John – your post made me laugh, it’s the sort of thing the kids would say to me!
It also reminded me of last year when I went to swimming lessons (being one of those not quite confident in the water). Our lessons clashed with the aqua-fit trainer doing his stuff on the side of the pool to music, as his ladies followed on through, and our instructor vying with shouty-pants to get her intructions out to us (in through the mouth and blow out through your mouth).

jb says: Crazy world, eh?

]]> By: skint writer http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-16056 skint writer Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:50:03 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/#comment-16056 Looks like you had a bit of a Rumsfeld moment at the beginning of your post there John. very entertaining <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Skint, ha ha.  It was a fully-blown Bushism to begin with, but I edited it down. Looks like you had a bit of a Rumsfeld moment at the beginning of your post there John.

very entertaining

jb says: Hi Skint, ha ha.  It was a fully-blown Bushism to begin with, but I edited it down.

]]> By: Martyn http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-16028 Martyn Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:31:23 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/#comment-16028 There's a whole other post about the state of swimming pools in York since the demise of the Barbican. I've not been for years, pretty much due to the fact I don't really like revealing that much of myself in public. If I did go it would probably be for the dawn shift at Edmund Wilson. That would require an early alarm however and facing a thankless walk in the rain through Acomb to get there. <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Martyn. Yes, the whole subject of swimming pools in York has been controversial locally for some time. <span style="height: 400px; width: 332px" id="radBodyText">York's main swimming pool was moth balled ahead of a projected major revamp, but then the local council announced that the pool would close completely. Instead, they'd decided to sell the property to developers of a nursing home and a hotel. Now there are rumours of a new pool being built in the west of the city. But who believes politicians any more? </span> There’s a whole other post about the state of swimming pools in York since the demise of the Barbican. I’ve not been for years, pretty much due to the fact I don’t really like revealing that much of myself in public. If I did go it would probably be for the dawn shift at Edmund Wilson. That would require an early alarm however and facing a thankless walk in the rain through Acomb to get there.

jb says: Hi Martyn. Yes, the whole subject of swimming pools in York has been controversial locally for some time. York’s main swimming pool was moth balled ahead of a projected major revamp, but then the local council announced that the pool would close completely. Instead, they’d decided to sell the property to developers of a nursing home and a hotel.
Now there are rumours of a new pool being built in the west of the city. But who believes politicians any more?

]]> By: M.E Ellis http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-16016 M.E Ellis Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:41:55 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/math-and-mass/#comment-16016 Hahahahah @ the comments here. What I hate most about going swimming (and I haven't been for about 5-6 years when I was slim-MER) is that hot air someone else mentioned. I always feel clammy and nasty after swimming, even after showering. If you can call their showers such. Trickle of water or a fast 5 second jet. Either way leaves shampoo bubbles dribbling in your eyes and you wandering round the communal shower like a prat, with the risk of bumping into another woman and her getting quite the wrong idea. No, I don't want to put myself through that, though my Eldest wants to go swimming after she's had her baby, and I said I'd go with her. I doubt my cozzy would fit me anymore--my rear end seems to have grown and become the shape of an office chair--so unappealing to fellow swimmers eyes, who, let me tell you, shouldn't be looking at my frightful bum anyway. Ugh. Decisions decisions... :o) <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Michelle, I know you know this but I'm going to say it anyway. Bums are tricky, a little like politicians. Sometimes a bum can seem to be much larger than it is. You've got to get cute with bums. Find a way of getting around them. Hahahahah @ the comments here.

What I hate most about going swimming (and I haven’t been for about 5-6 years when I was slim-MER) is that hot air someone else mentioned. I always feel clammy and nasty after swimming, even after showering. If you can call their showers such. Trickle of water or a fast 5 second jet. Either way leaves shampoo bubbles dribbling in your eyes and you wandering round the communal shower like a prat, with the risk of bumping into another woman and her getting quite the wrong idea.

No, I don’t want to put myself through that, though my Eldest wants to go swimming after she’s had her baby, and I said I’d go with her.

I doubt my cozzy would fit me anymore–my rear end seems to have grown and become the shape of an office chair–so unappealing to fellow swimmers eyes, who, let me tell you, shouldn’t be looking at my frightful bum anyway.

Ugh. Decisions decisions…

:o )

jb says: Hi Michelle, I know you know this but I’m going to say it anyway. Bums are tricky, a little like politicians. Sometimes a bum can seem to be much larger than it is. You’ve got to get cute with bums. Find a way of getting around them.

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