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  2. Asta – I was a bit dozy this morning when I posted, but wanted to say that it was lovely, as always to lift with you yesterday. Nice PR! I bet you can get a lot more once you slow down your descent.

    Jess – awesome lifting this morning. I was looking forward to seeing your numbers! Your synthetic total beats mine by 2! Grrrr. 😉 Great lifting – I am loving watching your strength gains.

  4. Is anyone interested in buying an iMac? We’re purchasing a new one for the new space at a discounted rate and wanted to share the opportnity. Here are the specs on a unit.

    24″ iMac 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo4 GB RAM, 640 GB HArd DriveDL SuperDrive, Bluetooth and AirportApplecare 3 Year WarrentyRetail: $1,668Offering: $1,290

    If we can get a group of folks interested the price goes down further per unit. Dan will hopefully chime in on this soon. Macbook Pro’s are available too.

  5. Did a little burner this morning:21-15-9 burpees/box jumps/k2e.

    14:11. Blecch. I suck at K2E–no lat strength. Did 3×3 pullups w/ the white band after–couldn’t manage 5, gassed after the k2e.

    Also did some wallball work:10×14# 8′ unbroken10x14# 10′ very broken10x14# 10′ very broken

    I have no accuracy at 10′. Would it be useful to do some practice with a 10# ball?

    Jess, so great to witness your 185 PR! Congrats to you. My 3-day CF total: 460.

    Favorite museum: Rodin Museum in Paris. Beautiful sculptures in a beautiful setting.

  6. Too many museums to name here but here are just a few to get started with:

    MOMA: compact, kick-ass collection. And in the old days, a CUNY ID card got you in for free.

    Wright Patterson AFB museum: awesome collection of aircraft. I’ve been there twice; can’t get enough of it.

    Waterloo museum: the battlefield tour was worth the price of admission.

    Miro Center in Barcelona: the most awesome collection of Miro’s works anywhere

    Smithsonian Air and Space: amazing collection

  7. 3 Day CF Total:Press 120Deadlift 235Back Squat 180—————535

    Awesome numbers up there! Looking forward to seeing everyone’s totals continue to grow.

  8. Fundacio Joan Miro in Barcelona. One of my favorite artists and favorite cities. Samir, I can’t believe you beat me to it!

    I also love the Museo Picasso in Malaga. There are a few dedicated Picasso museums out there, but this was his he town and I thought it was very special.

    There’s a photo exhibit I want to see at P.S.1…anyone been there?

  9. I dig the Whitney, Museum of Natural History, the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, Franklin Institute in Philly, Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA, Guggenheim Bilbao and the Holocaust Memorial in Israel. Oh and the Reina Sofia and Prado are pretty sweet as well.

  10. Everyone, we’re looking to do a group buy and get a significant discount on Applecomputers.

    If you’re interested in a new Apple computer (desktop or laptop) along with the AppleCare, please email me: dreshef@gmail.com

    I’ll be in touch later tomorrow with informatiom.

  11. Samir/Steph– I absolutely LOVE that museum. That place is spectacular. I remember walking around Barcelona, climbing up a big hill, and then reaching the museum. I walked in and there was this massive Miro/knit/fabric/i don’t know what hanging on the wall, and it damn near brought me to tears. I have no idea why. It was just so damn wonderful.

    Speaking of amazing museums in Spain, I also love the Dali museum in Figueras. But what’s cooler than the Dali museum in Figueras is Rachdingue, a club near Figueras that I think Dali designed or something. That place is awesome.

  14. Canova Plaster Cast gallery in Italy (really any Carlo scarpa space.. But that one is extra special). Both Rodin museums and Musee D’Orsay. Anything with sculpture.

    I really want to go to PS1 but have been LAZY.

    I’ll be at BKB tonite.

    Laurel, can I just say kick ass 185. Way to conquer the obstacle last night. 🙂

  16. i almost offed myself in El Prado because I couldnt handle seeing ONE MORE Goya painting… i dont like his style as it is, but i swear to god they own every single painting the man ever put out. they probably have his napkin doodles behind another door there somewhere… i stopped looking.

    i did love the Reina Sophia tho. Guernica is breathtaking in real life.

    did the press workout this morning but switched it to 3×5 so i can work more on technique. bad news is i forgot to write my numbers down in the pressing enthusiasm last time. turns out i was pretty consistent this morning with those numbers. 52×3, 57×1, 57×1, 52×3, 52×3. I had the 57. But once I failed on it I just couldnt get over the mental block.

    that and Jess kept telling me to focus on Jugs. that didnt help. 🙂

  17. I know that as soon as I post this I’m going to remember other places and all the really cool museums that are escaping my mind right now. But I’ll give it a shot anyway…

    (Some of these already got mentioned above.)

    For the honest and extreme emotion of it: Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Museum) in Israel as mentioned by Margie

    For the spaces themselves: Musee D’Orsay in Paris (an old train station), the Guggenheim (who can go in there and not dream of skating all the way around the spiral from top to bottom?), the Temple of Dendur wing at the Met

    For the art and permanent collections: MOMA, The Museum of Natural History – the BLUE WHALE specifically (and the Native American display), the Air and Space Museum in DC, The American History branch of the Smithsonian in DC.

    Oh, and The Museum of Television and Radio here in NY

  18. 3 Day CF Total: 930DL – 435Press – 175LBBS – 320

    Favorite Museums:

    Stedelijk Museum AmsterdamCooper-Hewitt New York CitySmithsonian National Air and Space Museum Washington D.C.MoMA New York CityAlcatraz San Francisco (I was obsessed with Alcatraz when I was a kid visiting San Francisco. I must have gone 3 times in as many days!)

  20. Sameer, I definitely remember the tapestry. Amazing!

    Jenna, you mean the painting of Saturn eating his baby wasn’t your absolute favorite?!

    This is much more fun than doing work…

  21. The MET. Just love it. Also the Rubin museum of art in NYC, dedicated to Himalayan art, including surrounding regions. Located in the old Barneys building this is a jem, especially for people interested in Tibetan and Buddhist Art.

    I’m also going to add two of the most unique museums I’ve ever been to. The Coca Museum in La Paz, Bolivia. Everything from Inca use to coca-cola museum and its interactive and you get to tour an underground cocaine processing plant.

    Also the Jorvik Viking museum in York, England. Tour a viking village with smells and sounds. Pretty smelly.

  22. What about people’s least fav museums? (We know Jenna’s…)

    I’d have to go with the Liberty bell’s ridiculous lead up. Actually, it’s kind of impressive how much they managed to squeeze out of the story: It’s a bell and it cracked.

    And

    The Haus of Terror in Budapest. From the ominous music that greets you as you enter, to the final exhibit featuring a slow descent into a replicated torture prison – total melodrama…. Were the Russians really all that bad??

  25. Ooh, another of my favorite museums, possibly most obscure museum EVER: The Subak Museum in Bali. No one ever goes there. It’s entirely dedicated to the ancient Balinese irrigation system which has supported rice agriculture there for centuries.

    Least favorite museums:1) Picasso Museum in Paris. Dude, that man did NOT like women. I like Cubism as much as the next girl, but that place just made me angrier and angrier at all the violent distortions of the female form.2) Guggenheim in NYC. Makes me want to vomit every time. Vertigo + massively inappropriate starkitechture = no thank you. (Sorry, Becca!)

  27. I also dig the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Very nice collection of from the Dutch Golden Age; some of the best examples of the realist school. It also helped that I was in a very mellow mood when I visited.

  28. I love the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco – it’s a children’s science museum with tons of hands on exhibits, from giant optical illusion rooms and big water tornados to cow eyes and sheep brains dissection. I still go whenever I’m in SF.

    When I go to NM to visit family I often end up in Santa Fe at the Museum of International Folk Art, the Georgia O’Keefe Museum and the Andrew Smith photo gallery.

    As for local museums, I keep revisiting the Met, MOMA, the Guggenheim (despite mild feelings of vertigo) and the Museum of Natural History.

  29. Samir was in a very mellow mood. hm.

    yeah the exploratorium is great. I used to go there all the time. Have a friend who made some exhibits as well. It’s kind of an art museum really ’cause the exhibits are all sciencey, but there’s a serious amount of artistry that goes into the exhibit design. That’s what makes it more awesome than your typical science museum.

  30. Noguchi Museum in Queens, MoMA (oft mentioned here and not boring at all, David), Museum of Television and Radio (right on Becca!), Museum and Temple Ruins of Amir Temur in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (The dude was a bad ass), World War II museum in New Orleans (vets actually hang out, give tours, wander around and will tell stories to whoever wants to listen). Also big nod to the Georgia O’Keefe in NM, Ariel.

    Paulie – 930, man you are tearing it up, that’s awesome!Margie – Actually they were worse.

    I love that this is such a popular topic!

  35. I’ve convinced myself that DIA:Beacon will be a favorite museum of mine despite never having been there. Anyone up for a day trip?

  37. I am undercultured.

    I really enjoy AMNH because it reminds me of being a kid. To quote Malcomn, “They have dinosaurs!”.

    I also like the NYC Transit Museum here in Brooklyn, again, because it brings me back to being a kid (and to when my granparents were kids).

    See y’all tomorrow!

  39. Just a few comments:~you all make me want to travel more than ever. Jealous.~who doesn’t love dinosaurs. I also love the AMNH. And I always enjoy the Met.~Ben. Is “in deep” really a movie about skiing? I’ve been tricked before.~The word “jugs” is always good for a laugh. Enough said.

  40. would love to go Ben, but i have class thursday, then an interview early friday.

    not that it made a difference today, i played hooky and went to bkb. fun times. After destroying my arms on some climbing mike told me about the ’round the lion’ arm-only problem, and stupidly I went on that. I managed to complete the problem but with a scrape to my elbow and a complete inability to use my arms. rather than just my forearms screaming in pain, my upper arms and shoulders are now screaming in pain as well.

    i’m actually typing this now with my mind.

    good times.

    jess: that’s “deep throat,” not “in deep.”

  42. I love the Met. Awesome armor exhibit. And the University of Pennsylvania Museum mummies. Margie can you still fit through the heart at the Ben Franklin Museum? Haven’t checked out the Mutter(sp.?) museum in Philly but would like to. Cool museum of industry in Paris too.

  45. Musée de l’Armée in Les Invalides Paris…if being in Paris is not enough, a day getting lost here will never leave you…

    Margie: when do you leave for India? and where are you heading? i only ask as I am leaving for Delhi myself Sunday night..

  46. Ash – you are?! I’m going next friday with Andy. We’ll be in Dehli as well covering the International Powerlifting competition. How long will you be there?

    Deb – ha! I was just talking about the Heart yesterday with Jeremy. It scared the crap out of me as a kid. The smell combined with the sound of it pumping made me feel funny inside.

    In answer to your question – yes, I can still fit through it. I am a wee lass.

  47. Margie – I will be there for work through the following Monday (the 2nd i think). Will catch up with you at class over the weekend and see if our paths will cross at all while you guys are in town.

  48. Ariel – I’d like to go to the DIA. Malcolm and I were in Beacon, at a crazy victorian bed and breakfast within 10 minutes walk of the DIA and we weren’t able to go. We were there for a wedding and just didn’t end up having a free moment. I’d like to see their richard serra sculpture.

    Can’t do favorites, but can say some that I love:American Museum of Natural History (got proposed to there + dinosaurs + meteors + crazy old dioramas.)Rodin’s house in ParisMusee Dorsee at hours when other people aren’t there.The San Luigi Dei Francese church in Rome (Caravaggio chapel!)The Met – I love the fact that I can wander in for 45 minutes and look at anything from old armor and instruments to attic vases and renoir.The Art Institute of Chicago – they own a favorite painting of mine.

    Least favorite museums:Well, I don’t like MOMA. Not because of the space or the art, which I really enjoy, but because everyone there is unpleasant and stressed. There are the people who are in the art world looking down on all the plebians who don’t know much about the artists – I feel like there is an intense classism/cultural disdain at work in MOMA. It is almost always packed and I often feel like there isn’t quite enough air in the building for all the people there. The only time I’ve had a really great experience was with someone who had a staff card – then everyone was smiling and we got whisked into see the Van Gogh night time exhibit without having to wait or get tickets.

    Museums and art houses shouldn’t be intimidating or make people feel bad about themselves. They should be welcoming and open, giving everyone the opportunity to experience the crazy things humans have imagined and created or found.

  49. Deb and Margie – going through the heart at the Franklin Institute was always the highlight of the day there for me! Somehow it didn’t freak me out. That pumping heartbeat was like the psych-up music as we waited in line. It was a cool adventure.

    Ariel – I’d be interested in daytripping to DIA Beacon, too.

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    The link above was broken so I’m re-posting it for Mr. Fox.

    Laurel, I agree with your MOMA sentiments. The $20 admission fee says it all. Also, as a DISNEY employee I get in for free. Their featured exhibits are often Disney-related. For example, the current exhibit is of Tim Burton’s work. That kind of thing makes me wary.

    I love the MET. I would love to be locked in there overnight. That is, as long as I could have snacks.

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