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We are finally using the last Christmas present--the Waterrower.As is the case with all fitness equipment, it is hugely expensive,grossly overpriced, and frivolous--if we do not use it. It is remarkably, sober, cost effective, and cheap if we do.

The edge of the Waterrower compared to other rowing machines is that you actually row through water--pull blades through a tank.

But there is no chance of catching a crab and getting thwacked by the oar. No smell of the sea or seamist in the air. No chance of a wave sloshing over and leaving you sitting in a puddle and soaked. No cries of seagulls.

I suggest we hire the kids to stand by with a hand mister and a bucket, and that we play whale sounds on the stereo...

Comments

[Eric H]

Seagulls? Songs? Does this set the proper tone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5IswrbAiLU

[Ben Hyde]

"On the distribution of income, we respond that Beveridgism or Myrdahlism--social democracy, progressive income taxes, a very large and well-established safety net, public education to a high standard, channels for upward mobility, and all the panoply of the twentieth-century social-democratic mixed-economy democratic state can banish like bad dreams all Marx's fears that capitalist prosperity must be accompanied by great inequality and great misery." O RLY