human resting pulse rate, GoT themes, Spurs!!!, soccer, German words, Chicken Fat

Somehow, the average human adult pulse rate came up in conversation the other night. According to various sources, normal resting adult human heart rates are from 60-100 beats/minute. Some folks, usually runners and other endurance athletes, have lower resting pulse rates (with the world record listed at 27 beats per minute, recorded on a guy named Martin Brady in 2005. This guy's name is apt, as the term for low heart rate is 'bradycardia'.) So, Rup and Bryan, there's nothing wrong with at least my heart rate (usually in the 40s, but tested the other night at 52. It was during a Spurs game... and i'm out of shape).

In recent news, here are covers of the Game of Thrones theme as done by a Dixieland band  and performed by an 'extra low' bass section.

Part of me thinks this is a good idea, and the rest of me hates the idea that i'd have to give any number to not worry about my safety.

It's been a really awesome week for my own taste in sports - my Spurs won the NBA championship in game 5 (their 5th since 1999). i AM proud to be a Spurs fan; they're all decent human beings in addition to being a great team. Interestingly, the NBA championship referred to them as basketball champions of the world, and given that the team has the most international players in the NBA, i guess that's partially true. Additionally, the World Cup has finally started. i suppose i'm cheering for the US this year, given that the b@d@ss team captain is my countryman.

Something i've always wondered recently found address, as linked in this article, Americans call it soccer as a sort of riff on 'association football', "

A  smaller  minority  of  fans  are  aware  of  the  fact  the  name  “soccer”  appears  to have  originated  in  England  at  the  end  of  the  19th century,  and  was  then  adopted by Americans. " 

Apparently the word 'squirrel' is difficult to say if you're a non-native English speaker. Fair enough; i cannot pronounce the German variant.  A handy and entertaining flowchart of compound German animal names further addresses this, "Eichhörnchen comes from the Old and Middle German eichorn, which has nothing to do with oak trees or horns. In this case, the eichcomes from the ancient Indo-Germanic word aig, which means agitated movement, combined with the now obsolete suffix -orn. Somewhere in history a superfluous h was added (along with the diminutive -chen ending) but the original meaning remained. " Speaking of Germany, i learned the other day that in Germany, making an ice cream dessert that looks like spaghetti is a thing called spaghettieis. Honestly, that might not be terrible at all.

 Bryan:  so the google doodle was Belgium

 Bryan:  not Germany

silly European countries having sideways flags of each other

 me:  seriously

Germany's is horizontal?

 Bryan:  yes

also black red yellow apparently

so different order

i apparently can't be bothered to pay close enough attention

 me:  that's something i only pay attention to if it means poison

 Bryan:  red on yellow kills a fellow?

Watching sports means watching commercials, and Apple has a commercial featuring a song whose chorus seems to consist of, 'Go, you chicken fat, go!'. This struck me as really odd, and prompted conversation of its use as an insult, but further research indicates that it's meant to be encouraging "give that chicken fat back to the chicken and don't be chicken again". The song was released in the 1960s as a part of President Kennedy's US Physical fitness program, and sent to be played at schools across the US on a daily basis.