Tuesday, February 17, 2009

I'm a ghost and you're all dead!

When I was still at UCLA, I noticed one day at Wooden that the stationary bicycle was not reading my heart rate properly. I had been pedaling a long time and I was sweating up a storm, but the machine still registered somewhere around 80bpm. On subsequent visits I made sure to take note of which machine I used to see if maybe it was a malfunction. Surprisingly I would switch to another machine and it wouldn't register a heart pulse at all...and if it did, it would still register around 80bpm. This was after a sustained period of the machines having registered 150-160bpm. Anyway, I decided to ignore it since I still felt like I was getting a workout.

The past few summers have been either more hot or more humid than summers before. (That statement was not statistically verified.) Yet I have felt extremely comfortable without a fan or air-conditioning. Almost every day, someone would comment on how extremely hot they were or they would ask me why I wasn't using a fan or air-conditioning. I started to believe my core body temperature had lowered and therefore I was not getting as hot as everyone else around me. Then again, even during this seemingly colder winter, I haven't felt the need to really bundle up...

As I wander through the office, I'll see people walk into previously unlit rooms and the sensors will detect them walking in and the lights will turn on. If I go into the same room at a later time after the lights have turned off, the motion sensors will have trouble detecting me...

Also, this is something I rarely share with people because it actually freaks ME out. But if you ever try to look at me through night vision goggles, you won't be able to see me. Not very many people know this simply because not very many people own night vision goggles so I wouldn't be able to prove it on the spot. But if you ever get a pair, let me know and you can see, or rather, not see...

Baby, don’t you know that you’re too much (You’re too much)
You’re too hot (You’re too hot)
Don’t you know you’re like a candle
I’m the only man that handles you

(You’re too much) Baby
(You’re too hot)
You’re so hot, you burn me out
Just burn me up

Baby, baby, baby, baby, don’t be so cold blooded!
Ooh, la, la, la, la, la, la

Just kidding about the night vision goggles.

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