Giddy-up
In so many ways, better than a bicycle.
12-APR
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Category Archives: Sport
19-LOOP
Gaming Cores
Fruit & Mushrooms – Own Rewards
“Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?”
There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one’s opponent.
The same holds for human existence. One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.
Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.
Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl
14-PAWN
Decisive
You’ll find that most paintings of players playing chess have a cat somewhere in the scene. This one has a wooden lion and a spider.
07-SURA
Football
Life is so unfair. He wasn’t on the offense; his job was defense, not to catch the ball. But, he was playing the game. And what difference would possession make?
So the missed catch split his life, a mortal caesura so to speak, his life before and after the unexpected happening.
01-HERI
Atmospheric
Piloting a paraglider around the turn of the millennium. (That’s M with outstretched arms.)
Flying machines epitomize the realization of a 3-D experience in the wind.
Now my wing is in the garage, ready for the museum. It’s still flight worthy, and it could still break my neck.
21-HEEL
Innovation
The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.
During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.
But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:
What invention of the past could use a new twist today?
20-DROP
Performer
-kick me, Jesus …
With 3 seconds left in the fourth quarter and his team down 16-17, Ravens (#9) kicker Justin Tucker swung his leg with as much power as he could and broke the record for the longest field goal in league history, a 66-yarder that bounced off the crossbar and into the net.
What would constitute a perfect day for you?
17-MOVE
Stratagem
Use chess tactics to thrive in the face of incalculable complexities and unexpected change.
The basic principles of good play – get a big idea, use it to build an advantage, improve it, swap it out for a new one, move quickly, see what happens, make a new plan, and move again – works on a professional level just as they do in corporate warfare.
Three Moves Ahead – Bob Rice
Work Sequence
- Big Idea
- Build Advantage
- Improve It
- Swap For New
- Move Quickly
- What Happens?
- New Plan
- Move Again
Chess Strategies
- Strong Square
- Exchange Sacrifice
- Stay Ahead On the Clock