Category Archives: Sport

30-Wand

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Contemplation

“Stay back there now!” he croaked. “Just keep your distance, sport. I’ve got nothing you’re after – unless it’s the cheese, and you can have that. If it’s meat you want, I’m nothing but gristle, but I’ll fight to keep it. Back now! back!”

“I’m not a sport, good simpleton,” said Brother Francis, using the polite address. He tossed back his hood to show his monastic haircut and held up his rosary beads. “Do you understand these?”

After a brief scrutiny, the pilgrim straightened. “Oh – one of them.” He leaned on his staff and scowled.

– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

16-Dent

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Gaskin

Rodeo Bronco

The gaskin is the part of the horse between the stifle and the hock.

So, now you know.

Update April 16, 2023: Things are looking up because the Lidocaine Patch relieved my back muscle pain from the bicycle accident of April 3rd , 2023, enough to allow me to finally get a good night’s sleep.

And life is beautiful, because nature can be beautiful no matter the fearsome forces at play.

12-Loop

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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

31-Sura

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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.

25-Wing

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Flight of Fancy

Flying machines epitomize the realization of a 3-D experience of the world.

Edel Space 27 over Pacifica – Photo by Leon

Piloting a paraglider around the turn of the millennium. That’s M with outstretched arms.

Now my wing is in the garage, ready for the museum. It’s still flight worthy, and it could still break my neck.

11-Heel

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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.

bike

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?

10-Drop

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-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?