Uncommon Thursday Thoughts

by jbox on Nov 19, 2009 1:52 PM EST Comment 5 comments

I went Disc Golfing in Golden Gate Park over the weekend. They have a free Disc Golf course in the park, where disc golfers, hippies, drifters and stoners dwell. I hadn't played for about a year, but I found my stroke pretty quickly. I played with a friend and a poker dealer on the first 9 holes. Cops don't patrol the area or care what goes on back in the bushes, so everybody carried open containers and pipes. I hit a lot of trees, but it's kind of nice that there isn't a lot of thick brush to lose your disc in. My tomahawk chop throw was the only distance throw working for me. Pretty good time.
Just finished the book Born to run: A hidden Tribe, Super Athletes and the Greatest Race the World has ever seen. I was going to make it an Uncommon Sportsman book club choice but plowed through it too fast while sitting for hours in the airport. Good book about how humans are well adapted for distance running.
I watched some CIF High School Water Polo last night. Very competitive games. It reminds me how much I hate goalies. There is nothing to keep their ego in check. They make a save and they think they are the greatest, a goal scores and they blame the defensive players. It's never their fault.
I've had many discussions about which of the last too Survivor Episodes was the better blind side. I thought the blind side of Eric was much more stunning than that of Kelly, but I've found that many people feel otherwise. I was going to do a whole post on it, but I really need to watch each of the tribal counsels again to make my point and I don't have time right now. Instead let's do a poll and see where Uncommon Sportsman stand now.

Poll

Which was the better blind side?

Erik

4 votes

Kelly

0 votes

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Hitting them trees?

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Nov 19, 2009 1:55 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Such a tough call on which is better

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Nov 19, 2009 1:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Because his own team did it to him. Kelly was more historic because it had never been done that way before. But, for his team to turn on him when they had worked so hard to get the numbers, when he had talked such a big game and when Foa Foa was so helpless before that. Plus, the repercussions are stinging ringing through the game. One the tribal where Laura was voted out I was still stunned with how much that one decision changed the game.

Wisdom can not be cultivated through ignorance of information.

by Wonko on Nov 20, 2009 4:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs