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Wednesday, 13 October 2004

  • A hang-gliding moment::

    Yes, I fly hang-gliders. (I have two.)

    Hang-gliding has a LOT in common with surfing, at least here in SoCal. You sit around and watch conditions like a cat tracking a gopher underground. You either wake up early and brave the morning cold, or you sleep in late and try to catch the late-afternoon glassoff.

    (To be honest, the so-called morning cold means zilch to me.)

    Dang, I must postpone. More in a bit

    Caro

Thursday, 07 October 2004

  • So Just What Is So Irritating About Team Sports? -- some thoughts

    Like many engineers, I loathed team sports, even though (or maybe because) so many of my family excelled at them. All I wanted was to be left alone in order to read, play piano, or draw. "No, no, no, I don't want to play, please go away," that was my refrain.

    It's hard to describe just what changed my attitude. But certainly the strictly intermural sports program at my college had something to do with it. It valued participation. I was recruited, for no immediately apparent reason, by two excellent female athletes. "Why?" I asked them. The answers were diverse.

    "Good leg extension."

    "No shit taken."

    "Team spirit."

    The last is the most meaningful. A person who will subjugate his or her vanity to a larger cause is valuable.

Tuesday, 05 October 2004

  • Inspired by an entry by setfree012

    'Pathein mantanein.' Ancient Greek. Relatively common expression.Well loved by guys like Aeschylus and Sophocles.

    'Pathein' is the root of the word 'pathos.' It means to 'undergo,' therefore also to 'suffer,' therefore also to 'experience.' 'Mantanein' means 'to learn.'

    So to undergo something means to learn, which seems to me to be in the spirit of what setfree012 wrote...

Wednesday, 29 September 2004

  • Distracted into poetry, alas:.

    <title> Something Lost in the Translation

     

    I have been most quarrelsome of late.

    Nothing contents me, and I leave

    My food untouched, and messages unread.

    A wind-struck wilderness lures me –

    I resist.

     

    “Nothing is ever lost,” I remind myself,

    And this plain truth

    Is  become the stone I chew on.

     

    Life is both kind and unforgiving.

     

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