Here’s a great quote from a guy who is getting back into professional baseball at 41, “In my day, when I was a young phenom, I was too young,” said Banks. “Now I’m too damn old. When does it stop? You know what I’m saying? That’s just the story of my life.”
Read the rest of Bank’s story here about how baseball has saved his life.
I’m a sucker for videos like this:
See also the video of the guy walking across China.
Jens Voigt is great. He’s an interview he gave after yesterday’s stage. He wrecked at over 40 mph, but he soldiered on:
…but this article which argues that free markets is an ideology of death is close to the dumbest. Here’s just one example of the author’s inability to think. He argues that a laissez-faire free market ideology led to the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. That’s pretty ironic because BP, or Beyond Petroleum as they wanted to be called, tried for years to court progressives and liberals—hardly something a laissez-faire company would do. But that’s just the beginning. Read the whole thing if you want to laugh or cry.
Jeremy,
This is for you:
One battle I have when editing people’s writing is whittling down overly complex sentences. Lucky I don’t frequently have to deal with paragraphs this ugly:
The common denominator among the bar-failers in my class at Yale Law School—and there were a few—was a complete inability to comply with senseless rules; they weren’t the best students, but they were the tartest and the sharpest people—and the least likely to accept the constraints of Big Law that make neither financial nor intellectual sense: the fifty-state survey to prove a negative, the memo to nowhere, the repetitive brief that says nothing and gets read by no one. The inefficiency of law and litigation in practice begin with the complete waste of effort that is its licensing ritual.
Really? Three dashes, a semi-colon, and a colon, and 3 commas in one sentence. That is ridiculous. It might be 100% proper, but who wants to read it?
Here’s a video of a wreck that occurred a couple days ago in the Tour de France. What amazes me is the speed these guys ride at.
I was bummed for a moment when I saw “Goodbye HDMI” because I love HDMI cables. They are such an improvement from coax, s-video, or component video. HDMI is just so simple.
But HDBaseT will be even better than HDMI because you don’t need any special cables—just plain old “ethernet cables.” How great is that?
In this video, Francis Ford Coppola explains the introduction to the movie Patton. The best part of the movie is the intro. It is pure genius. And yet he was fired because the studio didn’t like the intro. This only goes to show that the things you’re fired for when young are often the same things you’re given awards for later in life.