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Jun. 22nd, 2008 01:04 pmEn Route to Golden Gate Park with Calvin and Rose for a no-nap adventure!
Jun. 22nd, 2008
RIP George Carlin
Jun. 22nd, 2008 10:40 pmThis news just crushes me. He was the MOST magnificent of all bastards. Half the funny stuff I've ever said in my life was a direct stylistic and topical ripoff of Carlin's material. [*][**] Dude was funny. Even when he was an angry old man spouting agitprop at an unsuspecting audience for 2 hours, I laughed.
I'd try to make up a memorial haiku using the 7 words, but once you write 'em out you've only got 4 syllables to work with :)
[*] and consciously or not, I bet 5% of that half is a direct quote.
[**] the other 50% is Groucho, natch.
I'd try to make up a memorial haiku using the 7 words, but once you write 'em out you've only got 4 syllables to work with :)
[*] and consciously or not, I bet 5% of that half is a direct quote.
[**] the other 50% is Groucho, natch.
of interest to approx. nobody...
Jun. 22nd, 2008 10:55 pmThis past weekend at the Olympic trials, Chris Colwill, a springboard and platform diver, pulled off a reverse 2.5 somersault with 2.5 twists.
Degree of difficulty: 3.9
Nobody else in the competition tried anything with a DD higher than 3.5 (reverse 3.5, forward 3.5 pike, etc.). For comparison, a forward 4.5 somersault, tuck, which AFAIK has only been attempted by a handful of people in history, is only a 3.5 DD. For those not familiar with the intricacies of diving scoring, DD is a multiplier on the average of the judges individual scores. The only technique I know of with a higher DD is an inward 4.5 somersault (i.e., stand backwards and throw your head towards the board/platform at full speed), which has only been tried once, by a very young and skinny Chinese diver who pancaked badly and handed Louganis his last Olympic gold.
Colwill apparently ripped his gainer and pocketed the .4x "balls of steel" bonus. Kudos.
Degree of difficulty: 3.9
Nobody else in the competition tried anything with a DD higher than 3.5 (reverse 3.5, forward 3.5 pike, etc.). For comparison, a forward 4.5 somersault, tuck, which AFAIK has only been attempted by a handful of people in history, is only a 3.5 DD. For those not familiar with the intricacies of diving scoring, DD is a multiplier on the average of the judges individual scores. The only technique I know of with a higher DD is an inward 4.5 somersault (i.e., stand backwards and throw your head towards the board/platform at full speed), which has only been tried once, by a very young and skinny Chinese diver who pancaked badly and handed Louganis his last Olympic gold.
Colwill apparently ripped his gainer and pocketed the .4x "balls of steel" bonus. Kudos.