Posts by BenWilson
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True, eh. Like massive tombs of the ancestors, anybody's ancestors, only with labels. The mummified cat at our local gives me the willies, to say nothing of the mummified mummy, which the 4 year old finds quite perturbing.
Yes, it's a fine line between remembering the dead and fetishizing them. There are times when history feels like a mountain we are sitting on the top of. At other times, it feels like a mountain on top of us.
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I felt pretty used last time I wandered down a Herald comments thread, punch drunk from the stupid article and wearing nothing but a nice rebuttal.
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Nice, Jolisa. I concur that your stream of consciousness ought to be captured more frequently. I particularly liked:
. I remembered the trip to Mark Twain's house in Hartford, also a shrine to a dead child, after which our older child, then three, had wailed "I don't want to die and people put our things into a museum!"
Museums are good, and important, but they can be macabre.
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Just for perspective, I played waterpolo goalkeeper for 20 years. Professional fouling is a constant part of the game. It is not allowed to push the ball underwater, but I must have done it 200 times to prevent a certain goal. Every time a penalty shot was awarded, and 9 out 10 of them went in. But that other one made it worthwhile overall. No one ever raised an eyebrow - they were just stoked to get a penalty shot, and a major foul awarded against the specialist goalie. It was never brought up that the penalty was not severe enough, even though I did it in several games which came down to a one point difference, and the penalty save could be attributed to be the game breaker (if you are prepared to ignore everything else that happened in the game).
The overall lower number of goals scored in soccer tend to make people see fouls in the goal area as huge crimes. I see them just like Gio - part of the game as it is defined and played by professionals. Yes, handballing likely goals is encouraged because of this. The solution is to slot the bloody penalty. Or slam the ball in the corner so it can't be handballed in the first place. Or to score more goals, make more saves of your own.
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The pressure of a big match with a crucial outcome is not really very well reflected in a simple penalty statistic. That usually works against the shooter, in favor of the goalie. Shooters are better when they are relaxed, whereas goalies are the opposite.
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>> Talking of skating...I ran into this yesterday.
>Damn! That's pretty much THE toughest downhills in Auckland City.
Hell yeah, that was awesome. No fear. Bomb it.
Good to see Levi still carving. Takes me back...
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Col Sanders didn't even start KFC until he was 70!
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I'm seriously curious about the answer to CarlosNZ's question. Is there any enforceability at all to what links people have on their own sites? I can see a case if the link contains a login or something, in terms of "providing unauthorized access to a computer network", but if not?
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Sofie,
It's hard to be sure, Sofie. My patching was inconclusive - it didn't seem to clear any flares up by itself, but it might have helped nonetheless. I'm letting it get larger before I tax it heavily.
Cecilia
The only novel I can remember that conveyed the hospital experience well was one I read in the 70s: Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward".
How about The Singing Detective ? I jest.
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Public Address prefers unmarked $20 bills in used non-sequential notes...
I better buy a shuffling machine.
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