Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Silent Devotion


I should probably cite my source, but seeing as it's a comment from ProFootballTalk, I'll just continue on, lol.
Even if you wrap yourself up in foam wrapping from head to toe and run into a brick wall at 30mph, you’ll still induce some trauma to your brain. Excess padding isn’t going to do anything. It’s the immediate deceleration when you hit the wall, that causes your brain (moving at 30mph) to hit the side of your skull (now moving at zero mph). This happens because your brain is encased in CNS fluid inside the skull. This will happen any time the football player gets hit, hard or soft. Furthermore, this will happen even if the impact is in the center of the body and not the head.
Accumulation of these hits over a 10 yr career will eventually cause serious brain damage (even low-impact hits). Football players should either sign waivers before joining the NFL, college, high-school, or even peewee league. Brain damage from high impacts can never be prevented unless you eliminate the game of football itself.
This right here is why I'm worried for the future of sports. Sports like football, boxing, and MMA are all predicated on its players taking tremendous blows to their bodies. We've got to be careful with how we respond to all this knowledge about the effects of multiple blows to the body. If we begin to eliminate these sports because of this newfound knowledge, we find ourself on a slippery slope. Most sports businesses that make any kind of money require contact of some sort. Should we eliminate basketball and soccer because of the occasional dangerous foul? mfekljasfksaj

And the slippery slope argument is arguably a fallacy. Hm. So there's that.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Being As In Love With You As I Am





yippee! a skipadeedee!

On one hand, you're dancing to Carlos Santana wit' your baby boo.

On the other hand, you're scared because of just how much you're into your baby boo

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Without You It's A Waste Of Time

Dont mistake me being able to let this argument go for me giving up on this argument.

More Hippie Than Hipster

What's the difference between taking what the defense is giving you and settling for what the defense is giving you?

Monday, May 14, 2012

What I Feel Now

It's interesting to hear people's opinions on things like this:

when you're up in a basketball game, do you slow the game down and minimize the possessions your opponent has to close the deficit? Or do you keep your foot on the pedal and try to increase the deficit?

people can give you advice. they've been there, done that. old people have seen a lot of things and can advice you against stupid decisions. but if you're taking their advice every time, you're not really learning for yourself. So where is the ideal spot on the spectrum of "following advice" and "living it out for yourself?"

It'll Be Lightyears



Chess has been a huge part of my life. I haven't played it religiously throughout my life, but I know that playing it at an early age has had a huge impact on how I go about my life. I think a lot about the big picture and how the battle is turning out.

Things I apply to my everyday life that I learned from chess:
  1. "Winning the battle but losing the war" and the like are things that are constantly in my mind whenever I make decisions.
  2. Predicting what my opponent will do, up to 3 or 4 moves in advance. There's so much fluidity in the moves that one can make, so it's tough to predict moves. But it feels pretty good when you can manage to predict your opponent's moves and move accordingly.
  3. I can spot the metagame in different things like videogames and arguments quickly. It makes it that much easier to enjoy seemingly mundane things.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

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