Random Announcements
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@joesaintjohn congratulations, and I do like Wilma's middle name. You are aware that nominative determinism is a thing, though?
@Max Power good luck with the surgery. It sounds painful.
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Thanks again, I'm done now. One was a Bastard that had to be sawed away, but after all they're out now. Can't say it was a pleasure though.
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@Seul I'm surprised that you didn't speculate that @Max Power is from the German equivalent of Mansfield.
Glad that the surgery has gone well, Flo.
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Yeah, he's built like a VW. 8 cylinder engine, but they say it has the fuel economy of a 4…...
QFT!
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My family went to Disney World (without me). Apparently, their room got significantly upgraded when they checked in. Either that, or this is the most ridiculous parking lot ever.
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The woman in the security line in front of me was super excited that she was in pre-check and her husband wasn't. She kept waving and yelling at him how the line was so much shorter. I'm reminded of Jaime Foxx talking about how his grandmother gave him his first acting lessons- "Boy, act like you've been outside the house before." "Jaime, act like you have some sense."
I'm a curmudgeonly bastard.
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Just in case nobody noticed, with all the other tragic events taking place, this extraordinary human achievement just happened, and wow…
http://elcapreport.com/content/elcap-report-6317-special-edition-honnold-free-solo-elcap
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^ Wow. First free solo El Cap
"There are other climbers in Honnold’s league physically, but no one else has matched his mental ability to control fear. His tolerance for scary situations is so remarkable that neuroscientists have studied the parts of his brain related to fear to see how they might differ from the norm." ???
Interview with Alex Honnold:
Q: Do you feel the world kind of needed something cool like this, at this moment in time?
A: What the world needs is for the U.S. to stay in the Paris Accords. There’s some bigger issues. But I think it’s always cool for somebody to work on something difficult and achieve their dream. Hopefully people can draw inspiration from this.
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Alex Honnold is already a living legend IMO but his free solo of El Capitan takes it to another level.
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Agreed. But it takes "takes it to another level" to another level. Dude was doing a Boulder Problem thousands of feet in the air. In the zone with headphones on with death on the line for almost four hours. Made me think of this:
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I'm crushed what's going on right now in the world. Then presently, I'm working in New Orleans, 13 people were shot there this past weekend, so far 300 people murdered this year there.
