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Little confused by this announcement… I know I’ve seen more than this myself, particularly I recall a 48 person pyramid. This is only 33. Looks like something to do next summer.
I also recall posting this picture just a little while ago showing about 100 people behind a boat.
I had this video sent to me last week… Chad from the Beaverland Must-Skis found a new place to barefoot… by the side of the road. The car has to have at least a little giddy up to it… looks like a Subaru.
Based on the ending of the video, it appears that it was done as part of BarefootCentral.com’s Show Ski Challenge.
So this is a first for this blog… a post about a book. Or in this case, a short story that I read in a book. Don’t worry, this isn’t going to become a literary blog, but I found a story that I wanted to share with the world. So this is the first, and may be the last, literary post on this blog.
I’ve been reading the book Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman on and off for a while. It is a collection of short stories that he’s written. Many of the stories are interesting, but easily forgettable. One of them though, grabbed my attention from the start and in my opinion is a great story, be it short or long.
The story is titled Murder Mysteries (link to Wiki entry about it). It tells of the first murder to occur, a murder in the city of angles. I won’t go into details, but I’ll just say I thought it was great. It looks like you should be able to listed to it at SciFi.com’s Seeing Ear Theatre but the links there haven’t worked for me. I did find a link on Salon.com where you can listen to the beginning of the story (first 11+ minutes of the 75 or so minutes of the story.)
This story is also available as a graphic novel that I just might be picking up. Story isn’t that long, so check it out… I think you’ll like it.
Other stories in Smoke and Mirrors that I liked were Troll Bridge, The Goldfish Pool, Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar, Virus and Changes.
For those of you that know me, you know I snack on pretzels… a lot. For those that work with me, you see me eating them at lunch, nearly every day. They are my favorite store bought snack that don’t need any preparation… right after Cheeto’s (which I just don’t by for myself anymore… I always eat the whole bag no matter the size of the bag.)
So my snack pecking order goes like this:
Yes, that is the extent of snack food that I eat. No chips and salsa, no potato chips. Nada. I guess you could add the occasional cracker (Ritz or Saltine, but not very often).
So, as you can guess, I eat a lot of pretzels. But my love of them is just as a snack to go with a Pepsi. This person has a much deeper love of pretzels. Almost disturbing how much she knows about them.
Random quiz… who knows the song name I’m alluding to in this post title? Tell me the name of the song, the artist and what show it is from. Here’s your hint… think [adult swim]!
I’ve seen this before, but I saw it again and figured I’d share this with the world… or at least the tiny portion of the world that looks at this blog. By my count there is nearly a hundred people behind that boat. If the ropes average 100 feet in length, there is nearly 10,000 feet of rope which would be about 2 miles. Looks like there’s no knots too which is doubly impressive.
Just imagine the pyramids they could build… that’s at least eight 4-highs worth of people.A couple notes about the Packers at Vikings game from yesterday…
My thought after the punter Jon Ryan ran for the first down on the fake punt… He’s probably thinking to himself I’m never doing that again.
Then today I read somewhere that it actually was a called fake punt but was called off (via an audible) because of the Vikings’ alignment. The funny part is Ryan, the punter, who was going to run the fake punt, and the most important person that needs to hear the audible, never heard the audible so he ran the fake punt anyways. Everyone else on the Packers’ side of the field thought it was a real punt… until he took off running. This is great!
Saw this on the web today and it made me laugh out loud…
In celebration, Favre picks Jennings up over his shoulders. If Favre ever tries this on one of those tackle-eligible TD passes, he’s going to end his career.
– The Mighty MJD on Deadspin
It just be interesting to see him pick up a tight end to celebrate…
They call them flyers… I call them jumping in and then having the boats go… there was no flyer action here… The boats don’t take off until they hit the water, the boat tightens the rope, and then it goes… Props for jumping off the bridge though.
Here are a few pictures of what is likely my last jump set of the year… I decided to do some ride overs since I haven’t skied a way in while because I’ve been trying helicopters off the ramp. Granted I’ve landed every one, but I have yet to ski away. Gravity pretty much ensures that I land every time. I figured the feeling of skiing away would be nice, plus, I need to get my jumping basics down again. I’ve become a little sloppy off the ramp.
Here’s the pictures…
I tweaked my ankle earlier this summer and did again in this jump set so I kept the jump set short. Every landing was painful for my ankle.
I’ve got more pictures and video clips of everyone else coming soon. Some of them contain some pretty good wipe outs… Stay tuned.
I’ve grown accustomed to barefooting with my handle and line. They aren’t anything crazy special or anything… just a BFI toe hold handle with a spectra line I think. Basically, my line doesn’t stretch, at all. Like a steel cable, but red, without the dangers involved with a steel cable.
Well today, after jumping (pictures/videos coming soon) I took a foot run with the rope in the boat. Made my run no problem, but the rope was like a bungee cord. I cord feel it stretch and shorten up during the start and while footing. Hit some chop, I could feel it stretch and tighten between each wave. Talk about distracting. Never really got comfortable. It felt like the rope was stretching and shortening up probably about 6 inches to a foot throughout the run. This was a very different feel from my normal rope which has no give and now I’m even more glad to have it.
My run ended with me catching a toe, catching air, and then hitting the water, head first at 40 MPH and I didn’t get my hands up to break the water. Now, 11 hours later, the top of my head still hurts from breaking the water.
From the Dane County Executive…
Lakes Mendota and Kegonsa already back to 200-feet zone
Water levels on Madison’s four major lakes have receded to levels allowing for the return to the normal 200-foot “Slow, No Wake” zone from shorelines with the exception on Squaw Bay on Lake Monona, where the zone remains in effect for the entire surface.
As of sunrise on September 22, the “Slow, No Wake” zone will be 200 feet from shorelines on lakes Waubesa and Monona – with the exception of Squaw Bay in Lake Monona. Due to continuing high water levels in the bay, the “Slow, No Wake” zone will remain in effect from the Winnequah Boat Landing south to the opposite shore.
The zones already had been returned to the normal 200 feet from shorelines on lakes Mendota and Kegonsa earlier this month.
A Slow, No Wake Zone means a boat must move as slowly as possible while still maintaining steering control and produce no wake.
Today’s order comes from the Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney and Dane County Board Chairman Scott McDonell. All three officials thanked boaters for their compliance with previous orders and noted that they continue to monitor lake levels daily.
The officials on August 28 declared an Emergency Slow, No Wake Zone on the entire surface areas of the four lakes following heavy rainfalls that created flood conditions.
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