Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Daily Weird News
"You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness."
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This is an interesting analysis of what the world will look like 15 years down the road from the National Intelligence Council. There's nothing surprising there, but I found it insteresting that they did not mention Europe at all.
Talks between the NHLPA and the owners are starting again. Let's hope they are the beginning of something beautiful; like hockey being played again at a professional level in North America.
Here's one for the Scooby Doo crew. Apparently this Polish woman was haunting her husband's employer in his Austirian castle because of some unknown grudge. Instead of "meddling kids", there was some meddling police and she got 4 months in the big house.
The new Pope-mobile?
Talk about a pain in the... head. This guy had a nail embedded in his skull for 6 days before someone noticed it... But he's not all that lucky. He had no medical insurance and his bill will be somewhere around $100k.
Talk about another 'black-eye' for hockey. An enraged parent chocked his son's coach since the parent decided his little tike was not getting enough ice time.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness."
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This is an interesting analysis of what the world will look like 15 years down the road from the National Intelligence Council. There's nothing surprising there, but I found it insteresting that they did not mention Europe at all.
Talks between the NHLPA and the owners are starting again. Let's hope they are the beginning of something beautiful; like hockey being played again at a professional level in North America.
Here's one for the Scooby Doo crew. Apparently this Polish woman was haunting her husband's employer in his Austirian castle because of some unknown grudge. Instead of "meddling kids", there was some meddling police and she got 4 months in the big house.
The new Pope-mobile?
Talk about a pain in the... head. This guy had a nail embedded in his skull for 6 days before someone noticed it... But he's not all that lucky. He had no medical insurance and his bill will be somewhere around $100k.
Talk about another 'black-eye' for hockey. An enraged parent chocked his son's coach since the parent decided his little tike was not getting enough ice time.
# posted by HST Overdrive @ 8:26 AM 
