From Monkeyfilter:

Batman Onomatopeia

‘Nuff Said.

[Listening to: Relax - Bill & Ted's Excellent Musical ]

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Don’t blink…

Quick change artists David and Dania, who got her start in the Moscow Circus, entertain crowds at NBA half-time shows by performing quick changes of clothing. They’ve performed on numerous other shows around the world. You can even buy one of David’s quick change tophats… (!!!).

The video on YouTube is pretty amazing in itself. If you go their website you can view other videos as well. Pretty awesome magic if you ask me.. something new and amusing as well

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Two weeks ago, Connor’s first tooth started breaking through.. Since that time (and leading up to it) he’s been grumpier than usual. Well, this Saturday his second tooth came in. Both came in on the bottom, so he’s not good for opening bottles, unless you turn him upside down.

He’s still being grumpy, but hopefully it will start to subside now. Last night he was up at 3:30a for quite some time. I finally fell back asleep at 4:30a. Jean was still rocking him to sleep, but since he stopped crying, I was able to doze back off. Unfortunately, when my alarm went off at 6a, the music soother in the crib was still playing. Now, it has various settings, but the longest it plays for is 30mins. That means Jean was still up as late as 5:30a, otherwise she wouldn’t have been able to turn it on.

There’s always the chance that Connor or Alia kicked it on, but I’m more likely to believe that I’ll be coming home to both a grumpy son and grumpy wife tonight.

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One of my hobbies is geocaching. It’s a great way to get outside and enjoy the world we live in. My friends Steve and Lynda are also geocaching fans. Steve and I were originally introduced to geocaching by another friend of ours. We started going out ourselves even before we owned a GPS unit. In turn, we turned our families onto the activity. Stories about our geocaching exploits are for future blogs. I might wind up making a category.

When you find a cache, you get the opportunity to record your find and keep track of those you’ve found and those you haven’t. This is a nice benchmark to compare yourself to your friends and other geocachers.

I want to cheat however, and track these guys and get credit for finding them. I might try asking them to carry a geocache around in their pocket.. they could leave some drugs in there for folks to swap out their Happy Meal toy with in exchange.. Should be a fair trade, IMO.

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I had a very good time on Saturday at K&Q Rapier Champions.. that is, until my old nemesis the decided that it wanted to play. Pop! That’s a wonderful sound and feeling. You have a rush of pain, and then its followed by a rush of disappointment as you know the rest of your day is over. I looked straight at Thomas, asked him for his sword, and drew it across my neck twice, symbolizing the end of my day. It’s a shame too, because I really felt on. I had beaten Tom the first fight, and wound up beating myself the second one.

Meaning, I let my adreneline and greed get the better of me. I’ve had to purposely retrain myself after the original injury(s) to not overextend and redouble (Redouble: To attack an opponent a second time after the opponent fails to counterattack.). When I do that, my knee cannot support the weight shift and collapses.

Here, take a look at this picture . Notice the nice lunge. Now, imagine her opponent being just out of her reach, or taking a half step back. Rather than fully resetting yourself, you take an additional lunge, from the lunge position. It means there is a brief instance (in *one* interration of the move) where your front foot moves forward again, and your back foot stays in place, allowing you to gain just “a little extra”. Usually done when your first lunge comes up short, but you aren’t at your maximum lunge distance. This is what I cannot ever do again. Tom and I play the distance game very well. We’ve done it for years. We dance around, feeling each other out, and comitting only when there is an opening.

I should have reset. I should have reset. I should have reset.

Instead, for that brief instance, my mind tells me “It’s only a half step. You’ve got him. There’s the opening.”. Step. Snap. Done.

So now I’m limping around on decent size doses of Ibuprofen (for swelling). The good news is that the pain is only a 1 or 2. It’s midly uncomfortable. As of this post, I can support my weight on it enough to walk (albeit very slowly). Slow going trying to bend it to. Same thing happened the last time. Hopefully in about 5 or 6 days, it’ll be back to normal enough that I can start strengthening it again. I might followup with my orthopedic surgeon too. Last few times he couldn’t do an operation, because “not enough damage was done”. Blech. I had two options. Quit fencing, or fence until I hurt myself enough for an operation. Guess you know which decision I took. Maybe this is the one to cause enough damage.

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