Sketch of Modern End
Here’s a man that time forgot… not in a historical sense, but in the sense of doing any actual aging. Abdoulaye Wade is the president of the historically stable but deeply troubled country of Senegal. Look at his picture in that first link. Just look at his picture and then switch back here.
How old would you guess he is?
42? 48? Try 82. He is, unquestionably, the youngest looking 82 year old man I have ever seen.
Our parents: “When You Weren’t Looking, They Were Working” by Ben Stein:
You were born on third base and your parents put you there, and you think you hit a triple. It’s not true. It’s time to give back.
Even though Ben Stein has “publicly denounced the theory of evolution,” I still respect his viewpoints on what he has written about our parents. Thanks, university-based education, for allowing me to understand that people aren’t 100% right or 100% wrong… politicians aren’t sports teams and nuances matter.
Modeled after the stone masons and their relatives who worked on the cathedral.
Ze Frank doesn’t need a weekday video to continue his brilliance:
Then “Respect The Time You Are Given” gave me a push. That lasted for about as long as it took me to jot it down. For the moment I am hooked on “What Would The Hero You Do?”. When I start to feel lazy or trapped I think of a perfect version of myself and try to imagine what he would be doing right then and there. I don’t always emulate him (my pecs aren’t big enough), but it serves me well…for now.
WWTHYD.
I’m still working on editing down those European trip pictures. I am unbelievably busy taking care of dental school and other things, but I’m sure I will get these things posted.
This is the older end of the cathedral, completed while Gaudí was still alive. The stonework simultaneously evokes the heavy Gothic style and yet the proportions and naturalistic bent of the decorations also pull in the Catalan Modernisme movement.
The U.S. Open was this weekend. It was supposed to be done today, until Tiger Woods started putting together some ridiculous golf Saturday and today. I was watching yesterday, and Tiger was making everything. EVERYTHING. He chipped from just beyond the fringe, and the ball freaking HIT THE FLAG POLE and dropped in. That’s crazy. Makes the field he’s playing against freaked out. Anyhow, the big news today was this Rocco Mediate, who lives and breathes the U.S. Open. His is being billed as a “Cinderella Story” by the networks, because Mediate hasn’t won much in a long time and now he’s coming out of essentially nowhere to challenge, as he says, “the number one player on grass.”
This brings us to today, when Woods needed to sink a 12 foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to force a playoff against Mediate on Monday. And, of course, Tiger made the shot. Check out this excerpt from Ken Klavon’s liveblog of the event at the official U.S. Open website:
A relieved Tiger looks like he’s shaking. probably from the adrenaline. “[The putt] was a little wobbly,” he said. “I played two balls outside right and I just stayed committed. I felt like I was playing ‘Plinko.’”
I swear, this guy must have sold his soul to the devil. Can anyone be that good?
Well, can they? Unbelievable.
Sunrise filters through to backlight a sculpture in the eastern end of the Sagrada Família.
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