Quote of the Day

I care not so much what I am to

others as what I am to myself.

(via With Friendship)

 

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Quote of the Day

 

An appeal is when you ask one court to

show its contempt for another court.

 

(via Wikimedia Commons)

 

Finley Peter Dunne

Quote of the Day

 

I know when two men collide,

it's a question of honour.

 

(via Sina)

 

Sarah Brightman

Gone Underground?

A few of y'all actually read the comments left on various posts.  If not, you may have missed those posted on Wrap yer minds 'round this one:

On Sunday, October 6, at 9:09 a.m. Central, this anonymous comment appeared:

At 9:09 AM, Anonymous said…

If you are a swim coach / teacher living in Texas do you prefer to molest young boys or girls?

I went to Sitemeter and, sure enough, it was from the same IP Address that's submitted other sick comments in the past.

I took this screenshot of the info:

Rumor has it, this jackass has been posting crazy stuff on other swim sites, too.  Sometimes from the above IP Address, sometimes from another.

Haven't seen anything since Sunday from Mr. Sicko.  Wonder what he's been up to.

Think he's feeling the heat yet?

Quote of the Day

 

Poor man wanna be rich,

rich man wanna be king,

and a king ain't satisfied

till he rules everything.

 

(via The Telegraph)

 

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen

Quote of the Day

 

Keep the circus going inside you.

Keep it going.  Don't take anything too

seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

 

(via GQ)

 

James David Graham Niven

Quote of the Day

 

Crazy people don't sit around

wondering if they're nuts.

 

(via Fashion Grunge)

 

Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal

Quote of the Day

Sometimes I think the surest sign that

intelligent life exists elsewhere in

the universe is that none of it

has tried to contact us.

 

(via Hilda Poulain)

 

William B. "Bill" Watterson II

Leaving coaching to spend more time...

That's how the press release usually goes, right?

It continues "...with his/her family."

Worked with a guy who should end it "...with his phone."

Governing by Temper-Tantrum

(via Y(EUPH)ONIC)

God only knows when they'll throw on the straw that'll break the camel's back.

The average U.S. citizen can take a little more of the games they're playing in Washington, D.C., but not a whole lot more.

If Republicrats and Demicans are trying to alienate a couple hundred million people, they're certainly doing a fine job of it.

Read about the latest government shut-down fiasco here.

Florida Bay is the ocean. How, pray tell, do you "close" 1,100 square miles of ocean? Why would one even need to do so?

Apparently, according to an anonymous Park Service ranger, “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”

(via Wood TV)

President Gorbachev Obama, tear down this wall Barrycade!

Quote of the Day

 

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight

spot, but just as soon as we get out of it.

 

(via New York Historical Society)

 

Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings

They owe it all to mom!

Wonder where the kids got their athleticism from?  That's right, it was their mom, Clare Marie Edwards.  Clare ran track for Jack Daniels at UT.  Proof's here.  Ignore the typos.

Edited 10/6/13:

Am reminded that in addition to running on the first women's UT track teams, she also ran on the initial women's cross country team.  Listed here.

Quote of the Day

 

I have often wished I had time to

cultivate modesty...but I am too

busy thinking about myself.

 

(via viz)

 

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

Quote of the Day

 

The difference between fiction and

reality?  Fiction has to make sense.

 

(via akiba)

 

Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr.

Longhorn Men

More Orange/White coverage (via Swimming World):

The Best Make it Look Easy

(via Fit Phreak)

The best make it look easy.  That's something my swimmers have been hearing for years.

The best in most any sport rarely appear to struggle through an outstanding performance.  Instead, they make it look like they could do the impossible all danged day, right?

At the UT men's Orange/White meet, some guys went very fast and made it look easy.

Want to know what they did leading up to that meet?  Eddie's fixin' ta tell ya in an interview.

Y'all know I have always liked Garrett McCaffrey.

It's that fool Garrett works with that makes this so hard danged to do.

So...click...here...ouch...that...really...hurt...

Quote of the Day

 

We found ourselves in a hole that I

didn't dig, but I have dug, dug, and

dug to try to get out of that hole.

 

(via POLITICO)

 

Harry Mason Reid

Quote of the Day

 

There are 350 varieties of shark,

not counting loan and pool.

 

(via SFGate)

 

Louis Malcolm "L.M." Boyd

Quote of the Day

 

The reward of a thing well

done is to have done it.

 

(via Encyclopedia of World Biography)

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

...tag...yer it...

The old eff won fitty took it on the chin Thursday night.  We learned what air bag deployment looks like.  We're okay but truck's headed for a little stay in the shop.

The gal that wrecked us got a couple of tickets - one for the idiotic left turn and another for no insurance.

She should have gotten a third for the poor acting performance afterward.

Quote of the Day

 

One person with a belief is equal to a

force of 99 who have only interests.

 

(via Wikipedia)

 

John Stuart Mill

Quote of the Day

 

Avoid having your ego so close to your

position that when your position

falls, your ego goes with it.

 

(via Academy of Achievement)

 

Colin Luther Powell

Quote of the Day

 

You are not superior just because you

see the world in an odious light.

 

(via Culture)

 

François-René de Chateaubriand

Nonfiction Books by Dogs

(via Medium Large)

Quote of the Day

 

Without the right of privacy, there is no real

freedom of speech or freedom of opinion,

and so there is no actual democracy.

 

(via Leao do Norte)

 

Dilma Vana Rousseff

Longhorns Lose to Aggies

Folks in Austin are shocked to learn that Texas A&M has a Ken doll and U.T. doesn't:

(via Walmart)

Quote of the Day

 

There are a terrible lot of lies going

around the world, and the worst

of it is half of them are true.

 

(via Daily Mail)

 

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Quote of the Day

 

Many books require no thought from

those who read them, and for a very

simple reason;  they made no such

demand upon those who wrote them.

 

(via Dover Beach)

 

Charles Caleb Colton

Quote of the Day (thanks Dad!)

 

The word bipartisan means some larger-than

-usual deception is being carried out.

 

(via Kastertine)

 

George Denis Patrick Carlin

Quote of the Day

Success ain't falling in your lap.  Be

aggressive in your approach and

relentless in your hard work.

(via Wrestling Match)

Dwayne Douglas Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock

Quote of the Day

 

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of

Positive Thinking, and then I thought:

What the hell good would that do?

 

(via Quote Collection)

 

Ronald Michael Sakele, a.k.a. Ronnie Shakes

Quote of the Day

 

The real problem is not whether machines

think but whether men do.

 

(via Famous Psychologists)

 

Burrhus Frederic "B.F." Skinner

Quote of the Day

 

Democracy substitutes election

by the incompetent many for

appointment by the corrupt few.

 

(via The Telegraph)

 

George Bernard Shaw

Quote of the Day

 

Most conversations are simply monologues

delivered in the presence of witnesses.

 

(via Detective Method)

 

Margaret Ellis Millar

Shallow Water Black Out Info

Thanks to Bob Bowman and Rich Wilkens for sharing their PowerPoint presentation on Shallow Water Black Out.  In case you missed earlier posts on the topic, catch up here and here.  Watch video here.

Scary stuff:

Unlike a regular drowning where there may be 6-8 minutes before brain damage and death, there are only 2.5 minutes before brain damage and death in shallow water black out due to the reduction in the oxygen to the brain BEFORE the black out

Email me for a copy of the PowerPoint.

Recent Baltimore television station story on Shallow Water Black Out:

Quote of the Day

 

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to

preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered,

to be generous, frank, and independent.

 

(via as you like it)

 

William Somerset Maugham

Quote of the Day

 

What the people want is very simple - they

want an America as good as its promise.

 

(via Hello Beautiful)

 

Barbara Charline Jordan

Quote of the Day

 

Never cut what you can untie.

 

(via Picssr)

 

Joseph Joubert

Quote of the Day

Whether you're talking about bees, dogs,

or women, pain can come upon you

quickly from either one of 'em.

(via POP tower)

Phil Alexander Robertson

Quote of the Day

 

When you're in love, it's the most glorious

two and a half days of your life.

 

 

Richard Phillip Lewis

At the present time in the United States,...

...somewhere between eight and ten thousand children under the age of twenty die from drownings every year.

The competitive swimming community is making a great effort to teach young people to swim.  Let's continue making a difference.  We've got to get those numbers down.

Also, let's eliminate the loss of our competitive swimmers to shallow water blackout drownings.

Video of NBAC-hosted round table discussion on shallow water blackout is here.

Edited 12/29/15:

Round table video gone.  Here's another:

Quote of the Day

 

It is well to remember that the
entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others.

 

(via Wikipedia)

 

John Andrew Holmes

Bowman Speaks on Lowenthal Tragedy

Read this important article at Swim Vortex.

(via explore baltimore county)

These incidents take the lives of outstanding swimmers.

Coaches, keep a close eye on your athletes when doing breath control work.

Swimmers, avoid trying to one-up each other in underwater distance contests.

Quote of the Day

 

Looking back on things,

the view always improves.

 

(via Michael Barrier)

 

Walter Crawford "Walt" Kelly, Jr.

Iowa State Violations

Iowa State University foosball and basketball took the biggest hits for NCAA recruiting violations.  Women's swimming will have some recruiting restrictions as well.  Read more here.

Restrictions from initiating telephone contact with prospects for the following teams: football, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s gymnastics, men’s and women’s golf, women’s swimming and diving, women’s soccer, softball, tennis, men’s and women’s track and cross country, women’s volleyball and wresting. The public report further details the timing of the restrictions by team.

Men's swimming was not penalized.  Thanks to Title IX, there's no longer a men's program at Iowa State...

Quote of the Day

 

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

 

(via fine art america)

 

Francis Scott Key "F. Scott" Fitzgerald

Quote of the Day

 

If you don't make mistakes, you're not

working on hard enough problems.

 

(via BBC)

 

Frank Anthony Wilczek

Quote of the Day

 

Follow the grain in your own wood.

 

(via BU Today)

 

Howard Thurman

Quote of the Day

 

Oh what a tangled web we weave,

When first we practise to deceive!

 

(via Wikimedia Commons)

 

Sir Walter Scott

Irving ISD Board President Would Drop Swimming?

Irving ISD discussed partnering with the YMCA to build a natatorium at a recent board meeting.

IISD's Scott Layne brought the idea forward and it wasn't long before he was ambushed.

Board president Steven Jones went out of his way to torpedo the project, which is still in early planning stages.  Jones wants folks to believe the pool would be built to serve just over a hundred kids in the high school competitive programs.

Bullcorn!  Jones is no idiot - he knows exactly what the new pool will mean for kids in the district.  For whatever reason, he's going out of his way to put the brakes on the project before it can gain momentum.

The proposed natatorium would provide learn-to-swim, lap swimming, club swimming/diving, and recreational swimming opportunities for the community as well as water safety and competitive swimming/diving programs for the school district.

To see school board poly-ticks in-action, watch the video here.

Jones starts in with "My only comment..." and then rambles on and on against the project - and the swimming program.

He does a nice job of widening the split between academics and athletics.

(via elizabethany)

We've all seen it work on small scales (within individual schools) as well as large ones (legislation out of Austin).

Guys like Jones provide the spark, then stand back and watch the burn.

If the swimming community in Irving needs motivation to get Jones off the school board, he provided it with this statement:

"I mean, maybe we cut the program.  It's very easy to bring to the board to cut German.  To cut Latin.  I mean, you understand where I'm coming from?  And, that's a teacher's salary.  That's not very much money, but yet we've got a hundred kids - a hundred fifteen - that swim and we can't think about cutting that."

(via YouTube)

Jones is anti-athletics.  He's anti-aquatics.  Irving-area swim folks need to either turn him away from the dark side or run him off.