I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
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| via Hooked on Comedy |
Joseph Levitch, a.k.a. Jerry Lewis
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Monday, August 21, 2017
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Friday, August 18, 2017
Quote of the Day
Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington
lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our
families have values, but our government doesn't.
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| via Breitbart |
William Jefferson Clinton
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Quote of the Day
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine
or new propaganda, is a weakness still
dominating the human mind.
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| via Radcliffe Institute |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Quote of the Day
Winning becomes easier over time as the
cornerstones of confidence become habits.
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| via Academy of Management |
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Quote of the Day
Real generosity toward the future
lies in giving all to the present.
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| via The Irish Times |
Albert Camus
Monday, August 14, 2017
Quote of the Day
I realised from a very early age that God
gave me a gift and that gift was to run, and
I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.
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| via The Courier-Mail |
Elizabeth Alyse "Betty" Cuthbert, a.k.a. Golden Girl
Sunday, August 13, 2017
New Look Poll Results
A week ago I tried to change blog scheme a little. Thought I could get back to old look anytime I wanted. Wrong!
Ended up losing links and having to set up a new template. Was able to use Google to find cached page and redo links. Probably won't try any more changes for a while.
Results of the poll:
Quote of the Day
The free man is he who does not fear
to go to the end of his thought.
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| via Encyclopaedia Britannica |
André Léon Blum
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Quote of the Day
Individual experiences being limited
and individual spontaneity feeble,
we are strengthened and enriched by
assimilating the experience of others.
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| via Jim & Ellen |
George Henry Lewes
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Sunday, August 06, 2017
Friday, August 04, 2017
Yes, it's pretty ugly!
Tried to make a few changes. Ended up losing links and adding hideous colors. Be patient, my twenty-nine (29) readers. This will take time...
In the meantime, view the Google cache here
Thursday, August 03, 2017
So Many Great Swim Pictures...
...so little time...
Check out the latest at Andy Ringgold's flickr page
p.s. Brett went :49+ twice yesterday at the US Open
Quote of the Day
I've always felt like the underdog, and
I'm comfortable with that label.
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| via ZOMG Talk |
Alecia Beth Moore, a.k.a. P!nk
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
Quote of the Day
I saw the angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free.
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| via Harvard Health |
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Quote of the Day
Good God, if our civilization were
to sober up for a couple of days
it'd die of remorse on the third.
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| via That's How the Light Gets In |
Clarence Malcolm Lowry
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Quote of the Day
The idea is not to block every shot.
The idea is to make your opponent
believe that you might block every shot.
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| via NBA |
William Felton "Bill" Russell
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Quote of the Day
A man always has two reasons
for doing anything: a good
reason and the real reason.
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| via linked in |
John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Quote of the Day
A certain amount of opposition
is a great help to a man. Kites
rise against, not with, the wind.
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| via Wikipedia |
John Neal
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Quote of the Day
I'll never get sick of zombies.
I just get sick of producers.
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| via Screen Anarchy |
George Andrew Romero
Monday, July 10, 2017
Sunday, July 09, 2017
Quote of the Day
We started off trying to set up a
small anarchist community, but
people wouldn't obey the rules.
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| via BBC |
Alan Bennett
Friday, July 07, 2017
Quote of the Day
It's not the daily increase, but daily
decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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| via Bruce Lee Bio |
Lee Jun-fan, a.k.a. Bruce Lee
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Quote of the Day
Rather let us suffer for speaking
the truth, than that truth should
suffer for want of speaking.
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| via Wikipedia |
Eliza Cook
Sunday, July 02, 2017
Quote of the Day
The more is given the less the people will
work for themselves, and the less they
work the more their poverty will increase.
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| via world's most boring website |
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, a.k.a. Leo
Tolstoy
Saturday, July 01, 2017
Git ta yer safe spaces!! Them Free Speechers is on the loose!
Sure wouldn't want to hear anyone at UC Santa Cruz exercise their First Amendment rights, now, would we?
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| via UCSC |
Critics are calling her performance "Laugh-out-loud laughably laughable" and "Ding-dand-diddly D-U-M Dumb!"
Seems Dr. Willer has been axing coaches left and right, as she gives the Banana Slug athletic department her version of a "restructuring".
...all assistant coaches will have to reapply for their positions, which will now be limited to six-month contracts.
Read more here
Among the costs the university must factor into its budget is a salary for an athletic director. That position has been vacant since Cliff Dochterman was laid off as part of a cost-saving measure last October. In a statement at the time, Andrea Willer, executive director of the Office of Physical Education, Recreation and Sports, said she made the decision to eliminate the athletic director “because it had the least impact on the overall program.”
What a genius! She was able to dump him, fill the power vacuum, and wipe out athletics!
Students had voted in favor of a referendum supporting athletics. Coaches who backed that referendum were, coincidentally, given the old Lead Handshake.
Rather than be kicked to the curb, swim coach Kim Musch was able to retire.
“I’m the lucky one because I can retire,” Musch said. “I can step away and not be at the mercy of them anymore.”
“To do what they did to them is just dishonest and slimy,” Musch said. “To get up and have students go above and beyond, to have assistants go above and beyond and just knock them down is so slimy.”
Them there slugs kin git really slimy...
UCSC coaches protested yesterday with signs that didn't say anything about "Trump" and "Russia" - a first in California this year.
Read much, much more here
Musch, despite his recent retirement, showed up to support his colleagues.
“I need to help the coaches who were laid off, the assistant coaches whose jobs were ended,” Musch said. “This is a situation where, I’m going to be blunt, there’s a cancer on campus and that cancer is at OPERS. I have trouble sitting back and watching an entire department get destroyed by one person. Anything I can do to help change that, I’ll do. Being retired is one of those things that frees me up to speak my mind because everybody else are, you know, by agreements or under contracts, can be fired at will. I’m free to say this is intolerable. This is a toxic situation.”
Take a few minutes and read through the articles linked above. This UCSC thing is pretty high on the crazy meter, even for California.
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| via Pinterest |
Biggest fear among UCSC athletes? Vincent Vega? NaCl? The Big One?
Nope, they're afraid Andrea Willer is dismantling their entire athletic program...
Quote of the Day
The buried talent is the sunken rock on
which most lives strike and founder.
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| via Hymnary |
Frederick William Faber
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Quote of the Day
Throughout my career I swam for
form. Speed came as a result of it.
Johann Peter Weißmüller,
a.k.a. Johnny Weissmuller
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Quote of the Day
I haven't seen this much Russian
medaling since the 1980 Olympics.
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| via the right scoop |
Gregory John "Greg" Gutfeld
Monday, June 26, 2017
Quote of the Day
Being a boy is not a social disease. And the
de-Tom-Sawyering of American boys
should not be on anyone’s agenda.
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| via The Dartmouth Review |
Christina Marie Hoff Sommers
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Quote of the Day
Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.
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| via Real Clear Politics |
Alexander Britton "Brit" Hume
Friday, June 23, 2017
California Dreamin'
California politicians have really stuck it to Texas. No more state-funded travel to the Lone Star State.
All totaled, California now bans most state-funded travel to eight states.
The new additions to California’s restricted travel list are Texas, Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota.
They join Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee as states already subjected to the ban.
Read more here
Ouch! How will we get by without them?
The California law includes exemptions for law enforcement officers, tax auditors and training events that are required for grants.
Don't see any mention of athletic programs being exempted.
Will state schools have to cancel away trips to those eight (8) states?
What will Austin's 2019 NCAA's look like w/o Cal & USC?
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| via Amazon |
Puzzlin', ain't it?
Quote of the Day
When forced to choose between two
equally undesirable options, the only
thing to do was to change the rules.
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| via William Shatner |
William Shatner
Thursday, June 22, 2017
A New Question for Coaches?
When you're looking into a new club program or making the leap into college swimming, what questions do you ask of your potential coach?
Things about attendance requirements? Workout times? Dry-land training?
How they take their coffee?
The research surveyed more than 1,000 adults, asking them to give their food and flavour preferences. The participants then took a series of personality tests assessing antisocial personality traits, such as sadism, narcissism and psychopathy.
The study, carried out by researchers at the University of Innsbruck, found that a preference for bitter flavours was linked to psychopathic behaviour.
The closest association was between bitter foods and “everyday sadism” – that is to say, enjoyment of inflicting moderate levels of pain on others.
I must share that - although it's something that just goes with the sport - I've never "enjoyed" inflicting pain on our athletes. Also, I never drink black coffee.
Read more of Psychopaths drink their coffee black, study finds here
Quote of the Day
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
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| via Encyclopaedia Britannica |
Charles John Huffam Dickens
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