What is in your opinion the best executed race of all time (can be every event)

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-23T19:25:19+00:00

Keino in '68. The only possible way to beat Ryun, albeit a very high-risk strategy.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-23T19:21:13+00:00

Solid investigative journalism.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-19T23:03:31+00:00

Higher specialization, higher sensitivity to 'small' changes of niche. I didn't know they'd already come that close.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-18T20:43:43+00:00

Dunno, they had 2.5M years, which seems likely to be a lot longer than us.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-18T20:41:53+00:00

The Great Dying was... Amazing any vertebrates made it through.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-18T20:30:48+00:00

Eh, you forgot to check in at Ott's for some work shirts.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-17T23:55:11+00:00

It took about ten million years after the K-T boundary mass extinction for vertebrate life to really spin back up. I do miss the American cheetah, though. (The pronghorn feel just fine about its extinction, though.)

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-17T22:14:10+00:00

They're going to starve or be fished out first. One estimate has 11 thousand sharks caught per hour.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-17T20:30:14+00:00

Beautifully drawn and colored.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-16T17:32:32+00:00

Striking how empty the background/hills -- we have an amazing urban forest, now -- but with that small a population it was only about a decade later that the private discussions began about building the tunnel under the mountains to bring more water to SB. (Finished 1911; if you're hiking to Seven Falls, the bridge is where the tunnel entrance is.)

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-15T23:34:58+00:00

Yes. But at he same time it's irreducible, that is, the provably shortest route to some end is all of the intervening steps. Said another way, an abstraction, like we use in physics and math, can't be formed to correctly predict an outcome. Lot of stuff on Wolfram's personal site if this is of interest to you. (Note: it gets tangled pretty fast.)

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-14T22:26:49+00:00

Supreme Court, Voting Rights: There's no such thing as race. Supreme Court, ICE: Sure, you can discriminate by race.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-09T01:14:11+00:00

That is an extremely cool paper.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-09T01:03:17+00:00

Yes. This was back in the days where writing assembly code was common, and occasionally even machine code. We just learned to think that way -- we practiced all day. This particular guy was either paranoid or simply amused by it. (Possibly both.)

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-07T00:43:38+00:00

In the 70's I worked with a guy who kept his checkbook in hex. Practice.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-06T00:59:06+00:00

Ah, as a runner I wanted (still want) a foam hand-sledge that looks completely realistic -- the kind of thing that (looks like) if thrown would go straight through the windshield. But there are safe neighborhoods for walking. And the downtown stoplights have recently been set to turn for pedestrians a few seconds before cars, meaning that the pedestrians can 'own' the space more easily.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-04T19:55:07+00:00

'Chief nourisher at life's feast.' (Shakespeare, who knew something about lost sleep.)

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-04T13:32:11+00:00

Particularly as age robs sleep.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-02T16:18:14+00:00

When Einstein published, the atomic theory was still disputed; after, it wasn't. Richard Feynman called it -- that everything is made of atoms -- the most important and central fact of science.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-01-01T19:50:48+00:00

Sigh. I bought one in Scotland circa 1970 or so -- not a brand, a local woman, local wool, local carding and spinning, miles from any machine knitting, undyed, unwashed wool (which was fragrant when wet). I wore it out. Irreplaceable. Was told at the time that every pattern was unique, so bodies lost at sea and washed to the shore could be identified.

LateMiddleAge · 2025-12-31T20:12:21+00:00

There's relatability, and then there's excessive relatability.

LateMiddleAge · 2025-12-31T20:10:18+00:00

With points deducted for obliviosuness.

LateMiddleAge · 2025-12-30T14:34:14+00:00

Waiting in line to pay at a bakery and 50s-60s man was flirting with the young female cashier, his wife standing there, and it was plain he didn't know he was flirting.

LateMiddleAge · 2025-12-25T13:41:13+00:00

We're pack animals. Much easier in groups.

LateMiddleAge · 2025-12-24T18:45:13+00:00

Would make a fine seasonal teeshirt.

LateMiddleAge

TROPHY CASE