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Maybe the first question becomes “Do amateur sports have a purpose?” The numbers fluctuate but there are AROUND 1 million high school football players each year in the United States. Around 7.8% of those high school football players will play in college (at any level). Less than 0.5% of those college players will make an…

A lifetime ago I worked as a “student employee” as an undergrad. I was helping out the “system administration” folks – and ended up doing low level “desktop support” for faculty members. random thought: I remember running the big ol’ suit case size “VHS video” camera when they gave a presentation about this new “internet”…

Re-watched the original “Mad Max” (1979) – available on various “streaming services.” Now, the ORIGINAL “Mad Max” was/is a “low budget” Australian movie. It didn’t get “distributed” in the U.S. “back in the day” – which was why “Mad Max 2” (1981) was released as “The Road Warrior” (1982) in the U.S. The “low budget”…

Genre found its way into the English language in the late 18th century from “middle French.” The French got it from Latin – the “gen-” part tends to refer to “grouping”/category – e.g. “genus” in biology is closely related. random thought: gender is also “closely related” but “genesis” was derived from the Greek “gignesthal” with…

“Max Brand” was one of the pen names used by Frederick Faust (1892-1944). Mr Faust wrote “westerns” under the name “Max Brand” – somewhere in the neighborhood of 220 “pulp westerns.” Mr Faust also wrote under 21 other pseudonyms, in another dozen genres. Mr Faust was described as a “classical poet” – but since there…

buy me a coffee Patreon “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” – a classic movie starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston has a couple of memorable lines. Probably the most referenced line is: “Badges?… We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”…

… kind of a random thought – but I think Apple has officially run out of ideas — e.g. I am seeing ads for a “Titanium” iPhone, which comes across (to me at least) as “how do we convince people to pay us $1,000 for a ‘new’ product that is functionally the same as what…

I achieved “crazy old man” status a few years back — so when I encounter “youthful arrogance” I’m always a little slow to perceive it as “youthful arrogance.” Googling “youthful arrogance” gave me a lot of familiar quotes – a new favorite: I’m too old to know everything Oscar Wilde Being “slow to recognize” youthful…