Water chestnuts.

get it?

The blog required a post, and sometimes as an experiment in “Zen Browsing” I just kind of let the links happen. Today, I came up with this video of a dentist-patient robot. She sure looks real.*

Kurt Steiner, World Record holder for stone skipping. Watch him in all his magnificent glory, performing his single-purpose on this Earth, then walk off like it’s just another day.

Kurt even has a site. He’s plugged in! He’s promoting his trade to children, feeding the people, saving lives! Thanks Kurt!

Yesterday we went discing just before dusk, as we often do, and every so often we come upon a group of discers so inept, oblivious and darwin-award worthy that they have assembled a mass of eight players to fumble about as they traverse each hole at about five times the tolerable speed. I hate it. I hate them. It always perplexes me when I come across a person or group of people so obviously unhinged from their surroundings as to not even attempt to evaluate the situation they are in. You have eight people in your group! Look around. Five groups are waiting behind yours on the tee! Let them play through! They are skipping the hole you are on to get ahead of you because you, and the people you are with, are not only horrible excuses for players of this game, but you are also willfully ignorant of any single event going on outside of your own masturbatory mind filled with Staind lyrics, cigarettes and bosoms. Sadly that’s all it can hold at any point in time. Three separate pieces of data.

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. I’ve spent to many cumulative hours waiting for these drunken idiots to finish grab-assing around the course, to let it go any longer. But my real, productive question here is what will disc-golfing look like in 20 years? It’s already grown into quite a widespread sport since its inception in the late 70s [don't quote me on that] and now with the relative boom in popularity among just about everyone under the age of 30, we’re going to have a lot of middle-aged discers out there looking for a course to frequent.

I’ve often thought that maybe, someone will find a way to privatize these courses and make them profitable, but nowadays, just about 100% of courses are free and on city-owned parks. Which is great, but with privatization may come serious opportunity to design some awesome courses, not wait for 30 minutes at a hole because of some frat-party outing. Don’t get me wrong though, I love free disc golf. The low barrier to entry is by far one of its greatest strengths as a game. The other side of this could go the way of at least suggesting certain modes of etiquette, which are already out in the ether for sure, but these newbies, first-timers come onto the course without a single clue of what the procedure is for letting a quicker group through, splitting up your group into a max of four and so on. Perhaps that’s the right solution, of course, getting these rubes to follow any of these rules simply because “it’s the right thing to do” is a much harder task. Hell, I saw a commercial the other day praising the act of giving up a bus seat to an elderly woman as some kind of heroic feat. When the hell did that become a pat-on-the-back type situation? That’s expected.

The world has gone soft.