|
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Previous topic
|
Next topic
|
|
 Tuesday, February 22, 2005
started 2/22/2005; 2:34:05 PM - last post 2/23/2005; 1:23:51 PM
|
|
Doc Searls - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 
2/22/2005; 2:34:05 PM (reads: 4815, responses: 18)
|
|
Going out on top 
| | So I figure I haven't been bowling in 25, 30 years. And I wasn't much good when I did much bowling. In those days (mostly in New Jersey, which I left in 1974), scoring was on sheets of paper, or on transparent film that lay on overhead projectors that never worked. All the balls were black and the machinery was by AMF or Brunswick. (Do they still exist?) The shoes were lace-up and stank. And I was never much good. Bowling in the 120s or 130s was a good game for me. I doubt I ever beat anybody who could actually play the game. |
| | Anyway, I figured 1) I'm old, and 2) I have arthritis, so 3) I'd suck. Sure enough, I bowled 89 in the first game. Worse, they had these barriers in the gutters, so the kiddies wouldn't bowl zeroes. About half my score was banked off the barriers. My score was about in the middle of the pack, mostly of second graders, plus a couple of younger sibs and one other parent, who had a broken thumb but bowled anyway. Then in the second game I bowled this: |
| | Full disclosure: The 1 in the 7th frame was right at the edge of being a gutter ball, but the barrier kept it in. So, knock a 1 off he score and it's still a 171 (woops, 169). Either way, it felt pretty damn good. Might have even been my highest score ever. |
| | So, with that, I think I'll announce my retirement from the game. |
Not as much as when the rest of us make a zero-dollar investment in the same thing
| | Forbes: Stopping the Presses. What does it mean for news when The New York Times and Dow Jones place a billion-dollar bet on the Internet? said the email I just got. |
Wherezat again?
| | Lessee... A bunch of ya'll (links coming) guessed correctly that yesterday's Wherezat was Heavenly, the ski resort above South Lake Tahoe. |
| | I have a story about that, which I'll tell later, after I'm back from taking the kid bowling. |
| | Anyway, that was an easy one. Today's isn't. In fact, I just spent way too much time figuring out exactly where it is. But I do believe I got it right. See if you know more than I did until a few minutes ago. |
discuss
|
|
Bubba - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/22/2005; 4:47:28 PM (reads: 1143, responses: 4)
|
|
|
Hmmm... Valley of Fire near Vegas?
Bubba
discuss
|
|
lou josephs - WMCA- R Peter and Co/Dr Gene Scot Dies
2/22/2005; 7:39:37 PM (reads: 1403, responses: 0)
|
|
|
What's left after all the radio stations were sold off is strausnewspapers. Suburban papers in upstate NY and Northern NJ.
And they have a web site. It also his the history of WMCA.
R. Peter was director of VOA under Jimmy Carter. (yeah the one they named a sub after)
Dr Gene Scott who owned a sw station in Dallas and a shortwave station in Antigua plus two ams on that island stroked out this weekend. He also was one of WWCR's transmitters and also bought sw time from the Russians. Says that the ministry if you can call it that will continue. Figure the money will stop following in a couple of months.
discuss
|
|
Doc Searls - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/22/2005; 8:39:38 PM (reads: 1057, responses: 3)
|
|
|
Nope. You're about two states off. :-)
discuss
|
|
Dirk De Bruyker - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/22/2005; 9:15:12 PM (reads: 1175, responses: 1)
|
|
|
Two states off... Mesa Verde or Colorado National Monument?
discuss
|
|
Bubba - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/22/2005; 11:11:40 PM (reads: 1551, responses: 2)
|
|
|
I'll let someone else take a gander at it then.
Oh, and by the way, if you take away that 1 in the 7th frame, you end up with a 170. Since you threw a strike in the 6th, your next two rolls count twice. You have to take away the 1 (times 2).
Sorry to have to steal your sunshine... :)
Bubba
discuss
|
|
glowrocks - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 12:43:03 AM (reads: 1314, responses: 2)
|
|
|
If it's where I think it is, (the clue was useful in that case), we drove through there back in '87 on the way to see the dead at Telluride.
Anyway, the place I'm thinking of is the Leadville area of Colorado, west/southwest of Denver. Runoff from mining (as I recall) contributed to basically creating a colorful deadzone for many many miles.
discuss
|
|
glowrocks - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 12:43:40 AM (reads: 992, responses: 0)
|
|
|
sorry, no pun intended. it wasn't funny, seeing how devastated the land was ...
discuss
|
|
glowrocks - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 12:52:28 AM (reads: 1267, responses: 1)
|
|
|
can I have 2 guesses?
oh, ok, here goes. I spotted a detail in the lower right corner which may be a roadway, and if so my 2nd and final guess is the park south of Colorado Springs (google time) Royal Gorge.
discuss
|
|
Doc Searls - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 9:51:04 AM (reads: 1313, responses: 1)
|
|
|
Hah! Right. I sit corrected. Just updated the post.
discuss
|
|
Doc Searls - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 9:59:52 AM (reads: 998, responses: 0)
|
|
|
Heh. Nope.
Go one state back, to the North.
discuss
|
|
Doc Searls - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 10:00:54 AM (reads: 997, responses: 0)
|
|
|
Nope. Still one state off. Go North.
discuss
|
|
Jim - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 10:46:07 AM (reads: 1015, responses: 1)
|
|
|
I enjoyed reading your bowling entry because it gave a glimpse into your everyday hum-drum life. It reminded me of a similar experience I had while killing time waiting for a plane ... I slipped out to a neighboring bowling alley and was stunned to see whiz-bang technology had found its way to the lanes. I spent more time thinking about the computerized scorekeeper (and trying to fool it) than I did trying to knock down the pins. But I did bring something like 38 of them to their knees.
I remember when Dad used to tell us stories about making money as a teenage pin setter. He'd take us back to Saturday afternoons in a simpler time when a fella could make 50 cents sitting behind the pins and manually setting them up between frames. He'd laugh with gusto describing the funny tricks pin setters used to spice up the game with a little 'human element'. Mechanized pin setters disgusted him. I'm glad he didn't live to see computerized scoring.
Bowling alleys are probably a good living laboratory to see how deeply technology has invaded popular culture. I hope I don't live to see the day when you can bowl a real game with some guy in Paris at the other end of a high-speed internet connection ... but I probably will.
discuss
|
|
Ugo Cei - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 11:28:38 AM (reads: 908, responses: 2)
|
|
|
Wyoming's Red Desert maybe?
discuss
|
|
Bubba - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 12:27:25 PM (reads: 1476, responses: 0)
|
|
|
And, my math is kind of f-ed. You would have had a 170... I changed the original post to show the right score.
Bubba
discuss
|
|
Doc Searls - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 1:13:48 PM (reads: 1043, responses: 0)
|
|
|
|
Doc Searls - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 1:22:31 PM (reads: 1023, responses: 0)
|
|
|
|
Doc Searls - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 1:23:51 PM (reads: 990, responses: 0)
|
|
|
|
Doc Searls - Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
2/23/2005; 7:52:36 PM (reads: 1029, responses: 0)
|
|
|
Actually, I like the way electronic improvements have made bowling more accessible and fun for kids.
That said, my father (who would have turned 95 this year) also once worked as a pin-setter, and had similar stories. He was also a heckuva bowler. We only bowled together a few times, and all his scores were in the 180-210 range. I'd like to say I learned something from him; but all I remember was getting scores that were about half of his.
If bowling weren't such a lousy business in most places, I'm sure your prediction would come true pretty fast.
discuss
|
|
|
Copyright 2010 The Doc Searls Weblog
|
