Year: 2003

Games

I’m a Disc Golfer

Went out and played a round of Disc Golf with one guys from the gaming crowd and a couple of his golf buddies. The course was at Shillito Park, which I haddn’t been to in the daylight since returning to Lexington. It was actually a good amount of fun though my arm is kinda sore. I know that it was just throwing a ~~fresbie~~ disc but the discs and throws are not like playing Ultimate. It was fuin, got a good walk through the park and plenty of bullshitting with a couple of etomologists and a carpenter.

Games

I’m a Disc Golfer

Personal

Fozbaca in Google Images

Goto Google Images and search for fozbaca. I’m only #2. Somehow engel scores #1.

Personal

Fozbaca in Google Images

Goto Google Images and search for fozbaca. I’m only #2. Somehow engel scores #1.

Culture

Hunters have ADD

Post author By fozbaca
Post date July 22, 2003

Could an ADD Hunter Have Survived?, A chapter from the second edition of Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception by Thom Hartmann

ADDers are damaged by growing up in our society, but not in hunting cultures
… individuals living among the historically agricultural Native Americans, such as the Hopi and other Pueblo Indians, are relatively sedate and risk-averse. On the other hand, Fikes said, members of the hunting tribes such as the Navajo are “constantly scanning their environment and are more immediately sensitive to nuances. They’re also the ultimate risk takers. They and the Apaches were great raiders and warriors.”
…
But we today are not a society of hunters, raiders, and warriors. We are farmers, office- and factory-workers. Therefore, we punish and discourage hunter and warrior behavior in our children and adults.

I find the idea that ADD traits are desirable to a hunter culture intresting. Now if one also takes the higher than usual ADD’r in geek culture maybe some intresting understandings arise.

Culture

Hunters have ADD

Post author By fozbaca
Post date July 22, 2003

Could an ADD Hunter Have Survived?, A chapter from the second edition of Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception by Thom Hartmann

ADDers are damaged by growing up in our society, but not in hunting cultures
… individuals living among the historically agricultural Native Americans, such as the Hopi and other Pueblo Indians, are relatively sedate and risk-averse. On the other hand, Fikes said, members of the hunting tribes such as the Navajo are “constantly scanning their environment and are more immediately sensitive to nuances. They’re also the ultimate risk takers. They and the Apaches were great raiders and warriors.”
…
But we today are not a society of hunters, raiders, and warriors. We are farmers, office- and factory-workers. Therefore, we punish and discourage hunter and warrior behavior in our children and adults.

I find the idea that ADD traits are desirable to a hunter culture intresting. Now if one also takes the higher than usual ADD’r in geek culture maybe some intresting understandings arise.

Motorcycle

2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back

Post author By fozbaca
Post date July 21, 2003
3 Comments on 2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back

A biking fozbaca update. Over the weekend I finally decided on a motorcycle. Went to the local Honda dealer and after talking with the sales dude a bit decided I wanted a Honda Shadow A.C.E. 750 Deluxe. It is a cruiser, has a “classic” look, just enough muscle and doesn’t cost a fortune. I had him check on financing, never had payments on anything but credit cards and student loans, while I tried to decide on color. I’m partial to the Metallic or Orange, want to make it easier to be seen by those mad auto drivers.

Metallic Silver/Black

Candy Orange/Orange Motif

Candy Dark Red/Black

Black

Unfortunately all was for naught, for this past weekend at least. Over the past 5 years I have been very diligant about paying off all my debt. Taking care of those pesky college student credit cards still hanging around. Paying off my car and student loans. Being free of it all for over a year has been such a good feeling, til saturday. It seems that not having any debt for 1+ years makes me a risk, enter much confusion.
All will be well. In a couple of weeks I will be back to buy a bike, with a slightly larger down payment. So the moral of the story is no debt isn’t always a good thing.
Though in two weeks maybe I’ll decide on a different bike 🙂