A fellow co-worker was reading through this blog and compared me to Evel Knievel. Heh Heh...
I enjoy fast paced and somewhat risky sports but I'm hardly a daredevil. Just look at the Red Bull website or any number of GoPro videos if you want to see what I do NOT do. Well, at least things I don't do anymore on the skydiving front...It's official though, I injured myself much less falling out of airplanes/helicopters than I have done in several other sports. I only broke an arm in 10 years and 730 jumps back in my skydiving days. Hence, Skydiving is way safer than wake boarding, road and mountain bike riding, ice skating (lame story), and skateboarding down stairs.
And NO there is absolutely nothing wrong with my statistical sampling there...so just take your mathematics degrees and stuff them.
In the humorous moment of thinking about the comparison of me to Mr. Knievel, I went to the one source that could give me some random trivia for the day. Al Gore's interweb* thingy directed me to this other thingy called Wikipedia, which I guess is becoming the repository for all of human knowledge and will eventually become self aware like Skynet and destroy us all...
Back to my random trivia after a collection of tangents. Sorry.
Evel Knievel broke a lot of bones...and by a lot I mean, “The 433 broken bones he suffered during his career earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime."[2]” Wikipedia: Evel Knievel
Holy Cow! How did he even walk after his career was over...or did he? In retrospect, I will probably break bones again since I don't really have an intention of quitting the sports I love, but I hope to hold out for at least a decade before the next skeletal catastrophe. This current one sucks worse than any of my others.
I'll see a doc this week and see if I can actually walk without crutches anytime soon, and I'll badger him to let me on my spin bike. I'll let you all know how it goes.
*No, Al Gore didn't actually claim to invent the Internet...He's just a typically self aggrandizing politician and not very good with phrasing in interviews during an election season.
I enjoy fast paced and somewhat risky sports but I'm hardly a daredevil. Just look at the Red Bull website or any number of GoPro videos if you want to see what I do NOT do. Well, at least things I don't do anymore on the skydiving front...It's official though, I injured myself much less falling out of airplanes/helicopters than I have done in several other sports. I only broke an arm in 10 years and 730 jumps back in my skydiving days. Hence, Skydiving is way safer than wake boarding, road and mountain bike riding, ice skating (lame story), and skateboarding down stairs.
And NO there is absolutely nothing wrong with my statistical sampling there...so just take your mathematics degrees and stuff them.
In the humorous moment of thinking about the comparison of me to Mr. Knievel, I went to the one source that could give me some random trivia for the day. Al Gore's interweb* thingy directed me to this other thingy called Wikipedia, which I guess is becoming the repository for all of human knowledge and will eventually become self aware like Skynet and destroy us all...
Back to my random trivia after a collection of tangents. Sorry.
Evel Knievel broke a lot of bones...and by a lot I mean, “The 433 broken bones he suffered during his career earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime."[2]” Wikipedia: Evel Knievel
Holy Cow! How did he even walk after his career was over...or did he? In retrospect, I will probably break bones again since I don't really have an intention of quitting the sports I love, but I hope to hold out for at least a decade before the next skeletal catastrophe. This current one sucks worse than any of my others.
I'll see a doc this week and see if I can actually walk without crutches anytime soon, and I'll badger him to let me on my spin bike. I'll let you all know how it goes.
*No, Al Gore didn't actually claim to invent the Internet...He's just a typically self aggrandizing politician and not very good with phrasing in interviews during an election season.
No comments:
Post a Comment