Search results

Best I recall smallpox vaccine was based on chickenpox. Hu

I was reading a little about shooting guns last week. The things that were innovative and known to only a few of us are common knowledge and accepted practice now. I suspect the same is true of pool practices. I have pretty much stood still for decades, the rest of the world hasn't. Hu

The subconscious is always listening and it doesn't know the difference between what you say as truth and what you say as modesty, even false modesty. I hired a man. Good worker in all respects. His only flaw as I saw it was that he tended to blow his own horn a bit much. One day I talked to...

The electronic timers of the time clicked a tenth of a second before they buzzed. I couldn't hear that click so that was a tenth lost right there. Then when the timer buzzed I had to be very careful to identify the buzz, starting on a false sound would disqualify the run at the least. There is...

It galled him bad enough I was ten years or more older and disabled and he still couldn't beat me! The event shooting steel plates down in the parish was broken into divisions. Doc and I started in the same division and were finishing first and second for awhile. I always had the bigger chunk of...

One of my doctors took up shooting competition. I mentored him, built a few guns for him, helped him be well grounded. He was a big athletic guy who had paid his way through college with a tennis scholarship. One day he laid down a nice run then froze, gun still out. I looked at him. "Do you...

Probably the best advice these days. Not worth getting into anything physical or involving the law and courts. Anybody that acts out with equipment is a gnat's ass away from violence with a person. Aside from injuries you might suffer there is the danger of defending yourself too well which...

Story time. Those not interested have been warned. With my bad ears I am slow on the start. I can't go on the first click without risking a DQ. I have to be sure what I am hearing. Once I start I roll pretty good. I have a bad habit of starting to do something for fun then finding I can...

I don't know where the line is but you are right, at a certain point we are not weighing things, we work off of endstink which may be the unconscious or perhaps muscle memory. I'm not too sure. People hang names on things but I don't know what is right as far as the things they believe. There...

Perhaps. I think it was a matter of the unconscious mind sorting out what was needed and interacting directly with my body. There was no processing needed and I think none done. The conscious mind is barely a thimbleful of processing in a small corner. It makes a lot of noise and is given a...

The shots I am talking about are never ready for prime time. Either the angle is too thin or the bank is low percentage, no way to make it much higher. My high run, banks in regulation play on a snooker table, was six balls. I had ran that several times and had I not moved away from snooker...

Hero level pool was one of the cheaper things I did at hero level. Hero level pool was just taking a lower percentage shot than was wise. A hero move on the circle track was gonna get you in the newspaper, one way or another!

I don't believe intelligence can raise or lower other than through age and injury. While a person's intelligence might be focused one place or another or their education be different, that doesn't affect intelligence. Two men were on a farm. A Phd officially running things, and a man with a...

It wasn't planned! This is off topic but my neighbor on the bayou was the coach and bus driver for a 1/2A basketball team in Pointe Coupee Parish LA. They drove a hundred and twenty miles or so to the division championship and got mugged on all counts! They had invisible fouls called on them...

That's theory, and fine as far as it goes. When your life is on the line you do things that you never knew how to do. No choice makes the unknown possible. As for why smart people die broke, most that do are also slackers who have coasted through life. I have known a handful or two of geniuses...

I was coming from New Orleans way on the expressway in Baton Rouge. A carload of men in hot pursuit as they say in the movies. I don't recall why they were so pissed but they were trying to run me off the road so we weren't playing at over seventy miles an hour. I wanted some room in the...

I suspect that learning a mental process and a physical process involves different approaches. The physical process is probably more likely to have at least some underpinning of mental process while the mental process has the potential to be entirely mental, it may not have any physical...

My conquests were almost historical, they were hysterical. Close but no cigar! One of the funnier, I dropped a man doing some work for me at a bar where he wanted to stop. I went in with him and bought him a beer and me a soda water. It was cool inside and a hot day outside so I stuck some...

Not so much in the pool halls in the area I was in but if you showed you could draw effectively in a pub or bar you were considered a "player!" In the pool halls you weren't going to play other bangers or cowboys, you were announcing you were pretty serious there too and would be lumped in with...

Just to confirm... We are still talking about pool here? Hu