Aiming systems and Our President
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I take the fast fourier transform of the approximate speed profile I intend the cueball to follow. Once I have the frequency spectrum, I eat a carefully prepared meal of tofu and bananas and begin to think about my preshot routine. Then I usually use the grandfather clock system pendulum method to reallign my clavicle with my uvula. Thats what works for me.
henho said:
Last time I ate bananas and Tofu before a tournament I won the hill beating Ernie Martinez, then he came back through the loser's bracket and beat me. That was 1992 and I haven't eaten Tofu or Bananas since. Then, last month he sends me a cue. Is this a small world or what? And...even wierder, I was working on a voice-controlled version of the computer game "rogue" and writing the fourier transorm for the conversion of the voice data. Wow.
Cheers,
RC
At one time at UC Berkeley, most of the computer power on campus was being used by the game "rogomatic". It played quick, but it hardly ever got past the Umber Hulks.sixpack said:
My vote: ----> there are no aiming systems that work and I didn't vote for bush.
qualifier: I know there are aiming systems out there that people swear by. Hal Houles for instance. I understand the concept of these and have played around with them. Dividing up the OB into equal sections is a great idea in principal, however in practice there is no substitute for selecting an exact contact point to get an exact result. In my mind, these aiming systems are nothing but a crutch that will limit you more than they will help you.
qualifier: I know there are aiming systems out there that people swear by. Hal Houles for instance. I understand the concept of these and have played around with them. Dividing up the OB into equal sections is a great idea in principal, however in practice there is no substitute for selecting an exact contact point to get an exact result. In my mind, these aiming systems are nothing but a crutch that will limit you more than they will help you.
supergreenman said:
I'm sort of in the same boat; I know I didn't vote for Bush, but the other question is harder to answer. At the risk of sounding like Bill Clinton (who I'm pretty sure also didn't vote for Bush), it depends on your definition of "works". I'm sure there are a lot of very good players using aiming systems. Is the fact that they are good proof that the system works, or is it proof that they overcame the limitations of the system? Anyway, if we're defining "aiming system that works" as a "simple way, other than ghost ball, to find an exact aim point which will pocket all shots without requiring the player to make any conscious or subconscious intuition-based adjustments", then I'm voting no to Bush and to aiming systems.
-Andrew
supergreenman said:
Same here.
I can see the contact point on a ball 20 feet away from the stands even...explain that one!
Oh yeah, and I registered specifcally to vote against bush...twice!
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At this point there's a dead tie between "voted for Bush" and "didn't vote for Bush".
The Bush voters are united in favor of aiming systems.
The non-Bush voters are split on the issue.
I find these results simultaneously intriguing, unsurprising, and hilarious.
-Andrew
The Bush voters are united in favor of aiming systems.
The non-Bush voters are split on the issue.
I find these results simultaneously intriguing, unsurprising, and hilarious.
-Andrew
Omg, these results really might be forming a pattern!
You just beat me to it! I am also LMAO!
Andrew Manning said:
You just beat me to it! I am also LMAO!
Andrew Manning said:
Not that the idea of a correlation is not brilliant; it is.
But the idea is almost two presidential terms old:
In a Nov. 3 2000 post to alt.sport.pool I posted following after the umpteenth discussion about whether there are only n angles in pool:
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thread title: Houlitics
Has anybody else noticed a correspondence between the side a poster falls
on in the Houle stuff and the side the same poster falls on in the
presidential choice?
coincidence? I think not...
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mike page
fargo
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http://tinyurl.com/2sa9dx
I cannot aim unless I am drunk, but I voted for W twice, and I was sober both times.
Don't forget "double the overlap" (or "double the offset" or whatever the hell it's called). That's as "correct" as the ghost ball and easier to see for many. And it has the advantage of being a two dimensional method, relying only on your ability to see the contact point and the "overlap" of the CB and OB. In fact, I think it's the only "correct" aiming method that I'd say is indirect enough to be a "system". I don't consider ghost ball a "system" because it's just a direct visualization of the actual ball alignments (like simply estimating the position of the CB contact point and aligning it with the OB contact point).
pj
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