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Anyone for Tennis 423, Juggle Style?
Well, for the last couple of days I’ve been working on my usual ordinary style of 423 juggling. I sort of learned how to play the tennis trick in 423. It’s different enough to learn from the usual tennis in the 3-ball cascade that I had to work pretty hard at it. I learned these…
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Thoughts on Super Movers
This post isn’t about burly guys who move your furniture. I found this article about super movers who are persons 80 years old or older with walking speeds comparable to those who are 30 years younger. Verghese J, Cotton K, Sathyan S, Ayers E, Mahoney JR, De Sanctis P, Wang C, Jin Y, Blumen HM,…
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Reblog: “Bent Out of Shape”: About a Cell Phone Right Out of the Fred Flintstone Era
This is a reblog of “Bent out of Shape,” the story of how my old cell phone’s battery swelled up and posed a risk of exploding in my ear. OK, it never did and that’s a good thing. I had that stone-age phone for so long, you’d think I’d have just bought a new one.…
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Jim Juggles the 423 Pattern Ordinary Style!
So, I found this 423-juggling pattern on Logan’s Juggling Gym website. It’s classified as an easy pattern. I can buy that because I can do it—sort of. I can’t explain why the patterns in this category are called by the number “423” and maybe somebody could find out about it and get back to me.…
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Way to Go Dr. David Mair!
I just want to make a shout out to a former psychiatry resident I helped teach about 18 years ago. He and a group of other residents did an outstanding and hilarious job of making a couple of teaching videos about how to cope with violent patients. I realize that news stories about health care…
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What’s Up with the Puffy Robin?
Sena got a video of a really puffy robin yesterday. It’s not obese, but it was puffing out its breast and spreading its wings out over the ground. It was a little mysterious. Some experts say that puffing up like this means its trying to keep warm. But it was around 80 degrees. Others say…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: “Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter”
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” Well, this movie is all about Captain Kronos, a real swashbuckler and we are going to by god buckle some swashes, so hang on to your codpiece because, as Kronos himself says about his hunch-backed buddy, Grost, “What…
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Update on Pagliai’s Pizza Building Historic Landmark Status
I just wanted to post an update about what’s going on with Iowa City’s Pagliai’s Pizza building, which is still for sale with the owner’s asking price of $5 million. I mentioned it in a previous post a couple of years ago because it was up for consideration as an historic landmark. The building at…
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Upping My Game on the Single Leg Sit to Stand Exercise
Sena has ordered a regular chair pad that I’ll use for my single leg sit to stand exercise. This is something I started back when we were staying in a hotel waiting for builders to finish building our new house a couple of years ago. I’ve been using a pile of clothes to increase the…
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