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i completely did not understand sports until i went to some actual games in person and i felt the energy, like at a concert. that i absolutely cannot get into watching sports by myself, but i've found, reliably, i actually am kind of into it if you put me in a room with other people who are amped up about it. so i'll totally be there if you invite me over to watch sports, but, on my own, i will not follow it, nor even watch it at all. and i realize tonight the celtics are poised to mop the floor with miami, just a vague whiff from overheard conversations and things i scrolled past in google news... so i go to the bar. "it's a zoo tonight," the waitress tells me multiple times. she is not wrong, to the point where she entirely misses the incident where... i recount it for her: "yeah, she didn't like what he said, and he was all 'well you too' and then he left." i'd had my eye on that guy for trouble for at least twenty minutes and he did not disappoint. i'm glad he left when he did though amidst all this, i spot a couple at the other side of the bar. the gal seems to be trying to get my eye on occasion. i think: your boyfriend is much better looking and younger than me, what do you want? then i study it more, and i see: her boyfriend is almost completely ignoring her for the celtics game, she's annoyed, she wants someone else to make eyes at her to get her boyfriend's attention. obviously i'm having none of it and she gives up and retreats into her fone. i'd usually never stealth photo people at a bar but this was just too perfect -- they are defensively clinging to each other yet totally ignoring each other at the same time there is more, the girl i like from the liquor store showing up, but i'm out of characters for this post |
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in retrospect, maybe it was kind of a compliment she picked me as the candidate to attempt to make her boyfriend jealous. maybe also that she thought i would be dumb enough to take the bait; less complimentary... but, still, there were some other candidates she passed over. but then i also also sitting right across from her amidst some fat people and i'm fit and wearing flash shit. people are fascinating |
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People are people People = shit (slipknot remix) People are strange (the doors remix) People make the world go around |
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i need to dredge up that post where i parked in the mcdonald's lot after the drivethrough and just sat there and watched people in the mcdonald's as i ate. bro taking his lady on a date, doing immature shit like trying to shoot crumpled up wrappers into the trash can from across the store... aw, shit, i missed. she is not amused. the date is not going well. i am enjoying my fries finally, they exit the mcdonalds, both clearly crabby and tense. the guy only then sees me watching, and all the hate comes at me: this is your fault. how dare you that was hilarious from inside a protective bubble of glass and steel from 20 feet away, but i have to say there's something of that moment that came back to me just then |
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man. ok. basketball is pretty much perfect, aside from professional darts. hockey, the puck moves so fast i can't follow it, and no one ever scores. [american] football, boring as shit; it's like trench warfare you're supposed to be entertained by. but both hockey and [american] football, the problem is the field is simply too fucking big. they're spread out like habitable star systems. basketball, it's small, you can see 3/4 of the whole field at once, and people are jam packed in there. that i was actually thinking, at the bar tonight, that, shit, the way clusters of players form and break up and reform... man, this feels a lot like and wouldn't it be a giggle if I was right and no sports coach would ever even know what the fuck that is but, yeah, i'm no expert, i left before end of the 2nd quarter, but there was some insane physical poetry i saw there, almost like a dance battle. and you're never getting that on a soccer [european football] field with that level of density and consistency. but i'm still not watching it unless someone invites me over or crystal ball in my hed tells me that sports will make this a good night to go to a bar. |
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that i was actually thinking, at the bar tonight, that, shit, the way clusters of players form and break up and reform... man, this feels a lot like turing patterns and wouldn't it be a giggle if I was right and no sports coach would ever even know what the fuck that is that, alright, a few hours later, i am still picking at the idea. and i don't really care about sports? but how does a basketball playbook work, and, should i be right, where is their state machine missing beneficial transitions? that, hell, 1) if i am right, please steal it, but also please give me a shout-out; don't care about the cash if i don't do the work but i would like to be known for thinking of something originally, like, for once in my life, beating someone to a clever idea 2) this is a hilarious and ridiculous train of thought i had watching the ridiculous turnover celtics vs. heat tonight; over and over. and this feels familiar 3) if you can pay me the cash i can do the work on this but it's nutty. but i probably am right. but i probably won't even get credit i want to have at least one patent someday, however. and a law degree. |
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quoting the wikipedia article i linked Turing proposed a model wherein two homogeneously distributed substances (P and S) interact to produce stable patterns during morphogenesis. These patterns represent regional differences in the concentrations of the two substances. Their interactions would produce an ordered structure out of random chaos. offense and defense, home and visitor, etc |
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basketball is really a fun game to watch. if you want to better understand the mechanics and tactics try watching the players off ball but close to the ballhandler. players on the same team will often try to block out the ballhandlers assigned defender. from there it is a cascading turing chain reaction kind of thing. or think chess/checkers. you pull a second defender some attacker must be open for a shot or a drive and then the beauty of the athletic possibilities is sheer endless, lob passes, behind the back magic, no look passes, drives... its like you said, the way the floor is packed and i might add the fact the ball is easy to handle as opposed to other sports, there are many fluent movements and many ways to score. apart from this teamplay a good one on one is always fun to watch too. can a player be guarded by another? can the attacker outmaneuver the other, be fooled by a fake dribble handoff? |
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then of course you also have those moments when a player passes by numerous defenders. just gotta love it. and thats just the beauty of offense. when your team players solid defense and gets a steal to make a fast break or a block it to the people in the back row its freakin awesome too. as you can see im hooked... |
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