Too Funky For Words

[Bruce Brakel]

This is ironic but not funky:  if you do a google images search of my name you pull up four dozen pictures of dyed discs, but I did not dye any of them.

This is just silly:  if you do a google images search of "jon brakel" you pull up the "after" and "before" pictures of a reasonably successful sex change operation.  

www.google.com and then click on images.  put the name in quote marks to avoid extraneous hits.

[drdye]

That guest poster really is to funky for words...


Check this out.. Prove Christ exists, judge orders priest

It will be interesting to see what/if they come up with for proof.

[whofarted]

no proof - churches pay taxes???  lol

[Bruce Brakel]

This website:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_earth_competition_results/

has ten pages of submissions from the Google Earth Black Helicopter Competition.  Some of it is pretty interesting, especially if you are into the whole X Files thing.

[mirth]

our website?

[Bruce Brakel]

I edited.  Now your question makes no sense!

Kelsey took a short movie of Kira riding her unicycle today in the driveway.  Kira can now go about 50 feet on a good try without falling.  I'll post it later. 

[Bruce Brakel]

The movie is still on the camera.  This is just a silly internet game with a penguin and a yeti:

http://www.donpixel.com/play/es/060201201034

Hint: you are not trying to kill the penguin.

[whofarted]

[Bruce Brakel]

Fun with light sabers. 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=672422470842718521

I enjoyed the video but did not understand the ending. 

[whofarted]

[Bruce Brakel]

That hallway painting creates an illusion like this guy's chalk art which is more impressive photographed from the right angle than viewed from any angle:  http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7567

[Bruce Brakel]

So this guy and this girl drove to a tournament together this weekend.  The girl wanted to play in the Pro Women's division if any pro women showed up, but not by herself.  The TD was not inclined to run divisions for less than 3 players, and the odds of two pro women showing up seemed slim.  So the guy had an idea.  He gave the girl his entry fee money and said, "Go sign me up for Pro Women as Emily Dickenson.  Tell the TD we're both amateurs and we'll play in Men's Rec or something if no other women sign up."  While she was signing up another woman came in.  She wanted to play Advanced.  The TD told her there were two other amateur women there who were playing pro if she wanted to join them and make it a division.  So she did.

Well, the girl was Kelsey and I was Emily Dickenson.  We found the other woman and explained it to her.  I was going to DNF on the last hole if either one of them suspected I was not a girl.  So my entry fee would be added cash.  Whoever won, however the TD did payouts, it was all going to Kelsey and the other woman, but not to me.  She was fine with that. 

The morning round was very close both on score and on staying out of sight of the TD.  He was two holes behind us and I had to duck into the Russian olives once or twice.  Kim hit a couple of early trees on a couple of holes that Kelsey sailed through, and Kelsey was up by three at lunch.  Emily was beating Kelsey by 10 and only losing to Al Schack by three, so we figured the gig was up.  With everyone asking "who's Emily Dickenson?" we thought the TD would figure it out.

Turns out he was clueless.  I think his non-player helper, the representative of the course owner, did the leaderboards and the TD never noticed the under par round in the Women's division. 

In the afternoon we started on hole 10 about 100 feet from the TD on hole 1.  There was a little hollow between the holes so I tried to keep out of sight.  In the afternoon Kim started hot and closed the gap.  After nine she had narrowed Kelsey's lead to 1.  It was anybody's game.  Then on an 800 foot hole Kelsey threw three perfect drives and putted in four a 4.  The wheels came off for Kim and she took a seven.  Kim seemed to lose hope or maybe she just ran out of gas, and Kelsey got pumped up.  Going into the last hole Kelsey said, "So, Emily, this is the last hole you know."  And I said, "Right.  And I've had it with you two.  I may be up by 20 but I quit."  I wrote in my DNF and played the hole out just to see. 

Once we were in the clubhouse, we handed the card to the non-player helper lady.  She said, "DNF?"  I said "That means, 'Did not finish.'"  So the lady got worried that maybe Emily was sick or injured and Casey, the TD, got worried and they were getting ready to go look for Emily so i had to give myself up.  Casey thought it was funny.  Once the lady finally processed that I was Emily, and I was neither sick nor injured nor an Emily, she said, "So you played in their division just so that they could have a division and one of them could win?"  I said, "Yeah, pretty much."  And she said, "Well, I think that was sweet of you." 

Kelsey got her first pro win. 

[Chainmeister]

Nice win Kelsey.  I think it would have been more fun if Emily Dickenson had played in drag.  That would have been poetry.

[Chainmeister]

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=268346

[Chainmeister]

This guy has been standing on the Daley Center Plaza on and off for a few months holding this sign.  On occassion he has held up related signs. He just stands there wearing a business suit holding a sign atop a suitcase.  He will not talk to you.  He just stands there.  I think he is involved in some type of litigation but don't know any details. 

[WkeBrd3]

^looks photoshopped.


Overdose?


That picture made me crack up!

[Mukey]

Don't know why I didn't read this before but the Emily thing was hilarious! Just what I needed to make me laugh at work & think about disc golf. Kinda funny that no one cought on before you had to give up the ghost. Didn't they notice Emily's beard? LOL!

[Chainmeister]

This guy has been standing on the Daley Center Plaza on and off for a few months holding this sign.  On occassion he has held up related signs. He just stands there wearing a business suit holding a sign atop a suitcase.  He will not talk to you.  He just stands there.  I think he is involved in some type of litigation but don't know any details. 

That guy is still out there.  His sign now tells us that an attorney and a judge are outlaws.  After searching I found the following blog  Thousands of people pass this guy each day and, like me, wonder what the guy is all about.  Apparently, he is involved iin an endless domestic relations case.

http://www.archgfx.net/blog/index.php/2006/chicago/update-on-chris-saviano#comments

[shawn]

Willlie's partying still....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/ap_on_en_mu/people_willie_nelson

[Bruce Brakel]

Nice win Kelsey.  I think it would have been more fun if Emily Dickenson had played in drag.  That would have been poetry.

I was prepared to play as Emily today too, but we could not coax another pro woman to the tournament.  Kelsey's debut in Men's Intermediate was a typical first-time-moved-up performance.  She played really badly in the morning and then settled down and won her card in the afternoon.  She was "not last." 

I did fairly well in Advanced.  I was tied for the lead in the morning and finished second.  The division was lightly attended and some of the advanced players played up because it was unsanctioned.  My morning score had me one throw behind the open leader, but he beat me by eight by the end of the day! 

The course was flooded and quite a bit more challenging than normal.  The TD had no idea that Hole 10 basket had become virtually an inaccessible island.  To get over the water you would have had to walk a quarter mile to a bridge and then walk a quarter mile back to the basket.  So everyone skipped it and someone with a cell phone let the TD know.