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22 hours ago, Cancer said:

With occasional glimpses of the Dayona 500 as I channelsurf, I am utterly convinced it would be much more interesting if there was a guy just outside the parking lot lobbing occasional 60mm mortar bombs into the facility..

 

I used to follow NASCAR, back in the seventies when the tech wasn’t hopelessly outdated. Today it’s like watching Model Ts race. 

 

Formula E is growing pretty rapidly, but I haven’t seen more than clips of it. 

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I'm willing to cut slack for old tech.  Javelin and hammer throw are weapons.  Fencing, check.  Boxing and wrestling, ok.  Archery, check.  Hockey, check.  And things where you are the missile -- ski jump, bobsled & luge, OK.  All those pass the "Hey, you could do some serious damage there, let's watch this" test.

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I don't know how dangerous figure skating really is; I suppose if you hit your head on the ice from a height.  I do know of one incident where a speed skater managed to sever his femoral artery with a skate when he crashed, however.  Otherwise, I looked it up, and there have only been like four fatalities at Winter Olympic games; two in the downhill, the luger at Vancouver, and I forget the fourth.

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Dear Students,

 

I can forgive a lot of things, but misrepresentation of data is not among them.

 

This is why I have such rigid standards for plots.  When I say to draw them by hand, I mean it.  When I say no smaller than half a page, I mean it.  A lot of sloppy crap, as well as outright fraud, is committed by graphical presentations that do not fully represent the measurements.  If you ignore the "hand-drawn" dictum, then the plots must be perfect in all other ways.  Otherwise you have let your presentation be dominated by a graphic interface which was created to appease those born-with-no-forebrain business management types, i.e., simple and to hell with what the data are.  And the proper attitude for what to do about people who do that involves cryogens, chippers, and bacteriological growth media.

 

Buy the damned graph paper and a pencil.  Plot the data by hand (and ALL OF IT IF THAT'S WHAT I SAID TO DO), and take at least the half page to do it.  Yeah, they don't drill this skill into you like they ought to.  Deal with it.  I can forgive erasures and so on; you tried. 

 

Love, cryogens, and chippers,

Dr. Cancer

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