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on statistical/probabilistical/epidemiological lines: I wonder what fraction of folks get injured or burnt out etc. and stop running ultras (or running at all) as a function of mileage & age & injury experiences & race experiences & friendship-support & .....
esp.: what are the biggest factors? friendship? (or good shoes?)
((and Bayesian: how can one push the odds??))
maybe learning to love solitude is the BIGGEST Bayesian factor to successful ultrarunning?!?
– Zzzzz_iPhone 2013-12-31 22:40 UTC
"In my eyes running is a constant negotiation between you and your body." - Pat Murray, VHTRC listserv, 2014-02-11
cheery thought? - 5% or so of the population is trying to be mindful, and is sporadically leaving clues for others - footprints, little notes, blazing trees along the path through the wilderness ...
turn this into a short poem?
– z 2014-04-07 12:29 UTC
"All beings are words in the language of God"
– z 2014-04-07 20:32 UTC
It happens all the time in heaven,
and some day it will begin to happen again on earth...
that men and women who are married,
and men and men who are lovers,
and women and women who give each other light,
often will get down on their knees
and while so tenderly holding their lover's hand,
with tears in their eyes,
will sincerely speak, saying,
"My dear, how can I be more loving to you;
how can I be more kind?"
Hafiz - [1] - and in TARA BRACH book ...
– zzz 2015-05-07 16:10 UTC
perhaps The Singularity (runaway strong AI, will coincide with runaway nanobots turning the earth's surface into Gray Goo and with the arrival of hyperintelligent aliens from another dimension and with time travelers from an alternative future appearing and with a massive black hole moving near the speed of light entering the solar system and with …
– z 2016-05-09 11:43 UTC
in zhurnalypost.html attempt to submit update for "Roads to Infinity Revisited", it seems that "1 = 2" is a bad thing to have – weird! – script fails when input looks like
<h2><a href="http://zhurnaly.com/cgi-bin/wiki/Roads_to_Infinity_Revisited">Roads to Infinity Revisited</a></h2>
<p>
1 = 2
<p>with the error msg from zhurnalypost.cgi
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/zhurnalypost.cgi on this server.
Apache Server at zhurnaly.com Port 80– zimmmmmmmm 2016-06-16 09:04 UTC
EMMA chapter XVI - cognitive fallacies!
EMMA chapter XVIII - "... but a sanguine temper ..." re hope
– z 2018-02-22 14:19 UTC
and later in that chapter, sensitivity & empathy by Emma toward Frank Churchill and his constrained choices
– z 2018-02-22 14:25 UTC