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Friday, April 13, 2012

Nary a comment

Since I started writing about anything I've gotten nary a comment about anything other than from two people upon whose blogs I've commented but once or twice. They did it as a courtesy and I appreciate it much. I have no readership and that is totally understandable; who the hell am I? I never expected a readership. I just thought I'd play around and practice writing something in case I found something to pass on in the future. I have the idea that everything that is important has been said by someone else because if I have an original thought it is usually triggered by what someone else has said or done. I'm not complaining but any view I have received is because of the gun club in the title of the blog. There is no gun information here yet and there is no club it's just me. I just liked the title and Native American motif because my great grandmother was half Cherokee. Of course they didn't have the buffalo as an icon but I still wanted to use it because my grandfather called us kids a bunch of wild Comanches because he couldn't distinguish the difference I guess and I happen to be a certified firearms instructor for now. That will end next year as my certification runs out but it won't mean I can't help someone learn. I have had several certifications for instructing that are now inactive but that doesn't mean I can't help someone learn or does it? Who does look at what I write? How do they get here? I don't have any promoters so it must just be the title of the blog. I don't know how to see where the viewers come from yet but I guess I need to find out. I've only had a few but I'd like to know the demographics. If you read this please comment and tell me how you got here. Was it just the title or something else. Thanks in advance for any comment.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Go To

Go to maverickpawn.blogspot.com and read Fun with Physics.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Combo Nation

You hear talk of old school and new school in many topics or disciplines. Are they mutually exclusive? Something new either comes from something old or is suigeneris, maybe not the most appropriate word but I like it.The important thing is to get the most result from the least effort, the more effort the more result. Sometimes the more effort you put into something the worse the result turns out; so how do you discern the best course of action; I ask myself. You go to school, not brick and mortar school but schools of thought about the action you want to take or the result you. want. Fast or slow, hard or soft, straight or circular, how do you generate the best result? One thing to do is get a coach, or experiment and record the results maybe even combine the two. I borrowed the next lines in quotes to illustrate the point. "In its original meaning, kung fu can refer to any skill achieved through hard work and practice, not necessarily martial. The Chinese literal equivalent of "Chinese martial art" would be 中國武術 zhōngguó wǔshù.[4] In Chinese, Gōngfu (功夫) is a compound of two words, combining 功 (gōng) meaning "work", "achievement", or "merit", and 夫 (fū) which translates into "man", so that a literal rendering would be "achievement of man". Its connotation is that of an accomplishment arrived at by great effort of time and energy. In Mandarin, when two "first tone" words such as gōng and fū are combined, the second word often takes a neutral tone, in this case forming gōngfu. Originally, to practice kung fu did not just mean to practice Chinese martial arts. Instead, it referred to the process of one's training - the strengthening of the body and the mind, the learning and the perfection of one's skills - rather than to what was being trained. It refers to excellence achieved through long practice in any endeavor. [5] This meaning can be traced to classical writings and specially to Neo-Confucianism which emphasize the importance of effort in education. [6] In the colloquial, you can say that a person's kung fu is good in cooking, or that someone has kung fu in calligraphy; saying that a person possesses kung fu in an area implies skill in that area, which they have worked hard to develop. Someone with "bad kung fu" simply has not put enough time and effort into training, or seems to lack the motivation to do so." The result then is one's kung fu; good or bad, happy or sad, effort and practice are predicated on one's understanding of what one wishes to accomplish. How did we get here and where are we going? I again ask myself and think you do to. My play on words in the title of this post and the many times the word root combine is used in the text, the old and new, the effort and practice are all related. Pay attention to words that are taken for granted or misused in everyday parlance; is it misuse or misinformation that is intended. Is it manipulation? To view some real word kung fu do a search for a man named Dennis Fetcho and you will see where I would take you if I could.