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Long run tomorrow, so I shook out everything today on a little 10k jaunt<\/a>. I feel pretty good. I little soreness and stiffness, but nothing out of the ordinary. So after lunch I will go provision for tomorrow. Need something to eat along the way, some bananas would be nice for after and that should do it.
\nWhile mapping out a loop for tomorrow, I noticed something, a name of a village, Gilbjerg. Well, really looks just like a couple of farm houses. I guess I really am Norman, haha! And the pronunciation would go something like Gil-b-yah (or jah). I don’t think it’s any mistake that the names are so close though. Total coolness!
\nMeanwhile, just going to have a lazy Saturday here, nothing major going on. Play some Kerbal Space Program, last night I got a satellite into orbit around the Mun. It’s a fun game, basically they take real world physics and you build rockets, spaceplanes, and regular planes to hit goals and build your space program. You can add modifications to the program other people have written to make it more realistic. People have even built themselves cockpits, and some mod packs even let you have others play and you can create your own mission control. It’s like model rockets, only on a program. You always have to worry about delta v, center of mass, center of lift, center of thrust and all that good stuff. But you can experiment and see what works and what doesn’t.
\nFor some it doesn’t sound like a fun day at all. But it’s interesting and challenging and helps teach engineering and science concepts, a great little game. I would highly recommend for all ages! Because these are the things all people should be learning and doing. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, they’re what will bring us through, they’re what will take us forward. The rest is just window dressing. Learning what the Universe is, what being us means, and expressing that, Science, Humanities, Arts. That’s it. In science we learn all about the whole of the natural world, in humanities we learn all about what it is to be a human being, and in art we let all that out! What could be better? So let’s make it happen, the new world is waiting for us, what are we waiting for? There’s no better time than now.
\n“Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.\u201d -Martin Luther King Jr.
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