{"id":912,"date":"2016-04-14T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2016-04-14T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:50:27","slug":"a-lazy-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"A lazy Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

So weird not waking up to run still. The first few months of this year, I was doing it so much it really is odd not to be, but I definitely need the rest. Every day my legs feel better, stronger, and I know they’re still not healed. Saturday and Sunday I’ll put in some miles, then maybe do the same next week, definitely working on taking it easy.
\nSo I just finished my classes for the day, and my last class is starting to learn Future Continuous and Future Perfect. will be + verb + ing and will have + verb + ing. What a mess. But we end up talking about predictions, obviously, and I try to explain to them that on a quantum scale cause and effect breaks down and that indicates that time is a matter of perception and not a physical reality. I also explain that means time travel is not possible, and I invited time travelers to the class on 14\/04\/2016 at 19:45 GMT +1. Nobody showed, ergo, time travel does not exist. I explained that if time travel did exist, all one need to to solve most of the problems of today is go back and stop the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which stops WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, The Cold War, Terrorism, Iraq, Iraq 2, Afghanistan, Iran-Contra, The rise of the Ayatollah, etc. How could time travel exist. And if Nostradamus was so great at predicting the future, how come no one stopped any of the events he “foretold”? If you KNEW Hitler would kill millions, if you didn’t stop it, you’re a criminal. If you KNEW 9\/11\/2001 would happen and you didn’t stop it, you’re a criminal. It’s as simple as that.
\nIt’s a difficult thing to teach, the future, and for me it’s a difficult thing to talk about. Then I tried to explain that prediction is simply a matter of picking out patterns, and I mention Fibonacci, none of them knew Fibonacci, Tool would be sorely disappointed. That’s ok, I had a younger class a couple weeks ago, didn’t know Gugliermo Marconi. How does that happen? There’s such a rich history in Italy and most of what they learn is, so much of nothing. It seems crazy to me.
\nAll that being said, now I want to listen to this song:
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