It's been too long since the very first, entertaining Photo Caption Contest; PhoCapCon returns amid 
Modern man Joe was drying his newly washed windows (what else are newspapers good for?) when he spotted the following:WHEN first played Ultimate Frisbee, 11 years ago, it was with the ultimate hippies...realized that Ultimate, as players today call it, could be a real sport.
Most players she knows don’t subscribe to the old-school “Burning Man” aesthetic anymore — skirts, colorful costumes, funky clothes. Instead, they’re Patagonia(1a/b)-sponsored athletes, wearing sweat-wicking uniforms, who do plyometrics and strength training. And they’re well equipped with a repertory of throws that include flicks, hammers, scoobers and high-release backhands.
In the last 10 years, Ultimate Frisbee has become one of the world’s fastest-growing(2) sports. It is played in more than 42 countries.
Though the game was invented in Maplewood, N.J.(3), in 1968, modern Ultimate has its epicenters in California and the Pacific Northwest. Its continued expansion is
helped by the fact that all you need is a plastic disc & a field.
“I love to run with purpose, meaning I hate the track, but I like to chase things,” Ms. Batchelder said. “I love the fact that when you’re playing, you make hundreds and thousands of little decisions — where the disc is, where your body is — but they happen without thinking.”It may be a non-contact sport according to its rules, but Ultimate is hardly free of injuries. The quick cutting and sprinting have made anterior cruciate ligament tears among women players especially common.(4)
Rob successfully left his Riverside County (California) abode!
For those in attendance on Saturday, beware of possible exposure to Game-FLU-By.
Continuing "Where in the World" paying homage to the worldly mobility of Sludge.Today's Feature: Joe.
Q: Where in the World is Joe?
A: Joe is in Charleston, SC.
Here somes the bride,
(Portland, Maine)Farmers Markets are cool; a Frisbee Market is super duper! Wait, it's a trick, the frisbee's have taken over the market. And their customer service is a bit lacking...
'1-8-2-8' = code: I hate, Too. Hate!
Back away. Very. Slowly.
What a load! MattHew has admitted to drudging the not-so-secret 
A nouveau vénêër for France's Bridge-to-vertical-Nowhere....brrrrrown! PARIS (AP) — Spring has arrived and it is time for a makeover of France's most emblematic edifice. Once every seven years, every crevice, nut, bolt & beam of the Eiffel Tower is re-painted by hand.
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The painting of the tower's tangled latticework is no small undertaking, requiring an estimated 66 tons of patented, signature "Eiffel Tower brown," 31 miles of climbing rope, and 18 months of work by painters willing to scale the lofty beams.
The painters still work with small, circular brushes, as they did in 1889, instead of sprayers or paint-rollers.
The tower has in the past been painted red, orange and yellow. It's maintained a signature brown color, which overseers say best accents the Paris skyline, since 1968. In the seven years between paintings, about 55 tons of paint erodes, they say.
Do 2 mny cnsnnts & nt enuf vwls got u dz-e? Spin the FU around & misinterpret the love of Ultimate Frisbee as you travel.A Colorado woman's love of tofu has her involved in a conflict with the DMV. Kelley Coffman-Lee is a vegetarian who requested a personalized license plate that would read "I love tofu" using these letters "ILVTOFU."This individual's emotions for coagulated soy milk would be kept in check if she had the extra cripsy, totally fried OBX bean
She says she wanted to show her support for a vegetarian lifestyle. The DMV originally approved her request, but later denied it saying the license plate could be offensive.
If you use your imagination you can see an alternate, steamier meaning for the letters.
"Some people could misinterpret what she loves," said Mark Couch with the Colorado Dept of Revenue. He says the dept must uphold standards of decency.
"There are many people who would see that and be offended. So we have to be aware of it and take care of it," Couch said.
Coffman-Lee is amused, but disappointed. "There are a lot of dirty-minded people out there," she said.
You can break a person's radiator in their green Sub, but thar ain't no kaput in a horse's. Rob puts the frisbee before the cart & in the horse's mouth during his recent attempt of an eastward migration route toward the DC Territory in a one-horse powered wagon.
Undefeated in March and so far in April, Sludge was famished in the playing time department.
MARS - Bucci's dear, cute, sweet, nice kitty - has gone
Continuing "Where in the World" paying homage to the worldly mobility of Sludge.Today's Features: Meg & Joe.
Q: Where in the World is Meg?
A: Meg is in Lewes, Del.
Q: Where in the World is Joe?
A: Joe is in Berryville, Va.
From a May 1999 police report in The Messenger (Madisonville, Ky.), concerning two trucks being driven curiously on a rural road:
A man would drive a truck 100 yards, stop, walk back to a second truck, drive it 100 yards beyond the first truck, stop, walk back to the first truck, drive it 100 yards beyond the second truck, and so on, into the evening. He did it, he told police, because his brother was passed out drunk in one of the trucks, and he was trying to drive both trucks home, at more or less the same time. (Not surprisingly, a blood-alcohol test showed the driver, also, to be impaired.)
Continuing "Where in the World" paying homage to the worldly mobility of Sludge.Today's Feature: Mike.
Q: Where in the World is Mike?
A: Mike is in Missoula.
Your iliotibial [Pronunciation: "il-E-O-'tib-E-ul] band is not meant to be tightly strung, Rock Star.The iliotibial (IT) band is a tough group of fibers that run along the outside of the thigh. It/IT begins at the hip and extends to the outer side of the shin bone (tibia) just below the knee joint.
The IT band acts primarily as a stabilizer during running & may become irritated from overuse. Iliotibial band syndrome is a common running injury that is generally due to inflammation and irritation of this band.
Stretch your mind & Read: Whilst stretching your right IT band [pictured], you can more easily read this foolish post.
Omsludgeperson is the public's representative to the SLOG offering independent examination & analysis of posts, plus critiquing coverage & presentation of snews. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Continuing "Where in the World" paying homage to the worldly mobility of Sludge.Today's Feature: Matthew.
Q: Where in the World is Matthew?
A: Matthew is in San Antonio.
Second: Show the audience there is nothing up your sleeves.
And...
As you count your In 2006, there were 3.9 million people playing competitive frisbee. In 2007,that number climbed to 4 million and last year, there were 4.9 million ultimate frisbee players.
Another encouraging sign for the sport? More people are playing ultimate frisbee more often. The SGMA says that 18 percent of ultimate frisbee players played the game at least 25 times in 2008.
Craving is the cause of suffering.
Holy Chrysler! Didja read the news about the Fit Fat? 'Fat' proven as a good kind of compliment!We've all been taught that too much fat is bad. But the problem with fat isn't so black and white. In fact, it's brown & white.
White fat — considered the "bad" kind — is a way for your body to store excess energy that accumulates when you consume more calories than you use. White fat comes in handy when you're short on food and your body goes searching for extra energy. But brown fat — the "good" kind — actually burns excess energy to generate heat.
Brown fat generates extra heat to help babies maintain their core temperature. Researchers are ... hoping to do is to find a way to rev up the body's "good" fat to help it burn off the "bad."
How Does It Work?
Brown fat is activated by temperature changes in the environment. ... Instead of breaking down nutrients into energy that the brown fat cell can use, the mitochondria leak out most of the energy in the form of heat.
Small capillaries surrounding the cells then transport the heat energy throughout the baby's body, helping to maintain his core temperature.
Why Is It Brown?
Again, the mitochondria are a defining feature. Brown fat cells are packed with mitochondria, making the cells more opaque. The blood-carrying capillaries that surround the cells also help give brown fat its distinctive color.
The G20 talks are over, so letz get to some practical advice that is "inexpensive" (cheap) and "fun" (frisbee oriented).The Bookstore Date...
The Foreign Film Date...
The Picnic Date...
This is a time-tested date that works so I don't know why more people are not using it. You don't even have to fix a whole lot of food. Stop by your local sub shop & load up.
Sit & eat & talk [...about when you're gonna play frisbee].
Take a walk [...to the area where you will play].
Bring a Frisbee [but, of course!].
10-year-old shows off his hover craft at fair [The G'ville Sun 04.03.09]One evening in January, Addison needed an idea for his 5th-grade science project. A proposal was due the next day. His mother, Kim, said she sent him to a Web site suggested by his teacher, & told him to find a project he considered exciting.
"He came bounding out ... and said, 'I'm gonna build a hovercraft,' " she said. "My first reaction was uh-oh."
The craft, which Addison said was inspired by the Jetsons' aircraft and by Yoda's transporter from "Star Wars," is made out of a round wooden disc, a Frisbee and a plastic sheet. It is powered by a leaf blower.
The Frisbee is screwed to the wooden disk, which serves as the platform riders sit on. The plastic sheet is folded double, and the Frisbee helps fasten it to the platform, allowing the leaf blower to inflate the tarp like a donut. In Addison's experiments, the aster version achieved speeds of 6.29 mph, according to his calculations.
He said he plans to work on other design improvements, such as brakes and steering. He also wants to figure out a way to add a second leaf blower to make the craft more powerful.
The annual running of the CB10m had 12,000 runners running around West Potomac & Rock Creek Parks. This year's field came from all 50 states + DC, over a dozen foreign countries & 3 from the Sludge family.On the first day of college, I opened my first bank account.
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Since I was getting a small payment from the school to cover living expenses, I needed to open a checking account.
The two banks had very different methods of attracting students. One displayed a sign that said “free checking”. The other was handing out Frisbees. My choice was easy. I wanted the Frisbee. (Free checking? How boring!)
I signed up for my checking account, got my free Frisbee, and spent the afternoon on the quad, tossing the disc back-and-forth with my roommates. When it was time for dinner, I took the Frisbee up to my room, put it in the closet, and never used it again (!).
Classes started. I forgot about the Frisbee(aaahhhh!), and I forgot about the checking account. The next month, I received my first bank statement. There was a $5 service charge, but I didn’t care. It was just $5, right? I accepted the fee as part of the package, and as part of being an adult.
I paid $5 a month to maintain my checking account throughout college. When I graduated, I continued to pay $5 a month. In the early 1990s, the fee increased to $8 a month.
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In fact, I paid a monthly fee for checking from September 1987 until June 2004. For 202 months — nearly 17 years — I paid $5 or $8 a month to have a checking account. In 2004, as part of my financial awakening, I closed my accounts at the bank and moved them to a local credit union. The credit union never charges me fees at all.
...it occurred to me that the “free” Frisbee wasn’t really free. Not even close. Roughing out the numbers, it’s clear that this one poor choice alone cost me about $1500 — enough to buy hundreds of Frisbees.
SUGA offers causal apparel apparently modeled after the SLOG's Family Time post of dumping the kids off to play on the swings so I can wear a brown shirt!
