Archive for July, 2004
If the Glove don’t Fit….
by blackhatgk on Jul.29, 2004, under Political Interests
So I served on jury duty for the past couple of days and I’ve got to say it was a disheartening experience. I’ve lost alot of faith in the justice system after this.
The problem was with one of the jurors. They didn’t understand what their job was and how to do it. Without getting into too many specifics. The person was obviously guilty. All evidence proved she was guilty, there wasn’t even questions about the validity of the evidence. The only reason that this juror was voting Not-Guilty was because she didn’t witness the accident herself. That was her reasoning for the woman being not-guilty, she didn’t see it happen so she couldn’t be sure… She believed the woman was guilty, but couldn’t be “SURE” without having witnessed the accident herself and been there for evidence collection.
Soooo. Because she didn’t witness the event. The trial was a mistrial and palm beach county citizens have spend a shit load of money for nothing…
Ouch…
by blackhatgk on Jul.15, 2004, under General
Well, started Aikido with Ian tonight. We didn’t even really get thrown around much because we were still learning just how to fall through most of the class but I still ache.
These are the three degrees of my pain:
1) Warm Ups… The warm ups are kind of like a 20 – 30 minute high intensity yoga work out. Towards the end my entire body was shaking and I thought I was going to die. The only thing that kept me from dying on the mat was I was worried of what sensei would do to me if I died on his mat and wasn’t in the form.
2) Tumbling… AKA Throwing… This is the part where we first learned how to be thrown and then had to go through about an hour of abuse as we were being thrown back and forth across the matt.
3) Caffeine… I figure I can’t be drinking sweet drinks like coke while doing aikido so I haven’t had any caffeine today. This is causing the usual caffeine withdrawl head aches.
