Hello there. I've been using YACReader* since seeing this article (though it's been a while, I'm certain I saw it in the comments section here).

Hello there. I've been using YACReader since seeing this post (I think, though it's been a while, I'm sure I saw it in the comments section of this article).

I guess I'm getting kinda strange in my "old age", but this is just awesome to me... Relaxing with a bottle of wine in candle light is already a favorite pass-time, but adding the fact that each flame produces a million tiny diamonds a second? Well, that's just fantastic, weird, and wonderful.

I'm late as usual, but here goes:

Right on. I played most sports in school (even "lettered" in several), but to this day I never got into watching sports. I spent 25 years as a professional musician (my actual job), but have a hard time staying through even the best concerts. I just always enjoyed "the doing" of things.

Musician here. I used your same methods when working with a new artist or new material or whatever. When working for instrument manufacturers as an artist relations rep and product specialist, I did the same thing.

Makes absolutely perfect sense. Owning the subject at your core instead of just "cramming".

My exact thoughts. I can't even.

This is gonna be the best Guy Ritchie movie EVER!!

"in case you're keeping track of the reasons to feel skeeved out and depressed by this."

Fresh Beets needs to be banned. He brings nothing of value to any conversation, and everything he posts is hateful, racist, and vile.

This is such an awesome article! Every time I visited the Wright-Patt Air Force Museum, I would make a bee-line to the Sr-71; whether as a kid, or with my kids, that was always the big treat. 2nd stop was the lunar lander, of course... Cool.

I haven't owned an auto in over 10 years. This is actually one of the things I miss most. Cold rain, no rush to get home, just park for a bit and enjoy the cozy mini-environment. A warm metro-bus after a cold, wet wait is not the same thing. At all.

"it feels important. Almost spiritual, and we're all really privileged to have had it captured on film"

Don't forget Norman. Smith and Carlos held him in a very high regard that day, and for the rest of his life. They were even pall-bearers at his funeral. Three fine, proud, brave, good men.

Excellent. Three Proud People, indeed. And they stayed true to the act and its sentiment their entire careers.

Please check my reply to Headspin. Seems like anyone still defending the "innocence" of the word "thug" is out of touch at best, and a semi-closeted racist at worse. I've tried to sum it up in a non-aggressive way for him.

I'm not with you on your last sentence (or much of what you've said in other comments), but you were absolutely in the right to call him out on using "retarded" as an insult or epithet. It's past time for that to go away.

Right on, right on. My family are City Yanks, but we lived a year in Anniston Alabama when I was in the fifth grade (late 70s). The shit I saw in school, in the Sunday paper, on the local evening news... I can remember being that mind-boggled kid like it was yesterday.