A monkey and his key-bored: Dangerous men doing interior decorating! I smell a TLC hit!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Dangerous men doing interior decorating! I smell a TLC hit!

Putting the finishing touches on our new Gracie Jiu Jitsu room. Thank you to Gold's gym for giving us such a nice space. We have almost tripled the room we had previously, got new mats, will have new locker rooms soon, and are beginning kids classes. If you have ever wanted to try your hand at JJ now is the time to get started. Lots-o new people have been in since our migration, so you would be a new person with everyone else. Also, kids 8 to 13 are welcome at the kids class on Friday night 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm.

For Adults: Monday night 6 pm to 8 pm w/ 30 minutes of live rolling, gi
Wednesday night 6 pm to 8 pm w 30 minutes of live rolling. gi
Thursday night 6 pm to 7 pm, no-gi
Saturday night 9 am to whenever we are done, live rolling

Finally we have a Facebook page "Cedar Valley Jiu Jitsu" you can become a fan and keep updated! And I miss spoke in the video, that is actually my flip cam. I thought it was a department one, but it was one my father in law purchased for us.

For those of you who have never seen JJ here is a video of a tournament I entered:

No-GI:

GI:

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Where am I? This isn't my beautiful life (Heads, T. 1980)!

Why the name???
One of my favorite sayings in the world is, "If you give a monkey a typewriter and infinity, he will write the Bible (you can insert any great book here as to not offend a religion)." I love this quote because it really makes several interesting statements. At it's heart it is a comment on probability. Basically saying that if you try at something long enough you are bound to succeed...no matter how deficient you are. It is the basis of science, failure begets failure, until we learn enough from failures that we are able to succeed, and I love science.

I also feel like this statement reminds us all that we shouldn't get too impressed with our abilities as a human race. We are not so far away from that monkey clunking away on the typewriter. Yes, we have invented many wonderful things. But, we have also participated in some horrible wars over odd things, excluded and hurt people simply because they are different, and created general mayhem on the environment. Despite the Parthenon, Shakespeare's sonnets, and our religious tomes we are just one small incident away from becoming monkey's chucking spears (or poop). The image should keep us all humble.

I often feel when I am authoring a blog that I am trying to create something meaningful that will, at the least, entertain people. Associated with that feeling, I often feel like I am flailing miserably. However, I shall keep hacking away, hoping some day probability prevails and I write something meaningful. In the event I do write something worthwhile, I hope I am level headed enough to remember my second point. If not, the five of you who read this blog can feel free to remind me.

And what about keyboard being spelled key-bored? Aside from the fact I utilize the English language like a dog would handle a paintbrush, bored refers to the emotion that usually precedes my writing, boredom. Get it? It is my attempt at being clever and deep.