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fair points. i still don't think that the spirit behind the "AI could have been great at lots of sports" hypothetical implies laziness -- at least not in my head; i certainly would never claim that iverson didn't bust his ass for his whole life to become as great as he was -- but i concede that it exists in a context where black athletes are stereotyped as talented and white ones as scrappy. and that i got it from a demonstrably racist writer. the bullshit about him and practice DEFINITELY implied laziness and was racist, but picturing him nutmegging central defenders on his way to goal after goal or crushing returns off the rise like agassi implies, to me, just different lifetimes of hard work. don't know shit about boxing so i'll take your word for it about taking a punch. but you can't divorce the specific from the general and in general we live in a racist country, so point taken.

anyway fuck bill simmons.

bill simmons is definitely racist, but i don't take his "what if" thing about iverson that way. to me it's more just a way of trying to appreciate or describe obliquely iverson's unbelievable combination of quickness, hand-eye coordination, body awareness, and intelligence.

of course hypotheticals like that don't hold much water, in the same way that "randy moss would have been better if he hadn't smoked so much weed" or "usain bolt is lazy he could have run sub-9.5 if he weren't so lazy" don't. still kind of fun to think about iverson growing up in liverpool and spending his career going head-to-head with zidane.

not rio specific, but someone shared this on fb, cool story: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-white-man-in-that-photo/

i've decided that full breaks are underrated for most amateur athletes. 4500 miles is a hell of a lot of driving time, where'd you go?

- T0ddday various jumps, home variant

- daily routine

larger size works, is better.

@t0ddday, there's a blood serology test that is apparently very unlikely to give false positives.

on prevalence: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/10/07-046128/en/

The estimated number of people aged 15–49 years who were living with HSV-2 worldwide in 2003 is 536 million, or roughly 16% of the world’s population in this age range. The prevalence is assumed to increase with age since infection is lifelong, and this is observed in the data.

so more like 1/6. apparently rates are higher in cities, which makes sense. i read somewhere else that DC has the second-highest rate of HSV in the US.

a chick i'd slept with before came over last night and we cooked dinner and chilled and watched the olympics, and then i told her. she was super cool about it although she didn't want to fuck until she'd had a check herself, because it got her thinking about STDs and the fact that she hadn't been checked since last year and by god she could have something and be putting me at risk without knowing it. i was a bit nervous to have the convo but it went way better than i thought. and she slept over and we hooked up anyway, just no sex. i think she'll be back for more once she goes to the doctor.