When folks move, they are taking advantage of something people are willing to do as a favor. Expend a few hours to do a large amount of work. The tradeoff is this. The person who is packing expends a lot of hours packing so the movers don't have to. It's hard to get help if the things drags on and o...

I was looking at some slow motion video of Andy Murray, world number 4 ranked player. Slow motion video has to be the biggest aid to analyzing the way the pros hit. It's really changed how I look at strokes. Without slowmo, you can't see what's going on. It's too fast. In tennis, there are two main ...

I was thinking about this a day ago at 5 AM eating at an IHOP waiting for food. Although people will tell you that faith, and I mean Christian faith in general, is about, well, faith. It is about community too. Many "good" people like the church because it provides community. Without community, I wo...

This is one of those blog entries that you should skip if you don't play tennis. I'll try to make it readable if you don't, but I won't try that hard. Expect to be bored. Even if you do play, you may or may not want to read. Today, I thought I made a breakthrough. Let me explain what's going on. I'v...

It's like Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, but it's Jared, Jared, Jared (Richardson) that is. So I was complaining about how white RubyRx is, but I did observe someone apparently Indian American (female) and there was a DZone rep that was Asian American. Let me flip this and say that, otherwise, the conferen...

David after Dentist is one of those viral videos that you wonder about. This video had 6 million hits in less than a week. Indeed, the SNL video, Jizz in my Pants had fewer hits in the same amount of time, and they had the virtue of HD, advertising on SNL, and high production values. How did this vi...

The Australian Open is a funny event. Held in January where folks in the US and Europe are in the middle of winter, the Australian Open is held in Melbourne in the blazing sun. More than any of the other Grand Slam events of tennis (the French, Wimbledon, the US Open), the Australian Open (AO, for s...

Barack Obama will be sworn in at about noon today as the 44th President of the United States of America. It's a ceremony to be sure. Despite the economic times, much money is being spent to make sure this is a ceremony people will remember. People say it's the worst economic times since the Great De...

I was listening to NPR this morning and there's a buzz about what Michelle Obama, the new First Lady, will wear to the various inauguration balls (yes, plural). The fascination by the fashion industry and indeed by the average Jane means Obama must make her decisions wisely. She can't be too flashy,...

I was at the tennis wall today trying to hit my backhand and finding, wow, couldn't seem to do it. A tennis wall, for those who are curious, is merely a wall that is very tall (one hopes) and has a line painted for the net (one hopes). It is used in place of hitting with another person or a ball mac...