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The original web site for this is down, but here's the text and video of it The text puts the video in perspective GT [From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly] I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day. Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right? And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life. This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. "He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.'' But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.'' "Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.'' Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.'' That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!'' And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon. ``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a Single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few Years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then They found a way to get into the race Officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the Qualifying time for Boston the following year. Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'' How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he Was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick Tried. Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud Getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you Think? Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with A cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best Time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world Record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to Be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the Time. ``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.'' And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a Mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries Was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' One doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life. Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass. , always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day. That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. ``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.'' And the video is below.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4B-r8KJhlE

I took his class, only it was called Power For Abundant Living. Same class, different teacher (a plagerizing BG wanna-be). Wish I never took it.

Interesting heartman. Can you fill in more details?

This one's courtesy of Belle. Very funny! Bob_and_Tom_-_Telemarketer_Nightmare.mp3

A Minivan travelling along the 401 during a thunderstorm is struck by lightning and the strike is captured on tape by passengers of a trailing vehicle.

The god knows how many times of hearing Beautiful Ohio at ROA was plenty for me. I don't even associated that song with Ohio anymore. It's a TWI song now.

That toast is just about burnt now. Reminds me of 84. What a great year that was! Tried picking up the game on the radio while driving home today and these damn east coasters won't even put the game on. Three sports stations and not one of them thought to broadcast an ALCS game?

Even if OSU slaughtered Michigan, I don't think I could bring myself to play an Ohio song. Just not physically possible. Hopefully it won't come to that. The Michigan vs OSU is bigger than the Michigan vs MSU gaime in Michigan. Michigan has one team to beat each year and, as they say in Ann Arbor, to get to the game you go south until you smell it, then east until you step in it.

It's on the main site, repost of what was originally on Waydale: http://www.greasespotcafe.com/waydale/misc/pop1.htm

Geer accused the BOT of not doing what he insisted was what VPW wanted, and ultimately killing him. All 3 of them confesed as guilty in response to Geer's POP paper: The hand written sections read as follows: I've read this several times. I believe it to be the truth. It must be adhered to for the survival of this ministry. I stand with The Teacher and the truth of his last words. I love you. signed: L. Craig Martindale I read it and all is true. I've felt it and didn't know what to do. So I will change to do my best for the man I helped kill. signed: Howard R. Allen I've read this and am thankful for the revelation. I apologize for not having followed my "man of God." I shall be a doer of the Word more and more as I renew my commitment to God's Word. Thank you Chris for having eyes to see and ears to hear. signed: Donald F. Wierwille

MS's actual definition: The .NET Framework version 1.1 redistributable package includes everything you need to run applications developed using the .NET Framework. It's only needed to run applications that were developed in .net. If you have none, then you don't need it. The only common application I can think of that uses it is IE7.

Shame on you Belle for killing this thread. It was flying along then WHAM! No posts for a whole day.

I was responding to this. You imply that anyone can install it multiple times on various computers and that you've done it 5 times yourself. This is not true. MS Office 2003's End User License Agreement reads (selected segments): I'm glad your happy being a Microsoft fan. I have nothing against that. I was one at one time also. Of course, I was also in a cult at one time....

Jesus John! Get up on the wrong side of the bed?

Added link to Pete's Pond in the opening post.

Ditto to what Bluzeman said. I'll also add that it appears you are admiting to violating the MS Office license agreement by installing it multiple times. Not sure I would admit such a thing on a public board. The penalties are quite expensive.

I'm a bit lacking in my African wildlife identication skills.... Let's go with buffalo.

Damn, there are about a gizilion wildebeast there now. I should go to bed....

Bunch of zebras taking a drink now. And I swear I saw a lion hiding in the bushes at one shot. Looking for some zebra meat?

A lot of fly-by-night computer retailers have been using MS Enterpirse Licenses when selling PCs. Basically they buy a 10 or 25 license, getting one CD key good for all 25, then sell 2500 PCs using the same key and no source CDs or licenses certificates. MS then sends out a "security" update, in the guise of protecting your PC, which is actually software for their "Genuine Advantage" crap. It checks to see if your MS software is properly licensed and, if it isn't, shuts it down. One possible way to get at your mail in Outlook Express is to install Eudora and import into it. Although, isn't Outlook Express free? Or did they change that? I thought it was bundled with IE and that only the full blown Outlook was a part of Office requiring purchase of a license? Either way, you might want to get your CD keys in order, especially for your installation of Windows. Otherwise, you might find yourself locked out of that shortly (which is the dumbest thing I've ever seen MS do), as other people are finding themselves.

The zebra were cool this morning. Look's like it's focused on a couple antelope now. Still waiting for a lion to jump out and scarf one up.

So far I've seen antelope, monkeys, and rabbits. The frogs are quite loud now. Sounds like my place at night in the summer.

Africam.com broadcasts a live web cam from the Nkorho Pan, Africa. Been watching antelope on it this morning. Pretty neat. http://www.srobbin.com/2006/09/29/lions-an...nternets-oh-my/ Also try Pete's Pond (requires Real Player).

When did she move out of the mansion in the woods?

If loser wierwille were here, I'd probably punch him. I suggest you settle down, hold off on the accusations and prophesies of doom, else I'll have to remove the comma from your keyboard.