“I had a good shot on 5,” he said, “and it was six inches short.” Well done, I said.
“No, no,” he said. “It was six inches short, and it rolled into the water.”
That’s the gist of life right there, ain’t it? Leave it a little short and boom, it’s all over.
I’ve always believed that golf is the game closest to real life and the above quote, taken way out of context from the original article, only reaffirms that belief. More on the similarities between golf and life some other day.
Okay, I had a fair idea that multiplayer gaming was popular in the far east but this is just ridiculous.
I remember I was at this exhibition once with a friend where a company was proudly displaying their “state-of-the-art” water purification system. We got into a discussion regarding the features and capabilities of the unit with the company representative and during the course of this discussion, the guy went on to claim, perhaps going a tad over the top as he was to later realize at his peril, that you could connect “sewage water” to it’s inlet and it would still give you pure water. “No need to flush our stuff away then, eh?” was what my friend came up with almost instantly. Needless to say, that was the end of the discussion.
NASA has come up with something similar – well almost. A technology that would recycle your urine and make it “safe for drinking”. Would save NASA millions in costs and/ or free up the weight to be used for more important stuff like, well, astronauts!
Of course, some people didn’t need recycling.