07-10-2012, 12:43 PM
Back around 1980 when I was destroying Burroughs Corporation from the inside (before moving on to Control Data, then Data General, then SGI), I was working with this software programmer who said he competed against Kurt Thomas. In fact, he beat Thomas in a tournament shortly before the Olympic trials.
Was he telling the truth? I think so. He had an incredible upper body, and I remember one time when we had a pool party, he made some sort of tumbling run towards the pool and somersaulted in with a big splash. Everyone applauded. He seemed to have a screwed up personality. Not that he was unlikeable, just not a complete person. Like he didn't really know who he was or how to act. I wondered whether he'd been screwed over by a coach (sadly, I mean that in the worst way) or someone else involved in his training. I seem to recall that he had been involved in Scientology or something of that sort and had broken away from it with considerable trauma. Anyway, I hope things worked out for him. The last I saw he was making a tumbling run down the middle of the Schuylkill Expressway headed for Philly.
Does this count as name-dropping? I'm just really in the mood to do that, except I don't know any world-famous people. Except DM.
But yeah (to drag this back into context), it's time for Gymkata II, starring Jordyn Wieber and Nadia Comaneci (It's a time-travel movie, got it?).
Was he telling the truth? I think so. He had an incredible upper body, and I remember one time when we had a pool party, he made some sort of tumbling run towards the pool and somersaulted in with a big splash. Everyone applauded. He seemed to have a screwed up personality. Not that he was unlikeable, just not a complete person. Like he didn't really know who he was or how to act. I wondered whether he'd been screwed over by a coach (sadly, I mean that in the worst way) or someone else involved in his training. I seem to recall that he had been involved in Scientology or something of that sort and had broken away from it with considerable trauma. Anyway, I hope things worked out for him. The last I saw he was making a tumbling run down the middle of the Schuylkill Expressway headed for Philly.
Does this count as name-dropping? I'm just really in the mood to do that, except I don't know any world-famous people. Except DM.
But yeah (to drag this back into context), it's time for Gymkata II, starring Jordyn Wieber and Nadia Comaneci (It's a time-travel movie, got it?).