A Survey On a Low

It would take some personal adjusting to have a survey taken of your low. Even if you’d never had a high the drop to the depths would be a challenge. George Bush’s nose-dive to a 28 percent popularity rating could be upsetting. If a survey was done on twenty of your own acquaintances and six of them thought you were popular what about the mindsets of the other fourteen. Figure on four really hating your guts. The ones in the middle would put up with you and maybe not feel much either way. The ones’ who liked you might be suck-ups and so how accurate would their reports be. It would take some real LEADERSHIP to not get drawn into stressing about who likes you and who doesn’t. It’s the other end of the scale you’d fret about. Those folks with a real bad case of nerves just thinking about you wouldn’t be candidates to baby-sit your kids. You’d need to STAY LOOSE. How much credence could you put in someone declaring that they are going to find out who likes you and who doesn’t. Would you want to know? What would the percentage of women be who answered the questions? Would they be good looking and have any money? You’d want to know. Or not. Or would you just accept it when someone you know who doesn’t think much of you says “and the neighbors don’t like you either.” So what will you do at your next popularity low?

Points It Is

The NBA is exciting to watch. Watching the NBA can get you into the game. A broadcaster will ask a colleague a question about what it takes to win. The play-by-play will say that it’s attitude and the color commentator will harp on playing hard and the coach talks defense. They ask California Gibb. He’s an expert in human affairs, which, at the moment, is the game. People would go after the secret of winning if they could find it. The play asks the coach what he needs to win. He says it’s down to defense.

Then he asks California what he thinks and gets “me?” and says yah you. California makes with the idea of more points even if it’s only one. It’s STAY LOOSE thinking but that’s California Gibb. Then the second broadcaster gets asked what’ll it take to win and gets back a dose of attitude. California says he doesn’t care as long as they get more points. It’s hard to see anything simpler than that. Out comes how hard are the Jazz going to play and someone opines that they need to play harder than ever. They ask California and he says I don’t care if they’re out of rhythm. At the end if one team has more points guess who’ll be declared the winner even if the other team was super polished and one of the announcers says who and California answers the team with the most points. Everyone’s amazed. California reveals a leadership secret.

Bejing's Phony Jump

Bejing’s Olympics will feature a phony long jump. Ostensibly the take off before or on the board measures an athlete’s jump distance. It is a wrong measure since it short changes the jumper.

The jump is measured from the board. Some athletes have a hard time gauging distance approaching the board and fail at hitting it. Some take off well before the board and get no credit for airtime gotten before they crossed the board. Others take off beyond the board and get disqualified.

High jumpers can take off from where they like.

Let’s totally STAY LOOSE about this and use Olympic leadership. Lay out an area four or five feet long to use for take off. A jumper could leave the ground anywhere within the area. The measurement would be made from where the long jumper actually lifted from the ground. The jumper could leave the ground within an area sufficient to give him flexibility and then get an authentic measurement of his jump. He would run hell bent for leather and then take off. We’d have a true long jump measure to the point where he landed. This will give us a true ground distance calculation.