Filed under: Skateboarding
It goes a little something like this
I got my first skateboard when I was about five years old in 1978. We purchased it from a skate shop in Ocean City, Maryland on the boardwalk. It was plastic, red and had red wheels. It got lost in the rain when it was washed into the drainage ditch. I remember some older kids put actual scuba gear on to go into the sewer after the rain subsided to try and find my board. They never came up with it. My board looked a little something like this picture. We used to bomb the hills and jump speed bumps where we lived in Alexandria, VA in a place called Telegraph Hills. When Wanda came over to babysit she was always down to go out and ride. She used to stand on her board in such a funny way with the heel of her front foot against the arch of her back foot with her arms straight up in the air. My brother used to sit down and that made me angry. I would tell him, yelling, of course, “That isn’t the way you are supposed to ride it. You’re supposed to stand up.” I knew then that I would be skateboarding for the rest of my life.
Einstein – His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
This book is one of my favorite biographies that I’ve read in awhile. Here are a couple quotes from the book that offer some insight into Einstein’s astonishing character.
“Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
“Loyalty to a (political) party Einstein felt, meant surrendering some independence of thought. Such conformity confounded him. ‘How an intelligent man can subscribe to a party I find a complete mystery.’”
” A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way.”
“It is important to note, however, that the theory of relativity does not mean that ‘everything is relative’. It does not mean that everything is subjective. Instead it means that measurements of time can be relative, depending on the motion of the observer.”
