http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:03:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's twenty-four degrees outside, and my bare feet suffered this morning during practice.  It was good for me, but it definitely made me appreciate putting shoes on to work against an opponent in the second half of my morning regime.  Wow.  Good thing I didn't look at the temperature before ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/11/20/this-mornings-practice-was-bitter-in-bare-feet/ Watch.  Pay attention to the details, not the "wows."  Enjoy.  Work toward this level of excellence...but watch your knees on those drops.  Key's to this level of mastery, perfect practice, and you MUST own root and center.  And, to get to this level, plan on training (meticulously) from youth to ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/11/18/came-across-this-video-of-a-martial-artist/ I am about spitting bullets here.  There are these people who can't even figure out how to use an email client on their own home computers. Instead, they use one of those flaky Net services (Maximum storage capacity 2 MB)  to handle their email where everything is "clicky-clicky follow the bounding ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/11/01/the-irritating-newbie-low-end-user/ When the public education system goes out of its way to indoctrinate our young children, promoting McDonald's and Burger King in songs and ditties to Kindergartners, when junk food laden with sugar, produced by Beatrice under all its various labels is proliferated as healthy in school classrooms, hallways and cafeterias, ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/10/23/boxing-up-our-children-and-delivering-them-to-mcdonalds-and-burger-king/ One of the best printing, matting, framing, and drop shippers of art on the Internet, a start-up called ImageKind is leading its artists down the merry road by the nose.  They keep promising fixes, and the fixes aren't happening...not even six months after they are promised.  I'm so tired of ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/10/03/totally-disheartening/ The muss, fuss, and bother of Monday morning madness -- vanquished by the retreat to office where, sipping coffee, I ponder the load of work I have today.  A trip through email nets potential irritants, and I close the client, moving on to checks the sites, the blogs, the forums.  ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/09/24/i-enjoy-the-quiet/ It's always nice to start the day with laughter.  A good article poking fun at the state of the Bushite, some welcome news on the eco-front, a brilliant cartoon lampooning some human idiocy.  Of course, then there's that bit of joy with coffee, watching the early morning sky.  This sets up breakfast, when, if ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/09/18/laughter-in-the-morning/ The students were sluggish this morning, and finding a pace and an exercise that would get mind, body, and spirit engaged proved keeping them off-guard and moving to a lesson of principle and concept.  After the initial two hours of changing direction on them mid-stride, I finally started to see ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/09/16/sluggish-starts-and-determined-finishes/ Whether it is photograph of a model, an actor or actress, or a lawyer defending a high profile client, increasingly it is very difficult to tell if the person portrayed in the picture is real, a plastic model, or a cgi (a computer generated image). This is NOT just due to ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/09/14/real-plastic-or-cgi/ Dining with colleagues at a local establishment exposed us to the depth and breadth of local prejudice that is running rampant outside what I'll term the PC zone.  (Definition of a PC zone: All places where one must exhibit the trappings of tolerance and social propriety in order to maintain ... http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/09/14/a-meal-of-prejudice/