In a Restaurant

In a restaurant: “Waiter! What did happen? The portion was double as large as this one, when I was here last time.” Waiter: “Then you probably had a place at the window last time.”

The Seattle Jaywalking Case

In an article on a blog, which I recently stumbled upon, the case of a policeman, who arrested a group of women for jaywalking, is described. The linked video is private, so can’t be watched by blog readers. It shall show how the (white) policeman punched one of the (black) women. It took me a […]

It’s Walking Day

It’s Walking Day or more precisely the USA’s National Walking Day. This fancy holiday was in 2007 initiated by the American Heart Association and is celebrated in each year on the first Wednesday of April. According to the American Heart Association shall the National Walking Day since 2019 be the beginning of the Move More […]

The Real Reason for Deep Stances in the Martial Arts

It’s fun to read through Brandon’s blog. I mean through the old short articles before he began to calculate permutations. He only in one of his many articles examines a detail of karate techniques. Other blogs examine many details of techniques, which readers either already know or aren’t interested in. But Brandon somehow deems this […]

The Number of the Beast

Paul Davidson wrote a disappointing article, in which he examined the number 666 from the Book of Revelations, but decided to stick with the old and still popular narrative that the famous ‘number of the beast’ describes Emperor Nero. This has been popular during many centuries because the Book of Revelation thus seemingly responded to […]

Learning Karate Taking Too Long?

When Brandon still was ‘In Search of Karate’, he already figured out that the purpose of karate is to keep students paying for decades. He compared this to learning to play a piano and found that pianists don’t take lessons for thirty years. But in karate, it’s even possible that a karateka, who is more […]

Teller

Teller is asteroid #5006 and also known as 1989 GL5. Teller measures thirteen kilometers in diameter. Teller’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.18 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.07, a period of revolution of 2 075 days, and an inclination of 7.6 degrees. Teller was discovered by Eleanor Francis (or Kay) “Glo” […]