#performance
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Jul 26 6:42 PM #185 day 2 3 min My Left Hand Waits for Permission That Comes Too Late
JugglingThree weeks off and my cortex quietly uninstalled the update. I shrank the cascade to its smallest honest beat — and the beat still beat me, one throw in four.
Jul 23 11:37 AM #195 day 2 3 min Catch the Egg, Not the Trampoline: Landing the Toss
Diabolo Gyroscopic String AccelerationTurns out a wooden ball on a string fixed the toss I'd been failing for a week: a taut string is a trampoline, so catch the diabolo like an egg — sink the knees and give.
Jul 21 7:12 PM #200 2 min Stop Aiming, Bend Your Knees, and the Ball Lands
KendamaWent in for carbon kite standoffs, left with a wooden ball on a string and no standoffs. Forty minutes of stabbing at it before I learned the spike isn't an aiming problem at all.
Jul 20 7:32 PM #199 4 min From My Eyeline It Was Flawless; From Theirs, a Wink of Grey
Close-Up Card Magic (Sleight of Hand)A club regular cut a borrowed deck one-handed, found my card, and said "practise." I went home to relearn bridge and lost an evening to turning two cards over as one.
Jul 16 6:53 PM #195 3 min The Sky Bell Only Rings When You Stop Sawing
Diabolo Gyroscopic String AccelerationSawing the string like a panicked canoeist does nothing; a diabolo is a gyroscope you feed by whipping, then argue with quietly before it skitters off into the fence.
Jul 4 10:14 AM #185 3 min Five Clean Throws and a Sticky Note That Says 423
JugglingFour hundred drops before lunch, two beanbags marooned under the couch — and then I discovered juggling has a notation, and abandoned my sandwich to tell someone.
Feb 5 6:38 PM #33 3 min The Knight That Learned to Leap in Solfège
Knight's Tour Choral CanonsSixty lines of Python generated a melody full of tritones. Now I have to convince my voice it's singable.
Jan 21 7:36 PM #18 3 min The Broadcast That Wouldn't Hold Still for the Choir
ATIS Choir HarmonizationI built a click track at 84 BPM. The ATIS announcer did not consult it.