{"id":573891567,"date":"2019-09-23T22:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T02:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891567"},"modified":"2020-05-13T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T22:15:27","slug":"i-promise-we-do-not-discuss-the-doppler-effect-of-honks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/i-promise-we-do-not-discuss-the-doppler-effect-of-honks\/","title":{"rendered":"I promise, we do not discuss the doppler effect of honks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was my Friday afternoon. I&#8217;d pulled into the driveway, walked to the mailbox and heard the honking of the Canada geese. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2pmESpAXub\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I&#39;ve flown into the weekend like those guys.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kennydsmith\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Kenny Smith<\/a> (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-09-20T22:33:16+00:00\">Sep 20, 2019 at 3:33pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Maybe they were going to the lake, or to the pond on the back of Old Man Thompson&#8217;s place. <\/p>\n<p>There is a pond on a Thompson property on the general line of the geese&#8217;s travel. I looked it up. No idea if he&#8217;s an old man or not. You just always assume so. It&#8217;s never Young Man Thompson, is it? Probably because of that Nathaniel Hawthorne allegory we read in school. Young Goodman Brown leaves an impression. It&#8217;s either that or the fear of the unknown as represented by Mr. Mertle in the Sandlot.<\/p>\n<p>The Thompsons could have owned that land for generations. Maybe it&#8217;s a part of the family that&#8217;s trying to get back on their feet. Maybe it&#8217;s just the place a middle aged Thompson keeps for his art studio. Could be a young family treating it as a starter home. The point is, they now have geese, unless they don&#8217;t. Those fowls could have been going anywhere. They are most assuredly gone from there by now. That flight was on Friday, after all. <\/p>\n<p><strong>I received the most<\/strong> on brand fortune cookie script of all recently:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept19\/sept17.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If that fortune cookie algorithm only knew. I suspect it does know. That algorithm is tied into various other outfits. The smart devices in your home are listening to your takeout phone calls, or private conversations and decisions to just pick something up rather than to cook the same old same old. Again. So now my thermostat is sending info packets up the ISP after it sneaks a peak at the phone number I called. That data dump winds up at the takeout joint.<\/p>\n<p>Now, sure, that&#8217;s just letting them know that we&#8217;re coming. (Aside from, ya know, the actual phone call I just made.) But what about the specifics? Your search results and your television viewing habits and how often you text your friends are all elements being scrapped in a huge data mining effort. That information gets shipped upstream and then, of course, there&#8217;s the cookie itself. Why, you&#8217;ve forgotten, again, the edible RFID concern. And how often are you going to forget those guys? That firm has placed a little device in the flour and vanilla mix and all of that data is cross-referenced against the pre-written fortune. <\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a person working there who shuffles the box of fortune cookies, they call her The Shuffler, and she makes sure the right cookie ends up in the right spot, considering the 20, no, 25 minute wait and all the customers that may come and go before we get there. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a modern miracle, really. And if you ever get the wrong one, you blame The Shuffler. Or you just choose the wrong cookie among your dining companions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I went for a run<\/strong>. This is ordinary, except it has not been ordinary. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept19\/sept18.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t gone for a run since April, when I ran an official 2.34 miles on April 3rd. Aside from limping through 10 miles one day later that month in Texas, this was the first real effort on foot since then. I&#8217;ve been nursing a foot and heel issue back to health, and that&#8217;s happily improving somewhat. So I taped it up well, and I tried out a brief run-walk interval. I did three minutes on and three minutes off and registered a little two-mile run this morning. <\/p>\n<p>The many miles of bike rides in between don&#8217;t exactly translate to total running fitness and does not mitigate the immediate question of &#8220;<em>Why do my calves ache?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that my foot felt fine. I&#8217;m sure it was the tape job and my present stride might favor the part that has been bothering me. The bad news was that everything else that complained about the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else will get used to it. I need to get down to Old Man Thompson&#8217;s place and check on those geese. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my Friday afternoon. I&#8217;d pulled into the driveway, walked to the mailbox and heard the honking of the Canada geese. 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