Ronn! wrote: __
�Twice later I _was_ kept out of school for about six weeks each time: a couple of years after the bicycle accident I had a bout of influenza which kept me out of school for six weeks, and then in high school someone whose sports skills must have been about as good as mine� tossed a "soft"ball which hit me in the back, damaging a kidney and causing the doctor to tell me to spend the next few weeks in bed. (Actually, I spent most of the time on the couch because (1) it turned out to be more comfortable under the circumstances than the bed and (2) I didn't want to miss any of the coverage of the flight of _Apollo 10_.)
�As I tell my students just before using a Nerf ball� to demonstrate things like Newton's laws of motion and transformation of energy from potential to kinetic, there's a reason why any scholarships I got were in math and science, not sports.
�Safer for both the students and the windows in the classroom than a harder ball would be, particularly if _I_'m the one who's throwing it.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen a footnote to a footnote to a footnote...
Reggie Bautista Complex Explanation Maru
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