Pole Vaulter for Jesus
Ah, the first home movie posted on DrunkenBlog. Don't get used to it, I'm just a little burned out on my other options for the evening.
Trying to map out Apple's QA processes from the outside without giving them an easy way to sue me, or trying to figure out how to ask chat questions about genetic algorithms without turning people into human <blink> tags can be fun but can also grind one into a nub this late. So enjoy, but Quicktime 7 is required...
Yep, that bonk is the sound of the pole hitting her head. No point in asking who the Pole Vaulter for Jesus™ is, nor how they got the name, nor why this video was taken, let alone what was trying to be accomplished... but she's good to have as a friend.
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 15, 2005, at 01:13 AM
Comments (18)
Posted by: Rosyna at August 15, 2005 02:06 AM
Q&A or QA? Or T&A?
Posted by: drunkenbatman at August 15, 2005 02:24 AM
Q&A or QA? Or T&A?
As in quality assurance. :) Gyar @ picky androgenous time burglars.
Posted by: Mac-arena the Bored Zo at August 15, 2005 02:28 AM
Q&A process? Quality And Assurance?
Posted by: 2.STL-DX.B11 at August 15, 2005 03:18 AM
Oh that's a very crap clip. Sorry. Way below par for you DBM, but everyone feels burned now and again, so have a well deserved White Russian and kick back.
Posted by: Samo at August 15, 2005 07:05 AM
So, what did she do to deserve you putting up the video? ;o)
Posted by: Linden at August 15, 2005 08:17 AM
Ads by Google suggests a Pole Vault Helmet. It even comes with a "Pony Tail Channel." I have to agree.. Maybe an early x-mas present for your friend?
Posted by: John Siracusa at August 15, 2005 10:28 AM
The "bonk" is the sound of the end of the pole hitting the ground, not her head. (I'm not saying she didn't hit her head, just that that's not the source of the loud sound.)
Posted by: Pole Vaulter for Jesus at August 15, 2005 01:01 PM
That bonk was definitely the pole hitting my head. The ground wasn't hard enough to make a sound that loud.
Posted by: John Siracusa at August 15, 2005 01:39 PM
Look at the video and listen to the softer (but still audible) *secondary* "bonk" sound when the pole makes its second, much smaller bounce on the ground (when your head is nowhere near it). Clearly the ground is hard enough to make the pole make noise, even on the tiny secondary bounce. The first bounce is much harder, and the bonk therefore much louder.
Posted by: someone at August 15, 2005 02:18 PM
Actually - its not the pole hitting the ground that makes the noise. Being that I vault myself, when the top of a pole hits soft ground like that it doesnt really make any sound - however when something hard (i.e. a head) hits the middle, the sound reverbs through the inside of the hollow pole and makes the sound.
Posted by: Other_Matt at August 15, 2005 06:30 PM
That's just mean!
Won't be your friend for long if you keep putting her attempts at athleticism online!
*grins*
I did a mime once in high school, was supposed to be an electrician working on a fuse box, that someone had forgotten to remove the power from. I get a nasty shock and jump backwards away from the fuse box.
Worked well in rehersal, only when it came to performing it in front of the class, on a make shift stage made up of desks, as I jumped back, I tripped, and what was supposed to be a staged fall to the ground, became a real fall to the "stage", and my head made real contact with the desk. Hard. The teacher was filming the class, and there is a very audible thud.
This and falling off the trampoline onto my head as a child explain a few things about me really....
Posted by: drunkenbatman at August 16, 2005 12:30 AM
Siracusa has been warned that if this thread goes over 20 comments about whether or not its her head bonking, I'll start using his name as a pronoun again.
Posted by: the video taker at August 16, 2005 01:49 AM
the sound WAS the pole hitting her head, as i WAS the person filming..... and i saw the after shocks of the swollen head, HA!
Posted by: Ben at August 16, 2005 06:33 PM
Call me a siracusa all you want, but I don't think that's what a pronoun is.
Posted by: fastero at August 16, 2005 07:16 PM
It is getting hard to keep up with all the injokes, db
Posted by: iguanaman at August 16, 2005 07:40 PM
I remember a similar experience. In high school I was the butler in a production of Shaw's Arms & the Man. The final night everyone generally does something overboard.
As part of the play I regularly walked offstage after making some cutting remark. The final night I was going to trip and fall offstage when I left for the final time.
Good idea in theory. In practice I fell off the edge of the stage, leading to a *loud* noise and massive blow to the head. I continued on with a raging headache, but apparently also a lot of people were quite concerned.
My favourite remark of someone regarding me: "He's pretty dumb for a smart person."
Cheers.
Posted by: AnObuscator at August 18, 2005 09:23 AM
@Siracusa --
Um, no. Replay the video in slow motion. you will see that at the point of pole-head impact, the pole had NOT made contact with the ground. When watched frame-by-frame, it is VERY clear that the loud "bonk" is, without any doubt, the head hitting the pole.
When the end of the pole hits the ground, there is no audible sound.
hehe. ouch.