Out of bounds

Banana-balls and The Dictionary

Since some of my friends are not that familiar with golf, I started making ”the BASE Jumpers Guide to Golf”. The idea was to draw what ever parallels there might be between the two activities and make a comprehensive guide to the fine game.

Golf, like any other activity, has a lot of terms that make no sense to the good people who do not participate in the game. For instance a ”slice” is when the flight of your ball curves to the right (if you are a right handed player) and the intention was to hit it straight. In BASE jumping this would be very similar to an ”off-heading opening”.

The project was short-lived though. First of all: to my friends that do not participate in neither golf nor BASE jumping the document would make absolutely no sense. Second, and more importantly: It was not funny, comprehensive or useful in any way.

However. What I did discover in my research for the project was that an impressive number of golf-related terms describe shots that go bad. Which gave me a new idea:

In stead of a guide, I hope you will find the new dictionary, useful. And should you wonder how my game is nowadays, I can report that I in some mysterious way have revived the slice, and every now and then I do manage to hit the odd banana-ball.

I am an artist

I want to do something about the lay-out golfdreams. For instance I do need a cool header. Just see what my friends at basedreams have done. I have no idea how to go about, but in my search for an answer, I went out of bounds and discovered Wordle.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. It can also do this to the text from any website that has an Atom or RSS feed. Below you can see what it did to golfdreams.net, and while it can’t be used for a header, or any thing else for that matter, I think it’s quite cool.

Fine tunes for the keen golfer

This just in from Ted Rudd; a distinguished member of Team Basedreams:

Hunter S. Thompson serving as caddy?

Mr Piggy

Cured meat has been on the menu for ages in Norway, but the Iberico gives you yet another reason to move south.

This little piggy just fitted in the golf bag:)