what would you do if you were thrown into prison for life? when i ponder this, it seems obvious that i would kill myself, but upon further thought maybe that's not true. it seems like you would have a lot of time to become potentially world-class at something, but the trick is that it has to be something that requires no feedback or little feedback. not that i anticipate this happening to me, but it seems like i would become a top-notch bridge player -- study bridge books, look at hands, and so on.

i wonder if they'd let me out of prison to play nationals? it seems unlikely, right? in which case i could never really deploy my knowledge, and also there's the matter of limited time to practice partnership stuff. i guess i'm really not sure what prison is like -- maybe bridge is just not possible. i suppose what a lot of people end up doing is writing, which i guess is probably what i would end up doing too.

again, not that i think this is even remotely likely. i'm not exactly the criminal type, let alone the serious criminal type. but you know, there's always wrongful conviction.

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