<\/p>\n
My grandparents owned a house on the river, so\u00a0I’ve been fishing at least a few times. To the best of knowledge, though, I’ve never actually caught a fish. That’s okay, because I always caught\u00a0something<\/em>. Fresh ideas, new concepts, the common cold, a taste for cheap beer, etc. One time, I even caught a bowling pin.<\/p>\n The least I’ve ever had to invest in terms of preparation was the time I went out noodling<\/a> with the author of Odd Oklahoma<\/a>. One thing about noodling is that every time you stick your hand in a dark and slimy hole<\/a>, you are performing an act of observation to find out whether there is really is something alive in there, and this naturally puts me in mind of a certain\u00a0theoretical\u00a0cat<\/a>. I mentioned this to him on the road the other day, and he whipped up an\u00a0insightful post about fishing<\/a>\u00a0hereabouts. Here is my favorite bit,\u00a0wherein\u00a0the metaphorical waveform resolves into reality:<\/p>\n One\u2019s fears and hopes are in a superposition of expectations, until the wavefunction collapses in painful excitement or disappointing relief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Out of context, this could apply to so many uncanny moments of triumph and\/or failure. \u00a0Every time we reach for the high-risk high-return, these are probable outcomes. I suppose the trick is to know when to put your hand in play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My grandparents owned a house on the river, so\u00a0I’ve been fishing at least a few times. To the best…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}