November 2008
22 posts
How weird is it that all four top Heisman candidates (Tebow, Bradford, McCoy, Harrell) are white? (though Bradford is part Native American)
There is some delicacy in glorifying the connection. Bradford’s father is one-eighth Native American descent; his great-grandmother, Susie Walkingstick, was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. Bradford, whose mother, Martha, is white, is one-sixteenth. But...
ESPN - Ivan Maisel: Paterno and Penn State headed... →
An offense that had lost its big-play touch — only five in the past two games — rang up nine plays from scrimmage of 20 yards or more against Michigan State. Clark, who struggled with his confidence late in the season, said his father told him this week, “‘You look like you’re playing not to make a mistake. You got to cut that out.’ When I woke up this morning,...
It's Official
deepalc:
I’ve decided to use single quotes wherever possible. I just don’t like how double quotes look.
And how do you feel about using single quotes in the same sentence as apostrophes?
The Volokh Conspiracy - Engleman v. Murray and... →
Engleman v. Murray and Extraterritorial Enforcement of Arrest Warrants: The Eighth Circuit decided a very interesting Fourth Amendment case yesterday involving extraterritorial enforcement of warrants: Engleman v. Murray. The case end up creating some interesting tensions in Fourth Amendment law, so I thought I would blog a bit about it.
First, the facts. Engleman made a 911 call to report a...
Obama said he wants to shorten the college football season to make way for a three-round playoff. I don’t think it makes much sense to shorten the season to add 7 games at the cost of eliminating something like 50 or 100 games from the regular season for the rest of the teams aka not the rarefied few who perennially play for the national championship.
The Most Outrageous Commercial
I couldn’t do anything but laugh hilariously at the Canon PowerShot commercial where everyone wants to take pictures of Maria Sharapova’s dog.
Obama said he doesn’t know any serious college football fan who disagrees with him on a 8-team, 3-round college football playoff. Well, call me what you will, but I am not in favor of a playoff. One distinctive thing about college football, of course, is that the season is the playoff. I think when you implement a playoff, you put at risk the thing about college football that makes its...
This new generation.
alexbalk:
Overheard on the F train yesterday. I’m terrible about guessing these things, but I’d be willing to wager money that these were a couple of NYU kids. They were either dating or doing whatever it is kids do today where they fuck when they get drunk and then pretend it’s all cool. The boy was for sure the professorial type; you could see him lecturing his friends about pretty much...
me: shower time
be right back
after i scald my naked body with hot water
i don't know why i do it
but i really enjoy it
Pete Carroll complained about the undefined goals of the BCS. What’s the point? Put the best teams together, the most deserving teams, the teams with the best resumes? I think it’s obvious that the point of the BCS is not to put the best two teams together, but to put together the teams with the best two “grades,” in some sense, measured over the entire semester. And...
Spielberg and Will Smith to remake Oldboy? →
hierarchy:
figout:
I’m not sure I like the sound of that.
I’m highly skeptical too, but that is some “sincerest form of flattery” that is well-deserved.
I seem to recall that the media protrayed the Virginia Tech shooter “sincerest form of flattery” for the film as evidence that he was a sadistic, violence-loving Korean. I felt like there were some insinuations that only nutty...
Email from my Mom on my Prop 8 Petition Email
antikris:
Amein! S.F. City attorney and Gloria Allred are both filing suits in Supreme court this week, contesting that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional, as it prohibits a protected group from certain rights. Hopefully, one of these will prevail. Meanwhile, State Attorney General Jerry Brown (former CA. governor) has declared that the people who got married within the window of time when the State...
Guy Maddin →
Born in 1956, Maddin seemed destined to live a life that would breed uniqueness and eccentricity at every turn. His father was a prominent hockey coach, as well as the business manager of Canada’s national team, while his mother ran a beauty salon named Lil’s Beauty Shop. And so, Maddin would spend many of his childhood days at either the Winnipeg Arena, seeing some of hockey’s...
Man, the shots of Grant Park are just another reminder that Chicago has the U.S.’s most beautiful skyline.
Some Boring Voting Facts from Today
I am 25 and this is my first time voting.
I arrived at the voting spot at 7 am and waited 2 hours before I could vote.
I was the 106th voter at my location.
My vote-receipt sticker said: “My vote counted!”—which I thought was a bit premature.
I did feel giddy after voting, even though the experience was really boring.
I think Obama trained me for election day by making me...
me: i lose this week
sux
Mihir: yeah sux
i got outscored like crazy yesterday
sux
me: you're still gonna winz
Mihir: yeah i knowz
but not 7 -2
me: dwade needs to get much better
Mihir: hopefully i till win 6 -3
he'll get better
but like i said
he is going to be erratic
me: i'm one of the worst teams in the league right now
when brad miller comes back
i'm going to be better
Mihir: you should try and trade monta dude
for someone who is active
me: POH PLZZZZZZZZZ
Mihir: fine
sux until mid december then
me: this is why you'll never be good at fantasy basketball
take my constancy as an example plz
Mihir: dude i didn't say
trade away your entire team
i just said trade away someone who isn't going to be back until earliest dec 15th
he is your new elton brand
me: you told me to immediately give up on one of my long term strategies
Mihir: that's cause it's a stupid strategy
i said that from the beginning
me: uh no it isn't
Mihir: uh yeah it is
me: uh
you have no credz
look at my trophy case plz
Mihir: dude i've played fantasy basketball once
me: and got crushed
12: 46 PM TRU???????????
Mihir: no
me: TRU.
Mihir: this is sad dogg
in any case
your team sux for the time being
12: 47 PM miller coming back is only going to help you in the categories you are already decent in + points
me: not really
Mihir: ok
12: 49 PM anyway dogg
12: 50 PM what's going on?
me: i'm smarting from your fantasy basketball slight
12: 53 PM THAT"S WHAT"S GOING ON
Mihir: you are insane
I just saw an Asian dude going nuts for Texas Tech on Gameday in Lubbock and I can’t say that I didn’t feel sorry for him.