September 2008
48 posts
Admiral James Stockdale Interview | Debating Our... →
JIM LEHRER: Do you feel that these debates should focus less on issues and more on these character kinds of things?
ADMIRAL JAMES STOCKDALE: Yes. I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. Half the issues they - are so polished they’re talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they’re really productive. So...
James Stockdale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
In a book by James C. Collins called Good to Great, Collins relates how Stockdale described his coping strategy during his period in the Vietnamese POW camp.[3]
“I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not...
FanNation | Five Things We Learned This Weekend →
5. That anything other than the “White Out” is not worth it. If I was a Circuit City employee trying to woo a customer into buying a $2,000 HD plasma TV, the first thing I would show him is Saturday night’s broadcast of the Penn State-Illinois game. Even seeing it for a third time, it was impossible not to be awed by the visual grandeur of Penn State’s “White...
Pocketful of Dough - Tips on Tipping: 2000s... →
Increasingly, I was struck by how much impact the experience was having on me. Surmounting this challenge night after night was actually giving me a certain self-assurance, a feeling of having grown up. Some might find this disillusioning: “You mean life is not first-come, first-served?”
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For as little as $100—that’s $25 each for a meal that would ultimately cost close to $375 per head—I...
First Asian guy I’ve seen on Parental Control, and I’ve seen a lot. Too bad the dude was kinda a loser.
Penn State is looking pretty good right now.
Twenty-three items about Anthony Kim - Los Angeles... →
A breakfast burrito as lore. Kim said he’d lollygagged to the course one mid-morning last September in Chicago at the BMW and grabbed the burrito when he ran into Woods and suggested a practice round. He learned, pivotally, that Woods already had finished his practice round.
me: i don't want to get over you
mihir: hahah
me: which reminds me
i wonder what rhiannon is up to
mihir: hahahaha
hahaha
Snow Angels: On Thin Ice - Movies - Village... →
Snow Angels exhibits a mellowing—if not full abandonment—of Green’s trademark emo-Malick mannerisms. His camera can’t entirely resist an ersatz-’70s art effect here and there, but by and large he plays things straight, erratic as they become. What saves this heavy, heavy material from sinking into the chill, familiar turf of the Small-Town Midwinter Tragedy is his practiced ear...
my saturday night
For Janet.
Destructoid, the hardcore gamer community. | Video... →
In the end, Spore is an incredibly robust Space stage preceded by three underwhelmingly linear levels and one mildly diverting one, all tied together emotionally (if not mechanically) by the awesome sense of godlike power and motherhood gained from creating your own species and seeing it evolve through a billion-year timeframe. It’s not what we expected, and it’s not what the game...
Star Spangled mess: Mavs' Howard insults anthem -... →
Howard was criticized last season for saying in a radio interview during a first-round playoff series against New Orleans that he occasionally smokes marijuana. Later that same series, he angered coach Avery Johnson by throwing himself a birthday bash after a Game 4 loss to the Hornets.
Ed Hochuli has been getting an unbelievable amount of grief for his missed call, but what about the refs that blew the DeSean Jackson call? I could be wrong, but shouldn’t it have been ruled a fumble, and only because the play was whistled dead (presumably) when Jackson stepped into the end zone was the ball marked on the 1 yard line? Hochuli’s mistake was being so contrite.
From Gs to Gents is probably the most dramatic makeover show I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot).
No End in Sight: Part 2
sequentialist:
Time to make another movie about the total and headspinning incompetence of the Bush Administration?
I thought yesterday you wrote that no one understands the economy. Now you’re going to blame it on the Bush Administration?
When I walk into sneaker shops, the dudes there usually first look at me, then they look down at my sneakers. And they are not impressed.
193. Never ask to be taken out of a ballgame.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
I’ve got a feeling that this guy is going to be seriously bummed if his son doesn’t play sports or has the hots for dudes.
Jose: thanks man....good pep talk
i'm going to give those strippers 100%
Anand: this is totally unrelated
but after reading jessicap's tumblr consistently for a few months now
i hate her
mihir: sometimes i ask myself, "what is wrong with walter?"
and there is no answer
Gut Instinct something something Math →
deepalc:
“64 14-year-olds … were tested at length on the discriminating power of their approximate number sense. The teenagers sat at a computer as a series of slides with varying numbers of yellow and blue dots flashed on a screen for 200 milliseconds each — barely as long as an eye blink. After each slide, the students pressed a button indicating whether they thought there had been more yellow...
The Streets
sequentialist:
1. Maybe the trope, “Wall Street and Main Street” or the many variations of that used by commentators, represents a) an alienation on the part of financial commentators from reality, and/or b) the total, troubling disconnect between the haves of the financial world and the have-nots in small towns across the country.
2. A corollary: Regardless, it is a stupid trope.
I like it...
Sarah Palin installed a tanning bed at the... →
sequentialist:
youngna:
Sarah Palin spent $35,000 on a personal tanning bed.
One thing I will never make an unnecessary expenditure on as an elected official is a tanning bed.
Who cares? It’s not with public funds, and she lives in Alaska.
Stanford Magazine: July/August1999 →
I learned a few other lessons during my two years as the king of condom key chains. One was that it’s tough to get rich quick with a single item. I learned that a markup of 150 percent doesn’t mean much when you’re only making 75 cents per item. It took a lot of key chains bought at 50 cents and sold for $1.25 just to pay the phone bill. After selling more than 50,000 pieces, I...
How funny is it that during these times we don’t have a presidential candidate that seems to understand the economy?
Notre Dame will have a respectable regular season and then get destroyed in their bowl game.
The old Proactiv commercials had celebrities that actually had pimples, e.g., P. “Volcano Face” Diddy. Nowadays, I lean forward when watching TV to see these supposed breakouts and usually don’t see a thing.
I’ve never hated Notre Dame because they haven’t been really good in my lifetime (maybe the early 90s but they weren’t that good for that long, and they lost to Texas A&M, the ultimate disgrace). I have talked with quite a few Notre Dame alums/fans in the past year and a half or so, and I’ve finally started feeling some Notre Dame hate myself. It’s not that I hate...
ESPN: Police have to go check on Vince Young... →
davidcho:
Sigh. I wish this guy wasn’t sad.
Man, the greatest college football player of all time (by far)…
As I told Mihir, my place is in 8 Mile. Brittany Murphy is my next door neighbor.
Re: Lil Wayne MTV Awards Performance
perpetua:
Red hanky in right pants pocket = fist fuck bottom.
Ohio State is not good
In a few words: not enough playmakers on offense.
Daunte Culpepper - Wikipedia, the free... →
Farewell NFL
When Free agency began this year, I had a new sense of excitement about continuing to rebuild my career in the same way that I had rebuilt my knee after my catastrophic injury in 2005. Unfortunately, what I found out was that the league did not share any of the optimism about me as an Unrestricted Free Agent that I expected. In fact, there was an overwhelming sense that there was...
I am going to start referring to Ronald Reagan exclusively as the Shredder.
The phrase “footsolider in the Reagan revolution” makes me think of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
“I am fairly resilient”
– Mike Sherman, Texas A&M head football coach via ESPN - Aggies rebuild after demoralizing early loss - Big 12
Slow Food Delicious!
youngna:
Is that a giant snail made out of bread?
Yes, it is.
Food culture in SF is absurdly decadent but what makes SF such a bizzaro world is that they couch their decedence in terms of right living.