And with a pH-value of 4.5

diiiiiiiicks

Texas A&M (-2.5) at Arkansas
Mississippi State (+7) at GEORGIA
Kentucky (+30.5) at LSU
Buffalo (+28.5) at TENNESSEE
Auburn (+10) at South Carolina
Alabama (-3.5) at Florida
Ole Miss (+3) at FRESNO STATE

piiiiiiiiiiiiiicks

Last week I went 7-0 straight-up and 4-3 against the line. That puts me at 33-3 and 19-16, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

TEXAS A&M (-2.5) at Arkansas
Mississippi State (+7) at Georgia
Kentucky (+30.5) at Lsu
Buffalo (+28.5) at TENNESSEE
Auburn (+10) at South Carolina
ALABAMA (-3.5) at Florida
Ole Miss (+3) at FRESNO STATE

It looks like for the second straight week, I didn't pick any upsets.

yer humble bloggers

Nork party video

video description: "Ain't no party like a Pyongyang party, 'cause a Pyongyang party is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY"

NFL WEEK 3 FANTASY STIR FRY RESULTS

TERIYAKI 18
SUGAR SNAP PEAS 16
DELUXE 13 (TIE)
SPICY GARLIC 13 (TIE)
GINGER 12
BRANDON JACOBS 7
GINGER 6
HONG KONG 5
THAI 2

may we humbly recommend...

13 - Crabmeat Curry

A Maison D'3E original. It's really good. Best paired with something to get your drink on. Seriously, it's really, really good. Mushrooms, garbanzo beans, medium curry sauce, and if imitation is the most sincere form of flattery then all crabs should be blushing right now. Those Alaska pollock know how to imitate. Anyway, I know everyone else in the world will think this is gross, but it's so, so good. You may be wondering "why didn't tha captain take a picture after it had been plated? certainly would have been more aesthetically pleasing." BECAUSE I ATE IT OUT OF THE SKILLET.

GEORGIA (-10) at Ole Miss Arkansas (+11) at Alabama Florida Atlantic (+31.5) at Auburn La Tech (+19.5) at MISSISSIPPI STATE FLORIDA (-19.5) at Kentuck

Georgia (-10) at Ole Miss
Arkansas (+11) at ALABAMA
Florida Atlantic (+31.5) at Auburn
La Tech (+19.5) at MISSISSIPPI STATE
Florida (-19.5) at Kentucky
Vanderbilt (+15.5) at SOUTH CAROLINA
Louisiana St. (-5.5) at West Virginia

Slightly late picks week 4

Last week I went 6-2 straight-up and 4-4 against the line. That puts me at 26-3 and 15-13, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

GEORGIA (-10) at Ole Miss
Arkansas (+11) at Alabama
Florida Atlantic (+31.5) at Auburn
La Tech (+19.5) at MISSISSIPPI STATE
FLORIDA (-19.5) at Kentucky
Vanderbilt (+15.5) at South Carolina
LSU (-5.5) at West Virginia

Friday illusion

this just in

things could be worse

here is the working acknowledgements section for my dissertation

Props to: Boots, Baby, Simon, Taylor, Zoe, Toonces, Betsy, Banjo, Harper, Jonah, Iggy, Rizzo, Rufus, Madison, Anubis, Dexter, Bennett, Delilah, Wesley, Malcolm, and even Samantha despite her bitchiness. I know it was never personal, girlfriend.

Sucks to the rest of you.

and sadly...

groin-grabbingly sadly, I've had this song in my head.

http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Really starting to get into this crunkcore stuff too. So tight.



So, seriously, there's a bear drinking a forty.

this song has been stuck in my head

Tuesday links

1. A Note on Maps "No matter which one you prefer, or why, that’s what they both are and do. And it’s not even that these are particularly ideological maps, as opposed to other maps: all maps are broadly ideological in the sense that they pretend to show you what’s empirically there by framing, editing, and re-perspectivizing those empirical “facts” in ways that will both lead to a particular way of seeing the land (that, in this case, implies the political realization of the particular vision at stake)."

2. Sound by Gloumouth1

3. I'm helping

4.

ACC: listening to me, sort of

My recommendation was to pick up Pitt, Louisville, West Virginia, and UConn. They've just picked up Syracuse (presumably for the New York markets) and Pitt. Okay, now you need two more. I would recommend two of UConn, Louisville, and West Virginia. Rutgers is your back-up.

Syracuse hurts the football product. West Virginia would help that, so I would pick them first. UConn, a more natural ACC team, would be my second pick.

HOME UNDERDOGS ALWAYS COVER

Charles, please calculate my terrible, terrible record.

Louisiana State (-3.5) at Mississippi State
Auburn (+3) at Clemson
Ole Miss (-1.5) at Vanderbilt
Tennessee (+9.5) at Florida
Navy (+17) at South Carolina
Louisville (+5.5) at KENTUCKY
North Texas (+45.5) at ALABAMA
Troy (+22.5) at Arkansas


I love picking Kentucky to cover, it would appear.

Week 3 picks by me

Last week I went 8-1 straight-up and 6-2 against the line. That puts me at 20-1 and 11-9, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

LSU (-3.5) at Mississippi State
AUBURN (+3) at Clemson
Ole Miss (-1.5) at Vanderbilt
Tennessee (+9.5) at Florida
Navy (+17) at South Carolina
Louisville (+5.5) at Kentucky
North Texas (+45.5) at ALABAMA
Troy (+22.5) at ARKANSAS

Georgia is playing a scrub.

Bat Monkey Pig

apparently it is video day

Football in Europe

65,000 players doubtlessly includes many professionals, but I wonder who the first college coach will be to have a special international recruiting budget.

Ray Charles covering "Ring of Fire"

metal monday

The questions run too deep for such a simple man

i'm going to kentucky for my cousin's wedding and will be way

ching the game at the murray plaza lodge. or on the internet. or something. tweet at me brahs. #winechugggggggg

Simpson's Paradox

A common example of Simpson's Paradox involves the batting averages of players in professional baseball. It is possible for one player to hit for a higher batting average than another player during a given year, and to do so again during the next year, but to have a lower batting average when the two years are combined. This phenomenon can occur when there are large differences in the number of at-bats between the years. (The same situation applies to calculating batting averages for the first half of the baseball season, and during the second half, and then combining all of the data for the season's batting average.)

A real-life example is provided by Ken Ross and involves the batting average of two baseball players, Derek Jeter and David Justice, during the baseball years 1995 and 1996:

Simpson's Paradox

here are some WORSE picks

I don't know how I did last week and I don't care. Your god will be the only judge of me.

Central Michigan (+10.5) at KENTUCKY
MSU (-6.5) at Auburn
Cincinnati (+5) at TENNESSEE
Alabama (-10) at Penn State
South Carolina (-3) at Georgia
New Mexico (+36) at ARKANSAS
Uab (+23.5) at FLORIDA
UCONN (+1.5) at Vandy

Charles picking week 2

Last week I went 12-0 straight up and an unfortunate 5-7 against the spread. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

Central Michigan (+10.5) at Kentucky
MSU (-6.5) at Auburn
Cincinnati (+5) at TENNESSEE
ALABAMA (-10) at Penn State
SOUTH CAROLINA (-3) at Georgia
New Mexico (+36) at ARKANSAS
Uab (+23.5) at FLORIDA
UConn (+1.5) at VANDY

No line on Southern Illinois at Ole Miss or Northwestern State at LSU.

almost certainly the handiwork of you-know-who

Tuesday chart-o-graphs

1. Ancestry

2. Wrestlers

3. Stool

carry on my wayward skank

Cooking with Norm

No one else in the world says segment an orange.

"Räumen."

"Steuerung klar?"
"Ist klar."
"Treibwerk klar?"
"Ist klar."
"Luftlage klar."
"Schlüssel auf SCHIESSEN."
"Schlüssel steht auf SCHIESSEN."
"Durchschalten."
"Luftlage klar."
"1st durchgeschaltet."
"Beluftung klar."
"Zundung klar."
"Vorstufe klar."

...

"Haupstufe."
"Haupstufe ist gegeben."

...

"Stecker 1 und 2 gefallen."

...

The Stotz plugs lie blasted on the ground, tossing in a splash of flame. On gravity feed, the flame is bright yellow. Then the turbine begins to roar. The flame suddenly turns blue. The sound of it grows to full cry.

The Rocket stays a moment longer on the steel table, then slowly, trembling, furiously muscular, it begins to rise.