Two chart Tuesday

1. Orwell vs. Huxley

2. Media consolidation

"Too bad."

Just that kind of day.

sadly, the happiest i'll be all day is looking at this...

Black Friday

The latest Target ads show a woman (comedian Maria Bamford, whom I will refer to simply as ‘the crazy Target lady’, as I’ve seen her called in some comments on YouTube) ‘gearing up’ for the approaching Black Friday sales. There are several commercials portraying ‘the crazy Target lady’, most often dressed in red and exhibiting physical strength which she’ll no doubt need to trample on other people while running maniacally through the aisles of Target, maybe for an XBOX Kinect™ for her husband, a Fisher Price Imaginext Bigfoot the Monster™ for her son, or maybe Disney Princess and Me Dolls™ for her daughter. These commercials seem ‘cute’ and ‘funny’, but the subtext is clear: We, the consumers, are insane—and that’s what corporate America is counting on.

‘The crazy Target lady’ is insane, and this is how Target and Wal*Mart and every other superstore we’ll shop at this holiday season views us—mindless consumers willing to harm ourselves and others for a chance to save miniscule amounts of money on things we don’t need to survive. Target and Wal*Mart and every other superstore think the American people are insane, so this is how they portray us in their commercials. And this is in no small part due to the fact that their commercials have pumped this idea into our brains for so many years that this is exactly how we behave. We are insane.

‘The Crazy Target Lady’, or Why You Might Get Trampled to Death This Holiday Season…

BLACK FRIDAY MEANS BLACK METAL

AND HERE'S WHERE IT'S GONE. MORE HIPSTERY THAN THE THINGS CHARLES LISTENS TO.

BLACK FRIDAY MEANS BLACK METAL

AND HERE'S WHAT IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT.

BLACK FRIDAY MEANS BLACK METAL

my picks are on time despite the holiday so there

Man, I don't like favorites.

Arkansas (+12) at Louisiana State
Georgia (-6) at Georgia Tech
Tennessee (-7.5) at Kentucky
Alabama (-21) at Auburn
Vanderbilt (-1.5) at Wake Forest
Florida State (-1.5) at Florida
Ole Miss (+17) at Mississippi State
Clemson (+4) at South Carolina

Thanksgiving

It's a 3E tradition.

Week 14 picks kind of early because of Thanksgiving

Last week, I went 3-1 straight up and 2-2 against the line. That puts me at 63-10 straight up and 38-35 against the line. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

Arkansas (+12) at LSU
Georgia (-6) at Georgia Tech
TENNESSEE (-7.5) at Kentucky
Alabama (-21) at Auburn
Vanderbilt (-1.5) at WAKE FOREST
FLORIDA STATE (-1.5) at Florida
Ole Miss (+17) at MISSISSIPPI STATE
Clemson (+4) at SOUTH CAROLINA

Clothes in The Godfather

Every and each year, I take a day to watch The Godfather trilogy back-to-back-to-back. If I manage to do that more than once a year, I feel even better about myself. I've been deeply in love with these films since I first discovered them so many years ago - and every time someone asks me what's my favorite movie (a question that a film critic hears quite often), I never hesitate before answering "The Godfather - all nine hours of it".

[...]

The last time I watched the films, however, I was struck by Kay's clothes.

(Note: the color of her costumes change somewhat dramatically depending of the media: in VHS/DVD, they're mostly orange; in Blu-ray, the red becomes more evident.)

Yes, it would be impossible not to notice her dress when she visits the Corleone compound while looking for Michael (who's hiding in Sicily) - its intense orange/red color basically screams against the grey and the black usually seen on the clothes of her boyfriend's family. And it's pretty clear the idea behind this choice is to stress how distant Kay is from the dark universe of the Corleones.

But if you pay close attention to how Kay's clothes change during the three films you'll realize how brilliant the visual logic of the trilogy is.

Showing a weakness for orage/red tones on her clothing from her very first scene, Kay is always seen wearing costumes dominated by those colors during the sequences in which she's still a single woman.

The Clothes of Kay Corleone

Dam breach

Explosive Breach of Condit Dam

finally

Kentucky (+30.5) at Georgia
Mississippi State (+13) at Arkansas
Louisiana St. (-30) at Ole Miss
Vanderbilt (-1.5) at Tennessee

People name their childern after sardays like this.

for wester

Week 13: we're almost done

Last week, I went 7-0 straight up and 4-3 against the line. That puts me at 60-9 straight up and 36-33 against the line. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line. This might be the worst weekly line-up of SEC games I have ever seen.

Kentucky (+30.5) at GEORGIA
Mississippi State (+13) at ARKANSAS
LSU (-30) at Ole Miss
VANDERBILT (-1.5) at Tennessee

Auburn, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina all play lower-division competition this weekend.

I don't think I've remembered to mention it before, but I get these lines from College Football Locks.

Forever Lazy commercial

This commercial is pretty sad, in a "dumbing of America/Idiocracy is coming true/this is for adults?" kind of way. I'm more interested in it as a reflection of cultural norms and, more specifically, gender construction and heteronormativity. Watching not terribly carefully, I see one woman in gray and another in navy blue, plus the magic transition at the end of the commercial. All the rest (notably every woman younger than about forty) wear pink. No man in the commercial wears a pink one. There is a place out there for an American Studies or Gender Studies dissertation, or at least a seminar paper, regarding how gender roles are construed in mass market, direct-order TV advertising.



Also, if I saw someone wearing one of these in public I would assume that person was retarded, not in a pejorative sense but unable to get it together enough to wear anything else.

Ole Miss futility football

Surely this can't be correct ... can it?

As I watched the Rebels lose by twenty points to Louisiana Tech, I began looking for any reason to stick around in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium just before halftime, as I'm not one to leave games early. After quickly scanning the field and then the stands, and realizing that I would have nothing more interesting to do, I casually glanced at the sign somone on our sideline was holding up at the moment to signal what I would presume was a play call to our players. At that moment, we had the ball on offense, and the signaler happened to hold up a sign that read "T.S."

I joked with the people unfortunate enough to still be in the stadium at that moment that I would bet that wideout Tobias Singleton would be getting the ball.

"Ha," I thought. "Wouldn't that be hilarious?"

Then..... he did. On a speed sweep. No big deal, I thought. I just sorta lucked into that one, right? Then.... we watched the playcalling signs for the rest of the game.

somebody's poorly drawn comic Monday

frankly, i've always had a taste for livin.

METAL MONDAY HAS NEVER BEEN SO METAL

ALSO THIS JUST IN

FUCK MILLSAPS

this just in again

Georgia fans are the worst.

Yelping with Cormac

This is fun: Yelping with Cormac.

Forever 21

Union Square - San Francisco, CA

Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM

Two stars.

The first woman I been with was a gal named Mabel Rae down in Plano. She was the second prettiest woman I ever did see. I was eighteen years of age at the time and she was twenty one. She was a whore down on Gas Street. I suppose that may shock some folks. Layin down with a whore like I did. But I see these young things on the street everday wearing clothes would of made Mabel Rae blush. Dont seem like progress to me.

Ever time I rode through Plano I stopped by Gas Street to see Mabel Rae. Now dont misunderstand me. The nature of our acquaintance changed when I met Alice. These were social calls. Mabel Rae always wore the same dress and the same hair but the rest of her aged. Plano was a tough town and she took her licks like everbody else. Werent nothin glamorous about it.

When she was about 35 years of age she took to drink pretty good. Started just fallin apart. I aint proud to say I stopped callin. I caint tell you what happened to her. I’m not sure anybody knows.

I like to think of Mabel Rae when she was twenty one years of age. I reckon she’ll always be that age to me.

I TOO WENT 5 - 1 LAST WEEK NOW AM 56 - 12

HEY IT'S LIKE A NUDE BEACH NOBODY COVERS LOL

Florida (+3.5) at South Carolina
Kentucky (+13.5) at Vanderbilt
Auburn (+12.5) at Georgia
Tennessee (+14) at Arkansas
Western Kentucky (+41.5) at Louisiana St
La Tech (-2) at Ole Miss
Alabama (-17.5) at Mississippi State

Week 12 corrected score picks

Thanks to tha Cap'n for clearing this up: I had a score of 53-9 straight up and 32-30 against the line going into last week. Then I went 5-1 and 4-2 last week. That brings me up, I think, to 58-10 overall and 36-32 against the spread.

So, with that out of the way, here are the current picks. This week has some more unusual lines: Vandy is a 13.5 point favorite in an SEC game and an SEC team is an underdog to Louisiana Tech. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

Florida (+3.5) at SOUTH CAROLINA
Kentucky (+13.5) at Vanderbilt
Auburn (+12.5) at Georgia
Tennessee (+14) at ARKANSAS
Western Kentucky (+41.5) at Lsu
LA TECH (-2) at Ole Miss
ALABAMA (-17.5) at Mississippi State

Georgia Week: Admittedly adorable but that won't save you

SCENES FROM THE MILLSUCKS TALENT SHOW

Top Comment: Imagine if this was the obstacle course for Legends of the Hidden Temple

Universities

Yet American universities also attract ferocious criticism, much of it from professors and from journalists who know them well, and that’s entirely reasonable too. Every coin has its other side, every virtue its corresponding vice—and practically every university its festering sores. At the most prestigious medical schools, professors publish the work of paid flacks for pharmaceutical companies under their own names. At many state universities and more than a few private ones, head football and basketball coaches earn millions and their assistants hundreds of thousands for running semiprofessional teams. Few of these teams earn much money for the universities that sponsor them, and some brutally exploit their players.

At competitive private colleges and universities, admissions directors reserve places in each class for the children of alumni and potential donors; for athletes, many of whom will make less use of their academic opportunities than their classmates do; and simply for those who can pay. And at universities that boast of their commitment to undergraduate teaching, too many professors gabble through PowerPoint slides twice a week and entrust the face-to-face teaching of actual students to underpaid graduate students and Ph.D.s on short-term contracts, who do their best to impart basic skills in writing and quantitative analysis while earning only a few thousand dollars a course.

It’s not hard to see why colleges and universities resist simple evaluations. There are now almost five thousand universities and colleges—both two-year and four-year—in the US. Millions attend them, including around 40 percent of eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-old Americans and a great many older students. Postsecondary education stretches from the tree-shaded Olympuses of the Ivy-plus private group and the imposing quadrangles of the great public universities to urban community colleges that run twelve hours a day, surrounded only by vast parking lots that are never big enough to accommodate everyone. It’s private and public, mass and elite, ancient and ivy-covered, contemporary and cutting-edge. No generalization could do justice to this vast and varied scene.

Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?

HATE WEEK.

THERE REALLY AREN'T ANY OTHER VIDEOS OF MILLSUCKS.

Georgia Week: Not sure how I feel about the "wa ah ah ah" music

hey i know him

Friday links

1. Tebow Tebow comments

2. Annoying sound

3. Doodle Or Die is so fun

Mike Tyson song

bc a guy died

a guy who isn't in this video. but a guy nonetheless.



UPDATE: BETTER!

SEC PICK THEMS POST

by my haphazard and (DARE I SAY) slapdash calculation I'm at 51 - 11 strait up which is xtrakrzy because that's a different total than Charlos's 54 - 9. It doesn't matter. I'm certainly not trying to figger out my ATS reck.

UPDATE: Since Charles won't count I'm going to assume I missed a win.

52 - 11.

UPDATE: Just noticed that Charles's strait up and ATS records don't total to the same thing. Maybe I AM a mere 51 - 11.

UPDATE: 62 games have been picked. I'm going to be the better man and admit that my original 51 - 11 was correct and that other asshole is cooking the books ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.

UPDATE: you've only got 9 losses, bro. EVERYONE, CHARLES IS ONLY 53 - 9.

PICK UMZ

Vanderbilt (+14) at Florida
New Mexico State (+33.5) at Georgia
Ole Miss (-2) at Kentucky
Middle Tennessee State (+20.5) at Tennessee
South Carolina (+5) at ARKANSAS
Louisiana St. (+4.5) at ALABAMA

Week 10 pickums

Last week I went 4-1 straight-up and 3-2 against the line. That puts me at 54-9 and 32-30, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

Unlike some weeks, when it feels like the line would be free money (especially for Alabama games), to me this looks like the toughest week yet. If I were putting real money down, this week I would not bet on any games except Ole Miss. Maybe Arkansas.

Vanderbilt (+14) at Florida
New Mexico State (+33.5) at Georgia
OLE MISS (-2) at Kentucky
Middle Tennessee State (+20.5) at TENNESSEE
South Carolina (+5) at ARKANSAS
LSU (+4.5) at Alabama

Mississippi State is playing an FCS opponent.

acc football presents: this just in

Wealth inequality

In lieu of the rule of law — the equal application of rules to everyone — what we have now is a two-tiered justice system in which the powerful are immunized while the powerless are punished with increasing mercilessness. As a guarantor of outcomes, the law has, by now, been so completely perverted that it is an incomparably potent weapon for entrenching inequality further, controlling the powerless, and ensuring corrupted outcomes.

The tide that was supposed to lift all ships has, in fact, left startling numbers of Americans underwater. In the process, we lost any sense that a common set of rules applies to everyone, and so there is no longer a legitimizing anchor for the vast income and wealth inequalities that plague the nation.

That is what has changed, and a growing recognition of what it means is fueling rising citizen anger and protest. The inequality under which so many suffer is not only vast, but illegitimate, rooted as it is in lawlessness and corruption. Obscuring that fact has long been the linchpin for inducing Americans to accept vast and growing inequalities. That fact is now too glaring to obscure any longer.

Immunity and Impunity in Elite America

more halloween

halloween

apropos

metal monday: baby metal!

top comment: RELEASE THE PEDOBEAR!!!!

I'm the first mammal to wear pants

on time and on a dime!

Arkansas (-10) at Vanderbilt

Georgia (-3) vs. Florida
Ole Miss (+12.5) at Auburn
Mississippi State (-10) at Kentucky
South Carolina (-3.5) at Tennessee

Oi, again with the home dogs!

Week 9 picks on time for once

Last week I went 4-0 straight-up and a gross 1-3 against the line. That puts me at 50-8 and 29-28, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

ARKANSAS (-10) at Vanderbilt
GEORGIA (-3) vs. Florida
Ole Miss (+12.5) at AUBURN
MISSISSIPPI STATE (-10) at Kentucky
South Carolina (-3.5) at Tennessee

Octopus intelligence

Only recently have scientists accorded chimpanzees, so closely related to humans we can share blood transfusions, the dignity of having a mind. But now, increasingly, researchers who study octopuses are convinced that these boneless, alien animals—creatures whose ancestors diverged from the lineage that would lead to ours roughly 500 to 700 million years ago—have developed intelligence, emotions, and individual personalities. Their findings are challenging our understanding of consciousness itself.

I had always longed to meet an octopus. Now was my chance: senior aquarist Scott Dowd arranged an introduction. In a back room, he would open the top of Athena’s tank. If she consented, I could touch her. The heavy lid covering her tank separated our two worlds. One world was mine and yours, the reality of air and land, where we lumber through life governed by a backbone and constrained by jointed limbs and gravity. The other world was hers, the reality of a nearly gelatinous being breathing water and moving weightlessly through it. We think of our world as the “real” one, but Athena’s is realer still: after all, most of the world is ocean, and most animals live there. Regardless of whether they live on land or water, more than 95 percent of all animals are invertebrates, like Athena.

Inside the mind of an octopus

Another fun North Korean dance music video

hawaiian dances are stupid

Arkansas (-15.5) at Ole Miss
Auburn (+21) at Louisiana St.
Army (+11) at Vanderbilt
Tennessee (+29.5) at ALABAMA

Would have liked to have disagreed more, but oh well.

week 8 real late my bad

Last week I went 5-0 straight-up and 3-2 against the line. That puts me at 46-8 and 28-25, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

ARKANSAS (-15.5) at Ole Miss
Auburn (+21) at Lsu
Army (+11) at Vanderbilt
Tennessee (+29.5) at ALABAMA

Kentucky is playing Jax State, which probably is a pick 'em.

Bohemian Shatner

avengers

Everyone around here is getting ready for Klanoween

He sprang to his Chevy, to his team gave a purr,
And away they all flew, all screaming out slurs.
But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of town,
"Best to get all them darkies out here 'fore sundown!"

this just in

I am not generally a Kill Bill fan but this is a great scene

this is where i predict the future

OH MY GOD.

South Carolina (-3) at Mississippi State
Louisiana St (-17) at Tennessee
Alabama (-25.5) at Ole Miss
Georgia (-11) at Vanderbilt
Florida (-2) at Auburn

THASSA LOTTA HOME DOGS.

Week 7 Picks subtitled I am doing worse against the line than I expected I would

Last week I went 4-2 straight-up and 3-3 against the line. That puts me at 41-8 and 25-23, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

SOUTH CAROLINA (-3) at Mississippi State
LSU (-17) at Tennessee
ALABAMA (-25.5) at Ole Miss
Georgia (-11) at Vanderbilt
Florida (-2) at Auburn

efficient resource management

56 06 39

SEC expansion

Here's an idea about what the SEC could do with regards to expansion, since it's apparently a thing now. The SEC should add to what it has by picking up WVU, Louisville, Kansas, Kansas State, and Missouri, for a total of 18 teams.

So, the football divisions would be the nine schools in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Georgia in one division, Kentucky and all the new pick-ups since 1992 (the five listed above plus South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas A&M) in the other. This means a lot of travel for the new schools, but football and basketball can afford it. The division made up of the older SEC teams would be the football division, the new one a basketball division.

The conference would play nine conference games in football: round-robin schedule against the other eight teams in your division, plus a team in the other division. I would give schools freedom to schedule the inter-division game: Tennessee and Kentucky want to play every year? Sure! Florida wants to rotate three teams? Whatever.

In basketball, I'd subdivide the divisions. Play a home-and-home with your four biggest rivals in the division every year, one game against each team in the rest of the division, and a rotation of six games against teams in the opposite division (for a total 18 conference games). This would have everyone play their biggest rivals twice a season, their other division rivals once a year, and get regular games against the rest of the conference.

All other sports would ignore the divisions, perhaps playing in pods or protected rivalries with rotating games. This would cut down on travel costs and let rivalries in individual sports to flourish.

Such an expansion would protect all the important football rivalries. It would put the SEC on TV sets stretching from Texas and Kansas in the west to Pennsylvania and Florida in the east. It would create unquestionably the strongest athletic conference in the country; for basketball and especially football, you'd have divisions as strong as any other conference.

It would also protect and nourish the weaker halves of the two money sports. Missouri, for example, can build and improve their football program without having to play Florida or LSU every year. Basketball is slightly more evenly divided, but it would help (say) Mississippi State's basketball team to not have to necessarily play Kansas, Kentucky, and Louisville all in one year.

There are some big downsides. The new additions probably won't add as much money, even with the new TV contracts, as they'll take.

More importantly, it will change the football product. The SEC probably will never have another undefeated season. No matter how good (for example) Auburn ever is, they will not win every game against the average LSU, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama team in one season.

The football title game would also be much less important and impressive. You'd have a three or four loss Georgia or Florida beating the pants off a one or two loss Texas A&M or West Virginia every year.

Gang Fight! Gang Fight! The gang is down to fight, yeah

roomba

I've got to admit, my heart just isn't in this.

Mississippi St. (-18.5) at UAB
Kentucky (+21) at South Carolina
Florida (+13.5) at Louisiana St.
Vanderbilt (+29) at ALABAMA
Auburn (+10) at Arkansas
Georgia (-1.5) at TENNESSEE

Not only will Tennessee win, they'll cover.

Some call it Week 6 picks

Last week I went a gross 4-3 straight-up and 3-4 against the line. That puts me at 37-6 and 22-20, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

MISSISSIPPI STATE (-18.5) at UAB
Kentucky (+21) at South Carolina
Florida (+13.5) at LSU
Vanderbilt (+29) at ALABAMA
Auburn (+10) at Arkansas
Georgia (-1.5) at Tennessee

You see, you dont have to live like a refugee

in soviet russia...

Privacy

Say you're a 26-year-old who just got hired as a middle school teacher. You love your new job. Your students are great. But what if they Google you and make it to the third page of results, where there's a link to a sexually explicit column you wrote years ago for a now defunct Web magazine? Awkward. Maybe even a threat to your career. Alas, the erstwhile editor of the site won't remove the piece. And even if he did it would live on -- it's hard to remove anything from the Internet.

Or maybe what vexes someone is photo-tagging. When John Doe attended that gay pride parade while visiting New York City, he never realized his image would be captured in a huge crowd, his Sacramento Kings cap atop his head, or that technology would make it possible to zoom in on his features, or that facial recognition software would tag the photo as him. Now he's back in Fresno freaking out. What if people at the plant where he works figure out that he's closeted? So he takes to the Web. Photoshops himself into all sorts of unlikely places. Tienanmen Square. The gold medal platform at the 1976 Summer Olympics. In the crowd for "The Shot Heard Round the World." All while wearing that same cap. Suddenly the gay pride parade shot is just one more iteration on the photo meme that he or some prankster buddy made.

A Plausible Thought About the Future

I'd better go take a swim and see if I can cool down a little bit

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.