Tuesday, March 17, 2026
I'm running through the world like a running back
Saturday, February 28, 2026
AI Articles
1. A.I. Isn't People: "I’ve watched all three of my children learn what a cat is, and in each case the number of pictures of a cat they needed to see was not “all of them.” It was like, two or three? Half a dozen, tops. I helped them learn to speak and read fluently, and the number of Reddit posts required was not “every Reddit post.” I don’t need to know what mechanism underlies human intelligence to rule out the possibility that it’s the same as what a large language model does."
2. Child's Play: "The future they seem to envisage is one in which people don’t really do anything at all, except follow the instructions given to them by machines."
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Classical paintings
There is a single explanation for the fact that the reconstructions do not resemble the statues depicted in ancient artworks, the fact that their use of color is unlike that in ancient mosaics and frescoes, and the fact that modern viewers find them ugly. It is that the reconstructions are painted very badly. There is no reason to posit that ancient Europeans had tastes radically unlike ours to explain our dislike of the reconstructions. The Greeks and Romans would have disliked them too, because the reconstructed polychromy is no good.
Thursday, January 15, 2026
our pets heads are falling off
"theres a miami in florida and a miami in ohio, theres an indiana in indiana and an indiana in pennsylvania"
I need the "Rich Men North of Richmond" internet freak to turn that into a viral sensation for us.
MIAMI (FL) +8.5 TEAM OF DESTINY
TIEBREAKER IS 1 POINT MIAMI WILL WIN 25-24.
My only New Year resolution is to win at least one segment of bowl pick them 2025
Miami vs Indiana (-8.5): team of destiny
Tiebreaker: 16 points
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Still seems like this can't be right
This one's for all the Tostitos.
Miami vs Indiana (-8.5)
Tiebreaker if necessary: actual winning margin of victorious team.
Wednesday, January 07, 2026
choo choo it's the lane train
beep beep, off the tracks, buster
Old Moist +3.5 This is a team of destiny. And by destiny, I mean institutionalized racism.
Indiana -4 Mean and nasty. Just knocking fools over. Taking what they want and not letting you even have a sniff. But enough about Taft, Nico, and New Madison.
Indiana's name means "Land of the Indians", or simply "Indian Land".
Miami (FL) -3.5 v Old Mist: So does Old Mist have coaches? How is that working?
Oregon v Indiana -4: I Believe
Monday, January 05, 2026
We Truly Are The Home Of The Wonderful Pig
Friday, January 02, 2026
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
I concede
MIAMI (FL) V OHIO ST (-10): sure
OREGON V TEXAS TECH (+1.5): wildcard!
ALABAMA V INDIANA (-7): the good times
OLD MIST V GEORGIA (-7): the bad times
I concede!
Didn't wanna have to do it but I did.
Ohio St -10 In this context, thatsa lotta points, but Ohio St. is way better than Miami. And also almost everyone else.
Oregon -1.5 Oregon is my dark horse semifinal loser.
Alabama +7 I mean they're playing Indiana for pete's sake.
Old Mist +7 Old Mist had Georgia on the ropes and let them escape the ropes. I think this is a sailing metaphor? Perhaps it has to do with the boy scouts?
Monday, December 22, 2025
get a load of these freaks
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QUARTERFINAL SPREADS
MIAMI (FL) V OHIO ST (-10)
OREGON (-1.5) V TEXAS TECH
ALABAMA V INDIANA (-7)
OLD MIST V GEORGIA (-7)
Friday, December 19, 2025
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
(Strong Bad voice) I said confidence picks! Confidence!
Jeesh, guy wouldn't know bowl picks if it came up and bit him in the face.
(that happened once)
Regular Bowls with Confidence
LA Bowl: Boise State vs. Washington (33): Big line, seems right, a good start. (snorting sounds) OK, let's look at the odds for these football games.
Salute to Veterans Bowl: Troy vs. Jacksonville State (6): Game of the Year
Cure Bowl: Old Dominion vs. South Florida (23): I'm gonna take my Bulls against O D U / They're gonna pass 'til they can't no more
68 Ventures Bowl: Louisiana (11) vs. Delaware: In a contest of dead politicians, Huey Long versus Joe Biden in a match for the ages
Xbox Bowl: Arkansas State vs. Missouri State (7): Feels like this should be half of a bracket with like West Georgia and the University of Minnesota Duluth on the other side.
Myrtle Beach Bowl: Kennesaw State (18) vs. Western Michigan: Looks like I forgot to pick one! 18 confidence points it is. Do me right, Owls (weird how often I say that).
Gasparilla Bowl: Memphis (20) vs. NC State: It's cool that Arkansas hired a coach all the Memphis fans wanted to get fired. Anyway, NC State stinks.
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Washington State (9) vs. Utah State: I rarely get to say this, but: Future Conference Mates Collide
Boca Raton Bowl: Louisville (13) vs. Toledo: These cities are further apart than you would think
New Orleans Bowl: Western Kentucky (17) vs. Southern Miss: you're telling me that none of these are regular season conference games? i'm supposed to believe that?
Frisco Bowl: UNLV (27) vs. Ohio: UNLV would be a cool rapper name. Unlove.
Hawai'i Bowl: Cal vs. Hawai'i (16): Bringing good cheer to young and old, meek and the bold: Ding, dong, ding, dong, that is their song. With joyful ring, all caroling, one seems to hear words of good cheer from everywhere, filling the air. Oh, how they pound, raising the sound, o'er hill and dale, telling their tale. Gaily they ring, while people sing songs of good cheer: The Hawaii Bowl is here.
GameAbove Sports Bowl: Central Michigan vs. Northwestern (25): And they came down and they sat at his feet and they listened to him, and he spake, Beloved, I say unto thee, behold! behold! the GameAbove Sports Bowl.
Rate Bowl: New Mexico vs. Minnesota (10): Did you know John Denver was born in Roswell, New Mexico? Oh, you did. Cool, cool. Oh, gotta go? Seems pretty soon, I was thinking we'd hang a while. Oh, alright, hey, take it easy. See you later. Wait, did you get my texts?
First Responder Bowl: FIU vs. UTSA (30): FIUTSA
Military Bowl: Pitt (8) vs. East Carolina: Coupla low-rent looking programs. Cheap looking. Unthinkable.
Pinstripe Bowl: Clemson vs. Penn State (22): Pinstripe, more like prison stripes with these two teams, am I right? Alt: The Disappointment Bowl.
Fenway Bowl: UConn (24) vs. Army: UConn won nine games! They lost to Delaware but beat Duke, wild stuff. Although, I may have assumed this was a women's basketball game.
Pop-Tarts Bowl: BYU (12) vs. Georgia Tech: polygamy vs polynomials
Arizona Bowl: Miami (OH) vs. Fresno State (21): Fresno Steaks
New Mexico Bowl: UNT (28) vs. San Diego State: An actually cool match up, neato. Every so often you lift up in this Hell World and see a little bit of light.
Gator Bowl: Missouri (26) vs. Virginia: Despite my opposition to Missouri being in the SEC and indeed my opposition to pretty much the entire conference, I must root against Virginia.
Texas Bowl: LSU (3) vs. Houston: The winner of this game will get a six-month exemption to pollute their wetlands and other local ecosystems even more with oil and gas extraction, and the team ahead at halftime will insert six cubic liters of noxious particulates into the air system of an elementary school of their choosing.
Birmingham Bowl: Georgia Southern vs. App State (5): didn't we go to this game
Independence Bowl: Coastal Carolina vs. Louisiana Tech (32): Chanticleers is a good name. The announcement for their new coach looks extremely Hulu Limited Series.
Music City Bowl: Tennessee (29) vs. Illinois: Tennessee / Tennessee / Tennessee / Tennessee / Tennessee
Alamo Bowl: Southern Cal (31) vs. TCU: Couple of rich dickhead schools. They made a whole bowl game out of the bad guys from a 1980s college sex comedy.
ReliaQuest Bowl: Iowa (14) vs. Vanderbilt: I think Iowa has a little something for 'em, and I am still not sold on Coach Bland Bane.
Sun Bowl: Arizona State (19) vs. Duke: dilly dilly
Citrus Bowl: Texas (15) vs. Michigan: some, uh, stuff happening up in there Michigan / Remember when Texas was about to join the Pac-12? Or the Big 10? Those were both better timelines, I think.
Las Vegas Bowl: Nebraska vs. Utah (35): Las Vegas, great spot for these piggish prudish fanbases.
Armed Forces Bowl: Texas State (34) vs. Rice: This is a big line, should be bigger. Texas State is pretty good. Rice is also a food[citation needed].
Liberty Bowl: Navy vs. Cincinnati (1): sick
Duke's Mayo Bowl: Mississippi State (2) vs. Wake Forest: Go Wake, go break.
Holiday Bowl: Arizona vs. SMU (4): Truly, saving the best for last.
No. 10 Miami (Fla.) (+3.5) at No. 7 Texas A&M: TAMU is flagging.
No. 20 Tulane (+17.5) at No. 6 Old Mist (-17.5): This should be a conference game
No. 24 James Madison at No. 5 Oregon (-21.5): I still have the chance to work "A Napier wit" into a conversation at some point, that's a plus. Hey, here's a free Gameday sign idea:
JERKING
ME
URGENTLY





