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Category: Sports

Tweets from 2012-07-27

  • Still like Disney’s “Mulan” an awful lot. Esp. when Mushu is not on screen. #
  • Rewatching “Iron Man 2”, enjoyed the SHIELD personnel (Fury, Coulson, Romanoff) best. Rest is entertaining but pretty muddled. #
  • Apparently, Macaroni Grill has decided dinner should be romantically dark. Aka too dim to read the menu, or anything else. #
  • Dear NBC announcers for the Olympics #OpeningCeremony : Please STFU and let us enjoy what’s going on without your incessant nattering. #
  • I think the NBC #OpeningCeremony announcers think they are being paid by the word. Or that we’ll tune out w/o constant American accents. #

Unblogged Bits for 2012-07-23

I’ve finally gotten in touch with the Google+Blog plugin guy, and am shuffling info requests between him and my host.  So, hopefully, the automation will start working again Real Soon Now.

Meantime …

This and that:

  1. The cost of rape – Not the emotional cost, but the actual medical bill cost.  In the US, at least.
  2. A nice cease-and-desist letter?  Inconceivable! – Sometimes trademark lawyers can be cool.  Yeah, hard to believe.
  3. I would buy this cereal. Or t-shirts. Or mugs. – Truth.
  4. Slamming Penn State – Good.
  5. Coming soon to breadlines near you – Our retirement system sucks. And it’s getting worse, especially as pensions become less common and people do a poor job of saving.
  6. Jobmakers, Wagecutters – Because why not try to cripple pensions and social security? It’s a win-win!
  7. Thanks, Sally.  Rest in Peace. – Sally Ride, RIP.

More on the Colorado theater shootings:

  1. Misplaced sensitivity – Yes, please be sensitive. But be sensitive in a meaningful way.
  2. Doctor Jerry Newcombe is a Dolt (Gathered to Jesus Edition) – Because, of course, now is the time to mention that all the non-Christians who were killed are now down in Hell.  Stay classy, Jerry!
  3. Blaming the Victims – If you’re going to blame the movie theater victims for not charging the shooter, don’t back down and say you were really just talking about the evils of gun control. It just make you look like a cowardly jerk.
  4. Solutions to the problem of theater shootings – Are there solutions? And do they raise bigger problems than what they purport to solve?
  5. If only there were more guns – Because that would have solved all the problems, because everyone carrying a gun should really be firing it off in a dark, smoky theater and at the one person who’s obviously the target because they’re … firing a gun.
  6. People suck at risk analysis – Which is why we overreact to some things, and underreact to others.

 

 

Unblogged Bits for 2012-07-20

Google+Blog plugin is still borked. No response from plugin designer. Unsure what my options are at this point.  So, meanwhile, here are things I posted in Google Plus since yesterday, much of which is about the Colorado movie theater shooting:

The shooting

  1. My second thought on the Colorado theater shooting – Which was about some people’s first thoughts.
  2. “There will be other days for politics” – Obama and Romney were, as far as I heard, pretty class acts regarding the shooting.  Too many other politicians were not.
  3. And, on cue, a tragedy becomes a talking point – One of the first (but by no means last) automatic seizing of the  tragedy for use in pursuit of someone’s ideological goals. Stay classy, Gohmert (R-Texas)!
  4. And here’s what a positive response to tragedy looks like – The local blood bank organization is having to turn away walk-ins looking to donate.
  5. Social media upsides and downsides during a tragedy – Remarkably enough, not everyone with the same name as the alleged shooter is, in fact, that person.
  6. Light a candle against the darkness – The world is not all bad. It’s useful to remember that sometimes.
  7. Sadly, “The Onion” Knows Exactly Too Much About Us – Sometimes, it’s scary.
  8. This is why we can’t have nice things (Colorado Theater Killing Edition) – Because, of course, the response to a tragedy is to Do Something, to Pass a Law, or Impose a Restriction.  Even if it wouldn’t have avoided the tragedy, and isn’t likely to do much to avert future ones.
  9. Silly risk assessment, or audience-assuring security theater? – More knee-jerk reactions by movie theaters to the shooting.

Other stuff:

  1. I’m not quite sure what they put in the water over in Japan … – Japanese music videos are often zany. This one is downright hallucinogenic.
  2. A rose by any other name would be nom-nom-nom-nom! – Romantic and tasty!
  3. I had no idea there was an actual girl from Ipanema – The song turns 50. It’s still fun.
  4. An oldie but goodie – “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the official version.
  5. We did it once. We can — and should — do it again – The anniversary of Apollo 11.
  6. Funding for the goose is funding for the gander – Right-wing pol is shocked, shocked, to find that taxpayer money being given to religious schools might actually go to Muslims.
  7. Learning to live with the Dark Side of the Continent – A religiously conservative woman moves to Canada, home of the evil nationalized health service that also funds abortions — and what she found there.
  8. Remembering the Summer of 1972 – A moment of silence for the dead of the Munich Olympics, forty years ago, seems appropriate to me, but not to the IOC.

The USOC proves once again how dickish they are

These guys make Disney look like a set of warm, fuzzy pushovers.  Not only are the obsessive about anything that even sounds like "OLYMPICS" (next up: insisting the town fathers of Olympia, Washington, change their town name), but then you get something like this:

The USOC is responsible for preserving the Olympic Movement and its ideals within the United States.  Part of that responsibility is to ensure that Olympic trademarks, imagery and terminology are protected and given the appropriate respect.  We believe using the name “Ravelympics” for a competition that involves an afghan marathon, scarf hockey and sweater triathlon, among others, tends to denigrate the true nature of the Olympic Games.  In a sense, it is disrespectful to our country’s finest athletes and fails to recognize or appreciate their hard work."

Yeah, go ahead, laugh at the skill, dedication, and physical finesse it takes to knit.  "Disrespectful"? "Denigrating"? "Unappreciative"?  Get lost, idjits.

(h/t +Amanda Helstrom 

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2 Million Knitters with Pointy Sticks are Angry at the US Olympic Committee
The US Olympic Committee just sent a cease and desist letter to Ravelry.com for a member-created activity held every two years called Ravelympics. Namely, they declared that the usage of Ravelympic……

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The Super Bowl stat everyone wants to know about, of course

How did NYC's bathroom usage trend through the game? #ddtb

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Game Of Thrones: NYC Super Bowl Toilet Stats Will Scare The Poop Out Of You
(Jiri Hera / shutterstock). Forget about the score and the amazing ratings—if there is one fact you need to know about the Super Bowl this weekend it is this: after the game ended, so many people eva…

On sporting events that may or may not be happening this weekend

I am not quite as averse to football as the below — if it happens to be on somewhere, I'll watch it, though I won't go out of my way to do so (even to turning on the TV for it) unless it's one of a couple of local teams in the "big game".

But, yeah, I expect to hear the below a lot at the office tomorrow. So I guess I better at least check out what the score was before I go in. #ddtb

Reshared post from +Matthew Inman

Today in a nutshell

After the Big Game, perhaps we can watch a few bouts in the Gladiatorial Arena

After the Big Game, perhaps we can watch a few bouts in the Gladiatorial Arena

I am not a football fan, but I enjoy watching the occasional game with friends. Part of it is tribalism, yes, but of a relatively harmless nature (except when crowds get so hopped up on tribalistic ecstasy or anger, plus alcohol, that, post-game, they go out to burn things). What we see of football on TV is the excitement of the game, some in-game injuries, then the big final score and the post-game analysis. Easy-peasy, no lasting harm, no lasting foul.

But George's observations about the affects of football play on the underlying pool of kids who feed into the system — in high school and even earlier — needs to be understood and acknowledged. And we're also beginning to see more of how the game takes its toll on adults — not just a "aw, it's a few broken bones that ended his career, but, hey, he can get a job like anyone else" kind of a thing, but broken bodies and brains that shouldn't just be handwaved away so we can watch our favorites trounce their traditional rivals.

No, nothing is perfectly safe. But we don't send kids into the arenas with swords and spears to fight it out for our pleasure. Where do we draw the line, then? #ddtb

Reshared post from +George Wiman

Super-Bowl Day heresy: http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2012/01/football-and-light-bulbs/

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» Football and light bulbs Decrepit Old Fool
I heard there's a big football game on today; it's an annual event where advertisers try to be so entertaining that we will actually watch their ads. There are also traditions of viewing parti…

This puts my vacation plans in perspective

We're going on a week-long cruise to Alaska in July, which sounds really fun, but is a non-trivial amount of money.

Then I saw the info on Super Bowl tickets:

"The cheapest seat sold so far on Ticket Exchange, the NFL's official resale site run by IAC/InterActiveCorp. (IACI) unit Ticketmaster, is $2,614 in Section 422 in the upper corner, while the highest price paid was $17,048 on the 40-yard line."

Suddenly, a 7-day Alaska cruise looks like an absolute bargain. #ddtb

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Super Bowl tickets starting at $2,800
New York-Boston matchup keeps demand for tickets high, though Indianapolis location could limit those looking to travel to Feb. 5 game.

Public prayer as a way of paying off a bet

Does it strike anyone else as odd that, as a result of a "good-natured bet" that a public official (the mayor of Pittsburgh) is doing a "Tebow" in public? I mean, either he's praying as the result of a wager (which seems distasteful) or pretending to pray as the result of a wager (ditto). And he's doing it as an elected government official.

I think I'd be insulted whether I was a believer or not. #ddtb

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Pittsburgh Mayor makes good on NFL bet, takes a Tebow knee | The Spot — Denver, Colorado politics and government news — The Denver Post
Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravensthal made good on a bet with Denver Mayor Michael Hancock over the result of Sunday's NFL playoff game.

We got to prioritize our spending!

Taxes? Evil! Building roads and bridges? Boooooring. Spending programs to boost public employement? That's communism, boy!

But local taxpayer subsidies to bowl games? Public schools losing money to participate in bowl games? Well, that's the American way! #ddtb

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How Taxpayers Finance College Football’s Biggest Bowl Games
This is the second part of a three-part series on college football’s bowl system, the Bowl Championship Series. You can read the first part here. Bowl season, college football’s month-long end-of-seas…

Tweets from 2011-12-12

  • Got a very nice, touching, thank you card from my boss today as he transitions to another group. Worked for him 7 yrs. Will miss him, too. #
  • Okay, I know I live in Denver but … I’m already tired of Tebowmania. #
  • Woot! MT @ColoradoDOT: #Denver New flyover from SB Santa Fe to EB C470 opened 4 mo. ahead of schedule; project is $600,000 under budget. #
  • ST:TOS Rewatch “Journey to Babel”: Father issues! Reagan wife! Pig-faced Tellarites! Shifty Andorians! Logic overload! McCoy Last Word FTW! #

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than to be good

Amazing story. That will be turned, I have no doubt, into an awful Hallmark TV movie. #ddtb

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins

Sometimes you get lucky.

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Paralympian Eyeing The Olympics After Crash Miraculously Un-Paralyzes Her
Shut everything down. This is one of the craziest feel good stories of the year.

Paralyzed from the hip down since she was 13, Monique van der Vorst was an accomplished paralympian cyclist. She won two silver medals in the handcycling road at the Beijing Paralympics. Last year, she was in an accident and fell off her wheelchair. While recovering from the trauma, her feet started to tingle and miraculously she began to move them again. She spent months in the hospital and in the rehabilitati…

Ripping

Okay, a few thoughts here.

1. It's a clever name.
2. Oh, fergoshsakes, don't make up some coy backstory to claim that your "London Rippers" mascot isn't really (at least inspired by) Jack the Ripper.
3. Okay, maybe in poor taste.
4. Rush Limbaugh thinks it's funny and uproariously offensive, so it is definitely in poor taste.
5. Would it be funny if it were the Berlin (Wisconsin) Mengeles? Okay, there wouldn't be the baseball pun (can't think of a Nazi baseball pun at the moment), but what about the Rome (Georgia) Caligulas? Or the Lisbon (Maine) Bordens? Or the Charlestown (SC) Mansons? Is a mass murderer and historic villain really appropriate for a baseball team (with associated team paraphernalia to be worn by kids and adults)?
6. On the other hand, the Vikings weren't very nice people. Neither were most Pirates. #ddtb

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London Rippers’ baseball team name and logo buzzing in U.S.
U.S.A. Today, NBC Sports and Rush Limbaugh all have commented on the London, Ont. baseball team logo that resembles Jack the Ripper

Bhopal causes potential London Olympics embarrassment

The Bhopal disaster continues to haunt Union Carbide's buyer, Dow Chemicals — sort of like it continues to haunt the victims and their families. Shame, that. #ddtb

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London Olympics in crisis as India threatens boycott
Indian athletes are threatening to boycott next summer's London Olympics in an extraordinary stand-off with the head of the 2012 Games, Lord Coe, over his controversial sponsorship deal with a chemica…

A thousand reasons, no justifications

Yes, there are a thousand reasons not to do the right thing. The thing you know is the right thing, the think you know you'll feel guilty about if you don't.

A thousand reasons to go along. To pass the buck. To look the other way. To not do what you think is right, or to delay action to ask someone else what they think, or to simply do the safe thing and claim that you figured that those other folks would take care of it, so you don't have to.

But a million reasons don't justify. Or excuse. Or, speaking from my own personal, small experience, help you sleep at night.

Yeah, it's about Penn State. But it's about a lot more than that. #ddtb

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No more dismissal, no more excuses « Decrepit Old Fool
No more dismissal, no more excuses. By decrepadmin, on November 13th, 2011. (Trigger alert). This article in Scientific American has been making the rounds, in defense of witnesses who don't inter…

Scandalous

An interesting perspective on the Joe Paterno / Penn State scandal, from a man in the middle of writing Paterno's biography. #ddtb

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Joe Posnanski » Posts The End of Paterno «

Overreacting for an awful cause

Okay, even if Joe Paterno were the most revered figure since Gandhi, and his outster by the Penn State Board of Trustees the greatest injustice since the Dredd Scott decision … that still doesn't justify a bunch of (presumably) drunken students essentially rioting on the Penn State campus — vandalism, overturning vehicles, rock and bottle throwing at the police and media, stupid crap like that.

And given what Paterno did (or didn't do) to justify the firing, it's even more indefensible. (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/11/joe-paterno-fired.html)

Folks, it's a freaking game. Life will, in fact, go on without Joe Paterno coaching the football program. Be angry, if you like, and if, after considering the circumstances, you think your anger warranted. But acting like the school administration, abetted by the police and the media, just suggested everyone should chop off their right thumb, is plain stupid — and, arguably, a great reason to actually get rid of the whole semi-professional football program at Penn State. #ddtb

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Penn State Riot: Students Protest, Clash With Police After Joe Paterno Fired
Students took to the streets in State College after Joe Paterno was fired on Wednesday night. Crowds were clashing with police as the protest got out of hand.

Unblogged Bits (Tue. 21-Sep-10 1731)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. “The Money’s Flowing,” But From Where? – But that’s not really money! That’s (corporate) FREE SPEECH! Right?
  2. Voter Suppression Plan Uncovered in Wisconsin – “Trying to win an election by getting fewer people to vote is a desperate move, and far from the spirit of democracy.” Which is why the GOP and the Right keep doing it.
  3. A Reasoned Debate on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Miranda
  4. In defense of extraneous amendments – The GOP hypocritically criticizing a procedural move they’ve used eleventy-dozen times themselves? Inconceivable!
  5. Matt Kane: When American Exceptionalism Should Be Absolute: Matt Kane
  6. Dr. Susan Corso: Millions Pouring Into Campaigns — Who Does This Benefit?: Dr. Susan Corso
  7. Thundarr the Barbarian: 4-DVD Release of ‘The Complete Series’ Available Next Week…But Online Only – Ookla! Ariel! RIIIIIIDE!
  8. A Challenge To Republicans: Here’s What Reducing The Deficit Through Large Spending Cuts Looks Like – Option 4 for the (GOP) win!
  9. Being Gay in the Military is a “Private Hell” Under DADT – Sorry, folks – tales of personal sadness and love must always be trumped by the Ick Factor in some people’s minds.
  10. With Just 40 Votes, Republicans Block Debate Over Defense Authorization Bill – So the GOP is willing to block the defense authorization bill in the Senate for the first time since 1952, all out of base’s fear of Teh Gayz and the “moderate”s’ outrage at procedure. Nice.
  11. On the Other Hand: Sometimes (Parental) Silence is Golden – I heartily approve, especially if the cowbells are kept home, too.
  12. Joe. My. God.: CALIFORNIA: Beer Sellers Oppose Marijuana Legalization Bill – “Unless the beer distributors in California have suddenly developed a philosophical opposition to the use of intoxicating substances, the motivation behind this contribution is clear.”
  13. New Google transparency tool shows gov requests, blocked traffic – Well done, Google.
  14. Twitter To Serve Targeted Promoted Tweets Based On Who You Follow – I’m willing to put up with some ads (servers don’t pay for themselves, after all) so long as (a) they are clearly ads, (b) their noise doesn’t obstruct the signal.

Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 30 January 2010

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

Unblogged Bits for Monday, 23 November 2009

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….