‘Vocal Fry’ Creeping Into U.S. Speech – Combine this with the growing tendency to make declarative statements sound like questions, starting every sentence with the word “so” and inserting “like” every few words as if it’s a punctuation mark and you start getting really annoying. Can UT Afford Not To Spend the Money for an SEC Contending Coach? – They are. They’re just paying him to stay home. #fulmer Woman Read More ...
Google’s cloud music service. Request an invite to the beta. 20k tracks stored for free isn’t a bad place to start! Shit My Students Write – Best new (to me) website I’ve run across in a while Apple Trumps Google as Most Valuable Brand – Shocked Coca-Cola doesn’t trump both. The carbonate sugar water industry is much more stable than technology. Do you think it’s even within the realm of Read More ...
Remember paper football? It’s that game we played in middle school where we’d fold paper into a triangle and bump it back and forth across the table until part of the “ball” was over the edge of the table but not falling off. That game curbed much violence at lunch time. Now you can get one of these table top kits and play for real…as real as paper football gets. Read More ...
This is pretty cool. My guess is that there aren’t any other departments on campus that could afford to do this. When I say “do this”, I’m not talking about building the Training Center…of course they couldn’t do that. I mean that I doubt they could afford to produce this video. Maybe the Film Studies Department could do it on the backs of undergrad labor as a special project. HT Read More ...
The Breaking Point for Children in Sports: The middle ground between letting kids live a sedentary lifestyle and pushing them to the point of injury and psychological distress is pretty wide. I can see where parents at both extremes would point to the opposite extreme for justification, but it’s probably only justification.
The Death of Global Warming – I don’t think it’s dead just yet. Just like in a bad horror movie, it will make one last effort to grab us by the ankle and stab us in the knee. Or something painful like that. Iran News in February. – If this involves a Segway or an iPad I’m going to be very disappointed. The 25 Hottest Olympians To Watch For – Read More ...
Are we any better off now than we were 10 years ago? Ok, just had to ask that because it seems like the thing to do. I know that for a lot of people the answer is a definite “no”. As for me, I’m infinitely better off than I was then. The last decade has been one of tremendous technological advancement, but there’s plenty to lament. Here’s my list of Read More ...
On behalf of bitter old men everywhere, I’d like to thank Michael Jordan for participating in the 2009 NBA Hall Of Fame speechin‘. When Jordan should’ve thanked the Bulls’ ex-GM, Jerry Krause, for surrounding him with championship coaches and talent, he ridiculed him. It was me, Jordan was saying. Not him. “The organization didn’t play with the flu in Utah,” Jordan grumbled. Club sports will one day reign supreme.
The media is once again distorting facts, this time about President Obama making triple bogey while golfing. Let’s set the record straight. The foursome he was playing in took 19 strokes on the par 4 hole collectively. Once the strokes were redistributed amongst the four gentleman they all scored the hole as a par. Out of fairness, the remaining three strokes were cut up and distributed to secret service agents, Read More ...
I don’t keep up with baseball anymore, but Michael Silence brought my attention to an unassisted triple play over the weekend. When you’ve had an athletic career as long and decorated as mine (I’ll pause for you to finish laughing) that’s been so well documented (again, laughter) it’s sad to say the highlight, if it can be called that, occurred as a five year old in tee-ball. Yeah, I turned Read More ...
Not the Security and Exchange Commission–I’ll straighten them out next week. I’m talking about the Southeastern Conference. Now, these are just the simple-minded observations from someone with absolutely no formal training in marketing: If someone is excited about your product and wants to talk about it, you should be happy. If someone is excited about your product and wants to talk about it, you should encourage them. No matter who Read More ...
I’m not into watching sports as much as I used to be. Like, hardly at all. But I saw two interesting things about sports today. First, check out the card for UFC 100–the biggest event in the history of the UFC. 265: Brock Lesnar (c) (265) vs. Frank Mir (c) (245) UFC Heavyweight Championship Unification 170: Georges St-Pierre (c) (170) vs. Thiago Alves (170) UFC Welterweight Championship 185: Dan Henderson Read More ...
