Stream Of Unconciousness

Friday, I’m in love.

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:48:10 -0400

Friday, I’m in love.

Two sides to every story - Cornell

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:39:57 -0400

You can have Kentucky. You can take Ashley Judd, Adolph Rupp, Sam Bowie, Pat Riley, Coach Cal, Refuse to Lose, the one-and-done freshmen bound for the NBA, and all the bags of cash needed to make the Wildcats run.

I’ll take Cornell and the Ivy League, which has long been a joke in college basketball.

Matt Taibbi:

But these Cornell guys pretty much all came from upper-middle-class backgrounds at least (one is the prototypical “coach’s son”; Ryan Wittman’s dad Randy was an NBA player and coach) and will have cozy lives waiting for them after they graduate. As player Louis Dale joked: “After this, it’s just nothing but babies and memories.”

Meanwhile the Kentucky kids are mostly inner-city types who needed some breaks just to get where they are. John Wall’s father died when he was nine and his mother worked multiple jobs to get him his shot; DeMarcus Cousins had no father either and his mother had to move him out of Birmingham to get him away from a bad neighborhood. Obviously they both won the genetic lottery, too, but plenty of parents have blown it for kids with the same luck.

I get that within a few years both of them and Bledsoe and Patterson and the rest of them will probably be the overpaid, entitled douche bags most NBA stars turn into. I also get that D-1 college basketball is crooked as a barrel of snakes and that recruiting whizzes like John Calipari are morally probably on par with white-slavers and Colombian drug lords. But while they’re still teenagers basketball is a life-or-death deal for kids like Wall and Cousins and their families. So I have a little trouble with all of these stories talking about how we should root for the Big Red because the Cornell kids just try harder and love the game more.

This is only food for though, of course I’m only thinking GO BIG RED!!

Pinkos

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:03:11 -0400

Maryland

Friederick Hayek, what say you?

“Nor is there any reason why the state should not assist individuals in providing for those common hazards of life against which, because of their uncertainty, few individuals can make adequate provision. Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance, where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks, the case for the state helping to organise a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong. There are many points of detail where those wishing to preserve the competitive system and those wishing to supersede it by something different will disagree on the details of such schemes; and it is possible under the name of social insurance to introduce measures which tend to make competition more or less ineffective. But there is no incompatibility in principle between the state providing greater security in this way and the preservation of individual freedom.”

just remembered

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:40:21 -0500

I have an old tumblr. Just posting this to test.

Unbiased - this is kind of what I do for a living.

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:21:31 -0400

Unbiased - this is kind of what I do for a living.

Will It Blend? - iPhone (via Blendtec)

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:02:57 -0400

Will It Blend? - iPhone (via Blendtec)

Whiskey Business

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:21:09 -0400

Whiskey Business

Face recognition

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:52:40 -0400

Face recognition

Streetsy: Daily Streetart Photography By Jake Dobkin

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:50:00 -0400

Streetsy: Daily Streetart Photography By Jake Dobkin

Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer - amazing NYC look

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:40:41 -0400

Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer - amazing NYC look

Media Bias

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:20:00 -0400

Media Bias:

Study on media bias

'Most E-Mailed' List Tearing New York Times' Newsroom Apart | The Onion

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:23:02 -0400

'Most E-Mailed' List Tearing New York Times' Newsroom Apart | The Onion

410E9th: Give'em Hell Bill

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:41:51 -0400

410E9th: Give'em Hell Bill

Ask A Ninja - Will Ferrell, Jon Heder

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:28:32 -0400

Ask A Ninja - Will Ferrell, Jon Heder

Peanut butter disproves evolution

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:46:31 -0400

Peanut butter disproves evolution

Bill Clinton - The Final Days (via misterworld)

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:47:00 -0400

Bill Clinton - The Final Days (via misterworld)

Tony Blair meets Catherine Tate

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:18:29 -0400

Tony Blair meets Catherine Tate

Ricky Gervais Comic Relief 2007 Red Nose Day (via HammerDave)

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:00:14 -0400

Ricky Gervais Comic Relief 2007 Red Nose Day (via HammerDave)

The best unedited fight sequence ever (via JmanFIVEk) 4 min,...

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:34:25 -0400

The best unedited fight sequence ever (via JmanFIVEk)

4 min, single shot, with steady cam, up circular staircase. brilliant.