My brother, e, sent me this. Even Leo knows that Cards are going to be good this year.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Our Leader...
Mayor Nutter about the celebrations for Phillies fans:
"You can be joyous. You can't be a jackass."
I knew I liked this guy for a reason.
"You can be joyous. You can't be a jackass."
I knew I liked this guy for a reason.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Did it really have to be in Kentucky?
Seriously, as in Raiders of the Lost Ark:
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
Kentucky. Why did it have to be Kentucky?
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
Kentucky. Why did it have to be Kentucky?
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Wassup? Revisited.
Saw this on the NY Times Caucus Blog. If you remember a few years ago:
Now there is an update with the same actors:
Funny, yet strangely effective.
Now there is an update with the same actors:
Funny, yet strangely effective.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Just under a month...
Sorry, I've been really busy between school/research, football, and the fact that t and the td maker came in last weekend with their significant others. Some brief notes:
1. I still haven't gone all the way through the Science debate answers from the previous post (full disclosure I'm a strong Obama supporter). So far, I would have to say that in question 1 (innovation) I feel like Obama gives more detail about his view while McCain gives more of a generalized bullet list of ideas that left me wanting to know his exact commitment. Most imporatnatly I liked what Obama talked about (1) attracting more people to Science/Engineering and (2) increasing funding for younger faculty/researchers. I find the latter point to be crucial as I work for a younger faculty member and have a brother that fits that profile as well. Funding for research has been very tight for as long as they've been writing grants, often receiving good scores, but not high enough to qualify for the tight pool of available grant money. This will likely have the effect of driving young faculty away from jobs where we need them to develop young scientists and technology. There are some opporunities in the private sector, but a lot of the basic science and technology breakthroughs have been developed at the academic or government intitutional level until they are able to exist in the marketplace.
On Question 2, they were both pretty close with similar plans and goals for a cap-and-trade system to control the release of greenhouse gases, but I still feel that the philosophy of "Drill baby, drill!" (which may have come after these answers) counteracts McCain's argument. The more you profess that drilling is a solution to energy, the more you demonstrate your unwillingness to catagorically change this nation's reliance on greenhouse emitting technologies.
Question 3 mentions the energy question directly. A lot of long range plans (and strangely, not a peep from McCain on Off-shore drilling) but I'm not convinced there is much you can do immediately other than change people's attitude towards driving everywhere. The only way that has worked is to have $4 gas, and neither one of these two are going to increase gas taxes to guarantee high prices at the pump. In the end, they're both hoping for technology to come up with a magic bullet that will allow us to not change our lifestyle and consume 80% less energy while doing it.
2. Found this article on Slate today, and I must say I've often felt the same way about most baseball commentary. I guess it's hard to compare because football lends itself to film breakdown so much, and baseball doesn't really have many plays (and when they do, things like hit-and-run are pretty self explanatory). Basketball can be pretty similar as well. Just putting some former players up there isn't really enough for me to feel like they are experts. Most don't have the skills (at least not for the first couple years) required to hold cognant thoughts on live television (as I would assume I would not). Breaking down film is common for football players starting in high school, so that part is pretty natural, and the communication of that is the only limitation. But it's not like they have to explain physics here, it's football and it's pretty straight forward. Baseball appears to want to just put anybody on who used to play and they can say whatever they. A weird exception for me is Rob Dibble when he used to be on the Dan Patrick show. I enjoyed his self-deprecating descriptions of life as a relief pitcher and being asked to come in just to hit an opposing player. Gave me better insight on a lot of the grandstanding and tit-for-tat in baseball.
3. It was fun having some old friends in this past weekend. t, came down from Boston with his gf k, keeps you on your toes at all times and is great for striking up conversations with random strangers. He was able to get us some unique perspective of the early congress from a park ranger at the Independence Hall here in Philly (and maybe it was even true). Apparently, people were allowed to be on the floor with the reps in the old days, but they (being Philadelphians) were a little to in your face and opinionated (and they probably booed everything; the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, syphilis) so they had to put the visitors in a gallery just to get work done. Having lived here for over 3 years now, it's not entirely surprising. I'm impressed with the ease at which k deals with t. Always good to see him get as good as he gives.
The td maker and wife were impressively able to keep up with us city folk (from the suburbs of St Louis) as we made them do a decent amount of walking and, at least once, standing while waiting to eat at Sabrina's Cafe. Unfortunately, Mrs td maker was not able to coexist with Ris (j's cat, I don't claim him) so they had to stay at a hotel, but the rest of the time was a lot of fun. Some national history and lots of good food (Reading Terminal Market, the Italian Market, and Pat's King of Steaks were raided). Here's a photo that t had a stranger walking by take...
All-in-all a fun weekend, but now I need to recover.
1. I still haven't gone all the way through the Science debate answers from the previous post (full disclosure I'm a strong Obama supporter). So far, I would have to say that in question 1 (innovation) I feel like Obama gives more detail about his view while McCain gives more of a generalized bullet list of ideas that left me wanting to know his exact commitment. Most imporatnatly I liked what Obama talked about (1) attracting more people to Science/Engineering and (2) increasing funding for younger faculty/researchers. I find the latter point to be crucial as I work for a younger faculty member and have a brother that fits that profile as well. Funding for research has been very tight for as long as they've been writing grants, often receiving good scores, but not high enough to qualify for the tight pool of available grant money. This will likely have the effect of driving young faculty away from jobs where we need them to develop young scientists and technology. There are some opporunities in the private sector, but a lot of the basic science and technology breakthroughs have been developed at the academic or government intitutional level until they are able to exist in the marketplace.
On Question 2, they were both pretty close with similar plans and goals for a cap-and-trade system to control the release of greenhouse gases, but I still feel that the philosophy of "Drill baby, drill!" (which may have come after these answers) counteracts McCain's argument. The more you profess that drilling is a solution to energy, the more you demonstrate your unwillingness to catagorically change this nation's reliance on greenhouse emitting technologies.
Question 3 mentions the energy question directly. A lot of long range plans (and strangely, not a peep from McCain on Off-shore drilling) but I'm not convinced there is much you can do immediately other than change people's attitude towards driving everywhere. The only way that has worked is to have $4 gas, and neither one of these two are going to increase gas taxes to guarantee high prices at the pump. In the end, they're both hoping for technology to come up with a magic bullet that will allow us to not change our lifestyle and consume 80% less energy while doing it.
2. Found this article on Slate today, and I must say I've often felt the same way about most baseball commentary. I guess it's hard to compare because football lends itself to film breakdown so much, and baseball doesn't really have many plays (and when they do, things like hit-and-run are pretty self explanatory). Basketball can be pretty similar as well. Just putting some former players up there isn't really enough for me to feel like they are experts. Most don't have the skills (at least not for the first couple years) required to hold cognant thoughts on live television (as I would assume I would not). Breaking down film is common for football players starting in high school, so that part is pretty natural, and the communication of that is the only limitation. But it's not like they have to explain physics here, it's football and it's pretty straight forward. Baseball appears to want to just put anybody on who used to play and they can say whatever they. A weird exception for me is Rob Dibble when he used to be on the Dan Patrick show. I enjoyed his self-deprecating descriptions of life as a relief pitcher and being asked to come in just to hit an opposing player. Gave me better insight on a lot of the grandstanding and tit-for-tat in baseball.
3. It was fun having some old friends in this past weekend. t, came down from Boston with his gf k, keeps you on your toes at all times and is great for striking up conversations with random strangers. He was able to get us some unique perspective of the early congress from a park ranger at the Independence Hall here in Philly (and maybe it was even true). Apparently, people were allowed to be on the floor with the reps in the old days, but they (being Philadelphians) were a little to in your face and opinionated (and they probably booed everything; the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, syphilis) so they had to put the visitors in a gallery just to get work done. Having lived here for over 3 years now, it's not entirely surprising. I'm impressed with the ease at which k deals with t. Always good to see him get as good as he gives.
The td maker and wife were impressively able to keep up with us city folk (from the suburbs of St Louis) as we made them do a decent amount of walking and, at least once, standing while waiting to eat at Sabrina's Cafe. Unfortunately, Mrs td maker was not able to coexist with Ris (j's cat, I don't claim him) so they had to stay at a hotel, but the rest of the time was a lot of fun. Some national history and lots of good food (Reading Terminal Market, the Italian Market, and Pat's King of Steaks were raided). Here's a photo that t had a stranger walking by take...
All-in-all a fun weekend, but now I need to recover.
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