I still don't know what I was thinking choosing to follow the Sabres. I guess I got caught up in living in an NHL town. If my tshirt wasn't so comfy, I'd regret having bought it.
I have no idea how they found that.
So I decided a week ago that I might just skip Movie Day this month, but if there's pent-up need, I can put one up right now. Is there pent-up need?
I've never seen so little content in a month. Game production has kept me very busy and what little time I've had to myself has been on the PS4.
Isn't November the start of the prime season for films contending for a Movie Grammy? And you're gonna skip this month's movie post?!
/faux outrage
Well, I did watch four movies this past week or so, trans-Pacific flights and all. But I can always talk about them later, if content for another movie day is needed.
The addition of the individual seat-back screens are the best thing to happen to international travel. I remember a few trips right before, back when the one movie everyone watched was projected up front with little monitors for those sitting farther back. The first trip I took with the seat-back screens was infinitely more comfortable.
Agree with you there. I'm always fairly surprised at the movie selection on the flights. There's always more new releases that I want to watch than I am expecting.
Also, free beer in economy (even if its not very good).
Wait, free beer in economy? I must be flying steerage.
When I flew Air France in January '06, everyone on the plane got a complimentary glass of champagne (French, of course). After that, all passengers were allowed free beer (Kronenbourg 1664 ugh) and red and white white (again, French). First & Business class got to keep having champagne. I was pretty well and truly drunk when going through O'Hare customs.
I flew Air France once and it had free wine and a smoking area. At the time I thought it was wonderful. Now I'm sort of horrified.
So I was sitting on the aisle right by the lavatory on the flight back from Europe from my honeymoon. A few people were gathered waiting to use the restroom as I'm watching Eastern Promises. No one seemed very pleased with me when Viggo got into a knife-fight while letting his junk dangle around. I was flabbergasted that they would allow male frontal nudity uncensored in such a public spot.
Isn't November a sweeps month?
/additional faux uproar
I watched a movie! Actually 3! (or was it just 2? What was the third one?)
Might not have time to comment on it until January though.
there's a little more content for the pledge drive coming, but i've just got to, you know, do it still.
WRT the d's ghost's banner: my folks and brothers had the same reaction last x-mas when Dr. Chop and went out for a beer with Novak. When I got home my brothers asked how my internet date went. I tried to explain the WGOM and discovered that I was digging an even deeper ditch. Hard to explain something so organic.
It's amazing to me that some folks feel that making friends online is somehow weirder than doing it at work (where you're more likely to have nothing in common) or a bar (where you're not necessarily being yourself). This has been the world for what, almost twenty years now?
Many of my friends have gotten divorced. Two of my closest still-married friends met their wives online. Both are attractive and neither seem to be serial killers. Sometimes, a pretty girl online is just a pretty girl online.
At least you were able to put a name on it... I had to tell people I was gonna meet meat.
Try introducing meat (via email) to old friends to arrange a meet-up for them! (Easy peasy, as it turns out!)
Still one of the greatest baseball moments of my life. Dr. Chop raided the dugout club's pistachio and cracker jack station on our way out.
Your boy and his better half are wonderful folks.
Thankfully they eventually get used to it. I think I first just stopped using the word online. They're people I know, period. However, I've also met at least 50 people that I first knew online.
Yeah, just "meeting friends".
Knowing real names helps for that context. Not going to a game with Freealonzo, Algonad, and CanOfCorn, but D, J, and B.
This.
Also wanted to point out that knowing people's real names helps during those "meeting friends" situations. The first time introductions at events/mini-caucuses are always a little amusing.
Me: "Nice to meet you. I'm B..."
Someone: "Oh hey, the lurker!"
Me: "No...uhm, Can of Corn."
Someone: "Cool. That's free, Beau, hungry joe, DK, sean and I think you know Dread Pirate & Sheenie"
-later-
Me: "Hungry Joe. What's your name again? I didn't catch it earlier" hoping for his 'real' name
hj: "E..."
Me: "Nice to meet you."
Yup. This is one area where the Bookface group really helps.
somehow, I knew Bootsy intuitively when I saw him walking up to Grumpy's Downtown summer 2011.
November is a great month for the sports fan. the NBA and NHL are playing just about every night. College football and the NFL are in full swing. World Series games at the beginning and college basketball towards the end.
The one downside to this is when your favorite teams are overlapping each other. Like what has happened for the Wild and Wolves for most of the season. Since the Wolves are good, I give them preference over the Wild. I do want to watch the Wild, but for me its really hard to dip in and out of a hockey game.
So today, we got the Gophers basketball team playing in Hawaii, the Wolves are taking on one of the beast teams in basketball, and the Wild are playing the national NBCSN game. Too much sport for a Monday.
Kobe gets a two-year extension. $48.5 million. Wow.
that is a lot of money
An extreme amount. Kobe will continue to be the highest paid player in the league for the next two seasons after this one. He must really be wowing the Lakers in his rehab.
Perhaps he finally found the exactly perfect PED for the job?
Bill Simmons* on Kobe extension:
Stunned by Kobe's extension. Duncan + KG took less than 50% as much $ at same point in careers so their teams had more cap space to contend.
*Bill is not exactly unbiased on the subject of Kobe. I will say this: I'm generally in favor of players getting what they can get. In this particular case, it is a little curious. Is Kobe in it just to maximize his basketball salary? Because I'd think that winning a sixth championship would have a lot of worth. Meaning that they've probably foreclosed getting LBJ (they probably weren't getting him anyway) and they might get a second max dude, but after that just scraps. To load up the Lakers, they needed Kobe to take about $10 million.
Does this increase the possibility of Love going there or decrease it?
But Love can opt out of his deal after next season (KAAAHHNNNNN!!!!!!!), and the new CBA makes it so that players should enter free agency at the first possible moment in order to secure a max-level long-term deal right away — before injury, a new and more restrictive CBA, or some other variable can pop up. In that scenario, Love would hit the open market in the summer of 2015, with Bryant still clogging up the Lakers' books.
I'm more than dubious, I say that article was terrible and even managed to contradict itself:
The period was one of the first punctuation marks to enter written language as a way to indicate a pause, back when writing was used primarily as a record of (and script for) speech.
then:
“[P]eople are communicating like they are talking, but encoding that talk in writing,”
I'm going to use a period whenever I text from now on, dammit.
back when writing was used primarily as a record of (and script for) speech
when was that, exactly? I think scholars have pretty well established that the origins of writing have a lot more to do with mundane stuff like accounting, contracts, and bragging by rulers.
I wonder when we became so lazy.
We've always been lazy, now we just have new ways to express our laziness.
Never has it been so easy to be so lazy.
I'd argue with you, but it would be just too much work.
I'm trying to think of my texting habits. I think I forego a period for a text that's just a word or short phrase, but I punctuate all full sentences properly
Yeah, same for me with the short phrase or abbreviation. The only time I forgo a period on a full sentence is when I'm ending with an emoticon of some sort, since that just looks weird with both tacked together.
I really hate texting for primary communication. When forced to do it, I send long texts with all kinds of appropriate punctuation.
It can be useful, but it can also be terrible.
Looking back through my messages, I seem to text as though the end of a message implies a period. If there is more than one sentence, I use a period (or other punctuation) to end the first sentence(s) but not always the last. I'm inconsistent, but it's informal communication and life goes on.
I only drop punctuation when I'm being intentionally daft, and in those cases I drop all punctuation unless absolutely necessary.
did you forget capitals
Wow. Your daily Shat. No residuals for tv shows in the good ol' days?
I'm pleased to say that my rendition of "Perfect Day" is not a complete disaster. I can play it all and it sounds like the song. I just need to practice a lot more on the pacing. I have to think way too much and the tempo is too slow and uneven on top of that.
Last Friday I visited the U as a prospective student for their graduate Philosophy program. Since about 6 months after graduating from law school, I've realized I wanted to get back into Academia. In the time since then, I've realized that teaching at a small liberal arts college would pretty much be my dream job - the teaching, the writing, etc. I'm fairly realistic about the job market and the challenges of a position like that (and I know academia hasn't been for everyone around these parts), and seeing it with eyes wide open and knowing I still want it... well, the time has come for me to make a change (in a year and a half or so, when Philosofette finishes up her program), and so I'm finally taking steps towards that. Who knows, maybe I won't get in anyway? That would be a rough day... but, I'm taking steps, and hopefully it works out. Feels good.
Good luck, Philo. When do we start calling you Doc?
A long, long, long time. Hopefully.
When the time comes, he'll have to change his handle to "Dr. Philosopher" or "DPhil."
I'd prefer Dr. Phil. Yeah, that's about right.
How's that working for ya?
Good for you. Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't, but at least you'll know you went for it. Good luck.
I'm with Chaps. Life has a tendency to alter our course for us, but the knowledge that you worked at something that excited you and stretched your abilities (mental or physical) brings a satisfaction unlike much else.
So, I'm happy to hear you're going to pursue something truly important to you, and I wish you much success in that pursuit.
More on this subject when I get home, but this.
Dido.
The liberal arts end of the business can be pretty tough to crack into. The higher-ranked schools seem to want to hire from the Ivy programs and other top-rated programs; turnover tends to be pretty low; and you have to be willing to go wherever the jobs are. But they can be really great, fulfilling jobs if you are oriented toward undergrad teaching and the occasional foray into punditry/op-ed writing/"public scholarship". Best wishes, phyllo.
I entered the Tamarind Master Printer Training Program™ at 31 knowing full well what lie ahead was an uphill battle. I had educated myself to the hilt, and had overcome several barriers to entry, and yet failed at any attempt to achieve employment as a professor at any level. The PTP program at Tamarind was far more than the last ditch effort at gaining employment at a university, it was a way to save my life. I endured a move to texas, the loss of a house full of memories to fire and subsequent loss of identity, and general ennui before deciding that I needed to go. The program saved my life. It was miserable, difficult work. The program cost me in ways that I couldn't, and still can't, count, and yet it saved my life. I have become a much more self aware, productive artist and person since I finished that program. I was stretched beyond what I thought possible, and came out much stronger than I could have ever imagined. It's not going to be easy, but it may be worth it.
As to what the doc said, yeah, he's right. The top rated programs tend to hire from the top rated programs. The barriers to entry are extremely high, but the personal payoffs can be huge. Just my two cents.
Co-signing everything meat said above. I'll have more to say about this subject near the end of the semester.
Thanks all, for the words of support and personal experiences. CH, I'm eager to hear the more you have to say.
At this point, I'm about a year out from needing to get my application in. I'm going to look at taking a graduate course as a non-admitted student sometime next year, as a way of getting my foot further in the door (and possibly accruing some credits before hand). A long way to go, and all that.
I've also started peeking at the programs of some other schools in the area. Iowa, Northwestern, and Notre Dame all make some sense for what I'm looking at, so I'm sure I'll end applying those places too. At least I'll have a small handful of baskets for these eggs...
Not in the liberal arts, but certainly in academia.
Grad school and the ensuing postdoc appointment were no question the most challenging thing I've ever done. Not in the sense of attaining the knowledge I needed, but in terms of motivation to accomplish things that were only useful or interesting to me as means to an end. I failed at those things more often than I care to mention, including one spectacular failure there at the end of the whole thing.
Find a good advisor. More important than program (at least in my area) is having someone who you can maintain contact with once you're out and who is 100% in your corner. I got a young, active professor who earned tenure the year before I graduated and he has been an invaluable resource throughout my entire career so far. I can't say that I liked working for him all the time, but I knew even then that I was very lucky that I chose him because of what he would bring after I graduated.
Also, it's awesome that you're pursuing what you want to do. Good luck.
Buzz from Mohegan Sun event over the weekend where #Twolves GM Milt Newton was: D-Will trade is close. Utah, Sac. NYK, Nets possible.— Darren Wolfson (@DarrenWolfson) November 25, 2013
So, this is interesting.
Barriero tweeted something similar: DW is 99.9% gone. DB has a close relationship with Flip, so I think there's some fire to this smoke.
Yeah, I saw the Barriero tweet too, but didn't want to give him any credit because Barreiro.
That's right. I doubt they'd trade for him anyway. He's on the shelf right now.
It was meant as a "spoiler" in reply to a "spoiler"
looks like it will be D Will for Luc Mbah a Moute, pending physicals. Mbah a Moute was a teammate of Kevin Love at UCLA. Can we get that band back together and get Russell Westbrook?
A girl can dream (get right on this, Pepper!).
Sacramento is really, really struggling. They benched Thornton in favor of Jimmer Fredette, who is going to make a lot of money in Europe some day, but would have to improve considerably (and get on a team with an in-his-prime Michael Jordan) in order to top out at a poor-man's Steve Kerr. Thornton is a quality NBA two-guard (middling starter, top-end scorer off the bench) who has really struggled with his shot this year. I presumed that the insertion of Jimmer into the rotation in place of Thornton was to showcase him for a trade, but he hasn't done much yet. (even so, the dude gets WAAAAAAY too much local media attention; he's the local version of Tebow without the religious aspect).
Mbah a Moute is recovering from injuries, but can be a shut-down defender at the 3 spot. Not sure whether he can be a good enough spot-up shooter to be an effective two-way player.
Sacramento needs help at just about every position but center. They have an underperforming starting PG in Vasquez (still recovering from offseason ankle surgery, so the jury is still out), terrible outside shooting at the 2 and 3, pedestrian-at-best play at the 4, and not much after Isiah Thomas off the bench. They are a bad team. D-Will should be able to get minutes if he's willing to defend and give max effort, which is what Malone will demand of him.
apparently, Rick Adelman likes Moute's game. He probably doesnt have to be a scorer because where the Wolves have been faltering is the second team comes in and the opponents go on big runs. So defense might help there.
Hubba-wha?
I'm not a fan of the Wolves, but I will get behind anything that gets Mbah a Moute mentioned more around here. Such a fun name to say.
Wolves have hung around most of the game playing against a top 5 team in the league, on the road, playing their 16th games in 20* nights.
Moral victories don't get you into the playoffs but it is nice to see them hang for so long.
*All numbers approximate.
Indiana is so physical. The Wolves dont have the horses to battle them (outside of Pek)
Bad night for Minnesota sports with the Wild and the Gophers losing. Although, Gophers were much closer to Syracuse than I thought they would be, especially with one center suspended and the other in foul trouble most of the second half. This team at least looks entertaining and like it actually knows how to play against a zone.
I cant remember where I saw it, but the idea was that last year's Gophers squad should have been playing with the pace of this year's squad. I loved line of thinking!
Rodney Williams under Pitno's system would have been a beast.
Just opened one of these. I think it may be Pint-Sized Reviews-worthy.
Oooh. I've enjoyed that series. I'll have to keep an eye out for that installment.
FTLT gets a mention on SB Nation
Spoken like a true buffalo sports fan.
I still don't know what I was thinking choosing to follow the Sabres. I guess I got caught up in living in an NHL town. If my tshirt wasn't so comfy, I'd regret having bought it.
I have no idea how they found that.
So I decided a week ago that I might just skip Movie Day this month, but if there's pent-up need, I can put one up right now. Is there pent-up need?
I've never seen so little content in a month. Game production has kept me very busy and what little time I've had to myself has been on the PS4.
Isn't November the start of the prime season for films contending for a Movie Grammy? And you're gonna skip this month's movie post?!
/faux outrage
Well, I did watch four movies this past week or so, trans-Pacific flights and all. But I can always talk about them later, if content for another movie day is needed.
The addition of the individual seat-back screens are the best thing to happen to international travel. I remember a few trips right before, back when the one movie everyone watched was projected up front with little monitors for those sitting farther back. The first trip I took with the seat-back screens was infinitely more comfortable.
Agree with you there. I'm always fairly surprised at the movie selection on the flights. There's always more new releases that I want to watch than I am expecting.
Also, free beer in economy (even if its not very good).
Wait, free beer in economy? I must be flying steerage.
When I flew Air France in January '06, everyone on the plane got a complimentary glass of champagne (French, of course). After that, all passengers were allowed free beer (Kronenbourg 1664 ugh) and red and white white (again, French). First & Business class got to keep having champagne. I was pretty well and truly drunk when going through O'Hare customs.
I flew Air France once and it had free wine and a smoking area. At the time I thought it was wonderful. Now I'm sort of horrified.
So I was sitting on the aisle right by the lavatory on the flight back from Europe from my honeymoon. A few people were gathered waiting to use the restroom as I'm watching Eastern Promises. No one seemed very pleased with me when Viggo got into a knife-fight while letting his junk dangle around. I was flabbergasted that they would allow male frontal nudity uncensored in such a public spot.
Isn't November a sweeps month?
/additional faux uproar
I watched a movie! Actually 3! (or was it just 2? What was the third one?)
Might not have time to comment on it until January though.
there's a little more content for the pledge drive coming, but i've just got to, you know, do it still.
WRT the d's ghost's banner: my folks and brothers had the same reaction last x-mas when Dr. Chop and went out for a beer with Novak. When I got home my brothers asked how my internet date went. I tried to explain the WGOM and discovered that I was digging an even deeper ditch. Hard to explain something so organic.
It's amazing to me that some folks feel that making friends online is somehow weirder than doing it at work (where you're more likely to have nothing in common) or a bar (where you're not necessarily being yourself). This has been the world for what, almost twenty years now?
Many of my friends have gotten divorced. Two of my closest still-married friends met their wives online. Both are attractive and neither seem to be serial killers. Sometimes, a pretty girl online is just a pretty girl online.
At least you were able to put a name on it... I had to tell people I was gonna meet meat.
Try introducing meat (via email) to old friends to arrange a meet-up for them! (Easy peasy, as it turns out!)
Still one of the greatest baseball moments of my life. Dr. Chop raided the dugout club's pistachio and cracker jack station on our way out.
Your boy and his better half are wonderful folks.
Thankfully they eventually get used to it. I think I first just stopped using the word online. They're people I know, period. However, I've also met at least 50 people that I first knew online.
Yeah, just "meeting friends".
Knowing real names helps for that context. Not going to a game with Freealonzo, Algonad, and CanOfCorn, but D, J, and B.
This.
Also wanted to point out that knowing people's real names helps during those "meeting friends" situations. The first time introductions at events/mini-caucuses are always a little amusing.
Me: "Nice to meet you. I'm B..."
Someone: "Oh hey, the lurker!"
Me: "No...uhm, Can of Corn."
Someone: "Cool. That's free, Beau, hungry joe, DK, sean and I think you know Dread Pirate & Sheenie"
-later-
Me: "Hungry Joe. What's your name again? I didn't catch it earlier" hoping for his 'real' name
hj: "E..."
Me: "Nice to meet you."
Yup. This is one area where the Bookface group really helps.
somehow, I knew Bootsy intuitively when I saw him walking up to Grumpy's Downtown summer 2011.
Funny, I'm known as "the lurker" in person, too.
I laughed.
November is a great month for the sports fan. the NBA and NHL are playing just about every night. College football and the NFL are in full swing. World Series games at the beginning and college basketball towards the end.
The one downside to this is when your favorite teams are overlapping each other. Like what has happened for the Wild and Wolves for most of the season. Since the Wolves are good, I give them preference over the Wild. I do want to watch the Wild, but for me its really hard to dip in and out of a hockey game.
So today, we got the Gophers basketball team playing in Hawaii, the Wolves are taking on one of the beast teams in basketball, and the Wild are playing the national NBCSN game. Too much sport for a Monday.
Kobe gets a two-year extension. $48.5 million. Wow.
that is a lot of money
An extreme amount. Kobe will continue to be the highest paid player in the league for the next two seasons after this one. He must really be wowing the Lakers in his rehab.
Perhaps he finally found the exactly perfect PED for the job?
Bill Simmons* on Kobe extension:
*Bill is not exactly unbiased on the subject of Kobe. I will say this: I'm generally in favor of players getting what they can get. In this particular case, it is a little curious. Is Kobe in it just to maximize his basketball salary? Because I'd think that winning a sixth championship would have a lot of worth. Meaning that they've probably foreclosed getting LBJ (they probably weren't getting him anyway) and they might get a second max dude, but after that just scraps. To load up the Lakers, they needed Kobe to take about $10 million.
Does this increase the possibility of Love going there or decrease it?
Lowe's take:
I'm a little dubious, but apparently ending a sentence with a period is aggressive, at least in the case of texting and IMing.
this aggression will not stand, Pepper
I'm more than dubious, I say that article was terrible and even managed to contradict itself:
then:
I'm going to use a period whenever I text from now on, dammit.
when was that, exactly? I think scholars have pretty well established that the origins of writing have a lot more to do with mundane stuff like accounting, contracts, and bragging by rulers.
I wonder when we became so lazy.
We've always been lazy, now we just have new ways to express our laziness.
Never has it been so easy to be so lazy.
I'd argue with you, but it would be just too much work.
I'm trying to think of my texting habits. I think I forego a period for a text that's just a word or short phrase, but I punctuate all full sentences properly
Yeah, same for me with the short phrase or abbreviation. The only time I forgo a period on a full sentence is when I'm ending with an emoticon of some sort, since that just looks weird with both tacked together.
I really hate texting for primary communication. When forced to do it, I send long texts with all kinds of appropriate punctuation.
It can be useful, but it can also be terrible.
Looking back through my messages, I seem to text as though the end of a message implies a period. If there is more than one sentence, I use a period (or other punctuation) to end the first sentence(s) but not always the last. I'm inconsistent, but it's informal communication and life goes on.
I only drop punctuation when I'm being intentionally daft, and in those cases I drop all punctuation unless absolutely necessary.
did you forget capitals
Wow. Your daily Shat. No residuals for tv shows in the good ol' days?
But most importantly,
I'm pleased to say that my rendition of "Perfect Day" is not a complete disaster. I can play it all and it sounds like the song. I just need to practice a lot more on the pacing. I have to think way too much and the tempo is too slow and uneven on top of that.
Last Friday I visited the U as a prospective student for their graduate Philosophy program. Since about 6 months after graduating from law school, I've realized I wanted to get back into Academia. In the time since then, I've realized that teaching at a small liberal arts college would pretty much be my dream job - the teaching, the writing, etc. I'm fairly realistic about the job market and the challenges of a position like that (and I know academia hasn't been for everyone around these parts), and seeing it with eyes wide open and knowing I still want it... well, the time has come for me to make a change (in a year and a half or so, when Philosofette finishes up her program), and so I'm finally taking steps towards that. Who knows, maybe I won't get in anyway? That would be a rough day... but, I'm taking steps, and hopefully it works out. Feels good.
Good luck, Philo. When do we start calling you Doc?
A long, long, long time. Hopefully.
When the time comes, he'll have to change his handle to "Dr. Philosopher" or "DPhil."
I'd prefer Dr. Phil. Yeah, that's about right.
How's that working for ya?
Good for you. Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't, but at least you'll know you went for it. Good luck.
I'm with Chaps. Life has a tendency to alter our course for us, but the knowledge that you worked at something that excited you and stretched your abilities (mental or physical) brings a satisfaction unlike much else.
So, I'm happy to hear you're going to pursue something truly important to you, and I wish you much success in that pursuit.
More on this subject when I get home, but this.
Dido.
The liberal arts end of the business can be pretty tough to crack into. The higher-ranked schools seem to want to hire from the Ivy programs and other top-rated programs; turnover tends to be pretty low; and you have to be willing to go wherever the jobs are. But they can be really great, fulfilling jobs if you are oriented toward undergrad teaching and the occasional foray into punditry/op-ed writing/"public scholarship". Best wishes, phyllo.
I entered the Tamarind Master Printer Training Program™ at 31 knowing full well what lie ahead was an uphill battle. I had educated myself to the hilt, and had overcome several barriers to entry, and yet failed at any attempt to achieve employment as a professor at any level. The PTP program at Tamarind was far more than the last ditch effort at gaining employment at a university, it was a way to save my life. I endured a move to texas, the loss of a house full of memories to fire and subsequent loss of identity, and general ennui before deciding that I needed to go. The program saved my life. It was miserable, difficult work. The program cost me in ways that I couldn't, and still can't, count, and yet it saved my life. I have become a much more self aware, productive artist and person since I finished that program. I was stretched beyond what I thought possible, and came out much stronger than I could have ever imagined. It's not going to be easy, but it may be worth it.
As to what the doc said, yeah, he's right. The top rated programs tend to hire from the top rated programs. The barriers to entry are extremely high, but the personal payoffs can be huge. Just my two cents.
Co-signing everything meat said above. I'll have more to say about this subject near the end of the semester.
Thanks all, for the words of support and personal experiences. CH, I'm eager to hear the more you have to say.
At this point, I'm about a year out from needing to get my application in. I'm going to look at taking a graduate course as a non-admitted student sometime next year, as a way of getting my foot further in the door (and possibly accruing some credits before hand). A long way to go, and all that.
I've also started peeking at the programs of some other schools in the area. Iowa, Northwestern, and Notre Dame all make some sense for what I'm looking at, so I'm sure I'll end applying those places too. At least I'll have a small handful of baskets for these eggs...
Not in the liberal arts, but certainly in academia.
Grad school and the ensuing postdoc appointment were no question the most challenging thing I've ever done. Not in the sense of attaining the knowledge I needed, but in terms of motivation to accomplish things that were only useful or interesting to me as means to an end. I failed at those things more often than I care to mention, including one spectacular failure there at the end of the whole thing.
Find a good advisor. More important than program (at least in my area) is having someone who you can maintain contact with once you're out and who is 100% in your corner. I got a young, active professor who earned tenure the year before I graduated and he has been an invaluable resource throughout my entire career so far. I can't say that I liked working for him all the time, but I knew even then that I was very lucky that I chose him because of what he would bring after I graduated.
Also, it's awesome that you're pursuing what you want to do. Good luck.
So, this is interesting.
Barriero tweeted something similar: DW is 99.9% gone. DB has a close relationship with Flip, so I think there's some fire to this smoke.
Yeah, I saw the Barriero tweet too, but didn't want to give him any credit because Barreiro.
What do we hope to get in return??????
But what do we expect to get in return?
What I'd settle for:
I was expecting that spoiler to contain
Nice double-entendre of the spoiler, ubes.
And I hope I'm not being overly aggressive by putting a period at the end of that.
Dec 15th is the earliest that guys who signed free agent contracts this season can be moved.
That's right. I doubt they'd trade for him anyway. He's on the shelf right now.
It was meant as a "spoiler" in reply to a "spoiler"
looks like it will be D Will for Luc Mbah a Moute, pending physicals. Mbah a Moute was a teammate of Kevin Love at UCLA. Can we get that band back together and get Russell Westbrook?
A girl can dream (get right on this, Pepper!).
Sacramento is really, really struggling. They benched Thornton in favor of Jimmer Fredette, who is going to make a lot of money in Europe some day, but would have to improve considerably (and get on a team with an in-his-prime Michael Jordan) in order to top out at a poor-man's Steve Kerr. Thornton is a quality NBA two-guard (middling starter, top-end scorer off the bench) who has really struggled with his shot this year. I presumed that the insertion of Jimmer into the rotation in place of Thornton was to showcase him for a trade, but he hasn't done much yet. (even so, the dude gets WAAAAAAY too much local media attention; he's the local version of Tebow without the religious aspect).
Mbah a Moute is recovering from injuries, but can be a shut-down defender at the 3 spot. Not sure whether he can be a good enough spot-up shooter to be an effective two-way player.
Sacramento needs help at just about every position but center. They have an underperforming starting PG in Vasquez (still recovering from offseason ankle surgery, so the jury is still out), terrible outside shooting at the 2 and 3, pedestrian-at-best play at the 4, and not much after Isiah Thomas off the bench. They are a bad team. D-Will should be able to get minutes if he's willing to defend and give max effort, which is what Malone will demand of him.
apparently, Rick Adelman likes Moute's game. He probably doesnt have to be a scorer because where the Wolves have been faltering is the second team comes in and the opponents go on big runs. So defense might help there.
Hubba-wha?
I'm not a fan of the Wolves, but I will get behind anything that gets Mbah a Moute mentioned more around here. Such a fun name to say.
Wolves have hung around most of the game playing against a top 5 team in the league, on the road, playing their 16th games in 20* nights.
Moral victories don't get you into the playoffs but it is nice to see them hang for so long.
*All numbers approximate.
Indiana is so physical. The Wolves dont have the horses to battle them (outside of Pek)
Bad night for Minnesota sports with the Wild and the Gophers losing. Although, Gophers were much closer to Syracuse than I thought they would be, especially with one center suspended and the other in foul trouble most of the second half. This team at least looks entertaining and like it actually knows how to play against a zone.
I cant remember where I saw it, but the idea was that last year's Gophers squad should have been playing with the pace of this year's squad. I loved line of thinking!
Rodney Williams under Pitno's system would have been a beast.
Just opened one of these. I think it may be Pint-Sized Reviews-worthy.
Oooh. I've enjoyed that series. I'll have to keep an eye out for that installment.
TSN is losing its NHL tv contract?
whoa
This song won't make much sense in the future.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWHFwIMG5bk