22 thoughts on “March 17, 2017: Purple Horseshoes”
I love that two people in the NCAA pool only missed one pick yesterday and for both of them it was the Gophers. For the record, everyone picked the Gophers, even though I'm guessing most of us thought the game was a coin flip.
For the record, I picked against the Gophers and missed 2 in my family pool.
Pretty big stakes. Winner picks dinner location.
Also for the record, my first round strategy was to close my eyes and start clicking until all the games were picked. Coin flip the rest of the way.
I gathered it was something like that.
I wanted to do blind picking for the entire bracket, but the spacing between the teams gets too big after the first round, so I was never clicking on anything.
I knew better, but put them in the sweet sixteen, because why the hell not?
I'm decently happy with how yesterday went. Maybe I'll get back to my winning ways this year. It would probably help if I could resist the yearly urge to pick Kansas, but the genie's not going back into that bottle.
(those with trouble with roundabouts can sympathize)
Angry Phil just discovered his student loan servicers didn't bother to change the direct withdrawl bank accounts as requests for a couple months, and so Phil ended up with an overdraft on an old bank account. We left it open for the express purpose of giving us time to change over our automatic withdrawls, and everyone else got it done within a month or two. These guys took half a year.
It gets worse... one of them had been on a short deferment, and when they came out of that they for some reason tried to start withdrawing from an even older, closed account. Which meant that we had an unpaid status on our student loan. So I called them, filed the paperwork to get our new account in place, but for some reason they decided to go to that old (but still open) account first, and only then process the new account information.
This whole "Reign" campaign the MLB has been running the last year or so looks more ridiculous every time I see it on a piece of gear.
Oooh, lots of fun geekery with books and statistical analysis. I mean . . . there's a chart titled "Use of Exclamation Points per 100,000 Words"!
There was also something out there, recently (maybe here) that showed punctuation marks by authors.
When I read Joyce' Ulysses last year it seemed like the last 60 pages were one sentence. Maybe the period was broken on his typewriter...
I saw something short in The Atlantic about exclamations per 100,000 words. It only covered about ten authors though and I didn't see link to more results.
A guy I know well with the RR recently started a drone division, and was showing me before our flight home some cool video they recorded of slides in N. CA and Northern Idaho - real cool stuff. But a mess the clean up unfortunately. They plan to also use drones for checking underside of bridges and rail yard work, etc. Nice pre-retirement treat for him to get to do
The Alma Mater picked up a drone a couple of years ago for use by public affairs/comms. The Boy got to drive it a few times when he was working for them. Cool stuff.
I love that two people in the NCAA pool only missed one pick yesterday and for both of them it was the Gophers. For the record, everyone picked the Gophers, even though I'm guessing most of us thought the game was a coin flip.
For the record, I picked against the Gophers and missed 2 in my family pool.
Pretty big stakes. Winner picks dinner location.
Also for the record, my first round strategy was to close my eyes and start clicking until all the games were picked. Coin flip the rest of the way.
I gathered it was something like that.
I wanted to do blind picking for the entire bracket, but the spacing between the teams gets too big after the first round, so I was never clicking on anything.
I knew better, but put them in the sweet sixteen, because why the hell not?
I'm decently happy with how yesterday went. Maybe I'll get back to my winning ways this year. It would probably help if I could resist the yearly urge to pick Kansas, but the genie's not going back into that bottle.
Hey, it worked in 2008!
The JUICE is getting ready to make its move towards Ganymede. Doozy of a trip to get there though:
(those with trouble with roundabouts can sympathize)
Angry Phil just discovered his student loan servicers didn't bother to change the direct withdrawl bank accounts as requests for a couple months, and so Phil ended up with an overdraft on an old bank account. We left it open for the express purpose of giving us time to change over our automatic withdrawls, and everyone else got it done within a month or two. These guys took half a year.
It gets worse... one of them had been on a short deferment, and when they came out of that they for some reason tried to start withdrawing from an even older, closed account. Which meant that we had an unpaid status on our student loan. So I called them, filed the paperwork to get our new account in place, but for some reason they decided to go to that old (but still open) account first, and only then process the new account information.
I hate the system sometimes.
The Texan forgot to take the money?
Not that I like coffee under any circumstances, but that is one disgusting looking drink.
R. I. P. former American League umpire Russ Goetz, at age 86.
This whole "Reign" campaign the MLB has been running the last year or so looks more ridiculous every time I see it on a piece of gear.
Oooh, lots of fun geekery with books and statistical analysis. I mean . . . there's a chart titled "Use of Exclamation Points per 100,000 Words"!
There was also something out there, recently (maybe here) that showed punctuation marks by authors.
When I read Joyce' Ulysses last year it seemed like the last 60 pages were one sentence. Maybe the period was broken on his typewriter...
I saw something short in The Atlantic about exclamations per 100,000 words. It only covered about ten authors though and I didn't see link to more results.
A guy I know well with the RR recently started a drone division, and was showing me before our flight home some cool video they recorded of slides in N. CA and Northern Idaho - real cool stuff. But a mess the clean up unfortunately. They plan to also use drones for checking underside of bridges and rail yard work, etc. Nice pre-retirement treat for him to get to do
The Alma Mater picked up a drone a couple of years ago for use by public affairs/comms. The Boy got to drive it a few times when he was working for them. Cool stuff.
Long week concluded (mostly). Home with a Stone Vertical Epic (02.02.02 20th Anniversary Encore Series). The Girl is making dinner. Life is pretty good.