Update!
So I’m pretty much not going to repost every lovey-dovey thing on my dashboard anymore and write something making fun of it. I’m getting tired of playing up the cynical asshole angle and I’m sure everybody’s tired of seeing it. It’s sort of disingenuous. My new angle? It’s a secret to everybody, including myself.
I’ll gladly take suggestions!?
1 day ago
Biting political commentary: white people are better at being hopeless romantics than those damned Muslims, who I bet have never watched Failure To Launch.
2 days agoThe I-Pod Nano now has a video camera!
I just bought one of these things and the video quality is actually pretty good. Sounds like another exciting way for people to create amateur pornography memories to me. It’s pretty sweet.
P.S. Yes, I love strike-throughs!
3 days ago
It’s GPOYW! Here I am, hitting a majestic home run triple double single during softball.
I think.
Either way, softball is serious business.
3 days agoSarah Doesn’t Rule it Out
“I can envision a couple of different combinations, if ever I were to be in a position to really even seriously consider running for anything in the future, and I’m not there yet,” Palin tells Newsmax. “But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He’s a hoot. He gets his message across in such a clever way. And he’s so bold – I have to respect that. He calls it like he sees it, and he’s very, very, very effective.”
Palin’s conservative media blitz makes it to Newsmax
via politico
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.
3 days agoBannister said Greinke has learned to adjust his pitching based on the advanced defensive statistics. Because of the size of the outfield at Kauffman Stadium and the strength of the Royals’ outfielders, relative to their infielders, it sometimes made more sense to induce fly balls.
“David DeJesus had our best zone rating,” Bannister said, referring to the Royals’ left fielder. “So a lot of times, Zack would pitch for a fly ball at our park instead of a ground ball, just because the zone rating was better in our outfield and it was a big park.”
To that end, Bannister introduced Greinke to FIP, or Fielding Independent Pitching, the statistic Greinke named Tuesday as his favorite. It is a formula that measures how well a pitcher performed, regardless of his fielders. According to fangraphs.com, Greinke had the best FIP in the majors.
“That’s pretty much how I pitch, to try to keep my FIP as low as possible,” Greinke said. Not many pitchers think that way. But then, Greinke, 26, is not like other pitchers.
Use of Statistics Helps Zack Greinke to A.L. Cy Young - NYTimes.com
Hooray for a positive SABRmetrics story.
(via shorterexcerpts)
I see this as a big win for the good guys. The more people who start understanding how player evaluation works, the sooner we can get rid of Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver.
(via thefeeling)
(via hotfoot)
NERDS! STATS ARE RUINING BASEBALL! IF I TOLD BOB GIBSON ABOUT FIP HE’D HAVE KICKED MY ASS! THOSE WERE THE DAYS! ETC. ETC.
3 days ago![hammerito:
thedailywhat:
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This is my favorite thing ever.
I would spend all my time in that section, just because I can.
Sucks to be of average height now, doesn’t it? This is what you get for calling me a freak, society. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.](http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kta89wY5Sz1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
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This is my favorite thing ever.
I would spend all my time in that section, just because I can.
Sucks to be of average height now, doesn’t it? This is what you get for calling me a freak, society. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.
3 days agoSomeone just posted something about teaching kids how to read n' junk.
And since I constantly tell my child-bearing brother and sister about this, I thought I’d share with you too:
PARENTS: IF YOUR CHILD DOES NOT LEARN TO SPEAK A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY ROUGHLY THE AGE OF 8, HE/SHE WILL NEVER ACHIEVE THE FLUENCY OF A NATIVE SPEAKER.
Because of the way humans have evolved, the critical language centers close up at or around age 8. Children who learn before that age store the information in their language centers, making them truly bilingual.
Those who learn after this age (and obviously, you can) store the information in other areas of the brain, so they must (mostly unconsciously) translate the new language from their native language. This makes it MUCH more difficult and arduous to learn.
By contrast, when it is learned before age 8, there is little difficulty in acquiring the language.
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This has been a public service annoucement. Carry on.
I’ve always felt foreign languages should be learned at an early age. This is very cool information.
Fun Tino Fact: My mom put “Greek” as my first language when putting me into school so I had to take a half year of ESL even though I had picked up English from my sister and from the television. I had weird pronunciation problems when I was young though (I couldn’t make a “sh” sound until I was in 2nd or 3rd grade). Absolutely nobody cares, but yeah, I was lucky to be in a bilingual household.
3 days agoPublic Image Ltd. - Chant
CHANT, CHANT, CHANT, CHANT.
I love early PiL, when John Lydon was just an asshole all the time and made abrasive-yet-great music because that’s what him and Keith Levene and Jah Wobble felt like doing.
Also, one day I want to get drunk and do “This Is Not A Love Song” at a karaoke bar, just to piss everybody off.
3 days ago
Regretsy - Handmade? It looks like you made it with your feet
Fuck yourself fashion world… just… go fuck yourself…
I remember when I first started watching the Bruno skits, years ago, when he would go troll fashion shows. I thought to myself “There’s no way these assholes are this stupid. No way.” Well, I was wrong.
4 days ago
ls86:
The rumored US Men’s National Team jersey for the World Cup 2010.
I’m kinda loving it
The white sash makes it look like they either a) should be in a beauty pagent or b) are wearing seatbelts. It’s not bad though.
This is rather nice. I think it’d look better being worn or maybe with a red stripe, but it looks a bit like River Plate’s shirt and I’ve always had a thing for their shirts
I like this a lot.
4 days ago