Gary_Yngve

As a Georgia Tech alumnus, I know a lot about the Shaft

I agree. Bring back Bud Bowl! There were way too many commercials about cellphones or how to browse shit on the web.

There's actually a lot of interest in psychology and probability: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/courses/stat_121/lectures/psychofprob/ One thing I find interesting is if you take what's his name who had 3000+ hits in baseball, a .300+ average, and a hit-in-a-game streak of 40+ days, and work out the math assuming each swing has identical independent probability, the expected streak over his career agrees what actually happened.

The above bargraph is the result of a million trials of twelve simulated drives. A drive of 80 yds or more earned 7 points, a drive of 60-79 yards earned 3 points, and anything less earned 0 points. A drive was assumed finished on a turnover, a score, or a 4th down (mandatory FG or Punt). Each play was (incorrectly) assumed to be independent of any other play, the down, or yards needed for a first. The distribution of yardage was assigned relatively arbitrarily as follows: 2%: turnover 3%: loss of 2 to loss of 15 15%: loss of 2 to gain of 1 20%: gain of 1 to gain of 4 20%: gain of 4 to gain of 8 15%: gain of 8 to gain of 16 5%: gain of 16 to gain of 32 2%: touchdown Note the wide spread in total scores.

Did anyone catch the introductory music for the Seahawks and the Steelers? When the 'hawks came on, the music was some orchestral E-C E-C D-B-D... (what song is that?) where as the Steelers were introduced to some much more aggro pump-you-up music. A good example of the media's bias was last week when we were whooping some Pansiers ass, and the announcers kept saying they had a chance... onside kick, turnover, etc. In this game, the announcers were pretty much saying game over.

Yeah, it would be un-American to have a hippie-liberal-pinko city win the true American sport!

That game was the biggest load of bullshit calls! Every time Seattle got a big offensive play, it was either PI or holding. And then that supposed Pittsburgh QB rushing TD...

Nice! Good to hear that your delayed luggage didn't impinge on your plans.

Or at least we could have a change in pace and have Palestinians blow up Palestinians.

Back in undergrad when I was lifting regularly, I could do a headstand against a wall and push up to a handstand and lower back down a dozen times in a row. I'm probably down to just one or two times now.

More seriously, I have a self-imposed deadline that if I don't meet tonight, I work the weekend.

ah, the joy of making a single post, coming back several hours later seeing another dozen posts after it, and then stepping away to do more work.

They must be Gym Jones pushups or else they don't count! http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=20

Yes, the PLO was dependent on foreign aid, including aid from us. Now that Hamas is in charge and blacklisted as a terrorist org, we cannot legally give the Palestinian people any more humanitarian aid. But we can funnel the money through UNICEF. Basically we're not giving them a second chance or any time to fix things up. We're trying to shove "the right way" up their asses. No wonder folks across the world don't like us.

This one's been circulating around lately:

Right, which is why Carter suggests that if we can't legally give humanitarian aid to the PLO right now, we funnel the money through UNICEF or another organization.

regarding Hamas, "If you sponsor an election or promote democracy and freedom around the world, then when people make their own decision about their leaders, I think that all the governments should recognize that administration and let them form their government," As much as I despise Hamas, I think Carter has a good point.

But do you swallow? If you could suck your own, would you?

Given our city's recent history, I'd expect some sort of uncontrolled street party along with some degree of police brutality.

Altitude may have had nothing to do with it. Consider Jason Collier: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/hawks/2005-11-01-collier-autopsy_x.htm

The Dragontail webcam looks like this right now:

Nice, it looks a lot better now. Maybe too much of a yellow tint for my taste, but that should be fixable with a little bit of photoshop.

As are the chalk marks from the bouldering. More or less offensive than a bolt?

Why? And was there similar debate over the dude with the bike helmet?

Steve Ramsey climbed it. http://homepage.mac.com/stephen.ramsey/climbing/triplog/200404-shuksan2/ I'm sure some folks here have skied it.