MattPie

Anyone want to summarize what happened between, say, 6PM yesterday when I left and now?

Noted on the side of the "meme", are the studies that it's based on. There is criticism of the one study I looked at (Marcott), but as you say, you need to dig deeper to find out who is funding to figure that out. http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~mli/Economics%207004/Marcott_Global%20Temperature%20Reconstructed.pdf I don't pretend to know all the details on how it works, but it's not unfeasible that science can look at how the ice freezes to determine what temperature it was at the time. And true, we're not that far off from the max in the past, but we've gone from slightly below average to max in 100 years. It could be a spike, it could be from burning millions of years worth of stored hydrocarbons in a century. Is your primary rebuttal that "it's really hard to figure out so it must be wrong"?

Have you posted much strategy or deep dive stuff here? The adulation for Randall's long series of posts on Byslma's system vs. Carolina's possession game last spring was deafening. I'd love to see some in-depth analysis, but you've set yourself up as the guy that hates the ownership and coaching and responds to any disagreement with pithy "you're just in the pocket of BigPegula so you're not on my level" toned replies so good football talk gets lost in the noise. Show your analysis, you're a fan of the game and I bet it's worthwhile.

$ sudo -u vasily ping -c 1 dallas.ssn.thenavy.mil (there are *two* movie references in there, anyone catch the second?)

Yep, Larsssssson and Hackett, a 2013 1st and 2014 2nd. The 2013 first became Zadorov, the 2014 2nd became Karabcek.

My beard has gone from a little grey to almost, but not completely in the last 4 years. (37 -> 41). My hair isn't far behind. I had a few greys at 24 though, it could have been worse.

You couldn't pass over two of the blue and center lines. So, a pass from your own end to the far side of the neutral zone would be whistled. Or from your side of the neutral zone to the opposing zone (assume the player stayed onside before receiving the pass). This was removed in 2005 to speed up the game; as bad as the current trap is now, only having to protect half the neutral zone at a time made it worse.

Handlebar or helmet? (I have handlebar right now, in the same place my motorcycle mirror lives so it's familiar. :)

Oh neat, I heard the podcast where Patrick talked about the song awhile back (Song Exploder). Good listen.

Scandalous! ;)

I don't post here much because while I like whiskey here and there, it's never the first thing I go to (beer, and recently wine have become my preference before any liquor). That being said, the only alcohol I have in the house right now is a sample of Belvedere Vodka and 1/4 of a 750 of Bulleit Rye. I'm trying to decide how I want to use the rye; one cube, seltzer, or something more fancy. I do have some rock sugar, maybe I could make a small batch of Rock and Rye. http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Rock-and-Rye Thoughts?

I read the first few books, and gave up on it. Partially due to the soap-opera feel of it (albeit compelling) and partly because getting them out of the library meant all of my free (and some of my not-free time) was sucked up for the two weeks I had the book. I'd considering watching it at some point if I had access to it; I did see someone getting two seasons-worth out of the library the other day, maybe that's an option. Stranger Things made it hard to give up Netflix; I never got around to Four Falls of Buffalo either. Did you see Rogue One? There's a nugget about that in there.

It's easier than that: the NFL thinks you'll pony up $99/season (!!!) for live audio and full-game video replays. That's even more ridiculous than the $39/season they wanted for just the audio feeds with AudioPass until recently. I'm glad I don't like football enough to make that a hard decision.

Game notes, almost completely unrelated to football: - I got a Roku over the weekend and was pleased to find the TuneIn app does get WGR and isn't considered mobile so it had the game on yesterday[0]. I didn't really listen to much of it, but whatever. - I did hear the beginning of McDermott's press conference and all I could think was "God probably doesn't care who wins your football game, you don't need to publicly thank him". [0] For those that haven't tried, if you try to play WGR via tunein, WGR app, or anything else on your phone it's blacked out during NFL coverage; playing WGR on a laptop works (despite being on the same wifi network).

Exhibit A.

FWIW, so random article (the Arena.com or something?) put Tyrod at #21 for NFL starters. I can't say I heartily disagree, although if there's an offense in place that makes use of his strengths he might move up some; I can't see better than #15, though.

They could phase it in over a few years too; 18 years 4 months one year, 18 years 8 months the next, and 19 the last year.

Are you still working at Pizza Pizza? Wildcard: glad I could help. If you work with servers and stuff, it's worth looking up tcpdump and/or tshark; they can capture from the command line on the server and then you can pull the file into Wireshark to analyze it.

Ahem, from the Coller article: But if you don’t know when to disregard bad stats, you end up thinking plus-minus is a great measure of defense or batting average is the best baseball stat there is.

Seems like there's a business opportunity to cut out the middle-man there.

USA today's business model never included human beings as subscribers. As far as I can tell, it's based on spamming people via hotel room doors, largely with fluff pieces. I have to think most of their revenue comes from the contracts with big businesses to provide X number of papers per day to their location, and turning around and saying advertise with us, we have the largest circulation in the US. I'd call it a market niche, as it's unlikely that most other papers could use the model without being on the same scale. Did you note the article above that Facebook and Google have driven down the ad payout so far that places like the NYT aren't making enough on it to make it worthwhile? 20000 clicks only pays like $100; TBN is never going to get the clicks to make that sustainable.

WGRZ still gets money from their traditional product, selling viewer eyeballs to advertisers. They can put up some basic content on the web without hurting their model, and at this point, I don't think they've really been hit by cord cutting (and even then, they still broadcast so they're better off than someone like TBS or USA network). A Newspaper's business model is getting text-based information to people for a nominal cost, somewhat buoyed by selling ad space. Physical Newspaper subscribers are down, so ad space goes becomes less valuable as well, and revenue goes down too. They either need to reinvent themselves as something that people will subscribe to (either online of off), or they'll eventually die out. Online has the advantage that they don't necessarily need to produce something every day to sell papers, so they can spend the time on the "good" stuff. The Buffalo star seems to be taking that path so the don't have to pay people to create a bunch of fluff every day.

It looks like it is originally named Eliajh's Chair, but there's another book of that name so maybe it was published in English under a new name. Strange.

A shot at getting paid to play hockey with a bunch of NHL guys for a couple weeks? Absolutely.