HP is laying off 15,000 people, but if you quit on them and try to take some people with you, they’ll take you to court.
A couple weeks ago, a Spiderman suit. This week, an invisibility suit! It’s actually kind of odd that there’s no iconic invisible superhero (The Shadow coming the closest to ‘icon’ status). Maybe it’s hard to make an icon you can’t see.
The case for leaving Lance Armstrong alone.
Mark Mangino, for my money one of the best coaches in college football, has been reduced to being an assistant coach at Youngstown State. I know there was an air of controversy surrounding his tenure at Kansas, but I would have guessed that someone would have given him a chance by now and figured that the reason he hadn’t coached was that he didn’t want to. He should be UTEP’s head coach right now, or better.
A very basic guide to gun safety.
A petition demanding that the Washington Redskins change their name probably won’t work.
A butt-dial spoils a drug deal. A cell phone thief is caught when several stolen phones ring at once.
Politicians think we’re more conservative than we actually are. I’ve long thought that the assumption that we were a socially liberal by economically conservative society had it backwards, for the most part. The problem for Republicans is that is that they’re losing the cultural issues that used to be an underestimated strength.
It has to be a mixed bag for the Tulane Green Wave when you get a highly sought-after recruit, but he is openly admitting that he is only there because his mother made him.
I’m still way too excited about Girl Meets World. They’ve cast Cory and Topanga’s son.
McMegan had one of the more thought-provoking responses to Noah Smith’s piece on saving that I have read to date.
If we ever wonder why our politicians are so robotic and distant, it might have to do with the fact that we give them a hard time when they’re not.
The ruling in Ohio that speed cameras are a scam hasn’t been getting enough attention.
I knew that a guy got fired from the Republican Study Committee for advocating copyright reform, and I knew someone started a petition that may just let us unlock our smartphones, but I didn’t know they were the same guy. Slate follows him around CPAC.
Speaking of CPAC, I loved this ABC article on the attempts to find love there.
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Glad you’ve got a new site address. Do you know how many times I have typed in “hitcoffee.com” and scratched my head wondering what I did wrong?
I’m still way too excited about Girl Meets World.
I’m really, *really* embarrassed that I am, too. Although I feel somewhat redeemed by the fact that I didn’t know about it until just now.
I though about really screwing with people by switching to hitcoffee.co (which I am also sitting on), but I figured that I wanted people to actually be able to find this place.
Actually, I’ve been sitting on hitcoffee.com for a while. If I’d known it was causing problems, I’d have set it to forward.
LOL Yeah, I’m sure you have sooo many readers that you can confuse them and drive them away.
What is this site’s traffic? According to Alexa, you are the 7,250,347th most popular website in the world.
The site’s traffic has oddly gone up even though commenting numbers have gone down.
Sadly, Mark Mangino is too fat to be a head football coach. So how did he get the Kansas job in the first place? Well it helps that it is a basketball school. Secondly the last coach with a winning record at Kansas coached in 1953, although they did produce Mike Gottfried and Glen Mason. Finally he was the OC for a national championship team at Oklahoma, so he had the resume.
I hope Mr Feeny shows up in GMW, even though he is 85. Did you know he played Dustin Hoffman’s father in The Graduate? Although, to be fair, Hoffman was the one playing too young for his real age, since they are only 10 years apart.
As for hooking up at CPAC, it is hard to judge the quotes in the article without knowing the looks of the men and women involved. Oftentimes, the difference between a good pickup line and a bad pickup line is the appearance of the speaker. Also, when trying to pick someone up, the denominator doesn’t matter, as long as the numerator is one.
On the conference realignment front, eight out of 15 Big East teams qualified for the NCAA tournament. Let’s call it nine, since UConn would have qualified if not for their probation. Now lets take this year’s tournament teams and place them in their future conferences. In that case, three out of seven teams in the new Big East would have qualified. If one believes all of the rumors about possible new members, that increases to six out of 13. In the unAmerica 12, it is four out of nine. In the upcoming 15 team ACC, eight teams would have qualified. That is going to be a monster basketball conference in two years, although in football it will be so lousy that Louisville may win it in year one.
Strictly speaking, the new Big East won’t have an AQ into the tournament since it is a new conference. As a practical matter, with Georgetown in the conference they won’t need one. This also happened in 2000, the first year of the MWC, but they had Utah and UNLV get in anyway. There is an interesting parallel between the WAC and the Big East. In both cases the conferences expanded beyond a comfortable limit, so most of the original schools left and formed their own new conference. The only difference is that the schools that left the WAC couldn’t take the name with them. The Big East schools were allowed to.
Re: Mangino: He didn’t just get the job at Kansas, though. He was reasonably successful there!
GMW: Feeny isn’t listed yet. The friend and the brother are, though.
CPAC: Very true about a good line and a lame line.
Conference realignment: It was really weird that, when making the transition to the Big East from Conference USA, Cincinnati really stepped up and Louisville floundered. Louisville has just now gotten its footing back, while Cincinnati is one of the two left behind (for now).
My understanding about the MWC is that they actually had an autobid. This complicated things which is why they added the rule about there not being autobids for new conferences and, to accommodate the WAC’s autobid, they went to 65 games.
It looks like they’re not going to go with “American 12″ as the name. Good, because it was a stupid name. Though it would have been interesting to have a conference with the wrong number in its very first year!
Mangino: It goes to show that you can be fat, or you can be an asshole to your players, but you can’t be both. Mike Leach was just an asshole to his players, but he got rehired after a two year exile. Charlie Weis was just fat, but he got rehired, also after a two year exile (during which he was an OC).
NCAA: They chose to use the WAC/MWC split to expand to 65. They didn’t HAVE to. As evidence, the women’s tourney is still 64 teams with the same amount of autobids. Also, if you check the records, the MWC didn’t get their autobid until their second season. Another criterion to getting an autobid is having at least seven schools in your conference. This is why no one cared about the Great West tourney. NJIT, despite its number 1 seed, lost in the semis. Now that they are going to be homeless again, they really belong in the America East.
unAmerica 12: I know they rejected the America 12 moniker. That’s why I have been calling it the unAmerica 12 until they decide on a new one. It is a stupid name, just as Conference USA is.
I have been on the road all day and so can’t get to a computer, but I actually wrote about the weight thing a while back saying something similar to what you’re saying here. Fat plus something else is a problem. It makes the something else worse in a way.
Here is the first post I wrote on Mangino. Here is another that I wrote about fat coaches more generally, which you commented on.
I just went back to reread those posts. I didn’t plagarize you when making my comments here, I promise.
The thing about Mike Leach, which you mentioned, is that while he is heavy, he is not in the same league (physically) as the other famous fat coaches. Another who was in the latter cateogory was Rick Majerus, but his weight finally caught up with him.
You mentioned Southern Tech football in one of those posts, and how their fans and administration weren’t happy winning unconventially. I remember those teams. They could really throw the ball. Hell, they produced two first-round NFL drafts picks, and one of them had a mediocre career (the other bombed, no pun intended).
BTW, you used the length of The Eder in kilometers. Normally metric is for faggots and drug dealers, but since Germany is on the metric system, I guess I can allow it.
Hey, I’d take it as flattering if you did get the idea from me.
You’re right about Leach. After I got pushback on that previous post, I reconsidered and came to the conclusion that no, he’s not actually that overweight. He’s… frumpy… though. I think that makes him look more overweight to me. He looks like a software engineer with potato chip stains on his shirt and not like a football coach.
The pun you were not intending is either clever (if simply referring to the long pass) or awesomely clever (if referring to the magazine cover).
I wish I was awesomely clever. Alas, I was merely clever. I had forgotten about that magazine cover until you just reminded me of it. Now that you have, I can picture it perfectly in my mind.
It’s amazing how much of a bomb he was in the pros. He was pretty much the definition of someone who was an excellent fit for his system and his system was an excellent fit for him. Sort of like the option QBs at Nebraska.
You should have posted that you reconsidered about Leach.
Seriously though, your softwear engineer analogy was spot on.
You mean voluntarily admit when I’m wrong? You realize I’m a blogger, right?!
LOL Trumwill: Often wrong, never in doubt
Alas, I couldn’t spell software when it was in the post I was replying to.
Also are web and Sheila a part of the new Hit Coffee?
“I’m not smart but I’m certain.”
Sheila is.
Any particular reason why web isn’t, or would you rather not get into it?
He has moved on to other things, and at this point that is probably best for all parties involved.
Dude, you managed to be the second person ever kicked of NaPP. After a pretty stern warning. Uncool.