January 2012
2 posts
Plays in the spread offense, taking the bulk of his snaps from the shotgun… Tends to side-arm his passes going deep…Lacks accuracy and touch on his long throws… Seems more comfortable in the short/intermediate passing attack…Does not possess the ideal height you look for in a pro passer, though his ability to scan the field helps him compensate in this area…Will...
December 2011
5 posts
October 2011
7 posts
If you read the front pages of the New York Times, they will tell you that technology’s promise has not yet been realized in terms of student performance. My answer is, of course not. If we simply attached computers to leeches, medicine wouldn’t be any better today than it was in the 19th century either.
Rupert Murdoch
September 2011
3 posts
Perhaps when Eli Manning was comparing himself to Tom Brady a few weeks ago, he was referring to how both he and Brady would have batted passes go for interceptions in the first week of the season.
Jason Cole
Google has adopted the Facebook doctrine at the very moment in which the figleaf slipped, when people all over the world are noticing that remaking ancient patterns of social interaction to conform to advertising-driven dogma exposes you to everything from humiliation at school to torture in the cells of a Middle Eastern despot. There could be no stupider moment for Google to subscribe to the...
August 2011
5 posts
There just gets to be a point where you’re in a zone and you’re playing so well that the game does slow down and you’re seeing things at a different speed and you’re able to think about a million things in a really quick period of time. I think it takes a little bit of time to get into that mode, it’s not just a one-game thing. It’s a string of games where you’re really seeing things the way you...
Jim: Do you take requests?
Andy: Sure!
Jim: Please stop.
“Obviously, what we were doing wasn’t working — all of us, me included. That is the definition of insanity, right? Doing the same thing and expecting a different result.”
Alex Smith, discussing the new 49ers offense
July 2011
6 posts
rickyv:
Ya know that waist-level bargain bin of neither new nor classic DVDs at Walgreens? That’s what Netflix Instant is.
Today I was approached by Beyonce who had just finished setting up at the studio. She said to me, “Excuse me hon. You haven’t seen my phone have you? It’s pink with a ‘Bubblicious’ cover on it.”
I said, “No, sorry. Have you tried calling it?”
She said, “No. I put it on silent.”
I said, “If you liked it then you should have put...
June 2011
13 posts
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant →
faith in people
This is all about a convenient suspension of... →
I can’t believe people are mad at him. X-men was always primarily a metaphor for the civil rights movement. The spit between nonviolent political action and separatist militant action. The bigotry and how different characters respond to it. It’s like having a movie about Muhammad Ali and leaving out the whole Muslim part. “No it was really just a movie about a guy fighting Joe...
May 2011
9 posts
Reading Readiness—A Little Bit on A Lot
viafrank:
I always come back to the truisms of the classic kung fu instructor depicted in the movies. Not so much in regards to how classrooms should be run, but more in what it is like to share and learn, to speak and to listen. The pattern is that the master is established as knowledgeable and capable, and the student seeks out the master and their tutelage. More than tips, tricks, and...
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Hemingway