Boxes is square, dog. Boxes is square.

Why not allow teams to take longer extra point attempts for more points?

45 yards? 2 pts.

52 yards? 3 pts.

You gotta humanize yourself, man.

Clinton, "I tried it, didn't like it and didn't inhale. heh.. lolz"

Bush, "Yeah I smoked pot. Did a little blow too. But I can't talk about it because I'm not proud of it."

Obama, "Shit, man, I used to be like Revis back in the day. Led the league in interceptions."

Carson, "I tried to stab a guy in the stomach but failed."

Shoop

S&P

shiz is bettahthanevah

staying power

might be time to dive back in to this partickaler jonrah

sx90o9

High school football should be replaced by

um, literally just about anything.

it's like saying "let's have events where teenage kids crash their cars into each other at high speeds over and over and see who manages to stay upright long enough to exit his vehicle after the bell sounds and make his way to the exit under his own power. we will call that player the winner. we of course do not expect any."

The point is that learning is (can/will be) a video game.

And everyone prefers video games to real life when "close simulations" are available.

Never is this more true than in learning. (no more erasing. no more mistakes. no more sick days, etc. you know the drill. the whole "you're obsolete compared to robots thing")

You can earn credit points that go "bing" as you learn your way through calculus at age 9. or 8. or 5.

This brings up other infinity type questions.

How long into the future will "knowing calculus" be "valuable" (in a finite world)?

Society needs to harvest the natural human tendency towards free and peaceful association, probably above all else. This will require safe places for all to escape to. There is no getting around this.

At what point does it become "too easy" for people to learn new things?

When might I stop worrying about all the world's problems and maybe worry about myself instead?

When the delusions disappear, I suppose. So probably never I guess? I don't know, but simply asking the question provided a moment of feeling like "right now".

As the Foci becomes Focus.

Maenam by Jami Sieber

aho music choice soundscapes
ahomcsc

Phantogram - Black Out Days

dayum.

sxan

Ben Carson's grasp on history,

even his own, seems somewhat dubious. In fact, he almost seems to not value the concept of a historical record as a general rule. In an internet-age, this is a bold and creative approach.

Factory schools are pressure cookers.

Five years after they are essentially eliminated as we transfer to individual learning, we will look back on the mind-blowingly destructive environments we have been conveniently dumping our children into for hundreds of years and shake our heads.

No, it has nothing to do with "public" vs "private". In both cases we throw our children to the wolves and demand that they behave like lambs while simultaneously supposedly trying to learn. When they instead begin to act like wolves themselves, desperately trying to find a way to survive in their environment, we medicate them.

Funny shit.

When the factories are gone, the medicines and disorders (add) will disappear behind them. (they only exist as a means of justifying the social structure of the factory school). Of course, so will the mass shootings but one would immediately assume that's a simple result of the, you know, lack of full classrooms to target. But that's not the point. The point is those kids won't feel that rage, because they won't be facing yet another day, month, year, or multiple years of daily humiliation and struggle for social survival in the jungle of factory schools.

When dogs are on leashes and forced to be in close proximity to one another, they are far more aggressive than when they meet up off-leash. You can continue to pander to college students and pretend like they are above such dynamics but that would be embarrassing so don't do that. It's just as gross, but it's sometimes less destructive because there is more individual freedom to escape. Unfortunately there is also the finality of "life after school" facing them, which is now a complete unknown because they've been taught to believe (or come to believe by virtue of it being their entire environment) that the opinions of all these other people are the most important thing, and they've been rejected by that group, so their built-up frustrations now hit a brick wall at the "end of the road they've known". (lost the plot a bit here... just gonna leave it...)

When you prevent a child from using his natural inclination to escape from destructive, dangerous situations, you begin the process of instituting lifelong helplessness and mental illness in that child, and guaranteeing he/she will never reach his/her "potential".

Your forced sociability kills children.

But don't worry about it. You're a "good person" with "good motivations" and that's all that matters. 

Bi-lingual anthems are beautiful.

Perhaps it's time we made ours one.

So Ben Carson is taking a different tack.

While all candidates use the media as their B, as needed, most have already shmoozed their way into the sycophantic journalists' hearts. The media already wants the other candidates to like them. Their (the journalists) motivations are, therefore, mixed to some degree.

In Ben's case, that is not the case. They don't really like him so they don't really care about lost 'access'. They'll most likely focus significant amounts of energy directly towards destroying him.

So this is a different dynamic, and will be an interesting test case for the universe of benefits or dangers that can come via attacking "the media".

yeah man.

siriusxm's "The Bridge" is a cool, mellow trip and i dig it.

i dig it.

especially when they play that bitchin' sax solo from Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street".

or like today when they played "Get it right next time" which is also yup.

Two Quick Updates

The calorie counts on menus, which changed my behavior forever the very first time I read them at fast food restaurants, apparently have not affected the eating habits of the vast majority of customers. So if McDonald's really is struggling, it's not because of the calorie counts.

And I may have misinterpreted Ms. Bareilles' lyrics to be a demand of her s/o, rather than a more generally uplifting sentiment expressed towards those who may be hesitant to shine.

So calling you a bitch was probably way over the line.

For that I am sorry.

i disagree.

no, jerome, i do not believe the "black lives matter" movement had any impact at all, and i think this sort of pandering does more harm than good.

that one group is yelling while another takes an action does not mean that the  yelling group caused the action or outcome.

the people who started this movement and fought through when the going was toughest were the individuals who refused to put down their recording devices in the face of overwhelming intimidation until the courts of the land clarified the behavior's legality. they had nothing to do with black lives matter. the black lives matter movement is a product of the fight that had already been fought to expose the behavior in as close to an objective way as possible (no, you are not objective).

they are the ones who started it, but even they don't really deserve any "credit".

the movement actually came about simply because of the availability of cell phone video. nothing more. we can now watch as the parasites come in to take credit and to corrupt what has so far been a phenomenally righteous development.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerome-karabel/police-killings-lynchings-capital-punishment_b_8462778.html

the ENTIRE movement is about the right to film. anything that comes after that right is established is a consequence of that first victory.

"Play It Cool" is actually pretty neat.

Rather funny. It's dripping in romantic comedy-ism but is worth watching regardless. It feels like an early effort by someone who will have many hits. Quite funny and retains, or more accurately regularly revists, the pace, tone and sensibility throughout. In other words, it doesn't completely forget itself as it goes.

Some songs are played/heard with perfect frequency.

Tupelo Honey is my favorite Van Morrison song, and is one of those songs that is played/heard the perfect amount. I don't believe I've ever turned it off when it's come on. That's how you know.

ahosxtb

i was thinking about getting rid of the 'aho' because it's completely redundant and can be assumed, but the bare station name seemed too much like a straight-up ad so i'm not making that change, at least not right now.

Litmus Tests

Is there anyone who is not in love with Alison Krauss? Boy, girl, old, young? Anyone?

Not sure I'd really trust anyone who is not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acX_2zkA0KA

Some people have literally too much money.

"Here. Here is too much money."

Cool. Thanks.

It wasn't like "Oh my God I'm FORTY!!??!!"

it was like, "shit. now everybody else knows."

Bob's Gift Registry -

weed.

everything else i can get at GoodWill.