1. How have Moneyball draftpick predictions held up? Try this too.
2. Season two of Veronica Mars comes out on DVD Tuesday, but newcomers must start with Season one.
3. I have been trying to develop a theory of when some people get offended by the boasting of others. In a personal ad it is OK to say you are a doctor, but not OK to say how much you earn.
4. Department of Duh: The number one search query on AOL is "Google."
5. Rousseau and Hume once played a chess game; Rousseau’s play crushed Hume’s weak understanding of the Philidor Defense in this short sacrificial gem.
6. Why Poincare’s possibly-now-proven conjecture matters.
Are you saying you’re surprised people would have a negative reaction to Jacqueline Passey’s I’m-prime-property-in-the-dating-game post?
I thought it was a joke at first. If she was serious, I expect most people would be offended.
Generally, it’s okay, or at least not especially offensive, to say “I’m good” but not okay to say or even imply “I’m better than you”. In the personal ad example, saying one’s a doctor tells others that one is likely smart, educated, and dedicated. Saying one makes $90,000 or whatever is essentially saying, “I make more than the other people posting ads.” As for the now seemingly infamous post from JP, it was funny that she showed how undesirable she was in the very post where she says she’s very desirable, by acting like a complete ass. I thought Tyler would have been especially offended by JP’s advice to men who aren’t good enough for her to lower their standards and date foreign women.
The Moneyball theory works only when applied to hitters, since in the current market in pitching is so lacking that there is not one subcategory that is undervalued.
Veronica Mars on DVD: Yay!
I guess most people who were offended by Jacqueline Passey wouldn’t have been so offended if she could’ve put her money where her mouth is. But no: her hair is thinning out, her teeth are grayish, she’s got the massive gumline thing going on, and she has the complexion of someone who has been living underground for most of her lifetime. Plus, she’s less than 30 AND a divorcee? If that does not scream “theta lower bar” and “adverse selection”, I don’t know WHAT does…
I admit to more than once typing google into my Google search bar so that I could open a Google home page for pretty much no reasonable reason whatsoever.
Uh, let me revise and extend. Putting her name into Google images provides um, alternate perspectives on her attractiveness.
Look at me, I’m an attention whore.
(PS Who are these random people talking smack about me?)
Sorry, that should read less likely to be fat *or* have another man’s children in tow.
I am a chess player. Not a great one but better than 95% of all people (within players I would rank 60 percentile).
Does ability in chess mean anything? That is the question I always have.
If I crush someone on the board should I ignore them in the classroom?
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