Monthly Archives: October 2006

I’m not a Pittsburgh fan…

262 — The num­ber of yards Oak­land was out­gained by Pitts­burgh in the Raiders’ 20–13 win over the Steel­ers. Pitts­burgh had more total yards (360–98), first downs (15–9), a far bet­ter third-down con­ver­sion rate (7-of-19, com­pared to 1-of-11), the time of pos­ses­sion bat­tle won by ten min­utes — and they couldn’t beat what had seemed

Pleasure and the Intellect

- This is very pre­lim­i­nary. I have no idea what Benardete means by this pas­sage; I’m just toy­ing with poten­tial impli­ca­tions. — Back­ground Quotes from the pas­sage I’m puz­zling over:Clin­eas [who believes the world is a per­pet­ual state of war] implied that the city was the locus of self-alienation and split man per­ma­nently against him­self

An Attempted NFL Prediction.

I’m a Charg­ers fan, so I hate say­ing this, but I think Kansas City might be for real. Here’s the rea­son­ing — the defense is incon­sis­tent, just like the whole team, but unlike pre­vi­ous years, it has the abil­ity to actu­ally force a three-and-out. That’s a huge improve­ment. Right now, the Colts are going through what

A Defense of the President?

Note: The Car­ni­val of Cin­ema and the Car­ni­val of the Van­i­ties were kind enough to fea­ture some posts of mine, so I’m link­ing to them here. I think I might be the one per­son that likes W. I’m not a fan of this “let’s spend tons of money” approach he has, but I under­stand the ratio­nale: the

How to Kill Time

Advanced Global Per­son­al­ity Test Results Extra­ver­sion |||||||||||||||||| 76% Sta­bil­ity |||||| 26% Order­li­ness |||||||||| 33% Accom­mo­da­tion |||||| 23% Inter­de­pen­dence |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Intel­lec­tual |||||||||||||||| 70% Mys­ti­cal |||||||||||| 43% Artis­tic |||||||||||||||| 70% Reli­gious |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Hedo­nism |||||||||||| 50% Mate­ri­al­ism |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Nar­cis­sism |||||||||||| 43% Adven­tur­ous­ness |||||| 30% Work ethic |||||||||| 36% Self absorbed |||||||||||||||| 63% Con­flict seek­ing ||||||||||||