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29-ish years since I first put together the CHDF, and roughly four houses later...

I appreciate whatever requires the least bespoke maintenance. Thanks for your service, Age.

Back to lurking.

Quote from: wakester2468I'm making my first trip to the Florida College Classic this year. Perhaps the most insignificant question on this forum  is this.  While in Florida I have no
intention of wearing anything but shorts if at all possible.  Is that the normal attire for games at Germain Arena or should I plan otherwise?

Probably depends on who you ask. People who live in Florida think 65°F weather warrants a heavy jacket.

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Quote from: Kyle RoseSounds like Yale from a few years back: only 1 draft pick, but good coaching and an effective system.

That Yale team reminded me of a college football team running the option: success predicated on the talent level of the college game and the inability of the defense to deal with it.  It can't be run in the pros because there even the linemen and the linebackers run as fast as a good college halfback.  So it makes sense that the team can dominate at the college level but the pros don't see potential in the roster.

I like this idea of recruiting and coaching to defeat one's opponents. Perhaps we should try it.

Quote from: BearLoverPenn State has one draft pick on team, a 7th rounder.

Sounds like Yale from a few years back: only 1 draft pick, but good coaching and an effective system.

Quote from: KGR11Personally, I think the telephone cheer is becoming ridiculous. The intros for the call recipients used to be way more concise.

Some of the funniest things I've heard at Lynah were telephone cheers with ridiculously long, involved intros with lots of detail about the player in question. But the person doing it needs to be really loud.

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Quote from: nshapiroAs a parent of a current numb nut (and I am not offended on his behalf...my opinion of him alternates between smart-ass and dumb-ass)

Good, that is healthy.  If you don't want to sell your child to a Russian copper mine between the ages of 16 and 25, they're not doing it right.

We also have provided a sufficiently unsatisfactory home life, so there is no chance my kids will ever to move back in.

You'd be amazed how they seep back in, like ants.  Or mold.

Move and don't leave a forwarding address.Take off and nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

FYP :-}

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Quote from: CASBeeej, do you know how out athletic fundraising compares with the other Ivies?  Given we have the highest undergrad enrollment in the Ivies, do we raise more money for athletics than these schools?  Given the state of our football facilities & some of what Dave Archer has said about the material underfunding of football, I doubt it.

Hell, considering our alumni numbers we should always out fund-raise the other Ivies in all areas. But we don't. I often wonder how many people who complain actually get involved and try and make thinks better.

I strongly suspect the lower giving rates overall from Cornell alumni are a structural problem that is much larger than athletics. I don't regard my own behavior (never given money to Cornell outside of the hockey team or pep band because of dissatisfaction with profit-driven higher education in general) as representative of attitudes toward giving in general, but I do occasionally wonder what sets of things Cornell does to its students that result in so many people throwing the fund drive letters into the recycle bin without opening them up.

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Quote from: billhowardAt some point, the radio announcers should shift to being video announcers, and it's the radio broadcast that rides along.

No, no, no.  I like the announcers staying in radio mode.  Much more play by play detail and much less fluff and "personality" garbage.

What's even better is MLB's postseason internet video, with selectable cameras and sounds-of-the-ballpark. I'd like this for all sports: let me choose which part of the action I see, and no more inane announcers.

Wait, what? ::wow::

I don't know if they do this anymore, since I haven't watched postseason coverage in a while. ( :-) )  But the last time I did, postseason.tv was awesome. This year's page does say:

QuoteWatch up to 4 alternate angles at once
Choose from up to 10 camera angles for the ALCS

but I don't know if they still have sounds of the ballpark.

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Quote from: billhowardAt some point, the radio announcers should shift to being video announcers, and it's the radio broadcast that rides along.

No, no, no.  I like the announcers staying in radio mode.  Much more play by play detail and much less fluff and "personality" garbage.

What's even better is MLB's postseason internet video, with selectable cameras and sounds-of-the-ballpark. I'd like this for all sports: let me choose which part of the action I see, and no more inane announcers.

Quote from: TrotskyI'm sorry for the dumb question, but what do people use Roku for?  I can stream on my computer, and if I want the larger screen I can directly cable to the TV.

Does this give higher resolution or extra features, like being able to dump the feed to TiVo and watch later?

I'm not being deliberately dense or, for once, Luddite.  I just don't get what it's for.

Convenience. You can, of course, hook your laptop up to the TV, but that generally precludes you from using it at the same time, and also increases the work to view versus just slamming your ass on the couch, turning the TV on, and picking up the Roku remote (or Apple TV remote, or phone in case of Chromecast).

The Apple TV is also useful for casting content from your Mac laptop that you can't get natively on a Roku or Apple TV: just connect your laptop to the Apple TV via airplay, and it becomes another display into which you can drag a web browser, all without a cord connected to your laptop. This is how I watched the games on my TV last year. The video quality isn't as smooth, but given ILDN's overall quality*, it wasn't really a problem.

*Much better than pre-ILDN Redcast, but still lagging the state of the art for internet video streaming.

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Quote from: Kyle RoseCould be a good opportunity for some troll-cheering. If they make you go, you might as well have fun with it.

It's not the athletes' fault that Cornell athletics sucks so please don't cleverly (a.k.a. not at all cleverly) slag them.

Who, really, would be to blame in that scenario? The collateral damage is unfortunate, but acceptable since it doesn't involve actually harming anyone.

That said, regardless of how low my opinion of the Cornell administration is, I doubt they would actually do something this awful so it's probably pointless to argue over.

QuoteOTOH, if you want to burn the administration in effigy, go to it.

Like that would move them one iota. You get them to change their minds by giving them the exact opposite of what they aim for.

Quote from: KeithKIn principle I think this is a good idea. Even, all jokes aside, including football.  But my take on the current generation of students (possibly unfair, certainly not well informed) is that many or most would simply blow off all sporting events rather than put up with the requirements.

Could be a good opportunity for some troll-cheering. If they make you go, you might as well have fun with it.

Quote from: SwampyWhat's really offensive is the load of BS that passes for valid political opinion/discourse without any concern for facts or logic.

+1.

A good argument can come from anywhere. Bad arguments OTOH seem to come from everywhere.

Quote from: SwampyFurthermore, one would hope your premise, about capitalism being responsible for human advances over the past few centuries, would always be open to examination and revision.

Absolutely. I think you're reading too much into a rejoinder. The best way to interpret my statement is more simply, "You (meaning Al) are likely to have a problem with any source I am able to cite expressing in any way the viewpoint that capitalism might be a tremendous force for the improvement of living standards over time." Which is probably overstating things, but given how he parachutes in to lob a few bombs at people he doesn't like and then disappears, I've no actual evidence to the contrary.

Quote from: SwampyKyle, this seems inconsistent with some other things you've said. Shouldn't you be looking for a book, journal, web site, news feed, blog, or whatever that has rigorous analyses that include well-researched empirical evidence, the results of which may be pro- or anti-capitalism? Or perhaps claiming that "capitalism" itself is not a particularly cogent way of understanding political-economic systems?

What you said reminds me of the Hoover Institute's charter, which defines its mission as combatting the ideas of Karl Marx. Nothing like starting out with a foregone conclusion and then looking for those arguments and sources that support it, while being close-minded about anything that might undermine the conclusion.

No educated person seriously believes that capitalism is ideal: in the process of enabling growth and turning science into progress, it grinds up a lot of people and spits them out. By contrast, a lot of educated people *do* seriously believe that capitalism is pessimal, or that the progress the western world has made over the past several hundred years has occurred merely by accident or (!!) in spite of capitalism. I find humanprogress.org a refreshing counterpoint to that warped perspective. I would rather be in the poorest quintile of the US today than the richest person on earth 200 years ago.

Would I want to be in the poorest quintile of the *world* population? Probably not, which suggests there's still a long way to go. But the progress that has demonstrably been enabled by allowing free people to pursue their own interests and voluntarily engage in commerce, mostly unrestrained by the need to prove something is good or effective to a third party before trying it, is amazing if you stop to think about it.

The developed world desperately needs the optimistic perspective to go along with all the armchair doomsaying promoted by mostly comfortable people in the top 5% of the world as measured by wealth. Capitalism is by far the most effective anti-poverty program in the history of civilization. Let's keep that going.

Quote from: SwampyOh, one other bone I'd pick. In one of your other posts, you called capitalism a philosophy.
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Don't care. Well, at least not enough relative to the other things on my plate. If I had unlimited time, I might want to get sucked into a side conversation, but I don't. Sorry.