January 2009
32 posts
“I don’t believe there is pleasure in life. I believe there is only a...”
– Georges “Rush” St. Pierre
Big sports weekend
Update: I just realized this isn’t just a big “weekend.” All three of these events happen in 24 hours. UFC 94 at 10pm Saturday, Aussie Open men’s final at 3:30am Sunday, and the Super Bowl at 6:20pm Sunday. All times EST.
Super Bowl: Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers.
Offense versus defense. Barely lovable loser versus perennial contender. The best receiver...
“From what I can tell, I’m the morning person in the room.”
– Professor Susan Sturm to me during our 8:40am meeting today. Probably the kindest way anyone could say, “Dude, wtf - you look like ass, get some sleep.”
Watchftw
Money for Nothing →
This makes me so frickin’ angry.
142 degrees Fahrenheit
That was the on-court temperature at the end of the Andy Roddick - Novak Djokovic quarterfinals match yesterday at the Austrailian Open. For reference, the highest ever recorded surface temperature on Earth is 136.4 degrees. At 140, puppies spontaneously combust.
By comparison, yesterday’s high in New York was 29 degrees Fahrenheit (the low was 18). Which means as Djokovic was...
yoga is fun →
unnamedplayer:
if anyone wants to join me on mondays, feel free. this woman is great — and it’s a good way to de-stress, stretch, exercise etc…
rajiv: Kristie of athayoga is awesome. If you’re in the Bay Area you should take up Omar on his offer.
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Republicans are blinded by love →
“Monetary policy alone is a sufficiently powerful and flexible tool to end...”
– Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer What Ends Recessions? (1994-06-01). NBER Working Paper No. W4765. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=226985
As noted in David Brooks’ Op-Ed from a couple weeks ago. So, are we just ignoring that? Do we think spending $850 billion is a great...
The Karate Kid I-III are on Hulu →
unnamedplayer:
caffeinated:
Hulu 3* Rajiv’s productivity 0 *Hulu was later disqualified for sweeping the leg
god, you really do like some dumb movies.
rajiv: I’m not sure I even need to address this, but you know, pot, kettle, etc.
Also I’m really surprised. I never considered it explicitly, but I would have thought you’d love the Karate Kid movies.
The Karate Kid I-III are on Hulu →
Hulu 3* Rajiv’s productivity 0 *Hulu was later disqualified for sweeping the leg
Obama Inauguration Photosynths →
Very cool.
"Four More Minutes"
seankeane:
That’s what the Lincoln Memorial crowd started chanting when Bush appeared on the Jumbotron.
rajiv: that’s pretty hot.
Air and Simple Gifts
Louise: This is like a scene from "The West Wing"
Sean: Only there'd also be Whiffenpoofs involved
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rajiv: And Rahm Emanuel would have PTSD.
big win tonight!!! →
unnamedplayer:
*tingle*
rajiv: <TINGLE!>
Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know -... →
WANT.
FUCK
indian:
my mom just sold my mercedes
rajiv: I double checked, and no, this is not a post from White Whine.
A few against-the-grain thoughts about last...
None of these are revolutionary opinions, but each puts me in the minority by some amount.
Neither team proved it was better than Utah. I won’t go so far as to say Utah is definitely more deserving of a #1 ranking—maybe not quite as much as USC was in 2003, for example—but I won’t say they’re not deserving, either. As one story pointed out, if Notre Dame had...
where do you want to go? →
unnamedplayer:
who wants to rent a house in sydney and surf for 2 weeks?
rajiv: me.
