Daily Archives: December 18, 2007

It’s Hard to Rally ’round a Math Class

December 18, 2007 – 10:56 pm

While watching NCAA Basketball a while ago this evening, I was struck by the number of players who have been declared “academically ineligible” for upcoming NCAA football bowl games, and who therefore will not be playing.
Without doing any research at all, I’d surmise this is some NCAA final inspection rule prior to the football [...]

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Get a TO, Baby!

December 18, 2007 – 10:16 pm

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Dick Vitale, legendary color man on ESPN’s NCAA Men’s Basketball telecasts. He underwent successful throat surgery today, and is expected to be out of the broadcast booth until February.
I love people who are enthusiastic about their work, and back that up with being skilled at what they [...]

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A Tweet Trainwreck

December 18, 2007 – 6:17 am

All the three preceding bloglet entries were actually tweets, posted via the Twitter. The Twitter Tools plugin has an option “Create blog posts from tweets”. I tried, I didn’t like, I turned it off. I’m keeping the “Asides” via Twitter in the sidebar.
Tweeting is not blogging, nor is blogging tweeting, even though they share [...]

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