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May 28, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Bif
Pedro from Xavi. Barc 1 ManU 0. Nice footwork so far by Barc.
May 28, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Bif
Rooney!!
Barc 1 ManU 1.
May 28, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Bif
Messi!! From 25 yards out. Little man, big foot.
Barc 2 ManU 1
May 28, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Bif
Oh man. David Villa put that one where Norman keeps his mother. No goalie could have got to that one.
Barça 3 ManU 1
May 28, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Bif
Breaking Down Barcelona’s Win
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/6603260/breaking-barcelona-win
“As many had predicted, Barcelona outclassed Manchester United in Saturday’s highly anticipated Champions League final, running out to a 3-1 win. And as many had hoped for, it was a game for the ages. Stylistically, technically and tactically, it was perhaps the best title game in recent memory. And perhaps the best game in all the memory that’s been lost since then, too.”
Good article. I would agree.
May 28, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Dr.Doom
Bif, I’m wondering if you’ve beaten or tied JR’s previous record of longest unanswered comment thread on their post?
(sorry to interrupt.)
May 29, 2011 at 8:47 am
dave
i never saw bicycle sprint racing before. this shit is pretty cool.
May 29, 2011 at 8:53 am
dave
best birthday party ever.
http://i.imgur.com/5gR3c.jpg
May 29, 2011 at 9:55 am
dave
one boner after another.
http://wildgorillaman.blogspot.com/
May 29, 2011 at 1:03 pm
dave
tactics evolve
May 29, 2011 at 1:08 pm
dave
at about 6:30 the announcer is saying: “yes, these guys fuck some good looking bitches, that’s for sure.”
May 30, 2011 at 7:43 am
dave
happy memorial day.
May 30, 2011 at 11:47 am
Dr.Doom
check out my new doomsday-getaway boat, err yacht:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Karaweik-Palace.JPG
May 30, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Dr.Doom
me ‘n orlov, crusin’ the caribbean in style.
http://disney.go.com/pirates/
May 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm
uncle remus
Doom, that looks more like a Mardi Gras parade float built by an Asian Krew.
May 30, 2011 at 1:13 pm
uncle remus
Or a double-wide floating Forbidden City.
May 30, 2011 at 1:20 pm
uncle remus
Thank you dave for that brief moment of lucidity. Lucidity.
June 2, 2011 at 12:06 am
Dr. Doom
A recent post to jay hanson’s list in response to his posting of a recent Dave Cohen article. Link here: http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/05/thinking-outside-the-box-part-ii.html
Jay,
We’ve simply allowed our transportation grid to become dominated by
cheap oil, thinking it would never run out. Outright denial at even the
prospect of running out has allowed us to come to the brink of scarcity
-based collapse. I’m using a very inclusive form of the word “we”. In
fact, “we” allowed ourselves to engage in the dance with those who
profit and “we” who reap some of the benefits of their profitable
business in oil-based transport. Our actual (as opposed to that
advertised and widely believed) social system does not allow for less
entitled but perhaps longer-range thinkers to influence planning for
events. Now, we’re a little like captive Germans trying to tell the
Nazi’s how to run things during WWII—we don’t. We’re not quite to the
point of a midnight knock on the door of vocal dissidents, but perhaps
that lies in our future.
Best wishes,
D3PO
June 2, 2011 at 7:30 am
dave
haha, red pill, blue pill; what stupid shit. let’s say everybody in the world “wakes up” to the realities of overshoot and dieoff; the results are still the same, overshoot and dieoff. is some smart fuck like dave cohen going to manage the process for the now enlightened multitude? what shit.
June 2, 2011 at 7:49 am
dave
anyway, i see that jay hanson is trying to promote some sort of “political” solution to overshoot and dieoff these days. just another dumb shit who wants to manage the unmanageable. chaos is called chaos for a reason.
June 2, 2011 at 10:32 am
Dr. Doom
dave, i think the secret agenda may be to try for management of a small group of survivalists while the rest of humanity burns. jay knows they can’t save everybody. it probably won’t work, anyway.
why he constantly bashes economists, i don’t understand. he really hates the dumb bastards.
June 2, 2011 at 3:04 pm
GB
manage the unmanageable…chaos is called chaos for a reason…so right!
June 2, 2011 at 3:24 pm
dave
dave, i think the secret agenda may be to try for management of a small group of survivalists while the rest of humanity burns.
yeah, i guess that from that perspective some of his positions start to make some sort of, very twisted, sense. jay hansen as the big kahuna on the big island type of thing, i guess.
June 2, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Dr. Doom
“i’m not a member of an organized political party—i’m a democrat.”
—Will Rogers
June 2, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Dr. Doom
ya dave, when jay hanson’s solar lead-acid storage batteries need regenerating, i’ll be there with my tooth brush to clean those lead plates for him.
June 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm
dave
ya dave, when jay hanson’s solar lead-acid storage batteries need regenerating, i’ll be there with my tooth brush to clean those lead plates for him.
better you than me.
June 2, 2011 at 3:46 pm
dave
better learn how to piss sulfuric acid while you’re at it.
June 2, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Dr. Doom
hey, a little lead never hurt nobody. i handle it all the time, and look how i turned out! liquid mercury, too.
June 2, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Dr. Doom
another zulu kilo first. i’m at work and actually combing the site for an uncle remus post that i can use in my research. we are soooo cool here.
dave, maybe you should comment on various HPLC and GC-MS applications?
June 2, 2011 at 4:18 pm
uncle remus
“hey, a little lead never hurt nobody.”
I think the context of the exposure is an important aspect. As is the velocity.
June 2, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Dr. Doom
Uncle, I’ve been checking that story on the radioactive half-lives being non-constant and apparently affected by solar neutrinos (or muons, how knows?). That is big time awesome! I’ve found two peer-reviewed papers so far on the subject and they look legit. If you email me, I’ll send you the PDF copies.
Tomorrow I may be meeting with my high-energy physics colleague here to discuss this affect further. If the solar activity varies significantly over time, especially in an unknown manner, that would imply dating assumptions could be in error and the dates now in question.
June 3, 2011 at 10:46 am
EEofDC
“We’ll play better, I’m certain of that . . . it’s a long series, and we’ll adjust and do things we need to do to get ourselves in a better position,” said Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle after Tuesday’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals, a 92-84 loss to the Miami Heat that conventional wisdom says should leave Dallas scrambling for new solutions.
Sorry Bunn and JR!! My nickel is on the Mavs… I used to babysit Ricky Carlisle and his brother Billy when they were toddlers.
June 3, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Bunn Bunn
EE, Hey, I’m with you on this one! That is, immediately after the Lakers and PJ were humiliated and sent home for the summer, I threw in with the Mavs.
[Editor's Note: There is something highly disconcerting about the Heat and their fans (all wearing white), perhaps even un-American.]
June 4, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Dr. Doom
i really hate box models.
http://www.jayhanson.us/gov.htm
June 4, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Dr. Doom
hey ee, bunn, move that shit to sports. dave and i are trying to have an intelligent conversation here. thanks.
June 5, 2011 at 6:23 am
Bif
Count me in for the Mavs. Beat the Heat.
June 5, 2011 at 6:51 am
dave
yeah, this shit is serious.
June 5, 2011 at 6:53 am
dave
re box model: i have no idea what to say about that.
June 5, 2011 at 1:18 pm
theroachman
Took me a few seconds to digest that chart. But got it: Economist good, clean water bad. Corporations = Jesus. Got it.