They left out "Or not," which is key.
This just adds to my conviction that this blog should be removed from the internet.
Actually, we've been planning to do just that for some time, after we detain the one you call "Ogged".
The blogosphere is full of faulty logic, dubious facts, poor argumentation, strident ideology, rampant falsehoods, characters of ill repute and many other things harmful to one's mental well being and we aim to keep up this noble tradition.
Faulty logic, dubious facts, poor argumentation, strident ideology, rampant falsehoods, characters of ill repute
And I wasn't even around when you wrote your mission statement.
My feelings about golf are complicated. I love it on television late night, but restaurants that have televised golf tend to have substandard beer and wine, except for this place
Round object in place of the letter O - it is not by chance that there is a round object in place of the letter O in the word Socrates. This is an object reminiscent of a Greek shield, though it is actually based on a horse harness found in KoĊenec. The shield was used by Greeks who were defending, fighting and duelling.
Now I know where the NYT writer got the ridiculous notoion that we write about wine.
I liked this blog better when you used to write about corporate finance.
"Corporate finance," an interest? Don't try to blame this on Unf.
I guess Unf was the one planning to blog about the following topics: corporate finance, golf, beer, wine, the stock market, books, and love.
travel, corporate finance, golf, beer, wine, restaurants, the stock market
Wow, yeah, that's about half the topics that got dropped fast. Please don't start with golf, ever.
Also, that list is missing NYTimes Style Section.
The stock market blogging has been awfully thin on the ground of late.
I think 13 added more value than 11, 12, 14, and 15.
Which is worse: golf or swimming? On the one hand, golf allows gossip about some recognizable celebrities. On the other hand, no swimsuit pictures.
Golf amps the stuffy irritating prick factor to the max, especially when combined with "corporate finance and the stock market". But swimming is just really, really boring.
Unfogged.com aims to cut through that fog and provide clarity and sweet reason to all who read it.
The cock jokes were an adaptative mutation?
I think 13 added more value than 11, 12, 14, and 15
So begins the corporate finance blogging.
Cool? They sound like wankers. Who would read a blog like that? ....... ....... ....... Ahhhh ... shit.
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And talking of wankers, I just met a dog called Asbo.
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I clearly must be the only person who would actually find the occasional bit of stock market or corporate finance blogging wonderful. It seems that every other blog out there I've seen which posts on those issues is one of three things:
1) An insufferable gossip mag about Wall Streeters, mostly who is moving where and what is being whispered about which companies
2) Some BS analysis site that puts up either more Street or internet gossip about companies with overly-serious analysis consisting of broad statements about a company or industry that any jackass could figure out after 15 minutes with a 10K and Google.
3) Calculated Risk, which is pithy, insightful, well-written, and never addresses any topic apart from the US housing market.
aleablog is good. Reggie Middleton's posts on Seeking Alpha are usually interesting.
How has w-lfs-n suffered the punctuation error on the "About" page to endure?
24: Probably not going to dig through the SeekingAlpha crap pile for any veins of gold. I don't trust any investment site which dedicates so much attention to Jim Cramer.
But aleablog looks interesting. Thanks!
Swimming is just golf in the water without clubs or a ball or the same rules.
Heh, I've told people that swimming is a lot like golf, and not as a joke, either.
28: Alright, I'll bite.
Ogged, how is swimming a lot like golf?
It requires the same kind of whole-body precise repetition that's part maximum power generation and part perfect form. Contrast with, say, a jump shot, in which you might drift a bit in the air, or have your leg drift up a bit, or adjust your form based on the defense, and still score. Your form can't be off in golf or swimming if you want to succeed.
29: If you ignore Tiger Woods and VJ Singh, it has about the same racial mix.
That's not to say that some other sports aren't like that, too, but the person I was describing it to used to golf quite a bit....
30: Interesting. Are significantly unorthodox forms possible for a successful swimmer? Golfers can have some wacky swings and still be good. They still need to be consistent - which is your point - but I'm curious.
30: No wronger thing may have ever been written on the Internet.
dig through the SeekingAlpha crap pile for any veins of gold.
26: I believe the phrase you are looking for is "Digging out raisins in a pile of poop."
Glad to be of help.
Are significantly unorthodox forms possible for a successful swimmer?
In the same way that golfers can have different (even strange) swings, yes. They do need to be consistent, but they also need to take care of some basics--just like a golfer's wacky swing has to include having the club face square on the ball at contact, a swimmer has to have his hands in the proper position at various points in the stroke, etc.
Unfogged.com aimed to cut through that fog and provide clarity and sweet reason to all who read it .. . . until Tripp left. Then he came back. Now it's all attempts at cleverness and typos.
a swimmer has to have his hands in the proper position at various points in the stroke,
(John Stewart voice) Go on . . .
I had nothing to do with that ridiculous statement.
Does it bother no one that directly below "Unfogged.com" is an ad for "Barack Obama Exposed" from HumanEvent.com: From his radical stance on abortion to his prominence in the corruption scandals that has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media, Barack Obama is not fit to be Senator -- not to mention the next President of the United States?
41: I'm getting American General Finance and Legal Helpers. It's evidently a pretty wide-ranging ad-bot.
The jump shot, like a golf swing, may be as rococo as desired but must get the ball to the target location as often as possible. Reproducibility is the key, which is why shooting coaches advocate simplified mechanics -- the less movement in your J the less there is to go wrong. Nonetheless many great shooters have unorthodox form. If you practice a movement often enough you'll get it down even if it isn't the most efficient. Perhaps the best current example is Ray Allen, who cranks the ball way over his head before releasing but still hits a decent percentage (2008 Playoffs excluded).
The difference, Breeze, is the "whole body" thing: if you're out of position in swimming, you cause a lot of drag and you're fucked. I don't golf, but my impression is that your whole body has to do certain things properly if you hope to hit the ball where you intend.
37: Sorry for my undue harshness in 35, what you say here is essentially right, but I do not know of any sport in which there is not a core set of techniques which any participant must be able to reproduce consistently to succeed at a high level. Something golf and swimming do share in common (with a lot of other sports) is that unlike your basketball example you are not in direct confrontational opposition with an opponent that causes you to make adjustments to that technique on the fly (although there are tactical adjustments based on situation). However, the variability of golf courses and the need to play the next shot from where the previous one landed results in the need for a lot more technique variability in golf than you get from swimming. (Bowling would be a better comparison to swimming.) And further the roles of strength, flexibility and stamina do not align between golf and swimming. And lastly, their places in the recreational sports universe are quite different; swimming with the boss is rarely a path to the top.
All of that said, keep the swimming posts coming.
I don't golf either, but I'm guessing the lack of D makes a difference. Every baller would shoot perfectly squared up set shots if they could, but the modern game makes other demands. This ok because the margin for error in basketball is greater than in golf. The bucket is bigger relative to the ball and the distances are generally shorter. But the lack of perfect conditions does have an effect; the pros shoot 80-90% in practice when unguarded.
Diving with the boss, on the other hand...
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"Calculated Risk, which is pithy, insightful, well-written, and never addresses any topic apart from the US housing market."
I would not describe Calculated Risk as pithy.
I got the Obama ad three times; now I'm getting "Bare Naked Pundits". One could while away hours rechecking the bot ads...
This ok because the margin for error in basketball is greater than in golf. The bucket is bigger relative to the ball and the distances are generally shorter.
I thought the ball fit tighter into the hoop than the golf ball did into the hole.
Let's see.
hoop 18 inches diameter, basketball 9 inches diameter
Golf hole 4.25 inches diameter, golf ball 1.68 inch diameter
Yep.
I don't golf either, but I'm guessing the lack of D makes a difference.
Golf would be a way better sport if it incorporated active, physical, defense.
I was pretty sure 50 would be right, but my impression was that the ball was more than 50% of hoop size (25% by area). That should tell you something about my shooting prowess.
50: Another point is that most golf shots are not judged on whether they actually go in the hole but whether they sufficiently advance towards it.
One factor that is important is the slow twitch versus fast twitch muscle fiber.
In my experience people with a larger proportion of fast twitch muscles have a harder time with some of the 'touch' sports activities like golf swings and basketball shots.
At least that is my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
No idea what's going on here.
http://www.aboutus.org/FistfulOfEuros.net
This is a pretty poor description of apostropher.com.
Also, completely useless contact info.
That site's awfully confusing.
On the other hand, it has the address of some poor random person in Texas.
No person can be proved to bey random, Tweety. Goedel proved that. Or maybe Cantor or Tarski. One of them motherfuckers.
58: It gets the "Related Domains" list exactly, right, though.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest
aspirations. I cannot reach them : but I can look up,
and see their beauty ; believe in them, and try to follow
where they lead ; remember that frost comes latest to
those that bloom the highest ; and keep my beautiful
white flowers as long as I can." "