Screwball

The funny part is people arguing they shouldn't be able to do this. It's your money, you should be able to do whatever you want with your own money.

It seems one of the new things here in Cornhole is trivia. Couple of different flavors, one in the middle of the town that has now grown to ballroom size with over a hundred people doing general style, or in my case, a ****hole bar doing music trivia. You get a team (no money involved) and each team puts an app on their phone. You create a team name and get hooked up with the trivia guy who keeps score. You get points for a correct answer, and more points for being the fastest. The trivia guy sits somewhere with a mic and speaker. He plays a song over his speaker and through the app you play the game. It loads a full screen of the alphabet. This competition was based on 70s, 80s, 90s music. He would play 15 seconds of a song, and as soon as you know who the artist is, you hit the letter of the first letter of the name of the band. After the 15 seconds, he would tell how many teams got it right, who the band was, and who was the fastest. He did around 25 songs, took a ten minute break (bathroom, cig, joint :-)), then did another session, this time one hit wonders. Another break, then you had to do the first letter of the name of the song. That was tough. Then one more for band name. Probably total close to 80 songs over the course of the night. Started at 6:30, done by 8:30. They had around 40 people, and 10 teams or so teams. I sat with a couple musician buddies of mine, who both played in bands over the years. We got smoked. It's amazing how fast some of these people were. No matter, it was a ball. I haven't had that much fun since the hogs ate my brother.

I'm working on an art type project where two of us are trying to combine a 2D etching type thing and 3D printing. We have made some parts and proven the design enough to go forward. It's just like bringing products to market as a manufacturing company, just a smaller scale. I used the AI stuff to help me with things that are not in my wheelhouse. I was impressed with what it came up with, especially if I gave it better instructions. Then, after we did some testing, we found out what AI told us (my Aussie buddy) didn't work for ****. I immediately told it so, and we went a different direction. We will see going forward. I have really tried to give it as much information up front so it can give me better results. At the end of the day, I see this as nothing more than a souped up search engine.

Coming from someone who just left the academic field and fully retired, did your school have any rules about how to use AI? I think the type of class matters, so there is that. Mine was no way no how AI was going to do it. But we had meetings and emails about how to handle AI in the classroom. They still let us teachers do their thing unless they did something stupid. So I could control my classroom. As far as how to grade - that's easy. I went with a simple A-F thing. 100 to 70. Below 70, you flunk. Simple, easy, and at the end of the semester you know what they can do anyway, and if they can't, or can, you give them the grade they deserve. They know this up front, from day one. I also weighed the assignments (16) to be more punitive later in the semester. That said, our educational system is a ****ing joke.

I think he left because he knows he can't fix things. Their OL sucks. Their main WR is a head case. They spend too much money on an over-aged defense that didn't perform, and likely won't in the future. The OC play calling is awful. Their QB if he comes back, is over the hill and can't move behind a line that can't block. Tomlim probably knows next year will be worse and so will the boo birds. I don't blame him.

I don't have the exact size of the track, but based on what I have found, the size is around 1/6 mile, and given the lap times it averages out from mid-sixties to mid-seventy MPH. They keep a board somewhere that keeps track of "flips" which are many. They also have a designated fighting area for those who wish to partake. Busy place. Ages range from 14 to 70 for the competitors.

I'm not sure what this poly market stuff is and how it works, but I've heard about it. It appears to be another way to bet/gamble on "things" and it also seems to be used as a predictor of some sort type of thing. I wonder if the fact we've wanted attack Iran since at least when John McCain was a singer is priced in?

For a change of direction... This thread is usually about the F1 circuit, which I have great respect for. But here is another window into racing. No matter what they have, people will race it, and no matter where. They call it the Chili Bowl. The below clip is from Monday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A 440,000 sq/ft building that is half pits, and half track. They bring in truck loads of dirt to build the track. It's about a 1/6 mile oval. The event runs Monday to Saturday. 400 entries. The cars are called midgets. Custom built Toyota or Honda engines mounted in a tube chassis, big money. The event features NASCAR drivers Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell who both have won the event (before anyone knew who they were), along with many well known dirt racers in the country, if you follow that kind of stuff.

Thank you. This goes back to my youth. Graduated in 74. 2 hrs from Kent State. Knew people who went there when Jack was there. He was my guy, just like Jim Leyland in baseball. They both made a difference in my life in strange ways you might say. On Jack (who follows me on Twitter - how cool is that); He made a statement one time I will never forgot. He was asked about being a dirty player on the football field, or something like that. He replied; "I'll play the game anyway you want to play it, and I'll let you make the rules" For more fun, Goggle up Elvin Bethea and the head slap.

That's what you get for scheduling a wedding during a Steeler playoff game - that's un-American! 🙂 I have a buddy who is a HUGE race fan. His daughter had to move a wedding date because of a race. That's how it's done. Oh, and those years of the Steel Curtain - you had to see it to appreciate it. They flat busted people up. A different game back then. Make the quarterbacks wear dresses said #58. He was the man. It was probably around 2000 they had a ceremony on a Monday night for the 75 team and interviewed either Dwight White or L.C. Greenwood, and asked how they thought they would do in today's game (25 years ago now - and 25 years after). He said "not very good." Why? Cause you can't beat anyone up. 🙂

I won't embed the Tweet, but a guy named Kyle Rowland of the Toledo Blade is covering the NCAA convention.

Ohio resident, lifelong Steeler fan. Mostly due to living in rabid Browns country. I'm also old, and the early 70s Steelers kicking the snot out of the Browns was really sweet. They run a good organization best I can tell, and have for a long time. Since Chuck Noll in 1969, they have only had 3 head coaches. That's pretty impressive in and of itself.

So a pol ****ed people? No, tell me it ain't so!

Quit digging.

Are you serious? I want some of what you are smoking. We are 38 trillion dollars in debt, and pay interest on said debt. From FRED, and I shouldn't even have to do this; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA And even on the 2 percent BS, that's a double every 36 years. Exponents are a bitch. You should know that.

We can't and won't inflate our way out of debt. That's just silly.

I've known quite a few guys over the years that were badasses. But they didn't start stuff. Good thing. One did the tough man contests. He was one of those 6'2ish type guys going about 220 who was a freak of human nature. And you couldn't hurt him if you hit him with a board. Great guy, ran his own business, but a neanderthal. Not him, but another guy I knew, was in a bar after work one night with a bunch of us. Some guy walked in, got a beer, looked around, and said; I can whip any mother(bleep)s ass in here. Guy I was sitting with says; you might be able to whip my ass but I'm not a mother(bleep) and off they went. I'd rather just drink beer and watch the entertainment.

NO, tell me it ain't so!!!!!! Jesus H Christ - anyone with two brain cells know how this works since the beginning of credit and interest. I'm glad I'm old.

Wild. Unrelated, but I wonder how many people have been in a fight. I spent years bartending as a second job, so it was kind of common to see them in that environment. Instant asshole, just add alcohol, and off they go. Most of the ones who started them, shouldn't have. They couldn't beat up their sister. Just stupid. Getting beat up hurts and is no fun. Some people like it and get a kick out of it - or they are stupid and start something they can't finish. There are bad asses and dumbasses. Don't be the dumbass. You're welcome.

Back in the day...let me think...1972/1973. We had a place called Midnight Auto Supply - the local junk yard. We would go out there around midnight with a flashlight and some tools and steal auto parts we needed for our car. They didn't have a dog. Good thing. Junk yards were a big thing back then. There was a huge yard in Crestline, Ohio, home of Gates Brown.

This is too funny. It looks like a mafia Don (no pun intended) leaning on their enemy. Mis-spent money charges if I read this right, about a renovation at the Fed? NO, that never happened in the history of the good old U S of ****ing A (not only the Fed but any .gov project). Too funny, but I digress... He wants zero interest, so do many others. Easy and free money creates more money - credit is money. Sign the paper - you just created money. The more money you create the bigger the pie. Who controls the pie, who gets it first, and who knows how it works better than (drum roll) the banksters. Then there is the whole paying it back thing, or not... The ponzi must continue - enter Bill Ackman - hedge fund billionaire, and the response from the old Reagan budget director. Michigan guy if I remember right. I always get a kick out of him. Quite a wordsmith, like him or not. He won't be a nominee for the next Fed chair, and I will bet my entire life savings on that. 🙂

OK, I'm old and stupid, but if I'm reading this right, people are stealing wiper blades off cars at the airport? I know the catalytic converter thing was a thing 🙂 but wipers? I can't imagine that many people could even change a wiper. Usually the guy at the parts store does it.

The banksters always win. Remember, even when the stock market takes a ****, they make money by shorting it, and make even more money of others doing the same. As far as the cap thing goes. Price controls are never a good thing when you go back through history. A guy who was a regular in the investment board 3 boards ago, lived in Detroit, guy named Rhino, posted a really good article about price controls and how that kind of stuff worked throughout history. I have hunted for that article since and can't find it. They don't work. Not to get political here, but both sides have advocated for it (I have proof). At the end of the day it's all about feeding the credit/ponzi financial system we are all a prisoner of (maybe not all). I don't know how they can wave a magic wand and cap rates, but if they can and do, the swine bankers also have the option of not giving credit. Some may say it ain't the banks it would be the CC companies, true, but at the end of the day we are talking about credit and balance sheets and it all goes through the banks - especially the 21 (not sure how many now) broker-dealers of Wall Street. Those who run our world. I guess it all boils down to what you think is good or bad when it comes to the issuance of credit. Interest compounds. Exponents are a bitch. ON EDIT: building on what Del said; they will just find another way to **** us, and their obedient servants in CONgress will gladly hide that in the next bill and nobody will ever know.

I'm guessing not. The banksters run the world, these ****wads are just the front men BSing the gullible population. If there is any fireworks it's all for show. Go back and watch the hearings when congress brought in the swine bankers after they blew up the financial system back in 09. It's all a show. People should have went to jail - or worse - they let them off like the worthless pukes paid off pukes they are. All on the same side. Everything else is theater. Trump is the perfect Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield of Caddyshack fame) for the con. No better distraction than a polarizing reality show creation like him. These people are laughing at us.

Good stuff. I've been here for 26 years, paid off long ago. Small place for the old decrepit crank that lives here since kids are on their own, so it's as cheap as possible to live in, and maintain. I have no idea what it might take to buy a house today. I can see the interest rates, but how much down, how many years, whatever the deal might be today? No clue. I'm also glad I don't have to deal with that decision.