"If he can get the passing thing down and handle the point, Jeremy Lin is a good enough player to start in the NBA and possibly star." <-- give this man retroactive props; he saw it in May of 2010.
- Andrew C (✓)
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I thought I was just joking, but check this out: "[Steve] Tisch, who produced the Academy Award-winning film "Forrest Gump," was asked if Lin's unlikely rise to stardom could translate to film. "There are possibilities," Tisch says. "Can Will Smith or Tom Cruise play him?"" - http://www.nydailynews.com/sports...
- Andrew C (✓)
Yeah, but I have no real shot at being famous.
- Andrew C (✓)
And I don't want to be famous either; the most I'd like would be to achieve "underground famous" status.
- Andrew C (✓)
I don't either. I want to be working consistently in the field I love but as I often say, I also want to be able to leave the house without having to style my hair. It's glib, but I like privacy and genuine community.
- joey
Heh, I always said if I was famous, I would never bother dressing up to leave the house. The public would get so used to seeing me in t-shirt, shorts & thongs with no make-up and a ponytail, the papparazzi would leave me alone because my pics would be worthless!
- Melly Botts
But what if I want to be famous for doing that stupid thing on that social media site?
- Steveo Librareo
If you want to be _infamous_, then yeah, keep all of that up.
- Andrew C (✓)
"And to think, "Lin-sanity" almost ended before it even started. Sources with knowledge of the Knicks' thinking told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that the Knicks had been giving strong consideration to waiving Lin before his breakout game last Saturday against New Jersey."
- Andrew C (✓)
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RT @WindhorstESPN: Before this week, Jeremy Lin had 32 points for the season & 108 for his career. He has 114 points in last 6 days.
The Jeremy Lin photoshop fun continues... I had to join in on the creative parodies! Nothing but... - Golden State Of Mind - http://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2012...
"On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to [Bank of America]. [...] Bank of America is the stock of the moment for high-frequency trading, the supercomputer-driven buying and selling that barely existed a few years ago and now accounts for as much as two-thirds of U.S. trading. "
- Andrew C (✓)
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""The movement of Bank of America stock on most days has nothing to do with Bank of America," says Joseph Saluzzi, co-founder of brokerage firm Themis Trading. In other words, the stock moves because it moves. "
- Andrew C (✓)
Hooray for the government-backed dog track!
- Andrew C (✓)
"Sometimes high-frequency traders don't even profit from the trade itself. They buy and sell shares at the same price and make money by sending large orders through the exchanges. NYSE, Nasdaq and others want to attract the most traders. So they offer rebates of 20 to 32 cents per 100 shares to traders who send in large orders. On the electronic exchange NYSE Arca, traders who can move...
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- Andrew C (✓)
"We have seen a few different takes on a murphy bed, but have never seen one that retracts into the ceiling. The BedUp does just that."
- Andrew C (✓)
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Alarming Study Finds More Than 12 Instances Of Racism Occurred Last Year | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/article...
Ally Ally Alinsky! Rightbloggers See Saul Alinsky Everywhere -- Even Among Themselves - New York News - Runnin' Scared - http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnins...
""On my first day in my first job as a conservative activist, I was handed a copy of Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals,'" said Yates Walker at the Daily Caller last week. "It was given in part as a how-to manual for organizing political operations and galvanizing public support, but it was also given to show us what we were up against." In fact, at this point it could be argued that conservatives know and respect Alinsky more than liberals. Which just shows his evil genius!"
- Andrew C (✓)
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"So when Gingrich started dishing on Obama's "Saul Alinsky radicalism" in the hot limelight of a Presidential race, the brethren got excited ("Alinsky/Obama vs. Gingrich: what this campaign is really about" -- Let Freedom Ring). But some of them couldn't stop there, and started suggesting that Gingrich's nomination rival, Mitt Romney, had a touch of the Alinsky brush in him, too. "
- Andrew C (✓)
"Some rightbloggers, like Jonathan S. Tobin at Commentary, thought this went too far. "[Palin] understands little about either Saul Alinsky's writings or history," [...] You can guess what's coming next, can't you? "Newt Gingrich is a Saul Alinsky Republican," wrote Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner. "Many of the tactics [Gingrich] spoke about -- such as exploiting resentment and...
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- Andrew C (✓)
"No word yet on whether Rick Santorum or Ron Paul are Alinsky yet. But now that the reverse-Alinsky is a thing in rightblogger circles, we expect it to be thrown around like pies in an old Keystone comedy. Eventually we expect this will lead to its natural conclusion: a rehabilitation of Alinsky by conservatives."
- Andrew C (✓)
No. 7 Sub Comes Up With More Crazy Heroes for Its Greenpoint Location - New York Restaurants and Dining - Fork in the Road - http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkint...
Shrimp-pork sausage and roasted cauliflower are two new sandwiches the reviewer enjoyed.
- Andrew C (✓)
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Smartphone tip: have a cloud-enabled notepad app like Evernote or Catch on your phone. It's super handy to be able to type notes for later from a real computer and keyboard and have them available on your phone.
"Browse through the CPAC schedule, and you'll find workshops about taxes and the Constitution and foreign affairs. One of these workshops is not like the others, though: "Conservative Dating," an informational talk by professional dating coach Wayne Elise open to "conservative singles.""
- Andrew C (✓)
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"On stage at CPAC on Thursday, Herman Cain endorsed his "friend" Joe the Plumber who is running for Congress in Ohio. Cain said this was based on the fact that Joe the Plumber had endorsed the '999' plan."
- Andrew C (✓)
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Some days I regret not paying more attention to the clown show.
- Andrew C (✓)
I think paying attention to this circus is a risk factor for suicidal depression.
- Victor Ganata
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"Dear Mr. Haberny, After sending back your zip lock bag of gold painted rocks that you considered "14 karat gold nuggets found on a soul searching pilgrimage in Tibet with a quadriplegic hooker you picked up in Singapore", we find it is truly unfortunate that you can not understand the concept of "Do Not Contact Us Again""
- Andrew C (✓)
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"Perhaps the most interesting thing we've learned tonight is that Pentax has plans to take full advantage of the Pentax K-01's mirrorless construction. The new and unnamed SMC Pentax-DA XS lens, pictured above, will extend closer to the K-01's sensor than a normal K-mount lens would. The rear lens elements will be located in the area which would otherwise be blocked by the mirror on a DSLR. This introduces many new lens possibilities for the K-01 as well as future Pentax mirrorless cameras, also meaning that lenses can be made more compact!"
- Andrew C (✓)
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"I've long been a great admirer of the work done by [Keith] Poole and his collaborators. What they do is use roll-call votes to map politicians' positions into an abstract issue space. [...] And it turns out that US politics really is one-dimensional, that once you know where politicians stand on a scale that clearly has to do with taxation and the size of the welfare state, you can predict their votes very well."
- Andrew C (✓)
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