Is Mike Tomlin Any Good? | January 26th, 2009
Onion answer: Yes.
Archive for January, 2009
Ha, You Said ‘Crap’ | January 23rd, 2009
I applaud the New York Times for embracing its inner 13-year-old with this story:
That Was Fast | January 21st, 2009
Obama Orders Halt to Prosecutions at Guantánamo
While I think it’s good to close down this negative symbol of America, I’m still curious what the new administration plans to do with the detainees. Now that we’re back with a lawyer president, much less a law professor, I hope he has a plan.
XLIII! | January 19th, 2009
They committed way too many penalties, they couldn’t run against Baltimore, the refs made some horrendous calls, and yet the defense still dominated this one enough to take it in the end. The Steel Curtain shuts it down again!
NY Jet Rescue: Amazing and Reaffirming | January 15th, 2009
I’m sure everyone has heard about the jet that ditched into the Hudson River today just off of Manhattan. The photos are pretty incredible, but what’s even more incredible is how everyone was able to get off the plane alive and well. From the pilot to the rescue crews to the passengers on the ferry, I am amazed at how everyone did exactly what they needed to do to ensure the outcome. As stark as things can seem, this is why I don’t lose hope in the U.S. and humanity.
The First Interview Tomorrow | January 12th, 2009
Hey fans.
My bad about not writing at ya, but we’re in the midst of interviewing season here at Ross, which has proven to be the weirdest time of the year so far. I thought the end of Fall B was pretty packed, but this is something else altogether.
People are definitely concerned about getting something for the summer, and while I think everyone’s secretly hoping they get something early and no longer have to worry about everything else, people are definitely gregarious and wishing each other luck. Frankly that’s why I’m glad I’m at Michigan: I’ve heard peeps at other schools will hate on your interview chances and be open about the cutthroat tactics, and I’m sure there are a few people here doing that, but they’re in the minority as far as anyone can tell.
Anyway, my first big interview is tomorrow — two 45-minute case+fit interviews in a row, so I’m sitting here reading up on cases and some company history. Wish me luck so’s I can rock things properly. Later.
My New Favorite Art | January 11th, 2009
Vielen danke aus Anselm Feuerbach. I would retitle this “Sunday, January 18, 2009″.
Who’s The Most Polluted Now? | January 7th, 2009
NY Times gives Pittsburgh the hookup!
Pittsburgh Thrives After Casting Steel Aside
This one was good too back in the day:
Not so much this:
Winter Classic 2009: Solid, But I Liked Last Year | January 1st, 2009
I tuned in for periods 2 and 3 of today’s NHL Winter Classic game, which saw Chicago get destroyed by the Red Wings in a comeback victory. (The Red Wings are always pulling this garbage against my favorite teams. Jagoffs.) The game didn’t have quite the finish that last year did, and I naturally wasn’t as invested without the Pens playing, but the ‘Hawks have long been my second-favorite team (years before I had ever thought of going to school in Chicago) and so it was good to see the game played just a mile up the road from our place.
In any event, I’m mad geeked about the fact that the Winter Classic is turning into the first hockey success story in years. This year gets an A for weather and an A for the matchup and team effort, but a B- overall because the Penguins weren’t playing and Detroit won. Those are both ridiculous reasons to downgrade the game, but then this blog exists at my beck and call, so you’re out of luck in your efforts to hate on my conclusion.
Bonus Sarah Palin note: I meant to write during the election that while the G.O.P., the American populace and the human race didn’t get much out of the idea of hockey mom Sarah Palin as VP, the NHL certainly did: For the first time in a nation where no-talent sportswriters have made hockey the go-to sport of ridicule, the same voters who treat sports that aren’t baseball or football as pastimes for gay foreign terrorists were defending hockey with all their American-purist might.
While I’m glad Palin has turkey-trotted off the national stage for now, I really miss that brief period when even Southern rednecks were touting hockey as a game played by Real Americans™.
And now, back to obscurity.
Chalk Another One | January 1st, 2009
Hey, it’s 2009. Can you dig it?