- win at bingo
- play euchre
- enjoy church
- eavesdrop
- watch TV
- some other stuff
- eavesdrop
- look like a douche
- hunt animals
- win at bingo
Donald in Mathmagic Land
I loved this video as a kid. I even bought a VHS copy on eBay at some point (then lost it). Thankfully good old YouTube has kept this from being entirely inaccessible.
edit: Duck
NFL Mascots: For the Birds
Fun Fact: Three of the final four teams in the NFL playoffs have bird mascots (Cardinals, Eagles and Ravens), and four of the NFL’s five bird teams made it to the playoffs this season. This is, as far as I can tell, pretty unusual.
So, since I was really bored today, I decided to figure out what kinds of mascots performed the best this past season. Of course, my suspicions were on target, birds were the best with a final regular season record of 44-35-1, an average winning percentage of .556.
The next best category, a close second, was the “Other” category — teams whose mascots didn’t fit into any other category. Their overall record was 53-43, a winning percentage of .552. Pretty much all of this success came from the Titans and Giants, each conference’s number one seed going into the playoffs (both of whom were eliminated this weekend).
On the other side of the coin, teams with cat mascots did incredibly badly this season, with a record of 21-42-1, a winning percentage of .335. The most notable of these teams was the Detroit Lions, who made NFL history with the league’s first 0-16 season.
Team data was copied from ESPN.com and compiled in this spreadsheet.
Pugapalooza
Lauren and I went to a pug owners meet-up this afternoon with my co-worker Kai and her partner Sarah (who own a pug). It was…the absolute cutest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. Imagine if you will a room filled with 30+ adorable pugs, running around, barking, playing, snoring and peeing all over the place. Yeah, it’s like that.
Commence crappy camera phone YouTube video!
If you ever get invited to a pug meet-up, I suggest you take them up on it.
“If you, me, and a collection of our British friends who have never played American football got together, we could, and almost certainly would, have ended the NFL season with the same record as a professional team. That is inspiring.”
Fun Fact: I flew 25,000+ miles this year
Or just over the circumference of the Earth. This due in part to a wonderful trip to Iceland and Wales, two work trips to California and more trips back and forth from Ohio than I care to count.
Christmas a month early
I got my copy of the Protomen’s new single today in the mail, and I gotta say, it’s getting me pretty excited for their new album, coming out next year.
In case you’ve never heard of the Protomen, they’re a group of Tennessean musicians who wrote and perform a Mega Man rock opera, and if those words all side by side like that doesn’t get your blood warm, then I doubt anything will. Their first album was, and is, one of my favorites of all time, and the thought of more from them is getting me pretty excited.
Way back when, when I ran my little music blog, I had the pleasure of helping introduce them to the world, and when they came through Columbus (at an anime convention of all things) they invited me backstage afterward, there to receive a lesson in both bourbon drinking* and hotel vandalism** from what I can only assume were experts in both fields.
Aw, memories.
The Protomen - Father of Death
The Protomen - No Easy Way Out (from the soundtrack for Rocky IV)
* Protip: always drink from the side of your mouth
** Protip: always cover it with a painting
FYI, FBI...
| Donovan: | so I'm probably going to have to go with plan B |
| Donovan: | (you may be arrested for threatening arson, just a little heads up there) |
| Donovan: | woops |
| Donovan: | wrong window |
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| Donovan has disconnected |
