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Some may call me a cynic

I saw this story this morning. Who wants to bet me that this casino doesn't end up on the south side in a black neighborhood.

They get all the good stuff. Casinos, liquor stores, no big grocery stores, crappy schools.

Billy Packer invades Canada

It seems it doesn't take very much to prove the existence expanding influence of the Packer Method . As just came across this article.

Canada doesn't really need lessons in lying. They've been trying to tell us that Ham is bacon for decades, but true to their deceitful nature, they have found the one new, true method of fabrication the U.S. has to offer and have incorporated it into their own culture.

I never dreamed Billy Packer had this kind of reach.

Oh, Canada.

First stories of the year

I'm forgetting a lot of great ones, but here are a couple samples of conversations I or other teachers in my school have had with students so far this year.

(Int. Cafeteria Day) Kindergarten
Little Mulder: Where did Ms. Krabapple go? (the teacher had left the class with the aid to go and eat lunch herself)
Aid: "She had to go take care of some things."
Little Mulder: "That's too bad. We had some good times."

(Int. Computer Lab Day) 7th grade

In a discussion at the end of class about seafood that was started because that's what I had for dinner last night)

All of the students were mentioning seafood they like or don't like.

7th Grade Mulder: "I like Oysters. Cause they're sexy."
Me: "They're what?"
7M: "They're sexy"
Me: "Okay."

The rigors of real academic study

As always, when I see Indiana University make the national news I am interested, and mostly proud. For example, when IU was ranked the #1 party school by the Princeton Review a few years ago (this year IU was 8th on the list) I took great pride in that, as todays ranking merely reflects the years of dedicated good times had by prior students. I am part of the giant on whose shoulders those rankings stand.

But, this story is just too great. Indiana University, the school that houses the Kinsey Institute, has gone from the leader in the study of human sexual behavior, to publishing studies that say that given the choice, guys choose the hot girl.

Also, women chose men who they thought they could get based on how hot they were.

But the best part of this study is that when putting together this study they decided they needed to go all the way to Munich, Germany to find out that guys prefer hot chics. They could have saved a great deal of time and money and done this study in Ballantine on any day of the week.

God Bless Academia.

Robert Vaden's High Nightclub IQ

Not much more needs to be said.

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Big Ten Network Opening Weekend

After one weekend I've come down pretty much where I expected to on the Big Ten Network. It's a great idea that will only get better. There was IU football on this weekend, as well as (and this is almost more exciting to me) IU soccer. College soccer is not something that gets much air time, unless it's the college cup. But now, thanks to the Big Ten Network, there is IU soccer on television. This may not excite many people, but it excites me. And I believe that plus all of the other sports that can now be televised will be enough to excite a lot of other people.

The best news, however, for the Big Ten network was that Appalachian State v. Michigan game on Sat. It was the first game on the Big Ten Network and it was a classic. The Big Ten Network needs games like that to fight the argument that the cable networks are putting out there that BTN is only carrying second tier games. I guarantee there were a number of people pretty pissed they could watch that game.

On the negative, I'm not a huge fan of the look of the soccer game. The shots are a little tight, and it doesn't look like an ESPN quality broadcast. It looks more like one of those BET football game productions. The other thing that should get tweaked is the graphics. The screen that listed all the scores for the day was various shades of black and grey. Not easy to read. Easy fix, and I'm sure they'll straighten that out.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with the BTN, and glad I've got Directv so I can watch it.

Las would be proud

I've driven past this place 1000 times and always had the same thought. And it was always about John Laskowski and his preference for open sided MRI. I had to go here last week for an ultrasound on my abdominal aorta (thanks genetics). I thought it was great that I finally had cause to enter a place offering the fabled open sided MRI.

Then I had the worst ultrasound ever. My stomach still has a six-eight inch internal bruise that is sore to the touch thanks to the mortar and pestle style in which the technician ground the magic ultra sound wand into my stomach. For close to 45 minutes.

I know that Las was only trying to help, and also that he was only talking about Open Sided MRI, but I can't help but hold him partially responsible.

Thank God Todd Leary has never told me to get any medical procedures. It takes a real man to follow his advice.