A dual core computer in a USB thumb drive? Awesome.
In all of the realignment over the past year, only one non-BCS FBS conference has not lost a (full member) team: the MAC. Only two full members have left the conference in the last fifty years (and one of them came back). Stuff like this is why.
This is old news, I guess, but I found Angus Jones’s comments about Two and a Half Men (which he sorta retracted) to be… well… accurate. But it’s entertaining filth. Anyhow, I don’t know that his apology will help him. The fact that they already replaced a key cast member might have, though. But if things don’t work out, Kirk Cameron needs costars.
Last week I spoke approvingly of federal university. The UN is launching a global university. Given that in a number of parts of the world a college degree is much more than a credential, I wish them luck.
Jon Last talks about what I’ve been talking about. The increasing shift away from the traditional family has political ramifications. Will Republicans be able to reach out to the atypical?
Amsterdam is sending shipping containers to house UK’s homeless and sending its own undesirables to “scum villages.”
Singapore is the most emotionless country in the world. Another reason why what works over there cannot likely be imported here.
The Washington Post is planning a paywall. I think this is a mistake. They aren’t the New York Times or Wall Street Journal. Their only competitive advantage, to my eyeballs, is that they are free. C’mon, WaPo, what use is it to have a newspaper running a bunch of scummy for-profit schools if you can’t use it to keep your newspaper afloat?
Musicians demanding more money from Internet radio like Pandora would be more understandable if Pandora was actually making good money. They aren’t.
Female teachers give male pupils lower marks. In the UK. I’d be interested to see what kind of results we’d get here.
Having been out of the comic book collecting universe, I hadn’t realized that digital comics were doing so well. I’d thought that the biggest threat to comics retailers was bookstores and Amazon.
Ebooks have apparently really taken off in China.
What future will there be for the MAC if the big schools follow Barry Alvarez’s advise and leave the NCAA. A school like Northern Illinois getting to a big time bowl game serves as a reminder that the big schools would be better off without the small schools. http://www.sj-r.com/sports/x684456832/Big-Ten-Notes-Alvarez-advocates-super-league
Comment by superdestroyer — December 8, 2012 @ 7:44 am
I think the political headaches are too prohibitive. The same thing that forced the BCS to give access to the likes of Northern Illinois is likely to prevent them from segregating themselves entirely. Opposition would likely come not just from senators of the states left behind in the FBS (New Mexico, Hawaii, Nevada) but also the FCS (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, the statelets in the northeast). There is a line that everybody walks here.
However, in the event that it does happen, the MAC will continue to exist for the same reason the Missouri Valley exists. The NCAA would need to reorganize, but the MAC, C*USA, MWC, and Sun Belt would likely be in a division or subdivision with the CAA, Big Sky, MVC, and so on. Some may terminate their football programs, but most probably wouldn’t. The lack of Joneses to keep up with may actually lead to things that lead to more football programs (the NCAA might, for instance, require fewer sports or fewer scholarships).
Comment by Will Truman — December 9, 2012 @ 2:10 pm
I find it amusing that while somewhat atypical in terms of gender roles, you are still raising your child in a two-parent family and got married before having the kid.
I wonder if the strange increase in popularity of nerds is from beta women who want a safe dad for their kids in an age of collapsing marriages?
Comment by SFG — December 9, 2012 @ 8:19 pm
From my recollection, the blog host is a middle class Southerner from an educated family and was raised Episcopalian even though he is no longer a conventional believer. People like that still get married in the South, and thankfully so IMO.
Comment by Ω — December 9, 2012 @ 9:12 pm
I think the big thing that makes us outliers is that we married before we lived together. TNot the case with many people we know, even within our cohort.
As far as nerds go, I think a part of it is a part of the marriable man shortage. The collapsing marriage being a role, but part of a larger picture.
Comment by Will Truman — December 9, 2012 @ 11:50 pm