Culture, Found
/ advertising, fail
27 August 2010
According to Summer’s Eve, here are eight steps in procuring a raise.
Sport
/ craig-james, hurricanes
26 August 2010
First off, this is pre-season stuff. So in the end it matters little. Secondly, The University of Miami Hurricanes are ranked 13th in every major pre-season poll. Not 24rd or 25th, 13th. That means that out of 25 teams, they’re pretty much right in the middle.
ABC broadcaster Craig James seems to be the only one who thinks the University of Miami isn’t worthy of a pre-season top-25 ranking.
The AP poll is comprised of the votes of some 60 individuals. 59 others gave rankings of between 5 and 19 to the Canes. Craig James is the only one to rank UM below 25.
This bring to the forefront three possible conclusions:
Go Canes! (t-minus 7 days and counting!!)
26 August 2010
“UGH!!!”
“Will the person who…”
“Fridge”
UPDATE 8-27-2010 2:29 CST
I’m adding a fourth:
“AGAIN!!”
Culture, Found
/ education, miami-hurricanes
19 August 2010
While it’s been a few years since the Hurricanes could boast being the top NCAA football program in arguably the most talented state in the Union, the University of Miami achieved another honor this month. The University of Miami is now ranked ahead of its intrastate rivals in academics according to the latest US News & World Report national university rankings – and it has cracked the top 50 for the first time in school history!
U.S. News & World Report Rankings – Select Florida National Universities:
Source: US News & World Report
18 August 2010
5 Layers of Original Recipe chicken skin + 1 Hearty Bun + 1 Slice American Cheese + 2 Slices Bacon = not real.
Original post over at brainresidue.com.
Culture
/ bbq, food, reviews, the-shed
12 August 2010
As seen in the above photo sequence, getting fed at The Shed is a BBQ experience for the ages.
Fig. A – The subject demonstrates the youthful anticipation and exuberance brought on by The Shed environment, the sassy/cute waitresses, and the sweet aroma of BBQ done right.
Fig. B – The subject is currently getting fed at The Shed. His taste buds have swollen, the saliva is streaming at a rate higher than Pavlov’s dog, and he quickly seeks any opportunity to lap up any stray sauce. Note the dialated pupils in this subject – it is a definitive sign of BBQ-bliss.
Fig. C – The subject quickly consumed a most generous portion of BBQ complete with slaw and tater-salad (the best tater salad this researcher has ever tasted). As the tantalizing medley of slow and low cooked meat, just-enough-heat sauce, and Shed ambiance consumed the subject, he moved into what many researchers have termed BBQ Nirvana.
Do yourself a favor. Do not pass up an opportunity of BBQ Nirvana.
Get Fed At The Shed.
Sport
/ academics, miami-hurricanes, randy-shannon
11 August 2010
When you think of the University of Miami, you may think of ‘Sun-Tan U’, notorious athletes, or maybe for prowess on the field of play. What you probably don’t think of is academic excellence by its student atheletes.
Head football coach Randy Shannon is helping to change that stereotype and is doing so on a grand stage.
The Center for Research on Sport in Society, a Northeastern University think tank, has released its Academic Progress Report (APR) and lo and behold, UM coach Randy Shannon leads all BCS schools! The APR is a statistic that the research foundation setup to help institutions measure how well they are doing at motivating and achieving graduation success for student athletes.
This is credit to our student-athletes and the support staff in our academic area,” Shannon said. “Academic success is important to the players on this team, and they are receiving the credit they have worked so hard for.
This is the sort of stuff that makes me Proud To Be A Miami Hurricane.
Read the full press release.
9 August 2010
+ View a recipe for Boutin’s Chicken Bayou Teche
9 August 2010
Some smarty-pants researchers have created a series of algorithms that can solve any Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves or less. They call this the God Algorithm.
With about 35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google, a team of researchers has essentially solved every position of the Rubik’s Cube™, and shown that no position requires more than twenty moves…
One may suppose God would use a much more efficient algorithm, one that always uses the shortest sequence of moves; this is known as God’s Algorithm. The number of moves this algorithm would take in the worst case is called God’s Number. At long last, God’s Number has been shown to be 20.
via Subtraction
Culture, Editorial
/ islam, politics, religion
4 August 2010
Here are some tasty excerpts of New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s speech concerning the news that the Cordoba Initiative is free to pursue its goal of creating a Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan.
Our doors are open to everyone. Everyone with a dream and a willingness to work hard and play by the rules. New York City was built by immigrants, and it’s sustained by immigrants — by people from more than 100 different countries speaking more than 200 different languages and professing every faith. And whether your parents were born here or you came here yesterday, you are a New Yorker.
In the mid-1650s, the small Jewish community living in lower Manhattan petitioned Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant for the right to build a synagogue, and they were turned down. In 1657, when Stuyvesant also prohibited Quakers from holding meetings, a group of non-Quakers in Queens signed the Flushing Remonstrance, a petition in defense of the right of Quakers and others to freely practice their religion. It was perhaps the first formal political petition for religious freedom in the American colonies, and the organizer was thrown in jail and then banished from New Amsterdam.
In the 1700s, even as religious freedom took hold in America, Catholics in New York were effectively prohibited from practicing their religion, and priests could be arrested. Largely as a result, the first Catholic parish in New York City was not established until the 1780s, St. Peter’s on Barclay Street, which still stands just one block north of the World Trade Center site, and one block south of the proposed mosque and community center.
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? That may happen in other countries, but we should never allow it to happen here.
This nation was founded on the principle that the government must never choose between religions or favor one over another. The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
Read the full speech on the New York Daily News website.
Rob lives and works in the town of Jackson, MS where he leads the interactive department at an awesome advertising and branding agency. Life is slower than most places in Mississippi, and Rob tends to like it that way. Some of his favorite life experiences include sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a 44ft sloop, learning to speak Swahili while living along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and zipping along the curviest of Mississippi country roads in his VW Rabbit.
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