Hard Knocks Season 18 - Detroit Lions

 If y'all have not watched this yet or if you have generally given up on the Hard Knocks Franchise you need to chick this out.

Brilliant editing - great back-stories.

A true roman-a-clef.

Trust me - have I ever led you astray?

Poincare Disk Model

A Poem for all of the Mothers at Christmas

Why does God allow	Por que Deus permite
that mothers go away?	que as mães vão-se embora?
A mother has no limit,	Mãe não tem limite,
she is time without hour,	é tempo sem hora,
light that does not fade	luz que não apaga
when the wind blows	quando sopra o vento
and the rain falls.	e chuva desaba,
A velvet hidden	veludo escondido
on wrinkled skin,	na pele enrugada,
pure water, clean air,	água pura, ar puro,
pure thought.	puro pensamento.
Death happens	Morrer acontece
to what is brief and goes by	com o que é breve e passa
without leaving a trace.	sem deixar vestígio.
a mother, in her grace,	Mãe, na sua graça,
is eternity.	é eternidade.
Why must God remember	Por que Deus se lembra
- profound mystery -	- mistério profundo -
to take her away someday?	de tirá-la um dia?
Were I the king of the world,	Fosse eu Rei do Mundo,
I would create a law:	baixava uma lei:
a mother does never die,	Mãe não morre nunca,
she will always stay	mãe ficará sempre
with her child	junto de seu filho
and her child, though old,	e ele, velho embora,
will be little	será pequenino
like a maize grain	feito grão de milho.

SCAM ALERT - SPEEDCOUNT / SPEED COUNT - aka Clean Up My PC

Run away - do not download - this is fake software - it will wreck your computer and rip you off for money
Don't believe the fake TV adverts

This is a public service to protect those of you who may be fooled by the NEW NAME
Why would any successful company come up with a NEW name for anything that was not a scam.

RUN AWAY

After running a scan, you’ll see an alarming count of the number of problems on your computer. It found 26267 issues on our computer. That’s an extremely alarming number — but what exactly is an issue?

• Every browser cookie and history entry counts as a single issue.
• Every temporary file counts as a single issue, no matter how tiny it is.
• Invalid registry entries are considered issues, although they shouldn’t actually slow down your computer.
• Our registry can be compacted a bit, but this shouldn’t make a noticeable different in performance
• Every fragmented file counts as a single issue. MyCleanPC is measuring fragmentation based on the number of fragmented files, leading to a scary-looking 21.33% data fragmentation statistic. For comparison, the Windows Disk Defragmenter tells us we have 2% fragmentation.

Fiona Apple Criminal - Making Brains Melt with Misdirection

"I’ve been a bad, bad girl
I’ve been careless with a delicate man
And it’s a sad, sad world
Where a girl will break a boy just because she can
Now, the same idiots who flipped out about the “Criminal" video read that first lyric as some kind of porn-culture come-on, when the deployment of the cliche is so transparently hilarious misdirection. You don’t get farther than the next line before Fiona lets you know that she’s the one who has all the power. It’s the lyrical equivalent of beckoning a man to come closer only to slap him in the face when he does. And the way she continues to layer on the condescension throughout the song is just next-level. "

Ahhhhhh... yes..... so this makes it all right - a woman can behave like a horrible man... but as long as it isn't a man... then all is good

Ohhhhh Yeah D'Arcy Wretzky

How to write well - Orwell Style - My Style

George Orwell's rules of writing are always worth repeating:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
4. Never use the passive when you can use the active
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent; and finally
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say something outright barbarous