… I presume that click volume from US based IP addresses is what drives the top links under the big URL’s on Bing search results. If so, it’s kind of a comic/sad commentary on the interests and needs of Wikipedia users that two of the most highly-demanded links within the Wikipedia site are these…
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[...organized in order of crowd reaction / noise level...]
1) Deep trey buzzer beater to win game (higher seeded team)
2) Same (lower seeded team)
3) Regular 2-point Buzzer beater to win game (higher seed)
4) Regular 2-point Buzzer beater (lower seed)
5) Alley oop
6) Swat (opponent)
7)Buzzer beater trey at end of first half
8) Nasty dunk
9) And 1
10) Double dribble (opponent)
11) Deep trey
12) Travel (opponent)
13) Crossover drive by speedy guard into paint for layup
14) Missed back end of 1 and 1, offensive board, with put-back for 3-point play
15) Crossover pullup jumper
16) Back door cut (princeton offense classic)
17) Steal in the backcourt for a quick 2
18) Technical / Intentional foul
19) Coach ejected
20) Mascot mimics violent confrontation with other team’s mascot
Enjoying a last moment of quiet after a sunny and solid day in “the Seattle of Texas”…
(Or is it the Portland of Texas? Portin?)
Looking forward to a mellow cocktail shindig with a technology partner Friday, a lot of not so mellow shindigs all over town, and hopefully a few local-tips along the way.
Mostly just missing my girls though, already.
If you’re reading this and you’re here too, track down some of the SCG team here in force until Tuesday and we’ll gladly share a Shiner Bock with you somewhere along the endless parade of roadhouses on 6th.
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…than “Whiteout”, I don’t know what it is. I am mad at HBO for even programming this gobbledygook into On Demand. I want my brain cells back.
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Yanks often bemoan the fact that New York, Boston, and Los Angeles dominate many professional sports leagues in the US by virtue of the relatively larger television advertising revenues which those markets drive into their team (owners) coffers, thereby financing the best and most expensive players.
Over in England this season, however, the whole situation is a bit different with their largest sports league the English Premiership. Free from the shackles of salary caps and considerations about revenues and profitability, by virtue of many teams’ deep-pocketed owners, the current EPL team ranking table is looking like a return to late 19th century England. Manchester (whose two main teams are owned by Yanks and Sheiks) has returned to its prior industrial-revolution glory, with its teams 1 and 2 atop the table. London is sitting as England’s ‘second city’ at the moment, having its most storied clubs gazing upwards longingly at Manchester City and United from the 3, 4, and 5 spots. (Incidentally, those teams are owned by shareholders, a Russian billionaire, and a British billionaire.)
As for the rest of merry old England, well their hometown sports fans must all just have to wait for their own billionaires to arrive eventually.
The most odd, yet perfectly representative, forum post title showed up on our local neighborhood blog a few days ago, which I just happened across:
“Did anyone notice their chicken missing last night?”
Those insolent nocturnal vermin ate my daughter’s foamy soccer ball last summer, and now they’re moving on to urban hipster backyard pen poultry. The horror!
R.I.P. UrbanChicken
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