The University of Texas at Austin has been rated the 10th best value among public universities by the Princeton Review. Full list here. Coming from California, I know I was surprised to see how affordable both undergrad and graduate tuition was at UT.
From the Daily Mail: Eight out of ten women involved in a car crash denied it was their fault and looked for something – or someone – else to blame. This latest research is bound to bring a smile to lips of many a man who has found himself at loggerheads with females drivers. Women will rarely …
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I’m fooling around with publishing from my phone. This picture was taken on New Year’s Eve, and the saxophonist was playing Auld Lang Syne.
Here are the results of my annual music survey. I received 28 responses and about 115 unique songs. Then I added my 30 favorite songs of 2011. The songs with the most mentions are at the top; “Pumped Up Kicks” was the most popular song of 2011, and Adele was clearly the most popular artist, …
I compiled a list of my 30 favorite songs of 2011, not so you can see how cultured I am and how awesome my taste is, because the answer to both is “not very.” I made this list for the same reason I ask for your favorites at the end of each year: networking is …
So I started writing this diatribe against the current college football system and all its dysfunction when I realized that maybe we’re all taking the wrong approach. One of the first things you learn in public speaking–a class I have taught numerous times in all my stuttering, rambling glory–is that you have to analyze your …
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Well here we are. The BCS has rendered the SEC championship game as useless as the Meineke Car Care Bowl. You see, if LSU beats Georgia this Saturday, they keep the #1 spot and go the national title game. On the other hand, if they LOSE…they go to to the national title game anyway. Mark …
We were in New Orleans this past weekend for an academic conference. They love the LSU Tigers down there. I love their cajun accents more. Okay, this is weird: my college (Texas) and pro (SF) teams are playing at the same time on Thanksgiving night. And the Niners game actually matters more. But, as you …
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Here are the projected playoff matchups that won’t actually be played because the BCS is a ridiculous system. Remember, top 6 seeds go to conference champs, and the top 4 champs host playoff games on December 17: (Seeding and overall ranking listed) #8(4) Alabama @ #1 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, OK #7(3) Oklahoma @ #2 …
I know we’re only 7 weeks into the college football season, but we’re more than halfway there. So let’s take a look at potential matchups for the 2011 College Football Playoffs* (which, by the way, don’t exist). *FYI, you can read about my playoff proposal [Part 1 and Part 2]–only change is that I now …
The conventional thinking is that spectator sports act as distractions from our day-to-day lives. But sometimes you have to live in the reality, like this past Saturday when my wife and daughter were in our friend’s wedding. Somehow Becky Li thought a celebration of love was more important than people mashing their heads together with …
Minor flaw in my rating system that slightly favors independent teams: because conference strength-of-schedule is part of the AI formula, I have to put in something there for independents, so I use their individual SOS. If an independent team has played a really tough schedule, they get rewarded twice. And so Notre Dame sits at …
Using my patented* AI Team Rating Formula, here are the three biggest college football games of the weekend (PGV=pre-game value): #7 Alabama @ #12 Florida – 7 pm central, CBS (81.5 PGV) #9 Texas @ #8 Iowa State – 6 pm central, FX (81.4 PGV) #6 Clemson @ #16 Virginia Tech – 5 pm central, …
Thank you to everyone who filled out the 2010 music survey–77 people in total, over 200 different songs. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see a list of every song that was chosen by more than one person. If you would like a list of the 121 songs chosen by …
(Scroll down for amazing defensive schemes.) UPDATE: I have officially applied for the position. December 13, 2010 Belmont Hall University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station Austin, TX 78712 Dear Director Dodds and search committee, It is with great enthusiasm that I apply for the position of Defensive Coordinator for football in the athletic …