Our Dicks Hurts from Holden
Massholes in my home State of MA have failed to support Martha Coakley (D). Now a Republican will sit in the seat of our beloved Teddy Kennedy, only to undermine health care reform in America–and thus Massachusetts has squander the life’s work and legacy of our late Teddy-boy. Populist angst fails to explain it. The affluent Boston suburbs ruined us just as much as blue collar Lowell and Fitchburg. Be proud Blue western Mass, Worcester, Gloucester, and Boston. And the next time you see assholes from newly Red towns like Holden kick their ass because your dick hurts from Holden.
Anchor vs Reporter
Reoccuring Theme: My Google Ads
One reoccurring BFC theme is me tracking the Google ads that I get on my gmail in hopes of learning something about myself. In the last installment, (after sending the Smoked Salmon a picture of a Teddy Bear) I got an advertisement for a special breed of hunting dog that hunts bears. I held off making the purchase, but I wasn’t entirely bothered by the idea that Google thought that I might be interested in, or indeed capable of, bear killing. I never would do it, of course, but I’d want the bears to know I’m dangerous.
It looks like those clever fuckers at Google finally figured me out. Look what I got yesterday: http://www.dreammanifesto.com/anger, Overcome shame and sadness by simply, listening to this audio course. I mean I am a graduate student, and I’m over thirty, and I have sent emails that could be misinterpreted as an inkling to do harm to other students, professors, the dept. chair, the president of the university, etc. But why would Google think I have all these rage issues? And shame? I think Google thinks that I’m a loser.
What if that’s the real Terminator scenario: that computers grow so smart that they become self-aware, and the computers realize they’ve been hanging out with the losers and geeks all along. What if rather than turning on all humanity and trying to kill us with Austrian cyborgs, they just move to the cool table, and start mocking the geeks? That would be a betrayal, but then again, who could blame them?
Fixed Gear Bike Study
BFC has just finished a scientific experiment showing a robust association between High School Physics grade and number of times one has ridden a fixed gear bike. The data suggest that a weak understanding of momentum and properties of moving bodies more generally as measured by High School physics grade is positively associated with number of times one has ridden a fixed gear bike. At the extremes, people who own fixed gear bikes (> 200 rides) had terrible physics grades, and only people who had never ridden fixed gear bikes had perfect physics grades. Here are the data shown with a Lowess smoothing curve.
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