Not That Dignified: Archive

Maisel on elite Stanford QBs, and Trent Edwards →

Nice little article here, but while everyone’s gushing about Andrew Luck, I kind of get the sense that Trent feels a little jealous here. Elway’s a top 4 QB ever, Plunkett won 2 Super Bowls. At least Husak, while not having much of an NFL career, went to the rose bowl. Trent was just as hyped coming out of high school (more), is closest in age to Luck, but has had a terrible...

Dec 31st

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Dec 29th

wow, Sugar Bowl leaned on OSU to let the suspended... →

Way to go, integrity.

Dec 29th

remember that time i almost moved to iowa?

fuck that.

Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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the bible would have ben much cooler with... →

Just a standard cracked list, but I want to read these Gospels of Infancy. Jesus was a badass as a child, taming dragons and stuff.

Dec 29th

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in retrospect, i think that’s a defensible argument! best player this season = brady best story this season = vick most valuable player this season = bradford +6 wins and counting off last year! I’m sticking to this!

Dec 27th

whenever you think "Annoying Boston Sports Fan" is...

Pat: who gets your nfl mvp vote as of now?
Vamsi: sam bradford
Vamsi: didn't think i was going there did you?
Vamsi: if not him then brady
Pat: it must be annoying where i give you questions that are obviously meant to tee up a "worship boston" response
Pat: "which team do you think looks good right now in the afc?"

Dec 27th

Dec 24th

currently wrapping this poorly-mounted painting. when i give the gift i’m going to say “i’m not a professional framer, but you get my intent”

Dec 23rd

Dec 22nd

Surprise of the Year: Tracy Morgan gets new Kidney →

Good for you, Mr. Jordan!

Dec 22nd

Interesting Run-in with US Customs →

Some guy’s blog entry…this guy’s caucasian, and basically scared me off of every going to the middle east. I’m sure it’s not that bad (and he bought some things I’d never consider bringing back for that very reason), but sounds like he had a hardcore experience with the FBI.

Dec 20th

tumblr raises $25m →

sourcecontrol: dear tumblr, please use some of this money to fix your crappy website. regards, omar grr. i would second this, but my posts don’t seem to be working.

Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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haha, big 10 already reconsidering division names →

Already? Thank god, I guess…the Big 10 has never made a decision quickly. Who was the focus group who greenlit Legends/Leaders as division names?

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it's a trap!

John: what happens if two of you schedule weddings for the same day?
John: and then reenact the plot of bride wars?
Vamsi: ...
Vamsi: that movie was not very good
John: ...
John: you watched that movie?
Vamsi: no
Vamsi: dammit

Dec 11th

Phil Collins: Alamo Expert? →

“Among his most prized possessions is a receipt signed by Alamo commander William Barrett Travis for 32 head of cattle to be used to feed the Alamo defenders. By his own estimates, Mr. Collins has hundreds of cannonballs, documents and other artifacts from the Alamo at his home in Switzerland. He is currently co-authoring a book on the Alamo and the Texas Revolution with Gary Zaboly that...

Dec 9th

i just realized

did oregon just win the title? they’re either winning it on the field in a few weeks, or once the ncaa makes auburn forfeit this season they’ll retroactively get it?

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Dec 2nd

we know so much about history, and yet so...

Vamsi: the early-mid 1780s must have sucked
Vamsi: coming off the high of beating the british, but before we had a real government, no one knew what the hell they were doing
John: haha
John: why would it have sucked then?  i bet all the farmers and the merchants were kind of happy not being taxed
John: not the black people
Vamsi: but they couldn't get resources bc no trade of crucial goods
Vamsi: all they could do is road building
John: there were no crucial goods back then
Vamsi: umm, typhoid blankets and shiny rocks to give the indians
Vamsi: basic supplies that i think we were used to getting from the british
Vamsi: wagon axles, pairs of clothes, ammunition, that sort of thing
John: ...
John: maybe, i bet pretty much everything could be made by a banker in boston
John: maybe they needed to ship sugar up from the caribbean, but then again the puritans probably thought sugar was the food of satan
Vamsi: umm.  Pirates
John: oh, right.

Dec 2nd

Watch

Game of Thones trailer! So Rajeev - supposedly each season will cover one book of the series. I’m guessing we’ll find out what happens on HBO before book 5 comes out?

Dec 2nd