More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Lithium deal with over $1.5 trillion discovered in Oregon.

- A piece of forgotten US history.

- Will Jake and Logan Paul's haters make them billionaires?

- Learn AI layer by layer.

College Football Thoughts

Some miscellaneous thoughts and observations about college football as we await to see tonight's Oregon-Indiana tilt.

Was having these thoughts anyway and figured I'd jot them down and post on Substack.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Oregon Governor sues Trump Administration in bid to stop National Guard deployment in Portland. Think its misleading to say "Oregon" as if all citizens in the state are pro Antifa or crime.

- How to respond to China's growing nuclear capability. Quickly becoming my "go-to" source for all things US Navy related.

- Matt Taibbi's Senate testimony on surveillance. Agree that ending Quiet Skies should just be the beginning.

- Is this satire?

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The making of the movie High Fidelity. I remember the movie mainly for giving the world Jack Black.

- The Daily Coach on Ghost Town Living

- Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in AWS unit. (HT Steve Landry)

- Oregon recriminalizes drugs after state's huge mistake.

LInky Links

 Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Great question!

- 11 Oregon counties have voted to join Idaho. They straight up hate Porlandia.

- Subtle, very subtle. 

- Historical figures AI chatbot is a mess. Still believe we'll have Hogwarts type moving and talking pictures within the decade with direct quotes or close to it from the historical figures in the paintings.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- IRS doubles down on taxing FanDuel, DraftKings as gambling. I can see both sides. The DFS sites say it's a game of skill but so is poker and I would consider playing poker for money to be gambling.

- Revisiting the New Romantics. Interesting (but overblown) look lack at the music of the early 1980's. Know the article is Brit-centric but the ultimate art school band from this period was Talking Heads who literally formed at the Rhode Island School of Design.

-  If Trump is re-elected, could Oregon be headed for a crack-up? If Oregon breaks into two then California probably won't be far behind.  

- "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" - Matthew 6:27

- Trump issues sweeping order stripping job protections from policy effecting bureaucrats. Could be big! 

- Interesting - Antonio Brown signs with Tampa Bay

Valentine's Day Linky Links

- Happy Valentine's Day from A-Rod

- Valentine's Day was not a happy anniversary for Teddy Roosevelt

- Chain-smoking Santa says...

- The US as a Valentine's Day card

- Not sure if picturing Prince Charles as your Valentine is more creepy or scary (or just plain hilarious)

- And a reminder that today's not just Valentine's Day - it is also the anniversary of Oregon joining the Union as the 33rd State back in 1859

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I might be crazy but if Donald Trump would just randomly Tweet lyrics from Jethro Tull's Aqualung - that would really make my 2018... Heh heh... If the Harvey Weinstein story isn't called Grotesque Violations - someone is missing out on a great title... If the Democrats want to fight to give back the right to vote to felons - shouldn't the NRA be fighting to also give these felons the right to own guns legally again? Compound bad ideas... Heh heh... Secondhand Alcohol would be a good name for a band... As I get older I find myself peeing in the shower more often. Boy does that make the people who own my gym angry... The biggest unanswered question from John Podesta's "email hack" is whether or not he ever got that knock-off Viagra he was looking for. Second biggest question is if he ever changed his password from "password"...

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Cool? Gross? A sneeze captured at 1,000 frames per second

- Joe "Stringbean" McConaughy - the man who smashed the Appalachian Trail speed record. Impressive! BTW - FKT is "fastest known time" (had to look that up)

- The wisdom of Charlie Munger. You should bookmark this link and read it once a week - guaranteed to improve your existence!

- How can you not root for Marcus Mariota? As an aside - Oregon is just 1-9 as a double-digit favorite since Mariota left for the NFL. Oregon is a 14-point favorite vs Wyoming on Saturday.

- This is a problem

- The historic Cassini space probe "died" this morning. Here's an interesting article on the team whose job was to "kill" it.

- Heh heh

- Who knew? Louis CK has a new movie I Love You Daddy that could be considered a Woody Allen bio-pic

Valentine's Day Linky Links

- A-Rod wishes you a happy Valentine's Day

- Santa shares his thoughts about Valentine's Day

- The United States as a Valentine's Day card

- Today's not just Valentine's Day - it is also the Anniversary of Oregon joining the Union as the 33rd state in 1859

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

Victor Davis Hanson remembers Christopher Hitchens

Larry Fitzgerald at the Fiesta Bowl with Condoleezza Rice

I wonder if Norm Chad being so down on sports has anything to do with Randy Edsall

21 professional violinists asked to play 6 violins, couldn't tell Stradivari/Guarneri ones from new ones

Awesome shot of Oregon chrome helmet