WhoTom

Is that you Searching for a good time? Is that you Waitin' for all these years? And I hope you're feelin' better

Congrats! Being a homeowner is a challenge, but it looks like you've overcome some bigger challenges, so I'm sure you'll handle this too.

You can keep him out of your yard by putting up a goalpost. (Sorry - Chicago-area joke.)

It has nothing to do with whether I like the results; I simply questioned their validity. Tossing equations around may give the impression of credibility to those unfamiliar with research, but unless the underlying assumptions have been validated, then they're nothing more than wild-ass guesses. I could write a bunch of equations to solve the same problem and they'd be no more or less valid than yours because neither of us are football professionals. I get it - this is a message board, not an academic journal. So stop pretending that your assumption is valid simply because it has a bunch of equations attached to it. You've stated your opinion that McD won't bring us a Lombardi. Your opinion may be correct, but unvalidated equations don't make it so.

Oh, show me 'round your snow-peaked mountains Way down south Take me to your daddy's farm Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out Come and keep your comrade warm

1. You're treating it like science to make it look valid, so I'm pointing out that it's not at all scientific. Suggesting that it doesn't need to be scientific because this isn't a dissertation is, if you'll excuse the pun, moving the goalposts. 2. He's not a football expert either. Again, he could check the calculations, but not the validity.

In real research, the researcher is a subject-matter expert (SME). You've alluded to your impressive resume without providing specifics, so let me ask, are any of your credentials or experience related to professional football? Also in real research, when someone develops a measurement tool - a survey, a formula, a method - that tool needs to be checked for validity by a panel of subject-matter experts. Basically, the validity check ensures that you are measuring what you say you're measuring. Have any SMEs performed validity checks on your equations? You're tossing around a lot of stats, and maybe that's where your expertise is, but stats without context are meaningless - as such, they can be twisted and interpreted however one wants. The SME adds context to the stats, both in terms of determining how the stats are calculated and interpreting the results. I have a friend who's a math professor. He's really good at Calculus and could undoubtedly solve a differential equation describing an electrical circuit like a PID control system. He can figure out proportions, integrals, and derivatives, but the control system needs coefficients for each of those quantities - with the P, I, and D variables being weighted according to how much influence they should have on the system. Some applications are heavier on the P; others emphasize the I or the D - it all depends on the context. Since he's not an expert in control systems, he couldn't design the circuit or even be certain that the equation he's solving correctly represents the circuit in question - for that, he'd need a SME.

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Heard this on the radio yesterday and it reminded me of this thread:

How long does it take a genius to win his first Nobel Prize?

But don't forget to understand exactly what you put on the tree Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free

Well, there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves Or scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues

Offense wins championships.

Telling a whiner to stop whining is like telling a screaming toddler to calm down.

And it's the ocean flowing in our veins Oh, 'cause it's the salt that's in our tears Oh, 'cause we could have come so very far Oh, in at least as many years Take the highway through the Great Divide

The jam band moe. is from Buffalo. https://moe.org/band

I remember students joking about bribing me for a better grade. I'd say "No," and they'd come back with "Everyone has a price." My answer: "That's true, and if you could afford my price, you wouldn't need the degree you're working on." In the same vein, whatever price Beane has put on a Diggs trade is higher than any reasonable GM would go. Next week: "Breaking news! Diggs traded to the Raiders." (My first thought was the Browns, but they have nothing to trade.)

Or Buffalo. Air conditioners and furnaces aren't natural. The fact is, humans live in climates where we aren't naturally equipped to survive, but using technology, we control the internal climate. Spacecraft and ocean vessels are just extensions of climate-control technology. When something goes wrong with the technology, the result can be death, as in the people who die during heatwaves or deep freezes because power is out.

Bell bottom blues, you made me cry I don't want to lose this feeling And if I could choose a place to die It would be in your arms

She's gonna listen to her heart It's gonna tell her what to do She might need a lot of loving But she don't need you

I saw that show too - one of my favorites! The professional recording was made into an official DVD - "Truckin' up to Buffalo" - and later the band made it available on YouTube.

This is true, partly because search engines actually punish articles that link to off-site destinations. The articles will lose SEO (search engine optimization) points for doing so. I write for an e-magazine and I've been told not to provide external links to my sources. My editor said, "You can name the source, but don't link to it - they can Google it if they want to find it." As a journalist who's familiar with academic research, scientific research, and the history of the WWW, this drives me crazy. And as one who researches my articles and tries to find primary (i.e. original) sources, it makes my job that much more difficult. And it completely thumbs its nose to the whole purpose of the WWW: to provide information and easy-to-follow links to related information. The SEO craze is crippling what could be a decent research tool. And just when you figure out what the SEO bot wants, someone figures out how to manipulate it, making the search engines change their algorithms and the SEO bots respond with new rules. I've seen at least one website that posts the URLs of its sources but removes the hyperlink, so you can copy/paste, but not click on it. That satisfies the SEO bots and saves me the trouble of Googling something, but it's still a PITA. And if you think I should be disrespected for being associated with the publishing industry, please be aware that some of us still do legit research and seek out original sources; it's not our fault that the industry is discouraging that. I've already made it clear to my editor that my integrity is important to me, so I don't use click-bait titles and I do cite my sources. As long as I don't hyperlink to the sources, he's cool with that. And when he tried to "spice up" one of my titles with a phrase that screamed "click bait" to me, I told him that if he insisted on that title, then he should remove my name from the byline and publish it under "Staff." Both he and the editor-in-chief decided to keep my name in the byline and use a non-click bait title.

That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you

So, did you have to run laps?

Still waters run deep, So be careful I don't drown you You've got nothing to hear, I've got nothing to say