RTT Podcast tonight at 9:00 EST: Bracketology edition
by Joel on Mar 4, 2010 7:00 PM EST
in Tennessee Volunteer Basketball
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Join us tonight at 9:00 EST for the Rocky Top Talk Podcast as we'll be talking with Chris Dobbertean of Blogging the Bracket and SB Nation's own Bracketology.
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What I'd like to hear:
- Tennessee’s current projection
- How high could Tennessee climb if they reached the finals (beating Kentucky along the way) and if they won the SEC Tourney
- How low they could drop with 2 losses in the next 2 games.
- I’d like to hear their thoughts on the SEC bubble teams, too.
Tennessee Fans: We win at teh Internet!
There are a lot of wildcards
What about the conference tournament performance of other teams??
Pitt, West Virginia, and Georgetown and Ohio State, Purdue, Michigan State, and Wisconsin are all projected higher than us. Obviously only one from each conference can win their tournaments, and some will lose early. If Tennessee can win the SEC or make the finals, can we expect to jump some of these teams? Like MSU, Georgetown and Wisconsin? I’d say chances are we will advance further in our conference tournament than several of these teams will in theirs.
Interesting fandom with that one.
Not knocking it at all…. but just noting the variety.
Cannons... fire them.
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Firefox HATES the RTT podcast
I thought TalkShoe was the problem, so I didn’t open it this time, I just streamed it off the site. Firefox crashed four times over the course of the podcast, and I now actually can’t get Firefox to open anymore.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 4, 2010 9:46 PM EST reply actions
I think he's gone
But if I remember right, he’s Windows. Could be wrong. But he’s had problems with Firefox on the UTSports vid page, too. I wonder if he’s got some plug in compatability problems or something.
I had crash problems in a preview version of FF
And prior version of Windows. Before the OS upgrade, I solved it with Flashblock. Haven’t had to use Flashblock after upgrading to Windows 7.
I know that doesn’t help you Mac folks, but there it is.
it's not the only thing that causes FF to crash.
maybe i need to upgrade my OS. I’m running 3 behind the current snow leopard.
I've
never had any problems with the podcast, or with utsports.vids, running Windows Vista exclusively on my laptop. I also keep very up-to-date with recent vesrions of Firefox.
One thing I’d suggest to people is to try out Google Chrome — it’s a sleek, very fast browser for all 3 platforms. It doesn’t have the add-on power of Firefox right now, but I downloaded it to try it out the other day and it is noticeably faster than firefox for me, and leaps and bounds beyond IE.
Tennessee Fans: We win at teh Internet!
by bobo_the_vol on Mar 5, 2010 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
yeah it's not available for Mac
unfortunately I have Tiger, and it requires Leopard at least, maybe Snow Leopard. Boo
It is available for Mac
And it also sucks. Maybe it’s better now. I LOVED Chrome when I ran Windows, so I downloaded the Mac version right when it came out a couple months ago. Extremely slow, in a very painful sense, and crashed a fair bit. I guess they’ve had a couple months, so maybe it’s better now.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 5, 2010 11:18 AM EST up reply actions
I use FF with XP and have never had problems with the podcast.
I also have flashblock and adblock, and I don’t have to mess with them beforehand. (That, or I already made script permissions permanent and forgot about them.)
As for Chrome: my only hesitation is that Google has an obsession with data mining. I’ve basically given up on my feed reader because they keep changing my subscriptions based on what they think I want. (What I want is for them to let me do the feed management, thank you very much.) That’s also why I killed Buzz the instant I saw it. (Heh. Buzzkill.)
But I want to see where they’re going with their Chrome O/S concept before I buy in.
I have a Mac
It worked alright (well, less badly) in Safari, but I still can’t open Firefox at all.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 5, 2010 12:25 AM EST up reply actions
Christian fiction and (contemporary) Christian music is, as a whole, terrible
But there’s a small pocket of Catholics and Anglicans who still know what good art is. Of course, we had our Tolkein, Chesterton, Lewis crew. R.A. Lafferty is pretty much the best writer ever. Although I guess you mentioned that you don’t have time to read.
Also, to whoever said something about Steven James—he was my 8th grade logic teacher. I coached his daughters in youth soccer.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 4, 2010 9:57 PM EST reply actions
Met his daughters this weekend
Great family. Love him and his books. A bit grisly, but I like grisly.
Joel:
The Gizzly Vol. — for some reason, Joel, I really can’t shape my mental image of you into anything “Grisly.”
Tennessee Fans: We win at teh Internet!
by bobo_the_vol on Mar 5, 2010 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
8th grade logic is a GREAT idea
There really is a reverse bell curve though. Half of the students make 100’s on every test. Half of the students really struggle to pass. But for the ones in that top half, they’ve learned enough to skate through intro to advanced math (junior level college course) and intro to symbolic logic (freshman level college philosophy course). I’ve basically re-taught 8th grade logic to people in both of those classes. Also, they know enough to recognize stupid arguments and avoid making them. Oh yeah, and it makes Aristotle slightly less incomprehensible.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 5, 2010 12:30 AM EST up reply actions
I agree
Derek Webb, who is on the incredibly small list of Christian musicians that I listen to, pointed out once that when Kurt Cobain killed himself, if you listened to Nirvana you weren’t 100% surprised. But when Amy Grant left her husband to run off with Vince Gill, the Christian community was stunned. Christian music can be the least honest form of music out there sometimes. I heard someone else say once that “Christian” is a noun, it should be a verb, and it makes a lousy adjective.
Only 'cause he stole it from Nine Inch Nails
Just kidding, it’s a good song.
The only Christian band I’d heartily recommend is Five Iron Frenzy. The only one I know who played Christian rock (although they’re rock/ska) without doing one of these three things:
1. Compromising the “Christian” part
2. Compromising the “rock” part
3. Writing terribly inane lyrics
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 5, 2010 11:23 AM EST up reply actions
Even from NIN, it's a more honest song, Christian-wise, than most Christian songs out there.
I haven’t heard of FIF, though. I’ll have to check them out. Over the last decade or so, I’ve had a hard time straying too far from Jars because of that same logic.
The vocalist is a bit different
He’s a bit of an acquired taste (kinda like the frontman for Muse, who I’m seeing in concert tomorrow, and sadly thus missing the UT/MSU game). At least I had to let him grow on me. I started with the more silly songs (notably “Blue Comb ’78,” “The Untimely Death of Brad,” “These Are Not my Pants,” and “At Least I’m Not Like All Those Other Old Guys”) and worked my way in from there. It was easier to get used to something when you’re laughing at it. After that, I worked my way into the more serious ones (like “Dandelions,” “The Day We Killed,” and the one I linked you). Overall, I think they have an excellent balance of silliness and seriousness, and I’ve grown to really like the band. They also seem to have a ridiculous amount of studio recordings that have found their way to YouTube, so there’s ample opportunity to demo.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 5, 2010 11:57 PM EST up reply actions
Penciling the ladies into the title already?
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 6, 2010 8:03 AM EST up reply actions
Of course!
One awesome half of basketball and it’s titletown!
/opti – wait, optimism never ends. ;-)
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