My employer is generously offering a three-day weekend beginning tomorrow, with a day off Monday for…
(plays Jeopardy! theme)
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The Big 12 is the best conference in college basketball, with five of the nation’s top 14 teams.
As a nice mid-January Tuesday night treat, four of them faced off in two instant classics last night.
Following a pretty good undercard between Texas and Iowa State (won by the Cyclones), a national audience was treated to an intrastate rivalry between the second-ranked Kansas Jayhawks and 13th-ranked Kansas State. These are teams not only destined to vie for the Big 12 title, but also #1 seeds and perhaps a trip to the Final Four.
The last time K-State made the Final Four was the year LBJ was elected President. (KU has made a dozen such trips since ’64.) With their win last night over the bluebloods from Lawrence, all eyes will be on Manhattan… Kansas.
Proof again that there is really nothing the matter with that place.
Five games in the books and we’ve had some dandies. Is the phrase January Madness too much? Either way it continues tonight. Seriously, whoever came up with the idea to put a Wild Card game on Monday night… spot on.
Remember that last year the winner of that Monday night game (the Rams) won the Super Bowl a few weeks later.
With the Cowboys squaring off against the Buccaneers tonight, well, let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself, but it’ll still be a fun game to watch.
Today’s episode of Math and Musings: the thrilling conclusion to my life goal cards list.
Well, the end of my reading the list, not the end of the list.
Remember rule #1: never get to the end of your list.
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Next in my son’s Film Series One Must Watch set is Star Wars, and last night I explained to him how even though A New Hope is called “Episode IV” it really is the first one they made and the first one they released.
“Daddy,” he asked, “did they ever make an Episode I, II, and III?”
(Pause.)
Um…
(Pause.)
No.
One of my goals for 2023 is to have my son see at least some of The 365 Greatest Movies Ever Made and the Days You Should Watch Them. I figured we should start with the classics, and this week I had him watch all four Indiana Jones movies.
Yeah, all four. In a week. Four days, actually.
I tried to explain to him how moviegoers in the ’90s and ’00s had to wait 19 years for a fourth Indiana Jones movie while he had to wait only 19 hours.
His response was something along the lines of… eh.
But he loved the movies.
And as of this moment he’s caught up.
As of this moment.
Whatever I put to watch on June 30 this year… forget it. We’re going to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
My son, the Indiana Jones buff.
Rule #1 about life goal lists: never get to the end of your list.
Rule #2: make your list longer than 15 minutes.
For further explanation, tune in to today’s episode of Math and Musings, Part 2 of the life goal series.
My local NBA team—that would be the Washington Wizards—has now made history, or at least become the answer to an ignominious trivia question.
The greatest number of points Giannis Antetokounmpo ever scored in a game was 55.
January 3, 2023…
against the Washington Wizards.
Twenty years ago I started making a list of things I planned to do before I, well, shuffled off this mortal coil.
At first they were simple but over time they became more and more complex.
I enjoy completing them, but ultimately I know one never wants to get to the end of his list.
For a current accounting, tune in to today’s episode of Math and Musings.