Five of my fears, ranked by a combination of the terror (or in some cases, mild anxiety) they cause me and the possibility of them actually happening:
I begin a lot of posts that I abandon for one reason or another, so here are a few sports-related bullet-point odds and ends that have piled up over the past few weeks but don’t merit full posts:
Despite my 9-3-1 record against the spread last week, I’m not going to bother picking every game anymore. I don’t bet on each game, so why bother?
Google Reader has a new “Sort by magic” feature:
In fact, you can rank any feed or folder by “magic” and we’ll do our best to sort them in the most relevant and interesting order. Just click the Feed or Folder Settings menu and choose Sort by magic. Try clicking the like button on things you think are important or enjoy reading, and we’ll learn to put items like that first.
Your personalized ranking is automatically generated. It takes into account your past reading behavior (including liking and starring), and global signals.
So far, so good, although I’m pretty ruthless about pruning blogs I find uninteresting. More research will be necessary.
This is probably the only thing that Dan Choi and David Chang have in common.
Choi: “My parents always brag about me in church…[My mom] would talk about me graduating from West Point and being a Harvard student and going to Iraq and coming back, being very involved in church, and bragging about all this stuff. They even got to the point where it was like, ”And he’s a tall Korean, too!” Their validation of their existence is through living vicariously and bragging about all these things that I’ve accomplished and done.”
Chang: “Koreans are a funny bunch…They say, ‘This is my son. He’s going to Harvard. He’s going to be an investment banker. He’s going to make $3.4 million a year.’ There’s a Cold War arms race among Asian parents: ‘This is my daughter who finished medical school while an undergraduate and can play Beethoven’s Fifth on the violin with her toes.’ My dad gave up on me long ago, this son who did terrible in school. Now he can throw me back into the ring.”