Some youtube videos

Some youtube videos I love.  Shout out to jack for the first one.

NFL Draft

Thoughts from this years NFL draft:

• Its amazing how much crappier the draft coverage gets after the first 20 picks of the draft.  For most of the first round the anaylsts have a pretty good sense of who will get picked, but by the end of the round it there is a noticeable drop off in the number of insightful comments.  I imagine that round 2 will be even worse.
• Im happy there was no Brady Quinn/ Aaron Rogers situation this year.  Ray Maualuga looked like he had the potential this year, but there must not have been a camera crew with him.  He dropped from being a mid first round pick to early second round and they never showed him.
• There is a noticeable delay on videos from the draft picks homes.  ESPN will show the draftee getting a call from the team selecting them, we then see the commissioner announce the pick, but its like a 3- 5 second delay before the draftee sees there name get called.  I wonder if this is a delay ESPN builds in for safety reason in case they need to censor anything.
• Why in the world is Keyshaw Johnson a full time analyst?  He was a number one pick, he was a pretty good reciever, he talks a lot, but am I really supposed to beleive he knows anything about these college kids.
• Why have i been watching this for 3 hours???
• Imagine how cool it would be if all employees were chosen like this.  With the 1st pick in the 2009 draft Altman Vilandire and Co. selects ___.  (Cut to aweome graphic in business casual clothing with stats about excel modeling)

The End of an Era

Today was a pretty sad day for the MIT athletics department as 8 sports were cut from varsity ranks.  The sports DAPER dropped to club are Alpine Skiing, Golf, Men’s Ice Hockey, Women’s Ice Hockey, Men’s Gymnastics, Women’s Gymnastics, Pistol, and Wrestling.  I don’t think it was really a surprise to anyone that these were the sports DAPER decided to cut, but its still a huge deal to the department.  Not only do the athletes on these teams no longer have the opportunity to compete at a varsity level, but this decision also affects the coaches livelihood.

MIT’s actions also could have far reaching effects on other division III teams.  One of MIT’s criteria for cutting sports was allegedly the amount and distance of competition.  Without MIT’s pistol or Golf program other local colleges have less teams to compete against.  How will this affect them?

Men’s division III just met the minimum requirement of 50 teams and could possibly have its own NCAA DIII tournament by 2011. If other schools cut mens volleyball this tournament will never get off the ground.

For now at least the men’s volleyball team is safe.  It may seem a bit counter intuitive, but I think the mens team has the womens team partially to thank for this.  Im sure the womens volleyball team would be one of the last to be cut because 1) they are very good 2) they are a womens sport so it helps with title IX and 3) they are one of the oldest womens programs.  Since both the programs share a full time coach, I doubt the department would save much money by cutting mens volleyball.

Hopefully these really were a one time cut by DAPER and nothign like this has to happen again in the next few years as DAPER continues to cut budgets.

Digg shows us what is really important

I started cracking up when I saw the top articles on digg today.  It’s  a little sad what people think is important and interesting.  You will get the same impression if you go to the front page of cnn.com.

#1: A blury picture of some chick with a low cut top on google maps

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# 8: The acting CFO of the one of the country’s largest mortgage lenders commits suicide in the middle of the worst US recession in decades.

My new table

I was going to buy a new desk…then I realized I already have one!

Asiri would be proud.