Burnstein Banter: 09.2008

Saturday, September 27

But how many have typewriters?

Their are 438 students in this years freshman class at Amherst College. Check this out: 432 of them are on Facebook, but only 5 have landlines. Link (via Kottke)

What a game!

Freep - UM's comeback is biggest at big house:

"I'd like to tell you things looked OK at halftime, but they didn't -- wow," said Rodriguez, who had water dumped on him by his players. "There was no panic. We were just trying to make some corrections, but if there was a hole to crawl into, I'm sure a bunch of us, including myself, would have liked to crawl in that hole. But we didn't."

Mlive - Michigan shocks No. 9 Wisconsin with 27-25 come-from-behind win:

"Michigan was down 19-0 and had mustered only 50 yards of offense when it finally put together a long offensive drive late in the third quarter."

And then proceeded to score four unanswered TDs. To say that Michigan was amazing in the 2nd half is an understatement. What a fun game to watch!

One small quibble: my vote for the biggest comeback still goes to the 1979 win over Indiana. This YouTube clip, with Bob Ufer announcing the final minutes of the game, still gives me rush.

Tuesday, September 23

The lights of my life

Two pictures taken this past Labor day weekend...

From Sept 2008

Sunday, September 14

7 inches of rain yesterday, and it is still coming down in buckets

We got seepage in our supposedly water-impermeable, newly remodeled basement. This Lemur video sums up my reaction to the water-soaked carpet in our basement: everything looks fine, initially; I walk over to the corner of our basement; and then... wait for it... and then I step in it.

(via Rolling Stone's 25 Funniest Web Videos)

Sunday, September 7

Global warning: is it statistically significant?

What is the truth?! Is it inconvenient or not? In particular, how does one reconcile this presentation with the inconvenient truths espoused by Al? If you're impatient skip to around 3:00 in the video.