Election Day is five days away, and that can mean only two things: one, conservatives are practically wetting themselves with glee and excitement, while Democrats flip-flop between desperate hope and abject #PANIC!!!; and two, it’s time for the Living Room Times 2010 Midterm Election Prediction Contest! As always with LRT/BrendanLoy.com contests, it’s free to enter. So, political junkies: put your… Read more »
“AwesomeSauce” and “Old Gold & Black” lead the 2nd annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ’em Contest through last weekend’s games, with prediction records of 54-8. They’ve both scored exactly 27 points in each of the two weeks of the contest. (Old Gold & Black took sole possession of the lead twice Saturday, but gave it back each time.)… Read more »
I didn’t get my act together in time to launch this for Week 1, but no matter… it’s time for the 2nd annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ‘em Contest! We’ll start with Week 2, so for those of you would totally would have picked Jacksonville State over Ole Miss and North Dakota State over Kansas… sorry! Anyway, to… Read more »
A few minutes ago, I got a @ message from somebody on Twitter saying, “Wondering if you’ve already seen this??!?!?” with a link to this blog post on Gawker, titled “Law Grads Ungrateful for Their Priceless Knowledge.” What makes the post noteworthy, from my perspective, is the stock photo they used to illustrate it: The post has nothing to do… Read more »
Test concluded; original post after the jump. Stay tuned for live video coverage of election-results-party-hopping tonight! Starting ~7:30 PM Mountain Time, or so.
As you’ll undoubtedly notice, I’ve made some major blog layout changes. I’m not in love with the return of the three-column layout, but I’ve concluded it’s a necessary evil, so that I can keep tweets on the homepage — thus keeping the site fresh when I’m not blogging much — while preventing them from overrunning the main body of the… Read more »
[UPDATE: Event over; iPhone 4 is here. And it’s awesome. Of course, the best part of the demo was when Steve Jobs had network connectivity issues while trying to demonstrate the new, super high definition screen: Yeah… somebody‘s getting fired. Heh. To make matters worse (and more hilarious), at one point, Jobs asked for suggestions from one of his techies,… Read more »
Tweets from myself, and various other tweeters I follow who are covering the U.K. election, will appear automatically below. Alas, because neither Cover It Live nor ScribbleLive are importing tweets properly right now, I’ll have to use the non-interactive, non-archive-able Twitter Widget verison. *sigh*
Live-tweeting below. You can join in by clicking “Make a comment” at the top of the window, or by tweeting something @brendanloy, or by emailing 14115@scribblelive.com. [Live window removed; full transcript after the jump.] Folks, this isn’t just a basketball game. It isn’t just a title game. It isn’t just the first game in my entire life that I’ve had… Read more »
My ability to live-tweet during Saturday’s games will, I suspect, be considerably limited, for toddler-related reasons. Nevertheless, I will once again be confining my tweets, and any comments thereon, to the window below. In addition, tweets (including retweets) from Kyle Whelliston, Andy Glockner, Pat Forde and Seth Davis and Mark Schlabach, and Butler student Sarah Black, will also appear automatically… Read more »