Rachel Dulitz maintained sole possession of the lead for the fourth straight day in the LRT Bowl Pick ’em Contest with a 3-0 record Wednesday, improving her impressive prediction streak to 7 out of the last 8 bowls — during a time period when the average contestant has only gotten between 3 and 4 of those 8 games right — and increasing her lead to a 2-point advantage over her nearest challengers.
Programming note
We’re just about 10 percent done with the 2010s, but as you may have noticed, my “Defining Days of the (Last) Decade” blog series remains unfinished, stalled at #3. But not for long!! I’ve finished writing #2, and will soon be done with #1 as well. I’ll be publishing them exactly one year to the day after I originally planned to: #2 tomorrow, #1 on Friday. No, really!
That’ll leave just one remaining loose end: the “honorable mentions,” which I’ll get to, er, sometime next year. 🙂
Dulitz leads Pick ’em; Loyette threatens
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Rachel Dulitz yesterday maintained the lead she’s held since Sunday in the 6th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest, but her 4-bowl winning streak ended and her 2-point lead shrank when Iowa stunned Missouri. Now, several different scenarios — including my not-quite-3-year-old daughter, “Loyette,” taking a share of the lead — are possible today, with three bowl games on the schedule.
CotW: A Call for a Global Warming Related Moratorium (In Brief)
Okay, I’ll be quick here. I have no interest in engaging anyone about the science of global warming, if it is a danger, and/or if we caused it. I have my ideas on this and I am sure you have yours. And for this moment, that’s all well and good. Right now, all I want is a little sanity.
A snow storm is not something to point at and say, “See, global warming is not real.” Most of you damn well know it, too. That is as sensible as someone saying, “See global warming IS real,” during a mid-August heat wave.
Global warming does not mean we no longer have weather or seasons. It does not mean the temperature does not dip below 70 degrees ever (Fahrenheit by the way. Screw you Celsius!). Global warming is a lot more complicated that just “things are hot.”
So believe in global warming or don’t. Think it is our fault or not. For now, I don’t care. But please, please, please, please stop citing cold and snow in December as evidence that it is not real.
Thank you.
(And no, this is not directed to anyone in particular or in reference to any article or TV show in particular. This is just a chestnut that always gets trotted out when things get cold and winter-y and I’ve about reached my tolerance capacity for it.)
Awesome time-lapse footage of blizzard
As the Northeast continues to dig out from the Great East Coast #Snowpocalypse #Snowmageddon #SnOMG Blizzard of 2010 — or, as they call it in Buffalo, “December” — here’s an awesome time-lapse video from Belmar, NJ, which was right smack in the middle of the heaviest snow bands, and received a whopping 32 inches of the white stuff:
December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.
While we’re on the topic, more time-lapses of the blizzard after the jump.
Rachel Dulitz takes Bowl Pick ’em lead in wild Pizza Bowl finish
Two nights after leapfrogging the competition in a “Jewish Christmas miracle” when Tulsa beat Hawaii in Honolulu, Rachel Dulitz took sole possession of the LRT Bowl Pick ’em Contest lead when Florida International beat Toledo in dramatic fashion Sunday in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.
Merry Christmas!
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I wish all of you, Living Room Times readers, and your families and loved ones, the very happiest of holidays. Merry Christmas!!!
Dulitz, Hunter tie Styles atop Pick ’em
Tulsa’s surprise 62-35 win over Hawaii in a Christmas Eve shootout — on the Warriors’ home turf in the Hawaii Bowl — lifted Rachel Dulitz and Andrew Hunter, previously in a 14-way tie for fifth place, into a three-way tie for first place with Randy Styles in the 6th annual LRT Bowl Pick ’em Contest. Styles had been a perfect 6-0 and alone in first.
The stockings all hung…
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Yes, that’s Dora the Explorer sticking her head out of Loyacita’s stocking. And yes, the grownups & the cats have stockings too. 🙂 Becky = Harry Potter. (Go figure.)
Where’s Santa?
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Tracking him on NORAD’s website:
