On the 8 Spot

I take back all my annoing statements that the simpsons is no longer funny! Mabuhay Kababayan!

D’oh: Simpsons’ animator is Emmy-winning Filipino

PASCKIE PASCUA, Philippine News

02/16/2009 | 11:24 AM

Espanola, center, shows off his 2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for his work on ‘The Simpsons.’ GMANews.TV

LOS ANGELES — Meet Jess Espanola, the Emmy award-winning assistant director of the popular animated TV show, The Simpsons. He is also the first native Filipino to win such a prestigious award, deemed as the television counterpart of the Oscars.

Espanola, 49, won for the episode, “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind,” which was broadcast on December 16, 2007 on FOX. The episode won last year’s Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). The show’s director is Chuck Sheetz, who also works on “King of the Hill.”

GMANews.TV – D’oh: Simpsons’ animator is Emmy-winning Filipino – Pinoy Abroad – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News – BETA.

You hear it in the news, and people repeat it to either sound smart or at least informed. To me it is just noise. There is probably a correlation to the confidence of a people versus the performance of its economy, it may even well be causal, but Whenever I hear anyone sprouting something like “We are not that affected by the global financial crisis”, or even worse the people who sound so matter of factly “We are immune to this crisis” then points out the activity in malls etc, I don’t know what to think anymore. We aren’t like franklin richards (son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Force) we cannot will reality. We nudge it, coerce and push maybe but that is what we do. willing it is just part of it, we create reality through will and action, none is good without the other. The way I talk betrays my need for accuracy when making sweeping statements or even statements, more so for things that are not too easily grasped, with little study or even extensive study. We must not speak to the crowds but always try to push the debate forward.

This asymmetric character of the global crisis – the fact that the shocks were even bigger on the periphery than at the epicentre – had its disadvantages for the US, to be sure. Any hope that America could depreciate its way out from under its external debt burden faded as 10-year yields and the dollar held firm. Nor did American manufacturers get a second wind from reviving exports, as they would have done had the dollar sagged. The Fed’s achievement was to keep inflation in positive territory – just. Those who had feared galloping inflation and the end of the dollar as a reserve currency were confounded.

Niall Ferguson – An imaginary retrospective of 2009.

This was supposed to be funny , I don’t know why it made me sad.

The change we need

After eight long, tiresome years, President Al Gore won’t be missed. Even if he did save the planet

TA Frank: The change we need | Comment is free | The Guardian.

February 04, 2009

Petzal: The Rules of Gunfighting

Normally, this blog is dedicated to peaceful pursuits. However, SFC Frick speaks much wisdom. I am giving him a meritorious promotion to Command Sergeant Major (E-9).

(For more on this subject, visit our list of the five best gunfights of all time).

Drill Sergeant Joe B. Fricks Rules For A Gunfight

23. Your number one option for personal security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.

Petzal: The Rules of Gunfighting | Field & Stream.

hehe,

I just booked tickets to Kuala Lumpur, Now just have to find return flights either from singapore or from KL.

Chuck is presenting a paper in June on an asian math conference and he invited me to tag along.

I didn’t even bat an eye! Yes!!!

I’m singing to my self right now! I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it come on come one! YEAH!

Love Makes You Fat

Uri Gneezy and Jason Shafrin show that the more likely you are to get divorced or terminate your relationship the less likely you are to gain weight. We call this keeping one’s options open.

Marginal Revolution: Love Makes You Fat.

Especially hate it when people do the sneaky thing and try to refute you by saying how weak an analogy is when you are giving a counterexample, especially hate it when the person you are talking to seems to either not care or doesn’t understand. Read the whole thing it is short and you would probably learn a thing or two.

Strive to give sound arguments, and to show that other people’s arguments aren’t sound. Use counterexamples to argue against general claims. Don’t fuck around with analogies. That’s how it’s done.

Donkeylicious: The Difference Between Analogies And Counterexamples.

These are just the main points go read the whole thing.

# Short, regular work schedule

# Leave yourself a rough edge

# Don’t research

# Don’t be ceremonious

# Kill your word-processor

# Realtime communications tools are deadly

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction.

One statistical rule of thumb in basketball is that a team leading by more points than there are minutes left near the end of the game has an 80 percent chance of winning. If your team is down by more than 6 points halfway through the final quarter, and you’re anxious to beat the traffic, you can leave knowing that there is slightly less than a 20 percent chance you’ll miss a victory; on the other hand, if you miss a victory, it will have been an improbable and therefore sensational one.

The No-Stats All-Star – NYTimes.com.

“They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for,” he says. He laughs. “It’s a tough environment for a player now because you have a lot of teams starting to think differently. They’ve got to rethink how they’re getting paid.”

The No-Stats All-Star – NYTimes.com.