NO THANKS WE LIKE THIS THING THAT YOU SHOULD KEEP

It involves Florida, and Arkansas, playing footballs.

Having UF on the schedule meant that no matter how bad the East turned out, there was always at least one interesting cross division game each year. Now we get to play UK/Vandy/Miz/SCar instead. And it’ll be a day game.

This deal keeps getting worse all the time

I really like the permanent rivalries (at least the good ones)
sad

The rest are definitely on the chopping block, and explanations of how that could work have already been covered.

Given the structural advantages, it’s amazing the also-rans in the SEC haven’t had more success. The top 6 powers in the SEC over the last 30 or so years (Bama, Auburn, LSU, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee) always have to play their entire division plus one (sometimes two) of the powers in the other division, whereas the other 6 (now 8) teams regularly get to skip all of the good teams in the other division. Arkansas and South Carolina have it only slightly easier since they play each other.

Keeping only the two rivalries above will mean those four teams will continue to have a scheduling disadvantage. But arguably that disadvantage will be less than it is now, since at least the other teams will have to rotate through LSU, Florida, Arkansas, and South Carolina (and these among each other) more often.

//crosses fingers that we get to keep UK

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students:

We have addressed the odor. You should already be noticing a relief from the odor but it may be warm in parts of the building for the next couple of hours. Please read on if you want the background on the issue.

A contractor was putting down a primer sealant in an upstairs mechanical room. The contractor opened a roof door to allow the odor to go outside. Unfortunately, one of the intake fans pulled the odor back into the building and dispersed it through the HVAC system into every room in our building. Some of the odor also made its way from the mechanical room down the set of stairs closest to the courtroom.

I had UK PPD shut down the intake fan at issue and also had the contractor stop working. The intake fan needs to stay off for a couple of hours until the sealant dries and the odor is completely gone. This means that it may get warm in part of the building until the intake fan is running again.

I will note that various departments in UK PPD have done a much better job at coordinating with us before scheduling contractors to work. The department at issue today did not coordinate properly with us and apologized.

Thanks,

Danny
Assistant Dean of Administration
and Community Engagement

This outrage will not stand!

/falls down laughing

Enjoy, y’all.

Let alone enjoyed it.

Was it a bad idea to write all my answers in Japanese?

Yeah, not so much

While LSU athletic director Joe Alleva said that the Tigers and Florida are both "interested in ending" their annual series, Florida sources told CBSSports.com that the Gators have given no indication they want their series to end with LSU.

Alleva is just asking to be fired now

Is to let Missou and A&M start running the conference, act butthurt, and leave for another conference and more money in 15 years.

Bama, AU, UGA, UT, UF, UK and SC in one division (The Legends Division featuring South Carolina)… everybody else goes to the other division (The Other Division featuring LSU). This should keep all the true rivalries safe and allow each team to play 3 inter-divisional games… At least I think that protects all the rivalries, I could be wrong.

That was the bellweather game for both. And who can forget the epic Brantley/Lee showdown?

Trolling, trolling, trolling, keep them gremlins trolling…..

http://gizmodo.com/5889581/meth-addict-accidentally-burns-down-worlds-fifth+oldest-tree

I am somewhat more concerned now, if completely irrationally.

and at my secret spot with a desk and free wifi and a quad outlet all to myself sitting in a rocking chair

Did he really hit a 611-foot home run?

Maybe, but we can say that he did, and that’s good enough.

The Saints don’t want to pay Drew Brees like a great QB.

Are the Saints nuts?

About error bars in measurement.

I had to take two non-major physics classes as a geology major, and I remember that keeping track of the error in measurement was supremely important. Without diving too far into the weeds, am I right that:

The error in measurement is one-half the smallest unit you are using. E.g., if you have a meter stick marked in mm, your measurement error is +/- 0.5mm.

If you add measurements, the error stays the same. If you use that meter stick to measure the perimeter of a rectangle, your error at the end is still +/- 0.5mm.

If you multiply the measurements, you add the error. If you take those measurements to calculate the area of the rectangle, your error is +/- 0.5mm + 0.5mm for +/- 1 sq. mm.

If you use a power, then you multiply the error (by the derivative?). Taking those measurements to calculate a prism, you’d have +/- 0.5mm X 0.5mm, for +/- 0.25 cu. mm.

Is that right, or am I misremembering?

My seminar paper focuses on some law & econ stuff and the law of diminishing marginal utility plays a role. I need:

1) The name of the kind of function that would be represented by a graphical representation of the law of diminishing marginal utility (i.e., one with a positively-curved slope that continuously decreases as X gets higher, but never reaches zero (no parabola)). What would such function be called? Hyperbolic? Logarithmic? Something like that?

2) The simplest alegebraic formula you can come up with of the above. f(x) = x^y kind of shit. Again, this is for lawyers/law students, so I can’t overemphasize how important simplicity is.

/stomach rumbles
…Well played, sushi. Well played.