Friday, March 31, 2017
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3-23-2017
Final Jeopardy category:
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
Final Jeopardy clue/answer:
The word that gave us “picaresque” may also have inspired the name of this clever valet featured in a 1786 opera
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Figaro
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3-22-2017
Final Jeopardy category:
BUSINESS
Final Jeopardy clue/answer:
This company founded in 1945 offers a special deal on the last day of January, March, May, July, Aug., Oct. & Dec.
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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:
Baskin-Robbins
(31 Flavors)
Monday, March 20, 2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: The Dispatcher (2016). John Scalzi
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: The Dispatcher (2016). John Scalzi: The Dispatcher (2016) John Scalzi Alright. For the record I like reading John Scalzi. I particularly like the Old Man’s Wa...
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Dark Matter (2016) Blake Crouch
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Dark Matter (2016) Blake Crouch: Dark Matter (2016) Blake Crouch Ever feel like you were your own worse enemy? Well I bet you never had another version of you...
IU replacing Tom Crean with Steve Alford OR Archie Miller?
OSU has a very low tolerance for football mediocrity. Earle Bruce and John Cooper would have been safe at IU until the day they wanted to retire. Not at OSU. Just the same - Tom Crean would have been safe at OSU for a very long time. - but no way at IU.
So, who will be the next coach at IU? I double if Steve Alford will go there since he is already at UCLA and IU treated Bobbie Knight so badly.
I am thinking more along the lines of Archie Miller - who OSU would love to recruit if Thad MAtta ever decides to step down.
Final Jeopardy 3-17-2017
Final Jeopardy category:
20TH CENTURY BOOKS
Final Jeopardy clue/answer:
William Goldman asked his daughters what he should write about; they said these 2 things, which he combined
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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:
The Princess Bride
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3-16-2017
Final Jeopardy! category:
International Beverage Brands
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer:
The name of this popular beer brand founded in 1897 is a reference to the 20th century
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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:
Dos Equis
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Red Rising (2014). Pierce Brown
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Red Rising (2014). Pierce Brown: Red Rising (2014) Pierce Brown – Book One of the Red Rising Trilogy: Book Review Cast · Darrow, a Red who is remade into ...
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Golden Son (2015) Pierce Brown
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Golden Son (2015) Pierce Brown: Golden Son (2015) Pierce Brown - Book Two of Red Rising Trilogy · Darrow, a Red remade into a Gold named "Darrow au Andromed...
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Morning Star (2016). Pierce Brown
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Morning Star (2016). Pierce Brown: Morning Star (2016) Pierce Brown, Book Three of the Red Rising Trilogy · Darrow of Lykos, a Red physically remade into a Gold t...
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: SevenEves (2015) Neal Stephenson
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: SevenEves (2015) Neal Stephenson: Seveneves (2015) Neal Stephenson First off there are two things you should know: I like the writings of Neal Stephenson This is a ...
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Faller (2016) Will McIntosh
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: Faller (2016) Will McIntosh: Faller (2016) Will McIntosh A story that violates both physical and biologic laws cannot be all bad. Or can it? Our hero finds hi...
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: American Elsewhere (2013) Robert Jackson Bennett
Nathaniel Mauger Book Zealot: American Elsewhere (2013) Robert Jackson Bennett: American Elsewhere (2013) Robert Jackson Bennett Is it Science Fiction? Yes Is it Fantasy? Yes Is it Horror? Probably Is...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3-15-2017
Final Jeopardy! category:
WORLD AIRPORTS
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer:
This city’s international airport is named for Antonio Carlos Jobim, who co-wrote a 1964 hit song
Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:
Rio de Janeiro
(he wrote:“The Girl from Ipanema”)
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3/14/2017
Final Jeopardy category:
CAPITAL CITIES
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: This is the most populous city on the world’s most populous island; both begin with the same letter
Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Jakarta, Java
Monday, March 13, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3-13-2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Biblical Who's Who
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Among the places he visited on his second missionary journey were Galatia & Corinth
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Biblical Who's Who
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Among the places he visited on his second missionary journey were Galatia & Corinth
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Who was Paul?
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Risk Taking Strategies in the Multiverse
I have recently read two books about multiple universes / dimensions. The first is American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett. A SciFi / Fantasy / Horror story. The second is Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
Theoretically, if there are multiple versions of each of us throughout the multiverse we can take BIG risks and yet have another chance. What freedom! I think I will try base diving tomorrow. In American Elsewhere some of the characters just blew their brains out to reset in a new body. In Dark Matter you just take another ride in the "Box".
But Wait - In Dark Matter when Jason 1 meets Jason 2 they are not too friendly. Jason 2 can't understand that. He focused on the research to develop multiverse travel while Jason 1 fell for his true love and had the perfect family. Now Jason 2 wants them to switch- You get your cake and eat it too. What could be better?
I think the lesson of the multiverse is that you are born into this world alone and you go out of it alone too. Just because someone is your duplicate does not mean that they are you (according to these books). Unless there is some sort of hive-like connection that brings all of the versions together we are ultimately just individuals. We are not some sort of giant amoeba of a multiverse being.
So until the next multiverse book comes out and tells me different I am going to try and steer clear of of any other versions of me. Let them stay in their own universe.
Theoretically, if there are multiple versions of each of us throughout the multiverse we can take BIG risks and yet have another chance. What freedom! I think I will try base diving tomorrow. In American Elsewhere some of the characters just blew their brains out to reset in a new body. In Dark Matter you just take another ride in the "Box".
But Wait - In Dark Matter when Jason 1 meets Jason 2 they are not too friendly. Jason 2 can't understand that. He focused on the research to develop multiverse travel while Jason 1 fell for his true love and had the perfect family. Now Jason 2 wants them to switch- You get your cake and eat it too. What could be better?
I think the lesson of the multiverse is that you are born into this world alone and you go out of it alone too. Just because someone is your duplicate does not mean that they are you (according to these books). Unless there is some sort of hive-like connection that brings all of the versions together we are ultimately just individuals. We are not some sort of giant amoeba of a multiverse being.
So until the next multiverse book comes out and tells me different I am going to try and steer clear of of any other versions of me. Let them stay in their own universe.
Dark Matter (2016) Blake Crouch
Ever feel like you were your own worse enemy?
Well I bet you never had another version of yourself pop out of
the multiverse and switch places with you swooning your lovely wife and sucking
up to your 15 year old kid - much better then you ever did. That is how it all starts off for Jason Dessen. A middling Physics professor at a small
Chicago college who threw a way a promising research career to support his marry
a beautiful and talented artist who was pregnant with their child. She too sacrificed her career for the
family. In another part of the
multiverse, Jason 2 apparently made the other choice and invented multiverse
hopping but wanted his cake and eat it too by taking over the sweet family life
the Jason 1 had created.
It is a fast action adventure and takes the multiverse spin in a
much different direction then Bennett’s American Elsewhere. Here the monster is you - or almost you.
Once Jason 1 realizes what has been done to him and that Jason
2’s universe is going to be lethal he heads out on his own multiverse hunt
eventually finding his way back home.
But he is not alone in wanting what Jason 2 stole from him and that is
where the adventure really begins.
Jason
1 does not make the choices that I would make
- at least up to the end. For a
genius he sure makes some bonehead mistakes and nearly gets himself and his personal
shrink – Amanda - killed.
How
do you fool yourself? When each of you
knows basically the same things and minds work pretty much the same. Except, of course, that there are varying
degrees of homicidal tendencies in all the Jason’s who have survived the
labyrinth of the multiverse to arrive in their “home” Chicago.
Which
makes me wonder, what happened to Amanda(s).
Should there have been more than one if there are so many Jason’s? Just saying.
She liked Jason so you might think that at least one version would have
tried to follow him.
Finally,
what will be the key to getting out of this world with so many Jason’s?
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3-9-2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Nations of the World
Final Jeopardy Question:
A 2011 report said the citizenry of this country included a total of 32 women
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Nations of the World
Final Jeopardy Question:
A 2011 report said the citizenry of this country included a total of 32 women
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3-8-2017
Todd: 1800 / 1000
John Paul: 800 / 3,600
Annie: 7,200 / 15,600
Final Jeopardy Category: Children's Authors
Final Jeopardy Question:The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots, written by her in 1914, was first published in 2016
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Final Jeopardy 3-7-2017
Alison: 3,600 / 4,400
Shawn: 6,200 / 10,200
Todd: 6,800 / 22,600
Final Jeopardy Category:
Years in European History
Final Jeopardy Question:
The representative body called estates-general met in 1614 and didn't meet again until this year.
OSU not enough to Defeat IU. Can they make a run in the Big Ten Tournament
I'd be surprised. I think they need one more year and a couple of big time recruits...
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Great Seal State Park - 9.8 m /. 1850 ft elevation!
Terrific day in Chillicothe! Not a cloud in the sky. Perfect day for a long, slow hill run. No better place in Ohio then Great Seal State Park (Although Mohican and Zaleski would be tied in my estimation!)
Friday, March 3, 2017
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