HOW THE WEEK WENT
NewWife and I snuck off to Nashville. Georgia fans were kinda little bitches screaming yeah or nay over trivial details on the way to rolling over Vandy: maybe show some confidence and just relax . . and have a couple of Bears while you’re waiting for destiny to reveal itself. This is my review of Jackalope Bearwalker.
Duke ain’t 21st,
but they punked NC State and are UP to 16th. Fuck me.
Oregon State ain’t 16,
but they handled UCLA; we wait.
North Carolina ain’t 17th,
but they outscored Miami and keep moving up.
Utah ain’t 12th
but beat Cal by 20 and bounced up to 14th; maybe I should have cashed them in last week.
Washington State ain’t 23d,
got erased in Pullman by Arizona, and are now unranked.
UCLA ain’t 24th,
but they’re hanging at 25th even after losing at Corvalis.
BIG MISS INCUBATOR
Florida State sure as shit ain’t 4th,
or so I thought: they annihilated Syracuse.
Oklahoma ain’t 18th ,
or so I thought. They took the week off and got passed to make room for Washington.
Washington sure as shit ain’t 8th,
or so I thought, but, I had mused: Oregon should tell us something. Well, it was a great game, so great that NewWife, native to Eugene and born to Washingtonians, slept right through it, Vandy having wrung the last erg of reserves right out of her. I dozed but saw enough to now say Awesome F-ing Game (unless you believe in defense); seriously, they both were great, but I feel bad for any Duck who played his ass off and feels like the game wasn’t decided on the field.
Michigan ain’t 2d,
but they bulldozed Indiana for a third blow-out in a row.
NEWLY OVER-RATED
Louisville ain’t 14th, so they got doubled by Pittsburgh on the way to falling to 21st.
Missouri ain’t 20th. They’ll get schooled soon.
RECENT NEWS IN STUPID
There are not nine twelve eleven ten teams better than Alabama: watch this spot.
Kansas lost at Stillwater and is now unranked.
EVEN MORE USELESS OPINIONS
best one-loss team: Bama
best two-loss team: LSU (keep trying, Irish!)
best three-loss team: Texas A&M
best four-loss team: Texas Tech (see below)
best five-loss team: Arkansas (really, Lachowsky: they’re better than Lubbock, even)
best six-loss team: Vandy (and you can get Jackalope Bearwalker from their concessions)
best seven-loss team: SE Lousiana (hanging tough!)
SPECIAL PRIME SECTION
Colorado ain’t 22d
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- they best CSU by 15? won in 2OT; we rate this prediction SomeWhat True
- lose to Oregon by 13? lost by 36, and are now unranked; we rate this prediction Super True; we rate Colorado formerly over-rated
- lose to USC by 18? lost by 7; we rate this prediction SomeWhat True
- lose to ASU by 2? won by 3; we rate this prediction Missed it by That Much
- win over Stanford by 11? we rate this one Shouldn’t Have Gone to Bed at the Half
- lose to UCLA by 10?
- then lose to Oregon St by 7?
- then edge Arizona by 3?
- then lose in Pullman by 10?
- then lose to UU by 9?
TOLD’JA SO INVENTORY
we wish to hear their names no more
Tulane ain’t 24th
Colorado ain’t 22d
Texas ain’t 3d
Miami ain’t 20th
Florida shouldn’t be ranked at all
Missouri shouldn’t be ranked at all
Fresno shouldn’t be ranked at all
Ole Miss shouldn’t have dropped five spots for losing to Bama
Washington State ain’t 23d
Louisville ain’t 14th
Kansas lost at Stillwater and is now unranked
Jackalope Bearwalker is sweet, but, for a Guinness guy, it’s better than slapping back Ultras.
I claim this first to prevent the 30 minute curse.
Beer with maple syrup in, Beer with maple syrup out.
I have nothing of value to offer on college football, so I must let the 30-minute on-topic timer expire before I can comment.
Football?
Alabama wouldn’t be ranked 11th in academics.
Wait, are you assuming I read the article?
Nationally? Never. In the SEC? 11th easy, maybe top 10 depending on how Ole Miss and Sakerlina are doing.
You can’t First reluctantly anymore than you can rape the willing.
Also, I was washing my hair.
Commodore Edition?
I see no keyboard computers around here!
How about 70s bands? I don’t see them either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn-PuZnhdNo
https://youtu.be/KzOJaHHlIcQ?si=jOCuR45fY4hqQx8L
I always liked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVoMJSMgsUM
Oh yes. Bring the funk.
Yeah, that was going to be my complaint. I was all ready for a retro computing article.
I had so much fun with my C64. I should look back and say that’s where I started programming, but nah, I was in it for the games.
The Commodore 64 taught me the importance of saving my work.
I lost some pretty nice work…
I want Kyle Larson to win the NAPCAR championship, because he goes out into the waste lands and races sprint cars in his spare time.
My decidedly non-expert impression is that IU is just not a football school. They’re a basketball school. Thus a blowout by a big football school is no big shocker.
Marginally related, whatever network is televising the tOSU/Penn State game Saturday was trying to hype it as THE big game of the season, which is ridiculous. Yes, it’s A big game, but not THE big game.
You mean it’s not The Game. 🙂
I’m just hoping to see the Browns win a second week in a row for the first time all season. Mildly concerned about Watson’s injury, but not going to be a hypocrite and demand he play injured while I was one of the ones bitching about Baker playing hurt and costing the team. Big difference is Watson doesn’t have the same level of backup QB behind him that Baker had. I’m just hoping our defense can carry us until Watson is healed. With the Colts without Richardson and the Cardinals coming up in the next three weeks, I think we can handle that.
Shall we just call you Charlie Brown (since the Browns are clearly playing the part of Lucy)?
The hope will eventually get crushed, and then the pivot to “maybe next year” will begin at some point I’m sure.
USC got dropped to 18 after they didn’t show up against Norte Dame. They have Utah this weekend. Utah beat them twice last season. Should be a gut check for USC.
USC has a tough road ahead. It’s not completely out of the question that they go, say, 1-5 in their last six.
If they do, that Lincoln Riley hire is going to look a lot like their last 5 head coaching decisions.
I was at the Colorado/Stanford game last Friday. Buffs were up 29-0 at half, and a guy behind me asked, “When was the last time we were up this much at half?” My kid piped up and said, “2018, Buffs 31-3 over Oregon State.” I noted that the Buffs ended up losing that game. Jinx.
And yes, the Huskies/Ducks game was a great one.
Just for fun, I had a quick look at the Division 3 rankings. Johns Hopkins is number one. Johns Hopkins? WTF? I hardly recognized any of the top 20 teams.
*(former div 3 player)
Omg
https://x.com/Jay_D007/status/1715011324093104274?s=20
The possibilities are endless.
Turncoat.
Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial was set to start.
As part of her guilty plea, Powell is admitting her role in the January 2021 breach of election systems in rural Coffee County, Georgia. With the help of local GOP officials, a group of Trump supporters accessed and copied information from the county’s election systems in hopes of somehow proving that the election was rigged against Trump.
Fulton County prosecutors are recommending a sentence of six years probation. Powell will also be required to testify at future trials, write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia, pay nearly $9,000 in restitution and fines and turn over documents.
They keep using that word…
Six years probation. What were they going for without that plea? I’m guessing a lot of years in jail. But now they get their star witness, and of course the press gets to report breathlessly how Trump’s inner circle is breaking.
Banana Republic
What were they going for without that plea?
The promised to destroy her life if she didn’t play ball.
The first person to cut a deal gets non-hosed. Prisoner’s Dilemma writ large here.
Correct.
She was staring at financial ruin even if she managed to get an acquittal.
The process is the punishment.
It doesn’t cross your mind that she was a batshit bullshit artist? I mean, that’s the real connection to Trump.
Doesn’t mean she’s guilty of a crime.
Somewhere she went off the rails. Her analysis of the Enron case & overreach was pretty good I thought. But the stuff about the 2020 election was bizarre.
I do agree with RS that being a bullshit artist doesn’t make you a criminal – although accessing the election systems might have been a crime.
Jackalope Bearwalker is sweet, but, for a Guinness guy, it’s better than slapping back Ultras.
Maple says “have in moderation”, but I’d give it a try.
It depends on what’s done with it. A local(ish) distillery makes a maple spirit:
I have a bottle of Rye from a distillery in central PA which was blended with maple syrup. It’s delicious.
Attention Texas Glibs:
Trashy will be in the DFW area this weekend. We are meeting up at Whiskey Cake in Plano, Friday after 5:00.
Address: 3601 Dallas Pkwy, Plano Tx, 75093
Menu: https://whiskeycake.com/menu/tx/plano-tx/
Do the needful!
I passed it along to Digby, maybe he’ll grace you with his presence.
Thanks! If you can find Urthona, let him know too.
I reached out to Lady Z, hope she shows. She and her man came to see Hobbit last time.
CPRM, email me your address so I can send you an HH picture.
Maple syrup? They might as well put pineapple in it.
It’s gotta suck to be Tennessee or Auburn – playing Georgia and Alabama every single year.
Tomorrow, my first article will be posted on Glibs. It will tell the story of Firstranamo. The First Native American Firster.
Listen, Jack. Hamas can’t hit the broad side of a camel.
Biden addressed the issue regarding Hamas. He emphasized the need for improvement, stating that Hamas must learn how to aim more effectively. Is this the level of discourse we can expect from the Commander-in-Chief?
Did he tell the story about how he fought alongside the Palestinians during the first intifada? They said he was the best mortar man they had. No joke.
And trekked across the desert with Lawrence of – uh – you know the thing.
He let Hamas touch his leg hairs.
native to Eugene
Unless born at home or on the way to the hospital, no more natives there now.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/ford-mustang-mach-e-recalled-because-battery-cant-handle-owners-flooring-it
You’d have thought that might come up during testing, no?
The part itself is located inside of the sealed battery pack, meaning that in order to replace just the part, the 1,300-pound battery pack must be dropped from the car and opened on order to access the HVBJB. According to another user on Mach-E Forums, a high voltage battery swap takes approximately 25 hours on a warranty replacement.
Reliability
Maintainability
These words must be missing from the Ford design handbook.
Hence the reason I bought an Acura (aka Honda) after years of Ford ownership.
The 2014 Explorer was recalled 5 times.
I haven’t purchase a US nameplate vehicle since the 90s.
My daughter bought a used GM Yukon several years ago. It’s been a disaster.
My Jeep Wrangler JK had a stuck rear brake caliper and bad locking differential over 10+ years of ownership.
My Tesla has had two bad HVAC actuators replaced in 5+ years of ownership.
My Explorer had the sunroof drains clog fry the motor and wiring harness, serpentine belt broke going over a bridge, and the exhaust manifold crack. In addition to the 5 recalls over the rear suspension and rear exhaust leak in addition to something else.
The “shitty” American Chrysler and Tesla products were a far better ownership experience.
My ’15 Challenger and ’06 Silverado 2500HD have been great.
“That’s not the recommended use. The user is at fault.”
– Modern Developer.
My Mustang has been doing pretty well. There was a problem with the seat belts getting bound up. That was taken care of under warranty, and being in NH where adults aren’t required to wear seat belts, wasn’t a big deal.
But on the other hand, I have a real Mustang, not this abomination that Ford claims is a Mustang.
This whole thing sucks. Businesses are losing billions on this boondoggle, producing nigh-unusable products. Just because one guy figured out how to make a workable electric car does not mean everyone should do it, or is capable of it. And fuck the government for pushing this instead of letting the market decide.
You know what words aren’t missing?
Government mandates.
They tried to cheap out on the contactors that close the high voltage circuit. After that they tried a software bandaid to fix a hardware issue.
When every fucking part in car is cost cut to minimum reliability during the warranty period it isn’t surprising that this doesn’t show up during testing. They do it now with ICE power and have the same shit happen. It cuts across all the manufacturers. Ford has been worse than GM recently, but GM is far from immune.
Ford also has much less experience with EVs. And really on EVs they are an “assembler” and not manufacturer. Third party motors, third party controllers, third party battery.
Ford first issued a software update as part of a 2022 recall. The update would monitor the temperature of the affected part and reduce battery power to avoid overheating, though this appeared to not fully address the defect as owners still reported problems following the update, sparking a federal investigation over the effectiveness of the fix.
Just what you want when you’re coming down an on ramp into 80mph traffic.
Maybe that’s because it’s a dude that looks like a dude.
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In the 92nd spot on the list, Maxim Australia included Dani Laidley, a transgender woman. Laidley was a coach in the Australian Football League before transitioning in 2020.
Laidley’s inclusion on the list sparked criticism from many social media users.
‘Member when Maxim was Playboy for college kids?
“Direct Current (DC) fast charging and repeated wide open pedal events can cause the high voltage battery main contactors to overheat,” reads the NHTSA recall report. “Overheating may lead to arcing and deformation of the electrical contact surfaces, which can result in a contactor that is prevented from closing or a contactor that welds closed.”
The “throttle” can weld itself in WFO? Cool.
Ahh – no. Don’t let your hatred of EVs malign them for bullshit.
There are plenty of legitimate things to malign about EVs. (Also ICE vehicles old and new.)
The contacts engage and disengage the HV battery. It’s a safety feature. If it sticks on the pack will drain out over a few days. If it won’t close you can’t engage the HV motors that propel the vehicle.
I commented on that up stream. If the governments had kept their fat asses out of the marketplace, EVs could have matured at other companies without costing billions in losses for traditional car makers. Hell, hydrogen use would have probably kept growing too. But no, some greenie regulators felt like they needed to put their collective syphilis – ridden dicks on the scale and push EVs. It is unforgivable to meddle in the marketplace like that.
Yes, I hate the subsidies, but also hate CAFE and the “chicken tax” on trucks.
FedGov has royally fucked up the transportation market and it isn’t just EVs. It’s the preening enviro bullshit that really seems to rankle people on Evs coupled with the insane slug of cash for them.
I too, hate the chicken tax.
The entire low speed vehicle market, and easy transportation market has been killed by nanny state regs as well.
I’m not a fan of fuel taxes, but if you want to force fuel economy that’s the way to do it.
I would assume the contractor is before the electronic speed controller.
Contractor/contractor, what’s the difference?
Fucking autocorrect
The contractor that Ford used for the contactor wasn’t so good.
According to the recall, some vehicles may have pre-existing damage that occurred prior to the 2022 software fix due to overheating. This damage reportedly reduces the effectiveness of the software fix. Should the contactors weld closed while driving, the vehicle will continue to operate until the next key cycle, but if they are prevented from closing, the vehicle will lose power and coast to a stop.
That doesn’t sound good.
It’s not so much hatred as disdain. I’d rather have a 1967 MG Midget.
Lucas – The Prince of Darkness.
The “good” news is you won’t have a runaway vehicle. No different than a catastrophic failure in an ICE.
I still have a couple of bottles of Lucas wire smoke, if you need them.
Nelson laugh!
Anheuser-Busch dangles $150M in incentives to distributors to keep beer in stock
I believe they’ve already lost shelf space in most of the chains due to slipping sales.
And fuck the government for pushing this instead of letting the market decide.
Judging from recent announcements, it sounds like the market for EVs is collapsing rapidly.
Ford – the people who were going to give you a $40k truck EV perfect for local delivery instead decided to make $80k plus yuppie trucks that were all the rage.
After people realized the range in winter sucked and you couldn’t tow anything over 100 miles and they weren’t the new new thing Ford can’t give the overpriced POS away.
GM seeing Ford’s folly decided to delay its real truck (i.e. not the asinine Hummer) for another year.
I had some Mopar news I sent to DEG yesterday – let me see if I can find it…
Here it is!
https://carbuzz.com/news/new-dodge-charger-body-leaks-with-evidence-of-combustion
Anybody surprised after a year of dead silence?
Enjoy the Hurricane Six Turbo!
Florida Man Goes Full Send, Launches Dodge Challenger Into Canal
The Hurricane Six is a pretty good unit. It will never be a Hellcat motor but it will move as well as the 6.2 L eight without supercharger. Now reliability has yet to be proven. The old Pentastar six had to evolve for ten years before it became reliable.
I was actually happy my JK had the minivan 3.8 instead of the Pentastar.
Initially I wasn’t, but that quickly changed…
I would say the government-induced bubble is bursting. At a huge cost to the carmakers who were forced to do this. Or were they forced? Ford may have gone along with this, drooling over another market to try. Foolish.
EVs will absolutely remain and will grow as a market share, as good cars come out. But the WEF goals were retarded, like all their policies.
The market can support Tesla and Prius. I think that’s about it.
Organically, I mean.
Prius is a hybrid. That particular tech has some legitimate benefits at the cost of complexity and additional cost.
Other manufacturers are making hybrids that over some volume should be profitable.
I know it’s a hybrid. I’m saying, I think two classes of cars that use electricity is about what the market wants.
I want to be Shohren Aghdashloo when I grow up.
I didn’t think you were a fan of The Expanse.
FedGov has royally fucked up the transportation market and it isn’t just EVs.
This cannot be said often enough.
Also- I saw the other day Tesla is lobbying for stricter CAFE regs. Let’s make everything suck even worse based on narrow self interest.