This is a pretty good, short summary of the Denver Broncos 2015 season. Injuries and subs on the offensive line, and Peyton Manning’s injuries, have been a big story. Image comes from espn.com.
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These “metta meditation” instructions come from this story on LionsRoar.com.
FWIW, when I practice metta meditation I always start by thinking about the best dog ever. :)
AllRecipes.com and several other websites have this exact same recipe for making a salt-free blackened seasoning mix.
As of December 31, 2015 I dislike McDonald’s very much. The only time I ever eat there is when I’m traveling long distances, and that’s only because the service is usually fast and I need a place to go to the bathroom, and their bathrooms are usually a little bit cleaner than a gas station bathroom. But if this is what all new McDonald’s will look like — including actual fresh food — I’ll consider them again, and even consider investing in their stock. This image comes from this article on a brand new McDonald’s in Hong Kong.
It was another White Christmas in Colorado in 2015 ... and the pool is still open. :)
Android FAQ: What is Android doing when it says “optimizing apps” after an Android system upgrade (and reboot)?
The short story is that Android is doing what it says, creating an optimized version of each app for the new version of Android you just upgraded to. This process makes each app start as fast as possible with the new Android version.
To see which services are configured to run at startup on a Rasperry Pi (Raspian) — and also see their current startup status — issue this Linux service command:
sudo service --status-all
The service man page describes what this command does:
service --status-all runs all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status command
On my Raspberry Pi (RPI) that command produces a long list of output that looks like this:
“The first law of software quality.” From this Twitter page.
Only Peyton Manning and Brock Osweiler have led 14-point comebacks against Tom Brady and the Patriots. (Image from espn.com.)
One last link regarding baseball and pitching: this article on What makes a good changeup is very good. It doesn’t say anything that I didn’t know when I was 13 years old (or at least when I was 17), but it’s good stuff if you’ve never seen it before (and you like baseball and pitching).
This fangraphs article also mentions the pitching concept of “tunneling.” I’m sure it’s as old as baseball itself, but it’s a good name for the concept. When Fernando Valenzuela first came up he was brilliant at this. He would throw his fastball and screwball to the low, outside corner of the plate, and presumably the spin on the ball looked the same, so right-handed batters could only guess which pitch was coming (which made him incredibly successful).
In high school I did the same thing the best I could: I threw fastballs high, and then a curveball off of that, with the curve starting on the same trajectory, or with this terminology, “in the same tunnel.”
I don’t agree with everything in this article on Jon Lester, his changeup, and the concept of “tunneling,” but it is generally an excellent article. (If you’re interested in pitching.)
