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Google founders' jet perk runs out of gas
Larry Page and Sergey Brin have lost a special deal for discounted Pentagon fuel for their private fleet.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin have for years been able to park their private jets at Moffett Federal Airfield, a former U.S. Navy base and the home of NASA's Ames Research Center. It's just three miles from Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
That's a perfect spot to stash your jets when you need to make a quick getaway to Tahiti, Hawaii and Nantucket, Mass. -- and records show the planes have in fact flown there frequently, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Not only did Google's founders, along with chairman Eric Schmidt, get to park their fleet of seven jets and two helicopters at the field, but they also got to use sharply discounted jet fuel purchased from the Pentagon, The Journal reported.
How cheap? Google's jet fuel cost an average of $3.19 per gallon since 2009, the publication said. The fleet has used 2.3 million gallons over that time. Corporate jets in general paid an average of $4.35 per gallon in that same period.
How did the Google execs score this kind of deal? First, they established a private company, which paid $1.3 million a year in annual rent and cost recovery. And Google is separately leasing land on Moffett for a future office campus, The Journal reported. The Google executives also bought NASA a small jet to measure greenhouse gases and ozone.
In other words, they threw a whole bunch of money at NASA. The agency phrases it a bit more delicately: "NASA is always looking for innovative, public-private partnerships to help advance our mission and provide benefit to the American taxpayer," a spokeswoman told The Journal.
While the parking arrangement has left other Silicon Valley execs grumbling, it's the aircraft fuel that has recently become an issue. The Pentagon and NASA have been discussing whether the Google founders "exceeded contract terms" by using fuel for nongovernment flights. And so the discounted fuel arrangement was not renewed when it ended Aug. 31.
The reaction to The Journal piece has been less than kind. "This is crony capitalism folks," writes the State of Globe blog. "How many of these cozy relationships exist out there between business and government?"
Twitter users were also amazed at the relationship. "Google pays little tax but executives spend much time flying to Pacific islands using cheap govt fuel," wrote one. "Why was Google given subsidized fuel from the Pentagon for their private jet fleet in the first place?" asked another.
John Doe "buyfish" Why don't you wake up. You went from the current government "Obama's in charge" if you didn't know to blaming the republicans for renting and giving perks to these dudes. Don't you know the rich you speak of were some of Obama's biggest cash and otherwise supporters. Google also built his campaign computer programs that enabled the democrats to send all of us SPAM about Obama. Why don't you get your facts right or just go away. All you and Obama lovers can do is blame someone else for your own problems.
Google pays 1.3 million in rent for 8 aircraft.Google gave NASA a JET.Somehow getting a discount on jet fuel wont be enough to out weigh the expenses of google in buying NASA a Jet.
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The World's Best Street Food: Where to Find It & How to Make It
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Do you love to travel? Cook? Eat? I do! That's why I was so excited to see Lonely Planet publish The World's Best Street Food: Where to Find It & How to Make It. Lonely Planet Publications is one of the foremost publishers of world-wide travel guides and a "go to" for any global trekker.
For me, one of the most exciting parts of traveling and visiting other countries and cultures is partaking in the local cuisine with the native people. There is no better place to do this than in local homes, markets and street vendors and food carts.
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This purchase replaced a very old Kenmore Super Capacity Plus that ran for over 15 years. I was a little concerned about the water level issues and some other things I read in the reviews. The high efficiency uses less water and it does appear at times that the clothes are not submerged, but the clothes are coming out very clean and smelling great. The technology has come a long way and doing laundry in this machine is a far better experience that with the old-school machine I replaced. I haven't tried all the settings yet, but so far, this was a great purchase.
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I've had this washer for a few weeks now and I love it. I can was gigantic loads - about three times what I could with my LG front loader. The machine is quiet, spins like a champ and the wash cycle doesn't take forever.
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VERY VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS ITEM. This is not a good investment and the worse part of it, Sear's is still selling this piece of trash. Note washer went in spin cycle, lid came completely off washer. The washer somehow managed to shift putting a hole in my laundry room wall. Called Sears and it's been one problem to the other. The quality of this product is a piece of trash and Sear's offers nothing but hassle. Please DO NOT purchase this item.
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"Stupidity" hates me when we meet and I hate it in return.
This instinctive attitude is weakness; it hindered my ability to imagine how the enemy mind works.
Along my quest I grew more tolerant. I changed my mind and chose to observe, not the stupid people but stupidity as a dysfunction inherent to our human mind. Now I look at its outcome - stupid judgments, stupid words and stupid deeds - and seek its causes.
Tacit tradition separates society unwittingly into the ones who speak, "us" up here, competent, intelligent, reasonably educated and rational, versus "them" the incompetent brainless morons, low there at the bottom of the IQ scale.
I indulged this arrogance with a vague pinch of heart being aware that there must be among "us" some much more intelligent, smarter and wiser than me, who looking down the pyramid slope would probably see me as quite stupid. Additionally, I remembered that stupid people, and not so stupid people, would call me stupid when they failed to understand what I say and do, just because it did not fit their expectations. Who decides what is stupid counts. Moreover, I actually did scores of stupid things. There are also those annoying occasions for which I am not gifted at all.
In time, I learned from my readings that to look down at stupidity makes one bitter, exasperated with bad feelings, there is too much of it; as Einstein is quoted (mistakenly, in fact it was Flaubert), there are two infinite things, the Universe and human stupidity and of the first he was not even certain.
The blaming approach appears unfair, like seeing the straw in other people's eye and not the beam in our own. Worse, despise is counterproductive; by means of prejudice, rejection precludes understanding. Therefore, instead of deploring, we will gain to better cope with the inevitable; learn how to comprehend stupidity and relate to it usefully. For this, we have to grow more tolerant with it, adapt to communicate with it, count with its various sorts and - when possible – avoid, prevent, cure or diminish it. Even arguing with people gone stupid requires subtle, prudent skill.
To learn about this affliction of humanity I read many words of agreement that the useful investigation starts locally and even better, humbly, with us.
The error to avoid in the personal study of stupidity is well known by psychology; when we face that we did something stupid it appears to our introspection as an explicable, unhappy accident, produced by an external cause or by a temporary impairment of mind, out of our control: constraint, fatigue, too much pressure, a jolt of temper, intoxication, inattention, being uninformed or misled, a lapse of memory, the empire of an irresistible drive or passion like love, pride, greed, anger... On the other hand, when we meet other people's blunders, the cause is undifferentiated; they are stupid, irrational, ignorant or guilty.
We have obviously more empathy for ourselves, so, yes; this is where we should start, with ourselves. We cannot get protected from stupidity by segregating from us the stupid people; we are all too closely related to this problem.
I decided to examine, before the stupidity of other people, that of myself. In fact, it appears now that the cases when I missed the mark, lacked elementary common sense, failed to observe, misunderstood utterly, took useless risk, hovered totally out of the picture or too clever by half, were too many to remember.
I had to work hard to unearth my examples. I had to fight the urge to bury past blunders instead of learning from them. I admit some difficulty to introspect properly my own history of stupidity, probably because I protect myself with oblivion of the shameful and of guilt. Moreover some seriously stupid actions seem smart when you look at them in isolation, when you do them, from close; to reveal how stupid they are you need a wider frame and a longer time perspective.
I spent a while recalling - with growing displeasure - some of the many stupid things I believed, said and did over the years. I asked old-time friends to remind me my biggest blunders. I even listened to my son explaining how inept I am about money. I watched myself in the mirror.
Looking at my own stupidity was humbling but also fertile; as I am more perceptive and sympathetic with me, I discovered more nuance. The episodes remembered helped me build, slowly, the point of view presented here.
I do not offer a detailed wailing confession of the many dumb and foolish things I have done. I also believe that I did not practice the complete list of human stupidity to be a perfect exemplar for exhaustive research. The ones quoted are mainly from my youth. A false impression would be that young people are stupid and the old ones wise; this is not so, all ages have equal chances to be silly, ridiculously deluded and foolish, not only the inexperienced.
There is also a plethora of "I" in my text. The reader may want to appreciate that it is better to speak for myself while I affirm the general character of stupidity.
The spiciest concrete memories belong to my private inner garden, I will not disclose them. Instead I attempt a working summary of things learned from first person stupidness.
To make a long story short, here is a synthesis of typical stupid things I did and a few personal examples which I find meaningful for my inquiry:
Stupidity by simply not thinking
My richest cause of stupid choices, words and acts was an absent mind: not observing, not thinking at all, not doing the necessary prudent things required by common sense and politeness. Absence of judgment is stronger than poor judgment. The lantern unlit gives no light. In a number of instances, against my best interest, without intention, I hurt people, lost opportunities, inflamed animosity and useless conflict, offended or insulted people, some close to me. All this damage of thoughtlessness was committed by means of things not done, "negatives" as I like to call them: inattention, egocentrism, laziness, superficiality or neglect. As a result I made things uselessly hard for myself and other people. No excuse that it was not on purpose; as it was said so well, maybe by Oscar Wilde, a gentleman is one who would never offend someone... unintentionally. I was less than a gentleman.
The most frequent cause of such unhappy words, actions and situations is then very simple, accessible to everyone; I did not think. I was busy with something else, following my own plans.
I made big mistakes when I failed to pay sufficient attention to what happened around me, and what my good plans resulted in when applied, particularly with people, their occasions, interests and worries. Often I did not hear because I was speaking. Or I did not ask because I thought that I knew already.
People close to me observed that I see sharply what I look at with interest, even in "troubled water" but I am blind to what I do not watch or care for. I flatter myself that innocent inattention, distraction and forgetfulness are the main causes of the false conclusions I rushed and the inadequate things I have said and of some costly blunders. I must own up though that inattention was not without some guilt of lack of respect.
A very dangerous cause for not observing the obvious, worse than careless inattention, was for me that strange blindness, denial. I knew rationally that I should pay attention but I avoided to look close and blocked thinking of things I was unable to face. The most tormenting example I remember was failing to see and understand the state of my old, declining Mother.
Stupidity because of body and temper prevailing
On reflection, impulsiveness caused by impatience was my visible soft spot. A perilous variant was to allow myself to be pressed into engaging conversation when surprised or under stress; today I know only too well that in such moments the most important thing to do is not to react immediately. Decisions and commitments negotiated under emotion are impaired and can be disastrously stupid.
I remember an amazing number of silly things done and said simply because I could not wait or control my face.
Talking too much, too quickly and too well, instead of keeping silent was a favourite mine-field for my blunders. After years of this error I concluded that, as I like to repeat, when you have the gift of speech, what you need to learn is how to keep your mouth shut.
I was often gullible by emotional compassion and instinctive need to trust and to sympathise, easily deceived by smiling faces and credible looking packages and thus weakened in my otherwise vivid exercise of critical thinking. Interestingly, when I found out that I was being played, I went along with it to study how it was done and learned valuable experience.
And yes, often I did silly things because of my born critical spirit, cultivated indiscipline and disorder; when you roam free, thinking with your own head, it is easy to err and to get lost; blunders so frequent that I had to form a habit of redressing seamlessly, before I would be caught; or to concede error with elegance.
Emotion and mood made me stupid at times. Our body is part of our mind. In my early youth I was stupid with girls – whom I saw as aliens, from ignorance and lack of experience, not of the heavier sexist kind. I skip the examples, mine are no different from many other people's, but I retain the important common-place that sexual desire, shyness, lack of experience and intimidating situations make one notably dumb. This is everyday stupidity to be prepared for; emotion impairs judgment. When shaken and lost do not declare, do not decide, do not commit; gain time.
Desire did not increase my cleverness. Easy to see that for many intelligent people, sex is a serious source of mistaken decisions and actions of breath-taking stupidity. Our various drives must be kept in mind as an important factor of stupid deeds notwithstanding our IQ.
Stupidity by pride
This was in my beginning years at Television. At that time I used to be a public relations officer of the Foreign Relations department, a busy but cosy job. Additionally I was an interpreter and successful translator of films. This did not satisfy me; I wanted to be a TV producer. There was an opening for a junior editor job at the Youth Programmes department. I took advantage of the open door access I had with top management and went to one of the vice-presidents - a high placed political person. I told him that I would like to do some real life TV work. He looked at me and replied: "You know; now you are appreciated and safe where you are. You have a roof above your head." I answered smartly, I thought, that maybe it is time for me to meet a bit of rain. He looked at me attentively and said: "All right, you have the job!"
Three month later there was a massive downsizing and I was fired; thrown out like a wet chicken. That taught me to speak smart with a Gorgon, even a sympathetic one. I found employment as an audio-visual expert in a visual production centre of the Ministry of Tourism. This was far from the glitzy Olympus whence I was tumbling. My displeasure was clearly visible for everyone. I did not care to adapt. I decided to do the impossible and get back to Television. I started to do plenty of what I knew to do. Film-translation and subtitling were a rare craft at that time. I managed soon to sign about one series episode each evening and one full feature film each week. That success was quite visible. My ex-colleague clients liked to be safe with me and the public appreciated the quality. The effort was very tiring too. And my local direction disapproved. They exiled my job to another town 150 kilometres away from the capital. I did not give an inch. I would take the train every morning at five and back every evening at four to run my work at the studios. On the road I wrote and corrected my text, during the day I hijacked all the dactylographers of the office to type for me. "One man start-up" I would say. And I won. The effort was excessive though; my girlfriend told me later that what conquered her was that I would take her out for dinner and fall asleep while courting her. After six months, with a new reputation, I was called back to TV; I would cost them much less as an employee than as a contractor. At the same time I was being fired from the Tourism job by a public gathering of the "working men and women", something normally equal with ending all career perspectives. To shorten the story: to be properly re-hired by Television, ten days after the firing I went to the personnel department and announced that I did not want to be dismissed anymore but wished to have my resignation accepted instead, retroactively. The young personnel chief looked at me with wide eyes and went to see the director. They accepted my request in 24 hours. However, being "resigned" was not good enough in the socialist culture; I was advised by the studios to move by transfer. Two more days later I requested from my bitter enemies that the resignation be turned into a "transfer in the interest of the office". Otherwise the fight would have to go on. The apparatchik almost fell off his chair but went to ask again. He came back in no time to tell me that it was all right to do as I want. Then he looked at me and exclaimed with unexpected honesty:
"Why did you do all this? If you have so much power, if even the director is afraid of you, why didn't you just do quietly all you wanted while waiting a little? You were on the list to be sent within six months to follow a training course in Switzerland, the place you want to study for your PhD. Couldn't you wait six months?"
I did not know what to answer and did not care either. I was certainly proud of my victory, of going across my enemies like a tank. I deleted the episode from my memory and went ahead. It is after some 35 years that I looked back at this mess. I wasted precious life-capital in the most stupid way. I lost by winning. I could have been crushed. All that the wear and tear, the nights without sleep, the enemies made, the insecurity, the lost opportunities, all because of aggressive pride and short-term brilliance. I must add to this however that all the pain made me learn some wisdom I teach now to other people. I am who I am because of what I did. Maybe. What do I know...?
Generally speaking I behaved much sillier than usual - by my own standards - whenever under influence of passions rightly called sins like pride, hate, lust, laziness, egoism or greed. Eagerness to show what I can do was powerful in my instances of youthful stupidities and still strikes now and then. However, I learned in time that I can cheat pride by "flirting with humility"; it is spectacularly effective when we are teased into stupid responses of vanity. However, for that flirting you need strength from some experience of success.
Stupidity by blinkered point of view, received ideas and one-truth
I was potentially stupid, while seeing myself creative and bright, when by imagining some actually better idea I saw only one point of view - mine, blind to other points of view; definitely, this is measurable stupidness - to have but one point of view and be satisfied that you understood something. I was in such occasions out of real life, and it was highly taxed because I failed to consider other people's major interests and differing angles.
I was thinking stupid as often as I let myself be drawn – by rushed spirit of contradiction and unphilosophical reasoning – to oppose a no to a yes, a yes to a no or another extreme to a silly, hateful one; this brought me into awkward error and misplaced expectations. Extremes have minimal chance to be wise and maximal probability to be wrong. To oppose an extreme take the moderate, common-sense middle-way! Keep away from the other extreme!
Young, I was often stupid whenever I thought and said that "I know, I know!" Whenever I did this conceited mistake I also neglected to look closer, deeper or further and I missed the chance to learn and rectify. Reading the Socratic legends later helped me greatly, from the moment I understood the force and the value of saying often and wholeheartedly that I do not know.
There is worse in my memory than believing that I knew; I also tasted knowing better what other people must believe. Try to imagine this grotesque situation: Me a small boy of seven, probably smallest in my class, on top of a sizably bigger lad, frightened by my fury, under a shower of blows, with me commanding him:
"Recognize that there is no God! God does not exist!"
Probably I remember this incident after so many years because it clashes radically with who I am now.
It was not my stupidity, it came unwittingly from my parents; they had told me their own important truth that God was a silly belief, that truth must prevail, and the way I proceeded to spread the good news was an unintended consequence. Of course, they did tell me that believing or not was everyone's right, but omitted to explain that forcing people not to believe is exemplary stupidity.
For a small kid this is just a ridiculous anecdote but when adults do it, it is tragic; fanaticism was there in me, in a nutshell. I see shades of such intolerance at work every day. The one firmly convinced, impermeable to argument, sees with clarity one truth only. I retain that firm, intransigent bearing of one-truth as a neat factor and sign of potential stupidity with possibly disastrous consequences. Do I harbour unknowingly some other such basic, incorrigible beliefs to roll out upon people? My optimistic impression is that I stopped over the years forcing beliefs in favour of debating or at most persuading.
The most deadly stupid delusion from which I was forced to learn first-hand was lived by my parents; I witnessed with them the error of placing faith in an ideology and in its political movement. I observed their anguish of waking up in the grim reality of their "victory". Those honest, righteous, nobly intended idealists, nourished with humanism and Erklärung, Ioan, Katy, Eric, joined Communism in the years before World War Two, when they were still teenagers. The cut between good and evil looked simple for them; because fascism, Hitler, were obviously evil, their opponent Communism, little Father Stalin had to be good. For long years they found justification in opposition. So many things around them were unjust and evil; exploitation, poverty, inequality, wicked violence, oppression, intolerance, racism! Something else, radically opposed to all this had to be better; reason, truth and justice would prevail in a new World-Order. Those bright, generous, humanistic young rebels fell into the trap for fools, no questions asked. They offered their life to die for an idea. They took arms and joined the universal high cause of some minuscule underground in some Balkanic country meant anyway to fall under the rule of one or other geopolitical empire. Miraculously, the cannon fodder survived. They "won"! They became formal heroes of the new rule of Communism. Of course, nobody needed living heroes. It took them some ten years of denial before they woke up to see what sinister company they helped to win. Humanists fighting for tribal totalitarianism! It was certainly not their dream, nothing of their values; it was just the same beast in different cloth; some of the fascists they defeated were in fact re-hired by the new regime. How on earth could they be fooled like this?
Waking up was much easier for me in the presence of the painful example. I witnessed their daily survival and their pain of dissonance. My Mother withdrew in illness. My father isolated himself in an ivory tower of theory and denial of reality, for all his life. Erich helped us survive and survived until he was assassinated.
When I was grown enough to judge I knew my Mother as a warm, intuitive, educated critical spirit, rarely failing her first impression of people, art and ideas. My father was well read and conceptual, a logical thinker compulsively analysing the truth behind apparence. Eric was unparalleled in practical sense, smartness and ability to act. How could these bright people believe and act so stupidly against their best interest? What understanding, what truth, what wisdom was missing? More experience? A larger view? The long-term perspective? Did they ignore that elementary learning from Aristotle that extremes are vicious and only the golden moderate middle way offers virtue? Today I would say that they were lacking meaningful learning from History.
I tasted that grey system for thirty years and paid the price of getting away from it. For my lifetime the lesson is learned by direct witnessing. Will my descendants remember and understand what they did not experience? Such mongering to stupidity will come again upon later generations of intelligent people unarmed against being made stupid by some other Utopia.
Stupidity by losing touch with common sense
I was chancing stupidity whenever I fired up into exotic abstraction and excess – in my judgments and in my actions, so much that I forgot to return to practical reality. Wise people tried to warn me that I was too intellectual. Learning to make things simple was a life-changing apprenticeship for me. The difficulty to discern the original from the silly came for me from the fact that some bold, disruptive ideas were extremely useful, while others fell flat.
My imagination made me often appear to some and sometimes actually be ridiculously outlandish; you never know when exactly that which you conceive as new and different is misunderstood by less imaginative people or actually inconvenient. I have no solution to this creative danger except to assume the peril and to persist… ready to correct the blunders.
I was too intelligent by half when I grew too "bright" or abstract to look at the practical side and the application of things. Replacing common sense with principle and theory made me occasionally stupid and, I would say, inhuman. Strict application of method and procedure made me fail several times. Rigid method is excellent to select out the essential from practical reality. This brings me to guess that theorists have their privileged, specific way of being gravely inane, missing some built-in reality check; the marvellous, pure creations of genius can be horribly harmful for humanity by neglect of human nature, unintended effect on the human condition and the human reality.
I said and did many stupid things whenever I neglected the particular context, the things not present and not said, the meaning of the occasion, the task at hand and to whom I was talking.
I was silly when I worried and intervened in things where I had no possible means to help. As Epictetus teaches, some things are of us and some not, I should have wisely left them be.
A means of making me stupid which worked for a long time was to play on my perfectionist desire and make me ignore or forget why I did what I did, the end consequences. I was foolish when carried by need of the thing well done, or simply by task, I concentrated too much on improving and succeeding at what I was doing, without reflecting deeper why, serving whom, and if that task was the right thing to do. Later I called that sort of stupid conduct "doing the wrong thing right".
Success made me stupid a few times; not only it tends to go to the head but it also creates a thrust with inertia while rising unexpected enemies; it is difficult to slow down and even more to stop suddenly at sight of a changed situation. What was adequate and excellent becomes suddenly inadequate, bad taste and offbeat. We need apprenticeship to survive success; it is one of the dangerous moments of life. On the opposite, learning to lose some made me wiser.
I also practiced at times the stupidity of the expert for whom - because he is an expert in hammers everything looks like a nail; as a young psychologist, everything looked like psychology to me (maybe it still does, with some disguise of common sense). It takes time for discipline-mindedness to count with interdisciplinary diversity at work. To consider that which you do not know is even harder. To concede ignorance is painful for the anointed expert. Not to draw a clear frontier line around my competence was and is a fountain of stupidity.
A variant of expert stupidness I practiced sometimes was to know too well, from the first sight, what had to happen and what was the solution; the excellent competence of being very familiar with your domain can betray you ridiculously.
Stupidity induced by awkward situations and purposeful manipulation
Some of the stupid responses I remember were induced by idiotic situations, genuine or intended to stupefy and take advantage of people. I met numbers of selling schemes and scams exciting greed, lust, pride to cloud judgment. I fell for some. Other settings were traps designed to ensnare us, the targets, into rushed decisions, self-defeating angry response, fear, to cause omission of key aspects by means of group and peer pressure, misleading example to imitate, diversions of attention and distractions or plainly exaggerated speed, no time to discuss, to ask, to think. Not to speak about time for examining truth and values.
I met situations when I was forced, required by role or rules, to do stupid things, against my common sense and values, because doing otherwise was inconsistent or dangerous. You can pay dearly having eyesight in a land of the blind. At times it appeared obvious even in my youth that playing stupid was the only prudent thing to do. I can imagine what can be done in this way to whole nations. Dictators and totalitarians are stupiditarian; they enforce the rule of stupidity as a way of life.
I retain from this work of memory the experience of a few instances of stupidness I lived* as a normal person:
Stupidity by simply not thinking
Stupidity because of body and temper prevailing
Stupidity by pride (and other "sins")
Stupidity by blinkered point of view, received ideas and one-truth
Stupidity by losing touch with common sense
Stupidity induced by awkward situations and purposeful manipulation
In short, this is what I found: You can be intelligent and stupid at the same time, and intelligence in itself is no protection against stupidity. Quite the opposite: brainpower can be a multiplier of the stupidity which creeps in by the paths mentioned in my partial list.
In spite of so many stupid things I lived, I still feel that they are of me but not me, I disown them. I was intelligent and stupid at the same time. I also flatter myself with falling back on my four feet like a cat; I had an ease to take distance, understand and recognize quickly that I was stupid in this or that. I was less stupid than other people when I was quick to concede and fix the faults or to recover seamlessly. The more I was aware of my stupid acts the less stupid I was.
Sadly, even now as I write these lines I still practice number of slips, disconnects and weaknesses already familiar to me. Nor do I do wisely what I know I must do. Much of this deficiency is for the sake of comfortable life or because of weary lack of energy.
Thinking of my own stupidity is very painful in a deeper way; beyond shame for my past blunders, I feel deeper intellectual despair, as I am forced to face how endlessly limited I am. By sheer logic I learn that I can be never more than partially right, wise only if aware of being many times more ignorant than knowing. I am imprisoned for life in the nested Gödelian Russian dolls of "certainties" that remain always to be proven by something else, wider. By human nature, I am confused with fleeting words, misplaced trust in shallow authority and pre-judged opinion, blinkered with reverberations of tunnel-visions, wishful thinking, blind spots and dead angles. A minuscule life, mostly consumed in apprenticeship while I keep living forwards and understanding backwards.
Stupidity is observed everywhere, a corollary of the human condition struggling between an animal body and a rational mind. It is about more than looking down to some idiots. I am human, therefore I am stupid. To understand this limitation is wise; Socrates knew very well why he declared so often to be totally ignorant.
In fact the many stupid things I committed proved very useful; recapitulating them in my secret garden as if telling my beads makes me aware that they are an important source of whatever wisdom I possess today. Perhaps this was the price to pay to glimpse and understand what I shall not do and why and what I should dissuade other people from committing.
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*(among the many more I observed around me, not described here)


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Lost cat creates American Airlines headache
It apparently escaped its cage in a New York airport on Aug. 25 and still can't be found. So feline lovers have taken Jack's cause to Facebook.
Jack has been missing since Aug. 25, when his owner, Karen Pascoe, checked him and his brother in as cargo for a flight from John F. Kennedy airport to California. It didn't take long for Jack to go missing. Pascoe was called by the airline soon after she cleared security, CBS reports.
She searched the inbound baggage area for an hour with no luck and eventually boarded a later flight with her other cat, Barry. The airline promised to keep searching. Jack still hasn't been found.
Cat lovers are ratcheting up the pressure on American, and Jack is now famous. A Facebook page with his picture has more than 4,000 fans. The news is spreading, and the last thing American wants is another embarrassing episode like United Airlines (UAL) faced with the United Breaks Guitars video on YouTube.
Tuesday evening, American issued a Facebook update on Jack, saying it will fly Pascoe to New York this weekend to help with the search and see what the airline is doing to locate the cat.
The update borders on the ridiculous. The airline is having daily briefings to review its progress and has even brought in representatives from the Port Authority of New York, including a wildlife management person, to participate.
American is looking into animal-tracking services, such as a search dog, and is reviewing its closed-circuit television footage in hopes of finding Jack. "We understand that a cat is a loved family member for so many (people), including many of our own employees, and we are doing our utmost to find Jack," the airline said.
I know where I would go if I were Jack. Starting this week, American will start offering some international first- and business-class travelers a quilted bed topper, pajamas and slippers, a duvet, a pillow and an amenity kit, Consumerist reports.
A quilted bed topper is just what a tired kitty needs. American might want to check its first-class areas just in case.
I was living in South Korea with my husband in the Army. We took in a cat over there, and she became my little shadow. You can bet that I brought her back with me!
If you think its impossible or hard to travel with a cat, you're wrong. I flew Delta and Korean Air with my cat and it was fantastic. You do have to fill out paperwork when flying to foreign countries, but that's the hardest part. I bought a soft carrier, and she flew with me in the cabin by my feet. I just lost some foot room, and in coach that was a little rough, but at least I'm short, so I survived.
They do NOT put the animal through the X-ray machines where your carry on luggage goes through. You have to remove your pet from the carrier, put the carrier through the machine, and hold your pet as you walk through the metal detectors. Then you put it back in its carrier.
I was skeptical about how she'd fly, but she didn't make a peep! When people saw me carrying her on the way out of the plane, so many people were like "There was a CAT on the plane? What a good kitty!" I think the crowds made her nervous enough to keep quiet. (She normally makes quite a fuss if she's in the carrier in my car, or even in the house, but for some reason, not in the airport or plane).
For everyone saying this article isn't important, you obviously either don't fly much, or don't love your pet. For many of us, our pets are part of our family. We pay a lot of money to fly, and we trust the airline to do their job correctly. If they lost a child, wouldn't that be important? And why is it, if they do their job wrong, it isn't important? If most of us screwed up so badly, we'd definitely be out of jobs. This IS an article worth reading. It puts pressure on the lazy airlines to step it up a notch. I think we need to drastically improve customer service and quality in many industries here in America, the Airlines being no different.
For people more concerned with the "starving people" and "hurricane victims" why are you spending your time criticizing this article instead of reading up on how you can help those causes you're concerned about? Try spreading some postitive energy instead of all the negative. We have enough bad kharma going on around here.
My father brought me up to believe that it is important to look after animals because they are defenceless in human society. I cannot believe the comments not caring about this little creature. Human error occurs in everything and blaming is not helping. I am heartbroken about this story, and hope this sweet cat is found soon.
Jack's welfare is much more important to me than that of Dick Cheney, by the way.
P.S. My darling father's name was Jack.
2) American Airlines is one of the worst airlines you can fly on. Bad service, on and off the ground, rude employees, long lines at the airport, lost lugagge etc. After my experience last year, I will pay extra money to avoid AA anytime.
I fear that the cat got out and got squashed and AA doesn't want to tell that young lady her cat is gone.
And who would wear pajamas on an airplane? Goodness!
I used to have two cats but lost one about a year and a half ago when I was a traveling on the East Coast. It was devastating to have to put him down in a strange place with a strange vet. He did not like traveling and would yowl the first half hour on the road but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
If you love your pets, take a vacation nearby and take them with you. Or leave them with someone you trust to take care of them properly.
This woman had no choice. I know what it's like to have limited relocation funds and she, like a lot of Americans thought the airline would see her beloved Jack safely home in California.
Stop beating her over the head. I am sure she is sick with worry and berating herself enough.
Hopefully Jack will be found. He is a beautiful cat. I hope he turns up soon.
I guess Tummy isn't a cat lover. I am and it preturbs me that an airline would be so careless with someone else's "loved one". We all have loved ones which include people and animals, so Tummy please try to at least understand that even if you don't care for animals.
I do wonder how this incident was allowed to happen? Were they putting the cat into a carrier or did the cage door come open or what? How come they don't do these things inside a room with a closed door to it? That is a simple common sense thing to do and why was it not done? Duhhhh, because they just don't care enough I suspect!
At the very least they should fly the owner of the cat for free so she can hopefully retrieve him from wherever he is hiding! It's going to take more than an hour to find him because cats that are shy or frightened don't come out readily even if their owner is calling them. I had a cat that I had to keep calling for more than 1/2 day because she had been missing for 4 days and she is the shy and sensitive type. Better take some water and food right away to this cat because it is probably VERY dehydrated by now if it hasn't found any water to drink. I think the heating ducts could be a place that it might hide in or the staff lunch rooms possibly. Sad that the airline has waited 5 days now to decide to search the security tapes (?) Why wasn't that done the day the cat went missing? Geez I'm sorry but I certainly WON"T be flying with that airline!
My Dog and I DROVE from Michigan to Washington State (her first time on a long trip), We had a ball!! She got to sniff all kinds of things she would have never sniffed living in the Big City.
We had even more fun on the return trip....We drove back w/5 live Chickens!!!
Yes we made it home safe and sound.
If we had of flown we wouldn't have had so much fun at all of the rest stops. The Chickens were the hit of the trip.
She's now gone after 14 years together and that was I think the best time of her short time w/me.
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With the season now done, it seemed an appropriate time to look back at the plays the defined what most would consider a disappointing past few months for Georgia Tech's football team.
During the 2009 ACC championship season there were so many exciting plays to choose from it was hard to whittle down the list.
This year … not so much. It seems most of the big plays went against the Yellow Jackets.
Before we continue, here's a video of a nice act of sportsmanship by Tech's players after the Independence Bowl loss to Air Force.
I present to you three plays, that I think best epitomized the season, along with a poll that will allow you to vote on the play of the year.
The interception
Trying to defeat Virginia Tech in Blacksburg is never easy. Trying to do so on a cold November night, with a chill so biting you could swear you heard it say "Just thermals, not too smart, are you?"
Nevertheless, Georgia Tech arrived in western Virginia with a lot to play for: the game with the Hokies has turned into one of most anticipated each year. Accusations of illegal blocks made by the Hokies' players and coaches after Georgia Tech knocked them off their No. 4 perch in 2009 added to the intensity.
Georgia Tech needed a win to keep alive its slim hopes of making it back to the championship game. Joshua Nesbitt needed just a few more yards to become the most prolific rushing quarterback in ACC history.
Nesbitt scored a 1-yard touchdown in the first quarter, and then got the record and another touchdown on a 71-yard run up the middle with less than 5 minutes remaining in the opening period. Lane Stadium was quiet, and it wasn't because everyone was gobbling down turkey legs.
The Hokies were able to cut the lead to a touchdown on a run by Ryan Williams.
Another threat was snuffed out with an interception in the end zone.
Tech caught another break — it stretches the memory to recall when the Jackets caught two good breaks in one game — when the Hokies fumbled on their next possession. The turnover gave Tech the ball at Virginia Tech's 47-yard line.
Tech began moving down the field in a way they hadn't in the season's first few games. The Jackets were methodical and mean.
And then disaster struck. Two, actually.
Rolling to his left, Nesbitt tried to loft a pass to Anthony Allen in the front of the end zone.
Allen saw Virginia Tech's Davon Morgan shadowing him.
Nesbitt didn't.
Morgan cut in front of Nesbitt's pass, intercepted it at the 1-yard line and sprinted up the sideline. Disaster No. 1.
Nesbitt ran to try to tackle him. Morgan's knees jackhammered into Nesbitt's arms as he reached to push him out of bounds. The impact broke Nesbitt's right forearm. There was no intent. It was simply two players trying to make plays. But it was disaster No. 2.
Of course, David Wilson's 92-yard kickoff return for a touchdown was the game-winner, but it seems that without the interception and injury that kickoff return likely wouldn't have mattered.
The fumble(s)
"If we don't put the ball on the ground, I don't know if they ever stop us," coach Paul Johnson said after Tech's 42-34 loss to Georgia in Athens.
But they did. Four times, losing three. And if Georgia didn't put the ball on the ground (four, two lost) this game could still be in overtime because Tech's defense had no answer for Georgia's passing offense.
Nevertheless, the Yellow Jackets ran 92 plays (its most since 2000) and totaled 512 yards in offense (411 rushing).
But the fumbles, two inside the 20-yard line, doomed them to another loss to their rivals.
From an earlier blog:
The last fumble occurred when Tevin Washington tried to pitch the ball at the 21-yard line. Linebacker Akeem Dent hit Roddy Jones as the pitch arrived, causing him to lose the ball. Justin Houston scooped it up and returned it for a touchdown to give Georgia a 35-21 lead with 16 seconds left in the third quarter.
"It's a pitch that's got to be caught. It hit my hands," said Jones, who carried the ball nine times for 63 yards and a touchdown.
Orwin Smith dropped a pitch in the first quarter that Georgia recovered on the 5-yard line. The second occurred when Jones was stripped of the ball inside the 15-yard line in the third quarter. After a scramble, Georgia picked it up on the 36-yard line.
"They did a good job of getting their hands in their and their helmets and poking the ball away," Jones said. "It's just the little things like that that got us beat today."
The touchdown pass
It only seems fair to include a positive moment from the season, even if that moment served as a reminder that something didn't seem quite right with Tech's offense.
Tech arrived in Winston-Salem to play Wake Forest in early October perhaps expecting an easy game.
The Demon Deacons weren't good at defending the run, allowing 175.8 yards per game. They had given up more than 500 in their prevous two games.
They figured something out.
Nesbitt had just 6 yards on 19 carries in the second half. Tech was trailing 17-6.
But Nesbitt wouldn't quit. He led Tech on two scoring drives only to see Wake Forest take a 20-17 lead on a field goal with 2:21 remaining.
On their next possession, on fourth-and-4, Nesbitt sprinted 16 yards to Wake's 47-yard line keep Tech's hope alive.
He hit Jones for 9 yards and followed with another 9-yarder to Stephen Hill. Preston Lyons drove his way for 5 more to set up Tech at Wake's 24.
Four plays later, Nesbitt rushed for two yards to put Tech at Wake's 9. He called timeout.
On the next play, Nesbitt dropped back and found Correy Earls on a post pattern.
"I'm still flabbergasted," said Earls, who entered the game with one catch on the season.
Honorable mention
There are so many other plays to choose from:
Which play do you remember most? Share the play and why it sticks out in your mind. How did it epitomize the season?
On Friday, we'll look at candidates for player of the year.
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December 30th, 2010
5:40 am
This blog should be about the Georgia Tech-Mercer basketball game today. "Coach" Hewitt has a chance to lead his team to a fourth place finish in the state. The 24 people going to the game today want to read more about it.
December 30th, 2010
5:58 am
Tech has a basketball team? Really?
December 30th, 2010
7:41 am
GT sports is at an all-time low!
December 30th, 2010
8:24 am
Looking back at Tech season was very boring. I hope the coaches will be working
hard to bring in some exciting new players especially on defense. We need to stop
Trying to get just the 3-5 star kids. There's kids that have been fundamentally coached
by the best Highschool coaches in Florida. Also, we need to look at grades. Why waste time on a 5 star when they can barely make it out of highschool. CPJ let's make it happen in 2011!
December 30th, 2010
8:25 am
Questions for GT Fans that are making excuses for CPJ:
Shouldn't a Genius HC be able to fix the STs Issues after 3 f'n seasons and multiple losses of Games due to poor STs play?
Shouldn't a Genius HC be able to install some sort of Pass-Blocking Scheme after 36 Months on campus such that the Team can have some sort of chance to WIN if they need a passing Game?
The CPJ kool-aid drinkers told us that Recruiting too many QBs & A-Backs wouldn't NOT hurt depth at other positions, since these Recruits could EASILY move to other positions and "help GT win Games"; well now we have had JaBlow and Jordy Lou Allen transfer out, basically WASTING slots that could have added to GT's depth and now we are also caught with too many 5-7 170lb. A-Backs that will NEVER make any sort of impact on winning games; to all you GT Toadies that make excuses for CPJ, NOW will you admit that this Recruiting Strategy by CPJ has hurt GT FB?
If NONE of the QBs Recruited by CPJ can pass worth a lick (Starters Included); then HOW can GT's Defense simulate what they will see from opposing Teams in Practice when getting ready to play? (IMO this is part of the reason WHY CAG's Defenses look so lost when playing Teams that can pass, even Dook's QB torched GT for over 300-yds. passing)
Where in eFF was DRad when when CPJ put his Staff together and CPJ DECIDED to have 2 O-LINE coaches, but ZREO "dedicated" STs Coaches?
Another question; Does it really take TWO O-LINE COACHES to "teach" OLs to dive at a guys' keeecaps, and while I'm at it, shouldn't TWO O-LINE Coaches insure that GT's O-LINE is the best pass-blocking O-LINE in all of CFB, since they have TWO coaches and all the other BCS Teams only have ONE O-LINE Coach?
What GT Fans don't want to admit is that 100% of the PROBLEMS associated with GT FB are a direct result of CPJ's poor decision making and not understanding "what it takes" to win AT THIS LEVEL of CFB
Now try and Defend CPJ on those issues all you Kool-Aid Drinkers.
December 30th, 2010
8:40 am
I'm printing this one out an placing it in my cubicle! We broke Nesbitts arm AND you mention all the fumbles in Athens! Go Dawgs!
December 30th, 2010
8:54 am
Lost to 6 unranked teams; just had to mention it again.
Fire CPJ
December 30th, 2010
9:02 am
It's hard to belive that Tech has lost 6 bowl games in a row. That staggers the imagination.
December 30th, 2010
9:05 am
The quality of responses so far is much more dismal than GT's season. The interception/injury at VT wins hands down as the play of the season.
December 30th, 2010
9:15 am
My play of the year was Nesbitt's ACC record breaking touchdown run against VT.
December 30th, 2010
9:19 am
As my high school biology teacher used to say, "Some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you." We did not have it this year, but this happens to all teams. You deal with it.
December 30th, 2010
9:40 am
Going over all these miscues, and looking at all GT-Ga games, why does Tech always give the game to GA? Are the jackets scared of them? They fumble and ga recovers or scores, GT throws stupid interceptions, its horrible. Its like uga knows they are going to win because Tech is going to give them the game.
December 30th, 2010
9:45 am
Most of the time I believe the nay sayers who post on this blog are really mutts who have nothing else to do, ie….. a job. But it really is pathetic to see the portrayed Jacket fans critize our team and coach to the degree they do. Few support and pull for the Jackets more than my family. We attend all home games (6 1/2 hr drive)and most away games, have for years (how many of you big time fans were in Lawrence?). If you know anything about the sport you know you have great seasons and seasons you want to forget, like this one. I too was very frustrated with the performance of the team, just couldn't figure out how most of the kids could play so well last year and this year didn't. But it is football, and a true fan supports during the good and bad times. That is what makes seasons like last year so special. Those that post on this site with all the negative comments are only fair weather fans, who we don't need. You think you are a huge fan and know everything but only when we are winning, who needs you? True Jackets don't. Go Jackets. Happy New Year.
December 30th, 2010
9:50 am
CPJ needs to learn good looks and his personality are only going to take him so far in recruiting.
December 30th, 2010
9:51 am
What do you expect wrexNfx? The AJC has been blowing smoke up the Techies' butts about how brilliant and awesome Johnson is since the day he set foot on campus. I've really never seen anything like it. Even in losses Bradley tells us that he "outcoached" the other team, whatever the hell that means. Schultz's nauseating column after 45-42 was nothing short of a coronation of the new King of College Football in Georgia. After last year's 30-24 win Roberson warned Georgia fans that Tech "almost" beat us. Their love fest with this guy borders on the absurd. Techies will believe anything you tell them as long as its something that they want to hear and they've fallen for the hype hook, line and sinker. Now Johnson has a losing season, a losing record against UGA, and an absolutely humiliating track record in bowl games, but what do we hear out of the AJCers? NOTHING. Complete radio silence. Can you imagine the new butthole that Schultz would rip the Georgia program if we had lost in Shreveport to finish with a losing season? He wouldn't be able to get to his keyboard fast enough. I know I'm whining, but there's a definite double standard at work here if you ask me.
December 30th, 2010
9:53 am
Hire Ralph the Fridge to coach passing and special teams. Believe me, he will MAKE the special teams perform, or they will never be allowed to leave the practice field! They will grow old, die and be buried on the practice field if they do not perform to Ralph's high standards.
December 30th, 2010
10:01 am
@GT man: If you substitute "UGA" for Tech and put in "Florida" in place of UGA you will have nicely summed up the UGA/UF games.
It seems that unless the game is a blowout that GT will find a way to lose to UGA just as UGA will find a way to dump it to UF. Mental blocks are funny things.
December 30th, 2010
10:04 am
I don't understand your coach although I do like him as a coach.
He coached at Hawaii and they threw the ball all over the yard.
GA Southern had no trouble throwing the ball.
He threw some at Navy but not as much.
It is almost like his stubbornness to prove the naysayers wrong is biting him in the rear end.
Just my $.02.
December 30th, 2010
10:06 am
dawgfan, CPJ took a team that was struggling to win 7 games ever year and won 20 games and a conference championship in 2 years. He has one bad year after that after a series of players either left or got injured and you want the AJC to call for him to be fired? If CPJ has another bad season next year he will start to feel the pressure. Its not like Mark Bradley has taken it easy on Paul Hewitt.
December 30th, 2010
10:08 am
@dawgfan: After the 2008 game the old racist himself, Terence Moore, actually proclaimed that a Mark Richt-coached UGA team would NEVER beat a CPJ-coached GT team. In 2009, when quizzed about his apparent erroneous prediction he stumbled all over himself trying to explain that despite scoring fewer points than UGA, GT had in fact not lost. I think he crawled into his AOL hole after this year's game, as I didn't catch his latest excuse.
Now, whether or not CPJ is a better coach than CMR is not for me to decide, but that ALL the AJC's big-time (sic) writers crowned CPJ as the greatest coach in history back in 2008 helps your assertion.
December 30th, 2010
10:18 am
I think at the BCS level that head coaches have to be more CEO-like and micromanage. They have to have their hands in every aspect of the program. They don't just call plays. They are ultimately responsible for managing the most mundane minutae of the program. I don't think Johnson gets this. He is basically just a glorified offensive coordinator. He doesn't know anything about defense. He doesn't know anything about special teams. He just farms all that out and calls the ball plays. He doesn't know anything about motivating young men to compete at their best. He once arrogantly scoffed at pre-game speeches as something you only see in movies. No its not coach. Great coaches do it all the time. This isn't a science experiment. Its a football game and emotion plays a big part. Johnson just doesn't get it.
I've never thought the guy was all that great. Winning a weak ACC and beating Georgia once hardly warrants the hype if you ask me.
December 30th, 2010
10:32 am
GTBob, where in the hell did I say that the AJC should call for Johnson to be fired? That must have been the voices in your head. Seek help.
What I expect is the same level of scrutiny that they put on the UGA program. Here is an example. Never passing up an opportunity to remind Georgia fans how much we suck, Schultz dedicated an entire column to UGA hiring a new STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING coach for God's sake!!! Good lord who cares, right? Do you think Schultz has any effing clue who your strength and conditioning coach is or would give two craps if you got a new onw? I've heard you Techies say that you're tired of the AJC writing about UGA so much. Well, hold on to your hats for this one but we actually agree on something!!! I'm sick of it too. UGA and Richt are under a freaking atomic microscope while Johnson has a losing season and will undoubtedly go unscathed. This guy simply can do no wrong no matter what it seems.
Happy New Year.
December 30th, 2010
10:53 am
A few points:
1. Many Johnson supporters like to point at Nesbitt's injury as an excuse for why we didn't beat VT(or UGA or Air Force), however it was Nesbitt's red zone interception that was arguably the most significant play of the game in shifting momentum to the Hokies. If anything, Nesbitt was the REASON GT lost to VT.
2. The fumbles are merely characteristic of an offense with so much ball handling and so many long, grinding drives. Also, I would guess poor coaching has something to do with it too. Apologists are fond of saying that the "coach doesn't fumble the ball" so you can't blame him. Well the coach doesn't catch TD passes, sack the QB, etc etc either! It's a wonder a coach has any effect on the game at all!
3. That TD pass vs Wake is sadly worthy of a mention, because it is the ONLY time in three years that a GT team under Johnson has completed a late game comeback to win a game. Tech is otherwise 0-7 in games where it possesses the ball with under 5 minutes remaining and trailing by one score.
More on the various excuses Tech fans have been making in the wake of the I-Bowl disaster:
December 30th, 2010
10:57 am
Stephen Hill catching a pass, QB actually completed a pass, beating Duke, witnessing CPJ giving UGA a free TD so he could lose by 8 instead of one should be a few more highlights…….
December 30th, 2010
10:58 am
Would have to go with the fumbles or INTs.
December 30th, 2010
11:00 am
No way GT wins that game in Blacksburg even if Nesbitt were not injured. VT still would have beaten them.
December 30th, 2010
11:01 am
Coach Paul Johnson will right the ship and restore our Jackets to ACC and BCS prominence! Shame on all of you doubting fools, CPJ has shown he CAN win at all levels and that the Perfect Option cannot be stopped. It's just a matter of controlling turnovers – less fumbles and INTs would have led to a 12-0 season, another ACC championship and yet another BCS bowl appearance.
December 30th, 2010
11:06 am
I got nothing, this team just flat out had a terrible year, I don't know what the problem is, but I am tired of GA Tech losing to UGA….. PERIOD……. I am tired of it…I only wish the coaching staff and the players were as tired of it as I am.
December 30th, 2010
11:07 am
Not a good year for GT football. What is worse is that the football team won more ACC games (out of than the basketball team is going to win (out of 16).
December 30th, 2010
11:28 am
Hey Wrex we miss you on Bbuzzoff.com, NOT.
You make some valid points but once again in a way that exposes your inner dark side. Man I really feel sorry for you….
CPJ can't recruit and only won with 'Gailey Players'. This is a very poor argument if you know anything about football. I agree Dwyer, Bey Bey, D Morgan and M Burnett played huge roles in winning the 2009 ACC Championship but look at the 2005 and 2006 classes Gailey left behind. ZERO OL recruits in 06, NONE!!!! ONE DL recruit in 2 star Ben Anderson (NO KNOCK on Ben, he overachieved IMO) Even that super 2007 class only had ONE DT recruit in undersized Logan Walls. Clyde Yandell never materialized as a 3 star player and Brad Gilbert left one year early due to early graduation. His loss hurt this years OL depth in a big way. Only Nick Claytor remains from that class on the OL. Thats ONE Offensive Lineman from 06 and 07 that CPJ has to work with, ONE!! If you know anything about football it takes two to three years for most OL to mature enough to be effective. CPJ's 08 class was largely done before he got the job. Not making excuses but these are the FACTS!! Starting next year most of the 2 deep players will be 'his' and the results will be squarely on his shoulders.
This 'Kool Aid' Drinker will give you some more FACTS….
CPJ's winning % is still 65% even after this crappy year. This is still THIRD ALL TIME in GT HISTORY just behind John Heisman and Bobby Dodd. NINE of the TOP 50 players in GA last year were signed by CPJ. Link http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2010/01/08/ajc-top-50-list-reveals-best-of-best-in-georgia/
This list was put together by Mr. Chip Towers who did some fairly extensive research through coaches interviews, SR season results etc. (I'd say he has a 'UGA lean' but who doesn't in this state) So this was put together AFTER the 2009 HS season was over. Charles Perkins is the TOP RB IN THE STATE last year per a 'non GT guy'. Isaiah Johnson was the second best DB, BJ Bostic 16th best player, Ryan Ayers third best DB, Shawn Green, Syngyn Days, Fred Holton, Anthony Williams, Morgan Bailey to 'round out the list'. McCoy didn't make the list and he had offers from LSU, Miami, Alabama and Notre Dame. Attaochu looks very promising at OLB and Louis Young was 4 stars. This was a very solid class that didn't 'rank' as high only due its size of 18 commits.
Gt LOST to UGA this year and was RUN OVER last year. But saying the offense wont work/has been figured out is becoming laughable. Over 500 yards against all of those 4 and 5 star UGA players with our BACK UP QB…..
Again, CPJ and staff will not have any more 'excuses' next year as most of the two deep will be 'his' players, especially along the OL and DL….Roddy Jones and Nick Claytor on O and Logan Walls, Jason Peters, Kyle Jackson and Jarrard Tarrant on D will be the only 'Gailey players' in the two deep next year.
Where I agree with you – too many A backs on schollie and too many QB's on schollie that haven't demonstrated the ability to throw the ball or WR that can catch the ball….
December 30th, 2010
11:34 am
is there not anywhere else this dawgfan idiot can post her drivel? Geezus H this gets old. Can you at least shut the F up til next year? Damn you bore the hell out of me.
December 30th, 2010
11:34 am
2. The fumbles are merely characteristic of an offense with so much ball handling and so many long, grinding drives. Also, I would guess poor coaching has something to do with it too. Apologists are fond of saying that the "coach doesn't fumble the ball" so you can't blame him. Well the coach doesn't catch TD passes, sack the QB, etc etc either! It's a wonder a coach has any effect on the game at all!
Do you have a good explanation then for why we fumbled the ball 20 times this year as opposed to 12 times last year (with one more game) ? Did CPJ forget how to teach not fumbling between 2009 and 2010?
December 30th, 2010
11:40 am
Ky Jacket, I was in Lawrence Kansas even though it took me 18 hours to get there after two airline mechanical breakdowns. The pilot of the plane had to call the rental car agency and beg them to remain open so I would not be stuck at the KC airport at 2am.
I understand you cannot win them all but some of the meltdown this year was coaching and the staff is culpable. Yes they are. When you make at least 100,000 salary you should be able to make better decisions than allowing a player to receive a punt only to fumble and them put that same player back out there 2 minutes later only to fumble again. And if you are a head coach you need to overturn decisions like that one.
It doesn't mean I do not support CPJ, I do. But I have a right to disagree with what I disagree with. Most of the finger pointers on these blogs are mutt fans but there are plenty of GT fans that support CPJ but see things differently in certain areas.
If the team looked as if they cared and were hungry for a win like Air Force did, maybe I wouldn't be so disappointed but I saw none of that with the exception of a few. And even the playcalling by the AF coach resembled to me the playcalling CPJ use to do.
I do want to thank Nesbitt for the great wins over Clemson, Miami and UGA in 08, and Clemson twice, VT and FSU in 09. Also, I am thankful Anthony Allen transferred to GT. Hope GT is able to regroup, sign some good players and become more disciplined.
December 30th, 2010
11:52 am
I have one suggestion, would GTAA consider calling Giff Smith and attempt to hire him back from Buffalo. Best recruiter GT had in the past decade by far. After spending the winter in that place, maybe Giff would want to come back.
December 30th, 2010
11:54 am
The Interception. Beyond its impact on VT game, it was Nesbitt's last play of the year and his college career. Season is totally different if he plays remainder of games.
December 30th, 2010
12:04 pm
buzzwax – Excellent post and thanks for linking the Top 50 from last year. I was surprised reading the list – I always thought that the UGA fans were overreacting when they complained about too many kids from Georgia going out of state but there sure seemed to be plenty out of the top 50 going elsewhere.
December 30th, 2010
12:19 pm
Um, not to be negative, but the play of the year has got to be the missed PAT vs. UGA. Hit that, and it's a different season (for both teams!)
December 30th, 2010
12:44 pm
Happy New Year Brock. I love you too.
Play of the year, that extra point would only have tied the game with plenty of time left on the clock for Aaron Murray to further humiliate your defense. Get a grip.
December 30th, 2010
12:50 pm
Re: Buzzwax
Just like on BBuzzoff.com, you replied to my post, took the time to slam me, but FAILED to answer pertinent questions like:
How can the STs be so bad after 3 yrs. of horrible play?
With TWO O-LIne Coaches WHY can't the O-line pass-block worth a darn, especially AFTER 36 months of "CPJ-specific-instruction"; after shouldn't a "Genuis" be able to teach O-line pass-blocking after all that time on Campus?
Shouldn't Geniuses leave NO STONE UNTURNED and develop some sort of Passing Game to give his team a better chance to WIN?
It seems that CPJ is more concerned with proving that his System will work rather than winning above all else, even if you have to PASS FIRST, or play GREAT STs in order to get those wins.
December 30th, 2010
1:06 pm
BTW Buzzwax, WHY is it that NO ONE over on BBuzzoff.com is saying ANYTHING about CPJ's 2 Offensive TDs in 3-Bowl-Games?
You do realize that 3 Offensive TDs in THREE BOWL GAMES is akin to Chan Gailey-esque performances, and he was the WRONG Pro-Style for GT and made only $1.0 mil vs. the $2.3 mil that CPJ makes.
Think about that for a sec., the GT Fanbase thinks he's a GENIUS while he makes $2.3 mil per year, YET he can only muster 2-TDs in 3 Bowl Games, that just goes to show that I have been much more RIGHT than my detractors want to admit, and that the GT Fanbase is CHOCK FULL of unknowledgeable Fans that know very little about CFB
Also Buzzwax, you do realize that the MOST EMBARRASSING graphic that ESPN showed during the Bowl Game was when GT was listed with the 3-Service Academies as the ONLY FOUR Teams in Big-Boy FB to run CPJ's gimmicky Offense, when Recruits look at that kind of stuff for 3Hrs. on Nat'l TV it will drive AWAY the more talented Recruits like the plague, I guess GT can thank CPJ for that too.
In summary there have been LOT of screw-ups by CPJ, but everyone over at BBuzzoff.com is scared to say anything about it for fear of being banned by the putz that runs that place, BTW traffic is down considerably and that place is like a mausoleum because everyone is on pins & needles.
December 30th, 2010
1:45 pm
Go Jackets, of course fans have the right to voice their displeasure. My problem is when these folks make it personal. The main reason I love college football is because of the emotion, so I understand the emotion true fans exibit but when it turns personal, I turn it off. If you have followed the program as long as we have you have to like the overall direction the program is headed. No question this year was a major disappointment but hopefuly CPJ will turn it into a learning experience and the boys will capitalize on that experience next year. I know we will be there supporting them and cheering them on. Our oldest son had airline problems getting into KC too. They diverted to Omaha and eventually landed in KC. To me, the Kansas game was the most disappointing game (other than the dogs, it is never acceptable to lose to them) as it set the tone for the rest of the season. It certainly was a harbinger of things to come.
December 30th, 2010
1:50 pm
Play of the Year? The entire season can be summed up with Scott Blair's missed extra point against UGA.
December 30th, 2010
1:58 pm
Are UGA fans really still trying to make Scott Blair feel bad? Lol, of all the things to hang your hat on. You guys should get back to pretending to be GT fans and talking about how much you want CPJ fired.
December 30th, 2010
2:13 pm
I have already blocked this season out and care to remember none of it. I have convinced myself that the NCAA canceled the season due to all the investigations and sadly there was no 2010 season. College fans everywhere were depressed and angry swearing revenge on the NCAA for thier inconsistent and senseless rulings.
December 30th, 2010
2:34 pm
Why do you always feel the need to bring up CPJ's salary? He was not the only coach that had a bad season and surely not the only coach to have players underperform. Do you really think that Makayan had never practiced catching a punt in practice before that game? Could it be that a 19 year old kid screwed up and had butterflies the size of eagles in his stomach and just flat out messed up? You do realize in those four weeks of prep time you talk about the coaches are only allowed 15 practices? I agree with you that a teams success or lack of it falls squarely on the HC, but if you are a real GT fan did you really expect a return trip to the ACCCG after the number of players GT lost and a new defensive scheme we did not have the players for? You are entitled to your opinion but coming on these blogs everyday carrying on about the same thing gets old and that is why people attack you.
December 30th, 2010
3:23 pm
The first few years Bobby Ross was our coach the special teams and offense had such a tough time holding on to the ball they were billed as the "fumble bees". Ross put the team in a position to win games but no one on either side of the ball could make a play. Did that make Bobby Ross a bad coach? I don't think so. Paul Johnson got about as much out of this team as possible. The team just didn't have it. The only guy who played with heart was Nesbitt. He was the lone lion. No one on defense stepped up. That said, next year will be all Coach Johnson's players. If we can't win with CPJs personnel, well "Houston we have a problem.
The football program will be OK. The basketball team is DOA. This is sad, sad, sad. No life, and frankly, no coaching. I think these guys stopped listening to Paul Hewitt's rants two years ago.
December 30th, 2010
4:20 pm
Talking about b'ball…
Congrats to Coach K for passing Dean Smith in victories last night. Wall to wall coverage up here in the Triangle.
December 30th, 2010
4:50 pm
Tech has a football team?
December 30th, 2010
5:03 pm
Our offense is a gimmick and our defense just plain sucks. Other than that, everything is great!
December 30th, 2010
5:29 pm
GTBob … no Dawg fan here … I'm a life-long GT fan and attended the school myself. Scott Blair's missed extra point is emblematic of a season full of mis-cues, lack of execution, lack of focus, and complete break-down in the fundamentals of football. Sure, Blair's a great kicker … but if you're gonna make 77 PAT's in a row and then miss #78, the potential game-tying point, in Athens, during the final game of your senior season … then you're the poster-child of a team with great talent and great coaching that just utterly failed to perform.


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