Short rants.

[weams]

I despise my computer,,,,,,and not having e mail!!!

How about cindyluvsbrady@gmail.com ?

[cindyluvsbrady]

How about cindyluvsbrady@gmail.com ?

Still NOT working Weams!!!!

[crissfan172]

Main reason I don't follow the NHL (or NBA for that matter): The 14th best team in a league of 30 is in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Why even bother playing the regular season?

[Pedro Cerrano]

Main reason I don't follow the NHL (or NBA for that matter): The 14th best team in a league of 30 is in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Why even bother playing the regular season?

The 8 seed rarely wins in the NBA.

Generally the best teams make the conference finals too. As for the NHL, the nature of the sport (low scoring) allows for more parity but how many BAD teams have ever won the Cup?

[CrimsonTribe]

Main reason I don't follow the NHL (or NBA for that matter): The 14th best team in a league of 30 is in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Why even bother playing the regular season?

The 83 win Cardinals won the World Series in 2006.

[crissfan172]

The 8 seed rarely wins in the NBA.

Generally the best teams make the conference finals too. As for the NHL, the nature of the sport (low scoring) allows for more parity but how many BAD teams have ever won the Cup?

The 83 win Cardinals won the World Series in 2006.

My point wasn't really that bad teams don't deserve the chance to win the title, but rather that over half the teams in your conference shouldn't be in the playoffs because you should have at least be in the top 40% of your league to be a champion IMO. Of course, if the NBA or NHL made their playoffs more exclusive, they would lose what makes their sports special...the playoffs. Personally, though, I can't invest in a team knowing that the regular season is basically just biding time until the playoffs. I could also go on a rant about the 1 game series being played this year in MLB's playoffs, but I'll spare you that one.


In a completely separate rant....it's snowing.

[square634]

I wish there were a different way for me to learn anatomy. I'm in the middle of neuroanatomy right now, which mostly involves identification of tissue masses in cross-sections at all different levels of the brain. Unfortunately, my own brain appears to be missing whichever nucleus is involved in 3D spatial orientation, so I am essentially stuck independently memorizing all of the cross-sections in the transverse, coronal, and sagittal planes.

It would be a little bit easier for me if on the exam they gave us an orientation of the slice through the brain, but nooooooooooooooooo, we should apparently just intuitively know based on what the picture looks like.

[allstar1579]

Perfect lead-in coming off neuroanatomy, but migraines SUCK!!!

[square634]

Perfect lead-in coming off neuroanatomy, but migraines SUCK!!!

Do yours come with stuff like visual auras and nausea? Those can get nasty from what I hear.

[allstar1579]

Do yours come with stuff like visual auras and nausea? Those can get nasty from what I hear.

Yeah, the nausea is hit or miss, usually just with the worst ones, but the dizzy, the trails, the colors, and the pain have a way of screwing up your day. I've had them often enough that I've learned to be functional with them, some are worse than others, but I don't get the turn off the lights, ear muffs and curl in a ball ones too often thank god.

[The Wedge]

So, my friend sends me this magazine article about "geek chic" books to read to your kids under 10. One of them is Ender's Game. Have any of you read Ender's Game? Then you'd know that you wouldn't just read that book to a child 10 or under without them being very special and able to handle the material. For crying out loud, the protagonist starts as a primary school aged child (I can't remember exactly how old, maybe someone can refresh me) and in the course of the reader getting to know him he KILLS ANOTHER KID. Yes, it was in relative self-defense and he doesn't know he killed him, but still, that's heavy, and that's not even the heaviest theme in the book. Come on.

[square634]

So, my friend sends me this magazine article about "geek chic" books to read to your kids under 10. One of them is Ender's Game. Have any of you read Ender's Game? Then you'd know that you wouldn't just read that book to a child 10 or under without them being very special and able to handle the material. For crying out loud, the protagonist starts as a primary school aged child (I can't remember exactly how old, maybe someone can refresh me) and in the course of the reader getting to know him he KILLS ANOTHER KID. Yes, it was in relative self-defense and he doesn't know he killed him, but still, that's heavy, and that's not even the heaviest theme in the book. Come on.

I think I would read it to a 10 year old. That's like fifth grade, right? People don't give kids enough credit for being able to handle that kind of thing.

[The Wedge]

I think I would read it to a 10 year old. That's like fifth grade, right? People don't give kids enough credit for being able to handle that kind of thing.

More like 4th or so, it all depends. I was a fairly advanced reader at that age, and I was just getting in to young adult stuff at that age. Death is one thing, but how it's played out in Ender's Game seems a tad heavy to me for that age range.

[twoBshorty]

I don't see how it's any worse than books like "Number the Stars," "The Giver," and "The Outsiders," all of which we had to read in school around that age. Some of it would probably go over a 10-year-old's head, but I don't think it would be damaging.

Of course, my parents never censored anything I read. My mom had the biggest hang-up about "Go Ask Alice," which I got ahold of at the library around age 11 or 12, but let me read it anyway because she didn't believe in restricting books. She told me she thought it was too heavy and mature, but go ahead if I wanted. So I did. I decided she had been right.

You want to talk about stuff popular with kids and pre-teens that shouldn't be, how about Grease? My parents wouldn't let me watch it when I was 10, even though I begged. I finally saw it a couple of years ago and totally agreed in retrospect with their decision. What an appalling message!

[Austin]

You want to talk about stuff popular with kids and pre-teens that shouldn't be, how about Grease? My parents wouldn't let me watch it when I was 10, even though I begged. I finally saw it a couple of years ago and totally agreed in retrospect with their decision. What an appalling message!

Yeah, really. I remember watching that as a kid and it wasn't until I was older that I realized how messed up the entire plot is.