[Vision2020] Anyone want a basketball coaching job?

[lfalen]

I am in general agreement.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Paul Rumelhart godshatter at yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:06:45 -0700
To: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Anyone want a basketball coaching job?

> Chasuk wrote:
> > I used to work with a guy who was a major sports enthusiast and he
> > would begin every morning with a play by play recounting of any game
> > he happened to have watched the night before.  I politely asked him to
> > stop, but he continued.  I told him that I didn't care, but he
> > continued.  Finally, I asked him, "Are we talking about football,
> > baseball, or hockey here?"  He was so flummoxed that he never bothered
> > me again.
> >   
> I can understand getting enthusiastic about things and wanting to share 
> it with others.  It's just that nobody wants to hear about the 
> programming trick I just learned and had to play with all weekend.
> 
> When people ask me who I'm rooting for in the Superbowl, I usually reply 
> with "I'm not going to watch it, I'm not really into baseball anyway".  
> I like their expressions, both facial and verbal, and it covers the fact 
> that I usually don't know who's playing until about three days before it 
> starts and the media blitz is big enough to get past my not watching TV, 
> my spam filters, and my use of the firefox adblock extension.
> 
> There's a part of me that could get into sports, but I work hard to 
> repress it because I have enough time-sinks at the moment.
> 
> Paul
> 
> > I watch the World Cup once every four years, mainly for nostalgic
> > reasons.  That, and its elegant.  I find it sorta pretty.
> >
> > Chas
> >
> >   
> 
> 
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