Thursday miscellanea #152

• The weather hasn’t really broken yet, but we did get a delightful morning earlier this week.
• You know, I got to thinking about that rumored SEC expansion with A&M, Mizzou, Clemson, and Florida State.  Half of those teams are the Tigers, and we already have two Tigers.  That would have given a full quarter of the conference the same nickname.  Should be enough to squash that all by itself.
• I have made friends with the grilled chicken Caribbean salad at Chili’s.  I recommend it as a tasty and eminently defensible 610 calories.  As far as stuff-on-the-walls go, Chili’s may be the best one for healthy eating.  There are several good choices there.
• Is Gene Chizik the newest supercoach, or the second coming of Larry Coker?  His 2011 will be telling.
• Recently there was an excellent—if chilling—Car and Driver article about the current state of the U.S. interstate system.
• I offered this bet to my colleague again today.  He still wouldn’t take it.
• I went to pre-order the Star Wars trilogies on Blu-ray today, and found out that George Lucas has altered them yet again.  The Amazon.com comments were full of complaints about a newly vocal Darth Vader throwing Palpatine down the shaft at the end of Return of the Jedi.  I was already a bit hesitant, but that iced it.  Mr. Lucas, you are a silly man, and I’m a slow study, but I’ve got it now.  I’ll no longer pay you to fuck up your movies.
• Game day!
  

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