Archive for September 30th, 2012

Your loser update: week 4, 2012.

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:

Cleveland
New Orleans

Houston The Houston Astros is are at 53-106, for a .333 winning percentage. With three games left, they’re not going to lose 110, but they have tied last year’s record number of losses, and it looks like they’re on track to break that record.

Edited to add: Since I am editing this post anyway (thanks, Lawrence) I’ll mention this HouChron article pointing out that you can get tickets for tonight’s game against the Cubs for “as low as 75 cents”. I haven’t checked to see what tickets for other MLB teams are going for on StubHub, which is why I hesitated to do a post.

Edited to add 2: And Lawrence sent me a link to that HouChron article as well, so he gets a hattip, even though I didn’t see his email before I added the ETA.

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Emu meat!

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

In this part of southern India known for scams that vary from teak plantations and gold to real estate and foreign exchange, this was a con with a difference. Rather than dangling the usual bling to attract investors to their get-rich-quick scheme, these “entrepreneurs” used emus.

Oh, if only people learned from history…

And:

By some estimates, 1,000 Ponzi schemes operate at any given time in each of India’s 28 states, fueled by weak regulation, overlapping agencies and corrupt officials.

Might I suggest that anytime somebody says to you, “Yes, you can get into the business of raising large flightless birds, even if you live in an apartment. You don’t even need to ever see the birds” you should probably turn around and run in the opposite direction?

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Obit watch: September 30, 2012.

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

In case you were wondering how the paper of record would cover the death of former publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, “who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper’s founding in 1851”, you can find that here.

If you were wondering how other papers would approach this: LAT. WP.

I’d also like to mention the death of noted racing journalist Chris Economaki. Back when I was a wee lad and watched racing coverage on ABC, Economaki and Jackie Stewart were always there. I miss those days…

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