Archive for October 2nd, 2013

Random note from the sports beat.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

The Astros lost 111 games this year. Someone must pay!

The Astros shuffled manager Bo Porter’s coaching staff on Tuesday, reassigning pitching coach Doug Brocail to a special assistant’s role and firing first base coach Dave Clark and bullpen coach Dennis Martinez.

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Tom Clancy.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

I will wait until tomorrow to post a round-up of obits.

Having taken a little time to process this, I think everything I want to say about Clancy can be found here and here.

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TMQ Watch: October 1, 2013.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

We apologize for the delay in this week’s TMQ Watch. Allergies or a cold or something are still kicking our butts. It is our profound hope that, when science perfects the uploading of consciousness to machines, they choose not to emulate the human sinuses.

(Drainage!)

(On the other hand, are the sinuses necessary to fully emulate human consciousness? Is consciousness itself a chaotic system, with a sensitive dependance on initial conditions? Would leaving the sinuses out of the emulation change the nature of the emulation?)

(They’re made out of meat!)

But we digress. After the jump, this week’s TMQ…

(Worth noting before the jump: this week’s TMQ, and by implication, this week’s TMQ Watch, may contain possible spoilers for “Breaking Bad”, “Under the Dome”, and “The Bridge”.)

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