Sparty Tears are Tasting Sweet Today
I work in Lansing, so I get to listen to Lansing sports talk radio in the morning and afternoon. And my, oh my, the Sparty tears over Brandon Johns are tasting so sweet today. All day yesterday, the people on the radio refused to believe the Brandon-to-Michigan rumors were true. And today, they're just in disbelief that we would beat them for a hometown recruit that they really, really wanted.
If you want to sample the reaction on the RCMB, the two takes seem to be:
1. MSU didn't really want him (no, you really DID want him)
2. He sucks anyway (and yet you still really wanted him)
Here's the thread so you can enjoy it for yourself. Pride comes before the fall, and it seems like the fall isn't close to stopping yet.
http://michiganstate.247sports.com/Board/93/Contents/Brandon-Johns-a-ju…
I'm waiting for them to link Johns to Michigan to Greer Love and Mo Bamba. It may not have happened yet, but oh, it will...
Greer-Bamba thing would matter if he committed to Michigan...
But he didn't. So I fail to see the connection here.
but Sparty and logic? um, yeah
Come on Uncle Leo, this is just a dumb reply. There doesn't need to be a reasonable connection or reliable evidence to make this link in the Sparty Mind. Here is an example of the faulty deductive reasoning that a Sparty could use:
Greer gave money to Bamba;
Greer is a Michigan grad;
Michigan is bad;
????????
Michigan got Johns;
Greer paid Johns on behalf of Michigan.
Voila!!!!
I'm eating some downvotes for my logic.
Yeah, you need to turn off your logic and reason better...
Remember the movie "Jurassic Park," the original? Remember the scene where the little boy is climbing the eletric fence, and they turn the fence back on and he is thrown backwards, but isn't killed and is only shaken-up up a little? And remember how we were still supposed to believe that that same fence and that same quantity of electricity - that failed to kill an 80 pound 10 year old - was supposed to stop a 20,000 pound T-Rex from leaving the fenced area? Yeah, if you could still watch the movie after that, you can think like a Sparty...
"Um, that's a neat saying, eccentric and quirky-cool mathematician guy, but two humping female velociraptors can't make a new raptor no matter how hard they rub up against each other." Movie ends...
Get your outdated gender norms out of here, Clarence! If two female raptors want to have a baby, and Jeff Goldblum says they can, then god dammit, they can have a baby!
I liked the adorable clown!
In fairness, he's shaken up a lot. He can't walk and he's bleeding out his ear.
Also, the park was run by people who thought it'd be a good idea to turn over the entire friggin' IT system and every single security feature in it, both physical and electronic, to one guy who lowballed the whole bid. And in the book, Hammond ordered the fence voltages to be reduced so that his dinos wouldn't get hurt. The thing is probably set at a voltage they hope will discourage Rexy, but don't really know if it will. You're supposed to get the impression that the park is actually pretty badly run by a guy who's completely deluded himself and is clueless to the dangers.
is some high-level analysis of Jurassic Park.
The book was even better than the movie!
I don't know of a single Creighton book that was bested by the movie version.
By far, though, the award for "Worst Movie Adaptation of a Michael Creighton Book" has to go to Timeline. Literally one of the most awful films ever made. Gigli was better.
Don't forget Congo
I saw it for the first time in the theatre. The book wasn't great; but ... OMG, the movie was unwatchable. Still an Oscar nominee compared to Timeline, though.
YMMV
Yes, on death's door...
they performed cpr on him to bring him back. can't believe i'm responding to this chain.
can't get in to Creighton books. I do audio books for my commute, and I have literally read (listened to) about everything. Everytime I give a Creighton book a try I just zone out. It doesn't hook me. If there are particularly good ones let me know and I will try those.
What I most get into about Creighton books is the underlying subject matter of technology run amok. I consider myself a tech geek, so his books serve as a kind of warning that the road to Hell is often paved with good intentions.
Maybe I give him more credit than he's due; but the book, Timeline, was also the first thing I'd ever read that explained Shrodinger's Equation, quantum states, electron spin, and so on in a way that made sense (I'd finally learned probability density when I got into signal processing). Physics 242 was a bitch. Ten years later, I'm reading Timeline and the light bulb above my head finally switched on.
Not every single one. In my opinion, the book version of The Lost World was one of the worst books I have ever read. It was dreadful, not remotely close to any other Crichton product that I had consumed.
As a result, when I watched the movie (which everyone hated) I was in the minority that was pleasantly surprised, because it wasn't much like the book at all and every change was a decided improvement.
The book was so bad that the movie couldn't help but be better; if, for no other reason, than the screenplay "fixed" some of the book's plot issues.
Hardly unique to Crichton, though. How often do you say, man, that movie was way better than the book?
But that movie, Timeline ... WOof.
2. Mystic River
3. Into the Wild
4. The Godfather
5. Gone Girl
6. Revolutionary Road
7. Jaws
8. The Silence of the Lambs
9. The Exorcist
10. The Graduate
Etc.
Maybe not "way" better but better. I don't understand why people always believe the books are better than the movies. I think it is true in some cases but certainly not all, or necessarily even a majority. I think adaptations are often better than the source material, while obviously not original.
The Prestige.
Great movie, "meh" novel
Blade Runner.
Its the current that actually hurts you. So a high voltage and low current could provide the right shock to keep things away without hurting them. Since he was holding on with both hands, the shock would have travelled across his heart. The shock across his heart could have caused it to momentarily stop.
And seeing how many issues my company has with software, Nedry has a point about not being paid enough to handle all those duties. But, then i have issues with people low balling costs to get a job and then complaining about the quote.
The shock across his heart could have caused it to momentarily stop.In fact, it did. Grant had to do CPR. Which I think is the main suspension of disbelief there. CPR isn't really supposed to result in the patient immediately waking up.
If the electricity induced an arrythmia, the act of chest compressions might flip the "patient" back into regular sinus rhythm (i.e. a cardioversion of sorts). The person could regain consciousness relatively quickly.
So, that's the part that bothered me the most. What would happen if you were holding onto a fence and an electric current started is that your muscles in your hand would instantly contract. You wouldn't fly off the fence. Quite the opposite, you would grab on tighter in an involuntary manner.
As for the heart, it wouldn't "stop" as much as likely fibrillate or go into some other arrythmia.
I'm not famiiar with electric fences, but alternating current would allow the muscles to relax. You are correct if it's direct current.
Yes, that part bothered me more, dammit.
I am not sure I've ever been happier about being an MGoBlog regular. Somehow, a post about Sparty sadness as evolved into a lengthy diatribe on electric shocks and CPR and volts and such. If only this spun into a debate on Tesla vs. Edison, I could die a happy man...
There ya go, Unc..
One upvote; I got 5 on that logic upgrade as well.
Greer paid Bamba NOT to go to Michigan so that Johns wouldn't be scared off and commit to Michigan.
Well at least nobody got arrested. This week. Yet.
Weekend parties in EL only really get rolling on Thursday afternoons.
Straight from RCMB...
Can anyone put a Mr. Greer Love (Alleged by Mo's brother) in Ann Arbor while Brandon Johns was at U of M's elite camp? Ya know, just curious
Haha they made that link like 5 posts into the thread. Apparently we run a dirty program and it's boiling over and making Harbaugh dirty too.
It definitely has already happened over there. They have completely lost it. Greer was a straight up bagman who probably also has ties to the football program, which is cheating just like Beilein is. There are actually posters talking about the possible upcoming postseason ban for UM. Those who aren't claiming that Izzo didn't want Johns, are saying that he was paid.