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Super Bowl commercials

Game was okay. Certainly not as crappy as last year. Halftime was ... interesting. But relatively dull (in spite of Shakiras hips).

In any case, here’s my take on the top 10 commercials in the big game.

#10 Jimmy Fallon (Michelob ultra)

https://youtu.be/U7h6Vls-uO8

#9. Mars water (soda stream)

https://youtu.be/U8lrvbEeLv4

#8. Avocados
https://youtu.be/W4QYhAAKja8


#7. Bud light seltzer With post Malone.

https://youtu.be/wsnnU3fJTW

#6 Reese’s take 5

https://youtu.be/GopnY1XU4QI

#5 Alexa with Ellen and Portia

https://youtu.be/RF9t2rFmTVE

#4 John/Chrissy party (Genesis)

https://youtu.be/WTcXkxbukuk

#3 Groundhog Day (Jeep)

https://youtu.be/AnhzGUcENWo

#2 Pahked it. (Hyundai)

https://youtu.be/85iRQdjCzj0

#1 Can’t touch this. (Cheetos)

https://youtu.be/Cdpf1Dl5b_4


Honorable mention to P&G together ad

https://youtu.be/CvUDuu58zbo

And the Wisconsin vet school, which has a cool story, needs a mention:

https://youtu.be/Fi2WwRJDii0

And in case you wondered. The trump ads were garbage. 

Nice troll job.

Friday, Brady tweeted this an sports media went crazy. What could it mean?!

Then we see his Hulu as ... and it was just a troll job. Hilarious.

We got a problem...

We watch too much tv. We put people in a pedestal. We laud our athletes. And it causes the ridiculous hysteria.

Kobe died. It's sad. Made sadder by him being with his daughter. Okay. I don't know anything about Kobe, other than he played basketball and I saw him as a ball hog. Didn't much care for him personally.

And of course there was the rape allegations. And the affair. But that's it. People say he was "great" in ways. I wouldn't know. I know nothing else about him.

And maybe he did some of the good things they say about him. I wouldn't know, and not to be callous, but I don't care, either.

Every single day, good people die. Some do more than we will ever know. Some of them are public about it, and never get credit.

But here's Kobe now on his 4th day(!) of coverage. It's just too much.

But this is what happens with our reality tv nation. Somehow "we" think we know the guy, and mourn him.

He's another human whose life ended too soon. That's sad, sure, but why does he get wall-to-wall coverage?

And weirder still is the fact that in every huge news story, there are ALWAYS detractors. People who offer (an often ludicrous) differing point of view.

Where are they this time? Why does this story only talk about him in glowing terms?

Is this what we're doing now?

I find this all vexing and frustrating. Isn't there anything else we can talk about?

The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction - Christmas Lectures with Ian Stewart

Adaptation.

As temperatures dropped around south Florida, iguanas literally froze and fell out of trees. But they don't typically die, rather there's a hibernation like thing they do, and they remain alive.

A decade or so ago, many more iguanas were seen around when temperatures dropped than were seen this time.

What gives? The population actually increased, and the temps were certainly cold enough.

It's a little thing that we call adaptation. Over the last few decades, iguanas it would seem, have developed an ability to withstand the cold. This is in their genetics.

It's in ours too. Over a relatively small span of time, we can adapt. And start an evolutionary process.

Massive brawl breaks out at end of Kansas-Kansas State - ESPN Video

I happened to catch this nonsense live. It was pathetic. And the worst part? As it all cleared, the officials decided to put time on the clock and award free throws because, quoting the announcers, "there are bets on the game."

I'm sorry. This is a college game. It's supposed to be about education (Hahaha I know that's rich!) and they are representing the university. 

The only acceptable right answer is for both teams to immediately suspend every single player, forfeit the season and not play again. And then go through each player individually to decide whether to dismiss them from the university, and perhaps to make an effort to recover the scholarship money given to them. 

But we all know it's going to be a couple suspended, and some "stern warnings" because there is too much money at stake. 

I thought college sports were better than this. But how naïve of me. 

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/28534122

Short. Sweet. To the point. That's the beauty Dave's iPhone.