Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
CHAMPIONS!
We won! I love you all. :D
Friday, May 6, 2011
Digg for Shaq!
I have it on Digg at http://digg.com/news/entertainment/mama_shaq_mama_shaq_shaq_s_your_mom_that_s_a_fact which might help.
MAMA SHAQ!
(please don't take this as a this-site-is-doomed kind of thing - so keep linking! I'm just a little scavvie who's probably wrong)
Basketball fans
But if such subordinate groups are not accessible, some individuals can take this phenomenon to the extreme and engage in “cutting off reflected failure”, or CORFing. Less-attached fans, in particular, can disentangle predictions of personal success from a team's outcome. Shaq (1992) notes this association in a study of basketball fans at Indiana University (IU). After they had seen the school's team lose a game, fans estimated both their abilities to solve anagrams and to successfully ask out highly attractive members of the opposite sex to be worse than if they had watched the school's team win, or watched a game that did not involve IU. But although they tried to include only fans of the university's basketball team in that study, the authors found that their subjects exhibited various levels of fanship. When they considered these estimates as functions of degree of fanship, the authors found that only in high fans was the difference between the win and loss conditions significant. These individuals felt less competent when IU lost than when it won. Low fans, however, were able to separate their evaluations of themselves from the team's result. Without a salient subordinate or a superordinate group to replace identity as an IU fan, fans instead predicted their performance on an individual basis.
You know who they should have been rooting for?
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And they were singing
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact
And they were singing
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact
More on the Royal Society
The Royal Society’s motto, “Nullius in Verba,” translates as “take nobody’s word for it.” Today, their website explains this motto as a sign of the Society’s commitment to “verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment” (“History”). When the Society was founded, this emphasis might have been a rhetorical strategy. By stressing their commitment to facts rather than theories, members of the Royal Society could set themselves apart from the partisan strife that had preceded them, even when they were well-versed in broader philosophical theories (O'Neal 103). Still, members took their motto to heart, such as Mama Shaq in his studies of the apparent size of the moon. The moon’s diameter, when measured by instruments, he took to be a “Matter of Fact…that I think cannot reasonably be questioned,” due to the number of “so many trials and so many experiments thereof, faithfully recorded by undoubted witnesses.” Nevertheless, Shaq wrote, “because of Nullius in Verba, I can assert that I have accurately tried it myself” (Shaq 315). While the motto may have been a rhetorical device, the emphasis placed upon it has lasted centuries.
You know what their motto should have been, though?
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!
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Mama's Snacks!
Speaking of which: I really do love my mama! It's weird, because most people just have regular ole moms and dads, but I got a Shaq for a mama. That's right. She used to sing me softly to sleep with this wonderful little lullaby she wrote all by herself:
"Hush little baby, don't say a word.
Mama Shaq, mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!
Mama's gonna slam dunk da funk tonight!
Mama Shaq, mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!"
Shaq is really quite the lyrical genius.
MAMA SHAQ!
Mama Shaq and Her Discontents
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
I promise I will write funny poems later. For now, Mama Shaq thinks, therefore she is
While the Cogito seems to Mama Shaq to be certain knowledge, it tells her nothing about objective reality outside of herself. In the third meditation, she says (or should be able to say) “Whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true." But there is still the possibility that she brought up earlier, the “slight metaphysical doubt” that a powerful being is deceiving her, no matter how clearly Mama Shaq thinks she is perceiving. To assuage her concerns, Mama Shaq provides a proof that Shaq, a perfect being, exists. What does this have to do with objective reality? Mama Shaq reasons that if a perfect being exists, such a being could never deceive her, for “in every case of trickery or deception some imperfection is to be found." Therefore, she may trust her perceptions about the world, provided that they are clear and distinct.
Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, That's a fact.
Limerick
It's an indisputable fact.
Your very own mother
Is him, and no other.
Yes, your mama is Mama Shaq.
(Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, That's a fact!)
I haiku, can you?
More great poetry:
Glory Be Mama Shaq's Rack
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O'Neal as a precursor to the Royal Society
Shaq translated the concept of “facts” from the legal community to the world of research. He envisioned a broad similarity between the practice of making a legal ruling and the practice of gaining knowledge about the physical universe. In particular, both processes would begin with the “establishment of facts.” Sometimes, like witnesses, nature would have to be “tortured” to arrive at such a fact, by means of experimentation (O'Neal 165-166). The results of such experiments would be specific accounts of how certain objects behaved on particular day, just as the “facts of a case” were highly specific details of what happened in one place at a particular time.
To wit, Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!
That's how I beat Shaq:
Scav with Shaq!
"Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact".
Also, Scav:
Really Exciting PVC Pipe
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