1.This week I returned to Macaroni Grill and Olive Garden after 5 years. (Probably not healthy to do both in a week, but it brought back a lot of memories.) I forgot how good their bread and bread sticks respectively were. I also remembered why I always used to share entrees there. (More room for bread at a fraction of the cost.)
1B. Also the table cloth crayon idea needs to be repeated by all restaurants. At all awkward moments during dinner you can just draw or start a game of hangman. (This doesn't look as bad as disregarding the people you are eating with and playing draw something or words with friends on your phone.)
2. Hopefully nobody remembers my ponderings because sometimes I think I repeat myself. I am also hoping that people are starting to think that ponderings is a real word.
3. A lot of us tend to automatically consider the things we read on the Internet as facts, but with a quick search you will find 20 articles all contradicting each other on someway. Read more than one before you form an opinion. One exception to this rule is this blog.
4. Its very easy for an observer or newcomer to devalue a tradition, but for those involved with the tradition for many years its very difficult to deal with a specific tradition ending.
5. Rather than staying with status quo, sports need to make active changes to solve 2 major problems. Tanking and Diving/Flopping.
5A. Tanking - The NBA is a perfect example of a sport where starters rest and teams tank in order to try to get higher draft picks. Instead of killing the game for fans, here is my solution.
In addition to the NBA playoffs, the NBA adds a single elimination tournament for all the teams who don't make the playoffs to fight for the 1st and 2nd draft picks. The teams with higher records get home court advantage so everybody has an incentive to keep playing. Now to make sure the rich don't always keep getting richer, the rest of the picks continue to use the lottery problem with the team with the worst record having the highest lottery chance for the 3rd pick.
5B. Diving/Flopping - Soccer and Basketball are being destroyed with diving and flopping respectively. Judgement calls are too hard for referees and reviewing each call would kill the game momentum.
Instead for the NBA, referees review flops at halftime and are allowed to add fouls for each flop. After a game, the league reviews flops and players get technical fouls which count towards future suspensions.
For soccer, you use the same concept and allow referees to give yellow cards for flagrant flops at halftime as well as after the game to count towards future suspensions.
1B. Also the table cloth crayon idea needs to be repeated by all restaurants. At all awkward moments during dinner you can just draw or start a game of hangman. (This doesn't look as bad as disregarding the people you are eating with and playing draw something or words with friends on your phone.)
2. Hopefully nobody remembers my ponderings because sometimes I think I repeat myself. I am also hoping that people are starting to think that ponderings is a real word.
3. A lot of us tend to automatically consider the things we read on the Internet as facts, but with a quick search you will find 20 articles all contradicting each other on someway. Read more than one before you form an opinion. One exception to this rule is this blog.
4. Its very easy for an observer or newcomer to devalue a tradition, but for those involved with the tradition for many years its very difficult to deal with a specific tradition ending.
5. Rather than staying with status quo, sports need to make active changes to solve 2 major problems. Tanking and Diving/Flopping.
5A. Tanking - The NBA is a perfect example of a sport where starters rest and teams tank in order to try to get higher draft picks. Instead of killing the game for fans, here is my solution.
In addition to the NBA playoffs, the NBA adds a single elimination tournament for all the teams who don't make the playoffs to fight for the 1st and 2nd draft picks. The teams with higher records get home court advantage so everybody has an incentive to keep playing. Now to make sure the rich don't always keep getting richer, the rest of the picks continue to use the lottery problem with the team with the worst record having the highest lottery chance for the 3rd pick.
5B. Diving/Flopping - Soccer and Basketball are being destroyed with diving and flopping respectively. Judgement calls are too hard for referees and reviewing each call would kill the game momentum.
Instead for the NBA, referees review flops at halftime and are allowed to add fouls for each flop. After a game, the league reviews flops and players get technical fouls which count towards future suspensions.
For soccer, you use the same concept and allow referees to give yellow cards for flagrant flops at halftime as well as after the game to count towards future suspensions.
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