Bill Simmons on the NBA draft hug hierarchy

Simmons with another FUNNY NBA DRAFT DIARY, which he does every year.

The highlight this time may be the “hug hierarchy” for the order in which players seem to hug people after being drafted. Seems pretty accurate to me:

“Mom (if she’s there)
Dad (if he’s there)
Girlfriend (if she’s there)
Brother (who’s usually there)
Agent (always there)
Future head entourage member/weed mule (if he’s there)
Extended family member (if they’re there)
And finally …
Hat Guy (the guy who hands them the team’s hat who just picked them)

If somebody hits all eight, that will be the Draft Cycle. [Derrick] Williams just went Mom-Girlfriend-Agent-Entourage-Family-Hat Guy. He fell two short.”

follow flights on the web

While I was on the flight yesterday, my brother sent me a link to an interesting website I’d forgotten about: FlightAware.

It allows you to track the progress of an individual airplane across the map (perfect if you need to pick someone up).

Or, you can simply follow all the traffic around a specific airport.

Here, for example, is the PORTLAND AIRPORT right now. The light blue planes represent flights that either took off from Portland or are scheduled to land here. The green flights have no connection to Portland’s airport but simply happen to be nearby.

Place the cursor over any plane to see information about its departure and arrival airports. (If you don’t know the meaning of the airport abbreviations, you can click on those as well.)

in-flight post

After all these years, I’m pretty sure this is my first time with WiFi on a flight.

Now high above, most likely, New Mexico, based on what the cap’n said of our route tonight.

Blagojevich convicted

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been FOUND GUILTY of 17 corruption charges.

He’s guilty as sin. The demands that he be paid off by whichever contender wanted Obama’s Senate seat was the initially most shocking and comical charge (he’s been found guilty of it, since the recordings of his conversations on the topic are pretty unambiguous). But the most despicable thing he did was probably the attempted shakedown of the children’s hospital.