The Conquistador's Picture Of The Day

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Something’s wrong here… “People born between 1941 and 1981” get… her? And I get… well shit.

But the best ad today was the last one. You know by now what she’s thinking: “He lives in Zionsville?”

(Yes. I still live in Zionsville. We recently switched ISP’s. Sometimes “Clayton” comes up now. Clayton is very far from here. Head West on US 40 towards Illinois. It’s a very tiny town. It’s where “Ray’s Trash” is located. )

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Today’s best “fake ad” from CNN was this. Donna Summer. “Bad Girls.” From 1978 I think (oops... 1979 I looked it up). The height of disco! The 70’s were almost as good as the 60’s for sexy women.

“Last Resort” by Papa Roach was the song of the summer I graduated from High School. Shit. That also seems like a long time ago… The height of “nu metal.” It all runs together now. No wonder everyone thinks “anyone born before 2001” is a “Boomer.”

But Iggy Pop is still going strong at 73. According to his website he will be touring next year. He was born in Muskegon Michigan. Never knew that.

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Today's reading.

https://www.space.com/43014-how-to-d...the-earth.html

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This was the major headline in Indianapolis today:

"Man charged after social media post shows him driving Lamborghini 213 mph on I-465"

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news...3-mph-on-i-465

Then again, maybe I was just late to class!

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This was in the news today for whatever reason. I guess everything is measured thesedays...

“According to the NFL Network, Trevor Lawrence (Clemson QB, likely to go #1 in the 2021 draft) came in at 6 feet 5 and 5/8 inches and 213 pounds. He also had a hand size of 10 inches, with his arm measured at 31 1/2 inches with a wingspan of 78 1/4 inches.”

Many years ago “Dr. Andy” played football in college. Don’t ever remember anyone measuring my hands however. Although I never played Quarterback. This made me curious how I’d “measure up.” So after stretching my right hand to it’s max, I faced the judgement of the tape: 9.5”.

Curious, I looked up other NFL Quarterbacks. Apparently this is a “thing.” Makes sense since the ability to grip the football affects throwing or catching. Here’s what I found:

“Average hand size for a quarterback is now 9.6 inches. Some of the top short quarterbacks (6-2 or shorter) of the past decade have ridiculously large hands — Drew Brees (10.25 inches), Russell Wilson (10.25 inches) and Brett Favre (10.38 inches). The average length of a male hand is 7.44 inches.”

Just how serious is this to the NFL? Read about it here:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...228-story.html

“Dr. Andy” has met Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, and Andrew Luck. I guess I would say Peyton is definitely taller than me, Drew is shorter and Andrew Luck is similar in height. Shaking hands with them I would say their hands seemed at least as big as mine. Didn’t really think about it.

Tom Brady who is also just over 6’4” reportedly has only 9.38” hands. Poor guy. Bet he’ll never make it in the NFL. Besides he’s too old... And Patrick Mahomes hands come in at a relatively “small” 9.25”.

("Dr. Andy" could also not help noticing the "R squared" of .01 in the scatterplot below. So I guess it's what you do with what you have. Sound familiar? )

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When he first looked at the above graph, "Dr. Andy" was not paying attention. His mind most likely was on women... He didn't notice Mark Sanchez (NY Jets. Infamous for the "Butt Fumble.") Mark is what's known as an "outlier." If you take him out, you would most likely get some kind of positive relationship. Maybe when I have free time, I'll track down this data and run my own regression analysis on it.

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Today "Dr. Andy" disses Tiktok. Reddit picked up yesterday's blog posting. I've gotten more views in 24 hours than some of my posts from 10 years ago.

Thought some of you might like to read it. Although I've probably ruined my chances with any of the hot "influencers" or "thirst traps."

http://andrew-live.blogspot.com/2021...to-tiktok.html