goodness gracious.

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SHADE.

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my hs history teach is is going to be on tv!!!!

my history teacher from high school will be on drunkardy jeopardy tomorrow! tune in and cheer her on!

new rule: a drink for every time she says "rock on"

for djv (RIP)

a three wick candle?

OMGETWELLSOON

alex trebek, the longtime host of drunkardy jeopardy, has suffered a heart attack but it was said to be minor he is recovering.


we here at 2pz love your work and wish you the speediest of recoveries!

inventing a new pastime at GPP

dave and i just came up with a way to make watching jeopardy after work way better: drinking jeopardy, oc. here are the rules:

everyone playing has a beer supply and a shot glass. fill up your shot glass with beer while you determine an order of play. the questions will rotate, with players taking turns answering. if the player answering does so correctly, the other players down their beer shot. if the player answers incorrectly, he or she takes the shot. 

for example, if dave, joel and i are playing, i'll go first (because i'm a lady). i will play along with the tv, and answer the first question. i will undoubtedly crush it, and dave and joel will drink.

now you're going to want to pause, so those losers can refill. now, it's joel's turn. he's really good at trivia, so he'll nail it, also, which means dave and i will drink. 

pause. refill. play. and so on.

on daily doubles: whomever's turn it is answers the same as always. however, this time, whoever has to drink has to finish their beer, regardless of how full or empty. this is left up to daily durble fate. 

for final jeopardy: everyone answers by writing down in secret. at the end of the jeopardy song, everyone reveals their answer. then the tv players reveal theirs, then alex tells us who was right. and if you are wrong....

...well, you just go on and chug a whole beer, idiot. GAME OVER.

we'll let you know how it goes tonight. if you decide to play along, send us pixies!!

bonus link : look at this fucking jeopardy contestant

jeopardy justin strikes again

alex let them freestyle on the "getting to know you" segment. and once again, this guy took the opportunity to weird everybody out.

he later inexplicably uttered the phrase "you better check yourself before you trebek yourself."

dave and i made this for you.

this weirdo is the current reigning champion of the teachers' tournament on jeopardy this week. he is so WEIRD! and smug. and insufferable. and we had to tell you about him. watch him tonight.

i saw this, it was weird.

last night on jeopardy, one of the questions was a picture of rachel maddow, and no one knew who they were looking at.

obama, you're doing it RIGHT.

obama just sneak attacked congress and used some loophole to appoint richard cordray as the head of the CFPB, which of course stands for consumer financial protection bureau. terrible name, great agency. it's the brainchild of 2Pz fave senate candidate, elizabeth warren, and its going to work on keeping the banking / credit / lending industries from raping your pocketbooks every chance they get.

anyway, obama nominated him, and the republicans filibustered it, as they are want to do. so he waited until they went out of town for christmas, then used something called a "recess appointment" to pop him in there. and guess what: RICHARD CORDAY IS A JEOPARDY CHAMP!!

It will be viewed by the Washington punditocracy as a tough-minded executive act defying Senate Republicans, playing to a worried liberal base, and raising a possible legal challenge with constitutional ramifications.

But President Obama's Wednesday selection of Richard Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, to run the spanking-new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is also just smart and necessary.

If our politics weren't quite so polarized, and folks stuck a bit more to the facts in public debate, maybe far more people would know what Cordray symbolizes. They would know that they should be happy that a frustrated White House has circumvented a Senate filibuster last month and will try to actually protect consumers.

And it's probably fitting that Cordray, who had a strong reputation in Ohio for investigating suspect mortgage foreclosure practices, is also a five-time "Jeopardy" champ. (via)

and it looks like barack's got 3 more appointments lined up. i like it.

maura b. jacobson, a national treasure.

i love maura b. jacobson, and the nearly perfect crosswords she's created for new york magazine for 31 years. she is the primary reason i maintain a subscription, and i have been PISSED over the last year that every other week i have to deal with cathy allis's amatuer bullshit.

i'm sad to see her go, but you just have to read this feature on her. she is aDORbz!

Even the most consistent things must eventually come to an end, and 31 years and a bit over 1,400 puzzles later, Maura is retiring, despite our protestations. (One editor here actually burst into tears when she heard the news.) Over the course of her career, Maura has also contributed lots of puzzles to the New York Times—her longtime friend Will Shortz, the Times’ puzzle editor, calls her “a national treasure”—and to the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the annual convention of across-and-downers. Maura’s the only one who’s kicked in a puzzle every single year since the tournament began, and when her name is announced, she gets thunderous applause. That’s because the crowd knows her trademarks well: grids that are unusually dense with theme clues, shot through with a distinctive and sometimes antic whimsy. (via)

i nearly burst into tears when i read this, too (i actually bit my finger when i read the title: "thirty-one down"). did you know she is a three-time jeopardy winner?!!? RIP maura! i'll miss you so much!

ctm this guy

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raya : best teen jeopardy contestant ever?

congratulations, watson!

that robot schooled ken and brad. this article has a lot of extra watson info, including some possible real-life applications of the language-recognition technology developed during his creation.

“I had a great time and I would do it again in a heartbeat,” said Mr. Jennings. “It’s not about the results; this is about being part of the future.” 

For I.B.M., the future will happen very quickly, company executives said. On Thursday it plans to announce that it will collaborate with Columbia University and the University of Maryland to create a physician’s assistant service that will allow doctors to query a cybernetic assistant. The company also plans to work with Nuance Communications Inc. to add voice recognition to the physician’s assistant, possibly making the service available in as little as 18 months.

“I have been in medical education for 40 years and we’re still a very memory-based curriculum,” said Dr. Herbert Chase, a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University who is working with I.B.M. on the physician’s assistant. “The power of Watson- like tools will cause us to reconsider what it is we want students to do.” (via)

omf what an idiot.

check out watson. he's such a dummy.

commence robot takeover.

watson the jeopardy robot is ready, and he recently did some practice rounds against ken jennings and another jeopardy champion. guess what: he won. easily.

the official rounds will air february 14, 15, and 16, and worldwide panic is scheduled to begin on february 17.

jeopardy news!

This February, the show will televise a man vs. machine tournament involving Ken Jennings and a quiz robot. (via)

set your DVRs! thx john!

in tv on right now news

three jeopardy contestants:

1) a girl who writes backwards. a talent she developed in college so her classmates couldnt borrow her notes.

2) a guy who entered a couples dance class by himself. drunk.

3) a guy who got hit by a car before school one day.