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I got bored with the football game last night and switched to the end of the Mich State/Washington game to see if the Huskies could reach the degree of ineptitude shown by the Huskers against Sparty (they tried but failed to succeed). Anyway, I was rewarded by noting Villhelm (who is featured in Lindy's with a photo this year) is as gawky as ever (I still like him) and seeing one of the infrequent baskets by Nick Sanders (who is Barry's son and a redshirt for Izzo) and Christian King (who is Rich's son and second year redshirt for Sprinkle). And I believe I just set the HHC record for number of parentheses (7) in a single post. (So, there's that.) Also, that shows there are more interesting things to do than smoke cigarettes and watch Captain Kangaroo.

Us 79 Them 74

Yeah, we broke them and Cronin now needs to be institutionalized Watch: UCLA HC Mick Cronin is given a technical and ejected from the game vs. Maryland https://foxsports.onelink.me/SY6x/n5xpdbq8

Soon.

Juat looked at that article. Essentially it's saying that you should [1] download the trusted bank app and not a spoof app pretending to be the bank, [2] don't click any malicious links that are sent from a hacker disguised as a bank, [3] avoid anything that installs a keylogger on your device, [4] visiting clone accounts that aren't the bank's URL, and [5] hackers intercepting your SMS multi-factor authentication. This is just "protecting any of your digital data 101," not anything unique about providing routing information. Mind you, you do you; if you're uncomfortable, don't do it! How do you prevent any of those 5? With 100% certainty? You don't. But 99% of the time, don't download anything that's not trusted, use antivirus software, type in the bank URL every single time, change your password semi-frequently, and use multi-factor authentication. If you do that, there's lower hanging fruit for hackers to go after that are more worth their time.

I think SeatGeek is relatively harmless unless they ask you to scan the chip in your right hand or your forehead for payment. You should be okay on this one.

Don't forget Little Bill Daggett in " Unforgiven", one of my favorites. It is interesting that he reportedly thought "Hoosiers" would be a huge flop, proving he is a much better actor than judge of movies. Also, according to a report I happened upon this morning, his friend Dustin Hoffman persuaded him to persist after he couldn't find work after acting school.

My dad looked like Gene, back in the day when they both had hair and a moustache.

This is good advice and what I do...I have a savings account that I only use for SeatGeek, Venmo, etc. and I always transfer money out if the balance ever gets over $100.

This is "The Conversation" erasure and I will not stand for it! --also "The Poseidon Adventure", "The French Connection", "Bonnie and Clyde", "Superman" (1 and 2), "Young Frankenstein", "French Connection II", "Night Moves", "Reds"...and a couple of dozen other movies all starring Hackman before "Hoosiers".

I miss the guys hawking paper tickets as you walk up to the stadium. Fun story, I would bring all three of my boys to the games back at the Bob. But never had tickets for one of them so would give them cash and they would go get a ticket from a scalper. So my middle son who has a bit of a learning disability goes to get a ticket. The guys asks for like $10, my son says I only have money for $5. He is like in 5th grade so the guy says fine. So my son hands him a $20... Guy says I thought you only had $5? He says yeah I have $5 for the ticket, the rest is for food. He just told the guy matter in factly that what was going on. His two brothers start to laugh and the guy says I'll remember you. He sold it to him any way, Next week we are walking up and that same guys asked if we need tickets. Then starts laughing and says ain't selling to you no more.

Here I thought they would be a team to challenge Zaga and St. Mary's for the conference crown. Boy-- they look like a middle of the pack WCC team right now.

We'll just have to see what happens with Gavin, but the sports (and real) world is filled with people who tried and tried and failed and failed but persisted and eventually succeeded. One example is Gene Hackman who was told many times he did not have the looks or ability to become an actor but kept trying to get a break and eventually morphed into... Coach Norman Dale.

It is so enjoyable to see Iowa struggle this year. They just lost to IL last night, 62-57. they are now 2-3 in the B1G.