2020 GMO Draft

Well, if anyone is bored in the meantime, go watch some YouTube video of Harrison Hand versus whoever. I believe there were two games there.
Just let me know what you think. I just took him a little while ago for the Rams, and I kinda like him as a feisty nickel.

The good thing about drafting for the Rams is that I don’t have to worry about “reaching”, because Les Snead comes from the Dimitroff school of drafting. Which essentially means he’s not at all afraid to reach in the mid rounds,especially for cornerbacks or O-linemen.

 

Well . . . We've been dead in the water for about 2 1/2 hours and it looks like we have 4 more hours to go.

 

@Paddy_McAndrew ON THE CLOCK... sorta

 

Yep. We were running way ahead of schedule.

 

Ok guys, get out a deck of cards. Pick a card, any card you like. Then take three other cards of the opposite color, just to make it obvious that your card is different from the other three.

Put the four cards together in a stack, face down, so that your card is on the bottom.

Take the top card and put it on the bottom. Take the next card (the one that is now on top), flip it over (face up) and put it back on top of the stack.

Now take one card at a time from the top and put it on the bottom. Do this as many times as you like. Stop whenever you want.

Whenever you're done with that, take the top two cards together, flip them both over together, and put them back on top.

And repeat the process... as often as you like - or not at all if you wish - take a card from the top and put it on the bottom. When that's done, you decide - if you want to, take the top two cards, flip them over together, and put them back on top. Totally up to you whether you do that or not.

And we'll do it again... keep in mind that since you only have four cards, putting the top card on the bottom four times or more doesn't really do anything. It's just going around in circles - four times is the same as doing none, five cards ends up exactly the same as one card, etc.

So... decide if you want to move any cards at all. If you do, choose one, two or three cards. And move them from the top to the bottom either one at a time or all at once. Your choice. Then decide if you want to flip the top two cards over. If you do, take the top two cards together just like before, flip them over and put them back on top.

By now anyone in the room with you would have no idea what order your four cards are in or which cards are face up or face down. I certainly shouldn't know, since I'm not even there. BUT... if you want to, do it again - take one, two or three cards from the top, either all at once or one at a time, and put them on the bottom. And if you want to, take the top two cards, flip them over together and put them back on top.

FINAL STEPS.... take the top card, flip it over, and put it on the bottom. Take the next card (the one that is now on top), do NOT flip it over, but do put it on the bottom. And take the card that is now on top and flip it over.

Spread out your four cards. Which one is not like the others?


(Just a little stupid fun to pass the time. Believe it or not, that's actually a math problem. If you're mathematically inclined, have fun working out how it all works.)

 

LOL man...As for the the problem I know this one or something similar and Torgo gave a big hint.

 

A little irony.... My sister and her husband used to have an on-line sports novelty store. They had lots of glassware. Shot glasses, beer mugs, tumblers, you name it, and everything was NFL, NHL, MLB and NBA teams. Getting to the point... I have a lot of nice but oddball drinking glasses of various pro teams that I'm not a fan of. So about an hour ago, I'm ready to make a drink and as I'm pulling the ol St. Louis Rams glass out of the cabinet, I accidently knock another glass off the shelf. It hit the counter and just exploded into a million pieces. Right next to my sink. Just a mess. Glass went down into the disposal, it was not good...As I'm cleaning, I'm thinking, man it's taking me forever to make that drink. What a delay this has become....Sure enough, I pull a shard out of my sink, and what team is on it? Arizona Cardinals...lol! I thought it was funny.

 

Not going to lie, I don’t get it. How is Arizona funny or relevant to the story?

 

Now it came to me. Duh

 

Not all that funny lol

 

We've been waiting all day on the Arizona Cardinals to make a pick....

I was amused.

 

that's a contradiction in and of itself.

 

The math problem can actually get pretty complicated. The generalized problem is in an area of math called combinatorics. But keeping it to four cards simplifies it a bit.



The card trick isn't exactly headliner material, but it can be fun if you have a group where you get everyone at the table to do it all together.

The real trick to the presentation is to keep pushing the "free will" side of things - as many cards as you want, not doing it at all is an option too, flip the top two cards over if you want to, but you don't have to, etc. With a group, everyone will end up doing things differently (different numbers of cards moved, some flip and some don't), and you want to make that part of it incredibly obvious without actually saying anything about it. Ham it up and have the ladies do a round of it, choosing for themselves. Then have them tell their partners how many cards to put on the bottom and whether to flip the top two.

The group fun side of it is also why you make the other three cards the opposite color. If everyone has had sufficient wine or beer, a few people won't remember which card was "their" chosen card after going through all that other stuff. This way nobody has to remember their own card or anyone else's card. They all fan out their cards at the end and everyone sees one card turned one way and three cards of the opposite color all turned the other way.

 

Also funny that it was the Rams glass that you were getting when you knocked out the Cardinals glass. (St. Louis connection.)

 

Anybody actually try the trick? (Making sure I typed the instructions correctly.)

 

So in this scenario, the Disposal was analogous to your patience, and the Cardinals were shredding it LOL

 

I would, but my poker chips (with all my playing cards) are at a friends house right now.

 

Is that a Canadian term for disposal? I've never heard that, but I like it. Sounds more bad ass, like it could slice your finger off if you even think about trying to fish something out of there.....

 

I suppose it is. And damn rights it could.
At least that’s what Momma always told me.