Posted by juplife on December 21, 2008
i’m reading malcolm gladwell’s new book, outliers. like his others, it’s a fascinating book. he takes a look successful people and analyses what made them succesful.
one section in particular i found interesting. he talks about people who scored at a genius level on IQ tests and the relationship that has to success - in particular, to winning a nobel prize. gladwell shows that there is essentially a threshold which if someone scores above a certain IQ test score they have the ability to become a nobel prize winner. to prove that he breaks down the recent winners and where they went to school. one would think that ivy league schools would produce a larger proportion of nobel winners than other schools. however, the list shows that they come from many different universities and ivy league schools are not represented more than your ‘average’ universities.
to make that point, he says:
to be a nobel prize winner, apparently, you have to be smart enough to get into a college at least as good as notre dame or the university of illinois. that’s all.
thanks malcolm. there goes the notion that i went to a highly respected academic institution.
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Posted by juplife on December 3, 2008
sprout worx
once again pat put on the best tailgate of the year in LA. this is the most famous notre dame tailgate. just look at the sheer joy on sprout’s face. the subway alumni show has the recap. check out their show..www.thesubwayalumnishow.com
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Posted by juplife on July 6, 2008
i’ve been a little lazy on juplife lately. june was a crazy month with the epic race taking up quite a bit of time. i’ve also been working quite a bit more than originally planned. i figure i owe a few updates on what has happened recently because sometimes the mobile blogs just don’t tell the whole story.
the pozes all came together last weekend. the girls all brought their man candy with them too. the real star of the show was kate and matt’s little guy, jack. looks like naming your kid jack is all the rage these days.
the johns
john updike, this one not this one, visited a couple weeks ago to play for john’s korner bar softball. after receiving all of the facebook invites for our games, he realized the summer of drew wouldn’t be complete without visiting ’south toledo’. sadly, even with mr updike on our team we couldn’t pull out the victory but we still had a great time post game at jkb. it’s hard not to with good friend john. and that’s why i hope to return to new orleans for the sugar bowl next season.
last monday was the notre dame club of toledo celebrity golf outing. toledo’s foremost authority on everything, dr dan williams, was kind enough to sponsor our group. his son, little boy, and adam joined us. we certainly weren’t the best foursome out there, we didn’t have a celebrity and i didn’t have my own clubs, but we had a great time.
chuck should really start a business organizing charity golf outings. this was his second of the month and he did an amazing job on both. celebrities at the nd outing included heismen trophy winner johnny lattner, frank stams and dave casper. his kids unlimited outing featured jim jackson, gene keady, osu heismen trohpy winner troy smith, and clark kellogg. pretty, pretty, pretty good.
as always, i’ve been taking plenty of photos. you can update yourself with all of them at flickr.
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Posted by juplife on April 27, 2008
In t-town today talking with the notre dame club at inverness.
broom
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Posted by juplife on April 22, 2008
thanks to marion st. fellow, matt lilly, for passing on this link from ndnation. the quote of interest from the post:
When they beat the number one seed, the other team was missing Scott Smith and their best player, a kid named DR Amato, who is probably the best shooter on campus.
hopefully that trip to SF last weekend was worth it for dr. because now he only has one more chance to match the success of rohn in bookstore basketball and actually finish the tournament ranked #1.
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Posted by juplife on April 6, 2008
With the notre dame choir at rosary cathedral. he looks nice in his blue robe and choir boy haircut
Ouistiti
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Posted by juplife on February 21, 2008
Jack is so the man. he should visit Zahm house more often
cooper
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Posted by juplife on February 21, 2008
Got to see the big guy on the trip back to notre dame. sitting next to him in the second half carried us to victory
cooper
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Posted by juplife on February 21, 2008
Hillesland is somewhere in this photo
cooper
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Posted by juplife on November 17, 2007
Nope. I think you have mistaken.
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remember that time pants cooked the food you like, hosted the tailgate, let you stay over night, visited you too often at school, learned how to text, took you to practice, made you feel uncomfortable when asking you about a gf or bf, cried when you left home, loved you more than should be possible. you probably do. cause it happens everyday.
The new shirts for the best damn coach in the land can be bought online. Head over to 
