MIT engineer accruing kids, cars, & acreage in the mountains of NH // Past & future founder // Odds & ends, bits & atoms @palantirtech
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In this house we believe:
Oklahoma-Texas is the Red River Shootout.
Florida-Georgia is the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
Oregon-Oregon State is the Civil War.
Kansas-Missouri is the Border War.
BYU-Utah is the Holy War.
And Georgia-Georgia Tech is Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate.
Tomorrow's college football slate 🤝 NYC's alumni bar scene
Reminiscing on PSU heartbreaks of the 2010s has me thinking about where I watched many of those losses and what a sleeper elite college football town NYC is.
Every college that you can think of has an alumni group with a watch party in a bar somewhere, and you can walk between all of them, bar to bar to bar...
The incessant get out the vote texts here in NH have me ready to throw my phone in a ravine. Happy Halloween!
The John Deere sponsorship on the field at Iowa is so good — maybe the best field sponsorship in college football. Right up there with Wisconsin’s Culver’s jersey patches.
The elites don’t want you to know this but you can just crack open the Halloween candy a few nights early to pick at the good stuff instead of waiting for the dregs that the trick-or-treaters avoided.
Coming from a PA family and growing up in central MD, one of the biggest surprises moving to NH has been how sparse wrestling is (especially where we’re building up north). And I’m sad to see it at the bottom of this list.
Because if we’re talking about sports that set you up for success, wrestling from age seven up through college is the single thing I’d credit above all else for making me who I am today. And I know many other exceptionally high performers who would agree.
Finally gave my college football chaos tracker the facelift it’s needed for close to a decade (time flies 😳)…
It’s all wired up to post weekly updates through end of season — check it out here: bdharva.com/cfb-chaos/
Reminiscing on PSU heartbreaks of the 2010s has me thinking about where I watched many of those losses and what a sleeper elite college football town NYC is.
Every college that you can think of has an alumni group with a watch party in a bar somewhere, and you can walk between all of them, bar to bar to bar...
Or the time that I was dragged to the UT bar, wallowing in #4 Penn State's just-completed choke job against Minnesota, only to leave the bar in a burnt orange "I [Longhorn logo] NY" shirt courtesy of The Texas Exes xitter.gq/bdharva/status/2104937…
Nov 9, 2019: @ #17 Minnesota (L 31–26)
It's time to break the curse. There's no way we're losing to Minnesota. We're 8-0. We're in the top 4 of the first CFP rankings. My friends and I run into my cousin at Mercury West, where we watch the loss in stunned silence.
(They then drag me to Stout, the UT bar, afterward and get me something to cover up the now thoroughly cursed shirt)
