Steve Lavin's Pyramid of Success
by Bruinut on Mar 31, 2010 9:33 AM PDT
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PrintIt may surprise you to know that Steve Lavin's time in Westwood was not all spent slicking down his hair and shining his shoes. He managed to cobble together his own version of Coach's legendary Pyramid of Success. He must have dropped this on his way out.
It looks like the good folks of St. Johns are in for an education. He had hand-scribbled some notes on the page, which I have transcribed below:
Have Pedigree: Pref. a respected Dad, coach
Get Assistants: Pref. those who know zone from man.
Blame Others: Especially unrealistic fans.
Be Lucky: Be an assistant on a championship team whose coach is about to be canned
Use Clichés: See Meriones.
Drop Names: Mention "John Wooden" at least six times an hour. See Freesia39.
Look Good: Clothes out of GQ; shoes that would please a drill sargeant.
Have Hot Wife: Makes other men say "Damn! Wonder what he's got?"
Hair Gel: Lots and lots of hair gel
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Huh...
I assumed Lav’s pyramid would look like this…
http://britskypoo.blogspot.com/2008/03/choose-life.html
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
by gbruin on Mar 31, 2010 10:30 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Wonder if he will
bring back the greasy hair douchebag look.
HAHAHA!
That was awesome! Funny take on Lavin in the NYT. Favorite part was how he flaked on everyone invited to his wedding.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/sports/ncaabasketball/31storm.html
Y’all may be mad at me, but I have to give Lavin props on one thing: his wife! She is feeeeyyyiiiine!
Yeah she is
Lavin and Lame have more in common than their inability to coach.
by AllHailMightyBruins on Mar 31, 2010 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Good work.
Hope the NY media devour this clown.
Niiiiice.
And thanks for the props. ;-)
M
"In this program your passion bucket must be full to play SC." -- CRN, to Dan Patrick, 1/2008
Technical question:
Not sure why the text in the pyramid is blurry. It’s sharp on my viewers. Is there an import setting, or something, that affects this? Or,would another format, such as PNG (the one above is JPEG), be better for pictures with text?
Happens to some of my charts that I put on jpeg
Would love to hear other thoughts. Good question nut.
jpeg does some major degradation to the image file sometimes
This is almost always true when I go from a bitmap (.bmp) to a jpeg. I’ve found that .png files are good at retaining the image integrity while minimizing file size.
Interesting
So if I paste a chart on MS Paint, I would be better off if I save then as a .png file? I will have to try that out next time. Thanks bunz.
I assumed
the blurriness was intentional. Like it was done in crayon or something.
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
Along these lines,
originally, I was going to do a 3-block pyramid. But, then I kept thinking of things I just couldn’t leave out. Damn near had to use a whole box of crayons.
It has to do with the way it's compressed
JPEG’s have a much smaller file size than PNG’s. The compression algorithm for JPEG’s also removes information about the original image, while PNG’s don’t. For pictures with smoother color transitions, it can be harder to notice the difference in quality. Sharp lines, on the other hand, cause bigger problems. There’s a good picture on wikipedia that demonstrates the difference.
by SuperBruinMan on Mar 31, 2010 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
There, that's better
Thanks for all your help, everybody.
This one started out as a PNG. Upon uploading to Flickr, though, it seems to have been converted to JPEG. At least that’s what “View image information” shows on the Flickr site. All formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, and PDF are sharp on my machine and at Flickr.
In any case, I think the original problem was mine. When I imported the pic from Flickr to BN, the original, for some reason, came out about half the size as the latest import. So, I resized it. I think that’s where the blurriness came from. This latest import, however, came out this size to begin with.
Thanks again. Damn, I learned something.
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