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[Deaneus!]

Okay, every once in a while, I see a name in the news that's the same as a player we have, and it's weird. Here's a thread that shows our player alter egos!

First:

DAVID MACKAY

David MacKay

As an information theorist and computer scientist, David MacKay uses hard math to assess our renewable energy options.

www.ted.com

David MacKay is a professor of Natural Philosophy in the Physics department at the University of Cambridge and chief scientific adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. He received a degree in Experimental and Theoretical Physics from Trinity College and a PhD. in Computation and Neural Systems as a Fulbright Scholar at Caltech. In 1992, MacKay was made the Royal Society Smithson Research Fellow at Darwin College at University of Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2009. He has also taught at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town. In 2003, his book Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms was published and, in 2008, he self-published Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air. Both books are fully available for free online.

 

[Deaneus!]

MICHAEL DOUGHTY

Mike Doughty - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Michael Ross Doughty (/ˈdoʊti/ DOH-tee;[2] born June 10, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and author. He founded the band Soul Coughing in 1992, and as of The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns (2016), has released 18 studio albums, live albums, and EPs, all since 2000.

 

[Deaneus!]

DAVID PITTMAN

David Pittman | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Murderpedia, the free online encyclopedic dictionary of murderers. The largest database about serial killers, mass murderers and spree killers around the world

murderpedia.org

David Pittman was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of Clarence, Barbara, and Bonnie Knowles.



I hope no one told him he was pathetic.

 

[1990crow]

Benjamin Hart (born 19 October, 1990) is an English magician.[1][2][3] In 2007, he was awarded the "Young Magician of the Year" award by The Magic Circle.[4][5] Hart has worked on British television and is an inventor and designer of magic tricks and stage illusions. In 2014, he wrote and starred in Killer Magic on BBC Three. Hart was a finalist on Britain's Got Talent in 2019.

 

[1990crow]

Ben Hudson
Ben is an ordained Anglican minister with 10 years of parish ministry experience in Australia and New Zealand, and is currently completing a PhD on the role of Scripture in Christian identity formation in the Epistle to the Ephesians through the University of Otago.

Ben has taught a variety of Greek and New Testament subjects at several theological colleges and loves nothing more than to see students engaging with the text of Scripture, and developing foundational skills of exegesis and theological thinking that will enrich their service of Christ’s Church.

 

[Thetrader15]

TOM LYNCH

PREMERSHIP forward...at Richmond

 

[Thetrader15]

Dr. Brett Burton

Washington Middle School West Aurora School District 129 presented a series of talks called "The Power of You" as a part of a Professional Development Day in February of 2018.

Ha, I knew it all along. He was planted by the Power!

 

[radiojake]

heck me welcome to the bottom of the offseason /lockdown barrel

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

Okay, every once in a while, I see a name in the news that's the same as a player we have, and it's weird. Here's a thread that shows our player alter egos!

First:

DAVID MACKAY

David MacKay

As an information theorist and computer scientist, David MacKay uses hard math to assess our renewable energy options.

www.ted.com

David MacKay is a professor of Natural Philosophy in the Physics department at the University of Cambridge and chief scientific adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. He received a degree in Experimental and Theoretical Physics from Trinity College and a PhD. in Computation and Neural Systems as a Fulbright Scholar at Caltech. In 1992, MacKay was made the Royal Society Smithson Research Fellow at Darwin College at University of Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2009. He has also taught at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town. In 2003, his book Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms was published and, in 2008, he self-published Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air. Both books are fully available for free online.

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There’s a Dave Mackay that used to play for Tottenham. A Scottish hard man. Bizarro Dave Mackay.

 

[Crow_68]

ROBERT CHAPMAN

‘Robert Chapman' is a compact evergreen shrub to 25cm, with golden-yellow foliage which turns coppery-red in winter and spring, and racemes of light purple flowers from late summer.

Also known as Calluna Vulgaris.


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[knobby]

 

[Red mist]

Divvy

 

[skam85]

Just don't google search a slightly amended namesake of North Melbourne's Tarryn Thomas