Discover Weekly for June 15, 2016

• "Boy" (John Mark Nelson)
• "Brighter Every Day" (Trout Steak Revival)
• "Broken Hearted Avenue" (Megan Bonnell)
• "Castle" (Christopher Paul Stelling)
• "Cheap Wine" (Charlie Parr)
• "Come Undone" (Holley Maher)
• "Coming Back to a Man - Live from Spotify NYC" (Dawes)
• "Do What You Love" (Andrew Bryant)
• "Eagle Rock Fire" (Joe Purdy)
• "Follow" (Michael Bernard Fitzgerald)
• "Guttersnipe" (Bhi Bhiman)
• "I Blew It Off" (Punch Brothers)
• "I Found Myself in You" (The Harmaleighs)
• "It All Comes Down To Love" (Shawn Mullins)
• "Jolene" (Ray LaMontagne)
• "Learn to Fall" (Daphne and the Mystery Machines)
• "Life Crisis" (River Whyless)
• "Never Knew You Loved Me Too" (Teddy Thompson)
• "New York" (The Milk Carton Kids)
• "Point to Point" (Jon Stickley Trio)
• "See the Light" (Matrimony)
• "Shadows Of The City" (Marcus Foster)
• "Shake the Frost" (Tyler Childers)
• "Singing to Me" (David Wax Museum)
• "Skeleton Heart" (John Heart Jackie)
• "Soldier's Song" (Sean Rowe)
• "Such Great Heights" (Joy Kills Sorrow)
• "Trick of the Light" (Alexander Wolfe)
• "Wandering" (Taarka)
• "Your Children's Children" (Carolina Story)

To prevent Homebrew packages from being accidentally upgraded use brew pin $FORMULA and brew unpin $FORMULA respectively. This fixes a long standing issue that I've had with Postgres databases being accidentally upgraded.

How do download APK files to sideload them?

This problem took me a while to figure out.

Look on the Google Store: https://play.google.com/store

Once you find the app that you want to download, copy the url and paste into: http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ which will create a download link for you to use.

How to sideload apps on an Amazon Fire TV/Stick with a Mac.

Enable ADB Debugging mode

1. Settings > System > Developer Options
2. Enable "ADB Debugging"

Find your IP Address

1. Settings > System > About
2. Network (Write down for later)

Set up ADB on your Mac

From your Mac Terminal:

    wget http://www.mediafire.com/download/yum9gn1wdx855x0/platform-tools-osx.zip
    unzip platform-tools-osx.zip`
    cd platform-tools

Start the ADB server and connect to your Fire TV:

    ./adb connect IPADDRESS

Sideload Apps

Download an app's .APK file and type in:

    ./adb install filename.apk

The application will now be located in Settings > Applications.

College basketball stat websites should track player consistency. Start with tracking how well a player does during their non-conference, conference, and top-25 (50, 100, or just strength of opponent) match-ups and then combine them in some ratio and track it. This seems like a metric for predicting future player performance within reason. I suspect there's a trend there where a player has a good or bad game ratio based on the number of games they've played.

Random related thoughts:

• Perhaps some players are consistently more reliable when it comes to playing bigger ranked teams?

• Does time of day impact player's performance?

• What's the likelihood that one player pulls the rest of the team down when they are having a bad game?

These all seem like possible factors in future performances or at least interesting points to study.