Comments on: Laurine’s at the Back of the Line When It Comes To Gettin’ Ahead http://procrastiblog.com/2009/10/25/laurines-at-the-back-of-the-line-when-it-comes-to-gettin-ahead/ A place to document tips and tricks for the various Linux, LaTeX, OCaml, and other general computer-related topics that I encounter in my daily life and a repository for supposedly amusing observations, hyperlinks, recipes, reviews, travelogues, and political opinions written when I have a spare moment (or when I don't have a spare moment, but I don't feel like working) Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:32:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andy http://procrastiblog.com/2009/10/25/laurines-at-the-back-of-the-line-when-it-comes-to-gettin-ahead/#comment-618 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:13:42 +0000 http://procrastiblog.com/?p=893#comment-618 I’m still ultra-curious about the judges’ table. Laurine posted this in her blog:
“I’m not sure I was the weakest part of that team, or that I deserved to go home.”

Show the footage, Bravo!

]]> By: Andy http://procrastiblog.com/2009/10/25/laurines-at-the-back-of-the-line-when-it-comes-to-gettin-ahead/#comment-617 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:21:19 +0000 http://procrastiblog.com/?p=893#comment-617 #2 – you nailed my cognitive dissonance. I think that both Kevin and Jennifer offered to leave, but why would Bravo not show it?

Getting to the point in the season where variance matters more than mean.

]]> By: Chris http://procrastiblog.com/2009/10/25/laurines-at-the-back-of-the-line-when-it-comes-to-gettin-ahead/#comment-616 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:44:19 +0000 http://procrastiblog.com/?p=893#comment-616 1. I believe that is generally true. It helps explain a lot of oddball results, including Hosea’s win last year. It’s also probably the right policy, at least in the interest of keeping the show lively.

2. I’d like to think that Jennifer offered to fall on her sword. I can’t imagine any of those team members turning on each other. I also can’t imagine Bravo leaving that footage out if it existed.

3. Revolt was an obviously terrible name for a restaurant. That’s just common sense. What wasn’t clear to me is whether the four of them together were so dumb that it never occurred to them or if they all thought it was kind of funny.

]]> By: Andy http://procrastiblog.com/2009/10/25/laurines-at-the-back-of-the-line-when-it-comes-to-gettin-ahead/#comment-614 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:31:46 +0000 http://procrastiblog.com/?p=893#comment-614 Some uninteresting questions:
1. Do you still believe each elimination is a “results of this week only” decision, or is there a cumulative performance factor? (I am in favor of taking prior performance into account.)

2. In this article (http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/10/21/top-chefs-toby-young-get-ready-for-restaurant-wars/) , Toby Young indicates a lot of cheftestant argument over who should go home. Would you guess that Kevin and Jen were arguing for Laurine going home or staying?

3. Did you dislike the Revolt name as much as every other person on the planet appeared to? I liked it.

Also, Tom C. argues the judges’ case here:
http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef/blogs/tom-colicchio/clambs-lamb-and-a-traffic-jam
snippet:
“Laurine’s performance contributed the most to the overall failure of the restaurant, to our overall poor experience there, and so it was she whom we asked to leave.”

My predicted exits, in order:
Eli
Robin
Mike I.
Micheal V.
Jen
Bryan

Winner: Kevin

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