Is it FanFest yet?
Also, if anyone has a Scentsy (got one for Christmas)… what scents do you recommend? I’m definitely loving frankincense & myrrh. (No gold, I know, right?)
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[Makes garlic bread]
There’s a scent I can get behind!
This is the refresher for our place, I lo-o-ove the smell of vetiver.
Myrrh is a great scent for the wintertime chills, goes a long way too if you buy the granules and use charcoals.
Nothing like a good cedar (think log cabin camp fire) this time of year as well.
is that what the smell is?
That’s Jen not showering.
It was another tough day of soaking in the eastern Sierra…
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What a spectacular view, are the springs very sulfurous?
Yes, that view is fantastic especially in the winter; it’s basically looking into the northeast corner of Yosemite National Park. The water (temp about 103F in that tub with air temp around 20F today) is pretty clean, just a very slight odor.
103° is absolutely perfect, what a fking gem!
I don’t normally like to be anywhere near snow, but for that… yeah, I could deal.
When I was there on Friday the air temp was +/- +20°F as I mentioned earlier. This morning here at Rancho Soaker we dipped to just below 0°F, and checking the reports from Bridgeport they were at -29°F at 7 a.m., and still at -4°F as late as noon today. I do love my cold-weather soaking, but that’s just a little too much of a good thing for me.
I bought myself a USB turntable for Xmas, and just got around to hooking it up. Currently dubbing a disc by this group (it turns out I could’ve downloaded it for 5 pounds.)
I am wondering if I need to do that.
I am just now listening to stuff on my phone, but from spotify free radio.I am so far happy with it. I odn’t think I need to digitize my records, do I?
My gf is a spotify junkie, there’s a lot of music on the server but things come and go which can be frustrating, bookmarking is awkward too.
I think its a great way to find new stuff though, sweet for trying stuff on as opposed to a 30 second snippet.
I still prefer having a hard copy though if it’s something I really enjoy.
Backing up mp3’s can be time consuming and when your compy poops the fatal turd theres always something you forgot to back up…
yeah they have the best library of those services. Still missing a ton of stuff I like. they also do a better job of radio suggestions than the others.
I wonder if they pay the artists well. one of my friends was telling me which ones pay and which ones don’t
I have a friend at Pandora that said pretty much half of their budget goes to paying royalties.
it certainly doesn’t go into their programming.
every one of the stations I chose devolves into NOFX over and over
Yeah it gets pretty redundant.
yeah… all my stations merge into one playlist. Their algorithm blows.
Weezer for me. Except for the kids stations, which ultimately devolve into Jack Johnson due to his affiliation with Curious George. Either way, I lose.
You don’t need to if you can listen to them in analog. I haven’t had a turntable since the mid-90’s, but I’ve been dragging a stack of vinyl around with me through half a dozen apartments. Now I can listen to them and pass the vinyl on to someone who can use it, maybe.
What kind did you get?
Ion iLP. It was at Costco.
Looks cool, is it belt or direct drive?
I have not been without a turntable since…ever.
I have 3 and a 2 portables. and a jukebox
fking hipster.
I just use my regular turntable, and a program( like Nero) to turn my records into digital format. Works great.
I’ve come to peace with the fact that there is some stuff I can listen to on my iPod when I’m at work and some stuff that I can only listen to on the turntable at home.
I once ripped an LP to mp3, using this USB audio input box that I used to have and spending like half an hour trying to get the grounding right. But that was a special case because it was one old record that they had at the radio station and I desperately needed myself. (this one)
I have asked a friend with access to a digitizer thing to transfer cassette tapes for me. Some recorded radio shows from the 90s (a guy in la called bill gardner who did a 6 hour dance party starting at 10 pm, all r & b from the 40s 50s and 60s, and the tapes I made for the hospital when the kids were being born).
I think he lost access to that stuff though
Heh. Mrs. Upgrade made tapes for our first birth experience. Plan kinda fell apart when labor arrived suddenly and lasted less than 90 min.
i think the staff was taken aback by our playlist. i don’t think its thats rare for a little punk rock to be part of a big city expectant mothers favorite relaxing music.
Our doula showed up with a kick-ass Aretha Franklin compilation.
Right the FK on!
Helluva way to be born. A lot better than being cut out against my will like I was. I was about ready to enter the 11th month of “Occupy Mom” when they
sent the pigs indid a C-section.R-E-S-P-E-C-T
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Yeah, but you also want some hardware that has a better analog-to-digital converter than what’s attached to the microphone jack of your computer.
That is true most of the time, but it doesn’t have to be.
Back at the ol’ radio station, management used to get pissed off at slacker undergrads who just brought their laptop in and played their show off of it, because even if their mp3 were ripped at decent quality, you could still hear how bad the computer preamp was.
Also, those $12 earbuds probably have *way* better sound that the similarly common method of playing everything through laptop speakers.
I’m cooking sarma, which can mean only one thing – off to ski I go. Tomorrow I leave for Wengen:
Beautiful shot.
Thanks. I shot it last year and it is one of my favorites, although it is also a shot that anyone could make, as the spot from where I shot it is easily accessible (I don’t even think you have to cross a black diamond touristic piste to get there)
This one, for example, takes much more work.
You have to ski down Streif (Kitzbuehel downhill), the meanest piste in the World Cup, carrying 40+ lb of equipment in your backpack, on the day where they intentionally make an ice rink out of the piste. Then you get to take your skis off and put on your crampons on a 40 degree slope, and stand on that steepness for about 3-4 hours. Oh, did I mention that it is normally something like -15 degrees? Then you have to react in a few tenths of the second, because you can not see the skier coming at you, the time in which you have to point your camera at him, press the shutter with your frozen finger and then keep the lens on him as he flies next to you with almost 100 mph. And yeah, you can not ask him to go back again because you don’t like how the shot came out.
I really love it when studio photographers laugh at us, saying that they could do what we do while sleeping, because we only shoot daylight and have no real idea how the lightning works and it is a child’s game to shoot that
So, basically, your pre workout warm up routine? Right?
heh
Personally, I think studio lighting is easier than natural light. You set it up and it doesn’t change and you have complete control over it.
What are you, a photographer?
No, but I play one on tv.
I play a porn star in my head.
Funny, mine too.
There’s another reason.
What’s that?
So many haters, so little time.
Here’s my Yelp review, my first ever!
“It was a drag, this place. I ordered the Fundamentalist Fajitas with a side of Hubristic Hypocrisy and all I got was some rote-recited, warmed over, tepidly homophobic bigotry, not even all that creative or literate, really. You’d think having been anointed by the Creator of the Entire Universe with the responsibility of moral arbitration over the whole planet Earth like the owner of this joint seems to think he has been, I’d have gotten something more substantial than just the same old bigoted tropes and holier-than-thou admonishments that those of my “lifestyle choice” have heard a million times before.
Next time I’m going to the Fred Phelps “God Hates You” Cafe… at least the signs are funnier (however unintentionally) over there.”
Here’s the Yelp page for this dump…. why not participate in the review process and get this hypocrite another step closer to being the FK outta business?
Here’s my suggestion: have a large number of homosexual couples all come in at the same time. Be seated, order glasses of water, and then hem and haw for a good 20-30 minutes on what to order. Finally order something, take one bite, and send it back. Then complain that the service is too slow and leave. Come back in and do it all over again.
Stereotype-as-weapon… I like it!
Stereotypes? I was just trying to be as obnoxious as possible without spending any money.
Have an even larger number waiting behind them for a table all day so that’s all they get all day long.
Another hilarious review from that yelp page:
nice
Operation Get Skinny Like DFA is underway….just ran a mile at my neighborhood park.
woo hoo!.
but you are skinny.
But flabby. And largely thanks to the A’s, the 2012 Beer Drinking season was one of my most prolific in decades.
That’ll help you get skinny, but what are you doing to help you like DFA? :)
Kay it’s not fair to win the weekend at 9:04am…
Haha!
hahahaha
Thanks, and go As.
ehhh fk off
for old times sake
Congrats. I need to start project get down to what I thought would be the fattest I could ever be. First jog later today. (and yes I am hoping that putting it out here guilts me into following through.)
For all of EC’s awesomeness, when I read this
I couldn’t help thinking, check back with us in 10 more years, young fella. The physical decline from 40 to 50 was pretty noticeable here. At 41 I could do a 20 mile day-hike at high elevation, go to bed, get up the next morning and do something energetic the next day. At 51 I can still do the 20 miles, but for the next couple days I’m not going much farther than the mailbox.
I could certainly do better on the weight if I set my mind to it, and as much as I hate to face it, as with FSU better work in the beer consumption area would be an effective place to start.
I have enormous respect for anyone and everyone who keeps their body functioning after years of heavy use. I’m only 41, but even now, everything hurts already and I notice that I can’t match up with many 20-year olds anymore.
So, well done and keep it up.
EC at 51 will be able to do things you couldn’t at 21.
Have you looked at yourself in skinny jeans yet?
Thats the first step to understanding what needs to be done.
And that step is changing your wardrobe?
ASVD
Hee!!!
Yeah, for me that’s “Don’t wear skinny jeans again.”
Not that I ever did.
I could start a new version of Straight Edge: no alcohol, no cigarettes, no skinny jeans.
Hey, I qualify for the X in your particular version. How’bout that?
Wouldn’t I have to FIT INTO skinny jeans before that’s even relevant?
18° game time temperature in Denver today. Simmons has me wondering how well Peyton’s creaky old bones are going to hold up.
Lesson learned: when cleaning the litter box, if the cat steps in before you’re done just let him do his business. One accident later, oops!
One of mine likes to monitor the process from within the box.
I was giving recommendations to a new cat owner at my office and mentioned the particular kind of litter that my cat likes best. Non-cat-owning cube mate said “That’s anthropomorphic, how can you tell what kind of litter the cat likes?” Easy, the kind that doesn’t make her poop in the middle of the living room or pee in a cardboard box left on the floor.
Pretty much.
Seriously. You can sure as shit tell what your cat doesn’t like.
They aren’t shy about letting you know.
If you want to get drunk really fast this afternoon, take a drink every time Dan Dierdorf says the word “football”. Not “the ball”. “The football”. Or “football player”.
I played that game once. I’m dead now.
I know I’ve complained about that before, but Dierdorf specifically is just about the worst offender. He also has a severe problem with motormouth. I bet he talks more during a broadcast than any other analyst.
I bet someone has studied that.
Seems like the kind of thing Dr Z would chart.
It was done for baseball PxP announcers a few years ago. Scully should obviously be exempt because he doesn’t have an analyst sitting alongside. I don’t recall seeing any similar study for football.
I paid close attention from the two-minute warning to halftime, something like 12 minutes of real time. If you were playing the game you had seven drinks in that span. Greg Gumbel occasionally says “football” as well but much more often refers to “the ball”.
Using “the ball” in play-by-play is perfectly reasonable. Using “football” as an adjective for every noun associated with the game of football is not.
Or just send it straight up your ass. That’ll get you drunk in a hurry.
Off to have Trindon Holliday’s babies. BRB.
Now that Champ Bailey has proven himself unworthy.
Shut your mouth!! You shut it right now mister! I love my Champ! I even named a CCI puppy Champ in his honor.
Ha
Ha ha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Still love him! You shut up too!!!
This isn’t exactly a dominating performance by the Broncos. You’re fortunate that Baltimore inexplicably chose to borrow Cal’s special teams for this game.
Oh my yes. I am so nervous right now.
Game is hella entertaining so far, though all things considered I’d rather Denver were 83 points behind.
I know, huh !?!
This has been a fun little game, other than the penalties and knowing that these guys are doing patently unsafe stuff by nature.
Any of you local FK’ers taken any whale watching trips recently, any advice or boats to recommend?
in all my 16 years in the bay I’ve yet to see one and I want to change that.
I did this one: http://www.oceanicsociety.org/whale
It overlapped with FK-gate 1.0, which sucked, but we saw more whales than I thought would be possible.
This looks perfect, my gf is obsessed w/ puffins, Farallon trip sounds ideal. Thanks!
I’d recommend the Oceanic Society one too – blue whales are fking amazing.
Suggs and Lewis for Baltimore have facemasks which are far more intricate than any I’ve ever seen. Almost lattice work.
That dude from the Giants started that thing. Justin Tuck I think?
Apparently it’s to keep fingers from poking between the bars on a normal facemask.
Thanks, and go As.
Makes sense, except you could still gouge their eyes out.
Lewis uses a face shield too doesn’t he?
Thanks, and go As.
Hmm, perhaps. I guess the Denver O-lineman will have to settle for groin punches and butt drags.
I assume Ray Lewis carries a gun for self-defense at all times.
He’s actually more of a knife man.
Know more Knowshon? Oh know!
Tuck tuck tuck tuck tuck!!!!!
Sorry, that dubious rule is only invoked when it can be used to screw the Raiders.
What’s the point? They can screw themselves without any help at all.
Other than him having two hands on the ball after he aborted his throw, sure.
Right. It would have been, but he caught it at groin level pre-fumble.
Tuck Rule complaints in 3, 2, 1….
Thanks, and go As.
Hells bells.
LOL Raiders
Yes Yes Yes!!!
I hate some of these kickoff camera angles they’re using.
Drunk Bronco fans doing Gangnam Style dances with 2:23 left. Jinx!
And just when I had given up on the Ravens…
Wow. How do you give up that play in that situation?
Dude. Not cool.
You already have a Rose Bowl in 2013. I’d rather you save your remaining sports good fortune for spending in September and October.
I CAN HAVE IT ALL BABY!@!@!
Alcohol + Altitude + Psy = Fail.
The Denver Broncos secondary turned into the Martha Graham Dance Theater on that play, wow.
incomplete
I like the “man” scents of Scentsy. My Dear Watson, Echo, Route 66, Titanium, Simply Irresistible.
That spares us a week of OMG PEYTON MANNING VS. TOM BRADY!!1!1!!
Flacco vs Schaub would be pretty good though right?????
Thanks, and go As.
That isn’t PEYTON vs. TOM; it’s the Baltimore Ravens vs. the Houston Texans, as it should be. Although I’m sure ESPN will find some angle to beat to death no matter what the matchup.
The Ray Lewis show, duh.
Thanks, and go As.
Whoo hoo!
Sorry batgirl.
:(
This is gonna be a FKing shootout.
Thanks, and go As.
78-109
DirecTV’s asshole husband/father was an abomination. I guess we’re supposed to appreciate their decision to replace him with “the Genie”. As a matter of fact, I do appreciate that.
I’m I the only one with a crappy old TV who can’t see the score graphic on fox and has no idea what the score is?
no.
However, the Broncos won on my crappy old TV, so it must have been getting the broadcast from another timeline.
I like your tv better :(
I don’t understand what happened. I used my Broncos mug this morning. I’m wearing my Ed’s Endzone O’s t-shirt and my Super Bowl sweatshirt. And the Broncos sweatpants that I bought 15 years ago during a stopover in the Denver airport. Doesn’t superstition and mojo count for anything anymore???!!!
Not when Peyton Manning can’t feel his own hands it doesn’t.
Not his fault. Blame the free safety who decided to jump for the ball a solid 5 yards too soon
I have that on my 2nd tv in the bedroom. it is really dumb
Same here, 2nd TV. Weird thing is it did not used to be that way, and further, it’s not that way for any other channel
yup
It’s a conspiracy to get you to upgrade from 4:3 SD to 16:9 HD. That said, if you watch a lot of sports on television (and if you have bought Sunday Ticket apparently you do) you will not regret the upgrade, if you are willing to take the hit to your bank account.
Joe Buck is just unendurable in any sport. If his father wasn’t who he was, he would be pumping your gas right now.
And he looks so fucking smug all the time. I just want to hit him, even before he opens his mouth.
Joe Buck SUX!
Argo Buck yourself!
Joe is only 43 y.o. Our best hope is that he decides sports broadcasting is beneath his intellect, leading him to Olbermann himself into oblivion.
Joe Buck is the Luke Russert of sportscasters.
He is essentially my age and knows less about baseball.
and its his job.
He’s 10 years older than me and knows less about baseball
than my 9 year old.
Thanks, and go As.
win
Joe Buck gets to do every big game for the biggest US sports network. It’s probably the best job that exists in his field, except maybe for the gig Costas has. Probably he’s not a big enough idiot to walk away from that. Our best hope is either a gaffe or a sordid public indecency conviction.
Joe must be getting close to being the all-time leader for most World Series games called as a PxP guy. I would guess Mel Allen still has the lead, dating back to the days when the networks had one broadcaster from each participating team work the network broadcast. McCarver has been doing postseason for about 30 years and I’m certain he’s the overall leader in most games in a World Series TV booth.
I don’t really watch a lot of football but this game is pretty weird right?
Doesn’t seem so weird to me. 1st game did.
Yeah, starting with:
Tebow: 1
Manning: 0
Watching “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” was a horrible mistake. I’m crying like a baby.
Probably not as much as batgirl cried after watching “The Odd Defense of Denver Orange.”
I feel bad for you, sweetheart.
Imma go watch that video of the dog helping the puppy get down the stairs.
It feels like I’ve been seeing way more guys field punts inside their own 10 yard line than I used to. Has the thinking about best practices for that play changed?
Hello all. I’m just back from a Prairie Home Companion, at which Garrison did a vicious takedown of “Les Miserables”.
He didn’t sing, did he?
He always sings. But he didn’t sing any of the Les Miz songs, that was mostly Chanticleer.
jean valjean. Snikt!
For whatever reason, I cannot STAND that program
I hate Prairie Home Companion too. Its the SF Giants of NPR programs.
Also in other news prairie is a difficult word to spell.
It’s clearly the Minnesota Twins of NPR programs. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is the Giants.
No. The Minnesota Twins aren’t obnoxious. Theyre probably my forth favorite team.
Prarie Home Companion isn’t obnoxious either. It’s just Minnesota-y, which may not be your bag.
No its super obnoxious.
Oh. I stand corrected.
Im glad you saw the error of your ways.
This makes me laugh, because the friends I have that really love it are also Twins fans.
I love that show, though I rarely get to hear it. And Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me also. I’m indifferent- to slightly hostile toward the Giants, and indifferent- to slightly friendly toward the Twins.
Wait Wait is awesome though.
I used to like it, but I find it sort of annoying now. I’ve had enough Paula Poundstone to last me for a while.
I’d like some poundcake, though.
They have some new panelists that I like a lot – especially like Alonzo Bodden and Faith Salie.
Oh go pound sand
Agreed. The Jake Tapper segment alone made this past season.
No no no no no no no no no no. I would accept, reluctantly, the New York Yankees of public radio programs*, as in deriving a good part of its reputation from its past success rather than its present glory. It’s not the FKing Gnats.
*don’t make me explain the difference between NPR, PRI, MPR, and APM.
I thought it was distributed by npr?
Nope. It’s currently distributed by American Public Media, the national programming arm of Minnesota Public Radio. It used to be distributed by Public Radio International, an organization originally formed by several major regional stations in 1981 when NPR refused to distribute their locally-produced programs on the grounds that they were not sophisticated enough for national audiences; the programs NPR rejected included APHC and the LA Philharmonic.
Public radio is more like a newspaper than like a commercial network such as CBS. The local public radio stations carries programming from NPR, PRI, and APM, as well as its own stuff, just as a newspaper carries stuff from the AP and the New York Times and Reuters and its own reporters. The local station chooses which programs it wants, and with some limits, when it wants to air them.
I really like PRI programs the best.
I knew there was a difference I just thought it was through npr.
Who does On Point? Because that’s a great show. Usually.
WBUR in Boston produces it and it’s distributed by NPR.
And who does Writers Almanac? {shudders}
That’s another one from APM. I like it and kind of missing catching it on KPCC when I lived out in LA-land.
Kiellor’s tone in that thing is so somnolent that I’m afraid listening to it will cause me to fall asleep at the wheel.
There are some days on the podcast when you can tell that he’s probably thinking, “Fuck it, I should have just phoned this one in.”
“Be well, do good work, leave me the fuck alone I’m tired.”
Lucky!
I want to see that movie so bad! I was supposed to Christmas Day but I was a nice sister and gave my ticket to my brother who rarely ever has time off to see anything.
It’s pretty fking good! I liked it, anyhow.
I’m starting to think that the niners will win but not cover, just to piss me off.
Feeling better about my (no one cares about my) pick now.
Turned out ok
Well, it seems to be as I predicted: playing the Vikings two weeks in a row sapped the Packers’ strength.
You mean, playing the Niners twice exposed the Packers’ flaws?
If the Seahawks win tomorrow I assume nm will be “hosting a Japanese client” in the firm’s 50-yard-line seats next Sunday.
Something tells me nm will be low on the list of likely hosts
Yeah, a Matsui-era A’s game in august is one thing.
This. I very much doubt I’ll see any live games this playoff season.
Now that was a fun game.
ahem.
Thanks, and go As.
Indeed. Nice to beat out Vick for most rushing yards ever in… your FIRST playoff game.
(and yes, I have crow to eat about Kaep not being better than Smith right now) ((and happy to eat it))
Anybody else get the impression that Harbaugh has been keeping Kaep bottled up just so he could spring this surprise in the playoffs? Man, if you’re Seattle or Atlanta watching this game film, you better have a lot of Excedrin.
The Niners said that’s what they did, limiting his running the last two weeks of the regular season.
Webb also exposed the flaw in the Packers.
I’m still scared of Seattle. Definitely rooting for ATL today.
I’ll take either of them at this point. Home game against Seattle is fine, so is on the road against Atlanta.
I was happy with that ending, especially with the extra bonus of it being Pete Carroll’s fault.
I was scared of Seattle too, but the 49ers that won yesterday were quite different from the team that got whipped a couple of weeks ago.
Holy Kaepernick Batman!
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That resembles no one I know.
I’m just confused about why a sailing team would make this video.
I was disappointed to find out it’s the name of their sketch comedy group. It would be better comedy if this was what they do to kill time when the wind isn’t suitable for sailing.
Oh, well it does make more sense then.
Dude, you were IN that shit a half-dozen times.
Where?
Yeah, going w/ DFA here, though the food-gram is a reality.
that is the one I like.
It’s about as interesting as complaining about your office or co-workers…
I mean once and a while when it has over the top presentation is cool, but you dont need post every fking meal.
I cook a fuck ton and I rarely post it. Though I do often take pictures, only the dinner parties usually go up.
I have a healthy tolerance for the cooks and epicureans.
Go Falcons, I guess?
Thanks, and go As.
Hell yeah, Tony Gonzalez.
Who is one of five Golden Bears active for this game. Also:
Atlanta:
Thomas DeCoud
Seattle:
Marshawn Lynch
Brandon Mebane
Ryan Longwell
One of those guys seems to have shaved spider webs into the sides of his head for the occasion.
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m pretty sure you have to say “Future Hall of Famer” before you can say his name.
asvd
I enjoy watching Pete Carroll fail. He’s very dislikeable.
Indeed.
The weird thing is that off the field he’s genuinely a nice person.
Thanks, and go As.
Ew.
You don’t like nice people? No wonder you hate me.
That’s ONE of the reasons I hate you.
You’re a complicated woman.
Agreed. And his players act like assholes.
That is true.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah… This is not the Falcons team that I had seen earlier… they are playing really well.
This automatically-review-every-scoring-play thing is really annoying. How do you people who watch football every week tolerate it?
I usually don’t watch live, but instead start about an hour late so I finish about live. So the answer is fast-forward
Good call prominently featuring Alex Smith in your big postseason ad, Visa.
Nice work, Pete.
Bradshaw’s question for Kaepernick that “everyone wants to know” is “How fast did you run the 40?”
He may not know that Google exists.
Falcons are showing why nobody believes they are as good as their record.
This seems like it won’t end well for them.
Although Seattle’s failure to attempt a field goal at the end of the first half may be the difference.
More true than anyone imagined.
“Team of Destiny” reference invoked by stupid announcer — DRINK
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I love playoff fail, when it doesn’t happen to my team. Which is probably not going to happen any time soon. Dammit.
The only thing better than a playoff fail is a double playoff fail. Suck it, Pete Carroll.
Pete Carroll playoff fail is better yet.
Didn’t think it was possible for ATL to win but not cover…But here we are.
I’ve only been watching the last 15 minutes of this game, and I care nothing about either team, but it’s phenomenal entertainment.
Lots of questionable strategy at the end too.
Interesting point by Bill Barnwell on an overlooked dumb decision by Atlanta not to go for two when they scored their last touchdown. A 2-pointer would have put them up 21 rather than 20, giving them an overtime safety net at the end. Seattle going offside on the 1-point try, moving the ball to the 1, changed the expected value of a 2-point try more than I thought:
Yeah. That suggests you should always bring the O back out if you get a penalty. Which surprises me.
I don’t know about that. 56% isn’t a sure thing when one-point is basically 99%. Now after the second penalty when it goes up even higher, *then* it makes sense to always bring back the O for the two-points.
It isn’t a sure thing, but over the long haul you’ll average more than one point per attempt if you have an average goal-line offense. That’s better than a certain one point per attempt in almost every game situation. And it’s way better when you can go up 21 points in a situation where the opponent basically can’t get more than three more possessions without recovering an onside kick.
This. It’s point maximizing if the odds are >50%.
and also in the context of that game, going for 2 and not getting it would put them in the same spot as making a PAT.
Thanks, and go As.
Right. Context makes it an easier call.
The one thing I wonder is are those %’s reliable given the situation. I think someone mentioned it here before-but do those odds change because it is not something that everyone does. So, it going for it in that situation becomes the CW now you start having crappy offenses go for it more and it brings the odds back down, which changes the CW, and now a good offense with a craptstic coach leaves them on the bench for 1 point, etc.
And Mike’s point as well. Context says it makes more sense because not getting the 1 puts you in the exact same spot (though the arguement is made that unless you are late in the game you are trying to get cute with matching scores..)
Those percentages don’t reflect 2-point success rates. They reflect all situations in which offenses attempt to score from the 1 or 2 yard lines. They should already basically reflect the chances of an average offense, except to the extent that lousy offenses are less likely to get the ball close to their opponent’s goal line.
Thank you. The clouds have now cleared in my head.
But the 1 point didn’t gain them anything. Go up 20? So what, 3 TDs still means you are losing by 1. Go for 2, and 3 TDs means you’re tied. go for 2 and miss it, you’re still in the same situation as kicking the 1 pointer — give up 3 TDs and you’re losing, but can win with a Field Goal anyway.
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The two TDs + 2 FGs possibility was theoretically in play, so 1 point had some value. That’s way less likely than 3 TDs, though, because of the extra possession required.
Still, less dumb than Hue Jackson not going for two against the Lions last year.
Yeah, giving up four scoring drives would have been more of a problem than just missing a 2 point conversion.
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I wasn’t in any, way, shape, or form discussing any particular situation. I was simply discussing the notion of always.
Oh. I thought you meant Atlanta.
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This is going to sound dumb but how do you get a two-pointer, is it a new rule?
Can you tell how much I watch football?
After a touchdown (worth six points) the scoring team gets the ball at the opponent’s two-yard line. They can choose to either kick it through the uprights (one additional point) or run one play to try get it in the end zone (two additional points)
I still think of it as new, but apparently it’s been around since 1994. Before that it was two-point conversions were only allowed in college football.
I believe they had them in the AFL too, before they merged with the NFL.
Ah okay, the only time I ever watched football was w/ my grandpa and he died in 89′ so I guess it is new to me.
Yeah, it was a college rule that eventually made it to the pros.
Now if only they’d make kickoff field goals count for 3 points so that penalties assessed on the kick off would be relevant.
That would be cool
Greg Schiano has an interesting idea for kickoffs.
So to reduce collisions from kickoff returns, they instead want to… have punt returns?
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Yeah, I don’t think it reduces the risk of injury much, and I’m not really in favor of it. But it’s an interesting concept. Especially if there’s a penalty on the conversion.
The combination of the two-point rule and the lack of overtime made college football awesome back in the day. I loved the tension when a coach had to decide whether to take the sure tie or risk it all to go for the win.
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That’s the stuff. I still wonder what Bruce Snyder would have done in this game if Brian Treggs had caught the final pass.
LOL Pete Carroll.
Right now, I don’t see any of the remaining teams in the playoffs beating the Niners.
Thanks for jinxing them.
For a 60+ year old comedian, Ben Vereen is a hell of a football player.
127 points scored in the two NFL games today, 34 by Golden Bears (Vereen 18, Lynch 6, Gonzalez 6, Longwell 4).
Sure, but Nevada scored roughly infinity
which was a reply to
We always knew he was an ass…
Interesting that they chose to mention those two out of the seven teams that he played for.
lemme see
Oakland, Cleveland, san diego, Texas, Chicago Cubs
well done. There are two that I wouldn’t have known had I not looked it up.
Totally. Anyone who’d pick a fight with Ralph…
Anyone who still will choke and beat their spouse even though they are toasted on pot must be a violent, crazed madman who needs serious help. I mean, that’s an unusual one, where he beats her up because she asks him not toke to up in front of the kids… usually even the crazy types are mellowed out by the herb but he doesn’t sound too mellow.
Yeah, that kinda seemed quizzical to me too.
He already had a bunch of domestic violence incidents before he came to the A’s
Yeah, it was a good thing we had Big Hurt and his trusty rebar around.
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOHOOOOOO, wait what are we cheering about? Patriots?
yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
I’m not going to lie: I’m afeared. Though it looks like the Ravens won’t even have to break Gronk this year.
gronky should not have played today. :( still, ravens make me not sleep for days. NEVERMORE! NEVERMORE!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH…………………….
If yesterday’s 49ers and today’s Patriots play each other, it’s gonna an epic Super Bowl.
we hates it, precious.
No no, we loves it. It’ll be fun!
if that is what happens, i can’t host sb. it is just too much for me, energetically.
We’ll place a friendly wager.
no, i will not.
Loser prepares a dish of the winner’s choosing.
that doesn’t mean a much to me
Naked.
and?
Damn. Ok, scratch all that.
Loser performs a scene from a movie, as selected by the winner.
Or, loser and a friend perform “Who’s on first?” flawlessly. If they screw up, they have to start all over.
We should all watch it together if it happens! :)
Congratulations Witchy!!! :) Now to take on the Ravens!
nothing wrong with that.
Sanest thought he’s had in decades.
most probably. :P
yup
Famous people talking about other famous people, there must be awards on tonight.
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OH MY GOD I’M SO BORED.
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I’m just tired.
i’m in the ecstatic space, but i haven’t slept for two days because of nerves.
Is this because of football?
yes
Congrats. I for one am counting down the days until pitchers and catcher report.
that too.
Four weeks from tomorrow! On my b-day!
i’m so not jinxing anything
You’re not whatting what? (wink)
I hope you’re still in fine spirits this evening after the win.
Babe you know I ♥ you but I really, really need the Niners to win the whole FKing thing this year. I just do.
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First we have to survive a flight east better than Seattle did. And they have to survive other-Harbaugh
We’ve done it before.
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Also they didn’t have to travel this week. So unlike SEA there wasn’t an ET to PT first before the PT to ET
Since they already knew they’d be in ET, Seattle should have just stayed in the area if they believed it to be that big of a deal.
That’s what the Niners have done in Ohio, but you need a lot of resources to run NFL practices for a week, so it isn’t easy to do (particularly when you didn’t plan for it in advance)
In a billion dollar sports industry, I’m sure they could have found those resources. And since they knew what would happen if they won, it may have helped to plan ahead and simply cancel those plans if things don’t work out.
There are several NFL training facilities just a short hop from Atlanta which, given some contingency planning and maybe some coordination with the league, would be available to borrow for a week, places like Charlotte and Nashville. Likewise, if an East Coast team thought they might be playing two straight playoff games on the West Coast, say Seattle then San Francisco, there’s a facility in Alameda which is never used after the end of the regular season.
Yeah, but that’s a crumbling shit pile, not an NFL facility…
appreciate the raiders diss here.
I have laundry to fold.
How fast can you get here?
I do too.
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Personally I prefer a clean clothes pile to folded. I hate folding
You have no idea how bad I hate it.
Soon as I get back out on my own and actually have a master bedroom and decent closet?
HANG ALL THE THINGS!!!!!!
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Who said you weren’t well-hung?
Him. Numerous times.
This.
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Justifed starts back up soon — this week? (NYer article; hope it’s not protected)
Last week.
Thanks — we’re still working our way through BrBa!
This is awesome, and more or less what I would expect.
Proving, once again, that cats are superior to dogs.
Are you calling stockbrokers dogs?
Very unfair to dogs.
Win and win.
The next obamacare guarantee! Free bear arm surgeries for all!
I could go for that. It would definitely help with my deadlifting.
And hugs.
nevermoor bait
So I take it you’re on our side going forward.
Well, now that my Vegan Arian Foster/Kubiak combo is out, I do need a team to get behind. And I love Harbaugh, natch. So sure, Niners it is!
Yay!
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Yay!
But Tony Gonzalez is a Vegan! Also, the Niners are hideous and evil.
I’m intrigued…did not know about Tony…tell me more.
OK turns out he’s “veganish” but that’s a start!
On the other hand, he was a Chief, and that’s pretty evil and hideous in its own right.
Also he’s a Cal Bear.
Aaaaaaand I’m back to the Niners.
HUZZAH!
Dear God,
I know I really don’t believe in you and I’m just spinning my wheels, but if you somehow do exist and can control things down to the details of everyone’s existence, I beseech you to PLEASE GET THIS DISGUSTING, OBESE RACIST CUNT OUT OF MY HOUSE, I am begging at this point.
Thank you in advance,
Josh.
Kick his ass to the curb.
Trying.
I meant literally. Kick him in the ass until he’s lying on the curb.
Um, what?
I dropped by his place today.
I thought my grandpa was living with him.
For the last time, I’m not your grandpa!
You’re old enough to be, right?
No, but I’ve probably been with your grandma.
She died 15 years ago. Filet O’Fish?
Exactly.
She’s a great piece of pelvis. She loves getting boned.
Happy I remembered how to set threads to ignore.
Heh, at least its contained to the “shoot” thread now, might not be a bad idea to start its own thread/ lounge of contention if it keeps up.
…You can do such things?
When you’re in the offending thread, move your mouse to the upper lefthand corner of the screen where it says “Show.” Click on that, and a button labeled “Ignore this Post” will descend from the heavens.
I think I have about 3 grills plus aardvark’s “learn to shoot” thread in the ignore category now. Pretty much anytime an argument glues itself to the right margin (not just gun control, the thing about giving foul balls to kids is another one that comes to mind).
I was a major offender in the foul ball thread, but I think I gave up on it once it hit the right margin. Life is too short.
I think you should throw foul balls at douchebags in the crowd. If they also happen to be kids, so be it.
God thank you.
Point taken! ☺
Combining the gun (out of) control and american football nonsense is the only way either would be tolerable – arm the NFL now!
Been there, done that.
Pfft … guns on the field of play is the only way forward.
That… was on the field of plya
Or on the fields of playa, home of the drive-by shooting range.
Is that an earthlink email address? Old school!
AHHHHHH!
Did you just fart?
I wish.
I’m glad you didn’t.
Get up offa that thing. It’ll make you feel better.
Get up offa that thing. Try to release that pressure.
LOL!
GAK!!!
Cathy?
Irving?
Good Guy Randy Moss
Thanks, and go As.
I’m impressed with how well-behaved he’s been this year.
Ok so girl I was really excited about turned into Super flake. And not in a awesome pie crust kinda way.
So I have gotten 10 phone numbers since NYE but and have four dates scheduled this week but by far the most intriguing is a PhD student in Greek and Phoenician history at Stanford. We are going to the Moma on Sat and I get the impression that she is both far smarter and more cultured than me. This is both terrifying and incredibly hot. Im not sure which prevails.
You’re setting the dating bar that low?
A.S.V.D. fker
I kid because I lof.
Where in the hell do you find the energy for all of this?
cocaine… its a hell of a drug.
Also Im not really sure why its that rough of a schedule. I usually go out 4 days a week anyway.
Tues Drinks. Thurs and Friday drinks and dancing. Sat MOMA/Perhaps post Moma drinks.
Drunkard.
I actually have thought seriously if I am drinking too much recently.
I’ve got some meeting for you.
Not so much a I think to myself hey I want a drink at times that aren’t appropriate, but, Ive been going out a fair amount and it cant really be healthy even with all the fun I am having.
Somewhere on a Phoenician studies interest board, there’s a post something like “but by far the most intriguing is a hipster labor organizer who lives in the Mission. We are going to the MOMA on Sat and I get the impression that he is both far more street-smart and more experienced than me. This is both terrifying and incredibly hot. I’m not sure which prevails.”
Are you sure that the comment doesn’t read “well I’ve got a slump-buster lined up for Saturday night”?
(just kidding, dfa)
It sounds less crass in the original Phoenician.
(slow clap)
LOL
You don’t post much, but you’re seriously one of the funniest people here.
Thank you.
And you’re one of the best smelling.
I’m sure Englishmajor appreciates that.
We all do.
Tomorrow is my last day on the early morning shift. I’m not sure if this means my posts will be better or worse, but without the sleep-deprived daze that has been my life for the last four years, they might be more frequent. Anyway, I’m so happy to be done with the 3:15 AM alarm clocks! My new shift is noon-8, which is perfect for my natural circadian rhythm but still makes it hard to get to night games during the week….if I move back to the East Bay I’ll maybe just turn up at the park in the sixth inning.
yay/boo
Does this mean the California Report will now suck?
That is the question.
I hope not, but I didn’t have that much to do with the quality anyway. It does mean that the music at the end of the show is somewhat less likely to be Japanese ska or steel drum covers of 1960’s rock.
Well fk there is no reason to listen then
So I’m guessing you were responsible for the orchestral version of “Celebration” I heard at the end of one show over the summer?
Oh yeah. Geert Baetens and Vlaams Harmonieorkest. I recommend it.
Congratulations! ‘Bout time they accomodated you.
That’s awesome.
Woo hoo!
That would be okay, darling. We want you when ever you can get there.
great news!
This is far more likley.
Hee!
I think this may be a tagline. I have to refer it upstairs, tho.
I just saw it… its a mouthful but it is awesome
TWSS
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Not to me she didn’t.
me either.
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this is where it becomes apparent that I won this exchange :-P
or, slightly less apparent, I just didn’t talk about it on the internet. ;-)
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Tiny1 and Tiny2.
tl;dnt
Someone else did, tho. I saw it up first thing this morning and smiled.
This is sweet.
Thank you
If it goes past the second date, we all have to start working on Phoenician jokes.
Are there Phoenician jokes?
I’m sure you will Tyre of them before we run out of material.
smiles
She might mention that he looks better in skinny jeans than her.
winner
Make sure you spend some time at the Jay DeFeo exhibit. Jasper Johns is the bigger name, and it’s good stuff (plus I always love it when they open the room with Serra’s lead splashing) but he’s a little cerebral, and the DeFeo stuff is much more visceral. The Rose is not to be missed. They’re both on the 4th floor. Also fun is the radio mapping exhibit where your body movement changes the reception. If you want to really get into social justice issues the South Africa photography on the 3rd floor will give you plenty of fodder.
Jasper Johns is one of my all time favorites.
Honestly I can’t do much photography before it just becomes pictures if Im doing a lot of other art. It fries me too fast and I care too much about the Johns that Im going to want to be there.
Ive been horribly negligent. I haven’t been there since Oct.
Thanks for the guide tho and if you are ever going and want company Ive got a membership and can get one other person in for free.
The DeFeo show is amazing, my place of employ houses her archive, a couple of my fav’s didn’t make it into the show unfortunately, she was a huge part of the 50’s 60’s Bay Area Arts scene, its very cool she’s finally getting her due. Her hubby Wally Hedrick who supported her mentally and materially during the making of The Rose is one of my favorite conceptual artists.
My only beef w the exhibit is I wish they would have given The Rose more space, it felt kind of cramped to me.
Interesting. Do you by any chance know Jane Green, one of the Trustees of the DeFeo Trust and wrote a book about the Rose?
I know what you mean about the limited space for the Rose, but the approach to it is pretty great. The Annunciation really blew me away too.
No, I pretty much only interact w/ Leah and some conservators. We just had a few pallets of DeFeo books come through but we couldn’t open any… :'(
Leah has some great stories, remind at the next gate’.
Annunciation slays.
Check your fb mail.
A question for all you smart FKers …
I need a small CD player (with a footprint not much bigger than the size of a CD) with balance control between two channels.
a) Do these even exist any more? All my google searches just provide links to other people looking for one to no avail.
b) If not, can I kludge it by putting the output of one channel through a passive volume controller en route to the speaker?
Are you looking for a discman or a stationary player?
You should be able to do it that way.
Stationary, and small with balance control would be the preference.
Yeah I don’t know. Sorry.
Yeah stumped here as well, there’s always micro mixers.
I have to admit I’m pretty curious why you need one now. ;)
I want to be able to play books on CD late at night loud enough for two occupants of the bed – one of whom has hearing loss from too many front row punk shows in her 20s – but quietly enough not to wake the eagle-eared child in the next room. And the unit has to be on the better-hearing night owl’s side of the bed.
Ah, you could use a stereo headphone splitter, you’d just need to find a headset w/ a volume attenuator for you, the other of any type for her.
I have a splitter I could mail you in thanks for the awesome fromt row seats!
Not headphones – too uncomfortable to fall asleep in – but thanks.
Put a bookshelf on the wall between your room and the child’s room. It’ll help block the noise.
Not possible with our layout.
Ear plugs? Sell the child and make all the noise you want?
That won’t work. She’s an undervalued child and there’s no way they can get what she’s worth on the open market.
They’re probably underwater on her anyway, what with our brownshirt-inspired labor laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_divider
So this guy I know tells me his million-dollar idea: sound-proof playrooms with a glass wall. So you can watch your kids, but not have to listen to them. Shhh, I’m not supposed to tell anyone.
I find it very odd that someone will reach out to a friend, not for advice but more for someone to talk to and listen to them, work through the issue with little to no input, come to (IMO) the correct decision, and then decide to do the opposite of the right thing.
90 minutes later, I’m off the phone.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m starting to think that our lives have become, or are becoming, an exercise in trying with our actions to disprove the logic and reality of the Universe as it is demonstrably constructed. This, in my view, stems in some meaningful way from the influence of mass media, unhinged as it has become from the need to illustrate anything but the most spectacular and fetishized aspects of ourselves and our culture in order to make people think it’s cool or distinguishable enough to buy what it’s selling. The last 20 years, when CGI technology in film and TV representations have provided the opportunity to create narrative worlds divorced from the previous limitations imposed on creators prior to its advent and to depict ever-more-grandiose and spectacular degrees of impossibility, have only served to accelerate this march to denial of our lives’ basic human limitations as we perceive them internally.
This is exponentially multiplied, IMO, by the basic human need for attention and the lengths people feel they need to go to to get it from others… it’s as if we know the answers to situations, but those answers don’t satisfy our twin desires for recognition and extraordinary experience so we refute them, or attempt to refute them, out of dissatisfaction with their mundanity in the face of the lengths we feel we need to go to to be recognized as being alive.
Sorry for the weird, esoteric response to your practical situation, but I guess I was just finding a pedantic way to say that Joseph Campbell couldn’t have known just how right he would turn out to be when he wrote of The Power of Myth.
I kinda love how the fake technology in film and TV spurs real tech in the long run.
It’s so FKing fun watching the birth of artificial life. I’m so glad I reincarnated in the past.
Have you ever played eni meanie miny mo and cheated for the answer you want? Its the same thing all be it longer and more obnoxious for you.
Despite the ticket charges, despite the service fees, FanFest is sold out. This augurs well for the season’s attendance, though not for those of us who enjoy the lack of lines, crowds, etc.
oh, man, I sure hope we’re not going to see a shift from OMFG NOBODY GOES TO GAMES to OMFG SO MANY PEOPLE LINES ARE TOO LONG ITS CROWDED
Also, hopefully they kick up staffing and open more concession stands.
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Too bad they don’t have an extra deck on the stadium. They might be able to sell loads of tickets in it for premium games.
OMFG HUMANS LIKE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT STUFF AND HAVE THINGS BOTH WAYS
Pretty much. I mean, bitching because they didn’t have it, bitching because they charge for it, bitching because it sold out? I’m sure if they had it in the stadium instead of the arena there would be bitching because it’s cold outside.
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And for the love of the baseball gods can we please just go to a common line at concessions stands rather than lines for individual registers. SO MUCH SPACE POTENTIALLY SAVED ON THE CONCOURSE.
So much this.
yup… so simple a monkey could have figured it out… but apparently a elephant cant.
And so much fairer. Part of my 17 point platform for supreme ruler is universal single lines at all times.
I’d vote for you just based on that.
I’d make all products in stores that don’t have a prominent price tag free. And MikeV would head up the Ministry of Boobs.
God I can’t stand trying to pick the right line. I always get it wrong, and there are such big differences between them! I don’t need to hate everyone around me when I’m trying to get my Saag’s.
Sagh.
Saag?
Lamb, please.
I always pick the cashier/ attendant not the line, works every time.
This sounds like a significantly better way to do it. But what do you do if your favorite attendant isn’t working there that day??
My favorite Filipina lady is always there, she playfully chastises me w/ a dirty look and a “where ya been?!” if I miss more than a dozen games or so.
She then asks “2 or 3 (veggie dogs), beer today?”, its so fkin quick and it makes me feel loved!
I’m a pleasant customer who always tips, yet I don’t believe in decades of Coliseum patronage that I’ve ever once established a recognition/rapport with a Coli cashier.
She spilled two whole beers on me 3 years ago and felt really bad, made me memorable I guess, I still joke about it with her. ;P
Really sucked because it was really cold that night.
i always tip too, surprised how most folks don’t.
I don’t. I’m not getting table service.
I also don’t tip when I pick up takeout.
I guess I think of it more in terms of getting a drink from a ‘bartender’ in which its standard OP to tip but not obligatory.
Seeing as only half the vendors have been open the last few years they tend to work pretty much nonstop so I tip out of compassion as well.
Tipping bar staff would be considered at least weird and at most insulting in the UK. Trying to persuade mrs ptbnl’s band mates (most of whom had worked in bars at some point) not to tip in pubs during their UK tour was *really* hard.
Sure, same in Germany but the bar I worked in paid its workers a lot better as well.
I do tip in bars. Because I want them to acknowledge me next time.
I usually throw in an a buck or so for takeout. Definitely doesn’t need to be as much as table service, but I think a small tip is nice.
Same here.
I do small change/ an extra buck.
I pay for everything on a card, so that doesn’t work
This is the saddest thing.
welcome to every tight game I have ever went to where I ended up starving.
This is why I always bring sandw… pardon me, sammiches from home.
This is why I always convince fkers to eat an inconceivably massive amount of food in the lot with me.
Don’t they have that system where you can order food by phone and have it delivered to your seat? Shit, even the Charleston Riverdogs have that. It’s not cheap, but at least you don’t miss any of the game.
fk that. its an A’s game. you cant expect it to have a receptive fan experiance
At least the food at the Coli is better than at the Joe. Riverdogs food is terrible. And no Dibs!
That was awesome.
I want to give that bear a hug.
As long as we all acknowledge the axiom that any line (ANY, N-E line) that I’m in ALways slows down in front of me, I’m okay with it. Because then there’s only one profit-maximizing solution …
I have never bitched about the Coli being empty…
Me neither. That’s the best part!
exactly.
Yup.
I still expect Monday nights to be blissfully peaceful.
Team email also says opening night tix are selling fast. I’m planning on waiting until the box office opens at 9:00 AM on 1/27; hopefully that’s not going to backfire on me.
Yeah. And I still haven’t gotten a flirtatious sales pitch about buying season tickets.
I’d take the “selling fast” part w/ a grain of salt, I just purchased 3 today, it worked- I got scared, and ended up w/ 219 row 2, which I’d say are pretty darn good seats. $19 in service fees….
I’m sure they both sold very quickly.
Heh
Stuff usually does sell fast…when it sells. I’ve yet to encounter a situation where I handed somebody cash for an item and it took days for the transaction to be completed. Same with a debit/credit card!
Plaza Joe Strummer one step closer.
nice.
So great!
Brilliant.