Illinois 66 @Wisconsin 51
For an Illinois fan, this season has been a tough one to figure. Last year's team dismantled opponents with ease and style. This year's team has been winning, but with neither ease nor style. Still, bracketologists - at espn (explanation here) and bracketboard - have Illinois as a #1 seed, if the season ended today.
Tonight's game was the first one that I have seen that truly justifies such rankings. This win at Wisconsin was the first time all year that the Illini - all of them, not just Dee Brown and James Augustine - looked good. Granted, it's tough to tell how good Wisconsin is - they did lose to North Dakota State after all - and I don't think Illinois can run with Duke or UConn. But with Rich McBride hooked up to the juvenation machine, Brian Randle looking like a real player, and bench contributions from Jamar Smith and Chester Frazier, this team might be going places.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Holy Sh** - Again!
Check out comment #3 from Chapin's last post. A true blast from the past. Welcome, Sunil! Though I thought Ria was the coolest Indian we knew.
Ha, ha. Just kidding! Please don't hurt me.
Anyway, bouyed by the appearance of Sunil and Caton on our blog (although it is disturbing that people are finding this site, and I'm really not sure how Sunil did, but with our readership up to 10, might the reach of Malt Shop Logic be limitless?) and the fact that the blog has not imploded from inactivity, I feel compelled to note/ask the following:
Ha, ha. Just kidding! Please don't hurt me.
Anyway, bouyed by the appearance of Sunil and Caton on our blog (although it is disturbing that people are finding this site, and I'm really not sure how Sunil did, but with our readership up to 10, might the reach of Malt Shop Logic be limitless?) and the fact that the blog has not imploded from inactivity, I feel compelled to note/ask the following:
- Interesting item on aueagles.com about the AU wrestling team. Turns out they are ranked #21 in the nation now. Pretty good, I think. Then I remember when the AU field hockey team first got ranked in the field hockey top 20 in 1995 or 1996 and one of my fellow athletes telling me that it wasn't that big a deal considering there were only 30 field hockey teams anyway (he exaggerated, I'm sure, but not by much). Well, according to my count, there are only 87 Division 1 wrestling teams. So, 21 out of 87 - not bad, but not all that good.
- Did Big Momma's House - the original - really merit Big Momma's House 2?
- Heard at work today by me - a dot matrix printer. Beyond what it says about fibbee technology, I did have a nightmare flashback to T-51, being awakened at 4 am as Laura whatshername in T-52 decided to print out her 25 page papers on her dot matrix printer. Bad times.
- I guess it's time for me to weigh in on the big House Republican leadership race for Majority Leader. The way I see it, thzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
P.S. F Blogger for the hassle it gave me in trying to post this.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Winter's Return...and Caton's
This weekend, I drove up to Connecticut for the umpteenth time since October to visit Cherie. I actually had a wonderful time -- I'm just tired of the drive.
Anyway, on Saturday, her sister and brother-in-law came from Boston to visit, and we went to dinner at the Melting Pot in Darien, CT. As an aside, the Melting Pot is possibly the world's most over-priced restaurant. The base "per couple" price for our meal was $96, and that was before substitutions, drinks, etc. And this for a restaurant where the patrons do their own cooking using fondue. Ridonkulous.
Anwyay...when we left the restaurant, it was 50 deg. F and pouring rain. 45 minutes later, when we arrived home, it was 34 deg. F and freezing rain was coating everything in sight. One hour later, the temp had dropped another 10 deg., and it was snowing hard. By the next morning, 8 inches of snow covered the ground in Danbury. Last night, it was 9 deg. F. I hate winter.
The good news is that Mr. Caton confirmed his emergence from seclusion on our blog this week. Tim -- you should post an actual article. Contact Close for particulars. And how the hell are you?
Anyway, on Saturday, her sister and brother-in-law came from Boston to visit, and we went to dinner at the Melting Pot in Darien, CT. As an aside, the Melting Pot is possibly the world's most over-priced restaurant. The base "per couple" price for our meal was $96, and that was before substitutions, drinks, etc. And this for a restaurant where the patrons do their own cooking using fondue. Ridonkulous.
Anwyay...when we left the restaurant, it was 50 deg. F and pouring rain. 45 minutes later, when we arrived home, it was 34 deg. F and freezing rain was coating everything in sight. One hour later, the temp had dropped another 10 deg., and it was snowing hard. By the next morning, 8 inches of snow covered the ground in Danbury. Last night, it was 9 deg. F. I hate winter.
The good news is that Mr. Caton confirmed his emergence from seclusion on our blog this week. Tim -- you should post an actual article. Contact Close for particulars. And how the hell are you?
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Holy sh**...
...did the real Minister of Tolerance, aka one Tim Caton, just make a commenting appearance on our blog? The 1 comment on Josh's post is attributed to the "Minister of Tolerance", and clicking on his profile reveals he's only been online since Jan 06 and lists "The Toy Fair" as his blog (though it doesn't appear to be up and running). Tim, are you out there?
Monday, January 09, 2006
180 Degrees
Now this is quite a turn. 60 years later, I get to read this line in my local newspaper:
About 200 Japanese troops are in San Diego County to practice beach landings in what could be a show of force in the country's growing rivalry with China.I'm horribly curious if there's any sort of ceremony being performed to commemorate this event. There's nothing in the news, but I don't see this passing with little more than a "Welcome to America!"
Japanese officials approached the Marines, who have a long history of beach landings, for help last summer, Robbins said. Amphibious landings are among the U.S. military's more demanding maneuvers.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Chris' Tenleytown Adventure
Observations from time spent in Tenleytown - daylight time, that is - today:
1. Remember at Camillo's when we first started going there - Camillo at the first chair, Joseph (RIP) at the second chair, an extremely tall Hispanic guy in chair three, Diane at the next chair, and Dante in the corner? Well, a few years back, the Hispanic guy just disappeared. I thought he must have opened his own place or something. He was back today - and they stuck him in the room that used to be used by the old lady who would dye another old lady's hair.
2. Walked around AU today for the first time in ages. Was pleased with what I saw. First of all, the Kogod and Batelle buildings look very impressive. Nice, even. Second, they did a very nice job with the intramural field - seems like they redid the baseball diamond too. I think they tore down one of the buildings overlooking the field, but I can't be sure. Overall, campus looked better than it ever did when we were there - and it wasn't even after a clean-up day before prospective freshmen arrived for a visit.
3. Watched AU play Lehigh with the Bad Lieutenant. Don't worry about taking a Friday off to watch AU in the Patriot League championship game this year. AU only excels at one thing on the basketball court - turning the ball over.
1. Remember at Camillo's when we first started going there - Camillo at the first chair, Joseph (RIP) at the second chair, an extremely tall Hispanic guy in chair three, Diane at the next chair, and Dante in the corner? Well, a few years back, the Hispanic guy just disappeared. I thought he must have opened his own place or something. He was back today - and they stuck him in the room that used to be used by the old lady who would dye another old lady's hair.
2. Walked around AU today for the first time in ages. Was pleased with what I saw. First of all, the Kogod and Batelle buildings look very impressive. Nice, even. Second, they did a very nice job with the intramural field - seems like they redid the baseball diamond too. I think they tore down one of the buildings overlooking the field, but I can't be sure. Overall, campus looked better than it ever did when we were there - and it wasn't even after a clean-up day before prospective freshmen arrived for a visit.
3. Watched AU play Lehigh with the Bad Lieutenant. Don't worry about taking a Friday off to watch AU in the Patriot League championship game this year. AU only excels at one thing on the basketball court - turning the ball over.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
I know...
...that the callowness (and callousness) of the media should not be a surprise. And I know that it should not anger me. But damn, occasionally it really does. Case in point: I've been working from home today, sitting with the laptop on my lap and the TV in front of me, tuned to CNN. All damn day long, CNN has exploited the tragic mine explosion situation in West Virginia to flog its "new" technology, "Pipeline". Now, as an aside, it appears that Pipeline is hardly new. It appears to just be live, unedited video streaming from a remote CNN camera truck. Josh can tell you that this has probably been available as a technology for years now.
But what really, really gets me, is the way CNN has jumped on the mine situation as an opportunity to publicize their "new" tool. Daryn Kagan hasn't been able to go 30 seconds without mentioning it again. And damn, I want to kick her in the belly. By the way, could she look more leathery, anorexic, and fake? Ugh.
But what really, really gets me, is the way CNN has jumped on the mine situation as an opportunity to publicize their "new" tool. Daryn Kagan hasn't been able to go 30 seconds without mentioning it again. And damn, I want to kick her in the belly. By the way, could she look more leathery, anorexic, and fake? Ugh.
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