UConn James

Interesting little vignette, Dank. FYI --- Emmy nominations are tomorrow morning.

I assume that re-arranging the furniture a bit is out of the question? It's the getting through the subfloor on that 2nd floor that will be the trickiest part. But for someone who knows what they're doing and has the right tools, running another line would be easier and probably cheapest, especially in the long run. If you get another wireless box, that's the $300+ upfront, headaches with the G/WAF, then more electricity use every month. The WAF alone would do it for me. Much rather have a one-time, 'Do you really have to make all that noise?!" than a built-in argument-starter.... Picture it now. "What do we need this thing for? I keep tripping over this damn thing!" ==> to the inevitable "Well, you wouldn't trip on it if you watched where you were f---ing walking!" and then bad things after that. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Van Brommel has been the only flopper I've seen on the Dutch side in this WC. All the other guys might get hit, but they get right back up and there's very little talk to the ref, much less whining for calls. That was a nasty kick to the face #14 got from the Uruguayan #22 Cavaras(? I don't quite remember). Even on this choppy ESPN3.com feed I've got (which is awesome, I might add! Especially for us antenna-only people) you could see he got his face re-arranged.

And now, they may have a chance to get two birds with one stone.... (knock on wood).

Uruguay = Flop! Flop! Come on....

Top shelf, where mama hides the cookies!! Go Oranje!

It's catch-and-release that keeps the lawyers and courts in business.

Rocked my 'Nederland' track jacket today! Not that anyone who saw it knew or cared....

Reuters: Two in three people want video replays, [globalized] poll shows

It was the Immaculate Happy Ending (attempt)!

NYT: FIFA president apologizes for refereeing errors Note that this is not necessarily a video replay system. In the offing is a 'Hawkeye' system (as used in tennis) for soccer or a chip embedded in the ball that goes off when it passes the goal line. Also has been said that a referee assistant might be used to help police the field better. I've thought this for a long time --- that's a hell of a lot of area for one dude to cover. NFL has, what, 8 people in a crew for a field that's close to a third the size?

The final "Totally LOST" video set. Still waiting for Doc's Part 2 of his final, final LOST thoughts that was promised in this column (that duey linked here) a couple of weeks ago. ----- The geography of LOST, created by a US DoD cartographer. ----- I, too, haven't read the Red theory yet... so the admonishment is pretty hypocritical. Was kind of hoping for some discussion here to motivate me to get to it. I haven't started a re-watch yet. This is the longest amount of time after a finale that I've gone w/o starting. Still just giving it time to digest and take a break from it so I can come back with fresher eyes. I'm probably going to wait until early August so finishing S5 converges with the S6 release. Which is totally going to be ruined, b/c the first thing I'm going to be watching is the epilogue. .... Perhaps I should wait and start the rewatch in late August, then.

Couple more links.... "How 'LOST' Should Have Ended" short cartoon parody. USA Today: "What to expect from 'LOST: The Complete Collection." ----- No discussion about the Vozzek69 stuff?

Sad, but typical. What exactly is so unclear about the 2nd amendment? Unless I missed a subordinate clause that says "... unless you live in X, Y or Z."

Yeah. That's wonderful. Shhh!! Just sweep it under the rug and no one will notice. 'Huh? What? Move along --- nothing to see here!' Like Tom Donahoe banning criticism signage at the Ralph, action like this is the last gasp for scoundrels.

I'm Dutch heritage, so they've been my main horse. In all the matches I've seen of them, I don't notice much flopping on their part. Just tough play and nice attack. An article today: Link Heartily disagree that it will "make the game worse." Having at least some recourse for blatantly blown calls can't be bad.

I'm pretty sure tennis is bigger in this country than soccer ever will be. Especially when there is NO recourse wrt refs who are paid off by the mob / have personal or international grudges / just plain f--- up. Sports-fixing scandal may be acceptable and play well in the rest of the world, but not here. Until soccer initiates the process of replay --- and what better place to do this than the World Cup where there the technology is there and everything's in place...? I can understand how it might not be feasible in SA, Africa, etc. But how people can live with this product --- specifically the ref problems --- is beyond me. If this Cup doesn't make FIFA do anything in the way of replay, I don't see how anything will. Teams have to start boycotting the tourney, leagues have to form outside of FIFA. Soccer is second only to WWF/WWE in sham factor. Like I wrote upthread, I don't condone physical violence on them, but I can sure understand how it would happen in the heat of the moment.

Resident Horrible Person Ed (name has since changed to... ) would smoke you all with his Honda Fit.

They still have a ways to go before a switch to an 18 game season. (I'm all for it.) Will it happen before the Toronto series deal runs out? If it does, that scenario of 2 regular season games at Rogers is likely. They may have to revisit the contract given such a change.

Makes a heck of a excuse for getting out of weddings and clothes shopping with the missus. " [tongue click] Oooo, sorry about that, but I've gotta work on my nuclear reactor on Friday."

We've got an old '79 Ford F-350 with a stake bed that has, as one mechanic who recently did the brakes on it said, "More balls than a herd of elephants." No lie, we had three mafia blocks on it and it didn't crouch much. The creeper gear is great too --- many a yard saved when delivering firewood or moving family members (one trip usually did it), where the owners said previous trucks have spun out and destroyed the grass. The body is rusting tho. They don't make 'em like they used to.

I believe there is a certain acreage requirement here, but I think you need to contact your local town hall for a permit to establish a small family plot on private land. Here's another link that ran in the NYT last year about the 'home burial' process.

This is a pretty good article about the procurer of donated cadavers at my alma mater's med school.... Gotta say that this is a worthy cause to help advance science and medicine, for those who are comfortable with the idea.

Mark Wahlberg the (terrible) actor, or Mark Wahlberg the host of "Antiques Roadshow"?

Another thing I just thought of, after the funeral thread here on Off the Wall.... The Others' funeral rites now make a lot more sense. Setting Coleen's body adrift into the ocean meant that MIB would have a harder time possessing it. Perhaps that's what they did with Paul's body as well (Amy's husband before Horace Goodspeed).