UConn James

I'm not complaining; I'm not complaining! Didn't you see the grin as the side order to the blush? The Continental: "Whoops! What happened? What have I done? I have spilled champ-on-ya! All over your boob. How wonderful! They look like two ripe melons... drenched in morning dew. Wait. Let me gently wipe them... [ takes out handkerchief, she fends him off] You must get out of this clothing! You cannot leave like this... you'll catch chest cold. What kind of a cold would that be!?"

Well, with 6 billion people on the planet, you had to figure it'd happen sometime.

Yes, we get the idea from your avatar.

They may want to converge these four to... off them. Surprised no one has really mentioned Charlie in this ep. He's come back from the dark Charlie, tho, it's all for naught when/if the Lostaways find out it was he who dragged Sun off as the diversion. Provided the medication, even if he has no clue what it's for. Threw away the heroin as Locke looked on (note that Locke didn't seem either happy or interested). Claire took his hand at the funeral. Also had the line of the night to Eko: paraphrase "Here we were building the church and next thing I know you take off with your Jesus stick. <smartass>You don't call, you don't write....</smartass>. Also, what's with the rock formation at the Others' camp? Some sort of Stonehenge-like place? That's how I took it. Jack has experience dealing with desperate people who aren't in the throes of rational thought in a crisis. S'N'R, you need to realize that Jack is pretty miffed but he doesn't have all the info that we have. That he listens to Sayid and doesn't put up much of a fuss in defense of Michael should tell you something. On another of SNR's points, who's to say that Michael will get his for what he did? Rousseau did the same thing to her own party (did the Others or Hanso introduce the vaccination as a contributing threat/tension as a part of an experiment?). Alos, Michael killed a woman who killed Shannon and was delivered her own retribution; and Libby, someone whose character is seemingly innocuous right now but there's a lot left to discover about her. Mitigatwa the literary theme that he'll have to answer for these crimes. Brings me to another thing.... Alex was kidnapped near birth? How does she know or perceive that the Others are bad when that's the ethos she was raised with? Nothing like a parable from the priest to tell Michael that Eko knows what's going on. Great writing and delivery there. Thanks for bringing that up.

Found myself going because for maybe the second time in his presidency he actually sounded rational tonight. Tho, I suspect about 25 percent of its purpose was to give some pause to the Mexicans (and others, mind you) coming across illegally that it's only going to get tougher and get the Mexican govt off its collective ass and start doing something to make people not have to resort to it. My only concern is that the NG is already stretched pretty thin despite the placation to the contrary. That's 6,000-7,000 troops that have already pro'ly been away from home for long stretches. Spoken by someone who's looking after his 5yo nephew two weekends a month b/c my sister-in-law is flying the blue star flag.

I've been getting a sh--load of starter trees from the Natonal Arbor Day Foundation in those white plastic sleeves. So far: 10 Flowering trees (dogwoods, etc.), 5 blue spruce, 3 hazelnut bushes, and today 5 rose of sharon. I don't quite know what to do with it all, nor why they're coming in the first place. In the garden, trying some peppermint this year beside my stalwart chives. Will be doing several tomato plants (you ain't had a tomato 'til you've had a CT tomato --- it's just something in the soil). Spinach. Might try some kale. Cucumbers did really well last year but if I look at another one I'm going to yark, not to mention the vines and curlicues go everywhere.

Boy needs to stop listening to Incubus before games!

I've mostly been applying for listed jobs as well. Tho, I hear from other places about the so-called "hidden job market." I guess the whole frictional unemployment is one of the sh--ty things about how our system operates. I don't apply for positions that aren't open --- what's the use? I'm also wondering about this selective approach rather than the shotgun approach. What's better? Sending out fewer targeted apps vs. sending out resumes willy-nilly, even if only to a few places? I've been looking for a permanent, capital J "Job" for the past year and a half by the targeted method w/o much success. Several job interviews and nothing (tho I was runner-up on the last one in what turned out to be a high-profile spot). I did very well in college and have some moderate job experience, tho mostly in heavy labor b/c that's what I've been able to get (it goes a lot like Chef Jim's example). It's just getting a little frustrating. What is it? Maybe it's the area I live in? Maybe it's the Elvis stamps?. Maybe I'm using fart-scented paper?

I don't think there is any substantiated or quotable evidence that Losman rubbed the other Bills the wrong way. Mularkey clamped the lid pretty tight on players talking to the media other than the general "I'm going to go out there and do the best I can" interview --- no behind the scenes stuff, no revealing what was hurting them, no tell-alls of who didn't like who or who cut a loud fart in the film room. There's the assumed veteran non-support that caused Meathead to make the switches to Holcomb, but that's surmized. Moulds wasn't very flattering toward the team in general, but I don't think even he came out and said something like "JP's a horse's ass." And, even under the new admin and among our UFA losses, no one's said anything like that publicly. Probably b/c saying an essentially rookie player is a tad immature or had his struggles on-the-field is not exactly breaking news. If JP is the best option, the coaches will put him on the field. If not, they won't.

Good. Those lying, defecting bastards.... and they're friggin' priests!

-- For the "What is your biggest weakness" I have an old standard that I picked up when talking to one of my profs for some job-hunting hints. He said I am "low-key almost to the point of unenthusiastic" and I am always happy when this question comes up, b/c it lets me address something that the interviewer is probably wondering about. I'm a serious, task-driven person. I say that I'm not very excitable or prone to panic, and I think the message and words are what matters (rather than being a bubbly hand-talker, tho I don't say this part). -- 15 minutes is too much; you're "hanging out" in the office and appear too desperate. Five minutes early, more like, even if you just wait in your car for the other ten.

Bastage! *ptui* *ptui* Miami, VT, Boston College can all go to the drink for all I care. We call the Mecca of College Basketball "the U" in our local parlance.

Worst question I've ever gotten was, "Why do you get up in the morning?" I think now it was meant to be kind of philosophical, but at the time the look on my face was and I had to fight the urge to say, "Usually because I have to pee." I'm doing serious job-hunting and have had some interviews myself in the past couple of months and one coming up this week at the U. Have been self-employed in a construction niche job that I'm not really seeing a future in --- especially w/ rising costs on everything b/c of gas (which is making it too expensive to work, odd as that sounds). Just prepare, know something about the company/organization going in (researching what they're about shows that you actually give a hoot), and be honest. And have a firm handshake; most interviews are decided w/in the first 10 seconds. azjepp, I'll have to take your advice about writing a follow-up....

OH YEAH!

Gotta watch out for that sudden-onset osteoporosis. He could shrink before our very eyes.

Wrong! I hear he's 3 inches short of 7 feet.

Maybe they just want to give us the opportunity to showcase our fine PK, those big-hearted bastards.

Don't sass them, Monkey! They're from Canada. They invented the game. They don't get penalties! Any more of your backtalk, and they'll send the Canadian Mafia down to ice-cap your simian ass.

Purdue doesn't stress the THE as their trademark thingie. Their claim to fame is having put more people into space than Eli Lilly. On topic, Kelso pretty much nailed it. But in the Coaching Turnover category, I would add that we've had to work with the remnants of those several different philosophies in amalgum. I think generally, it's called 'bad fit.' It's now up to Jauron et al. to try to make some kind of combination that will work.* *Not running the Meathead trickery shovel pass to Shelton from the 1 should help.

The penalty section of the NHL Rulebook doesn't apply to anyone with the last name of Chara.

That sure quieted things down in Ottawa....

I don't quite think those were the arguments for picking Nugent. Nor was it being blind to our other areas of need. I've been clamoring about OL and the other key but unsexy positions for a while, but when the GM doesn't address them, what can a fan do but shrug. More like trying to play to our strengths. ST unit that could get even better with a much more powerful directional kicker, and an offense that would be more reliant on FGs for scoring what with the non-support it was getting from Donahoe beyond the shiny new skill players to whom the QB had no time to throw. They say you can't win in the NFL by kicking FGs, but you sure can lose in the NFL by not having a good, reliable kicker. Nugent will be that for the Jets for a while. As a matter of fact, I consider the Kicker and punter to be one of those key, unsexy positions.... b/c you don't know how key it is until you have someone like Jake Ariens shanking 20-yarders and extra points. TD's 'dime-a-dozen' comment when he first got here pissed me off. In perspective, Lindell was coming off a year that... well, let's put it mildly by saying it wasn't his best year, ending with that missed 28-yarder in the win-and-you're-in game vs. Pitt. Well on him that he got his sh-- together, got over the shoulder injury that was hurting his technique and got a much better long snapper. But sucks to TD for mostly waiting for the problems to go away by themselves.

You've got the startings of a good point there. But I don't think AY's grooming depends upon Troy Vincent. Also, another year in college most anywhere else would be negligible in terms of development, but it was at Ohio State, which has become DB U. I was pleased with this pick. There was no <sarcasm> tag in your post, so I'm just going to ask.... You do know that the average shelf-life of a RB is less than 2 years, don't you? And it's an area where you can put a young player in and they'll do all right. If Willis bolts, we grab a power-rusher in the 2nd.

What, is someone going to put his feet to the fire? Or are you talking about some other appendage, extremity or orafice?

Je m'excuse. Bob McNair. Ke-rist, that whole Oilers-Titans/Texans, McNair(the QB)/McNair(the owner) incest triangle catches me sometimes.