Day: March 29, 2005

tAR 03/29

(x-posting, mostly) I wouldn’t have stopped if I was Rob or Amber. (Which would be odd, but go with me here.) My thinking is if there’s another team there to get help if needed (which there was) and no one’s in a huge panic (the teams were standing around waiting by the time Rob and … Continue reading “tAR 03/29”

(x-posting, mostly)

I wouldn’t have stopped if I was Rob or Amber. (Which would be odd, but go with me here.)

My thinking is if there’s another team there to get help if needed (which there was) and no one’s in a huge panic (the teams were standing around waiting by the time Rob and Amber rolled past), there’s nothing you can really add by stopping. If they needed you then, they’d let you know.

I think the best solution was to slow down, roll down the window, and ask, which the other teams did.

(I also think he didn’t think about stopping because the gay guys were there, and they didn’t want anything to do with them.)

I’m sure I’m liking Rob and Amber more than I should as a reaction to other people equally irrationally hating them, but I still think they were okay here. Far from perfect, but not outright horrible.

I think what’s more important (yet will get lost in the mix) is a Fun Team beat out a Not Fun Team at the end. That’s gone the wrong way many times. Much of the show is dependent on how fun/entertaining the people who are left are; it’s easier to love when you don’t have to put up with couples who clearly need not to ever talk to each other again.

Add in the dramatics of how the Fun Team lost the time, and then caught all the way up, and it was an awesome finish. Pretty good show, made possible by combining the non-elimination into a two hour show.

The new “we take everything” policy for lasts on a non-elimination is neat, but kinda annoying how it was logistically irrelevant – outside the airport, there was no place they could’ve spent the money they lost, and it wasn’t neccesary there.

“finally”

Yesterday was the first warm day of spring. Sixty degrees and really bright outside. I was kinda disappionted I somehow didn’t make the time to take it in – lots of extra stuff to do this week. Luckily, today’s just as good, if a little bit less sun. SunTimes decided to start refering to today’s … Continue reading ““finally””

Yesterday was the first warm day of spring. Sixty degrees and really bright outside. I was kinda disappionted I somehow didn’t make the time to take it in – lots of extra stuff to do this week. Luckily, today’s just as good, if a little bit less sun.

SunTimes decided to start refering to today’s weather with a statement rather than a description at some point. That’s what they’ve called the weather, yesterday and today.

Looking for Help: Anyone else got TiVo and TiVoToGo and tried the trick to decrypt the .tivo files into standard MPEGs? I’ve followed this diagram, but can’t figure out where I’m supposed to dig around to find dump. Probably completely obvious, but I’ve looked everywhere.

Decrypted would work great for CMLL I wanted to pull off my TiVo, edit down to the good parts (in my dreams, even adding some post production) and share. Still need that DVD burner first, though I did manage to track down all the cords I’d need to send the video and audio back to the TV if I wanted to do a VCR dub in a really ghetto way.

Looking for Help 2: There’s this home intercom system we have, pretty standard seeming. In addition to intercom stuff, there’s an AM/FM tuner which works fine, and some wall plugs to plug a stereo into the system. I’ve never figured out how the plugs are supposed to work; nothing I’ve hooked up has played. I’ve been trying using standard red/white/yellow cords to connect (which fit), and I’m wondering if there’s just another type of cord I need.

Can’t even think of good search terms to google it. Maybe I just need to use the standard audio cable, but I was thinking I have tried it. It’s the only thing I can figure.

who wants to live in Milwaukee

UWM’s Pearl to TENN (ESPN) This is funny, because I’m pretty sure Bruce Pearl was the same guy on PTI last week who talked about not being like other coaches and wanting to move around a lot for other jobs. But it’s a coach, so what do you expect. This was the year to leave, … Continue reading “who wants to live in Milwaukee”

UWM’s Pearl to TENN (ESPN)

This is funny, because I’m pretty sure Bruce Pearl was the same guy on PTI last week who talked about not being like other coaches and wanting to move around a lot for other jobs. But it’s a coach, so what do you expect.

This was the year to leave, too. They were an older team at the end of their cycle and were very unlikely to be as good next year, in the Horizon League alone. And you’re only the new Breakthrough Coach for so long – if you’re going to take advantage of it, you ought to do it quick.

Greatest Thing Ever: No Collins/Pearl stories twice (or five times) a year! Hope you stay in the SEC a long time.

Rule 5 notes

McKeon said left-hander Luke Hagerty is unlikely to pitch in a Grapefruit League game this week, meaning the Rule V pick will probably be offered back to the Chicago Cubs before opening day. ”He may pitch somewhere else, but not here, not in a game,” McKeon said of Hagerty, who pitched one inning this spring, … Continue reading “Rule 5 notes”

McKeon said left-hander Luke Hagerty is unlikely to pitch in a Grapefruit League game this week, meaning the Rule V pick will probably be offered back to the Chicago Cubs before opening day.

”He may pitch somewhere else, but not here, not in a game,” McKeon said of Hagerty, who pitched one inning this spring, walking one. “A lot of those guys won’t get in a game. We’ve got to get the [Guillermo] Motas, the [Jim] Mecirs and those guys pitching. We’ve only got a week to do it.”

(Miami Herald, 03/28)

Meanwhile, the Royals, with nothing better to do this year, sounds like they’re keeping Andy Sisco.