75 thoughts on “January 21, 2012: Success”

  1. Gwen waking up early + cable = getting to watch Norwich City vs Chelsea.

    It's not a great game at the half, but is fun to watch regardless.

  2. The 4LTR.com has a new feature called the "Lob City Ledger" where they grade every Clipper game. Last night? They said that the Wolves gave the Clips "a run for their money". Ha!

    1. I think I preferred this part:

      the clock ran out before Chauncey Billups could work his "Mr. Big Shot" magic.

      He did miss a layup with just a couple seconds left, no? I unfortunately fell asleep before the second half, so I missed it, but the recap said his magic fizzled.

    2. Moss has to admit, it was fun to see the last three minutes of that game. (That's all Moss watched.)

      As Raftery says, ONIONS!

  5. From the small world file, I check Facebook this morning and saw my brother mocking one of his college friends last night . . . because she was the woman who spilled her drink all over the court right before halftime.

  6. The entire time that I ran the old site, I wanted the site to be a spot to talk about the Wolves, too. Unfortunately, that never really happened because of the sucktasm. Now, though, #itshappening. I feel like Moses.

  8. I don't have any skills or tools, but let me storyboard. I see that picture of Griffin guarding Love. I see Barkley, with a golden halo (or perhaps a basketball halo) saying, "the greatest of these is Love".

  10. I did the dry-hopping step of the Furious clone just a few minutes ago (that's what it's called, yes?). I have to say, it smells like Furious already. I'm stoked.

    Now to wait another week, unless someone in the know tells me differently, and then to the bottling (cheaptoy: "Hopefully bottling doesn't kill your interest in the hobby." Okay, I'm a little worried. Is it difficult, or just tedious? I can certainly see how doing the same thing fifty times would be tedious).

    1. Dry hopping is what you've done, which reminds me, I need to dry hop my black IPA today.

      Bottling isn't difficult, just tedious. I suggest finding a nice, waist high surface to do it on, if possible. I do mine in my basement on the floor, so my knees don't feel good by the end. Plus, I have a keg system and comparing bottling to kegging is what really made me hate bottling. That said, seeing a bottle go from empty to full with your creation in it is a good feeling.

    2. My bottling experience largely consisted of drinking a lot of product, then complaining that the recipe did not make as much beer as expected.

    1. Does your state do weigh-ins the night before, or the morning of? I really enjoyed it when we did weigh-ins the night before, and got to actually rest and eat up before the matches.

      1. Morning of. How do you weigh-inside when the kids are not on-site? You would have to pay for an official to monitor. We don't even have money for uniforms (our jv kids actually have to share).

        1. If two kids are sharing a uniform, it's gotta be uncomfortable and awkward. Are they back-to-back or do they both face the same direction? I've got tons more questions. There must be some clips on youtube that will answer them.

          2. So, I've been busy for the last six hours. CER is in children's choir at church and for some reason they sang during Saturday night mass. When I wasn't getting kids ready for church, I was taking beds apart and putting them back together in different rooms.

            CER's bed went into AJR's room, and HPR's bed went into the room that CER vacated. PTBNLR will be moving into HPR's former room once she's N. All furniture has moved into place, and beds were made, but lots of other contents still need to be moved, as do curtains. Right now, if something's not where it's supposed to be, it's in PTBNLR's room. (Deadline for naming PTBNLR is 2/9/12.)

            When an 8.5yo who's had her own room for most of her life moves in with a 22mo, there needs to be a lot of winnowing, and that hasn't happened yet. HPR actually got an upgrade, but I'm not going to mention that.

            Needless to say, I haven't had much time to search youtube. But in the five or so minutes I took, I couldn't find anything like what bS describes. My search results did contain some clips of girls wrestling, but the thumbnail images didn't really match what I was looking for, so I didn't click through.

        2. If I remember right (HS was over 15 years ago), I believe the school athletic director monitored the weigh-in after the Friday night practice. We only did it for tourneys that were in Wisconsin and Iowa (my school was in MN), so maybe it had something to do with the matches being out of state or something. I thought maybe your state did it differently. I know I was grumpy as hell having to get up early and take long bus rides when I was waiting to eat breakfast until after weighing in- weeknight matches were a lot easier.

          1. If I remember right (HS was over 30 years ago), you're right. The wrestlers that didn't make weight would go back and try to sweat of the extra weight before the AD called a deadline.

  12. Moss has to post this movie review now instead of waiting for movie day. Do not, DO NOT, waste your money on Haywire.

    A few buddies (MMA fans) wanted to see that one, and the IMDB and rotten tomatoes numbers were not horrible (82% on RT right now!), so Moss was game. Holy sh!t was that an awful pile. This movie was 1:30 and could easily have been edited down to about 35 minutes. And then it would still suck, but it would have saved Moss about an hour.

    There's no character development, no relationship development, no character that you give a rat's ass about, thin plot, horrible dialogue, and a whole lot of dead time. There's low-speed chases, long sequences of no dialogue (which can be good, but not here), and huge plot holes. Oh, and lousy acting.

    The best part was a car accident reminiscent of Tommy Boy, and that was only for the presumably unintentional comedy. The only other point of interest was the score, which at times sounded like the Doors and Pink Floyd mashed up. But it probably only got noticed because of the ridiculous amount of dead space in this movie.

    Moss' friends have low standards for movies, and they HATED it. So there you have it. Moss may be done with Soderbergh.

    1. Well, thanks for the warning. I was considering it, especially since I thought he did a swell job with his last one, Contagion.

    2. Oh, and lousy acting.

      That's the exact opposite of what I've been hearing, though I have heard very unflattering things about the script, and that it didn't give the actors much to work with.

    3. We just came back from Haywire, and I had a totally different reaction. I was pleased with the sparse dialogue, and was happy that someone finally dispensed with the pretense of complicated plot in an action / revenge flick. I also liked how the shots were framed, fwiw.

  14. The Wolves, once again, will not be on local tv in Minneapolis tonight. How is this a thing in 2012?

    1. If they win tonight, it will be the first time they were .500 or above after the first two games of the season since the 2006-2007 season.

      1. I was thinking about this earlier. They beat the Kings to open the season and then dropped like 700 in a row. Other than that, I don't think they've been at .500 or above since KG left.

    2. The nights I wasn't watching last year brought the viewership down to about zero, which might explain some of this.

  15. The calf spilled my coffee all over my laptop a little bit ago. My screen is now showing pink lines and has fuzz on it like an old broadcast television. I sure hope this thing isn't busted. Time for a restart to see what happens...

        1. Looks like it is kindle time. If you thought I was bad on the typos before you ain't seen nothing yet.

      2. 160 indeed.

        question for you meat: what did you use to cut out the love image from the picture? photoshop, or something else?

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