33 thoughts on “February 11, 2012: Nostalgia”

1. Rugby Today:

   England @ Italy - 10 AM Central
   Ireland @ France - 2 PM Central

   And segue...I'm working on outtakes from episode 2 to be the next WGOM radio installment as sort of an episode 2 ½. My first idea for Episode 3 was Six Nations, but the panel might only consist of meat and myself. If you have any ideas about episode 3, please let me know either here or in the eventual post to come.

   1. Ireland-France match is on BBC America. woo
      Also NBC and its sister stations are airing Rugby Sevens this weekend

      1. Time could not be going more slowly for me. KICK OFF ALREADY!

         1. Game's called on account of the pitch being unplayable. I waited around all night for nothing. At least I didn't bother to go out to the pub in this freezing weather we're having here.

2. Ozzie Guillen says he knew early in spring training that Adam Dunn was going to be terrible last year, which of course does not explain why he sent him to the plate nearly five hundred times anyway.

   1. did they not look at his swing in the offseason before they signed him?

   2. Ozzie attempts to pass the buck a lot, and maybe this is his way of saying "I told them, but they wouldn't listen."

3. 2011 In Extreme Home Runs from SB Nation

   1. That the Most Grooved Pitch wasn't from a Twins pitcher makes me skeptical.

4. Midway through season three of Breaking Bad...

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   Hank Schrader is one bad ass mother trucker

   1. My little bro and his GF have just started watching Breaking Bad. They were part way into Season 2 when I asked which episode. To narrow it down, he said...

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      "Jesse just f**ked up and Skylar is being a bitch." I said, "You're going to have to be a lot more specific than that."

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         The "Skylar is being a bitch" crap has always bugged me. She's right about Walt the whole time. What person in her situation wouldn't act that way? Is she "being a bitch" because she's trying to stop the main character from his horrible dealings? I don't get where that comes from. She has a right to be the way she is.

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            My brother told me the same thing. He called me about halfway through season 3 saying he finally got hooked, but that he wished Walt's family would just go away because they were annoying, especially his bitch wife, so they can concentrate on Walt being awesome. I told him he was watching the show from a really weird mindset.

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      Yes. Yes he is. Early on I think it was clear that he was comic relief, but once he starts getting a stronger backstory, he becomes the most purely likable character in the series (if not the most fascinating, of course, given our two leads). There isn't a weak link to be found in the thing.

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         It's sort of funny. For how much I like the show, there really aren't that many purely likable characters in it. Except for Tuco, obviously.

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            I find Badger pretty likeable.

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               He wasn't until he got the brakes in his car fixed.

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               I like Skinny Pete as well. I think much of the reason I like the show is because there aren't purely likable characters, though. They aren't found in life - why do we find them in drama?

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5. I participated in the local ice fishing challenge today.

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   It was ridiculously cold, and I caught zero fish. I had fun, anyway.

   1. I'm not good at fishing, ice or otherwise, but I do enjoy hoisting 12oz bait while failing at it.

      1. If you can't catch bottle bass, there is something wrong with you.

6. I hoisted multiple 12 oz baits, to no effect....

   ...well, I guess I wouldn't say to NO effect.

7. So, the ice fishing tourney wasn't enough. It's time to hit upthe wild gaMe. Hopefully they can take down the blue jackets.

8. Paging GreekHouse:

   I re-enabled MathJax globally. I switched back to the recommended configuration, which I had originally. Maybe it'll work better this time..

   1. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOHosIwQEnY

9. back from the league tournament. Only six teams in the tourney, and the top 4 move on to the Div. III district championships next weekend. So, naturally, the Boy finished 4th (actually, he injury defaulted the third-place match; he's been hobbled for almost two weeks with a badly sprained big toe, but he managed to pin one kid today, losing the other match on points).

   next -- we go to yet another fundraiser dinner, to watch/listen to him play jazz.

10. Whitney Houston is dead.

    1. Oh that sucks. I've let it be known around here that her singles off My Love Is Your Love are still some of my favorite pop tracks. Jonathan Peters's 14-minute house remix of that album's title track is so many different kinds of perfect: a techno remix in movements that follow the fear and hope and trust found in the lyrics and Whitney's vocals. It's not just: "Hey, this beat goes well with those vox if we speed them up by 5%."

       1. Here's that remix.
          httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZgyVPV04e8
          Mock me if you must.

          1. I will not mock...this passing does suck. The timing is never good, but 48 is way too young. My friend unexpectedly lost her Dad last weekend and he was 62 - we kept say that was too young.

11. Minnesota Gophers
    Congrats to Golden Gopher Wrestling - they took home the National Dual Regional title today and will advance to next weekend's Final Four! Results at GopherSports.com: http://bit.ly/A2ekiX.

    1. J. Cool!

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