The Wild have been pretty good anyway, but if you weren't on board before, it's probably time now.
63 thoughts on “January 11, 2016: Okay, Hockey Time”
so hungry joe is unable to do the HBH plaques for an indefinite amount of time. Is there anyone else with the skills and time to help out? Otherwise we'll go without plaques for a while.
go without plaques? that would be half-baked!
quarter-baked?
So yeah, David Bowie, dead at 69. I love "Space Oddity" and recommend that anyone seek out his scenes on "Extras."
I'll listen to some Ziggy Stardust this morning, I think.
If you're ever sad, just remember the world is 4.543 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.— Dean Podestá (@JeSuisDean) January 10, 2016
The universe is 13.82 billion years old, and I existed at the same time that he still went by his given name
People say we monkey around.
That's a biased calculation. Survivor bias, probably.
Should do it by human life-years.
My favorite Bowie scene
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nSqDMqCJQw
1. I guess it's now official there will never be a sequel to 1. Outside.
2. His album's coming out in weeks, right?
3. Last time I was at my in-laws', I fell asleep on the couch while my FiL and I watched some movie on a movie channel. When I woke up, it was The Man Who Fell to Earth. That is one weird movie to wake up in the middle of. At one point you see David Bowie's junk, only there's no junk there. (The angels in Kevin Smith's Dogma have the same issue.)
4. At what age? #nice
2. Came out on Friday.
I see his new video, "Lazarus" came out on Friday, too.
Was his cancer not previously disclosed? Can I dream it's a hoax?
4. His 69th birthday was on Friday, same day the album came out.
When Linds told me that he had died, I told her that was impossible. His album came out on Friday, and that this was probably a hoax (I was very, very asleep at the time. I'm shocked that I was even able to conjure up the fact that his album had just come out).
The cancer didn't seem to be disclosed, the Pitchfork review of his album starts out...
David Bowie has died many deaths yet he is still with us.
Oops.
Thanks, Pitchfork...
I had seen some mentions of his name in the tubes before I crashed, but I just thought it was in reference to the new album. Wasn't happy when I heard it on the news in the morning.
Nor was I. I've never been all that impacted by celebrity deaths, and I've never exactly been a big Bowie fan, but this has sort of colored my day.
I missed the Tech Time/Family discussion that seems to be played out.
I'm debating giving up Facebook for Lent, or perhaps permanently because of all the time I spend waste on it...but I don't know exactly how much time I'm wasting on the device, or my wife on her device, or the kids on theirs.
Does anybody have any experience with a relevant app which offers any sort of tracking of all these things and/or controlling kid access. Barely after shooing them away from one screen, the buggers have their hands on the next one.
I deleted the Facebook app a good while back and now just access it via my phone's browser. Initially I did this to save space (their app is awful) and because they broke Messenger into a separate app; I was annoyed the few times I'd get messages from people that I couldn't read them right in the app. Now I keep it open in a browser card, but usually not the active card. It makes checking Facebook that much more intentional, which I feel calls my attention to it.
I've had good experience personally with RescueTime. Not sure how well that works for tracking other people's use. https://www.rescuetime.com/
I use rescuetime at work. A personal choice, not employer mandated. But after some ADD weeks that I was so un-productive, I needed to find a way to show that things were getting better and to continue monitoring, or my boss wanted to shut down my access to non-critical items.
I happened to come across this article today, which is about parents, kids, and devices. The article mentioned Circle with Disney, which sounds like it can track usage and control kid access.
Some years ago, Aristotle got a middle-eastern themed cookbook for kids. She's 4 now, and able to help with some kitchen stuff, so when she asked us to try some recipes from the book, I obliged. So last night we had Shawarmas* for dinner, and Hamentaschen** for dessert.
* Mankato is home to Massads, which does real Shawarmas, and this was not that. I'm convinced the recipe had its quantities wrong for the tahini (which I couldn't find, but the book recommended peanut butter as a substitute, so we went with that). Basically we had slightly-spicy-peanut-butter-chicken-pickle-and-tomato pitas. It was a strange dish. Not awful by any stretch, just... very odd. Anyway, I have tons of the sauce left, because the recipe had us making way too much.
** So I didn't know what these were when I set out to make them. I looked them up afterward. I wish I'd done that beforehand, because I could have executed a lot better. What we put together looked like a pintrest fail. They tasted good though. We did a marmalade filling in some, and a pecan-honey-cinnamon concoction of my own design in the other. But man, were they ugly. And the dough wasn't rolled thin enough.
Suffice it to say, I won't be putting up an Appetite post for this. But it seemed worth sharing as a memorable meal.
I had a very Appetite-y dinner last night. We had guests with kids, and each kid got to make their own individual-size pizza. For dessert, we served these cookies. The guests brought salad, which we served to the kids before the pizza to ensure that vegetables would be consumed as well.
The jalapeno has been baking with me lately, and he decided to make his own dessert recipe. I was not allowed to make suggestions, as he was following the "recipe in his head." The ingredients were: Hershey's kisses, sugar, tic tacs, and fruit strips. First, he tore the fruit strips into small pieces. Then, we put everything in a zip-top bag and crushed it with a rolling pin. Next, we heated everything on the stove. Finally, the whole thing went into the refrigerator overnight. It was a big hit with his kindergarten classmate who joined us for dinner, but I don't think I'll put up an Appetite post for that one either. I had a bite, though, and it actually wasn't too bad.
Oh, man... Mossad's. My favorite branch of the Israeli secret service.
I don't think I've ever before or since been offered a sample that immediately made me go, "Scratch my plans: I'm having that for lunch!"
We made a potato, pea, cauliflower, and chickpea curry out of the Cook's Illustrated cookbook for supper last night. Very much Appetite-worthy.
I think I've made that one before--it's really tasty.
Yea, peanut butter is...not a close substitute for tahini. Keep looking for it. You might find it at a natural food store or a co-op.
Psh, sesame seeds, peanuts, there's not much difference, right?
You might find it at a natural food store or a co-op.
I think you over-estimate Western MN.
ah, I had in my head that you were in/near 'kato.
Fortunately for you, teh Interwebs exists.
Used to be in 'kato. Absolutely could have found it there.
Also could have just purchased Massad's sauce in that case.
Does your grocery store have an "ethnic foods" aisle? You might have luck there. Otherwise, I guess you'd have to order it online.
I found it interesting how much time the spend on breaking down the fundamentals of basketball during practice.
That is a great read. I appreciate Mitchell's openness and willingness to do the interview, thought he came across pretty well and explains the team's shortcomings well. I didn't realize his Toronto teams were strong offensively. It is clear that the Wolves have some big personnel decisions to make, the roster has some talented players but it just doesn't fit into a cohesive team.
And man, Zach Lavine's basketball IQ sure seems to need some work.
Aye - all of this. Well, except - at times - I felt like he still came across as a bit churlish. However, it helps me understand why the team has fallen off the table. More than that, it makes me appreciate that he's trying to coach the young guys up, focus on the fundamentals of the NBA game, without knowing whether or not he'll even be around to reap the benefits.
The Timberwolves have never done this before. We did it in Toronto. So at the end of the year, when my general manager would ask me questions about this, this, this and this—[picks up Wiggins folder and slaps it down on table] there you go on every player.
The in-depth stats and record on each player and the summer program he's adding has given me new-found respect for Mitchell. His game management on the other hand...
I do, too. The people who draw them frequently make me want to loud my head on my desk with the place names they choose. "Mesabi" is from the Ojibwe Misaabe-wajiw ("Giant mountain"). That describes only a tiny portion of the area defined in the new boundaries of the state. Minnesota's name is pretty great as far as accurate, descriptive place names go.
Heh, I was thinking they got it right for my new home state.
Didn't watch the game yesterday, but heard the story. Two thoughts I had:
1) I wonder both how often the laces are in for an NFL FGA and what impact that has on the field goal percentages overall.
2) It's pretty amazing how automatic a short field goal is for NFL kickers. In 2015, the league average on 20-29-yard field goals was 97.5% (230-236). As a comparison, best I can tell there has only ever been one player in one season of the NBA to have a free-throw percentage that high--Jose Calderon with 98.1% in '08-'09. So a 20-29-yeard field goal is so much easier for NFL kickers than free throws are for NBA players that only one NBA player ever has beaten the NFL league average. The average is so high that it's probably difficult (or impossible) to actually measure if there are any kickers who are "skilled" at short field goals relative to their peers using only in-game statistics.
1) I wonder both how often the laces are in for an NFL FGA and what impact that has on the field goal percentages overall.
I've recently seen kickers quoted as saying this affects the distance much more than the direction. In other words, from that distance, homeboy should have made it no matter how the laces were positioned.
Walsh also made a longer kick earlier in the game with the laces facing him and it was down the middle. On the attempts I saw, the holder never made an attempt to rotate the laces, so it might be that Walsh has told him to not worry about it, or at least not on the shorter attempts.
Yeah, I think the baseball equivalent would be a routine two-hopper to the second baseman with the tying run at third and winning run at second and two outs in the ninth that goes through the second baseman's legs after he was brought in for a defensive upgrade.
Yeah, a capital-E fielding Error in baseball that immediately lost the game would probably be a closer equivalent. The AL fielding percentage was 98.4% last year, slightly higher than the 97.4% on 20-29-yard field goals, so maybe something a bit harder than a routine two-hopper, but not by much. (Which honestly, so few misplays are considered errors that nearly everything that gets ruled an error is pretty egregious.)
Maybe it's more remarkable that free throws are that hard to consistently make.
#2 is Tootsie. 7 is Napoleon Dynamite. 8 is Mars Attacks
I actually got four right off the bat (1,2, 5 and 7). I'm pretty sure that's a record for me.
Not much help to you guys, though.
I got the same five as you guys had, so no real help here, either. I feel like I should know number 3, since it seems like there aren't all that many movies set in the snow (other than Christmas movies at least)
I was thinking it had to be pre-2001 but the movie is The Walk, released September 2015. I don't recall seeing anyone mention it in a movie post so no one here may have seen it yet.
Heh, that's the one I was thinking of, but hadn't had a chance to look up the title. I would have, in fact, gotten it.
I saw a documentary about that subject material back when I lived in D.C. It was pretty cool. I highly recommend it.
This winter stuff is real, eh jobu?
Meh. You've just gone soft. 😉
Favorite Bowie song kicks off favorite Bowie album.
Favorite Bowie song, lead single off favorite Bowie album.
I bought the cassingle the same day I saw the movie Se7en.
I had heard it before that, so I recognized it when it played, but hearing it with that movie, loud, and I needed to hear it again immediately.
I would quote this song a lot.
It was late September 1995. I had met EAR (who was still EAP and would be for 4.9 more years) a few months earlier. We met halfway between our towns: Willmar. The movie was playing in the theater, and there was a morning (10:50am?) matinee, starting just ten minutes from when we showed up. "Hey, that looks like a good movie..., wanna?" So we did. That was our first date movie where we went as a couple and not with a group. She married me anyways.
My point: What knew there was a music store in Willmar?
I still have the cassingle.
"Rock n Roll Suicide" will always be the Bowie song I hold close to my heart
httpv://youtu.be/CD1nzOeS6U0
so hungry joe is unable to do the HBH plaques for an indefinite amount of time. Is there anyone else with the skills and time to help out? Otherwise we'll go without plaques for a while.
go without plaques? that would be half-baked!
quarter-baked?
So yeah, David Bowie, dead at 69. I love "Space Oddity" and recommend that anyone seek out his scenes on "Extras."
I'll listen to some Ziggy Stardust this morning, I think.
The universe is 13.82 billion years old, and I existed at the same time that he still went by his given name
People say we monkey around.
That's a biased calculation. Survivor bias, probably.
Should do it by human life-years.
My favorite Bowie scene
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nSqDMqCJQw
1. I guess it's now official there will never be a sequel to 1. Outside.
2. His album's coming out in weeks, right?
3. Last time I was at my in-laws', I fell asleep on the couch while my FiL and I watched some movie on a movie channel. When I woke up, it was The Man Who Fell to Earth. That is one weird movie to wake up in the middle of. At one point you see David Bowie's junk, only there's no junk there. (The angels in Kevin Smith's Dogma have the same issue.)
4. At what age? #nice
2. Came out on Friday.
I see his new video, "Lazarus" came out on Friday, too.
Was his cancer not previously disclosed? Can I dream it's a hoax?
4. His 69th birthday was on Friday, same day the album came out.
When Linds told me that he had died, I told her that was impossible. His album came out on Friday, and that this was probably a hoax (I was very, very asleep at the time. I'm shocked that I was even able to conjure up the fact that his album had just come out).
The cancer didn't seem to be disclosed, the Pitchfork review of his album starts out...
Oops.
Thanks, Pitchfork...
I had seen some mentions of his name in the tubes before I crashed, but I just thought it was in reference to the new album. Wasn't happy when I heard it on the news in the morning.
Nor was I. I've never been all that impacted by celebrity deaths, and I've never exactly been a big Bowie fan, but this has sort of colored my day.
I missed the Tech Time/Family discussion that seems to be played out.
I'm debating giving up Facebook for Lent, or perhaps permanently because of all the time I
spendwaste on it...but I don't know exactly how much time I'm wasting on the device, or my wife on her device, or the kids on theirs.Does anybody have any experience with a relevant app which offers any sort of tracking of all these things and/or controlling kid access. Barely after shooing them away from one screen, the buggers have their hands on the next one.
I deleted the Facebook app a good while back and now just access it via my phone's browser. Initially I did this to save space (their app is awful) and because they broke Messenger into a separate app; I was annoyed the few times I'd get messages from people that I couldn't read them right in the app. Now I keep it open in a browser card, but usually not the active card. It makes checking Facebook that much more intentional, which I feel calls my attention to it.
I've had good experience personally with RescueTime. Not sure how well that works for tracking other people's use.
https://www.rescuetime.com/
I use rescuetime at work. A personal choice, not employer mandated. But after some ADD weeks that I was so un-productive, I needed to find a way to show that things were getting better and to continue monitoring, or my boss wanted to shut down my access to non-critical items.
I happened to come across this article today, which is about parents, kids, and devices. The article mentioned Circle with Disney, which sounds like it can track usage and control kid access.
Some years ago, Aristotle got a middle-eastern themed cookbook for kids. She's 4 now, and able to help with some kitchen stuff, so when she asked us to try some recipes from the book, I obliged. So last night we had Shawarmas* for dinner, and Hamentaschen** for dessert.
* Mankato is home to Massads, which does real Shawarmas, and this was not that. I'm convinced the recipe had its quantities wrong for the tahini (which I couldn't find, but the book recommended peanut butter as a substitute, so we went with that). Basically we had slightly-spicy-peanut-butter-chicken-pickle-and-tomato pitas. It was a strange dish. Not awful by any stretch, just... very odd. Anyway, I have tons of the sauce left, because the recipe had us making way too much.
** So I didn't know what these were when I set out to make them. I looked them up afterward. I wish I'd done that beforehand, because I could have executed a lot better. What we put together looked like a pintrest fail. They tasted good though. We did a marmalade filling in some, and a pecan-honey-cinnamon concoction of my own design in the other. But man, were they ugly. And the dough wasn't rolled thin enough.
Suffice it to say, I won't be putting up an Appetite post for this. But it seemed worth sharing as a memorable meal.
I had a very Appetite-y dinner last night. We had guests with kids, and each kid got to make their own individual-size pizza. For dessert, we served these cookies. The guests brought salad, which we served to the kids before the pizza to ensure that vegetables would be consumed as well.
The jalapeno has been baking with me lately, and he decided to make his own dessert recipe. I was not allowed to make suggestions, as he was following the "recipe in his head." The ingredients were: Hershey's kisses, sugar, tic tacs, and fruit strips. First, he tore the fruit strips into small pieces. Then, we put everything in a zip-top bag and crushed it with a rolling pin. Next, we heated everything on the stove. Finally, the whole thing went into the refrigerator overnight. It was a big hit with his kindergarten classmate who joined us for dinner, but I don't think I'll put up an Appetite post for that one either. I had a bite, though, and it actually wasn't too bad.
Oh, man... Mossad's. My favorite branch of the Israeli secret service.
I don't think I've ever before or since been offered a sample that immediately made me go, "Scratch my plans: I'm having that for lunch!"
We made a potato, pea, cauliflower, and chickpea curry out of the Cook's Illustrated cookbook for supper last night. Very much Appetite-worthy.
I think I've made that one before--it's really tasty.
Yea, peanut butter is...not a close substitute for tahini. Keep looking for it. You might find it at a natural food store or a co-op.
Psh, sesame seeds, peanuts, there's not much difference, right?
You might find it at a natural food store or a co-op.
I think you over-estimate Western MN.
ah, I had in my head that you were in/near 'kato.
Fortunately for you, teh Interwebs exists.
Used to be in 'kato. Absolutely could have found it there.
Also could have just purchased Massad's sauce in that case.
Does your grocery store have an "ethnic foods" aisle? You might have luck there. Otherwise, I guess you'd have to order it online.
Once you get the tahini, you can make this awesome recipe too!
They have an "ethnic foods" "aisle." It takes up about 4 feet worth of a regular aisle. One side is Ortega products. The other is La Choy.
This is the big grocery story in Wilmar.
Don't discount Willmar! They used to have a record store!
Attn Philo:
As always, Britt Robson has a great article up at MinnPost
Q&A: Sam Mitchell weighs in on Zach LaVine, Andrew Wiggins — and the Wolves season so far
I found it interesting how much time the spend on breaking down the fundamentals of basketball during practice.
That is a great read. I appreciate Mitchell's openness and willingness to do the interview, thought he came across pretty well and explains the team's shortcomings well. I didn't realize his Toronto teams were strong offensively. It is clear that the Wolves have some big personnel decisions to make, the roster has some talented players but it just doesn't fit into a cohesive team.
And man, Zach Lavine's basketball IQ sure seems to need some work.
Aye - all of this. Well, except - at times - I felt like he still came across as a bit churlish. However, it helps me understand why the team has fallen off the table. More than that, it makes me appreciate that he's trying to coach the young guys up, focus on the fundamentals of the NBA game, without knowing whether or not he'll even be around to reap the benefits.
The in-depth stats and record on each player and the summer program he's adding has given me new-found respect for Mitchell. His game management on the other hand...
I like maps.
The U.S. Map Redrawn as 50 States With Equal Population
I do, too. The people who draw them frequently make me want to loud my head on my desk with the place names they choose. "Mesabi" is from the Ojibwe Misaabe-wajiw ("Giant mountain"). That describes only a tiny portion of the area defined in the new boundaries of the state. Minnesota's name is pretty great as far as accurate, descriptive place names go.
Heh, I was thinking they got it right for my new home state.
Didn't watch the game yesterday, but heard the story. Two thoughts I had:
1) I wonder both how often the laces are in for an NFL FGA and what impact that has on the field goal percentages overall.
2) It's pretty amazing how automatic a short field goal is for NFL kickers. In 2015, the league average on 20-29-yard field goals was 97.5% (230-236). As a comparison, best I can tell there has only ever been one player in one season of the NBA to have a free-throw percentage that high--Jose Calderon with 98.1% in '08-'09. So a 20-29-yeard field goal is so much easier for NFL kickers than free throws are for NBA players that only one NBA player ever has beaten the NFL league average. The average is so high that it's probably difficult (or impossible) to actually measure if there are any kickers who are "skilled" at short field goals relative to their peers using only in-game statistics.
1) I wonder both how often the laces are in for an NFL FGA and what impact that has on the field goal percentages overall.
I've recently seen kickers quoted as saying this affects the distance much more than the direction. In other words, from that distance, homeboy should have made it no matter how the laces were positioned.
Walsh also made a longer kick earlier in the game with the laces facing him and it was down the middle. On the attempts I saw, the holder never made an attempt to rotate the laces, so it might be that Walsh has told him to not worry about it, or at least not on the shorter attempts.
Yeah, I think the baseball equivalent would be a routine two-hopper to the second baseman with the tying run at third and winning run at second and two outs in the ninth that goes through the second baseman's legs after he was brought in for a defensive upgrade.
Yeah, a capital-E fielding Error in baseball that immediately lost the game would probably be a closer equivalent. The AL fielding percentage was 98.4% last year, slightly higher than the 97.4% on 20-29-yard field goals, so maybe something a bit harder than a routine two-hopper, but not by much. (Which honestly, so few misplays are considered errors that nearly everything that gets ruled an error is pretty egregious.)
Maybe it's more remarkable that free throws are that hard to consistently make.
How about a routine popup to the second baseman with the tying run at second and winning run at first?
Probably lost a HOF vote on that play.
Sheesh, the way Michael Kay calls that you'd think it was a walk-off error in Game Seven instead of a walk-off error in mid-June.
I've got 3 of this week's Invisibles. They're the obvious ones (2, 7, & 8). I feel like I've seen most of the others though...
2 isn't obvious to me at all but 1 and 5 are.
Ah! That's what 5 is! I knew I knew it.
I actually got four right off the bat (1,2, 5 and 7). I'm pretty sure that's a record for me.
Not much help to you guys, though.
I got the same five as you guys had, so no real help here, either. I feel like I should know number 3, since it seems like there aren't all that many movies set in the snow (other than Christmas movies at least)
Hey!!!! I got one we didn't have yet!!!!!111!1
Gah, nipped at the wire.
I did a reverse image lookup on #6 and I'm kind of glad I did because I don't think anyone would guess it.
Heh, that's the one I was thinking of, but hadn't had a chance to look up the title. I would have, in fact, gotten it.
I saw a documentary about that subject material back when I lived in D.C. It was pretty cool. I highly recommend it.
This winter stuff is real, eh jobu?
Meh. You've just gone soft. 😉
Favorite Bowie song kicks off favorite Bowie album.
Favorite Bowie song, lead single off favorite Bowie album.
I bought the cassingle the same day I saw the movie Se7en.
I had heard it before that, so I recognized it when it played, but hearing it with that movie, loud, and I needed to hear it again immediately.
I would quote this song a lot.
It was late September 1995. I had met EAR (who was still EAP and would be for 4.9 more years) a few months earlier. We met halfway between our towns: Willmar. The movie was playing in the theater, and there was a morning (10:50am?) matinee, starting just ten minutes from when we showed up. "Hey, that looks like a good movie..., wanna?" So we did. That was our first date movie where we went as a couple and not with a group. She married me anyways.
My point: What knew there was a music store in Willmar?
I still have the cassingle.
"Rock n Roll Suicide" will always be the Bowie song I hold close to my heart
httpv://youtu.be/CD1nzOeS6U0