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May 13, 2004
Operation Smile
Another worthy cause. Read the story and if you can, please lend a hand.
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Mark left the following in the comments a few days ago.
1998 saw a new wave of expansion of the NHL. Nashville was selected as one of the new cities. Native Tennesseans don't grow up with hockey (period). We learn the basics of Basketball, baseball, and Football. We tend to tolerate basketball/baseball until football comes back. Hockey vocabulary isn't taught/supported in the home.
I have been a Predator fan since I saw the inagural game back in 1998. I have looked at hockey as outsider for the last six years and have come to understand a few things. I understand that Hockey suffers from a lack of funding that might see a lockout/strike next year. Hockey needs an increase in Television revenue and that will only happen when the networks increase the "newbie" factor in the broadcast commentary. Hockey rules/strategy is not basic to most of American Culture like it is around the "orginal six" cities.
Along those same line, Hockey vocabulary needs to be explained to those who don't know what biscit, top shelf, five hole, or a blue line is. Somethings aren't as aparent like the difference between a wrist or slap shot. Then there are the more obscured, but vital words like a checking line. In this age of instant information the "orgianal six" tend to ignore the obvious that they have developed a language all of their own.
The second thing that the broadcasters need to improve upon is the number of cameras covering the game. How many times durring an NFL or NASCAR event that there wasn't a camera angle avilable to show fowl/accident/excitment? Why is it extreamely better to go see a live hockey game than a Televised game? There are disparities between the two that need to be adressed before the NHL will compete effectively with the NHL.
I would have thought that the fans of the "original six" would seek to convert anyone into a fan instead of this elitist mentality that only they should have hockey. I will be bitterly disappointed if there isn't hockey next season because the elitist have propagated the phrase "watered down hockey" to the point that not even the die-hard fans watch anymore. -- Mark
This guy makes so much sense he should be hired by the NHL to market the league.
To their credit, hockey started a series of televised games called "NHL Rules" where they explain what's going on during the course of the game. When icing is called, you get a quick explanation of what it is and what happens next. Two line pass? Same deal, an on-the-fly explanation, sometimes with a diagram to help explain the concepts. Unfortunately, hockey isn't televised all that much in the US unless you live near one of the teams, and the local teams don't do "NHL Rules", it's a national thing.
The league also does celebrity commercials - little quickies where they go over the slang and bits about how things work. Shania Twain does a couple, as do Jim Belushi and Keifer Sutherland and others. But again, they show these during hockey games, when many of the people watching are already at least somewhat familiar with the rules. They need a generic version to play during NASCAR races and NBA games and reruns of Friends.
Speaking of, the NHL is where NASCAR languished for years. People think hockey means fighting, like auto racing used to mean crashing. The league needs to play up the athletic angles without taking away from the crunch. The hitting in hockey is as intense as pro football, the sustained pace of the game can be compared to NASCAR, and the grace and moves of the players rivals basketball. The downside is the lack of scoring which might make viewers think of soccer, except that soccer doesn't have nearly the number of shots attempted. In addition, the NHL is implementing some rule changes to goalie equipment that should make scoring a little easier.
I learned most of my hockey knowlege from watching live games, and having the season-ticket holders sitting nearby explain things to me. I saw the same half dozen people time after time, and they were great people.
As for extra cameras, I'd settle for better placement. In some arenas in the NHL, the cameras are so badly located that the glare from the ice washes out the action. Or they're placed so high up that it's like watching from the upper deck.
Robert Heinlein once said something like "The answer to most any question is 'money'" (yeah, I butchered that quote). The NHL is trying to survive in markets that aren't intuitive. This year could see a Stanley Cup final between the traditional hockey hotbeds of Tampa Bay, Florida and San Jose, California (hope springs eternal). In the meantime, competition for players has driven salaries up like in every other sport, which in turn has driven ticket prices up. I don't see many live hockey games anymore, because it's just too damn expensive. I wish we had a minor league team closer - I think Atlantic City or Wilkes-Barre are the closest, and both of those are several hours away.
Cap the salaries guys, and if you lose a few stellar European players who decide to stay home, I can live with that.
Face shields should be mandatory. Who wins when a star takes a puck to the face and is knocked out for weeks (Roenick) or even forever (Chelios)?
Market the game, market the rivalries, market the stars - in that order. In fact, there should be a whole lot more emphasis placed on the history of hockey. Everyone knows what the Stanley Cup looks like, even non-hockey fans. Do you know what the World Series trophy looks like? How about the Super Bowl trophy? Hell, the Super Bowl team rings get more attention than the trophy. But the Stanley Cup is like everyman's trophy. It's the perfect link to the history of the game. Use it!
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I haven't attended a pro ice hockey game in years; ticket prices for the NY Rangers are astronomical, and the last time I made it to one of their games, was put-off by the 'extravaganza' production and light show (this is supposed to be a hockey game, not a figure skating competition.)
The last game I attended was in Arizona for some now-defunct minor league team. It was great and hockey as it should be.
Ted, have you ever given thought to creating a separate blog about ice hockey? (I've not searched to see if any exist.)
Posted by: Cindy at May 13, 2004 01:06 PM (Sq5pW)
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Whatever happened to the Chesapeake Icebreakers? Don't they play at the Show Place arena in Upper Marlboro?
Posted by: Rob @ L&R at May 13, 2004 01:26 PM (fQTBO)
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There's minor leauge hockey in Virgina...off the top of my head:
Richmond RiverDogs(http://www.riverdogshockey.com/) (coached by Rod Langway last year, although they didn't renew his contract after their fast playoff exit)
Norfolk (formerly Hampton Roads) Admirals (http://www.norfolkadmirals.com/) (don't know if they still are, but they were owned in part by Craig Laughlin)
Roanoke Express
(http://www.roanokeexpress.com/)
I think the NHL should bring back Peter Puck.
Posted by: nic at May 13, 2004 01:29 PM (JijW0)
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The Icebreakers folded (actually, I think the team moved) after the 1998-99 season. We used to go sometimes; it was fun and affordable, if not spectacular hockey. (OTOH, we just sat through a season of unspectacular hockey at twice the price.)
Posted by: nic at May 13, 2004 01:38 PM (JijW0)
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Yeah, the ECHL 'breakers were sold (the owner lost a cool million the two seasons he owned 'em )and they became the ECHL Jacksonville Bandits. I'm 99% sure the Bandits have folded/been sold/don't exist anymore.
Posted by: Victor at May 13, 2004 01:49 PM (L3qPK)
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I was a little vague--the owner of the Icebreakers lost a cool million both seasons he owned 'em. Two mill total.
Posted by: Victor at May 13, 2004 01:50 PM (L3qPK)
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We used to watch the Skipjacks in Baltimore when visiting my in-laws. Fun fun fun.
Cindy, there are some excellent blogs out there with a strong emphasis on hockey. Over on the right column, almost all the way to the bottom are listed a group of sports blogs. The last three in particular are daily reads for me. Hockey Pundits, Off Wing Opinion, and I just finally linked Sharkspage. I highly recommend them if you're a hockey fan.
Posted by: Ted at May 13, 2004 03:17 PM (ZjSa7)
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Hmm...
Well, it is watered down hockey (and I'm not an "original six" fan.
What frustrates long-time hockey fans is not entirely the presence of teams like Nashville, Florida, Tampa Bay, et al.
But the reality that one-third of current NHL players would not have been in the league in, say, 1990, has had a damaging effect on the quality of the game overall. Especially regular season games.
Couple that with the price increases and you end up being asked to pay $50 to see Nashville vs. Atlanta when, in reality, at least 50% of the players in the game would have been in the AHL 10 years ago. And should probably be there now, which begets trap defenses, clutching, grabbing etc.
I used to go to hockey games all of the time -- 30 a year. And while the Whalers were never so good, the quality of the game itself was a lot better -- end-to-end action, etc.
But the powers that be decided the NHL had to be a coast-to-coast game and larded up the southeast with teams that, by and large, don't have anywhere near the support of teams like Detroit, Philadelphia, etc.
As for the knowledge factor, I'd expect a team like Nashville to include that in their own broadcasts. When I lived in Florida, the Panthers did that, and also offered clinics on rules of the game where you could meet a player, go on the ice, and get game tickets or whatever.
The national broadcasts should not regularly be clogged up with junk like explanations of icing, because if you want a primer on the rules of hockey, the Internet is right there. If you don't, or just want to sit and wait until its explained on the broadcast, then I would question the passion of your fandom. No offense intended, but I think typically when you want to learn about something you check it out.
As for the rivalries, well, no offense, but they take time to develop. The biggest gripe I've heard about all of the expansion was it took away games people wanted (say, the Blackhawks or Red Wings for Blues fans), and replaced them with a lesser game at a higher price (enter, say, the Columbus Blue Jackets).
Time will cure that, but it is tough to preach patience when it is $75 to get in the building.
Posted by: Scott at May 14, 2004 10:13 AM (zL4bg)
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Scott, probably one half of today's players wouldn't be in the NHL because the European players would've taken an even bigger percentage on team rosters than they do now. Players like Lindros and Messier would've been forced to retire years ago instead of having reasonably productive seasons.
Interest in hockey has grown, which means more kids play all across the country, which means there are more players growing up and going to college or the WHA and good enough to play the pro game. I'd guess that the same has happened in Europe, as kids now dream of playing in the NHL whereas their peak ambition used to be to play on their National team, which was an even more limited opportunity.
To blame dilution of talent for the trap game and drop in scoring just doesn't stand up. The rules are the same as they were back then, so what's more likely: a drop in quality or the rules not keeping up with the current environment?
Goalies fill the net now, they're bigger and faster, plus the equipment has become overgrown. Don't like the clutching and grabbing? Call the freaking penalties that are already in the rulebook. Charra of Ottawa is 6'9"!!!! Players like St. Louis are freaks now, whereas in days past the diminuative player was more the norm. And even St. Louis is amazingly strong in comparison to the old-timers.
I also disagree with your attitude about teaching the games on television. I think this is what Mark was originally talking about. Hockey is fighting for every viewer on an already overcrowded sports schedule, and must actively recruit fans. And you do that by teaching the rules as you go along. By taking your advice, someone channel-surfing and stopping for a moment won't understand what's going on, will reach for the remote, and won't bother going back. Nor will they care to research the game on their own. A potential fan was just lost because the NHL didn't try hard enough.
I agree with you about the prices being way too high and rivalries taking time to develop. On the other hand, other pro leagues have realigned or expanded and survived. Give it time.
Great points. Thanks for commenting!
Posted by: Ted at May 14, 2004 01:38 PM (ZjSa7)
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Wow,
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I may have mislead ya'll into thinking I didn't know the rules (what rules, the umpires discression?) I know the basics because Craig Leipold and company has done a fabulous job educating me. The Predator Club has what's called hockey 101 which includes an in house arena radio broadcast for complete newbies that explain not only the rules but the stratagy of the game during the game. My opion is that the Networks could pick up and use the SAP channel for a simular "teaching channel" durring the game. There is a hockey 101 station on the ground floor where patrons can learn the basics through a video presentation and the jumbotron has graphics that define the "latest" fowl.
I agree with Ted that the present rules aren't inforced with rigger. The NHL has a war room that monitors every game in progress, so that there are a total of five "judges" to call penalties; two referees, two linesmen, a video referee. However the Linesmen can't call the grabbing, roughing, fighting, or serious penalites that slow the game down.
The Referees of the NHL are some of the most biased officals of any professional sport. They have a great deal of discression and latitude in what they consider a penality. Barry Trotz, Head Coach of the Predators, has on many occasions indicated that he wasn't pleased with the officating of a game. The original six get peferential treatment from the Referees; Fine, I'll get over it. However, it makes them, the original six's players, a target for every expansion team; target of hate.
I know of people who go to hockey games to watch the fights more than to watch the wingers get behind the defense for a break away two on one with the goalie. I go to watch for that, or the fat rebounds in the slot that get chipped in; I never like it's when Vokoun though. Hockey is brutally poetic when the grabbing, and cheap shots are controlled though just and even calls by the officials. You want to see better played hockey, then get the officiating to match.
Ticket prices are basic supply and demand. The Laker and Nicks' fans all suffer from this afflection so it's not limited to the NHL. Nashville is in a small hockey market but a huge sports market; the Titans can attest to that. I personally invite you to come watch a game here. Ten bucks gets you in the door; On the glass tickets are $85 (two rows back it drops to $69). I've sat in the upper deck and down on the floor and have never been disappointed with by view.
I just want to point out one last thing. Less than eight percent of players make the All-star team; only 11 western confrence teams were represented. Nashville sent two players (Timonen and Vokoun) this past year. Dan Hamhuis was named to the youngstars roster too. I'm proud of these guys and look forward to watching them play next year.
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Some representative samples from the artist (not safe for work). Even if you don't recognize the name, you may know the work. He did the cover of Cheap Thrills by Janis Joplin's Big Brother & the Holding Company.
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He also illustrated some of Charles Bukowski's short stories. The guy is great.
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May 12, 2004
Mutual Assured Destruction of Omaha moment
I had to move a bookcase out of the way to get at the wall where our modem cable enters the house. Afterwards I was inspecting the new cat-5 cables, and noticed a little bit of nature happening right near my feet.
A yellow jacket was buzzing on the floor, caught up in a spider web. Also on the web was the owner, possibly a black widow, darting in and out, doing spider things to subdue the yellow jacket and make it more secure in the web. It was pretty fascinating to watch.
I finally got a spraycan of gloss clearcoat and hosed them both down until all movement stopped. Old joke, but true in this case: they died with a beautiful finish.
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Next on Wild Kingdom, "When Insects Run Amok Near Your Cat-5 Cables." Sounds like you gave them a good shellacking. Aheh.
Posted by: topdawg at May 13, 2004 10:25 AM (JMaAr)
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A good shellacking - heh!
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PDA's and GPS
Just before I left the Air Force, the unit I was assigned to purchased Geodex systems for every officer. Geodex was similar to DayRunner or File-o-Fax and was basically a notebook full of the myriad details that you needed for life.
Alas, Geodex is no more. This truly sucks because it was one of those instances where the implementation lived up to the promise of the original concept.
Anyways, one officer I worked with didn’t want his Geodex because he already had a system that worked for him, so he gave the whole thing to me to use. I loved it and used it for several years, finally giving it up when I could no longer get the annual refills needed to keep it current.
Since then, I’ve relied on post-it notes, various lists jotted here and there and numerous notebooks and steno pads. Nothing very formal, nothing very organized, but good enough to get by with.
Obviously, I’m not one of those people who runs right out to get the latest and greatest technology. I still don’t have a cell phone, let alone a PDA. A PDA always fell under the category of ‘nice to have’ – if I ever had a few hundred dollars to spare. Being married with teenagers in the house, you can imagine how often that happens.
GPS was kind of interesting, but for me the main idea would be using it to triangulate the position of a rocket when it landed, hopefully cutting down the time spent searching for rockets that come down out of sight. The kids and I have always used the human method, where one stays back and marks a distant landmark, then uses hand signals to direct the searchers to the correct line to follow. It works better than guess-and-by-golly, but it’s far from perfect.
GPS always fell into the ‘nice to have’ category too, but my sensible (and better) half is starting to convince me that it’s time to modernize all-around (hint: when convincing me, it helps to use a bigger 2x4).
I’m feeling the need for a PDA, and Garmin makes a model –
the Garmin iQue 3600 – that combines the features of a good PDA with everything I need in a GPS system. The damn thing is almost $500.00, but Liz made the point that with the amount of money I’m risking per rocket launch nowadays (motor parts, electronics, chutes, etc), that if the GPS helps me locate a rocket or two that I might otherwise lose, then it’s practically paid for itself right there. Like I said, she’s the sensible member of the team.
Still with me? Cool. This is a long, meandering way to finally get around to asking if you have a PDA or GPS, and if so, what it is and how it works for you? What do you like about it? What do you hate about it? What would you change about it?
Don’t have one? Why not? I’m curious and collecting experiences and opinions here. Thanks.
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I bought my wife a Zire 71 last summer. She loves it, and was in dire (zire?) need of some org help juggling school and work. The pics it takes ain't great, and I don't see the point of that feature, but it's there.
Myself, even in my most stressed mode, when I was a grad student and working 2 part time jobs, I never got past post-it notes. I can't remember my own birthday, but I can dependably remember where I'm supposed to be and when. Funny how that works.
And let me add re your inner geek post from the other day: anyone who knows his way around ADQ and ads for Uncle Albert's Auto Stop and Gunnery Shop is OK in my book.
Posted by: GeekLethal at May 12, 2004 12:45 PM (ezNB7)
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I actually have a cheap Casio PDA that I got for free when I signed up for something, but I never use it..it's WAY more work that scribbling on a post it! Plus, if you lose ONE post it, you still have all the others...
Posted by: Susie at May 12, 2004 12:57 PM (vo6ta)
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Handspring Treo. chose it for the little thumb keyboard vs learning to write in a special script. Can't live without it.
Get something that can sync your computer - in case you lose it you can at least replace all of the data on the new one.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at May 12, 2004 03:14 PM (UquFN)
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The only GPS experience I have is navigating sail boats. Fantastic stuff that. Finding an object with a known position (Channel Marker) within a few feet in dense fog is a pretty cool thing. Not sure how it would help you find a rocket though unless the rocket was carrying a GPS device that could link up with yours.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at May 12, 2004 05:44 PM (4819r)
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Handheld GPS can be accurate to, at max, something like six feet (two meters) but is more likely to be 3-5 meters. Finding a rocket in brush will normally require much better accuracy than that. Furthermore, GPS tells you where you (or, rather, the receiver) are located; it can't tell you where anything else is.
For finding rockets, you might check out the "chirp" radios that are used for, e.g., tracking animals. Modern ones use fairly high frequencies, so the search antenna is smaller and lighter than the big Yagis they used to use.
What you might be better off with is a set of cell phones with walkie-talkie (free conversation between members of the set) capability. They could be used instead of hand signals between searcher and fixed-point post.
I have a very old Casio organizer, not a real PDA. It's handy for phone numbers and schedule reminders, if I can remember where it is... having all the info in one place can be either convenience or disaster, and with me it tends strongly toward the latter.
Regards,
Ric
Posted by: Ric Locke at May 12, 2004 11:38 PM (4a0NX)
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I have a Palm Tungsten T2 which has a really nice 320x320 color screen. The screen is partially covered by the bottom control buttons which you pull down to expose the full screen and it will power up the device automatically. When it's closed up it's a little bigger than a deck of cards. I'm in the corporate world, and we use MS Outlook for scheduling. By synchronizing the Palm with my PC, meetings and assignments are downloaded onto the Palm. I have lots of pictures on it which look really good considering the screen has 65,000 (2**16) colors. I'm a power user so I use a stylus and Palm's Graffitti hand writing symbols to enter items into the Palm. It also has Docs to Go, so I can download Excel, Word and Powerpoint documents for viewing. It has a built in rechargeable battery that you charge through the docking cradle. I haven't tried playing MP3's yet, it accepts SD memory cards which you can use to store the songs. Don't know much about GPS on the Palm.
I really like the T2. I think if you shop around you can get one for $200 to $250. Palm has a T3 which does everything the T2 does plus more, they cost about $150 more.
Posted by: roberto at May 13, 2004 03:23 AM (Zsoda)
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Compaq iPAQ. love it, though it has a few quirks. there's a gps add-on,but i haven't really pursued it. mostly use the pda as a email/contact/schedule organizer and as a walking-home web-browser (i have a list of pages that it downloads automagically and the pda has a baby internet explorer)
Garmin GPS III+. love it. have had it for 3 years or so. use it almost exclusively on my motorcycle. i am addicted to the concept of a map with a moving you-are-here symbol!
i am not sure how a GPS would help you find your rockets though. the receiver tells you fairly precisely where it is, but cannot tell you anything about where anything else is unless that object has its location entered in the GPS system's database.
i think that a small ham radio beacon would likely be the best bet for that application.
see: http://www.ac6v.com/beacons.htm
Posted by: chris at May 15, 2004 03:59 PM (zH1Gw)
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Posted by: ÏÑÏÔÉ ÚÑÇÞíÉ at July 13, 2011 09:33 PM (6pzhx)
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Exactly
Mr. Green puts it perfectly:
Abu Ghraib represents a betrayal of our principles, while this murder [Nicholas Berg - RJ] represents an expression of theirs.
It's short, and not all flag-waving and chest-thumping either.
Go read.
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Kudos to Mt Green... well said.
Posted by: Madfish Willie at May 12, 2004 12:07 PM (LbKVB)
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Actually that one sentence - that one little sentence sums it up nicely.
Posted by: Kat at May 13, 2004 02:51 PM (PwX2K)
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The secret life of my inner-geek
Over at the Llama Butchers, Robert comes out of the geek-closet and lists ten things that he knows way too much about to be considered healthy. Well, I have a few of those niche interests myself, so here's my list:
1. Stonehenge
2. Druids
3. Star Trek paperback novels (original series)
4. WWII Battle of Midway
5. BDSM
6. Car Wars game
7. The Fantasy Trip role-playing game
8. H.P. Lovecraft
9. Hitchcock movies
10. James Garner
Things I know quite a bit about but not enough to go on that list:
1. Cooking
2. Gardening
3. Hockey
4. 60's & 70's tennis
5. Cary Grant movies
6. Movie musicals
7. Woodworking, cabinetry and carpentry
8. Oakland/LA/Oakland Raiders
9. San Francisco Giants
Robert also asks that you run with this and post your own list, however long or short, on your own place if you have one. Feel free to leave it in my comments if you'd rather.
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You're an expert on BDSM? Whoda thunk it?
Posted by: Victor at May 12, 2004 01:55 PM (L3qPK)
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Long story.
Never forget, I'm boring.
Posted by: Ted at May 12, 2004 02:28 PM (blNMI)
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BDSM... Okay Dad, I know your wierd.. But I think this is a new level for you... And something I did not want to know.
Posted by: Mookie at May 12, 2004 04:11 PM (ZjSa7)
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And how do *you* know what that means?
Posted by: Ted at May 12, 2004 04:35 PM (ZjSa7)
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LOL, maybe i should leave the room so the two of you can chat.
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Mentioned in passing
My wife once bought me a bumper sticker for one of my old beater vehicles. It read "Vulcan Science Academy - the logical education".
I put it on my back bumper. Upside down.
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May 11, 2004
Thunderbirds are Go!
A new live action style movie due out in July. Be sure to watch both trailers, because the US and international versions are different.
Thanks to
Doug Pratt for sending this link to me! And if you go to Doug's site, you should order one of his cool new Freedom 'hoody' sweatshirts or 'rocket scientist' t-shirts. Both are
Mookie-approved!
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Another rocket contest
This one calls for teams to build a rocket that deploys a remotely-controlled rover vehicle.
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Unlike Frankenstein, the green stops at my thumbs
I'm not bragging, I'm just good at non-vegetable gardening. There are a few pictures of this year's work (so far - it's early yet) in the extended entry.
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Nice hostas. (...which is a sentence I NEVER thought I'd write)
My wife and I are landscaping our yard soon, and we're looking at hostas. Glad to see they look so good.
Posted by: Jon Henke at May 11, 2004 06:54 AM (EHefn)
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I love Clematis. We had five before we moved. Three were about five years old. I hope in the new house we find some spot to put new ones.
Posted by: Blogeline at May 11, 2004 08:13 AM (O27QY)
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I just planted my own lovely blue Clematis, next to the railing of my front steps. Hopefully it'll trail up the side and put forth gorgeous flowers that I can look outside my window and admire.
I've always wanted Hostas, but I just don't have enough shade for them yet--and Texas sun can be very intense, even for plants that thrive in full sun.
--TwoDragons
Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at May 11, 2004 02:25 PM (sNTVJ)
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Our hostas do great in the shaded backyard, and I was really surprised at how well they did in the sunny front. Actually, they *loved* the extra sun they were getting.
The newest spot (in the picture) is pretty much full sun all morning. we'll see how they do. It already looks like I'll need to take divisions out of them come fall.
Anyone in the DC metro area want some hosta, sedums or black-eyed susans?
Posted by: Ted at May 11, 2004 02:46 PM (blNMI)
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I might take you up on that - I've a part-shade area around the side of the house where I've been planning to put some hostas for a while but haven't got round to it yet. As for the susans - I tried to start some from seed this year and got absolutely zilch. (The seeds were from Burpee, so they should have been okay.) So I broke down and bought some from Meadow Farms. I've never liked sedum, although I don't really know why.
Posted by: Robert the Llama Butcher at May 11, 2004 03:46 PM (XQmyz)
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Hey,Ted!That all looks great.I like the hostas.I would love to see the Dusty Millers,also.It's garden time here,too.Most of my stuff is of the veggie variety.I used to garden a little every summer(mostly containers) but got away from it for a while.I'm trying to get back at it this year now that I have a wide open space at my granny's.This will just to be doing it as next year will be completly different.Plans for then are already being made.I'm gonna rent either a mini-excavator or a backhoe this fall to dig 1-2 ft. deep pits with it.The soil will then be hand sifted back into the pits with plenty of ammendments and no rocks.There's gonna be a new house on the property by next year so I gotta wait to see where it's gonna go exactly.
Eventually I hope to have quite a few 4X12 raised beds.If all goes well it will look like the garden on the DIY channels Fresh From The Garden show.Either way it's gonna be a helluva project with both the garden and the landscape.
Also,let me say that it is great to see others workin' the dirt and if you ever have anything extra I will take it off yer hands,Ted.However,if someone else wants it then by all means let them have it.Maybe i'll have plenty of `maters and such to pass along this summer and fall.I have a feeling that within the next couple of years i'm gonna have stuff out the wahzoo.You don't even wanna know about some of the clone projects i'm hoping to achieve over the next couple of years.Let's just say that there's a whole bunch of bushes,shrubs and trees that have gotten way to big for their britches.
Oh and BTW you all where luck to not get any more weather than that last night.We got hit by four nasty back-to-back thunder storms yesterday.I had just driven through and then out of one in Front Royal.It followed me home.Just as I got out of the car it started to pour.I left all of my plants out because I din't think it was gonna do anything much.WRONG!The lightening came in waves but the rain never let up for a second over about two hours.When it finally did I ran out to grab the plants and bring them inside.They are in three-paks sitting in disposable Food Lion cake pan tops so that I can water them from below.They where floating.That alone was about four or five inches of rain.
No sooner than I got them in I looked north back over the mountain to see yet another huge cell coming over.This was unlike anything I had ever seen before.This thing was shooting up about 500+ feet per second or so and was growing blacker by the moment.It finally got to the point where it developed that greenish tint and started whipping everywhere.There was one part of it that ran from clear back over the mountain to a point several miles down in the valley.This was a funnel that almost made it.If it had it would have been at least and f-4,perhaps and f-5 and it would have been well over a mile wide.It just didn't have enough time.It did manage scare the hell out of our gun shy dogs as well dump several more inches of rain.Funny that I had just told someone that afternoon that I would like to see a nice thunderboomer.Be careful of what you wish for,huh?
Posted by: Russ at May 15, 2005 05:05 PM (ObxzR)
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May 10, 2004
VIP's
Here's the list of visiting guests at the Team America Rocketry Challenge finals to be held weekend after next (link over on the right column):
"Rocket Boy" author Homer Hickam, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, NASA Associate Administrators Craig Steidle and Adena Loston, Marshall Space Flight Center Director David King, NASA astronauts Jay Apt and Charlie Walker, among other dignitaries.
Mookie and I got to meet Homer Hickam, Senator Enzi, and Jay Apt last year. Good people.
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Rocketing Around the Blogosphere
I've been working on this as time allowed over the last few days, so if you find some of these links are a little... old, they're not, they're nicely aged like a fine wine. Yeah, that's it.
Fellow
Munuvian Linda of Auteriffic has an
interesting discussion going on about porn. If you’ve read
Rocket Jones for any length of time, you know I peruse the naughty bits on occasion, and then cheerfully pass it along to you. That’s not what Linda is doing, she’s looking at it from a more intellectual standpoint, and the discussion is excellent. Go check it out.
P.S. For anyone expecting to find my input there, it’s not. I’ve got some things to say, but haven’t really had a chance to sit back and sort it out in my mind. This is a subject where it’s all too easy to lose sight of your original point, and I don’t want to do that. Maybe this week, if not then I’m afraid it’ll be too late to toss my two cents in.
Over at Say Uncle, Thibodeaux passes on
a link and a joke. The excerpt from the linked story is priceless!
I’ve heard of
LittleTinyLies before, but there are only so many hours I can
waste at work spend surfing the ‘net, so I’d never visited.
Big mistake on my part. This guy is on a BBQ binge lately, and some of his posts are so mouth-wateringly wonderful it’s damn near pornographic [
another porn reference - what gives?]. Ignore some of the unholy abominations he experiments with (donut lasagne?) and stick with the 'dead beasts on fire' recipes. Yum!!!
Annika has probably already seen this (and frightened co-workers as she suddenly burst into laughter throughout the day at the mere thought of), but she seldom misses an opportunity to
slam the American Skankwoman. So just in case she missed it, here's
Britney Spears in her natural state, courtesy of Wizbang!
Do you love Scrappleface? Are you a regular Onion reader? Have you tried
Broken Newz yet?
Thank
J-Walk Blog for this link to
40 years of Astounding/Analog covers. I read Analog faithfully for years from the early 70’s, and was introduced to war gaming thanks to a little ad inside one of their issues. What was that company again... SSI - Strategic Simulations, Inc? I need to google that up.
He also linked to the
Read Print library, with thousands of online books. This is going to be fun to go through.
Loren at
Civilization Calls links to this interesting phenomena in Africa -
fairy circles - that as far as anyone can tell, may actually be created by fairies.
Yet another Munuvian, Rae, talks about her Mother's Day weekend and teaching her kids
life lessons about work and money. We've tried to do the same with our kids, and I think we've been successful.
Mookie bought her own PC with babysitting money (she was tired of having the old hand-me-down machine), and oldest daughter Robyn bought her own first car. They've learned that saving money and working towards your goals is worthwhile, because you tend to appreciate what you have more when you earn it.
Speaking of Mookie (aka Rachael), her internet connection has been shut down for a couple of weeks. When we had new windows installed in the house, the old cable was removed and we've run two new lines into the upstairs. Unfortunately, the new cable we dropped into her bedroom isn't working, so one evening this week I've got to head back up into the attic and we'll try the second cable run and hope that one works. She's been making do with scrounging time on Mom's PC.
Short. Sweet.
Absolutely true. Thanks for the laugh,
John.
Bigwig at Silflay Hraka posts the latest "
Not the Prudie" advice column link, and it's a keeper. My favorite bit:
A ballroom dancer who's a great listener, puts other people first, and seeks advice from his women friends. I'm not saying you're gay, but everyone else is.
I miss Dear Dottie. Is she still writing for the Weekly World News?
Dustbury remains one of my favorite daily stops. Here he opens a discussion about
President Bush's policies. I get involved. Head on over and point and laugh at your host (that would be me) being shredded intellectually (I anticipate this last bit).
Update: Maybe I'm not an idiot. People seem to be agreeing with me, which probably means they're talking about me behind my back. That's ok too, it's better for my self-esteem.
All right, if I wait much longer to post this links might start expiring. Enjoy.
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Yep, Dottie is still writing for the Weekly World News. This week she's brilliant in telling someone how to handle those women at the grocery store who wait until everything is rung up before taking their purse of their freakin' shoulder, much less have their wallet open.
Posted by: Victor at May 11, 2004 07:53 AM (L3qPK)
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The wargaming ad was probably for SPI (Simulations Publications Inc). Jim Dunnigan was a chief contributor, and his Strategy Page is still a good resource. SPI got eaten by TSR, who got eaten by WoC, who got eaten by Hasbro...
Not to be confused with SSI, the makers of various computer wargames (since eaten by Ubisoft), or SSG, an Australian maker of various award-winning computer wargames (and whose name came first).
Another Australian computer wargame (as opposed to game) maker is Panther Games. Their new 'Highway to the Reich' game is the most revolutionary thing to happen to simulations since the hex grid. As a simulation, it's not perfect, just the best in existence. As a game - a matter of taste. But go read the reviews.
Disclaimer : I had something to do with the development of it.
Posted by: Alan E Brain at May 11, 2004 11:04 AM (HZApf)
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Yes! SPI!!!! They used to do little quickie-games of obscure battles too, as introductory pieces. IIRC I had one of theirs which was space warfare on the strategic scale, where travelling between the systems took months... it's been a long time since I've thought about some of these. I feel another nostalgia post coming on.
Posted by: Ted at May 11, 2004 02:41 PM (blNMI)
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Thanks for the ping. A lot of people have asked for some time with it, which is why I keep bumping it. I'm really pleased with the responses I've gotten. I wish I could have been at that forum they held in CA; which the post was based upon.
Posted by: Linda at May 11, 2004 04:39 PM (AWAw8)
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I remember Little Tiny Lies. He had hit my cat's page a few times. I could tell he really was skeeved out by it.
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Eagles over Washington D.C.
Not quite, but closer than you might think.
When folks think about
American Bald Eagles, they often picture the birds soaring through majestic mountains and nesting atop barren, craggy peaks far above the treeline.
What you might not know is that there is a
bald eagle preserve in northern Virginia, about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. Set along both shores of the Potomac river, this preserve is home to up to 50 bald eagles at a time and has three active nests. George Washington himself may have watched an eagle or two, since his Mount Vernon home overlooks the Potomac river just north of today's preserve. It's not unheard of for boaters on the Rappahanock river to spot an eagle circling lazily overhead as eagles continue to make a comeback from their endangered status.
Much of the preserve's land remains in private ownership, and not open to the public, but there are also
several parks where hiking, boating, and camping are allowed.
You may remember when
President Clinton released an adolescent eagle named Freedom at July 4th ceremonies in 1996. The eagle flew directly over an
Osprey nest, and the territorial osprey (four of 'em) attacked Freedom and knocked him into the water. Freedom was rescued by the Coast Guard and re-released a couple of weeks later after recovering from minor injuries.
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You'd be surprised to know that southern New Jersey has a very large bald eagle population. Nearly 175 bald eagles have been spotted throughout the state, mostly at nature refuges near Cape May at the southern tip of New Jersey. I went on a boat ride a few years ago which went past the nature preserve and we saw one.
Someone in Princeton, which is in the central part of the state, has an eagle nest near his home, he took a picture which you can see here. link:http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11415537&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425695&rfi=6
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Posted by: roberto at May 10, 2004 11:16 AM (D0e+N)
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We were at River Bend Park, just upstream from Great Falls Park last week. During a presentation to the kiddies on the local fauna, the two lefty park rangers had to admit, much against their will, that bald eagles were making a significant comeback in the region. But they consoled themselves by pointing out that it Would Not Last unless the most strident conservation efforts were taken.
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Successful Aerospike Test
Here's a good explanation of what aerospike rocket motors are all about.
There are
pictures here, and if you select the medium or large sizes, you can really study the detail of the aerospike design (if that sort of thing floats your boat).
The names and organizations involved are familiar to rocketeers, because this is the kind of cutting-edge experimentation that some of us get involved with. Here's the inside scoop from Chuck Rogers, one of the people involved, as posted on the Rec.Models.Rockets newsgroup (links added):
Cesaroni Technology Incorporated did a great job on the structural design and fabrication of the aerospike. The aerospike retrofits onto an O5100 motor in place of the conventional conical nozzle. BlackSky Research built the Optimal 168 rocket, and ran the launch operations for the flights.
I've seen the Cessaroni motors flown, and they are sweet. They're also commonly available to people like myself who fly the smaller rockets. BlackSky is another company that does everything from hobby rocketry to 'real' experimental rocketry. My launch rail was made by them.
The aerospike is a centered Prandtl-Meyer all-external expansion design. It delivered 97% of ideal efficiency in ground test (exceeding historical Rocketdyne data), and theoretically would deliver the same high efficiency from sea level to vacuum flight conditions.
Even the most optimized conventional nozzles are compromises for the expected range of altitudes and pressures expected. The efficiency of the aerospike means that bigger payloads can be lifted on a given thrust.
The rocket flights were to demonstrate operation of the aerospike in flight, and to measure installation effects compared to the uninstalled ground static firings. CFD was run not only for the aerospike hot gas flowfield, but for the combined rocket and aerospike plume flowfield.
This is the most highly instrumented high power/experimental rocket ever flown. In addition to highly accurate accelerometers and pitch, yaw, and roll rate sensors, the rocket used a conic nosecone with a built-in Flush Air Data System (FADS) (like a pitot tube), calibrated with CFD and cone pressure tables. This was the first inflight direct aerodynamic measurement of angle of attack on a model, high power, or experimental/amateur rocket.
Blacksky Research coordinated the development of the aerospike nozzles and solid rocket motors, provided overall project management on the contractor side, and really helped refine the whole concept of using large high power rockets for advanced flight test research. All at a low cost relative to normal government aerospace projects.
All that fun and saves Uncle Sam money too. Later on in the exchange, questions about the materials used to construct the aerospike were asked. This is why I love rocketeers, because Anthony Cessaroni himself jumped into the conversation:
Composites, ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, a little bit of graphite and a pinch of tungsten.
We also got to hear about one of the hazards of aerospikes (Chuck Rogers again):
Well, it turns out that the tungsten tip on the aerospike is REALLY SHARP. While walking around the rocket as it was mounted on the transfer cart I got "speared" by it. It put a tear in my shirt, but it didn't break the skin. It did not draw blood!
For this experiment we wanted a "pure" spike that went all the way to a sharp tip. For an "operational" aerospike there is predicted to be very little performance loss for up to a 25% reduction in the spike length.
You'd want at least some minimal truncation to avoid that VERY sharp tip.
Which was suggested by CTI, but again, for the "purity" of the experiment we wanted a sharp tip.
These are the kind of details that bring history to life. And to add a data point to our assertion that hobby rocketry leads to technology-related careers, here are two pages from a
1982 rocketry magazine written by
"Crazy-Chuck" Rogers.
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May 09, 2004
Congratulations Canada
They won the world hockey championship for the second year in a row.
The US took the bronze.
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Enough light to do the job
This redefines 'task-lighting', eh?
A U.S.-Israeli laser designed to protect northern Israel from missile attacks downed its largest rocket to date during a test over the southern New Mexico desert, the Army said Friday.
There's more coolness, you should check it out.
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Happy Mother's Day
(in the extended entry - click where it says "light this candle...")
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Wow! Those are stunning! I wish I could grow tea roses, but the winters here usually make them revert to root stock no matter how much protection I give 'em...
Posted by: Susie at May 09, 2004 01:06 AM (rokYU)
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These are from the climber growing beside my front door. It's the only one I have left, I've been getting rid of the rest over the last couple of years. At least half survived the transplants and are now growing at co-workers yards.
Posted by: Ted at May 09, 2004 08:51 AM (ZjSa7)
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All right, your wait is over
I warned you here that I was going to watch a couple more offerings from Seduction Cinema. By the end of last month, I'd recorded Play-Mate of the Apes and Gladiator Eroticus. Boy howdy.
Like I originally stated, the formula is to spoof a popular movie, and to fill it with lesbian softcore porn. Part of what makes these films work is that the original storylines are closely followed, so the movies tend to actually have plots.
But face it - and I can't believe I'm actually saying this (my 'guy' membership will be revoked for sure) - there is such a thing as too much lesbian porn. Watching one of these movies is fun, but two is borderline boring, and three is serious overkill. Maybe it's because it was the first one I saw, but I still think
Lord of the G-Strings is the best of the three I've seen.
Play-Mate of the Apes was fun and funny, but there were way too many enhanced bustlines for my taste. The overstuffed petrified-chest look just doesn't do it for me.
Now that this peculiar little itch has been scratched, I can get back to my beloved obscure crappy horror movies. I do have some interesting flicks on my list to be reviewed, but with springtime here my movie time is seriously curtailed. We'll get to 'em all in time.
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I picked up a four-movie, one computer game set the other day: Carnival of Souls, The Invisible Ghost, House on Haunted Hill, and Night of the Living Dead, packaged with Clive Barker's Undying (the game). Should make for hours of crappy entertainment!
Posted by: Victor at May 09, 2004 06:27 AM (lt4GO)
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Cool. I was never a huge video game fan for some reason. I got into StarCraft a couple of years ago for a few months, but my interest faded pretty quickly. Mookie still plays I think.
Posted by: Ted at May 09, 2004 08:54 AM (ZjSa7)
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We played WarCraft, the older one with the rampaging hoardes of grunty heathens. I just liked to keep clicking on the grunts over and over to hear them say "zug zug!" and "zorbu!" Finally, after you clicked the poor guy about 20 times in a row, he'd say "Leave me ALONE!" and "I'm not listening!" Yes, this is the kind of thing that amuses me. And now it pollutes your comments section.
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LOL Pollute to your heart's content topdawg, you always make me smile.
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I still play starcraft occasionaly... but not often because I'm really bad at it...
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May 08, 2004
Thanks Euth!
I talked about Dairy Queen's new Flamethrower Burger commercial here. Have you seen it yet? Well, thanks to Euth, here's the link to see it online. He didn't leave contact info, so the good deed counts double.
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