Triangles, Circles and Squares

I have to admit I've never understood the care instruction symbols on clothing. For the most part, this isn't a major issue, as garments are also conveniently labeled in English. However, for a select few items no such instructions are provided, and I'm stuck interpreting a strange pattern of circles, squares and triangles, as well as the occasional iron. Anyway, today I was looking at my winter hat, which had an X thru a quadrangle of some sort, an iron with 110c written on it and a circle. So, lacking any idea what these meant (except of course the iron), I went to the web. Anyway, just wanted to pass along the following if any of you are curious. I had no idea so many symbols existed. Not sure what I would have done without the Textile Industry Affairs Group.

Brad...

What are the theological implications of Georgetown, a Catholic school, getting waxed by Oral Roberts, a school of nut-job evangelicals?

Prescription for your Cowbell Fever

To bring the previous topic to a close, here is the Christopher Walken SNL skit. You may need to download a plugin to view it (at least I did). We can thank the find from the fact that all the major search engines are starting to have video clip specific searches, I used Yahoo's to track this down.

On a somewhat related note, while studying for accounting last night, one of my classmates opined that our professor was like an Isreali Christopher Walken, and the description couldn't have been more apt.

"They're not that bad"

That was the message that Ken Jordan asked me to convey to you (well, to Bill and Alan, but is anyone else paying attention?) after the game last night.

Y'all saw the game, so I won't bother with detailed observations, except that the I-L-L, I-N-I cheer has to be among the lamest things ever.

Y. Lupu?

Y not?

Penn State

That was a nice little win. Penn State is terrible, of course, but I liked the way the team responded to PSU's little run in the second half.

Our offense is really fun to watch against a team that's less athletic than we are. Lots more motion than in the Temple game. I'm not sure why Penn State didn't switch to zone. Maybe their basketball coach is senile like JoePa.

This team could improve exponentially next year if we recruit one or two really good outside shooters. We were getting a ton of open looks, and missed a bunch of them. If we had made a reasonable percentage of them, we would have won by 20+.

Really, really like Green. He is tough on the boards and showed some decent offensive skills. I don't know if he is strong enough to be effective offensively in the Big East just yet, but he should have bright future. And he doesn't really have NBA size, so we should have him for four years.

Surprisingly large Penn State contingent on hand for the game. I realize they're a big state school, and they probably have a large alumni base in the greater dc area, but on the other hand, they really, really suck.

Sure Blog is at the top...

But what I want to know is, was "of Prague" in the 11th spot?

Speaking of Shiftless and Disreputable part deux

Anybody have a current email for Eddy? The only one I can seem to find is from his Georgetown days, and is getting bouced back.
Bill

Not Bad...

Georgetown 76, Davidson 51.

If we can shoot 52% from 3-point range all year, we might have something here.

I just hope this game doesn't get everyone's expectations all out of whack. This team is still gonna be somewhere between 3-13 and 5-11 in the Big East.

London (ahhh)

Well,

Shocking as it may seem to some, I have a job. Well, at least a summer associateship. I took a job at a UK law firm for next summer, so I'll be over in London (ahhh) from May to August.

As for shiftless and disreputable...I always thought Brad was much more shiftless and disreputable than me.

Speaking of Shiftless and Disreputable...

Brad and Reed, where'd you disappear to?

Georgetown vs. Temple

So I've rejoined the ranks of Hoya season ticket holders, and figured I'd share my thoughts on the first game of the season with the rest of you all.

First, Georgetown continued its fine tradition of excellence in administration by not processing our season ticket order and thus not having tickets for us to pick up when we arrived at will call. This was despite the fact that my friend called the ticket office this afternoon to confirm that the tickets would be there.
Fortunately, there were plenty of good seats still available, and the good folks at the MCI Center gave us seats just behind the young alumni section.

Saw Mr. Ken Jordan as I walked into the MCI Center, looking as shiftless and disreputable as ever. Apparently Georgetown did actually give him season tickets. Must be his contacts in the athletic department.

As far as the game, I think it puts to rest any expectations of a quick turnaround for this program. Temple was simply put, much, much better than us. They were bigger, stronger and more athletic. I think the same will be largely true of every other team in the Big East, except maybe St. Johns.

There were some things to like. The effort was definitely there for the full forty minutes, even after the game was completely out of reach. The team rebounded very well, which was doubly impressive given the size disparity. Green and Hibbert looked decent, although both are very raw offensively. Since they will get a lot of playing time out of necessity, they should hopefully improve significantly over the course of the season.

And the fans weren't bitter and angry after the game, as they were after so many losses in the Esherick era. Student attendance seemed pretty high. Hopefully the kids will keep coming out in February when we are 3-10 in the Big East.

The big problem was offense. The team was more disciplined than Esherick's squads, but the offense consisted almost entirely of passes around the perimeter, with the occassional entry pass to the high post or skip pass. There was almost no movement, which surprised the hell out of me given my understanding of the Princeton offense. I don't recall a single attempt at a back door cut, or any screen for that matter. This might have been a function of the Temple zone, or the fact that the team is still learning a new offense, but if it continues it does not bode well.

And I don't think we can make up for it on defense, either. The team is relatively quick, but small and not very strong. Against Temple, at least, they didn't have the size to trap or press effectively, and a lot of times Temple was able to get relatively easy shots just because they could shoot over our players. And we're not going to able to play physical and wear a team down defensively, given our size and lack of depth.

So I think it's going to be a long season, although there are at least signs of hope for the future.

Ugh...

I don't like the Big East's new scheduling at all.

Seems goofy to me that you don't play everyone in the conference. I guess it works in the Big 10 for football though. I've got a feeling that 16 teams may prove too unwieldy to keep together for more than a few years.

Hopefully Georgetown will get a home and home with Syracuse for "rivalry" reasons.

Hail Victory

In the eight years I lived in DC, the Bengals met the Redskins in exactly zero contests. In fact, in the past 13 years, the two teams hadn't met until yesterday. So while I always hated the Redskins, I never had the satisfaction of a head to head meeting. So, when the season went sour early on for the Bengals, Sunday November 14th quickly became my superbowl. I'm off to email Reed and Yon now, to remind them (even though neither care a great deal) that it was the Bengals who were responsible for what will likely be one of lowest points in Joe Gibb's career, yanking his starting qb to a chorus of boos from the typically fickle Redskins fans.

In Memoriam

Ol' Dirty Bastard, a.k.a. Osiris, a.k.a Dirt McGirt, a.k.a. Big Baby Jesus, 1968-2004

Brutus Busted

Do you think he uses the hedge clippers instead of the traditional razor blade?

Rock Bottom

Finally, the Rock has come back to Los Angeles.

Okay, that really wasn't what I planned on posting about, but when I wrote that title I got a little carried away. Anyway, onto the actual subject, Georgetown basketball will be making exactly zero appearances on national TV this year. Thompson III has an uphill battle ahead of him.

The Slums of Georgetown

Apparently they've tossed kids out of most of the houses on Prospect Street after some kid was trapped in his basement and killed during a fire.

Of note, they shut down none other than 3301 Prospect, home of any number of lame College Republican parties and perhaps best remembered as the place where Bill made Marti the homewrecker cry.

Fantasy Basketball, Anyone?

If anyone is interested in joining a fantasy NBA league (Mr. Greene, I'm looking in your direction) let me know and I'll shoot you info on the league.

Unholy Warcry

Check this out.

I wonder if Kerry could raise him from the dead, too?

Edwards: 'When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again'...

Saw this on Drudge, so it should probably be taken with a grain of salt unless or until it shows up somewhere reputable.

Once people find out about Kerry's superhuman healing powers, he's sure to win!

From the Archives

This has been posted before, but in light of recent events I thought it bore repeating:

Q. What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?

A. Christopher Walken

Also, since I'm on the topic, does Ken Caminiti count as a big enough celebrity to be grouped in with Rodney Dangerfield and Christopher Reeve, or should I still be waiting for the third?

Point of Order

Will, in the future when referencing historical figures that only SFS grads would know, please provide a link to make us all a little smarter. Not all of us are as up on our European history as we should be.

Exempli Gratia:

This man could be the next Metternich.

I Figured it Out!

The core of John Kerry's Iraq policy seems to be his delusionally messianic faith in his ability to bring "other countries" into the war effort, in order to share the burden and presumably allow us to bring some of our troops home.

Of course, it's not clear who these other countries would be. It obviously ain't going to be France, Germany, or anyone else in Europe. Until recently, I figured Kerry was just blowing smoke up the American public's ass, and actually intended to cut and run at the first opporunity, if elected.

But then I realized something while watching the debate last week.

Fact: North Korea has a 1.1 million man army, primarily ground troops.

Fact: Iran also has a decent size army, and clear interests in having a stable and friendly Iraq, and stomping out the Sunni insurgency there to ensure Shiite predominance.

Fact: John Kerry has advocated a more conciliatory policy towards North Korea and Iran, including caving to North Korean demands for bilateral negotiations, and trying to buy off Iran's nuclear ambitions by giving them nuclear fuel.

I think you can see where I'm going here...

Sure, he may look like a wussy internationalist, but in reality, this man could be the next Metternich.



And people think Dick Cheney is an evil genius.

[Edited 10/11 to add hyperlink because Bill didn't know who Metternich was]

Anyone Here Have an eTrade Account?`

I got an e-mail purporting to be from eTrade asking me to "verify" the bank account from which I transfer funds to my eTrade account by providing my online banking login information. This seemed suspicious to me, but upon logging into the eTrade website, I was asked to provide the same info.

Is this legit, or an extremely elaborate phishing scam?

I'm Getting Too Old for this Shit...

Is anyone coming back for Homecoming this year? I think that's Columbus day weekend, and was thinking of popping up to Syracuse that weekend for my sister's birthday, but if people are going to be here, I might stay in DC.

And Reed, are you doing any DC callbacks?

F--king Doug Flutie!

His garbage time heroics cost me a sixer! I knew I shouldn't have given you the points.

Oh well, at least I have Bill's beer to look forward to.

Bill, I'll take a six-pack of this.

aobiawlkjehraoesihrj... Order Food?

As some of you may have seen, my mobile number updated (as well as the rest of my contact info:

125 Moonstone St. Apt. A
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
310 545 4020 h
310 844 5889 m

Of course some emails got bounced when I sent out the update, specifically the one belonging to Mr. Dumochel. Any ideas what his current contact info is?

To Answer Will's Question

Yes Will, I can (kinda) promise you this; we saw them both out on the beach playing this morning while going for a jog.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...

Democracy DOESN'T work!

A Home Game for Real

Anybody else notice that we're playing Temple at McDonough? Think this is a typo?

Are you ready for some football?

Bill and Alan, I notice that the Jets are playing the Bengals and the Chargers in weeks 1 and 2, respectively. Care to make a friendly wager?

No need to sacrifice your education and future...

You can buy this instead:



It may not be ringworn, but it doesn't have that ugly blue backing, and can be yours for a mere $300.

And for more formal occasions, there's my favorite, the Million-Dollar Belt:



Only $399.99 (Virgil not included)

All this and more, here

Decisions

A year's tuition at UCLA (give or take a couple thousand), or this.

If I come visit...

Will you have this too?

Our sand is better than your sand

Why admire the silica implants on the "beach" in Athens when you could just visit Bill and Laura and see the real thing.

Moving On

Time to synchronize your palm pilots once again:

Bill and Laura Jordan
125 Moonstone St.
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
(310) 545-4020

The value of a Georgetown education has an up and down day

Georgetown slipped to 25 in the US News rankings released today. Falling out of the top tier in the near future seems inevitable given their current trending. However, all is not lost, rumor has it Busch (in it's lighter form) is back at the Tombs.

The benefits of all that Step Aerobics

The blog's been kinda quiet, and we're having a hard time getting Reed to sign up, so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone:



FYI, our old friend Ms. Bacon has 8 more shots on the Skins website.

Something About You

Like March madness and college bowl games, an unfortunate side effect of watching too much of the olympics is seeing the same 20 commercials 50 million times each. Most recently this has caused me to have the song from the Swatch commercial permanently stuck in my head this morning. However, a search of the Swatch website yeilded no clues as to either the song name or artist. After a bit of searching though, I came across this UK based website which had my answer, as well as many others. Sure the commercials are more UK focused, but it has allowed me to purge my brain of Five for Fighting's "Something About You".

Invitation

Will, how do we invite others to join the blog, and who did you invite already. We've spoken at some length about the absense of Reed and Eddy, but did they receive an invite? How about others such as Ted, Patrick, or Dave Boyd?

The Greatest Website Ever

I will never get sick of this.

Isn't that Ironic

Don't ya think?

Eddy is out of control

After some prompting from Will, I can't help but post something about my former roommate. First, where the hell is he -- this blog has been going for a number of weeks now without his participation. Second, who the hell did he send to my wedding, because from all the stories I've heard, that was not the same person I lived with for the four years following college. I'd appreciate any stories from such event posted as comments if they are appropriate for a wider audience.

Pictures of You

We've been getting in a number of photos from the wedding of late, and I thought I'd share a few. I'll be putting more on the website once I get my computer (should be delivered in 2 weeks). If any of you have photos of the event I'd love to see them. If you could be so kind as to burn them to a cd and mail it out to me, I'd appreciate it.

Hey Brad!

They stole your idea!

At the request of the Department of Homeland Security

I am raising the Crapulence Meter to High.

Please take all necessary precautions.

That block you had in the Pacers series was huge!

It won't be the same without Orson Welles...

Dreamworks is apparently making a new, live-action (!) Transformers movie.

Two Americas

While watching the Dems convene this afternoon I saw back to back random crowd shots of Miranda from Sex and the City and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Regardless, it's still not as much fun as playing "Spot the Minorities" at the Republican convention used to be. Patrick, any chance you're in Boston, or still slaving away in the Dakotas?

Computing?

Anybody lay down cash for a computer recently? I've gotta buy a laptop, and have only heard 50 million opinions about why I should/shouldn't buy practically every type imaginable, so be the 50,000,001st if you have any thoughts. I'm leaning IBM T42 w/ Pentium M 1.8 GHz, 80GB HD and 1 GB of RAM. That will set me back $2700, which seems like a little too much, but I'd also prefer that the machine is more than a paperweight after I get my degree.

That's no moon...

We apparently found the Death Star orbiting Saturn. 

Where where the hell is Reed

Any idea where Mr. Carey is? His late arrival is once again solidifying his credentials as laziest man in the world.

Impressive... Most Impressive

Will,
  Kudos on putting this together (although I realize setting this up on blogger isn't particularly time intensive).  I will browse my other blog and see if I can't come up with some nice additions to the technology here (the file share at table12h.net is an excellent way to share songs, files, etc).  Just got in from Bali/Hong Kong this morning, so I'm currently enjoying 2:55 PM Sunday for the second time.  Frankly, given this second chance on life I'll I'm using it for is laundry and uploading pictures, but since I am, enjoy this picture of the Ritz in Bali, and if possible, I may just feel your collective jealousy the next time I stop by cmeter.

Crapulence

crap·u·lence:  n.   1.  Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking.  
2.  Excessive indulgence; intemperance.

 

Q: What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?

A:  Christopher Walken.

Hi everybody!

So I figured that it might be worth a try stealing Bill and his high-school friends' idea of a group blog to keep in touch, post random musings, etc. I've not yet tried to play around with formatting or anything, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know. Also bear in mind that I'm lazy, busy with work, and not especially tech savvy, so if someone else wants to take over the care and feeding of this thing, let me know and I will gladly hand over the keys.