Best Week Ever?

[slimz]

University loses control of the EcoKat situation, we find out we're all but guaranteed to be conference orphans, and offensive genius LHC Bill Snyder leads his offense to nearly costing us the game against an FCS school.

WATERS %$&@ING CALMED!

 

[MixBerryCrunch]

You have to laugh to keep from  someone, amiright?

[Kat Kid]

I'm thinking my productive hoby may be weight lifting.

[felix rex]

I'm thinking my productive hoby may be weight lifting.

Try candle making! Candle making is not really that hard, but you do have to be cautious (making candles involves high temperatures, flammable substances, and potentially harmful chemicals). The beginner should start with container candles (usually in tins or glass jars) as this will get you some experience working with waxes, wicks, dyes, and scents. Note that there are many different types of waxes (container, pillar, soy, gel) and scents (not all are all safe together).

[Kat Kid]

I'm thinking my productive hoby may be weight lifting.

Try candle making! Candle making is not really that hard, but you do have to be cautious (making candles involves high temperatures, flammable substances, and potentially harmful chemicals). The beginner should start with container candles (usually in tins or glass jars) as this will get you some experience working with waxes, wicks, dyes, and scents. Note that there are many different types of waxes (container, pillar, soy, gel) and scents (not all are all safe together).

Jesus Christ.  Do I look like Benjamin Franklin to you?

[felix rex]

I am on Amazon right now ordering starter books on bee keeping. For me, it's not about the honey drink money. It's about personal fulfillment.

[BleedingPurple7]

I am on Amazon right now ordering starter books on bee keeping. For me, it's not about the honey drink money. It's about personal fulfillment.

 

[chum1]

i started watching golf and tennis.  it's been great.  i plan to continue with more of that.

[fatty fat fat]

i started watching golf and tennis.  it's been great.  i plan to continue with more of that.

did you like the murray/haase match? now you see why murray is a bitch?

[chum1]

i started watching golf and tennis.  it's been great.  i plan to continue with more of that.

did you like the murray/haase match? now you see why murray is a bitch?

missed it.  will watch for murray bitchness in the future.

tennis tournaments are a lot like the ncaa tournament.  seeding/upsets, tons of matches going on at the same time, do or die, etc.  i like it.

[Kat Kid]

The sad thing about this nadal/nalbandian match (and most other tennis) is that the first (sometimes the 2nd or at best 3rd) set is the only event.  Most matches are incredibly anti-climactic.  They rarely build tension.  The challenger makes an early push, his will is broken and then the rest of the match plays out according to script.  This describes 90% of all televised tennis.  It is very tedious.  The bourgeois commercials are more tolerable than the traditional beer and potato chip ads featured during sporting events, but let's not kid ourselves about the entertainment value.

[chum1]

still sounds like the ncaas.  teams usually win the games that they should, but the lower seeds play their asses of and have a chance.

[Kat Kid]

still sounds like the ncaas.  teams usually win the games that they should, but the lower seeds play their asses of and have a chance.

no they don't.

[Pete]

Going to be spending a LOT more Saturdays playing golf in the fall, going forward.

[chunkles]

There was a certain bird we saw when in Colorado that we had never seen before, that I said was probably "in the crow family of birds" and we googled it and guess what, it was in the crow family of birds.  It was a magpie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie), and they are neat looking.  Well, we don't get magpie's here, but hell, I sure admire birds sometimes. 

[Super PurpleCat]

I'm thinking my productive hoby may be weight lifting.

Try candle making! Candle making is not really that hard, but you do have to be cautious (making candles involves high temperatures, flammable substances, and potentially harmful chemicals). The beginner should start with container candles (usually in tins or glass jars) as this will get you some experience working with waxes, wicks, dyes, and scents. Note that there are many different types of waxes (container, pillar, soy, gel) and scents (not all are all safe together).

Jesus Christ.  Do I look like Benjamin Franklin to you?

Why, are you a printer?  Do you have a USB port?

[felix rex]

This board is fast becoming a sanctuary of renaissance men

[chum1]

still sounds like the ncaas.  teams usually win the games that they should, but the lower seeds play their asses of and have a chance.

no they don't.

Thus far in the US Open, 26 of 113 matches have been seed upsets:


Day 1 - 23 matches

Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU) d. (5) Petra Kvitova (CZE) 76(3) 63

A Falla (COL) d [15] V Troicki (SRB) 36 63 46 75 75 – saved 3 M.P.


Day 2 - 26 matches

Simona Halep (ROU) d. (6) Li Na (CHN) 62 75

Pauline Parmentier (FRA) d. (21) Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 62 63

Mona Barthel (GER) d. (32) María José Martínez Sánchez (ESP) 63 64

E Gulbis (LAT) d [16] M Youzhny (RUS) 62 64 64

N Davydenko (RUS) d [32] I Dodig (CRO)


Day 3 - 17 matches

Christina McHale (USA) d. (8) Marion Bartoli (FRA) 76(2) 62

Irina Falconi (USA) d. (14) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 26 63 75

Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) d. (20) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 61 30 ret.

J Benneteau (FRA) d [10] N Almagro (ESP) 62 64 63


Day 4 - 21 matches

(WC) Sloane Stephens (USA) d. (23) Shahar Peer (ISR) 61 76(4)

Vania King (USA) d. (29) Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) 62 60

(Q) Sílvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) d. (31) Kaia Kanepi (EST) 64 62

J Ferrero (ESP) d [7] G Monfils (FRA) 76(5) 57 67(5) 64 64

I Karlovic (CRO) d [13] R Gasquet (FRA) 64 62 26 76(4)

J Monaco (ARG) d [23] R Stepanek (CZE) 64 61 20 ret.

K Anderson (RSA) d [29] M Llodra (FRA) 61 62 62


Day 5 - 15 matches

(26) Flavia Pennetta (ITA) d. (3) Maria Sharapova (RUS) 63 36 64

Monica Niculescu (ROU) d. (27) Lucie Safarova (CZE) 60 61

D Young (USA) d [14] S Wawrinka (SUI) 76(7) 36 26 63 76(1)

I Kunitsyn (RUS) d [17] J Melzer (AUT) 36 63 16 62 76(5)

D Nalbandian (ARG) d [30] I Ljubicic (CRO) 64 16 63 62


Day 6 - 11 matches

(17) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. (11) Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 64 64

[20] J Tipsarevic (SRB) d [9] T Berdych (CZE) 64 50 ret. (right shoulder)

J Ferrero (ESP) d [31] M Granollers (ESP) 61 43 ret. (back)

[Kat Kid]

That's fair, early round upsets happen, but the sport is basically a rotating dynasty with 1 to 2 dominant players and younger players trying to unseat the dominant player and almost always failing.

[chum1]

I guess I'll just employ my NBA strategy and hate the most dominant player.  That way, on the rare occasion that they do lose, it's extra sweet.

Djoker looks like such a big rough ridin' Russian galoot.  eff him. 

[Pete]

Chum1 is our Bud Collins.

When this board turns over to a full-time tennis board, we'll all look back on Chum's leadership and be hugely appreciative.

[doom]

I'm going to take up guitar, that way when I become an alcoholic I'll kind of fit in.

[felix rex]

Holy eff that's boring. Scratch tennis off my hobby list. Well, watching tennis anyway. Still have that old varsity letter to defend.