bub about: footballs are you sure you're not on drugs, derek? so far today, you've said "din-din" and "chiliiiiiii"
bub about: footballs i'm so freaking excited about hoodie weather. so excited.
bub about: footballs if you think your summer went fast, don't ever have a baby due in july. i swear we went from spring straight to fall with the added bonus of 90-something degree walks from the car-to-work and work-to-car. last year didn't have a single day in the 90s here, but this year it's been relentless. i hate it.
bub about: footballs i bet you could get ben on the cheap after this season...if the steelers have a shite year. i wouldn't mind seeing one jake locker in a steeler uni, but we'd have to have a reeeeeeally bad year.
bub about: footballs sorry, i'm cranky today. long week.
bub about: footballs my point was that no one has been suspended for conduct issues without having an arrest/etc. until ben was. that makes it unprecedented. yes, one of lynch's violations of the conduct policy without an arrest/etc. but was arrested the second time. if you read the conduct policy, it seems to require criminal or violent behavior. i would have appealed if i was ben, since he didn't do anything criminal in the eyes of the court, and nothing was violent. goodell said he suspended him because of a pattern of behavior and bad judgement. none of that is in the policy.
bub about: footballs lynch was arrested for the guns/pot thing. according the articles i'm seeing.
bub about: footballs that doesn't mean i don't think he did it. he just didn't have any arrest/indictment/etc. involved. i think he's a deplorable jackass, who i will likely give a pass to if he wins another superbowl. (full disclosure on my end)
just surprised at the suspension with no precedent.
bub about: footballs it won't be six. i'm actually surprised he was suspended at all. if they are really going to suspend people for making the NFL look bad...then the idiots with 9 kids from 8 different mothers and partying at scrip club guys all need to be on alert.
bub about: footballs i'll give you the fancy hair and inappropriate to women part. i have to say, i am utterly unconfident about the qb situation for the first 4 games. ugh.
bub about: footballs so, i'm going to the game tomorrow night...but i also have my fantasy draft...but don't want to auto-draft (that netted me aj feeley as my starting QB one year, while he was the backup in miami)...so, i'm going to be the nerdiest fantasy football drafter in pittsburgh. i'm going to vpn in to my work computer through my phone, so i can draft people while i'm at the game. awesome!
bub about: footballs today wouldn't be a good day for me to take that bait anyway. i need a day off, but lack the time off. dang babies.
bub about: footballs i can't attest to the laying on the ball-carrier thing, because i wasn't looking for that...but the hit harrison made on orton isn't dirty/dickish. if someone else was returning the fumble, and he lit orton up on the other side of the field and away from the play, maybe...but even that has been standard practice for decades. sounds like sour grapes to me.
and i'm not taking the bait on the "i just see it all the time from them." laughable.
bub about: footballs totally legit. he said dude was popping his mouth off on the first scoring drive...so he blasted him (legally) when he got the chance. i loved it. eff you neck-beard.
bub about: baseballs dibble is a dillweed. but i have to say that i chuckled (not at his misfortune) when i saw he was going to miss a long stretch of time. all that hype.
bub about: movies speaking of which...netflix released their iphone app today. this is not good for me or my productivity. i'm watching "the men who stare at goats" on my phone...at work. this. is. awesome.
bub about: movies i haven't seen mr. fox yet. it didn't pique my interest. i like people actors. i loved darjeeling limited. the colors were nuts. life aquatic was ok. i didn't enjoy rushmore that much. bottle rocket was really good. and of course the royal tenenbaums was good.
bub about: movies i think the only one i haven't seen is hotel chevalier. i got darjeeling limited off nextflix and it didn't come with hotel chevalier for some reason. it seems i've missed out on natalie portman's tokhes.
bub about: movies bottle rocket is the one with dignan and anthony? they try to rob a factory or something...and anthony falls for a spanish speaking chick?
bub about: movies seriously! i need to throw some wes anderson movies on my netflix cue, i haven't seen one in a while. apparently he has a new one in development now, called "my best friend". i have no other details.
bub about: movies for those that like wes anderson. here's a parody of spiderman if wes anderson had rebooted it.
bub about: baseballs lots of baseball stuff...
the pujols/votto triple crown race is awesome. there is nothing to dislike about votto, but i'm rooting for pujols. he's such a great hitter. the thought of pitching against him terrifies me. after this season (assuming he finishes over .300) he'll be the only player ever to start their career with 10 seasons of batting over .300 with > 30HR and > 100RBI. that's flat out ridiculous. i hope he's got the stamina to play close to 20 years. bonds' record would be in serious jeopardy. i can say that if it comes out that he juiced, i'm done with baseball.
abby and i are taking jones to his first pirate game next friday. i'm excited for obvious reasons. plus! they are giving away pirates snuggies, so extra boner.
i have to say that while i'm incredibly sick of the MLB system and the pirates continuous losing...i like the guys they've got right now. a bunch of young kids who are playing well (outside of the pitching staff) and have a lot of talent. i hope to god they don't trade them away, as is customary. they've got decent pitching coming up through the system in 3-4 years, so that will help...plus a high draft pick reward for this dreadful season. things might be looking up by the time jones hits middle school.
that's pretty much it.
bub about: wow busy day on bdc. pbbt.
bub about: Bub question lesson...internet explorer sucks monkey balls. plus, it hates awesome things.
bub about: No reservations that northern china one was crazy! with the ice-fishing party and the karaoke. in the brazil episode, he turns into this mushy, lovey, waxing-poetic about how great life is. that's the only place i've seen him unable to muster up any disdain/cynicism.
bub about: Bub question also, what was your post that wasn't showing up?
bub about: Bub question i can't tell you why it does that to you...does that happen to anyone else? not to me. what browser are you using? i promise there is no specific code that says if andy posts, don't show it.
bub about: No reservations i missed it last night. i was watching monday night football and forgot about bourdain. looks like i'm watching that tonight.
what's your favorite episode? i think mine is still the brittany, france episode. second would be the brazil episode.
bub about: music wiz khalifa makes for a sweet pandora station. a little wiz khalifa, some kid cudi, some drake. not bad on an ugly tuesday morning.
bub about: episode in bad driving upload the picture to tinypic.com, then post the link. that's the easiest way these days.
bub about: Abduction did you get to make out with that taylor lautner kid? i hear he's dreamy.
bub about: footballs so, looks like favre is coming back...if you believe twitter and rumors. supposedly they are going to announce it today. i'm really hoping for a shattered pelvis, so we don't have to deal with this next year. i don't want him to be in pain so much, but something undoubtedly career ending would be sweet.
bub about: ugh ok, the typing issue in firefox is now resolved. ah, the magic of programming.
here's the explanation...if you come to the comments page, it will check every two seconds to see if there are new comments...unless you "focus" (click in) on one of the text entry fields. it will kill the process that does the checking, until you switch fields/submit/click out of the field/refresh the browser, then it will resume checking every two seconds. it's not the perfect scenario, but it works. let me know if you still end up with typing issues.
bub about: ugh that didn't work. i'll work on it some tonight.
bub about: ugh i just slowed down how frequently it checks for messages, from 2 seconds to 30 seconds. if you'd like me to make it longer, let me know. that should make the typing issues somewhat less annoying. opera doesn't have the issues with typing that firefox/IE have.
bub about: zzzzz since you punks aren't talking about anything today...i put up some more pictures of jones on my photoblog.
bub about: footballs ben won't be able to practice with the team for the 4 weeks he'll be out. but i think hell would freeze over before dixon starts with ben available. 40lbs lighter, ha. he'll just be more nimble. i have such mediocre expectations this year. i'm just hoping the bengals under-perform. that roster is stupid.
bub about: footballs that's just plain silly.
bub about: footballs the steelers first team was entirely unimpressive. most disconcerting was the immobility of leftwich/inability to block by the o-line. i'm not sure if it was line not blocking, or if leftwich was holding the ball too long...or if the line can't block, but he can't get out of the pocket. either way, it was not good. now dennis dixon, looks like fun guy to watch. i'd like to see him get some snaps with the first team. i know he was play against second-stringers, but he was also playing WITH second-stringers. that kid has some talent, why not give us a show for 4 games, while we wait for the sexual predator to come back?
bub about: footballs KSU football awesomeness...i don't think the conversation has to go any further than jack lambert.
bub about: footballs i caught some of the game. carolina and baltimore looked fairly impotent. i'm pumped to watch the steelers tomorrow night. i've been ready for football for quite a while. hooray for football.
bub about: more other news i've gotten to the point where i'm more frustrated with MLB than i am with the pirates. the pirates are trying to go with the tampa bay model now, and i'm not upset with that. i think they've got a good young core that can produce with the addition of a few more pieces and a bit of time. that being said, they will never "contend" with that team, they may get to .500 at some point, but the reality is that MLB doesn't have a sustainable model. you can't allow there to be that much disparity in spending between the top and bottom teams. it's beating a dead horse, but until they get their heads out of their collective asses, the pirates will be the pirates, the royals will be the royals, and the yankees/bosox/dodgers/etc will be the yankees/bosox/dodgers/etc. it's a joke.
bub about: more other news i think yinzer can ONLY be a mother tongue. most outsiders can't imitate it. ergo, it must be in the blood.
bub about: more other news football on tv tonight! yahoo! i can't wait until it's time to break out the hoodies and sit on the couch. this morning, jones asked me what "ahrns" are and whether he could have some on saturday during the game. i told he could have one, but don't tell mom.
bub about: dickeys shenanigans the zepher was awesome. i never thought i'd say that, but the transformation from hippy food joint to awesome bar was a success. that deck/patio situation was great. except for the DBs spilling drinkings on the top deck.
Bub about: dickeys shenanigans I was surprised at my lack of hangover. That was a super good time. Aaron, you should have just peed. Sissy. I have to say I was a bit thrown by how fast my body decided that drinking for 13 hours is going to be far less of a breeze than it used to be. Although my first "emergency red bull" was a rousing success. What a weird/fun/surreal Saturday night that was. I loved that Aaron thought we were doing a st. patty's day style crawl, so he was pounding vodka tonics(I believe).
bub about: funny story thanks! i'll be ready for cold beer as soon as i get out of the car, that's going to be possible, right?
bub about: funny story agreed! i wish i was going to be around tonight too, but i'm not sure my old man-ness can handle two nights of heavy consumption. oh, and that baby thing.
btw, dickey, what's your address? that might make getting there easier.
bub about: more other news boy are you guys boring lately.
so, golic "passed" the conditioning test that haynesworth failed. there are some minor controversies with that (he supposedly didn't touch the line a few times, and there were timing inconsistencies). the point is still valid...a guy who hasn't played in 16 years, had zero preparation/training, went out the next day and ran it once and "passed". i watched the video of golic running the test. it was barely a jog. if haynesworth can't do that, he shouldn't be a football player.
bub about: more other news unrelated, but if anyone needs a little vacation vibe to make the day seem a little less rust-belty...create a "buena vista social club" pandora station. my brain has been in havana for at least a week.
bub about: more other news maybe i could dangle a jesus statue instead of the balls. that might ruffle some feathers.
sounds like santana is going to be ok, but that was an ugly hit. looked like a bad hyper-extension of the left knee...in my incredibly professional opinion.
Bub about: more other news I'd sooner put the old "real men love Jesus" sticker on.
bub about: more other news and it's a 4x4 so i can take it to the obx next time. if it hasn't died.
bub about: more other news i officially have my own vehicle. i bought 2001 dodge ram quad cab laramie slt. lots of words. with abby on maternity leave for 8 weeks, i don't want to leave her at home with no means of transport...and she sure as hell isn't going to want to get up and pack the baby up to take me to work, then pick me back up. so i got a big honkin' truck for home depot runs, that can fit a baby seat in the second row seating(for double emergency sake). you'll get to see/hear it this weekend. it makes your balls stratch their balls.
bub about: T.O. having watched you watch games...i'll believe your nonchalance when i see it. i would have to assume anything less than at least the AFC Championship game would be a failure for the bengals. with that kind of firepower. yowza.
how about haynesworth...what a hot mess he is. skipping the conditioning test for the third day in a row, after failing it twice last week. i'd be awfully pissed if i was dan sneider. although, he's pretty accustomed to failure.
bub about: work just read a headline on cnn that said "Weiner enraged on House floor". i didn't read it, because i'm sure it's not about an angry penis. i like my story better.
bub about: work i KNOW! poor kid. maybe he'll bring me a pirates world ser...that's just ridiculous.
bub about: work i've got a dancer about football season. steelers go to camp on sunday. so pumped. i'm sure they'll be mediocre this season, but jones keeps talking about the superbowl. i'm trying to temper his expectations, but he's a noob, what can you do?
bub about: work someone wasn't thinking straight when they got dressed. i guess he got the 15minutes of fame that he wanted though. even mike and mike were talking about him this morning.
bub about: work you guys are doing a terrible job. just sayin'.
bub about: work i'm back at work. boy does that suck. i'm way behind on winning the powerball and building the bubdotcompound. leaving your 11-day-old son at home while you go to work is stupid.
someone entertain me with inanities.
Bub about: babies I think I'm going to start dropping some spongebob or Dora the explorer shit on people soon. Or some stufffrom that Chinese Dora. Ni Hao, mutha fucka!
Bub about: babies It could be worse. Maybe you should toughen it up with "peace, fucker". I think I just say "bye".
Bub about: Reporting Back I'd love a picture of thews dressed like a wild rocker, a la "Maurice" from accepted
Bub about: Reporting Back I've pretty much stopped doing stuff for that online course thing. The projects got a bit boring.
my project is still on the back burner. I haven't seen most of you in a while. I still want to do the project, but getting a lot of the costume type things costs enough to make it seem like stupid use of funds.
Bub about: Reporting Back And Andy, that's not my boob, I was taking the picture. Not sure whose that was.
Bub about: Reporting Back Abby has the nickname issues. Jonesy has been ok'd. I tried Indiana/Indy/docta jones/kaleema chuckdeeday, she wasn't having it.
Bub about: dead It's because firefox changed how it handles JavaScript. If you click on a topic, then post, you can avoid the issue until I make the correction. It pissed me off when I upgraded. Maybe this week. :)
bub about: Leah those pictures are great! really really great!
bub about: so... i would pay to watch gary bussy hunt ice-t in real life.
bub about: so... i don't know that i've ever even heard of that movie.
bub about: so..... YES! friendship units!
bub about: cavs nice choice of font, dan gilbert. sheesh. i may start supporting the cavs now (previously, i wished everything bad on them, like all other cleveland/ohio sports teams), but that guarantee doesn't hold much weight, since lbj could very well win it all this season, and there aren't enough free agents for the cavs to throw a bunch of money at right now. i actually felt bad for clevelanders last night, possibly for the first time ever.
bub about: gloating i do recall hearing he eats at the dinner table with them. not sure about the laundry. agreed, creepy. although, he's secretive enough that he could have moved out 3 years ago and we might not know. he's never seen out-on-the-town, which bums me out a bit. i guess our qb does enough of that for everyone.
bub about: gloating yep. that's becoming a bit weird to me. i mean, you're going to be 23. time to get your own place. i guess they go over film at the house after the games and stuff, but damn dude.
bub about: gloating you're going with an article from 2 years ago? the nhl had better attendance than the NBA last season. nba has better tv ratings. major difference being that the NBA was due to lose $400million last season while the NHL is setting new records each year. there's no rebutting your 25% know who sidney crosby is, because you've pulled that number out of your butt. the point is still the same. crosby has dealt with the same stuff as lebron, but handled it in a far classier way.
bub about: gloating besides, i'm a gossip-whore.
bub about: gloating i don't haaaate him, i just think he's an egomaniac. i think he's handling this wrong for his PR. although, if i lived in cleveland, i'd probably hate him about now.
bub about: gloating more speculation...lebron has rented 6 cabanas at the W hotel in south beach this weekend. interesting...
bub about: ego he's not just scheduling a press conference. he's scheduled an hour-long tv special on espn to announce "The Decision", with a 3-4 day waiting period between the day he scheduled it and the day it happens. ESPN has some blame here too, but this is the biggest ego trip move i've ever seen in sports, brett favre included.
bub about: gloating sidney crosby was a household name in canada by the age of 16. canada is far more obsessed about hockey than the US is about basketball. their situation is extremely similar, other than crosby doesn't play near his hometown. they are both the face of their league, both leagues are about the same level of popularity in the US (with a far larger fanbase in canada). the difference is that crosby is a freakishly humble kid who took LESS money than he could have. crosby doesn't have a "ME" bone in his body. and if you think 25% of americans know who crosby is, you've been living in a bunker for a few years.
bub about: all-star he's catching a ton of bad press over all of this. could you imagine all of this hullabaloo for him to come out and say "i'm staying in cleveland"? what an egomaniac.
bub about: tunes i follow big boi on twitter...it appears the new album is selling out everywhere.
bub about: all-star and supposedly lebron told ochocinco what he's decided...and 85 tweeted "empire state of mind wink wink", there's more, but not worth typing.
bub about: all-star for what it's worth...michael smith of espn just retweeted someone saying "my sources tell me Lebron will say that he will be goin to the NY KNOCKS tomorrow on ESPN.. This is serious.. WOW!!!!". just wanted bdc to scoop sportscenter. take that disney!
bub about: all-star it's a complete waste of time. the voting is a joke. none of the players care. i'd much rather watch those guys play wiffleball at a community park, than watch the charade that is the "all-star game".
bub about: all-star just surprised me is all.
bub about: all-star i voted all pirates. the baseball kind...although if i knew of any MLB players that were actual pirates, i'd vote for them too.
bub about: all-star do people really still vote for the all-star game? i assumed we'd all stopped caring about the all-star game. i think the last time i voted, it was a punch-out card, but that was back in the early 90's.
bub about: text messages wow...pandora is rockin' 1996 with my ma$e station. ah, late 90's rap :)
bub about: text messages we had a bit of a "stay-cation". hung out in my parents' pool mostly. lunch at a marina. stuff like that. you?
bub about: baseballs nice work picking up jordan leopold. i liked him. not super productive, but a damned good defenseman and good with the puck.
bub about: baseballs it'll be interesting if he leaves, to see where he goes. if it's chicago, then he's looking to win now. if it's NYK or the nets, he's looking to become that "global icon" that people have been talking about recently. personally, i couldn't care less what happens, i just want less inane sports talk. i'd feel a bit bad for cleveland, which conflicts with my nature, but that would be a major kick in the pills.
bub about: baseballs i was leaning 30-70 yesterday. i've seen guys leave far too many times after saying things like "i want to finish my career in X" and "i'm not going anywhere". i'd be 50-50 if he was saying things like that. his "i will always love akron", sounds like a "can we still be friends" to me.
bub about: regarding LeBron... i think it's a power move on his part. his bags are packed. i feel bad for cleveland this time. steph nailed it when she said they look like a desperate girlfriend begging their man to stay. i think he's making the teams come to him with the notion that "i could always just stay here, so you better make this pitch a good one".
bub about: baseballs that IS a lot of injuries. that just means the timeline for fahkin' mccahtchin heading to boston has been moved up a few months.
bub about: baseballs playing the world's smallest violin for them. :)
bub about: Bungles maybe athletes should get paid less. they clearly can't mentally handle being that rich. millions of dollars made ben think he was entitled to hump anyone. unless it was all a misunderstanding, and the girl forgot the safety word.
bub about: Bungles i'm interested to see what really happened. the two sides of the story are dramatically different. i have no idea which is right. i think you can certainly go out to bars, but at all cost, don't punch anyone, don't pull a gun, don't throw money in the air, don't act like a complete a-hole, don't buy shots for underage girls, try not to rape anyone, and if you're feeling ambitious...try acting like a normal person. how hard is it to avoid a fight? someone gets in your face, walk away and talk to management. considering your a filthy-rich athlete, a bodyguard who is actually a bodyguard may not be a bad move.
bub about: homeowner we've been using the behr with primer in it. seems to cover pretty darn well.
bub about: homeowner abby pointed out our proximity issue (the closest lowe's is in cranberry), so i tend to hit the home depot. the home depot by our house does have some pretty knowledgeable people, especially in the electrical and plumbing areas. anything relating to lumber or painting, idiots. i like tru-value hardware, but they aren't open on sundays...and that's a big portion of my "oh shit, i need X" time. so they lose out. they are without a doubt, my go-to people for lawn stuff. hopefully i have time to get our lawn back in good shape this summer. the garage falling down really messed up the back yard area.
bub about: music since i'm late to the "wolfmother party", has anyone given a good listen to "cosmic egg"? thoughts? i haven't heard much of it, but am contemplating an itunes purchase. i decided to kick the "friday 3:00's" right in the face by preemptively rocking my face off.
bub about: random i forgot to mention on here that i have added a bunch of pictures to my photoblog in the last few months, most notably some pictures of abby's growing belly. the link is on the "pictures" page if you're interested.
bub about: Manliest Cities!? i don't think it said "manliest men"...just "manliest". ;)
i got nuthin'.
bub about: hearthquake if it makes the south sink into the ocean, i say oily water is a small price to pay. i heard briefly the other day that a hurricane was going to hit the spill area. that ought to make a fine mess. ugh.
bub about: hearthquake hearthquake?
bub about: tennis maybe it's not a tiebreak. i know nothing about tennis.
bub about: tennis aaron, are you watching wimbledon right now? this match has been going on for 9 hours. not a typo. it's 54-54 in the fifth set tie-breaker.
bub about: summer of rock this has nothing to do with those two bands, but my pandora station just played pearl jam covering "love, reign o'er me". it was pretty effing awesome. although, that song itself is awesome...but eddie did a great job.
bub about: futbol USA better wake the eff up.
bub about: futbol game on!
bub about: futbol and he doesn't always drink beer, but when he does, he prefers dos equis.
bub about: futbol even past his prime, kji was still in his prime.
bub about: futbol wow! portugal are PUMMELING north korea. kim jong ill better suit up.
bub about: zzzz meng siting! how've you been, meng?
i'm doing an action-photo-shoot with sweeney this weekend. dirt bikes, not man-man action. gaybos. i'm also looking into new laptops since mine has decided that the power cord port is on the fritz and won't charge the damn battery. if only it was just a bad power cord. stupid gateways.
tomorrow is the second match for USA, against slovenia. 10am.
bub about: futbol #24 in the world beating #2 in the world. that's definitely an upset.
bub about: futbol holy shit they held on!!! what an upset! i have to watch a replay of this later.
bub about: futbol can't believe spain is losing to switzerland. that would be a maaaaaaajor upset.
bub about: nerdy architecture stuff article on architecture and the economy...not relating to job loss, from cnn. masterpieces on hold.
bub about: futbol i am able to tune out the vuvuzelas, but i get the annoyance. for me, watching central/south american matches with the drums and whistles is far more annoying, but that's semantics. apparently bbc is giving their audience the option of watching the game on another channel where the crowd noise has been muted a bit while the announcers are still at normal level. good thinking bbc.
Bub about: futbol The Italians look like craaaaap.
bub about: calling all mathletes you've got dmac writing on his windows in soap, ala john nash in "beautiful mind".
bub about: calling all mathletes i've been trying to figure it out for days. i've placated myself with "maybe there isn't a real answer and they just want the interviewee to say 'this isn't worth my time to answer'".
bub about: calling all mathletes i don't think the answer you sent me is right, thews. i can see how they get to "14xx", but if the "xx" just has to add up to 7, then there are 8 possible answers. that doesn't work for "what's the next number in this sequence". i'm calling "incorrect" on that answer.
bub about: world cup booooo to france and their cheating. ireland should be losing in the second game, not france.
bub about: world cup and i'm 50% amazed that south africa is winning, and 50% expecting it, because i took mexico with the money line. sonuva.
bub about: world cup i'm watching the gamecast...for some reason it's not recognizing my office's ISP as verizon, so i can't watch it. the gamecast is sweet though...they have replays of 90% of the shots. pretty sweet.
bub about: hey pittsbrughians... world cup!!!!!!!
that is all.
bub about: ipod i liked my ipod classic. if you have wireless, the touch could be convenient (web/email/etc). my brother has one, but i have little experience with them.
Bub about: calling all mathletes Is this real or did you just put this out there to drive me nuts? I can't get figure it out.
Bub about: hey pittsbrughians... They are averaging 7 a game. I'm certaiy not poo-pooing 14 k's.
bub about: hey pittsbrughians... the kid was pretty damned impressive. and i thought the same thing. if you get behind in the count, be ready for that slurve. serious bite and a tight spin. good lord. the only caveat is that "it was the pirates", but i don't think anyone should take credit away from him. he's going to be tough to hit.
bub about: hey pittsbrughians... really?! i hadn't heard|
i'm excited/ready-to-be-disappoint-when-he-bombs-out, but the pirates finally made a decision on a draft pick that didn't involve "we can sign him, he's worth too much money". picked up some 6-6 220lb high school pitcher who throws around 98mph. i'm hoping he's not our next john van benschotten/sean burnett/kris benson. ugh, i'm already bummed.
bub about: world cup here's another from the euro'08. similar concept, again by nike. another good one.
bub about: world cup i effing LOOOOOOVE this ad. it had to cost a friggin' fortune, since (for those who don't recognize a single face in the ad) they got the real stars to participate. great ad.
world cup starts friday!!!
Bub about: holy crap balls Sorry, we both took a vacation day today. Jonesy is the preferred nickname at the moment. We just liked the name, really. We got lots of interesting input (Chooch, Boone, etc), but settled on that. We wanted a pretty unique name, and that fit the bill. Enzo was our second choice, but we are 0% Italian...so that would be weird.
bub about: holy crap balls oh....my....god....that was awesome in the most....awesome way. dude is way intense, but clearly a pretty huge bad ass.
bub about: baseballs ugh, to be either of the two involved in the "28-out perfect game" last night. poor kid. i feel a little bit bad for the ump, just because you can see how bad he feels for blowing the call...but man, that kid.
bub about: work stupid work is right. i don't want to be outside so much, since there's a storm out there, but i don't want to be here. i decided to take friday off, so that's fun. c'mon clock.
bub about: my 2 cents 2. facebook has its flaws, but if you use it as merely a way to see what your friends are up to, then it's fine. it's a great way to kill 15 minutes at work. same with twitter, except that twitter is much more entertaining for me. i get most of my sports news as it hits the press through twitter. following people like ochocinco/revis/ricky williams is really boring, because they have about much interesting stuff to say as i do. following pft/simmons/adande/schefter/michael smith/buster olney/mort....you get tons of inside sports news crazy fast.
3. & 4. avatar in 3d was sweet. i'm totally interested to see what sports in 3d looks like. i'm not so interested to see what "how i met your mother" looks like in 3d.
5. i hate tight-crotched pants. just because most white folks don't have a juicy butt or large genitals...i have to wear super pants that strangle my dude-parts.
bub about: zzzz anyone doing anything fun this weekend?
today is essentially my friday, since i have a golf outing tomorrow. so that's fun...as long as the thunderstorms hold off. other than that, it's painting, painting, and more painting.
bub about: Asians! maybe we can do the "haka" at the pirate game to intimidate the giants players. haka is awesome.
bub about: zzzz gotta like stories like that. my favorite part of the article was the coach saying that football to this kid, was like "chinese arithmetic"...umm, it's the same in china as it is here. that's why we send mathematical signals out to space. stupid jocks.
bub about: zzzz man, everyone has been so quiet lately...what's the deal?! i forgot to mention this monday and tuesday, but did you all see that jose lima died? lima time, baby.
bub about: Lost no, i won't be taking pictures of you guys naked...wait. no.
you must have missed the convo a few months back. there are big plans. i started coming up with ironic/funny/awesome ideas for friends to wear different "outfits" per se. derek as a rugby player. wes listening to an old record player with 70's headphones. biggie as a porn star or a street surfer. aaron as a fox hunter. i'm trying to remember the rest. anyone?
bub about: Lost when is the next big gathering? and when are you suckers going to pose for my "friends dressed up funny" project?
bub about: Lost sorry for your loss. i hate when my favorite shows end. so i'm bored...someone should come up with something entertaining.
bub about: this weekend. i'm installing CS5 as we speak. can't wait to try the "content-aware fill".
bub about: this weekend. painting the nursery and it's furniture.
bub about: what? that guys was pretty tough to understand, but what i think he said was that the guy should have gone around howard (goalie) and tapped it in with a foot, but instead he pulled it back out and tried to place his shot, but hit howard in the chest and the rebound came back out....still 0-0.
i think. what a poor speaker to have as a sideline reporter. i knew it was going to be bad when he couldn't get the hosts name right after 4 tries.
bub about: KFC meat it's not often that i see something that makes my arteries clog...i mean i live in a town where we put fries on everything. but that chicken sando from KFC is nasty looking. i can't even consider ordering it, let alone eating it.
bub about: now all our teams are done i had to laugh when i heard that one. we had rumors in the 90's that kordell stewart and bill cowher were caught messing around in a men's room in south park. the west/mrs. james rumor might be funnier.
bub about: now all our teams are done for some reason, i read that as "twa-twaffle".
bub about: music i may be late the party on this one too, but i've been listening to The Weeks today. i like 'em.
bub about: hockey stupid canadiens. and rioting after winning a second round playoff series?! that seems a bit much, no?
bub about: Happy Anniversary i will likely sit in a dark room rocking back and forth while muttering things like "you can't turn the puck over at the blue line", "god dammit goligosky!", and "get the puck out!"
bub about: Happy Anniversary i can't talk about the stupid habs right now. i hate game 7s.
bub about: Tribe commentator hates them guests with weapons and this group partying in the same place...hmmm, sounds like the group might be thinned down a bit in october.
bub about: baseballs with that dude throwing a perfect game yesterday, i did a bit of math for fun (and because i'm a nerd). there have been 352,352 regular season games in MLB since the start of the 1903 season. there have been 19 perfect games. for simple purposes, one in every 18,544 games is a perfect game (or once every 5.68 years). sounds better in games than years.
bub about: TV the prof. chang scene was absolutely hilarious. watching his face shake in slow-motion while firing the gun. i lost it.
bub about: TV i looooove Community. you are absolutely right, it started slow, but has quickly turned into one of the best shows on network tv. i love abed. the paintball episode last night was classic.
bub about: boner jam speaking of the beasties. i can't think of another band that was so far ahead of their time. even their stuff from 1992 sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
bub about: boner jam didn't realize they were playing in pittsburgh tonight. a few friends from around here are going. those are the same folks that go to the DMB shows every year, and the jimmy buffet shows every year. is that a guilt by association thing?
bub about: boner jam wow, you must haaaaate aaron then.
bub about: boner jam i can listen to pearl jam, but i'm not a huge fan. although, i'm not a huge fan of the Rolling Stones either. i get the appeal of both bands and appreciate them, but i doubt i'd ever go see them live. i have always been more of a The Who kind of guy.
bub about: bacon survey i wasn't saying you could only have bacon or sausage. i also like breakfast sausage a lot. i was just wondering how people like their bacon to be cooked. as far as sausage, i have a slight preference to patties than links, but will eat both without hesitation.
bub about: bacon survey I'm with dickey on this one. Floppy bacon is the only way to go.
bub about: bacon survey how do you like your bacon? soft or crispy...
bub about: good news this time congrats, large!
bub about: sports (sorta) that sounds right. you were there, so it's not odd to remember. i had a legit chance at a 278 (when i got my 256), but didn't do well in the 10th frame.
bub about: sports (sorta) it wasn't a big leap. my previous high was a 245 or 249...something like that. i know it wasn't in the 250s. i was pretty pumped to see that i'm bowling a 200+ game 30% of the time, not too shabby. at least for the shite lanes we went to for my bachelor party.
bub about: sports (sorta) just wanted to brag about my awesome bowling. i set a new personal high-score last night with a 256. booya! and my average is now over the 180 threshold. the end.
bub about: MLB most hated list and yeah, that hate ranking thing seems to be garbage. i remember thinking, as i read that this morning, "what a BS way to conduct a survey".
bub about: home invasion i heard...that blows biggs. i remember the feeling from our old apartment. not fun.
bub about: MLB most hated list let's say there are 100,000 pirates fans (might be a bit too many)...that's only 100,000 people that hate them. the rest of the fans couldn't care less about them. i'm guessing we are baseball's most alienated fans though. the pirates used to be so good. 5 world series championships for pete's sake. now we're likely in danger of losing a team we've had for 128 years. i'd be done with baseball if that happens.
bub about: house nice looking place, d!
bub about: NFL schedule anyone else think that herm edwards is like that crazy uncle we all have that spits out the weirdest BS you can think of? he's saying that steelers should be helping ben. helping him do what? sew up all his zippers? ultimately, a football team isn't going to be able to help a sexual predator...other than taking away from what's making him think he can do whatever the hell he wants. edwards is also saying they should be looking to the redskins for a trade. mcnabb for roethlisberger. WHAT?! that's like my uncle that used to say that "lemieux is a bum, we should trade him" in his hay-day.
bub about: NFL schedule oh, i also like mike mayock.
bub about: NFL schedule two funny things related to "pig ben". 1. i just read "can't ben just force himself on the raiders?". i almost threw up with laughter. 2. a coworker walked by and said "so, a girl flashes her boobs at a bar and it's awesome...a dude shows his junk at a bar and it's sexual assault." that got a chuckle out of me, but not much more.
bub about: NFL schedule i thought i read something about kiper working with someone at the same agency that represents clausen...and that's why he's ranking him so high. that's most likely rumor mill garbage, though. i think mcshay knows his shit. the guy whose opinion i really trust is Daniel Jeremiah (follow him on twitter @MoveTheSticks). he's a former nfl scout and breaks things down amazingly well. no track-record for me to compare against.
bub about: NFL schedule if the browns take another hyped ND QB in the first round, the fans will burn that stadium to the ground.
bub about: NFL schedule i think "the steelers are awesome" is really all the justification she needs.
bub about: NFL schedule he's been getting "rapistburger" "rapelisberger" "rapey-rapes-a-lot", all over the message boards since the first "incident". i'm 1,000% done with him.
bub about: NFL schedule once you're in, you're in. not much you can do now.
bub about: NFL schedule i'm one of the lucky few who has a jersey that became defunct, but is now wearable again. randel el coming back must be a sign. i was expected to have two jerseys to wear (james harrison and jack lambert...kent state what!), but now i've got a third to throw in the rotation.
i've read far too many articles in the last 3-4days...but it looks like the brownies are pretty solidly stuck on eric berry. i've seen the bills taking bulaga or tebow. steelers have been rumored to be keen on tate and pouncey.
bub about: Roethlisberger suspended six games it's proven that the dude acts like an a-hole and can't make a good decision if his life depended on it. he's guilty of dragging the steelers name/reputation through the mud, made some people embarrassed to be a steeler fan, and at the very least he's made it difficult for a lot of fans to root for a team they've spent their lives cheering for. it sounds like a lot of hyperbole, but if you know the real diehards who can't separate the fact that whether a football wins or loses is NOT a life or death scenario...you understand how affected some fans by the awful behavior of "our saviour".
with less hyperbole...i like when my football team wins. i don't want him to succeed. so you see where i'm stuck in a bit of a quandary. also, i don't want to look at his stupid face.
bub about: Roethlisberger suspended six games i have a hard time understanding the scheduling, but i've finally just thrown my hands up in resignation. 5 prime time games this year? c'mon. i'm sick of that crap. if i had my choice, though, i'd rather not have division games in the first 3 or 4 weeks. let your team gel before playing the really important games.
bub about: resumes my first guess was "overall", but that's butchering either option.
bub about: Roethlisberger suspended six games it depends on how you look at it, i think. there's the one angle that says "he's legally done nothing wrong, so it seems a bit much to punish him more than someone who took illegal drugs or cheated the game with PEDs", but there's also the "you need to send a message to this scumbag that he's a huge scumbag and he's making the NFL look like a bunch of scumbags". 6 games was definitely a "send a message" kind of number. i'm cool with it. but i'm on the "trade him" side of things.
bub about: charette time very few places don't need them in some form or another. there's a house down the street from us that's two stories in the front...and 5 in the back. no joke. why in god's name would you build there?!
bub about: charette time we've had 3 people out to give estimates. for block, none have been below $6k.
i'm cool with moving dirt, there's something cathartic about it. but...digging back 4' to put in drainage and such so i can put in a wall...then move all the dirt back. that sounds dreadful. if we lose $5k in resale value (which would be ridiculous) because we have one parking spot instead of two...i'm ok with that right now.
bub about: charette time we also need to put fence up behind this retaining wall, so it's got to be able to handle that process.
bub about: charette time the guy that came out for an estimate gave us a $6500 quote for doing a versa-lok wall. granted that's with him doing the labor. i've got a lot of other projects that need my time/energy, so this is threatening to eff up the list.
bub about: charette time we will definitely need to lose one parking spot if we slope. either that or we take 3' out of our patio (which is only about 13' wide to begin with. that proportions would be horrible. i'm in favor of sloping.
bub about: baseballs aaron rodebaugh! you mean sonuvabitch. and you could at least spell it right. pittsburgh ends with an h.
bub about: baseballs i had to get my ridiculous bragging in before the pirates hit their typical 3-23 streak, leaving me with nothing but "well, at least i can sit outside in a nice stadium and eat some over-priced primanti's at the same time".
bub about: baseballs so, i have to say this now or i might miss my very narrow window. i get to say it a lot in football and recently in hockey but i can't remember saying this in decades...MY BASEBALL TEAM IS BETTER THAN ALL OF YOUR'S!!! i'm done. thanks. :)
bub about: nfl draft boners i got to show abby my "jack del rio of hockey" last night. that's not a euphemism. i hate mike keenan with a white hot rage.
bub about: Birthday!! my CIO just came in a wrote 420 really big on my white board. he wears patchouli. non-profits are funny.
bub about: nfl draft boners i hate the new schedule. way to ruin a perfectly good tradition, nfl. and really...it's now 3 days long? stupid.
i like to gamble too. i'm in.
the gruden qb camp is great. he does give them some "you're gonna be a really good NFL qb" fluff crap in there, but it's mixed with honest "what are you, 5'10"?" (mccoy), and some good solid breakdown. just him breaking down film would be nice to watch. that dude has forgotten more about football than i'll ever learn.
bub about: weird maybe. i'm game for that.
bub about: weird anyone know why there's a union jack flying over point state park at the moment? have we been conquered in the last 24 hours and it somehow missed the news cycle? is this because the pirates won 3 games in a row...if so, we take it back.
bub about: Friday another random thought...i was thinking about professional athletes' salaries. what do you think their monthly "bills" come to? i'm not talking about flights to vegas/french riviera/etc, or buying cars or anything like that. i'm talking about mortgages, cable bills, typical monthly living expenses. it couldn't be in the $200,000 a month range, could it? that's a crazy amount of money. if it is...that's about $2.5mil a year in monthly expenses. so guys like jeter/a-rod/pujols have to have a huge amount of money in the bank. jeter earned $160mil from 2001-2009...that's a nice cushion. i'm happy with a few thousand in the bank. they've got to have nearly $100mil. i should have practiced harder.
bub about: footballs so, this roethlisberger stuff has me seathing. what a first class douchebag. i defended him the first time (because she was clearly a scorned woman/lover/etc), but this most recent one...and the details in the report saying there was another incident (that can't be verified, mind you) involving him droping his pants and telling some girl she could do whatever she wanted, while at a party at his house. i'm done with him. we'll suck for a few seasons, but get him off my team. cut him, trade him, whatever. with him as the QB, i'm going to have a tough time watching my team this season.
bub about: jobs i haven't been this excited about a friday in a loooong time. this has been one of the longest weeks i can remember. i'm ready for another installment of playoff hockey tonight.
bub about: music it seems as though the hold steady played a show in the southside last night. the end.
bub about: baseball nerd stats it's a 0-114 scale. so far, an 83 is the highest thrown. if you throw a perfect game, while striking out all 27 batters, you can get a 114. so a 100 would be reachable with a perfect game and 13Ks.
bub about: baseball nerd stats It's a way of comparing the quality of a pitching performance or hitting performance. Obviously, since it doesn't account for fielding performance, it's not perfect, but it is interesting.
bub about: baseball nerd stats there's also one for batters.
bub about: baseball nerd stats i might be late to the party on this one...but has anyone seen the GSC stats for pitchers? it's right up my nerdy stats alley. its a formulation for who pitched the best games so far.
gsc = 50 + 1*Outs + 2*IP after the 4th + 1*K - 2*H - 4*ER - 2*UnearnedRuns - 1*BB
bub about: let wow, i couldn't NOT look it up yesterday and what i found was "judas priest" just released a concept album about "nostradamus". i couldn't find anything about featured artists, but by then i'd lost interest. i guess if i would have put in the answers i found, they result would have been fairly entertaining.
bub about: picture brunt, it's probably easiest to use tinypic.com, then link to that pic.
bub about: lawn care i hate electric weed wackers. get a gas powered one. i rarely trim/weed wack...by the time i get done pushing my mower up that front hill 14 times, i'm more interesting in taking doan's than trimming. i have to bag the clippings (and all yard waste) in the paper bags.
i don't claim to keep a nice lawn, so you may want to ask the more anal lawn folks like wes.
bub about: futbol that's hilarious! i love it.
bub about: baseball right now..."dimensions" - wolfmother. before that, "juke box hero" - foreigner.
bub about: baseball garret jones is on pace for 628 HR this year. 2-2 with 2HR so far. buccos are going to the world series.
bub about: baseball i almost forgot my annual "the pirates are undefeated!" post. whew. 18-straight, here we come.
bub about: baseball i am. i have what should be my only 5-team baseball parlay for the season.
bub about: i am bored entertain me please.
bub about: browns every time i hear ray maualuga's name, i think of this.
bub about: browns i'd like to thank shaun rogers for taking the nfl criminal spotlight off the steelers for 4 seconds. derek, i apologize for all but a few of the bengals/arrest jokes. karma's a bitch. a cold, heartless bitch.
bub about: babies! she's 24 as of today. hooray viability!
bub about: Columbus Concert i'm out, since i've never heard of either band.
bub about: babies! smacking your babies gums with a spoon to see if they are teething?! moronic! i don't even have a baby yet and i know that's not a fun thought.
bub about: music i purposely avoided it, because i'm stubborn and stupid. i don't have either album, just pandora.
bub about: music does "unarmed" mean they don't have picnic baskets or pots of honey?
bub about: music babe, didn't we talk about not saying everything that comes to mind?
bub about: music i snotted on myself thinking about pounding bears. i blared "dimension" in the car on the way to bowling league last night. it's awesomeness wore off after two games apparently. scored a 198, a 192, then a 144.
bub about: music so, i avoided listening to them for quite a while, because i didn't like a vast majority of the music on the lists of awesome music that you guys talk about a lot...but holy balls do i love me some wolfmother. did i miss the cool phase for them? are 13-year-old girls listening to them now? my wolfmother pandora station is filled with a lot of badassedness. good work dudes. i'll doubt your music taste about 3% less.
bub about: Footballs oh how i'd love to say that to his face (but would chicken out).
bub about: Footballs couldn't agree more.
bub about: Footballs based on PFT, looks like the girl has refused to be interviewed for second time by the police. i guess the first time was the night of the event. that doesn't look good for her. most of the commenters on the article are saying he paid her off.
bub about: Footballs what i've heard is that he's "had contact" with the girl. it implied sexual contact. they've been using very vague language this whole time. it's rather irritating. i just want to know whether my team has a QB or not.
bub about: Footballs you would think so. dude's a moron. it's been implied all along that he humped her in the bathroom. clearly that would be the most severe of possibilities. if he's charged with honking a boob, (which is totally inappropriate) they've blown this way out of proportion. joe namath would be serving a life sentence if that was the case.
again, i don't condone honking stranger lady boobs. i only condone honking your wife's/girlfriend's boobs. if you have a wife and a girlfriend, that gets confusing...and you're a jerk.
bub about: Footballs the lack of DNA helps the "i didn't bang her" defense.
bub about: Footballs did everyone on the crawl die on sunday? why so quiet this week?
so, looks like the roethlisberger case in georgia may be coming to an end...they've dropped their request for his DNA, since there's no DNA to compare it too. sounds like a plus for him. wish he'd stop acting like a DB, though.
bub about: Footballs Espn reporting rumors that the browns may trade up to get McCoy. Sounds familiar. The browns interested in a soft, under-sized QB. Say it ain't so.
bub about: our own Michelle i, for one, am shocked...SHOCKED! that a standup guy like jesse james would ever cheat on his wife.
bub about: post-crawl so tired.
bub about: friend time i wasn't saying you're holding things up...i have to get all of my crap together.
bub about: friend time it's super close for me. i'm out of here at 2:40ish. still won't be there until 8-9ish though. :(
bub about: random it should be against the law to play taylor swift out loud at work (or anywhere for that matter). i'm close to going postal.
bub about: Gideon Update good vibes headed your way, man.
bub about: Friday so, i'm feeling crazy jittery and a bit queazy today. i think my body is starting to protest what it knows is coming this weekend.
bub about: Friday you wanted nice ones? you should have thought that through first ;)
bub about: Friday "if i squint really hard, uncle derek looks like jack black"
bub about: Friday "the bengals didn't sign TO? Shiiit!"
bub about: tourney yay tourney day! i am going to be negatively productive today.
bub about: Friday what's the toner's address?
bub about: C-town so, again...is it friday yet?
bub about: C-town you're just mad cuz cincy's fatter.
bub about: C-town men's fitness disagrees about columbus. i wouldn't say any of our cities are super fat, so don't feel i'm slighting any of your towns.
bub about: C-town i had to look it up after lunch. pittsburgh is 25 on the FITTEST cities in the US. Cleveland is 15. Cincy isn't on the list. so...pittsburgh ISN'T the fattest city you've lived in.
bub about: i stole this from deadspin i think the answer is "it would take 10 more men than a gorilla could kill before being so physically exhausted that it passed out".
bub about: i stole this from deadspin i'm not sure it's possible. a gorilla is crazy strong. it's reach is really long. i don't think you want to ambush a gorilla anywhere. i think you'd have to find a way to distract it, then strike somewhere super vulnerable...but i don't think we're strong enough to hit it hard enough to do damage...without weapons.
bub about: grrrr a coworker just returned from maternity leave and she's playing "party in the USA" outloud on her speakers. it was so nice to not hear that crap for 3 months. someone shoot me.
bub about: irish music i shouldn't either...but i can't help myself. i'm a homer.
bub about: irish music i'm in a bracket for work...that was enough effort for me. i'm also not capable of keeping pitt out of the final four...so i lose by default.
bub about: irish music i started with irish pub favorites, then went to the dubliners, then the pogues. i forgot to update my songs last night, so i don't have any of my favorites on my phone at the moment.
bub about: irish music i was just listening to the pogues. good stuff.
bub about: less grocery talk ok, off the grocery store topic. i've got my pandora station glued on "irish pub favorites", i may OD on irish fun by sunday. is it friday yet?
bub about: Wegmans IS awesome weird. granted, we can't buy beer in the grocery store, but i can definitely say i've never needed to speak to a manager. i can't wait to check this place out.
bub about: Wegmans IS awesome i'm not looking for it to be a sideshow...just trying to figure out why wegman's customers are so incredibly excited about it. it may very well be super awesome, but it's hard to wrap my brain around that awesome of a grocery store.
bub about: random i'd rather program in my grocery list at the door, have an automated cart go get everything while i sit in the pub and drink beer/watch sports.
bub about: random i'm guessing it's because i'm headed up there this weekend, but i have "buffalo stance" stuck in my head. "we always hang in a buffalo stance. we do the dive everytime we dance."
bub about: Wegmans IS awesome it is just a grocery store though, right? it's not a bar or a waterpark or a super-fun-playland as well, right?
bub about: wemans so there are wegmans in buffalo, right? can someone take me to one this weekend? all i hear about the damn place is how awesome it is...i find it hard to believe a grocery could be that awesome...so i want to see for myself.
bub about: holy shit Cleve-town!!! i think he's detailing cars at berg's dealership.
bub about: holy shit Cleve-town!!! that's alright, my QB might be going to jail because he can't keep his schwantz in his pants. that leaves us with dennis dixon. no offense to dennis dixon, but that's not a good thing.
i did have to chuckle at brady quinn for a FB and two late round picks...a year after they could have had jay cutler straight up. not that cutler did any better than delhomme, but it sounds like a better deal.
bub about: holy shit Cleve-town!!! and someone finally realized that the brady quinn project was going nowhere.
bub about: ok go i love a good rube goldberg machine.
bub about: Thews 2.1 quahog. quincy. quail. maybe it's just the letter Q.
good luck thewsies. cristen, i hope things go much faster this time :)
bub about: lost boys What happened to Simon Pegg?
bub about: sonvuabitch I don't know it's origin, but mike greenberg from mike and mike used it the other day, so not a Pittsburgh word, and he's not muh of a hillbilly. Abby's sentence was too fancy. It's usually used like "I'm ascared of the dark." it's afraid and scared musher together.
bub about: sonvuabitch irregardless is now in the merriam webster dictionary. won't be using that dictionary anymore. i guess i'll have to shift my disdain to another non-word that people use too much. i'm trying to decide between "nother" (as in "a whole nother") and "ascared".
bub about: hockey you did have a good showing at the "columbine" that one year. i can see why they came-a-calling.
bub about: hockey trade deadline today. wonder if there will be any big deals this year?
bub about: vent dirty rice was the flavor. it smelled so effing bad. i believe the conversation something like this:
abby: "will you make me some food?" brian: "sure, what to you want?" abby: "that zatarain's should be fast"
30 smelly minutes later i threw it away while abby was asleep.
brian: "abby, are you ready for bed?" abby: "what about my zatarain's?" brian: "you ate it already" abby: "really?! i don't remember that at all. i can't believe i'm still hungry" helping abby down the hallwaybrian: "yeah, that's weird. we'll go get breakfast tomorrow.
i'm awesome.
bub about: vent Based on the smell, humans shouldn't eat it.
bub about: vent That stuff makes ramen smell like a delicious rotisserie chicken.
bub about: vent Abby, how can you bitch about the smell of ramen when you eat zataran's.
bub about: vent JC and I would hit giant eagle with $10 and get enough ramen for a month. We had those and freezy pops. That was it.
bub about: titty from now on, i'm having my parents call you titty.
bub about: o.m.g. i had a friend growing up nicknamed boner, but it had nothing to do with his name. he was just a moron.
bub about: o.m.g. maybe she was giving him a zerbert, and only finds them slightly amusing.
bub about: o.m.g. that's awesome! if i had paparazzi following me, i sure wouldn't be giving bj's on glass-railing-ed balconies. silly whore. i mean...
bub about: 8 for 8 does that mean you are done? if so, congrats man! that's awesome.
bub about: winter is awesome do you guys have ice? i wouldn't want to skate on any ponds around here, that's fo' sho'. sounds like a blast though. i miss pond hockey.
bub about: KSU on CNN on the front page of CNN, there's a link to the story about the preservation of the memorial. buried in the "intriguing people" page. awesome!
bub about: hitler reacts to the US-Canada hockey game love you leanne, but i saw this on fark and had to post it. the heatley reference at the end is rough. (dui accident that killed a teammate years ago) hilter isn't happy.
bub about: Planning ahead! and i'll go to cleveland with you, ab. :)
bub about: Planning ahead! cathryn, pittsburgh is a good destination. just sayin'.
bub about: Have you found a missin Boner? Oh wait, his dad...I don't remember that one.
bub about: Have you found a missin Boner? If I remember correctly it was something like "Richard Stabone".
bub about: Tiger I couldn't have cared less about what he was going to say. Clearly he's only sorry because he got caught. I could forgive someone (that I'm not married to) if they did it once, and was genuinely sorry...but when you're humping chicks in the double digits, I don't buy it. I also don't need an apology from him. If he and his wife have dealt with it, great. I also don't need the wall-to-wall coverage on espn. Had to turn itoff this morning. (working from home)
bub about: olympic i switched over to tosh.0 before shaun white started. him winning was a forgone conclusion for me. anyone feel bad for that lindsay jacobellis? i sure don't. you lost the gold last time because you show-boated over the last jump...and this time you had some unfortunate luck and bit it in the semi's. sorry dude, maybe you shouldn't have show-boated when you had the gold in your grasp.
bub about: olympic we've got a curling league in town. i asked some dudes about it, after my brother's roller hockey game a few months back. i recall not signing up because it was like $150 a person plus ice time. i figured i could get drunk and play shufflepuck for far less.
bub about: 10 Reasons Not To Become An Architect regarding the "i wish i didn't go right into college after high school" thought. i couldn't agree more. sweeney and i got drunk one night and discussed at length how there should be institutions our there that are for people like me, who want to take some of the more general college courses, but would like to spend a good amount time figuring out what they really want to do and what really makes them happy (a la "accepted"). i really wish i went to school for photography, but i didn't realize i liked it so much until about 2 years ago. and to make it so you aren't wasting time at those institutions, you can take some courses that would transfer to other schools once you figure out what you really like. i guess it's similar to being an undeclared major, but i don't remember school allowing you to take any course you wanted (unless you were in that program).
i like what i do now, but if i won the powerball, i certainly wouldn't be doing this. what really sounds awesome is moving to italy and being a scooter tour guide for english speaking people. THAT is a cherry gig.
bub about: SNOW! You are below the snow line. It's warm down there. We do have considerable icicles. There's one offthe side of our front porch that is clearly taller than me. We don't have much along the lines of water runoff.
bub about: SNOW! i don't remember a time since the blizzard of '93 when we've had this much snow on the ground at once. it's still probably right around 22-23" sitting there. it's funny how it compacts over time (even without much melting). the last two "storms" haven't been bad here. maybe 2-6" each time. the number of chairs in parking spots is pretty entertaining...although pittsburgh is known for that even in the summer time.
here's a great snow shoveling story that i heard from my neighbor while we were digging out cars. his father(might have been in-law) was shoveling out a spot for his wife while she was on her way home from somewhere. it took him about 2 hours to dig one out. he walked into the house and someone pulled into the spot within a few minutes. so, he dug out another for his wife. once he was done with that, he proceded to spray the spot-stealer's car with the garden hose every 15-minutes until the guy had a 2-inch thick layer of ice covering the car. i would have paid to see that dude's reaction in the morning.
bub about: HELLO We had lunch at olive garden with abby's folks. Also hit the airport to drop off the rental car. Watched a lot if Olympic.
bub about: TV Anyone else geeked about that new show "minute to win it"?
bub about: news flash apparently the inventor of the frisbee has died. i know how much you guys ultimate frisbee and thought you might need a mourning period.
bub about: yay canada! i want to do more canadian stuff. i want to go to tim's for a double-double and timbits. i've never had either. granted, i haven't had a single cup of coffee in a 7 years, but still.
bub about: footballs The bengals are quite rebellion.
matt jones was busted for coke a few years back. Tall white receiver. Had a decent half year.
bub about: yay canada! Leanne, you are a genius!!
bub about: footballs Adam Schefter is reporting that the pacman jones has a workout scheduled with the bengals. And matt jones is also getting a look. Ochocinco has been tweeting that he's trying to get TO to go to cincy. If those three players sign in cincy the town might explode.
bub about: yay canada! Oh yeah. I thought the game was tomorrow night. I guess the odds are slimmer than I originally thought.
bub about: yay canada! what do you think the odds would be on sidney crosby lighting the olympic torch by shooting a flaming puck into the top of the torch?
bub about: yay canada! wow, that was impressive!
if there's a 20-minute segment, that's one time. they have to talk about the blizzard, then move on to something else, then get back to the blizzard again.
bub about: yay canada! so, we're trying to come up with prop bets for the opening ceremonies tonight, can anyone help? for those that don't know "prop bets" are those goofy type of bets that you do during the superbowl like "how many times will pete townshend do his signature windmill...over or under 5.5 times". they don't necessarily need to be canadian in theme, but that might help. so far we've come up with "how do they light the torch", "does the ceremony directly involve hockey", "how many athletes will be seen drinking tim horton's coffee".
and go!!!
bub about: research for Work you know what i meant.
bub about: research for Work i don't know a single person who would disagree in that situation.
bub about: research for Work i once told a girl i'd go to church with her. sneaky christians.
bub about: nerd boner Crap, Leanne, I accidentally deleted your post. Stupid iPhone.
bub about: nerd boner I saw the bit with the ipad but I missed his show.
bub about: nerd boner I haven't brought it up in a little while, but I get to be all nerdy and awesome on Saturday night at the Ben Folds show. That is all.
bub about: site update i go to fark quite a bit. i'll throw that one up too. i doubt i'll put any more up until the weekend. unless i'm really bored tomorrow.
bub about: site update slate and gizmodo links are up. gizmodo's icon needs to be changed. i should probably do some real actual work at some point this morning.
bub about: site update the PFT link has been added.
bub about: site update i also added a "fisheye menu" to the top of the comments page. i added a few sites that i go to a lot, so if you'd like one to be added, just let me know and i'll add it.
bdc, serving all of your unproductive needs.
bub about: site update also, i'll be creating new images for each category with different people's faces. don't feel left out if your face isn't on the main page. those were three images that i found quickly to convey blabbering, ranting, and pictures. you'll all get an image at some point. and if you'd like to create your own desaturated posterized image, you're more than welcome :)
bub about: site update clearly, the site has been updated. wes, you'll have to try some new cheese.
bub about: question what are your most visited web sites while at work? (other than bdc)
bub about: work i get about 3 calls a month looking for programmers. if anyone is interested in carrier path changes, let me know.
bub about: snow it gets worse. i'm getting rid of the "gallery" page as it stands now. it will be a page where we can link all of the shutterfly albums (you'll obviously have to post your own pages/albums/etc). that way they are all in one place.
bub about: snow that was an awfully slow commute this morning. thankfully there weren't really any cars on the road at 10:15 when we headed in. i'm one of 4 people in my office today.
also, wes, stock pile your cheese, because i got tired of the way bdc's main page looks, so it got a facelift last night and i'll be "putting it into production" tonight.
bub about: snow we got about another 4" last night. supposed to get about 1-3" today. so not as bad as expected. thankfully.
bub about: drinking fountains i doubt i'll ever be able to think anything other than lyndon baines johnson when i see lbj. he needs a better abbreviation. same with ladainian tomlinson. there's already a super-famous LT.
bub about: baseballs now that footballs season is over, pitchers and catchers report in 8 days.
since the pens have crammed so many games into the first half of the season, they aren't playing nearly as frequently and i'm left with nothing to watch.
bub about: tuesdays i believe our schools are too, in anticipation. hard to tell how much we're supposed to get. some reports are 4-8", some are 6-10". at least we aren't the DC/baltimore area looking at another 10-20" after getting 30" over the weekend.
bub about: tuesdays back in the office today. although, we have an early dismissal today, so we can get home before the second wave hits.
also, i'm not sure what sized person they made the cobalt "sedan" for, but i'm guessing under 5'10". thank god we're only renting it. it's tiny.
bub about: hey buffalo Gave = got.
bub about: hey buffalo We gave 22" in our yard. The additional 6-10" they are calling for tomorrow-Wednesday aren't going to help. Once you get above 4-6" here, driving becomes nearly impossible because of the hills and narrow streets. Haven't left the house since we got home Friday. Office is closed today.
bub about: fun stuff hines ward has one. i'll make a few calls.
bub about: fun stuff That's is a prime example as to why my activities downgraded to bowling. Much less of a chance of me getting multiple injuries. That sucks, bigs. Hope eveything heals up nice and easy.
bub about: fun stuff after doing a write-up on the iPad's capabilities/non-capabilities, my office decided that we're getting one when they come out in april and i get to test it. boooya!
bub about: i didn't realize that. that's weird. that's all based off of cookies...i would think that would stick around. odd. thanks for filling me in. i had no idea what the hell was going on.
bub about: cheese we didn't drink THAT much....er somethin'
bub about: cheese What site? I'm confused.
bub about: Baby G you've got a cute kid, berg. does he have a back sweater yet?
bub about: andy, why did you re-register?
bub about: cheese i wouldn't mind being drunk and lazy here either.
bub about: cheese If I've ever NEEDED a vacation like that in my life, now is the time. I want to be drunk and lazy at the beach for a week with you idiots.
bub about: cheese thanks for the dummy explanation leanne.
bub about: site update grounded.
bub about: site update and it might be time for a new main page. i'm tired of the horrible looking one we've had for far too long.
bub about: site update it pays to marry the webmaster.
bub about: site update abby got tired of scrolling the length of the fireworks picture, so she picked a shorter image. happy OBX thoughts.
your cheese?
bub about: tech chubbie that's some good stuff. html5 sounds like a winner, but is plagued by idiots not upgrading browsers and proprietary video crap. booo.
lesson 1: upgrade your browsers often and stay away from internet explorer. you're holding everyone else back. :)
bub about: tech chubbie yeah, i saw that they are essentially abandoning flash for html5. looks like a new thing for me to learn. yahoo|
bub about: tech chubbie i just got asked to research the iPad to see if we could possibly use them for the office. um...most fun research ever...unless i don't get one, then it sucks.
bub about: hockey coop slept through most of the game too. he was tired from barking all day. it's funny how dogs with some pug in them talk in their sleep. i yelled at him at one point to "wake up, you're missing the game, dude!"...he opened one eye and said "this game was decided long before today". i didn't question him, he was quite assertive.
bub about: hockey If you were going to miss any of it, that was he time for a sabres fan to miss. They haaaaad to go and make it interesting at the end, didn't they?
bub about: hockey cooper just called and said something about "wonky eyes" and "bring it". it was hard to understand through all the peeper licking.
bub about: hockey pens-sabres tonight. uh oh!
bub about: college sports there appear to be rumors of a press conference scheduled for thursday morning to announce that Pitt has joined the Big Ten. thoughts? if Pitt was asked to join, they damn well better have. that's a big jump in pay (from the big ten network) and a muuuuch bigger football stage. they would have a much easier path to the NCAA tourney in basketball. it has a few drawbacks, but i'd love to see the pitt-penn state game come back, since JoePa won't play it now.
bub about: trains my only issue is that i don't like seafood. i'm sure i could get by, especially with their commitment to quality foods there. that show was incredible tourism advertisement.
bub about: trains after watching bourdain last night (on dvr), i may want to move the bubdotcompound to brittany. what an insanely awesome looking area.
bub about: trains I'd rather not have high gas prices, I still have to drive to work...but I'd like to see cheap rail service.
bub about: trains you guys are far ahead of PA. our request was for $2.3billion for a high-speed rail from downtown to the airport (15 minute drive). what the fuck was that?! ooor, we could be the linch-pin between the midwest and the eastcoast...but why the hell would we want to be that?!?! idiots.
bub about: trains i would use high-speed rail more than planes, if i had the choice. i'm not a fan of flying so much. air sickness mostly. people don't use the current rail system because it's slow and expensive. why would i take an 11hour train ride to NYC for $150 when i can drive it in 6...fly it in 1 for less? if i could get to philly in 2 hours on a train for $50...damn right i'm using it. i would consider hitting philly for the day on a random weekend for that price.
bub about: cnn is funny i fully agree that iPad just lends itself to "maxiPad" and stuff like that...but cnn is now reporting on possible jokes for names of gadgets? that's an endless source of news, if that's the case.
bub about: cnn is funny cnn has an article with the headline "iPad inspires feminine hygiene jokes". really, cnn? that's news worthy? that seems more fitting for Fark, than CNN.
bub about: zzzzzz i am a bit underwhelmed. i was hoping this would be the event where they would tell us they finally got flash working on their touchscreen OS. this tablet without being able to view flash is embarrassing.
bub about: zzzzzz i guess we'll find out in about 25 minutes.
bub about: zzzzzz i'm just fine with watching movies and stuff on my iphone, mostly because i'm only going to watch it on there when i'm not at home. abby likes the kindle app on her phone, because then she's always got her books with her, since her phone is always there. i can see the appeal of sitting on the couch with a tablet for web browsing and kindle stuff. they'd have to make it awfully cheap for me to consider it (and i ought to be in the market for a new laptop sometime in the next 18months), but apple isn't known for being the most affordable. i sound like an iphone commercial (and i know how much that irritates cristen), but i've almost stopped using my laptop altogether, because i can do most of what i want to do on my phone and it's 100% portable.
bub about: zzzzzz i'm not all that excited about the tablet. if i worked out of the office a lot, i'd be interested, but i'd prefer to type than write. maybe i have the wrong idea about the tablet.
bub about: Jeopardy! since then, i don't think we've ever NOT tried to guess without the clue. it's much more fun.
bub about: Jeopardy! abby's mom visited yesterday and she said she got the answer too. with the clue being "sports cities", pittsburgh is a safe bet.
i nailed it once, but i don't remember the clue anymore. it was back when we were in the old apartment, so at least 4 years ago.
bub about: st.patty i'm a conditional "in". if abby is able to travel by then, i'm a 100% "in". assuming she stays in good health, regardless of her travel status, i'm most likely an "in".
bub about: zzzzzz where the hell is everyone? i'm bored...pick it up.
bub about: big news i get to go to the ben folds/pittsburgh symphony orchestra concert in a few weeks! i have a nerdy music boner.
bub about: project friends i also forgot how to speak engrish.
bub about: project friends that's fine. have camera, will travel. andy, you guys can do whatever you'd picture you'd like. i just didn't come up with something for everyone yet.
bub about: project friends Absolutely. The possibilities are endless.
bub about: project friends aaron, i know the perfect place for your picture...if my dad's step brother will let us use his den.
bub about: project friends brad, that's perfect. i originally wondered if we could get a huuuuge military custome. what's more intimidating than a general in a uniform that's way too big. the dress whites are much more flexible.
bub about: project friends love it.
bub about: project friends someone dressed in a breezy cuban style would be sweet, especially one of the girls (dressed like a cuban guy). and something with a telephone booth would be neat.
bub about: project friends you don't want to be the roller disco guy? fine! sigh. aaron will be "filthy rich fox hunter".
bub about: project friends someone with a cigar and a snifter of brandy in a big leather chair would be sweet too.
bub about: project friends if you want to be slitting seeds/stems on an album cover, that's up to you. any other ideas are welcome.
bub about: project friends no wigs, i want this to be authentic. we can plan around your hair growing needs.
despite my normal "i want to do X" and then not following through. this one is happening. sweeney's has to wait for the snow to clear, so would some of the others, but the inside shots are doable whenever.
wes, you happen to know anyone who still has a blacklight poster, do you?
bub about: project friends Biggie, I mostly want you to bring a solid porn stache and Afro.
That chair would be sweet. I'm guessing we'll have to be happy with any badass retro chair. Some sort a vynil/naugahide(sp)/plethery chair would work.
bub about: project friends I forgot that I changed biggie to "porno biggie".
bub about: project friends so, i'm going to be doing a fun photography project, for anyone interested in participating.
i want to take sweet pictures of our friends (some ironical, some just visually awesome).
here are some initial thoughts. sweeney dressed in country club/golf attire. aaron as a roller disco guy wes wearing some huge 80s headphones and all dazed&confused me in skinny jeans and hip clothing. toner as an old-time strongman. leanne as flashdance biggie as an old-school longboard skater. thews as mr. rogers berg as a bear-skin rug. brad as a military general(fancy style) derek in a rugby uniform.
obviously these are just ideas and i welcome more...and i know i haven't mentioned everyone, you're all welcome to participant (or not). let me know. i'm 100% go on this project.
bub about: request as a kid, i had to watch what my parents watched...unless they weren't around. make the little ones watch some espn.
bub about: request ellen is definitely the best "day time" tv show on the networks.
bub about: request from my recollection, i watched "mike and mike" until 10:00, then sometime after that "ellen" came on, then it was a mish mosh of history channel, discovery, science channel, and smithsonian channel. then came the reruns of scrubs/that 70's show/family guy.
bub about: Pantuso Twins from what abby told me this morning or last night...dominick is older.
bub about: Pantuso Twins congratulations becky and steve!
bub about: riddle me this... four people wish to cross a long bridge in the dark of night, but the bridge will only support a maximum of two people at a time.
furthermore, it's so dark that any bridge-crossers need to carry a flashlight to guide them, and the four people have only one flashlight to use.
walking alone, the four people would take 1, 2, 5, and 10 minutes respectively, to c4ross the bridge one way.
if two people travel together with the flashligh, the must go at the speed of the slower person.
remember that the flashlight must be brought back across the bridge by someone each time.
how can you get all four across in less than 19 minutes?
bub about: xbox debate we may end up waiting a little bit. there's a lot to digest.
bub about: xbox debate the white one i'm seeing only has 256MB of storage...how'd you get the extra storage?
would an external hard drive (non-xbox brand) work for storage? i already have a 400GB one of those.
bub about: xbox debate lanner, you guys have the white xbox right?
bub about: xbox debate oh really?! that's great! i'd much rather not have to deal with trying to run network cables through finished walls/ceilings.
bub about: xbox debate a dongle, eh?
bub about: xbox debate so, we're at the decision making point about the xbox. i need some input.
1. xbox arcade ($199) or xbox elite ($299)?
2. getting netflix on xbox, i'd assume the network cable needs to be plugged in to your modem/router, correct? it's not wireless, right?
thoughts?
bub about: museums i remember rat girl (but not her name). her face has faded in my mind, but i have replaced it with this lady.
bub about: museums i have a penchant for buying massive amounts of markers. it's a disease. good thing colon bought them so they weren't a total loss. $450 worth of markers wouldn't do me much good as a programmer.
bub about: tigers i think there may be some tiger woods over-saturation in the media lately. i just read a headline that said "Tiger mauls owner at feeding time" and my first thought was "boy, he's having a rough 6 months".
bub about: bday there's a town near erie called "bagdad". that's awesome.
bub about: St. Patty that's assuming the script that i found to plot the 100mile radius is accurate.
unfortunately, there do not appear to be any bars (or any other businesses) in woodcock. it looks like it's just tiny town that consists of an intersection with maybe 10 houses around it. perfect for say a rockin' field party. i haven't been to a field party since high school.
bub about: St. Patty i swear on my life that i'm not making that up.
bub about: St. Patty if you plot a 100mile radius circle centering in cleveland, buffalo, and pittsburgh (sorry columbus and kittery, you are outliers), there's a town in PA called Woodcock that falls right in the middle of the intersection of those three circles. that would make it almost the center of the bdc universe. i think we should take over woodcock, like they did woodstock. and what more appropriate name could it have?
bub about: weddings with as much as i like hosting st patty's day stuff, we're out as hosts this year. i couldn't, in good conscience, make abby host a bunch of drunk idiots if she can't get drunk herself.
bub about: footballs wow, that offer to cribbs is a joke. $1.4mil really?! we'll gladly take him off your hands.
bub about: bdc fun That did not include rant comments. That's a separate table.
the sonogram was so cool. We've had a few aleady, since we've been trying for so long...but this one actually looked like a baby, so that was fun. My baby has knees and fingers, and toes. That was fun.
bub about: bdc fun all wrong...
it's 28895
bub about: bdc fun also wrong. and still no showcase showdown contestants.
bub about: bdc fun close. and actually, i need to clarify even more. turns out the number i have is since we went to having usernames and passwords. the date would be 3/2/2005.
bub about: bdc fun anyone care to take a guess as to how many posts have been made to the comments page since bdc came online? (this only includes posts that have not been deleted)
bub about: awesome boners as much shit as espn produces...this is awesome. they are putting out a 3D network this year. they will show 85 live sporting events in the first year(beginning june 11 with the first world cup match). i need more information on what i need to do to see this stuff in 3D. 3D sports is hot.
bub about: music just a reminder for those that don't remember, you can click on a person's name and see a loooooong list of their posts. just did a check on wes' name and it goes back to when thews put out his "gay vs. not gay" mix.
bub about: Nissassa i'd consider it more, if i wasn't afraid that microsoft will drop support for the 360 when the 720 comes out in 2011-2012. they said they would support the 360, "so long as it sells".
bub about: Baby Berg don't think i haven't looked into a bdc app. if it didn't cost $100 just to be able to program for iphones, we'd have one already.
bub about: Dhani that wouldn't necessarily eliminate the steelers. if houston loses and baltimore losses, the steelers don't need the jets to lose. it's still about a 6% chance that everything the steelers need to happen...will happen.
bub about: Dhani you can't take anything rodney harrison says seriously. you listen to the pundits too much. just enjoy it.
that said, one and done in the playoffs. ;)
bub about: colts i don't. :)
bub about: colts after week 14, indy owned the tie breaker for 1st place in the conference. they could have rested players in weeks 15, 16, and 17 (obviously still to come). why didn't they rest them in week 15? what if the 2 seed could finish at 11-5 at best and you are still undefeated...do you rest starters beginning in week 13? i understand the logic behind sitting them, but i don't think you should sit them until some time in the 4th quarter IF you have the game well in hand. especially if you are undefeated.
regardless of whether the steelers get to the playoffs or not...i hope sitting the starters comes back to bite them in the ass.
bub about: zzzz and Yahoo! was originally called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
bub about: zzzz really?! no one? all morning?!
so...quarters have 119 ridges while dimes have 118...discuss.
bub about: holidays i dislike it because that effed the steelers' playoff chances a bit. now the bengals have to beat the jets next week. the bengals have little incentive to play their starters. the most they could accomplish is getting the 3 seed if they win and the pats lose. personally, i'm hoping for bengals and pats victories, a ravens loss, with a steeler victory added for good measure. just to be extra sure of playoff goodness.
bub about: holidays looks like i'll be drinking some pre-happy hour boddingtons at finnegans.
bub about: holidays it looks like i'm done at 3:00 on thursday. too bad i can't go anywhere to abby gets done.
bub about: holidays this week is the best week to do nothing at work. :)
bub about: holidays anyone else a huge sucker and have to work this week?
bub about: magic get a bluetooth earpiece for your cell phone...much easier than getting a bluetooth cordless.
i don't use my bluetooth. it opens you up to viruses (which really aren't that common), but i don't like having my devices available for others to "discover" through bluetooth. bluetooth generally has crappier sound than wired stuff, so i prefer my wired headphones/mic. i do love the hands-free stuff though. bluetooth earpieces are better than having to hold the damn phone. maybe the quality has gotten better than what i had a few years back.
bub about: holidays i'm headed out soon. i hope everyone has a nice holiday.
bub about: 2009 albums - for summaries....you can post links by typing the following...
< a href="whateverlink.com" > whatever you want it to say < /a > < /br >
just remove the spaces before and after each < or > . make sure you leave the "s in there.
bub about: 2009 albums - i'm learning "zak and sara" on the piano at the moment. butchering the daylights out of it. it's a bit quick. zak and sara.
bub about: 2009 albums - i believe what they were saying is that they were on a motherfuckin' boat.
i think my favorite thing about this year (musically) was rediscovering ben folds' awesomeness. if i could be any nerdy supermusician, i'd want to be him. my most listened too musicians this year were ben folds, regina spektor, amos lee, and iron and wine. i'm not nearly on the cutting edge of new music like you guys.
bub about: that was like back in the day before we had usernames. except it wasn't about casinos and porn.
bub about: do this....
< a href="whateverlink.com" > what you want the link to say < /a > < /br >
just remove the spaces before and after the < > . then you can post as many links in the post box as you want.
bub about: wow, i should have made it easier to post multiple links in one post.
bub about: foxsports i agree about the videos. if you sign up for the "myESPN" thing (it's free), you can change the settings so that they videos don't "auto-play". that doesn't change the fact that some of their stories are video only or "insider" only. i hate that shit. it's sports news, not financial advice. just give me the damned rumors already.
bub about: foxsports fox generally does nothing right. their football graphics are awful. and that stupid ray lewis robot? what is this, 1997? get with the times fox. we like crisp graphics, less jumble, and fewer childish animations. also, please get rid of everyone on your pre(and post)-game shows. including his baldness.
bub about: foxsports i'm an espn.com or sportsline.com guy.
and biggie...it's not chinese currency, it's yinz...not yen's.
bub about: I Had a Deram i would probably force a stop at target. get a few pairs of shorts (trunks) and some t-shirts and the hygiene essentials. then i'd be fine.
i've been craving some time off, and a trip to the OBX would be just what the doctor ordered. i could vacation at that same house every year.
bub about: futbols so, today was the champions league draw for the 1st round of the knockout stage. 16 teams. fiorentina drew bayern munich. that's good for fiorentina, bayern have been struggling this year. the viola might actually make it to the round of 8. might.
bub about: footballs man, that chris henry situation is awful. what a shame.
bub about: see ya off to our christmas party. seeyasuckas.
bub about: birthdays happy birthday andy.
bub about: browns That was an embarrassment. I'm glad I resigned myself to the fact that our season is over and was fully expecting to lose that game last night. Way too many failures to discuss. Congrats browns fans.
And Brad, I did see the highlights. They look really good in the champions league, they just need to step it up in the serie A so they can get back their next year too.
bub about: work thanks leanne!
bub about: work we create GIS maps to analyze our data. it's not one of our "core competencies".
bub about: work arcGIS is not nearly intuitive enough. i can create maps all day, but i have no idea how to get my new data to display on the map. grrrr. anyone know of any good resources? i've already been through the simple tutorials i found on google.
bub about: camera yep, it's an eos rebel. canon eos rebel T1i, or something.
bub about: camera/camcorders if we're lusting after cameras...i'd like the sony HVR-Z7U Camcorder - 1080p. or...the canon T1i. bastards came out with a camera that shoots video in full hd. mine doesn't shoot video at all.
bub about: camera/camcorders i haven't used one, but those "flip" camcorders are pretty small, really cheap, and shot in HD. they only shoot for 60 minutes...but i can't remember the last time i wanted to record something that long without stopping. the nice thing is that you can just plug it in to your computer and upload the video without needing a firewire port. the flip thing has a USB arm that "flips" out.
i haven't checked out point and shoots in a while. but i'd agree with aaron, if it's too big to carry around, you'll never use it. flip camcorder
bub about: shutterfly i think we do too. i just don't remember what it's called or how to get there. :)
bub about: aural pleasures i created a script to let you see a real-time preview of your posts, but that won't correct misspellings. i could do one for commonly misspelled words, but that will just enable you :)
bub about: aural pleasures thanks ab. look at you wes, you're fancy. now that you know how to bold things...you can also underline < u >, italicize < i >, superscript < sup >, subscript < sub >, and many more :)
bub about: footballs yes, your teams stink more and for longer. i have no reason to complain. i was just stating that the steelers season is over, time to concentrate on hockey.
bub about: footballs my hockey team is much less prone to giving up leads at the end of the game. stupid defense.
bub about: footballs now that my football season is over...let's go pens!
bub about: Feed the Englishes yeah, they have a location in fort lauderdale, not sure if they have one anywhere else in fla. you should start one. new englanders would loooove 'em.
bub about: Feed the Englishes i'm totally having a blueberry beer float at dinner tonight|
bub about: Feed the Englishes way-oh. je voudrez ton saucisson.
bub about: Feed the Englishes i had a buffalo chicken sandwich and fresh cut fries last night at the bar. i had big pepperoni sandwich for lunch today (pepperoni the size of salami). i can't remember anything else i ate this week. i really like chicken pot pie, chicken curry pasta, gumbo, sandos with fries, grilled pizzas, chili, turkey tetrazzini, tuna noodle casserole...hmmm, what else...
bub about: World Cup berg, you're wrong. it's not BDC compound. it's the bubdotcompound...one word. god you're an idiot :)
bub about: World Cup sorry, yes i was in a meeting. US is in a group with england (who didn't lose a single match in qualifiers), slovenia (not very good), and algeria(about as good as you'd expect algeria to be at major sports...not good). they should move on to the round of 16 as the #2 team in their pool...barring any stupid losses to the suckier two teams. i doubt there will be any surprises with the pools being as even as they are. ought to be one hell of a world cup. only 6 months to wait.
good thing abby is the one who has to be pregnant...i'm sure i'd birth that baby a month early from over-excitement.
bub about: interviews for our company holiday party (which happens to be from 2pm-8pm on a wednesday, at the 1902 tavern and is an ugly sweater party...odd, no?) we had to answer a 20-question survey about ourselves. one of the questions was "if you were a plant, what would you be?" what?! i answered "a birch tree" and abby said "why, because you're white and flakey"...jerk.
bub about: hockey he's awesome. i'm happy with fluery, but miller a slightly better.
bub about: hockey i hate alex ovechkin. that is all.
bub about: lots o nope, he just has to give tug jobs and make out a lot.
bub about: Most awesome video ever!! whoa! that IS awesome!!!
bub about: google wave so, abby and i finally got our google wave accounts last night (took about 2 months after signing up). i think it's pretty sweet, she doesn't like it yet. if you haven't heard about it yet, check out this link. if you've heard of it and want an invitation, let me know, we each get 8 of them. i'm guessing you'll still have a wait, but probably less than the 2 months we had to wait. i know how change-adverse you architects are, so i'm guessing you won't want it for a few years.
bub about: stuff being that he passed all of his tests, i have no objection. if he's able to pass those tests that quickly, then it must have been a fairly minor concussion. i wouldn't mind seeing him sit a week, but that's just me.
bub about: futbols fiorentina beat lyon yesterday 1-0 which secured their place in the round of 16 of the champions league. this is a humongous deal for fiorentina. that knocked liverpool out of the champions league and into the europa league (that's like playing on the nationwide tour instead of the pga tour). fiorentina have a match against liverpool on the 9th, just to finish up the group stage, but will have no impact on who goes through. i'm guessing florence was all rebellion last night.
bub about: For you new planners in the group just for future reference...the next person to point out another fucking exam for my wife to study for will be thrown right off planetBDC. enough with the exams already. i'd like more than 3 days to hang out without her having to study.
bub about: For you new planners in the group josh, are you spamming bdc?
bub about: photos yep, those shots are pretty simple if you have the right equipment. most any camera can do a good majority of them. you need a tripod, a camera that can do 30-second exposures, and a shutter-release cable (or use the camera's timer, if it has one).
the one's that look like drawings are just long exposures where someone takes a pen light or a phone or something...and draws with it. you can't see the person doing the drawing because there is no light hitting them. i did a few of these in my house one night. they are pretty fun.
you can also "paint" objects with light. if you and i sat in a dark room with the camera shutter open, i could use a pen light to "paint" light on you. there are some incredible shots of stuff like that. here are a few places that have some sweet shots using those techniques. painting with light light graffiti
bub about: nice happy birthday aaron!
bub about: footballs so, that was a sucky week of football for bdc. all of our teams lost to shitty teams...except the bears...they lost to a mediocre team. stupid football.
bub about: YAY! happy birthday berg!
bub about: um i'm such a dirty hippy.
bub about: um i couldn't care less. if he wants a tatoo, go for it. if he wants to dress like and chick and have fake boobies and scraggly hair, go for it. i don't think biology needs to determine how you live your life. it's funny how my opinion on that kind of stuff has changed over the years.
bub about: um you don't see that everyday. good for that guy.
bub about: help me i'd be awfully pissed. if he's cool with it, then go for it.
bub about: help me that's incredibly rude. you realize that right?
bub about: old email it's my biggest underwear pet peeve. i hate having to do the "get back in there you wandering bastard" dance.
bub about: old email i hate whatever brand of boxer briefs these ones are...my peeper keeps flopping out the fly. that's my biggest pet peeve with underwears.
bub about: B-days that was 5 years of high school spanish, my friend.
bub about: birthday Lo odio cuando no estoy con mis amigos por mi cumpleanos. quiero que bebemos todas las birras en todos los estados unidos. todas las birras.
bub about: birthday dammit wes, now i'm singing happy birthday to myself in spanish.
bub about: birthday thanks berg :)
bub about: birthday happy birthday cathryn!
i don't have to sit through any meetings today...and i took tomorrow off since i have a bunch of vacation days left and no plans to use them.
bub about: random and sadly, abby and i have IMed each other while sitting next to each other on the couch. sad.
bub about: random i think the coolest thing about it is the live editing of documents by multiple people. it is essentially a hosted document that displays real-time changes. great for meeting minutes, brainstorming, collaborating, etc. not to sound like an ad for google wave or anything.
bub about: SketchUP speaking of google, have any of you seen the new "google wave"? abby and i signed up for accounts, but they are still in the beta testing process and have only released a certain number of accounts. it's their attempt to replace email. the hour and twenty minute video attempts to show you what it can do. it's pretty cool. the wave.
bub about: SketchUP what dicks|
bub about: footballs has anyone been keeping an eye on wes today? the article on espn about the bills having considered vick in the preseason and the debate about him being a good fit for the bills now, might put wes at the edge of a bridge/building/cliff.
bub about: New Years i would assume awesome. 2minutes is tough to beat. it takes me almost that long to get up my attic.
bub about: Another Bruiser congrats mengs!!!
bub about: stuff that it...this weekend i'm going to take my camera out and get all rebellion.
bub about: stuff i didn't take this, but i wish i could have. it's a pic of downtown this morning. stolen from the post gazette's site. foggy pittsburgh
bub about: baseballs all that money bought them 4 guys with 5 all-star appearances. yowza!
you could argue that the yankees bought themselves out of championships. in 1998, they had a payroll of $64m (2nd behind the orioles) and a record of 114-48. so, for $137m they got -9 wins.
the source of your frustration lies with Jean-Marc Bosman. and sponsored by Donald Fehr.
bub about: baseballs boy, that blown call on damon's smash to first base could have ruined this series. i'm all for more instant replay in baseball. instead of bases loaded with 1 out, the inning is over...wow. i liked the slight makeup call on the double play the next inning.
bub about: baseballs we may want to go to the rant board as to not stifle other conversation.
bub about: baseballs "buying wins" isn't quantifiable. it's the same as using "yeah, well you're gay" as a come-back.
bub about: baseballs the pirates don't have many all stars...the yankees 5 non-home-grown all stars to the phillies 3.
i did see lee's stats...i fail to see how giving up 1 run in the 9th is better than giving up 0 runs in 9innings. i would much rather my pitcher give up a a walk to two or three throughout 9 innings than give up a run. you can't lose if you don't give up any runs. tom glavine may have had the most dominant performance of all of those but that doesn't count? take the 9th off of lee (1 run on 2 hits and 2SO) and they are still at least equal games. point still being that 3 of those games have clearly better stats lines in almost identical situations. dude pitched an excellent game...i'm not knocking him. it's ridiculous to ask if it's the best game we've ever seen pitched. if you have to use things like "based on the circumstances and where he had to pitch and the weather and..." then i think you've got your answer.
bub about: baseballs is the question unanswerable or is the "buying wins" excuse indefensible?
i also hate the pats because they win too much. i'll clearly say that i hate them for that...using payroll as an excuse is mindless.
bub about: baseballs 5 better performances:
randy johnson game 2 2001WS 9in 3h 0r 1bb 11k
josh becket game 6 2003WS 9in 5h 0r 2bb 9k
kenny rogers game 2 2006WS 8in 2h 0r 3bb 5k
curt schilling game 5 1993WS 9in 5h 0r 3bb 6k
tom glavine game 6 1995WS 8in 1h 0r 3bb 8k
want me to keep going?
bub about: baseballs i thought of 10 better performances in the last 15 years. all in the world series. all against great teams in fancy stadiums. it's a great performance. in no way is it the BEST i've EVER seen.
i hate the payroll situation in MLB, but at what point is it considered BUYING wins? can only the top spending team buy wins? the phils have a $113m payroll (yankees $201m)(pirates $48m). or is the payroll thing just an easy excuse? my soft-spot for the yankees aside.
bub about: baseballs i've decided that espn is the source of everything i hate about sports. lee pitched great last night. in no way would i try to take that away from him. that "spiked" curve is naaaaasty. espn is asking if that was the greatest pitching performance we've ever seen...!?! are you kidding me?! 9innings, 6 hits, 1 run, 0 walks deserves "is this the best pitching performance you've ever seen?"!?!?! shoot me in the face right now. the amount of hyperbole from espn is "the most ridiculous thing to have ever happened on any planet ever"
bub about: Cleveland Clowns not to nitpick, but you were outgained 543-197 against the steelers.
bub about: Clevetown Browns ah, the musings of the insane. good stuff.
bub about: the dare devil i AM for hire. Other services include drinking all of the beer, talking a lot about nothing, and snoring.
bub about: the dare devil i took some pictures of sweeney and his first night back on the bike. too dark to get any action shots...but here they are if you are interested. brap brap!
bub about: NFL i believe if you have two feet down in the endzone, the ball does not have to cross the plane. i don't recall whether his feet were both in the endzone.
bub about: NFL i'm ok with it. it helped solidify my four team parlay. aw yeah, $0.93-fake-cents in the bank!
bub about: footballs that touchdown followed by the review of a non-call was flat out stupid. abby, steph, blaine, and i were actually yelling at the tv "why are you doing this?!" it was pointless and totally unprofessional.
and thanks ab, i did forget that one.
bub about: footballs i'm guessing there will be pictures somewhere on the web in the next few days. i would all but guarantee that he isn't wearing a shirt in said pics.
bub about: footballs a few thoughts from the weekend.
1. nice work bills. 2. thank you browns, for being the browns. 3. thanks ravens and bengals for letting us back in the race. 4. the guys that make the lines for gambling really know what they are doing...except for the guy who set the florida-arkansas line at arkansas +24. 5. i'm still not sure what happened with that first down measurement in the steelers-browns game...was it a bad tv angle? the refs never said 4th down, but from the tv angle we had it looked short. 6. kevin harlan and solomon wilcots HAAAAAATE the browns. 7. the saints are terrifying.
bub about: cover letter that IS weird. and the apostrophes are showing up funny on the sort page. wonder what that's all about?
bub about: random thoughts time/rotation...it certainly wasn't james dyson. he would gotten it right the first time. he just thinks that things should work properly.
bub about: dead we lost another great one today...captain lou albano died today. tear.
bub about: vice update just wanted to brag about hitting my three line parlay last night and winning 58-imaginary-cents. booyaa!
today's parlay is international soccer...woot.
bub about: Dyson is a genius dammit, now i want one.
bub about: Dyson is a genius dyson is incredible. i can't believe i want a $300 fan. i want to try one, at the very least.
bub about: browns i'm guessing polamalu will only play 10-15 plays to knock some of the rust off. and i would be pretty surprised to see parker get more than 5 carries.
bub about: bored that free gambling site is called centsports.com.
and i'll be betting on the sabres game tonight...lines haven't been determined yet. if anyone needs an explanation of the lines, email me.
bub about: bored josh, i had to delete your post. that video just kept blinking at me and wouldn't play. you're more than welcome to try again though.
if you're bored...dmac told me about this free gambling site. you create an account and they give you 10-fake-cents to gamble with. if you win enough times to get over $1 you can cash out for real money. there is no spam, you don't have to take any surveys, you don't have to view any ads (although they ask if you want to each time you make a bet). if you lose that 10-fake-cents, you just click a button and they give you 10-fake-cents more. it's awesome. yesterday was the first day i tried it. i bet a two team parlay...pens to win, and the jets at -3.5. pens held up their end of the bargain, the jets not so much. since i didn't hit both bets, i lost my 10-fake-cents. this morning i got 10 more. i learned that i can't ever become a gambler with real money, because i was kinda freaking out about possibly winning 22.1-fake-cents on my bets last night. i'd have gone nuts if that was real money. my only real money gambling is $10 at the sports book when i'm at a bachelor party or visiting buffalo.
bub about: tauntaun chicken
bub about: music who's buying the hall and oates box set that comes out tomorrow?!
bub about: Cinci if i'm not mistaken, that's 3 weeks in a row where they won by 3 points.
bub about: Browns vs Bills he routinely underthrows balls. i'm ok with it. it works.
bub about: Browns vs Bills i was looking at the quarterback stats for the NFL. D.A. has as many passing TDs as mewelde moore and brian moorman.
bub about: Browns vs Bills don't get fios then. it doesn't have the ability to do PIP, according to both installation techs we had out to our house. i'm not pleased with that. also, the steelers looked horrible on defense yesterday. they made the lions look like the saints. i actually fear a loss to the browns this week.
bub about: wedding pics that's either my "aw fuck it, I'm just gonna pee my pants" face or my "someone is touching my peeper" face. hard to tell the difference when I'm that drunk.
bub about: ouch there was very little responsible behavior this weekend. i attempted to drink all of the beer in ohio. i had a hard time moving in the morning. thank god for noon checkouts. i actually thought about how to tell abby that we were going to have to pay for a second night at the hotel because i wasn't going to be able to get out of bed until at least dinner time. it seems that football games and 125 glasses of coke cures a hangover.
bub about: footballs why is tony dungy now the foremost expert on whether a football player with behavioral problems deserves a second chance to play?
oregon's coach reached out to a sociologist...and tony dungy...while considering whether to reinstate legarrette blount. what the hell does tony dungy have to do with that situation?
for my money, dude should be done, end of story. he LOST HIS MIND at the end of that game. it's not like he made a mistake...he snapped like a sociopath. how do you say "ok, he's shown that he isn't going to eat someone's babies since then....he's cured. play ball." he'd be off my team for good.
bub about: bored there are a few things that i would like to change/redo if i could go back for just a short amount of time. with as much as i enjoy it now, i'd really like to have had a piano as a kid. and i probably would have gone to school for photography if i would have known that i liked it so much.
aaron, have you checked to make sure there isn't an app for that?
bub about: bored and if we go back with everything we know now...i'd gamble a hell of a lot of money on sporting events...like i'd bet it all that the steelers would win superbowl XL and XLIII. i'd be riiiiiiiich.
bub about: bored i'd go back 5 years. i miss the more frequent parties that we had. i'd just go back and do them again. they were fun. i may or may not warn thews about the bacon napkin in his bloody mary. and i'd probably answer "the greek letter rho" to that trivial pursuit question during competition.
bub about: WTF i'd make it a game-time decision. if it's a good game and somehow the browns have a chance to win, show up a little late. if the browns are getting clobbered, what's the harm in leaving with 5minutes left?
also, you're brother is a dope for scheduling it at 4:30. 5:30 or 6:00 would have been more considerate.
and weddings trump birthdays.
bub about: fun is it the weekend yet?
bub about: music we haven't tried to pass anything outside our home network. and i'm not sure a file has a limit, but the library definitely does.
bub about: music it doesn't need to be purchased...considering the size of your disk collection (not a euphemism). i'm lazy, so chances are i won't attempt to get any of your music, but it sounds awesome in theory.
bub about: music so, am i late to the party or has everyone else seen this whole "home share on itunes" thing and not said anything? abby and i upgraded to itunes 9 last night and it lets you share your music on up to 5 computers in your network. we set it up and i was able to drag and drop songs/movies/tv shows/podcasts/apps/etc from abby's itunes into mine for free. even ones she purchased! that being the case, it seems we all need to bring laptops to someone's house, connect to their network, then disperse our purchased music to 1 person from each city, then they can disperse it to the rest of that city. yay free stuff. i'm guessing that wes would be the goldmine (if your CDs have been downloaded to itunes).
bub about: Footballs i'm not super pleased with my team's performance yesterday. that's about as much complaining as i'm legally allowed to do.
bub about: anyone gets to write i don't buy the close to home argument either. i started a post that was just too detailed, but it's easier to say that the top recruits in the nation aren't going to sit behind other top recruits at a school close to home. they are going to go to a place where they can play and be in the spotlight. they aren't going to throw away that opportunity because it's not as close to home. they certainly aren't dealing with a difference in recruiting like the difference between OSU and Pitt. the excuse isn't coming from OSU or tressel, which is good, but it's a laughable excuse. recruiting doesn't have state lines, and these kids are clearly not concerned about having to pay for out-of-state tuition. hell, i bet OSU would pay for their families to fly out ;)
bub about: anyone gets to write i think it's a bullshit excuse that OSU is at a disadvantage because the majority of NFL players come from so cal, florida, texas, etc. if college football wasn't such a cash cow and if recruiting wasn't as thorough and if we didn't have airplanes and cell phones etc. then maybe...but it's hilarious to assume that the #1 back in the country wouldn't go to OSU (if they were #1 in the country) just because it's too cold. i almost punched my laptop after reading that one. this is going to come out a bit more mean than i want it to, but OSU isn't losing out on recruits because of the weather...they are losing out because of repeated big game failures. when it comes to recruiting, the overriding factors are: which schools increase my chances of getting to the NFL? if they are about the same, then it's which team gives me a better chance of winning a national championship....and that's where OSU loses. if weather and hot chicks are a factor in your decision, then you are likely not very serious about playing football.
bub about: bored i'm ready for tomorrow-friday. the one bonus of the g20 is working from home for three days.
bub about: not cool he's my new favorite bill (lankster). seems like a nice polite kid. that is one rough speech impediment. i give him major credit for trying. that would be awful.
bub about: soccer for those interested in soccer in the least...yesterday was the start of the group stage of the champions league. today fiorentina plays lyon at 2:45pm today. espn gamecast is really the only way to catch it this week.
bub about: Annual Football Lament our running game is atrocious right now. a bad o-line and a hesitant small back aren't a good combo...as shown by his 19 yards rushing last weekend.
bub about: Annual Football Lament i agree. i like gruden. i could do without jaws' constant over-hyperbolizing (whatever, it's a word) everything that happens.
that reminds me of one of the guys i heard talking about mike vick and whether the eagles "gambled" on him. the dude said "the eagles rolled the dice, and they rolled a 44, as in superbowl 44". i wanted to throw my tv out the window.
bub about: Annual Football Lament how bad did barbre from GB get slammed by chris collinsworth, good god. i felt bad for the guy. granted, he got schooled all day long, but you don't need to crucify the kid.
bub about: ugh is it time to crush again yet?
bub about: Annual Football Lament i'm still saying kneel on it. the crux of it is "are we going to be able to overcome that one additional timeout". there's zero risk in kneeling (since he already caught the ball). you need to get a first down either way. so if you accomplish that, your outcomes are 1. win, and 2. brady has the ball with about 20 seconds left and a long way to go with no timeouts. after escaping the fumble on the previous kickoff, i'd prefer to leave brady 20 seconds and no timeouts. that has nothing to do with the fact that mckelvin fumbled at the 30. the odds of fumbling aren't extremely high, but significantly higher than zero. and without any stats to prove/disprove it, i'm guessing the odds of fumbling a kickoff are higher than brady going 70 yards in 3-4 plays.
bub about: Annual Football Lament i can understand not being 100%. running the clock under 2:00 is bunk. you need to get 2 first downs and the game is over. oooor...no first downs, run 20 seconds off the clock, punt the ball and make tom terrific go 75 yards with one time out and 1:30 on the clock. when you've already fumbled the previous kickoff, i'd prefer to kneel on the ball.
bub about: Annual Football Lament i would imagine he's being lambasted in the buffalo press this morning. i still can't come up with any reason to bring that out of the endzone (other than "i want to be a hero"). my dislike of the pats had me so excited for the bills. that sucked.
bub about: Annual Football Lament i know that...in my league it's
INT = 2 fumble rec = 2 DEF TD = 6 Spec Teams TD = 6 sack = 1
5 INT = 10 1 Def TD = 6 1 spec teams td = 6 2 fumbles = 4 5 sacks = 5.....plus 5 points for the 7-13 score...total of 36. all of that is typical (although my league is 4 points for 7-13 and we don't get the spec teams points...hence my 29 instead of 36)...what other weird setup do you have?
bub about: Annual Football Lament 48 point from the eagles? how is your defensive scoring set up? i only got 29 from them.
bub about: Annual Football Lament now that fantasy football has been brought into the conversation, i can complain. my week started out so great...21 from holmes, 29 from the philly defense! then 1 from chris henry, 0 from santana moss, 1 from shane graham...just like that a very promising week ended in agonizing defeat.
bub about: simmons i love bill simmons when half of his article isn't about boston sports. that one was very well written. and freakishly similar (replacing vegas with some rustbelt city, and gambling with being awesome) to our group's bachelor parties.
bub about: injuries so, i read last night that andre smith fractured his foot after ending his holdout. i truly feel bad for derek and the bengals...but man do i love when karma bites some egomaniacal dickface in the ass. it's the best. i hope michael crabtree gets a severe case of the "matt harringtons".
bub about: Same dude... the soccer stuff is what this guy is most famous for. pretty incredible stuff. i surely couldn't do it. andy, you might.
bub about: awesome actually...the bublican party plans to make that the 28th amendment.
"lo, if a boner is seen, it must then be mouthified"
bub about: Buffalo Pittsburgh Friendship Committee it took me a minute to figure out what those were. i thought it was a disturbing tongue and a lemon...then i figured it out. i agree with abby, that is full a gheyness.
bub about: awesome this morning, i heard abby say "it's too early for boners." the weird part was that she was talking to the dog, not me.
bub about: Got Twins? that's awesome dudes!
bub about: Got Twins? and clearly, congratulations if you are serious!
bub about: Got Twins? wait...what?! are you serious?!
bub about: bored you have to watch the videos derek posted. too funny.
bub about: bored i have no idea how it got there, but it sure did suck. i get my "bandaid contact lens" out today. stupid eyeballs.
bub about: bored is it time for us to all hang out again?
bub about: one more reason to hate the dolphins ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bills.
bub about: one more reason to hate the dolphins that was awful. there are plenty of bad steelers songs, but that was really bad.
bub about: boo eunice kennedy shriver died today. i didn't know that she started the special olympics in her backyard in 1962.
bub about: Here i felt bad for your rookie left guard. on edwards' INT, he was blown 7 yards into the backfield. that had to be embarrassing. he's clearly not THAT bad, but i'm guessing he's gonna get a good ripping in the tape room.
bub about: Here i was pretty irritated by the fake punt. what a dickface. what does that accomplish exactly? absolutely nothing.
bub about: Pantuso Twins! yahoo! congrats becky and chooch.
bub about: sad news that sucks, biggie. so sorry for your loss.
bub about: knee brace that's awfully fancy. you should get one for the healthy leg while you're at it.
bub about: the indians i don't wanna hear it biggie. after the pirates trade freddy sanchez to the giants this evening, our 8 position players salaries will be less than $10mil a year.
bub about: spot on wow, quite a bit of backlash against the iphone.
bub about: iphones wes, my iphone told me last night that it won't be pocket dialing you like my last phone...that slut.
i have a huge technology boner right now.
bub about: no reservations you are clearly an idiot. the rustbelt is pittsburgh, buffalo, and cleveland. the other cities suck. end of debate. i win.
and schmidt, AB really liked schwabl's. it was the local food bloggers that were nay-sayers.
bub about: no reservations i like my version of the rust belt better. :)
bub about: no reservations people take their own opinions too seriously. especially when it comes to "this is the best". for my taste, i haven't had a single bad meal in buffalo. i wonder if pretension changes your taste buds (or senses all together).
bub about: footballs re: rust belt. i have less of an objection about detroit. i just usually only think of the three cities i mentioned because they were the major steel producers and their proximity to each other. it's just how I think of it.
bub about: footballs schwabl's was the one. my bad.
bub about: footballs by the way, did you guys see the "no reservations" last night? they did a rust belt episode with baltimore, detroit, and buffalo. weird to pick baltimore and detroit for the rust belt episode. i usually think of buffalo, cleveland, and pittsburgh as the rust belt, but ok. baltimore and detroit got less than glowing reviews, but he did end up saying some nice things about them in the end. buffalo definitely got a good review. and the beef on weck at urlich's looked awesome.
bub about: footballs looks like drayton florence wants the bills to sign mike vick. wes' head might assplode if that happens.
bub about: Time kill $268,391
bub about: hangover works in firefox.
bub about: footballs was that an attempt at humor? if so, it failed miserably.
bub about: see ya suckas he does have a higher average in aug-oct, but by then the games don't matter. at least here. he is way overpaid and way under-performs.
bub about: see ya suckas get used to seeing a lot of this...
bub about: see ya suckas i should be thanking you...you just got yourself the longest swing in the majors. i have disliked that dillhole since he showed up. i think he's batting .104 since the 4th of july. he's totally unreliable, strikes out waaaaaaaay too often. i'm normally not in favor of a salary dump, but if it gets him out of our lineup, i'd take a bag baseballs and a can of copenhagen.
bub about: see ya suckas off to the pirate game with my office. i haven't worked a regular 5 day week in what feels like months.
bub about: footballs i don't buy quarterback jerseys...rapists, sure...QBs, no way. i've actually purchased my last football jersey (hopefully), with my Jack Lambert throwback.
bub about: footballs voits, are you going to run out and buy a JP Losman UFL Las Vegas jersey?
bub about: Bill Simmons... i can't believe that clubhouse funny only gets a 7.0! that shows how wrong bill simmons is. clubhouse funny is 10times funnier than unintentionally/intentionally funny. clubhouse funny clearly deserves to be in the 9s.
bub about: footballs did you guys see the story on profootballtalk.com about roethlisberger being sued by some woman in las vegas for sexual assault? she filed a civil suit against him. no criminal complaint, no investigation, no nothing. does she expect anyone to take that seriously without a criminal complaint?
bub about: pics from the balon wedding good news everyone...i found my cell phone. no need to worry. i apparently stowed it under the passenger seat at the flying J, because i was concerned by the sketchy lady digging through the $3 kitten t-shirts outside.
bub about: pics from the balon wedding i have uploaded the shrunken versions of the balon photobooth pics. for every non-blurry pic there were 20 blurry ones, so the gallery is a pared down version with just the good ones. photobooth pics
bub about: creeeeaaaakk... those little bastards got unruly. can't take them anywhere.
bub about: creeeeaaaakk... i'm downsizing the photobooth pics so they are viewable and posting them to an album. i'll link it when i'm done
bub about: funny so, at work we have users that can access our system and they have a username that is first letter of the first name and your full last name. we used to have a user (who has since been deleted) whose first name began with a "C" and her last name was "litzinger". her username was "clitzinger". awesome!
bub about: creeeeaaaakk... sweeney is alive with both kidneys intact. i can sympathize with the swollen vulva, mine was slightly swollen when i woke up. when it gets really swollen, it's hard to swallow without wanting to puke. he was so pathetic.
bub about: creeeeaaaakk... for the second weekend in a row, i took a 4.5 hour nap when i got home, got up and ate some dinner then went back to bed for the rest of the night. i also appear to have hidden my cell phone from myself.
bub about: rebellion the video said he had a louis vitton bag.
bub about: rebellion so i just watched the video on espn.com of the events that transpired the night pacman jones got all rebellion at the scrip club. he said he had about $100,000 on him that night. he changed in $40,000 for ones. you can see him just tossing stacks of money in the air. it's funny, seeing that much money in the hands of a jackass...and having him toss around my annual income like it's a bucket-full of confetti, really made me sick. here's the video
bub about: fun i used to confuse galoshes and gulash when i was younger (like 6 or 7 years ago).
bub about: fun is it fun time yet? i'm sick of not-fun time.
bub about: random venting people are stupid.
bub about: random venting much. yesterday i might have actually punched her in the throat.
bub about: random venting end vent...
bub about: random venting i sat near a heavy middle-aged lady talking to an early-30s guy at lunch. she kept spewing that garbage about how "just because you were born with genes for playing baseball, doesn't mean you deserve millions of dollars. he was born lucky enough to have all of that talent...", blah blah blah. every time i hear that idiotic bullshit, i want to punch that person right in the throat. the amount of hours spent developing the skills to be THAT good at a sport is slightly less than the amount of time she has spent cramming ding dongs and cheesey fries into her piehole. the talent athletes are "born with" is so small compared to the amount they develop with practice. i can guarantee there isn't a single professional athlete surviving solely on raw talent. it's the same as any other profession...an artist, a librarian, a teacher, a construction worker, etc. stupid people piss me off.
bub about: weekend i wish i was headed up that way now. i don't wanna work. fast forward to tomorrow night please.
bub about: What i haven't tested in chrome for a number of reasons. 1. i hated chrome for the three weeks i had it, 2. it had serious security issues (which were supposedly fixed in recent versions) that allowed malicious code to attack abby's laptop, 3. it's had major javascript issues in the past, 4. testing for two browsers is plenty enough for bdc purposes. if this was for work, i'd test there too. for right now, i'd use firefox. it's the best of the group hands-down. that's the browser i design for. the others have issues that need to be worked around, FF doesn't. i'm glad you've gotten rid of IE7. if anyone is still using IE6, you need to upgrade or a good kick to the crotch.
bub about: Leah Update i'm not sure i'm able to wrap my head around all of that, you guys have to be so drained. thinking about you guys a lot.
bub about: footballs so, i was going to post yesterday about chad johnson (i know that's not his name anymore) saying he is going to tweet during games this season. i was going to ask how long before the league makes up some sort of rule about not tweeting during games. i didn't think the real life answer would be less than 24 hours. at least according to profootballtalk.com, the league won't allow it.
bub about: What i took the title off, so doesn't look like your screwing around :)
bub about: What glad you liked it aaron. looks like i'm visibly closer to completing the transporter than you are. slacker.
bub about: What so, i wrote a script to see how many posts were made under a specific name. wes is far and away the post leader. i think mine was at like 2,050ish posts. wes was at 4200ish posts. those were just for the main comments page, not including rants. sounds like some people need to "step yo game up".
bub about: What i just tested with IE8 and that is slightly better with the .png files. instead of you having to hit a spot that is blue, so long as you are over a letter, it will click. you still have the issue where lets say there's an O in the png, if you put the mouse in the middle of the O, you can't click. again...a microsoft flaw. i would seriously recommend firefox or opera (mostly firefox) for anyone who enjoys the internet.
bub about: What that's a complaint for microsoft :) they don't deal well with .png files.
bub about: What ok, i got it working correctly in IE. stupid microsoft.
bub about: What it turns out that IE 7 doesn't display the comments page correctly. figures. i'll put it back to the old way until i debug IE.
bub about: site update just checked...you will see the blue "comment" image when you go back to the home page, if a new message popped up while you were on the comments page. unfortunately for you, i'm not spending hours upon hours trying to fix that. just leave comments page up and you'll see everything real-time. that is all.
bub about: site update bdc now has live updates in the comments section. if you are at the comments page and someone makes a post, that post will instantly show up without you having to refresh the page (or without the page refreshing...shh it's magic). i have not gotten that to work on the topic sorted page yet, so just be happy with what you've got, you damn ingrates. you might notice some gliches with the "new comment alert" on the home page, i'm not sure.
bub about: Leah lots of positive thoughts headed your way!
bub about: happy weekend everybody how was everybody's 4th?
bub about: tailgating improvement i have a magnetic bottle coosie. it's great for tailgating and sticking it to cars. that's about it.
bub about: Wedding sween, nice zz top reference.
bub about: Wedding i've trained for a long time to get that good at snoring. step yo' game up.
bub about: Wedding Abby and I have a room. I don't know if we're sharing one or not. doubtful, with my snoring ability.
bub about: Building falls down can someone explain how that fell down? i'm confused.
bub about: baseballs berg, nl doesn't want the DH. it's a stupid to argue. as for taking snell out in the 3rd when he was up first in the 4th...sometimes it's worth taking out a guy who took 41 pitches to get 2 outs in that inning to save yourself from getting down too many runs to come back. i'd rather sacrifice 1 out the next inning than give up 3 more runs in the 3rd. snell has been awful this year (after making his $3mil a year payday he seems to not care). russell has done a great job with the garbage he has.
bub about: bored muddle = mud.
bub about: bored girls want to see guys naked muddle wrestling? weird. i'm guessing it's gonna be a lot of drinking, burping, yelling, laughing, gaming, farting, etc.
bub about: bored that definitely isn't. i set up my tent in the backyard this week...getting all of the spiders and such out of it. got a new air mattress since our old one leaks. i'm all set. i'm picking drok up at 10am on saturday, so we should be there by 12:30ish. when are you getting there?
bub about: weekend yeah, abby and i discussed on the way to sandusky that we really can't bitch about sports for at least 5-8 years. i was appropriately drunk, but knew i had to get up at 7am on saturday to go to sandusky, so i didn't let loose.
it was fun to here all of the honking and screaming. i really enjoy screaming out of the car window, so that was cool. i still laugh out loud when i think about how hossa has to be feeling. that dickbag.
aaron, never count the buccos out. they are 3 games under .500 and ready to pounce.
bub about: weekend how was the stag and doe this weekend? is toner still alive?
bub about: sports: you guys i've spent about 1/3 of my morning trying to decide when i'm going to start drinking and thinking of a good way to tell abby that i'm just going to hit the bar after work so she'll need to go home and let the dog out. i think that might have just done it.
bub about: sports: you guys i'm pretty firm. i've spent the morning watching motivational clips on youtube. a little herb brooks, a little hoosiers, a little braveheart. by lunch i ought to be out on the corner of liberty and stanwix cross-checking randoms with my umbrella.
bub about: soccer to the soccer fans out there...so, last week real madrid paid $97m to get kaka...just read this morning that they paid another $131m to get cristiano ronaldo.
bub about: pens and hossa will be booed in pittsburgh until he is dead.
bub about: pens if scuderi puts his hand on top of the puck (like a goalie would) inside the crease, it's a penalty shot.
the bench is closer to your defense in the 1st and 3rd period. you will see bad line changes more often in the 2nd period, because they have to go farther to get to the bench.
bub about: pens scuderi could have picked the puck up, put it in his pocket, and walked out of the building and they couldn't call that without a riot happening. zetterberg did it twice in games one and two with no call. that place would have massacred the refs. would it have been the right call, absolutely. thankfully he didn't get his hand on it.
i hope the pens show up for game 7. i'm going with the "they're due" mentality for friday night. the red wings are due for a home loss. this series is due for a road team win, the pens are due to play well in detroit, the pens are due to win their first cup since '92. anything else i can think of to keep the nerves at bay.
bub about: pens phew!
that is all.
bub about: Hangover wall-e sucked. i'm all for the message, i'm all for the animation, i'm all for the dramatic lack of dialogue, but that movie flat out sucked for me. i was actually pissed that i wasted $4.99, and i waste money on a regular basis. i like animated movies whether light and fluffy or dark and gloomy. wall-e never once captured my attention.
bub about: Friday Funny that's awesome!
bub about: house deeds trying to see if there was a house on our lot before our current one.
bub about: house deeds anyone know anything about deeds to houses? i went to the office of the recorder of deeds at lunch today. i found plenty of deeds going back through the years. i think the furthest back i found before deciding i had to get back to work was from 1857. it didn't mention any buildings, so i'm guessing it was for the land. before that was 1865. our house doesn't seem to be THAT old. so my question is, if there's a different house on that lot and they tear it down to build a new one, does that get mentioned in the deed? the deeds all said "being the same premises as...", which leads me to believe that's old-time-talk meaning it's the "same house as". any thoughts?
bub about: Pens i can't believe we've tied this series up. what a big game tomorrow's could be.
bub about: I just what the pirates need more of...minor league talent.
bub about: sad state of Hockey hockey's ratings and attendance (overall) are up. they just don't have a major network contract (aside from the occasional game on NBC). i wish NBC didn't cover a single playoff game. that behind the goal angle that they use the entire effing powerplay annoys the hell out of me. everyone likes the normal view. stop reinventing the wheel you idiots. the NBA is unwatchable for me. i won't watch a minute of the finals.
bub about: Hockey talbot was the one i unexpectedly drooled over in the bar. i turned into a 12 year old girl.
so many non-calls last night (both ways) that it was ridiculous. about 8 interference non-calls on detroit, 26seconds of too-many-men-on-the-ice for the pens (how do you not see that?!) not called. lots of cross-checks. i've never seen the whistles swallowed so deeply. thankfully no non-calls that led directly to goals last night. much more forgivable i suppose. despite satan's 0 points this series, he's played pretty well.
bub about: ha from "texts from last night"
(704): We're pre-gaming then going to chuck e cheese's.
(919): If you're joking I'm going to be sad
bub about: photo of a cool road sign andy, i'm going to sneak one of those pictures in on you some time. i'm not going to say when. stay alert old man.
bub about: photo of a cool road sign i ran out of time on the ghetto lighting assignment. didn't end up submitting anything. i was trying to get ready for vacation and just ran out of time. this week's submission is this
bub about: photo of a cool road sign ha! no, that is not my work. wish it was though. this week's assignment is "abandoned" (for which i already submitted my shot), and next week's assignment is "plants, but not flowers".
bub about: Stalkers ben bernanke says the economy is going to turn around this fall. ride it out. if you get laid off, consider it an extended amount of time for self-discovery and rejuvenation...or something. i picked up quite a few hobbies during my layoff. maybe take up wood-working (not a euphemism) and sell your work online.
i heard they found wreckage near the search site. seats and such.
bub about: ok, have to share for anyone who MIGHT be interested. 4th of july weekend will include a huge fireworks display, dragon boat races, sailing races, powerboat races, anything that can float race, freestyle motocross show, america's best frisbee dogs show, a waterski stunt show, some guy high-wire walking from pnc park to the fort duquesne bridge, a bunch of other stuff, boozing. just sayin. come visit.
bub about: ok, have to share what could be fun is if you suckas wanted to come down to pittsburgh for the 4th of july weekend. we could enter the "anything that can float" contest. but 4th of july always seems to be a tough one to get together for. especially with all of the weddings in july.
bub about: Death we should have kayak races on the allegheny river as part of competition. just sayin.
bub about: Death we need to consider doing another competition weekend this summer, so we can all get together.
bub about: Death i'm also having crush withdrawl. somewhere where it doesn't rain often would be fine by me. beaches are great. deserts are fine. islands are sweet. i'm in.
bub about: sports: you guys i generally don't have a problem with calling the playoffs a little looser, but when a blatant hook and slash turns into a goal, i get pissy. i would also like a count on the number of times henrik zetterberg is going to be allowed to cover the puck in the crease without calling a penalty shot. so far the count is 2 in two games.
i enjoy the non-calls when it doesn't directly impact the flow of play. some extra hitting, sure. shoving after the play, let it go. some of the non-calls have been ridiculous, both ways. unfortunately for the pens, a few of the non-calls have lead directly to red wing goals...like they need the additional help. the non-call on zetterberg's hook/slash on dupuis last night was unforgivable.
i know i sound whiney.
bub about: afternoon funnies that one really grossed me out. i also like
(662): My grandpa is talking about laundry and he asked if i could run a "small hot load." Wow. I had to leave the room.
bub about: afternoon funnies if anyone is counting at home...biggie is winning the "mentions on tfln"
bub about: afternoon funnies to go along with that one...this was the first text on the page
(607): I had a dream last night that I was the one that killed Biggie
bub about: afternoon funnies i don't think anything could be more up my alley than the TFLN. i just sit here trying not to laugh out loud, which ends up with me shaking like an epileptic and sounding like "muttly".
bub about: footballs oh thank god!!!! tony kornheiser is no longer on MNF! they are replacing him with jon gruden.
bub about: afternoon funnies i lied...this is the best. i'm done after this i swear.
(954): Your an asshole
(1-954): Actually, it's "you're an asshole"
(954): My point exactly
bub about: afternoon funnies i liked this one a lot too....mostly because any of you idiots could have sent it.
(714): Letd wlk him
(714): Lrtd walek hime
(714): Lets wlk home,,,ther we go
bub about: afternoon funnies oh my god! you win infinity awesome points. i've been shaking with laughter for at least 10 minutes.
so far, my favorite is: "(508): I'm so horny!
(781): I'm so hungry
(508): WHAT A TERRIBLE REPLY!
(781): For your pussy... "
bub about: white house visit he did the same thing after superbowl XL. he wants to be invited because the president wants to meet them, not because they won the superbowl. i think it's strange, but he's a strange guy. he can do whatever he wants, as far as i'm concerned. i'm too afraid of him to tell him he's wrong.
bub about: bye bye grandma Condolences Berg. that sucks.
bub about: hockey i'd love to see the staals fight. that'd be sweet. or maybe jordan could pin eric down and draw some friggin eyebrows on that guy. he creeps me out.
bub about: hockey without mutu, i don't think there's a chance fiorentina beats milan. sadly.
bub about: hockey if "checks" = charges, then yes, i agree. and crosby does look awfully whiney. i think it is actually his face. he has a very whiney face. fact is, he's the captain, so he SHOULD be the one talking to the ref all the time...but he whined a lot as a rookie and he's stuck with that reputation. watching from a pens fan perspective, there are plenty of calls that he doesn't get, mostly holding and interference.
either way, i understand the hate, and it's unfortunate, because i really don't think anyone (ovie included) tries harder than he does.
bub about: hockey brad, i'm just hoping fiorentina can hold on to the fourth spot. genoa play nobody in their final three games. fiorentina play sampdoria(decent) this weekend, lecce (not good) the next week, but the big one is AC Milan the final week. if genoa go 3-0, and fiorentina win against samp and lecce, but lose to AC Milan, it will come down to goal differential. that's scary.
bub about: hmmm i'm ready for a crush too. it's been waaaaaay too long.
and i haven't shared them because i didn't think you'd be interested. that's all. the first bunch of posts (up to and including the landscape silhouettes) were with my dad's canon eos D30 digital SLR (3.1MP), the more recent ones are with my new canon eos XSi (12.2MP). i used the same two lenses with both cameras. a wide angel (17mm-35mm) and a telephoto (70mm-200mm).
bub about: hmmm thanks thewsy.
bub about: hmmm i never thought anything about drugs or killings, just thought someone was a jerk and tossed their friend/siblings shoes up there as a prank.
and thanks dudes!
bub about: hmmm i'll have to get that tomorrow after the bucco's game.
wes (and anyone else that was interested) let me know when you want to go to a game with harold.
bub about: hmmm the pics are too big to post on here. if you want to see them, the link below will get you there. i think only one on the photoblog was used for the online photography course.
thanks for figuring that out for me brad. much simpler that way. bub's photoblog
bub about: hmmm that's a great idea abby. i could just pick a street in the southhills and boom, done.
bub about: hmmm so, i joined an online photography course a little while back and we get weekly assignments. This week's assignment is "ghetto lighting"...i'm having a hard time figuring out what that might mean. any thoughts? my first thought was crappy lighting, like a lamp with no lamp shade...or a street light? thoughts?
bub about: We Shall Remain wes, it's ok to cry....see.
bub about: holy crap from yahoo sports: "LOS ANGELES – A source close to Manny Ramirez(notes) said Thursday that the illegal substance for which the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger tested positive was not “an agent customarily used for performance enhancing.”
At least not on the baseball diamond. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the substance is supposed to boost sex drive.
Two sources said Ramirez tested positive for a gonadotropin. Major League baseball’s list of banned substances includes the gonadotropins LH and HCG, which are most commonly used by women as fertility drugs. They also can be used to trigger testosterone production. Testosterone is depleted by steroid use, which can cause sexual dysfunction."
really...GONADotropins, can that be real?
bub about: holy crap ha. nice. apparently it's a common impression. unless you kneel at the altar of manram.
bub about: holy crap i don't think manny cares enough about winning to cheat. he just seems happy to be a gajillionaire. i don't think for a minute that he purposely took performance enhancers...again, only because i don't think he really cares how he performs.
bub about: ugh so far, i'm winning. unless someone comes up with something like "sifting pig diarhea", i win.
bub about: ugh is anything more boring than 5 days of "managing windows server 2003" training from microsoft training people? i doubt it. my brain is mush.
bub about: zzzz really?...nothing by anyone today? ugh.
so, i'm already tired of the crosby vs. ovechkin hype. this is going to be one long series of rotating bjs for those two.
bub about: best commercial ever i thought it was completely ridiculous. i didn't realize until i saw that commercial that there were such places as "white people furniture stores" and "black people furniture stores". i wonder at which i've been shopping all along.
bub about: baseballs i have a huge power rankings boner right now. the pirates are all the way up to #7. i can't remember them being above #20 since they started doing them. granted, they won't be that high next week, or any week after that, but yay!
bub about: paris hilton you have to sign on to the regular comments page to be able to post to the rant page. i got lazy and didn't add another login there. you should only have to that if your cookies have been deleted.
bub about: paris hilton berg, did you just spam us? i haven't clicked on your links for hundreds of reasons, but mostly because they seem pretty work-inappropriate.
bub about: footballs so close wes...iglesias = churches, not english. bonus points for the foreign language effort though. i dig it.
bub about: footballs browns signed harrell, eh?
bub about: footballs i believe so. still counts as drafted though. ;)
i can say that i'm fine with the steelers draft. wasn't great, wasn't bad, it was fine. filled some unglorious position needs. i'm not pleased that other AFC north teams had good drafts. i preferred it when the rest of your idiot teams screwed the pooch on draft day. i'm still too caught up in pens/pirates happiness to worry about football yet.
bub about: footballs and i was wrong, eric crouch was drafted by the rams as a WR.
bub about: footballs and didn't charlie say that he didn't want to play in the NFL unless he was drafted in the first round?
bub about: footballs charlie ward and eric crouch did not get drafted. the others did.
bub about: footballs steelers needed o-line help terribly. they picked up a C from penn state, who kiper said has too short of arms. they are 29" long...ummmmm, is he a tyrannosaurus? he is 6'-1 1/8" tall with 29" arms. i'm 6'-2" with 36" arms. that's ridiculous! guess that's part of why he's a 7th rounder.
bub about: footballs anyone else surprised that chase daniel went completely undrafted? signed by the skins as a free-agent. when's the last time a heisman contender (serious contender) went undrafted?
bub about: footballs i like todd mcshay (hip hop mcshaaaaaay hooooo) much more. kiper always sounds like a condescending pompous ass.
bub about: footballs anyone else want todd mcshay to slap the shit out of mel kiper? maybe a lunch tray to the face? he annoys me.
bub about: speedo i did buy a "speedo" for that, but i'm not convinced i still have it. and yeah, not exactly something you borrow. they are like $9 online.
bub about: jones i believe it's Jai Alai. i saw that episode too. good one. the one where he wrestled a bunch of villagers was good too. i jumped in part way through and wasn't sure what the sport was.
bub about: mike polk agreed. worst two episodes. if what i remember about that episode was some jackass that i don't care about, then it sucks. the brazil episode is still the best. the vietnam episode was a close second. and india was really good too.
i do have to say that i liked the sliding on the ice part of the cleveland episode (included in the intro, i believe). and i like that bald chef that is now an iron chef on iron chef america. his laugh is awful though.
bub about: john madden i rarely say this, but i agree with derek 1000%.
bub about: indians - yankees i loooooove listening on the radio. the pirates just got a new announcer this year. he's kind of annoying. i miss lanny frattare.
bub about: indians - yankees aren't most home-openers day games? i'm not a fan of week-day day games in general, but it gives you a chance to listen on the radio. i love baseball on the radio.
bub about: zzzz where's everyone been for the last week or so?
bub about: baseballs open mouth, insert foot. 5-2 tribe.
bub about: baseballs boy, the indians pitching staff looks dreadful so far. 4 walks in the 6th inning alone. no wonder they've given up 60+ runs.
bub about: Hockey and i hope the rangers embarrass ovechkin and the caps.
bub about: Hockey i mean their balloon knots.
bub about: Hockey i hope the pens do something awful to briere/biron's soft spots.
bub about: Becket harmless. 1 game (start) suspension would have been fine. i didn't see the big deal.
bub about: boooo harry kalas died today. he was the phillies announcer, but more importantly the voice of NFL films.
bub about: where is everyone? yeah, i was pretty excited about that at lunch. 6 years will be nice. and the ksu mention is followed by the obligatory "jack lambert went to ksu" reference.
bub about: where is everyone? we've still got charlie batch and dennis dixon. some talk of picking up a QB in the very late rounds. eh.
bub about: reds-pirates just for information purposes, the pirates are the "bucs", the nba team from milwaukee are the "bucks"(i'm not sure how you ohesians spell buc(k)s for ohio state.
bub about: work man, it's nice working for a good company. today is not an official holiday for us (nor a half day), but we get out at 2:30 anyway. my last company would have never done that.
bub about: Kanye i dislike kanye more, but i also like some of his music. he seems to go through phases of sounds, where every song sounds the same on one album, then the next album is something totally different. i'd respect him a ton if he was able to switch up the sounds on the same album.
he's also a huge cry-baby egomaniac that thinks the world is out to get him. i hate that. get over yourself pal.
bub about: just a random sports thought... i didn't forget :)
bub about: just a random sports thought... was there a better time in american sports than '87-'91? i was just thinking about the guys that were playing in each of the major sports, it's insane.
nfl: montana, elway, marino, thurman thomas, barry sanders, walter payton, jerry rice, etc.
mlb: wade boggs, ozzie smith, cal ripken, andre dawson, darryl strawberry, will the thrill, skinny bonds, donny baseball, ricky henderson, clemens, gooden, etc
nba: magic, bird, jordan, pippen, abdul-jabbar, mchale, ewing, etc.
nhl: gretzky, lemieux, messier, jagr, francis, larry robinson, golden brett(sorry wes), roy, barrasso, bourque, lafleur, brian leech, adam oates, etc.
that's a sick number of all-time greats all playing in a 5-year period. and that's just off the top of my head.
bub about: To spur conversation dammit! i dvr-ed it because the ncaa tourney was on. i didn't read what happened yet.
bub about: NFL where is everyone today?
and berg, you're not a wuss just for this...it does make you a whiner though. dvr it, if you want to go to dinner. or watch the first 2 hours, dvr it, go out, and watch the rest on sunday. after you get past round 2, you won't know any of the names anyway. and the browns are going to blow the draft as usual, so you might be doing yourself a favor.
bub about: baseball buccos are on pace to win 162 games. i believe i said that last year too.
bub about: baseball i'm excited. ask me again in may.
bub about: footballs did you hear that vick has to repay $6.5million to the falcons? apparently they have him lined up with a construction job upon release, where he will make $10/hr 40hrs/week.
if my math is right, that would be $16,432 take-home. and if he paid every dime of his paycheck towards the $6.5million...it would only take 395.5 years to pay it all back. something tells me if vick shows up for work at this construction job, he'll be there 3 days, then out.
bub about: footballs i thought chicago gave up a bit much. i think if the 1st rounder next year wasn't in the deal, it would have been about right.
bub about: What do you call these? at risk of inflating heads...wes and greg are correct. and to clarify, both are types of sprinkles, but jimmies are a subset of sprinkles. much like the "all poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are poodles" line, "all jimmies are sprinkles, but not all sprinkles are jimmies". around here any color of long, skinny sprinkles are called jimmies. chocolate jimmies are the default, but there are also rainbow jimmies, etc.
and for the record, jimmies are 1billion times better than round sprinkles, or any other type of sprinkles for that matter. i'd be pissed if i got any other type.
bub about: rant worthy about 80% of this is rant worthy. i'm not deleting it, because that's a lot of effort and wasted comments, just move the conversation to the other board.
bub about: less nerdy what cable company do you have wes?
bub about: less nerdy nice sween. i forgot you guys have that. i'm pumped about watching "no reservations" in HD.
bub about: less nerdy any of you have FIOS? we're getting it on the 8th, because our DVR has decided to be an a-hole....that and it's 2/3rds the price of comcast for tv and internet and we will get about 35 more HD channels. if anyone has it, do you like it?
bub about: Lost i think you guys are regaining your virginity.
bub about: Lost i hope it ends with the fonz jumping over the island on water skis.
bub about: Lost eeeeeasy nerdenstein.
bub about: Lost boy, remember when the big question was "what do those numbers mean?"
bub about: Lost i was close to saying something, but i bit my tongue. thanks for doing it for me.
i've gotten to the "gonna pee my pants" stage of excitement/nervousness about tonight's pitt game. god i hope they can finally get past the sweet 16.
bub about: basketballs not sure where i stand. all of my final 4 are still alive. 7 of my elite 8 are still alive. 11 of sweet 16. 24 of 32. if all of my teams win out, then i'll have missed 14 games, i think. i'm guessing that won't be good enough.
bub about: ncaa phew. looks like memphis and lsu have pulled their heads out of their asses. i can deal with byu losing. and i don't know what i was thinking picking byu over texas a&m....idiot.
bub about: ncaa i have them losing to pitt in the final four.
bub about: ncaa dammit...i'm losing all three games so far.
bub about: tp for my bunghole the new stuff is less abrasive. the new stuff plus the charmin butt wipes = happy pooper.
bub about: Crawlz doesn't bother me at all that he puked. the flower bed is a great spot for that. had it been on the carpet or couch, that would have sucked.
bub about: Crawlz and i believe it was bill that was chumming worms. coop enjoyed it.
bub about: Crawlz chuck e. cheese has been ruined forever (via unrepeatable joke). no real craziness. there were no fights or public vomiting or nekidness or arguments. i guess bill and cathryn wrestling on the sidewalk might count as a fight, but it was in jest, so not really.
and yeah, i probably shouldn't have asked her that. that's what you get when a cougar stumbles into bar #14 and can't find her friends. i can't be held responsible for being uncouth.
bub about: Crawlz my brain still hurts a little.
bub about: patty her "brian" is pulsating too. did you guys leave yet? today might kill me.
bub about: crawl i have such a friendship boner right now. are any of you on your way yet?
bub about: little debbie you know what are reeeeally good? fudge shoppe cookies. the mint ones from the keeblers. we got some 100 calorie packs...so hard to eat just one pack.
bub about: How I Met your Mother abby can't keep it together either. she's seen it about 400 times, but laughs every time. it's a sweet dance.
bub about: How I Met your Mother we also found out last night that the guy who writes "big bang theory" also wrote the "teenage mutant ninja turtles" theme song. weird. i love the lorre productions screen at the end of that show.
bub about: How I Met your Mother there isn't a funnier show on television than "rules of engagement". patrick warburton is awesome.
bub about: How I Met your Mother pam anderson has a face?! weird.
bub about: really?? that worked out perfectly in dallas/philly/san fran, berg. tons of jersey's sold, tons of press, not so many championships.
bub about: really?? it's a good thing that press coverage and jersey sales count for wins in the NFL next season. when he sets off a complete fire-storm in the locker room and team chemistry goes to hell in a hand basket, it won't look like such a great move. there are two positive scenarios that i see coming out of all of this: 1. T.O. stops being T.O. for a season and the bills have a good year, and 2. marshawn lynch gets baked and accidentally shoots T.O. in the knee and the bills have a good season with T.O. stealing a paycheck on IR.
apparently the steelers are talking to joey galloway today, to fill the void left by nate washington. i'd rather see limas sweed get some experience as a #3WR, but maybe galloway can teach him a thing or two...like how to catch a damned ball.
bub about: really?? wes, thanks for being as upset as i expected you to be. that was just the right amount of vitriol i was craving.
bub about: crawl just so we can set our schedules, who's coming in to town and when? we were going to see if you friday night arrivers wanted to party at our house on friday night (pong and such). or we could go to bars, whatever. so details, if you please.
bub about: really?? that's always the thing with T.O., if he can somehow not be a lockerroom cancer, it'll be great. a leopard doesn't change it's spots, unfortunately. i'm glad you guys only picked him up for 1 year. i've always had a soft spot for the bills, but couldn't help thinking "oh dear god, this will not end well", when i heard the news. i've proven over and over that i'm terrible at predicting how things will turn out, so you've got that going for you.
bub about: really?? the bills sign T.O.? i can't think of a much worse fit, as far as fan/player relations. i give him 4 weeks before he jumps off the peace bridge, because he got booed for 45minutes straight.
bub about: hoyl jesus it may be completely uncool, but i love journey. a lot. they make me want to put on a way-too-small t-shirt and some acid washed jeans then aggressive walk all over town.
bub about: Bebe Thews congrats thewses!!
bub about: NHL vermette has been a penguin killer for years. same with nik antropov. pens picked up billy guerin for a conditional draft pick. that is clearly a "this season" move, since guerin was drafted the same year as bobby orr.
bub about: baseballs so i've got to talk about baseball to keep my mind off the hockey trade deadline (please god let ray shero make a good move or two). anyway, your pittsburgh pirates are leading the grapefruit league at the moment. that's a big deal for us. i know things will change when other teams leave their starters in for more than 2 innings, but they've got me on the hook again this year. that being said, i know wes and harold would be in for a pittsburgh visit that includes going to a bucco game, is anyone else?
bub about: italy shepherd's pie from piper's pub, a slice of la diavola pizza from pizzaiolo, a roast beef sando from primanti's, a mint chocolate chip blast with oreo cookies and chocolate syrup from brusters, and a hoegaarden with a lemon.
bub about: site update oops, i just realized that the time is wrong on all of the posts. i guess i don't need the code that converted it from london time to eastern time.
bub about: italy i remember my first noe sandwich. derek said to get the chicken sandwich. i wasn't a fan of roasted peppers at the time, so i got it without the peppers. it was very mediocre...almost terrible. we went back the next day and i got it with the peppers. choirs sang, seas parted, hyperbole ad nauseam. how can such a tasty treat come from such a crack den alley?
bub about: hockey you couldn't have been more right. what a waste of money. what a season...ugh.i guess i can't complain, they've worked themselves back into playoff contention.
bub about: BDC is back ok, things appear to be completely back up and running. everything works the way it used to. if you find something that doesn't work, let me know. i've also removed the "news" thing, since i never updated it...and replaced it with something called "gallery". abby requested it. it's a place for you archidorks to post industry articles and stuff.
bub about: BDC is back looks like i may have salvaged the bubdotcom name. if the site goes down, that's a good thing...that means it's transferring servers.
bub about: BDC is back bizarre...
i will copy all of the files off the old server, so we don't lose them. then transfer the site to another host, so we don't have to deal with this again. looks like i only wasted $10 on a new domain. if anyone wants mmmawesome.com, let me know. :)
bub about: i, for one, welcome our nano-overloads good lord...could you be any dorkier today?
bub about: i, for one, welcome our nano-overloads oh, and aaron, those guys make you look reeeeeeally lazy. transporter, my ass.
bub about: i, for one, welcome our nano-overloads a pitt physicist has demonstrated new technology that could increase computer storage and processing power by a factor of 1,000 with an entirely new system that does not involve silicon chips. it would allow your laptop to shrink to the size of your pinky fingernail. and the transistor he created is 2 nanometers wide, a human hair is 100,000 nanometers wide... holy geez!
bub about: baseballs no, allegedly.
bub about: baseballs did any of you guys see the thing last week...maybe the week before...about robby alomar having AIDS? weird.
bub about: best job in the world? meng, you just ruined my day. i've been feeling pretty good about my job, but now that i know that there are positions like that...that pay $96k a year....dammit.
bub about: BDC ok, i'm done screwing around. the crawl flyer is obviously up on the main page.
bub about: BDC sorry, i'm screwing around with the main page.
bub about: LEED AP ha, you said "do do"
bub about: crawl just wanted to update everyone on the status of the crawl. the crawl will be taking place in downtown and the northshore. we will start in market square, walk down sixth street, cross the roberto clemente bridge, then finish up on the northshore. fliers will be out sometime relatively soon. for housing accommodations, up to 8 people can stay at derek's place (about a 7-10 minute walk away), the rest are welcome to crash at our place (10 minute cab ride away). if you want to get a hotel, the most convenient is the springhill suites in the northshore, but be warned...it's expensive. there are a few hotels on knight road if you would rather try there. i'm confident that we could house all of you suckas at my house (remembering the carnage from my bachelor party), i believe we fit 32 of you idiots once.
bub about: random thoughts i have gone back and forth with it. i don't want to be somewhere that gets nailed by hurricanes every year...that's a lot of upkeep on the golf cart racing track. there's an island in the middle of the ohio river that would be sweet, but pittsburgh isn't tropical enough. most of what i'm feeling is in the carolinas (despite the hurricanes) or along the shores of georgia. some tropical island out of hurricane alley would be sweet. i read somewhere that you can buy your own private island in the caribbean for $2million...so it's completely feasible.
bub about: religion mine came up with #1 Unitarian Universalism 100%, #2 theravada buddhism 98%, #3 liberal quakers 92%. funny part is i was raised catholic, which came in at next to last with 29%
bub about: how old is your brain? my brain is 20. why is a younger brain better than an older brain? i knew much less when i was 20, than 30.
bub about: site update that's why i said i use yahoo reader. that part about "google reader takes longer to update"...
bub about: site update oh, i see. i use yahoo reader, it seems to be better than google reader. google reader takes longer to update, and if anyone uses any html that doesn't have a "closing tag" in their post (like the P tag or the br tag), google reader gets a bit wonky. just enter the address from my original post into an rss reader and you'll be fine.
bub about: site update josh, i created a php script that will read the 20 most recent records in the "comments" table, then it creates an xml file with that information in the appropriate places. i don't actually have to do anything to update the feed. i made it all automatic. it's triggered by someone making a post.
bub about: site update rss = really simple syndication. that's how streaming news works. that's how yahoo/msn/google display news headlines/summaries from cnn.com and stuff.
bub about: rust belt sports pens firing therrien was a bit of a surprise to most. i guess they are going with the old "we have the talent to win, but we're not, so let's shake things up". i think the main reason we're stinking up the joint is because we got poached in the off-season and didn't get enough talent as far as replacements. losing gonchar for 3/4 of the season doesn't help. same with whitney for 1/2 the season. i'm not sure about the move...but i still think ray shero is a very good GM.
bub about: site update bdc has gone fancy. you "google reader" users can now add BDC to your rss feeds. you can add it to any rss feed reader by using the following site: http://www.bubdotcom.com/rss/bdcrss.xml that's pretty much it for now. bdc should be getting a bit of a redesign soon, though.
bub about: Dave :( can you keep us posted on services? hugs and kisses to the thewses.
bub about: real commercial ummmm....wow!
bub about: super bowl for me, less awesome. superbowl XL was the first superbowl victory i was actually old enough to get. the last one before that i was 2 years old, so it was essentially my first one. i was ecstatic. this time was super freaking excited, but didn't match the first one.
bub about: super bowl holy moly, i have a huge boner and a bad hangover. what a game!
bub about: old ha! connie d'amico. giggity.
roller skating was bizarre. i haven't been since my 10th birthday party at "spinning wheels". it is exactly the same. i enjoyed that they still have "couples skate", "ladies only", and "guys only". us guys were standing by the one open corner during the "ladies skate" and the ref came over and told us we had to move back behind the line (2' away) and that "i'm the only guy allowed on the floor during 'ladies skate'". i'm pretty sure he followed that up by drugging a 12-year-old girl and ruining her in the bathroom. he was pervy.
and wes, i was a big fan of the parachute pants. there is a sweet picture of me walking to the busstop on the first day of kindergarten with some parachute pants and some sweet kool moe dee style sunglasses.
bub about: INAUGURATION and i apologize that you'll have lost your posts, but i'm not copying them all and posting them there.
bub about: INAUGURATION i am removing the inauguration conversation from this page. all politics/religion goes on the rant board. continue there.
bub about: on a serious note that's awesome, paulings! congrats!
bub about: pittsburgh... i don't get the big deal about the music. i wouldn't be bothered by it if it happened at an away game with a steeler down on the field. and being upset about playing "down on the corner" by CCR while he was "down on the field" is reading too much into it. or maybe i'm just a dick. glad he's gonna be alright though.
bub about: pittsburgh... and, i agree, fitzgerald is undoubtedly one of the top 3, if not the best WR in the league. i might be biased, i loved watching him at pitt and have a bit of a soft spot for him. obviously not in this game.
bub about: pittsburgh... i have a huge football boner. that is all.
bub about: working Bub it's because i got a new bowling ball. i was using an 11.5 pound ball until now. jc and i bought it in college. now i'm using a 16 pound ball. makes a big difference. i'll be on the PBA in a few months.
bub about: working Bub thanks dudes. i'm ready to go to work, i'm sick of my house. and bowling was awesome. i broke my high score in my last game today. new high is 245. boooyah!
bub about: Bourdain in B-lo bourdain is awesome. one of our favorite shows. so, what are you suckas doing today? i'm enjoying my last day of unemployment by going bowling. yeah, that's right, after 5.5 months, i finally got a job. unfortunately, abby won't be here to wake me up tomorrow morning. i've got about 10 wake up calls set up instead. it's hard to believe that the last day i went to work was three weeks before going to the outerbanks.
bub about: the one i can remember as of 2006, JJ Cathedral has "McEwan's Scotch Ale" engraved on the front door window. at least, according to my honeymoon pics.
bub about: work abby and i go to bed at the same time about 99% of the time. unless there's a really good game on that i want to see the end of...and i don't have to work the next day....which could be any day of the last 5 months.
bub about: espn i told abby that pitt will be #1 until next monday. they will undoubtedly lose their next game to saint john's. i'm just glad i got to see them at the top for the first time ever. they've been playing basketball at pitt for 101 years, according to espn. that's a long time to not be #1 at some point.
bub about: espn james harrison (KENT STATE!) won defensive player of the year.
and i wish they would just post the damned ncaa men's basketball rankings already. pitt should be #1 in the country for the first time in school history. UNC and UCONN both lost this week
bub about: espn who decided it was a good idea to make it more difficult to navigate around espn's website? they need to be flicked in the nads.
bub about: my rustbelt football fan friends... cowher was bad at halftime adustments, but he was decent with managing the clock/timeouts and he obviously got some decent results. he didn't have many bad years during his 15 years, but with the teams we had, we should have had at least one more superbowl in there. losing afc championship games at home more than once is inexcusable.
bub about: footballs andy, shaun ellis got fined $10,000 for that snow meteor he heaved.
bub about: B Edwards funny thing is that the article hints at the jerk fans possibly being from pittsburgh. not a single steeler fan has any ill feelings towards edwards. he does his best every game, to ensure the steelers win. seems like a good guy, he just couldn't catch a cold.
bub about: baseballs this sounds like it came from the onion, but it didn't. the pirates signed two indian (india, not native american) "pitchers", who had never picked up a baseball until they finished 2nd and 3rd in a million dollar reality contest. summation, the pirates chose to spend some money on two non-baseball players, who weren't good enough to win a reality contest. someone kill me. what a fucking joke.
bub about: music not ripped off by Coldplay i believe that might be the case. abby played nick drake for me back in the apartment days. i believe the album she had was "way to blue".
bub about: OJ OJ Simpson just got sentenced. i believe what he ended up getting was 15 years in prison.
bub about: random House you guys all do too much research about your tv shows. house is awesome because i'm a programmer. i don't care if it's inaccurate, i'm too ignorant to know the difference.
bub about: sports boners that i am. i am making abby a cable knit purse at the moment. my boners were getting out of control.
bub about: sports boners ab, yes, the hockey power rankings come out on mondays. pens are 4 this week.
bub about: modern technology i don't think i could ever live without DVR and the ability to rewind tv...or HD hockey/football.
bub about: happy birthday happy birthday cathryn.
bub about: boo herb score died today. who will mispronounce hispanic names now?
bub about: obama what a speech last night. he's good.
bub about: dude fashion this is kinda gay, but i heard a radio commercial that joseph a. bank is having a 50% everything in the store sale tomorrow. suits and suit separates will be half off, if anyone needs a new suit. /end gay transmission
bub about: portsmouth every time i see a fake deer in someone's yard, i slam on the brakes, thinking it's a real deer that i'm about to plow though. that may be a side benefit (making people slow down around your house). that, and you get to have a super classy deer in the yard.
bub about: soccer i know a few of us talked about it last weekend, but beckham will officially join AC Milan in january on loan during the MLS off-season.
bub about: portsmouth i remember watching buckle eat 2 2-pound hamburgers in one sitting at mike's that was uncomfortable, even for me. my favorite was the "big big gold bucket of slop".
bub about: portsmouth i'm watching an episode of "passport to great weekends" and they are in portsmouth, nh. i want to go to the portsmouth brewery. and some crazy breakfast place called "the friendly toast". looks awesome...and weird.
bub about: soccer there have been quite a few "incidents" with fans in the last year. lots of "fan bans" where they have played games behind closed doors with no fans, or visiting fans aren't allowed to go to away games. i would also assume that since the italian people aren't doing so great financially, the $80 ticket prices are a bit steep.
bub about: Funny Video here's a video (with blaring music) that i found after checking out leanne's link yesterday. i laugh my ass off every time i watch it. little kid jamming to jukebox hero
bub about: baseballs i didn't realize that the rays had been tarping off seats (even through the playoffs so far), but they are supposedly removing the tarp for game 5. i would be embarrassed to be a sports fan in florida. jacksonville is still tarping off seats, because they can't sell out....and how the hell is a baseball team in the ALCS tarping off seats, for christ's sake.
bub about: House we got stung by the dvr with House a few weeks ago. i think i fixed it before this week's episode, but we were watching the pens game and haven't watched it yet. i'll let you know what was said, when we watch it tonight, if you haven't heard by then.
bub about: footballs i just called comcast to complain. also sent them an email. apparently those are channels that they are adding shortly, just haven't done so yet. instead, i get to watch a pixelated baseball game. stupid comcast.
bub about: footballs i saw the other day that travis henry got busted again. something about a coke deal.
and how shitty is it that the MLB playoffs are on TBS? there is no HD with TBS. what a horrific decision that was.
bub about: huh? anyone see anything weird about this italian clothing company's logo? A-Style
bub about: hazing you guys are so rebellion.
bub about: Footballs holding up her towel was classless?
bub about: Footballs a few things about the game.
1. wow, that was some wind.
2. crennel is by far the worst coach ever. how the hell do you even consider kicking that field goal. i appreciate the win, though. we didn't look great, ben has a separated shoulder, and that weather surely equalized things.
3. i've been to quite a few steeler games (all at home) and i'm sure i've got some sort of blinders on, but i've never seen fans behave like i did last night. standing up, pointing in women's faces and calling them whores for being steeler fans. yelling at female fans of their own team to take their shirts off and calling them "hot pieces of ass", screaming at the vending people while waiting in line, calling cashiers "cum dumpsters" because they took too long. i got significantly less ribbing that i figured i would. i was expecting to have my hat taken, or beer spilled on me, or constant booing and such, but man, there are some seriously classless people in section 149 (especially row 25, the first 4 seats from the aisle). i'm sure derek has had some similar experiences at heinz field, i just haven't seen them myself. maybe i'm being blind or should pay more attention.
bub about: more random kordell stewart is not dead....he's on espn's first take right now. coach cowher was seen waiting in stall #2 for kordell to finish his segment.
bub about: random apparently bulgaria had some desire to set up a women's ice hockey national team to try to qualify for the winter olympics. they played slovakia the other day. after the 1st period, bulgaria was losing 31-0. yep, ice hockey. the final score was 82-0. that's giving up a goal every 44 seconds. no word on whether they qualified.
bub about: soccer fans fiorentina have gotten through to the group stage of the champions league, but have been drawn into the "group of death" (group F), with bayern munich, lyon, and steaua bucharesti. their first group match is september 17th against lyon.
bub about: single ply = crappy they should start supplying "butt wipes" in public restrooms. i hate not having them.
bub about: man, that girl is depressing. i get the point of her article, but lighten up a little. sounds like her bad experiences could have been avoided by buying a map and learning how to unlock a damn door.
bub about: obx pics yeah, sorry for all the dog pics. skip those.
bub about: obx pics apparently you do need to log in as me.
bub about: obx pics sorry, let me try this again. i got all of our obx pics hosted. here is the link. obx pics
bub about: vacation i've been off since july 31st....suckers.
bub about: Hump-day Shocker wow!!! congrats you two. hugs in a few days.
bub about: nomorepansychildren.com i would find them really funny, if it weren't for the intentionally misspelled captions. why do they need to be misspelled? it totally puts me off.
alright, so it's officially been 1 week and i'm bored off my ass. i've spent most of that time looking for a job and grouting the entry (finally). it's amazing how long days are when you don't have to work. someone to drink with during the day would be sweet.
bub about: Firenze tips there is a bakery between the noe and standa, that has the best chocolate filled bignets. it was like 3euros for 9 little bignets. i would kill for just one. drinking chinotto or nestea (not sure why it was so enjoyable) while walking around town. the caratierra pasta from yellow bar. walking up and down via calzaiouli. drinking kapuziner at the old stove. there's a sweet shoe store near festival del gelato. drinking at "slowly" (next to looneys). the san lorenzo market. any little outdoor eating area and ignoring the accordion players
bub about: such a wuss i remember those now. i remember blaine being drunk at some event in pittsburgh, walked into the spare room while people were sleeping (they woke up when he came in the room), then he took off his pants and went downstairs. he had no idea where his pants were in the morning.
bub about: such a wuss sleep walk into your guestroom?
bub about: such a wuss i don't feel like having to watch him the whole time. it's just easier without him. i'm just a humongous sissy.
bub about: such a wuss coop hides between my legs while i do the paper work.
bub about: such a wuss i am such a wuss. we are taking coop to camp bowwow for the weekend and i already bad.
bub about: KoL ha! onanism is funny.
bub about: KoL jewish people started that whole circumcision thing. non-jews used to be the uncircumcised ones.
and no, i don't know what onanism is.
bub about: ha! A Long Island man has been charged with driving from home drunk with his wife on the roof of their car, throwing her to the ground and seriously injuring her.Suffolk County police said Diamond Mircea was fighting with his wife, Monica Mircea, at their Islip Terrace home around 12:30 Sunday morning. They said he jumped into the car and she climbed onto the car's roof to try to stop him.
Police said the husband drove one block before his wife fell to the street and hit her head.
bub about: Competition Weekend i agree, i think we'll be there around 9, barring traffic stuff. i haven't had a car bomb in a loooong time. it tastes so good.
bub about: Fun! nope, i just can't read. i thought it said he had a half hour drive home. who drives an hour to work?! nevermind me. my brain is fried.
bub about: Fun! even if that logic applied...isn't that still a half hour early?
bub about: Fun! you mean, he whistles as he walks out the door? or he stands up in front of everyone and whistles a song, then leaves?
bub about: ugh "number 16 bus shelter" is a sweet name for a kid. almost as cool as "chooch".
bub about: Footballs ummm...greg...wrong window.
bub about: Footballs training camp starts monday, not started monday. we've got all but our top 2 picks signed. word is they will sign by the end of the week.
as for ghey mascots, steely mcbeam is one of the gheyest, but in no way can he be gheyer than a fairy or pixie elf or whatever you call that thing.
and there's nothing wrong with making out with your coach in the bathroom in south park.
bub about: goodnight funny lady golf clap
bub about: goodnight funny lady bad news. estelle getty died today at the age of 84.
bub about: Student- 5, Master- 2 if i had a nickel for every bar that i've gone to with blaine, derek, and abby...those three getting carded and i just get the nod to come on in, we'd be half way to the bubdotcompound.
bub about: ipods i believe it's called Cucusoft. there is a free version, but it puts a "watermark" across the screen. the version i got is $45.99 and does not have a watermark. it's idiot-proof. the free version isn't worth it at all. i've got all 10 episodes of band of brothers, the godfather, 3 episodes of family guy, and accepted, all on my ipod. they don't take up as much room as i thought they would. all of that only takes up 10GB of space.
bub about: ipods i found this software the other day that lets you convert dvd's to itunes videos. i'm watching the godfather on my ipod at work right now. sweet. yesterday i watched episodes 1 and 2 of band of brothers. awesome! that ought to make the trip to the obx much less painful for me.
bub about: to spark conversation i'm going with deaf. sign language would help keep you from being too secluded, conversationally. subtitles help for other entertainment. plus...mr. holland created that light show to go along with his opus...so music would just be a different sensory experience.
bub about: Wanted a-rod had to go bang madonna between her denny's early bird dinner and her bingo match. valid excuse.
bub about: sports i'd like the NL to adopt the "jetpacks for baserunners" idea. why run, when you can fly.
commence flame war.
bub about: exciting news from the queen of nerdland my eyes immediately went to the red letters. i read that as someone's name and thought, "that's an unfortunate name". reading the whole post helped. nerds!
bub about: interview question having to actually do the work of ladies locker room attendant, would suck. i could just sit there and watch. and no, it doesn't justify it, it's just a means to breaking the law. "i tried to buy a ticket, but they couldn't see me". ta-da.
bub about: so bored i've got the sanford and son theme song stuck in my head.
bub about: movies the luggage was sweet. i enjoyed the running after the train scene in the beginning and at the end.
bub about: movies ah, hotel chevalier. i got darjeeling limited on-demand...hotel chevalier was not part of that purchase.
bub about: movies natalie portman's butt was in darjeeling limited?
bub about: movies i liked it. the imagery in his movies is awesome. it's like watching one of those HD aquarium things. the plot could be absolute garbage, but i'll sit there and stare and be completely happy.
bub about: interview question if i can will myself invisible, then i'm going with, my clothes become invisible too.
bub about: interview question season tickets to all of your favorite teams...superbowl...world series...etc. that's a lotta dough. if i can will myself invisible or visible, it's a no-brainer for me. hell, most of the time, once you're in the stadium, the ushers don't check your tickets anyway. you can pretty much go where you want.
bub about: interview question not into the ladies lockerroom.
bub about: interview question sentences = posts.
could you imagine seeing a floating bottle and hearing someone say "hey! there's an invisible person over there!"
bub about: interview question luxury box works just fine for me. i'd say drink wherever you want. who is going to say anything about a floating beer bottle? they'll look like a crazy person. even if they do...i put the bottle down, and walk out. ta-da. (that's how i'm going to end all of my sentences now)
bub about: interview question why wear clothes if you are invisible? the purpose of clothes is to keep you from being naked or to keep you warm. hop on plane for somewhere warm, and don't wear clothes. ta-da.
bub about: interview question i think i'd live on big yacht, without the owners knowing. it would be sweet.
bub about: interview question terminal velocity of flying would be as fast as the fastest jet/plane/aircraft.
bub about: interview question i see it differently. i can go places that you suckers would have to pay for. movies, sporting events, concerts, flights to anywhere, boating trips, train rides. yes, i could see lots of sweet masturbatory things, but i could pretty much whatever i want.
aaron, if you don't know i'm invisible, you wouldn't know i was there. you'd just think "man, i feel super heavy today".
bub about: interview question dude, if i'm invisible, how do you know i'm not hanging on you while you fly our asses to the beach?
and derek, you've never had a girl's lockerroom dream? gaybo.
bub about: interview question i'm totally an invisibility guy.
bub about: interview question which super power would you rather have? invisibility or the ability to fly.
bub about: interview question i would pick the interviewee that picked ninja. ninjas are much more awesome. i'd rather have someone working for me that wanted to be awesome, than some average cog in the pirate machine.
bub about: happy country everyone i watched most of the tennis match too. i had to run to dick's to get some stuff, so i missed from 5-4 in the 5th set until the very last point (which i caught at the register). great match.
bub about: fireplace we had a mini pong tournament on friday night. only 8 people. bullie and i won. then we played "high five". it's a quarters game with four cups pushed together into a square, with one cup on top in the middle (the fifth cup is "high five"). it involves lots of yelling and celebrating and drinking and yelling. derek is, by far, the best celebrator. give out two drinks for the bottom row, 5 drinks for the high five, and drink one yourself for missing. if you make a high five, everyone screams high five in various ridiculous ways while you run around given everyone high fives. good times.
bub about: happy country everyone installing a fireplace sounds like such a crazy task.
heh heh, firebox.
bub about: i agreed!
bub about: ummm...ouch from an article i just read
"Both players were injured Monday night against Milwaukee. Byrnes strained his left hamstring and Snyder suffered what was diagnosed as a left testicular fracture after he was struck by a foul ball off the bat of Corey Hart."
a fractured nad, THAT's a bad day.
bub about: Birds that Can dougy, all of that talk is on the rant board...just cuz we're lazy.
we also lost ruutu today.
bub about: Wipeout MXC was awesome! the commentary is less funny than MXC, but they still throw some decent jabs at the contestants.
bub about: holy crap my favorite stolen lines are:
when something almost goes in (usually golf related) "that was like junior prom, all lip and no hole" (stolen from greg pryber, not sure of origin).
and when leaving some place "i'm out like a boner in sweatpants" (stolen from blaine, not sure of origin).
bub about: Wipeout abby, derek, bullie and i discussed it last night. derek said something about us sucking for finding it funny. i love the punching wall, the super bouncy ball thing, and the dizzy thing. i'd puke my guts out on the dizzy thing. someone is going to die on the bouncy balls.
bub about: holy crap we saw this trashy dude in a trashy bar this past weekend, who had a shirt on that said "america fuck yeah!" all i could think was "ugh"
bub about: holy crap i am so bored. i can't think of anything but vacation. i'd even settle for tomorrow at noon, at this point. i'm pumped for some speed boats, fireworks, and beer.
bub about: camera recs? our's is a sony cybershot, but i'm not sure of the model number. it works pretty well. it's a 5.1MP cybershot...if that helps.
bub about: yay team! the US is not the fattest nation in the world anymore. Australia is.
bub about: foooood it's on the internet. from some news station in columbus.
bub about: foooood hey columbus, chipotle is giving away free burritos and stuff tonight from 5pm-8pm.
why does ohio keep getting free food?
bub about: Competition a game of "release" would be mmmmawesome.
bub about: Competition anyone else play "SPUD" growing up? SPUD.
bub about: Competition we've tabled the big wheel race, mostly due to lack of attendance, but also because shutting down the road for a big wheel race may be impossible since i pissed off the township commissioner by dumping my old sod off the side of the road right in front of him...after he told me not to.
bub about: Competition abby and i will be there. i support any sort of 2-team organization structure. 3 teams was awful.
bub about: Duct Tape Fashion wow! that's something. those have to be so sweaty.
bub about: 4th of july so, i know everyone probably has plans, and we've discussed it before, but i just found out (because i wasn't paying attention until now) that the pittsburgh regatta is going on downtown over the 4th of july weekend. it's free. there are bmx stunt shows, jet ski stunt shows, zambelli fireworks, and formula 1 speedboat racing. you guys should come if you don't have plans. we'll send out a flier soon. yay america!
bub about: MLB i had a brief thought about that conversation this morning, but i have just as little interest in arguing about it. crazy story though. is it vacation time yet? 52 more days.
bub about: random colored drinks? you racist.
bub about: random is there a better non-alcoholic beverage than orange pop? more specifically sunkist. cherokee red is pretty good, arnold palmer's are really good, grape pop is also really good, cheerwine is good, but sunkist rules.
bub about: seriously? be safe dougy.
bub about: ugh yeah, the tailpipe. yesterday sucked. enough stress that it caused a stiff neck. can barely move my head. stupid work.
bub about: ugh anyone else taking it in the tailpipe today. happy hour at finnegan's for the locals that are interested.
bub about: Firefox 3.0 just upgraded to 3.0, and i don't really understand the address bar. it seems that it's got some of my bookmarked pages in there, plus ones i've gone to today. all of the sites that i've typed in today seem to be there.
bub about: Firefox 3.0 i'm using 2.0, but check in your "tools->options->privacy", then check the history settings. also in that window, if you have "always clear my private data when i exit firefox" checked...uncheck that.
bub about: Dear Husband the mound was increased and decreased again. the fences have been moved out and back in. ball densities have been toyed with. there have been a lot of changes, but nothing as drastic as DH. i'm also not big on the changes they've made (fence distances, ball density, etc). integration, though, is not a gimmick, it's morally the right thing to do.
bub about: Dear Husband??? derek, he "allegedly" almost had an awesome goal.
the announcer of the game yesterday said that luca toni is "allegedly one of europes top goal scorers". is that really something that can be alleged? either you are statistically a top goal scorer or you aren't. being a luca toni fan, i say he is. he lead the serie A in goals two years ago, was second last year, and this past season lead the bundesliga (german league) in goals. i'm pretty sure that qualifies as outright top-goal scorer status.
bub about: Dear Husband you pretty much have it, aaron. no need to touch up. once it crosses the goal line, play is dead. i dislike no-touch icing. the argument for it, is that it will decrease injuries. boo hoo.
bub about: Dear Husband??? you may disagree, but i am 100% correct.
gimmick - 1. an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, esp. one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
love ya wes. :)
bub about: baseballs? i just want to exhort you all for making derek and i argue the same side. i feel dirty.
bub about: baseballs? i don't think i follow your first question. i'm fairly sure that the league is in existence because it's a great sport that people love to play and watch. those "business decisions" are what people dislike about some sports. every sport revolves around the execution of the players, who are selected at the judgment of the coaches. every coach tries to put the best players on the field for each situation. you enjoy football...where could you see a sport revolving more around the judgment of the coaches than football. coaching strategy is all about minimizing weakness and maximizing strength, but the AL consists of the best 9 hitters and best 9 fielders, using 10 people, instead of 9. you know what would score more runs in baseball, if you could have a designated runner...like michael johnson, who's only job is to run after the hitters hit the ball. he can run for everyone. more runs = more fans, right. you would consider that a really stupid addition to baseball...just like i consider the DH stupid.
bub about: baseballs? i have never met anyone who proves the opposite of their position in an attempt to bolster their argument, like you can. there needs to be a word for that.
maybe "he berged himself" or "boy, did he D.U.E. that one?!" or "what a greenberg!"
gotta love you, you silly bastard. liking baseball played the way baseball was originally played, no matter how old you are, doesn't make you dumber. i find the "technological advances" in those sports to be sell out garbage. their only reason for existence is to bring more fans to the game, not to "better the game". some advances are great, like instant replay, the forward pass, etc.
bub about: baseballs? and none of my rant was directed at anyone here, mostly at hank steinbrenner.
bub about: baseballs? it could be argued that colon doesn't hit well, because he hasn't been forced to. a good hitting pitcher (rick ankiel before he got the yips) is incredibly valuable on lots of levels.
bub about: baseballs? i am vehemently against the DH. it's garbage. it goes perfectly with pink hats, ron paulino bobblehead night, hot tubs in the outfield, and teams wearing teal. baseball was perfect before the DH. if you don't appreciate baseball the way it was then, that's fine, but i lump you in with the "i want a glowing puck on tv because i just can't seem to follow the action without it", the "basketball is more interesting if we don't call traveling", and the "we need to protect the quarterbacks, so any sort of hard hit is a penalty" people. all gimmicks, and all garbage.
bub about: july 4th i know we discussed the big wheel races for the 4th of july, but it doesn't seem to have gathered enough speed to warrant spending $35 per big wheel. so, if anyone is interested, you are all invited to a "come down if you feel like it, nothing major" 4th of july party. things to do...hang out on our new patio, drink beer, be american, hit the north shore for awesome zambelli fireworks, games of all sorts.
let us know if you can make it. i'm sure most of you have family stuff to do, so you know, whatever.
bub about: music post of the year berg, what did you posts have to do with me?
bub about: Live Golf so close rocco. what a finish.
bub about: Live Golf looks like rocco is on the ropes.
bub about: Live Golf going to sudden death. advantage tiger.
bub about: Live Golf it is! barring any unbelievable putts, this looks like it's going to sudden death playoff holes.
bub about: Live Golf man, this is some exciting golf.
bub about: Live Golf nice work aaron!
bub about: Live Golf rocco up 1!
bub about: Live Golf no, they will play a sudden death playoff, using holes 7, 8, and 18 (in rotation if necessary).
bub about: Live Golf can't believe he's picked up 3 shots in 4 holes.
bub about: Live Golf rocco is out to shut me up. 1 back with 6 to play.
bub about: Live Golf he's 3 back now. it's over, johnny.
bub about: Live Golf rocco is from greensburg (outside of pittsburgh), so everyone here is rooting for him. i don't see it happening, unfortunately.
bub about: boring agreed. apparently my primanti's sando and my colon are having a royal rumble. i would not bet on the sando.
bub about: Browns just for knowledge sake, it's staph. and i would certainly be concerned about the cleanliness of the browns facilities. that's a ton of staph infections. for god's sake, get out the lysol now and then.
bub about: golf tiger is +2 after 1 hole.
bub about: darfur that post might have been confusing. the point of the paperwork is for security, but having to do so would essentially make it impossible to film stuff freely.
bub about: darfur there's also something about having to fill out paper work when any TV van moves inside or outside the olympic village, that would make it impossible to film stuff.
bub about: darfur i missed nova, busy watching "green tv", interesting channel. i don't know much about darfur or the connection with the olympics, but we may not get to watch the olympics at all. china may make it too difficult to broadcast or something.
bub about: Crazy Germans must have been. i enjoyed the 8 signs. the "back, wrist, neck or shoulder pain"...porn addiction!
bub about: Euros i think the italians just had a bad game, combined with the injury to fabio canovarro, and not playing guys like aquilani, quagliarella, and perrotta...not including vicenzo iaquinta and ricardo montolivo in the squad. they have a really old team at the moment. the dtuch apparently played great, and from what i have read, the score was not indicative of play.
the french didn't play henry, frey, vieira (i believe he's injured), diarra...and zindane is gone...they didn't select david trezeguet, because the coach doesn't like him. they should have wiped the floor with romania, especially since mutu couldn't get anything going.
bub about: Euros i "watched" over gamecast, then promptly deleted the game from my dvr when i got home. they do this all the time. put themselves in a crappy situation right off the bat, then have to win out to advance. i hate the rule that allowed van nistleroy's goal. g-hey!
bub about: baseballs i'm surprised no one has brought up dontrelle willis' performance...8ER on 3H, with 5BB in 1.1innings. now THAT is a superstar pitcher.
bub about: The News bleetingsheepdotcom.com is available.
bub about: The News and isn't there a restaurant called "o'malley's" in gatlinburg? or was it "o'charlie's"?
bub about: The News ah, good ol' gatlinburg tennessee. sounds like you guys hiked all the way up to the ski resort? you know they have a lift for that. did you guys rent scooters while you were there? there are some awesome paved trials through the woods for the scooters. gatlinburg is known for it's fall foliage stuff, makes me think of "scrubs" when carla tells turk he has to get rid of his scooter, but he wants to wait until after his scooter club's fall foliage trip to maine. i'm a dork.
bub about: posting if you delete your cookies, you'll see it right on the comments page.
bub about: posting schmidt can't either, but i think he's not following directions correctly ;)
just have her register (click on the register link on the comments page), then once you register, just sign in and post. if that doesn't work for some reason, let me know.
bub about: soccer not to be a dick, but cleveland doesn't have any either.
bub about: The News and as far as relieving as much stress as possible when it comes to the wedding...it becomes much easier (this is super corny, but...) when you remember what the day is about, instead of trying have the most awesomest wedding ever.
bub about: The News brad and andy are also soccer fans. so there. i also like to think some of you soccer haters are secretly interested, but afraid to admit it. ;)
bub about: soccer for you big soccer fans out there, the euro 2008 tournament start this weekend. it is essentially the world cup, but just for europe. italy, france, netherlands, and romania are all in one group (called the group of death) and only 2 make it out of each group. that would be like the patriots, colts, cowboys, and steelers being in a division together. italy plays netherlands today at 2:45pm, but can be seen on ESPN2 at 5pm. france and romania play at noon. i don't think that one is on ESPN2, but i could be wrong.
bub about: The News congrats considines!
bub about: hockey is stupid. damn red wings.
bub about: Brainiacs it's voodoo.
bub about: truck nuts i'm not sure there could be a gayer mascot than the browns fairy. gaaaaay.
bub about: pens he apparently didn't do much conditioning in russia. last year by the last 1/4 of the season he was dead. this year was much better, but apparently he's not in condition to play 100+ games. they worked on it this past off-season and hopefully they get on that some more this off-season.
bub about: pens the pens dominated play in the first period and the first OT, but the redwings owned the rest. i am still confused about the announcers bitching about the goaltender interference calls (mostly when zetterberg plowed fleury without being touched...the other one was iffy). you can't allow teams to score by running the goaltender. you have to call it, whether it's the playoffs or not. what if detroit scored while fleury was blown out of the net? that's not right. and derek is right, in that the pens played that way all year. they are often out-shot and sometimes dramatically out-shot, but find ways to win. goaltending has kept them in a lot of games this year. either way, i get to watch another pens game...
not sure if gonch is tough or not. depends on what he hurt. it looked pretty painful, but not as painful as malone's looked.
bub about: pens and how effing tough is ryan malone! he had a broken nose to begin with, got hit in the nose with a slapshot, blood pouring out of his face, got stitched up and missed 1 shift, if that. good lord. i would have been crying like a baby in the lockerroom for the next few hours (or weeks).
bub about: pens that was awesome! i couldn't believe the saves fleury was making in the second OT, or all game for that matter. what a crazy game. a win at home tomorrow would make for some drama.
bub about: awesome! i have to say, i have never seen anyone with more spectacular clothing. my favorite is the blue and white one (#5). that's just awesome. he's somethin' else.
bub about: Interesting Weekend the pens will likely lose hossa, malone, and orpik...malone hurts the most for me. roberts may retire. the core will still be intact, but ray shero will have some work to do to replace those three, and whoever else they decide not to sign. shero has done a great job so far, let's hope he doesn't do anything dumb.
bub about: Interesting Weekend the penguins aren't playing well. malkin has all but disappeared this series. they are completely frazzled and can't even put two passes together. it seems they have committed to the dump-and-chase strategy, despite the fact they detroit beats them to the puck every god damned time. the penguins are just getting beat. i don't see anyway that detroit loses this. it'll be good experience for next year.
bub about: Interesting Weekend we finished up the back yard. laid the sod on saturday, mulched the flower beds and put down some river stones around the patio on sunday. it's amazing how little 37 bags of mulch will cover.
bub about: lost tribes...not the TV show nice! i hate getting emails with that at the bottom. all of our tech guys have them.
bub about: lost tribes...not the TV show that's a lot of nerdy stuff. my question is why are two of the dudes completely red and one is charcoal?
bub about: pens yeah, we're building a new one, which is why the pens are staying. that doesn't mean the old one has to be torn down.
bub about: pens they could use it as a concert venue (which was the original purpose), but the pens own the land or some full thing...and want to put a parking lot or something there. they should make it a historical landmark (seeing as it was a feat of engineering).
bub about: pens i don't find the mellon arena to be a piece of crap. it's old, so it doesn't have that "new" look. it's mostly concrete ramps. the outside makes it completely worth keeping, but they are going to tear it down anyway. not pleased about that. not sure why they couldn't sell it and use it for something else. *tear*
bub about: zzzzz our back yard is all dirt...and stone patio now. we took out the old fence posts that my dad convinced us wouldn't need concrete...redug the holes with a post hole digger, cemented them, removed all of the sod from the back yard, tilled the whole thing, and put in a patio. it was a busy weekend, and i hurt my back. worked from home the last two days. stupid being old. that and 6 tons of rock/stone moving.
bub about: soccer is it that THEY think that or is it that YOU think that they are cooler, but won't admit it. inferiority complexes and the transference of the source of those complexes can be very confusing. maaaaybe people that dvr european soccer really like european soccer (and the dramatic difference in quality of play between european soccer and american soccer), so they dvr it to watch it at a more convenient time than 2:45pm on a weekday or 9am on a saturday/sunday. but you're probably right, it's probably the thinking they are better than everyone else|
bub about: movies i watched DL on-demand. my favorite has to be life aquatic.
bub about: movies for you wes anderson fans, was "bottle rocket" worth watching? i just finally watched the darjeeling limited. loved it. i haven't seen hotel chevalier or bottle rocket, but i've loved his other stuff. worth it?
bub about: a few things fiorentina got screwed by the PK at the end of the rangers-fiorentina match for the UEFA cup. they played to a 0-0 draw in the first leg, then a 0-0 draw in game 2. it went to PKs and rangers won. fiorentina out played them in both matches (obviously not THAT much or they would have scored), but lost in PKs.
bub about: because I i can't wait till fiorentina play in the champions league next season. geeked!
bub about: because I i agree. also, the champions league is more or less a "bonus" thing. you only get to be in it if you do well in your domestic league. it's more of a way to make a buttload of cash. and it's a sweet concept.
bub about: because I i wasn't trying to convince him to watch, just saying it's much more entertaining that you think. besides, the NFL has a much worse method of deciding overtime games...it's essentially a coin flip.
bub about: because I you're missing out. it's a great sport, with some flaws (just like every other sport), but if you give a solid effort at fandom, i think you'd really enjoy it. no sport i've ever seen has that much passion. it's awesome.
bub about: soccer how about that champions league final yesterday?! poor john terry. what a crazy ending.
bub about: baseballs fixed that for ya berg.
bub about: baseballs on fark. there was an article, but i didn't read it.
bub about: baseballs and canadian guys.
andy, want a new job?
"Maine's Legislature has once again approved the state's nuclear safety inspector job paying $71,000, which is kinda strange considering Maine hasn't had a nuke plant in over a decade"
bub about: baseballs i didn't NOT give them respect. i just don't like the sox. and no, i don't like mike lowell. not sure why.
bub about: baseballs how about lester last night. from cancer to no-hitter, good story. the one redsox player i don't dislike.
bub about: soccer you would think. that was a rough challenge.
bub about: soccer and fiorentina had something like 28 shots!
bub about: soccer i did see that, andy. dude plowed through him, then got up talking shit. did he get red carded for that? that cross was sick. and the 5-1 final was interesting.
bub about: footballs "The NFL provided Odell the opportunity to earn his way back onto our team, but we have not seen the right steps taken by him," Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said. "With our offseason work in progress and new talent added at our linebacker position, we've determined it's best to keep moving in a direction that does not include Odell."
bub about: other people it seems florence went crazy last night. thousands of people celebrating in the streets. they opened up the Artemio Franchi stadium to the fans and 30,000+ celebrated in there. the carabinieri basically just stood by and said "have fun". that had to be a good time.
bub about: other people the pens looked ridiculous last night. that was fun to watch. i was slightly nervous about the game, but that went away pretty quickly. i'm not sure how i want that series to play out. obviously, i'd rather have dallas win, but that's unlikely. the rest wouldn't be bad, let roberts get over his pneumonia.
bub about: soccer the damn game wasn't on tv or the internet. they showed inter vs. parma, roma vs. catania, and milan vs udinese. i did see the kick on sportscenter. i can't believe that got them into the champions league. i have a huge sports boner today.
bub about: baseballs how 'bout those buccos? 8-2 in their last 10. not bad for a terrible team full of anonymous, almost-professional athletes.
bub about: Silly that count is pretty inaccurate though...since there are 0 people with the last name of Stallkamp. i know quite a few.
bub about: Silly 14 brian mountains...a million plus brians and 3,932 mountains. i'm surprised by that one. i do know that there is a brian christopher mountain somewhere in california. and one of those bastards stole brianmountain@gmail.com from me.
bub about: ncaa did you guys see that alabama state was hit with 668 ncaa rules violations. not 6, not 68, 668. ummm...wow.
bub about: pens
bub about: beers and speaking of the pens....WOOOOOO!
bub about: beers issues with MONEY is what i meant to say.
bub about: beers pittsburgh brewing company (makers of iron city and IC light) have had issues with and such. they apparently ran up a huge water bill (surprise) and weren't paying it. they may have gotten out of their troubles, but they certainly don't have money to do that. honestly, i'm surprised yuengling hasn't done it.
bub about: beers buffalo....have you guys ever had beer from "southern tier"? just read a glowing article about them. they are "just south of buffalo".
bub about: soccer update needed to be = needed to beat. it happens so infrequently that i couldn't type it.
bub about: soccer update that was from two weekends ago. the milan derby. if pittsburgh and cleveland were in the same city and shared a stadium, and cleveland needed to be the #1 ranked steelers to get into the playoffs....and then you multiplied the passion by 10....that's what happened in that video.
bub about: basketballs watching lebron's mom get up in paul pierce and kg's faces for fouling lebron was hilarious.
bub about: soccer update so, i've spared you all the weekly soccer updates for quite a while, but this one is a good one. fiorentina and AC milan have been locked in a battle for 4th place (which is the last "champions league qualifier" spot). qualifying for the champions league is a huge pay day for the teams that make it, and is part of how they afford the better players. if fiorentina make it, that would go along way to bettering the team. some are saying that fiorentina could win the scudetto (the championship for serie A, the italian league) in the next 5 years. so that's cool. but as of the start of this past weekend's games, ac milan was ahead of fiorentina by 1 point with 2 games to play. fiorentina beat parma as expected, but milan effed up against napoli, so fiorentina are now 2 points ahead of milan and are currently in 4th with 1 game to play. milan plays udinese who are 7th, fiorentina play torino who are 15th. things are looking good for fiorentina.
that is all.
bub about: Jess and I are engorged... congrats toner and jess!
bub about: blerg no problem. glad you guys had fun. i was jealous. i'm still flippin sick. the pens winning helps though.
bub about: Outta left field i am actually trying to hold it back now. just picturing it makes me laugh. abby laughs like that at her own farts. endless entertainment.
bub about: Outta left field i find 7-year-old boys hilarious. wait, what?
bub about: Spygate not real sure. if you had audio, you could probably steal indy's signals pretty easily, considering he calls them at the line. other than that, i don't know. i'm guessing it's less helpful than before 1994...but whateva. still cheating a-holes.
go pens!
bub about: Spygate according to espn's article today, one of the tapes revealed that NE stole some offensive signals from the dolphins.
bub about: Spygate stealing signs is difficult...unless you video-tape it. it's hard to figure out "the code" when you are just looking from across the field, but if you can rewind it and sync it with the 2 separate angles of each play...then it becomes a lot easier.
bub about: Spygate and no, i'm not saying the steelers deserve the pats superbowl victory in 2002, but damn am i pissed that they cheated to win that damn game. especially since hines ward said immediately following that game "those guys are really good, it's like they knew exactly what we were doing out there". granted, the steelers offense wasn't the most imaginative in 2002, but it seems a little shady.
bub about: Spygate it's bush league in baseball. i remember people getting bitched out for even trying to steal signs. the nfl is sweeping it under the rug, because it can't win. either the "patriots dynasty" is a sham, or the entire league is filled with cheaters. either way, the fans (who live and die, figuratively, by what happens from week to week) ought to be pissed that they are being lied to about the legitimacy of the games they watch each week. either the pats are cheaters and get sold down the river, or the league takes a step closer to the WWE. i've obviously exaggerated for the purpose of making a point, but if cheating is going on all over the league, then the league is full of hypocrites and liars. how can you expect the players to abide by conduct rules, when the teams aren't?
bub about: Spygate bitching isn't gonna help me. it kinda makes me happy that they did this crap. i hate the pats, hate them more now than i did last year. stealing signals makes a difference. if it didn't, they wouldn't have wasted the time and money, and broken the rules to do it.
the sad part is that the nfl is going to sweep this under the rug. they've already said stuff to the effect of "yeah, they told us about taping these games already...we already knew about this". they aren't going to get punished any more than they've already have. it's pathetic. to me, this is worse than betting on a game or taking steroids, but no one is going to give a shit, because it's football.
bub about: welcome to sexytown... yeah, that's not a problem at all. i was just wondering. it's gonna be sweet.
bub about: welcome to sexytown... wes, have you guys decided whether you'll have time to stop in to the obx for a visit?
and does anyone have real interest in the 4th of july case race? if not, i won't have the township block off the street...if so, i'll get on that.
bub about: hungry that i am. still have a ways to go, but i'm on the way to sexytown.
bub about: hungry i've lost about ten pounds. drinking lots of water, try not to eat too much sodium, lots of protein (chicken and such), eat a lot of lower calorie snacks. if you're still hungry, chug water. literally chug it.
bub about: 23 cent pizza boy, you've got piss and vinegar running through your veins today, don't you.
bub about: today god, today is so boring. is it friday night at 7pm, on versus...yet?
bub about: horses poor girl...eight belles was a filly. and it probably wasn't mentioned because it was two day old news already...and no one want to (wait for it....) beat a dead horse.
*walking away in shame*
bub about: \\\\\\\"architect\\\\\\\" eff permits. that's stupid. i haven't gotten a permit for any of the stuff we've done. have any of you guys? aside from josh.
my fun weekend project this past weekend was removing (filling in) a doorway between the spare room and master bedroom. cutting into the carpet was slightly terrifying.
bub about: weekend dude, that sucks about the car.
i had a pretty good weekend. blaine, sweeney and i went on a slummin' bar crawl. it was definitely slummin' and definitely fun. gotta love end up at the bar of a seafood restaurant at the end of the night.
bub about: weekend i can't stand the NBA, and the only way that series can end well in my mind is if the ground opens up and swallows the Q, with both teams inside. i would much rather endure the "we are marshall" style movies after such a disaster, than have one of those teams succeed.
bub about: fun stuff we hate jagr. he gets booed every time he touches the puck here. we are very bitter about people leaving. it was like a really ugly breakup with jagr. no chance of remaining friends. anything short of a painful death would be too good for him.
bub about: fun stuff so, drury may not play tonight with a torso injury, and avery is obviously out with sand in his vagina, and blair betts is possibly out with a facial fracture after getting his in the face with a shot. that ought to make things a little tougher for the blueshirts. all i want tonight is for someone to rip that retarded hitler-stach/soul-patch off jagr's face and ram the butt-end of a stick down his throat.
i love that he's essentially retiring after this year, by signing to play in russia. just hang 'em up jags.
bub about: comeuppance i think i remember too, but i don't remember who hit him. it was on the near-boards. and it might even been the "subway sandwich of the game" on the fsn pittsburgh broadcast. gonchar maybe.
bub about: Pittsburgh gets a Gold Star we got a good laugh out of that one last night.
bub about: Pittsburgh gets a Gold Star abby and i have been laughing about that for a few days now. i wish i would have known that karate-kicking your bride on your wedding day was acceptable. BAM! right into through the railing of the dance floor.
also, GO PENS!
bub about: hockey jagr was here for 10 years. i wasn't a huge jagr fan when he was here anyway, i was (and still am) partial to lemieux. obviously i liked him when he was here, but i wasn't one of his huge supporters. i will confess that we ate "jaromir jagr peanut butter" for a good three years when i was in junior high. jagr's best years were certainly in pittsburgh.
as an aside, that trade (jagr and kucera for kris beech, michal sivek, and ross lupaschuk) was terrible, even as a salary-dump trade.
bub about: hockey jagr is a douche, but i don't hate him like i hate a lot of other people/things. in no way do i want him to do well at all, ever. i'm still pissed about what he did to the lockerroom and pittsburghers usually don't forgive someone for leaving for more money.
bub about: ugh you could come to pittsburgh and cheer with us...it would be fun.
bub about: ugh that should say "just won that effing game".
bub about: ugh ha. it sure was a snooze-fest| i got "we're getting clobbered" drunk, which turned into "how are we back in this game" drunk, which ultimately turned into "holy hell, we just that effing game" obliterated. we also met max talbot after the game and i proceeded to fawn over him like a 14-year-old school girl.
bub about: footballs so, is everyone satisfied with their draft? things didn't go the way i thought they would for the steelers, but it was a good one none-the-less.
bub about: ugh is it time to go yet. i'm so excited about tonight's game that i'm about to poop my pants.
bub about: Man Cave could there be a gayer name than "man cave"? what happened to "game room"?
bub about: pinko commies doug, you are slacking big time. beer or vaginas is the greatest thing known to man. otherwise, you're a woman (and there's nothing wrong with that). you are losing way too often these days. you need to step it up.
bub about: pinko commies cheese is only good on pizza, nachos, french fries, and breaded then deep fried. everything else is gross...and european.
bub about: where is everyone smack doesn't enter the equation, just drunk/not drunk. and cheese is gross, mostly.
bub about: where is everyone and i don't have to be better at it drunk than sober...it's just that if i'm good at it when i'm drunk, it's a game.
bub about: where is everyone nascar is surely a sport. if there was a parallel parking feature in nascar, THAT would be a game. and to clarify, i'm not talking fall-down drunk, i mean like 8-10 beers in drunk. that sweet spot of drunken athletics. in no fashion could i play baseball/football/hockey/basketball/nascar/figure skating/gymnastics/etc well after 8-10 beers. softball/bowling/darts/cornhole/beer pong/ping pong/pudding cart racing/etc are most definitely games. golf is really the one outsider that i haven't decided on. golf is probably a game.
bub about: where is everyone i like your reasoning, eversmann.
bub about: where is everyone you are partly right about miracle whip. i have found two images, one with "dressing" and the other with "salad dressing", i do not know which is current.
i think we'd all agree that almost anything can be a "topping". i wonder where the line is between "topping" and "condiment"?
this might be the dumbest conversation ever. it fits in the "what's a sport and what's a game?" which i define by "if i'm good at it when i'm drunk, it's a game...if i'm bad at it drunk, it's a sport"...completely bullet-proof.
bub about: where is everyone i would generally agree with you, but that means ranch isn't a condiment (which abby would strongly agree with), because it's in the salad dressing area. and miracle whip, which is a billion times better than mayo on a sando, is a salad dressing, but is found by the condiments. hmmm...
bub about: where is everyone merriams says that a condiment is something used to enhance the flavor of food. that's too vague for me. that can be anything. a turkey sub is much better with cucumbers on it, than without. i think there needs to be some sort of liquid property to the stuff. like relish has that weird green gelatinous slime. cucumbers and pickles don't have that.
bub about: where is everyone i'm completely intrigued by poutine, but as a cheese-disliker i'm terrified. cheese curd sounds so bad to me it actually retch when think about it. i need to try a bite of someone else's poutine sometime. poutine sounds dirty.
bub about: where is everyone heinz ketchup is life sustaining. hunts ketchup is garbage. redhot is also something i would have a hard time living without.
question: relish is widely considered a condiment, right? would that mean that pickles are a condiment? considering relish is chopped up pickles? if pickles are a condiment, would that mean that cucumbers are also? where does it end?
bub about: where is everyone seriously though, where IS everyone?
bub about: where is everyone i am absolved of blame. i couldn't vote for obama. i went for ron paul instead, even though my vote won't matter at all in that race.
bub about: you and i prove that one correct, cathryn.
bub about: Get Your Boys Ready for December by year, i mean school year.
bub about: Get Your Boys Ready for December a cut-off date after the start of the year is pretty weird, don't you think?
and doug, yes, i would say that the vast majority of american born baseball players went to public school. just a quick sampling of 25 players, 23 went to public school. small sample = fairly unreliable results.
bub about: Get Your Boys Ready for December and you guys are right, i was wrong about the school cut off date. but the concept is the same (see aaron's little league argument).
bub about: Get Your Boys Ready for December according to the following link, i'm absolutely correct about august. fucktard ;) put that in your pipe and smoke it.
bub about: Get Your Boys Ready for December didn't read the article, just looked at the graph. august has the highest birth rate in the US. so, it makes sense that more american born players would be born in august. i wonder if there is also some correlation to the fact that august 1st is the cut-off for school enrollment in the US(public schools at least). so the kids born in august have almost a year of developmental advantage through school (which may earn you a scholarship), then through college (which may get you drafted). either way, its probably purely coincidental. i may have said the same thing as the article. i'm lazy.
bub about: japanese baseballs it would help if i posted the story, huh? you stink!
bub about: japanese baseballs there is so much to say about this story. 1. after 250 pitches and 66 runs in 2 innings, change your god damned pitcher. 2. i love that he says ""At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings," Kawamoto's coach was quoted as saying. "There was a danger he could get injured."....yes, THAT's when there's risk of injury, not the 250 he's already thrown, asshole. 3. is it more embarrassing to lose 66-0 or to have all of the internet know that your team sucks so bad and is so full of sissies that you forfeit so the score would be changed to 9-0?
bub about: footballs i used to tell derek that chad johnson is the poor man's TO. i look more and more correct as time goes on. and i agree, most of chad's teammates like him, but that's pretty much the only difference between the two. drop lots of balls, make a few great catches, score lots of td's, elaborate td celebrations, talk more than they can back up, and apparently a complete cancer in the lockerroom.
derek isn't here to defend chad, so it's not really fair.
bub about: footballs i've seen those at games and tv commercials before. they are sweet. (feel better?)
bub about: footballs i agree. there isn't any good way to judge a schedule's difficult, though. dmac disagrees with the saturday nfl thing. he said "how am i supposed to drive to south bend to watch the pitt-nd game if it's on a friday?", i said "take friday off, just like you'd have to take monday off if you drove to see a steelers-bears game." i was told that i was an idiot. i think that genius is wasted on some people.
bub about: footballs the steelers have 5 1:00 games this year. 2 home 1:00 games. the rest are at 4:00 or 8:00.
8 effing games against playoff teams from last year, plus 2 against an almost playoff team. this is gonna suck. nothing worse than watching a sub-.500 season and having to stay up for the late games. i still think that the nfl should be played on saturday, college on friday, high school on sunday. that accommodates everyone's drinking desires.
bub about: spammers i figured that it was just a program that was spamming us, not someone actually typing it in. if there was a real person, i would have told them off.
bub about: video games apparently madden '09 is going to let you control the touchdown celebrations.
bub about: redsox-indians headline from fark.com's sports page.
"Like a sorority girl on GHB, the Indians collapse again and hand the Red Sox another come-from-behind victory"
bub about: 4th of july it will be video taped.
bub about: 4th of july i think we should be able to use the regular big wheels...at least after watching the video of adults riding big wheels down lombardi st in san fran. we'll get one and take it for a spin first. if i can ride one, the rest of you can.
bub about: tribe v. sox same reason that face guarding isn't legal in the nfl. sticking your hands in the goalies face creates an unfair advantage. if you are just standing there trying to make a play, that's fine. the goalie can not hit him much, because he doesn't have the puck and that would be interference on the goalie.
bub about: tribe v. sox no, i know you aren't. i was meaning that i wasn't trying to offend all canadians.
bub about: tribe v. sox i did see that. i also saw the pens go up 3-0. this is not meant to include all canadian/former canadians married to or related by marriage to anyone i know...but man, ottawa fans are babies. whining about everything, cheering as though they've scored when just crossing the red-line. how irritating to watch. good show on the national anthem though. i'm actually hoping for a loss in game 3, so we don't have over a week before our next game.
oh, and the pirates are 7-6. take that berg.
and for the bad news. the steelers will have the hardest schedule in the league. 8 non-division games against playoff teams (i believe that's what greenie said). the winning percentage of our opponents is something like .589. gonna be a fun one this year. 7-9.
bub about: 4th of july which would be entertaining.
bub about: 4th of july your way would have turned into a battle of attrition.
bub about: 4th of july and you have to sit and peddle, no standing on the back and pushing skateboard style.
shotgunning is legal, but you have to drink the whole thing, no leaving more than a half a mouthful.
bub about: 4th of july now you've got it. one beer at a time. i'm also guessing each lap will take about 5-plus minutes.
bub about: 4th of july and i assume that most won't be able to make it. big family day and all. just throwing it out there.
bub about: 4th of july not sure exactly. dougums?
bub about: 4th of july hey, i wanted to test the waters, since people are usually busy on the 4th of july...but pittsburgh has been throwing around the idea of hosting a first annual big wheel case race at the mountain house. teams of 4. each team brings a case of their preferred beer. each driver must finish their beer before being allowed to mount the big wheel, for a trip around the block. once you reach the front steps again, the next person on your team may start their beer. first team to finished all of their beers in that fashion and complete all 24 laps wins.
we will also have a 10'x6'x22" inflatable baby pool, and cornhole/ladder golf/beer pong/etc. i'm sure we'll try to figure in some spectacular pittsburgh fireworks.
anyone interested?
bub about: playoffs anyone watch sean avery's shenanigans last night? what are your thoughts? granted, it's not illegal...but i can't believe that no one on the devils beat his ass for it. even drury told him to knock it off, in the middle of the play. bush league.
bub about: yankees snap! after i sent you that text, i thought "he is going to wonder what the hell i'm asking that for". i'll explain some other time.
bub about: yankees i tried to convince abby to work PITT somewhere into one of the WVU buildings she was doing. she hates me and wouldn't do it.
bub about: yankees i wonder if they go with an unauthorized construction material sort of idea.
bub about: Bored we could talk about how awesome the penguins are...
bub about: Yankee Stadium i can't imagine a steinbrenner allowing that to stay. they will tear up that lockerroom and redo it. either way, all of the "curse" talk in baseball is retarded. i'm a relatively superstitious guy, but curses fall along the same lines as religion. a nice little package to explain what you don't understand.
bub about: berg comparing your team to the pirates is like being proud that despite sucking at baseball, you are better than a kid with no arms. the pirates organization is making no effort to win. the ownership are satisfied with taking the revenue sharing money, not spending all of it, then raking in the dough when yinzers buy tickets to watch the fireworks and collect their bobbleheads. they taking in at least $180,000 per game in ticket sales (21,000 avg attendance x $9 gen admin x 81games = $14.5mil per year). they don't even need to field a competitive team and are guaranteed at least $25mil. it pisses me off to no end. we are fielding exactly the same players as last year, and we all saw how well that worked out.
bub about: sports i heard that the indians are the league's most unselfish team.
bub about: pens rule here's the ryan whitney vs. wade redden fight from last night, if you haven't seen it. beat down.
bub about: ESPN i haven't seen the first segment, but i like the deportes segment, because that's the only soccer coverage you'll see on ESPN. and it was arsenal vs liverpool, just for correctness sake. i watched the match live on tuesday (took the day off) and it was an absolute classic. ESPN sucks because it prioritizes its coverage based on what it owns the rights to. there is never a reason to show arena football highlights. it's a garbage game. we should start bdcspn.
bub about: hockeys for you hockey lovers or lovers of all things doppleganger, here is a side by side comparison of hockey players that look like celebrities. some are awesome, some are a stretch. wait till you get to ovechkin. (there are about 20 comparisons) heh heh, dopplegangers eh?
bub about: Stillers if offend means the same thing as excite, then yes.
bub about: Stillers and having a drunk mascot sounds about right.
bub about: Stillers thews as a mascot, my head is spinning. would you show up in browns sleeping pants, with morning wood, no shirt, and a gatorade bottle of bloody mary w/ a side of bacon napkin?
bub about: cheerleader beating the stache was sweet. nothing says chick fight like a dude with a dirt stache. and i don't see the glamour shots thing. they all look pretty straight faced. i thought they weren't allowed to release the names of minors accused of crimes....dougums?
bub about: cheerleader beating did that girl getting her ass whooped, say anything funny? usually there is some funny stuff to come out of those situations, like "i only called you whore, not a skank".
bub about: playoffs! playoffs? so did you guys read that some fuck-stick reporter from ottawa called for crosby's right ankle to be "two-handed" and to target malkin, sykora, gonchar, and hossa. nice sportsmanship you knuckle-dragging ass-hat.
and the talk of the pens throwing the last game against the flyers is retarded. like home ice advantage throughout the playoffs wasn't appealing, or that they wanted to rest a recovering sidney crosby against a team known for thuggery and multiple suspensions for illegal hits. if they were throwing the game, it would have been much worse than 2-0(one of which was an empty netter). the pens have only thrown one game ever, the last game of the 1983 season. and if that gets you lemeiux in the draft, i say do it.
bub about: cheerleader beating that's it, i quit, yinz are mean.
bub about: cheerleader beating ah, yeah, i don't have a sounds card in my work pc. i might as well just have a green-screen.
bub about: cheerleader beating so, was that not the full video or something? i haven't read up on my cheerleader news or anything, but if that's it...i've seen wwwwwaaaaayyy worse than that. and i didn't see her pass out. i'm confused.
bub about: hockey every time the fuck face opens his stupid mouth, i want to ram my fucking fist down his stupid throat. i haven't hated coach this bad since mike keenan. murray talking shit at crosby during the playoffs last year was pathetic.
bub about: dead charlton heston died. insert damn-dirty-apes joke here.
bub about: hockeys he haaaaates crosby. he haaaaated lemieux. that won't exactly endear you to most pittsburgh fans.
bub about: hockeys don cherry is a horse's ass, just like dicky v.
bub about: hockeys i really enjoyed the article and figured you and douglas would like it.
bub about: hockeys don cherry's suit (scroll down) in this article is ridonkulous. wow.
bub about: hockeys game 1 would be 8-7, but with 2 minutes left in the 3rd, jarko ruutu will fuse ovechin's face into the glass, then geno malkin will skate over and urinate all over him. pens would win games 2-4 by a total 47 to 1. at least that's how it would work in my head. the other scenario is much less likely, involved an escaped orangutan, two donkeys, and centrifuge. its complicated.
bub about: hockeys i forgot to send my condolences to you buffalonians. that stinks. you should hop on the pens train. we're very good, and you've been to a penguin game this year...
come on you pens!
bub about: birdseye views i'm gonna email microsoft and make them come take some pics of our effing house. jerks.
bub about: moneys someone registered the domain name "pizza.com" in 1994, just sold it for $3million. now i just need to wait for some sucker to start a famous company called "bubdotcom", then i'll be riiiiiiich. gotta love a 150,000% return on investment.
bub about: elephant photographers they couldn't have come up with a better way to attach the camera, than strapping a yugo to the tusk of an elephant? great idea, but a bit cumbersome, no?
bub about: hockeys i also found it interesting that the pens could end up playing 9 straight games against philly.
bub about: hockeys the race is interesting. you, philly, and washington. i would much rather buffalo get in. you need to win your last two games, philly needs to lose their last two, and washington (or carolina) would need to lose their last two for you to get in, right? i would love to knock philly out, but i don't want washington to get in (because that would cement ovechkin as the MVP, which would suck). very complicated.
i'm guessing philly is going to be pretty intense and very physical on sunday.
bub about: footballs ha. fuck fasay.
bub about: hockeys the pens are awesome!
"The Penguins secured the Atlantic Division title only two years after they had the Eastern Conference's worst record and the NHL's second-worst mark."
bub about: forget wedding planning and no, time doesn't blow my mind. would i consider it a dimension? no, but if you are trying to make up a new dimension, i can understand that leap.
bub about: Oh Dear God! the character donnie wahlberg played in band of brothers.
bub about: Oh Dear God! i refuse to think of donnie wahlberg as anyone other than 2nd Lt C Carwood Lipton.
bub about: forget wedding planning that scientist guy is on tv all the time. mostly on the discovery channel shows about string theory/membrane theory and stuff like that. he's got some wild ideas. and if i remember correctly, he was one of the people who were talking about how there aren't just 3 dimensions, but something like 13 dimensions. around that point my brain exploded so i turned on magnum p.i. on the retro channel.
bub about: footballs new rule changes for next season in the NFL.
The owners did pass several resolutions, including eliminating the forceout on receptions; allowing teams to defer their decision to the second half when winning the opening coin toss; and making field goals and extra points subject to replay review to determine whether the ball passes over the crossbar and through the uprights.
In addition, any direct snap from center that is untouched by the quarterback now will be a live ball; in the past it was considered a false start and the play was blown dead. The 5-yard penalty for incidental contact with a facemask has been eliminated, with the 15-yarder remaining for any grasping or twisting of the facemask.
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On Tuesday, the owners approved a communication device in the helmet of one defensive player.
bub about: Mantacular Mancaves those rooms are sad. there was no exposed drywall...they had paint on the walls...trim...that's pathetic.
bub about: KSU Basketball fark.com said "Kent State hires Ford as head basketball coach. Thank goodness they didn't hire somebody named Nixon"
bub about: baseballs berg, you are terribly deluded.
bub about: baseballs what isn't reality about what i said? it's just as possible as most of the bollocks you throw out there. the pirates have scored more runs per game than any team in the majors. 1 point for me. the pirates have not lost yet, so the perfect season is still mathematically feasible. another point for me. and if we keep outscoring our opponents by 1 run per game, it is impossible to not win the world series. yet another point.
everything i posted was mocking 95% of your sports posts. let it be known that i don't believe anything i just said.
bub about: baseballs go buccos! 162-0!! we have indisputably the best offense in all of the major leagues! world series!
bub about: Big Bang it's a shame that you gave it another try last night. that episode was pretty disappointing. the guy that plays sheldon does not fake sick very well. possibly their worst show yet. the doogie howser ending was awesome.
bub about: baseball berg, i bet you can't wait till they start giving out trophies and rings for stuff other than winning championships.
bub about: baseball holy crap. does anyone care who has the best outfield in baseball/the best middle-infield in baseball/the best firstbase-left field combo/the best #3pitcher-utility SS combo? seriously. it's game one of 162. the only thing that matters is whether your team plays well for an extended amount of time. you cleveland fans drive me insane.
bub about: baseball anyone else hate how delayed espn's scoreboard is? and half the time it's just incorrect. does the same thing with soccer. and sometimes if you force it to refresh, it will revert back about 45 minutes.
bub about: football note yeah, that sounds about right. mike webster, dermonte dawson, jeff hartings, and sean mahan. i think it's 4 since 1976...5 since 1964. we're not known for changing much.
i'm not terribly concerned about the browns. they'll find a way to eff it up.
the pirates are totally undefeated! world series baby!
bub about: Patrick Roy i think roy is a douche, the dude didn't want to fight. but the kid had to know it was coming, i mean roy skated 200 feet to get to him. it's like roy jumped out from behind the dude's net or something.
bub about: Netflix the imagery was good. the plot sucked.
bub about: American Idiots Idol abby and i watch pretty much until the contest starts, then we stop watching. was it the australian guy who did it? he rocked the shit out of bohemian rhapsody during hollywood week.
bub about: Spears on TV shledon is the best. if you haven't seen the pilot episode, go watch it online or something. sheldon has one of the best lines ever. i haven't laughed out loud like that in a while.
bub about: Spears on TV if they are going to make her the mom, then they have to make up some shit about all of that. i will be pissed if they do. i like her, but don't insult my intelligence CBS. give me a nicely packaged story, this isn't Lost, it's a mindless sitcom. all i want is a cheap chuckle or two and some background noise. if i wanted to think, i'd turn the discovery channel back on.
bub about: Spears on TV sarah chalke, is second becky's name. if she's "your mother" (heh heh), then they effectively told us that the girl in the beginning of each episode, is not ted's daughter. just the boy would be. i think it's a cameo to boost viewership, but would be happy if she's the mother. i'm much more into big bang theory, which was disappointing last night, than how i met your mother. i wanna know when rules of engagement is coming back.
bub about: Go sci-fi wow. i don't understand, but i haven't seen star trek either. maybe seeing a doctor (whether medical or psychiatric) might help a bit more than watching star trek.
bub about: baseballs wes, did you get up early this morning to watch the game? happy opening day everyone.
bub about: regarding elasticity... and i think what we're looking for as an example would be something highly desirable, but non-essential. i'm still saying "sex". i'm cool with the present value and availability of it, but i doubt i'd work much harder to get the same amount...if i had to do less to get more, hell yeah...
bub about: regarding elasticity... i was only thinking of infinite positive elasticity, which would require a drop. i think we're on the same page though.
bub about: regarding elasticity... i thought the elasticity revolved around demand increasing if the price dropped. so you would be buying all you could if the price was lower than normal.
bub about: 401 K or Yankee Game congrats aaron and lindsay!
bub about: 401 K or Yankee Game from what i remember, it was a reduction in price creating an increase in demand results in elasticity. but that was quite a while ago.
bub about: 401 K or Yankee Game sex?
bub about: 401 K or Yankee Game your doctor and lawyer fees are high because of malpractice insurance(etc) and because you are paying for a service that you can't do yourself with the same success rate as that well trained lawyer, not because of baseball tickets.
to break this down a little more, winning creates ticket demand, when there is demand, people will pay more for the tickets, hence price increases. just like when the tribe/cavs/browns do well, you often see ticket prices rise the next year. royals box seats $37, redsox box seats $125, pirates box seats $24, cardinals box seats $60. st. louis and kc are very similar cities, why would tickets be almost twice as much for cardinals games? new stadium and winning team. pittsburgh has a new stadium (perennially voted the best in baseball), but a losing team...cheap tickets. this is pretty simple stuff.
and as for your coffee equation, i don't know how much people in NYC pay for coffee, but i know they pay $11 for a miller lite, where i pay between $1-$2.50. the cost of living is higher there, that's indisputable.
bub about: 401 K or Yankee Game your doctor bills and lawyer fees are high for completely different reasons.
bub about: 401 K or Yankee Game i don't really find it to be that disgusting. if you look at it from a comparison perspective, it makes sense. the average household income in NYC is $189k (according to the infallible wiki), whereas the average household income in pittsburgh is $29k (again, wiki). since income is 6.5-ish higher in NYC, it would make sense that the tickets would be about that much higher. for a single seat behind home plate at pnc park, you could $210 per seat (multiply by 6.5-ish), which would be the equivalent of a NYCer paying $1,365 per seat. now, that's to watch the god-awful pirates, so you add in the fact that the yankees win more than they lose, are usually in the playoffs, have a chance at winning the world series, and it's going to be in a new stadium that is replacing one of the most storied stadiums ever...and you're gonna pay considerably more. it's disgusting that people would spend that much to watch a game, but the price fits (as noted by the fact that every seat is sold out). then you also need to look at it from the perspective that john q public isn't buying these seats, it's the corporations that are buying them (which is the case at 90% of stadiums), so really it's moot.
bub about: rrrruuuutttuu!!! wes, the good news for you guys is that philly has to play...
NYR NYI @NYR @NJ @NYI @PIT NJ PIT as their remaining schedule. aside from the islanders, the flyers could lose every single game. although, your schedule isn't easy by any means. ought to be interesting.
bub about: rrrruuuutttuu!!! that's what i suspected. dammit.
bub about: rrrruuuutttuu!!! if you can't see the video smoothly, ruutu stole the puck and had his stick slashed out of his hands. the lightning just assumed the play was kinda over, but ruutu decided to keep going stickless. he brought the puck down the ice with just his skates. he had a trailer coming down the middle and a defenseman coming on him. he kicked the puck across the ice, through the defender, right on the tape of the trailer, who couldn't put it in. the crowd gave ruutu a good 30 second standing ovation. it was incredible.
bub about: rrrruuuutttuu!!! i'm not sure if it's my computer or if the nhl.com video player is just that bad, but man, that video sucked.
bub about: games that's horrendous. c'mon!
bub about: games how many layups is kent gonna miss? that's gotta 3 already.
bub about: stillers dammit abby!
bub about: stillers exactly. i wrote pretty much the same thing to abby. i think that's pretty clear to everyone. rooney should just let the PR people handle stuff.
bub about: Ben that's awesome.
bub about: hockeys the pens might be able to help you out, we play philly 2 more times (last two games of the season). and you are right about the red sox. i thought it was cool, and i can't stand the sox.
bub about: footballs man, what is going on with the steelers in the off-season. that's two arrests in like 3 weeks. james harrison and cedrick wilson both got arrested for domestic violence. way to go a-holes.
bub about: holy fuck! i think we could figure out that you aren't that smart, considering you thought "octagon" was tough to spell.
bub about: Pryor Time i like that he said "if everyone's here, University of Ohio State". way to go dipshit. it's taken you how many months and you still don't know the name?! and did you really accuse penn state being of being over-hyped in the same post as terrell pryor? this kid is either going to be one of the best ever or he'll get arrested in his sophomore season and end up like lawrence phillips. he was unreal in high school, interested to see what happens.
bub about: Thanks Cleveland crap, that was me.
bub about: Thanks Cleveland i can't watch the video at work. that sucks.
bub about: Thanks Cleveland thanks thewses. that was awesome. i had a great weekend of firsts. got to play the bagpipes, got to keep(then lose) a blow up shamrock, got my head shorn, went to a barber, found out first hand that black guys have much tougher scalps than me, learned that i should never again go to a barber shop that uses clippers to shave your head instead of a razor (that hurts a lot), and i learned that hair makes a huge difference when it comes to keeping you warm (i had to sleep with a tshirt turban on last night). cleveland is educational. good work dudes. oh, and the barber shop that labron goes to, is also the official barber shop of the browns....not a good place to reveal you are from pittsburgh.
bub about: holy shit that place was good. and i want my own mug.
bub about: Buffalo Food what's the place that we went to for the beef on weck?
bub about: holy shit high fiiiive!
bub about: holy shit how's that leanne?
bub about: holy shit i am pumped about the crawl. can't wait. hopefully pitt will win tonight, so i can watch bits of the big east championship game on the crawl.
bub about: Lost damn! i might just make stuff up. i should find out character names first.
bub about: hockeys for anyone that's interested, i am going to find a sportsbar somewhere in cleveland to watch the pens/flyers game on nbc at noon on sunday.
bub about: holy shit that's pretty impressive, especially considering at 17-months, i was probably happy just being a fonzanoon. screw reading.
bub about: hated barqs makes the best diet rootbeer. period.
bub about: Spitzer haha. how about this, i'll change the time stamp when you finish the god damned transporter!! stupid inflammatory rootbeer.
bub about: Spitzer i can control it, but it's not worth fixing. it's off because we shifted the daylight savings time to start 3 weeks earlier and end 3 weeks later than the rest of the world, but no one else did. the server is in england.
bub about: fuck the yankees also, i'm done wasting time on a non-issue that happened in a spring training game.
bub about: fuck the yankees so, there's never been a late slide into second base? or an aggressive late slide with the intent to knock the ball out of the SS's glove. it's not possible that the best way to knock the ball out of a SS's glove is to slide late and hard, so that there's more force behind your slide? it's not at all possible that the two are extremely similar in nature and that you are overreacting, because one was committed by a team you can't stand? watch the video of the hit on the catcher. tell me there wasn't intent to injure or that it wasn't late or that he couldn't have slid around the tag with a variety of hook slides that learned when he was 11. you are flat out wrong. slides that late and that aggressive happen hundreds of times in hundreds of games in hundreds of leagues every year. i've received slides like that, i've given slides like that. if duncan was an indian you would have absolutely no problem with it.
bub about: quasi political... i read that obama said he wouldn't consider being a VP on any ticket.
bub about: quasi political... correct. i believe token and concept are interchangeable in her comment. concept is a nicer word. i couldn't agree with her less, but it's completely ironic.
bub about: fuck the yankees i just watched the video. it was an aggresive slide. the picture on cnn's article was very misleading on how high his cleats were. that was after his cleats hit the glove and ricocheted up. was a dick move, sure. was it akin to 2nd degree murder, no. it's an overreaction. you will see 200 slides much more aggressive than that this season. and if you watch the video of the bowling-over, dude could have avoided it. a hook slide to the outside would have sufficed. and if you don't think his intent was to injure the catcher, you're retarded. he'll never say it, but that's the reason catchers drop the ball in those situations. you hit 'em hard enough, they will never hold on to the ball. both are overreactions. both are unsportsmanlike in spring training. 25 game suspension is not only laughable, but idiotic.
bub about: quasi political... i think "back then" he would have been a "concept", but now, i don't think so. that was only 20ish years from the civil rights movement, we've doubled that amount of time now...thankfully. and thankfully, i think fewer and fewer people care about race or gender when it comes to candidates (or most other things). as more racist old people die off, the better that will get.
bub about: fuck the yankees dude, you must not have played much ball growing up. high cleats are common. i didn't read the article, because a late high-cleated slide is minor. is it shitty, sure. the likely hood of that slide seriously hurting someone, is much lower than barreling full-speed into a catcher(who wouldn't expect to be plowed in spring training). if you are going to take cheap shots, like the play at the plate, you are going to see some retaliation. do you bitch when players slide 3' from second to take out the SS on a double play? what if they reach out to grab a leg? someone could be "ruined" by doing that too. you are way overreacting to the situation, because it's the yankees. stop being so whiney.
bub about: fuck the yankees or guys like:
C Ransom 3B
B Castro PR-2B
J Christian PR-LF
J Lane 1B
B Gardner PR-CF
N Green PR-DH
K Anson C
G Porter LF-RF
but it's a good thing billy crystal gets some swings, this might be his only chance to break into the bigs|
bub about: fuck the yankees hey hey hey! completely unsolicited. i wouldn't be surprised at all if crystal hit a double off any of the pirates pitchers. boy would it be sweet if maholm put one in crystal's ear-hole. i find it to be ridiculous to have him take away at-bats from some kid who's trying to either make the team or advance through the minors. like billy crystal needs to steal money out of those kids pockets. he's not funny and it's not fun.
bub about: fuck the yankees seriously, it's completely trivial. this will happen 100 more times this year...just like plowing a catcher.
bub about: Hockey Talk he went to shoulder him, but misjudged the distance, his elbow came up to make contact as he went by. caught him on the chin. he'll be fined for sure, possibly suspended. there didn't appear to be any malice or intent to injure.
and berg, if you are taking out a catcher in SPRING TRAINING, there will be some retaliation in the next game. that's baseball. you never take a dude out in spring training.
bub about: hockeys pitt plays cincy tonight at 7...which means tipoff should be somewhere around 8:45. i have no idea why they schedule games back to back to back at MSG during the big east tourney. they always run extremely long.
bub about: Cristen we will be there saturday afternoon.
bub about: oh boy the whole quote finished with "oh yeah, and hookers."
bub about: speaking of awesome i just read a story about a lady who appealed a 28-year sentence for murdering her husband. the jury reconsidered and gave her life instead. that's fantastic.
bub about: oh boy i honestly couldn't care less that eliot spitzer hired a hooker. i couldn't care less if he stayed in his position or if he resigned or if they forced him to jump into a firey volcano. i just don't care about eliot spitzer. i find hypocrisy hilarious, especially by politicians. i believe "just desserts" is the phrase people use in these situations. if you make a career out of nailing people for unethical behavior, you have to expect that you will be nailed back if you do something unethical (let alone illegal and "immoral").
bub about: oh boy and i think the sooner you realize that politics is utterly hypocritical, the easier it is to get over the stupid shit.
bub about: oh boy dude, it's over for spitzer, the sooner you come to grips with it, the better. he went to a hooker, most people can't identify with that. spousal abuse, maybe...bad checks, probably...bad credit, certainly...hookers...probably not. people have been made to resign for much less. trent lott for example (who i thought to be mega-douchey), was forced to resign for complimenting one of the longest serving senators around, at a party for said senator, but thurmond was a separatist back in the early 17th century. bang, resign.
bub about: oh boy that's what i get for trusting a fark.com headline.
bub about: love cash cab, but have never heard of a mudflap. yes, there are mullets here, mostly the camaro mullet. i would say they are more common elsewhere, you don't see them all that often anymore. i think that was just more of a dig at pittsburgh, than an accurate statement of "popularity". the dig is appropriate though.
and pittsburgh is spelled with an "h" at the end.
bub about: oh boy i don't think it was that he went to a hooker...i didn't read the article, but it seems he organized the ring.
bub about: so annoying i can't wait to find out who's too embarrassed to claim that video, when i get home ;)
bub about: oh boy i can't knock where you live, we still can't buy beer at the gas stations/grocery stores. and i believe that 5 or more women still aren't allowed to live in the same house, because it constitutes a brothel. my grandfather told me about how they almost got in trouble for that when all of my aunts and such were living at home (grandpa, grandma, 5 daughters), i think if you are related, then it's fine...some stupid old law.
bub about: oh boy looks like eliot spitzer is in trouble. prostitution ring. good work eliot.
bub about: crawl i'm pretty sure that fighty was the word. like the guy that was with us on nye that wanted to fight some random tow truck guy. ..or the guy in the concourse with 70k other people who got pissed cuz a guy bumped into him. i forget the other fight at the moment.
bub about: crawl we saw 3 fights in 48 hours in buffalo. you guys are a very fighty bunch.
bub about: crawl i happened upon an article about the 2nd annual boston st. patty's day crawl...where last year, they got "wicked drunk" and hit 14 bars...in 14 hours. try 13 in 6...sissies.
bub about: weekend storm we'd be screwed with 20" of snow. there would be no chance of me getting to work. that 400ft of elevation change gets tricky.
bub about: Friday Ha-ha holy crap, that's funny. and to be more accurate, it's more a list that liberal leaning whites like. i know my cousins and such have no love for the farmers market/prius/whole foods/organic stuff/etc. but that list is absolutely hilarious. i love that it's simple and titled "stuff white people like". it's gold.
bub about: Is it spring yet? are they just bad drivers? it seems relatively flat there...that ought to make things a little easier. do you not normally get much snow or something?
bub about: fixer upper don't make me copyright that logo...
bub about: fixer upper i don't mess with anything that could blow up the house. furnace/water heater/etc. if it's electrical, i'm on it. if gas is involved, i'm calling someone.
bub about: zzzz where is everyone?
bub about: so no banter about NFL offseason... i'll bring you some journey.
bub about: beat down crap...that was me.
i would also like some music. don't care what. i just leaped into 2002 and got myself an ipod. i only have like 350 songs...i need more. you guys are all music-y, so help a brother out. i have very little that you'd be interested in. i'd love some stuff like common or something like that. i'm not such a fan of daft punk or sigur ros type. i got the car transmitter thing, but it doesn't work great since pittsburgh doesn't have many gaps in the dial. also got the portable speaker things, they are pretty sweet. i still have 67GB left to fill.
bub about: AFC North i'm pretty sure the frequency of 4th-6th rounders having marked success in the NFL is much lower than for guys picked in the 1st-3rd rounds. yes, you can find guys that were 6th round picks that made it big, and you can point to ryan leaf for the failures of first rounders. ask any human being with a modicum of intelligence..."would you rather have 2 first round picks or 2 6th round picks?", they would answer "the first rounders, please" every single time. that in and of itself makes your argument completely absurd. you can probably count on your 4th-6th round picks being on the special teams in five years, if they are in the league at all. chances are, they will be sitting on a bar stool by the door at the ABC tavern, checking IDs. so odds are, you are effectively taking an entire year off from the draft, and i don't think anyone would recommend that. congrats on the signings, but your boy DA better overachieve again this year, otherwise all of these moves were just rearranging the furniture on the titanic.
bub about: Love the NFL, Hate the Players.... while the nfl is cool, the nhl is mmmawesome right now. i still can't believe the pens are tied for first (at least for today) in the conference, with crosby having missed the last 25-ish games.
bub about: Love the NFL, Hate the Players.... yeah, surprising to see such big numbers coming from the rooneys. i'm happy about it. i like his style of play, and i don't need a brady/manning to be happy. he gives us a shot at winning the superbowl every year (aside from the years he smashes face first into cars). i was hoping for a decent lineman from FA, but the steelers are never big FA buyers. i guess we'll see how the draft goes.
bub about: BEER OLYMPIAD! dmac still thinks that good andy is bad andy...and bad andy is good andy from competition weekend at my house. andy was not pleased with the darts situation...and dmac was sober.
bub about: engagements and crush-time i am also way excited.
by the way, weird game last night buffalo. 8-4...?
bub about: bummer yeah, goodnight lord of the yinzers.
bub about: hockey - psyche!! - crawl and i believe it was only one draft pick...which will most likely be a mid- to late-round pick.
bub about: hockey - psyche!! - crawl losing colby hurts, but he's a 30-point-per-season guy. his big impact is in the lockerroom and physical presence. erik christensen is a 20-point-per-season guy, biggest impact is the shootout. angelo esposito is a non-factor, since he hasn't played. would be nice to have him, but his value is indeterminate. i'm also fine with losing a mid-first round pick. hossa is a 75point-per-season guy. dupuis has similar numbers to christensen. picking up a physical defenseman in hal gill isn't bad either. losing possible chemistry is a concern, but more points helps.
bub about: hockey - psyche!! - crawl pens picked up hossa at the deadline. sweet.
bub about: hockey - psyche!! - crawl i'll take an XL...abby will take a medium.
bub about: baseball all of the articles lately have been saying the redsox fan is the new yankees fan.
bub about: baseball sorry, schilling.
bub about: baseball what's with the sox and heavy pitchers? shilling, colon, beckett (showed up to camp fat). boston better stock up on bacon.
bub about: thews hey thews, i just realized that i never returned your call. i was in class and forgot after that. did you just want to know if abby and i will be at the crawl? yes. email me if you needed something else. sorry, i'm bad at phone calls.
bub about: that oh no you di'in't!
bub about: Lost even i get pissed at people on that show. some people are idiots. we saw some show like that recently where the people had a $15k budget to redo the kitchen, but the dude wanted all "viking" brand appliances. ended up spending $17k just on appliances. and he was upset that they ended up spending twice the original budget. dumbass.
bub about: Lost awesome!
bub about: Lost that's why we watch "ghost hunters" and "myth busters" and "big bang theory". is that stupid writer's strike over yet? i want my awesome shows back. if that stupid strike makes it so "big bang theory" or "rules of engagement" go off the air, i'm gonna be piiiiiiiissed.
bub about: NCARB just to play devil's advocate for a minute...do you know that it's inefficient? how many people work at NCARB? how many records must be maintained? how many architects/architecture interns call with questions on a daily basis? if there are 100 employees and they field 50 calls each per day, they are going to be very busy people. i would also bet that their highest call volumes are right around 12:00, so you may have called at the worst possible time.
bub about: tie clasp lakewood sounds dreamy.
bub about: tie clasp we will be heading up on saturday the 15th. abby has an exam that morning, but we should be there around between 2:30 and 4:00. i will be bringing homebrew. i also vote for pub/bars, not clubs. i too would prefer shacking at the casa d'thews, but if there isn't room, i agree with wes, splitting a hotel room isn't the end of the world.
bub about: ha! some dude got a receipt which charged 0pounds for "suck my dick fuck face". that's cheap.
bub about: Blu Ray Wins Out... i'm wondering how long i can hold out on getting one of those. we don't watch many movies, so probably quite a while. as far as gaming systems go, i'm still rocking the original xbox (rbi never gets old). i just make blaine and pryber bring over the wii and guitar hero it up for free.
bub about: crawl i'll be there...if i can get a ride.
bub about: baseballs so, baseball season "excitement" just hit me today. i think this really might be "the year" for the pirates. they have new management that is not making band-aid fixes or spending loads of money on has-beens (although signing doug menkasdfatvich *spelling* to a minor league deal was weird) just so we think "well, hey, they're at least doing something". they have the exact same team as last year (68-94), but i really think they can reach the heights of a mediocre ball club this year. i'm saying 83 wins.
bub about: crawl i have one request if it's in cleveland...jared, no carbombs for abby near the end of the crawl. the vomitous cab ride was not fun. i blame you.
bub about: yo seems strange to have crosby centering the second line. but either way, i think it's all good.
bub about: yo people are also divided on whether to keep conklin in, or put fluery in when healthy. to be honest, its a nice decision to have to make.
bub about: yo it's pretty exciting to watch. they've been kinda flat lately, and were pretty flat in the 1st period last night, but they somehow seem to pull it out in the 2nd and 3rd. it's funny here, people are wondering where crosby will fit in when he comes back. there are two camps, the "leave malkin's line alone, cuz it's working" and the "he's the best player in the world, put him back on malkin's line". i'm not sure where i stand, just getting him back will be fine with me. poor nathan smith, he will lose his job because the Lord himself will be returning from injury soon. although, if you're gonna get sent back to wilkes-barre it might as well be because you were filling in for crosby.
bub about: yo that would be great for me. i originally wanted to have it here, but that won't work this year.
bub about: sculpture all this talk of cheesesteaks has me hungry. it's a primanti's day.
bub about: sculpture if you go to philly, you should go out in manayunk. blaine lived there when he was in philly. very cool area. tiny european-like streets(except main street), and neat local bars. the manayunk brewery makes some really good beers and might be the biggest bar i've been in.
bub about: democrats ha, wow. hillary's was awwwwwful.
bub about: today no it's not. just do it.
bub about: today getting yourself out of debt rules. i'm loving it. we're not remotely "out" of debt, but having less debt kicks ass. it frees up that money that's being paid in interest and monthly payments, which is used to pay more debt down, which frees up more money. it's like getting a raise without doing more work. then when hundreds/thousands of dollars spent each month of debt is gone, i'm gonna buy lots of fun stuff...with cash. and when the gov't bails us all out of credit card debt, i'm gonna take that money that you need to use to pay down your debt and buy more fun stuff. don't be a leach and wait for the gov't to solve your problems.
bub about: today unless the gov't is gonna pay down my debt with it, i'd rather have that money. i don't think we need more moldy FEMA trailers, etc. i trust the gov't about as far as i can throw them, when it comes to money.
bub about: today yay douglas! i went from happy, to sour, to happy again. so, you're saying it's free money?
bub about: today looks like the best move is to pay off debt with that check, then if possible, change your deductions so you would normally get a small return(what wes was saying). that way you get out of the interest you would have accrued, and get more out of the whole deal.
bub about: today speaking of congress. yay for the economic stimulus package, that will more than pay for the obx. $600 free per person.
bub about: today otherwise known as the day the pirates are officially eliminated from the pennant race.
bub about: nerd stuff i could be fired for drug use, DUI, etc.
bub about: nerd stuff does your office test for pot? mine doesn't. does that mean that my office is cool with me smoking pot, not remotely.
and your second statement is like saying i can sleep with hookers, because abby hasn't specifically banned me from doing hookers. it is still cheating if he took steroids. the fact that the mlb playes union is ridiculously strong and would not allow testing, doesn't mean it's not cheating.
bub about: this is your QB i bet this is why they were outside a gay bar, he's not straight.
bub about: nerd stuff not nearly 100% wrong. in 1920, benny kauff was banned for selling stolen cars. he was acquitted of the charges in court, but was banned because the commissioner considered him "no longer a fit companion for other ball players". in 1980, fergie jenkins was "banned for life" for possession of a small amount of coke. he was later re-instated.
you lose.
bub about: nerd stuff and either way, i couldn't care less whether he or bonds or anyone else used steroids. just make them retire, be done with it and move on.
bub about: nerd stuff agreed.
bub about: nerd stuff more important than clemens/roids/congress...the pens are 3 points out of first in the east. thanks b-lo for beating ottawa last night. with a win tonight, the pens will be in a dogfight with the sens. the sens play NJ, NJ again, PHI, CBJ(suck), and the pens in their next 5 games...that's rough.
bub about: nerd stuff i think he's there, because he may have taken steroids...and baseball is protected by the government from anti-trust stuff. if the government is protecting baseball, baseball better not allow cheating. he's going to be brought up on perjury charges, because he lied, but this whole ordeal is because baseball is protected. bonds is in the same boat. they wouldn't have been questioned or even talked to if congress didn't think they took the juice. i don't think jack wilson was talking to senator mitchell about anything.
bub about: nerd stuff ban them if you have hard evidence. baseball's rules don't supersede the rules of the USA. It was illegal for anyone to take steroids without a prescription at the time, and would then be illegal for baseball players to do so. to be overly exaggerated, killing someone is illegal in the US, but baseball has no rule against it...doesn't mean clemens can kill someone and not get in trouble.
it was certainly fun to watch during the height of the steroid era, but i say ban anyone that they've got viable evidence that they cheated. if they find out mickey mantle took steroids, he should be retroactively banned. no one is bigger than baseball.
to me, it's not like they didn't know they were cheating. they purposely lied and cheated. sorry, you lose, you're out. if it was ephedrine or something like that, where they find out later that it's bad and no one knew it, no biggie...but everyone knows steroids are for cheaters.
bub about: wedding dates ah. gotcha.
bub about: wedding dates what's HC? i don't follow. i must not be hip on the acronyms.
bub about: wedding dates i don't know what a charger plate is. is that the one for your roll?
and cathryn, i agree with berg, you are in the vast minority. abby wasn't anal either, thankfully. the one thing i stood firm on, was i didn't want to write our own vows. i was nervous enough, i didn't want to have one more thing to be nervous about. i was super glad we did our pictures before the ceremony. and the ice cold miller lite was key on a 95 degree day.
bub about: wedding dates i don't think guys necessary SHOULD have an opinion on everything. it's great if they do, but personally, i'm not going to have a preference when it comes to day lillies or cali lillies...or chair covers/no chair covers...or cream table cloth vs. white. if abby preferred something and i didn't have a preference, there's one of 500 decisions that was just made easier. i had a preference on the mode of transportation, the venues, the food, the drinks, the photographer, and what i was going to wear...that's about it. wedding planning for me was great, because i did what i was told and even asked if there was anything i could help with. once you get there, you're fine.
bub about: gross i'd go with the video booth. just being at the "marital aid store", i fear having a coworker drive past while i'm in the parking lot....until i find a $50 bill in the parking lot. drunkenly peeing the bed was pretty embarrassing though. but i would never go in one of the booths. i would think that would be a haven of germs and disease.
bub about: double whoa!! at first glance, i thought that quote said "appropriately intoxicated", then i thought "mmmmmmm....vacation".
bub about: whoa unless the author is a complete dolt, that's not kent state, but the university of kent.
bub about: weather i tell you what, the wooly beard really does help with staying warm in the wind though. berg must never be cold. i am really ready to lose the beard. it's well over an inch long and collects all sorts of crumbs. only a month left.
bub about: weather we had wind chills in the -10's from what i hear. it sure felt like it. we went to target and qdoba. it was not warm. the pizza guy that always delivers my pizza, might be italian (he's foreign either way), and when it's cold i tell him to "come on in" to the entry, but he refuses. i think he's scared of cooper. to be fair, cooper barks like the pizza guy just tried to break the door down, every time the guy stops by.
thews, no problem, you aren't late by any means.
bub about: weather this weather has me dying for the obx trip. 5degrees is garbage.
bub about: Zednik severes artery last night i heard about that last night. disturbing. some other dude tore an artery in his butt. he was sitting on the bench when he mentioned to a coach that he didn't feel right. he was filling up with blood, that's why. weird day for hockey.
bub about: Competition OBX is the 17th-24th of august.
bub about: birthday happy birthday leanne!!!
bub about: Engaged abby and i will be in cleveland on march 17th for st. baldrick's day, so i vote for cleveland. maybe this year berg could find out whether all of the bars on the list are actually going to be open on st. patty's day.
bub about: Competition Weekend i'm pretty sure abby and i are open in june. we talked about big wheel races for comp weekend during the superbowl too. i think a water baloon fight, slip'n'slide races, smear the queer, release, dodge ball, putt-putt, or bowling would be fun.
bub about: hah hah! berg, you crack me up. your golden boy, non-football playing quarterback and his endless commercials (especially the one saying "i'm busy on sundays"....no you aren't)are just as "sell out" as doing an american idol commercial for the superbowl. that "fag" and his faggy team make a living beating the shit out of your super-manly, keepin-it-real team. speaking of gay, you don't see pictures of ben with his hand on other dude's junk...unlike brady quinn.
bub about: hah hah! god that was awesome! eff the pats. greatest dynasty ever, my ass.
bub about: werk did you understand him or do you need an explanation?
bub about: Real Fantasy Sports yep. good work.
bub about: Real Fantasy Sports ew, no thanks. i used to hang out with a guy who tried to do that with golf, but he stunk, so no one bit.
bub about: no worries cathryn. :)
i'm feeling a good bit better, thanks.
bub about: Tom Cruise spoof if you want to continue the asinine conversation about which religion is more ridiculous than the next, copy your posts and move them to the rant board. i'll be removing them in 10 minutes.
bub about: Tom Cruise spoof good god, i get shingles and everyone forgets the rules of bdc. religious/inflammatory political debates must take place on the rant board.
bub about: other stuff shingles aren't fun. i would not recommend them. apparently i'm stressed. i'm also severely disappointed in vicodin, it does nothing. it didn't even make me sleepy or anything. i think they gave me a bottle of placebo and labeled them vicodin.
vacation...if it's possible, the 4x4 places are ridiculously nice. from what i remember, the 10 people that were VERY interested in going were me, abby, blaine, sweeney, greg, jamie, thews, cristen, biggie, and cathryn(sp). abby and i can take my mom's liberty(4WD), and can take two people (probably blaine and sween), then greg and jamie have an SUV that should work. if there's a way to get you ohio folks in a 4WD/SUV, we could do one of those. if not, anywhere near the beach will do.
bub about: celebrity news apparently heath ledger died today. weird.
bub about: vacation just for fun...there's a place that sleeps 14, an costs $2200 for the week...in the 4wd area. 6br, private pool, unlimited dogs, on the beach, foosball, etc. you'd be paying $5k-$6k for the same place in the 2wd area. apparently, with this 4wd area, you just drive up the beach...that's mmmawesome. anyhow, i'll keep looking.
bub about: vacation some places have a limit on the number of dogs, some don't. if there's a limit, it's usually 2. i'll look for unlimited dogs. the best places for price/house awesomeness are in that 4wd accessible area. abby and i can use my mom's jeep liberty...would anyone else have accessibility to a 4wd vehicle? if not, no big deal, i'm still looking for sweet places in 2wd areas.
bub about: vacation for the record, how many of you are interesting in going to the outerbanks in august? i will be doing some searching tonight and will email whoever is interested on monday. i will start by looking at houses that sleep 10. if we have more people, i'll look for bigger. i will try to find something on the beach for around $300-$400 per person for the week.
bub about: docs technically, by my comment, i would be more of an a-hole than most of you, since i'm now in my 7th or 8th year(and final...finally) of school. my field just isn't "prestigious" enough to cause crazy egos or wacky ownership of words. ;)
and yes, i would agree about docs and their need to call each other doctor...and their insane douchebaggery. i am betting it's people who define themselves by what they do, instead of who they are, that are the real dillholes. that's probably why you guys only have a little of the a-holery.
bub about: docs not to be a dick, but most people who go through long schooling are intolerable a-holes. doc/lawyers/archs/etc. sounds like doctors are probably the worst, but at times, you guys can give them a run for their money ;)
bub about: Rock God i'm waiting for piano hero to come out, then i'm gonna rock the shit out of moonlight sonata.
bub about: stupid sports the only arena name change we've had to deal with is mellon arena, which i still refer to as the civic arena....at least for another season and a half. by the way, go pens, 8 in a row.
bub about: vacation pryber, we want "pets allowed" cuz i don't want to deal with kenneling cooper.
bub about: vacation ab, that 10.6 miles is UP the beach, not FROM the beach. the outer banks are only a half mile to a mile wide.
bub about: vacation through = throw.
bub about: vacation seriously, who the hell can only get to their house by 4x4? i mean, through some gravel down or something.
bub about: vacation crap...i keep finding these places that are only accessible by 4wd.
bub about: vacation semi-oceanfront is something like this.
bub about: vacation semi-oceanfront puts the price in the $300 per person for the week.
bub about: vacation yes, we would need alcohol. and yes, we'd bring coop. dogs are allowed. it says a max of two dogs...but who's gonna check?
bub about: vacation and those kind of numbers are for "beach front", they are right on the beach. the price will go down the further you get from the beach.
bub about: vacation ok, outer banks is much more accommodating. looks like if we did the week of aug 23-30, we could get 12 people in a house that sleeps 16...for $400 per person for the week. in a place like this
bub about: vacation not exactly sure when...some time between may and august. looks like sanibel is more small houses and mostly monthly rentals. i'll look at outer banks now.
bub about: vacation anyone interested in a trip to the outer banks or sanibel island or something this year? something where we can rent a house on/by the beach and hang out for a while.
bub about: bday i'm getting primanit's for lunch...but not a sando, stupid south beach.
bub about: bday i had a hamburger and fries (i don't like german food). it was very good. abby's dinner was basically a fart on a plate. if i had eaten that, abby would have needed to tie strings to me like a macy's balloon, to keep me from shooting around the house. max's is cool though.
bub about: Another Birthday! happy birthday d.
and all of the alerts are working accurately...finally.
bub about: site update i got sick of the old main page not working right, so i made some quick changes. we need some more images to rotate through on the main page, so if you have some you want to see on there, send them to my gmail account.
bub about: Ahhh!!! i'm slightly nervous about joining a soccer league in the spring. that's significantly more running than i've done in years. i should check out my company's short-term disability plan.
bub about: Ahhh!!! reason would say that it's the workout and not waking up 30. i haven't noticed a drastic difference between 29 and 30, but there is a drastic difference from 25 to 30. you will need more time to recover though. at least you aren't derek...he threw his back out in the shower yesterday.
bub about: Ahhhhh!!!!!!!! happy birthday wes.
as for the game...to quote berg "that made my night!"
bub about: sorry pittsburgh no offense to the other browns fans.
bub about: sorry pittsburgh berg, i didn't text you after the tennessee game until after your sad attempt at trash talking following the steelers second string loss to the ravens. your fandom is pathetic. when your team finishes ahead of mine, or goes deeper into the playoffs(or at all), or beats the steelers, you can mock our ineptitude. the steelers lost at home to a team with a better record...what chokers| when it comes right down to it, you've got football penis envy. you would kill to be in my position right now, because then you'd have some delusional feeling of success in a situation where winners consider it abject failure. no one in the afc north is crying about anything the browns do, because the browns are sad and insignificant. go back to celebrating your mediocrity, while i try to put a disappointing (yet better than yours) finish behind me.
bub about: sorry pittsburgh i was at the game. it was a great game, except for the beginning and the end. we made too many mistakes. our special teams suck. our o-line was mediocre (which is a nice step up from awful), our running game was non-existent. we just weren't a great team this year. not a bad year, all-in-all, and tomlin had a great year, for the most part, especially for a rookie coach. hopefully they will make some smart moves in the off-season/draft.
side note: greenberg will receive every bitter drop of vitriol i can think of next year. the rest of you are safe.
bub about: American Gladiators we watched it too. its cheese factor is extremely high. that douchehozzle that missed his chance 15 years ago needs a good punch in the throat. i do have to say that the comeback by that asian woman, over the black lady, was sweet. i love watching people get stuck on parts of the obstacle course that an 8-year-old could do in their sleep. it was an inclined treadmill with a rope to help her get up and she couldn't do it. hilarious.
bub about: Tecmo speaking of old stuff...just wanted to remind everyone that american gladiators is on on sunday night.
bub about: ha from fark's sports page.
"Whining Cleveland Browns fans accuse Tennessee and Indianapolis of collusion because the Colts wouldn't call their final timeout while losing by six with less than two minutes to play in a game that meant nothing to them"
bub about: punching children oh no you di'in't
bub about: punching children i can't take any. it's filtered for violence.
bub about: Ice Bowl i'm doing the st. baldrick's day with berg this year. but yes, it's also a grow it while you still have it approach. i'm ready for it all to be gone right now. i can't use my sleep apnea machine with the beard/stache, so i'm looking forward to sleeping well in march.
and the ice bowl was mmmmawesome. so glad the game wasn't in pittsburgh today, we had wind chills of 9 degrees, but i'm sure cleveland and buffalo were colder.
bub about: ice bowl i'm so excited for the ice bowl that i'm contemplating a trip to the ER to be treated for priapism.
bub about: SEC v. Big 10 make sure such a ridiculous statement
bub about: SEC v. Big 10 i think that harvard/yale/princeton/brown/colgate/dartmouth/lehigh/lafayette/etc would have something to say about student-athlete standards. does that 56% and 49% account for players that left early? i find it laughable that the big ten (or any major conference) would make sure a ridiculous statement. as though 56% is a stellar rate. college football has quickly become my second most irritating and frustrating subject...just behind election season.
bub about: I am not destined to have all girls! congratulations llyods!
bub about: Browns Rumors its deserved. gayest. mascot. ever.
i also wouldn't call your o-line dominant. good, yes, but dominant, not remotely.
bub about: Browns Rumors that would be true if cowher didn't spend all of his life here...aside from a few years in cleveland.
bub about: Browns Rumors i wouldn't be surprised if cowher turned his back on steeler fans. he has been quickly forgotten. to be perfectly honest, he's not a great coach. he doesn't make in-game adjustments very well. he is stubborn to a fault. and any steeler fan could jump in as the steelers defensive coordinator for any team playing cowher, and stop them cold. when bill gets his way, it's run, run, pass (usually followed by a punt). unless you have a dominant o-line and a heavy down-hill runner, that's a recipe for lots of 3-and-outs. ken whizenhunt was able to convince him to mix it up a little, and they had some success, but that was not cowher's doing.
bub about: The Ice Bowl Cometh abby and i were at circuit city last night and saw guitar hero on the demo thing. i tried to play it, but apparently i don't know the rules. i got booed off stage. there was no strap for the guitar, making it a little harder to hold. either way, my cock will be out.
wes, i think i'm free on tuesday, maybe we can put something together by then. i'll have my people call your people.
bub about: Childhood Nostalgia one of those ways is to get super wasted at an outdoor hockey game. we should try that sometime.
bub about: Holiday Hangover what the hell is going on with the comments? if they changed their version of PHP again, i'm gonna shoot someone. you can see them when you click on the topic, but not on the main page.
bub about: Holiday Hangover you dick.
bub about: Holiday Hangover cooper got a squeeky tennis ball thing. it's a bone shape but it's all tennis ball. he loves it. he also got a bunch of prime rib scraps to eat. loved that.
bub about: Holiday Hangover i'm ready for some outdoor hockey, is it monday yet?
bub about: hehe merry christmas suckas.
bub about: hehe i'm so excited about 1st. i hope it snows.
bub about: hehe i'm here. i will be here the 26th-28th, then back on the 3rd.
bub about: hehe sween, you live in pittsburgh, you'll be fine.
bub about: hehe ha! i think our's is around $45. wouldn't $400k-$600k get you a ridiculous house in cleveland (or any of the cities we live in)?
bub about: sad that makes me think of billy d williams from family guy.
bub about: sad stuart scott has/had cancer. he went to the hospital while in town for the steelers/dolphins game when he became ill. went to the hospital and had his appendix removed. they also removed malignant tissue around his appendix. he will undergo chemo. he will still be working during the treatments. i wonder if he screamed "booyah!" when the doc told him they got all of the cancerous tissue out.
bub about: kill me the pens are completely inconsistent. you never know which team you're gonna get. could have 52 shots, could have 18. never know.
bub about: kill me two whole posts today. woooooo. i'm ready for tomorrow. dressing down till the end of the year is nice. i'm ready for the ice bowl. it ought to be a fairly competitive game. the teams have nearly identical records. we have a slight advantage due to pittsburgh's general megatude.
bub about: kill me you can be wayne...and toner is winnie cooper.
bub about: kill me through = throw
bub about: kill me doug, you should become a sports agent. then through awesome lavish parties with some of your millions...and invite me, now that we're buddies like kevin arnold (me) and paul pfeiffer (you).
bub about: kill me scott boras' severance pay, because a-rod dropped him, is 5% of a-rod's contract (for some reason valued at $300m, in the article), giving boras a $15m severance package...from one client. dude has to be sooooo rich.
bub about: Venerdi would assmunch not be allowed? i've heard some damned ridiculous names. i mean, you're allowed to name your kid dick.
bub about: Venerdi that's stupid. i'd be pissed. i should be able to name my kid "hot fudge sundae" if i want. glad that's allowed here. i'd call him fudge, for short.
bub about: hockey so, apparently the flyers are jealous of the awesome ice bowl. they are trying to schedule the pens to play outdoors next year in beaver stadium (penn state). beaver stadium holds 107,000+ fans. i wouldn't want to be at the top of that one...
bub about: Browns v. Bills yes, kinda like that.
bub about: Browns v. Bills berg, we'll cover this one more time...write it down. you "lose" a game. you have wins and "losses". the steelers suffered a "loss" against the jags. if your shirt is too big, it's "loose". it's really not that difficult.
and yes, we've reached panic stage in pittsburgh. we've got two games left that we should easily win, but lately, you never know.
bub about: weekend go bills! that would take some serious pressure off the steelers.
bub about: american gladiators that font confused me at first. it's not Tor, it's Toa.
bub about: american gladiators i'm most of afraid of Tor, and his skorts.
bub about: uh oh they would laugh me right out of the office. "so your writing experience is bubdotcom....and your sports expertise, is bubdotcom? thank, but we're holding out for a 6th grader"
bub about: uh oh sometimes the quick and dirty versions are best. working for espn would be mmmmmawesome.
bub about: uh oh i just went through the mitchell report. don't waste your time. there's nothing real juicy in there. the big names that were named are: clemens, pettite, giambi, sheffield, bonds, tejada, brian roberts, paul lo duca, kevin brown, mo vaughn. it pretty much seems that every old pitcher, or struggling utility man "may have taken steroids". the report over-dramatizes the connections with "all 30 teams have connections to performance enhancing drugs". the pirates didn't have anyone on their team using steroids, but denny neagle, jose guillen, benito santiago, etc, were all pirates at some point, and are also possibly connected to steroids. most teams have those types of connections. the guys that were using seem to be mostly dodgers, yankees, mets, giants, and angels. there are a few randoms here and there, but no one big. losers like chuck knoblach, jason grimsly, mike stanton, etc. other than the guys that they've been talking about for a year (clemens, pettite, bonds, etc), there were no big fish. i was hoping for something like a-rod, jeter, papi, santana. instead we've got paul byrd, and hal morris.
bub about: uh oh we've got 24 minutes till ESPN's web site crashes.
bub about: snowjob we have just been getting rain too. we're supposed to get some snow this weekend. thank god it's just been rain lately. based on the 1" of rain = 1' of snow ratio, we would have about 4' of snow from this week. i can't remember when it wasn't raining last.
bub about: Hunting i know that's illegal in PA. people get arrested for it all the time. i give you the european drinking thing. i think it's a great policy. guns have a much narrower margin of error. if you're 5 year old has a few beers, and doesn't know how to drive, we're pretty safe. you'd have to assume that there is some element of public endangerment with a 5yr-old and a gun, since most people have a property that butts up against other people's property. if your kid happens to kill my dog accidentally, or worse, kills me...i don't really care who's accountable for it, it shouldn't have happened. and the likely-hood of a 5-year-old making a bad decision or just not being aware, is higher than an adult....probably exponentially higher.
either way, i'm glad PA has an age limit of 12. i'll just make sure to drive even faster through arkansas.
bub about: Hunting "it" meaning the bullet, not the bird.
bub about: Hunting if you own enough property that your kid can fire a gun at a bird in a tree...and miss....without it landing in someone else's property, then i fully agree with you. but it could be argued that drinking at 5 should be legal too. if properly taught how to drink responsibly, then there are no risks of harm to the child or general public. (just playing devil's advocate now)
bub about: Hunting is inherently = isn't inherently.
bub about: Hunting and dickey, raising your kids how you want or worshiping a particular god and allowing a 5-year-old to walk through the woods (public or private) with a gun, are ridiculously different subjects.
bub about: Hunting there is an age limit for purchasing tobacco and alcohol, last i looked. so the only way a child would get them would be to steal them from a clueless parent or have an adult give them some. in the case of alcohol, giving a minor alcohol is illegal.
in no way am i saying people shouldn't be able to hunt. i say if you've been trained, go for it. if you're crazy drunk uncle phil taught you, that's not good enough for me. i've been taught to shot multiple kinds of guns, and bows, i just don't have the desire to hunt. you cannot honestly tell me that hunting isn't dangerous. you cannot tell me that gun use is inherently dangerous. whether it's purposeful or accidental, it kills a lot of people each year. how many hunting accidents(shooting related) do you hear of each year? around here, it seems a good 15 to 20 incidents each year, where people are killed. here, we hear of people being killed every year in hunting accidents, when the victim wasn't even hunting. because you haven't shot anyone, doesn't mean that it isn't dangerous. all of that considered, i'm still in favor of people being allowed to hunt, i just don't like the idea of a 5-year-old doing it. abby's 7-year-old neice still thinks unicorns exist. that lack of real life understanding puts her below the "she should be able to hunt" limit. no matter the training, a 5-year-old is not mature enough, responsible enough, or reasonable enough to shoot any weapon. that's just me. i don't vilify hunting or hunters, the vast majority are uber-safe...but i think it's retarded to not have a limit.
bub about: Hunting you're a hippy, that's understandable ;)
bub about: Hunting i'm not advocating taking away guns...i'm advocating requiring an age limit, registration, and significant training. there isn't much more dangerous you could own, than a gun. willy nilly ownership and training sounds downright idiotic.
bub about: Hunting i wouldn't need to go in the woods for the possibility of a 5-year-old killing me with a missed shot. i could be driving down a country road, walking my dog, or sitting in my house. handling a gun is obviously just as dangerous as driving a car. they should have similar age limits. and dickey, the government interferes all the time when it comes to what children can and can't legally do. like the number of hours you can work(or if you can work at all). a kid toting a gun is significantly more dangerous than a kid toting a shovel. there is also a difference in a child's understanding of life and the consequences of their actions between 5 and 10 or 12. in PA, you can start hunters safety courses at 12. i don't believe you can get a hunting license until you pass that course. i've got a bunch of friends from high school and some cousins who hunt a lot. a few of them are very safe hunters and respect the rules of hunting, but a few of the others will drink while hunting, are fairly careless in general...if they were teaching their kids how to use a gun at 5, i'd be scared shitless.
bub about: Hunting i'm all for states rights, but when it comes to things that could kill me, i prefer federal age limits. driving and hunting should have federal age limits. 16 for driving, at a minimum of 10 for hunting. i mean no age limit for a kid to fire a freaking gun...that's crazy. i think if you can't spell what your are hunting, you shouldn't be allowed to hunt it.
bub about: Hunting is it legal to teach a 2.5-year-old how to shoot a gun....cuz it shouldn't be. and is it legal to hunt in arkansas at 5-years-old? i thought 12 was the hunting age limit.
bub about: again with the injuries we'd gladly give you anthony smith. he performs well under pressure and never shoots his mouth off|
bub about: footballs mike vick got 23 months in prison. just announced.
bub about: Speechless no, you run najeh davenport on 4th and 1. not willie parker. and you implication that the browns scoring more against the patriots somehow makes them better, is negated by us beating you twice.
bub about: Browns v Bills there was a lot of stink yesterday. realistically, we will hopefully go to the playoffs, maybe get past cleveland in the first round, then get slaughtered in the second round. not bad for a first year coach. we need some serious help on the o-line and db's in the off-season
bub about: Browns v Bills the steelers stink. anthony smith stinks. calling a pass play and a reverse from the 1-yard line stinks. being overrated stinks.
bub about: guaranteed upsets and my point isn't that he didn't guarantee a win, it was that he qualified it...which the part starting "as long as..."
bub about: guaranteed upsets every video and print version of the events have him saying this "We're going to win," Smith said. "Yeah, I can guarantee a win. As long as we come out and do what we got to do. Both sides of the ball are rolling, and if our special teams come through for us, we've got a good chance to win." i can't find anything that says anything different. can you?
bub about: guaranteed upsets the anthony smith "story" isn't much of a story. what he said was qualified. "if we do this, if we do that, then i guarantee we will win." he qualified it with everything short of, "if we score more points than they do, we'll win". everyone on the steelers has said "that's anthony being anthony, i wish he hadn't said that"
bub about: hockey i feel bad for you guys. nothing like stupid decisions turning a great team into a mediocre one over night.
bub about: hockey looks like buffalo had a rough night out west. tell me you didn't stay up to watch that.
bub about: ugh my legs fall asleep like 5 minutes in. that's why i've developed the pooping efficiency that i have.
so i saw that the bills had to put thomas on the IR. how many is that now?
bub about: ugh is it time to leave yet? man today is going sloooow.
bub about: For the guys he's unknown to you, but he's a starter at the moment. he should also keep him mouth shut. he's an idiot.
bub about: For the guys i'm not fa...yeah, you're right.
bub about: For the guys i was referring more the action of my dude piston meeting her squish mitten.
and to be totally honest, i'd rather be dead, than eat any of your asses.
bub about: For the guys i can't do #10, 13, 19, 20, 22. the rest i'm fine. i also cannot field dress a deer. i'm surprised that "sex up a woman" wasn't anywhere on the list of man things. we should make a woman things list...but we'd probably get in trouble.
bub about: holidays happy hanukkah berg.
bub about: Check this... THAT would make the tickets completely worth the price for me.
bub about: monday morning sports winslow was probably pushed out. no way to tell if he'd have come down in bounds. i'm satisfied with the decision :)
i hate billick, but the TO was called by rex ryan, not billick. when it comes down to it, billick is responsible though. i did love the kisses at rodney hgharrison.
bub about: monday morning sports that stadium last night, was a madhouse.
bub about: monday morning sports that would be awesome. "tom brady suffers career ending knee shrapnel to the butt chin"
bub about: monday morning sports ugh. that game was frustrating. stupid baltimorons. i guess the stillers will just have to beat them|
bub about: monday morning sports wait till you buckeye fans catch a glimpse of this terrell pryor kid. he's a quarterback (ala vick, but can throw accurately). he's the #1 prospect in the country right now. he's so smooth that it looks like he's not even trying. it's nuts.
bub about: monday morning sports my high school is too high on heroin and special k to be good at sports anymore. oh how i remember the days of our 7th and 8th grade team going undefeated and unscored upon two years in a row. a few broken bones and torn acl's later, and the best we could muster was a WPIAL shit-fest. now, nothing.
bub about: monday morning sports ohio as a whole would certainly be more than PA. once you get past harrisburg, they suck. western PA's quality is undeniable.
bub about: monday morning sports without question western pa and ne ohio are in the same league. same with texas, california, and florida. berg's exclusion of western pa was uneducated...or outright argumentative. in either case, braggiousity will follow.
bub about: monday morning sports see, now you got sweeney pissed about football. way to go.
bub about: monday morning sports i'm sorry berg, did you just imply that western PA isn't a good high school football system? you need to lay off the hard drugs. and PA isn't a huge farming area, but it's certainly more farming than florida. 90% of our high school players go elsewhere, because pitt just isn't good enough. look at terrell pryor this year. he's looking at osu, because they are always ranked, and wvu (close to home, but been good for most of his high school career). i have no realistic affiliation to pitt, other than they are located in pittsburgh. i don't have family that goes there, i didn't go there, etc. i could have chosen penn state, but that's douchebaggy in my eyes. when all is said and done, unless you are a fan of a team that starts out in the top 10 every year, the BCS (and college football as a whole) is laughable. you get more fans at the high school games on any given friday night, than you do at pitt games. you are right about western PA and NYS' interest in college football, but you couldn't be more wrong on the high school level.
bub about: monday morning sports congrats to osu, i heard there were chosen for next year's championship too. yay college football.
bub about: monday morning sports speaking of corrupt sporting events, anyone else excited about the return of "American Gladiators" on january 6th?
bub about: sweet so, for the first time since buying the house, we had someone come give us an estimate on something and it came out to be LESS than what we expected. we had a chimney guy come look at the fireplace to tell us how much it would cost/what needs to be done to make it wood burning. he said "all you need is some fire brick in the bottom, and you're ready to go". holy balls. instead of needing someone to do all kinds of work, we just need to tile the bottom of the fireplace with fire brick...that's super cheap, comparatively. the lady that was with him said to do all the stuff we thought they'd need to do would cost about $8k-$10k...instead, it'll be a few hundred bucks for all four fireplaces. we need to get them to put dampers on the tops of the chimneys in the spring, which will be a few hundred bucks too...but all-in-all, not too bad.
bub about: a modest post speaking of boston. i just saw that if the pats get to 15-0...their attempt at 16-0 will be on the NFL network, causing the same problem with viewership as the packers/cowboys game last night. that's hilarious. nice work nfl, nice work.
bub about: soccer i have refrained from posting an update lately, cuz fiorentina is pissing me off. they lost on the 9th, and drew against reggina (atlanta falcons) last weekend. there are some huge matches this weekend. seriously, if you have thought about considering giving soccer a chance, there will be some awesome soccer this weekend. fiorentina (5th) plays intermilan (1st) on sunday at 9amET. roma (3rd) plays udinese (4th) sunday at 4:30pmET. juventus (2nd) plays AC Milan (9th, but have had a terrible start, usually in the top 4) on saturday at 2:30pmET. all on the fox soccer channel (comcast 267). there is 1 point separating 2nd and 5th. good stuff. ok, you may move back off the edge of your seats.
bub about: a modest post agreed.
was it marbury that was trash talking?
bub about: first dances riiiiiight. we believe you|
bub about: a modest post another boston team ran up the score last night. the celtics beat the knicks 104-59. 59 points...really? that's all you could muster? they should be kicked out of the nba.
bub about: first dances you know what's gay, searching for first dances on you tube.
bub about: hah hah! thank lawrence timmons for stepping on his shoulder. that looked like it hurt.
bub about: icebowl yeah, not getting drunk is gonna be tough.
bub about: icebowl i believe blaine will need to leave on the 1st, some time after the game...and jamey may be going with him, since they both have to work on the 2nd. not sure if greg will go with them or stay with us. so it will only be one night of 8 people. i'll shower with dougums if need be. i'm all about conservation.
bub about: icebowl shot in the dark, but are all of the hotels/motels full?
bub about: icebowl blaine is 100% interested.
bub about: icebowl i am double checking right now.
bub about: icebowl blaine should be on there somewhere.
bub about: icebowl wes, i'm checking for blaine, but are all of the tickets still spoken for?
bub about: footballs everything about last night was awful. the laughter about reed's hair was great. that punt was awesome. i saw brian moorman do that once, out in the parking lot.
bub about: in berg just wanting to clarify i missed berg's first post altogether, so if he called him something racist, then disregard what i said.
bub about: footballs so, the steelers grounds crew is awesome...| why have they not put field turf in the yet? ridiculous. and what a weird game. pretty intense for 3-0. although if it wasn't my team, i'd probably call it boring.
bub about: in berg's defense not to speak ill of the dead, but to assume that sean taylor had done something wrong, which resulted in his getting shot, was not cruel or bigoted. sean taylor was his own worst enemy for most of his pro and college career. yes, it's awful and tragic, but to assume he was in no way responsible, before any info came out, would have been foolish, given his past with firearms. i can't see the post anymore, so i can't attest for any other comments, but thinking he may have caused the problem was fine. all-in-all, what a tragic story.
bub about: baseballs i got off topic when a client called, but bonds should get more time than the other guys. perjury is worse than conspiracy to distribute steroids, et al.
bub about: baseballs manufacturing steroids isn't illegal, to my knowledge. distribution without a prescription from a doctor is, i know that. bonds probably would have gotten no jail time, based on giambi's testimony. he made the wrong choice. perjury is a big deal, so i hear.
bub about: baseballs doug, how long do you think they'll give bonds? realistically, not the max. like vick could have been gone for 10's of years, but will probably get a little over a year.
bub about: baseballs anyone else confused about the NL MVP announcement? jimmy rollins won, over matt holliday. now, i think jimmy rollins had a great year, but holliday lead the NL in batting average, was 4th in HR, and 1st in RBI's. rollins wasn't in the top 5 in any of those categories. i thought holliday was a no-brainer. you can't even use the "he lead a mediocre team to the playoffs" to give rollins the edge. holliday did the same thing. granted, i can't stand the phillies, so i may have a bias, but wow.
bub about: weather is dumber i was asleep in college towers. i thought eby and jc were being jerks and shaking my bed. they were out in the living room smoking and playing beer can bowling.
bub about: weather is dumber what was the name of the dorms with the bowling alley and pool tables? eastway or something? that caught fire in some fashion or another.
bub about: weather is dumber that's weird. do you guys remember the earthquake in kent? must have been fall of third year...
bub about: weather is dumber sheldon carries that show. i have never laughed so hard as when he said "today we tried to masturbate for money", when asked what they do for fun.
bub about: weather is dumber by the way, your "this place is NOT a madhouse" text on sunday night was hilarious.
speaking of hilarious, do any of you watch "big bang theory" on cbs? it's a riot.
bub about: weather is dumber thank you for straightening me out. that could have had some seriously adverse effects.
bub about: weather is dumber i'm wrong, you're right. not sure what i was thinking.
bub about: weather is dumber dude, we get why it is the way it is. that's not a tough concept. i just think for everyday purposes, i think about which way it's heading. i was not being serious in saying it needs to change. 95% of stuff i say about the bublicans is in jest. good grief. and i'm not incorrect, i just have a different perspective on the matter.
bub about: weather is dumber and if something from the south asked who i am, my last response would "a northern traveler".
bub about: weather is dumber not to be a dickbag about the wind, but either way, you are having to figure out one or the other. whether you want to know where the wind is coming from or "which way is the wind blowing?", you still use the naming convention to figure that out. the difference in the standard method, and the method i would rather use, is one uses origin and one uses destination. i know how they name winds, i just think it's stupid. in my daily life, i will never think "from which direction is the wind coming?", but i will think "what direction is the wind blowing?". for sailing, sure, i would want to know where it's coming from. i don't think anyone on the planet would be confused if i said the wind is blowing to the southeast. you could figure out what the weather will be from that statement...we are southeast of detroit, so whatever is going on there, will be here in a few hours....most likely. it also has nothing to do with predicting the future. you are noting the current direction of the wind, not the future direction. either way, i find the naming convention to be impractical for the majority of people.
bub about: weather is dumber i think wind direction is stupid. if i'm traveling from NW to SE, i'm headed SE. who would say "i'm coming out of the NW?" in that situation. that will be one of the changes the bublicans make. why purposely confuse people?
bub about: zzzz i wish you had won lots of money. stupid steelers. its depressing when you realize how over-rated your team really is. i knew they weren't #3 in the NFL good, but i didn't think they were capable of losing to the jets. i'm depeche.
bub about: zzzz i'm bored. entertain me.
bub about: Sunday Night Matchup bigs, people are pissed, because it's poor sportsmanship to do what they've been doing. leaving starters in during blowouts, scoring a td with 19seconds left while leading by 30+ points. things like that that are unnecessary. they can punt on 4th and 6 when leading by 32 points...they aren't in jeopardy of losing. they are an incredible team, but he's making some dickhead decisions. they are probably the best team ever, but stop acting like assholes.
bub about: Rivalry Week ugh, this weekend sucked, for the most part. steelers played like absolute garbage. the pens lost in OT on saturday. pitt lost to rutgers, when they had a chance to win it with a touchdown from inside the 10. our furnace decided to crap out in the early hours of sunday morning. it was 56 degrees in the house when i got up at 8:30. i had to work 8 hours yesterday, covered in blankets. no furnace repair people would return calls yesterday. it sucked.
bub about: The unforgiven he apparently coughed last night, cuz our tv kept freezing up.
bub about: The unforgiven and for the hundredth time, why the hell does the plain dealer care where i'm from or how old i am? it's so annoying.
bub about: The unforgiven seriously, what idiot ranks modell #2, behind some pitcher from the 20's who killed a guy that no one knows about. that's a mere footnote in cleveland sports history. i've seen clevelanders shudder at the sound of modell's name. and bill cowher at #3? he played what 2 years in cleveland. we claim him more. he's from here, you just borrowed him for a few seasons. just like schottenheimer.
bub about: toner you still use irregardless...shiver
bub about: what it was on discovery hd. the show was awful. not worth the watch. pygmy, my ass. an elephant cooper's size would be frickin awesome. i'd have him carry stuff...and squirt water at people...maybe vacuum the floor.
bub about: workplace protocol my guess would be the ledge just behind the seat, but still on the bowl level. i think i've heard this story, but i can't remember how it ends.
bub about: workplace protocol i didn't realize leanne had such gross pooping habits.
bub about: workplace protocol this is a cubicle farm, with a few offices around the periphery.
i forgot a few... 13. stop practicing your golf swing at the coffee machine. we get it, you like golf. do you actually think you're improving your golf game by doing that? you look like an idiot. you don't see me practicing my cornhole throws do you? 14. singing "is this love" in your office with the door open gives me every right to hate your guts, especially if you are a dude.
bub about: workplace protocol apparently no one in my office knows the unwritten rules of office life. i wanted to make sure you all know them, or you can tell me i'm nuts (i'm expecting it from dougums).
1. at no time is microwaving a can of tuna acceptable. 2. popcorn does not take 11 minutes to cook. please don't walk away, and why are you setting it for 23minutes? 3. in the fall/winter, the air conditioner isn't on anymore, so please use the "fart-disguising flush" when you are going all jackson pollock on the toilet 4. whistling is always annoying, stop it. 5. if you have a door to your office, close it when you have a fight with your ex-wife. 6. unless you have someone in your office that has to participate in the phone call, don't use speakerphone. 7. the bathroom smells bad, because you won't courtesy flush. 8. when there are only two stalls, and one is taken, feel free to use one of the other restrooms in the building. we won't become closer friends just because you pooped next to me. also, unless you are wearing the standard black dress shoe, i will find out who you are and "stink hand" you later. 9. if you call me bri-erino one more time, i'll punch you in the face. 10. no, you may not have any of my peanuts. at least half of you aren't washing your damn hands in the bathroom, so please don't put them in a jar of food that i plan on eating. 11. i have refrained from looking ahead on my dilbert daily calendar, please don't read ahead while you're standing in my cube bullshitting. that's just rude. 12. and for the love of god, please don't play with my miniature nerf football, it's mine, i got it fair and square. college gameday doesn't come to pitt very often, so hands off.
that's all for now.
bub about: footballs that would be awesome if a-rod dropped him. losing a-rod would make the fire-sale that he's about to have, even worse.
bub about: footballs i saw that (about lynch, and the steelers). we've been really lucky this year *knock on wood*.
anyone else glad that scott boras is having to eat a huge turd sandwich? i hate that guy.
bub about: italian soccer "i bublicani: perche non siamo Tarzanelli"
i couldn't find a word for douchebag in italian. "Anus knot" will have to do.
bub about: italian soccer sounds about right. it really had nothing to do with soccer. the italians need the bublican party...
bub about: soccer andy, are you guys still going to the MLS cup this sunday? convenient that the revolution are in it.
bub about: nfl power rankings so, the steelers BEAT the number 9 team in the rankings and drop from 4 to 5...the colts LOSE to the number 14 team in the rankings and drop from 2 to 3. i couldn't care less about the power rankings, they are only good for argument fodder, but that seems strange to drop the same amount with utterly different results. also, the browns (9 last week) lose to the number 4 team, and drop two spots to 11. the lions (8 last week) lose to the number 21 team, and drop two spots to 10. huh?
bub about: cycling i've been waiting for your cycling updates for weeks, ever since you mentioned it when we were in b-lo. i'd like a little more detail on things work. do teams get points for winning events and stuff? do they crown a champion at the end of the year?
bub about: soccer i check out soccer news every day on the internet. places like goal.com and espn. we got the extended sports package from comcast ($4.99 a month) which gives you two soccer channels (fox soccer channel and goltv). fox soccer channel carries some EPL matches and serie A matches and some argentine soccer, goltv carries mostly bundesliga (germany), la liga (spain), then a bunch of weird stuff like san salvadorian soccer, honduran soccer, etc.
when i'm feeling extra frisky, i'll check out la gazzetta dello sport online. i listen to some matches on RAI.it and if the fiorentina match isn't on tv, i check livefooty.com to see if it's on the internet.
bub about: soccer so, soccer this week was sucky. fiorentina lost to udinese 2-1. their first loss of the year. they are still in 2nd at the moment, roma and inter still need to play. the roma and inter matches were both postponed, because a lazio fan was accidentally shot at a rest stop in arrezzo, while fighting with a juventus fan. apparently this lazio fan was the equivalent of the barrel man in denver or the big dog fella in cleveland, famous in his city. that sparked riots in rome and a few other places. it's ridiculous. had nothing to do with soccer. it was a fight at a rest stop. they have cancelled the serie B and serie C matches this week, because of it. serie A was already on a break for international matches. they are talking about suspending play for a few weeks, which sucks. we'll see. people are way overreacting. and those crazy italians look for any reason to set off road flares and riot. the break should help fiorentina, who have played a ton of matches lately (UEFA cup matches and serie A matches...about 2 a week, instead of just 1). newcastle drew 1-1 at sunderland (equivalent to steelers - browns rivalry...but more european hatred and hooliganism). those europeans sure know how to hate. and yes, i know that england isn't europe, but whatever.
big match of the week, italy at scotland in the euro 2008 qualifier. basically, the winner will move on to the knockout stages, the loser will not. italy needs a draw or a win to advance, scotland MUST win to advance. euro 2008, is basically the world cup...but just for europe.
bub about: john clayton i think the browns - ravens game should be on sunday night, not the bills - patriots.
bub about: footballs anyone else notice the WR for IND on sunday night...named Craphonso? seriously, craphonso. were douchehole, fuckface, and penisnose already taken?
bub about: john clayton i think you mean aaron rodgers, not aaron brooks. although, i hear aaron brooks is awesome. i'm not sure how i feel about you agreeing with me. i wonder if my logic is flawed somehow.
bub about: john clayton if i were a GM, i would consider myself lucky to have any of those three. it would all depend on what kind of system i ran. if it was a high flying, pass heavy offense, then i'd go with palmer, romo, then ben. if i had a mediocre offensive line, i'd go romo, ben, palmer. if i had a mediocre wide receiving corp, i'd go with ben, palmer, romo. those three are so different in style that you couldn't just plug them in to any system and have guaranteed success. ben had a terrible year last year, which i'm sure has dropped his ranking, but he is steadily improving. they were saying during the draft that he wouldn't have immediate success, but he would turn out to be the best QB of that draft, in 4 or 5 years. obviously, he had SOME immediate success, whether because of or in spite of his play.
bub about: good movie oh, i'm sure they don't all love each other, but to the press, all they do is fellate each other. sounds like this russell dude is a bit of a nut job. he may want to seek some anger management classes.
bub about: good movie that's all the movie industry does. have you ever heard an actor or director say something like "he's garbage, worst ever"...doubtful. probably haven't even heard anything as bad as "he's very good". it's usually stuff about crapping out rainbows and saving unicorns.
bub about: sports i've heard you talk about how palmer is better than ben, which he certainly is, from a pure throwing standpoint. i have no idea if you've said anything to that guy. or maybe he just doesn't like you...
bub about: sports television signals don't experience interference when cribbs coughs. nor do they send cribbs to the locker room to help out injured opposing players. there will only be one almight moorman. i have finally seen his glory on television, and it is wonderful.
and ben is having a great season. our passing game has been more effective than our running game for the last few weeks. that's not normal here. he's about to break bradshaw's season record for td's, and is on pace for 40td's this year. considering 18 was ben's career high, he's playing very well.
bub about: sports what a great sports weekend for me. i will gladly take a loss (again) from the pens, and a fiorentina loss, in exchange for a buckeye loss, and a steelers victory over the browns. i won't gloat, cuz that one had to be hard to swallow.
bub about: footballs nice.
bub about: footballs 12:30?
bub about: footballs so, it's friday of steelers-browns week and i haven't gotten any ridiculous texts, or phone calls, or even a laughable post...what gives?! i fully expected berg to ask if we are still on for our semi-annual bet...and some sort of dripping butthole reference from thews.
to be honest, i'm slightly nervous, in that "there's a 5% chance we can lose this game, and man that would suck" sort of way.
bub about: Man Jam you jerk. i told a coworker that story. they were all "no way!" and i was all "swear to god!"
bub about: random that's disgusting.
bub about: random so i was listening to mike and mike on the way in to work this morning and heard a commercial for cough medicine. strange ad campaign. this guy calls the cough medicine company to complain about how bad it tastes. he says it tastes like "a state fair port-a-potty", the lady says "duly noted", they keep talking about how bad it tastes, then she says, "let me ask you something, how's your cough?", he says, "well, it's gone". then they cut to the slogan "buckley's cough syrup, it tastes bad, but works great". they are advertising on espn.com too. something like "got a cough? trade it for a gag."
i get the premise of the ad, who cares how bad it tastes if it works that well...but couldn't they add a little something to make it taste a little less bad? advertising your product as tasting "like a state fair port-a-potty", can't be a great strategy, can it? funny thing is, i have had a bad cough for a few days now, i may go get some just to try it.
bub about: Tough Weekend ah ha. weird.
bub about: Tough Weekend i'm sorry, did you say muppet babies? what's that?
bub about: the world = stupid i don't get it either, berg.
bub about: the world = stupid it's also not fair to say soccer is stupid, because most americans don't understand/like it. the same could be said for physics, opera, cricket, rugby, and manners. something being popular, doesn't always equate to nickleback or britney, think pearl jam, led zepplin, etc. it is entirely possible that a large majority of the world likes soccer, because it is, in fact, awesome.
bub about: the world = stupid it's funny. that comment sounded so much like berg, yet so much like johnathan swift that i'm not sure if you're implying the "|" or if it's unnecessary or what. my brain may short circuit.
bub about: NFL Power Rankings exactly.
bub about: NFL Power Rankings poor football logic and irrational homophobic epithets make for quality posts. i am fine with hugging men while wearing a speedo. that doesn't mean i've had sex with them, which is a perfectly acceptable behavior that i choose not to partake in. i don't recall any gay orgies breaking out in the soccer matches i've seen, then again, i've only been watching for a year and half. they certainly wear tight pants and smack each others butts a lot...wait...hmmm. some open-mindedness you've got there berg. if you don't know anything about it, it must be stupid.
bub about: NFL Power Rankings i'm not sure i follow your logic. if you're going off the spread, then no one is a legitimate threat to NE's undefeated streak. no one will be favored against them, regardless of where the game is played. the spread is loosely based on, "if they play like they normally do, the margin of victory will be X". but if buffalo plays really well and new england plays sub par, then buffalo DOES have a legitimate chance to beat them. hell, if buffalo plays really well on play 1, and new england doesn't...brady's head gets planted like a tulip, on the 35. buffalo has a significant chance to beat them. that's why they play the game. and that's why that game will be on tv, instead of the 2nd and 3rd place teams in the AFC North. buffalo will have more fans that night than they will have all season.
and bubdotcom jumped the shark when people stopped partying and started doing yard work. or maybe it was about a week after the site went up.
bub about: soccer update this week's soccer update is as follows...try to contain your excitement.
fiorentina are now in 2nd place again. they are only 2 points behind intermilan for 1st. they are being touted as "real contenders to win the scudetto this season". the scudetto is how they refer to the championship, scudetto means "shield". they beat lazio (who are from rome) 1-0, last saturday night. intermilan tied juventus, roma tied empoli (which was a surprise). i believe all but 3 matches were draws, which helped fiorentina a lot. that means they basically gained 2 points on pretty much everyone. on friday, fiorentina play udinese (from the venice area) at home. udinese aren't very good, so fiorentina ought to win. fiorentina are still undefeated at 6-5-0 (w-d-l).
newcastle are starting to stink. they lost again this weekend, to a team they should have beat. they gave up 3 goals in the first 15 minutes. much less exciting than watching fiorentina. also much less to report when they lose.
there's your wrap up. dougums, i hear you've been contemplating a weekly update for us.
bub about: NFL Schedule Change you must be joking. it was the third quarter. the third. he threw two times in the third. batch also threw two. there is a ginormous difference here. expecting the steelers not to pass at all in the second half is silly. thinking a team might not go for it on 4th and 2 with a 35 point lead...or scoring a td with 19seconds left being up by 3tds...those are slightly different than passing 4 times in the third quarter. you've eaten too much clam chowder andrew. ;)
bub about: NFL Schedule Change they put ben back in, because he had a stinger and the crowd was freaking out about his injury. it was to show the crowd that he's ok. two hand-offs and sack later, he was out. i hope you weren't being serious, inferring that the steelers were running up the score. they took the air out of the ball at the start of the 3rd quarter. there were zero attempts to go for it on 4th and 2. no fake-kneel-down-td-passes. they ran the ball and punted. starters were out of the game with about 12:00 left. parker was out for most of the second half.
bub about: chad johnson A second ambulance was required to transport Johnson after the first one experienced engine trouble, spitting gray exhaust fumes as it drove onto the field.
funny that we commented on the exhaust.
bub about: Bub and seriously, you could have called and phone sexed me up, instead of the impersonal email.
bub about: Bub sorry lame-o, we'll stop.
bub about: Bub i over-looked the asshat usage, because browns fans are so ridiculous. this can be seen in berg's reasoning for missing the awesomely gay birthday party, to stay home and do yard work. ridiculous. the steelers will dominate the browns like cooper dominates children under 3.
bub about: Bub three whole weeks, huh...woo hoo. throw a parade. you beat two winless teams and a team that we shut out. congratu-fuckin-lations. steelers by at least 10.
bub about: tonight we're going to beat you next weekend, so we will still have a lead in the AFC north, you might as well root for baltimore to lose. or maybe i should tell you to root for baltimore to win, since browns fans never get what they want.
bub about: tonight if the video isn't of me, certainly. just so everyone knows, sweeney got hit by a car this morning, while walking to work. apparently the car jumped the curb and hit him. he's "ok", but "messed up his messed up knee". what a weird fuckin' week.
bub about: tonight and a special thanks to abby for doing all of that planning and for not taking anymore headers off ladders.
bub about: tonight just wanted to thank you guys for making my birthday awesomely gay. 30th birthday parties rule.
bub about: dereks old teacher?? different St. X.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . wow, playoff talk at 4-3...hopefully for you guys, the nfl will gift you with playing the two winless teams again in the second half of the season.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . see, but i won't ever stop loving the pirates, they just have a problem that needs treatment. the only way for me not to get hurt is to not see the pirates until they get treatment. that's the only way to help the pirates.
all analogies aside, this isn't the pirates that i grew up with. they sucked for most of the 80's and that was fine, but i can't in good conscience give money to the nutting family while they are willingly flushing the pirates name down the toilet. when the nuttings are gone, i will go to games again, until then no way...unless it's free. if that's against the rules, so be it.
bub about: soccer update one last thing. fiorentina plays lazio on saturday night at 10pm. you can all watch with me. woo hoo.
bub about: soccer update i can't remember when my last soccer update was. here's the quick and dirty. fiorentina are still undefeated (4-5-0, w-d-l). they have played a bunch of the top teams so far and haven't lost, which is obviously really good. they play napoli today. napoli are playing really well right now, so it ought to be a good match. you can watch on espn gamecast if you go to the soccer scores thing. starts at 3:30pmET. fiorentina are 4 points out of first place and are tied for 3rd place with juventus. i've realized i hate juventus, they bug me, i'm not sure why.
newcastle are still doing pretty decently in the EPL. they have a game or two in hand compared to the top teams. they are in 8th, right now, i believe. i'm much less interested in the EPL than in serie A.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . i disrespectfully disagree. seriously though, it's like a bad marriage. get married young, your spouse beats you and cheats on you and has a drug problem, so you separate. they get treatment for the issues, go to counseling, then you give it another shot. treatment = new ownership with aspirations. but if they don't seek treatment, you are free to leave.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . i completely agree. it's like i'm seeing things for the first time. i'm sure i've annoyed abby (and most of you) for the last week, but it's so fun. leanne, i saw that show "morning sunrise", or whatever it's called, yesterday. so cool. it's on from 7am-sometime after 8am.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . apparently, i'm unable to type the word "your"...substitute where necessary.
also, the pens game was on versus last night, which is unbearable, but about 12 minutes left in the third period i realized that the HD channel labeled "vsglf" was actually hd versus. that....was....awesome. HD hockey makes me horny. and the pens won, so that was nice.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . you bungle suffering is different than the pirates situation. you team tried to improve, with things like drafting kijana carter (which just didn't work out), achilli smith (ditto), etc. the pirates aren't trying to compete. there's a huge difference there. the pirates had the chance to draft the best prospect in the draft, but didn't, because they didn't feel they could afford him, so they took some mediocre pitcher that wasn't gonna cost them much. they are blatantly pocketing money while making no attempt to field a competitive team. i have teetered on the fence about whether to quit watching altogether, or to hate them until new ownership comes along. when those are your options, i wouldn't blame anyone for switching over to the "hate" side. if they were trying to improve, by drafting the best guys available, then i would have to stick with them and endure the fact that they just suck.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . if you did that, i would hit you.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . see the "loyalties" section of that article.
bub about: Andrew Lee English . . . it's perfectly acceptable under certain circumstances. andy's situation is completely viable. same with abby, leanne, dougums, and even derek's rooting for the pens(since he had no hockey team growing up). i linked an article below from bill simmons, even though i can't stand him anymore, but the article makes sense. even i am a sports bigamist, pirates/yankees fan...but i get a pass because of family connection. i will always root for the pirates over the yankees. i'm not sure if this is one of simmons' rules but if you are picking a team, its unacceptable to pick the best team in the league, unless you happen to live in that city. everyone so far, is free an clear from what i see. if thews starts rooting for the pats, then we have an issue. rules of being a "true sports fan"
bub about: TV survey you can lose at beer pong, yes. based on the last few days, it's been pretty chilly, so outside games (ladder golf, cornhole, etc) will need some heavier clothes. you also don't need to show up at 2:00 with your costume on. after 7:00 costumes are required. by required, i mean, i'll complain then back down.
bub about: TV survey our vizio model is the GV42LF. for some reason they gave us the $1400 tv for the price of the $1200 tv. go sears.
bub about: TV survey to be honest, the viewing angle thing is silly. our's has a 178degree viewing angle. which, logistically, can't get much better...but in no way would you ever EVER want to view any tv at 89degrees from the middle. yes, i can see the picture from that angle, but viewing any 2D image at that angle looks sub-par. we went with the lcd because plasmas have problems with images burning into the screen. especially with video games or if you happen to pause something for and extended amount of time. the plasma in my office lobby looks like shit because of all of the burned images. i haven't noticed poor rendering of black, but i've only had it for 4 days (and i was out of the country for 1.5 of them). i also don't dig super dark movies to begin with, so i doubt i'll notice.
bub about: Be careful tonight!! i'm an idiot. i thought abby's post was by aaron. don't mind me. back to licking the windows.
bub about: Be careful tonight!! big time here too, apparently. 279 north is to be closed with 50-100 officers and trailers to draw blood.
bub about: speaking of stupid TV... either way, it's going to be better than the composite cables i currently have.
bub about: speaking of stupid TV... to put you all at ease, i got the $2.94 hdmi cable from amazon. i chose the $8 shipping to get it here in 1-3 days. i also went to circuit city and got a cable splitter and some more cable (i have to have about 200' of cable in my damn house) so i can hook up the PIP. i also looked at surround sounds (about $300) and hd dvd players (also around $300). xbox 360 was fun to flirt with, at $399...which you can get an hd dvd player for xbox for $200. i had a boner walking through the place...so many new options. abby shouldn't let me go there by myself with a credit card ever again. i was like a fat kid at a buffet.
as far as the picture difference. i'll let you know next week. my dad said he noticed a big difference on his. $11 is worth it.
bub about: speaking of stupid TV... i don't like shows with a theme like that. that show with julia louis dreyfuss where it was 22 straight minutes of her day, 24, etc. i prefer nonsensical sitcoms, something where if i miss a show, i didn't just ruin the season.
by the way, my new tv rocks. it's 42 inches of pure pleasure (insert penis joke here). i got to watch the pens play well for 2 periods, then completely shit the bed by giving up 4 goals in what seemed like 2 minutes. HDTV on an actual HD-TV is much cooler than HD on a non-HD-TV. going to get an hdmi cable at lunch to make it even cooler. i heart vizio.
bub about: world series i watched "ghost hunters" on some channel, for 4 hours. my new favorite show. baseball season ended months ago. i'm hopefully getting a new tv tonight, so i'm excited about that. sears has 1 of the kind that i want left in stock, so hopefully no one buys it by 5:30 tonight.
bub about: protesting hippies eat me, pervert.
bub about: protesting hippies i support animal testing for most things. unnecessarily torturing them isn't cool, and crazy mad-scientist experiments aren't cool, but testing shampoo and make up and drugs, sure. when rabbits evolve into a more superior being than us, then they can test on us all they want.
bub about: sports ouch, what a painful knock| whatever shall we do| the season must be over|
you can do better than that, can't you?
bub about: sports derek, what idiot told you that? the reason the steelers lost is because our offensive line couldn't block and our defense played weak. ben played incredibly well. despite his two picks (the second was tipped by ward). ben didn't have any time to set himself and throw. without his play, it would have been 28-7. the steelers didn't seem to have any fire. every team has idiot fans who think there's a conspiracy. every team has idiots that call the sports talk shows and complain about refs and announcers. it's a complete lack of ability to look at the outcome separately from your feelings. berg, don't revel too much in the steelers loss, because i don't think there are too many folks around here that are that concerned about it. we're 4-2 and have a game up on baltimore, who is on bye this week. our division sucks, the ravens suck, the browns suck, and the bengals suck. the steelers are average. i'm fine with my average team getting to the playoffs and taking a shot at the two big guys. you, on the other hand, are destined not to make the playoffs, because the media doesn't want small market teams in the championships. you crack me up.
bub about: football and did you just equate the number of guys on the field, to probability of an upset? seriously?
bub about: football i don't think michigan would have won. the point is, the debate that michigan is the second best team, but they lost to the #1 team already, so they shouldn't get a chance to play for the title. it's ridiculous. if they are considered the #2 team, they should be playing the #1 team in the championship, end of story. and that "keep the money in state" crap is for the birds. the reason ohio state plays lesser schools is for the easy win, we all know it. a nice little side benefit is that the money stays in state, but you know if there wasn't a single other college in ohio, they'd be playing the citadel, indiana state, and michigan heating and air conditioning. that line of bull is hilarious.
bub about: football i'm not saying anything new. i just don't understand how the NCAA doesn't do a single thing about it. year in, year out, they collect their money. the same 8 schools win the national championship. it's boring. college backetball and college football are tooootally different. you can get a layola marymount/villanova/providence/george mason/etc who has a great year, gets no real recognition, plays their ass off in the tournament, and wins the title. there is mathematically 0 chance that will happen in football.
bub about: football i dislike it because 1 loss and you're out. and if you don't start in the top 25, there's little to no chance that you have a chance for the national championship. it's completely retarded to me.
bub about: football i can accept the basketball rankings with less reservation, because the rankings are used to pick the at large teams to go to a huge playoff tournament. football essentially picks a national champion that way. and last year's "michigan is really the 2nd best team, but osu already beat them, so they shouldn't go to the national championship" argument proved how completely retarded the system is. a playoff is completely necessary. i also don't understand the point of being in a conference with 11 other teams, but not actually playing all of those teams in your 11 games, but playing carson nuemann junior college instead. that will never make sense to me.
bub about: Mark my words... whew, my stomach hurts. thanks thewsie, i needed that.
bub about: football how has the bcs proven itself? the problem is the human factor. which is the cause of the retarded rankings. if it were just teh computer numbers, USF would have been #1 last week, not OSU. college football is a joke. a humongous joke.
bub about: home record eff the buckeyes. college football is possibly the worst sport we've got. they started at #11 and haven't beaten anyone, now they are #1. the whole ranking system is proving to be a ginormous joke this year. if they don't make a change soon, they will have less than zero credibility.
bub about: classless indians let's go bucs! ah forget it.
bub about: he the hair makes him funny. unless he thought it looked cool, then he's a wannabe guidouchebag. either way, i find his douchebaggery hilarious, and am not the least bit ashamed of it.
bub about: he agreed. shirtless at a club = douchebag.
bub about: famous dave dmac made bill simmon's mailbag column from Oct 2.
he's "david, pittsburgh"
bub about: he i mean, the life of a kicker can't be too terribly exciting...you're a kicker. he makes a ton of dough, why not blow it on booze and hook up with chicks?
bub about: he i find him endearing. he would fit in with our group pretty well. the hair-do cracks my shit up.
bub about: FREE!!!! good thing septic tanks aren't pressurized. could you imagine a 500gallon turd explosion? suck.
bub about: Tues night Douchebag award goes to.... yeah, that too.
bub about: Tues night Douchebag award goes to.... i'm confused about the a-rod comment. he went 4-15 against the indians in the playoffs this year.
bub about: footballs at least you guys are finally getting a professional football team...
and i also think 3 is too high for the steelers to be ranked. i'd say like 8 or 9.
bub about: site update the rant board has been cleared out. i added the security feature to the page, so we shouldn't get anymore spam there. i didn't feel like sorting through the 1,300+ messages to figure out which to keep, so i just got rid of them all. the little alert thing for the rant page still doesn't seem to work every time. i'm going to redo the main page at some point soon, once i get some free time from school and work.
bub about: So.... garko is from the p'burgh, if i'm not mistaken.
bub about: So.... what's this "fall ball" that you speak of? baseball season ends in may, right?
bub about: where you can find me on sunday you should ask him how aston villa is doing.
bub about: where you can find me on sunday want one of my steelers jerseys?
bub about: Halloween i don't think that costume made the move from the apartment. i've got something equally fun planned.
bub about: sports the sissy face pic is great too. i immediately break into laughter at that kid's face.
bub about: sports picture number 1 is awesome for so many reasons. i love the two ladies in the back row, that are utterly oblivious, cuz they are eating. i love the look on the guy's (might be a girl, not sure) face in the top right corner. the lady in blue below him has the classic "kiss your ass goodbye" look going on. the dad with the baby gets "dad of the year". what an ass. and the little red-headed girl in the front row has that "eh, just another flying bat, whatev." look.
bub about: sports check out these sports pictures. i'm not sure which is my favorite. possibly #2. sports pictures
bub about: xbox only on intellivision.
bub about: xbox i've been wondering the same thing lately. it looks like you have to buy the xbox360. i just looked up fifa '08 (cuz i want it), and it says that it's available for ps2, ps3, psp, wii, xbox360, pc, nintendo DS, and mobile. bastards.
bub about: sports i just love that NOW he's backing the indians. classic.
bub about: sports sounds like that steelers fan that had a heart attack when bettis fumbled against the colts. happened at cupka's II, one of the bars on the crawl. speaking of which, this is from a few years ago, but check out this dead steelers fan.
bub about: sports oh yes i did..
bub about: sports or for browns fans, fantasy.
bub about: sports abby and i were talking two weeks ago, during the steelers-cardinals game, about how dan dierdorf was slobbering all over the steelers. we usually get randy kross, who really seems to have it out for the steelers (every challenge he debates for whatever the negative result for the steelers would be), but dierdorf was insanely for the steelers. i listened to our evening drive-time sports talk guy, and one of the callers called in about how anti-steelers dan dierdorf was. i had to call abby and tell her, cuz that dude must have been listening to a different game. every week we have fans complaining about the announcers. it makes me laugh. i was flipping between the baseball game and MNF, so i didn't catch much of the baseball broadcast. you may be right.
bub about: sports berg, you sound like the yinzers that complain that the commentators are "blatantly against the steelers". of course the announcers are gonna fellate the yankees, they win one of every 4 world series. they have shown, in the past, the ability to come back when you least expect it. to ignore that would be silly. they've got so much down time during a game, that they've got to find something to talk about. the yankees are the glitz and glamour. it's easy filler material, there's lots of gossip. the indians are the better team, but there's less interesting stuff to talk about. the casual fan doesn't care about the indians, nor do they follow the indians. i bet 70% of the people watching last night, couldn't have named 3 of the starters for the indians, before the game. they aren't the most popular of teams. the world isn't out to get you. it's ok.
bub about: sports could wedge have looked any less interested most of the game? he looked like he was battling post-turkey sleeps.
bub about: sports effing cowboys.
bub about: Sing with me Derek and Cathryn! cathryn, i curse you for teaching my wife weird songs. she sings them constantly.
bub about: Tech problem you could also get a peer to peer network cable, connect the two computers, then use "FlashFX" to ftp any files from one computer to the next. there are instructions on how to use FlashFX online. and the software is free.
bub about: soccer update not much happened in soccer, that was out of the ordinary. most of the teams that should have won, won. the huge match between fiorentina and juventus was supposed to be on tv at noon yesterday (delayed broadcast), but fox soccer channel decided to show some argentine soccer match and put the fiorentina game on at 1am this morning. i ended up watching it on gamecast. juventus went up 1-0 on a controversial goal. apparently a juventus player (david trezeguet) was offsides when vincenzo iaquinta shot the ball. normally that's not a big deal (since you can be offsides if you aren't involved in the play), but trezeguet was apparently blocking the view of fiorentina's goaltender. that should have been called for offsides. anyhow...it was 1-0 juventus until the 88th minute when a juventus player got called for a handball in his own penalty box, resulting in a penalty kick for fiorentina. adrian mutu took the kick and scored. the game ended in a 1-1 draw, meaning fiorentina are still undefeated, with a record of 3-4-0 (w-d-l), keeping them in 4th place, 4 points behind leaders intermilan. it 3-4-0 doesn't sound very good, but fiorentina have played 3 of the big clubs and got a draw against all three. that would be like playing the indians, redsox, and yankees, and not losing (if ties were possible in baseball). they were supposed to lose all three matches and still got 1 point out of each match. the only other undefeated team in the league is intermilan. if fiorentina had played a bunch of sucky teams, 3-4-0 wouldn't be very good. they now have a stretch of 6 matches against average or below average teams, so they could get some big points out of those teams. there are no games this week, it is essentially a bye week for the whole league. there are some euro 2008 matches, which is the reason for the break. italy needs to win their last three matches of the group stage to advance to the knockout round. next update will be october 22nd.
bub about: baseballs this is gonna sound stupid, but the patriots really haven't played anyone good yet. the chargers are the best team they've played...and we've all seen that the 2007 chargers aren't the same as the 2006 chargers. it ought to be fun to watch next week's game. i think dallas has a good shot at beating them.
bub about: sports n stuff n music yep. she hates him. no idea why. it's a white-hot hatred.
bub about: sports n stuff n music and i can attest to the fact that abby really haaaates jack del rio, or "jack del whatever-his-fucking-face-is".
bub about: sports n stuff n music ha! wes just said "I...love...soccer." i knew my weekly updates would win you over.
and no, berg, it wouldn't work in a system that has one league, with farm teams in lesser leagues. you would need to end affiliations with the farm systems. soccer clubs have "academies" where they develop players. they sign young kids, like 9- and 10-year-olds, to contracts, develop them in the academies, then call them up from there. the stadium size wouldn't matter. just like in soccer, when a lesser team gets promoted, they just play in the stadium they've got. whether it's 40,000 or 2,000. the teams make their money with sponsors and rich owners. the system would need to be changed drastically. but man would it be awesome. imagine if you were a fan of the chattanooga lookouts and all of the sudden you team gets to play at yankee stadium or fenway or wherever. that would be the most exciting thing to happen in chattanooga, since the billy ray fell off the water tower.
bub about: sports n stuff n music in all seriousness, i wish mlb would do what most soccer leagues do. relegate the bottom three teams each year, to a lesser league (like AAA) and promote the top three teams from the lesser league to the higher league. that would certainly keep owners from stealing revenue sharing.
bub about: sports n stuff n music hyperbole is fun.
bub about: sports n stuff n music think the league would ever step in and make the pirates ownership sell the team? i mean, they are blatantly not trying to win. they are just stealing profits(revenue sharing) and effing a fan base that is desperate to return to past glory.
bub about: sports n stuff n music pirates = hawks/bruins is right though.
bub about: sports n stuff n music i believe it.
so would they get rid of the hawks, or the bruins, etc? nope. i'm not sure i understand the yankees = leafs (minus all the championships). if you take away the yankees championships, you get an original team, with a-hole fans. wouldn't the yankees = canadiens? is the pirates = leafs analogy wrong just due to attendance?
bub about: sports n stuff n music and the pirates attendance isn't bad at all, when you look at the product they've been putting out for the last 15 years. an average attendance of 21,000 people for a team that hasn't broken .500 in a decade and a half, is fairly impressive. especially when you compare it to the attendance of other teams and the population of the cities.
bub about: sports n stuff n music if you are contracting, you contract starting with the most recently added teams. if the nhl were to contract, would they take away the maple leafs, not a chance. and it was my idea, so my team stays.
bub about: sports n stuff n music to be honest, if i lived in buffalo, i would be a yankees fan. i would root for a team from my state, so the mets and yanks are the options. the mets were essentially the yankees in our "formative years", you would have been a front-runner if you picked the mets when we were kids. the pre-2004 redsox makes a good fit with buffalo fans, though. lovable losers. almost winning it all, but fall just short. right now, the redsox = yankees. when you get that high in payroll, the difference in $200million and $160million is very little. it's hard to root for the yankees some times. they are everything that is wrong with baseball right now. it's impossible for me to root for the redsox. the other thing that i hate about baseball, is the awful expansion. that ruined baseball. diluted the player stock, adding more teams in the mix to try to buy the big players. that's what ruined the small/medium market team's chances. i vote for contraction. say goodbye to arizona, tampa, florida, colorado. consider getting rid of houston, the mets, seattle, milwaukee, san diego, anahiem(or whatever they call themselves). keep the old teams with history, get rid of the teals, purples, etc. THAT would be some awesome baseball. imagine 22 teams filled with really good players. instead of 81 home games, and 81 away games. how about 71 home games, 71 away games, and 20 neutral site games (to be played in the cities that lost their teams). i mean really, who's gonna miss 10 home games?
bub about: sports n stuff n music i, respectfully, disagree. he's a front-running douchebag, and has no loyalty to his home town teams. the only home town team he's loyal to, is the one paying him a buttload of cash. he's a poser.
bub about: sports n stuff n music and what a front-runner!! when he was growing up, the cowboys were winning superbowls, the bulls were winning champions, the yankees too. seriously, what a front-runner.
bub about: sports n stuff n music what about the other 200,000 cleveland fans on sports talk radio. i know you said you haven't listened to it before, but if you did, you'd see that you (rational fans) are in the vast minority in cleveland.
bub about: sports n stuff n music haha. nice wes.
bub about: sports n stuff n music that doesn't bother me.
bub about: sports n stuff n music i'm so excited for tomorrow night, i might throw up. pens at carolina. woo hoo. pens 13, carolina -2.
bub about: sports n stuff n music yes, i grew up a pirates and yankees fan. if it were to come down to pirates v. yankees in the world series, i would root for the pirates. and before the "bandwagon" jeers come out, i've been a fan since i was little.
i don't have many thoughts on the playoffs this year. the pirates are obviously irrelevant, after that i just kinda watch casually. i have that soft-spot for the yankees, since my grandfather's cousin played for the yanks, but my interest isn't huge. i'm angry at baseball because of the payroll situation. my love of the game, has faded inversely proportionate to the degree of which it's become a business. i'm jaded now.
bub about: sports n stuff n music before the steelers won the superbowl, it had been 13 years since pittburgh's last championship of any kind (hockey) and 25ish years since our last superbowl. i know what droughts are like. the pirates haven't won since the 70's, until two years ago, the steelers hadn't either. the pens we awful for a looong time ('67 - '91). the whining is intolerable, the assigning of curses is laughable, the constant belly-aching is annoying.
bub about: sports n stuff n music so, i just read an article about steve bartman (the cubs fan who reached for a foul ball and kept moises alou from catching it, which lead to a ridiculous collapse in the playoffs). cubs fans are such jackasses. i mean seriously. time has made me forget how ridiculously irrational they are. they are still blaming this guy for doing what everyone else in his section did (stick their hand out to catch the ball), in game 6 of a playoff series. there's no telling if alou would have even caught the damn thing. the subsequent 8 runs that the cubs gave up were not because the missed foul ball, it's because the suck. they also had a chance the next night to win the series, but didn't. now, i can understand the desperation they have, but that didn't keep them from winning the world series. at MOST, it kept them from GETTING to the world series. they are assuming that if they had gotten there, that it was a forgone conclusion that they would have beat the yankees. if this whole thing happened in game 6 of the world series, i could almost understand the idiocy, but it was in the NLCS!!!! i wish they would just win the world series and shut the fuck up. i am so tired of the "we're so unlucky, we haven't won in XX years, we're cursed!" assholes. seriously, shut up.
bub about: oh dougums. you can't fool me. i know you love me. enough of this pretending. you don't have to play hard-to-get anymore. we're the timone and poombah of bdc. let's go hug some trees and slap some kittens, buddy.
bub about: giornata 5a i don't think i did a soccer report for last week. fiorentina ended up drawing against roma 2-2, which was a good result for fiorentina. it showed that they can compete with the better italian/european teams. it also kept them "undefeated". this past weekend fiorentina beat a crappy livorno team 3-0. roma lost to intermilan 4-1. juventus got lucky with a controversial goal in the 93rd minute(that's 3 minutes into stoppage time, would be like scoring a goal in hockey with a few seconds left in the third period). right now the top four teams are intermilan(14), juventus(13), fiorentina(12), and roma(11). fiorentina plays juventus at 9am, but the game is on Fox Soccer channel at noon. derek, i'm taping the fiorentina match, don't text me the score. it's another big match for fiorentina. if they can come out of that with a win or a draw, that would be huge. juventus fans are banned from the match(in florence) because of violence before their last match. AC milan continued their tumble (think michigan), having only won 1 match in 6, they are 1-4-1 (w-d-l), which leaves them all the way back in 11th place. that's about all. i don't feel like updating the EPL...especially since most of you skim right by this post.
bub about: sports n stuff i think more of the playoffs will be on tbs this year.
the steelers looked like crap. they laid a big fat turd. thank god polamalu and hampton aren't hurt enough to be on the injury report. wes, it figures those two got hurt the day after i told you "if polamalu or hampton get hurt, the steelers are in some serious trouble".
what a weird sports weekend that was. at least fiorentina won. (soccer report to follow).
dougums and i spent a good 5 bi-partisan hours drinking, without one political discussion. "i guess what i'm trying to say is...if i can change, and you change, everybody can change!" (cue politburo clapping)
bub about: stupid pants getting new pants at lunch. since i've had both in the last two months, i'm going to say i'd rather have the mustard stain. i would think 99% of people could recognize a mustard stain, unless they think i spurt yellow mustard. i'm sure everyone can see my pink thong at the moment.
bub about: stupid pants i am having a pant emergency today. I am wearing my mega-comfortable jeans, the kind that have been worn so much that they are like tissue paper. i pulled them out of the laundry and noticed that there is a little hole by the right back pocket...no bigger than a thumb-tack. i figured they'd be fine for today, but i should get some new jeans soon. they didn't even make it to lunch. apparently the act of getting into the car or sitting in my desk chair, has basically torn the back pocket off. it's at least 20% off. my shirt won't cover it, so everybody gets a look at my sweet boxer briefs....FOR FREE. stupid pants.
bub about: Sports hey andy, who was newcastle playing in the match you were watching last night? was it a replay of west ham from sunday?
bub about: Sports eat me canuck.
bub about: Sports not a chance, my man, not a chance. the stanley cup champions-elect will beat the hope right out of you on january 1st.
bub about: sleepies nice! sounds better than my schedule right now.
bub about: mitch fatel andy, he actually reminds me of sweet j.
bub about: sporting points... the new GM promised the same thing the last 3 have promised. i have no hopes that anything will change. i would like to thank the pirates for making me dislike baseball. way to ruin it, a-holes.
bub about: Trivia dougums, zero stars? really? not even for guessing first? that's rough.
bub about: i think i get to work at the same time as derek. i'm 8:30 to 5:00. i don't sleep very well, with the sleep apnea and all, so my 8 hours of sleep is more like 5.
bub about: funny stuff i downloaded mitch fatel's "super-retardo" cd yesterday. dude is hilarious.
bub about: i looked it up since my guess, but i won't ruin it.
bub about: Trivia strom thurmond?
bub about: sex tape so, what time you all normally go to bed? i'm in bed at 11. i'm guessing that's earlier than most of you. i know it's much earlier than derek.
bub about: sex tape ah, that makes him much less weird.
bub about: sex tape seriously, who is up at 3am on a tuesday? i was sleeping for 4 hours already.
bub about: derek's party has no traction. you'll be unemployed in a week.
i didn't say policy advisor, i just said advisor. i'm sure you'd have more than enough work to do just keeping the bublicans out of trouble.
bub about: dougums a consigliere, if you will. one i would listen to in the beginning, before i get all power-hungry and violent, but in the end becomes nothing more than an irrelevant conscience. interested?
bub about: dougums dougums, you should be the bublican party's chief advisor. you know lots of stuff.
bub about: Xbox the halo 3 commercial with the figurines is awesome. i wanna kill dudes every time it comes on. good thing i'm not a gun owner.
bub about: douchebaggery apparently the derogatory term for the gotti wannabe's is guidouchebags. gotta love the internet.
bub about: with the first overall pick of the 2008 NFL entry draft... there was a picture going around the net of a group of italian clubber douches all with the same gotti hair cut and popped collars. it made me cringe.
bub about: with the first overall pick of the 2008 NFL entry draft... so he likes to not wear a shirt at bars...and take almost naked pics of himself, who doesn't? that hair is something else. nice call with the growing up gotti.
bub about: with the first overall pick of the 2008 NFL entry draft... our punter is a former linebacker and is also on the "hands team".
bub about: soccer round up... football went well for me this week, and poorly for you, so i figured i'd ease the pain by giving you something else to think about.
fiorentina beat catania 1-0 (as expected). with the win, that improves them to 2-2-0 (w-d-l) and gives them 8 points (3 for win, 1 for draw, 0 for loss). the league leaders (AS Roma) are at 10 points. fiorentina is in a 3-way tie(ha 3-way) for second place in the league. they have a HUUUUUUGE match on wednesday against AS Roma. a fiorentina win would put them in first place, which would obviously be mmmawesome. this weekend roma (second last year) drew against juventus (another good club), intermilan (defending champs) drew against livorno (bad club), and AC Milan (champions league winners) drew against parma (not bad, but not all that good either). all of those helped fiorentina go from 6th to 2nd.
in the EPL, newcastle won 3-1 against west ham (sucked last year, but good this year) to move into 5th place, with a game in hand. their game against arsenal was postponed in week 2, so once they play the make-up match, they could feasibly move into second with a win, but that's reeeeeally unlikely. chelsea's(redsox) head coach quit last week.
wednesday's fiorentina match is on fox soccer channel. i'm dvr-ing it, so don't tell me what happened. that's mostly for derek.
bub about: with the first overall pick of the 2008 NFL entry draft... that blows. i hope that doesn't affect his development much, that kid has ridiculous talent.
bub about: with the first overall pick of the 2008 NFL entry draft... ah, broken forearm. i don't think that will keep posluzny out more than 2 weeks. he's crazy tough. i'd expect a cast with some padding.
bub about: with the first overall pick of the 2008 NFL entry draft... i had one of those sad laughs this morning when i heard about losman. what happened to posluzny?
on a happier note, abby and i got to go to the steeler game for free yesterday, that was nice. not a bad game to watch. i'm still not pleased with the steelers offense, but their defense looks pretty damn good. we've outscored our opponents by 71 points so far. i like an average margin of victory of 23 points. granted san fran is no indy...so i'm not overly excited, but it's nice to see that we're actually beating the teams we should beat. we usually blow it against those teams (see: oakland last year).
bub about: Friday Fun Fact Fantastique are you gonna tell us or leave us guessing?
bub about: Friday Fun Fact Fantastique i'm not sure, but it could easily be braddock or forbes or robinson or washington. those are my guesses.
bub about: oops, sorry i forgot to tell you guys that eddie vedder did a live acoustic set of his new solo album on RAI yesterday. i didn't get to listen either though.
bub about: Thewsums vote bublican. cuz we're not douchebags.
bub about: Thewsums and no, i don't hate kids, or the very poor, we just need to find a better balance of social responsibility and personal responsibility. i think all of us would agree that there isn't nearly enough personal responsibility in the US
bub about: Thewsums inflammatory comments about political parties are senseless. plenty of examples of both parties running good ideas into the ground....and running bad ideas into the ground. the point is, at what point should all other americans have to pay for the relative failures of other americans? should i be taxed to into financial trouble, because you decided not to get a student loan and go to college...or worse, had 4 kids that you can't afford? is that my fault? should i have to pay for that? if so, why would a person making $61k be able to afford health care, but someone making $60k not? shouldn't it be something that you can comfortably afford? let's say $100k per year. social programs should only benefit those that absolutely NEED it, not those that would have to cut back on some other expenses to afford it. $60k is ridiculous. yes, children should have insurance, that's what CHiP does. if you can't afford it, and "make too much" for medicaid, your kids have insurance through CHiP. other than that, government programs create more dependency, not less. the government can't run anything well, look at social security. (which we'll pay for in the end, cuz people won't put any money away for retirement, expecting SS to be there...it'll be a huge cluster fuck). when it was created the work force to retiree ratio was 17-1, now it's just under 3-1. the math is pretty simple.
bub about: Thewsums the confusing thing to me about uninsured children is...pennsylvania has the "CHiP" program which is essentially a free health care for kids whose parents can't afford health care for the kids. do other states not have this? all you really need to do is sign up...and obviously show proof of income and such. with a program like that, there should be zero uninsured kids...unless the parents are too lazy to sign up...which is a totally different subject.
bub about: nice try. i'm not biting.
bub about: fantasy football i like your format, wes. it really helped me understand the situation. nice work.
bub about: soccer jose mourinho (bill belichek, hated, but good) and chelsea have mutually agreed to part ways. he's one of the top five coaches in the world. big news in the soccer world.
bub about: footballs look at the browns, jumping from 32nd in the power rankings to 26th. just ahead of buffalo at 29. the bengals slipped to 13th, the ravens are at 7th, and the stillers are 5th. i still think the ravens are way over-rated at 7th.
bub about: Probably completely inappropriate... doug williams was the first black quarterback to win the superbowl.
bub about: Probably completely inappropriate... if you're mocking the people, then it's inappropriate, if you're celebrating them, then it's not.
bub about: Probably completely inappropriate... there's the "flip wilson poker chip flip", the "chris rock paper scissors", the "doug williams football toss", the "billy d. williams colt 45 race", and one more i can't remember.
bub about: ice bowl a buddy of mine at work tried to get 7 together and couldn't. he couldn't get 2 together. he's not pleased. he said the $39 tickets are being sold on stubhub and razorgator for $169.
bub about: ice bowl eh, whatever. we're going to the ice bowl, she can spell her name any ol' way she wants.
bub about: ice bowl greg's girl's name is jamie...not jayme.
if blaine can work it out with work, he might try to come up to celebrate new years eve, if that ok with the voits. if there's no room, i'll tell him to get a hotel room. but he won't be at the game.
bub about: footballs the steeler game ended well before the browns-bengals game, which was nice, cuz i got to see the last few minutes of that slugfest. both defensive coordinators should be fired. i can't believe the browns pulled that one out. that actually helped the steelers out big time. everyone in the division has one divisional loss, except us.
bub about: Ice Bowl yes, our number is still 7. $60 would be a very comfortable range for everyone. let us know. nothing like a morning hockey boner.
bub about: Weekend that's correct, abby. but...they'll make the playoffs...cuz they cheat.
here we go steelers, here we go!
bub about: Attica!! i'm slightly nervous. hell may have frozen over :)
bub about: Attica!!! how are prisoners allowed access to things that might cause fires? that's baffling and scary. breaking windows and toilets, is explainable. they shouldn't be allowed any sausages after that ordeal. you're in prison, asshole, you get what we serve you. if two sausage links are that important to you, maybe you shouldn't have broken the law. maybe.
bub about: pandora i was just listening to pandora, when bloodhound gang's "foxtrot uniform charlie kilo" came on. those lyrics are too friggin funny. someone posted them before, but damn does that song make me laugh.
bub about: Cheaters dougums, you scooped me on the nummineninenineninen story. what a bad week for buffalo injuries.
bub about: Cheaters that ends up being somewhere between 20%-25% of his pay for the year.
bub about: Cheaters and you can't prove whether or not the video-taping or head-set tampering had an effect. drives sometimes stall at the 10 for no real reason. or the 23, or the 5. i hate the patriots and i think they cheat and i think they're assholes, but it's not that cut and dry.
bub about: Cheaters can't prove that's how they got there.
bub about: Cheaters i think a $500,000 fine for one person is a bit of a deterrent. i would liked a suspension, but the draft pick(s) can really hurt.
bub about: sabre tix... i've been debating that in my head too. it looks like everyone but me, is out if the tickets are over $100. i'd be willing to pay up to $125. i'm hoping they follow football ticket pricing. i think they'd be hard pressed to sell 4 times their normal capacity at regular pricing, but i could be wrong. you guys are close to canada, so you never know. either way, i'd totally tailgate.
bub about: always sunny here's the commercial that annoys me.
and here's the online thing that annoys me. (the embed thing is disabled, so you have to click the link. annoying.
bub about: TV i have emailed the rest to see if they have a definite "i'm out" price.
bub about: TV i believe my brother is out if they are $100. including his girlfriend. but a heads up, if at all possible, would be sweet.
bub about: TV i agree, my upper range is $100 - $125. let's hope they're somewhat reasonable. i'll post my explanation about always sunny, from home. no time now.
bub about: TV i won't watch it, because they stole that beatboxing commercial from some online jackass. both annoy me. and i don't get to watch tv anymore. studying sucks.
bub about: thanks doug.
and wes, i'm terrified of your backups| it's gonna be weird, cuz now that you guys have half your team out, there isn't much pressure to win, those guys can go out there and play crazy and no one will bitch. to be honest, i hope they stink.
bub about: Derek hear = here.
bub about: Derek doug, another one while you're hear. what's that whole situation with putin dissolving the russian government about?
bub about: fantasy bigs, did you try to pick up more than one guy? you should have gotten that guy. although, a few years ago...i was the last pick of the draft...which gave me a waiver priority of 1. that wavier priority was shuffled after week 1. since i won in week 1, i was no longer the #1 waiver guy.
bub about: Football fans is it sunday yet?
bub about: hockey the pens have the league's highest rated offense in "nhl '08". sweet.
bub about: musics it appears that led zepplin will reform for a 'one-off' concert in london. if the concert is successful, a tour may follow. that would be flippin sweet to see.
bub about: fuckin pats... by the way, i heard on espn this morning that the docs think that everett will walk out of the hospital. apparently there was marked improvement from yesterday.
and it looks like the pats are gonna be in some shit for this one. people are starting to call for belichek to be suspended for multiple games. talk about pressure for this week's game. if they don't win, people will immediately say "see, they were cheating all along". i hope they lose.
bub about: festivus happy rosh hashanah berg.
bub about: kent state i can't, that's mid-term week.
bub about: the patriots are cheaters tell me that either team played "well". it was awful. if either team played well, it would have been a blowout. i'm not soaring at all, it was the browns. according to the radio guys, i'm not the only one who thought they both sucked. the last 3 minutes were fun though.
bub about: the patriots are cheaters that game was ugly. 8 turnovers, 15 penalties. that was ugly. the guys on espn radio(westwood 1) sometime in the middle of the 1st quarter said "this is ugly, it doesn't look like mcnair even wants to be out there. this is one sloppy game."
the whole thing made me feel better about our chances. 3 of the 4 teams in our division played like crap, and my team wasn't one of them. granted, we played the crappiest team in the league...but wow did those three look like poop.
and yes, that interference call was bad. much like the one in the OSU - Miami championship game.
bub about: the patriots are cheaters wes wrote, almost word for word, what i was going to say. take a few more lumps, chalk this season up as another big suckfest, then bring him in either way late this season or next season. or if you want to make me really happy, bring him in now, ruin any chance of him being a decent quarterback, and guarantee the steelers another 14 wins in 15 games against you. either/or.
bub about: New Year leanne, our official count is 7. me, abby, derek, blaine, blaine's girlfriend, pryber, pryber's girlfriend. they all know that once the tickets are ordered, they are paying whether they go or not. they also know they'll be paying any surcharges. if tickets are over like $100, can you let me know before you order? that may lower the number a little.
bub about: the patriots are cheaters wes, i'm seeing tickets on sale on stub hub for the new years day game. $111 each. for upperdeck seats. is that even possible that they are on sale already? i wouldn't think they are yet. especially since it hasn't been formally announced.
bub about: the patriots are cheaters apparently the pats are suspected of stealing the jets signals and using videotape to spy on them across the field. cheaters.
bub about: heh...heh....heh...heh now i hate you for starting a conversation of about an over-achieving trailer whore. water always finds it's level. she should be handing her 3 year old $30 to go get her a carton of dorals and some tampons. she's garbage.
bub about: smoking ban the government should not tell you what to do. either making smoking completely illegal, or leave me alone.
bub about: footballs it's been so long since your team was any good, but i am still able to fully enjoy beating the living tar out of you guys any chance we get. it never gets old. i do have some pity on you, hence, not displaying the steelers logo on bdc for two weeks each fall.
that whole injury situation in buffalo sucks. that has to be demoralizing.
bub about: 30th bday gift idea for me you just wanted to show off that you know how to get those weird letters to show up.
bub about: footballs championships?
bub about: footballs brown stripes = skid marks, which is what we've been calling you for years.
bub about: ha! i just had to call a client, whose name is charles norris. So hard to keep a straight face.
bub about: soccer review this week's soccer review.
serie A (italian league) fiorentina and milan played to a 1-1 draw yesterday, which is basically a win for fiorentina. milan are considered major contenders for the serie A championship this year. fiorentina looked really good. played hard, had lots of chances, but couldn't put the ball in the net. milan had a bunch of chances too, but sebastian frey (fiorentina's goalie) mad a couple of sick saves. milan's goal came on a penalty kick. the fiorentina defender brought a guy down in the box, and didn't even need to. stupid mistake. fiorentina's goal was a nice one from adrian mutu. the rest of the serie A games went as they should have.
english premier league newcastle won 1-0, should have been 6-0. bad officiating and about 4 shots off the post. aston villa (owned by the lerner family) beat chelsea 2-0. that was a big shocker. like the raiders beating the colts. fulham came back to tie tottenham 3-3. fulham was down 3-1 with 13 minutes left. liverpool killed derby (as expected) 6-0. everything else went as expected. cristiano ronaldo was so excited about his team(manchester united) winning their first game of the season, this weekend...that he hired 5 hookers for he and some of his buddies to nail at his home outside of manchester. that made the papers. he's classy.
there will be no league play this weekend, because of the international games (euro 2008 tournament qualifiers). the big matchup there, is france vs italy on saturday.
bub about: sweet i would hope it's at least an option.
bub about: flash back appalachian state isn't "no name"...greg lloyd went there. that was hilarious, though. now if only OSU would lose to the likes of the citadel or something. that loss can't be a good thing for the big 10 though.
bub about: sweet i found my golf cart for racing on the bubdotcompound. i just need to figure out where to mount the pudding hose. sweet
bub about: soccer by the way, the super cup is today at 2:45ET. you can listen on RAI (in italian) or you can watch it at live-footy (do a google search). ac milan (the champions league champs, best tournament in europe) vs. sevilla (the uefa cup champs, 2nd best tournament in europe). one of sevilla's starters died on tuesday from a heart attack that he suffered on the field on monday.
bub about: civil war that's the thing. sure, if it's still 1915, go for it. but it's 2007. if i was flying a flag with a swastika on it, i'd expect people to be pissed. i don't care what the original meaning was, or anything else about it. if i were to wear a tooth-brush mustache, i'd expect people to look at me funny. i want to key that guys truck every time i see him.
bub about: civil war well, yes...that would certainly be racist. i guess it depends on who it is. hitler...racist. nathaniel forrest...racist. stonewall jackson...not really. i mean, pretty much any white southern leader from that time has at least a hint of racism inherently associated with them.
bub about: civil war and i don't find statues and such to be racist, because it's honoring the person. the flag represents the confederacy and it's beliefs. it's beliefs were the offensive part.
bub about: civil war i enjoyed dukes of hazard, but it was simple. at 5, i wasn't the shining example of enlightenment that i am now, so i dug the impossible jumps and chase, and that silly bastard, roscoe p. coletrane. and what 5 year old doesn't like a car that has a horn that plays music. knight rider wasn't a good show, but i loved that too. talking car = awesome.
bub about: bye bye soccer do you think that study just asked 5 people, one of which happened to be a complete idiot? i don't know a single person who couldn't point out the US on a map.
bub about: bye bye soccer biggie, i believe it's "the iraq", you stupid US American.
so random subject...but there's this jackass that drives a big pickup in downtown with a confederate flag thing that covers his whole back window. pisses me off to no end, but whatever. there's a guy that lives down the street from us that flies a 1777 style american flag(with the 13 stars in a circle). do you think that the 1777 version of the american flag is the northern equivalent to the bars and stars of the confederacy? i think it should be. i think we should use it as a big "eff you" to the jackasses that insist on displaying the confederate flag.
bub about: bye bye soccer can that really be true? 20% can't find the US? they should be put to sleep.
bub about: bye bye soccer sucks that he got hurt. but apparently he did his job. there wasn't a single MLS conversation on bdc in the last 3 years, until he come over. if we are a microcosm of the US, then the money was well worth it, even for the few games he played. the funny part is that all those people who "paid $150 per ticket to see beckham", will pay that same $150 next year, since he only played in like 5 cities. the whole thing will start over next season, but people are going to be pissed at him for getting hurt (which is retarded).
in other soccer news, i didn't realize until a few days ago that i won't have to dvr the fiorentina/ac milan match on monday, cuz i don't have to work. i'm not very smart. i'm hoping fiorentina pulls off some sort of crazy signing today, since today is the close of the transfer window.
bub about: dumb how dare they play this new fangled game of soccer. that guy is gonna be such a tough dad who has kids that wanna smash stuff and hit people. he doesn't want his kids catching the gay from that soccer.
bub about: dumb i heard about it, but that's the first i've actually seen of it. i personally feel that she's the dumbest US American i've ever heard speak.
bub about: footballs or better yet, have you ever heard of not cheating on your wife?!
bub about: advice for Browns fans i think the best of all of them was the al davis comment. a new gold chain for his lady glasses.
bub about: advice for Browns fans i agree with wes. i didn't find the TO line very funny. i also enjoyed the posluzny comment, the billick comment, and the fred taylor comment.
bub about: fantasy balls sounds like a decent lineup. you were the #1 pick right?
bub about: advice for Browns fans you guys hear that tim couch admitted to briefly using HGH. that worked out well for him, huh?
bub about: advice for Browns fans did you guys read dj gallo's article on page two from a week or so ago. good stuff. comical season preview
bub about: NCARB i have given up on the pirates, but they have been playing pretty well of late. 8.5 out of the central. granted that would be 21 out in the al east, but whatever. they only need to win 13 in a row to get to .500. it must be nice to have zero pressure to win.
bub about: fantasy footballs 100% LT
bub about: Tribe heard about it on the way home from class.
there should be a law against a 4 hour technical writing class. it's the 7th circle of hell.
bub about: week 1 roundup i can't wait to go back, during soccer season.
bub about: week 1 roundup week 1 of the serie A is over and here's the roundup.
fiorentina (5th last year) won 3-1 over empoli. the young fiorentina superstar giampaolo pazzini scored. so did adrian mutu and christian vieri. intermilan(last years champ, finished 22 points ahead of the 2nd place team) drew 1-1 with udinese(a bad team). inter's goalie got a red card for a hand ball outside the box. ac milan won 3-0 over genoa, no surprise there. roma won 2-0 over palermo (really good match). juventus beat the hell out of livorno (not surprising) 5-1, david trezeguet scored a hat trick. lazio (3rd last year) drew torino(17th last year) 2-2. that's about it. the rest are pretty boring matches, like hearing the scores for the pirates - astros score. no one really cares. i know you guys care a lot, but i don't feel like writing it all down. fiorentina plays ac milan next monday at noon. i'm dvr-ing it to watch on wednesday night, so don't tell me who wins.
bub about: haha. not funny.
bub about: the permed mullet was in the third grade, the pegged skidz weren't until 6th. i'm sure there are pictures of both, but unfortunately for you the weren't at the same time. cranberry was relatively trashy back in the day.
bub about: i also had a permed mullet at one point.
bub about: andy, i had skidz and pegged them. it was a dark period in my life. then again, i've never been accused of having good fashion sense.
bub about: turd twister um. wow. where do you find this stuff, andy?
bub about: big brother that reminded me of that guy that used to "preach" at the student center at kent. that guy was always fun to watch. what a douche. what more of a receptive group could you find than 18-22 year old college kids?|
bub about: big brother i think what drives me nuts about the whole thing is that apparently not offending people is the most important thing in this country. it's retarded. i'm offended by lots of things. i don't try to stop the things that offend me, cuz it's really no big deal. aggressive driving offends the crap out of me, the ohio sports offends me, the smell of patchouli really offends me. but really, some idiots like that stuff and is my opinion worth more than theirs? not remotely. people need to chill the fuck out and remove the collective sticks from their asses.
bub about: big brother where = wear
bub about: big brother people can easily be offended by some people's fashion. vulgar t-shirts, butt cracks hanging out (and other indecencies), racist slogans. so long as you've got clothes covering what the law deems obscene/indecent, then where whatever the hell you want.
bub about: getting old sucks i've taken to the #3 setting on the clippers. almost a buzz. no hair sucks. i'm doing the st. baldricks day thing with berg, so i'll be trying out the "no, i shave it on purpose, i swear, it's not that i'm bald, i just like the look" look.
bub about: getting old sucks so, i realized the other just how much weight i have put on in my late 20's. it sucks. so, i have decided to start running. obviously not my activity. last night was night #1 of running. if i had swiss army knife on me right now, i'd cut my own legs off. can't wait for night #2 tonight. blah. you runners are insane.
bub about: big brother what bothers you about the pants?
i can't stand the way the goth people's pants look, with those pins and ginormous legs, but it's none of my business. i don't dress that way, cuz i think it looks stupid. and i don't know if that would fly on casual fridays.
bub about: big brother edit: double golf SHIRT wearers
bub about: big brother what they SHOULD be cracking down on is collar poppers or the double golf wearers withe both collars popped.
bub about: big brother or shorts and long johns...
:)
bub about: soccer update nice! i haven't looked at the tv schedule yet. it's gonna be hard for me not to find out the score (cuz i have no will power and i'll look it up).
bub about: big brother retarded. if you want to look like an idiot, go for it.
bub about: soccer update i forgot to update you guys on the EPL this week. i forced schmidt and sweeney to watch the newcastle vs. aston villa match at steph's house this weekend. go figure, it was this week's 0-0 draw. they weren't pleased. i'll take the 1 point for the draw and move on. newcastle are in 6th place, but have played 1 less match than those above them (they had a match postponed on the 15th). manchester united lost to manchester city, in the manchester derby. it's like when the browns beat the steelers, rarely happens and it's an intense rivalry. manchester united are without wayne rooney (big stud, broken foot) and cristiano ronaldo (also a big stud, red carded for head butting someone, suspended for 3 matches). no real major shockers, so i won't bore you even more with the scores.
in more exciting soccer news, the serie A starts this weekend. i'll keep you posted.
bub about: baseballs one pitcher gave up 8 earned runs in 2/3 of an inning. nothing like that to jack up your ERA. his ERA for that game was 108.
abby was saying this morning that in football score, that would have been 210 to 21. that sounds so much worse.
bub about: baseballs how about the 30 runs the rangers put up on the orioles last night. not including the 9 runs in game 1 of the double header.
bub about: In an effore to be fair didn't you tell me that you couldn't take my money last year, since we clobbered you in the second game? i will certainly pay you the $20, but i believe your shame lead you to cancel the bet.
bub about: In an effore to be fair i have the steelers defense in my work league. i can't wait for those 10 shutout points in week 1.
bub about: In an effore to be fair certainly. i'm getting points this year?!
bub about: fantasy football how could austin and buffalo both be near the top of the cool scale, they are so different. obviously the results show the flaw in the study. ;)
bub about: fantasy football speaking of fantasy football. are we doing one? i can set one up today if you guys feel like doing one. i don't care whether it's for money or not. if it is for money, someone else has to collect it, cuz we still own dmac some money.
bub about: fantasy football i had my work draft last night. it's early, but whatever. some dude took olindo mare in the 5th round. the 12th ranked kicker...in the 5th round. what?! who does that? he also took jeff reed in the 9th. i got whosyourmomma in the 4th round and followed with the standard "championship!", and that guy followed with "toilet bowl". what? dude is a such a tool.
bub about: damn blinky message thingy i listen for the same reason. i'm usually ready to hit pedestrians by the time i pick abby up from work. a whopping 14 minutes of sports talk, before i'm homicidal.
bub about: damn blinky message thingy the damn blinky thing doesn't work right, because they changed the version of php that the server is using. i'll fix it some day.
bub about: In an effore to be fair i couldn't give the stones #1, for one reason only....mick jagger and david bowie's "dancin' in the streets". i know a solo performance is separate from a group performance, but i just can't separate the two. that was awful and he should have been put to sleep right then and there. they've had some incredible songs, but that was bad. i am able separate paul mccartney's wings debacle, but only because lennon died. zepplin was flawless to me. i couldn't care less if they ripped off songs from other artists, they were flippin awesome.
bub about: In an effore to be fair wait, you've never, ever listened to sports talk radio? ever?
bub about: go ahead Brown we were in cleveland this weekend. we watched the end of the game at the ABC tavern on W. 25th. some dope in there was super geeked about brady's performance. i decided not to poke the drunken bear. the sports talk radio was fairly unbearable. half started out their comments with "i know it was against the third string, and i know you don't start a rookie qb, but he HAS to start the opener" the other half just opened with the typical "he has to start, he was amazing!" i can't wait for september 9th, if he's starting. they'll be sopping up his blood and spinal fluid from the turf for days.
bub about: shocker siegfreid and roy have finally announced that they are gay.
bub about: wow wait, we have to get them presents? thank you cards are no good? crap.
bub about: soccer update sorry i didn't return your texts, andy, i was asleep. saw the goal this morning.
bub about: soccer update that goalie was completely clueless. one heck of a kick.
bub about: soccer update i wouldn't say he "plays" for newcastle. he's paid by newcastle. i can't wait to see him play regularly.
bub about: soccer update i'm rooting liverpool on that one. i can't stand chelsea. i'm sure that means you like them, since i don't think you and i have ever rooted for the same team.
bub about: soccer update xenophobe.
bub about: soccer update eh, i got lazy, nevermind.
bub about: soccer update when i was picking a team to root for, i researched a bunch of stuff about each team, and here's why i picked newcastle.
1. their fans (call geordies) speak an almost unintelligible language (much like pittsburgh). 2. newcastle fans are a blue collar sort of folk (again..) 3. they are sponsored by newcastle brown ale and i dig that. 4. they have sweet uniforms. 5. bob (rhodes) said if i were from great britain, i'd be from newcastle. (whether that's a compliment or an insult, i don't know)
i forgot to do my soccer update the way i planned...i'll do that now.
bub about: soccer update and yes, it was a 0-0 draw, but that was the only one in the league so far (out of 11 matches).
bub about: soccer update yes, as in the the browns.
and aaron, newcastle are like the giants, because they have some significant talent, but usually end up in the middle of the pack. they have some problems with some injured players and are getting a little long in the tooth. they always "have a small chance" at a championship, but it's never very realistic.
bub about: soccer update since you guys are all interested in soccer now, i thought i'd update you on the epl after week 1.
manchester united (the yankees) tied reading (the devilrays) 0-0. in that match, wayne rooney (a-rod) broke his right foot (throwing hand), he's out 2 months. newcastle united (my team, akin to the sf giants) beat bolton (the astros) 3-1. our new manager used to be the manager for bolton. tottenham hotspur (the cubs *spends a buttload of money, underperforms*) lost two matches this week (one on saturday and one yesterday) to two crappy teams, sunderland (the chattanooga lookouts) and everton (the marlins). it's been a fun week. on saturday, newcastle plays aston villa, who are owned by the lerner family.
bub about: ahh..pittsburgh.. i always forget how cosmopolitan buffalo is.
bub about: ahh..pittsburgh.. oh please, like buffalo and cleveland don't have plenty of mullets. those kids are from baldwin, the heart of mullet town.
bub about: other canadian questions i bet a roast beef sando with some fries and poutine would be pretty tasty.
bub about: other canadian questions leanne, what's tabarnak mean? i had a baseball tournament in sarnia, when i was in high school and a team from the quebec area used it all the time. i may have misspelled it.
bub about: hockey i can find zero mention of farmers in reference to the habs. i feel duped. i gotta place the blame on either mike lange or paul steigerwald. bastards.
bub about: hockey i was always told that habs was derived from the term for farmers...i have no evidence of anything, that's just what i was told.
bub about: baseballs for you baseball fans, phil rizzuto died today, at the age of 89.
bub about: hockey so, i'm guessing based on the demand and the uniqueness of the outdoor game, we're gonna get raped...
bub about: hockey that's pretty shitty. a ticket should cost the same no matter who it is. it's almost like they are scalping their own tickets.
bub about: interesting yeah, you want them to be happy to see you, but i would think that after cleaning up pee for the 50th time, you'd rather they chill out.
bub about: hockey sweet.
bub about: hockey wes, have you heard anything recently about the outdoor game? abby and i were just talking about it.
bub about: football wes, you guys get to see 3 quarters worth of former Pitt Panther QB Tyler Palko. which ought to give your defense a couple of picks.
bub about: soccer and berg, cheap shot. cheap shot.
bub about: soccer again, i don't think anyone was suggesting that it would surpass any of the major sports or the major college sports. i'm confused as to how the conversation got started, but the crux of it is, whether it's beckham or not, soccer is increasing in popularity. i'm happy about that, because i like soccer. i'm surprised you aren't a fan. andy, brad, abby, derek, and i will have our own fun little soccer talk. losers.
bub about: soccer wes, you should know better than that...in no way can website visitors count towards something's popularity. there are two types of "hits" that web sites get. 1. is unique hits, and 2. is page views. they produce drastically different results. that, combined with the fact that 99% of NFL fans get their football news from espn or cbs or yahoo, as opposed to NFL.com or MLB.com or NHL.com. MMA is growing a lot, no doubt, but those stats are complete trash.
bub about: soccer tv ratings are totally skewed, mostly because espn has vested interest in poker and arena football. arena football, bowling, MMA, tennis, more than likely boxing, have less attendance than soccer.
bub about: soccer i don't think anyone was saying soccer would usurp football/baseball/basketball/hockey/etc. i'm trying to think of 9 sports that are currently more popular in the US than soccer.
bub about: soccer and in no way am i saying that david beckham is going to turn soccer into america's favorite sport, but he will have an impact. and i think cathryn's point is very valid(about soccer, not the moorman jersey).
bub about: soccer but the world cup did have an impact. since the world cup, soccer enrollment is way up. there's always going to be a group of US sprots fans that will hate soccer, because it's soccer. i completely understand not liking the slower pace than hockey. i'm not trying to convince anyone to like soccer. i'm glad i gave it a shot. i love it. soccer requires a real attempt at understanding the rules and timing and such.
just as an aside, i hate the diving in soccer...but diving happens quite a bit in hockey too.
bub about: soccer i didn't like soccer before i gave it a real shot. i played under-6 soccer till i took a shot in the balls, then i quit. hated it growing up, hated it till last year. once i gave it a real shot, it's incredible. mls doesn't really count for me, there is a dramatic difference in ability between the mls and the european leagues.
i don't think you guys could be more wrong about beckham. i concede he won't score a ton of goals, or make the ability level in the league rise, but if him coming to the mls gets a few more kids interested, and those kids start playing, and those kids end up being good soccer players, that will increase the level of play. and if him coming to the mls gets a few more kids interested, there's a few more fans. if the interest in the game itself goes up, then the level of play is bound to rise. his jersey is selling like hotcakes(not sure how hotcakes are selling these days). the crowd at rfk stadium last night was 45,000+. that's the 8th time that rfk has had more than 45,000 fans at any game, including nfl/mlb (2 all-star games, 3 games against the yankees, and 3 washington senators season openers). that's pretty astonishing that he can have that kind of impact in attendance.
bub about: Beckham makes his debut (well, according to the announcers) wes, what is it about soccer that you dislike?
bub about: Beckham makes his debut (well, according to the announcers) ankiel, what a stud. crazy as a loon, but a stud either way.
and beckham made his "mls debut" last night. the match against chelsea was a friendly and wasn't an mls match. that's the reason for "debut". i hear you got tickets to the mls cup final. nice!
this weekend has a bunch of fun stuff to watch. steeler game on saturday, newcastle united season opener on saturday, the rest of the epl season openers on saturday and sunday, the bundesliga season opener today with stuttgart vs schalke '04. lots of sports, not enough dvr space.
bub about: Pacman a wrestler my head might explode, after reading that.
bub about: Steely McBeam we're all embarrassed to have a mascot in the first place, let alone naming him stealy mcbeam. i'm pissed. if they HAVE to have one, why name him something that stupid. and why make it a bill cowher look-a-like? dmac suggested the name "the terrible mascot" (dual meaning. terrible towel referrence, and it's a terrible idea). i'm hoping this is a one-season mistake.
bub about: i'm bored someone entertain me.
bub about: barry bonds i couldn't care less, mostly because the record should stand for about 8 more years. i definitely think that it should be asterisked. bonds taking steroids is the only thing that the players themselves could control. the field size, the density of the ball, etc. babe ruth's 714 homers are more remarkable to me, mostly because the parks were bigger and the ball was softer. the talent of the pitchers is debatable, but all in all, he was better home run hitter than aaron and bonds. i'm glad it's over though.
bub about: BQ is my QB i can't wait till LaMarr Woodley plants his facemask in quinn's back, rolls him over, rips the heart out of his chest while chanting "kali ma shakti de". quinn makes me hate the browns more, if at all possible.
bub about: berg sure, let me do a bunch of work to help prove your ridiculous point.
andy, my email is briancmountain@gmail.com
bub about: ala carte your OJ, ray lewis, and pacman points are moot, since none of them were convicted of said crimes. OJ's was a civil conviction. what you're really saying is, if they are a cleveland brown, you give them a pass. if it helps you talk trash about a friend's team, no pass and guilty until proven innocent. i can totally see how that's not hypocritical| we've been wrong all along| you're moral high-horse is not for sale|
bub about: Random thoughts from the weekend. there is some discussion online about dismantling the packages and allowing people to buy channels ala carte. i'd be a huge fan of that. i'd get rid of a lot of channels.
bub about: footballs my football boner is large. last night was fun. it was so strange to see the steelers going vertical. so strange. i'm not jumping the gun with my optimism yet. pre-season is garbage. it is nice to see that we've got some fairly decent looking options at running back. that carey davis has thighs bigger than my waist. what a bruiser. can't wait to see some more of the starters and how they've adjusted to the new system. and i can't wait to see more of the system when it's used by and against 1st stringers. seems to be less predictable than we've been for the last 38 years.
bub about: are you kidding me i'm gonna bet you can't compare job stress to hormonal stress. one is environmental (which he can control) and one is biological (which can't be controlled). the truth of the matter is the guy has some issues. if his issues are so bad that he can no longer tell the difference between right and wrong, then maybe he shouldn't be playing in the NFL and should probably seek some help. if he willingly and knowingly cheats, then what's to say he won't break other rules. what if he goes a little loopy again and decides that he needs to hurt another player in an attempt to keep his job? when you wade through all of the possibilities, you always come back to the fact that the guy purposely cheated. he didn't say "hey i took steroids" before he tested positive, did he? that would earn him a very slight amount of respect from me, but that would be very slight. the is a cheater, period.
bub about: footballs i still believe that deserves chastising and booing. i couldn't root for a guy that knowingly took a banned substance. no matter what he says in his apology, he DID intend to compromise the integrity of the league and his team. he knowingly dishonored his fans and family. you can't say "i didn't mean to", after saying "i purposely cheated". and my reaction is not because it's the browns. if that was a steeler, i wouldn't root for him anymore.
bub about: X-games the who's are doing well? i don't know what you mean.
bub about: soccer prodigy who deleted my, aaron's, and berg's posts?
bub about: soccer prodigy wow. someone is a christiano ronaldo fan. that kid is pretty incredible.
bub about: ichiro hated cleveland funny quote by ichiro. "To tell the truth, I'm not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to. If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying."
bub about: Bored "if yer not first, yer last"
bub about: Bored hasn't the double back flip already been done? i thought i saw a guy do that last year. i believe i was at the panther hollow inn with blaine and jt.
bub about: OSU vs. Kent tickets i can't think of anything i'd rather do less, than go to any OSU and have to pay $86 for it. ugh.
bub about: baseballs i can't wait for sunday. steelers first preseason game.
bub about: baseballs that was the pirates sending a memo to every pirates fan in the area. i believe the translation is something like this..."we don't give a shit whether we field a competitive team or not. to show you our commitment to not winning, we've picked up a has-been pitcher who should be the #3 starter on you local VFD softball team. so, you can kindly roll up your desire to root for a winning team and cram it up your ass". the word-for-word translation may be slightly off, but that's the gist of it. i'm done with them. completely and utterly done. i won't even watch the games on tv or listen on the radio. it is possibly the worst organization in the history of sport.
something to make you smile...eric moulds signed with the titans. no signing bonus, no incentives, for the minimum veteran pay, he just wants to play.
also, someone called a talk show that OJ was on, and ask him: "Did you kill Bill Walsh?" that might be the funniest call-in to a talk show ever.
bub about: footballs they already have the drug dealing felon a RB, might as well add a gun-slinging DT. douchebag QB, douchebag TE, douchebag RB. i'm starting to see a pattern.
bub about: Pants wes, it's ok to admit that you like a band that is the modern southern equivalent of styx. there's nothing wrong with that.
bub about: Pants it actually might be.
bub about: Pants did you look at the pic i linked? i see a mullet on the far right, an afro-ish thing on the far left, and a leather sport-coat/members-only jacket on the far right. they are one helmet pant away from a styx photo.
bub about: Pants styx has at least one great song. "renegade" is awesome. if you don't like that one, you're not cool. and journey had some pretty awesome back in the day. and not to stoke the fire, but KoL looks pretty similar to styx see.
bub about: baseballs wes, your sox just picked up eric gagne.
bub about: booo bill walsh died today. he was 75.
bub about: Footballs i certainly don't like it. i couldn't imagine going through it year after year.
bub about: Footballs i'm interested to see how the season goes. i'm in the unusual(for us) position of having a new coach(es). i have no idea how this system will work out, how everyone will adapt to the changes, etc. i'm optimistic, but it's cautious. too many questions to be confident. has ben's brain unscrambled, what kind of affect does a 50-50 run-pass ratio have on things. so many questions. can't wait to find out the answers. i've only gone through this once before, and i was 14 at the time. the instability is disconcerting. this could be awesome, or this could be awful.
bub about: $$$ and josh, don't worry, i'll have your site done by then.
bub about: $$$ i feel jealous that they won't ever have to join the white collar world, but it doesn't bother me. i'd rather be in the white collar world than busting my ass in the blue collar world. i think the amount of money they make is insane, no question. i'm not crying a river for the guys that are paying them zillions of dollars either. it's all relative. i'm certain i make less than everyone here, despite 7, half-assed years of college, but it doesn't bother me any. i actually just registered to finish up my classes. which may be why i'm much less pissy about that stuff than i used to be. working full time and going to school full time ought to be interesting.
bub about: legos...awesome 18' long aircraft carrier made of legos
bub about: $$$ they better stay off josh's lawn too. kids these days.
bub about: footballs our's too. we're already in full pads with full contact.
bub about: movies the last theater i was in, i had slightly more room than normal. i was able to angle my legs so that they were between seats. point being, my couch is way more comfortable for watching garbage movies.
bub about: movies i can't think of christian bale as anything other than the kid in "newsies". i can't take him seriously. but i'm not a movie buff by any stretch of the imagination.
speaking of actors and such. anyone seen how sad and pathetic scott baio is these days? his show "scott baio is 45 and single" has to be the most depressing show outside of "breaking bonaducci". i mean, he was charles in charge and was banging the hottest of the hot, now he's banging estelle getty's older sister.
bub about: movies and before derek and sweeney get started, i know they come out with movies other than that, but i'm not interested in your weird artsy/demented/indie films.
bub about: movies agreed. the only acceptable buddy movie is bad boys 2. i am really tired of sequels and comic book movies. come out with something other than that and i might consider cramming my knees into a movie theater seat. other than that, i'm watching on dvd on my plenty-big-enough couch.
bub about: Tour de F**k Up yeah Br*d, what's your problem?!
bub about: Tour de F**k Up dammit cathryn.
bub about: Tour de F**k Up i know he was kicked out by his team for missing 2 random drug tests (one in may and one in june) and then misrepresenting why he missed them (said he was training in mexico, but another cyclist said he saw him in italy during that time).
as for racing as an independent, i'm guessing he's out, because his team said so. i would think that since they sponsored him, they paid for his entrance fees and such. i would think he'd need to re-register or something...and i'm guessing that deadline has passed. all conjecture on my part. maybe the tour de france doesn't allow independents? i don't know. it's stupid to begin with. it's an event where you either have to dope to win, or you literally need to be born with a defect (enlarged heart). i say, let them all dope. who cares? like that's the most dangerous part of the race (falling off the side of those crazy turns on the mountains, happens every year). i'm thoroughly disinterested in cycling, but the scandal has made it almost slightly interesting.
bub about: Harry Potter that makes me sleepy just thinking about reading.
bub about: stupid lunch i thought you were there at some point, but couldn't remember.
bub about: stupid lunch fatheads is the place with the garlic fries. i think wes had to walk out at lunch once after the crawl, because his salad had fries on it. schmidt had to puke in an alley from his hangover. it's the place we usually go when we have bad hangovers.
bub about: stupid lunch no, not a gay bar, but it was weird to ask me to go to happy hour after commenting about my penis.
bub about: stupid lunch i got lazy. i OPENED the bag, but didn't feel like taking the chicken out and cleaning a plate.
harry is a ghey-wad. after noticing my mustard stain, he asked if i wanted to go to fatheads for happy hour. i said no.
bub about: stupid lunch so, i went to reheat my lunch (leftover chicken breast and broccoli from last night). I got lazy and didn't take the chicken out of the ziplock bag. it melted the bag to the chicken. dammit. so i work 5 minutes from ikea, and they've got hotdogs for $.50. bingo. i grab some change, grab some hot dogs, throw some ketchup and mustard on there and hit the road. i covered my entire upper-body and lap with napkins, didn't want any spillage. i'm eating my last dog, two bites left...and blam mustard right on the crotch. that napkin was apparently terrified of mustard and had moved out of the way. big BIG mustard spot right on the wang region. i walk back into the office with my hand kinda blocking the mustard stain. a coworker is standing outside on the phone and says "hey bub, you have mustard on your dick", the group of ladies to my right all check it out. thanks harry. one yells, use hot water, that'll get it out. now i have a huge wet spot covering most of my groin. what a fun lunch.
bub about: Stuffed what are you, a 7-year-old girl? you can barely finish 1? i'm not sure i could down two easily, i'm sure i could force it. i dig the qdoba chicken burrito and and order of chips and queso.
bub about: tribe v. sox it's pretty surprising to me that they are able to get 21,000 fans per game, considering they haven't been above .500 in 15 consecutive years. i'm so irate about the ownership group i can't even think. they told us if we provided them a new stadium (paid for mostly by tax payers) that they would provide us with a winning baseball team. they haven't even come close. they are taking their revenue sharing income and pocketing $25mil a year(at least). i understand their business plan..."we're guaranteed $25mil in profits each year, before we sell a single ticket, so let's just do what we've been doing and rake in the dough." it's just depressing to watch. i wish there was some sort of legal action the city could take against them.
bub about: tribe v. sox speaking of announcers, abby and i went to dairy queen a couple of weeks ago and were listening to the pirate game on the radio. i've completely given up them, but i still like the sound of a baseball game on the radio. anyhow...the announcers have apparently given up too. the play-by-play guy (greg brown) announced an entire batter using the count dracula voice. no idea why, he just did. this guy has also sung songs about guys hitting homeruns. abby and i were stunned. they rarely talk about what's happening in the game, usually it's a conversation about really good hot dog stands in milwaukee or some sandwich place in atlanta. bob walk couldn't sound any less interested. it's almost as though i got drunk with one of you, and someone put our conversations on the radio.
bub about: footballs football season rules. i like hating you.
bub about: footballs can you provide an example? then i'd say no, they haven't. truth of the matter is your team sucks and your new qb is a douchebag.
bub about: footballs i love that your unsigned qb is charging $75-$225 for autographed merchandise at the mall. what a quality guy| what a dickbag.
bub about: dead tammy faye baker died on friday. didn't know that.
bub about: wow holy crap, that's terrible. i'm surprised they aren't required to wear batting helmets. maybe they will be given mitts or something.
bub about: soccer i did see some of it, but i was playing beer pong, so it was discontinuous. i saw that he came in in the 78th minute. i'm surprised they only lost 1-0 to chelsea. the galaxy are horrible. chelsea must have some jet lag or something. my two soccer teams made some awesome signings in the off-season. newcastle signed mark viduka, joey barton, they are trying to get julio baptista. and fiorentina have signed a bunch of good young players, semioli, christian vieri (old, but we'll see), may be trading for edison cavani. ought to be a fun soccer season. a little less than a month.
bub about: gay sex sword fight.
i wanna see fun peoples, someone have a party.
bub about: Draft i second that, wes. ummmm...huh?
bub about: Vick vick is a douche.(based on his family's history of being a-holes, i'm gonna assume he's guilty) put him in jail for a long time. at least until his nfl career would likely be over. i would bet that he gets no jail time though.
bub about: footballs should we do a yahoo league? i'm not organizing it...cuz i still haven't collected money from everyone from two years ago to give to dmac...
bub about: footballs is anyone doing a fantasy football league this year?
bub about: footballs pre-season power-rankings as made up by cnn/SI. Highlights...pittsburgh #12, cincy #17, buffalo #23, cleveland #32. power rankings
bub about: Please comment so I don you guys didn't know about it, because you're all a bunch of conservative capitalist pigs, who were too busy slapping kittens and punching babies to care about the earth. err somethin'.
bub about: outside hockey gotcha.
i'm excited.
bub about: outside hockey man, the sabres message boards are flipping out about the outdoor game (i would be too, if we were hosting it). i'm super excited but some of them are talking about how it's gonna be awesome to get 75,000 in the stadium and another 15,000-20,000 outside the stadium. ok, keep your pants on. it's gonna be frickin sweet, but by november they're gonna be talking about 500,000 people at the game. so, where'd you see feb. 17th, wes? if it's the 1st, i may take off the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th to recover. and if it's the 17th, i'm taking off the 18th and 19th.
bub about: weird question sweeney, i'm not sure i've seen them since that night that they left really late. have you ab?
bub about: outside hockey february, even better...more snow to tailgate in!
bub about: weird question the owner is an architect who now lives in dubai. the owner was at the house when we put up our fence a few weeks ago, but they had only been gone a week, so we didn't think much of it. i don't think they were evicted.
bub about: weird question so, we (and some of our other neighbors) think that the family that's renting the house to the left of our's may have skipped town. no one has seem them in 3 weeks. they appear to have left their kid's bikes in the yard, just kinda leaving everything the way it was. at first thought, you assume vacation...but 3 weeks is a long vacation for a family of 8, where the mother doesn't work, i'm guessing the boyfriend only works part time somewhere, they've got 6 kids. i can understand that maybe they are staying with family somewhere, cuz they aren't from here. but who is able to take off for 3 weeks straight, even if both are working full time at a regular job? it's been at least 3 weeks, could be 4.
so my question...should we be concerned that someone might be dead in that house? at what point do you think we could safely assume they've just left town for good without moving the rest of their stuff? if they left town without their stuff, i wonder what could have caused that...think they swindled people out of money? think they change towns every 3 months, kill someone, then leave? this family is shady. i need answers.
bub about: Prince yeah, jc and i were tired of weezer/cake/bare naked ladies and were trying to find something that everyone would like, so chuck went home and got his anthrax cd. he was like "this is some really good stuff, i think you'll like it". i was kinda stunned.
bub about: Prince the recording industry has no idea what they are doing. they are making it harder for the general public to hear their product. they are forcing internet radio to effectively shut down. that just shuts down avenues to hear their product. the only viable avenues will be commercial and satellite radio. everyone knows that the same 15 songs are play ad nauseum on commercial radio. so the only places to hear new non-top 40 music are the handful of little stations (mostly with bad reception) and satellite radio, where you have to pay. i don't understand the idea of effectively shutting down internet radio. you can't make cd's off the stream (to my knowledge), unless you're recording it with a microphone or whatever (but you can do that with the radio too). they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. i say, screw 'em. so i wonder if an internet radio company changes their address to something outside the US, if they can get past the new law that's gonna be passed. it's not international law (or is it?). i'm glad i listen to RAI on the internet most of the time. they play some great music that i've never heard of, and it doesn't seem that they will have to deal with the recording industry.
and prince sucks. i wouldn't want his cd, whether he gave it away or not. much like chuck durbin's anthrax cd that we heaved out of a studio window.
bub about: MUSIC we'll even pay the service charge per ticket.
bub about: MUSIC i heard an announcement that the pens are playing the sabres on new years day. it's scheduled for HSBC, but "could be moved to " the Ralph. wonder how quick those will sell out. wes, your mission if you choose to accept it, is to find out how much tickets are and what the availability is. this is one decision i'm willing to make without abby's confirmation. we're in, if it's outdoors.
and as for sprint, i had much better reception in our apartment with sprint than i do with cingular/at&t in the house (and we're on top of a huge hill). verizon is the worst, by far. our old apartment put verizon phones in roam mode and drained the battery in less than an hour. abby used to have to make calls from the stoop. sprint was great. we're switching back to sprint next month. i've learned that sometimes you get clients that will never be happy, no matter what you give them. and when you get a client like that, sometimes it's best just to say "we'd rather not do business with you". 1,000 super complainers out of millions of customers, isn't all that bad. i bet the other carriers have a similar number of super-complainers sprint is getting the attention cuz they stopped giving them free shit, month after month. i say "good work" to sprint. good riddance to bad rubbish.
bub about: MUSIC just for fun, it's et al. abbreviated form of "et alia" (in this case). irregardless.
bub about: holy crap new theory...god did it.
bub about: holy crap equal parts urine and feces.
bub about: holy crap it's weird, it goes from solid marks on the street (rolling) to dashed (bouncing) to solid to dashed...to trunk. that must have been pretty violent to have hit a closed trunk, forced it's way into the trunk and broken the back windshield.
bub about: holy crap i have a few questions about the wrecking ball. 1. what are the odds that it would roll that straight? i mean the roads are usually pretty sloped from center to shoulder around here. 2. how did it go that far without smashing those other cars? it looks like it just grazed them. 3. how in the hell did it get up in the trunk of that taurus? i could understand it just smashing right through the back end....but it almost had to be bouncing. (derek, like ball bearing on a marble plate)
so weird.
bub about: For those of you who read Dwell i don't read dwell, but what's on the back page?
bub about: holy crap a wrecking ball broke loose from a crane, rolled down a hill in meadville, pa....coming to rest inside some dude's trunk. he was in the car at the time. um...
bub about: scuttle butt says.... 5 years, $45million. $9million a year isn't a bad chunk of change. he could have asked for $10million, but he told the pens that he would take less money if they used that extra $1million for signing some new talent. the players union isn't pleased by that one. who's gonna win arbitration when they are asking for more money than the best player in hockey.
bub about: scuttle butt says.... if that's the case, we have to go. i don't think there is any other option...
bub about: Hello?? where is everyone? i'm bored.
bub about: Hello?? i hate car rides so much. an hour and a half is just about my limit, then i get pissy and want to get out. makes me slightly less bummed that we couldn't make it. we managed to put up a fence around the back yard last week. it looks much better, and some how it looks bigger. i would have thought the opposite. we also had a mario kart extravaganza at derek's place on saturday. ridonkulously intense. sucks coming back to work after being off for 5 days.
bub about: Roll call has anyone heard from wes or leanne since last night? daniel briere and chris drury signed with the flyers and rangers last night. he won't be happy.
bub about: telephone insert "pay" before 5-10 times more...
bub about: telephone berg, but my post mentions nipples. i got nothin.
and sween, yes, you are going to get a better product if you buy a fancy phone, a fancy camera, a fancy ipod, etc, but you'll 5-10 times more, and you won't have the convenience of carrying around just one device.
bub about: telephone it appears the iphone can handle flash. at least according to the site i linked below. as for java, no big loss. java is a slow, memory hog of a language flash surpassed it in it's animation abilities and php surpassed it in processing abilities. flash and php can be together, so java is moot (or moo, if you please). regardless of it's relative short-comings, it's still leagues above any other phone gadget. i'm an apple disliker, but the iphone looks pretty darn sweet to me. my concern would be with scratching the touch screen...and with losing sensitivity on the touch screen. ever play a touch screen game at a bar that won't give you credit for finding the girl that is missing a nipple, no matter how many times you touch it? iphone flash
bub about: telephone abby is right. it's the best integration of the major devices that most people own. that's why people want it. that and there's a huge demographic of people that are gadget crazy. some people just have to have the most recent awesome gadget, even though the price will drop by nearly 50% in a year. honestly though, i wouldn't mind having an awesome ipod/phone/camera/computer thing....but i'm not paying $500 for it.
bub about: hockey looks like buffalo and toronto are safe from that bastard balsillie. the preds looks like they are headed to KC. can't wait for the penguins/predators rivalry to get going.
bub about: lil bush at the end lil' bush says "adios gazebos". the guy that does his voice is awesome. that show cracks me up.
bub about: lil bush i retract my last statement, after having watched that kimmel clip. i almost peed.
bub about: lil bush if you were baked and laughed at south park, then lil' bush probably wasn't funny. then again, your opinion isn't really known as the benchmark of comic awesomeness. you like paris hilton, for pete's sake.
last night's episode wasn't as good as last week's, but it was ok. my favorite part is when bush meets tony blair and says "i like the way you talk, w'er you from? narnia?"
bub about: Paris a few points...
michael moore and legitimate don't belong in the same paragraph.
larry king has angie dickenson on like 4 days a week. his show is garbage.
paris hilton makes me dumber.
did any of you watch lil' bush last night?
bub about: recommended tv sorry, 10:30.
bub about: recommended tv tonight at 10, on comedy central. lil' bush. it's a freaking riot. i know it's late notice, since you've all left work, but it's worth the watch. abby and i rolled on the floor laughing last wednesday.
bub about: Where i'm alive. just stupid busy. work is stupid. i spend 8:30 (ok 8:45) to 5:00 busting ass, then i go home and work from 6:00 to 9:00 half the time. i'm sick of it. i have work to do tonight too. i need a new, higher paying, fun job. or a rim job, either/or.
bub about: Architect maybe you guys should use architect apprentice.
bub about: Architect josh, i don't understand you analogy.
bub about: Architect the sense i get is the "if we can't use it, he can't use it". i think you should all be able to use it.
sincerely, brian mountain chief architect of bubdotcom.com
bub about: Architect he is not calling himself an architect. he is in no way proclaiming that he has the ability and know-how to design a building. it is the exact same thing as director (of a movie) is in no way similar to an athletic director. they are completely separate things. if the guy was attempting to pass himself off as an architect, then yes, you have a gripe. software engineer is an official title in the programming field, in no way are they capable of doing engineering work (nor could they drive a train). no offense, but it's an insane possession of the word architect. i love you guys, but you are all crazy.
bub about: Poverty architect...from the greek architekton. archi-: meaning first, earliest, most important, most basic.
tekton: meaning builder, craftsman.
1. a person who engages in the profession of architecture.
2. a person professionally engaged in the design of certain large constructions other than buildings and the like: landscape architect; naval architect.
3. the deviser, maker, or creator of anything: the architects of the Constitution of the United States.
seriously, it's a word, what you do is important, no matter what you call it. architect has many uses. it's ok, i swear.
bub about: Poverty i don't think anyone was blaming poor people for anything.
bub about: Poverty i agree, also...but there are obviously some circumstances that it's not JUST BECAUSE of their decisions/etc. whether it's drug use or not studying hard or whatever, chances are you can bring it all back to a bad decision.
the idea is interesting...and sad. i'm interested to see how things turn out. i wonder if it will create a scenario where you've got families just above the poverty level taking slightly lower paying jobs(decreasing their work hours) to get them just under the poverty level, so they have a shot at the extra $6k.
bub about: Reasons to hate Baseball any list that includes jeter as one of the biggest jerks in the majors is a retarded list. if you threw me under the bus in the national press, i wouldn't want to be super friendly with you either.
bub about: let and brady quinn....for a guy that throws for a living, he sure throws a baseball like a little girl.
bub about: let's do better today than we did yesterday. i was bored all day. i had nothing to talk about.
did you guys see that lavar broke his arm and leg in a motorcycle accident? that'll teach him.
bub about: stop being lazy... got it at target. $30. we're taking it to sweeney's 30th birthday party. i almost got a "triple racer slip 'n' slide" too. it's got 3 slip 'n' slides side by side so you can race your friends. all i have to say is "summer competition".
bub about: stop being lazy... yep. it's 6' by 10' by 22".
bub about: stop being lazy... we bought a swimming pool.
bub about: sorry c-town then you run the risk of melvin ely getting put in to take out labron's knees. when you've got 1 got that's good, and they've got 5...it's tougher to "take someone out". plus that's very jv.
bub about: sorry c-town hard to believe robert horry has 7 rings. that's crazy.
bub about: sorry c-town i just hope we can afford to pay crosby, malkin, staal, etc for the next few years.
bub about: sorry c-town i'm not sorry about the cavs losing, mostly because of berg...and partially because gooden's neck-tee doesn't deserve to win anything.
yeah, crobsy cleaned up this year. art ross, hart, and lester b pearson. not a bad year.
bub about: Go Cavs!! both articles are great. i read that pnc one last year. absolutely hilarious.
bub about: ridonkulous this dude etch-a-sketches labron. um. wow.
bub about: bored i have 1 hour and 12 minutes till i get to leave. watching people practice for the US Open is much better than working.
bub about: ladder golf i saw ladder golf at a pitt game a year or so ago, it looked cool, but i didn't think there were golf balls on the ends of the ropes, just big washers. i had no idea what the name was. i will be making one in the next few weeks, that's fo' sho'.
bub about: this weekend i just heard about "ladder golf" today. it looks pretty sweet. and fairly simple. it looks like it can be made for very very little money. if any of you buy one, you should be slapped. here it is.
bub about: this weekend i'm in a good deal of pain. my neck pain is almost gone. my index finger is still stoved. my calves are really tight. but the ribs hurt more today than they did yesterday. i don't think anything is broken, but it sure does hurt. apparently getting old, fat, out of shape, and doing belly-floppers in the sand is not a good idea. i had about 2 cups of sand in my shorts pockets and about a half cup in my ass crack. awesome wedding.
bub about: YAY if you're not first, your last.(ricky bobby, 2006)
the only thing that that matters is the ring...otherwise, you just got a really crappy draft pick out of it. i'm completely fine with losing in the first round, if we don't win the championship.
bub about: Brunt you guys and your running. i'll be the guy drinking beer, playing cornhole, and not sweating.
bub about: Ultimate frisbee plays are for gaybos.
bub about: hockey essentially SAYING that.
bub about: hockey wes, how do you feel about balsillie agreeing to buy the predators and essentially that as soon as he can legally get out of the arena lease, he wants to move them to hamilton? i'm so glad the pens stayed.
side note: the pens are in the running to host an outdoor hockey game on new years day 2008. if that happens, you and leanne have to come down. they are talking about working out a way to do it at heinz field. 65,000 at a hockey game outside would be awesome.
bub about: footballs i'm ready for football season.
bub about: footballs i love that brady quinn may hold out. that's awesome.
bub about: NBA Finals i got the numbers straight from the Center of Made Up Statistic, it has to be correct. plus, you read it on the interweb, so it must be true. it's iron-clad.
bub about: NBA Finals 100.6% of my city hates the NBA. i'm one of them. 140% of my city hates everything cleveland, i'm one of them. i will cheer against you with all of my being. i will enjoy an original sando with fries when you lose in 4.
bub about: totally off subject done and done.
bub about: totally off subject crap...more fun stuff. apparently emile hirsch is making an adaptation of speed racer. here's an article. check out the picture of the mach 5. my birthday is in november, i'd like to have that car. speed racer
bub about: totally off subject one more off subject thing...there is a movie coming out called "cornhole: the movie". filmed in cincy (obviously). it follows 4 teams through the national championship tournament. i hope it goes straight to DVD, so i can see it sooner.
dangley bags.
bub about: totally off subject i was just eating lunch and saw an article about jennifer anniston and her new man. i didn't bother reading it...but i think she should get together with david schwimmer. i'm comfortable with that relationship.
bub about: umm.... i agree. that could be a problem. someone smarter than me should fix that problem. i'm sick of $20million payouts for idiots who spill hot beverage on their junk or pretend to have gotten a finger in their chili.
bub about: umm.... i would hope it's satire. he should use pipe. and yes, josh hancock's dad is a complete dbag. that's exactly why we reform (like i'm told britain has), where if you bring a law suit and lose, you pay both lawyers fees. that would limit these kinds of dumbass cases. i'm sure dougums could/will correct me on that one. doug, is it britain that has a system like that?
bub about: umm.... could this article actually be real? i'm having a hard time deciding whether it is a "modest proposal" or if they are serious. maybe if the pipe punctuation was widely used, i could tell. is it that tongue-in-cheek that i'm not catching it? i hope they aren't really suggesting this. if so, they should be beaten about the head and neck. i'm not sure.
bub about: sports i just read an article about the 50 highest-paid american athletes in american sports. tiger woods made $112million last year ($12m in winnings and $100m in endorsements). that is more than twice the amount of money the #2 paid athlete made last year. de la hoya made $55m off that fight with mayweather. obivously he doesn't make that every year, so he was just a 1-time deal. the #3 guy last year was phil mickelson at $51million. that leads me to me new theory, i want to have 3 boys and teach them how to golf from the time they are 2. so in 30 years, i'll be they're manager and take 10% of each one's $100million (corrected for inflation). i'll be doing sweet.
side note. the bubdotcompound is contingent on me hitting the $315million powerball at some point. after taxes, i would have around $105million. tiger makes more than that every year. every...year. in ten years, he'll be well over a billionaire. he could buy a bubdotcompound every year. i hate him.
bub about: Stoopid cats!! we could bring cooper over...cats hate him...even our cats.
bub about: baseballs right about now is the time of year when i stop watching sportscenter. i take a few month break, because 1. i don't like basketball, 2. with hockey being in the finals...they have 4,000 reporters over-analyzing everything, 3. baseball is only 50 or so games into the season and they act like every game matters. i get tired of the "holy crap the mariners are on pace to win 150 games" "wow, todd helton could legitimately bat .400" "a-rod hit 2 more homers last night, but the yankees were up 6 at the time" "david ortiz saved 15 kittens from a burning building" "*insert yankees manager here*'s job is on the line, watch out for steinbrenner" "the pirates are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs". it's the same stories year in year out. it's not worth my time for another 3 months. i didn't see a minute of last night's broadcast. but, yeah, the sox are doing pretty damn well.
bub about: nekkid i'm sorry, did i miss something?
and i believe abby and i beat andy and biggie, we put in a retaining wall, instead of going to the bar/installing insulation/doing laundry. we now have an area for a patio, but it's crooked. lesson 1 in retaining wall/fence installation....it really is important to lay it out with stakes and twine. otherwise you end up with trapezoidal stairs. oh well, it's done, and it wasn't expensive.
bub about: bonerific i'm am bonerific today too. i'm taking a half day today to watch the champions league final with abby at piper's pub. liverpool v. ac milan. then we took off tomorrow and friday. no work till tuesday. sweet!
bub about: Bungles you know marvin is sitting in his office slamming his head off his desk.
bub about: Bungles hahaha. that doesn't look at all like nicholson offered her a bunch of money to say he didn't do it. i hit myself...awesome.
bub about: Bungles i literally just finished reading that article and came to post it. what a jackass.
bub about: Sabres i agree, you have healthy guys, but didn't you get a bunch of them back less than a month before the playoffs? they have to be a little rusty. maybe not. i don't know.
i do know that if they insist on using the dump-and-chase against ottawa, like the pens did till the end, they will lose tonight. buffalo is fast, but ottawa appears to be faster right now.
bub about: Sabres just try to enjoy it. the odds are stacked way against you. i was actually able to enjoy the last pens game and it made the end of the season much less bitter. you guys have had a friggin awesome season, no matter what happens. you've just had the misfortune of injuries and catching the hottest team in hockey at the wrong time. i can sympathize with the latter.
bub about: suicidal i can't wait till the cavs crash and burn...again.
bub about: LETS DO IT!! they play that animal house clip every time the pirates are down in the bottom of the ninth (which is aaaa lot). cheesy, but awesome.
bub about: suicidal i've been too afraid to ask how you guys are dealing with things. i can't imagine very well. we're pretty bummed for you.
bub about: zzzz where is everyone?
bub about: Music it's so much fun to do to berg. johnny romance and his pic-a-nic baskets.
bub about: Music being straight...
bub about: Music who the hell and howard shore?
bub about: Sabres fans are awesome (or is that crazy?) yes, reeves is in it. and tell the montrealites that your wife is canadian by birth. have her sing o canada in french. they'll love it.
bub about: Sabres fans are awesome (or is that crazy?) so i turned on Versus last night. it said "stanley cup playoffs - TBA". apparently comcast doesn't bother to update their schedule very often. anyway, youngblood was on. i haven't seen that in a hundred years. i forgot how gay it is. 80% of the movie is rob lowe and patrick swayze wearing nothing but towels or jock straps. and the whole body shaving incedent was the gayest hazing thing i think i've ever seen. i tuned in for less than 10 minutes, and saw less than 15 seconds of hockey.
bub about: Sabres fans are awesome (or is that crazy?) nice biggie. just once, i want to hear an athlete blame god for losing the big game. that would be awesome.
bub about: xenophopic morons you gotta admit, those mustaches are a little disconcerting. i mean, what are they hiding under there?
bub about: xenophopic morons oh wait. i was wrong. i was technically wrong about both. they were fearful of something foreign, making them xenophobic. and they were ignorant of the coins existence, making them dumb.
i retract my previous statements, you are both correct.
bub about: xenophopic morons speaking of which. i thought phobia was fear. wouldn't homophobia and xenophobia be fear of gay people and foreigners, not disliking them? how'd that come about? didn't the latin have a root word that meant hate? or have i had the wrong impression all along?
bub about: xenophopic morons i could be wrong though. they might be stupid and hate foreigners.
bub about: xenophopic morons isn't it their job as a military contractor to report anything that appears unusual? i would find coins with a different inlay and abnormal coating to be unusual. were they way over-cautious, probably, but that's better than saying "hmm, these are different, oh well". they are trained to be overly-suspicious. i wouldn't call them dumb or xenophobic. silly, of course.
bub about: Rogerk tell that to wayne huizenga and the '97 marlins. better yet, ask the '98 marlins what they think of that. the suckiest part is that without a salary cap, it's gonna be the same teams over and over. but with a salary cap, the pirates won't get the $60million from the league and will somehow spend less than they do right now....so either way, the teams the can't/won't spend money now, still can't/won't be able to then. it's effed. free-agency ruined sports.
bub about: Rogerk i am completely offended by what clemens has been doing with this "i'm retiring...until next may when i will come out of retirement to play for a team that's either willing to pay a buttload of money or a team that looks like it might make it to the world series". it's very lou lamorello-ish.
bub about: drunken hasslehoff i love that he doesn't get to see his kids now, because of that video. dumbass.
bub about: site update ok, things seem to be ok again.
bub about: site update i'm trying to clear things up. i had to delete a post or two.
bub about: site update well, it's come to that point where bdc is just plain ol' too expensive to keep running. i just got a $178 invoice for going over the bandwidth this morning. at lunch time today, i'm gonna take down bdc, unless burton hosting can come up with a solution. it's a bit sad, but i just can't afford it anymore. *tear*
bub about: baseballs awful. absolutely awful. almost as bad as most of the 1970's.
bub about: headline some newspaper reporter put this headline in the paper "Royals to get a taste of Angels' Colon". he's very punny.
bub about: hockey i think aaron should invent a hockey puck that has it's own heat signature then they can do the reviews with thermal imaging cameras. based on his past inventions, we can expect this in 2000-never. jerk.
bub about: hockey i heard about that this morning, but didn't see any of it.
bub about: dickey dmac thinks he can get to detroit in 3.5hours. if you are doing anywhere near the speed limit, it's not happening. and i was slightly off geographically. point is still the same.
bub about: Pitt i quit, my brain is fried. long day. LA sucks.
bub about: Pitt and i have to correct my statement about the area between beaver and new castle. i thought beaver was south of aliquippa and the rest. i'll correct that to "the beaver area has disgusting air".
bub about: Pitt and my estimate of 1.5 hours to new castle was off by about 15 minutes. the ball field is on the opposite side of town. regardless, they aren't close. i wonder why they didn't just do the cities themselves, like cleveland or pittsburgh or whatever. i can understand like st. paul and minneapolis or including coventry with cincy, but that's only cuz they really "share the same air". either way, it's a nice thing to see that only one place has worse air. it is pretty hazy downtown for a good portion of the summer though. i wonder how much of a drop-off there is from LA to the rest of the top ten. the pictures of LA are gross.
bub about: Pitt dickey, have you ever been along the route 60 area between new castle and beaver/aliquippa? if not, you should. you would see what i'm talking about. and if you think you can get from newcastle to pittsburgh in under an hour, you're on some serious drugs. newcastle is 35 minutes north of cranberry. trust me...i know. i lived right between the two. i played ball in newcastles most of the year. take a look at monaca, baden, beaver, rochester, aliquippa, etc. not nearly farm land and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a factory.
bub about: Pitt especially from whence we came...my grandfather worked at US Steel, and he used to have to take 2 shirts to work and change at lunch because he was covered in soot. and the street lights were on almost 24 hours a day.
bub about: Pitt obviously it's not a mathematically viable study, if smoggy cities and sooty cities are both in the top 10|
although i do find it interesting that the area they picked for pittsburgh was pittsburgh to newcastle. newcastle is about 1.5hours away. the area between newcastle and beaver i could see as having a disgusting air quality, because that is still a big factory/mill area, but pittsburgh has very few of those anymore. i'm quite impressed if only one area of the country has worse air than us.
bub about: brady quinn i'm confused by the statement. is it sarcasm? the pipe really needs to catch on in the rest of the written world.
bub about: brady quinn i just read that brady quinn slipping into the 20's cost him $17million. ouch. pretty much $1million per spot that he slipped.
bub about: KSU interesting. wish they would have included some sound bites...
bub about: darts ha. that's funny.
bub about: darts pointing when necessary is just fine. when you're winning...by a lot, it's whoring. but it's fine. :) next time you're meat.
bub about: where are the Browns fans? no one disagreed with your point. pointing is part of darts. you know dart etiquette says only point when you have to. you and brad point-whored dave and i as strategy while leading. that's why he thought you were bad andy. you were correct, that is the most likely way to get a win, but it's poor dartsmanship. it's all forgiven. we've all point-whored. the craziest thing was how long berg's game lasted. you four played for like 6 straight days. i'm surprised none of you had any serious injuries.
bub about: where are the Browns fans? i also love that dmac thought that andy english was bad andy at competition, because of the dart incident.
bub about: where are the Browns fans? i always forget that he's married. i've never seen his wife.
bub about: where are the Browns fans? abby watched the draft voluntarily. at one point, she had the remote and switched from the draft, to the hockey game, and then back to the draft. i was so proud.
bub about: where are the Browns fans? i was pissed by the TE pick in the 3rd round. apparently we need another TE badly, Heath Miller isn't good enough| and yeah, drafting a punter is never good. i think they hang out in the parking lot of dick's sporting goods. you just pick 'em up the day of the game. the TE pick should have been a 6th rounder. the punter pick should have been a lineman. i'm terrified by this new coaching staff if these are their picks.
bub about: where are the Browns fans? wes, you'll love posluszny. dude is pretty incredible. that's hard for me to say about a penn state guy, since my hatred for PSU is only outdone by my hatred of OSU. we had a very disappointing draft. who picks up a punter in the 4th round? seriously. we got one OL. one.
bub about: Cheerleaders... oh, nevermind. i got it.
bub about: Cheerleaders... i'm confused...did someone delete a post in there?
bub about: Steelers.. i like the jerseys, the helmets are a little weird. and the mascot should be nixed right now.
bub about: Lists i agree that it allows for completely different cities to be ranked near each other and that pitt and dc couldn't be more different, but with regard to it's "livability rating" they are similar. they both possess a large number of the characteristics that make a place livable (according to his criteria). there is no real decent method of doing that mathematically. in no way is it perfect or indisputable, obviously, since it's opinion based. i don't know. the argument is retarded. it's plain to see the pittsburgh is the mmmmawesomest.
bub about: Lists haha. pittsnoggle!
bub about: Lists i'll drop it.
bub about: Lists i couldn't care less about the results. i guess i don't see the criteria as unrelated. the categories are based on things people look for when moving somewhere. that's how they are related. the things that this guy considers to be important for a city to have to make it livable. am i way off?
and i agree you can make studies say whatever you want. my point is i don't see how this guy benefits from the study show X instead of Y. you need a motivation to manipulate things. if he was getting paid by pittsburgh, or lived in pittsburgh, i would have trust issue with this too.
bub about: Lists where would the distrust come in? of what benefit is it for this guy to rank pittsburgh 1st or rochester in the top 10? he says in the article he was hoping NYC would come out on top. the point of this "study" is to help folks who are moving to have a list of cities to look at. when looking to move to a new place, the majority of folks are looking a place that rates well in those 9 categories. some would rather have more museums, some would rather have the education be better. if you are looking for something in particular, you'll need to look for a more specialized list. this one is generic. it's got no weighting system. it doesn't remove the outliers. it's basically an average.
it does help pittsburgh, because most people still have the perception that pittsburgh is a disgusting ghost town of old mills and rundown factories. that couldn't be further from the truth. so if this list gets even 1 person to move here, then i'm happy. this place has so much more to offer than it's given credit for....just like most of the rust belt.
and wes, you analogy is skewed. if mcdonalds finishes 2nd to a 4star restaurant, then you don't have a large enough sample. that would pretty much mean the rest of the restaurants don't have more than 5's in all 4 categories.
bub about: Lists (in my best ricky-lake-show-guest voice) you don't know me! you jealous! tsss! you jealous! whateva! whateva! you don't know me!
bub about: Living in Pittsburgh Isn i guess i'm not seeing the problem. it's a list that says "these are the cities that we consider to be the best overall cities based on these categories". it's an objective list of a subjective topic. cathryn's dislike of the list seems to be that it isn't subjective enough. and wes, you're problem with it seems to be that it is an overall...i'm not real sure. it's a silly list like "best restaurant in the US". i'm just confused by the protest.
bub about: Living in Pittsburgh Isn i don't think this publication is trying to say that pittsburgh is better than NYC or DC, just that it's "more livable". much like the "best city for singles" lists and the like. they only picked nine categories and tallied the rankings based on that. i would imagine big cities have a disadvantage with the cost of living, but the smaller cities would have a disadvantage with the recreation and ambience.
bub about: Living in Pittsburgh Isn There are nine categories: housing affordability (cost of living); transportation; jobs; education; climate; crime; health care; recreation; and ambience (museums, performing arts, restaurants and historical districts).
quality of living isn't one of them.
bub about: browns fans is ghey a little story about greenberg junior
bub about: cleveland sucks too i just read this morning that the "dude" that wrote that LA Times article about buffalo and cleveland is taking a few weeks off to have gender reassignment surgery. seriously. his name will then be Christine.
bub about: cleveland sucks too can't believe i left out the pirates. i'm all sorts of stupid today.
bub about: cleveland sucks too that was in no way directed at buffalo.
bub about: cleveland sucks too funny part is when the playoffs are over...you'll still have zero championships since 1970 and i'll still have 7.
bub about: cleveland sucks too "both have 2 teams in the playoffs right now"??? really? you got an NHL team and buffalo got an NBA team? wow. that's awesome. and our hockey team made the playoffs.
bub about: cleveland sucks too first off...whoever wrote that article should be beaten about the head and neck. what an awfully written article. my brain needs a good scrubbing now.
david beckham wearing a reds hat is "significant" to english people because manchester's biggest rival is liverpool (aka, the reds). the part where they disagree that it's not really like that...that it's like a galaxy player wearing a dodger hat, is a completely retarded statement. it would be like seeing magic johnson move to scotland and wear a celtic soccer jersey. if the galaxy had a rival called the dodgers, then yes, they would be similar. possibly the most ignorant statement i've read in a while. i don't expect anyone to know anything about soccer, but if you're a journalist and you're gonna comment on something, at least research it a little bit.
ps. i'm wound a little tight this week. work sucks. c'mon powerball.
bub about: hey wes ah ha. makes sense. thank you. i wasn't sure if it was some secret hipster language that i wasn't privy to. you buffalonians have a lot of weird sayings.
bub about: hey wes what's the D cups, C cups... thing about? did i miss something?
bub about: sports congratulations on being the other team to hit four consecutive homers off of 1 pitcher| that ring ceremony is gonna be awesome| i can wait to experience something like that|
bub about: sports the dodgers one was cooler for me, for 2 reasons. 1. i don't like the sox, and 2. it was in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game...which ended in the 10th with a walk off.
bub about: boris yeltsen dead that is all.
bub about: frankenstein i'm hoping for jarret out of usc. they always let me down though...probably the tackle.
bub about: sorry p-burgh i'm actually not too bummed. yeah, it's disappointing, but they exceeded my expectations by a lot this year. not too bad for a bunch of kids born between 1984 and 1989.
bub about: frankenstein i was about to say "let's go buff-a-lo" now that the pens are out...but your dan marino smear hurt me deep inside. you just kicked my inner 6-year-old, way to go child kicker.
bub about: frankenstein unfortunately len is from pittsburgh. he's not an attractive man. he has a huge man-crush on dan marino...as do 95% of the guys from pittsburgh.
bub about: Official nice work thews. congrats.
bub about: Power drill the yippee bog - with the dude piston you're like frasier crane.
bub about: lost is eating at my brain i saw more of lost last night than ever before. we watched about 25 seconds. right at the spot where dude took the arrow to the throat. my questions are these: 1. when you step on a booby trap line, shouldn't you move? dude recognizes he steps on it. then give the old "whhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa?" face for a good 5 seconds. totally could have avoided the arrow to the adam's apple. and 2. how is that one dude still a big fat-ass? hasn't he been on an island for a long time? i would think he'd drop weight like it was his job. just the caloric decrease would make his lose like 50lbs. i say the others kill him and melt his fat for deep-frying some bugs and stuff.
bub about: Power drill the yippee bog - with the dude piston wow, mr. well-read over there. had to look that one up on wikipedia. i'm not so much of a reader.
don't forget nicholas. he's going in there with them.
bub about: Power drill the yippee bog - with the dude piston that was awesome. i never knew the lyrics. and berg, i was specifically looking for brick. i know pavers are the better buy, but i was looking for brick.
bub about: Playoffs unless you'll lose money doing so...then they won't do it. if versus will pay them, but they have to give it to NBC, then they are gonna put it on versus and hope people tune in. they advertised the crap out of the playoffs to make sure the wide audience knew where to find it. sucks you don't get to see it though. if we didn't have versus, i'd be pissed.
bub about: question yeah, but i am looking for bricks without the holes. can't find them on there.
bub about: question anyone have any idea how much bricks are? per brick would be nice....or if you only know the price by pallet, how many are on a pallet?
bub about: site update i don't have a problem with it this month, just don't want it to keep happening. that's all.
bub about: site update that should read "ok", not "oko"
bub about: site update oko, we're gonna have to limit the number of albums we put up. i just got hit with a $30 charge for going over our bandwidth 15 times this month. 1 new album a week. that way we can spread out who is downloading when. i'm completely willing to pay the monthly fees for the site, but i can't afford $30 extra a month.
thx, management
bub about: Question spelling is correct. and if i remember correctly it's about 2 or 2.5 hours.
bub about: race anyone tracking mikey in the boston marathon today?
you can track JT's (tall guy at competition that played beirut at dmac's) girlfriend too, just search for "minardo" on the search page. she's about 2 minutes behind mikey. it's on.
bub about: P yeah. sorry, i didn't see that till today...
bub about: P wikipedia has a list of shops.
bub about: P thews, there is a site that tells you what's at the waterfront...is that what you want?
bub about: sports guy... wes, what's the sports guy part? am i missing something?
bub about: DIY-ers articles like that bug me. to say that injuries have gone up 200% is one thing, but not following up with sales data...that's garbage. if sales have gone up 300% then the per owner injuries have gone down, that's just my math-dork pet-peeve. i understand that it would be tough not to be injured by a nailgun if you use one daily, cuz somewhere along the line something weird could happen. it's really difficult to shot yourself with a nailgun. you have to be extremely negligent. they have those guards on the tip that have to be pushed in at just the right angle or the trigger doesn't work. people are idiots.
bub about: bet board and berg, you're a tard.
bub about: bet board i'm not creating a bet board. takes too long for something that useless. just do it on here.
bub about: Buf/Stillers it would be great to hang out for the game either way. if it fits in your schedules.
bub about: pens well...that was awful. nothing went right. nothing.
bub about: Buf/Stillers i don't think dmac has tickets. there was some dispute. he was buying them off dawn's cousin and he wanted them back...or some shit. and yes, dawn is very pregnant.
bub about: Buf/Stillers you are certainly more than welcome to come to our house for the weekend. we can hit a bar or i can just beat the crap out of you in the living room, whatever is more comfortable for you.
and abby has been trying to post for a few minutes...she says "it's too late leanne, you have to BE stillers fans"
bub about: Buf/Stillers every now and then people can get some tickets at face. most of the time it's one seat. to get seats together, we'd be paying $200-$300 per ticket for 4 together. this summer we should check on stubhub or something like that...that's our best chance.
bub about: football schedule points of interest...
pittsburgh at cleveland week 1 buffalo at pittsburgh week 2 cincy at cleveland week 2 pittsburgh at cincy week 8 cincy at buffalo week 9 clev at pittsburgh week 10 cincy at pittsburgh week 13 buffalo at cleveland week 15 cleveland at cincy week 16 2007 NFL schedule
bub about: site update nope, that's just what berg told me. the link really has nothing to do with gmail.
bub about: website i'll work on that tonight. seems to be something with the way IE is handling the size of the table. it works just fine in firefox. actually, it works just fine in firefox on the main comments page, but does not on the sorted comments page...i'll work on it.
bub about: for you hockey fans... how dare you bring up the 5-overtime game on a day like this!!
bub about: berg-ish stats a'rod hit his 6th homer in 7 games last night. at this rate, he'll hit 139HR with 347RBI....he's got a real shot at MVP.
bub about: site update or, if you'd like a gmail account, let us know, we can invite you to use it. it's mmmawesome.
bub about: calendar since we're all so busy and getting old and forgetful, berg asked me to put a google calendar up on bdc, where can can all add our birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, parties, etc...and everyone can view them. you can find the bdc calendar above the 'b' button on the comments page. it is not on the topic sort page or the name sort page, just the main comments page. berg will send you an invite to be able to share your events with us. it is a monthly calendar and you can navigate forward or backward, blah blah blah. yay for organizational tools.
bub about: site update ok, the topic, delete, and name sort should now be working. it appears that they changed the version of PHP that they are running on the server, so my code wasn't up-to-date. glad they bothered to notify me. anyway, that should work...if it doesn't, tough.
bub about: yeah, i've read that too.
bub about: yeah, we need big help on the o-line.
bub about: has anyone seen greg olsen in the workouts. dude has crazy speed for a TE.
bub about: i'd love to see the steelers pick up jarret from USC with their first pick, then an O-lineman, cornerback, O-lineman, linebacker, cornerback or O-lineman, DE.
bub about: they could very well move up the depth chart, but they are listed below the others at the moment. talking big shit and talking irrational shit at different. one makes you look smart, the other makes you look like a browns fan. do you really want that?
bub about: neither of those two are on the depth chart at the moment...at least on NFL.com's depth chart.
bub about: draft aaron, you're more than welcome to come here for the draft. we can setup a conference call to buffalo in the attic, so it's like we're all in the same place...
bub about: NFL based on the bengals depth chart those are now your 3 and 5, at best. i would be slightly concerned that for the first 8 games, any time you have a third and long, you've got a guy with 0 catches last year on the field. granted, tj and chad are very good, but in no way is glen holt nearly as good as braylon or joe j or even josh cribbs.
bub about: music i'm going to work on a login screen to access the ftp site tonight, to make things a little safer. if you have trouble getting in, let me know.
bub about: i haven't felt like figuring out why it's not working. maybe tonight...maybe i just won't do it...who knows.
bub about: bam bam margera is the most irritating person on television. i would rather my television played nothing but "my super-sweet 16" than watch 20 second of anything relating to bam. i can't stand any of the jackass guys. maybe the wedding show is more interesting than viva la bam.
bub about: nah, there is one in the west and another one in the east. i think it's the 3 vs. 6 game in the east and the 1 vs. 8 game in the west.
bub about: hockey the worst part about the scheduling is that saturday is in ottawa, sunday is in pittsburgh.
bub about: corrections wes, i have a correction from my texts on saturday night....i mistakenly types hart trophy, i meant art ross trophy. i'm a dope.
bub about: pryber we're going to lunch at the penn brewery if you want to meet us there.
bub about: hey, i'm coming to pick your ass up to go eat at a brewery, where you get to watch derek and i drink beer cuz we don't have to go back to work...so thank your lucky stars you little ingrate.
bub about: haha. and likes thumbs that's good stuff. i get the afternoon off too. penn brewery here i come. some pretzels n'at, and a penn hefe-weizen. mmmm.
bub about: and wes, how does this work for stats? the pens had 2 goals during a 5 minute elbowing major. does that count as 2 goals and 1 powerplay? or is that 2 goals and 2 powerplays? how does that work for statistics?
bub about: i thought the first series was a 5 gamer...or has it been so long since we've been in the playoffs that i'm thinking of baseball?
bub about: baseballs berg, ha! see what happens when you pick up a bucco reject. hernandez hits a batter with the bases juiced in the bottom of the ninth. awesome!
bub about: dude, everyone that gets out to a fast start has a shot at the mvp...until they hit a dry spell or get hurt. i can't even fathom anyone talking about anyone having a good shot at mvp this early. it's retarded.
bub about: xavier nady had 2 homers in his first 2 games. he will not be contending for the MVP. nor will he be near ortiz's homer total.
bub about: it's a play on his first name and the letter used to keep track of strike outs. nothing to do with dice clay.
bub about: dice-k wes, are you taking a half day so you can watch dice-k's debut?
bub about: i heart math.
bub about: 1991 berg, he was talking about the pirates and making fun of you. buccos, 3-0. sole possession of 1st in the central. so funny to get all pumped about 1/54th of the season.
bub about: yeah, she's got boobs.
bub about: hair andy, i can sympathize
bub about: eggs berg, that's hideous...
bub about: just in time for easter some egg stacking pics weird.
bub about: KoL i like knocked up and charmer the most. probably in the opposite order.
bub about: we did hear that.
i would attribute about half of it to the sabres being better and half to the pens playing like garbage.
bub about: other sports awesome quote from the leading soccer in US national soccer history, eric wynalda, about jim rome (who said he's more interested in water polo than soccer): "Jim Rome can suck my dick, and he should be very afraid, if I get too many drinks in me, I will club his ass." haha. i love angry threats. i would also love to see someone club jim rome like a baby seal.
bub about: pens - sabres wow did we suuuuck last night. couldn't put two passes together. that was the worst i've seen the pens play in months. hope that's not a sign of things to come. the powerplay was awful. the officiating was odd, you'd get 4 straight powerplays then we'd get 4 straight. very weird. i swear to god, every loose puck or attempted penguins pass or rebound was a like a magnet to the sabres sticks, it was insane. yinz are good.
bub about: please upload
bub about: yes...
just wanted to say good luck to you sabres fans tonight. i'm sure there will be texting.
bub about: as ridiculously fun as it sounds, it looks like we won't be able to make it this year. i'm depeche (as you say).
bub about: for all the ladies out there a little you tube video of alanis morissette covering, in a very mocking way, my humps
bub about: as for lamoriello, he sounds like a real cool guy|
bub about: brad, don't soob. at least you got the excitement of all three teams getting to the championship, that's pretty remarkable. i'm sure it's hard to reconcile the losing, but it's better than having a team that's been under .500 for the last 14 years...or you could be a bills fan...or worse, a browns fan.
bub about: hockey so, do you think that lou lamoriello is a complete ego-maniac? he fired their coach even though they are 2nd in the conference and headed for the playoffs. he said he didn't think the team looked poised for a good stanley cup run and that their coach hadn't gotten them focused on winning the cup. so he's taking over the job. anyone else think he just wants to coach in the playoffs and if they win, he gets the credit even though Julien did all the work to get him in position? dude seems like a real douche.
bub about: mainiacs what town is the house in?
bub about: sports brad, if they gave out rings for fans of second place teams, you would have a fist-full by the end of this year.
i'm totally ready for the game tonight, hopefully the pens show up from start to finish, unlike the last few where they failed to show up until halfway through the second period.
and apparently the buccos are back in early-1990's shape with their win yesterday. world series here we come. on a pace for 162-0. our lineup is completely....alright, i'm done.
bub about: you're a trip. it took all of 2 innings to get you foaming at the mouth.
bub about: some of those dags are hilarious. like the puggat....
bub about: sabres just wanted to thank the sabres for beating the devils last night. that helped us quite a bit. that puts us in a tie with the devils with the same number of games left. that'd be sweet if we could win the division.
bub about: bad sentence i think he's trying to say that john is very certain that architecture is not a joke, but wishes that thinking about whether it's a joke or not would not interrupt his daily life. either way, it's a god-awful sentence, with terrible punctuation. it's pretentious and ghey.
bub about: electricity haha. you should feel special, ab, you made out with a guy who should be a professional football player.
bub about: i think we should also invent punctuation for hyperbole.
bub about: HOT Influence + Imposition that couldn't be more pompous.
bub about: fight the fight was not very impressive, but the square off was quite long.
bub about: blanket fort is that post by sweet jay? that's all i could think off while i was reading it.
bub about: greg oden i've refrained from saying this so far, but how friggin old is greg oden, really? i mean he looks like robert parrish's older brother. i can't wait till he's in his mid-thirties. he's gonna look like "wise", from the labron commercials in a few years. maybe he has the talk guy version of "progeria". i almost feel bad for that freak.
bub about: nhl playoffs begin on april 11.
bub about: bills trade TKO and kelly holcomb to philly for darwin walker and a conditional draft pick in '08.
bub about: to be clear...i'd be all for this, if the car wouldn't start if you are above .08%. that would require me to stay at people's houses or take cabs more often, but it takes away that decision making process for me. and certainly makes the roads way safer...but .025%, gay.
bub about: wait, what? pennsylvania state legislator wants all cars manufactured for use in PA to be fitted with an interlock...a device that measures your BAC before ignition. if it's over .025, then the car won't start....even though the states limit is .08
bub about: i'm still caught up in hockey. i'm excited about baseball, but not as much as hockey at the moment.
bub about: i wish he would. that poor lady.
it intrigues me when folks say that "God came to me and told me". i mean, seriously. i wonder if it's more like having a thought and wondering "huh, where'd that thought come from?" or i wonder if it's a way of justifying your wants to someone else...or do they really here a voice like dude is sitting right next to them? it's so weird to me. my initial thought is that it's got to be some sort of delusional thing. i just can't understand it. sorry if that offends any of you that may be more religious.
bub about: big news my coworker that has 9 kids, his wife is pregnant again. the lord told him that he will have enough kids to fill his van. his 15 passenger van. wow. creepy sonuva bitch.
bub about: electrical troubleshoot haha. yeah, "the other part" is a bitch. although, i've found that since i did the wiring in the attic, i'm completely fascinated by electrical work. granted, the walls were just studs, so there was no tearing up of drywall and stuff.
bub about: i do believe that circuit breakers can go bad. so that's a possibility. they are an easy fix. if that doesn't work, you may just need to trace the series from the power source and check each connection...that should help find what's causing the disruption.
bub about: electrical troubleshoot i don't have extensive knowledge, but there could be a few things that could do it. when you say you removed that fixture, does that mean you replaced it or you took out that fixture and patched the wires together? do you know if the light fixture and outlets are on the same electrical circuit (not referring to the breaker)? is it possible that bumping said fixture could have some how broken the circuit at one of the other connections? are you positive that the wiring is correct? is the light the first connection in the series?
bub about: jesus christ, bdc is a little too creepy for me today.
bub about: never heard of that in little children before. i often catch abby plastered to the arm of the chair. i hit her on the nose with a newspaper and she stops. that's what i'd recommend.
bub about: you click on the diamonds, to make them bigger. you can only click on each one three times, you also can't click on the same diamond twice in a row. the object is to get the corners of diamonds to touch the corners of other diamonds...and make a "chain" where they all connect somehow.
bub about: today's brain work a good time waster. i got through all of the levels, not really all that difficult. Planned.
bub about: i know abby has one of their albums, not sure which.
bub about: bored? abby, have you been sniffing glue? what's fun about that page?
bub about: if i ever catch any of you icing a hamstring with a cold beer, i will beat you like a rented mule. who does any of those things. beer is for drinking, that's it. i'm disgusted by that article.
bub about: some people are strange.
bub about: thanks, glad you liked it. i should have had less of those before we left for the crawl. they go down rather easy. i was stunned that i didn't hear you guys having a bon fire. and can someone re-tell me the story of thews falling in the men's room at the boneyard?
bub about: that was hilarious. wes: "abby, we're fighting! good night" abby: "zzzzzz....zzzzzzz" me: *darth vader breathing*
bub about: hockey so, just for argument sake. i was looking at the "trophy tracker" on espn's NHL page. lindy ruff is the leader for the coach of the year (jack adams award). now i agree, he's done a terrific job, especially with the injuries you guys have had. and i might be biased, but should michel therrien be a little higher than 4th? he's taken a team that hasn't finished better than next-to-last in 4 years, to the 3rd best team in the conference. that's a huge jump. the islanders weren't great last year, but they were 20 points better than the pens. and vancouver was a playoff contender. michel therrien for president.
side note, i don't think there's a player i dislike more than brodeur. he's super good, and i'm sure he's nice, but i want to take a wiffle ball bat to his humongous head.
side note intended for brodeur to read: put a god damned chin strap on your helmet, asswipe. i'm sick of seeing it come flying off. it cost the penguins a goal a few games ago cuz they had to stop the action cuz it fell off. that should be a penalty. i know it's hard to find one that fits on the boulder of a head, but i'm fairly sure you have the money to have one custom made.
bub about: i'm bring my sleep apnea machine so i don't keep you all up with my snoring...the side affect is awesomely voluminous gas. the non-smelling kind.
bub about: i have no idea what i'm supposed to be looking into with regards to the calendar....how about YOU look into it and tell me how to do it. that sounds like more fun for me.
bub about: i neeeed sandos with fries. corned beef will make me crap.
bub about: seriously. i'm dying here.
so in what part of town is the crawl going to take place? downtown, tremont, some other place?
bub about: not kidding at all.
bub about: bdc i have just been informed that bdc has been blocked by the chinese for content. no non-sensical rants about nothing for them.
bub about: that's insane!!! if you take 1440 minutes in a day...and the average song is 2.5 minutes, you can play 576 songs(give or take), without commercial. which would be 210,240 songs per year at $0.08 per song, that comes to $16,819.20 per listener per year. that's completely ridiculous.
bub about: i would be so very happy. although, i'd love to see ohio state get trounced in the first round. no offense to you ohesians, but i hate them. and not with the healthy fun hate that i hate the browns with. i haaaaaaate them.
bub about: that. was. awesome!
bub about: i know how you feel, happens here a lot.
so does anyone else hate the kind of people who speak as though they are reading a thesaurus? who says things like "the rest of the events that transpired that evening" or "i was a very fortunate individual" or "i have acquired the services of multiple friends for the move"? i mean, c'mon dude, who are you trying to impress? you just look like a jackass. it doesn't help that i want to beat the hell out of this guy to begin with, but over-annunciating your words and using bizarre overly-complicated sentences makes me want to "pummel him about the head and face whilst using my non-so-ergonomic dual-armed sitting apparatus as a decapitation mechanism". ass-hat.
bub about: ugh is it saturday yet?
bub about: cathryn. something changed on the server, so they aren't working right. it seems that they changed the way that the server handles data transfer. i've been trying to get to the bottom of it. i may just turn that off so they stop pulsing.
bub about: yeah, that goal was a gift. i'll take it :)
i tell you what, the sabres are one fast team and it always feels like you guys 8 guys out on the ice. i swear you guys cheat.
bub about: aaron, i wish you would have stumbled upon it in the first period. the whole game was like a playoff game. lots of hitting, lots of great plays by both teams. i might have a rosier picture because of the outcome, but at least you got to see that demoralizing goal with 6.9seconds left in the game. bastards.
bub about: it's a good thing you guys don't know how to get around my security features|
bub about: i'd say "no posting music" *wink**nudge*
bub about: and d, it helps to have your name in the name box...
bub about: i wonder if they computer you were on didn't have flash.
bub about: i am in such a good friggin mood today. the pens are staying. i don't have to listen to "will they or won't they" conversations anymore (kind of like the relief after the election season when the attack ads are over). i'm geeked for this weekend. i get to see my cousin's band on friday, you schmucks on saturday and sunday. we get a free piano tomorrow, and i don't have to lift it. what a good week.
bub about: funny that it wouldn't work...since the host server is IN london. stupid internets.
bub about: 46-0...we won the last game, didn't we?
bub about: speaking of the pens....i just looked at the schedule for this week. they have to play buffalo tonight, then new jersey tomorrow. that's a brutal consecutive nights draw.
bub about: speaking of awesome news. the penguins are staying in pittsburgh. apparently they met yesterday, even though they said they weren't meeting till tomorrow. the official announcement will be tonight before the pens/sabres game. huge sigh of relief.
bub about: berg, your tin-foil hat might be on a little too tight.
bub about: i think the gasoline thing goes along with the summer thing. people tend to drive more in the summer than the winter, partly because of weather, partly because of daylight. they look for any reason to raise prices.
bub about: i had 103 left. so i got 89. i had a few that i named, but couldn't get the spelling. some of them i would never ever ever think of. like east timor.
bub about: have you guys seen the "place the city" game? you have to place the exact location of the specified cities. it tells you how far off you are in km. you obviously get more points for being closer and doing it quickly.
bub about: simon did anyone see the brutal chop to the face from simon against hullweg last night in the rangers-islanders game? what an ass.
bub about: way to give me hope...dream smasher.
bub about: so, it seems the penguins' fate will be decided tonight. there is a meeting at 6:00 in philly with all parties involved...plus comissioner gary bettman. houston dropped out of the running for possible relocation places. vegas isn't really a viable option (since the arena there is 23 years old and the city and state would need to find some money to build a new one)...so it's us and KC. i'm going to be crushed if they leave. and i'll be pissed at everyone involved. it's beyond taking sides. all of them are being a-holes.
bub about: i have no idea what our cohorts are doing. i know i'm sleeping at your house. and i'm bringing home brew. a case of "dixie's blackened voodoo lager".
bub about: family guy is fantastic. simpsons is boring. seinfeld is predictable. eh. to each their own.
good pickup cleveland. he ought to work out well| i hear lawrence philipps may be making a come back, you guys want him too?
bub about: the simpsons too. waaaay overrated.
bub about: i purposely don't watch shows that require weekly watching/dvr-ing. i see so many people who are owned by their tv schedule. no one on here, but other folks. i don't want to be like that. we watch science channel stuff, discovery channel, TLC, HGTV, sports, and whatever other garbage is on tv. we try to catch house weekly, but i'd say we might catch it 2 out of 3 weeks. i like the freedom of not getting behind. i'm glad you guys like that, i just can't do it. i like a good sitcom. maybe you gotta be a person who doesn't like sitcoms to get into the 24's, hero's, lost's, etc. by the way, someone has to say it...seinfeld was one of the worst television shows ever. ever. i'd rather slam my junk in a car door than watch an episode of seinfeld. AAAAALL of my guy friends love that show. i don't get the appeal.
bub about: studio 60 that's why i liked it. i don't like having to watch every freakin episode. it's an episode....not a 1 hour segment of a continuing story that takes forever to find out what happens. i like sitcoms. it's an isolated 30 minutes of entertainment. there needs to be more of that.
bub about: studio 60 that would suck if studio 60 is over. i like that one.
bub about: apparently something has changed on the server, that they've failed to tell me about. i need to make some changes tonight. those of you that had trouble signing in and posting, should be fine. hopefully i can fix the Topic thing and figure out why the flash on the main page isn't getting the data it needs. i blame the british.
bub about: he should be boarding his plane from PIT - NYC shortly. i dropped his off at 8:15.
there was a thing on fark about the ravens cutting jamal lewis, and saying the bengals are drooling over the chance to hire another ex-con.
bub about: hockey with sidney crosby's next point, he will be the youngest player to reach 200 points. breaking wayne gretzky's record. i'm gonna bet that phrase gets mentioned a lot with that kid. assuming he stays healthy for long enough.
bub about: aaron, i'll try to work on that this weekend.
bub about: KSU... professor from kent state declares that osama bin laden will defeat the US in 2007. nice work jack-hole. he's a militant muslim. this made fark.com crazy professor
bub about: music have you guys heard "the pack" yet? skateboarding hip-hoppers. good shtuff. not on pandora, unfortunately. the have some clips here.
bub about: bigs, there is no limit that i know of, as far as the number of people logging in to the FTP site with smartFTP. it is very handy for tranferring xbox games from box to box.
bub about: something is wrong with the server, which is causing the main page to think there's a new message hopefully that goes away soon....same with the topic not appearing on this page.
bub about: again, honestly, i rarely listen to the music that gets posted, mostly cuz i'm just not into music that much. the reason it's there is cuz i know you guys are into music. i'll look into the radio thing, if it doesn't cost me more money, then i'll do it, other than that you'll have to get it with smartFTP. sorry if that sucks.
bub about: sorry, abby was me. i had to post something for her earlier.
i don't think the record industry would look into it, but i don't want to chance it much. aaron, you could still download them with smartftp. i'll be completely honest, the convenience of downloading isn't worth even thinking about getting into trouble for it. whether it's ridiculous or not, i'd rather not have the possibility. the recording industry has been ridiculous with their pursuit of downloaders.
bub about: the sweet part about bdc radio, would be to take my pc at home up into the attic, open bdc radio and listen to sweet music and play pong.
bub about: just take down the zip that's up there and put up a new zip. there's a lot of stuff up there.
bub about: they would be stored on the ftp site. i can't make it you can get to it with a link. i couldn't stop you from getting it via smartFTP or something.
bub about: go to ftp://ftp.bubdotcom.com
i'm not real sure if we're in danger of not. i don't particularly feel comfortable risking $150,000 on it. signing in doesn't make you exempt.
bub about: it would basically be an online radio station. bdc will be accepting applications for dj's.
bub about: i think i may start working on bdc radio. it would mean we couldn't download music, but you could upload whatever and everyone could listen to it and we can't get in trouble. that way, if you like what you hear, then you can get the owner to burn you a disc...or something.
bub about: i lighted up the background a little. is that better a'ron?
bub about: site update unless you come directly to the comments page, you've noticed the changes to the main page. i will be making some changes to some other things as i go, but that's the new look of bdc. if you like the old look better, you go to http://www.bubdotcom.com/bdcmainold.php
if you don't have flash, then you'll need to use that page. i'll be changing little things on the main page, so if you have suggestions, let me know. derek, your flatline thing was a good idea, but it didn't look as good as i hoped. i had to scrap it.
bub about: i don't think he is. pens can't buy a win right now. granted that's just two in a row, but it's 3 out of 4...we need to get back on track.
bub about: zzzz i wonder if they just dream sounds with darkness...
or maybe they dream about previous lives or something.
bub about: zzzz where is everyone?
bub about: football i don't know which team is home. i didn't read that far. i'd be pissed if the steelers only had 7 real home games next year. piiiiiissed.
bub about: football so the NFL is playing a game in london this year. october 28th, giants vs. dolphins. over 500,000 ticket requests have already come in from over 160,000 fans. the nfl says that does not take into account the tickets allocated to each team. they said most of the 500,000 ticket request came from uk based fan groups. that's crazy.
bub about: Crawl Weekend i believe we will arrive saturday afternoon.
bub about: test test
bub about: cincy and apparently the NFL players are tired of some of the off-field antics, they propose a 3-strikes rule. sorry derek.
bub about: cincy what is the deal with cincy athletes? ryan freel was supposedly trolling craigslist for "morning fun before practice", while down at training camp. creepy dude. although, that's not a crime.
bub about: go Browns! haha. browns fans are funny....when they aren't completely annoying.
bub about: best hockey game ever. they also threw out that drury hit the ice face first, ala kevin stevens.
bub about: best hockey game ever. espn called it dirty. i agree.
bub about: best hockey game ever. i saw the highlights last night. i appreciated the win, gave the pens a 1point lead on ottawa for 4th...with a game in hand.
bub about: KoL look at andy and his smartFTP-ness. ha p-ness.
bub about: brunt hey brunt, i didn't get any email from you...
bub about: football aaron brooks was cut by the raiders. i hear he is really good. better than that jeff garcia.
bub about: Indians Fued not sure if its news to you, but shilling will be filing for free agency after this season. according to espn...and a sound clip by curt shilling.
bub about: crawl i'm not sure punching a stripper and having a friend shot two guys is usually referred to as a tryst...but yeah. sucks that the one dude is now paralyzed from the waist down. i say send pacman to jail. what an a-hole. did you hear what started it all? he does this thing called "the rain" where he just throws a bunch of money up in the air. eff you pacman. eff you.
bub about: question do any of you not have the flash plugins on your computers? or maybe it's easier to say, can all of you see the buttons on the main page? nothing has changed, it's just a survey kind of thing.
bub about: Beer Belly looks like it's $74.95 for the 2.
bub about: Beer Belly of course i am.
bub about: Hello? yeah. what's up?
bub about: Sabres are mega they are ridiculous. even with the crazy run the pens have been on(were on), they are still way behind buffalo.
bub about: Update yeah, what biggie said...but i would have spelled it correctly.
bub about: baseball i was more into baseball in the mid 90's than you've ever been. trust me. i didn't miss it. i just wasn't reading your post carefully enough to realize which of the 95 alomars you were talking about. omar was fantastic, but the wiz was better. you probably don't remember watching the wiz much, because the indians stunk, so you didn't care. that and i doubt you got many NL games being in clevetown. the dude was every bit as ridiculous as omar. he's the one who patented most of the "moves" omar used.
bub about: baseball speaking of baseball and awesomeness. does anyone ever pick any team but the st. louis cardinals when playing rbi baseball? we used to have the "no one can pick the cardinals" rule. it was always a jail break to see who could get their cursor to them the fastest.
bub about: baseball 1. i never found alomar to be that great. that's just me. i found him to be a good catcher, but it his last name wasn't alomar, he would have gotten significantly less attention. tony pena was a far FAR better defensive catcher. even benito santiago, was better. i can't remember anything cooler than watching those two. pena with that one leg stuck out there all crazy like. and santiago throwing 10's of dudes out from his knees. the wiz was better than omar. omar was awesome, but the wiz was the wiz. maz is clearly the best 2nd basemen ever. brooks robinson at third. 1st base, gehrig...but he was before the gold glove (i haven't looked at the list at all)...maybe donny baseball(sorry wes). jim edmonds, willy mays, and roberto clemente in the OF. greg maddox on the mound.
bub about: presidents day and i'll be bring up a case of my newest home brew. it's supposed to be awesome, but we'll see. i made it last night. smelled good.
bub about: presidents day $10-$15 is best.
abby and i will be there this year.
bub about: zzzz you guys are awfully quiet. berg, say something rude to get everyone talking.
bub about: st. b day no, you got the html correct, but the frame is it's own thing. if you use the link thing, then it works fine, but the frame display is more complicated than i feel like posting. it has to do with the refresh.
bub about: SPORTS i was just looking at the pirates roster. it hit me really hard that only 4 players on their roster are older than me. and none of the pirates are older than dmac.
bub about: architecture derek's firm...
bub about: SPORTS looks more like a failure. i'd be pissed if i was an indians fan. for lots of reasons. this year is actually pretty exciting for me. the pirates have a reasonable shot at being better than completely awful. with the way they played the second half of last year and picking up laroche, there's some optimism that might last till may.
bub about: SPORTS oh and keith foulke is retiring before throwing a single pitch for the indians.
bub about: SPORTS i saw that this morning. that sucks.
bub about: tongue twister... those japanese and their crazy gameshows. MXC is awesome, though.
bub about: SPORTS it doesn't sound like they are going to do much. at least from the sports talk around here. i wouldn't mind them picking up a slightly better than average defenseman...but we'll see.
bub about: SPORTS by the way, penguins = mmmmawesome. 12-0-2 in their last 14. schaaaweeet. although, we play NJ tomorrow night, so that may come to an end.
bub about: SPORTS yeah, it was Tim. and what a jackass.
bub about: umm what? "i didn't know what happened until he was in my pant leg." says new mother who birthed her kid in the parking lot pooping out babies.
bub about: happy holidays mmm....catchers....yogi berra, smokey burgess, tony pena, johnny bench...yum.
bub about: happy holidays eh, it's just the pitchers are catchers. it's not really spring training till the others get there....for me. although it is fun to think about baseball, while it's 10 degrees outside.
bub about: work going to work sucks. i want to work from home all the time.
bub about: holy awesome! wow, that festival looks awesome!
tickets about $200 each, but damn. and there's a microbrew beer festival there too.
bub about: evolution i don't believe in either idea. i do agree that evolution does occur, i don't agree with the big bang/evolution as the theory on how we got here. best part is, i don't care how or why.
bub about: weather i tried going to work today. that didn't work out very well. you'd think since we live at the top of the hill, things would be pretty easy. nope. the valleys make things pretty tough. i couldn't get up the hill going the least hilly way. i tried 4 different routes but got stuck each time. abby is taking one of her tests today...apparently her car is heavier than mine. or maybe it's that my saab has an anti-slip thing that doesn't let you spin your tires, it basically just shuts down the accelerator. sucky device. we'll be driving her car in the snow from now on. i love working from home though.
bub about: marty yeah, they are screwed. hopefully they can get someone to keep a similar formula that marty and his staff had, cuz it obviously worked....except for that winning in the playoffs thing...but marty was never particularly good at that.
it is so nice to be at home. and "working from home"
bub about: weather and when you combine that with the fact that we have the highest over 65-yrs-old population outside of palm beach county, that makes for terrifying driving.
bub about: weather abby's post was me.
bub about: weather they start freaking here when we are supposed to get more than 6" at a time. mostly because of the roads. you can salt them and pre-treat them all you want, but the hills and bends make things pretty dangerous. i am actually leaving here shortly so i can work from home. i am avoiding rush hour at all cost.
bub about: weather hey buffalo, i've been meaning to ask you guys, have you been getting clobbered with any of the snow that's hitting near syracuse? if they are getting 100+ inches, you guys have to be getting 10's of inches, right? we're getting a winter storm today and tomorrow, and everyone's freaking about it. like 6-10". it's funny. like we never get snow or something...
bub about: beer have we decided on where st. patty's day is going to be? i'd like to make plans for that, being as it's only a month away.
bub about: tough ass pen i just watched that video. it shows the stretcher...so my comment didn't add value to the conversation. i should watch the video before i comment on things.
bub about: tough ass pen yeah, we caught the replay right after it happened. ridiculous. that is one hell of a beating. he had to be taken off on a stretcher.
bub about: Bitchin so are any of you clevelanders entering the cleveland cornhole championships or whatever it's called?
bub about: Bitchin and i think sweeney and andy should get the stadium pal to wear to the bars. i probably should too.
bub about: Bitchin that is also awesome...in a very creepy way. you could play hours of cornhole with minimal stopping to empty/refill the two bladders. being carefull not to mix up which is which.
bub about: Bitchin that's pretty sweet. i'm guessing it's ridonkulously expensive. my birthday is in november.
speaking of gifts, abby and i are having a debate about the awesomeness of "the beer belly", see link below. she says it's not awesome, that it's silly, and a gift for alcoholics. i say it's awesome, completely practical for sneaking beer into stadiums, and "the flask for beer drinkers". who's right? Beer Belly
bub about: pens yeah. fluery has been incredible this year. taking sid out of the equation, fluery would be the team MVP.
i hate the devils.
bub about: pens how 'bout those penguins moving into 4th place in the conference after a SO win last night. they've gotten at least 1 point in their last 12 games. too bad NJ is still 9 points ahead.
bub about: new music half of you guys haven't been able to log in, so i have to assume the worst. no offense to those who couldn't log in, it could have been a program bug.
bub about: new music it's ftp.bubdotcom.com
not the minerva address anymore....but apparently whatever you did worked.
bub about: new music oh, i forgot to post this a few nights ago, but i cleared out everything on the ftp site. pictures and all. we have a total of 250MB of space to use, we were down to 3.8MB left. it wouldn't even upload a single picture. so wolfmother is gone, all of the pictures are gone, the pictures from the main page are gone(i can't remember the last time we used them anyway). if you guys want all that stuff back, we'll need to upgrade to more space.
bub about: new music i'm surprised you didn't need to find out what the address was and what the username and password are....good work.
bub about: crazy and what do my political views have to do with this?
bub about: crazy huh?
bub about: crazy as my grandma used to say "good riddance to bad rubbish".
bub about: Wes but you can upload it with smartFTP or some other FTP software...if you have that.
bub about: Wes unfortunately, i did not. still working that out. just a few minor details left.
bub about: beer i haven't had a caffrey's in years. i totally forgot about them. the last time i saw a case of caffrey's was at "save on beer" in cranberry in 2001. it was like $38 a case. so good. you've got me inspired. i'm on it.
bub about: beer actually, there probably isn't enough time to do two. so back to one. what about like a boddingtons or beamish or harp or franziskaner or something?
bub about: beer dickey....guiness? what about two different beers (one yellow, one black) that can be drunk separately or one on top of the other?
bub about: beer not any harder than anything else...worth considering.
bub about: beer i'm going to make some beer for st. patty's day, but i'm having a hard time deciding. any suggestions? brands, types, whatever.
bub about: Pittsburgh Hockey i can't testify as to the accuracy. i have no way of knowing. the reason they are moving is they don't generate enough money. the reason is there are like 8 suites in mellon arena. mellon arena also has one of the lower capacities and is the oldest building in the nhl. they are threatening to leave, because they want that revenue that suites provide. they want a pretty new building with all the bells and whistles.
the reason they are losing money is beause they paid waaaay too much money for lemieux in his last few years. the team went bankrupt, he bought the team, raised ticket prices, attendance dipped a bit, they had 4 sucky years in a row as a team, spent a boatload of money on a bunch of aging stars, made a deal with isle of capri (which puts the pens on the hook for $10million). they've got a ton of problems, but ticket sales is the least of them. things like buying up buildings around the arena so they can tear them down to build a new arena, probably wasn't such a great move 6 years ago. pinning the short-comings of the team on the fan base is crap. the red sox couldn't muster a ton attendance in the early 90's, but the organization came out of it on top. if the sox would have left when they were barely getting 19,000 fans in the 36,000 seat stadium and weren't making enough profit in those slow 4 or 5 years, everyone would have gone ape-shit. this is simply the penguins not wanting to have to pay for their mistakes, and pay their debts, and don't want to have to pay anything for a new arena...but they seem fine to punish the fans that come to arena every night, and it's got me pissed.
the deal on the table right now, has them paying less than 1.9million a year for their new arena. they don't want to pay that much. that's less than the steelers and pirates pay...and for a more expensive arena. they are being complete assholes about all of it.
and in now way am i saying the pens were selling tons of tickets for the last 4 years. they were the worst team in the league, of course your attendance is gonna suck. but the 10-15 years before that, you had to know someone with tickets to go to a game. KC won't be able to do that for more than 5 years...3 if the pens suck.
bub about: Pittsburgh Hockey berg, the AHL was the hockey equivalent of the USFL. it was never a "real league" in the eyes of hockey fans.
bub about: Pittsburgh Hockey if you look at the penguins attendance records, i don't think you can say they had bad ticket sales. 2003/2004 was their worst sales season at 11,000+ per game, which is not good, but for a team that finished 23-47-8-4, you can't expect too many people to pay $30 a ticket to watch that crap. they were 14,000+ the season before that, and 15,000+ and 16,000+(capacity is 16,958). so the fans DO show up. i can't find the numbers for last year's attendance, i'm sure they aren't good, but the penguins finsihed next to last. the last four calendar years, the pens were next to last, didn't play, dead last, and next to last. that's not gonna bring many fans to games. before those utterly awful years, the fans came out in almost sellout numbers.
bub about: Pittsburgh Hockey i don't think we'd get a team back in any timely fashion. regardless of the fan base. kc has already shown that they can't support a franchise (1974-76) only selling 2,000 season tickets. i doubt they could support a team now.
the whole thing is posturing. the pens want to pay as little as possible and have a chip on their shoulder from being ignored in the "new arena" talks for the last 7 years. i really doubt they'll move, but if they do, there will be hell to pay. or somethin...
bub about: Pittsburgh Hockey and on the "will they stay" note...yes, they'll be staying. the deal is a sweet sweet deal, a much better deal than either the pirates or steelers got. they are just haggling over details now. if they leave, i will instantly become a sabres fan...and will harbor a white hot hatred for the KC pens.
bub about: Pittsburgh Hockey good article, except for his statement calling the gaming control board's decision "stupefying". it was without question, the best location for the casino. if you take the arena out of the equation, it's clearly the best place. the gaming control board was not to make a decision on what the best deal for the penguins was, it was to decide on the best plan for gaming. they made the right choice.
bub about: KoL from the last person you'd expect to know anything about KoL....AHA has an authentication type guard on it. you can't rip it like normal and post it here. it tries to find some license or something when you try to play any of it, once you download it.
bub about: St. P i can create a poll thing, if you guys want. those results are easily manipulated unless i spend a bunch of time putting in checks to only allow you to vote once in a certain time period and stuff.
pittsburgh doesn't appear to care where it is. i don't want to have it here if it's on the 17th, it wouldn't be very awesome, and anything less than mmmmawesome is not worth planning to me. it's also too close to the actual date to do the things i had planned. i'll go wherever.
being sick, sucks. two days of sitting in the house doing nothing really makes the days last for friggin ever.
bub about: glue factory... couldn't care less.
bub about: what is going on with the topics...? weird. is anyone having problems with the topic not showing up?
bub about: thews, i spent 3/4 of my lunch looking at that site. awesome.
bub about: we'll see. that's a fwe years down the road.
bub about: they should break up the sabres. they're too good. end of story.
bub about: giggly little girl there is webmail, yes. i have no idea how to use that...but you can also use outlook.
bub about: Sketch UP berg, if you guys want more space, that's possible. it would cost more money. the email addresses, on the otherhand are free...and have been sitting there since day 1 of bdc. i offered anyone that wants a bdc email, let me know. i have one...it's bub@bubdotcom.com
bub about: Sketch UP i think i have to agree with wes here. those sketch-looking drawings are only cool, cuz they were done by hand. what sketchup is doing is the equivalent of a machine making shoes with slight flaws to make it look like they were handmade shoes. but there's something special about handmade shoes (time, effort, and skill), and to have a machine purposely fake it, cheapens what's special about handmade shoes.
bub about: Sketch UP that is the worst attempt at cubic zirconia, i've ever seen. querbric. that's awesome.
bub about: msuic i'm sure berg's 10MB of drawings aren't helping the space issue...i think i'm gonna clean up the ftp site a little tonight. grab all of the pics you want from the pic folder, they are going tonight.
bub about: msuic hey d, you ever gonna put up mos def?
bub about: Be a parent.. i'm betting all 112 other passengers were very happy with the decision. there was this old lady on our flight from philly to frankfurt (for our honeymoon). this old lady was foreign of some sort, probably german. she had a 3 or 4 year old girl with her, who wanted to lay down across their seats. the old lady got up and wouldn't sit back down. the flight attendants tried to get her to sit back down when we were landing, but she just leaned against the seat. they had like 5 different FA's come talk to her, but she wouldn't sit down. she'd fake it for a second, but then stand right back up. the last FA was about to kick her ass. it's was awesome. i was not feeling super great, due to the hangover that you a-holes caused. that hangover didn't go away until the moment i got of the train in florence. it sucked. not nearly as bad as the hangover from the bachelor party though. it appears you guys are mean.
bub about: All-Star Festivities freddy cougar? is that john cougar melloncamp's half brother?
bub about: music ooo, i'd like mos def....
bub about: help!! nope...personal gain. :)
bub about: help!! dickey, i emailed you, but i have two spellings of your hotmail account in my address book and i'm not sure if i picked the right one.
bub about: help!! so, i've got photoshop cs on my pc, but i want it on my laptop....buuuuuuuut, i've managed to lose the installation disk. i burned a cd with all of the files in the photoshop folder....but i can't seem to find a setup.exe or anything of the sort. is there something i'm missing, or is this a "that's why they have installation disks" problem? if it's the latter, can someone help a brother out with an installation disk (winking at dickey) and possibly an installation disk for macromedia flash mx....i'll make you your choice of home brewed beers, or give you wet kisses? the sooner the better....i'm pretty desperate. mailing would be sweet, if possible. let me know. thanks.
bub about: stupid sexy if you like 6'5" 240lb quarterbacks, with a laser rocket arm...
bub about: stupid sexy yeah, that seems weird. i don't know if i'd buy that.
bub about: stupid sexy berg, i can't find anything about your punt scenario anywhere. where did you get that from?
bub about: stupid sexy the rules i posted say that any member of either team can advance a fumble. unless it's 4th down.
bub about: stupid sexy heer is clarification on the clock running with 2:12. the clock is to stop, but upon the official's signal, it is to start again, not on the snap.
8. With the exception of the last two minutes of the first half and the last five minutes of the second half, the game clock will be restarted following a kickoff return, a player going out of bounds on a play from scrimmage, or after declined penalties when appropriate on the referee’s signal.
bub about: stupid sexy what the NFL rulebook has to say
Fumble
1. The distinction between a fumble and a muff should be kept in mind in considering rules about fumbles. A fumble is the loss of player possession of the ball. A muff is the touching of a loose ball by a player in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain possession.
2. A fumble may be advanced by any player on either team regardless of whether recovered before or after ball hits the ground.
3. A fumble that goes forward and out of bounds will return to the fumbling team at the spot of the fumble unless the ball goes out of bounds in the opponent’s end zone. In this case, it is a touchback.
4. On a play from scrimmage, if an offensive player fumbles anywhere on the field during fourth down, only the fumbling player is permitted to recover and/or advance the ball. If any player fumbles after the two-minute warning in a half, only the fumbling player is permitted to recover and/or advance the ball. If recovered by any other offensive player, the ball is dead at the spot of the fumble unless it is recovered behind the spot of the fumble. In that case, the ball is dead at the spot of recovery. Any defensive player may recover and/or advance any fumble at any time.
5. A muffed hand-to-hand snap from center is treated as a fumble.
bub about: stupid sexy my understanding is that the clock stops until the ball is snapped, when a player runs out of bounds with less than 5:00 left in either half. i could be wrong too, but that's understanding. i noticed the clock stopping at 2:12, but i didn't notice it running again after the ball was set. i wasn't paying that close of attention....but the officials should be. i do know that the next play stopped the clock at 2:01. that would be one long play if the clock stayed stopped.
how about the bobble on the next play? that ball was up in the air for 15 minutes.
bub about: stupid sexy haha. no, he didn't.
bub about: stupid sexy ha! eff stupid sexy. and eff his dirt bag coach for not shaking manning's hand after the game, he just brushed past him. what a jag.
bub about: wow check out the dude's name in this article. mawesome. bad parents.
bub about: do something good with your life... you lose. on penalty kicks.
bub about: do something good with your life... well, you were watching derek(who lived in italy for a time), abby(who lived in italy for a time and had just gotten back from there), and me(who just got back from there). of course you were "gang banged". that...and the french are jerks....and i'm part french.
bub about: do something good with your life... pryber, that was sarcasm.
bub about: do something good with your life... by the way, anyone who's interested, we'll be watching the fiorentina - inter milan game live on GolTV on sunday at 9am at my house. c'mon over
bub about: do something good with your life... and i believe the last game related soccer coverage was the 22 days in a row about the zidane head-butt.
bub about: do something good with your life... the reason people are irritated by the pats/red sox now, is because their fans(by and large....and excluding wes) are completely annoying obsessive fucking douchebags. curse curse curse, brady brady brady. it's annoying. shut the fuck up. i didn't have a problem with the pats before they started winning, because their fans didn't talk about them like they are the second coming. i know, they are tortured fans and all, but do we need to be tortured having to listen to how bill belichek is the greatest coach ever (even though he's sucked everywhere else) and how brady is jesus' second cousin. enough. it makes me dislike everything boston...which sucks, cuz it seems like such a cool place...but the people seem like effing douches. it's overkill. complete overkill. i'm not jealous in the slightest that they win. i was actually happy for them, but there's only so much you can take. i stopped readin simmon's articles cuz there's alway some stupid reference to bird doing this or that and brady saving baby seals shit. i'm on a boston-sports hiatus. eff bill simmons for tainting boston for me.
bub about: do something good with your life... speaking of mcgahee. what was all that crap i heard about him saying that he wanted the bills to move to toronto, cuz he was bored living in buffalo? maybe you guys should invite him over or something.
bub about: do something good with your life... more soccer fun...portsmouth full-back glen johnson was given an on-the-spot fine for stealing a toilet seat.
bub about: american athletes could learn a thing or two because they are meddlesome d-bags.
bub about: baseball rumors it is rumored that the giants will sign jd drew and the red sox may sign barry bonds. i didn't think it was possible for me to hate the red sox anymore than i already do. i was wrong.
bub about: american athletes could learn a thing or two marco borriello, striker for AC Milan, has failed a drug test after a game against Roma. his excuse? he blamed his girlfriend, model Belen Rodriguez, due to a cream that she used to cure a vaginal infection, which he unwittingly "ingested" whilest payin attention to the aforementioned region of her anatomy. what a cunning excuse.
bub about: Wet Kisses that is MMMMMAWESOME! add an effin pudding hose, and i'm in...
bub about: Alicia so sorry you had to have such a scare, but i'm glad things went well. get better quickly.
bub about: Vacation fyi, my searches were based on leaving pit july 12th, and coming back july 18th.
bub about: Vacation looks like the obx is out. just checked expedia and jet blue. flights from pit - bos through expedia are about $163 roundtrip per person. through jet blue, they are $98 roundtrip per person.
bub about: vacation feeler... if we can't get 20 people, we can get similar pricing with similar amenities for 10-12 people. if we can't get 20 people, then most of you are lame. what sounds better than a week of ocean, beach, pool, beer, and cornhole? i have a boner just thinking about it.
bub about: vacation feeler... abby and i were talking about needing a beach vacation this year. is anyone interested? we're looking for a pretty cheap one, possibly to the outer banks or something florida or something. so far, just with a quick search, i found a house in the outer banks that sleeps 20 and would cost $200 per person for the week. that comes to a whopping $29 a day per person. the house is ocean-side(so it's about a block from the beach), it's got a pool, pool table, hot tub, two wet bars, two outdoor showers(for wes), a 3-in-1 table(which i would assume is airhockey, ping pong, and pool...i could find out for sure), 2 grills, a basketball hoop, a few decks. it appears that dogs are ok.
it's in the town of corolla, which is on the northen end of the outer banks, mostly old folks up that way, but it's about 2/3 the cost of the others. this price would be for the weekend after the 4th of july(july 7th - 14th to be exact).
so i just wanted to see if anyone was interested.
bub about: moral authority i love that barry bonds has come out and said that pete rose and mark mcguire deserve to be in the hall of fame. it's good to see someone who has no connection to cheating, speaking up for those accused of cheating|
jackass.
bub about: crawl e pluribub unum is awesome!
bub about: crawl i find all of the bub-words to be hilarious. bubdotocracy. bublican. interbublactic. we should make some more. like this isn't a website, it's a bublication. the members of bubdotcom are the bubulation. keep going. my head gets bigger with each one.
bub about: crawl i'm game for whateva...
i just found out i have 2.25 days of PTO to carry over to this year that i didn't know about...wahoo.
bub about: intern go put your nuts in his face and take a picture when he wakes up....see if he makes "jay bullie face"
bub about: Muzak that sounds like so much less fun than watching some crappy cable show and falling asleep on the couch.
bub about: Coaching that's pretty accurate.
i have no thoughts that he would ever coach the browns. after 15 years of winning, why would he take on a project like that? i think he'll coach somewhere in the south.
bub about: what? i would rather have ken whisenhunt.
bub about: what? ok, we should be good now. proceed.
bub about: what? ok, it should be back to no spam...but i still need to make some improvements. if you guys run into problems, let me know.
bub about: what? ok, so i made a change, and that allowed the spam to come back. i'll work on some stuff today to fix that.
bub about: GO BUCKS i couldn't see the other half of the picture. it's ben's. although that bike looks grey, not black...weird. conspiracy.
bub about: GO BUCKS ah. i was gonna say, it's not ben's.
bub about: GO BUCKS what motorcycle accident is that?
bub about: GO BUCKS wes, i agree on both counts. how the official could get the music city miracle call wrong, is beyond me.
bub about: GO BUCKS did your team win the national championship? no? mine either.
it's nice to see you buying into the "it's an honor just to be nominated" philosophy.
pitt had an awful year. they generally aren't a very good football school. basketball is another story. but yes, pitt was not in a bcs bowl. you should feel super proud that your team was. you're the susan lucci of the 2006 season. *standing golf clap*
bub about: GO BUCKS i always thought sports was about winning. but i guess when you don't win, you need to find something else to make it about. you have to plainly admit that last night, florida was an infinitely better team. no if's, and's, or but's about it.
bub about: GO BUCKS and bad karma for singing that gay version of "hang on sloopy".
bub about: GO BUCKS that game was mmmmawesome. i couldn't have been happier.
bub about: Will power! happy birthday wes. derek has to wait till tomorrow. cooper is getting his nads cut off for derek's birthday.
bub about: Muzak go ahead wes
bub about: Muzak i hav e no idea what that means but i'll go try to remove them
bub about: Pregnant can someone spell that phonetically for me?
bub about: Duke Lacrosse you certainly don't do a good job of hiding it.
bub about: Duke Lacrosse good, cuz i didn't want to have to call up some chick and have her get drunk and punch you in the face. that's what berg did to andy when he disagreed.
bub about: Duke Lacrosse are = aren't...
bub about: Duke Lacrosse and i really hope that you are hypocritical enough to base this just on them being athletes.
bub about: Duke Lacrosse are you saying it's ok to ruin their lives and go against what the constitution says, because these kids didn't pay for college and because they should have set a better example?
bub about: Duke Lacrosse just realized that i might be implying that priviledged white kids wouldn't do something like that...which is not true. but the entire case was portrayed as "they obviously did it". those kids lives are ruined. so are some of the lacrosse careers of their teammates.
bub about: Duke Lacrosse it is, but only in a court of law. the media convicts and acquits people once they are accused.
i mean, who doesn't think that 3 priviledged white kids would do something like that. the rich are mean, abusive a-holes who do what they want. plus, they were jocks, and all jocks are a-holes. let's nevermind that we're going solely on heresay testimony of such a reputable source as a stripper. hang the bastards. (this paragraph is sarcasm, obviously)
bub about: footballs berg, did you not watch any oakland games this year? a 61.7 passer rating. and he's got randy moss and joey porter to throw to. they aren't in their prime, but it's not like he's throwing to bad receivers. the guy flat out sucks. he's always flat out sucked. as derek and i said at new years, jeff garcia is much better. jerry garcia is probably close, and a tub of cherry garcia is debatable. making aaron brooks worse than a bald, gay, former cleveland brown...a dead hippie...and a tub of ice cream.
and apparently not only do the browns suck, but they're disgustingly dirty.
bub about: ftml this sounds retarded, but it's Family Tree Markup Language. it's basically the same as xml, but it's specifically designed for making family trees. no, that's not some web design term, it's reall for making family trees. i'm not sure why anyone would use that to make a regular web page though.
bub about: fun news apparently saddam is going to be hung "in hours"...but they've been saying that since yesterday. could be as late as january 26th. depends on who you talk to. either way, good riddance to bad rubish.
bub about: i biggie, that sounds reasonable, you're hired |
bub about: i is anyone else still here? is it just me? work sucks.
speaking of which....abby and i are now officially owners of our own company. insumo design is now open for business. web design and graphic design.
bub about: i want my BDC! try again. for some reason, i changed the name of the page that processes the post. my bad!
bub about: i want my BDC! wes, what's burton page say when you try to post it? it's most likely a typo in the address...
bub about: i want my BDC! yep. in all of the holiday madness, i forgot to pay the bill. oops.
bub about: top ten rant no sooner did i post that comment, than i remembered how you post it. i emailed your hotmail with directions.
bub about: top ten rant mr. wes, i can't remember right now, let me look around....
bub about: fun on a more fun note, a bunch of months ago, i downloaded a buttload of podcasts from learnitalianpod.com, they are fun. i've been listening to RAI radio on the internet, that is also fun. it's nice when you understand a good bit of what they are saying. granted only understanding half of the conversation (if i'm lucky) is a little confusing, but it's still pretty cool.
bub about: New Years Eve and if you saw the list of things still to do on the house, you'd shit.
bub about: New Years Eve you have come to pittsburgh for a whole weekend, far fewer times than i've spent whole weekends in cleveland. no guilt trips. if we didn't have the dog, we'd probably be there friday. can't pawn him off on my parents that many times in such a short period of time.
bub about: New Years Eve we aren't coming till sunday. so much to do.
bub about: suck i know.
i got a javascript book for christmas, so bdc is about to become mmmmawesome.
bub about: suck it's fixed berg.
bub about: suck yeah, i've known about that for a while, just haven't fixed it. i'll do that today.
bub about: work it's a win-win for us really. abby gets to work on the casino that won....and i get to build the new arena. at the moment, i only have a circular saw and a jigsaw. i might need you saw.
bub about: work the hurricanes are pretty decent. the avalanche are ok, the stars were good at one point. i'm not trying to convince them to leave, but it's happened. i don't think KC is the place to go though. you need a bigger market, like denver or dallas.
bub about: work i got a jigsaw with a laser guide and a light (just in case i want to cut stuff in the middle of the night i guess). i also got two saw horses, a tool belt, and some wrenches. i think i'm gonna start building the penguins a new arena in my back yard. cooper got cat toys, he loves them. he's retarded.
bub about: Happy! Merry! "brian, are you drinking on the job?!?!"
"yeah, but biggie said it's ok..."
"oh, carry on."
bub about: Happy! Merry! that doesn't make me feel any better. a cold bud light would though.
bub about: Happy! Merry! i'm sober. and working. we don't get to leave early. i hate you all. merry/happy effing christmas/hannukah.
bub about: oh boo fucking hoo biggie, we weren't talking about buttsecks.
bub about: oh boo fucking hoo you guys are overlooking the most obvious choice for probowl QB in the AFC. ben friggin roethlisberger. i mean, no one has more INT's in the whole league.
and comeback player of the year. palmer's injury was so last season. ben got hit in the face with a car. then had an organ removed. he only missed one game and STILL went on to lead the league in interceptions. you guys know nothing.
bub about: endulge me while I brag about my team it's gonna suck for you when your "awesomer team" doesn't make the playoffs after the steelers pummel(sp) you on new years.
bub about: house update well, we have some drywall scraps, some left over paint, and some left over carpet and peel-n-stick tiles.
bub about: house update actually, the two incomes help a little, but mostly, the wedding gifts you guys gave us are mostly what help us afford to update. that and credit. if you guys want help, just ask. i love doing work on houses. just get some beer and buy the supplies.
bub about: make me want to shout! my teams laid huge eggs this week, in both leagues. my season is over. boo.
bub about: make me want to shout! i'll take some pics of the upstairs tonight. i've got a before and after gallery on shutterfly, so i'll add them to there and post them tonight or tomorrow. should look drastically different. can't wait to see it myself.
bub about: make me want to shout! i know, that's why i didn't make too much fun of you for it.
apparently our carpet installation is finished. can't wait to go home and take my shoes off. we've got every piece of furniture that was upstairs, in the office right now. amazing what you can cram into a small space.
bub about: make me want to shout! something would be fishy if the browns went 1-7 in the division.
i also would like the bengals to lose tonight. and next week, and the week after.
bub about: cure way to go canada! my dad is diabetic, that would be sweet if all of that could go away. it's a terrible disease.
bub about: Happy! that's for the simul-post aaron. bastard.
bub about: Happy! apparently dickey thinks all asians look the same, because her real name is actually Tomoyo Shibata. and the pictures of "Rockets" is not actually Matsuzaka's wife. the pictures are of a japanese internet whore....and that's Yoko Matsugane.
bub about: Old! happy birthday andy.
bub about: almost famous i found the "easier to find a heterosexual priest" comment to be interesting.
bub about: Estadios arrowhead stadium is pretty awesome looking. i don't like heinz field, but it's better than three rivers.
bub about: konichiwa yeah, apparently the seibu lions already have that money earmarked for things, such as renovating the clubhouse, the men's and women's restrooms, a few players, and i believe i read they were adding some seating closer to the field(although that could be confused with the dallas cowboys new stadium). i never realized how arrogant jerry jones was until the other day. their new stadium will still have the "hole" in the top of the roof. the "hole" exists so "God can watch His team play". wow.
bub about: soccer the points and placing were after the deductions, the wins/loses/draws were the actual totals.
bub about: soccer so, some of you couldn't care less, but i have been following european soccer since i gained interest on the honeymoon. i picked newcastle united from the english premier league, and fiorentina for obvious reasons. i have been following both pretty closely (not obsessively, like i do with football), but i was checking some stuff out...i wonder how anyone could suspect that fiorentina was involved in the match fixing scandal last year |
stats from the last few years... 2001/02 34games played 5wins 22loses 7draws 22points -34goal differential 17place
2004/05 38G 9W 14L 15D 42pts -8GD 16place
2005/06 *scandal year* 38G 22W 8L 8D 44pts(after deducting points for cheating) 25GD 9place(after the point deductions)
that's a drastic improvement. couldn't have cheated...|
bub about: hump day yes, it does. but i got here a half hour earlier than normal. i was supposed to stay late, but i got that work done in that half hour, so i get to leave on time. i can't wait to go to the mall after work |
bub about: dead peter boyle died. that's the guy that played raymond's father in "everybody loves raymond".
bub about: hot dogs dudes, the ultimate meal....a chicken finger and fries burrito with cole slaw.
bub about: hot dogs our places can't sell beer. liquor licenses are tough to come by. we also have some place called "moe's mexican grill" same as chipotle and qdoba. i prefer qdoba, because their salsas aren't as oniony. and when you don't like onions, that's a major plus. there is a moe's, a qdoba, and chipotle all in robinson towne centre...talk about market saturation.
bub about: hot dogs we have qdoba and chipotle.
bub about: quick football comment i love that joey porter apologized to the browns, saying that if he offended anyone with his comments after the game, he was sorry. "i only meant to offend kellen winslow". he called winslow soft, weak, and a fag. i love the hatred.
bub about: quick baseball comment apparently the article i read yesterday was written by someone who has misunderstood the bidding process for matsuzaka. the redsox have offered him $8mil a year for 6 years. that makes complete sense, based solely on a statistical comparison to other pitchers with his stats(comparing stats in MLB vs japan is a separate arguement). boras counter offered with $11mil a year for 6 years. neither are near the $100million over 5 or 6 years that boras says his client is worth. interesting how the numbers deflated in reality. it looked as though the sox would have to pay around $150mil, but now it's looking more like $100mil. sounds silly to say that's better, but that other $50mil could get another pretty damn good player.
bub about: hot dogs hey, i'm jealous of your chicken finger sub potential.
bub about: hot dogs i'm 2.5 hours from ponying up $4.75 for a primanti's roast beef sando. mmm.
andy, nice!
bub about: cover sheets yeah, donna...way to go on that cover sheets conversation. it's all the rage with the young kids ;) back to sports. beat it, ladies.
just kidding. i love you all.
bub about: baseballs berg, yes, his name is roger goodell.
bub about: baseballs i'm reading an article about the negotiations right now...boras is saying that "d-mat" is worht in excess of $100million over 5 or 6 years. plus the $51million posting fee. $151million over 5 or 6 years!! statistically, d-mat is almost identical to roy oswalt oswalt has a better winning percentage, just about the same amount of decisions, slightly higher era (2.95 vs 3.05), fewer strikeouts. granted, oswalts numbers are in the majors, not japan. but oswalt is making $11million a year. i think scott boras might have his numbers a little off.
bub about: baseballs you do have to admit, over paying for pettite is slightly less crazy than $51mil to talk to the japanese guy(i can't spell his name). $51mil is more than 1/3 of the sox payroll last year. i wouldn't want to have to pitch that sale to the "board members". ok, we're gonna spend nearly half our payroll last year, to talk to a guy that was really good in japan." "$51mil over how many years?" "uh, one." "wait, a one year, $51million contract?" "uh, no, that actually just to get to negotiate with him." "so wait, $51million doesn't actually put this guy in our uniform?" "well, no." "eh, go ahead, what the hell."
i'd love to throw money around like pro-sports teams. that would be fun. and for the record, about 90% of the yankees roster is grossly overpaid. and about 90% of athletes are grossly overpaid. it's ridonkulous.
bub about: baseballs i wasn't riled up, i was just saying they are both crazy money spending sluts. and i actually like the abreu pickup. neither team has been smart, and thrifty is a word only reserved for the pirates or below. talking about the pirates payroll gets me more riled up than any amount of money the top 6 teams spend. i'm very close to boycotting pirate games until they spend every dime of the revenue sharing they get from the league.
bub about: baseballs who implied that the yankees don't spend more money? they are #1 and #2 in payroll. the yankees at $194m and the sox at $120m. abreu was a huge pickup for the yankees near the end of the year. his 107rbi's are nothing to balk at. just cuz he only 15hr's doesn't make him a bad pickup. he had a huge and immediate impact for the yankees. since his trade to the yankees, he batter .327 with 42 rbi (in just two months). you're gonna have a hard time picking up someone that can produce like that.
salary is a whole different subject. the cubs are paying $7m a year for a pitcher that went 14-16 with a 6.02era last year. THAT is ridiculous.
bub about: baseballs both teams spend ridiculously. there is no defending their spending, other than, "they have the money and they're spending it to try to win the world series". personally, i can't stand the sox, but i grew up a yankee fan. i hope to god that this japanese pitcher ends up with a career like hideki irabu, so i can comfortably sit back and laugh at the concept of paying $51million just to TALK to a pitcher from a lesser league who hasn't thrown a pitch in the majors. utterly ridiculous.
bub about: music i swear to god, it's like the file sharing thing is a brand new feature.
bub about: music i love the "happy music friday" and "new music monday", stuff. makes me laugh.
bub about: Bdc holy crap! a thewsy sighting on bdc...where've you been lately?
bub about: Bills i did not watch the game, but i was keeping an eye on the score. i only need 5 of the 6 teams in the hunt for the wild card spots to lose 3 out of their next 4 games. i got some of the loses this week, thanks to buffalo. i did not realize that they had your brother and mante playing linebacker.
bub about: site update assholes kinda fits.
bub about: site update obviously a few of you have figured it out already, but i added some changes, so now you don't have to deal with the IP address thing anymore. just register, and please don't leave the address blank(once a bunch of you register, we'll have an address book so people don't need to ask), then log in. once you log in, you shouldn't have to log in on that computer for at least a year, or until you delete your cookies. you can still post under whatever name you want, it does not have to be your "username".
i haven't decided whether i want to call registered users "bdc-ers" or "bdc members" or "bdc-iites" or some other ridiculous name. i'm taking suggestions.
bub about: Browns Bashing during the game, i couldn't help but think of the Family Guy skit where bryant gumble is interviewing someone and just keeps going mmhmmm, mmhmmm mhmmm.
bub about: Browns Bashing yeah that was weird. i mean, if you're gonna throw cribbs under the bus, shouldn't you call out all of the players with arrest records, like santonio holmes or marvel smith? i'm sure there are other browns, but i don't care enough to know who they are. bengals games would consist of reading the team rap sheet during the entire first quarter.
bub about: post game those in buffalo tomorrow night can go watch the #2 pitt panthers play UB...if you'd like to see the 2006-2007 NCAA basketball national champions.
bub about: post game a dweeb. awesome.
bub about: post game northcutt had 1 catch for 12 yards. it's a good thing for him that espn doesn't keep track of drops. he had to have dropped 7 passes last night.
bub about: post game northcutt was horrible. absolutely laughably bad.
speaking of laughably bad, bryant gumble is terrible. he screwed up so many times last night. he said "winding down to the 3 minute warning". 3 minute warning. nice. he also said it was 13-0 at half time. it was 10-0. was he watching the game? he mentioned how no one was at the game, after collinsworth said "this is going to be a late arriving crowd tonight, with the bad weather slowing traffic to a halt". then gumble said about 20 minutes later..."i'm amazed at how few people are here tonight...you just don't see this few people at a steeler game." followed by a shot of the gates being flooded by the people that were stuck in the traffic that collinsworth mentioned. he misidentified about 1/4 of the people involved in plays. he just made collinsworth(who i normally can't stand) sound like a friggin genius and made me glad collinsworth was there. that's like steve tasker making me glad that phil simms is also in the booth.
bub about: post game i think that the craziest thing i took from that game was that the steelers had 305 rushing yards. 305. that's nuts. that's 287 MORE than the browns had. i was terrified at the half, because we should have been up 21-0, but you were still in it. glad i bet berg $20 on a 13-point spread on the wrong steelers-browns game. dammit.
bub about: news flash apparently dillards in mentor is on fire. get it while it's hot.
bub about: i hate people i had a neighbor growing up who was an electrical engineer, he told us to call him "sparky"...we called him "dickweed"
bub about: BDC that's bizarre. it displays the same page before or after posting....or at least it should be. that's weird. internet explorer sucks. i'll see if there's any info out there on the interweb about it. i started the login stuff last night. so sometime soon, you will all have to register and login. you'll only have to do each one, once. and i won't be able see your passwords, they will be protected.
bub about: BDC apparently there is some sort of issue with internet explorer...or at least the newer version of internet explorer. i use firefox, so i don't see it. last night i changed the way things are displayed and whatever version of IE my new laptop runs, was corrected. if you are having problems with the text being cut off, can you send me the version of internet explorer that you are running. i'd like to clear all of that up. has it just started recently?
bub about: Stillers are composed of rat shit and corn meal! i hate baltimore a lot...but i'd rather get pummeled by them again than see your team go to the playoffs.
bub about: The Belt you've got us beat there. throw a parade.
bub about: Stillers are composed of rat shit and corn meal! i believe our mascot is the lombardi trophy. the lombardi trophy is the trophy they give to the superbowl champions, it's this big shiny metal thing with a big metal football on top. it's pretty cool. for those browns fans going to the game tomorrow, you can see what the lombardi trophy looks like if you go to the coca-cola great hall at heinz field. don't worry, the lines won't be too big, there are 5 to choose from.
speaking of welf, you guys don't even have a logo on your helmet. couldn't even afford one? why are the "browns" colors orange? is it so you wear it out huntin' after the game, since it's orange and smells like shit? yeah, we're the hilljacks alright.
bub about: stats you're gay. so are your un-super championships. i give your city no credit for them. brad, the bears only get credit for 1985. wes, the bills get nothing. sorry. i will give the browns credit for one thing...that little mascot fairy thing is the perfect mascot for you sissy fag whiners.
bub about: Sweet Browns Victory!! i might be wrong, but i think that's illegal to say on the interweb...if it's not, it should be. i mean serious...browns and victory...that's just disgusting.
bub about: zzz where is everyone today?
bub about: stats close enough wes.
bub about: stats i would like to say that i don't know if jim brown was an AFL guy, if they would not accept his stats in the NFL records book, post-merger. i was guessing, but i could be wrong there.
bub about: stats that article was nonsensical. the other sports have a playoff system, not a ranking system. there is no need to determine a #2 in those sports. the entire BCS system is predicated on the #1 vs. #2 notion...so it HAS to find the #2 team to have the championship. by not being #1, does not eliminate michigan from being #2, it just means michigan is not #1 at the time.
bub about: stats baseball is identical. before 1903 both leagues were competitive, but the national league was significantly better than the younger american league. the pirates won the national league pennant in 1901 and 1902(also 1903 and went to the world series). so, the pirates were the national league champs in 1901 and 1902. i don't consider those championships the same as world series championships. that by corelation, disproves your point. your attempt to show my bias actually shows your own. if you team had won anything since the merger, you wouldn't care about those championships either, but those championships are the only things you can as an achievement for your team, since they haven't done a damn thing since 1964. there is one clear champion in the post-merger NFL, there were two before that. there's no denying who the champion is now. there's no debate...the bills and browns laid claim to championships in 1964, which was the real champ? all we know based on that, is that your team was one the two best teams in the country in 1964, looking at it that way, we should give the bills 4 more championships since they got to 4 superbowls in the 90's. the merger screwed the bills out of championships. and add one more for the steelers from 1995. can't do that...cuz the two "eras" are different. and jim brown's records stand, because he did it in the NFL. if he was an AFL guy before the merger, his records wouldn't be considered NFL records. i love steelers browns week.
bub about: stats it's rare when it comes to sports, but i have to disagree with you wes. the first "official" world series was in 1903 between the boston americans and pittsburgh pirates. the boston americans won 4 games to 3. there was no 1904 world series because the new york giants refused to play. but you were generally right.
bub about: stats of course those things meant a lot to people back then. the baseball champions from 1839 to 1902 meant a lot to those folks back then too...but 1903 started the modern baseball era, the first year of the world series. yes, there were champions before that, they deserve their credit...does anyone give a shit about them anymore? no. anyone know who won the championship in 1902? anyone know who won the first world series? more than likely. granted, 1902 was a long time ago, but once 1965 becomes a "long time ago" not many will care about "pre-merger" champions. it really has nothing to do with ESPN instant anything. it has to do with not having multiple football champions. part of why boxing sucks, they have so many champions that no one really cares. once the two leagues joined, the "modern football era" started. of course there will always be a place for the mike ditkas and jim thorpes and jim browns, but when talking about champions it's like saying pitt was the 19xx big east champion and osu was the 19xx big ten champion...but without a bowl game between those champions, there is no unanimous champion. wouldn't that make a difference?
bub about: browns all-time stats berg, they also talk about YA Tittle too, but no one cares. the merger in 1970 is what everyone, EVERYONE considers the moment that football became what it is now. before that there was no "real" champ. you were the champ of league A or the champ of league B. superbowl I pitted the AFL champ against the NFL champ in the "super bowl" on jan 15th 1967. that's how you get 40 superbowls. the leagues didn't merge until after superbowl III. but the two league's champs played each other in the first three. the browns may have gone to the nfl championship game in those years, but the winner of the NLF championship game, played the winner of the AFL championship game. your last NFL championship was 1964...the bills were the AFL champs that year.
bub about: browns all-time stats i was wrong, you only had 20 years of beating up on the steelers...1950 - 1970.
between 1950 - 1969, the series was 31-9 in favor of the browns.
between 1970 - 1995, the series was 32-21 (52-41 browns overall) in favor of the steelers.
between 1999 - 2005, the series was 12-3 in favor of the steelers (44-24 steelers since 1970....and 55-53 all-time). it's 55-54 now.
bub about: browns all-time stats berg, your site is flat out wrong. through the end of the 2004 season, the series record was 55-51(including 2 playoff wins for pittsburgh). in 2005 we won both games, making it 55-53. we won the first one this year, making it 55-54. here is a link to verify everything i said, with scores of each game each year. steelers browns, officially
bub about: browns all-time stats dude, you had 40 years of playing a team that never went to the playoffs in those 40 years. your 4 years of expansion team crap doesn't float nearly as well as those 40 years.
bub about: browns all-time stats i guess i don't find division champs to be that special. 10 playoff games in the 80's 3 wins. that's not entirely impressive. although i guess since those are your only division championships, i guess that was a pretty good time for you. your 5 division championships to our 18...and your 12 playoff appearances to our 23...granted, this is all "post merger" which are the only stats anyone in the football world, aside from cleveland fans, cares about.
i forget what we were talking about, but the browns suck and you're gay.
bub about: browns all-time stats according to this browns site, it was 55-53 before the first meeting this year, which would make it 55-54. browns steelers
bub about: sexy rexy wes was talking about two years ago. we put in our third string against buffalo(which included willy parker as our rb) and beat buffalo in buffalo the last game of the year. i think they needed a win to get to the playoffs.
bub about: sexy rexy in the mid-90's the steelers went to the superbowl. from '92-'97 we were 11-5, 9-7 12-4, 11-5, 10-6, 11-5. i'm gonna say you're wrong about everyone being good except the steelers there skip. according to http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/pitindex.htm the series is 53-53. and yes, the steelers sucked from 1933 until 1972. almost 40 years of suckitude. i wasn't alive then. i can't remember anything before 1980, including the 4 superbowls. the browns have sucked for a while. we know that. 2 winning seasons since 1990. the '80's weren't exactly awesome years for the browns either. 6 seasons over .500, not bad, not great. the 70's were pretty average. the 50's and 60's were really good.
bub about: sexy rexy ouch. that was unintentional...
bub about: sexy rexy and crying like a little girl. the role of spoiler is kinda fun. i can talk all the shit i want...and know that if we lose, we're supposed to, cuz we suck. so, this is what you bungle/brownie fans have felt like for years? it's kinda neat. i didn't include buffalo, because jim kelly's from here....but if he weren't, i would imagine they could relate.
bub about: sexy rexy wouldn't it be awful for you if you needed a win against the steelers on new years eve...and we won. you'd be one bitter bungle.
bub about: sexy rexy that's the plan anyway...
bub about: Fired Up that one is a toughy. it's gotta be really hard to sit your starting quarterback when you're 10-2. i agree he's playing like craaaaaap, but it's gotta be tough to sit the guy....especially when brian greise is the backup. that one would have to be a coin toss if i had to decide. i guess if you can win with him playing like crap, you could probably win with greise playing like crap...but do you chance it?
bub about: bcs you can say which better without them playing...that's what they do all season with the rankings. if you watch a florida game and watch a michigan game, you can see the difference between the two. michigan is much better. florida makes mistakes and a lot of them, often. i still don't consider the SEC to be that fantastic. anyone that can't see tim tebow walk onto the field and instantly know he's going to run the ball, is a moron. no offense to arkansas, or steve pantuso(love ya steve) but they were way overrated. their quarterback suuuuucks. their running back is fantastic, but that doesn't make for a good team. auburn and lsu are pretty decent, but that's about it. they benefitted from being ranked high at the beginning of the year. the SEC was a conference with a few better than average teams. not a single awesome team.
the fact that this conversation happens is retarded. college football is retarded.
bub about: bcs you are proving my point. as a hater of osu...i want the best team to play them in the national championship. florida is not that team. florida is "the best team that hasn't lost to osu yet"...michigan is "the second best team in the country"...seems pretty logical to me.
and the word is lose....not loose. we wnt over this already.
bub about: bcs i can say that, because i don't like any team involved...i'm completely unbiased. i hate osu a lot. i just want the team that has the best chance at beating osu, to be playing in the title game. florida is weak.
bub about: bcs michigan is clearly better. clearly.
bub about: bcs nevermind. i'm rehashing the same crap that they've been arguing over on espn for the last 4 weeks. it won't change. it's stupid. that's all. NFL rules. the steelers stink. at least pitt basketball is looking good.
bub about: bcs the ONLY reason florida is in, is because people don't want a rematch, which is retarded. florida won some big games...but also squeaked by some really crappy teams. anything determined by "style points" is g-a-y gay. an 8 team playoff is the only answer. until then, the whole thing is crap. division II and III have playoffs...why not division I?
bub about: bcs the bcs is ga-bage. congratulations osu. gotta love a #1 vs. #4 matchup.
bub about: kellen winslow jr. when i'm in cleveland...if i ever see him out and about...is it ok if i hit winslow with a beer bottle...a hockey stick....a 2004 saab 9-3...? i hate that fucker a lot. hey kellen, how about shutting your mouth and actually PROVING your a good football player.
bub about: HAPPY FRIDAY!! they ordered it wrong and we didn't catch it, so we actually paid for the love seat. they are going to credit us the difference, and bring us the chair. the love seat is too big to fit the way we arranged the room. unfortunately for me, it's not a recliner.
bub about: HAPPY FRIDAY!! it would be funny in the "bub went postal" sort of way too.
bub about: HAPPY FRIDAY!! and apparently we're in the middle of a freakin hurricane! the weather is crazy out there. we're supposed to get gusts of up to 60mph. hope my house is still standing when we get home.
bub about: HAPPY FRIDAY!! so, we got our new living room furniture yesterday. should have been a couch and a chair, instead it was a couch and a love seat. idiots ordered us the wrong furniture.
bub about: HAPPY FRIDAY!! i sure am. we're going to the mall, sears, home depot, and best buy for the purpose of making christmas lists. not for actual shopping.
bub about: Wikipedia i kinda think of the word "jew" in the same way as "black". to say "he's a jew" sounds just as wrong as saying "he's a black". black doesn't have an "-ish" form, so the right way is "he's jewish" or "he's black" for me. it's a descriptor. in no way can that be confused or taken in a "he's one of those". same goes with "he's a muslim" and "he's muslim". one is a descriptor, the other is a definer.
and berg, isn't the plural of goy, goyem? not goys.
bub about: gold star i know we had this conversation once, but old spice high endurance(the blue stuff) is the best deodorant ever. "there is indisputable video evidence". did you guys see that at all this weekend? the ref in the pitt/louisville game overturned a fumble(originally called a fumble, was clearly a fumble from ever angle, but overturned it to incomplete) and came back on the fields and said "there is indisputable video evidence that it was not a catch", to which the announcer said(according to dmac - i was at the game) "i'm not sure what video he was talking about, that was definitely a catch"
bub about: gold star i did that for a week once, cuz i kept forgetting to get deodorant after work. it is not strong enough for a man, but it does smell mighty good.
bub about: gold star being back at work sucks. being sick sucked worse.
bub about: Stillers i need a drink. is it 5 yet?
bub about: Stillers all season i've thought the ravens stink and have benefitted from a weak schedule. that being said...if the steelers don't turn the ball over like they've done all year, we'll win. we're do for a good showing for a whole game. here's hoping.
bub about: zzz not sure. i would imagine either dormont or north hills or shadyside.
bub about: zzzz going to my uncle's suprise party, then going out with abby, blaine, dmac, and dawn. want to join us? sweeney, you around?
bub about: zzzzzzzz sorry, i figured no one would be on here. what are you up to tonight pryber?
encryption is a way of disguising information. if i were to send you a message that said "you're gay"....without encryption, it would get sent as "you're gay"....but if it was encrypted, it might get sent as "#19s+0 c8q", then when it gets to your computer, your computer would decode the message and it would show up as "you're gay" on your screen. so, if someone intercepted our message, they would get #19s=0 c8q...so it makes sending information more secure.
bub about: zzzzzzz is it time to leave yet?
bub about: Musak i'll be here then too. sons of bitches.
bub about: photos we are going to refinish the stairs. actually, we're going to refinish the treads and paint the risers. abby knows the details, i know just enough to misinform people. the tiling will be in the entry(cuz the doors won't open over the wood, so we had to cut a rectangle out of the floor to sink the tile down. there's a frame around the area right now. the tile is a dark grey with a smooth finish, looks kinda like a really dark concrete-ish tile. it will be in planks, not squares. we're gonna tile the entry, and both fireplaces in that same tile. the kitchen redo isn't gonna happen for a few more years(like 5 years).
i'm not sure if you're being serious or sarcastic, berg. but it wasn't fun to cut those pieces. we're getting flxible quarter round to put around the bottom of the steps, so we didn't cut it very close, knowing it'll be covered.
bub about: photos yeah, we have a nice little system worked out. by the end of the night tonight, we should have just a little bit left to do...probably just the the last few pieces against the wall. maybe a little more. can't wait for the tile to come in. once that's done, i'm not working on the house for a few months.
bub about: photos if this doesn't work, screw it. you'll just have to wait for the next time you're in town to see it. floor pics....again
bub about: photos i unclicked the thing that said "require friends to sign in", so you shouldn't have to. shutterfly is almost done, we'll see if that works.
bub about: photos kodak bought ofoto. it's kodak gallery. i shared it to my email, then used the link it sent my email as the link i posted...sucks. i'm uploading to shutterfly now.
bub about: ugh so, how do i get that to work without having to put in all of your email addresses? anyone an ofoto expert?
bub about: ugh putting in hardwood (not really "hardwood", it's bamboo, but the same process) is not a lot of fun on the ol' back. thank god we're about 2/3 of the way done. looks wicked awesome so far. i'm uploading the construction pics to ofoto right now, i'll post the link in a few minutes. it looks a little different than the crappy floors we had a week ago.
bub about: Nothin what are you gonna wear? is he paying for the room?
bub about: stillers-browns $20 well spent, for a victory like that. and our defense has been awful. i liked your attempt to link the refs from yesterday's game to the superbowl refs, as though that was the reason for the collapse.
bub about: stillers-browns i'm still completely confident in my bet.
bub about: stillers-browns berg, how many points did i spot you for the game this weekend?
bub about: Ddays get ready to hear even more crap about the ohio state/michigan game.....bo schembeckler just died about 10 minutes ago.
bub about: entertaining maybe go with the 50/50 blend, wes.
pittsburgh doesn't do many things like other places. why would we call a paper that comes out on saturday, the saturday paper? that would make too much sense.
bub about: entertaining what? i don't understand the football comment. the pittsburgh post-gazette has a early sunday paper(saturday) and a sunday paper(sunday). there is no saturday paper.
bub about: friday music happy so is the friday music on thursday, like the early sunday paper that comes out on saturday?
bub about: entertaining this weekend, i'm scheduled to install bamboo floors on the first floor. i'm really excited about all that work |
bub about: Morning!!!! i think my body has almost fully recovered.
bub about: let the games begin in the words of kirsten dunst....BRING IT ON!
bub about: let the games begin you and your gay graphics...
bub about: one more time because i 709 Klemont Ave
Pittsburgh PA 15202
bub about: shatner it's time for my semi-monthly "william shatner's cd rocks" comment. "common people" is awesome
bub about: competition 4 pairs of 2, per team.
bub about: dead 60 minutes reporter, ed bradley died.
bub about: MCR sween, let me know if you want instructions.
bub about: sucks i wish we could have planned the whole thing better in advance, the new floors for the first floor should be in some time next week, and the carpetting will be done shortly after. in a month it will be a totally different house, but maybe it's better to not have us all wasted and spilling on the new floors just yet.
bub about: sucks i'm pretty excited too.
bub about: sucks i love that song. i've been looking for a good song to have stuck in my head for weeks. i'm glad it's that one.
bub about: sucks so long as you don't make out with me or my wife, i don't care what you do with your germs. looks like the weather shouldn't be too bad. hopefully the "chance of showers" on saturday will miss us. friday and sunday are supposed to be really nice. funny, it's been 60+ all week, but saturday and sunday will be in the 40's.
bub about: bloody-loads you guys here yet? damn yo.
bub about: address i just vomitted in my mouth. our was that warm chunky load?
bub about: address yeah, biggie, what could you possibly be shipping to my house?
bub about: YAHOO!! hey buzz kill....i've got a brand new box full full of beatin's waiting for you in the attic.
the sanding and stuff will be done at our leisure.
we got ALL of the drywall up, which is amazing when you consider how much was left to do at the start of the night last night. there is no danger of any dogs or cats falling down electrical shafts, so that's good. your pets are safe. i'm slightly excited and annoying. for the first time in my life, i can't wait to sweep the floor and mop.
bub about: competition musac i'm gonna go ahead and say, if i dislike the music, i'm gonna take it out. i won't listen to your sigor ros crap in my own house.
bub about: competition musac wait. i just heard terrible news. britney spears has officially filed for divorce from kevin ferdenscoffen. she wants physical and legal custody of their two kids. no word on who gets custody of her dead career. i wonder if kevin can say "prenup". if these two kids can't make it, who can?
bub about: competition musac just bring cd's. i believe it's pittsburgh's choice, based on the metal we listened to during the last few competitions. i might just loop renegade by styx, just for wes. :)
bub about: zzz is it friday yet? i need a drink. what a crappy day.
bub about: bdc glad you like it.
bub about: Comp Weekend. directions.
from columbus...take 70 to I-79 North to 279 North. go through the fort pitt tunnels(in the left lane), once through the tunnels, get all the way over to the left lane, follow signs for 279 North. get off 279 at the bellvue/west view exit. turn left off the ramp, turn left at the top of the hill by the marathon gas station(North Ave.). follow that as it bends up to the left onto Forest Ave. at the top of the hill turn left onto Klemont Ave. we are 709 Klemont.
from the other places...take 79 south to 279 south, get off at bellevue/westvie, turn left, follow the other set of directions from there.
again, 709 Klemont Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15202.
bub about: digital era i have no idea. i don't think that's a problem. i haven't had a need to use a different memory stick.
bub about: digital era biggs, we got a sony cybershot 5.1 megapixel. it exceeds our needs. i think it was like $350 or so, but that was 2 years ago when 5 megapixels was a ton. got it at bestbuy. it appears you can get the 6.0 megapixel version for $199 at bestbuy now.
bub about: football i'm not even gonna go into the steelers getting two 15 yard unsportsmenlike conduct calls on consecutive plays....for talking trash. that's gay, so was the "running into the kicker call during the pit - atl game. the kicker went 4 feet forward and fell over a guy laying still on the ground. horse-shit call. so many bad calls and non-calls this year.
bub about: Super Steelers the steelers would be scary good, if they could actually hold on to the ball. that's a huge if, but they are better in all categories this year than last year, aside from turnovers. 6 this week. 6.
bub about: football articles yeah. they have a pretty great job. go to/watch football, then point out the obvious. "wait, the team with the best record is now the team to beat?!" holy crap. wait, the bears lost to a bad team, where they overrated? possibly. the bengals have lost 4 out of 5, maybe they aren't as good as they think they are? things aren't so super for the 2-6 steelers? no... (all articles on espn.go.com today)
bub about: game...bring it cathryn, yes it was. if that's possible/not a pain in the butt.
bub about: game...bring it everyone gone for the day? entertain me please.
bub about: game...bring it that would be great.
you guys leave yet? i'm tired of working on the attic. the attic won't be complete when you get here. we've had some setbacks. the stairwell probably won't have any drywall on it. you'll have to deal with that. no taping, spackling, sanding, or painting will have been done...mostly cuz i know someone will put their head through a wall, so there's no sense in making it look nice yet. you should all look at the scary attic pics to remember how bad it looked, then tell me how great it looks on friday. mountain house "before" pics
bub about: game...bring it we have a garage, if you want to sleep in there. we can put the space heater out there with you.
bub about: Doogie Houser is a butt pirate i was waiting for that. there's just something about him that screams gay. i'm not surprised at all.
bub about: game...bring it we will be able to sleep everyone at our place, surprisingly. we'll need to sleep multiple people per room. there is the spare bedroom(4-6people), the office(2-4), our room(4-6), the attic(no longer scary or dirty)(8-10), the living room(4-6), the dining room(2-4), and the entry(if need be)(2-3). voits and englishes can share the spare bedroom (if one of the couple's have an air mattress). everyone that has an airmattress, should bring it, obviously. blah blah blah. we have two baby-gates, and an extra crate, if that helps.
bub about: game...bring it is it friday yet?
bub about: game...bring it there is no reason to be ashamed of not being able to achieve the greatness that is team pittsburgh. verbally demeaning your opponent due to your short-comings(hehe) shows a complete lack of maturity and poor sportsmanship. not surprising from someone from the mistake.
bub about: game...bring it duh, only geniuses can make 4 blue boxes avoid a red one.
so is that why i got a text saying that the "steelers just lost to the dolphins 42-7" at 1:30am on saturday night/sunday morning?
bub about: game...bring it 26.43. booya.
bub about: eat your heart out Pittsburgh did any of you guys leave for competition weekend yet? i'm bored. c'mon.
bub about: eat your heart out Pittsburgh primanti's should create a pierogi sandwich. pierogi and egg, with the normal stuff on it. probably wouldn't be bad.
bub about: eat your heart out Pittsburgh haha. that's good stuff. there's a place in pittsburgh that makes crazy pierogi. the church brew works. they change the pierogi every day, last time i was there, they had "rattle snake peirogi". umm. no thanks. i'll stick to potato.
bub about: political ads oh, don't get me wrong, santorum is just as bad as anyone else with the "she eats babies" stuff. that was just the first ad in that race where they didn't do a "bobby casey eats babies" ad. aaaand it was absolutely retardedly funny.
bub about: competition dude, we had the same discussion about 2 months ago. it's over.
bub about: political ads it's the most awesomely bad campaign ad ever. i'll be honest, it's a nice change of pace from the "so-and-so kicks infants" ads that are on every 5 seconds.
bub about: competition i think that finals are the only ones that need to be best of 3.
bub about: competition haha. from the beginning, i've been a supporter of if you win the event, your team gets a point. so in your example, buf and oh are tied 2 - 2, so you would play volleyball. i'm good with that system. if everyone else is, that's perfect. let's just go with that.
bub about: competition have we all come to the consensus on scoring? 4 points for 1st, 2 for second, 1 for third. the team that finishes first gets the 4 no matter where their other teams finish. second is awarded to the next best team(whether it's a 2nd place finish or a 4th place finish), then third goes to the other team. is that cool with everyone?
bub about: competition wes, good point. i did not intend for darts to have a point differential in darts, my brain shut off. i want to discourage "point whoring" as much as possible. i figured the two teams (or three teams) that were tied, would just play a "play off". if it's three teams, then it's cut throat.
bub about: competition oh, and the $10 per person, covers the kegs, not the cans. we'll deal with that if/when that comes up. also, abby was going to make "burrito makin's", anyone want burritos for dinner on saturday? that'll be a couple bucks a person...just like pizza. and if you want to make out with me in the bathroom, i've reduced my rates to $0.77 a kiss, plus tax.
bub about: competition ok, here is the schedule of events for competition weekend.
friday night
7pm-10pm, people arrive
8:30pm opening carbomb ceremonies
8:45pm-?am darts and beer pong begin(we will start with the people who are already there, skipping any late arrivers *who will catch up upon arrival*)
saturday
11:30am, primanti's brunch
1pm, arrive at dave and dawn's house
1:30pm, cornhole begins
7pm, euchre begins(with multiple games at once)
11pm, flip cup begins
if a tie breaker is needed, the two teams that are tied, will have 2 people from each side play a best of 3 match of quarters volleyball.
the events
darts - 4 teams of 2 from each region, will play in 4 pools(1 team from each region in each pool). the winner of each pool will advance to bracket play, culminating in a championship match.
beer pong - 4 teams of 2 from each region, will play in 4 pools(1 team from each region in each pool). the winner of each pool will advance to bracket play, culminating in a championship match. any tie breakers will be decided by total point differential
cornhole - 4 teams of 2 from each region, will play in 4 pools(1 team from each region in each pool). the winner of each pool will advance to bracket play, culminating in a championship match. any tie breakers will be decided by total point differenital.
euchre - 4 teams of 2 from each region, will play in 4 pools(1 team from each region in each pool). the winner of each pool will advance to bracket play, culminating in a championship match. any tie breakers will be decided by total point differential.
flip cup - each region will field a team equal to the number of participants of the smallest region. all three regions play at the same time. the first team to "n" wins, "n" to be determined that day.
special considerations...
darts - if the dart falls out of the board at any time prior to your attempt to pull it out, the dart is no good. as with any steel tip board, the bulls eye has a higher frequency of bounce-outs than the other numbers....there will be no bitching. please refrain from complaining about "point whoring". it will do no good, just piss everyone off.
beer pong - standard "agro warning system" of one warning, subsequent agrousity will result in a "do-over". there will be NO hitting of the walls or ceilings with paddles out of anger, immediate disqualification will result.
cornhole scoring is standard.
euchre - any kind of "we play this way, we play that way" talk will be done before the tournament begins, so that everyone is on the same page. i will give out "ear slaps" to anyone bitching beyond that point.
flip cup - nothing special
volleyball - we'll cross any oddities if/when we get there.
other fun stuff
we're gonna get 2 kegs for friday night, one on saturday, then cans if/when we need them on saturday. it'll be around $10 per person for all of the beer for the weekend. please have $10 bills, if i get 30 $20 bills, i'm keeping 'em. i'm sure we'll order a bunch of pizzas or something on saturday. or maybe we can grill some ribs or something. we can discuss that on saturday.
bub about: Kent i understand being upset. if i were to find out that i was wrong about something, i'd probably be upset. i'll let you know when i find out ;)
bub about: Kent not to be a prick, but loss is not past tense, it's a noun. "when you play loose football, you will most likely lose the game, causing another mark in the loss column"
lost is the past tense of lose. i'm surprised that browns and bills fans aren't perfectly versed in the usage of the root "lose".
bub about: comp weekend wes, that's correct.
bub about: corned beef heaven i'm sure that wouldn't be a problem. we'll get the guiness(we'll be at the distributor anyway).
bub about: NFL i think bill b's hoodie is cool when it's snowing. in a dome and cut-off, retarded. i think that netflix and the nfl need to make a deal so you can get past nfl games on dvd, but you'd need to be able to get more than 2 at once. next week i would set up two tv's in the attic. on one, i'd continuously loop "the drive", and on the other, i'd continuously loop norwood missing kicks. then around the time you stopped paying attention to those and i felt they had the desired affect, i'd slip the super XL celebration in and dance and sing and flick you all in the testicles.
bub about: ip address harold, you should be good to post now. just email me if i don't respond immediately.
bub about: important questions i need answers to if competition ends before 2am, we could transport ourselves back to my place and walk to a towny hole in the wall bar, called camaratta's. it'll take about as much time as walking to cole's, maybe a few minutes more.
bub about: important questions i need answers to wes, we can get sandos with fries for whatever meals you like. even if no one else wants to go with you, i'm willing to eat sandos with fries for EVERY meal.
the sleeping occupancy of my place is around 25-30 peeps, that is, if people bring air mattresses and aren't afraid to be "close".
the only trouble with competition weekend, is we'll be ending saturday night at the mcelhinney's(which isn't the problem), but neither house is walking distance to a bar, but that really won't matter much, cuz our bars close at 2am.
bub about: football does dan deirdorf's head just continually grow? his head is the size of a medicine ball. it makes a basketball look like a raquetball. troy aikmen isn't bad, i doubt i'd want to watch him announce a cowboys game though.
bub about: football madden is retarded. listen to kevin harlan and rich gannon announce the steelers/raiders game was painful. i don't think they should have any former players announcing nationally broadcast games in which their former team is playing. it's quite annoying. and kevin harlan is either a raiders fan or hates the steelers. it was obvious when listening to the game. for example, every raiders sack/int he freaked out and used the "very excited marv alberts" voice. when the steelers picked off the ball at the end of the game which gave us a chance to tie(a huge play in the game), he used the "very somber funeral director" voice. even abby noticed it. it was amusing. the whole game was like that. he kept talking about how good of a quarterback andrew walter was(dispite only completing 5 passes for 16 yards). i hope kevin harlan, phil simms, and john madden all die in a fiery bus crash. nothing is more enfuriating that annoying biased announcing. i don't even like when the announcing is biased towards the steelers, because i think about how annoyed the fans of the other team are and i sympathize....unless we're playing the browns or bengals...then laugh heartily.
bub about: football steelers are awful.
bub about: website all i get is a captain poop website. it doesn't go anywhere or do anything....or am i supposed to wait for a while?
bub about: Comp Weekend. while ohio and buffalo just hang around being hairy.
bub about: Comp Weekend. pittsburgh should be the shaft, cuz we're the team that will be delivering the pounding.
bub about: Comp Weekend. a best of three game of volleyball(quarters). two players per team.
bub about: site update ok. login it is. i won't have much time to do the coding for a week or two, but if i get some extra time, i'll do that. i have not done it till now cuz no one used the first message board(before i programmed this one), because there was a login.
bub about: site update so, all of the problems with IP addresses lately, have prompted me to ask, would you guys rather go to a login system? you wouldn't have to login every time, but you would the first time and every time you reset your cookies or use a new pc. is that better than the IP address thing?
bub about: The Wave the sabres are scary. reminds me of the 1991 penguins, when they won their last 17 games of the season, then lost in the first round. let's hope for your sake, they don't win 82 games.
bub about: fantasy football i just traded(in my work league) david carr and jericho cotchery, for duece mcallister. idiot....
bub about: new man i recommend water socks. not only are they smart, but fashionable.
i've got a good 15 little splinters from tearing down the lathe and plaster and stuff from the attic. it's either splinters or shards of coal(is that possible?)
by the way, my electrical work, worked. house didn't burn down. i'm looking into a new career. i'm obviously a natural. i just have to get past the internal laughter every time i said "wire strippers". snazzy aquatic wear
bub about: random bitching the price for something like what roger's did is getting ejected from the game and a 1 game suspension.
bub about: random bitching that was pine tar without a doubt. i used that stuff like it was going out of style, when i played. that was totally pine tar. and the picture from game 3 of the ALCS is proof. exact same place. he cheated. having said that...the guy pitched lights out, even after he washed it off, but he still cheated.
bub about: Penguin staal is the first player in nhl history to have 2 shorthanded goals in one game. he's got 3 shorthanded goals already this season(8 games). that's nuts.
bub about: comp weekend three teams. it would be best if we could get 4 teams of 2 from each team. then do pool/group play. 4 pools/groups with 1 team from each city/state.
for example: pool 1 would have P1 B1 O1, pool 2 would have P2 B2 O2, etc. the winner of each pool advances to the playoff bracket. winner of pool 1 plays winner of pool 2 and winner of pool 3 plays winner of pool 4. winner of those games plays for the title. it works for all events, except flip cup, which is a free for all.
bub about: music wes, that's like those awesome HP commercials where the holds the white rectangular thing that looks like a picture frame. that commercial rules.
bub about: Pittsburgh i think you are right. sounds familiar.
bub about: Pittsburgh i haven't talked to her in years. what was her friend's name? it was "joy and *blank*". those two were inseparable.
bub about: Pittsburgh sweeney, we don't use the route 8 exit of the turnpike...we use cranberry. it is ENE of my house. takes about 20 minutes to get there. if you were to go there from cleveland, you would get off the turnpike at the exit after cranberry. it's about 5 seconds from that exit.
bub about: BDC hates me if your company has a router and each pc runs off of that(for web connectivity), if that router (or the pc attached to that router) was turned off, that would do it. i'm noticing weird things all around today. a lot of you guys had to resubmit, but some didn't(biggie and i didn't, and derek didn't at first, but did later). i'm also noticing that it is not always autofilling my name in the name-box. i have no explanation for eitehr...just guesses. nothing changed, programming wise, so maybe it's a problem with the host server.
bub about: BDC hates me did you turn off your pc? that's probably why.
bub about: comp. weekend the official list for competition is
beer pong cornhole darts euchre flip cup
bub about: comp. weekend oh, and shawne merriman has been suspended for 4 games for a violation of the league's banned substance policy. it is being reported by espn, that he was nailed for a drug in the steroid family, not the diaretics that some have been nailed for. he says he has an explanation.
bub about: comp. weekend the beer pong stadium is right on schedule for completion before competition.
bub about: hmmm all i know is, mine will have a pudding hose and two gunners on it.
bub about: hmmm that's pretty dangerous here. we have very few straight roads.
bub about: hmmm yeah, i was thinking about a mousetrap kind of game...and a miniature soapbox derby thing.
bub about: hmmm yes, prebuild, then drink.
bub about: hmmm after talking with thews and cristen about their disappointment with missing competition...i would like to propose a second competition. a warm weather competition. a smarts competition. events that are similar in nature to science projects. we could do an egg drop contest. a paper airplane building contest. a balsa wood bridge building contest. things of that nature. any interest?
bub about: One to watch for... then you are an inner-child abusing S.O.B.
and a doody head.
bub about: One to watch for... i might change the bublican slogan. "vote bublican, because we're not deuchebags...and we support the doozers."
bub about: One to watch for... i watched the fraggles with my dad every tuesday night at 6pm when i was a kid. loved it. emmitt otter's jugband christmas used to be played on cbs around christmas time. it's about 25 minutes long and completely cheesily awesome, just like everything else Henson. i bought that on dvd for my mom for christmas last year or the year before. she sobbed.
bub about: One to watch for... wes, i won't be putting fraggle stuff up on the site. and i will go see it, because it's nostalgia, not some walmart mega-production with a retarded amount of hype and 15 sequals. i also reserve the right to go contradict myself whenever i please. and derek is right, don't get me started on the awesomeness that is emmitt otter.
bub about: One to watch for... i will go watch this with anyone that wants to go. i would also like the fraggle rock box set, complete season 1 on dvd please.
bub about: Sex Quote of the Day my favorite of those is "i think i could fall madly in bed with you". great line.
bub about: Sex Quote of the Day wow. you're gonna spend a lot of time looking for sex quotes.
bub about: I married Mc-freaking-Gyver apparently i got wasted right as i typed the next to last sentence, then sobered up again to right the last one. disregard the next to last one.
bub about: I married Mc-freaking-Gyver i was close. once we got the kinks out of the system, we were the model of efficiency. about a ton and half of plaster was sent out that window. that's 3,000 pounds we didn't have to carry. i even tied twine to the carabeaner(however you spell that) so that once the bags were unclipped by the person at the dumpster, i could pull the carabeaner back up using the twine. i hafta say, if i come up with zero ideas for the rest of my life, at least i had that one. things about looking pretty good for the attic completion. getting 31 sheets of drywall up there is gonna blow, but it's worth it.
bub about: wow chargers LB shawne merriman is such a bad ass that they have to keep him out of hitting drills, because they don't want him to hurt their own players. damn.
bub about: sappy sappy i could watch that guy all day. he's a riot. i may adopt some of his moves for my beer pong celebrations.
bub about: football stadiums did you guys hear about the "non-credible" terrorist threats on 7 NFL stadiums for this weekend. atlanta(where the stillers will be), giants stadium, cleveland, and a couple more.
bub about: homo-nership official explaination from the referee.
“The ruling on the field was roughing the passer,” said Carey. “Technically, it was unnecessary roughness because the pass didn’t get away. But in the tackle, the defender, stopped forward progress, drove him backwards, and then at the end gave him the extra effort and stuffed his head into the ground. We’re directed to protect the safety of the quarterback. Most people don’t understand [unnecessary roughness], so we just called it roughing the passer.”
i'm happy with the end result, but i understand your frustration. the steelers got 3 "apologies" from officials in the 2000 season, confirming that they made incorrect calls which effected the outcome of the game. official apologies. i know how that feels. i was actually at one of the games(steelers - eagles, nov. 12th) ending with an illegal onside kick, leading to a hail mary td to win the game for the eagles.
bub about: homo-nership mike and mike discussed it all week. they called it a weak call, but not game-changing.
bub about: homo-nership his knee was down.
bub about: homo-nership if bad penalty calls that changed games, never happened, every week, someone would be complaining. i agree it's a weak call, but there is no guarantee that gradkowski doesn't complete a 19-yard pass on 3rd and 18 from the 40, instead of 1st and 10 from the 25. the thing that lost the game, was the complete lack of execution on the part of your offense. they lost to a team that hadn't won a game yet this year. the penalty didn't help, but your defense still had 25 yards to "stuff 'em" and didn't. i'd like to thank bruce gradkowski(FROM setan lasalle high school) for helping the stillers(who have suuuuucked this year) get back into the hunt.
bub about: homo-nership that sucks. hopefully he moves before you have kids. looks like we'll be all powered up before competition, so that's good. we'll have heat, so we won't...or air if need be. you guys will be happy to know that i've already breathed in all of the coal soot that was in the walls, so that'll be gone by the time you get there.
bub about: homo-nership so, having a house is fun, but when it gets down to having to upgrade your really old electrical system, it's not fun at all. looks like we're gonna need to upgrade our system, cuz allgheny county requires things to be brought up to code, if you alter anything with the electrical service line. boo to codes. looks like it's gonna cost between $800 and $975 to get our service upgraded. granted the $975 is for 150amp(more than double what we've got) service and a complete upgrade from glass fuses to circuit breakers, but it still sucks to have to pay for it. think there's any way we can get our home warranty to pay for it?
bub about: da Bills you have to be so bored at work.
bub about: sabres yeah, i wrote that game off and went to bed.
bub about: sabres 9-1....are you kidding me? the sabres look pretty decent this year...geez.
bub about: I live in buffalo are you kidding me?!
bub about: poor peoples i left out south, when talking about cleveland.
bub about: poor peoples i wonder if there are more north and south than east and west. most of our major cities are on bodies of water(mostly the oceans). most of those bodies of water are east and west of the city. you've got cleveland on the of a body of water and some southern cities are north of the gulf of mexico, but most cities are either east or west of a body of water.
bub about: poor peoples boston would also fit aaron's thoughts. i bet geography and industry are the two major reasons. someone should look into that.
bub about: poor peoples our's are east and north...but it's basically the inner ring. once you get past the inner ring, they aren't poor. our geography only really allows for an inner arc that goes from the north to the east. the north side to the hill district. once you're outside of that, most of the poorer neighborhoods are the ones left behind when the mills left. homestead, greenfield, etc.
bub about: crash completely unrelated to the NYC story, but a crash non-the-less....an 18-wheeler was involved in an accident on i-70 in pa, spilling it's contents onto the highway, during a driving rain. the contents...pancake mix. emergency services to dispatch a metric shit ton of bacon and syrup.
bub about: crash wow, haven't heard a single word about it.
bub about: advice fine, 3 hours...but it better be gone when i get home from cooper's obedience class. if it's not, i'll piss and moan and annoy you for days.
bub about: advice i'd rather spend that 3 hours removing my pubic hair with a belt sander, than watch those kinds of movies.
bub about: advice and before you ask, no harry potter, chronicals of narnia, star trek, star gate, star wars(unless it's one of the three originals)....or any other crap that you and children under 7 are reading/watching.
bub about: advice i'm gonna put the kibosh on the lord of the rings crap. rip and burn 'em to a disc. i will not promote that scifi crap on this site.
bub about: advice we're doing it all, not hiring people.
bub about: advice i don't think heat will be a major problem for the weekend. you guys have been up there, it gets pretty toasty. if we can get away with the lights and plugs until we upgrade, that will work. the floors will be redone, no need for carpet samples. thanks though. there will be insulation and drywall(which there is no insulation there now) so that ought to help.
bub about: advice briancmountain@gmail.com
bub about: advice what benefit is the second box, is it so you don't have to go downstairs to deal with anything relating to the box? and again, we would have zero power to the attic for competition weekend if we don't connect to what we've got.
bub about: advice is it possible to check how much you are pulling from the other crap in the house? with our time constraints, does it make sense to run the lines up there, connect them to what we've got, then have it upgraded after? it's just a matter of moving wires then. or is that retarded? we aren't going to have a subpanel up there.
bub about: advice thanks. right now the electrician is saying that the fusebox needs to be replaced by a circuit breaker(which i agree with), but that's around $1000 to do, so that's not happening right now.
bub about: advice any of you guys/girls have any electrical know-how? we are currently demo-ing our attic and are planning on running electricity up there. we've got an old glass fusebox with about 10 fuses already on it. abby's dad thinks we have 60amp service to the house. do you think we're going to be blowing fuses all over the place if we put in some lights, outlets, and a baseboard heater?
bub about: NFL curse, schmurse. you team just sucks.
bub about: meng weekend yeah, what wes said...
bub about: websites oops, yeah, that was me from home last night. didn't even look at the name. you rarely post from home, so i assumed it was me.
bub about: websites and for referral purposes, i know hmtl, xml, php, asp, flash, and javascript.
bub about: websites and macromedia vs adobe info, in what regard?
bub about: websites i won't be using any programs for the actual site development, but for flash stuff, i'll be using the macromedia suite.
bub about: websites thanks lan, that would be grrrrrreat.
bub about: websites hey matt, if city wants one, i can do it cheapy cheapy. i'm officially open for business...just so you guys know. any referrals will get you a big wet kiss and a case of homemade beer of your choosing. i reserve the right to back out of the kiss at any point.
bub about: friday happy music i used to use a program(freeware) that converted wma's to mp3, but i don't remember the name. it wasn't switch, but same premise.
bub about: Fall that reminds me of the family guy episode with "the leafers".
bub about: Penguins come up with something better.
bub about: Penguins everyone around here calls them the inclines. there used to be a third one, but they torn it down a long time ago. they were talking about putting one in in the strip district to help people get up to the arena, a few years ago, but that apparently went by the way-side. they are fun to ride...especially when fireworks are going off.
bub about: Penguins and just to increase your knowledge base...the "vertical trolley" is an "incline" or a "funicular".
bub about: Penguins this is not great news to me. this is the same guy that tried to buy the pens last year and move them to hamilton, ontario. kinda funny cuz hamilton is also nicknamed "the steel city". but this guy decided not to buy when he realized that it wouldn't be easy to move them. that isn't to say that he won't decide to do so in 5 years. i hope the deal says that if we get a new arena, he can't move them at all.
bub about: Meng Party those two don't go anywhere without a shuttle. maybe we could convince the driver to just drive around for a couple of hours so you guys feel confortable.
bub about: team ohio i saw sleepawitz in downtown p'burgh a few years ago, just walking across the street. might have been 2001 or 2002. i thought "i think that's the kid that sleeps a lot"...but it had been 3 or 4 years since i left kent, so i wasn't sure.
bub about: Meng Party i love the bock and the hazelnut stout.
bub about: Meng Party so for the wedding stuff...we've got a while between the wedding(lakewood) and reception(north olmstead). anyone feel like going to the rocky river brewing company for lunch/beer/football? they just won 2 or 3 medals at the great american beer festival the other day.
bub about: random football thoughts... and how disgusting was "the stomp"? dude should be suspended for 8 games.
bub about: random football thoughts... can the bears please end the cedric benson experiment? thomas jones is by far the better back. plus, i have jones on my fantasy team...along with bernard berrian and the chicago defense. go bears!
bub about: T.O. the info comes from the police report...supposedly.
bub about: T.O. espn and msnbc got the story from dallas' channel 8 news(or channel 6)
bub about: T.O. wow, i heard on the radio that he had "an allergic reaction to pain medications" and the situation "isn't serious"(according to his agent). if that story is correct(which espn seems to confirm), then maybe the situation IS serious.
bub about: trends the new hot trend.... baby toupees
bub about: g.loves you wes, we meant to have an intervention with you at the matthews wedding, but we got drunk. we need to discuss you use of .wma files. some of us have a problem with them. apple users, some pc users, people who want to burn those to a disc. we know change is difficult, so we don't expect it to change right away. if we could get you using mp3s or wavs, i think those might help ween you off of the wmas. we only said something cuz we care...about you...and about music.....mostly the music, but you get my point.
thanks, us
bub about: I love the suburbs i lived in a plan called "creekwood" growing up...my parents still live there. there is a crick(not creek) and there WERE woods, but now it's basically a tree line.
bub about: football sorry, reseasons isn't a word. reasons is what i meant.
bub about: football i saw that. chuckled quietly. what a moron.
bub about: football ah, my brain assumed governing infrastructure, didn't think about the sewers and stuff. yeah, that'd be expensive. but to just keep paying to get things back to normal, seems to be silly to me. yes, levies help(except when the bush administration purposely blows holes in them in the black neighborhoods), but the city is a gigantic bowl. seems retarded to me. we seem to be rebuilding for emotional reseasons, not logical ones.
bub about: football i would think the buildings and construction would be the most expensive.
bub about: football completely impossible, may have been over stating things....ridiculously complicated and expensive would probably be a better choice.
bub about: football the US government approved $62billion in relief money this time. assuming another major hurricane never hits new orleans again, yes, i agree it would cost more to "move it". but if it gets hit one or two more times, those costs are going to get much closer. and it's completely impossible to make new orleans huricane proof.
bub about: football oh, and the stadium sucks.
bub about: football new orleans should be bull dozed over, topped with concrete and used as a parking lot. awful use of money, cuz it will all happen again...and again. those people deserve better. move the city 20 miles north(or however far it takes to get it above sea level). whether i am insensitive or not, it is true.
bub about: Terrible sports logos if by "best helmet" you mean "the one that looks most like a shirt that a slutty trailer park whore would wear" then yes, it's the best.
bub about: Terrible sports logos oooo! the old padres logo, with the friar swinging the bat.
bub about: Terrible sports logos aside from the awesomeness that is the steelers logo, i rather enjoy the recycling logo, the biohazard logo, and the baltimore orioles logo.
bub about: Terrible sports logos sorry, that should be terrible HOCKEY logos.
bub about: ff greg, derek has the second most points. you are actually 5th in points, but you are tied for first place with me at 2-0.
bub about: holy crap did you guys hear about the dodgers - padres game last night? the dodgers hit back to back to back to back home runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game (yes, that was 4 HR's in a row). then hit a walk off homer in the 10th to win it. i can't imagine how dodger fans felt watching that game.
bub about: wedding bliss not only were you screaming about it, but you were doing some sort of pelvic thrust to demonstrate "pushing out a log".
bub about: fall i'm gonna give you a swirley at the barking shark. you bastards that get beer thirty, and rub it in...grrr.
bub about: bills doesn't look that way from espn.
bub about: music i was wrong...."whats the attitude" is awesome.
bub about: music works for me. and "the garden" is awesome. replaying it now.
bub about: site update if anyone has any suggestions about updates to the site, let me know.
things on tap in the near future 1. i'm creating an interface that will let you just browse your pc for a file(music or pictures) and it will upload to the ftp folder without you having to do anything.
2. a program like gmail notifier that you can download and will run behind the scenes with an icon on your system tray that will let you know if there are new comments, so you don't have to keep bdc open, with options to have the messages pop-up or not pop-up.
bub about: music wes, what did you have to do to get it to work?
bub about: music all you had to do was say Ozomatli and dj shadow, my interest is peaked. ozomatli's "superbowl sundae" is sweet.
bub about: Cooper yes, if you go to www.bubandabbyarebiggaydogparents.com, you can see a streaming web cam. that web cam was addicting...which is completely gay.
bub about: music for the masses the refresh only affects these pages, i don't know how to reset a connection to a server. maybe we should get you "smartftp" so you don't have to go through all of that. if you look up SmartFtp on the web, it will take you to a free download site, from there i can give you the one time setup and then it's as easy as 1-2-3.
bub about: music for the masses wes, you're doing it right. not sure why it's giving you static.
bub about: music for the masses i removed the heartless bastards and cut chemist or whatever it is. anyone else want snow patrol? if not, i'll take that down. then wes can try again.
bub about: music for the masses wes, that's a good enough answer. my answer will not be as good. "i don't know", is my answer.
bub about: music for the masses what method are you using to upload?
bub about: Thewsie and a Bachelorette pics of thews and andrea dancing are up on the ftp site. there are only 3, but they are there.
bub about: so gay cooper is awake now. he generally sits on the steps outside(sandcastle waterbark)
bub about: Thewsie and a Bachelorette send them to me, i'll put them up.
bub about: so gay even worse...he's not on any of them right now, it's naptime until 1pm.
bub about: so gay i was wrong, he's not on the kenneywoof one, he's on the "sandcastle waterbark" one.
bub about: so gay sure. here it is. click on "regular quality cam", cooper is the brownish beige one usually sitting on the steps. he is on the cam called "kenneywoof" cooper at camp
bub about: so gay i'm so gay. i had to take cooper to the kennel that we're putting him in (for saturday night), this morning. they have an "interview process" to make sure your dog isn't evil and such. they are one of these new "camps" for dogs, which seem nicer for the dog, than putting him in a kennel where they are stuck in a cage all day. he gets to run around outside with other dogs all day. well, they've got a web cam so you can check on your dog. it's great, but i'm sitting here doing no work, just watching cooper play. it's funny to watch your dog at work. i'm a gaybo.
bub about: site update ok, some of the new changes are in. the refresh stuff works. you can choose the interval at the top right of the comments page. updates to follow...i will work on the alerts tonight, and i will add a refresh of shorter intervals so you can see any new posts while you are typing a response (on the page that you go to when you click on the topic), so we don't have simul-posting.
bub about: gay stillers if kissing dudes is gay...wait...
bub about: PSA if you have a weak stomach, don't read past this.....but the with the size of teh hairball that i pulled out of the tub drain, i can gauran-damn-tee you that it wasn't any hair of mine or abby's. which only leaves the previous owner....an 80+ year old lady. yeah, 80-year-old lady pubes. nice.
and yeah, we got the joke. is anyone else getting excited about the weekend?
bub about: PSA you should see our "ghetto house" now. looks significantly better....on the outside. once we get some flooring in on the first floor, then there's just the second floor and attic left.
bub about: site update i'm making some changes to some things on here and would like your input. the change is going to make it so that the comments will refresh at a given interval. just the comments, if you happen to be typing when the refresh happens, nothing will be lost. this way, you won't have to go back to the main page to see any new comments, they will just appear. from the comments page, you will be able to see when there are new rant comments(without having to go back to the main page) and from the rants comments page, you can see when there are new regular comments(again, without having to go back to the main page). you will be able to choose at which interval you would like the comments to refresh(just like on the main page). here's the question, which interval times do you want? 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes?
bub about: hello? ah, you never mentioned changing criteria. that makes things different.
bub about: hello? bowling is out due to pittsburgh being a dead lock in that event.
bub about: hello? along the competition lines...we are thinking of replacing bowling with euchre. any objections?
and st. patty's day stuff. i was recalling the conversation derek and i had via texts on friday. my thoughts are as follows(in a nice NPR voice): pittsburgh would love to host it this year, but we cannot feasibly do it ON st. patty's day. there will be no less than 8 crawls in the southside. even with out the crawls, the bars anywhere are going to be so busy that we wouldn't possibly be able to get through the crawl without starting at noon. and to only have 13 beers(or whatever you're drinking) from noon till 2am, is fairly weak. i don't have any objections to hosting it somewhere else, but i fear we'll run into the same problem in any locale. even kent. the usual 8 or 9pm start and 2am finish would be impossible anywhere that night. there are usually 30 minutes per bar, with about 40 people. on a non-st. patty's day weekend, we move at a fast pace and barely finish(as noted by the sprint to shootz two years ago)...but if you add 3 times the number of people at the bars, i afraid that will kill us.
bub about: hello? is it on his neck?!
bub about: hello? anyone around today? you all still dead from paintball?
bub about: schweet... the steelers picked up najeh davenport. i love any RB who breaks into a woman's dorm room and poops in her closet.
bub about: Tests wow, and you say my school sucked...
bub about: Tests you couldn't place the states in the right place?
bub about: Tests i don't understand...i put all of the states in the right spots...then it went back to the beginning screen...didn't tell me whether i passed or not.
bub about: weekend drinking sorry, i have "prior obligations"
bub about: weekend drinking i can't make it, so i won't be arriving.
bub about: that game last night i loved the replays they showed for 15 minuts, of saban limply tossing the red flag. they showed it in slow motion making it look as though there were 10 second between the tossing of the flag and the snap of the kick. shown in real time, it was about 1 second.
bub about: that game last night yeah, pink and rascal flats. nice. why not hank williams jr and someone relevant. very disappointed in that one.
thoughts on the game... i wasn't too bothered by the false starts so much as the two no-calls that were awful. the pass interference no-call when cedric wilson was anally penetrated on third down, which caused a punt and long return by wes-the-douche, and the dolphins first touchdown. they replayed it 3 times and it was obvious interence. and the other was the no-call on the dolphins second touchdown. ike taylor was held, right infront of the line judge(who was looking at the goal line, which he should be), that hold made it so that ike got there just as they crossed the goal line. granted, they probably would have scored on the next play, but missing those was bad. as for the heath miller touchdown. eh, whatver. i'll take the ball on the one. we had already fumbled on the one once, wouldn't happen again.
all in all, the dolphins bandwagoners will be jumping ship like passengers on the titanic. culpepper showed that he's still culpepper.
bub about: that game last night did any of you non-pittsburghers see the pregame stuff fo the game last night? what did you think, cuz we thought it was awesome.
bub about: competition possible replacement for bowling. Kegball
bub about: off topic i love people that say "that trophy was ours before..." yeah. the trophy was our's for the last 15 years, till will lost.
bub about: off topic derek, it's gonna hurt when all of your hope and optimism comes crashing to the ground like a promising quarterback with a torn acl.
bub about: Excitement i will conceed that tonight is not looking good. anytime you have charlie batch starting, things have gone wrong. eh, 1 loss won't hurt.
bub about: off topic i'll be completely honest with you...the steelers could go 0-16 and i wouldn't care too much. i was 2 when they won the last one, so i waited my whole life to actually see a superbowl victory. i saw it. it was glorious. my appetite has been wet, but i just ate, so i'm not all that hungry.
bub about: off topic derek, that doesn't bode well for you, that berg is picking the bengals to finish the same as you picked.
bub about: off topic i'm sorry derek, i can't hear you over all that lombardi trophy polishing going on in the northside right now.
bub about: off topic bitches. how about this. the bengals will go 3-13, and the bills will be caught in a public restroom having gay sex with the browns.
bub about: off topic i just read that kent state is ranked 6th in football. 6th, in the bottom 10. glad to see the tradition is still alive.
bub about: Frezze Tag no, not double elimination. if we have 4 teams from each region, we do "pool play". have 4 pools, each containing one team from each region. in each pool, pit vs cle, pit vs buf, cle vs buf. the team with the best record moves on to the next round, ties are determined by score differential. the winner of each pool moves on to bracket style, single elimination play. winner of pool 1 vs. winner of pool 2....pool 3 vs pool 4. the winers of those games play for the title. no byes, no ties, no cries. 15 games in each event....aside from flip cup. there will be at least 2 dart boards(steel tip) so the darts should take about 2 hours start to finish. beer pong will take a bit longer, but who cares. cornhole will have 3 boards, so those will move quickly. whatever we replace bowling with, we will just have to see. there will be plenty of time. we could start beer pong and darts at the same time, as to keep beer pong from going on till 8am.
bub about: Frezze Tag foosball is two players per side. we could do kickball again, but three teams complicates things. we need 2 player team events so that teams have a break(meaning p'burgh doesn't play cleveland then trun around and play buffalo)
bub about: Frezze Tag we could potentially do foosball. i found a foosball table on craigslist for $30.
bub about: Frezze Tag good news for brad and/or biggie. you won't need to bring your cornhole set. mine, dave's, and blaine's sets are the exact same. same wood, same size, same manufacturer(me). the bags will all be the same also. ordered from ebay, 12oz. duck cloth with 1 pound of corn inside.
bub about: Frezze Tag what about bum-wad tube beatings?
bub about: Frezze Tag we could feasibly do badminton at dave and dawn's house....instead of bowling.
bub about: Practice makes perfect yeah, yinz better hit dem books or yinz ain't allahda come dahnahas.
bub about: \"dig frantically at your pillow\" event not much of a size advantage...cooper is smaller than mante.
bub about: bitching if there was a "dig frantically at your pillow" event, cooper would dominate.
bub about: bitching cooper would lose at anything that involves staying awake. that dog sleeps more than jay bullie.
bub about: bitching i can.
bub about: bitching ok, everything looks like it might working out...so things that need to be accomplished:
decide on what can replace bowling(it really does cause a logistical nightmare) decide on how we determine who gets points.
bub about: bitching i haaaaaate our cab system. although it did make for a fun story when we hitchhiked home from our wedding.
bub about: bitching that understandable. we can remove bowling to make things more fair. thinking more about it, we're kind of a lock on that one. what can we replace it with?
bub about: bitching i'm fine with volleyball.
bub about: bitching abby has done some sweet research and it looks like we may (MAY) be able to get transportation from dave and dawn's house to our house at the end of the night for $5 a person in a limo. the cab companies have told her that they can't give her reservations to make sure we can actually get a damn cab, and can't give her a time when it would be best to call for a cab. this is for those who feel like going back to our place. you don't have to if you don't want to.
bub about: bitching (i am saying all of this with a happy tone of voice and no anger or anything like that)i'm not a proponent of giving nothing to third place, i'm saying i'd rather do 1 point for the victory as opposed to the 3-2-1 points system. i like the 4-2-1 points system better than the 1 point system. keeps everyone in it, but also makes winning important. i'm just voicing concerns about fairness. while i agree that leanne's system for determining 1-2-3 places is very smart, i'm concerned that it changes some of the strategy. a 1-8-9 finish in the past, would have gotten your team the victory, but in this case, a 2-6-7 is better...so it a 3-4-5(which actually would win this hypothetical event without being in the championship game). do we only do the total of all teams if one team has multiple teams in the top 3? or only if one team sweeps the top 3 spots? it becomes a competition about team depth, more than winning an event...which is fine with me, it's just different than in the past.
and if events are an issue, let's change them. i am totally cool with whatever. i just want the barbs to stop flying, cuz this thing is supposed to be fun.
bub about: bitching another thing that needs to be decided with the 3-team format is whether we do standard brackets or pool play. with brackets, we would need to figure out the bye situation. with pool play we need 4 teams from each team.
bub about: bitching so long as you guys realize you can win the majority of the events(3) and still not win the competition, do whatever.
bub about: bitching we'll do whatever you guys want. i think the points system awards mediocrity more than excellence. if you guys would like, we'll do that, but i think it's bullshit to give a team 3 points for coming in 1-2-3, then giving 2 points to a team that was clearly dominated. i'm not the founder of the competition, so i'm done making decisions. you guys decide stuff, we'll just host it.
bub about: bitching the only way i consent to doing a value-point system is if it's based on actual 1-2-3 finishes. i don't think that awarding a point for finishing 7-8-9 in an event is what this competition is about.
i dare you to figure out who deserves 2nd place points in a 4-8-9 vs 5-6-7 sitution, while drunk and competitive. this situation also allowes for a three way or two way tie. it is possible for all three teams to end up with 10 points. or two teams to end with the same number. so when that tie happens, what do you do?
bub about: bitching what if the playoff is an event that would not otherwise be a part of competition?
bub about: bitching but it's fair for a team that performs terribly to get 1 point just for showing up? i think that's very tee-ball.
bub about: bitching scoring. the 3-points for first, two for 2nd and 1 for third really messes with the competition. here's why. let's say team pittsburgh plays some balls out cornhole. our three teams kick the crap out of all others. we finish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the event, ohio comes in 4, 8, and 9 and buffalo comes in 5, 6, and 7. then we get 6 points, you guys get nothing. you would have to break it down by which team came in first, then which team was the next best out of the remaining two. how do you determine which is better a 4th place finish with and 8 and a 9, or a 5, 6, 7 performance? it gets too hairy and way too difficult. and in a situation where team pittsburgh finishes 1, 2, 3....do you guys really deserve any points? i don't think so. so one point per event. in the case of a 2-2-1 finish, the two tied teams will play a playoff flip cup game, best of three.
bub about: bitching darts is darts. whatever is fine. we've purchased a steel tip board today. we'll make the transition. it's over johnny.
bub about: crock hunter ab, we'll be doing darts, then when that's over, beer pong starts.
bub about: crock hunter correct. with flip cup being the last game...everyone has a shot at winning that last event. there is no advantage. unlike beer pong.
bub about: competetion nope...they are geeked about competition
bub about: competetion couple of things...
1. no bars in pittsburgh have steel tip darts, liability issues.
2. we can figure out a solution.
3. there is barely room to stand up in the basement.
4. i don't know of any other updates to competition, other than we figured out the scheduling.
the schedule will be as follows. friday night... darts beer pong
saturday.... bowling cornhole flip cup
cornhole and flip cup will take place at dave and dawn's house since they have the flatter yard and more space. we can all sleep there. they have plenty of room.
bub about: footbal season prayer list....
let us win...a lot....again.
let the bengals return to form so derek will shut up.
let ben's apparent slow death reverse at double the pace so he becomes ben roethlisberger "super-human quarterback" again.
and if none of those things can happen, let the browns make progress so i can hate again.
bub about: Beer Friday always ask me before you try a new beer. i could have saved you from that disgustingness.
bub about: whoreness you dick!
bub about: check this out i can't watch videos at work, what's it show?
bub about: Mr. Rain Maker i think aaron's focus should still be on the transporter. you really need to organize things a little better aaron, instead of painting and drinking and having fun, maybe you should finish some of the projects that you've already started. seriously, grow up.
bub about: zzzzz where is everyone?!?! dammit!
bub about: lastnight here's some light reading. Rap translations
bub about: weekend of competition i am so bored right now.
bub about: weekend of competition if we're talking back in the day, i'd be more likely to duck my head back into the steel mill....now days it would be ducking my head back into the laboratory.
bub about: weekend of competition hilljacks?! you live in the farming capital of the country. go back to playing in the cow patties, billy ray.
bub about: Weekend of Competition i used to have this awesome bud light hat that i wanted to undo the threads at the tob of the d and make it a b so it said Bub, but i never did it. although, that could ahve been gay.
bub about: Weekend of Competition let's hope it's just the shape. that could hold a lot of beer. if it's taste, i'm out.
bub about: Weekend of Competition i'll be signing your bags with it.
bub about: Weekend of Competition i'm gonna buy a new sharpie for the competition, i plan on using it a lot.
bub about: weekend of competition they are not water-proof. in case of crappy weather, we have our all-weather bags, with zero holes and would play one game at a time.
bub about: weekend of competition the cornhole sweep was different, mostly because it was in the snow with shorter dimensions. there were a lot of new players on each team. as far as bags go, the owners of the boards should order bags from ebay. look up cornhole sets or cornhole bags. look for triple stitched, 12oz duck cloth and must be 1 pound. they are made with corn, unlike my navy-bean bags, but as long as they are uniform, who cares. a set of 8 bags is like $16 - $20 including shipping...which is about the cost of making them yourself.
bub about: weekend of competition dmac also has a cornhole set the same dims as mine(i made it, so i know). we could have three games going on at once at dave's house(he has the flattest yard.
bub about: weekend of competition pittsburgh has always played the 29' from front of the hole to front of the hole. the ACA has changed their distances to 27' from front of the board to front of the board and also reduced the slope of the box by making the front 4" tall instead of 2 1/2". to me, their changes made the game worse by taking placement out fo the equation and making it more for a push-bags-off-the-board style...but whatever is fine by me.
bub about: weekend of competition wes, bowling is the official sport of the rust belt. maybe you're too namby pamby to be good at it. sissy boy.
bub about: weekend of competition as for bowling, the vegas style evens things out a bit. you don't have to be good. pick up a few spares or strikes here and there, and you get some cards. luck helps bail you out. cards and score are worth the same amount of points. like i said, if we get more "no's" than "yes's" to bowling or flip cup and someone gives some suggestions, we can change it.
bub about: weekend of competition can i borrow a dollar? can i borrow a dollar? can i borrow a dollar? can i borrow a dollar? none of your bees wax.
i totally forgot about toner's new buddy. that guy was creepy.
bub about: weekend of competition and i must not have been there for the drunken heated discussion. i was told residence/birth place/high school.
bub about: weekend of competition suggest other events.
vegas style bowling is like what we played at my bachelor party. for each strike or spare you get, you pick up a card from the top of the deck. the team with the best poker hand gets 1 point, the team with the combined score gets a point, best of three series(2 points per game) then the team with the highest 3 game total gets 1 point(7 total points available). we'd be bowling around noon. if there's no interest, we won't do it.
bub about: weekend of competition competition events have been finalized, based on participant vocal support.
beer pong cornhole flip cup darts vegas style bowling
we will go to the bowling alley that we went to the morning of my bachelor party. they are byob, so that'll save some dough. they are also pretty cheap.
bub about: weekend of competition we also forgot schmidt for team buffalo.
bub about: weekend of competition so long as each team has 6 players, we're good. the most we would do would be 3 teams of 2, per region.
bub about: weekend of competition sorry, i thought i typed cathryn. so there's 6.
bub about: weekend of competition i am certain that high school graduation was not the first criteria. the matt schmidt situation is interesting. i'm not sure why we didn't put him on ohio. did he choose?
team ohio gets zero compensation, unless you call licking my grundle, compensation. ohio always had more players, so now things are evening out. i'm hearing quite a bit of fear coming from the west, you guys ok? what's not to love about the 3 team system? teams would look something like this....
team pitsburgh bub abby derek blaine greg sweeney dave dawn
team ohio aaron berg biggie brad alicia andy dickey meng pam thews(mia) cristen(mia)
team buffalo wes leanne toner sweet jay harold skevs? metal? bill?
how many of buffalo would travel?
bub about: weekend of competition aaron, is there a way to make the championship belt rusty? now that we've got all three areas of the rust belt in the competition, it only seems fitting.
bub about: weekend of competition yes, unless there is a weekend where both you and andy, and thews and cristen can make it.
bub about: weekend of competition and in no way, is pittsburgh a "good" accent. sounds awful, but it's fun to immitate.
bub about: weekend of competition and to correct that myth that the ohio accent is the most pure and that newcasters study it as the correct pronunciation....the "general english" dialect is what is taught to newcasters, which is the dialect used from the middle of illinois to the middle of nebraska. the "ohio accent" is the "northern central american english" accent. so roll that dipthong up and smoke it.
bub about: weekend of competition you can't possibly count the cleveland accent as crisp and clean. and no newcaster outside of cleveland has that accent. if you disagree, you aren't listening closely.
bub about: weekend of competition and our accent is in no way related to kentucky, west virginia, or any other southern cousins. it comes from the irish/german/polish/slovak immigrants. so we should be called "irgerpolvaks".
bub about: weekend of competition the original deciding factor as to which team one belongs, is current place of residence, then it goes to place of birth, then to location of high school graduation. if none of those are applicable, then you are a free agent. with the formation of team pittsburgh, derek and abby would qualify for the first criteria, but since they were already members beased on the non-existance of team pittsburgh, their birth place was the ohio qualifier. current residence being the greater criteria we decided it made sense for them to be able to choose to keep their allegiance or make a new one. abby's nuptual agreement with me has no bearing on her competition elligibility.
bub about: weekend of competition one's elligibility is not based on having lived in an area at some point in time. i lived in ohio for 3 years, but have no allegiance. derek and abby, both have the option of choosing to be on team suck or team pittsburgh. as far as cathryn and andy go, andy was born in ohio and there is no team maine, so he is still an ohesian....cathryn being born in new york is still a team buffalonian, by the same measure. no one is forcing abby or derek onto one team or another, they are free to choose whatever team they like.
ps. i never understood the pennsyltucky thing, we don't even share a border with kentucky. i mean, pennsylginia makes much more sense.
bub about: weekend of competition oh the angst, as another ohio treasure leaves the state for a chance at a title.
bub about: sox wes, what's going on with papi?! i actually feel bad for a red sox player. ugh.
bub about: weekend of competition revised list of possible games.... beer pong, cornhole, and darts are all definites.
other possibilities flip cup four square kick ball bocci
thoughts on the other possibilities?
bub about: weekend of competition thews and cristen have a wedding that weekend, but if we change it, then andy and cathryn can't make it. andy is team ohio.
bub about: weekend of competition can we get a count on team ohio, cuz that would determine a lot.
bub about: weekend of competition there are multiple ways we can go with this.
we can do a three team competition, but that makes bracketology a little tougher.
we could disband buffalo due to lack of players and have them become free-agents.
depending on the number of people, we could just join pittsburgh and buffalo.
there are lots of decisions to be made that could impact a lot of things. if we create a team pittsburgh, then buffalo loses me, and derek and abby would defect from ohio. we've got 8 people. how many does ohio have?
bub about: home inprovements that sentence doesn't do justice to this new sport. it will need to be explained at competition weekend.
speaking of which, is the concensus that november 10 - 12 is the best option for competition weekend?
bub about: home improvements yeah, burning dirt is weird. it just caught on fire. no one threw a lit cigarette in there or anything. so bizarre. apparently it happens in celeryville ohio all the time.
bub about: Halleluiah wow, religious fanatics are kooky.
bub about: that douche bag kid... yeah, i'd rather not go. if it was at north hills, i'd consider going, consider then get drunk and not go.
bub about: that douche bag kid... north hills doesn't play woodland hills this year. strange. that sucks. we would have to go to the north allegheny-woodland hills game. oh well.
bub about: that douche bag kid... i'll look for the schedule. maybe it'll be the weekend of competition.
bub about: that douche bag kid... i'll let you guys know how he does when he plays north hills high school.
bub about: house the house is officially done being painted!! no more painters outside the bedroom window at 6:30am. friggin weirdos. but anyhow, we don't live in the ugly house on the street anymore! now we just have to get the yard and the rest of the inside done....ha!
bub about: No more Pluto??? i learned it as "mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranis, neptune, pluto". interesting.
bub about: No more Pluto??? there are billions of things orbiting our sun in their own orbit? the asteroid belt doesn't count, cuz it's a shared orbit.
bub about: No more Pluto??? i never knew that Ceres was a planet in the 1800's, before it was demoted. i would have thought that any mass with it's own orbit around the sun would be a planet. i'll be darned. i'm still calling pluto a planet, screw them. it messes with the "mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranis, neptune pluto" rhythem. do you think the guy that named uranis was kidding when he said it? by the way, our puppy was mentioned in that article.
bub about: everybody busy? his kid would actually need to attend a school here for a year, if the purpose is to play sports. i was "recruited" to go to north catholic(a triple A school at the time) to play WR, but even though i lived in the pittsburgh area all my life and north catholic is a private school(also in WPIAL), i would have had to sit out a year(my freshman year) because of "recruitment".
bub about: everybody busy? in western PA, the best football schools are public schools, except central catholic. problem is, central catholic is basically in a public school league, which is governed by WPIAL, which has rules against transferring for sports. you can transfer, but in a case like this, the kid would hav to sit out a year, then he could play the next year. i laughed when i read about that one. what a douche. he was coming here to play quad A football(we have the reverse ranking of ohio, the more A's the bigger the school*quad A being the highest*), which would have been smart had the dad kept his mouth shut. there are usually 2 or 3 stories a year about that around here. kids from california, new york, etc. it's hilarious when they get busted. cheaters.
bub about: hotels wes - alright!
abby - ALRIGHT!!!
bub about: hotels having a wife rules. i just had to ask, after reading wes' post. found out we're actually sharing a room with you guys, wes. wives are cool. not making plans or decisions is fun.
bub about: extra extra thats awesome sween!
bub about: Rant alert brad, it appears that your idea requires java, which i do not know yet. i'll get on that though.
bub about: seau i got a good laugh at that this morning too. eff unretiring.
bub about: Rant alert i'm not 100% sure what you mean? do you mean you want an alert on both comments pages to show when the other comments page has a new comment? the only problem is that an auto-refresh of the comments page, would make it difficult to write messages, cuz it would refresh the page while you're writing/reading. i'll look into it. in the mean time, i think i've found a way to do a real-time spell check for our posts. updates to follow.
bub about: Rant alert good.
bub about: Rant alert and does the red ball always spin for anyone else?
bub about: Rant alert apparently IE doesn't support blinking links. it now says "New!" next to the rant comments link when there's a new one.
bub about: Rant alert how is my computer the only one it works perfectly on?
bub about: Rant alert what crappy browsers are you guys using?!
bub about: Rant alert are you serious? the link to the rant comments doesn't blink for you? it doesn't blink quickly, so it might take a sec...but it's a standard html command, it should be working.
bub about: The state the rant board keeps those that don't want to be pissed off, from being pissed off. the blinking alert on the right side doesn't work for you? anyone else have that problem?
bub about: The state hey, i created that damned blinking thing so use it. *secret: it only took like 15 seconds*
bub about: The state ahem, rant board...please copy and paste the last two messages to the rant board, for they will be deleted in 2 minutes.
bub about: The state rant board everybody. good thing i made that alert.
bub about: Bublican i'm over on the rant board.
bub about: Bublican is this rant board material? someone else decide.
bub about: Bublican it's similar to the police saying, hey, we'll put some more cops in your area if you pay membership fee each year, that we know poor people couldn't possibly pay, thereby making your neighborhood more safe than those poor folks down the road. only the those that can afford protection, get it. that's crap.
bub about: Bublican not when it's a life necessity. providing a life necessity at charge only the rich can afford, is wrong. whether you consider it socialism or not, it's wrong.
bub about: wow... as a person who is completely against insurance of any nature, i hate insurance...and i hate annual fees. this doctor's charging an annual fee thing is terrible...unless they make it affordable for people. it also only let's people who can afford their service, have good health care. what about the poor people who can't afford it? they get crappy service? shouldn't doctor's be giving us the best health care that they can, all the time...whether we pay extra or not? horse crap!
bub about: Silly NFL wait, i can't get my initials on a jersey? horse-poop.
bub about: cooper so then i shouldn't have left out that box of chocolate covered onions? crap!
bub about: cooper cooper is doing great. he's absolutely perfect, except...the house-breaking is sucky. i don't think he grasps that when we take him outside, he's supposed to poop. especially at 10:30pm. he does a pretty good job of holding it. hasn't had an accident in the middle of the night yet(thankfully). he's good at taking a smash in the morning, but he apparently hates the evening smash. he doesn't bark really, he loves to play, he loves to cuddle and lick(yay thews!), he loves the toy that derek bought him (it's name is meatwad), he loves to take walks.
bub about: site update there is now an alert for rant comments. the "rant comments" link will blink when there are new rant comments. i'll come up with something better when i have more time.
bub about: weekend yes, dags are now welcome in p'burgh.
bub about: one eye i designate abby to make the changes to the main page....
bub about: one eye i designate abby as the new story-finder/story-poster for the main page. :)
bub about: ethanol that's relatively accurate.
bub about: friday and venting hey bing, can you provide some insight on ethanol on the rant board?
bub about: venting due to aaron's request, and the insane amount of traffic on the rant board, this weekend, i'll work on a alert for new rant comments. chances are, it won't be a spinning b, cuz i'd have to deal with "what if there are new regular comments and new rant comments at the same time"...but you'll get your alert, no worries.
bub about: Effing Berg coming close to rant board material.
bub about: news flash i'm sure most of you know already, but a humongous terror attack on the US was prevented in britain. 28 people were involved and the plan was to blow up planes. i haven't heard if they planned on flying them into buildings again, but it was described as "mass murder on a scale completely unimaginable". thank you britain, we owe you a round of beers.
bub about: browns eat me, voit. curses suck. that's all they ever cover on espn is curses. i'm sick of it.
bub about: go buckeyes beats me. i guess it's to keep people from wearing them and making it harder for police to stop them(ie. with tasers and stuff)
bub about: Fantasy Football yahoo is apparently the best, it's free, and it's easy to set up. we haven't seen a whole lot of interest on bdc this year. i'd be down with playing if you set one up.
bub about: go buckeyes just did some research...it's illegal to wear a bullet proof vest, unless you have a permit
bub about: go buckeyes you are not allowed to wear body armor unless you are part of a military or policing force.
bub about: go buckeyes isn't it illegal just to wear a bullet proof vest, as a civilian?
bub about: fantasy football anyone interested this year, if we use yahoo?
bub about: tunes everything is the same.
bub about: tunes do whatever you like. whacha puttin' up?
bub about: everyone alive and well? i had a thought yesterday, about how awful of a ride home that had to be. i would imagine you were all super hungover, but adding a long trip home would be killer for me.
bub about: everyone alive and well? sometimes my name field is blank. not sure why. other times it's fine. stupid computers. so no one from detroit has responded. i hope they didn't get arrested and put in canadian jail. i wonder if they all have moustaches and chug maple syrup now.
bub about: Help! sweeney...there's only one U in congratulations christina & jason. so nuns are sluts, won't work. good work on the others, though.
bub about: Help! or "rat snatch"
bub about: Help! if we don't leave their names up, we could do "christ's long taint"
bub about: Help! grunt a lot, long cunt, rat cunt, cat grunts, long taints, taint grunt, snug taint, cat gunt.
if we can change the spelling of christina, so that we could use the "h", then we could have "chasing taint"
bub about: Help! hot tar ass...ha! that's good stuff.
bub about: human again alright, i am human again. bostno is ok with me today. actually a buddy of mine is coming in to town from boston tonight, so that's fun. you guys remember JT(from the wedding)? is everyone in detroit today?
bub about: annoyed sorry if my grumpiness rubbed off on anyone. i'm gonna go home and have a beers and play with power tools.
bub about: annoyed and did you call me a douche? that's it, naked wrestling match in my attic. november 11th. it's on. greenberg, can you bring a ratty-ass piece of carpet with you?
bub about: annoyed if schilling or any other high profile player was hit by a car in the offseason and in jeopardy of dying/not playing ever again/not playing this year...you'd heara bunch of stories about it. you have to admit that boston gets a butt-load of press. all i'm saying is i'm tired of it. it's boring. it's the same stupid story day after day.
bub about: annoyed i wish i had a pencil-thin moustache.
bub about: annoyed and it was only the biggest series in the universe to red sox fans.
bub about: annoyed what articles are there about the steelers 8 months later?
bub about: annoyed i'm grumpy today, sorry. mostly cuz i can't go to detroit(never thought i'd say that).
bub about: annoyed i find their situation to be interesting, if they can scrape together some offensive linemen, they could be pretty damn good.
bub about: annoyed one would expect a couple of stories about the QB of the superbowl champion, when he gets his face smashed in by a car! i agree it has been over-covered, but you can expect some coverage of it. how many stories about schilling's ankle did we see? a zillion.
bub about: annoyed i would love an explanation as to how the steelers wouldn't have one for the thumb if the rules were followed.
bub about: annoyed i recognize good teams get more coverage. i'm not bitching about the pirates not getting enough coverage. i'm bitching that i'm tired of the same old, big papi, manny, teddy "jesus" brushi, tom "good of football" brady. i'm tired of hearing what big papi's kids are eating for breakfast or what joe blow from boston's superstitions are or how great the 80's celtics were. enough. no boston news for a year. how about we throw in some kansas city cheifs stories, maybe an arizona cardinals story...a fucking story based on something other than boston. yes, bill simmons is popular, but if it was only him writing about it all the fuckin time, i wouldn't complain.
and eff the sox and their 6 titles. they get incredible press, yankees are a-holes, red sox are darlings. they are the same organization. they both pay for victories. they both way overspend everyone else. but the sox can do no wrong. my dream is to wake up one morning, flip on espn and hear "tom brady, teddy bruschi, many ramirez, david ortiz, and larry bird have been sentenced to 250 years in PMITA prison for annoying the shit out of america for the last 5 years."
i don't care who you root for or what the reasons are, boston updates every ten minutes need to fall off the face of the earth. i might start an anti-boston website.
bub about: annoyed is anyone else utterly sick and tired of the focus on boston sports? the "larry the legend or big papi" thing on espn is just one more annoying fucking article about sports. who fucking cares? yes, david ortiz is freakishly clutch. yes, larry was a freaking legend and extremely clutch...but enough. we don't give a shit. is every single reporter on espn.go.com from boston? all of them? i don't care about boston sports. 90% of america doesn't care. is it the close proximity to the home of espn(bristol, ct) that gives us this ridiculously annoying focus? i mean, their baseball team has 2 championships(big deal), their football team has 3(big deal), their basketball team hasn't had one in quite some time. get the fuck over yourself boston. they are really close to edging out cleveland for sports teams i hate most...just cuz they talk and talk and talk. shut the fuck up already. no offense wes/toner/andy/cathryn. fuck boston.
bub about: only me that is freakin hilarious!!!!
bub about: Idlewild appearently i didn't see that post. i love outkast and would go see pretty much anything they put out.
bub about: Idlewild this is gonna sounds ubergay, but i bet the costumes are gonna be sweet.
bub about: Idlewild me toooooo! i mean, andre 3000 and big boi in a roaring 20's type movie. count me in.
bub about: sand in my vagina ouch....a phil simms comparison just isn't fair. myron knows what he's talking about some of the time. phil never does. myron also doesn't make gay comments about players, unlike phil simms. phil simms' gay comments
bub about: sand in my vagina i hate rick sutcliff. except when he showed up drunk that one time. it's like listening to myron all over again....minus the grating voice and lapses into yiddish.
bub about: Not A Hippy! i've only experienced the bluemoon headache at "the apple inn", and it's draft only...never had it out of a bottle there. could be unclean draft lines that cause the headache. i looooove wheat beers, but i'm starting to question blue moon. i had a bad hangover after drinking the wheat beer i made for the wedding, but i also had a bunch of other beers, so that's not a good study. helpful travel trip...don't fly hungover if you get airsickness when you're sober. but i digress, the more i think about it, the more i think it could be the draft lines.
bub about: Blade i have recently found that i can drink 15 budlights and not get the same awful hangover as drinking 3 or 4 bluemoons. holy crap are those bad headaches.
bub about: Blade i get bad hangovers. i am completely useless the next day. completely. i have to lay in bed in the air conditioning with a fan on me and i have to sleep. i can not get in the car under any circumstances, unless it's to get me to my bed and the air conditioning....but that's not a fun trip. unless you are born with abby's freakish ability to get completely blato with no repercussions, avoiding hangovers is not easy.
bub about: Blade i watched a lot of "oh my god do i have a hangover". i'm sick of hangovers.
bub about: Bub i will not retract my inflammatory comments. i stand by my wish for the browns to die in a fire. i slow, smoldering fire, so it hurts more.
bub about: more dangerous stereotypes although this is still on the safe side of the "rant board line", there is a good chance that any response to this will need to be on the rant board. so wes, if you could copy and paste your post on the rant board, i would appreciate it :) yer a peach.
bub about: for greenberg harry potter will appear naked in some play. i am sure you have your tickets already. Check out his dumbledoor
bub about: Prediction i have no feelings of sadness for you guys. eff you. eff cleveland. the browns should die in a fire.
bub about: new muzak my IP address changes should impact the FTP stuff. i don't know what the deal is...maybe the hosting company is resetting their servers? you aren't a moron, most of the time. and yes, all of your questions will be answered.
bub about: wow! it took nearly 70 questions to get chandler bing.
bub about: Grade 2 we'll barely recognize your putrescence as we barrel through the mistake on our way to becoming the first team to win 6 superbowls. all of this muckity-muck about we've inproved, we're gonna win the division, we're gonna blah-bitty-blah, is idle chatter. step aside, bitches, we don't want to dirty our shoes on the way BACK to the big dance.
bub about: Prediction i have a problem with your prediction derek. no way in hell does a 10-6 record win the afc north this year. since my team is the only team to win a superbowl, i will sit on my high-horse and laugh at you squabbling over who's gonna lose to the steelers in the playoffs.
bub about: Prediction if your team was any good, i would...but it's like beating up a 2nd grader, then bragging about it.
bub about: Prediction berg, are we still doing our annual "if the browns win, the browns logo goes on bdc for a week...if the steelers win, i'll feel bad for you and not put the steelers logo on bdc for a week"?
bub about: Prediction thewsy, i can always count on you...
bub about: football that would be CRAZY if the steelers won the NFC north. and steelers camp opens on friday. we don't need as much practice as the browns do.
bub about: internet dating wow. that's somethin. all for $50.
bub about: fantasy soccer i hated fantasy hockey. too much going on. switching lineups everyday....too much stuff.
bub about: fantasy soccer yes, i read it. i'm a newcastle united fan now.
i'm cool with doing fantasy football again, but someone else should run it. and we still need to give dave his money from last year...ha!!
bub about: fantasy soccer oh, and it's free. just for fun.
bub about: fantasy soccer so, i've totally jumped head-first into the english premier league, after my obsession with the world cup. i've created a fantasy english premier league...league, if anyone is interested. basically, there's no "draft", you have 100million pounds to spend on whatever players you want, then you join a league and play against each other.
bub about: Tooth care product andy, they have offered it to adults for yeeeears. there is a product called "plax", that basically stains your plack red. it takes like hot garbage, but it works.
bub about: lallapalooza i'm that way with night clubs and really busy bars too. i don't like getting elbowed and bumping into every person in the club on the way to the bathroom. that and meatheads. i hate meatheads.
bub about: plumbers suck. $300 to fix a leaky flange in the bathroom upstairs. now is one of those times i miss being a renter. good news is the problem is fixed, and fortunately we got a plumber that can do crazy work. he had to melt some lead to seal the joints on this old cast iron flange. he said most newer plumbers don't even do that stuff...so my fix(cause of the problem) wasn't really my fault.
bub about: spam ok, looks like we're in the clear with the spam. if you know someone(like sweet jay or toner, etc) that wants to post but can't, tell them to fill out the form that will appear on the comments page. then i'll approve them, then they're good. same thing with any of you when you use a new computer. berg, if your non-static IP address thing causes a problem, let me know.
bub about: strange questions i had to have abby stop the car a few times on the way back from wes' bachelor party, so i could dry heave. and i had to drive home after the wedding. that was not enjoyable at all. buffalo hates my brain.
bub about: strange questions andy told me that he wanted he and i to "get dead-hooker drunk" at wes and leanne's wedding reception.
bub about: strange question i am also 100% forever behind the old spice high endurance. the opaque blue gel stuff. "fresh" scent is the best. it lasts forever. you could put it on on monday and not have to use it till friday(but i use it daily, just in case). and this is just the deodorant, not anti-perspirant. supposedly the anti-perspirants aren't good for you, they clog up your sweat glands in your armpits, making you have to sweat from other areas.
bub about: pat tillman i saw the article and was pissed off enough by the summary that i couldn't even click on the article. eff them.
bub about: thanks! you're welcome. bubdotcom is all about manners.
bub about: ip lite hard to say. it's someone without a static IP address. there were hundreds of different IP addresses conected with the spam. that's why i made it so "only these IP addresses" can post. berg is one exception, he doesn't have a static IP address either. i have to figure something out this weekend for him.
bub about: competition just as something fun...a friend of mine moved up to boston a few months ago(JT, he was in the wedding), but he said JetBlue has flights from boston to p'burgh for $79 each way. that's still $320 total for you guys though.
bub about: competition that's in february...
bub about: competition sure can. are there any other "holiday" weekends that the englishes could "steal" an extra day from?
bub about: Bye bye!! moving sucks. that last trip out of the old place is a bit rough though. congrats on being done moving. :)
bub about: bored where is everyone today?
bub about: spam i'll be that guy that with the ear piece saying "i just need one more minute, they rerouted me to friendster!"(thank you dane cook)
bub about: spam ok, we'll see how this goes. for those that didn't post yesterday (ie. bullie, nolde, cristen, bing, dmac, etc), i put a little form where you would normally post(i'm sure you see it already), just fill it out, i'll add your ip address to the list as soon as possible. the rest of you, should be fine. and yes, english house, i accidently deleted your post, but i did get your ip address before i deleted the post, so you're good to post from home. any time you use a new computer to post, you have to fill out the new subscriber form. sorry...blame the spam.
bub about: bitch-be-gone andy - arrividerci cocksucka! hi sal.
bub about: haha so, the printer on the first floor at my office has been broken for a few days. our "office manager" sent out an email saying it's fixed. one of my coworkers asked "out of curiousity, what was wrong with it?"....to which she replied "defective toner!" i almost had hot and spicy cheezits come out my nose.
bub about: bitch-be-gone actually, if everyone makes a post today, i can be doubly sure not to get any spam. i need to leave the spam up there today, so i can view their IP address when i get home. sorry for the inconvenience.
bub about: spam game on, mother b*tches. today (wednesday) will be the last day of spam on bdc. once i get their IP addresses, they will be gone foreva! hoping that they don't have some sort of IP scrambling device thing.
bub about: spam damn spam. i'm fixing that problem tonight. a-holes. to do so, i would need to inclue your ip address with each post(it will do that on it's own), but i just want to make sure you guys are alright with that. once i find what ip address the spam is coming from, i can block them from posting.
bub about: GAMES sween, i thought you were on a team already. i guess i already mentally placed you on team ohio. you weren't there last year? i don't remember much from last year's. you would be a "free agent", it ought to be interesting to see what kind of recruitment goes on, with 5 possible free agents.
bub about: GAMES i hit post before i was finished....
so once we determine who will and will not be there, we'll need to factor those 2-4 people in to the teams.
bub about: GAMES for the competition, we've got 2-4 people who would like to participate. all of them would be free agents with no significant affiliation to either state, if we break it down that way. you've all met them before. blaine(my brother), pryber(from such events as my bach party and wedding), dave "dmac" mcelhinney, and dawn "the diminuitive one" mcelhinney.
bub about: GAMES games being considered, at the moment, are:
cornhole beer pong kickball flip cup darts
any other requests will be entertained.
bub about: GAMES i guess we need to figure out who could make it before games are chosen.
bub about: dont fuck with a Lerner sounds like they're a bunch of babies. wah, braylon edwards was left feeling uncomfortable after an interview. wah. the 911 call thing is sucky.
bub about: GAMES while we're at it. does anyone have any conflicts with having competition in pittsburgh on the weekend of november 10-12? some of you may have that friday(10th) off of work for veterans day. i don't, but whatever.
bub about: GAMES honestly, it doesn't matter to me, whether it's random like last time, or b vs. o.
bub about: GAMES the only problem with dodgeball is finding a venue.
bub about: games ok, we need some more input. four solid choices from biggie.
bub about: siskell and ebert you are not! ha! forgot about that fire. it was awesome. i was scared that we were gonna catch some of those trees on fire. we aren't too smart. so, anyone had any thoughts on the games to be played for competition?
bub about: siskell and ebert you are not! you are a racist and so is richard pryor. ;)
bub about: siskell and ebert you are not! it felt like any excuse to use the 'n-word'. whether richard pryor was one of the main writers is inconsequential to me, they could have used other words to convey the point. it was gratuitous and unfunny, for me. not saying other people shouldn't find it funny, i just didn't. and i did get that the white guys were the butt of the jokes(esp. the camp town races" part). i turned it off after 10-15 minutes.
bub about: siskell and ebert you are not! i just don't find using the 'n-word' every two minutes to be funny. same movie. it was a boring movie with 4-times as many racist remarks as funny comments.
bub about: siskell and ebert you are not! and as far as blazing saddles goes. awful. if anyone wants a copy of it, you can have our's.
bub about: siskell and ebert you are not! i'd rent miami vice, but i'm not paying $8 to see it in the theater.
bub about: slow news day coolest lightnig vs. rainbow pictures you'll see all day i'm so bored.
bub about: slow news day the creepiest kitten you'll see all day. holy hell!
bub about: slow news day that's like when people say "it's what's on the inside that counts". they only say that to ugly people. married sex rules. no insecurities. you can try stuff you'd never think of trying when single.
bub about: competition yeah, that wouldn't be a beginning of the night game. we could have two squads per team. best of 11. it's such a fast game and you only drink a little more than a mouthful per game...we need to extend it.
bub about: competition it got kinda frenzied at that bar after the rehearsal dinner...just imagine the competition frenzy. good lord.
bub about: competition ha! you're the punniest guy i know.
bub about: rant board paging mr. dickey, mr. dickey to the rant board....mr. greenberg is on line one.
bub about: competition cornhole beer pong flip cup wiffle ball ultimate frisbee kick ball bocci euchre beirut bowling(vegas style, like at my bachelor party, but would require us to go to a bowling alley)
bub about: fucking extremists rant board please. please copy and paste your posts, if you want it to make it to the rant board. it will be deleted in t-minus 5 minutes.
bub about: competition cathryn, you're a genius! i'll put some serious thought into some games. obviously cornhole would be one and beer pong another.
bub about: fucking extermists what does need to be discussed, is competition weekend. we could conceivably host it in p'burgh this fall. anyone interested in competition?
bub about: subject oh, you know it's all teasing.
bub about: subject well, if you weren't such a bad friend, people wouldn't say that. seriously, who says something like that?
bub about: baseballs there's an organization around here that treats you that way. it's called amazingkids.org
bub about: baseballs not a ton...but there are a number of guys throwing 95-97...when you see the 98's and 99's, that's something fun to watch. i remember seeing rocket and nolan hitting 100...102...104. it was nutso.
bub about: PETA wes, you should paint your horn red, white, and green.
bub about: music not gay at all. i have it too. ok, it might be gay, but it's good anyhow.
bub about: chug-a-lug yeah, i don't think i'd be jumping in that water too often. it's an un-natural color of green.
bub about: whoa!! i hate hate removing rogue rose bushes intertwined with out-of-control lilac bushes. i also hate removing lilac bushes. i don't enjoy chainsaws that don't start easily. and last, but not least, i hate wimpy pick-axes that can't even take a few whacks against a tree root before bending 75 degrees.
bub about: whoa!! that good huh? i feel your pain.
bub about: whoa!! how far did you get with the painting?
bub about: whoa!! i'm so glad we're past the moving phase. that sucked big balls. we did some serious yard work this weekend. my arms and shoulders are still pretty achey. can't wait to put in new floors(sarcasm).
bub about: whoa!! if derek is a wizard of semantics, is greenberg a wizard of semitics?
bub about: whoa!! the depths of my knowledge are shallow at best.
bub about: whoa!! yes, that too.
bub about: whoa!! gladly, my dear. try it again, look at the symbols. every 9th symbol is the same. 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, and 81 are all the same. let's say you pick 74, 74 - 11 = 63....try 75...75 - 12 = 63...or 76..76 - 13 = 63. it's guaranteed to be a multiple of 9. since they made all multiples of 9 the same symbol, it's always correct.
bub about: carlton jams eff you and your beer thirty. i'm just gonna sit here chewing on my fingers and staring at the clock.
bub about: ken lay sucks stupid spelling.
bub about: ken lay sucks by deuche, i meant douche.
bub about: ken lay sucks ken lay may be screwing things up again. apparently his death voids the whole conviction, and may set jeff skillings(his cohort) free. what a deuche.
bub about: undies wait till you see the banana-hammock i got for the next competition beer pong tourney.
bub about: undies at all times. 'cept for swimming in the dominican.
bub about: undies i prefer the ol' banana-hammock.
bub about: stupidest idea ever it's not that friggin hard people. a wiffleball bat across the face of anyone who proposes this again. this is contibuting to the dumbification and pussification of our kids.
bub about: who are you!!! actually, i did. i paid attention to the california energy crisis a year or two before the accounting scandal and the whole "rolling blackouts" and "rolling brownouts"(which always made me giggle).
bub about: who are you!!! berg, you are suspended from bdc for 2 hours, for stealing 4 minutes of my life looking up stupid high school basketball recruits. aaron, shame on you...although i didn't find out he died until around 11am. abby didn't know what Enron did(energy company).
bub about: name sort berg, it works when i do it. it just takes a minute for it to grab every post. i'll look into the password thing. i think tonight i'm going to come up with some sort of better security so the spam goes away.
bub about: Hot poker not a thing.
bub about: Who else is stuck at work today?? anyone else feel like jamming a red-hot fire poker in their eye?
bub about: pics i'll work on that.
bub about: sales call hilarious. absolutely hilarious. and as soon as i read that she was calling to sell you toner. i thought "that's not right, she can't do that" and i looked for the toner joke, but was blindsided by the recording joke, nice!
bub about: ego feeding spam yes, i thoroughly enjoy deleting 65 spams a day. i gotta figure out how to get rid of this.
bub about: music hey derek, can you make me a copy of gnarles barkley for this weekend? or if someone could put it back up, i can now download at home :) woo hoo.
bub about: spam that spam is awesome...i'm leaving it up for a minute.
bub about: burning politics rant board.
bub about: hot girls yep. i already have a name and an address, no site up yet(working on that tonight). filing the "ficticious name" form today. sending out some portfolio builder offers to people i know that have small businesses and no web site. if you guys know anyone, let me know.
bub about: hot girls and biggie, that's called "lunch hour".
bub about: hot girls yeah, what abby said.
bub about: hot girls sorry it took so long, but i didn't get in till 11:15 today. i was at home getting cable internet installed. T-minus 6 hours till the start on my company. anyone want a job?
bub about: music wes, check your hotmail.
bub about: ah crap hey jared, i accidentally deleted your post while i was deleting the spam. can you post it again? my brain still isn't working properly.
bub about: voitfest i thought for a second that my mom was posting...then my brain started working.
bub about: football the nfl preseason power rankings are out as of two days ago. i have a few issues with them.
1. after losing james, the colts are still ranked 3rd?!?! that makes no sense.
2. the reigning superbowl champ(who lost a mediocre WR and got the top WR in the draft) is ranked below the same team it beat in the superbowl. eat a handful of my pubes, espn. power rankings
bub about: cool i was just sitting here thinking...do you guys remember just a little over 4 months ago, when the steelers won the superbowl? that was freakin sweet!
bub about: voitfest i'm gonna need a drink before 6, so we better figure something out with regards to pregaming.
bub about: A Request for Music i sure killed conversation there, huh? um.....poop....farts....body hair....continue.
bub about: A Request for Music we finally got the gifts out of our dining room and some pictures hung on the wall. that makes having a house fun. and having drywall walls instead of brick covered in plaster, makes hanging pictures waaaay easier.
bub about: A Request for Music nice. love the tandem burn.
bub about: carson palmer is hosting his first annual, "carson palmer cornhole classic". biggie, want to sign us up?
bub about: Tonersexual sounds freakin hilarious. actually, just a statue of toner sounds hilarious.
bub about: bad news derek i love the comment that men hoping that drinking beer and watching football on tv have had their hopes dashed. right. yes, women hate that kind of guy. the ubersexual will fade out just like the metrosexual did. what this article tells me is that women will want a certain type of guy, until guys start behaving that way, then they realize that they never really wanted that kind of a guy in the first place. i'm sticking to my jeans, tennis shoes, and golf shirts. eff trends.
bub about: that game they play on ice i've loooooved the world cup so far. if they can get ME to watch, they can get anyone. i used to haaaate soccer. it's awesome. i wish the world cup was every year.
bub about: crazy i'm gonna go with this logic to explain the furries in pittsburgh. detroit hosted the superbowl, but there were no detroit lions in the game. i believe this is the case with the furries. this is the superbowl between cleveland and philly. both cities are full of weird perverts. ;)
bub about: crazy apparently most of cleveland is in pittsburgh today. freaks.
bub about: crazy yeah...that's pretty much what the area, around the hotel you stayed in for our wedding, was like for the last 4 days.
bub about: crazy i was a koala bear this year. worked out well. i took quite a bit of bamboo in the shoot. this conversation disturbs me...especially since we haven't heard from berg on the subject.
bub about: crazy further clarification...furries are people who get turned on by other people dressed as animals. plushies are people who hump stuffed animals.
bub about: beautiful day i'm here...sucks. 41 minutes till i bail. 61 minutes till i belly up at the saloon. mmmm, beer and golden tee.
bub about: 10 opinions what would a good station be, jared? maybe you should start one. my only request...peter griffin's "side boob hour" should be a staple on DickeyTV
bub about: 10 opinions i haven't seen the sweet 16 type of shows on vh1, just the fantastically mindless brain-rotting awesomeness that is "best week ever". cookie cutter is perfect for midless tv. i don't watch it for it's hard hitting interviews and history of bands i couldn't care less about. i'm not interested in the music, i'm interested in wasting hours upon hours of remembering how much i loved the smurfs and thundercats. THAT, my friends, is the genius of the VH1 turnaround.
bub about: 10 opinions aaron, i was totally addicted to Laguna Beach a couple of years ago(last year maybe). i watch all of those annoying train-wrecks of shows, but abby hates 'em so i have to change it when she's there. it is totally my guilty pleasure. those...and pretty much every single show on VH1. what a complete 180 VH1 has made. they were a completely insignificant channel 5 years ago. those "i love the *insert decade*" shows rule.
bub about: music derek, that would be great. lots easier for me.
bub about: music anyone have gnarles barkley to put up?
bub about: The Mountains man, where did everybody go?
bub about: The Mountains yes, we are back in town. a bit jet lagged. it was great to sleep in our own bed again. so sleepy. so unproductive.
bub about: queer weddings berg, the queer weddings topic needs to go to the rant page. the internet is global my friend. just checking in on you fools. going to venice tomorrow, can't wait. florence rules. i'm interested to find out what is going on back home that has you in a tizzy, but i'll wait till i get back. nothing ann coulter says should ever be given any credence, just like al franken or dr. laura. they're all idiots.
bub about: mountain address? alright folks, i'm about to take off in a little bit. can't wait to see you all tomorrow. i can't believe i'm getting married on sunday. so excited. see ya.
bub about: mountain address? abby's sister thinks there is, but i don't think so. i can't find anything about a pool on their website.
bub about: mountain address? sunday?! you guys aren't meeting us for drinks on saturday night?
bub about: Friday i was sick a few times early in the year and had to use up 5 PTO days. she did not. i hate her a lot right now. i just talked to her, she was dancing around in her veil and wedding jewelry. she's got problems.
bub about: Friday i'm dying here. i just want to leave. aaaaah.
bub about: lost are you guys serious?! ugh.
bub about: O Canada i think it was san jose, but i could be wrong. either way, it's embarrassing that they would boo the canadian national anthem.
bub about: O Canada has anyone else heard the incredible rendition of O Canada that was performed before game 3 of the edmonton oiler's series? their main anthem singer guy sang the first verse, then 17,000 people sang the rest of the song in perfect unison. i wanted to put a link to it on here, but can't find it. it's something worth hearing.
bub about: special thanks i'm always cute. :)
bub about: special thanks i was just thinking "wow, i'm getting married on sunday! holy crap!", which lead me to remember this story.
i went to lunch one day, with my friend dave. ran into derek and kwolek. went out with derek and abby a bunch, then started dating abby. abby told me a year or so later that she told derek that under no circumstances, should he ever allow her to date me. derek, i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, for being a bad friend. yer awesome.
bub about: Mountain absence saying "homo-ner" never gets old. i still use it about once a week. it's awesome.
bub about: Mountain absence leanne is in charge of deleting all spam while i'm gone(since she brought it up). leanne, i emailed you how to do it at your lanysturtle address.
bub about: Saturday night ooooor, you could cab/bus it to the church, then you won't have to get your car in the morning. whatever you want.
bub about: Saturday night aaron, yes, that's the plan. the more car-pooling that goes on on the way tot he church, the better. you will get safely back to your hotel without needing your car till morning.
bub about: Saturday night here's my drinking schedule for the weekend.
friday night, go somewhere with whoever is in town.
saturday night, after the rehearsal dinner(6:00 dinner) we'd like to meet up with anyone that would like to drink with us, in the southside somewhere. we can determine that in this conversation.
sunday, at the reception and deja vu.
bub about: ugh i have zero desire to work right now. aaron, where's the fast forward button? seriously, you're close to being fired, what are we paying you for anyway?
bub about: jdate profile sounds like your kind of girl, berg. go for it.
bub about: crazy tables it would be awesome to have one of those tables with the bubble capability, but only have one or two bubbles. that way you could play "pong" with your friend across the table. then there could be bubble pong tournaments and everything. ooooor you could have 11 bubbles, set them up on one side like bowling pins, then use one other bubble to knock them out of the designated "area". i need one of these tables. if only there was an event coming up for which a group of friends might buy me a gift...hmm...
bub about: crazy tables aren't they? they belong in lava lounge.
bub about: NFL i wouldn't think that being the governor of florida would qualify you for very much. i wonder if the jeb and powell rumors are just to piss people off. there aren't a whole lot of things that will piss of at least 50% of the people in this country than a michael powell and jeb bush.
bub about: strange i can't believe he moved it! that's hilarious.
bub about: NFL ah, because his dad was the president, he couldn't have done anything on the up and up...
bub about: NFL what did GW do with the texans?(i'm assuming you meant the rangers). he wasn't even a decision making owner.
bub about: morning fools :o) wow!! that's awesome!! bring pictures with you! we've done absolutely nothing with our house since you guys were there. not one thing.
bub about: morning fools :o) friday is never going to get here. the days are going quickly, but it doesn't seem like the day of the week changes. i've had 2 really fast mondays this week.
bub about: Alitalia awesome. we have 1hr 5min between flights in frankfurt. sweet.
bub about: this weekend so, who's coming in when?
bub about: Alitalia we change airlines. yeah, awesome.
bub about: Alitalia the lady at US Airways told me that we should "definitely go before the day-of" to get them changed. i wouldn't think it would be an issue to do the day-of, but i don't want to risk it, if she's telling me to do it before. i'm tired of all of it, i'm just doing what people tell me to, now.
bub about: Alitalia and thanks for putting me at ease. oh, and we get to go to the airport tonight to get the correct tickets, since orbitz changed our flight plans and we've already got the incorrect paper tickets. nothing is easy.
bub about: Alitalia nothing better than asking for a beer at 7:05am(their time). don't think i won't. that's prime drinking time for us.
bub about: 90 degrees?!?!?!? you know, i don't think i'll have a problem with that aspect of things. the lady at Al Italia was extremely dismissive. kept telling me "oh no, luggage will go straight to frankfurt". i don't care if it goes straight to frankfurt, i'm not concerned about that, i'm concerned whether i have to go get it from baggage claim in frankfurt, check it again with Al Italia(since that's where i'm changing air lines), so the damn luggage gets to milan. fuck frankfurt, i want to know about milan, you idiot. as soon as she finished with "no, it go straight to frankfurt", she immediately said "ok, thank you, bye". i just said "uh....bye?" if i could speak italian fluently, i would have said "how about i jam a red-hot poker in your poop-shoot, you non-comprehending hemorrhoid?"
bub about: 90 degrees?!?!?!? the sub-tropics of pittsburgh are tough to handle for some. thankfully the bus and reception hall are air conditioned. i believe the church is too.
by the way, dealing with foreign customer service people when traveling abroad for the first time, is extremely irritating. they don't understand my question.
bub about: we nope, you're reading that right. there will be a 31 degree increase in high temps from now till sunday. apparently the devil is pissed that we're getting married in a church.
bub about: we gotta love a rude awakening, huh? stupid mortgage stuff. yeah, sorry cleveland. actually, i'm kinda glad, but it's only cuz it's cleveland, nothing personal. is dickey the only in the cleveland/akron area that didn't kill himself last night?
bub about: gross i almost posted that story on friday, but was too lazy.
bub about: boredom i hope not. wish i had just one extra day of PTO left. that would make the week a little easier.
bub about: beer YEAH THEY WILL!
bub about: beer ah, gotcha. yeah, all of them are "at the top of the hill make a left". and yes, abby has big hills.
bub about: beer i think that was his question...i think.
bub about: beer i think he was asking how big of a hill you live on? we live at the top of a pretty big hill.
bub about: beer andy hasn't been to my house, berg.
bub about: site update the new b is working correctly now. you may click on it.
bub about: random thoughts can we stop the cum conversations please? it's just plain foul.
bub about: random thoughts nothing hotter than watching a chick blow a cat....i mean....
bub about: random thought ha! i forgot about that. i don't drink an obscene amount of water a day, probably 40 ounces(i use an old english bottle in a paper bag).
bub about: site update so, i made a new thing for the front page. it will replace the spinning b. it's a b that has a little red dot that revolves around it. i have one minor adjustment to make tonight, but once that's done, it'll be functional. at 12:30pm today, i will put it up as it is now. the minor adjustment is that you can't click on it to get to the comments page, you have to go to the comments page button and click on recent comments. once i change that tonight, it will work like the spinning b. that's all for now.
bub about: zzzzzzz.... buuuuuuuuuuuuurn!
bub about: Voit/Johnston wedding one wedding down, 14 to go.
speaking of which, does anyone have room on saturday night, for me to stay in one of your rooms? apparently i'm not allowed to sleep in my own house the night before my wedding. now that the discount rate is over, i don't feel like spending $160 for my own room. :)
bub about: somewhere in Athens we just had an interbublactic kegger(actually, two kegs) 3 weeks ago. the next one will be a few months from now.
bub about: somewhere in Athens interbublactic...
bub about: somewhere in Athens interbubtinental....
bub about: somewhere in Athens oh, and congrats voits.
bub about: somewhere in Athens the most important thing to get out of this topic is that bubdotcom has gone to london, florence, and greece in two weeks. yeah, that's right, bubdotcom has gone global...or intercontinental, i haven't decided which i like best.
bub about: intramural sports - boys there is no offensive of defensive line, everyone is eligible to catch a pass, plays are not predesigned, there are no routes....there's the lack of organization. the idea is to "get open".
bub about: intramural sports - boys ultimate frisbee is similar to football, but with a frisbee and you just run all over the field all unorganized like.
bub about: intramural sports - boys umm...we're not afraid of dirt/water/mud/snow....and we own sweatshirts/pants for the cold.
bub about: weapon apparently.
bub about: music maybe next we'll develop a huge gumband shooter. no matter how big and tough the person is, everyone cowers when staring down a cocked and loaded gumband.
bub about: music i saw a preview for a show on discovery about new military weapons. they have a new thing that blares a really high pitched soundwave that basically temporarily paralyses you. not physically, but it's so loud and high pitched that it forces you to stop and cover your ears.
bub about: dags holy crap, you should write a note to his owners and bitch them out.
bub about: music go for it....
bub about: music if you would have objected, i would have jimmy "superfly" snooka'd your ass from the top of the first pew.
bub about: music i'm not the anonymous face, i'll fully admit that when "since you've been gone" comes on the radio, i will scream it at the top of my lungs. i'm gay, i like it, i don't care what you think. i also watch american idol sometimes, though i don't know what days it's on.
bub about: music steph, don't feel too bad, some of it is weird. actually, a good portion of it is weird. to each their own.
bub about: bath house ooops, that's not right, here's the bath house story gay bath house
bub about: Pittsburg Rocks so, have we determined whether we can conference call someone in florence during the wedding?
bub about: Pittsburgh Rocks you have a point there...
seriously though, the gay bath house thing, there's really a demand for that in cleveland?
bub about: Pittsburgh Rocks by the way, i loved the story this morning about the world's most expensive gay bath house that's going in downtown cleveland. throw in a couple of tv's and it's a browns bar.
bub about: wedding best line ever..."hey baby, wanna split that room with me and a jew?" ah...good stuff biggie, good stuff.
bub about: wedding she single? maybe you could some other kind of discount. housekeeping!
bub about: wedding oh, and biggie, i told jen in sales that you were out of the country, if she asks.
bub about: wedding biggie, i got you the discounted rate. you need to call now and ask for "Jen in sales", then reference my name and she'll give you the discounted rate. 412.434.5551 she needs you to call quickly though.
bub about: wedding biggie, don't do anything right now, i'll call and see if i can get you the discounted rate. one minute.
bub about: wedding the 6th.....
bub about: time did everyone already leave for cinco de mayo? what the eff?
bub about: wow the arizona cardinals have sold out all 8 home games for the first time since they moved from st. louis to tempe in 1988. matt linehart throwing to larry fitzgerald and anquan bolden may be fun to watch.
bub about: time is it seriously only 10:30? i'm starving!
bub about: How romantic... not a whole lot to be scared of. lot of jaw flapping, that's all you got.
bub about: How romantic... we're slightly busy at the moment. i'm totally game for competition weekend in the end of summer.
bub about: How romantic... belt.
bub about: How romantic... you mean that sub-par, title-holding team? our team has a touch of chivalry, we don't knock girlfriends to the ground, especially if we ever want to get any ever again.
bub about: in other news... i was the quarterback, i handed the ball to damien, who had me as a lead blocker, there was a hole to the left side of the center, he was following me, abby stepped into the hole and i didn't flatten her. damien had to break it outside, by then the outside collapsed.
bub about: in other news... without that play, the stand doesn't exist.
bub about: in other news... so long as you give proper credit to abby for the stand. had anyone else broken through the line, i would have had no problem flattening them, but planting your girlfriend doesn't make for a pleasant weekend. with my lead block, said stand never happens. abby's goalline stand is more accurate.
bub about: in other news... he better have an updated will. if he's lucky he'll only break a few bones.
bub about: in other news... now, i dig freestyle motocross, but i'm not sure i'd classify doing a backflip over the fountains at ceasar's palace as historic. i'd classify it as the craziest thing any stunt bike jumper has ever done, but historic? i don't think anything in sports, outside of the 1980 US hockey team beating russia in the olympics, is historic.
bub about: clocks i've been looking that the train schedule from milan to florence, to see when we're going to arrive in florence and what time we need to check in to our apartment. found out today that 61 via ghibellina is obviously on via ghibellina, but it's between via de' macci and borgo allegri...so it's about a block from santa croce. i've planned out our walk from teh train station to the apartment as to make it the coolest walk i've ever taken. we'll pass through the arch thing at the piazza della repubblica, stop up and see the duomo for a sec(i hear it has a neat roof or something), then down to piazza della signoria, cut between the uffizi and the palazzo vecchio, pass the loch ness, then to the apartment. maybe we'll just leave after that, cuz i'll have seen most everything on that walk. i'm pee-your-pants excited. can you tell?
bub about: pandora i sometimes forget how awesome pandora is. so glad it's free.
bub about: poop i predict "rolling brown-outs" for the city of london for the next few days.
bub about: i might be gay, but... this song was done on american idol last night(gay, i know), but i looked it up cause the song sounded pretty good. found a "live" video of the original artist. she seems to be a bad ass. KT Tunstall. here's a link to the song. Big black horse and a cherry tree
bub about: stuff the emmanuelle series and sexy school girls II, count as softcore...soo.....
bub about: stuff steph, if you stop watching softcore porn, it won't suggest it.
leanne, i can only imagine. i'm starting to get really excited about the honeymoon and i've still got 27 days. you have to be freaking. maybe if you trick yourself into dreading it, time will go faster?
bub about: Voit/Johnston reception sorry, you have until the 6th(this saturday). if you don't, then you won't get the lower rates. we blocked 20 rooms for saturday and 25 for sunday. so the sooner the better.
bub about: Voit/Johnston reception the reservations for our wedding must be made by the 5th(this friday) or the rooms are released to the public. i believe. i'll double check.
bub about: TV or cabage...like your text to derek said on friday night.
bub about: Scrubs my name is earl, is awful. i'd rather have my pubes pulled out one by one than watch that show.
bub about: Scrubs the office is funny if you work in that kind of environment(which i do), but i can't watch it, because it's like an extension of work. it feels like i'm still at work, and that's uncomfortable.
bub about: David Blaine i find his tricks to be awesome, but these stunts are boring. whoop-di-friggin-do, you can slow your heart rate to super slow. i don't care, now make that name that i wrote down, show up burned on your stomach.
bub about: SHHHHHH!! everybody must be busy today. stupid monday.
bub about: BIlls gotcha.
so i just read that 4 MLB teams(pirates are one of them) are getting more money in revenue sharing, than they are spending on their entire payroll...before they even sell one ticket. that pisses me off so freaking much. basically, the league is funding the pirates team. the owners aren't spending a dime. how about shelling out a couple of bucks and getting some players that can produce a god damned winning season. assholes. i'm so pissed that i can't see straight.
bub about: BIlls hey wes, what day do you guys leave for florence?
bub about: W & L wedding so, for those of us that can't make two trips to florence in the same month, can we pull a "friends" and call someone's cell phone at the wedding so we can listen in? i can conference call a bunch of folks so we can all listen. will anyone's cell phone work over there?
bub about: l8r is it time to go yet?
bub about: l8r i'd be totally jealous if i weren't going to be in florence in 31 days...for 14 days.
bub about: pa weddingzzzz that's gotta be fun, leanne.
bub about: pa weddingzzzz boston is a huge baseball town. no doubt about it. i don't know if selling out a 33,000 seat stadium for two or three years is that huge of an accomplishment for a team that won a world series and has been one of the best in the league for the last 5-8 years. i think it's an awesome baseball town. no question. if they had a 200,000 seat stadium, they'd never sell out.
bub about: pa weddingzzzz i just changed over my desktop calendar to may, very weird to see on your calendar "get married.....go on honeymoon". whoa.
bub about: pa weddingzzzz i would agree with cincy and boston. cincy was a half percentage higher in attendance per capita than the pirates. the redsox were .05% higher than the pirates. they are both baseball towns to me.
bub about: pa weddingzzzz oh! and who put salt and pepper shakers in my back pockets on saturday? we thought i had wondered into some sand in the morning. there was salt all over my room. that was an interesting find.
bub about: pa weddingzzzz yeah, i hear that all the time. we are certainly a football town, but based on average attendance per capita, we're up there in the top 10. st. louis is by far the biggest baseball town. i'm surprised the pirates are averaging 20,000 people per game, considering we're 5-18.
bub about: pa weddingzzzz it was sarcasm. but this baseball town conversation always interests me. which towns are baseball towns?
bub about: pa wedding pirates games are impossible to get tickets to....
they play fri @ 7:05, sat @ 7:05, sun @ 1:35(if any of you get tickets to this game, you'll be beaten unmerciful by abby). all games against houston. i'd go on friday, but i'm guessing you guys won't be in town. i'm kinda busy on saturday night, i'm relatively open on sunday(i have something to do in the afternoon at some point)
bub about: toner haha. i totally forgot about that. LALALALALA!!
bub about: mlb berg, i think the best deal ever has been cemented in the annals. babe ruth for cash.
bub about: mlb an injury and pinning all of your hopes on a pitching staff that was born in 1982, not good. they are having a voodoo exorcism type ceremony tomorrow outside the stadium. witch doctors, voodoo preistesses, catholic preists, etc.
bub about: College Football even more sad football news...bryant gumble will be announcing some of the football games on the NFL Network, even though he hasn't called a game in 30 years. oh, and chris collinsworth is going to be his color guy. the only worse possible team up would be a threesome of randy cross, phil simms, and steve tasker.
bub about: Lost and found ab, the joker shirt is blaine's, i believe. i don't know about the towel.
bub about: I i'm also nowhere near a neo-con.
bub about: I all the stuff i hear is that we can't reverse this stuff. i support planting trees and being nice to the evironment, but based on the stuff i've heard/read, seems like paying to clear your conscience. i could be way wrong.
bub about: you're not wow, i didn't realize we were getting way deep on bubdotcom. i don't think i'll be able to pick up on wit or sarcasm for another couple of days.
bub about: I oh, and your carbon footprint is basically, what effect you've had on the earth. pollution, greenhouse gases, blah blah blah. you can send $99 to this company and they'll basically clean up your footprint. i thought the damage was irreversible, so basically they're taking your money for nothing. although, i could see how it may ease the conscience of some.
bub about: I loooove ladysmith black mambazo. i got one of their albums(don't have the cover anymore, to tell which it is) back in kent...1997-ish.
bub about: bub i'm pseudo-alive. feel the same as yesterday, but have no more days of PTO left(aside from those alotted for the honeymoon). thanks for attempting to kill me. you came close. todd believes that i have alcohol poisoning. i believe i have "liquid braino". i had an unbelievable time. favorite part was the "final countdown". i was a complete liability. thank you schmidt for not letting me die. sorry for levaing you gusy without saying goodbye.
i mean this in a serious manner, i'm not drinking like that ever again. i will not be drinking shots ever again. i will be race car bombs more than twice in one night.
i had a great time. i think i'm still drunk.
bub about: April 21st see you suckas later.
bub about: April 21st i know nothing about romulus or remus, so no, i pictured no suckling.
so, i'm guessing rome was named after romulus? if not, do you think remus went *hey, this city we just founded looks an awful lot like ol' romulus' name....hmmm*......"hey romie, where'd you get the idea for the name of this city?"
bub about: See ya anyone interested in seeing the Pittsburgh Passion play on Saturday. They play the Cleveland Fusion at Cupples Stadium in the Southside at 7pm. Can't beat women's football on a saturday night.
bub about: wHAT THE F? have you guys left yet? for the first time this week, the day is actually going quickly. knock on wood.
i also get to learn CPR and how to use a defibrillator at lunch today. woo hooooo.
bub about: Thewsy i'm an idiot. i read the topic, sorry. biggie, i know you're coming. i'll shut up now.
bub about: Thewsy sure can. are you coming thews? i was told you aren't.
bub about: Thewsy oh, and no one will be allowed to have an average below 100, unless you have a vagina...and can prove it.
bub about: Thewsy cup fever died october 25th, after the pens started the season 0-10.
bub about: Thewsy where the eff is everyone?!?!
bub about: p directions from the SOUTH. take 79 north to 279 north. stay on 279 north to exit 14 (Bellevue/West View). Turn left off the exit. turn left at the top of the little hill just past the "Marathon" gas station onto North Ave(NOT the same north ave as by our old place). stay on North ave, it will bend up to the left, where it becomes Forest ave. at the top of the hill turn left onto Klemont ave. we are 709 Klemont(left side, yellow and green pealing paint).
from the NORTH take 79 south to 279 south, get off at exit 14, Turn left off the exit. turn left at the top of the little hill just past the "Marathon" gas station onto North Ave(NOT the same north ave as by our old place). stay on North ave, it will bend up to the left, where it becomes Forest ave. at the top of the hill turn left onto Klemont ave. we are 709 Klemont(left side, yellow and green pealing paint).
bub about: hockey well, justice has prevailed. the blues go first, the penguins go second, just like the reverse order of finish went.
bub about: Handicap People i'm not going to speak on this one, cuz i generally get yelled at for my comments regarding things of this nature.
bub about: holy moly you have to watch this video. it's of people driving in india. it's just one intersection. i could watch it all day. i stole this from bhendrix.com(a friend of my friend's site). whoa!
bub about: hockey the penguins were accused of doing just that at the end of the 1983 season...we drafted mario lemieux with the first pick in 1984.
bub about: hockey what's going on with the draft lottery?! it started at noon, i haven't heard anything yet.
bub about: Pittsburgh is Fun! you should bring whatever balls you want to use. the have a ball polisher at the alley, she's very gentle.
bub about: Pittsburgh is Fun! actually, we can't make it a game-time decision, with this many tee times, they charge you if you don't make it. no clubs.
bub about: Pittsburgh is Fun! alright, since the plan has changed, bowling will probably be around $15 per person(estimated). the bowling alley is BYOB, so if you have preferences or absolute "won't drink" beers, let derek know. we'll be taking a bit of beer with us. we'll still be going around 10am, i believe. you will be able to bet on games if you'd like, the guys around here will bet on anything and since bowling is half the price of golf, the money is burning a hole in their wallets. if you don't want to bet, you don't have to. i'm guessing it would be like a buck or two per game(bets). anyway, think about what you think your average might be, don't low-ball it, cuz we're making teams up based on those averages.
bub about: Pittsburgh is Fun! so, unfortunately, we won't be playing golf. rain all weekend. hopefully we can get some cornholing in, but we've got a 70% chance of rain on friday and saturday. i think the official forecast is "eff you bub, we're gonna ruin all of your plans". so, there's that. we'll be bowling. if you have any extra decks of cards, that wouldn't be bad. we're gonna have a vegas style bowling tournament.
bub about: names we could have a lot of fun with kids names with my last name.
bub about: sore back = quit being such a sissy, berg. you're golfin.
bub about: this weekend i had a blast last night, setting up the beer pong table in the attic and leveling it and stuff. can't wait for friday. it's going to be the longest day of my life, thus far.
bub about: this weekend wes, toner, sweet jay.
bub about: this weekend at approximately 8:00, we'll be heading down to hitops for a couple of drinks(if we can't get cabs from my house). if we can get cabs from my house, then i'd like to go to the "lockerroom"(which is hines ward's bar in the southside). i'm betting they've got tv's at the lockerroom.
bub about: this weekend why is it that you guys are silent on days when i am utterly bored?! GOSH!
bub about: this weekend anyone else coming in on friday?
bub about: what? or maybe you should go shit by someone's desk when they aren't there. then you can fart all day and they'll still be the stinky one.
bub about: this weekend we have tee times starting at 10am. i think we have 6 tee times at the moment. it'll be around $30 per person to golf. is that a problem for anyone(email me if it is)? we are playing at Pittsburgh North golf course. it's a little bit of a drive(half hour probably), but not too bad. i'll let you know on friday morning if we're golfing or bowling, so check here on friday. just to get an idea for timing, who's coming on friday, who's coming on saturday?
bub about: this weekend well, the weather is looking pretty iffy for this weekend. looks more and more like we're going bowling. i'll let you know as soon as i know, so you don't bring clubs if you don't have to. if you have a bowling ball, you may want to pull it out of the mothballs. huh huh, moth balls.
bub about: this weekend good and good. i'd rather the pong table stay where it is.
bub about: this weekend hahaha, abby wants a DP
bub about: this weekend good god.
bub about: this weekend wow, lots of posting at the same time. i'm tired. is it friday yet?
bub about: this weekend ok, here is the confusion-free schedule for late nighting.
friday - our house, beer pong provided saturday - our old apartment, beer pong would need to be moved by someone other than me, and returned by someone other than me.
bub about: this weekend again, friday, the new place will be late night central.
bub about: this weekend friday will have beer pong galore. it is next to impossible to get it out of my attic. chances are, after drinking from 9am on saturday till the bars close at 2am on sunday morning, beer pong probably won't be worth moving to another venue. if it is, then maybe biggie could bring his ping pong table or someone else can move the pong table on saturday(i got it up there, i'm not taking it down). i'm perfectly happy passing out wherever i land, so my old apartment can be late night party central on saturday, our house will be late night party central on friday.
bub about: site update by the way, we are only 1,056 hits away from 100,000 on bubdotcom.
bub about: this weekend so, i have a question. we were looking into the sleeping situation. we have a bunch of room at our new house, but it won't be the late night spot...we also have derek's place and our apartment that can be slept in. the apartment has nothing in it, so you would need to bring air mattresses with you if you wanted to sleep there. is anyone interested in sleeping at the old apartment? we would need to clean it if you are, so we just wanted figure out our schedule. like i said, you can certainly stay at our new place, but abby's folks will be sleeping there and it won't be the place for raucus late night. that will be either derek's place or our apartment.
bub about: Happy Monday! i meant saturday night.
bub about: Happy Monday! can we? i believe it's a must. i'm gonna say it now, friday night, i'm eating two roast beef sandos with fries, and no one is leaving till i'm done.
bub about: Gold Stars and i would never eat texas caviar with me bare...strike that.
bub about: Gold Stars blah blah...
bub about: hello? oh, or sambucca. licorice is gross. add jager to that list(unless in a red headed slut). honestly, gold star goes to anyone who gets me a hoegaarden with a lemon.
bub about: hello? or vodka.
can you tell that i'm utterly useless today? all i can think about is "i have a half day then i get to play at the new house(by play, i mean help abby's dad install a 220 line...and by "help", i mean hold the flashlight). then i get to go pick up the moving truck.
bub about: hello? actually, so long as the shots taste good, that's fine. but i don't like whiskey or scotch or rum.
bub about: hello? unless the shots are washington apple or southern lime.
bub about: hello? i will drink the crap out of that flowery drink, no problem. and they should save their money on the shots. end of story.
bub about: hello? it's my party and i'll refuse shots if i want to, shots if i want to, shot if i want to. my 21st did me in on liquor, smelling it makes me sick, that doesn't make for any fun.
bub about: zzzzzzz.... by the way, i reserve the right to refuse any shot i desire. i don't drink liquor, so don't waste yer money. buy me all the beers you want, though. biggie, it is a deucable toilet. i will make sure it's semi-clean. just watch out for the bunghole spiders.
bub about: hey pittsburghers... that's when you liiiiiiiiiiiiie. you'll have gotten at least one paycheck befor they figure it out.
bub about: ATHF quite the opposite for me, i've had the godfather's "monday tuesday thursday wednesday" in my head.
bub about: The Ladies Man ah leon...so wise, so knowing.
bub about: mmmmm....ice cream cougheatmecough. i'm hear, just busy. can't wait to go home and finish putting in the peel-n-stick floor in the bathroom. fun fun.
bub about: 13 days sure can.
bub about: 13 days i love the disclaimer, d.
bub about: does wes still live? GOSH! giving away top secret info over the interwebs. andy, you're on double secret probation.
bub about: does wes still live? andy, i had to delete your post, there are people out there that i don't want to have the username and password :)
bub about: does wes still live? it's not bad at all. 1/2 southern comfort, 1/2 blueberry schnapps. very tasty. it's the "national shot of pittsburgh".
bub about: 13 days berg's comment reminded me that we're less than two weeks away. for those that are coming, we're gonna be moved into our new house this saturday, so our apartment will be totally empty. that gives us a bunch of sleeping space. bring air mattresses. any partying going on late night on saturday night, will be done at our old apartment, as to not wake abby.
bub about: does wes still live? someone give dickey the directions, i've typed them 50 times and never saved them once. i hate typing those directions. and jared, you're wrong. she's way hot.
bub about: does wes still live? oooh, wes, sorry about that shot of "southern blue"....
bub about: does wes still live? oh...there are some banners on that page i linked to that might be questionable for work.
bub about: does wes still live? i'll find her dickey.
bub about: woohoooo yesterday sucked. thank god i feel human today. went to bed at 9:30. texas caviar burps are disgusting. i actually gagged someone walking behind me, after i burped at the rest station. i heard "aw gross, what is that smell?!?!" i giggled and kept walking towards the bathroom to try to throw up.
bub about: woohoooo sure, what's your work number?
bub about: fryday man, i wish we were coming up tonight...but we'll be there around the time you guys wake up tomorrow.
bub about: Venting is it saturday yet?
bub about: Venting in the summer, we can shave bergs back to make sweaters for us all for the winter...then in the winter we'll shave his back to make money for the summer. it will work itself out.
bub about: Venting andy, in canada they take pelts and beads, no worries.
bub about: Venting except abby instigates quite a bit...
bub about: Venting i plan on getting "liability drunk", so meeeeeee.
bub about: NCARB this might sound bad, but you're not performing open-heart surgery.
bub about: radio so, i might be a dork, but there is nothing better than sirius radio. it's got a channel that plays old radio shows. the kind that people used to sit and listen to before tv was around. i friggin love it.
bub about: wallpaper using lots of DIF and metal scrapers. the paper doesn't stick to the backing so well, so it's a laborious process. i'm not the most patient person on the planet to begin with, so add removing stubborn wallpaper to the mix and i become intolerable. i almost kicked my own ass last night. thankfully we have some helpers tonight, so we can get two more rooms painted. there should be minimal wallpaper left when you guys come visit on the weekend of the 22nd. there will, however, still be lots of dead grass in the back yard.
bub about: wallpaper the list of books i've read is a short one, so no, i haven't read that one. i'll try the furniture thing.
bub about: wallpaper i won't lie, last night i thought about painting over it.
bub about: sports i was completely defeated by gold and pink flowered wallpaper last night. i was a shell of a man when i left our house. i was close to throwing things. if there was a big orange gatorade bucket, i would have thrown out out onto the lawn, along with some bats and batting helmets.
bub about: sports i hate wallpaper. hate. like threatening letter made with cut out letters from a magazine, hate.
bub about: sports hehe. yeah, what he said.
bub about: sports their career numbers are far different. that's what i was talking about. they had almost identical stat lines last year. with that being the case,i gotta go with the guy that has to play in the field, as opposed to chilling in the dugout. like i said, i don't like the guy either. i agree he's over-hyped. i'm a big jeter fan. and yes, a yankee fan(pirates first, but not much to root for there, but grew up on the yanks). the most disappointing things the yankees have done(personel wise) in the last 5 years are...picking up a-rod, picking up randy johnson, and letting soriano go. anyway...go buccos.
bub about: sports i would not give an mvp to a pitcher or dh unless they had an all-time record breaking season, something undeniably awesome. winning 35 games...hitting 74 homers...we're talking season MVP, not playoff MVP. you need better numbers than what papi put up to be the season MVP for me.
bub about: sports wes, although i don't like a-rod either, i'm gonna have to call you out on this one. if you owned a baseball team, you would never give up a player with numbers like a-rod's. a .307 career hitter, averaging 42HR a year and 120RBI per year. those are some nasty stats. his stats are far greater than papi, but you're right, papi is clutch. move papi to the NL and he's an average player.
bub about: rock how much is rent? maybe i could talk abby into getting a "summer apartment" once we get rid of our apartment on beech. it's funny right now, we talk about our two homes, the one in the city and the one in the suburbs.
bub about: rock sounds great.
is anyone else tired of sports "records" that span two seasons? rollins' 37-game hitting streak, to be more specific. yes, it's difficult to hit in that many games in a row, but don't even think of mentioning it in the same breath as joe dimaggio's 56-game streak. joe's was in one season, that's significantly harder to do than having 6 months off to rest up for the second half of the streak. give me a break sports writers. talk about something else. it irritates the crap out of me.
bub about: washington rules! just read another article, which i will not post due to a case of the laze, about george washington. he wasn't all that different than us. about a month after the declaration of independence was signed, he threw a kegger. it did not say whether they played beer pong, cornhole, or tackle football.
bub about: rock we will be leaving approximately 30 minutes after i wake up on saturday. i've tried contacting mr. balon to no avail. is there anything going on between nooner and mid-afternoon? that will determine my wake up schedule. i'm sickly excited about this weekend too.
bub about: ecstacy just read an article about a guy who had taken an estimated 40,000 hits of ecstacy over 9 years. that's an average of 12 per day. at his peak, he was taking around 25 per day. wow. i'd post the article, but i'm too lazy. find it yourself.
bub about: weather that's the major reason i've got knee problems, weight is unbearable. i often have to sit or lay down when excited, 4 concussions from falling...
for you number-lovers out there, this wednesday at 2 minutes and 3 seconds after 1am, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. that will not happen for another thousand years.
bub about: weather we rarely get tornado watches or 48", unless i take my pants off. ooh!
bub about: weather apparently tornado watch weather is bad for satellite radio reception. stupid radio.
bub about: weather so, tornado watch till 5pm...awesome.
bub about: woo hoo happy opening day everybody.
bub about: beer homeownership rules. wallpaper does not. beer pong in the living room rules. wallpaper does not. parking in your own garage rules. your neighbor mudding up the walkway from the garage does not. installing a programable thermostat and getting it right the first time rules. jagger bushes do not. installing new deadbolts rules. tack strips do not. that's all for now. so tired, so sore.
bub about: 10 opinions in a row mmmmm....boddingtons....
bub about: Music whores i'm not gonna lie, i have a talent.
bub about: Music whores here's a song i wrote on the way into work this morning. it's to the tune of "let's get physical" by olivia newton john.
we will have a house have a house we will have a house have a house weeee will have a house, by 3:30 holy crap we'll have a hooooouse.
that's all i've come up with for now.
bub about: New House 709 Klemont Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15202
bub about: funtimes... why don't my bad days end like that?
bub about: time i don't think that time could go by any slower than it is right now. good god.
bub about: drugs i think we've got two different sides of this conversation. one side is about drugs that keep you awake. i think aaron wants drugs that make sleep more efficient, therefore needing less. you can do a lot of things to be kept awake, but you still need to catch up on that sleep once you're done. i would love a medicine that bypassed stages 1 and 2 of the sleep stages. stages 3 and 4 are the dreaming and recovery stages. if we could get right into those, that would be awesome. the nice thing is that the older you get, the less sleep you need...the bad thing is, you get less stage 3 and 4 sleep....which is probably why we get more and more fragile as we get older.
bub about: musac i wasn't going to give wes ideas as to how to beat me to a pulp, just saying we deserved it.
bub about: musac we were big dumb animals and deserved to be slapped...then shot with tranquilizer darts. maybe that would have kept us from walking to burger king for breakfast.
bub about: stuff that gets my vote for "the coolest thing i've ever seen". by the way, i like the ad below the last picture that says "crack cocaine addiction"
bub about: musac what agro-jagoffs. :) i like saying agro. i also like playing beer pong till 8am with andy...i do not, however, like depriving wes of sleep....that's a scary wes.
bub about: musac seriously, we can play whenever we want. freakin' awesome.
bub about: musac i enjoy both styles of beer pong. my dad used to play "kent style" back at florida southern college in the early 70's.
bub about: musac i am, but barely. counting the minutes till we get the keys on friday. going to dick's to buy ping pong paddles/net/balls to resurrect derek's ping pong table from the november get together. can't wait to play beer pong at my own house. i'm annoyingly excited. abby has told me so.
bub about: musac then keep doing it as wma's.
bub about: musac this should put the .wma vs. .mp3 conversation to rest...the reason mp3's are more convenient is that .wma files are specific to windows media player. 99% of media players will play mp3's, but fewer will play wma's. i had an issue with "real player" and wma's at some point. the other convenient thing about them, is that most cd burning software will automatically convert your mp3's to wav's so they can play on a regular cd player. operating system specific audio files will not....wma and ai, most specifically. berg is right, you can just change your options on your windows media player to rip things in an mp3 format, that's how mine is set up. either way, i don't care, i can listen them all, so do whatever you want...but there's the end of that extremely boring conversation.
bub about: monday morning rock dickey, shatner is up.
bub about: monday morning rock berg, you make me laugh.
bub about: monday morning rock give me a few minutes dickey, i'll put "has been" up there.
bub about: exciting Saturday fun! i would pay to see that. i hate rats.
my saturday involved assembling wedding invitations and showing abby's sister the outside of our new house. we forgot to get the parking pass out of becky's car, so i can't park on our street, so my car is now parked in front of the new house. that was fun. i wanted to putit in the garage...but it's not our's yet. four more days.
bub about: Texas so, you're stag/hen party is in two weeks...that'll be fun. i have a jam packed month coming up.
next weekend - closing on the house(if anyone wants to come to town to play some beer pong in our empty new house, we'll be doing that on friday
the next weekend - stag/hen party
the next weekend - moving to the new house
the next weekend - my bach party.
whoooosh...there goes april.
bub about: Texas Living i'll give you the best reason not to move to austin...it's a college town full of meatheads that want to be on real world. watch one episode of real world austin and check out the massive amount of douchebags out at the bars. it's staggering y'all.
bub about: Texas Living i am utterly adverse to this kind of horse shit. that plan is called the "we're gonna bust you for having fun in public plan". that's unbelievable. we aren't going to be able to do anything in public, pretty soon. we're all gonna have to drink in our basements with the lights off, hoping no one catches us smoking cigarettes and telling off color jokes. welcome to the US of A.
bub about: tv pilot i don't think anyone would notice berg streaking, jared. you'd hear things like "who's that guy running down the street in a jump-suit?" and "i didn't know sasquatch had such a small wang"...but i don't think anyone would freak out.
bub about: tv pilot we're going streaking!!!!!! frank the tank! frank the tank!
bub about: blackalicious wasn't pittsburgh voted "best music scene" this year?
bub about: blackalicious i'm pretty sure i'm gonna need to take the "hangover cure" daily.
bub about: houses and andy will go to jail for shooting aaron for saying that you can't play a serve before it hits your side of the table. we almost saw that one already.
bub about: houses apparently leanne has forgotte that the budotcompound will have a lawn-care service. aaron will go to jail for shooting berg's hairy little child for stepping on his last ping pong ball, forcing him to go to the store to get more.
bub about: houses a postage stamp big enough to play cornhole on.
bub about: Pictures i call "not riding in a cab with biggie ever"
bub about: Pictures wow, some serious carnage went on, huh?
bub about: Pictures sounds like you fell somewhere
bub about: Pictures ah, things are starting to make sense.
bub about: Pictures that should say "bader's shoulder"...not his "should"
bub about: Pictures wow wes....that's awesome. that picture is full of awesomeness.
1. bader is a giant. his finger is as long as leanne's torso.
2. wes looks like the angel of drunkeness on baders should "drink more bader, drink more."
what's that thing about to poke toner in the butt?
bub about: i left my ___ in c-bus Tony's message was slightly more coherent, but just as funny.
bub about: i left my ___ in c-bus those were some good drunk calls. especially the way wes greeted me...
bub: "hello?"
wes: "i hate you, we're not friends"
bub: "hey wes, you guys having fun?"
wes: "arrgh, blababab shherasf.....leanne wants to talk to leanne now...i hate you"
bub about: Holy shit. wow! awesome house!!
bub about: Holy shit. someone post a link to the house or something. i need some pictures!
bub about: Holy shit. congrats thews and cristen!!!!
bub about: Brackets i'm 15 of 16 so far...damn that syracuse.
bub about: basketball nevermind. bc up 7.
bub about: basketball double OT...
bub about: basketball um...pacific up by 6 in overtime versus boston college....
bub about: Items to Discuss good luck thews and cristen, hopefully your's goes smoother than our's did. by the way, i found out today that we will most likely be closing before the end of the month.
bub about: Items to Discuss maybe the englishes and the stallkamps could have sober phone calls to each other. wait...it's a weekend...nevermind.
bub about: bub and abby you're welcome wes. i'm sore too. we'll save some of the fun work for when you guys come down next.
bub about: question i would qualify wes' statement about markets, with this....either "the best competitively priced product always rises to the top".
i had no real knowledge about what betamax's appeal was, until a few minutes ago. turns out that the market dropped betamax in much the same way we're talking about here. the VHS had doubled the recording time of betamax, then VHS became even cheaper to make, dropping to $300 cheaper per unit, than beta. a superior product at a lower cost, always wins. beta failed because it's technology couldn't keep up, and the cost of production was too high. thanks for bringing that up D, my uncle jim had a beta and i always wondered what the difference was. learn something new everyday.
bub about: question macs only have 2% of the marketshare for a reason, unless you are doing intense graphical work, macs have the processing power of a "speak and spell". it's like the difference between owning a car and vespa. sure, vespas look cool, sure they blow cars away when it comes to gas mileage, but you don't want to take one on a road trip. cars are higher performance.
bub about: star wars why are you on such a nerdy emailing list? oh wait, cuz you're a big nerd.
bub about: st patty i'm completely unexcited about the crawl. i'm melancholy. stupid money, stupid basement.
bub about: st patty hey kantz, you can have mine and abby's, since we can't make it. let me know if you're taking them. i'm not sure what size abby's is, but mine is sure to fit you.
bub about: good and bad berg, you over estimate my staying power. two pumps, a quiver, and a funny face.
if you think for a second that i don't WANT to go to st. patty's day, we're not friends, cuz you don't know me at all. money and time are very short. i expect quite a few phone calls. i'm thinking about maybe we could come down just for saturday, but i have to get the ok from abby. she's just about to get home from the worst traveling trip of her life. stuck in chicago overnight cuz her first flight was delayed, causing her to miss the second flight. then her first flight this morning was delayed, almost missing her second flight. she's also sick. she's a happy camper.
bub about: good and bad i thought about the sprayer, but drylock is so friggin thick that there's no way it would go through. it's frustrating, but it'll be worth it. it already looks a lot better.
i just looked at the bracket, and realized that pitt and kent play on friday at 7:10pm. i wouldn't have been in columbus in time to watch with you jagoffs anyway.
bub about: other good and bad news pitt beat the #4 team in the country the game before losing to syracuse(now #22), they beat the number #23 team in the country the game before that. kent hasn't even PLAYED a ranked team this year, let alone beat one. final score: pitt 78 kent 70
bub about: good and bad news. this old lady now lives in new jersey, so she can't paint it. we would have to offer even more money if someone else paints it, so we offered an amount and said "we'll paint it ourselves", to save money. it needs to be painted before we can get the FHA mortgage, so instead of spending thousands, we're spending hundreds.
bub about: good and bad news. yeah, we're using drylock. that stuff is thick. and i wish cinderblock was invented in 1920, painting stone with that stuff is insufferable. it's made a huge difference in the look of the place. if the owner hadn't painted it before, we wouldn't have to paint it now, but since the paint is chipping, FHA requires that we repaint it. jagoffs.
bub about: other good and bad news PI!!! TT!!!!!
bub about: other good and bad news good news: pitt and kent both made the NCAA tourney.
bad news: they are playing each other in the first round.
bub about: good and bad news. good news: the old lady has accepted our offer(for the second time). and i started painting the basement last night.
bad news: it's taking forever and we can't close until it's done. the abd part is, that is going to make it so that we can't come to columbus this weekend. brad/alicia/biggie/whoever we're supposed to pay, we will still take our shirts(unless you've got people begging for them), we'll give derek the money. i'm really disappointed about not being able to make it down, but we got 1/10 of the basement done in 6 hours yesterday.
bub about: boring fridays and the dj played two daddy yankee songs in a row. i was fairly happy.
bub about: boring fridays i told some of you last night, but the saloon was handing out free cans of sparxx last night...if only it was friday last night.
bub about: site update no changes, but i was just noticing that we're working on 100,000 hits, since the last time i changed the counter. sweet.
bub about: brackets berg, as of now, pitt and kent won't play until the elite eight, i believe.
bub about: brackets i forgot about that, berg has paid too.
i may do another bracket pool for bdc.
bub about: brackets so, i was considering setting up a bracket for the tourney. before we get into that, i need money for the fantasy football stuff, so that dave actually gets his winnings. jt has paid me. so that leaves everyone else(including me).
as far as the brackets go, i will take any suggestions for the dollar amount and the number of people and number of brackets, etc.
bub about: sports smack unless you do 100% revenue sharing, some teams are going to have more money than others. if you do 100% revenue sharing, you've got to do 100% liability sharing as well. some teams have built new stadiums(which generates more revenue), some have more agressive marketing campaigns(costs money, but generates more revenue). if your team can't generate enough revenue to keep yourself afloat, maybe there are too many teams in the league....or maybe signing bonuses count against the cap. i'm gonna say that the signing bonuses are the bigger problem.
bub about: sports smack yes, he could be making a statement. the way that statement looks is "i'm voting against the best interest of my team, because i'm so cheap i'd rather not have a competitive team". he could have been making another statement, but if he was honestly voting no, then something is wrong.
bub about: sports smack not to sound like a jerk, but but he could be a little slow. that was the best deal for both sides. the owners were never going to get away with not raising the cap. with the amount of growth and revenue the league has made in the last few years, there was no way the players union was going to cave on that one. when you deal with a union, you have to give them something so they don't feel like the "rich man" is rolling in dough while they're working for pennies. i obviously don't take the players side, cuz they're making a zillion dollars for playing a game, but that's their mentality. if the owners don't recognize that, they're idiots. brown should have realized that if every owner voted the way he did, he wouldn't have a team at the end of the day. the league would have folded like a cheap suit.
bub about: The Crawl we're headed down friday after work. but we don't live by you, so it doesn't much matter.
bub about: sports smack what's hockey? we don't play hockey here...obviously.
and thank god the rest of the league has some brains. six more years of steeler awesomeness ahead.
that's right, fuck barry bonds and his fat head. you know what, while we're at it, fuck his stupid dangly cross earing from the early 90's. someone should buy him a dangly siringe earing for his birthday. i hope he has a massive coronary....and doesn't get into the hall of fame. cheater.
and the WBC, they did a bad job of scheduling and airing the games. by the way, why can't espn's mlb scoreboard work properly during spring training? why can't i get a "gamecast" of spring training games. a-holes.
is it friday yet?
bub about: baseball just wanted to alert you baseball fans that the pirates are 7-1 so far. meaning they will lose their first 33 games of the season.
bub about: Fonts if you do try to visit the fonts site. it's dafont.com not dafonts.com
bub about: Slogans oh my god, i love slogans....
my other slogans have been "noboday better lay a finger on my bub"...."better ingredients, better bub".....and "bub comes to those who wait".
bub about: Slogans my first one was "the incredible, edible bub"
bub about: mini van?!? my image of thews in an el camino is one where thews is wearing the googles(old school pilot goggles) with a scarf around his neck and the interior is all shag carpet with tassels hanging from the edge at the top of the windshield.
bub about: bracketology at the moment, espn has pitt and kent state in the same bracket. by same bracket, i mean if both teams win their first round game, they play each other in round two.
bub about: bub is not cool i licked your hand...not your face. and ask any of the architect types if licking is cool.
bub about: Movie advice i'm half architect! you're zero architect. the laws of mathematics say i'm cooler. and using math to prove coolness, is cooler than being half architect. being so, bub is congruous to infinite cool.
bub about: Survival i'm in the wheel chair caravan with you two.
bub about: SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!! wow, seriously...is anyone around today?
bub about: SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!! biggie's coworker threw a microwave at biggie's ankle. he didn't miss. then it was impaled by a hammer. drunk coworkers are evil.
by the way, never go bowling two days in a row. my left leg is hurtin' somethin' awful.
bub about: I abby did run her fingers through aaron's hair.....fluzey.
bub about: baseball go buccos...pirates beat the nationals again today 6-4. woooooo. an early glimmer of hope. obviously when the season starts, all hope will be crushed by heavy pile of crap, called kevin mcclatchey.
bub about: baseball one guy has said something about the brokeback mountain stuff. i gave the obligatory chuckle, wondering how long it was going to take. and yes, my initials are BM. i will also be naming my children rocky, andy, sierra, and pocono. my name, if i was born a girl would have been misty, and my mom's name is candy....so i've got to embarrass them some way(since my behavior is in no way embarrassing enough).
bub about: baseball by the way, have you guys noticed that the pirates are undefeated this year. they beat manatee community college 8-1, then beat the washington nationals 9-1. the buccos are dominant. look out world series.
bub about: TUNES um...i had the same dream....weird.
bub about: TUNES good lord.
bub about: NFL just to make everyone a little more comfortable, the NFL and the players' union have pushed the deadline back to sunday night at midnight.
bub about: NFL wow, would you listen to berg...sounds like somebody is a decade from switching to the dark side.
bub about: NFL i am a little nervous, but with no players union, the owners will not be forced to jack prices up. the league will fix things. there is no reason for any of this, other than the players wanting more money. the system is set up perfectly right now. there is parity, all of the teams are succeeding. maybe raising the cap level a little bit would help. eliminating it would be stupid.
bub about: Music Request ah yes..."where are the browns"
bub about: Music Request berg, i love the click of abby calling you a honeybaked ham. it reminded me of the time i called you from philly and sang you a song over the phone. do you remember what i sang? we can't remember.
bub about: zzz i hate when i have to fart, but in a situation where that's not acceptable, so you hold it in...and it makes the "i've got a whale in my stomach" noise. eeeeeeoooooooouuuuuuu.
bub about: zzz ah ha. i would like to be sleeping right now too. i'm tired of this sore throat thing.
bub about: zzz where is everyone today? i'm bored.
bub about: Crazy PIzza Guy and a City probably rant page worthy. i'd love to discuss it with you, but not here.
bub about: Yub nub, eee chop yub nub sorry, i didn't post the link to the ewok song correctly. it works, but doesn't look like a link. it says "ewok celebration song"...it's a link, i swear. i used to have a record that had that song on it, loved it.
bub about: Suggestions from you fools my only suggestion is to not increase your debt or make big purchases before the pre-approval(or before you finalize the mortgage). that could freak out a lender. if it's possible, maybe suck it up for a little while and just have one car between the two of you(assuming cristen has a car).
bub about: music oh! and the best football team.
bub about: music we do have the best "music scene" according to some magazine or something...last year.
bub about: ugh. agreed. i can't imagine having to live with that voice, and that attitude, and that stupidity, and that psychotic controlling behavior. i don't agree with spousal abuse at all either, but man would it be tough not to drop-kick her out a window.
bub about: ugh. i think the amount is somewhere between a pantload and metric shit ton.
bub about: ugh. anna benson is on stern right now. she is possibly the most irritating human being of all time. she is in complete denial that she is ruining her husbands career. my god, i just want to hit her with a friggin buick. humongous c-word.
bub about: donna, he never said the sexy jewish singer was a girl.
bub about: bar from what i can find, the shuffleboard table ranges from 9' - 22'. the most common length appears to be the 15'. the one at silky's is probably the 22' variety. the width of the board is 20", the height it 3". they generally weight more than 390pounds, so it looks as though you should build it where you want to play it.
bub about: bar that was "silky's"
bub about: shuffle board or shuffle puck. we could do that.
bub about: baseball sure could. i love the mention of "that yellow bridge", all of our bridges are yellow.
bub about: beer i also brewed my newest batch of beer yesterday. it's for the wedding, but it's a Brown Ale. similiar to a New Castle. i'll let you know if it's drinkable, in 3 or 4 weeks. next up is the west coast pale ale.
bub about: baseball biggie, i'll look around for tickets to the derby. i'm not optimistic about it, but i'll check around. worst case, we could just walk down from derek's house, to the river behind the right field seats and try to catch a couple of "river balls".
they have a couple of decent young arms, but they've had some consistency issues. i feel bad that you guys got stuck with suppan. he's intolerable. he's really good in World Series 2k3 on xbox though. best hitting pitcher in video game history.
bub about: baseball jack wilson, sean casey, jeremy burnitz, jason bay, craig wilson, joe randa...not a bad first 6 hitters. you've got your obligatory freddy sanchez and the like, but they're much better than they were last year(which was hard to be worse), but it's relatively exciting. who wants to come to town on the weekend of july 7-9? that's the weekend of the all-star game in pittsburgh.
bub about: baseball this might sound laughable, but i think the pirates are going to have a pretty decent team this year. we might win 80 games. fairly exciting.
bub about: Educate me and berg, you would have a completely valid point, if it was the CEO of the great lakes brewery or some other local restaurant, but a chain has a lot more business decisions to be made.
bub about: beer! you might have the sleeping kings on iona, but we've got airsupply playing at teh pepsi roadhouse. take THAT!
bub about: K-S-U AWESOME!!! biggie, that was quite anti-climactic. spell it right, at least.
bub about: Hot Sauce oh my god, i forgot about that. those are so good. we're gonna have to make those tonight at the saloon(or wherever we go). is dawn coming out tonight? abby's got to study.
bub about: house dave, that's very interesting....hmmmmm
bub about: house peanut butter...ha. every time i hear peanut butter, i think of the time that one of my friends from here, was doing his "girlfriend"(i use that term loosely) on an airmattress in the the living room of another friend's house. they passed out naked on the air mattress, so the other people that were awake took the blanket of and covered the girl in peanut butter and kraft singles. they were nice enough to stop the one guy who grabbed a jar of grape jelly. ah, the good ol' days.
bub about: house yeah, i'm gonna say that DIF sounds better than vinegar. the house won't smell like pickles that way. it ought to be fun. i'm totally looking forward to it. pbbt.
bub about: house we'll be scraping and painting every single room. since every single room has 1973 wallpaper in it. there is no paint in the entire house.
bub about: house not to jinx things, but the seller has "tentatively accepted our unwritten offer". we have no written offer in on the house, but she agree to what we wanted, she's getting another painting estimate to see if she can get it lower, if not we'll go with the one we got. then we get the house! i'm gonna pee. i'm cautiously excited, because i'm sure something will go wrong from now until closing, but that's the way things work in my life. yay for tentative agreements on unwritten offers!
bub about: dags maybe he'll have a snobby rich accent, i'm not sure. we'll see when we get him.
bub about: dags i've been going back and forth between quasi-mexican and quasi-russian.
bub about: nose hair you're a sick, sick man.
bub about: dags i sure hope so. that's the plan at the moment.
bub about: Tests it says they aren't too bad, they have some energy, but but not like full sized boxers.
bub about: dags i know!!! i wanna bite 'em.
bub about: dags hey andy, i've been looking into getting a dog, and here's what we're looking at getting, you'll be so jealous. check out the different pages to see some of the pictures. it's a mini boxer...mix between a boxer and a pug. mini boxers
bub about: aaaaaaaaaaahhhh it's only 10:30. good god. this waiting to hear if we're getting this house is killing me. kill. ing. me. i just want to know, so i can go buy some paint for the basement or not. i'm unhappy witht he suckitude of the old lady who takes 10 days on every decision.
bub about: lunch the corn salsa at qdoba is better. again, less onion. you could take turd, some bacon, and some corn, throw in the amount of onion in chipotle's salsas and they would all taste the same.
bub about: lunch you're crazy...the salsa at chipotle ruins anything it's put on. it's so overly onion flavored. disgusting. if they had stores right next to each other, i'd go to qdoba.
bub about: Shirts abby and i both sent brad our orders today too, alicia. :) can't wait.
we've got a similar place to chipotle, it's called qdoba. i like it better than chipotle, cuz there aren't a million onions in their salsas. just about the exact same menu. i am officially the fastest burrito(and primanti sandwich) eater on the planet. i would bet that i could eat a whole burrito and poop, inside of 4 minutes. and the thought of fries on a burrito just gave me a dancer.
i'm totally ready for the crawl. i call the weird closet by biggie's kitchen! score!
bub about: awesome stop on your way home from work and pick some up. abby, can you tell wes where you got them? they should(might already) sell those in single usage packages or something like they do with those travel kleenex. that would be key for a road trip or vacation.
bub about: awesome it is only slightly moist for a few seconds. it's like taking a shower right after the poop. you feel completely clean and refreshed. seriously, just try it, you'll love it. i've actually started trying to hold it until i get home, cuz it's so much more pleasant...and if i can't wait, when i get home i just fake it, so i can use the wipes. good stuff.
bub about: awesome so, we got some of those babywipes for the bathroom the other day. best thing ever. they are made for adults, but man alive are they great. it completely changes taking a poop. you all need to go get some immediately.
bub about: crawling wow, big day on bdc. don't everybody talk at once, we might flood the server.
i can't believe it's still 20 minutes till lunch. i'm dying here!
bub about: crawling leanne, if it makes you feel better, i really like "cleveland sucks at everything" jokes...
bub about: crawling not only does it speak to the power of 40 drunks, but it speaks to the power of "pre-arranging", makes everything so much easier.
bub about: crawling biggie, you can use it to your advantage in a couple of ways.
1. you can ask him for $50 to get his bar's name on the shirt. or...
2. you can make him forgo the covers and line(as wes said). or
3. you can ask him to do a "special special", where just our group gets a special rate on beer/shots.
you wouldn't think that with 30-50 people coming in for one drink(generally $3 per drink) that they would be willing to discount anything, but tiki lounge let's us out of a $7 cover every year($210-$350 just in covers), just so we'll come in and spend $100-$150. you're in the power position, make them beg. one of the bars we went to two years ago, said he'd have paid us $100 just to get his name on the list. that can add up fast.
bub about: you know who you are... i agree.
so, the old lady that was going to sell us her house...then wasn't going to sell us her house...might actually sell us her house. she came back with a counter offer, after we retracted our offer. she wants to split the cost of painting, but we're not sure which of the two numbers she's talking about. we should know more tonight. wish us luck on it being the lower number.
bub about: guiness i hate all of you....i'm going to florence in 100 days, not mad anymore.
bub about: Italian Virgin amatuers...il latini is on the north side of the arno. it's few hundred meters west of via tornabouni. gotta love the interweb.
bub about: Italian Virgin i just bought our plane tickets. i'm so excited i could vomit. nevermind, just did.
bub about: Mante was that an intentional double-negative or not?
bub about: girl advice and yes, if not smoking pot makes me a bore, then i'm a bore. i also have a huge fear of not being in control of myself.
bub about: girl advice abby is more like "giggle about nothing, then sleep".
and derek, relax you pothead.
bub about: Apartments thanks for the offer dave, but if i lived with you, i'd be fired inside of 3 days. i could see it now...three days filled with "drinking rbi" and "halo". our eyes would be stuck open and watering like a siv.
bub about: girl advice hey, i'm a stick in the mud!?!? i just don't like doing things that make me sleepy, and would prefer not to have a pothead as a wife.
bub about: zzzz going in to work early sucks.
bub about: VP Chenney we should move this to the rant board.
bub about: VP Chenney is it 2008 yet? holy crap. it's like we've got laurel and hardy running things. they sure do have a nack for doing dumb stuff.
bub about: Its time... dear aaron,
lick my grundle.
bub about: Its time... dear billing lady in utah,
i hate you. you suck at your job. you can't possibly feed yourself. you've been at your current job for 23 years, using the same software every day, how can you not know how to do things properly.
dear beer, i love you. you complete me. you, me, and pizza are going to have an orgasmic threesome of romance novel proportions. i have won the coin toss and have chosen to receive you both in all your glory. rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the bub, yay god.
bub about: Cathryn 1. it's funny to see someone post on a topic that is their own name.
2. since you live 4light-years away, it's probably still on it's way. ;) or abby's a jerk.
bub about: House does this "Marc's" have another one...i'll take one.
bub about: Cathryn i'm glad abby screwed up...i haven't sent one to any of the guys in the wedding party...and i'm not gonna. i hope we get this house. i will immediately build myself a pong table for the attic. yay for attics and pong. if only cornhole could fit in the house.
bub about: House bachelor/bachelorette parties are the weekend of april 22nd.
bub about: Tops good god. at first, i thought you were talking about the baseball card company...then i remembered it was a grocery store...then i realized, holy crap that's not smart marketing.
bub about: for sale $2,233,332....being a guy helps a lot.
bub about: high school reunion wow....dorks. not an officer of any sort. not going, cuz i don't care. nick goings went to pitt...i'm a fan, tell him i said "P-I!!!". berg, you're gay. it's been a long day.
bub about: its your birthday happy birthday leanne!!!
bub about: zzzzz i'm ready to go back to bed.
bub about: SHH!!! yeah, i watched the steelers/colts game. now THAT was awful officiating. league appology bad.
bub about: SHH!!! i'm coherent because i knew taht i was not allowed to take today off....i sobered up around 10:30 or 11 this morning. i certainly could have blown over the legal limit on the drive in to work today.
rolling stone = worst halftime show ever.
we couldn't figure out which one was aaron neville and which was aretha franklin.
within 5 years, john madden's transformation into harry carey will be complete. slurred speech and drunkeness...he just needs the big glasses.
bub about: SHH!!! i don't have a problem with saying that they should have called that. i didn't see it(i was getting another beer). i'm saying the cries of "homer" are ridiculous. this is completely pointless. we won, eff the world.
bub about: SHH!!! of course i'm going to be seen as biased, it was my team playing. watch one of the 500 replays of the pushoff, hope's feet come off the ground after the push. it was called just the way the rules state. if you are going to argue that "yeah, he broke the rules, but they let people get away with it all the time", that arguement holds zero water with me. i say call it every time. you're gonna let them get a touchdown by cheating, cuz they don't usually call people on it, in the superbowl? that crazy. they missed some calls on the steelers that they should have called, no doubt about it. but if hines ward pushed off on his touchdown, i say call him on it. it give the offense too much of an advantage...we don't let the defense get there "a little early" on pass interference.
bub about: SHH!!! the pushoff by darrel jackson, was a pushoff. he changed chris hope's momentum. not only that, but that push gave jackson more momentum to get back to the ball. it was the correct call. ben's touchdown was a touchdown. there are plenty of calls that could have been made, but weren't. there were a lot of holding calls that should have been called on both teams. the cut block stuff is neither here nor there. not game changing. the fact of the matter is that seattle made mistakes at the wrong time. darrel jackson didn't need to pushoff, that was a huge mistake on his part. the holding penalty that brought back jeramy steven's catch at the two, was a huge mistake by the lineman. those are game changing mistakes. the only had 7 penalties. it's not like they had 12. the cries of "homer" are laughable at best.
bub about: SHH!!! i'm here. :) not sure what to say. last night hasn't sunk in yet.
bub about: drinking i'm just about out of here....ready to happy hour. wish the steelers luck this weekend.
bub about: espn yeah, it's the bills here as well.
and our "hood story" includes a guy getting shot at the 7-11 at the end of my street. awesome!
bub about: check this link out harold, that was awesome! you posted a link in the middle of a conversation about that specific link. awesome!
bub about: Big Ben Hammered actually, standard isn't the word...common is.
bub about: Big Ben Hammered my high school baseball team had a "no sex the night before a game" rule too. it's fairly standard.
bub about: Big Ben Hammered i'm just glad to see that the guy gets wasted every now and again. that makes him a bit like me...except he can throw a football pretty well(and he has a gazillion dollars)
bub about: Big Ben Hammered it was after the indianapolis game, 2.5 weeks ago. i don't think that any of us can say that we haven't hit on a few people that in retrospect should have been chained to a tree outside. those pictures also don't show that he was hitting on them, mearly getting wasted with them. supposedly, ben is dating natalie gulbis, a professional golfer. ms. gulbis
bub about: Homeschooling wes, i think the word you were looking for was "anemic".
bub about: Home Schooling i'm less concerned about the social developement(although that's very important)...i'm more concerned about the religious aspect of it. it's a much higher percentage of religious parents who home school their children, my cousin being one. there seems to be some sort of religious fanaticism that goes along ith home schooling. kinda scary.
bub about: catchup i'm playing a little catchup today. a few things...
1. dave, i hate you for getting tickets to the superbowl...hate. 2. doing an inspection of a house that the owner hasn't agreed to sell you, is nerve wracking. that old hag better agree. 3. finding an air duct covered in asbestos is not one of the more exciting things to find in a potential house. 4. andy, nice outkast reference. 5. the steelers are a little over 80 hours from playing in the superbowl. 6. sleep apena machines rock! and 7. new underwear day is way cooler than new sock day, when the new underwear are the new kind of hanes...go find them. their soft, they have no tag, they are the most comfortable underwear ever. they are like pillows for your nads.
bub about: Seattle talk to you guys tomorrow. i'm out.
bub about: Seattle i think that dillhole cowherd has created a hatred of seattle, for me. i thank him for that. i will now angst myself into a 6 day frenzy that can only be extinguished by a humongous steeler victory. any time i see a water fowl, i will shit in it's general direction. fuck seattle and it's coffee drinking, birkenstock wearing, tree hugging fruit-nip residents.
bub about: Seattle pussies.
bub about: Seattle that's the difference between here and seattle...they have coffee for breakfast, we have iron city.
bub about: question thank you both for making me feel more sane.
bub about: weaver and congrats to the weavers!
bub about: question so, how would you guys determine what is a "sports town/city"? would it be based on attendance total? would it be based on attendance per capita? i would think it would be based on attendance per capita. here's why i ask.
i was listening to colin cowherd today on espnradio on sirius. he said that he's tired of hearing how pittsburgh is a "sports town", he disagreed...he also said that seattle is a bigger sports town than pittsburgh, by far! i'm a dork and decided to do the math(it's what i love). based on the attendance of each team(baseball, football, basketball/hockey, college football, and college basketball....all cowherd's requirements) and the number of people that those teams have as possible fans(population of the city, ignoring outlying areas, because then numbers get fuzzy) pittsburgh beats seattle in every instance. it calmed me down once i realized i was right, but i've been fighting the urge to write him to prove him wrong(i don't want to be the whiney guy from pittsburgh that did the math). his comments weren't just wrong, he got insulting...throwing in pittsburgh's mullet ratio, the fact that wwf fills the arena, that high school football is bigger here(saying that instead of 17-18 year olds, we have 26-27 year olds...cuz we're stupid, haha, got it). his smug west coast bullshit made me want to ring his effing neck...but my "book learnin" has proven me right. eff you colin cowherd!!
sorry, i'm done.
bub about: Abby it's a good thing abby jumped off the couch and ran down the hall, before i could get my fat ass off the couch. i would have had to call toner to tell him not to call me cuz i'll be busy pounding cars(i mean neighbors) all weekend.
bub about: poisoned apparently i'm in danger of dying too. i ate some left over buffalo chicken dip at lunch. i didn't know it was two weeks old. it was refridgerated, though, so i thought it was fine.
bub about: berg for a day $10 says that she thinks "he's a straight guy" and boy would she be wrong.
love ya ;)
bub about: berg for a day you're right andy, looking at boobs can be traumatizing, unless you're straight, then it's fine.
bub about: Poll andy and i might get arrested...for sexsomnia. i'm a sleep-humper. i also talk in my sleep, those would be some fairly weird tapes. abby has woken up to me asking her "can i make you?" "no" "do you want to make me? just grab under my rib and pull up, then our the plastic in." yeah, i'm creepy.
bub about: Poll i have two types of dreams. one where i get into a fight and the other where i score a bunch of goals/touchdowns/runs/etc in sporting events. the fight dreams suck because i can never hit anyone. my punches always seem to go in slow motion and the people get out of the way.
bub about: The King askance? you are banned for 2 hours for using a word that i've never heard of.
the pauling's pictures are up on the ftp site in a zip file. sorry berg, they've been resized, you'll have to ask alicia for the originals if you want them
bub about: Skiing i'm busy on the weekend of the 3rd-5th.
bub about: The King i would think that a half-time spot would be more than $5million.
bub about: Coco i would be bittersweet about clement going to cincy. i used to play against him in high school(summer league), so i'd love to have him come to town...but i don't want the buccos to have to face him.
bub about: scared is no one else confused by harold's post?
bub about: ha! thank you. hell, if it was week 5 and the steelers were playing san diego, go ahead, wear elway's jersey, but don't be a friggin idiot and wear it the friday before we play them in the afc championship. that kid is lucky he didn't get his ass kicked and thrown down a couple flights of stairs.
bub about: here we go... i'm still alive. my sickness was probably activated by the budlight, but not the direct cause. i was not hungover yesterday, just bad stomach cramps/puke-feeling. i never get that when i'm hungover. anyways...
here we go steelers, here we go!! the #6 seed in the AFC is favored by 4 over the #1 seed in the NFC. wow!
bub about: Music friday, if that's cool by you?
bub about: human nature that would be a great conversation on the rant board.
bub about: Woo-hoo!!! oh, its something to see, right now. gonna be a lot of work, but will be totally worth it.
bub about: The King HOLY COW!!!! that's terrible!!
bub about: The King a couple of years ago, i got wasted(more wasted than i've ever been...blackout wasted). i was staying at abby and derek's place, i woke up in the middle of the night cuz i had to pee. i got up, went to the bathroom and peed. i came back and realized that my boxer briefs were not dry. i said to abby, "wow, i must have sweated really bad in my sleep", she replied, "no, you peed my bed". i grabbed a towel, put it on my side of the bed, said "sorry" and passed back out. to abby's credit, she never held it against me. if anyone is interested, here's my 4 step plan to "land a lady".
1. find a hot chick. 2. go out with her and point out all of the girls you've hooked up with at that bar. 3. get bombed and pee her bed 4. propose
works like charm guys.
bub about: The King a towel. a big green towel. it was one of my prouder moments.
bub about: The King ouch. i do know. although, at the time, it wasn't my bed.
bub about: St. Patty i vote c'bus.
bub about: SHHHH!!!! the earliest that the house buying process could end for us.
bub about: SHHHH!!!! and wes, i promise we can have sandos with fries for family dinner.
bub about: SHHHH!!!! i've got a new request for aaron. stop working on the transporter and start working on the fast forward button. i need it to be a month and a half from now.
bub about: SHHHH!!!! if my decision includes you, leanne, toner, sweet jay, and harold moving to pittsburgh, is it still valid?
bub about: SHHHH!!!! seriously, quiet day. hey, abby and i will be making an offer on a house either tonight or tomorrow....so there's that.
bub about: Paint i'm all over it. i've been working on my cleavage since sunday. anyone else coming down to help us out?
bub about: hockey wes, did you see the highlights of olveshkin's goal last night? holy crap!!! go find it, it's worth watching.
bub about: footballs Dmac - i too, feel a little like poop. thank goodness for coming in to work 1.5hours late. :)
bub about: toothpicks i'm here. just basking in the glory of our sweet-ass victory last yesterday.
bub about: 14hundred 92, Corumbus saired the ocean brue. sorry, i don't read so good. the guy who actually made the map was Zheng He. so it would be He, Ohio.
bub about: html i can't wait till 5....i'm gonna tie one on tonight.
bub about: html instead of P, use BR
bub about: anger management andy, it sounds like you need a bristley, man-on-man, smashy-face session. thewsy, get him.
bub about: hockey large, pick any six people from this site and put them on the ice(with or without skates) and they could beat the pens. 6-1 hurt though.
i'm betting the arena stuff falls through(i could be jaded though).
bub about: poop i'm a pirate. i prefer buccaneer. let's go buccos!
bub about: site update i've gotten lazy. i haven't posted the pics that the paulings sent me, i haven't posted the links that beki sent me....i'll get to them this week. i'll get them up, i promise.
bub about: music crap....berg, i accidently deleted your post. post it again. my bad...i pickled my brain this weekend. i was going to reply to it, saying "abby and i got up at 5:45 to hear the first words, when i get a text from berg". boy would i have been pissed i was sleeping. sorely disappointed in the "first words"....they were "thank you george takei"....booo.
bub about: Bdays if they try an on-side kick again, i will personally punch bill cowher in the taint.
bub about: monday sucks - obviously that was the plan. what made it better was to take a former bengal(kimo von olhoffen) and a super classy one at that, and have HIM take out palmer.
bub about: NEws?? somebody has some mommy issues.
bub about: pictures yes, i did. sorry. i'll put them up sometime this weekend. depending on my level of excitement or depression on sunday.
bub about: ted leo i've got stephen lynch's cd with that song, at home. i could possibly get it at lunch....if i feel like it.
bub about: MUSIC abby and i wouldn't mind an original rodebaugh as a wedding present...if you get bored.
bub about: bills ah. alex van pelt. former pitt standout.
bub about: bills wes, you got some good news...bills got rid of donahoe...but kept mularkey.
bub about: Loneliness... maybe it works like the board game "cranium"...the person who's birthday is next, gets to pick...
bub about: Loneliness... ah ha. i'm gonna get back to work now...
bub about: Loneliness... "i wish i knew how to quit you"....apparently someone needs to give me some background on that one. must have been one of the things i missed on my 4 year hiatus.
bub about: Loneliness... um....what the hell?! did you guys eat brownies for lunch or something?
bub about: downtown the "meow" part is what got me. oh boy.
bub about: music snob nice rant wes. very thorough.
bub about: downtown maybe killer burrito feels that if they move, they will be busy on weeknights and weekend days....say if it moves to a crocker park or legacy village. boy wouldn't that chap your ass even more.
bub about: rants i don't remember...i'll find out. ha.
bub about: coming soon once i get a chance to breathe, i'll post a couple of "time suck" links from beki. might be tomorrow morning.
bub about: musac hey alicia, can you resize the pics before you send them to me, pretty please? i have to jump through hoops to do it, long story. they just need to be 5inches wide by 3.5inches tall...unless they are verticle shots, then flip the measurements.
bub about: Whore haha. i forgot that i told van norman that i hated him. well, that i used to hate him, until i hung out with him for about an hour without knowing who he was. he had to have had a great night all around...girlfriend being called a whore, being told you that you were hated. berg, good job fixing that, what did you use, finishing brads. i use lots of commas.
bub about: hairy bergs new years bonanza my other favorite moment was when jeff fell off the back porch. what a good story. had his head bust open like a canteloup, it would not have been so funny.
bub about: hairy bergs new years bonanza we had so much fun randomly saying "she's a WHORE!" sunday and monday. good stuff thewsy. i loved the uncomfortable silence afterwards....followed by "well, she did try to take my shirt off, but i said 'hey lady, this is a nice shirt, hands off'"
bub about: fantasy football congrats to DMac and his 7 point victory over berg. the first "bubdotcom fantasy football champion".
everyone who played can either send me a check for $10 or one to dave. email me for addresses.
bub about: Its like a dream.... i hate all of you that get to leave early. bastards
bub about: Question have any of you pooped so big that it made your ears ring. i just did. weird.
bub about: How there is a butcher in the strip district. i forget what it's called, but they do not have prosciuto coto, i looked. bastards.
bub about: music i'm open to a new copy of ATLiens. noelle colored in the nekkid lady with black permanent mark, then threw it out when i used nail polish remover to get the marker off.
bub about: aaaaaaah. this is excruciating. time is going so slowly.
bub about: music i'm posting jack johnson - september sessions at the moment. sorry i jusmped line, but i'm allowed.
bub about: Hell...in....a...handbasket i love this quote about "speed stacking".
"I have tried every sport known to man and this is the only one I LOVE!" Max, age 12
really max, EVERY sport known to man?! he is one impressive 12-year-old.
bub about: Duncan well, i'll be damned if portsmouth isn't a thomas kincade painting. can't wait to come visit sometime.
bub about: march madness we could use the same one that we used a year or so ago.
bub about: DADDY YANKEE i agree wes, very difficult to listen to the whole album. the bad thing is that it has to have a "dem bow beat" to be considered reggaeton, so they start to sound a like after 20 songs in a row. it's hard to be in a bad mood while listening to that though.
bub about: BEER nice, dave. except the candy mountain one. i owe you one beatdown. big dumb animal ale...i like it.
bub about: BEER it was farley and sandler, wasn't it?
bub about: BEER moving away from the bub names and moving more towards group associations. monkey bite pilsner. agro-lager. mega beer. heBREW light.
bub about: BEER chubba bubba.
bub about: love it! lightning bub
bub about: BEER rub-a-dub-bub...
bub about: BEER can't wait to see most of you a-holes this weekend. i'm ready for some beer.
bub about: BEER what about "aaron rodebaugh likes gay sex"?
bub about: BEER that's what i'd like to do, it's just hard to get it to NOT sound like BUD.
bub about: BEER we don't get our water from the yough.
i just wanted to use "bub's beer", but there is already a "bub's beer"....well....was a bub's beer...in minnesota.
bub about: BEER "bubbalicious.....grab a pocket full a bub"
bub about: BEER i've gone through all of the "bubweiser", "bub light", etc.
bub about: BEER bubbly beer....might as well be "big gay beer"...work harder aaron.
bublican beer. for the fiscal conservative and social liberal.
bub about: BEER oh, i do need some name ideas...i'm not so good at that.
bub about: BEER at the moment, it has no label. and it's in 3 different kinds of bottles. miller lite, yuengling, and sam adams. abby is supposed to get on the labels. slacker.
bub about: BEER it's getting there. the first batch(american amber lager) is just about done carbonating(well, one fo the two cases is, the other is in the fridge...i'm an idiot). i am bottling a batch of belgian wheat beer tonight, right after work. the amber lager should be ready to drink for new years. the wheat beer won't be ready for 2 weeks or so.
bub about: music leanne is right, it's a mix of french and another language. the other language is "bambara". it's a west african language of some sort.
bub about: zzzz uh oh, is today the first day home alone?
bub about: zzzz wow, andy IS alive. haven't seen much of you lately.
bub about: only in cleveland so, this weekend. is anyone down for going to a hookah bar to smoke hookahs and see bellydancers? in cleveland, obviously...
bub about: only in cleveland it was a conversation from last night. we were figuring out which was the best deal, $1 12oz. or $2 20oz. dave's cell phone calculator was way wrong. it was funny. you missed it.
bub about: only in cleveland dave, you're right...as usual. it was 4 days ago.
$.08333 x 12oz. =$1609.00....wait a minute!
bub about: only in cleveland one more thing...did anyone else see the hit that james farrior put on one of the browns tight ends on the last play of the game. i think that guy is still down on the field. ouch.
bub about: only in cleveland and the browns may want to think about having a security guy, or two, on the sidelines.
bub about: only in cleveland the steeler that did the slamming was former kent state golden flash, james harrison. booyah!
bub about: musac oh, and i put it up in MP3 format for you, abby.
bub about: musac i took down the christmas music, since christmas is over and all. i'm putting up one of the cd's i got for christmas. it's a guy called "daddy yankee"(gay name, i know) and it's a kind of music called "reggaeton". i enjoy it, figured i'd share. chances are, most of you will hate it. Reggaeton, as defined by wikipedia.
bub about: FF Money oh, and i won my work league. too bad it's not worth any money. sonuva....
bub about: FF Money no one has given me their money yet, so no, i won't be bringing it. you'll get it sooner or later.
bub about: favorite i'm pretty sure we're one triple-dog-dare away from quoting the whole movie.
bub about: hairy bergs new years bonanza berg, abby and i will be there around 8 on friday. possibly 7:30...i'm gonna keep you guessing.
bub about: alone i'm here. woo hoo. stupid week between christmas and new years.
i'm geeked about berg's this weekend.
bub about: poor tony dungy his 18-year-old son was found dead in his apartment this morning. apparently it was a suicide. Sad.
bub about: one more thing coffee is gross anyway. it makes me hafta poop, within minutes.
bub about: penguins looks like the pens might be staying in pittsburgh after all. Penguins arena deal
bub about: site update ok, since those dillhole casino spammers won't knock it off...i made it so deleting posts is a bit easier. you can now delete your posts by clicking on the little "delete post" link next to the date and time of the post. now if you double post, you can delete one of them. i'll now be able to delete the spam much easier.
