The Best-Laid Plans

I got Texas Tech (Mrs RML’s alma matter) v. Northwestern on the Outback Bowl. Yay, Subaru!

I know why the caged light shines.

/off to stretch and work out. May hit “Black Sawn” later.

Florence reminds me of 1985. ??

lol

Tequila in the middle of the day.

This hockey thing is ridiculous – a hockey rink in the middle of a huge football field. How the fuck can you see ANYTHING?

@redmanlaw: I thought it was Outback like the chain restaurant, not the official lesbian/Boulder vehicle.

NOTE: Mississippi State just depantsed Michigan in Gator Bowl. This is relevant here because Miss St 52:14 Mich might be a firing offense for Rich Rodriguez. Which may set the gears in motion for Harbaugh getting bought away from Tree. Not happy about it, but play it as it lies.

@blogenfreude: This is quite true. When it was in Wrigley, the lower deck seats were $75. The upper deck seats were either $225 or $325. Fact.

@SanFranLefty: The official car of DodgerBlue. I just watched Florida beat Penn State and its 1,000 year old coach on 5 interceptions. I’m going to a music / eating / schmoozefest at a friend’s later and will miss most of the Cheesehead Bowl.

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: I think there’s an Annie Lennox vibe to Florence. (Except that Ms. Welch actually has eaten something in the past few months.) I can’t quite put my finger on it otherwise.

Big run for Wisconsin back Montee Ball. (Yes. That’s his real name.) Welcome to your beating, TCU.

UPDATE: Not exactly a beating yet by Wisconsin. In fact, the Badgers are losing. WIS 10:14 TCU. Well if that don’t beat all.

@chicago bureau: The 49ers are flailing about and looking for a new coach. I’d be more concerned about Jed York trying to entice Harbaugh to drive the 30 miles up 101 from Shallow Alto to Candlestick.

@SanFranLefty: Any scandals in Seattle yet? Pete Carrol is a guy who knows how to leave town before his own shit hits the fan.

Oh, so did you guys see this video, Man in a Blizzard? There’s something special about it, but I’m not sure what. Maybe it’s sweet.

Yeah. I’m kinda stuck on YouTube right now. Blame Mashable.

Maru has competition.

Oh! A Mad Men theme song mashup!

Almost done…How to Be Alone.

@JNOV: Hey I owe you big for the Chemical people yesterday, so I dug up one of my faves to share: Deltron 3030. I like Virus and Positive Contact the best.

@SanFranLefty: He won’t go to the Niners. Jim Harbaugh actually, you know, pays attention to football. He knows the Yorks are bad news. He’s more likely to go to Carolina, or even HOWBOUTDEMCOWBOYS (mainly because Jerry Jones has megabucks and isn’t afraid to spend ’em).

Oh, this is interesting: Pitt head coach (we speak of college football now) was arrested for felony domestic battery on New Year’s Eve. Normally, this would be followed by cautious, “innocent until proven guilty” statement by Powers That Be and a quiet ignorance of the foul. Nope — per ESPN news crawl, it’s a straight red card for Mike Haywood. His services will no longer be required.

Hey, Domers — pay attention. That is how you do it. Big props to Pitt.

@¡Andrew!: Okay. Fucking AWESOME! You know Tricky? Promise me you’ll dance with me one day?

ADD: That’s Ed Kowalczyk in the video — formerly of Live, formerly of York, PA. That was one shitty band.

@chicago bureau: WE ARE…PENN STATE! Fuck Pitt!

@¡Andrew!: Then there’s Hooverphonic. They were more trip-hop at one point, but this is them covering Depeche Mode.

@JNOV: Not even close!

MOAR!

Tickle kitty!

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: Heh.

OK, back to Sport: WIS 19:21 TCU, deep, deep 4th quarter. They just about have a bow on this one. Hell of a win for them if this holds up.

@chicago bureau: That dude from TCU who blocked the 2 point conversion throw is HAWT.

@SanFranLefty: My Gawd, almost all of those TCU players are hawt.

@SanFranLefty: Pictures, please, as the spawn of the devil have been watching Dr. Who for more than a week, and they won’t share the TV with me.

Gary Shandling/Jo(h)n Stewart on IFC: we put the Loser in Libral.

Fucktards.

@chicago bureau: The Big 10 is not doing so well in the bowl games.

@JNOV: The photos on the tubez don’t do him justice. He has a beautiful olive complexion and green eyes. His name is Tank Carder if you want to look him up.

@SanFranLefty: Ah. So many thanks! Green eyes…mmmmm…

@SanFranLefty: They never let football players smile in photos. It’s a shame.

@Benedick is chillax to the max: Honey, those guys give you agita, and it’s not worth it. Set them to ignore.

@SanFranLefty: This isn’t bad. Nice mouth…

@¡Andrew!: Oh, also check out Sasha and John Digweed (mostly trance). I’ve convinced the kids to watch a documentary with me (maternal guilt works). See y’all in a few.

@JNOV: Blech. He looks like my ex-husband.

After 1, its PIT 0:0 WSH. Shots on goal are PIT 16:12 WSH. There’s been a lot of hitting and a fight, lots of end-to-end skating, and some wonderful offensive chances both ways. A gripping game if you like hockey. And a game that may make you like hockey if you don’t already.

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: Oh. Bad juju!

Speaking of the best-laid plans, I thought Between the Folds would inspire Firecracker, who has been kicking origami ass these past few days (and hates math, plus it has a brief interview with my boyfriend, Erik Demaine), well, I thought it would show Firecracker that she does enjoy math. I’ve now been accused of making her feel like shit cuz she’s a novice. But I’m like, this is what you could do — just unfold the paper and see the patterns. She’s made some amazing stuff these past three days. I think she’s joking, but um, damn, kids are hard to please.

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: ZOMG! That’s one stupid cat! Love it!

And its a final, in the slush: PIT 1:3 WSH. Eric Fehr with two goals. I didn’t know who he was before tonight, but that’s hockey — more so than in other versions of Sport, the non-stars sometimes come to the fore spectacularly.

@JNOV: Akshully, you led me to it.

*****
The internet is a wonderful place.

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut:

To paraphrase Stan from the South Park movie: Dude, what the fuck is wrong with Japanese people?

Granted it’s not nearly as bad as some (there are no eels and/or feces, for a start) – but still: the only reason I can think for somebody to put this on Youtube is that they’re *expecting* people to fap to it.

I’m glad I read this in the event I ever eat Dragon fruit. Otherwise I might be frightened.

@al2o3cr: Too much exposure to stuff like this?

@JNOV: The selection process for Japanese astronauts includes the making of a thousand origami cranes. The cranes are evaluated to determine the maker’s response to stress (i.e., are they sloppy or well done?). Mary Roach, “Packing for Mars” at 25-27 (2010).

@redmanlaw: Oh! Did you read that book? Maybe I could send these kids packing for Mars. Like today.

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: DERP. I totally did not see the connection. I blame booze.

ADD: The Trololo kitty is actually pretty good at giving dirty looks at its human. I take back my stupid kitty remark.

Favre is not playing today and so his NFL career is really finally over. Really. I get a sense of satisfaction knowing that his last play in the NFL was being driven to the frozen turf by a Chicago Bear.

The NFL” investigation” of penis-gate is over, fining him $50,000 for not cooperating. On his current contract, that translates to about 12 minutes of field time. I’m looking for a civil suit from Sterger to keep us entertained.

Seems a good time to reprise the Taiwanese animation of the Favre story.

For my New Year’s resolution I resolve to make Taiwan animations my only source for news in 2011.

@redmanlaw:
As I recall from the movie “The Right Stuff” , our selection process involved having the astronauts walk down a long hall with an enema in their ass.