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Post by innit Geezer on Feb 16, 2010 8:58:59 GMT -6
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 16, 2010 10:02:21 GMT -6
Hey, watch what you say about her, she's one of my heroes. In fact we've used her as inspiration for our version of Full Contact Curling (a "Tonya" consists of hitting your opponents in the back of their knee while they are sweeping the stone, painful and they will think twice about sweeping the stone again)
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 16, 2010 12:50:17 GMT -6
I was searching the web, looking to see who was doing curling stats this time around in the Olympics, and when I googled "curling statistician" the third or fourth article down was about me and my stats partner from Salt Lake. The interesting part is that I dont remember the interview, and while I do remember going to the Olympic Medal Plaza, but not with the person who worte the article. I wonder if I was ruffeed? Link |
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Post by innit Geezer on Feb 22, 2010 13:19:34 GMT -6
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 22, 2010 13:45:46 GMT -6
The only insensitivity here is to good fashion sense
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Post by innit Geezer on Feb 22, 2010 13:51:44 GMT -6
I thought they were scarecrows, horny ones.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 22, 2010 14:04:05 GMT -6
I dont know about the crows, but they certainly scared me
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Post by innit Geezer on Feb 22, 2010 14:16:28 GMT -6
As I learned to skate, you could say I looked like a spastic Aborigine, thank god they didn't see me, who needs the headache.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 22, 2010 14:33:03 GMT -6
I am sure that the starlings appreciated it however
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Post by Merlot Joe on Feb 23, 2010 20:34:31 GMT -6
I thought they were scarecrows, horny ones. Hey, I'd share a corn field with her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D Joe |
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Post by Merlot Joe on Mar 1, 2010 0:47:55 GMT -6
I am glad the Olympics are over. NBC did a real shitty job with the coverage. Denice and I both like to watch the Ice Skating and Ice Dancing, but unless you stayed up until mid-night you got to see maybe 2 or 3 of the bottom line skaters there.
Did learn a lot about cross country skiing. Today we watch the 50K race and couldn't believe that those guys skied for over 2 hour straight.
Also I didn't see any prime time coverage on Curling. I kind of like to watch boccie ball on ice.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Alpine events had some fair coverage.
If I don't see Bob Costas, Al Michaels and the rest of that group for some time it won't hurt my feelings any.
Joe
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Post by Jo as guest on Mar 1, 2010 6:05:27 GMT -6
Also I didn't see any prime time coverage on Curling. Joe That's because you weren't watching the Canadian coverage! ;D We do love our curling up here in the far north. Oh, and hockey too, we kinda like that one.......I think we may have done OK in hockey yesterday. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Jo |
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Post by Tex on Mar 1, 2010 7:57:23 GMT -6
I knew this would bring the Canadians out. Canada did a fine job of hosting the Olympics and cleaned house in the medals department also.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Mar 1, 2010 9:51:39 GMT -6
Canada did a fine job of hosting the Olympics ... Except for killing that luge guy from Georgia in the beginning. |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Mar 1, 2010 14:41:32 GMT -6
Never ever stop watching the Olympics until its all over... who would ever have figured that Chile would beat the strong showing by the Haitians... damn, an 8.8 on the second to last day locked up the Gold for them, relegating Haiti's 7.0 to a Silver Medal
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Mar 1, 2010 14:42:54 GMT -6
Also I didn't see any prime time coverage on Curling. Joe It was mostly on USA and MSNBC |
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Post by Tex on Mar 1, 2010 15:00:58 GMT -6
Canada did a fine job of hosting the Olympics ... Except for killing that luge guy from Georgia in the beginning. I figure that a professional athlete at the Olympic level should be able to evaluate the venue and judge for himself. JMHO. |
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Mar 1, 2010 15:41:12 GMT -6
I figure that whoever is constructing or inspecting Olympic level tracks is professional enough to be able to evaluate it for safety.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Mar 1, 2010 22:24:30 GMT -6
Also I didn't see any prime time coverage on Curling. Joe It was mostly on USA and MSNBC ' When at 3 in the morning? |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Mar 2, 2010 6:56:11 GMT -6
Most of it was live at Noon and 5pm Eastern Time, the late games would have been live at 10pm eastern time. Since NBC, in their "wisdom", tape delayed everything on the west coast to match the east coast viewing time, those would have been the broadcast times at your end of the country.
I have no clue why NBC tape delayed for the west coast, absolute idiocy if you ask me, but that was the corporate decision.
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Post by Bluejay not logged on Mar 2, 2010 10:06:53 GMT -6
Long time, no post! Here is what *every* living room looked like last Sunday, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, north of the 49th:
And what *every* bar looked like:
It's really impossible to explain what was going on up here last Sunday unless you were here to experience it. Based on the numbers from the networks (who really knows how accurate they are, but anyways...) fully 80% of Canadians watched the game. In US terms, that would be 247 million people. That's 2.3 times the highest rated Super Bowl (NO vs Indy). Imagine what Boston was like when they won the World Series, but multipled across the entire country.
What a crazy country!
bluejay
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Post by bluejaynotlogged on Mar 2, 2010 11:07:20 GMT -6
By the way, I should add that I thought lots of the NBC coverage (in the eastern time zone, anyways) was pretty good. For one, a lot of the Canadian commentators grated somewhat, while the NBC commentators were a lot more polished. We watched all the figure skating on NBC, for example.
In the past, NBC has been criticized for focusing too much on US athletes, to the exclusion of others. This time around, I thought they did a much better job. The Canadian networks, by contrast, seemed "All Canada, all the time, wahooo!" to the extent it was a little embarassing.
Anyway, my two cents worth (1.8 cents US).
bluejay
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Post by Tex on Mar 4, 2010 13:49:40 GMT -6
In an attempt to answer the original question (and avoiding the discussion about the purpose of a vacation and the availability/cost/security of H2's WiFi):
The safe is made by Elsafe and the product description is here.
In summary, from that Elsafe product spec for the Xtra product line:
the door opening: 5.5" by 11 5/8" or 140x295 mm.
inside dimensions: 7 3/8 by 13 3/4 inches or 188x351mm
The depth is either 14 inches (356mm) or 17 (actually 16 15/16) inches (430mm). I seem to recall the depth as 14 inches, but I could be wrong.
Chuck
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Post by innit Geezer on Mar 5, 2010 15:56:07 GMT -6
The snow storm from the other day(s). She struck a podium stance for the photo op but for which event I don't know.  |
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Mar 5, 2010 16:11:28 GMT -6
Inverted Piledriving, perhaps?
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Post by innit Geezer on Mar 20, 2010 19:30:19 GMT -6
The defrosted version!  |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Mar 21, 2010 6:40:57 GMT -6
Looks like its time for spring training
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Mar 21, 2010 16:05:23 GMT -6
I can't wait to see what she looks like in the updated version this summer! YUMMY - YUM - YUM - YUM!
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