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So inventive,so suicidal.

An Interlude

I love college basketball. My favorite spectator sport. So I get to hear a lot of announcers and honestly, most are cretinous morons. Just call the game!
There are 2 cardinal sins,in my opinion, that an announcer can commit.
1) Espousing a theory and then twisting the events to fit the theory. e.g. "Enormous State U. has gotten away from what got them the lead,Dan. They were going down in the paint to Killer but haven't the last 5 possessions" And every possession for the rest of the game that ESU doesn't go to Killer, the announcer chimes in about it. Of course the reason they aren't going to Killer is that the opponent has decided to focus their defense on stopping Killer, but do we hear about this? Not as long as the announcer can throw in references to "as I said earlier" and otherwise enhance his halo of prophecy. Brent Musberger may be the worst in the world about this, but there is certainly no shortage of aspirants to his crown.
2) The announcer as event. Nobody cares. The significant event of the day is the game. Not the fact that you are calling the game. Dick Vitale has forgotten more about college basketball then the rest of us combined will ever know, but it's impossible ( for me at least) to get past the shtick of him being Dicky V.
The best announcers tell you what is going on, tell you things you didn't know, and make you excited about the game. Gus Johnson,Len Berman, Doris Burke, Eagle and Spanarkle, all leave me more knowledgeable then I was before the game began. Sadly they are in the minority to the chest thumpers, the coach-lovers, and the "Look how brilliant I am" self aggrandizing cookie cutter announcers. Of course, that's just my opinion :)

And the entries continue to FLOOD in!

And this lovely lady comes to us from Linx. Thanks!

An Actual contest entry ! Feel the Excitement!

Thanks to JungleGringo for this lovely entry, tapping a common thread that I suspect we all feel for Bill and the rest of the boys and girls up in Redmond.

Contest Redux

This was my second choice....but full enjoyment depends on familiarity with the quote...well, that and a sense of irony.

And the Contest begins...

Contest open to all, but only Grotto inhabitants will win the fabulous grand prize.

YABBA (Yet Another Bummed Bunny Acting)

Multiple Idjit's Sighted

Why do so many stupid ppl show up in my world? The ppl installing the tile show up today and while having a go at it, they manage to blow a fuse. What they were doing with sufficient power tools to blow a fuse I dont know but they managed it.
So instead of looking at the up to date and dark readable copy of the labels I put in last year which is after all inconveniently placed ON THE FUCKING FUSE BOX DOOR
They hit and miss pull every one of them killing my puter's dl's and ul's
Then,being unable to get the particular outlet rescusitated, they call a electrician who arrives 30 odd minutes ago and after hearing me recite this nods sympathetically at the tale , proceeds without warning to pull the power killing me again. I yelled something quite profane; quite loudly and headed out to the garage where he had the nerve to say oops. Ladies and Gentlemen....for your viewing pleasure...Trained Professionals!

More of the Bunnies

So smart but yet so suicidal...

A non-blithering non-idiot

Just when one feels nigh onto despair at the vapidity and bovinelike stare of today's teens,along comes: http://snarkascending.livejournal.com/ Miss McEldowney, daughter of cartoonist/musician/deity Brooke McEldowney, fans the guttering flame that was my faith in her generation's ability to support me in my soon approaching dotage. Tremble in fear, oh bureaucrats of Aarkvard University.

Little Bunny Suicides ...again

Yep,nothing quite says fun like a smart bunny who's ready to end it all...

I need a fix,man!

I'm seriously jonesing for some new Honorverse reading. For the uninitiated, the honorverse refers to the universe created by author David Weber, where Honor Harrington, heroine extraordinaire, stalks the galaxy. At least,(finally) there are some new dates out for possible releases. over at the fandom site all HH-ers love http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/writingschedule.php


wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Little Bunny Suicides

Because sometimes,It's just too hard to be a bunny.

Underbid Again

As promised a hand, This came up in an OK-Bridge Tourney, playing with a fine pard with whom I don't have a lot of agreements. I pick up (Imp Pairs format; Opps Vul,We're not)

S AKQ7652
H
D AJ4
C Q65

And the dealer, on my left opens 2H, passed around to me. Now I can make the practical bid of 4S, or I can try some esoteric strength showing parlay of double/cuebid/4S or I can trot out 3S, which over an opp's preempt is a strong jump overcall. Of course, due to not having had any discussions with partner, I don't know if partner is on the same wavelength as me on that, one assumes that a good player would but many a slam has been played in 3 when someone assumed their partner was interpreting correctly.
I immediately rule out any sequence that starts with double, since hearing pard pass for penalty at light speed isn't on my agenda for this hand, and eventually decide on the practical 4S bid. Which buys the contract, and when the opening lead of the Diamond 7 hits the table (squealing "I'm a stiff" loud enough to be heard 2 rooms away) dummy hits with :

S 43
H QJT4
D KQT983
C K (my hand repeated for convenience)



S AKQ7652
H
D AJ4
C Q65

Trumps behave and I claim 7 about 2 milliseconds after I've pulled their's. It takes a 4-0 trump break to hold it to less then 12 tricks and that wasn't happening today. The question is ; Is 6 biddable by any means other then someone shrugging and guessing? I think some pair's , armed with actual understandings should be able to. I suppose that over 3S setting S's in stone as trumps, a D bid by pard followed by the crucial club control bid might do it...something like


2H P P 3S
p 4D P 4H
X 5C P 6S or maybe 5H trying for 7 if pard's club control is the Ace?

This seems like an awful lot of cooperative bidding from pard on his actual hand. Meanwhile back in the real world my "practical bid" of 4S making 7 netted a practical score of -1.77 imps.
66 scores with 16 pairs reaching a slam,7 in D's and 9 in S's. And so it goes.

Another Day older...

Another scorcher of a day. 92F(that's 34C to the rest of the world) and about 70% humidity,which is still 8 degrees better then the 2 previous days. A fine day to sit inside,soaking up iced tea and reading. Which I've done quite a bit of, the last 3 days, both online and with some new dead trees (That's pretentious e-bookie slang for real books). As always I've visited my daily sites, I read the New York Times and the local Courier-Journal for my fix of U.S. news, The Guardian, The Independent,and The Scotsman from the UK, The Sidney Morning Herald from down under and at least one of the big Canadian dailies. Then it's off to Scott Adams'es superb blog as well as checking on the daily goody at woot.com. I follow that with the days humor, It takes 3 web sites to get all of my morning comics. Comics.com,Gocomics.com, and the Houston Chronicle's Chron.com.
It's a little thing that I and probably most of you now take for granted, zipping about to get what I want in a comics page. I suspect people have been complaining to their local paper since a week after the very first comic appeared, asking "Why don't you add so and so", or "drop so and so". Now...who cares what my local paper chooses to run or not run, I choose my comics and they are in a readable size.Silly? Probably, but any editor at any major paper will tell you, Nothing makes the irate letters hit the fan like a change in a dailies comics.
After that, It's off to The Big Lead, a sports blog with 2 smart guys running through their picks of the best and worst in sports,sports media, and bouncy bikini-ed babes. ESPN.com's Page 2 always rates a visit sometimes during the day as does a trip to SI.com to pick through their columnists. I try not to miss Frank Deford and Doctor Z.
Later I'll slide thru Baen.com to check out the publishing schedule and read the David Weber related postings at the Bar. And finally a swing through several bridge sites. Gotta keep the professional mind set,don't you know.
After that rigorous workout at the keyboard,I'll read something new, either an e-book or a real book, work on some boards for any upcoming lessons, and set my news reader to grab anything newly posted on Usenet. A downloaders task is never done. Back later with some specifics of what i've been reading and some bridge hands of interest.