Junk Drawer -- August 15, 2008
by prezofdeath on Aug 15, 2008 12:03 AM PDT
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PrintAnother day, another drawer. So what's everyone been up to this summer? Anyone do any fun, out-of-the-ordinary stuff?
We went and hung out with some friends up near Seattle yesterday...dang Washington has a lot of trees! I know why they call it the evergreen state...at least up near Seattle anyway. Eastern and southern Wash. are a complete desert.....
Anyway, Channing has another post over at his blog...he seems pretty cool. He's really growing on me...I hope he stays around for a while.
And now, a day in the life of a celebrity, Mister TominHawaii
5:00 AM = everything from 5:00-5:59AM. 7:00 AM = everything from 7:00-7:59 AM. So on and so forth.
You think the Olympians have a tough training schedule, just look at that mad blogging yesterday. . Sign this guy to a max contract ASAP...before he goes to Europe.
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Oh yeah, last thing. This is where all your randomness for the day goes.
And wait, one more last thing. MiledAnimal popped this in the fanshots (you know, those things wayyyy down on the right hand side below fanposts)...an article about the Blazers winning the PRISM award. Interesting read.
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Nice graph
Disorder
Ive been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand,
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?
These sensations barely interest me for another day,
Ive got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away.
WORD UP. STAY. FRESCO.
Tom is sexist against 11am
Man I love tongue tacos - Mortimer
Only thing better is Trout on a stick roasted over an open fire - annthefan
I have a pic like that of my dog - tominhawaii
by Outlaw is Rejector on Aug 15, 2008 3:01 AM PDT reply actions
I take offense to that!
Leaders build cultures that create self-esteem, generate and sustain trust, elevate the dignity of work , create community and foster open communication, and finally encourage growth and learning.
-Warren Bennis USC Professor
That was a very hard winter,
and it was just like one long night,
with me lying awake, waiting and waiting and waiting
for daybreak.
- Black Elk
1881
As you should.
Shame on you Tom.
Man I love tongue tacos - Mortimer
Only thing better is Trout on a stick roasted over an open fire - annthefan
I have a pic like that of my dog - tominhawaii
by Outlaw is Rejector on Aug 15, 2008 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Tom was at
The Fillipina market geting a balut
by southern oregon on Aug 15, 2008 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Nate talks Sonics move
Forgive me if this is already posted 2 dozen times. Link to article in which Nate discusses both his retired jersey and the ability for Sonics fans to “Come on Down!!” to be new Blazer fans.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/stevekelley/2008109571_kelley13.html
And I don’t know if this has been posted because the traffic here is insane. It’s August, on a basketball blog, and there’s dozens of mainposts / fanposts everyday, with thousands of comments…is this the most active sports blog around or what?
I came on down. And I aint leavin'.
I came on down to be a Blazer fan. Moved my loyalty down south, and moved on from the bitterness of the Sonics move. I am down win or lose with my Blazers.
by CanadianBlazerfan on Aug 15, 2008 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I love Olympics gymnastics but damnit the fact it is subjective drives me batty
Batty=funny word. Ok, back to point, the starting values are crap they need to re-do the scoring system for gymnastics. I love how so many gymnasts made noticeable mistakes and the American chica lands perfect routine after perfect routine and gets the score SHAFT :( Ugh..
SOphia
PS last rant…thanks a lot dave
Leaders build cultures that create self-esteem, generate and sustain trust, elevate the dignity of work , create community and foster open communication, and finally encourage growth and learning.
-Warren Bennis USC Professor
That was a very hard winter,
and it was just like one long night,
with me lying awake, waiting and waiting and waiting
for daybreak.
- Black Elk
1881
Don't they
Kinda sorta “agree on” a base score and then the gymnast gets scored with how well they stuck to the routine PLUS the agreed upon difficulty of the routine?
So perfect routine but not a difficult routine sometimes is less points than a not-perfect routine, extremely hard routine?
Sometimes?
I’m not sure how it works but I hate hate hate the subjective scoring as well, if I am not missing something.
MOrtimer
Yes
Starting value are the points awarded per difficult element. So if a piroet (sp?) is included on the beam +.2 double back layout twist +.5 so on and so forth. The problem is w/ the starting value is that they are adjusted per routine. So really they aren’t equal. I cant find the link but Bela Caroli, the ex coach for team usa and current coach’s spouse was ranting and raving about the horrible judging. Ok he’s a total Homer but sheesh…
Sophia
Leaders build cultures that create self-esteem, generate and sustain trust, elevate the dignity of work , create community and foster open communication, and finally encourage growth and learning.
-Warren Bennis USC Professor
That was a very hard winter,
and it was just like one long night,
with me lying awake, waiting and waiting and waiting
for daybreak.
- Black Elk
1881
I think Shawn Johnson got ripped off last night on a couple of her things.
She doesn’t even bobble and sticks a perfect landing and she was getting like 9.0s. Those should have been 9.5 or better on the execution.
Krikey! Kiteboarding is Kewl!
by prezofdeath on Aug 15, 2008 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you hear
About Pargo going to Euro?any thing that makes the Hornets weaker would by definition be a good thing
by southern oregon on Aug 15, 2008 10:19 AM PDT reply actions
I didn't hear
Is it a bargaining ploy or does he have actual offers?
I can’t remember any other backup PG for the Hornies, and their bench scoring was mostly done by him as well. Both important roles lost if Pargo say bye bye. Makes me assume it’s a bargaining ploy… but I dunno cause I don’t follow it closely.
Mortimer
I thought he had offers from the Spurs (for the bi-annual exception) and maybe Phoenix (for a part of the MLE)
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
I think it's almost definite
“New Orleans Hornets free agent guard Jannero Pargo, a valued sixth man, has reached an agreement in principle with Moscow Dynamo on a one-year contract worth about $4 million, sources close to the negotiations told Yahoo! Sports. Some details still needed to be worked out Friday before the contract could be finalized, but sources said there were no hurdles left that should jeopardize the deal…Pargo, 28, had developed into a dangerous bench scorer for the Hornets and attracted the interest of several teams, including the San Antonio Spurs and Atlanta Hawks. New Orleans wanted to keep him – and Pargo’s preference was to stay – but the Hornets had invested too much available money in free agent James Posey to make a strong enough bid. The lure of guaranteed money in Russia trumped the most serious bids made by the Spurs and Hawks.” -Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
Salaam
by Junior Del Norte on Aug 15, 2008 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Whoa cool
Good for Pargo, good money!
And good for us, because unless I am just dumb (which in this instance could be true) the Hornets ain’t got no other real back up PG; and while Pargo wasn’t a real PG and just scored, he’d get hot some games and nuthin’ could stop him, no way no how.
Who is left that can play PG for cheap and be dependable for a good team?
Not to overvalue Pargo of course, but that was a weak bench even with Posey and Pargo could at least dribble the ball and get hot every few games.
Mortimer
He is going to Moscow
and it will be a done deal in a few days
by southern oregon on Aug 15, 2008 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, if Channing
spends as much time practicing and working out as he does going to see movies, he is going to be a BEAST next year.
by joelor on Aug 15, 2008 10:45 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
My Olympics Basketball Channel says USA vs Spain "Coming Up."
"I grab every opportunity to tweak Timbo." - annthefan
Oh, it's a bunch of ladies
"I grab every opportunity to tweak Timbo." - annthefan
by tominhawaii on Aug 15, 2008 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
What time it start?
I’m fully capable of looking it up but you’re so much better at it.
Me, Mortimer!
It was like the men's game
It came on in progress. there is 8:29 left in the 4th and USA id dominating 66-46. I expect the the USA men vs Spain will have the same results.
"I grab every opportunity to tweak Timbo." - annthefan
by tominhawaii on Aug 15, 2008 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't know...
We shall see, but I think Spain is going to be the closest game yet.
Dear God,
It's me, Twiggs.
Please, oh please, let Brandon Roy have a speedy recovery.
Us Blazer fans don't ask for much in this life. All we want is our team to be healthy (and win). You would really be doing a service to us if you had him bounce back in a few weeks (without pushing it). I promise I won't ask for anything ever again (until the regular season anyhow).
Thank you,
Twiggs
What's the record on being waived in one season?
Poor Bobby Jones has been waived by the Miami Heat, ten days after being claimed off waivers by them. He was waived by the New York Knicks on July 29, after having been traded together with Taurean Green from Denver to NY for Balkman.
This year alone, he was already under contract for the Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies, Houston Rockets, Miami Heat (twice), Sioux Falls Skyforce and San Antonio Spurs.
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
Greg Oden Arrested!
That would be one fanpost I would hate to read.
I sure am glad Greg stays out of trouble.
"I grab every opportunity to tweak Timbo." - annthefan
+1
To you, not TiH
Dear God,
It's me, Twiggs.
Please, oh please, let Brandon Roy have a speedy recovery.
Us Blazer fans don't ask for much in this life. All we want is our team to be healthy (and win). You would really be doing a service to us if you had him bounce back in a few weeks (without pushing it). I promise I won't ask for anything ever again (until the regular season anyhow).
Thank you,
Twiggs
Actually I would not be suprised if I read "Greg Oden caught Sky Diving.."
Leaders build cultures that create self-esteem, generate and sustain trust, elevate the dignity of work , create community and foster open communication, and finally encourage growth and learning.
-Warren Bennis USC Professor
That was a very hard winter,
and it was just like one long night,
with me lying awake, waiting and waiting and waiting
for daybreak.
- Black Elk
1881
Remember yesterday when Junior Del Norte said he had a crush on Paris Hiltion?
I never saw that coming.
"I grab every opportunity to tweak Timbo." - annthefan
HAHA +1
Leaders build cultures that create self-esteem, generate and sustain trust, elevate the dignity of work , create community and foster open communication, and finally encourage growth and learning.
-Warren Bennis USC Professor
That was a very hard winter,
and it was just like one long night,
with me lying awake, waiting and waiting and waiting
for daybreak.
- Black Elk
1881
+1
Very nice.. we were talking about hot chicks and he kept talkin bout Paris.. sheesh
"Why would we lie to ourselves dude?"
"Be excellent to each other."
"All we are is dust in the wind, dude."
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
The Wisdom of Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan
by GreatOden'sRaven on Aug 15, 2008 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Sports Illustrated Marty Burns ranks the Western and Eastern Conferences
Blazers come out 7th in the West
Blogabull is mad because he says the new and improvedBulls are 13th in the East ;-)
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
they rated them 7th in the west last year too...
Leaders build cultures that create self-esteem, generate and sustain trust, elevate the dignity of work , create community and foster open communication, and finally encourage growth and learning.
-Warren Bennis USC Professor
That was a very hard winter,
and it was just like one long night,
with me lying awake, waiting and waiting and waiting
for daybreak.
- Black Elk
1881
I think he's too high on OKC
"I grab every opportunity to tweak Timbo." - annthefan
by tominhawaii on Aug 15, 2008 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
i am mad
because the first name in his rundown of the offseason was….. ike diogu.
LOL what
BRANDON ROY GET WELL SOON (SERIOUSLY DOG)
by Ben Golliver on Aug 15, 2008 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
It's a crescendo
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
Banana vs. Stoplight, a critical analysis.
With a stoplight, green means go, yellow means hold on, and red means stop.
With a banana it’s a different story:
Green means hold on,
Yellow means go ahead,
Red means where the F did you get that banana at?
by joelor on Aug 15, 2008 12:06 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Leaving to go fly fishing for sea run cutthroat on the Trask river
in a couple of hours. As soon as my boss splits for the day, in fact.
Will look forward to reading a bazillion fan posts and comments on Sunday night.
Trask River
Is that near Tillamook? I have family in Tilly who live near “Trask River Road”
Krikey! Kiteboarding is Kewl!
by prezofdeath on Aug 15, 2008 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm going to be camping at the Rask river county park
which is on the Trask River road right outside tillamook.
Trask was the first white guy in the area
He got along good with one tribe and not the other,an interesting bit of OR history
by southern oregon on Aug 15, 2008 7:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Don Berry's (bless his soul) Historical novel "Trask"
A great tale of Elbridge Trask
A good adventure to read.
"He doesn't let grass grow under his feet when there are points to be had." - Dave
One of my kin
was on the Jed Smith party[see Stouts grove] and was buried on the Olinger farm near Salem.I first heard this story around the camp fire and then read the book
by southern oregon on Aug 15, 2008 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Well darn ya
The Jed Smith party and the Olinger farm sure ring the ol’ bell. I will have to research the Stouts grove reference.
Ma Mom’s family are Menonites (the Yoders & Eglis) from ‘tween that area (Molalla/Canby).
I met Don in the "Boiler Room" at Reed college where my bud Steve was dormin’. He wanted to show me some cannabis he had sproutin’ ina planter outside his window and it’s amazin’ properties. I was more interested in biogenetics and in need of Lysergic acid diethylamide to persue my studies.
Mr. Berry picked me up once mo’ in his VW bus, when my girl friend and I where hitchin to the coast after a Ravi Shankar performance at the Portland Arts Center.
I remember he was wearin’ leather mocs/mucalucs up to his knees. Pointed out the cabin (somewhere ‘tween Lee’s Camp ‘n The Jordan Creek Bachelors Club, wheee him ‘n his family had lived while he was writin’, getting’ the feel ‘n livin’ off’n the land. Asked me if I had ever kilt a deer. Told ‘em no, cause I hadn’t. Told me to think a lil ‘bout what I was doing, if I ever did. I did ‘n I always thought about it. GF was a ‘mook.
Lived ona banks o’ da Wilson River by Alice’s Restaurant, where N***** Jack Creek (still has the N word on my Forestry Maps, some call it Black, pretty sure he once lived there an that’s what that’s what we called ‘em) dumps in. A big ol’ gravel bar and the crawdads where scrumptious.
Now I live ina Stump, just like ona Don’s charracters but I gots internet connections!
"He doesn't let grass grow under his feet when there are points to be had." - Dave
Tall Lankky 'n Mean (Ina Good way)
Bless ya
Don’t pound me man.
"He doesn't let grass grow under his feet when there are points to be had." - Dave
Read Berry's book many years ago, and loved it
Saturday on the Trask was possibly the best day I’ve ever spent fishing ever. The river was beautiful, we had access to private land with some great river front, the weather was spectacular, my cast, for once did not resemble and old lady fighting off bees with a broomstick, i was dropping these itty bity flies any place wanted, like magic, and I lost count of the number of fish I caught for the first time in my life.
Ahhh.
Gotta love the name of the doctor's practice who operated Roy
Dr. Donald Roberts, Sports Medicine Specialist
Rebound Orthopedics & Sports
Odenied: Asked whether he noticed Oden favoring his right knee, Frye dismissed it entirely. "He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors."
Why is it so hot???
I know it’s summer and all, but geez. I am off work and am too flippin hot to get motivated to do anything.
Dear God,
It's me, Twiggs.
Please, oh please, let Brandon Roy have a speedy recovery.
Us Blazer fans don't ask for much in this life. All we want is our team to be healthy (and win). You would really be doing a service to us if you had him bounce back in a few weeks (without pushing it). I promise I won't ask for anything ever again (until the regular season anyhow).
Thank you,
Twiggs
Its 100+ and smokey here
I would have gone to the coast for a few days but I have the Martian death flu
by southern oregon on Aug 15, 2008 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Im surrounded by 60 yo menopausal women and they keep the ac @ 65 ... im wearing a sweater!
Leaders build cultures that create self-esteem, generate and sustain trust, elevate the dignity of work , create community and foster open communication, and finally encourage growth and learning.
-Warren Bennis USC Professor
That was a very hard winter,
and it was just like one long night,
with me lying awake, waiting and waiting and waiting
for daybreak.
- Black Elk
1881
I am jealous!
Now I wish I went to work.
Dear God,
It's me, Twiggs.
Please, oh please, let Brandon Roy have a speedy recovery.
Us Blazer fans don't ask for much in this life. All we want is our team to be healthy (and win). You would really be doing a service to us if you had him bounce back in a few weeks (without pushing it). I promise I won't ask for anything ever again (until the regular season anyhow).
Thank you,
Twiggs
Ha Ha. I don't even have a thermostat in my apartment.
Fri
Clear
76°F | 61°F
Sat
Clear
76°F | 61°F
Sun
Showers
76°F | 61°F
Mon
Showers
76°F | 61°F
"I grab every opportunity to tweak Timbo." - annthefan
You obviously dont live in Lahina
If it gets that cold in the winter there the locals are wearing hoodies
by southern oregon on Aug 15, 2008 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, when it gets cold in the winter
I put on socks.
"I grab every opportunity to tweak Timbo." - annthefan
We're over air conditioned, too
although it’s a weird building that causes it, not menopausal women.
But last year I worked on the second floor of an old house in N Portland where I swear it got to about 87 in my office on a hot day, so I’m okay with needing a sweater sometimes, compared to the alternative.
84 degrees and sunny..
Everyday. :)
thats the one bonus to living in this hellhole of traffic
"Why would we lie to ourselves dude?"
"Be excellent to each other."
"All we are is dust in the wind, dude."
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
The Wisdom of Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan
by GreatOden'sRaven on Aug 15, 2008 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Is anyone else getting creeped out
by the look that Jerry Rice is giving them?
hey…get AWAY!
by joelor on Aug 15, 2008 3:35 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
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Norsktroll -"Carlos Boozer.............is known in China as "Fan Gu Zai," which, loosely translated, means "Betrayal Skull Guy."
by 92wastheyear on Aug 15, 2008 6:24 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
"That ain't right!"
"Why would we lie to ourselves dude?"
"Be excellent to each other."
"All we are is dust in the wind, dude."
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
The Wisdom of Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan
by GreatOden'sRaven on Aug 15, 2008 8:22 PM PDT up reply actions
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