For some reason, my life has been full of bacon lately. Last weekend I played on an ultimate team that named itself “The Kevin Bacons” (it’s a pickup team, why not?). One of the folks playing on that team brought bacon breakfast cookies to the field. (Note: bacon cookies are not a good idea.) And [...]
What happens when you take a bunch of ultimate players, and put them in New England in the winter? Sushi. Lots and lots of sushi. 24.77 pounds of sushi eaten by 10 people, to be precise. Slightly more than a kilogram each of rice and fish. In retrospect, it was both a very fun, and [...]
Ultimate players are a little bit obsessed with Roshambo, known to most in the US as Rock, Paper, Scissors. Many of them study the strategy guides published by the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Society. They waste their time at work playing the Roshambot. And, most of all, they turn to Roshambo to avoid any kind [...]
Off to Middlebury in a few minutes, for Get Ho, Get L’eid. Every year, it’s a very fun tournament, and here’s hoping that this year will be more of the same. Regardless, some Otter Creek can’t hurt. (Especially if I manage to get my hands on some Stovepipe Porter…oh! Or maybe some of the Wolvaer’s [...]
Lovely Sunday afternoon in New England. Mid 50′s outside, the sun is shining… Just got back from a 5k (or so) run around MIT and along the river. I’ve been pretty consistently exercising every day for the past couple of months, and along with quitting smoking and eating better, I’m getting into something that’s disturbingly [...]
Updated my High-Availability Xen page with some detail on block devices and file systems and what’s fun about doing systems development work 10 days behind the kernel code that’ll make it all work. Kate’s out of town, and I’ve had a couple of long days at work the past couple of days, so things are [...]
Go read Scrumptulescence. No. Seriously. Go read it. Go. Now. (If you’re confused about why a demand that my readers go read a food blog has the category “Ultimate” appended to it, it’s because several of the posters are folks that I’ve played ultimate with…)
Ultimate in today’s Boston Globe. A pretty good article, and written for folks who don’t play themselves…
My friend Lyrica explaining green building on Chicago’s ABC morning show. Click on the “ABC 7″ link to view the video. Awesome!
A pretty awesome display this morning. Day 2 of East New England Mixed Sectionals. 7 bids from the section to regionals. FNG was playing Gratuitous for the right to play in the 5-6 game; win, and we qualify. Lose, and we need to win 3 more games to get the 7 seed. We gave Gratuitous [...]
Spent Saturday out at Devens, at the BUDA Summer Club tourney. Clearly, it was very stressful. (So, I meant that sarcastically. But it actually is surprisingly hard to be capable of playing, just having it be unwise to do so thanks to messed up body chemistry. It’s like torture. No, no. It is torture.)
The photo above was taken about a quarter second after the really good part of the play, where I actually went over the defender’s head to grab the disc. None the less, it’s a pretty decent shot. (and yes, I know I have a big, big, booty.) Spent the weekend down at Wildwood, playing some [...]
Spent the weekend in Cooperstown, NY with FNG, playing at White Nights at the Brewery Ommegang. (They make some very, very wonderful beer, for those who don’t already know that). It was loads of fun, hanging with my team, drinking some good beer and too much crap beer (as sales of the good stuff were [...]
So I spent the weekend out in Versailles, Ohio, at Poultry Days. This is the third or fourth time that I’ve gone, and as always it was a wonderful time. Jeff and I flew out to Cleveland on Friday morning, where we met up with Tazo. Dropped back to Taz’ place so that he could [...]
So, Get Ho Get Leid… First, the team; several Chicago folks, some Oberlin folks, a couple of Monkeys…a wonderful crew. Very very cool group. For a lot of us, Saturday was the first time that we’d even met the folks we were playing with, but we gelled pretty quickly. Played a couple of games, in [...]
Just got back from Get Ho Get Leid, and a positively amazing and wonderful weekend with many splendid people, some very good ultimate, and generally great fun all around. I’ve run out of adjectives that competently describe just how great it was. That’s how great it was. More later, but first, sleep.
No, this post doesn’t have anything to do with chickens. Just feeling like one of the headless sort at the moment. Lots and lots going on right now; I’ve been busy from 7 this morning until just now, and tomorrow is going to be pretty crazy as well. That said, today was the last real [...]
Just go watch this. I mean it. It’s about 60 seconds, and…wow. http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/mamabird/video/Beau_Jumps_Over_A_Guy.mov
I’m getting old or something. I seem to remember that not too long ago I could just get up, start exercising, and not have to worry about stretching out or anything. These days, it seems like that’s not working so well for me. 90 minutes of basketball today, and I can actually feel the inflammation [...]
Yummy.