jjbrr Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Where to eat in 2015 ctrl+F'ed Dallas to see what they'd say. Tei-An is fine; not the best in Dallas. They also had big problems with credit cards being compromised after people used them at the restaurant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 Are the Koch brothers changing their evil ways? Of course not. But give them credit for getting behind this new coalition to do something about our broken criminal justice system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 The FIFA experts came after years of intensive searching to the conclusion, the summer in Qatar is too hot for football playing. A brillant performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 The FIFA experts came after years of intensive searching to the conclusion, the summer in Qatar is too hot for football playing. A brillant performance. In other news, pope might be Catholic, his next investigation once he finds out what the bears get up to in the woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 This is a fascinating discussion of the growing complexity problem that decision makers in the U.S. Congress are confronted with. I daresay they are not the only ones and that bears, popes, FIFA experts and even bridge players have trouble dealing with complexity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 From Timothy Egan's op-ed titled The Boat to Lift All Tides in today's paper: Out on Lake Washington, you hear them in the predawn murk: coaches barking, rowers gasping, sounds as familiar to the morning as the Canada geese that clack above the boys and girls in the boats. In Seattle’s first light, you see the slender crafts cutting through the chop of the lake, oars dipping in strained union. “Harmony, balance, rhythm,” said the legendary designer of racing shells George Pocock. “There you have it. That’s what life is all about.” People who go looking for life’s meaning in sports will usually find themselves belly up at the wrong bar, crying over a walk-off homer by the bad guys. The hulk who made the game-saving tackle was bulked up on performance-enhancing drugs. The basketball player who tossed up the buzzer-beater is also a wife-beater. That winning home run was slammed by a man who has shamed the game and all the great names he’s now passing. What meaning is there in corruption? Just that it has the same reach in sports as in politics, law or education. Oh, and the banality. But in crew, the sport of rowing, we may have found something better than the sum of all other games. When Daniel James Brown showed me his galley for “The Boys in the Boat” a few years ago, I was thrilled, but had somewhat modest hopes for his memorable book. Americans don’t watch, or even think about, rowing, one of the oldest of organized human competitions. As for history, well, we like our past-tense narratives filtered through gauze and served with plenty of blood. But against all odds, Brown’s book has become a global phenomenon. It’s up there in the high reaches of Fifty Shades of What Women Really Want and the latest “killing TK” tome to roll out of the joyless factory of Bill O’Reilly. Hope, this spring, is the enormous audience that has responded to an obscure story about a bunch of scrawny college kids who took on the world in 1936. “The Boys in the Boat” is about who we used to be. And who we still could be. Like the best history, it’s then and now wow factor is both embarrassing (to the present) and inspiring (to the future). In a nutshell: The book tells the story of the 1936 University of Washington men’s crew team (full disclosure: I’m a Husky grad), who beat their rival California, then defeated the Ivy League’s top oarsmen, and ultimately prevailed over the best rowers in the world, upsetting Hitler’s choreographed display of German superiority at the 1936 Olympics. They were nobodies and castoffs, the eight-man crew and a coxswain, sons of loggers and mill workers, farmers and factory hands. The central character, Joe Rantz, had been abandoned by his family and rowed to win back his dignity. After winning Olympic gold, they went on to lives of dutiful anonymity. They could not be any different from, say, the one-and-dones (college basketball players who leave for vast riches of the pros after their freshman year) who dominate that game. The class element — blue-collar kids, from a public college, beating the sons of inherited wealth from the finest universities in America and the aristocratic spawn of Europe — is a big part of the story. And so is the dedication of coaches and technicians to their craft. Their boat maker, George Pocock, could see in a cedar tree what Michelangelo saw in a block of marble. Crew may not be a metaphor of life, or a microcosm of it, as some of its enthusiasts claim. They point to the solitude, the work ethic, the sublimation of ego — all elements of success. But there is joy, and something lasting and true, in the distilled essence of what those kids were doing in 1936 — that is, a base competition, a race, to be won by whichever side could endure the most pain in a coordinated burst. “A symphony of motion,” Pocock called it. On water, at least, there was no more beautiful music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Is this the right room for an argument? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 Is this the right room for an argument? 5 minute or full half hour ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted May 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 That's not argument; that's just contradiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 It is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 As long as you are arguing two different things then it is the right place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted May 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 It is.No, it isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 I add some facts to objectify this nascent discussion http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-08-01-PriceofBacon-thumb.jpg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuhchung Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 That's not argument; that's just contradiction. Look, if I'm to argue with you, I must take up a contrary position! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 I add some facts to objectify this nascent discussionhttp://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-08-01-PriceofBacon-thumb.jpgAcorn fed or non-gmo grain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Look, if I'm to argue with you, I must take up a contrary position! You are quite wrong about that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted May 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 You are quite wrong about that.An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuhchung Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Sorry, the five minutes is up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted May 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Sorry, the five minutes is up! That was never five minutes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted May 25, 2015 Report Share Posted May 25, 2015 http://tedideas.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/of-course-i-care1.jpg?w=770 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 brag: i beat a NM at chess. I don't recall ever beating a titled player before 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WellSpyder Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 brag: i beat a NM at chess. I don't recall ever beating a titled player beforeCongratulations! Was it luck or skill :) ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 cool jjbrr!! What time control? We gotta have a BBF indy chess/bridge combined tournament one time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 he may have just been screwing around because he opened with a Grob which led us to a weird closed position 10|0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuhchung Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Ben Finegold plays bridge as well! Has anyone played with/against him before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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