Dang Good Link About Twitter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/06/09/DI2009060901694.html


The chap writes for the Washington Post. He fields mail from pro and anti Twitter people alike. I got the idea from Mr. PTI / Monday Night Football himself Tony Kornheiser. On his Twitter. I only tweet to react to other tweets. I really don't think anyone would care what sandwich I am eating or what time I got up. Anything I have to say is usually in blog format like this one. But one day Bill Simmons will answer back a tweet I send him.


Ed

Tribute To Christopher Walken

Maybe scenes from Annie Hall and Deer Hunter some other time but I must admit I am selling out now. Sell out= predictable . No , I will not show scenes from Batman Returns or View to A Kill.



Ed

How Do I Spell Obama? Let Me Count The Ways.

My tita informed me at lunch time these exist. None below are mine but if I think of any I will put it here.Well I did think of two

One
Book
And
Man believes he is
Awesome


and


Obviously
B.S.ing
And
Misinformed
Addlepate

Yes, that's a real word. http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/addlepate




Ed


Our Biggest American Mistake Awaits

Oh Boy, A Marxist America!

Obtusely Blatant Arrogantly Marxist Apologist


Obviously Bouncing Around Muslim Accusations

Overly Boastful About Minor Accomplishments

Oddly Bitter About Middle America


Obliterated By American Made Artillery

Obviously Bad American Marxist Antichrist

One Big Accident Many Accomplices

One Big Ass Mistake America

Overrated Blundering Activist Menacing America

Overtly Bringing Abortionist More Activity

Organizing Bureaucracy Against Middle America

Obnoxious Buffoon Annoying Most Americans


Obviously
B.S.ing
And
Misinformed
Addlepate

One Book And Man Believes he is Awesome

Poor Gordie Howe

For a single guy in his forties  who has never been married, I am a sucker for people who really really live up to the vows in sickness and in health, till death do us part. The following is a sweet story about somebody who was so good at his profession that he was nicknamed it. If the name sounds familiar because his name and face was used in a classic Simpson Episode.One I am able to provide for you below. Read the heartbreaking story below and watch the Bart The Lover (last screen)

 

Ed

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ap-stanleycup-mrhockeyspain&prov=ap&type=lgns

 

Hockey is hurting.

Gordie Howe’s wife, Colleen, died three months ago and life hasn’t gotten any easier for the Hockey Hall of Famer.

“You can think you’re a big, strong guy, but if something like that happens, it makes you as weak as a kitten,” Howe said in an interview with The Associated Press before Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals in Detroit. “I watched her when she choked, put her head back and went. That was hard to take.”

The 81-year-old Howe planned to be in Connecticut on Tuesday night with his son Marty to watch his beloved Detroit Red Wings play at Pittsburgh in Game 6 needing a win to repeat as Stanley Cup champions.

“We’re trying to keep dad occupied,” said Mark Howe, director of pro scouting for the Red Wings. “He’s great when he’s with people—family or strangers. But if no one is around him, he says, ‘It’s pretty lonely.’ Especially at night, it’s been pretty difficult for him.”

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It wasn’t easy for Howe when his wife was living with Pick’s disease, a degenerative brain disorder that causes dementia. She died at home in March at 76.

“Mom couldn’t speak at all for the last 3 1/2 years,” Mark Howe said. “The last two years, she was confined to a wheelchair or bed at home—where dad wanted to keep her—and was in bad shape after dealing with the disease for at least 10 years.

“It was really hard on dad because he was alone with her when the caregivers left at 8 at night until they came back at 8 in the morning.”

Before the disease took hold, Colleen Howe lived a full life. The woman known as Mrs. Hockey was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2000.

“Somebody recognized her abilities,” Gordie Howe said.

She founded the Detroit Junior Red Wings, the nation’s first junior hockey team, and developed the first indoor ice arena, “Gordie Howe Hockeyland,” in the Detroit suburb of St. Clair Shores.

“We could ill-afford that rink,” Gordie Howe said. “But she wanted to give a lot of kids the chance to play and she did.”

She was one of the first female sports agents and discovered in 1973 that the upstart WHA allowed players under age 20 while the NHL did not. That cleared the way for her husband to play with sons Mark and Marty and gave young stars such as Wayne Gretzky an earlier opportunity to play professionally.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Colleen Howe was a “formidable woman, the wife and partner of our iconic player, the matriarch of a remarkable hockey family.”

Mr. Hockey is a living legend in Detroit and the Red Wings don’t take it for granted that he still pops in the dressing room to say hello.

Howe scored 801 goals, a total only Gretzky topped, and led the Red Wings to four Stanley Cups from 1950-1955.

He won the Hart Trophy six times as NHL MVP and was a 21-time All-Star. He played in Detroit from 1946-71 and came back to the league with Hartford during the 1979-80 season and the 51-year-old forward had 41 points.

“It’s special whenever he’s around,” said Red Wings forward Kris Draper(notes), who joined the storied franchise in 1993. “Lately, we’ve been seeing him more. It’s pretty neat when you see him and Ted Lindsay and think about what they did in the 1950s is what we’re doing today.”

 

 

http://watch-films-online.com/2009/05/simpsons-season-3-episode-16-316-bart-the-lover/

 

the simpsons 316

Carabao NBA

Janina San Miguel

Carabao NBA

The only team sport Filipinos as a whole understand is basketball. It is the only team sport the typical Filipino male will pay attention to. They all understand 5 guys who can all shoot , rebound, pass the ball. You can check out this previous post of mine. I have been watching the playoffs this year at home on the weekends or when I can sneak into an office with the tv already tuned into the game during office hours. Why the network here showing the game feels they have to impose local commentators on this game are beyond me. If I want that style of commenting I will watch the PBA broadcasts. But I don't. Let's say they really have to do this cause there is a gun to their head. We are a land of call centers. The times I listen to FM radio many of the on air personalities speak English well enough. The play by play guy they have is decent. WHY is the color guy horrible??? In this land there must be some guy who knows basketball and can speak semi competent English. If they sent guys who only speak tagalog and show the game on a channel with mostly tagalog shows I have no problem with that. Just leave the cable feed that had the TNT crowd doing all the duties as far as the conference finals, leave that feed alone. Why in the most significant series do we get a color commentator who would have difficulty passing an ESL course? Watch the video (last 3 minutes of Game 4) so you can not see I am not making the blooper list up.











"Its better to be lacky than good" "These Are the Playoffs!" No SH*T Sherlock. Not only is it the playoffs , its the finals. Anybody who did not know we already witnessed three previous rounds of playoff basketball can't really care about basketball. "This is the team with no quitting in them" "Although Gasuul is not a 3 point shooter." "Making them booth contenders again" I think the color commentator was the guy who made this sign.

You could not in a million years be proud of this guy. Ed

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/266/The_Mentality_that_leads_to_Zero_Medals_for_the_Philippines_


http://doycinco.blogspot.com/2008/03/english-carabao-ni-bb-pilipinas-janina.html


tags: carabao NBA, english speaking, nba, PBA, commentators, Philippine Basketball Association

Review of UCC Fort

Just this morning my dad took me to UCC Vienna in Fort. He already had reservations about the service and that it might be crowded. But he let me have my choice. Well bottom line he went from having his reservations to saying never again.

My English teacher (Leo Matusicky) back in Grade 11 told us "It's better to have a short pencil than a short memory". Man, that stuck with me 25 years. I wish our waitress had Leo Matusicky. I don't recall her writing anything down or even validating the order. My dad asked for very toasted bread to go with his breakfast meal and it came as white as Pat Boone. Of course it came late.

The coffee was excellent but if the service was semi civilized , they would have offered a refill. Nobody checked up on us. I enjoyed my mushroom omelet with whole wheat pan de sal.

Bottom line service was bad. We were forced to stay outside with obnoxious smokers because their main indoor seating forced single patrons to take up entire four seat tables. (We were only two).

I doubt either of us will be returning.

To make up for you people reading my whining, I have three videos coffee and refill related in keeping with this morning's theme.

1) Mr.Pink (Steve Buschemi) on why three refills are not good enough and other related matters from Reservoir Dogs.
2) Dale Cooper Coffee Compilation from Twin Peaks (watch out for Madchen Amick , Joan Chen, Peggy Lipton, Sherilyn Fenn and David Lynch)
3) Dale Cooper/ Excellent Coffee / Audrey Horne Entrance.


Ed

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related links:

http://www.philippine-real-estate.info/fort-bonifacio-global-city.html


http://www.ucc.co.jp/eng/

Its Called The WORLD WIDE WEB Why Discriminate?

First of all, let me count my blessings that it's really not as bad here in the Philippines unlike these places. Having said that I was sitting at work on Wednesday and had what my friend in college (Pamela Warkentin) called a comedy flashback. I thought of a Saturday Night Live commercial called Bad Idea Jeans. And I just laughed to myself. Then of course I thought, I gotta share it with you guys. Let me do a Google Video Search. More effective than a Youtube search since it includes Youtube and other video providers. Well what do you know?

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=bad+idea+jeans+&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

According to that link tons of people have it. But I tried every single link that looks like it could be it till page 3. I was discriminated against because of my country of origin. Those of you in North America can follow the links I assume. But I am deprived of my comedy memory. Many of us are obsessive compulsive. Once in a while though like that climactic scene in Mel Gibson's Signs , being O.C. can come in handy. I just have a ton of VHS tapes. With all sorts of things recorded in the 80s and 90s . The trick is finding them though. Most of the tapes are labeled to a certain extent so I have that going for me. Well I was determined not to let this act of discrimination get the better of me. After two search sessions, I found the tape and got it to play. The results are here for you to enjoy.On a sad note you will also see and hear the late great Phil Hartman in the clip.


Ed


1st Screen Bad Idea Jeans Commercial SNL
2nd Screen Being O.C. can be good for you from the movie Signs.


Links

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/683/Oh_The_Freedom_We_Take_For_Granted_


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY_LBAVWRMU&NR=1