MelDandy ponders,
Do you think that in heaven, shows like Arrested Development and Freaks and Geeks aren’t cancelled?
And that, my friends, is why she’s a dandy.
Mel’s Take on Heaven
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Vote for the Worst
Aside
Finally something good about American Idol: votefortheworst.com
ND vs. Alaska in CCHA Quarterfinals
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One less thing to miss
Since my initial rant about things I miss about the Bay Area, my local Trader Joe’s has started stocking the calzones that were the staple of my weekend lab lunches at Berkeley. Oh happy day!
Three questions
Readers, the following questions have been puzzling me lately, and I need your opinions:
1) Why does our mail regularly arrive at 7:00 pm and sporadically at 10:00 pm?
2) Why does my cat like to chew on plastic bags?
3) Will we ever drink milk from a fountain?
Things I don’t miss about the Bay Area
#1: Drivers who don’t signal. Ever.
#2: NMR spectrometers on a different floor
#3: Undergrads on the elevators
#4: Three hour time difference to the east coast
#5: Use of the definite article before highway numbers (e.g. “the 80” in reference to I-80)
#6: “Pitch to Barry” signs and rubber chickens
#7: Fear that the earth will swallow me
#8: Stanfurd
#9: Waiting 30+ minutes for AC Transit #43 on Friday nights
#10: Neighbors that fight each other
#11: Travel time to the east coast
Greatest Team in All the Land!
![[CCHA Championship banner]](https://realmofthewombat.com/images/misc/hockeybanner.jpg)
Not only is ND hockey ranked #1 in the polls, they have just finished a 27-6-3 regular season, good enough for their first conference title.
Despite their recent success, do not believe all that you read about the hockey facilities at ND, specifically what’s said at und.com:
The field house, and in particular the hockey facility, has undergone a series of improvements that make the Joyce Center one of the finest facilities in collegiate hockey. Renovations to coaches offices and the locker rooms along with the addition of a dividing curtain have given the hockey rink and the Irish more of a “home-ice advantage.” Fans also have benefited from Notre Dame’s commitment to hockey, with theatre-style seating that replaced metal bleachers on the north side of the arena.
While there’s no curtain in the world that’s going to cover up everything that’s wrong with the nation’s worst D-I college hockey facility, a few more of those championship banners might do the trick.
The Living Room Candidate
Aside
Excellent online exhibit of presidential candidates’ television advertisements: The Living Room Candidate (as discussed on
Fresh Air with its curator)
Bailiwick
I had never heard the word “bailiwick” before a month ago. Then it appeared throughout The Cuckoo’s Egg and as the name of a theater in Lakeview, the Bailiwick Repertory Theater. I figured I should look it up.
noun
1. the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
2. a person’s area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work: to confine suggestions to one’s own bailiwick.
Learning… It’s great!