Oh, come on, MATHletes! This is pitiful!

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Answers

I'm here. Had an appt. this morning. Teeth cleaned. Hated it.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I sort of like going to the dentist. But I'm weird like that.

How were y'all's Wednesday nights?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Mine was hilarious. The MOC decided to get all techno savvy and download Yahoo Messenger. It was a trial, I'm telling you. We're trying to save cash, though, you know, because phone bills are expensive.

Anyway, we finally got it to work, and we chatted. For some reason, the thought of Chris "chatting" makes me laugh hysterically. He was very excited.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Oh my god, now he'll want to chat all the time. I can imagine that the phone bills are daunting, though. And you need your cash, see, for when maybe you move to Atlanta.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Well it makes his "talking" body language make a lot more sense now.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Exactly, now his words match his actions, with the typing fingers.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I'll be back in a bit. I'm going to have the Golf cleaned up. So I can sell it, see.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

And I have a staff meeting. Good luck with the Golf! Back in an hour!

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I have returned.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Had to fix HYD. I didn't realize that JD logo had a colored background. Somehow, I didn't notice it last night.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

what JD logo?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

The Jack Daniels logo on my index2 page. It had a yellow background.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Nothing shows up for me. Just the copy.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Wha? It's up there... do you ever see a picture? Hit refresh!

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Nope. Just copy. Not even the "you never write" stuff. Nothing on the left.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I'm in.

Al, I can see it. Gah! Website craziness! An bei is driving me up a hundred walls.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I hate being L_L.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Now H... that is just clazy. I can't imagine what's going on with that, because I checked it all out on the iBook last night and it was fine... hmph.

An Bei rook ok on PC!

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I'm back. The Golf is clean and shiny, and my tummy is full of Chick- Fil-A. I swear that they marinate their Char-Grilled Chicken Deluxe sandwich in crack, because I eat like three of those a week.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

They marinate them in pickle juice, T. No lie. Uh, not that I worked there for three years or anything.

An bei fonts still clazy on other compupers, though, Al! Mayn. I don't even care anymore.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

See, that explains a lot, because I also eat like three Vlascic pickle spears every day when I get home from work. My mother? She used to drink pickle juice. We like us some pickes, we do.

Just pickle juice, or something more? Maybe I'll start marinating my chicken in pickle juice. That wacky Truett Cathy and his pickles.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

My brother and I drink the pickle juice, too. Lane is a genius--he uses those homemade popsicle things to make pickle pops. We also eat lemon pepper straight. Do y'all still like me?

It's pickle juice mixed with some package of seasonings, and marinated overnight. I'm pretty sure it's mainly salt, pepper, garlic salt, and the like. Now I'm going to have to try it, too.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Oh! I LOVE lemon pepper. And Cavender's Greek Seasoning. I put that on my palm and lick it. It's so good. Now, though, I have to sneak it into my food since Chris is banned from eating any extranneous sodium.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I once ate an entire jar of dill pickles in some Cool Hand Luke ten- year-old challenge with my friend Kristn Battle. I love anything salty. Now I'm going to have to get some on my way home...

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Oh God, Cavender's. Which I put in everything. We should write a cookbook, T, containing only recipes in which you can use lemon pepper, Cavender's, and pickle juice. It would fly off the shelves, I'm telling you.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

People... you realize Maryland playes Georgetown tonight. All of us need to be on Berman Suicide Watch.

I'm going to see The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash (AB - you want to go?), and will have to check in perodically, as I will be away from a TV after 8. I'm pretty sure he's going to be at work.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

One of the greatest salad dressings EVAH is Cavenders, dijon mustard, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Shake it up and oh my god, it is delicious.

My cousin Anna told me about Cavender's two years ago. It changed my life, I swear.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Ooh, I'm making that.

Al! Yes! Where?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

They are playing at The Sons of Hermann Hall, which is at the Corner of Elm and Exposition.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

ALSO - The Derailers and the Hollisters are playing tomorrow night there at the Sons. Hooknose. Those are only two of my favorite bands.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I know where that is. I'm trying to see if Master V will go, too. He would love it. I'll call you later for details.

Also, Al, did you say that Omar said to put tracking on every page? What's the reasoning behind that?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Damn, hooknose. What's up with good bands in Darras?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Tell him I'm wearing my hat.

He said to do it, because that way you could track entry and exit pages and get a real idea of your page views, not just your site hits. I've put it on some of my pages - haven't had time to do them all, yet - and it is pretty interesting to see how people travel through.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

AB - what's the name of that site you showed me that tracks IP addresses?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

It's this, Al: http://www.securityspace.com/cgi-bin/swhois/whois

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

what does that do?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I just get a lot of hits that show up on site meter as just numbers, and I'm curious about some of the ones that come back again and again.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I should show up on y'al's sitemeters as Fastpoint.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

See, I never see anything that says Fastpoint. Or A & F. I do see home.com and usatoday.com.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

so it tells you their server or something?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I'm sure I show up as numbers.

I wasn't able to crack dreamweaver. I cant' figure it out because I'm stupid.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

You're not stupid, lady.

I see the usaoday.com and the home.com, and I know who that is. SOmeone from princeton reads regularly, too.

If only I would update regularly.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

That Princeton person reads me, too. And someone from Stanford. I want to do on entry on how I'm contributing to the delinquency of a minor and that my readers are already smarter than me.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Yes - I get Stanford, too. And sometimes someone from muohio.edu. No one from Agnes Scott, though.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

dammit, no one from muohio.edu reads me

actually, i don't even know how to see that

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I've gotten the Princeton, but not the muohio, so don't feel bad, H. They're not reading me either.

I just realized I only have my tracking on my index page. Stupid.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

but I went there!

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Pardon me for going completely off-topic, but I was just checking out M's fantasy baseball dollar values thing and it made me nostalgic for Chin Feng-Chen. Good news, Chin fans. He has not been called up to the bigs yet, and I can still see him this season with the Puffy Taco and the San Antonio Missions.

They also have a newly designed fancy website (you know Chin Feng probably had to do it in the off-season) at www.SAMissions.com.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Is M in today? I know Chris was real excited about the dollar values.

I was wrong about one thing, though. The draft is next Saturday. That's when Chris will dip so much, his lip will fall off.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

i still want a puffy taco.

Al - did Chris take a recup day?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I don't know why he took the day, really. I just think he wanted to do it, because he has a ton of sick time, and things are slow.

I wish he would use a sick day to leave early when he comes up NEXT MONTH (sigh), but whatever.

I just sent him this e-mail:

Dear Chris,

I know you taking day off today (I so jealous! Never get day off!), but I hope you check e-mail and see your old pal Chin Feng-Chen writing you.

Chris, pretty lady say she can't come to Opening Day. She say she forget to even check dates, and when she realize it April 5, she cry and cry. She say she can MAYBE come see me end of April.

This your fault! You try to keep lady from me? Won't work! I already design hot-shot new Internet site for Missions at www.SAMissions.com to impress her. They no pay me extra, but say I best at it probably because I Japanese. You know I not even Japanese, but whatever.

Anyway, come on, Chris. I no get traded up to Bigs yet, so you still come see me this season and bring lady, ok? She miss me really bad. I know she act all huggy and kissy and happy with you in stands, but only because I out in field, winning game.

Puffy Taco say hey.

Love,

Chin Feng-Chen

ps - I download Yahoo! Messenger to talk to lady. Screename Dang_LongDong69. Big Jalepeno laugh and laugh when he find out. What so funny? That name of honorable grandfather!

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Heh. You funny rady.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Hee. He bettah think so.

Mayn, sometimes I miss the MOC so bad. Like right now, specifically. I know that's a little hard to believe, having been around him, but I really do. Except the smoking, which I don't miss at all... though when he was wearing my hat and smoking... I sort of liked that. With the $7 jacket, of course.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Why would I find it hard to believe you'd miss the MOC? I miss the MOC. He's good people.

I love the $7 jacket. And don't be uppity and think it cost 9 dollah, cause it dinid.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I'm just saying it takes a special person to look past the meat and see the cheese within.

This right here is the greatest thing evah (but don't be tryin' to step and say you gonna not be a fan of Chin Feng's anymore):

From www.wilcoworld.net

Minor League Baseball team picks "California Stars" as theme song

The High Desert Mavericks, a Class A (California League) farm team of the Milwaukee Brewers have announced they'll be using "California Stars" as their theme song this season -- meaning it'll be played at the end of each game as fans exit the ballpark. Mavericks Stadium is located in Adelanto, California (approximately 1.5 hours northeast of Los Angeles). The song got a great reaction from fans last season when the team played it after a few games -- so much so that when they stopped using it the front office had numerous complaints. More information about the team is available at www.hdmavs.com.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

That's what I'm talking 'bout.

I don't necessarily want to see the cheese within. . .

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Yeah, well... yes, that's all for me.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Wait - is that by Wilco, or a Wilco Side Project?

I updated, finally.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

That would be by Wilco with Billy Bragg, which is technically... a Wilco Side Project.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Is that just the Wilco with Billy Bragg, or is Natalie Merchant in there, too?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

She's on a couple of the songs, but she's not really IN it, right? Aren't all Wilco albums side projects of someone, really?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

They are like a side-project in and of themselves. I cannot believe we sat 10 feet away from John Stiratt and none of us jumped up and tried to kiss him. I know Chris wanted to.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Um, refresh me? When was that? Autumn Defense?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

There could easily be a Six Degrees of Wilco.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Oh, good LORD, y'all. Flaya's giving out fashion advice.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

You're kidding me. What is it? To wear an ankle bracelet?

Yes, Autumn Defense.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Ugh, I don't even want to think about it. Something about ass- crack. I blocked the rest of it out.

I think I'll be heading out in a few minutes. It's sunny, and the roof comes off of my car.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

T, I am loving that you have the roofless car. Wish I had at least a sun-roof, because it is officially the prettiest day in Dallas today.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

It's quite gorgeous today in Cowtown as well.

Going home soon, but not yet. Not yet.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

"We had dinner at Macaroni Grill, which is very good Italian food, and then we headed out to 4th street. It was crazy packed, and I think that we managed to pay for our beer when the sky opened up and started raining on us. There were people pushing, pulling, and being just generally drunk. I think that I'm staying away from downtown as a rule for now. We're bowling next time."

It didn't rain on Saturday night, did it?

Look how close we were to Leigha and we didn't even know it!!

Her journal ain't no Olive Garden, but it'll do without Meg.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Okay, now I am leaving.

Night y'all.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

She's gonna stay away from downtown forever? Did she even know that sxsw was going on?

I did rain a little Saturday night, but just barely. It was cold, but there was, by no means, a sky-opening-up experience. Oh... had we only run into that girl... I would have kicked her ass. Especially if it had been after we missed Split Lip Rayfield, because at that point? I was so whisky-laden and pissed off and full of rage, I could have gone for a trashy rumble right out on sixth street.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

All right y'all ... I'm here. Tired. So very tired. And worried. Maryland had better not lose this game, that's all I'm sayin'.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Hey, fool. When does the game start?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

7:55 pm. ET.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Ok... I'll be able to catch the start of it, at least. Have you performed all the rituals and donned the lucky game shirt and stuff?

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I have, but in the past the magic has worn off after the first weekend. And I had to use an awful lot of it just to get the Terps past George Mason.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Well, I have faith. Beware the Turtle.

Y'all, someone hit my site from Texas A & M, and so I went to look at the school's homepage (www.tamu.edu). How unbelievably TACKY do you have to be to have a picture of a huge BONFIRE on your front after the biggest tragedy in the history of the school occurred when the stupid bonfire collapsed and killed a bunch of students? I mean... I'm amazed.

I know it's a big tradition there and everything, but if I was the president of that school, I'd declare that tradition over with, and start a new one, I think.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

Ok, M. I'm oot. Everything will be fine. The Terps will CONQUER! I'll have my cell phone. Call me if you want to cry or anything... NOT that you'll have any reason!

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

MARYLAND WINS!!!! MARYLAND WINS!!!!

Didn't go to the show. Coudldn't scare up a date.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001

I'm one happy guy right now. Seriously.

Go Terps! Beat those Stanford jags!

-- Anonymous, March 23, 2001