With clubs on shoulder, I headed down to the New Course Saturday morning. There are five courses at St Andrews, in addition to the Old Course. The New Course and the Jubilee Course are Links courses, similar to the Old Course. The Eden, Strathtyrum and Balgrove (9 hole) Courses are more parkland-type courses, more inland than the others and more similar to American courses. The clubhouse for the New and Jubilee is located near the first tees for those courses, while the other three’s clubhouse was located farther away across the Old Course. The Old Course doesn’t have a club house, just the starter’s shack and the caddy shack. The R&A is not a clubhouse for the Old Course, it is just a clubhouse for a private golf club located by the first tee of the Old Course (and not open to the public).
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Getting to St. Andrews
St. Andrews is a wonderful town. I would say that every other house in town is a B&B, but that would be an exageration. The house that isn’t a B&B is the exception.
It is also, one might say primarily, a university town, complete with ruined castles, churches and cathedrals. I toured through the town quite a bit, snapping photos, on film so it will be a while before I post any.
I arrived on Thursday, my clubs arrived the following evening. Fortunately, I thought to carry an extra change of clothes in my bag since the rest of them were in the golf bag. Turns out that my Denver-Chicago-Glasgow flight itinerary got slightly askew when the Denver flight was delayed an hour and when we were ready to take off it was too warm to take off with enough fuel to reach Chicago safely. (Not enough air density to lift a fully loaded plane.) So, the plane stopped in Kansas City to refuel and we arrived about an hour after my Glasgow flight had left.
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Omishi Magical Theater – Risky Safety
I didn’t want to review this one, but I should, just to remind myself not to watch it ever again. Sometimes, my memory fails and I forget that I watched something, and then, five years later, I waste another hour or two rewatching the show.
Omishi is, I think, a show for grade schoolers that teaches them that everyone gets sad from time-to-time, so please, don’t kill yourself. You’ll be happy again real soon now. If you want more details, follow the link.
Liberal Hollywood
Kung Fu Monkey: I WISH Hollywood Was That Organized …
I always wondered what agenda “they” say Hollywood is following.
Rover boy
All this commentary on Karl Rove makes me wonder.
Here Karl is, busy accusing the Democrats of being traitors for playing politics, while he is playing politics by being a traitor.
(Isn’t it about time that these idiots learned that their side lost, that the South shall not rise again.)
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
I just started looking at this to resume the SETI@home work I had running on my PCs in years past. Now that we have migrated to Linux and we have the horsepower to spare, I will try again.
They have changed the way they do things at SETI, and BOINC allows me to assign my PCs to work on mulitple projects. Let us see how it works.
– 3rd rail – Liberty leads to liberalism leads to liberals
– 3rd rail – Liberty leads to liberalism leads to liberals
Thanks to Avedon for pointing out this link. I think Chris Cobb sums up, quite nicely, the need for liberals to reclaim their roots. And from a brand development/marketing guy. These comments also follow nicely on what I began to look at last week.
Freedom of Speech is a liberal idea. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” is a liberal Idea. Representative democracy is a Liberal Idea.
Week 14 Numbers
Not much changed for me this week. I stayed the same except for getting ahead of saves and dropping out of a tie in K’s. (Giving the Budchuggers that vitally needed half point so they could finish the week an even ten points ahead.)
| League/RC/Pts | HR | R | RBI | AVG | SB | W | S | K | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEAGUE AVG | 11.0 | 45.1 | 45.2 | 0.297 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 37.2 | 5.20 | 1.51 |
| ROCKY ONES | 10 | 46 | 44 | 0.321 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 41 | 5.66 | 1.42 |
| POINTS | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 |
All- Star Break Standings
Whoever is in first place in the UBL at the All-Star break gets 10% of the total pot distributed at the end of the season. So, it doesn’t really matter that you are riding high in first place for the previous 10 weeks, if you aren’t in first place this week.
| Team Name | HR | R | RBI | AVG | SB | W | SV | SO | ERA | WHIP | TOTAL | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budchuggers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 82 | 2 |
| Rocky Coloradans | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 72 | 0.5 |
| Pork Pirates | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 61 | 0.5 |
| Dingleberries | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 60 | -3 |
| Boston Ballbusters | 5 | 5.5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3.5 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 52 | 6.5 |
| Indians | 3 | 5.5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5.5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 50 | -3 |
| Shamu Whales | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 49 | 0 |
| GANYFs | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 47 | -4.5 |
| Rangers | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3.5 | 5.5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 44 | 6 |
| Homestead Grays | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 33 | -5 |
Geek Test
Showing Patrick how to update a web page.