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"Tapestry: Java Web Components" has finally been published by The Java Report. Check it out!
This is my second article, and hopefully is the gateway to wide acceptance of Tapestry.
"Tapestry: Java Web Components" has finally been published by The Java Report. Check it out!
This is my second article, and hopefully is the gateway to wide acceptance of Tapestry.
I've release Tapestry 1.0.0. Huzzah!
If you're doing Java, you need to be using two frameworks:
1) Log4J is the only way to put runtime logging output into your app. It's slick, configurable and very, very easy. Oh, and if you use Tapestry, the built-in Tapestry Inspector allows you to configure Log4J on the fly.
2) JUnit is the balls. Just get diciplined and write a bunch of quick tests to go with your code. Easy as cake.
I'm beginning to crank on Sabertooth, my advanced O/R mapping technology for Java.
Latest word is that my article in the Java Report will be showing up a little late, in the July 2001 issue.
Found what may be a good open source, Java, UML tool called ArgoUML.
I haven't checked it out too much, but what I saw was pretty impressive.
I'm beginning to lean the joyrs of Python and wxPython. Maybe I wont be programming in Java for the rest of my life ... certainly not for an GUIs.
As I learn this stuff, I hope to create GUI editors for Tapestry and for Sabertooth.
Things are winding down on Tapestry for the moment. The code is stabilizing and I'm working just on bug fixes, documentation and some improvements to the JBE.
I'm also planning my next framework: Sabertooth. It's yet another approach to accessing database data. It borrows some ideas from NeXT/Apple EOF and J2EE Entity EJBs but is architected to work well in a web application environment.
I once read a quite from someone on the Quake team who said "all computer science is caching" at that's very true.
You win some, you lose some. The Java Report has accepted my article on Tapestry (though I need to put together some performance stats and UML diagrams).
However, JavaOne has turned down my proposal to present Tapestry.
Tapestry 0.2.9 is coming very soon. I really have to figure out when I can just call it "1.0.0".
Release version 0.2.8a of Tapestry just now. A little bit of savage refactoring, and I completed support for localization.
I seem to spend at least as much time documenting things as I do actually coding them.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Shake the soda bottle, and your toddler will be amazed by the glittery waves that are produced.Materials
- Clean, empty 16-ounce soda bottle with cap
- Water
- Food coloring
- Glitter, sequins, or beads (optional)
- Baby oil
- Quick-bonding glue
- Fill the clean soda bottle with water to about one-third full.
- Add a few drops of food coloring and glitter, sequins, or beads (optional), then fill the rest of the bottle with baby oil.
- Glue the cap securely onto the bottle by applying the glue to the inside of the bottle cap and screwing it on.
- Your child will enjoy gently shaking the bottle to produce beautiful waves.

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Don't throw stones in glass igloos
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Onto the bus and headed for the igloo village at Kakslauttanen. 300€ to stay in the glass igloo for one night and we are hoping beyond hope that its worth it! Trudge through the snow for about ten minutes, up and over a rickety old bridge that goes over an iced up river and then we are there!!
Sank into sleep and thinking of heading to Saariselka tomorrow to see if we can do anything fun there yet! Please let it snow!!!!


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South Sydney coach Michael Maguire says he is unconcerned about Canterbury's wrestling techniques ahead of tomorrow's NRL grand final qualifier.
Under Des Hasler, the Bulldogs have become the game's premier side at slowing down the ruck and controlling the speed of the game through the wrestle.
But despite the threat it could pose to the Rabbitohs' attacking maestros Greg Inglis, Issac Luke and Adam Reynolds, Maguire said it had not factored into their preparations for the ANZ Stadium clash.
"I think every team practises that area of the game and it's no different each week," Maguire said.
"Everyone's doing their practice in various areas and I'm sure they're practising what they need to do and we're focused about what we need to do."
With a crowd in excess of 70,000 anticipated for the all-Sydney showdown, Maguire said his young stars were handling the expectation of the big week impressively.
"The boys in our group like Roy Asotasi, Michael Crocker, Matty King, Greg Inglis, Sam Burgess I could go on on a number of players," Maguire said.
"Even Luke Burgess has played in a number of finals overseas. We're lucky that we've got a lot of experience at this time of the year and the young boys are just thriving on the enthusiasm."
Maguire confirmed that winger Nathan Merritt was on track to return from a shoulder injury that forced him to miss last week's victory over Canberra.
"We're really hoping he's right to go. He's trained all this week so there's no reason why he shouldn't be playing," Maguire said.
"As a team we want Nathan in there. He's a massive part of what we've been doing here."
Should Merritt fail a late fitness test however, the versatile Justin Hunt will take his spot as he did against the Raiders.


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Town Square
A walk into ... adventure, fame, love, heartbreak -- you be the guide.
Original post made by Mr. Man, Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park, on Dec 15, 2006
Another empty log truck swept by in the storm, spraying me and my 50-pound backpack with a dirty rain as I trudged north on the shoulder of U.S. 101, a rural two-lane road in this part of Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
In starting out on a walk across the good old U.S. of A, I had expected the noise of the road, the weariness, the grit on the face, the cold meals, the scurrying footsteps and chomping sounds outside my tent at night, the fretting over whether my slingshot would chase off a bear, the bad dream in which thieves corner me on some forgotten field in Montana and discover the $3,000 hidden inside my money belt.
What did surprise me is how quickly I came to resent the sight of evergreen trees. That and the rumor that I was walking through the territory of a wild bunch of motorcyclists who had just had the crap beat out of them by some loggers and were looking for a way to vent some steam.
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a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Dec 21, 2006 at 3:50 pm
At about 1:30, after my lunch of Oreos and cheese, I heard a scuffling noise and looked to my right, into the dimness of the deep woods. A movement, the head of something upright, maybe 8 feet tall, ducked behind a tree, then peeked out again.
a resident of Menlo Park: Fair Oaks
on Dec 22, 2006 at 11:31 am
Defying all the common sense, I tossed a cookie into the woods. It bounced off the tree that was hiding the creature. I saw something shaped like an arm reach out from behind the tree, low down. About two seconds later, the cookie came flying back in my general direction with a bite taken out of it.
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Dec 26, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Was this a gesture, and if it was, what did it mean? Did the creature not like the Oreo cookie? I could see it. Without milk, Oreos are lacking. Or maybe a tossed bit of food was a flirtation ritual I had stumbled onto. My role, should I wish to pursue it: take a bite and toss it back. But then, what if I didn't? No one, man or beast, likes the put-down. I looked at the cookie.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jan 4, 2007 at 6:33 pm
"Hey, man, do you have anything that's, like, a little more substantial? I've got the munchies like you wouldn't believe. One cookie ain't gonna cut it."
The voice emerged from the clump of trees along with a burly, and extremely hirsute, man of jaw-dropping proportions. As I craned my neck upward, I spied a scrap of bandana disappearing into his matted hair. His beard and his hairline merged seamlessly somewhere in the vicinity of his sloping forehead. He had no shirt, but a pair of well-worn leather chaps creaked and strained at the seams as he shambled toward me.
If there could be such as thing as a primordial biker, that thing stood in front of me now, scratching its belly and looking for all the world like Sasquatch had abandoned the forest primeval and joined the Hell's Angels.
a resident of another community
on Jan 6, 2007 at 8:04 pm
He certainly didn't seem like one of the bunch of motorcyclists beat up by the loggers. In fact, he didn't seem to have any steam to vent at all. When I hesitated, he smiled, revealing a flawless set of teeth. Hmm. Maybe not so primordial after all. Just lost in a nether-decade when mutton chops were still cool.
"Hey, no sweat if you don't have anything else to eat. No harm in asking, right?"
I found my voice. "Do you like Fig Newtons? I've got a couple left."
The man roared with delight. A few of the accursed evergreen trees swayed. "Hell, man! Who doesn't like Fig Newtons! Organic?"
"What else?"
We sat for a spell and ate organic Fig Newtons and two grubby-looking but surprisingly sweet tangerines the man pulled out of the bandanna in his hair. We compared slingshots, talked a little Nietzsche, and before we knew it darkness had fallen. The man suddenly looked around nervously.
"What's wrong?" I asked. His eyes grew wide.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Jan 17, 2007 at 2:07 pm
"My sister told me to go out catch some dinner and now it's dark and I haven't got anything. She's back at the lean-to with a pot boiling and nothing to put in it. She is not going to like this."
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Feb 16, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I squinted at my hirsute friend, trying to imagine what his sister must look like. I squelched an involuntary shudder and found my voice.
"So, your sister gets cranky when she's hungry? You know, my sister ..."
"If she just got cranky, I could handle it," said Hell's Sasquatch, interrupting me. "She throws things. Pots. Knives. The dog. It ain't pretty."
a resident of Portola Valley: Brookside Park
on Feb 20, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I stood uncomfortably for a spell shifting my weight from foot to foot. I was tired. The purpose of my journey an inward reflection, an existential confrontation and I had only been on the road for days. I gazed at Hell's Sasquatch in the twilight and mused..."maybe I should invite him to come along" afterall the image I conjured about his sister left me anxious for this fellow. Maybe he just needs an excuse to run...So I said, Hey if it's that bad why don't you travel along with me for a bit."
a resident of Woodside: Mountain Home Road
on Feb 23, 2007 at 12:34 pm
"Oh no, no, I couldn't do that! She's not so bad. And hey, maybe I'll flush out a squirrel on the way back to the lean-to."
My new snacking buddy had already started backing away from me, as if he could be found guilty of familial abandonment merely by hearing my suggestion. I saw his eyes darting around, as if checking for potential witnesses in the underbrush.
Since I'd begun rethinking the wisdom of sharing a tent with a burly ape-man, I hastened to accept his excuse.
"All right then. It was nice to meet you," I said, offering my hand. "Thanks for the tangerine."
He stepped forward and engulfed my hand in his warm, hairy paw, then stepped back. As I shouldered my pack, I realized I'd never asked his name.
"Winston," he said.
"Is that a family name, or was your mom a big fan of Churchill?" I asked.
"Dunno," he said, looking perplexed. "She said she thought of it one day during her cigarette break."
With a final wave, he turned and melted back into the shadowy woods, and I headed back to the road.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 26, 2007 at 6:02 pm
"Rats," I said to the trees and rocks that were now my only apparent company. "If those bikers discover me and Winston isn't around, I could be toast. I should have asked him what he knew."
I heard a loaded log truck coming up behind me, the driver downshifting to take the hill that lay ahead. This was my third day on the road and already I was looking at the trees and wondering when the color green would become unbearable.
It was almost noon. What would the day bring, and where would I find a myself this evening?
a resident of Menlo Park: Fair Oaks
on Mar 6, 2007 at 10:30 am
Some fallen trees alongside the road had opened up a clearing. The sun was about overhead and I needed a break. Off came the pack and down went my butt onto a tree trunk.
A tangerine -- Thanks, Winston! -- hit the spot. A picture of leisure was I, without a care and with plenty of time for the long journey ahead.
I pulled out my Wrist Rocket slingshot and shot off a tangerine seed into the bushes. An annoyed chatter ensued.
a resident of another community
on Mar 6, 2007 at 12:58 pm
What had I done? Whom had I disturbed? Should I back out of the clearing and be on my way before ... Too late. A large, dark figure was emerging from the thick, tall brush. And just as I rose from the tree trunk, heart racing, a deer-hide-clad creature leapt forward into the light and bellowed, "Hey, you seen my brother?"
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Mar 7, 2007 at 3:05 pm
I paused, then stammered. "Your brother? What does he look like?"
She raised her left hand to her chin -- was that blood on her nails, or Revlon Red? "Hmmm, I guess you could say he's a pretty big guy, and he looks a little scruffy. By the way, my name's Wanda. Where you headed?"
Where was I headed? By then, I really wasn't certain. "To see the world, I guess," I said.
"Mind if I tag along?" Wanda asked, and a hint of jitteriness began to settle across her low brow. "I've always wanted to see the world."
"But what about your brother?" I replied, struggling to find an excuse to walk out of the woods leaving both Winston and Wanda behind.
"I've ... I've got to get away from him ... really, I need to get away to a place he can't find me and hurt me anymore."
"But I thought ..." I began, but stopped. How many times had Sister Mary Magdalena told me that I had to hear BOTH sides of every story before drawing conclusions?
"Got any good walking shoes?" I asked Wanda.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Mar 12, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Just where I want to be: in the middle of a he-said-she-said dispute out in the middle of nowhere with a backwoods brother on the one hand who's big enough to tear me limb from limb while eating a doughnut and a backwoods sister on the other reminds me of Annie Oakley, at least in terms of being armed and apparently dangerous.
"Winston seems like the nicest guy," I said to Wanda. "What's your beef with him?"
"He doesn't hunt, he can't catch a fish to save his soul, and when I complain that I'm tired of doing his work and mine, he sulks and goes into his 'Mom always liked you best' routine," Wanda said "And then he starts in again on the tangerines. That's how you know he's sulking, when he's eating a tangerine."
"Hmm. Where does he get them, up here in the back of beyond?" I asked.
"There's a Jamaican guy who lives in Port Washingtonm" Wanda said. "Winston knows where there's a ready supply of ganja, if you know what I mean. It's sweet deal for both of them."
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Mar 14, 2007 at 11:47 am
I made a brief mental inventory: hygene-deficient, drug-dealing and mommy issues. Perhaps the angry loggers and bent-on-vengence bikers would be the better choice for companionship.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire, I thought to myself.
a resident of Menlo Park: Fair Oaks
on Apr 5, 2007 at 1:41 pm
All this talk about frying pans was making me hungry. I invited Wanda to find a quiet place where we could make camp and have lunch.
a resident of Menlo Park: Suburban Park/Lorelei Manor/Flood Park Triangle
on Apr 5, 2007 at 4:43 pm
As I opened my pack, the forest became quiet. Too quiet. At the edge of my hearing, I began to detect a kind of hum, as if a giant swarm of angry bees, off in the distance, was headed our way.
Wanda's ears pricked up and a devilish smile twisted her lips.
She grabbed a massive fallen tree branch and began lugging it toward the road. She returned, dusting off her hands and looking pleased with herself.
"What are you doing?" I asked. The humming noise was louder and nearer, and sounded less like bees and more like ... oh, God.
The hum became a roar, filling my head with its infernal vibrations. A squeal of brakes, a crashing sound, then more brakes. The motorcycle roar died away and was replaced by lots of shouting.
Wanda began striding toward the road, bellowing, "T-Bone! You think you can walk out on a woman like me? You miserable son of a ..."
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Jun 7, 2007 at 10:48 am
As for what followed, it's probably best left forgotten. When the furor died down, I left an indiscreet Wanda and a bloodied-but-still-amorous T-Bone engaged in the type of wrestling match that should have no witnesses.
Another day of uninterrupted trudging brought me to a broad clearing in the forest. The gutteral rumble of a truck laden with redwood logs sent me scurying into a roadside ditch filled with miner's lettuce.
a resident of Menlo Park: Suburban Park/Lorelei Manor/Flood Park Triangle
on Jun 11, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Sinking down into the ditch, I wondered if I would ever inspire so much passion in a woman that she'd stage a major vehicle accident just to see me again.
It seemed unlikely. If I'd had anyone willing to track me down and wrestle me into the bushes, I wouldn't be making a lonely trek across the continent. The freedom to wander with a pack on my back now seemed more like a life sentence of solitary confinement.
I must have been an idiot to think adventures and personal growth awaited me. What I'd really signed on for was a trans-continental cruise stuck at a table with my tortured psyche and the unbearable fear that I would spend the rest of my life unloved and alone.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Jun 11, 2007 at 4:51 pm
If there's one thing I can count on, though, it's a change of mood. I can be down, then I'm up.
Only my head was visible to the passing traffic from the ditch as I paused for a green snack of miner's lettuce -- rinsed, of course, from my water bottle -- and a small piece of cheese.
I felt like a rabbit, sitting down there munching on wild vegetation. When food is scarce, there's a kind of joy that comes in learning to appreciate what you have. A natural kind of quiet settled over me.
I noticed movement among the plants further down the ditch. A rabbit. This was a sacred moment. I congratulated myself. A lesser man would have pulled out his slingshot.
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Jun 21, 2007 at 1:56 pm
As it turned out, a lesser man pulled out his gun. My ears still ringing from the shot, I stood up and gawked at the blood-spattered fur of the former rabbit while making an indignant (and undignified) squeak. The assasin spun around and trained his gun at me.
I was still working my mouth wordlessly when he lowered it and broke into an embarrassed grin.
"Sorry, dude. I didn't see you down there," he said sheepishly.
a resident of Menlo Park: Fair Oaks
on Jun 25, 2007 at 1:45 pm
This was a fine kettle of fish. A trigger-happy bonehead who grins sheepishly after obliterating a rabbit with ammo more appropriate to big game.
Some hunters are artists at what they do and find spiritual wholeness in killing something for sustenance. This guy was, as noted, an assassin and clearly unfamiliar with gentle ways. And he presented a danger to me, given my gentle predelictions and my rising anger over what he just did.
I sat where I was and tried for nonchalance. "Nice shot," I said. "You really nailed it, and with just one shot."
"Yeah," he replied, again with a sheepish grin. "I am pretty good with a nine millimeter, if I do say so myself."
A squirrel chanced on to the road in the woods opposite us. My interlocutor wheeled and fired. BLAM! No more squirrel.
"You know," I said, "you don't really have much left to eat with a weapon like that. Don't you ever want to eat what you kill?"
"I'm a vegetarian," he replied.
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Jun 27, 2007 at 5:49 pm
"Really?" I said. "I'm a cannibal, myself."
That wiped the sheepish grin off his face in a hurry. I gave him my best crazy-eyed smile, and managed to hold in my laughter until after he'd bid me a hasty farewell.
a resident of Menlo Park: Suburban Park/Lorelei Manor/Flood Park Triangle
on Jun 29, 2007 at 1:57 pm
I was still snickering and congratulating myself an hour later, when I headed off the road and into a copse of trees to relieve myself.
If I had been less modest, I wouldn't have wandered so far off the road. I would have happily gone on my way and missed the plucked and scarred landscape hiding behind the veil of roadside trees.
After spending so long amid the tall conifers, the scene before me was both alien and heart-breaking. Deep tire tracks rutted the earth, pocked with tree stumps and crushed, dying underbrush. The rustle of leaves and trilling of birds had been replaced by the muffled sound of chain saws and diesel engines.
I hurried back to the road, and my troubled thoughts carried me into Pottersville, an unimpressive assortment of strip malls superimposed on what probably had been a modestly charming downtown. I passed by the Applebee's and KFC, finally settling on a slightly fusty looking diner with torn vinyl covering its stools and a slatternly waitress with disheveled green hair and a nose ring.
"What do you recommend?" I asked her.
She sighed and tucked an errant lock of mossy green hair behind her ear. "Not letting your high school boyfriend talk you into cutting class all the time, so your C- minus average doesn't keep you from getting into college and the hell out of this town."
She glanced up and gave me an assessing look. "The beef stroganoff isn't awful, it's filling and it's cheap. The coffee's bad, but the refills are free. The day-old pie is half-price; avoid the cherry – the filling is straight out the can."
I blushed and mumbled my thanks. In the bathroom mirror, I realized that I looked less like an adventurous wanderer and more like a vagrant. I scrubbed myself in the sink, and after five minutes, accepted the fact that the best I could hope for was "not filthy." Presentable was out of reach, and attractive was no longer taking my phone calls.
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Jul 2, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Maureen-the-green-haired waitress strolled across the empty diner to refill my coffee.
"So what's your story?" she asked.
"I'm not sure I have a story yet," I said. "By the time I reach the East Coast, I hope I'll have a few, but I've just set out a few days ago. I'm walking across the country."
"Wow. Like Forrest Gump, huh?"
"I think he was running, not walking. I'm going for more of a Jack Kerouac 'On the Road' type thing," I said.
"I didn't see that movie," she said, fidgeting with the nametag on her rusty orange polyester uniform.
I didn't have the gumption to correct her, so I let it slide.
"Thanks for your advice on what to order. It's nice to have a hot meal," I said. "Do you have any advice on where I could pitch my tent for the night?"
"There aren't any campgrounds around here, and you don't want to stay in the park unless you want to share your sleeping bag with Crazy Larry," said Maureen, who had stopped fidgeting with her uniform and once again fixed me with her assessing gaze. I made my best attempt to appear sane and non-threatening.
"Tell you what, if my dog likes you, you can crash on my sofa, tonight only. Brucie's a good judge of character," she said. "If he doesn't like you, you sleep in the yard and clear out by daybreak, before I let him out. Once Brucie decides he doesn't like a person, he's not too friendly."
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Jul 6, 2007 at 11:13 am
I solemnly promised I would be on my way at daybreak whether Brucie liked me or not.
Brucie liked me.
True to my word, I departed Maureen's sofa at dawn the next day, but only made it as far as her bedroom, where I took up residence in her rickety bed for the next two weeks. My wanderlust had been temporarily replaced by another, baser kind of lust.
a resident of Menlo Park: Suburban Park/Lorelei Manor/Flood Park Triangle
on Jul 11, 2007 at 11:14 am
I might have stayed there for months, maybe forever. I'd become known around town as Maureen's deadbeat live-in boyfriend, spending my days hanging out with the dog and my evenings listening to Maureen complain about what lousy, butt-pinching jerks those loggers were while eating leftovers she'd cadged from the diner.
But on the fourteenth day, I woke up humming the lyrics to Freebird and realized that it was time to be on my way.
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Jan 10, 2008 at 4:50 pm
As I headed down the road, I wondered if Maureen would feel sorrow or relief when she found my awkwardly written goodbye-note taped to the bathroom mirror. I wondered if Brucie would miss me, and then I wondered what the hell I'd done with my map.
a resident of Menlo Park: Fair Oaks
on Feb 4, 2008 at 3:29 pm
"Damn," I said, recalling that my map was, even now, probably wafting in the slight breezes that sometimes tickle the bulletin boarded papers on Maureen's kitchen wall.
I had to go back. Maybe she'd bring home some key lime pie. Maybe I'd get a piece. Maybe she'd lend me $20. My tooth hurts.
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Jun 30, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I wavered, and then resolutely turned around again and tramped out of town.
Screw it, I could get another map, but I didn't think I could stand to leave Maureen a second time.
a resident of Portola Valley: Ladera
on Jun 30, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I hadn't gone a mile when I noticed a scattering of tangerine seeds and here and there a skin. I picked it up and smelled it. It was, at most a few hours old.
What I wouldn't give for a cold tangerine right about now. My reverie was interrupted by an automotive cough followed by a couple of wheezes and a rattle, then a hint of reggae beat.
I turned to see an ancient Honda crawling down the road towards me.
"Hey, mon," the driver said. "You do the ten-toe turbo like that. Wa mek?"
I smiled and pointed down the road. My years on Bronx streets were paying off again. "I'm walking across the United States, bro."
He tossed me a tangerine. It was cold.
He pulled over, got out and sat down beside me.
a resident of Menlo Park: Suburban Park/Lorelei Manor/Flood Park Triangle
on Jul 9, 2008 at 2:44 pm
By the time I'd shouldered my pack and resumed walking, the sun was setting. As my long shadow stretched out in front of me, I felt oddly content, albeit slightly sticky from tangerine juice. I didn't feel at all guilty for having whiled away the day chatting with Dexter, the wild-haired Jamaican.
He'd given me his map, a slightly dog-eared and dated freebie from AAA, but it wasn't as detailed as the one I'd left behind.
When twilight approached, I headed off the road and unrolled my sleeping bag on a patch of grassy weeds near a grove of trees. I slept more soundly than I had in weeks.
When I dragged open an eyelid the next morning, I found myself looking down the barrel of a shotgun.
"You're trespassing," snapped the gun's owner.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Jan 26, 2009 at 4:53 pm
"Good morning to you, too," I replied, yawning and stretching. No point in letting on what I was really feeling. "Would you be interested in a tangerine? I know I'd like one, but I don't want to reach for it at gunpoint. Would you please put that thing away so we can talk?"
My casual charm took her by surprise. As she removed her hand from the trigger to brush back a stray tress from her dark and bountiful mane, I grabbed the barrel, wrenched it free of her grip and shook out the shells onto the ground.
"Now," I said. "Where were we?"
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Mar 27, 2009 at 3:02 pm
In reply, she crinkled her adorable nose, distracting me as her fist smashed my chin.
"That's a mean hay-maker you've got, ma'am," I said from my new vantage point on the ground. Even from this angle, she still looked good, although that might have been the concussion talking.
She scooped up her shotgun and pulled a couple of shells from her pocket. Her knuckles were red, but her fingers were long and elegant.
"I don't like it when people take things that belong to me. It makes me cranky," she said.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Mar 27, 2009 at 4:27 pm
"That's not very neighborly, pointing a gun at someone," I said, then, before she had a chance to reload, I caught her in a scissors kick that sent the gun flying and her to the ground.
I wrestled her to a position of restraint. I wasn't going to allow any second acts after that hay-maker, from which I was still smarting.
"What exactly is your problem with a guy setting up a neat, organized camp on a couple of square yards of weeds next to the road?," I asked. "You could have asked me what my plans were. Jeez. Give a guy a chance, will ya."
I was hoping she'd cooperate. I had a dry dusty taste in my mouth and it probably reflected badly on my image, given that we were almost within kissing distance.
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Mar 30, 2009 at 11:35 am
She licked her lips nervously, and then leaned in and kissed me. She tasted of raspberries. I closed my eyes and saw stars. Then the world went dark.
When I awoke, I was nursing a massive goose egg on the back of my noggin and staring up at the ceiling of the Coos County Jail.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Mar 30, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I was allowed one phone call. I got through to Leon, who placed a call to the District Attorney, who sent word to the sheriff for my immediate release and the dropping of all charges.
Friends in high places. I recommend it.
I picked up my gear and headed back to the highway. I wanted to prosecute young Ms. what's-her-name for that bump on my head, having been fairly gentlemanly under the circumstances. I didn't hurt her and she had confronted me with eternal darkness, or whatever it is that's next after this go-round, but then why push my luck.
I'm free thanks to friends, and there are more friends on the road ahead. Why waste time on her?
Now for a cold tangerine. (The local grocer to let me steep my tangerines in his wine-cooling bath.)
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Mar 30, 2009 at 2:25 pm
"The charges have been dropped. You're being released."
I snapped out of my reverie and blinked at the middle-aged deputy standing outside the holding cell. A smudge of powdered sugar coated the ends of his bushy red mustache, and a matching blot daubed his chin.
I'd been charged with assault, trespassing and a third thing that I might have remembered if my head hadn't been throbbing so badly. Maybe I did have friends in high places. That blow to the head had been hard enough to make me see Jesus.
As I stepped out of the cell, the deputy said, "You're lucky. Anyone who crosses Delores usually ends up in the hospital, or worse."
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Jun 18, 2009 at 3:06 pm
A brief sojourn to the emergency room didn't sound to bad, actually. My stomach growled, my head throbbed, and I'd be willing to donate my bruised chin to science if they promised to remove it from my premises immediately.
I blearily surveyed the road ahead of me, swaying slightly under the weight of my pack before slowly putting one foot in front of the other.
A couple of hours later, as I mentally kicked myself for not stopping for breakfast, I came to lemonade stand. Lord, I was thirsty enough to drink Koolaid at this point.
"Mom!" shouted one of the small tow-headed proprietors. "Mom, come quick!"
I put up my hands and backed away slowly. I had no desire to spend any more time in jail. A heavy-set woman shot out the front door, wiping her hands on a dish towel and approached me rapidly. "What would you say to a hot meal and maybe a warm bath?" she asked me.
"Huh?" I said, baffled.
A sweet smile dimpled her ample cheeks. "Won't you please come in?" she asked. "My boys are home-schooled and today's lesson is on the Good Samaritan. They've been on the look-out for a traveler in need all morning."
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Jun 18, 2009 at 4:59 pm
"Thanks, kid," I said to the little guy who had called his mom.
I laid down my backpack and took the offered chair at the kitchen table, and let go with a deep sigh. The ordeal with the sheriff and that heartless, wrong-headed female with the martial arts thing, the darned injustice of it all, had left me seeking somebody, anybody, with a trace of human kindness, and it seemed I'd found what I was looking for.
"Would you like some coffee," the good woman asked.
"Why, yes, ma'am, I would," I said. "Those are just about the nicest words headed in my direction I've heard for days."
a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on Jul 10, 2009 at 11:43 am
Things were going swimmingly until my hostess asked me if I had accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior. I was warm, clean and confortably full of coffee and apple brown betty when the question came.
"Nope," I said.
I listened to her earnest pitch out of politeness, wondering what would have happened if I'd just lied and said yes. I'd probably be tucking into a third helping of dessert right now.
When she finally paused to take a breath, I said, "Ma'am, you make an excellent case. I'll give it serious consideration on my journey, but it's getting late and I should get going."
I thanked her for her kindness and hit the road with a pamphlet featuring a smiling cartoon Jesus tucked into my pocket.
"Goodbye! Jesus loves you!" yelled the boys.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Jul 30, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Someday, kid, you'll discover the truth about Jesus. He's never around when you need him; if he's listening, he never lets on; and he hasn't shown a bit of interest in being my personal savior. He may, as you say, love me. That and 50 cents will get me a tangerine, when they're in season.
Now to be honest, I haven't considered Jesus for a role as personal savior and I don't plan to, so it might be a mutual disregard thing we have going. I'm hoping the ghost of Mark Twain will take a shine to me.
Where was I? Oh yeah, on the road again, my pack on my back, a canteen on my belt, and the winding highway beneath me. There are pine trees in front of me, pine trees behind me, pine trees to either side of me. It's a piney woods. Get me the heck out of these piney woods.
About two miles down the road, I heard a familiar exhaust note from the distant past. No way! Rounding the bend behind me, a red 67 GTO with a black vinyl top, its rear end jacked a bit, rumbled into view. Wisps of long brown hair fluttered at the driver's side window. Get out there, thumb! Get me offa this road, away from these piney woods, and into that car!
She stopped. "Where you headed, man?," she asked, her hand resting on the shift lever, the big V-8 idling and sending shudders up my hand and all the way through me.
"Down the road," I said, taking her cue and opening the door. Hanging from her rear view mirror was a pine tree air freshener. Well, you can't have everything, I remarked to myself.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Apr 6, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I removed the earplug of my portable radio and stopped the chatter about stock markets that had unexpectedly interrupted my reverie as I sat shotgun in a 67 GTO.
Not my first ride in such a monster, by any means, but my first in that privileged seat. And my first in the company of a lovely female of the opposite sex sitting behind the wheel.
"Do you mind if turn down the radio for a couple of minutes," I asked. She was tuned to disco, but i hungered for the beastly rumble of the exhaust and the tightly wound whine of the gearbox.
"Why?" she asked.
"I haven't ridden in anything this tenaciously bodacious since I was 17," I said.
"Bodacious? This old thing?" she replied. "It's a car. My dad gave it to me in his will. I didn't even know how to drive a stick shift."
"Really," I said mildly. "Have you ever pushed it, tried to see what it can do?"
"No," she said. "I'm kind of shy about driving fast. Nobody's ever taught me how."
"Really," I said again.
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Suspicious of need for red light cameras
Original post made by Renee Batti, associate editor of The Almanac, on Jan 10, 2007
I want to echo the sentiments of Claude Leglise, (Letters Dec. 13) who was quite eloquent on the subject of adding red light surveillance cameras in Menlo Park. When are we, as a population, going to protest the legalized spying on us and our privacy?
This grows more prevalent every day. Are red light violations a big concern in Menlo Park, or is the business of raising revenues really the bigger concern? I never run a red light, but what will be defined as a "red light?" We all have had the experience of heading into the intersection when the light is yellow, and later turns red.
It's my understanding that some of these camera companies have actually shortened the length of a yellow light to increase their revenues, since they are paid on the basis of fines levied. In such instances, they are actually creating the crime to line their coffers.
When are we going to look to local government to serve and protect us, not spend time thinking of ways to drive revenues on our backs?
Ray Sun
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a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Jan 11, 2007 at 10:17 am
I only hope there's adequate oversight of this questionable project to prevent any shenanigans like shortening yellow-light cycles. Over the last few years, my confidence in our civic leaders and city officials has been thoroughly shaken, and the installation of cameras at intersections when there doesn't appear to be a real light-running problem in this town makes me very nervous.
a resident of Menlo Park: Park Forest
on Jan 13, 2007 at 11:10 am
From the over 2000 cameras installed in the country there was only one single instance where the yellow time was shortened for camera profits. That was extremely stupid and an anomaly that can never happen again. The City Traffic Departments control signal timing, not the companies; and if ever there where an accident at an intersection where the Traffic dept had too short a yellow time, they would be sued till the cows come home. As a matter of fact I am aware of the common practice of INCREASING the yellow time at intersection that get cameras so the city will have less complaints and overrule any contestation of the tickets.
It makes me laugh when people cry about the profit associated with Photo Enforcement. It is an argument without logic, only emotion. This is America and businesses work for profit. Do you realize that parking is enforced and processed by private companies for "profit"? That Tolls are collected and processed by private companies for "profits"? That hospitals are run by private companies for "profit"? That Doctors treat and "care" for you for "profit"?
If people or companies work, perform, extend resources, and take risks to get work done, public or otherwise, they should be expected to earn profit. To believe otherwise is naive. And yes cities will always have programs that benefit yet cost the public, like parking and cops giving tickets - deal with it.
The "profits" argument so many of the detractors choose to use is simply a convenient cover for their real objection, which is they still want the ability to run Red Lights without getting punished. I say to hell with that! Just because they want to get around faster does not give them the right to endanger me and my family. Notice there are no arguments made that it is ok to run red lights. How come you don't hear the naysayers make that argument? Because running red lights is dangerous - PERIOD - it's just that some people feel their convenience is more important then other's safety.
To all the cry-baby detractors complaining about red light cameras, the solution is very simple, it really is quite easy: SIMPLY STOP GOING THROUGH RED LIGHTS - THERE WILL NO LONGER BE ANY PROFITS IN THE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS - THE CITY'S WILL BE HAPPY AND THE CORPORATIONS WILL PACK THEIR BAGS AND GO HOME
Stop crying and stop going through red lights.
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Jan 13, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Perhaps you could calm down long enough to cite the study that says that over 2,000 cameras have been installed countrywide, and that there has been only one instance of yellow light-cycle shortening. I, for one, would be interested in finding a reliable, independent study on red light cameras. And I'd also like to see the city's statistics on red-light violations and accidents caused at intersections because of such violations.
Meanwhile, thanks for your advice, but I must inform you that it really wasn't necessary. Recent city decisions may have made me a little queasy, but they have yet to make me cry. And, FYI, I don't run red lights.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jan 13, 2007 at 3:25 pm
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a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jan 14, 2007 at 8:32 am
Amazing, really.
Running red light = bad = endangering of your family.
Everyone gets it. That is why the argument works EVERY TIME!!! Can we be smart enough to see through it this time...
As for profits: I disagree, the town is not a profit center (in the business of making money) the town is a cost center, as most service industries are! (service the most people for the least cost = break even) I know this concept might be a little hard to understand, but it is a standard accounting term so you can look it up if you want. copy (cost center vs profit center), post in a search bar, then click search.
Back to (red light cameras):
When they are installed by a company who's sole purpose is making money, you have to understand that people will be suspicious. I guess its the profit motive, but deep down, I think it because WE ALL FEEL that law enforcement (police) should be doing the job of "keep my family safe."
My feelings::: (in defense of those terrible people who endanger your family)
Most people don't run red lights. (on purpose)
Everyone I know, including me has done it (at least once), and I know I did not do it on purpose, and I suppose the people I know did not do it on purpose either. IT HAPPENS, for many reasons, stuck behind a truck and the light changes, we can all name reasons you have made the mistake.
So when you run your next red light, and endanger MY family, please drive yourself to the police station and turn yourself in. Oh wait you don't like that idea, so let us invite some company to do that for us. Provide the service of ticketing you so that you don't have to turn yourself in. Your ticket will simply appear in the mail. (with half of your fee money going to some companies bottom line!)
Wow, thats progress.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Jan 14, 2007 at 1:59 pm
What is so terrible about slowing down and even waiting when the light turns yellow?
Slowing down and driving with safety as the top priority may not feel natural but it is a habit that can be acquired. Go with the flow -- not the flow of aggressive drivers but the flow of the system as laid out by traffic planners, who have figured out speed limits, traffic light timing and all the rest of it.
It's simple really, and it reduces stress and helps concentration in operating a potentially dangerous machine.
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Jan 14, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Menlo Park resident, There's absolutely nothing terrible about slowing down and even waiting when the light turns yellow. Believe me, I often am distressed and disgusted by the reckless driving I see on the road every day. But reckless driving and red-light running aren't really the issues here -- at least not my issues. I want to know what NEED prompted the city to approve red light cameras (and their administrative and possible other costs to the city), and I don't think the city has really explained that. Therein lies my uneasiness, particularly after learning that other jurisdictions have had problems with the cameras.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Jan 14, 2007 at 7:57 pm
I don't think there ever was a need expressed by the city. I'm under the impression this firm came to us and sweet-talked it's way in. They probably knew about the budget crunch and used that angle ("it won't cost you a red cent PLUS you'll earn big $$$").
While I can see the need in cities (think Market Street in SF with loads of pedestrians), I really don't see the need in MP. I would think that when it comes to pedestrian accidents, it's the rolling right-hand turn on red that's the main problem and those cameras aren't set up for capturing that.
It would be easy enough to determine the need, though - get the police to provide the root-case accident data (hint-hint, Almanac reporters!).
a resident of Atherton: West Atherton
on Apr 23, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I agree with New guy. Red light cameras are almost as bad of an idea as speed bumps.
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Aug 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Red Light Cameras Don't Work
Interesting: the solution to one problem causes another.
"The rigorous studies clearly show red-light cameras don't work," said lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health policy and management at the USF College of Public Health. "Instead, they increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections."
Comprehensive studies from North Carolina, Virginia, and Ontario have all reported cameras are associated with increases in crashes. The study by the Virginia Transportation Research Council also found that cameras were linked to increased crash costs. The only studies that conclude cameras reduced crashes or injuries contained "major research design flaws," such as incomplete data or inadequate analyses, and were always conducted by researchers with links to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The IIHS, funded by automobile insurance companies, is the leading advocate for red-light cameras since insurance companies can profit from red-light cameras by way of higher premiums due to increased crashes and citations.
And, of course, the agenda of the government is to increase revenue due to fines:
A 2001 paper by the Office of the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives reported that red-light cameras are "a hidden tax levied on motorists." The report came to the same conclusions that all of the other valid studies have, that red-light cameras are associated with increased crashes and that the timings at yellow lights are often set too short to increase tickets for red-light running. That's right, the state actually tampers with the yellow light settings to make them shorter, and more likely to turn red as you're driving through them.
In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. Those local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light duration, and collect the profits instead.
The cities in question include Union City, CA, Dallas and Lubbock, TX, Nashville and Chattanooga, TN, and Springfield, MO, according to Motorists.org, which collected information from reports from around the country.
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Only in America can we gleefully celebrate a criminal's apprehension when the brevity of their crime still lingers in the forefront of our day to day lives. These celebrants are so very juvenile and dim-witted…an insult to the lives lost and permanently changed. It's the G. W. mentality of "Mission Accomplished" whilst all the collateral damage is still festering and absolutely nothing has been accomplised only exacerbated.


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Could 2007 somehow have been avoided? Where does one begin to recap 12 months of such willful self-parody? Isn't it insulting to explain why, say, waterboarding is wrong, especially when one of the few people who needs this clarified is the new attorney general of the United States?
Corporate and political hoodlums spent the year doing three things: planning crimes, committing crimes, and covering up crimes. If this is news to you, no summary will bring you up to speed. So here are just some highlights of 2007, because it would be cruel and indecent to make you remember it all.
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This past year excised at least one bromide from motivational speakers' rusty-saw collection — that is, unless they shift gears on the fly and start telling us that whatever doesn't kill us only serves to make us weaker. Clearly, if you're reading this, you — like a few million other schmos just trying to keep body and soul in proximity — survived, despite being sandwiched between poverty and the evermore obscenely wealthy cadre of oligarchs who create it.
Americans still dream in dollar signs, but the super rich lack the conscience to dream at all. So the rest of us ended up scrambling after a monetary unit that is no longer the envy of even Canadians. A land of people who once had good jobs with good benefits has now become a place where corporate behemoths slowly squeeze us for everything that was ours — including our very homes.
Mortgages too good to be true, peddled by swindlers too bad to be truthful, led to domiciles being repossessed like there was no tomorrow — for the people living in them, anyway. How were you to know that, when you mortgaged your soul to a predatory lender, it would end up being owned by Bob Jones University?
If the credit hustlers didn't dispossess us, we still had to worry about having a health-care racketeer tell us that our home, when liquidated, should be enough to cover the co-pay for our first course of meds. The most important American film of 2007 was Michael Moore's Sicko, a work so entertainingly stark that it left us blankly grinning at the boundless inhumanity of corporate avarice.
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As '07 began, America was preoccupied with teaching Iraqis how to behave in a civilized manner . . . while imposing death sentences on their former leaders. This past year ended with Saddam Hussein becoming the final holiday ornament hung by the White House. Cell-phone video of Hussein's indelicate departure caused some grumbling in international circles. He may have been a mass murderer, but he was, after all, a head of state. So the State Department began tutoring prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's government in lynch-mob decorum — no mobile communications devices please, and anyone above the rank of vice-president must be hung with a red-velvet VIP rope.
A couple of Saddam's henchmen, including his half brother and former head of the secret police Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were scheduled to meet the hangman in early January. In a case of unfortunate fashion-police statism, the two prisoners were made to wear jumpsuits before being noosed and dropped from such height that Saddam's half brother was decapitated. Later the mishap was explained away as a translation problem — when Saddam's sibling's time came, his executioners thought their instructions were to "halve brother."
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Regular readers of these pages know my apprehensions about Travis Sullivan's Björkestra. To wit, would the most idiosyncratic pop vocalist of our time be turned into conventional big-band music? In times of yore, jazz made corny tunes hip ("Bye Bye Blackbird," "My Favorite Things"). Is jazz now in the business of turning the hip corny?
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No jazz fan will begrudge Keith Jarrett and his "Standards Trio" nearly filling Symphony Hall a week ago Sunday. What other serious instrumental jazz artist can do that these days? Herbie Hancock? Pat Metheny? Sonny Rollins? Anyone else? Still, is Jarrett all that?
Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Jack DeJohnette — now on a 25th-anniversary tour — play a familiar, accessible book of material (originals included) at a very high level, and Jarrett in particular has artistic capital to spare. Along with Hancock and Bill Evans, he's influenced generations of pianists, and with his early groundbreaking solo albums, he made an emotional connection with a broad audience that hasn't abated. When he sat down and played his first, ruminative chords, you could hear the unmistakable touch of a master — plush and fully voiced. He improvised for a few minutes until "Green Dolphin Street" came into view and his two bandmates joined him, Peacock improvising countermelodies against the piano theme, DeJohnette restricting himself to cymbals. You could hear the Jarrett trademarks — that touch, the unpredictable extended lines slicing through the form, the harmonic tension in his chord voicings. There was also his familiar body English as he rose to a near-standing crouch to play some passages, and his glottal exhalations of "aaaah."
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Today, after two of its largest partners have already announced their systems portfolios that will use it, Intel finally announced one of the worst-kept secrets in the industry: the Xeon E5-2600 family of processors.
OK, now that I've got in my jab at the absurdity of the announcement scheduling, let's look at the thing itself. In a nutshell, these new processors, based on the previous-generation 32 nm production process of the Xeon 5600 series but incorporating the new "Sandy Bridge" architecture, are, in fact, a big deal. They incorporate several architectural innovations and will bring major improvements in power efficiency and performance to servers. Highlights include:
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Not disrespecting the Steelers but they didn't even make the playoffs one single time for their first 40 years. They were consistent cellar-dwellers for decades.
That title has to go to the Packers (13 championships, multiple dynasties, last team to win 3 in a row)... Bears and Giants belong in the conversation. All of those 3 have been competitive in almost every era. Pittsburgh belongs in the SB era conversation but even their success is contained in 2 of 5 SB decades.
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MULTIPLE DYNASTIES? HA! The only way the pack ever had a dynasty is if the bills going to 4 SBs is a dynasty cause that's all they did. Win NFC/ AFC championships. The 2 teams that went to the championship weren't even the actual best teams in the league. It was basically CFB. A bunch of people debating who should go. No playoff system. Why do the NFL championships count but the AFL doesn't? Face it. SBs are the only things that count. The fact that the NFL merged at all means the old ones have no merit. Congratulations pack. You WENT to the SB 9 times.
I'm a giants fan but even I know the old ones are not the same stature as SBs. There wouldn't have been a merge if they did matter.
And no this isnt the same as baseball. There wasn't 2 MLB leagues that merged like the NFL did.
Next you'll tell me is that the lions and browns are better than the steelers, cowboys, and niners. Oh the browns being bad after the merge counts but the packs doesn't?
The steelers actually played the game to get their rings. The pack got lucky cause the boarding room felt bad for them. SBs are harder. The system actually works to make sure the 2 teams left are actually the best. A SB should be worth 10 old ones.
Not taking anything from the players and coaches. That's different.
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I don't live in the NY area and for a long time I spent my Sundays in sports bars among fellow football fans. I never liked going to sports bars where just 1 group of fans would hang. The Steeler fans always represented well, and were among the best guys to have a beer and a laugh with. They have a lot in common with the Giants you know:
-Kate Mara, and little sis Rooney
-They hate the Cowboys for the 1996 Superbowl, among other numberous obnoxiouses.
- They dislike the Eagles as cross state rivals, and for making outsiders thing all of the state of Penn is like what you see at an Eagles game.
- The 2 teams owners have been friends for a long time.
- and lastly, Kate Mara. Because it is my post and I get to put her 2x.
Where were the Steelers in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s? Certainly not in the playoffs. But guess what, they were in the league and they were playing. The Steelers were one of the league's worst franchises for their first 40 years.
Since the ABA merged with the NBA, please tell me which NBA titles no longer count. I guess all those Celtics championships get thrown out by your logic.
As for the Bears -- playoff appearences in 60s/70s/90s: 1963, 1977,1979, 1990,1991, 1994
As for the Packers -- playoff appearences in 70s/80s: 1972, 1982
As for the Giants -- playoff appearences in 60/s/70s/90s: Three straight championship games (1961, 1962, 1963), 1990 (Super Bowl win), 1993, 1997 (and Super Bowl loss in 2000)
The Pack does have 13 championships even if you stomp your feet and deny it.
Even the NFL itself acknowledges it on its site -- I'll dig up a link.
Further, there was no AFL until 1960. So how is the NFL supposed to compete with a league that doesn't exist? How can the Giants' 1956 Championship be discounted as an "NFC Championship" when the other league wouldn't even exist for 4 more years? And in fact, the other league would be created because of the 1958 Championship between the Giants and Colts. Do you need a history lesson on that too? (Crib notes version: That game put pro football on the map and people wanted new NFL teams to spread across the country. When the NFL said "no", they started their own league -- the AFL).
By the way, baseball operated the same way until 1969 -- the team with the best standing of each league played the other league's champion in the World Series. So do those old World Series no longer count either?
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You said much more completely than I would have, but my answer was essentially the same.
I have to smile when youn g people think the world started when they were born, and history startes there. I remember well in the 50's and 60's, when I first started watching football, that the Steelers were the ultimate cellar dwellars, which made it all the more difficult to take when they absolutely killed YA Tittle in thet '63 (?) game. The classic one where you see him on his knees, his helmet off and blood coming down his face. That was about the worst beating I've ever seen a QB take in my life.
Under the MLB umbrella? Yeah sure old man. So umbrella was the NFL and AFL under? Cute how you somehow think only the AFL merged despite the fact that the Browns and colts were originally NFL before moving to the NFL. So I'm supposed to care that the giants have banners? The patriots have ones for going 16-0( as if that means anything). The packers won a championship by winning 7 games. SEVEN. Cause there was no overtime. They went 7-1-6. Yeah they CLEARLY deserved it. It was clearly harder. The highest records doesn't mean the best team. There's a reason why CFB is changing the system. Cause most regular reasons doesn't mean best team. Notre dame had the most wins. How is one championship game considered a playoff system? Take off the cheesehead old man. I never said that the championships be forgotten. I they aren't SBs. The pack has 4 SBs. Not 13.
Yeah the pack did better than the 9ers, cowboys and steelers despite the fact that the pack played ONE playoff game. Obviously it's easy to win an old championship if theirs 16 teams. One championship game. That's not a playoff system old man. That's a bowl game. You literally just described a college system. I'm sorry if I offended your college system.
Oh the old championships are suddenly harder than SBs. I guess the pack only has 9 championships.
Tell me the browns and lions are better than the steelers, cowboys, and 9ers. I dare you.
I bet you'll tell me Otto graham could beat Joe Montanna.
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The AFL represented inferior quality and depth for many years... when the SB started they were finallt deserving, evn if they lost the first 2.. But by '67, with 6 years under their belt, Professional football saw a more even distribution of talent than in their early years. BUT, you must remember that now the depth on teams wasn't nearly as good as in the earlier years when there were fewer teams.
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