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Re: Worst Opponent Yet This Year - 19 years ago
What was this projectile that was hurled at the Cornell fans?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: i2 sports or XMI whatever problems? - 19 years ago
If you have a season pass, how much of refund are you looking for?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah Rink Refurbishment - 19 years ago
The back of the ticket is Cornell's attempt to limit or exclude liability. The state of the law now is that you (Cornell, a homeowner, a motorist) should give thought to what are potential dangers and consequences. Cornell couldn't take railings off the bridge to allow for easier snow-plowing and post signs, "Caution - hazardous pedestrian crossing." Cornell had a hockey fatality ciby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Power play percentage - how important? - 19 years ago
Indeed, there's a lot you can do with statistics, although for hockey and even more for soccer, there's less than you can do for baseball, football, or golf, where there are individual plays and situations. For the goalie you could break out stats for man-down goals vs. even-up. Maybe you could compare how the goalie does period by period. Or how he fares when he makes fewer than 15 saves inby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Goodbye i2sports; hello XMIevents - 19 years ago
Apple mobile does have as good or better unit reliability than IBM. Fujitsu is also quite good but with pretty small market share. Dell had a horror show about three years ago when they took their eyes off QC.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: cornell v yale 6-1 - 19 years ago
That was exciting: Watching the video feed freeze on a 53" TV while playing the audio-only feed on a second system and paying a second five bucks for the audio. About the game's outcome: Maybe we're spoiled. It feels as if we fell apart, allowing two goals in the third period and two goals total, hurting the team's defensive standing overall and McKee's goals against average, now needingby billhoward - Hockey
Re: i2 sports or XMI whatever problems? - 19 years ago
It's gonna be a tight race: Cowbell Guy might upload 100 game photos, color corrected, before we get 100 frames of video.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: cornell v yale 0-0 end first - 19 years ago
If you start the thread, aren't you obligated to change the subject line after every goal? <g>by billhoward - Hockey
Re: cornell v yale 0-0 end first - 19 years ago
What! Four goals? Yale #13 had a breakaway late in the first or early in the second, it was scoreless, the screen froze, and now it's 4-0 Cornell? Sheesh.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Goodbye i2sports; hello XMIevents - 19 years ago
Detzer, Detweilver. Sorry, Sue. I've been living on half nights of sleep. Re IBM selling the computer business (allegedly). IBM made rock solid desktops that performed no faster or slower than anyone else's. Oh, well. But notebooks. IBM made the only business laptops worth owning. Go to an airport club and there are three kinds of laptops: Everybody else; Apple portables for creative peoplby billhoward - Hockey
Re: i2 sports or XMI whatever problems? - 19 years ago
Frustrating. Unless students are doing a massive MP3 download before heading home on break, there's no excuse. Wait, that couldn't be it. Cornell licensed an internal Napster server. To paraphrase the cheer - there is no gravity. It just sucks.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Davy at the Everblades - 19 years ago
I would think the Pep Band manager represents Cornell quite well. If you ask Mike, it will probably be one more thing foisted off on Sue Detweiler, and my suspicion is she is not someone who is underworked.by billhoward - Hockey
How to connect laptop to TV for Webcast - 19 years ago
Even a technical incompetent can help you. Your laptop needs and probably has a video out connector. If not, you're hosed (unless you run to CompUSA and buy a VGA to TV adapter box for $75). It will be round and yellow and that's an RCA (NTSC) connector - the linga franca, base level common standard for TV video connections. All you need is a cable from your laptop to your TV set. (If you havby billhoward - Hockey
Can't get Webcast feed on XMIevents.com - 19 years ago
I paid my money and tried to log on, but the picture is blank. There's no rink, no Web feed, nothing, no Cornell - Yale pre-game show. Oh, wait, it's an hour and a half before the game. I wonder if that's it.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Goodbye i2sports; hello XMIevents - 19 years ago
Requires 64MB RAM and really wants Windows Media Player 10. talk about setting the bar too low and a bit high.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Goodbye i2sports; hello XMIevents - 19 years ago
Where would one find competent programmers in upstate New York who know sports, thrive under deadline pressure, and handle bug fixes within an hour or two? Oh, wait. Why don't you just do the Webcam thing yourself for Cornell? How hard could it be? How hard could Cornell be to work with? Oh, wait, don't answer that.by billhoward - Hockey
Power play percentage - how important? - 19 years ago
I see a couple other “we appear to have time on our hands†threads. Here’s another: Seeing that roughly half of Princeton’s, RPI’s and (almost 60% of) Harvard’s goals this season are off the power play makes you wonder given their places in the constellation of college hockey power: Is power-play percentage all it’s cracked up to be? And are there better ways to measure the power plby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah Rink Refurbishment - 19 years ago
Unless there's an NHL / NCAA rule regulating the height of the backboards / glass (so that shots X feet high or more are out of play), fans *might* prefer sitting behind glass more than netting. Or they might not. Dartmouth's old rink was chain link fence all around (this would be going waaaay back) and the crowd hated the obstructed view. And they hated it worse when Dartmouth fans would cuby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah Rink Refurbishment - 19 years ago
First the new locker rooms get built and then Cornell considers possible expansion of seating. For the expanded seating that hasn't been planned let alone contracted, one trusts Cornell can do enough construction from mid-March through September to have the building usable without needing to spend the first month, let alone the season, on the road. Interpolating from the story: No additionalby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Did anyone get their jersey? - 19 years ago
It's easy to misspell a name now. Cornell hockey was so much simpler back when. Names were easy to spell and pronounce: Dryden, Cornell (Brian), Cropper, Brush, Bertrand, Harkness, Orr (Harry not Bobby), Pettit (okay, you could mix up the double and single T's), Hughes, Tufford. The worst it got among the stars was Lodboa; Stanowski was long but spellable. Then in the mid-1980s it turned out skatby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Responsibility for effect of cheers - 19 years ago
One small gesture toward civility in sports was here on eLynah: In discussing signs to hoist and cheers to yell at the Army game, a couple posters said, in effect, "Leave out the stuff about Iraq. It's our army." That would not have happened a generation ago during the Vietnam war. Back then, to a lot of people, all soldiers, even unwilling conscripts, were baby killers. You can, asby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Canisius Photos - 19 years ago
I like that every photo is perfectly color corrected. Either Photoshop's auto-correct filters are getting better and better, or somebody spent a mess of time making the photos come out right.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Article on New Athletics Website - 19 years ago
That would be cool: every minute of every Cornell game in every sport digitized and put online. Instead of reading posts from old timers (who probably weren't there either, given how small the facility was in 1970) recount online how Dan Lodboa's three third-period goals beat Clarkson for the 1970 NCAA championship ... you could see it happen. The NFL a year ago ran a pretty neat commercial (by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Cornell Victorious fund in Cornell Sun - 19 years ago
KeithK Wrote: ... But the first thought that comes to mind when you mention the possibility of a smaller structure is "What about graduation?" While the football team may not fill the Crescent, the last weekend in May certainly does. There really isn't any other facility on campus that can handle the numbers, unless you want to have multiple ceremonies or use close circuit TV as inby billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Cornell Victorious fund in Cornell Sun - 19 years ago
Ideally, intramural playing fields would be near the dorms and especially near freshman dorms. There also ought to be convenientaly located recreational fields available just for doing unorganized things. In the scheme of things, major sports push out minor sports, varsity pushes out JV / freshman / club sports, they push out intramurals, and intramurals push out spur-of-the-moment soccer. Itby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Harvard Football Fans agree... - 19 years ago
Robb Wrote: billhoward Wrote: Where Harvard men once made history, they're now reduced to doctoring it. Um - don't you mean "Yale men?" Serves me right for trying to be insightful on four hours sleep. It was hard enough as an undergrad. Yes, Yale getting an incomplete on the prank and trying to optimize the result via retouching. Photoshop is so much better than Spot Toneby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Harvard Football Fans agree... - 19 years ago
JasonN95 Wrote: The harvardsucks.org and pantheon.yale.edu versions are indeed doctored to improve legibility. Look at the bottom edge of the U and C --those are *identical* rows of white cards. Another example: look at the left edge of the S, in the harvardsucks version there is an identical cluster of three white cards (one above two forming a small, slightly scewed to the right, triangle) thaby billhoward - Hockey
[OT] Cornell Victorious fund in Cornell Sun - 19 years ago
Article in the Weds. 12/1/04 Cornell Daily Sun on the now-concluded Cornell Victorious athletics campaign. Most of the story is on renovations to Schoellkopf Hall and construction of a football-exclusive extension on the east side (the one closer to Lynah) of the existing Schoellkopf Hall. It will house the football team locker room and a "football traditon" room. The existing Hall of Fby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Responsibility for effect of cheers - 19 years ago
Steve, the gist of the full article - my interpretation - was that loudmouth fans (of all sizes) perhaps assumed they could say anything at all and get away with it because athletes don't go into the stands. You and I can bang on the glass in the zoo separating us from the tiger knowing the glass is pretty strong. Same thing with the fans, except this one time, the imaginary glass curtain was breby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Responsibility for effect of cheers - 19 years ago
Can we allow progressive amounts of abuse relative to earnings? Should an A-Rod at $20M be required to put up with more abuse than Dave LeNeveu making, what, perhaps a couple hundred thousand this year tending goal in Utah? Does a $100 ticket entitle you to heckle more than a $15 standing room ticket? Does being married to someone who makes your life living hell entitle you to heckle more than soby billhoward - Hockey