Lake Placid-2024

[billhoward]

(I'm hoping Congresswoman Stefanik stays in that position and develops enough additional clout to bring wired internet and electricity along our road 15 miles outside LP that has it at both ends, but not the 250 yards in the middle. Yeah, we've got solar and we've got a backup generator, but there's nothing like grid power if you want to add a heat pump. You especially want electric if a government grant pays for it.)

[Trotsky]

Oh fuck me. Lake Placid predicted low for Saturday: 8.

[Swampy]

(I'm hoping Congresswoman Stefanik stays in that position and develops enough additional clout to bring wired internet and electricity along our road 15 miles outside LP that has it at both ends, but not the 250 yards in the middle. Yeah, we've got solar and we've got a backup generator, but there's nothing like grid power if you want to add a heat pump. You especially want electric if a government grant pays for it.)

Apparently the Executive Branch has already addressed the internet issue (but just not yet in Stefank's district). Hummmm.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Oh fuck me. Lake Placid predicted low for Saturday: 8.

And 6" of snow.

[Trotsky]

That part's good.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

That part's good.

Maybe.  

I don't ski, so as long as the roads are open enough for me to do some birdwatching, it's OK.

OTOH, if we don't win Friday night, they'd better be open enough so I can drive home on Saturday.

[billhoward]

a) Fiber is 300 yards away but not getting closer. Our unprovisioned part of the road has our camp with a half dozen buildings and families, one other camp, and about 150 people. Unfortunately 125 of them are veterans of the Revolutionary War and not voting any more. I believe. "Camp" is Adirondack-speak for anything from an open-front lean-to to the places the robber barons built circa 1900.

b) End of the decade availability is good, but what about 2025, day. Starlink works good but it's close to $100 a month and the sucker draws 75 watts which is a big chunk of what our solar panels and a backup battery can handle on a cloudy day.

c) Comprised of? Jeezus, gawd, I thought even a non-AI grammar checker would catch that.

The $45 billion Internet for All Initiative is comprised of several programs designed to build high-speed broadband infrastructure, teach digital skills, and provide the necessary technology to ensure that everyone in the U.S. is able to fully participate in society. The initiative will draw on resources from the bipartisan infrastructure law known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law by President Biden on Nov. 15, 20

[billhoward]

On Main Street, you are never more than 50 feet from the next bar and warming refreshment.

[jtwcornell91]

St. Lawrence definitely helps attendance in Lake Placid. Clarkson a bit more.

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Clarkson        3700 students
St. Lawrence    2200 students
The best possible ECAC-in-Placid turnout would be Cornell, Clarkson, St. Lawrence and, um, pick one, maybe RPI.  It is about 80 miles from Clarkson (+5 for St Lawrence) to Lake Placid but it is dark (well, yeah), twisty road that is not well-striped. Read: It's not that far but it's a bitch of drive home. With the clout of Congresswoman Stefanik in much of the Adirondacks, it's surprising there isn't funding for more highway improvements.

In 2000, it was us, Clarkson, SLU, RPI, and Colgate, which seems just about optimal.  Unfortunately for the attendance, Clarkson lost to RPI in the play-in Thursday night.

I don't have the attendance numbers handy.

Clarkson lost to Cornell in that PIG.

Whew! I think that I would have remembered if RPI had ever been at LP for the ECAC tourney since it returned there. It this stage of my life, I am concerned about signs of old age.

At this point, we're all old.  The two tourneys I was conflating were 2000 and 2002, two of the last three before the ECACs moved from Placid to Albany.  (And I'm pretty sure RPI was at both of them, since I cheered for them against SLU in the final in 2000, and I remember the RPI and Clarkson bands playing the anthems before their game in 2002.  And also Cornell beating RPI in the semis that year.)

[andyw2100]

On the road to Lake Placid with Kim. Wondering how others feel about rooting interest in the SLU vs. Quinnipiac game. Personally I'm rooting for SLU, because I think Cornell has a greater chance of beating them should we beat Dartmouth and make the finals. (And because Quinnipiac is high on my list of teams to dislike.) But I expect some here will be rooting for Quinnipiac, with the logic being that if we beat them in the finals we'd be likely to have a higher seed in the NCAA tourney. It's not even close for me, but wondering how others will be rooting.

[BearLover]

On the road to Lake Placid with Kim. Wondering how others feel about rooting interest in the SLU vs. Quinnipiac game. Personally I'm rooting for SLU, because I think Cornell has a greater chance of beating them should we beat Dartmouth and make the finals. (And because Quinnipiac is high on my list of teams to dislike.) But I expect some here will be rooting for Quinnipiac, with the logic being that if we beat them in the finals we'd be likely to have a higher seed in the NCAA tourney. It's not even close for me, but wondering how others will be rooting.

Rooting for Quinnipiac on the basis that we'd rather be a 3-seed than a 4-seed at the cost of probably not getting into the NCAAs at all is, ummm, an interesting stance to take.

[Chris '03]

On the road to Lake Placid with Kim. Wondering how others feel about rooting interest in the SLU vs. Quinnipiac game. Personally I'm rooting for SLU, because I think Cornell has a greater chance of beating them should we beat Dartmouth and make the finals. (And because Quinnipiac is high on my list of teams to dislike.) But I expect some here will be rooting for Quinnipiac, with the logic being that if we beat them in the finals we'd be likely to have a higher seed in the NCAA tourney. It's not even close for me, but wondering how others will be rooting.

With at large hopes at zero, it's about winning the Whitelaw. On paper, SLU would be the preferred opponent if they get by Dartmouth. One or two changed results during the year and we may have needed to see Q in order for Cornell to be in no matter what but that ship sailed.

Nice long game with a few DQs would be fine too.

[jtwcornell91]

On the road to Lake Placid with Kim. Wondering how others feel about rooting interest in the SLU vs. Quinnipiac game. Personally I'm rooting for SLU, because I think Cornell has a greater chance of beating them should we beat Dartmouth and make the finals. (And because Quinnipiac is high on my list of teams to dislike.) But I expect some here will be rooting for Quinnipiac, with the logic being that if we beat them in the finals we'd be likely to have a higher seed in the NCAA tourney. It's not even close for me, but wondering how others will be rooting.

If Q gets upset, it will guarantee two ECAC teams(*) in the NCAAs, which most of us (besides BearLover, of course) would prefer in any event.

(*) Or, for some of us, one "real" ECAC team.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I want the easiest path to the Whitelaw and the NCAA's.  That means rooting for SLU.

Despising Q is just a bonus.

[arugula]

Pierre McGuire is doing color on the Q-SLU game. What's he going to do with no Sidney  Crosby to moon over?  God I was hoping to not be subjected to him again.