Frozen Four at Ford Field?

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]ugarte Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:

 This conversation about Wegman's vs. Trader Joe vs. Whole Foods must be disheartening to students on this board whose choices center on campus food, campus food, and campus food. [/Q]
This was an attitude that drove me crazy when I was in school. At Cornell, the campus food is awesome. I spent three semesters at SUNY-Albany, where the dining hall norm would have been grounds for a s.1983 suit if served in prison.[/q]

You said it.  When I got to UCSB for grad school I heard a rumor that we had the second best dining halls in the country after Cornell.  Well, I can vouch for the relative ordering, but I find it hard to believe there was nothing in between...

[ninian '72]

[Q]French Rage Wrote:

 [Q2]judy Wrote:

 And I forgot to mention that there are two Wegman's in northern VA  [/Q]
Where?!  [/q]

Not too centrally located, unfortunately.  One is in Sterling, near Dulles, the other off Lee Highway, west of Fairfax City.

[ninian '72]

[Q]Liz '05 Wrote:

On a side note, Ithaca was beautiful today  [/q]

Yes, indeed!  I was there on a college visit with my high-school junior daughter that day - her first time in Ithaca - and I was constantly reminding her that the cloudless skies and balmy temps were not not not at all typical.  I kept looking for pictures of snow in the admissions literature to show her.

[KeithK]

[q]and I was constantly reminding her that the cloudless skies and balmy temps were not not not at all typical.[/q]Were you trying to discourage her or something?  Come on, shouldn't blind loyalty to your Alma Mater be more important than being a good parent?  

[ninian '72]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 [Q2]and I was constantly reminding her that the cloudless skies and balmy temps were not not not at all typical.[/Q]
Were you trying to discourage her or something?  Come on, shouldn't blind loyalty to your Alma Mater be more important than being a good parent?  [/q]

Just wanted to be sure she understood what she might be getting into.  :-)  She had decided last fall that she wanted to attend an excellent school much closer to home, but I thought she needed to broaden her horizons a bit. She expressed some curiousity about Cornell, which I think would be a very good fit for what she wants to do both in and outside the classroom, so we made the trip and also visited a good, small New England liberal arts college, so she could be exposed to that option.  The short version is that lots of things clicked for her, she saw the range of opportunities at Cornell, and we now have a Red wannabe on our hands.  The liberal arts college with the great reputation seemed sleepy and unexciting  in comparison.  

[RichH]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

You can't beat the price of two buck Chuck ... but the quality, well, there's so much you can do with a $3.50 bottle of wine no matter how respected the grocery store it comes out of.
[/q]

While the perception of "you get what you pay for" still generally holds, the "super-value" category has at least knocked down the barrier to convince ordinary people that you can enjoy a wine that isn't expensive.

2002 Charles Shaw Shiraz won a double-gold medal at last year's International Eastern Wine Competition.  Double-gold means that the judging panel unanimously awarded a gold medal, and that distinction qualified it to move on to be judged in the "best red" category.  Only 53 of some 2300 wines in that competition earned a double-gold.  You can bet that put the wine media in a tizzy.
http://www.vwm-online.com/iewc/Results/2004_IEWC.htm#3Q
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1963794

I brought back a couple bottles from CA last month just for my own curiosity.  No, you aren't going to bring it to the ambassador's ball, or even to a neighbor's bbq.  But if people find they like it, it's certainly worth the price.

Now we just need to get Americans to ditch the perception that screw caps and bladder-boxes are for bad wine.
http://www.novusvinum.com/features/screwcaps.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/food/6469267.htm

[RichH]

[Q]Liz '05 Wrote:

On a side note, Ithaca was beautiful today  [/q]

Just that day?  We've had two weeks of glorious weather.  I'm actually flashing back to my days living in Southern California when I learned to loathe the constant sun.  Heck, we've even had brush fire advisories.  

With the rain all set to return in force this weekend, and a flood watch back in effect, I feel no guilt in jinxing the weather.

[jtwcornell91]

Well, they did it: http://www.uscho.com/news/2005/06/23_010643.php

Got help us all.  ::help::

[DeltaOne81]

Not something I was rooting for, but it'll be neat.

What bothers me more...

2008:
Midwest Regional â€" Kohl Center (Madison, Wis., March 28-30) - U of Wisc - 200x97
West Regional â€" Colorado Springs World Arena (Colorado Springs, Colo., March 28-30) - CC - 200x100
2009:
West Regional â€" Mariucci Arena (Minneapolis, March 27-29) - assholes - 200x100

I thought we were getting past this

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:
What bothers me more...

2008:
Midwest Regional â€" Kohl Center (Madison, Wis., March 28-30) - U of Wisc - 200x97
West Regional â€" Colorado Springs World Arena (Colorado Springs, Colo., March 28-30) - CC - 200x100
2009:
West Regional â€" Mariucci Arena (Minneapolis, March 27-29) - assholes - 200x100

I thought we were getting past this
[/q]

They held off on choosing the 2010 and 2011 regional sites in the midwest because they didn't get enough neutral site bids.

If you're complaining about the size of the ice surface, it's starting to make us look like Syracusewhiners.

[ajec1]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 Not something I was rooting for, but it'll be neat.

What bothers me more...

2008:
Midwest Regional â€" Kohl Center (Madison, Wis., March 28-30) - U of Wisc - 200x97
West Regional â€" Colorado Springs World Arena (Colorado Springs, Colo., March 28-30) - CC - 200x100
2009:
West Regional â€" Mariucci Arena (Minneapolis, March 27-29) - assholes - 200x100

I thought we were getting past this



Edited 2 times. Last edit at 06/23/05 09:19PM by DeltaOne81.[/q]

I'm sure that this has been said before, but, honestly, the only way to eliminate the whole 200x100 (or something similar) would be to eliminate the midwestern and western regionals. Out here we simply do not have the amount of arenas in places that could feasibly host regionals (Or that are too big for regionals...ie Pepsi Center, the Xcel, etc).  While 2006's Midwest regional in Green Bay is certainly a neutral site (I am not sure what size it is, I would guess it is a smaller sheet), it barely has the hotel rooms to house even a small regional, if it were, for instance, CC, Cornell, Maine, and Michigan, some people could end up staying in fish houses and commuting to the rink via Snowmobile (while I would not mind this, I would guess that others might...)

[DeltaOne81]

I'm talking about the fact that it's home arenas with Olympic size ice. It's not whining when it's patently unfair. Well, okay, it's unfair with lacrosse too, but they don't have a choice. I thought hockey was getting to the point that they didn't have to resort to blatantly unfair advantages to get a tournament.

[nyc94]

Two regionals in Bridgeport? ::yark::

[Beeeej]

At least Bridgeport has the benefit of being close enough to NYC that you can flee^H^H^H^H go home for the night.  ::barf::

Beeeej

[Trotsky]

Like social security, I didn't earn it and I don't need it, but I'm damn happy to get it.  Party at my house in 2009.