So you know how you send a text message and then get the little "delivered" note underneath it?
So what do you do if you you don't get that message? Does that mean it wasn't delivered? Or was it delivered but you just didn't get the little return message underneath it?
What do you do?
Send another message to see if you get the "delivered" this time? What if you don't again but the messages are actually get through? Are you then annoying the person?
It appears that nearly 10 trillion text messages are sent each year. Surely some of them must get lost in the world of the "un-delivered."
Then there's email.
How many times is there this exchange:
"I sent you an email."
"I didn't get it."
This sort of happened to TigerBlog last week. TigerBlog got a phone call from someone who said he'd also emailed, but TigerBlog honestly couldn't remember getting the original email. When he asked him to resend, TB noticed that the email looked exactly like one of the million or so he gets that he immediately deletes.
For the most part though, TB assumes that email gets through and that if someone says it didn't get through, then what they're really saying is "it got through. It asked me to do something. I didn't do it. I'm telling you I didn't get it."
These are 21st century frustrations.
Back in the antediluvian days of the 20th century, those frustrations didn't exist. Back then it was trying to call someone on the phone and having it ring and ring with no answer, or constantly get a busy signal, something that people under 25 or so have never experienced.
In case you don't know what one of those is, it was a "beep, beep, beep" that you would get if the person you were trying to call was already on the phone. Then someone invented call waiting.
Fasting forward to today, what do you do when you're on the phone with someone in a relatively casual conversation and then you get another call, one that you want to answer without hurting the first person's feelings? What if that person is in the middle of a sentence? Interrupt?
So then you let the person keep talking and then call the other person back, only now, 30 seconds later, there's no answer. Frustrating.
TigerBlog used to have no way of knowing who called his office phone if there was no voicemail. Now he gets an email saying there's a missed call and the number of the caller.
Usually it's a number TB doesn't recognize. Of course, the curiosity factor weighs in, so he'll call the number back, which becomes something a reverse situation, where TB doesn't know the person he's calling.
TB got one of those missed calls yesterday, and so he called the number back, to find it was an alum in Connecticut wanting to know who won the women's water polo game.
Unfortunately, the answer was Indiana, not Princeton. The Tigers reached the CWPA championship game, only to lose to the Hoosiers in the final. Princeton had been ranked ninth nationally; Indiana was ranked 12th.
Princeton finishes its season at 31-2, which is the school record for most wins and fewest losses. It was a great year for Tigers, even if they fell a little short of the ultimately goal. By one goal. There's a harshness there that crosses many sports on the college level, when a razor-thin margin separates the team that advances to the big prize and the one that is left to think about how close it came.
It wasn't the greatest weekend for Princeton teams across the board.
There were some good performances, especially in track and field and rowing. And the men's volleyball team competed hard in the EIVA final at Penn State before falling.
The women's and men's golf teams had very good final rounds, and Kelly Shon earned Ivy League Player of the Year honors for the women, who finished second overall for the second straight year.
The defending-champion men went from seventh to fourth on Sunday, though they did get the award for the best tweet of the weekend. That would be the picture of the Ivy League championship trophy, with the words "We'll be back for you soon."
That's 21st century creativity.
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Good Luck To Lamar And Ashley
TigerBlog made a new friend yesterday.
It started when he got a text message from a phone number he didn't know. Usually, text messages come up from someone already in the contacts folder, so it's clear who it is.
When one comes up from a phone number, instead of a name, it usually starts out with "hey, it's so-and-so," and then the rest of the conversation.
This time, it started out with that sort of greeting, though it was coming from someone TB didn't know. Someone named Lamar.
Apparently Lamar was looking for a young woman named Ashley, only he got TigerBlog instead. TB's first thought was that Ashley had given Lamar a made-up number that just happened to be TB's.
As it turned out, apparently at least, Lamar simply entered the number wrong. There was this actual exchange:
Lamar: "I put in the wrong number."
TB: "Good. I'd hate to think that Ashley would do that to you. Let me know how it goes."
Lamar: "Who is this by the way? You seem very friendly and respectful. Usually people act rude."
TB then told Lamar who he was and said that he was adding Lamar to his contacts.
And with that, TB was off to the rest of his day.
The text message is an amazing little thing, isn't it? TigerBlog wonders what the ability to send text messages would have done to make his middle school and high school days different, as he sees the incredible reliance on the medium by his two children - and everyone they know.
TB's philosophy is that it's way easier to text something stupid than it is to say something stupid, which is why so many people get in trouble with things they text.
TB has a friend who has always said that if texting had been invented before calling that people would never text and would always call. The ability to hear someone's voice instead of just seeing the words? Who wouldn't want that.
It's not that much different than having silent movies or ones where you can actually hear what the people say. Despite that, TB is relatively sure that
The next person to text TigerBlog after Lamar was Bill Bromberg, the public address announcer, confirming that he was in for the Ivy League women's lacrosse tournament.
That event is next weekend. This weekend has some big events as well, with the biggest on the road.
The women's water polo team will be competing in the CWPA championships at Bucknell, with the prize a trip to the NCAA championships.
Princeton is ranked ninth in the country and has been dominant all year, but getting back to the NCAA tournament would mean doing so as the No. 2 seed in the CWPA tournament. The top seed is Indiana, the champ of the CWPA's western division and the No. 12 team in the country.
As an aside, the last text messages TB exchanged with water polo coach Luis Nicolao involved a picture of Luis in a speedo from the video for Gary Walters' farewell event, something about sending it to him because his wife wouldn't believe it. Now that is texting at its finest.
Anyway, the water polo event begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday.
The Ivy League men's and women's golf tournaments will also be held tomorrow through Sunday, at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, which is about an hour from Princeton.
Will Green's men's team is the defending champion, while Nicki Cutler's women lost by a single stroke a year ago. One lousy stroke.
Princeton has both defending champs, with seniors Greg Jarmas and Kelly Shon.
Baltusrol is a fairly famous golf course, having hosted the U.S. Open for both the men and women and the PGA Championship for the men, a tournament that will return to the course in 2016. TigerBlog figures he could challenge the course record - for highest score ever recorded.
Fortunately for Princeton, TB won't be one of the golfers going for the Ivy title. Princeton has three women and three men back from last year, and the Tigers figure to be in the chase until the end for both.
There are NCAA tournament spots on the line for women's water polo and men's and women's golf. TigerBlog is rooting for the Tigers - and for Lamar and Ashley.
It started when he got a text message from a phone number he didn't know. Usually, text messages come up from someone already in the contacts folder, so it's clear who it is.
When one comes up from a phone number, instead of a name, it usually starts out with "hey, it's so-and-so," and then the rest of the conversation.
This time, it started out with that sort of greeting, though it was coming from someone TB didn't know. Someone named Lamar.
Apparently Lamar was looking for a young woman named Ashley, only he got TigerBlog instead. TB's first thought was that Ashley had given Lamar a made-up number that just happened to be TB's.
As it turned out, apparently at least, Lamar simply entered the number wrong. There was this actual exchange:
Lamar: "I put in the wrong number."
TB: "Good. I'd hate to think that Ashley would do that to you. Let me know how it goes."
Lamar: "Who is this by the way? You seem very friendly and respectful. Usually people act rude."
TB then told Lamar who he was and said that he was adding Lamar to his contacts.
And with that, TB was off to the rest of his day.
The text message is an amazing little thing, isn't it? TigerBlog wonders what the ability to send text messages would have done to make his middle school and high school days different, as he sees the incredible reliance on the medium by his two children - and everyone they know.
TB's philosophy is that it's way easier to text something stupid than it is to say something stupid, which is why so many people get in trouble with things they text.
TB has a friend who has always said that if texting had been invented before calling that people would never text and would always call. The ability to hear someone's voice instead of just seeing the words? Who wouldn't want that.
It's not that much different than having silent movies or ones where you can actually hear what the people say. Despite that, TB is relatively sure that
The next person to text TigerBlog after Lamar was Bill Bromberg, the public address announcer, confirming that he was in for the Ivy League women's lacrosse tournament.
That event is next weekend. This weekend has some big events as well, with the biggest on the road.
The women's water polo team will be competing in the CWPA championships at Bucknell, with the prize a trip to the NCAA championships.
Princeton is ranked ninth in the country and has been dominant all year, but getting back to the NCAA tournament would mean doing so as the No. 2 seed in the CWPA tournament. The top seed is Indiana, the champ of the CWPA's western division and the No. 12 team in the country.
As an aside, the last text messages TB exchanged with water polo coach Luis Nicolao involved a picture of Luis in a speedo from the video for Gary Walters' farewell event, something about sending it to him because his wife wouldn't believe it. Now that is texting at its finest.
Anyway, the water polo event begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday.
The Ivy League men's and women's golf tournaments will also be held tomorrow through Sunday, at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, which is about an hour from Princeton.
Will Green's men's team is the defending champion, while Nicki Cutler's women lost by a single stroke a year ago. One lousy stroke.
Princeton has both defending champs, with seniors Greg Jarmas and Kelly Shon.
Baltusrol is a fairly famous golf course, having hosted the U.S. Open for both the men and women and the PGA Championship for the men, a tournament that will return to the course in 2016. TigerBlog figures he could challenge the course record - for highest score ever recorded.
Fortunately for Princeton, TB won't be one of the golfers going for the Ivy title. Princeton has three women and three men back from last year, and the Tigers figure to be in the chase until the end for both.
There are NCAA tournament spots on the line for women's water polo and men's and women's golf. TigerBlog is rooting for the Tigers - and for Lamar and Ashley.
Friday, April 11, 2014
The Pre-Tournament Begins
TigerBlog isn't sure if Tuesday night's Princeton-Lehigh men's lacrosse game was the most exciting in Division I this season or just the second-best one played that day.
If you thought Princeton's 10-9 double overtime win over Lehigh was wild, what with the whole tying it with 2.7 seconds left in regulation and all, how about the Sacred Heart-Holy Cross game? Sacred Heart trailed 11-3 in the fourth quarter - the fourth quarter - and then ripped off eight goals to tie it and before winning 12-11 in overtime.
So what's better, a relatively unheard of comeback or a game that goes to two overtimes without ever having either team lead by more than one?
In the case of Princeton's game against Lehigh, the score was tied at 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 8-8 and finally 9-9.
Getting to 9-9 wasn't exactly easy.
Princeton trailed 9-8 with 1:10 to go, Lehigh with the ball, out of a timeout. TigerBlog always thinks the team with the ball in that situation hurts itself by calling timeout, since the defense can come out the timeout ready to pounce on the ball, rather than scrambling while play is ongoing.
In this case, the Tigers doubled the ball and trapped it in the corner, gaining possession and clearing it to Tom Schreiber, whose shot was saved by Lehigh's outstanding goalie Matt Poillon. The game might have been over there, except that Poillon's outlet pass shorthopped its target near midfield, allowing Schreiber and Will Reynolds to converge and get it back. Schreiber's next shot hit a foot in front of the goal and bounced back near midfield, where Mike MacDonald picked it up and got it to Kip Orban, who beat Poillon and the clock with 2.7 seconds to spare to send it to overtime.
And then another overtime.
And then Schreiber got the ball free about 10 yards in front of the goal after slipping a screen and, well, he was never going to miss from there. And he didn't.
For Princeton, it was a great win. Hopefully for the Tigers it doesn't become the highlight of the year.
With three weeks to go in the regular season, Princeton is trying to make its push for the two big tournaments, first the Ivy League one and then the NCAA one. This weekend starts the three-game pre-tournament.
The schedule has Princeton at home tomorrow (1) against Dartmouth, a team that beat the Tigers in Hanover 10-9 last year in a game that did a great deal to haunt Princeton come NCAA selection night.
Next week is a trip to Harvard, who just happens to be the last unbeaten team in Ivy League men's lacrosse. And then it's off to Long Island to take on Cornell in what is called the Battle of Bethpage April 26.
Right now, Harvard is 3-0, followed by Cornell at 2-1, Penn and Yale at 2-2, Princeton and Brown at 1-2 and Dartmouth at 0-3. This weekend starts the sorting out, with Yale at Brown tonight and Harvard at Penn tomorrow, in addition the Tigers and Big Green and a non-league game of Cornell and Hofstra.
It's actually tough for a Princeton fan to know which teams would help the Tigers by winning. Princeton obviously wants Lehigh to win out and at least get the Patriot League final against Loyola.
Princeton has already beaten Penn and Hofstra, so the better they do, the better Princeton's win is. On the other hand, a Penn loss to Harvard means Princeton's win isn't as good as it would be if Penn keeps winning, but it could help Princeton get into the Ivy tournament and make a potential win over Harvard be better should the Tigers pull that off next week.
The same logic applies to Hofstra-Cornell. The win over Hofstra gets better with a win over Cornell; a Cornell win gives Princeton a top 10 or even top 5 opponent to go against on Long Island.
And it's probably better for Princeton if Brown beats Yale, since Yale figures to be battling Princeton for an at-large NCAA bid should neither get the NCAA bid. But then that all depends what would happen after that, as Brown still has to play Cornell and Yale still have to play Harvard.
Princeton can solve all of its own problems by winning out. It desperately needs a win against Dartmouth after a season where two wins (Hofstra, Manhattan) were followed by two losses (Hopkins, Carolina) and then two more wins (Penn, Villanova) and then two more losses (Yale, Brown) and now two more wins (Rutgers, Lehigh).
Princeton has never lost consecutive games to Dartmouth and is 30-1 all-time in Princeton against the alma mater of head coach Chris Bates.
That game is not the only home event this weekend.
The men's golf team hosts the Princeton Invitational tomorrow and Sunday, and there is home women's tennis against Harvard (tomorrow) and Dartmouth (Sunday), home men's and women's track against Monmouth, St. John's and Vermont (fairly random group) and men's lightweight rowing against Cornell.
By the way, speaking of golf, TigerBlog hasn't played since 2000 or so, but he'd like to get out at least once this summer. He's adding that to his other goal of catching a fish.
It's still spring, though. It's actually early spring, but time is running out on the lacrosse season.
The game Tuesday was a great one. The one tomorrow is a huge one, the first of at least three in a row.
Princeton is hoping for much more than that.
If you thought Princeton's 10-9 double overtime win over Lehigh was wild, what with the whole tying it with 2.7 seconds left in regulation and all, how about the Sacred Heart-Holy Cross game? Sacred Heart trailed 11-3 in the fourth quarter - the fourth quarter - and then ripped off eight goals to tie it and before winning 12-11 in overtime.
So what's better, a relatively unheard of comeback or a game that goes to two overtimes without ever having either team lead by more than one?
In the case of Princeton's game against Lehigh, the score was tied at 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 8-8 and finally 9-9.
Getting to 9-9 wasn't exactly easy.
Princeton trailed 9-8 with 1:10 to go, Lehigh with the ball, out of a timeout. TigerBlog always thinks the team with the ball in that situation hurts itself by calling timeout, since the defense can come out the timeout ready to pounce on the ball, rather than scrambling while play is ongoing.
In this case, the Tigers doubled the ball and trapped it in the corner, gaining possession and clearing it to Tom Schreiber, whose shot was saved by Lehigh's outstanding goalie Matt Poillon. The game might have been over there, except that Poillon's outlet pass shorthopped its target near midfield, allowing Schreiber and Will Reynolds to converge and get it back. Schreiber's next shot hit a foot in front of the goal and bounced back near midfield, where Mike MacDonald picked it up and got it to Kip Orban, who beat Poillon and the clock with 2.7 seconds to spare to send it to overtime.
And then another overtime.
And then Schreiber got the ball free about 10 yards in front of the goal after slipping a screen and, well, he was never going to miss from there. And he didn't.
For Princeton, it was a great win. Hopefully for the Tigers it doesn't become the highlight of the year.
With three weeks to go in the regular season, Princeton is trying to make its push for the two big tournaments, first the Ivy League one and then the NCAA one. This weekend starts the three-game pre-tournament.
The schedule has Princeton at home tomorrow (1) against Dartmouth, a team that beat the Tigers in Hanover 10-9 last year in a game that did a great deal to haunt Princeton come NCAA selection night.
Next week is a trip to Harvard, who just happens to be the last unbeaten team in Ivy League men's lacrosse. And then it's off to Long Island to take on Cornell in what is called the Battle of Bethpage April 26.
Right now, Harvard is 3-0, followed by Cornell at 2-1, Penn and Yale at 2-2, Princeton and Brown at 1-2 and Dartmouth at 0-3. This weekend starts the sorting out, with Yale at Brown tonight and Harvard at Penn tomorrow, in addition the Tigers and Big Green and a non-league game of Cornell and Hofstra.
It's actually tough for a Princeton fan to know which teams would help the Tigers by winning. Princeton obviously wants Lehigh to win out and at least get the Patriot League final against Loyola.
Princeton has already beaten Penn and Hofstra, so the better they do, the better Princeton's win is. On the other hand, a Penn loss to Harvard means Princeton's win isn't as good as it would be if Penn keeps winning, but it could help Princeton get into the Ivy tournament and make a potential win over Harvard be better should the Tigers pull that off next week.
The same logic applies to Hofstra-Cornell. The win over Hofstra gets better with a win over Cornell; a Cornell win gives Princeton a top 10 or even top 5 opponent to go against on Long Island.
And it's probably better for Princeton if Brown beats Yale, since Yale figures to be battling Princeton for an at-large NCAA bid should neither get the NCAA bid. But then that all depends what would happen after that, as Brown still has to play Cornell and Yale still have to play Harvard.
Princeton can solve all of its own problems by winning out. It desperately needs a win against Dartmouth after a season where two wins (Hofstra, Manhattan) were followed by two losses (Hopkins, Carolina) and then two more wins (Penn, Villanova) and then two more losses (Yale, Brown) and now two more wins (Rutgers, Lehigh).
Princeton has never lost consecutive games to Dartmouth and is 30-1 all-time in Princeton against the alma mater of head coach Chris Bates.
That game is not the only home event this weekend.
The men's golf team hosts the Princeton Invitational tomorrow and Sunday, and there is home women's tennis against Harvard (tomorrow) and Dartmouth (Sunday), home men's and women's track against Monmouth, St. John's and Vermont (fairly random group) and men's lightweight rowing against Cornell.
By the way, speaking of golf, TigerBlog hasn't played since 2000 or so, but he'd like to get out at least once this summer. He's adding that to his other goal of catching a fish.
It's still spring, though. It's actually early spring, but time is running out on the lacrosse season.
The game Tuesday was a great one. The one tomorrow is a huge one, the first of at least three in a row.
Princeton is hoping for much more than that.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Open Wide
TigerBlog went to the dentist yesterday.
His dentist, Dr. Brody, is a nice guy. A Penn grad, which doesn't make him a bad person.
The stereotype, of course, has the dentist carrying on a conversation while the patient tries to answer, despite having all kinds of instruments, suction devices, cotton balls and fingers jammed in his/her mouth.
Bill Cosby did a great spoof of this in his one-man show from the 1980s.
"So, you do much fishing?"
"mbdlaefjaosda."
"Oh, I've fished there many times myself."
TigerBlog isn't sure why people become dentists. If you're going to go through all that trouble to go to school that long and work that hard, why not become a doctor?
Why spend all day every day with your hands in people's mouths? TB doesn't even like putting his fingers in his own mouth.
On the other hand, somebody has to be a dentist, and Dr. Brody has the perfect temperament for it.
He's very calm, very pleasant. He doesn't overdo it on the hysteria about gums and stuff. He cleans your teeth, tells you to floss more, does an x-ray or two every few years and sends you on your way for another six months.
Oh, and he gives you a new toothbrush and floss when you leave. How great is that?
Dr. Brody has a flat screen in his office so patients can watch TV while sharp metal instruments are used to probe their teeth.
Yesterday, while TB was in the chair, the TV was on a news channel, and for the entire time he was watching, the only story covered was the Jodi Arias murder trial. TB gets it: attractive woman, tawdry details. What he doesn't get is why strangers outside a courthouse would cheer so happily and chant "USA, USA" when a verdict is read.
Or, for that matter, why a woman would thrust her middle finger into the face of Joakim Noam of the Chicago Bulls in Miami the other night, but hey, that's another story for another day.
Dr. Brody, in mid-clean, lamented what this said about contemporary America, how it's getting harder and harder to separate reality TV from reality.
TB agreed completely and said so. It came out this way: "mbdlaefjaosda."
When TB got back from the dentist, he saw the women's lacrosse team finishing its last practice before heading to Annapolis for the NCAA tournament. The Tigers take on Duke tonight at 7:15, and the winner gets the winner of Navy-Monmouth Sunday to advance to the quarterfinals in the 26-team field.
The athletic year at Princeton is quickly winding down, with very little left on the schedule.
The men's golf team is at Washington State next weekend for the NCAA regionals. The Ivy League rowing championships are next weekend as well, with the national championships to follow.
Track and field is still going strong, with the IC4A/ECAC championships here this weekend and then the NCAA events after that. Matija Pecotic of the men's tennis team competes next week in the NCAA tournament as well.
Kelly Shon of the women's golf team is trying to become one of two individuals to move out of her regional to the NCAA finals, other than the players on the eight teams that will qualify. Her 1-under yesterday in the first round has her in contention, with rounds today and tomorrow.
And then there's women's water polo, which plays this weekend in the NCAA championships as well. Princeton, the sixth-seed, plays No. 3 UCLA this afternoon at 3:30 in the quarterfinals and then is guaranteed two more games after that.
Though it seemed like it just began, the 2012-13 academic year will be completely finished soon.
The PVC senior awards banquet is coming up. So is Reunions. And graduation. And summer.
Time continues to fly. It must mean TB is in the right profession.
Beats shoving his fingers into strangers' mouths all day.
His dentist, Dr. Brody, is a nice guy. A Penn grad, which doesn't make him a bad person.
The stereotype, of course, has the dentist carrying on a conversation while the patient tries to answer, despite having all kinds of instruments, suction devices, cotton balls and fingers jammed in his/her mouth.
Bill Cosby did a great spoof of this in his one-man show from the 1980s.
"So, you do much fishing?"
"mbdlaefjaosda."
"Oh, I've fished there many times myself."
TigerBlog isn't sure why people become dentists. If you're going to go through all that trouble to go to school that long and work that hard, why not become a doctor?
Why spend all day every day with your hands in people's mouths? TB doesn't even like putting his fingers in his own mouth.
On the other hand, somebody has to be a dentist, and Dr. Brody has the perfect temperament for it.
He's very calm, very pleasant. He doesn't overdo it on the hysteria about gums and stuff. He cleans your teeth, tells you to floss more, does an x-ray or two every few years and sends you on your way for another six months.
Oh, and he gives you a new toothbrush and floss when you leave. How great is that?
Dr. Brody has a flat screen in his office so patients can watch TV while sharp metal instruments are used to probe their teeth.
Yesterday, while TB was in the chair, the TV was on a news channel, and for the entire time he was watching, the only story covered was the Jodi Arias murder trial. TB gets it: attractive woman, tawdry details. What he doesn't get is why strangers outside a courthouse would cheer so happily and chant "USA, USA" when a verdict is read.
Or, for that matter, why a woman would thrust her middle finger into the face of Joakim Noam of the Chicago Bulls in Miami the other night, but hey, that's another story for another day.
Dr. Brody, in mid-clean, lamented what this said about contemporary America, how it's getting harder and harder to separate reality TV from reality.
TB agreed completely and said so. It came out this way: "mbdlaefjaosda."
When TB got back from the dentist, he saw the women's lacrosse team finishing its last practice before heading to Annapolis for the NCAA tournament. The Tigers take on Duke tonight at 7:15, and the winner gets the winner of Navy-Monmouth Sunday to advance to the quarterfinals in the 26-team field.
The athletic year at Princeton is quickly winding down, with very little left on the schedule.
The men's golf team is at Washington State next weekend for the NCAA regionals. The Ivy League rowing championships are next weekend as well, with the national championships to follow.
Track and field is still going strong, with the IC4A/ECAC championships here this weekend and then the NCAA events after that. Matija Pecotic of the men's tennis team competes next week in the NCAA tournament as well.
Kelly Shon of the women's golf team is trying to become one of two individuals to move out of her regional to the NCAA finals, other than the players on the eight teams that will qualify. Her 1-under yesterday in the first round has her in contention, with rounds today and tomorrow.
And then there's women's water polo, which plays this weekend in the NCAA championships as well. Princeton, the sixth-seed, plays No. 3 UCLA this afternoon at 3:30 in the quarterfinals and then is guaranteed two more games after that.
Though it seemed like it just began, the 2012-13 academic year will be completely finished soon.
The PVC senior awards banquet is coming up. So is Reunions. And graduation. And summer.
Time continues to fly. It must mean TB is in the right profession.
Beats shoving his fingers into strangers' mouths all day.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Six Kids, Four Dogs, One Cat, Ten Championships
TigerBlog has never put a bumper sticker on any of the cars he's driven through the years.
He's okay with those magnets that have the school name or a club or something. He's had two of those.
Were he going to go down the bumper sticker route, it wouldn't be one of those catchy/funny things or about how his kids are either honor students or beat up your honor students or endorsements of presidential candidates. Nope. It wouldn't be any of them.
Or really anything.
And if he did get a decoration for his car, he definitely wouldn't go with the increasingly popular ones that he sees all the time, with the little depictions of the father, mother and each child and pet, each with a little soccer ball or golf club or instrument or something.
It's not that he's opposed to traditional family values. Far from it. There's just something about those that he finds unnecessary. It's like a year-round version of the Christmas letters that people send out detailing how happy they are and hoping that you are not.
TB was at a light the other day when he noticed that the car in front of him had the longest string of those little stickers he'd ever seen. He actually took a picture of it and then counted it all up.
The totals? One father, one mother, six children, four dogs and one cat.
The driver, presumably the father, was the only one in the car at the time, and TB surmised that he was relishing the quiet.
Since then, TB has shown the picture to a few people, all of whom have cringed in fear of what that would be like.
As an aside, it also made him wonder about the legality of taking a picture of someone else's minivan and then using it publicly.
Anyway, TB wanted to ask the driver what his life was like, but then the light turned green. The minivan turned right, leaving TB to assume that his house was to the left.
Add up the kids and the dog and leave out the cat and you have the number of Ivy League championships that Princeton has, now that the men's golf team defeated Yale by five strokes to win the league title for the first time since 2006.
TB isn't a golfer at all. He's played it enough in the past to realize how frustratingly hard it is to be good, and he knows how easy it is to give away a stroke here or there.
A five-shot win over the course of three rounds is insanely close. A final score of 883-888? Insane.
Even more insane is a one-shot loss over the same three rounds, and that's how close the Princeton women came to making it a sweep. Harvard ended up winning, defeating Princeton 909-910.
That's a combined 1,809 strokes, with one separating the two teams.
Princeton did have both individual champions, as Kelly Shon won the women's title in a playoff and Greg Jarmas won for the men.
The fact that the women came so close stings, but it doesn't take away from what a great weekend it was for the Tigers. It's especially more impressive considering that last year, the men finished fifth and the women finished sixth.
As for the total number of championships, Princeton now has 10. It marks the 21st year that Princeton has reached double figures in Ivy League championships, including each of the last five.
Harvard has reached double figures in Ivy titles five times total. No other team in the league has ever done so.
The Crimson currently have seven Ivy championships for the academic year, with seven remaining. Neither Princeton nor Harvard is in the baseball or softball championship series, so they are competing for two track and field titles and three rowing titles.
Winning 10 Ivy championships each year is a lofty goal, one that Princeton doesn't take for granted.
The men's golf team put Princeton over the top for 2012-13.
The women came close to matching it.
TigerBlog will call it a great weekend of golf for Princeton, one that was a razor-thin margin away from being perfect.
He's okay with those magnets that have the school name or a club or something. He's had two of those.
Were he going to go down the bumper sticker route, it wouldn't be one of those catchy/funny things or about how his kids are either honor students or beat up your honor students or endorsements of presidential candidates. Nope. It wouldn't be any of them.
Or really anything.
And if he did get a decoration for his car, he definitely wouldn't go with the increasingly popular ones that he sees all the time, with the little depictions of the father, mother and each child and pet, each with a little soccer ball or golf club or instrument or something.
It's not that he's opposed to traditional family values. Far from it. There's just something about those that he finds unnecessary. It's like a year-round version of the Christmas letters that people send out detailing how happy they are and hoping that you are not.
TB was at a light the other day when he noticed that the car in front of him had the longest string of those little stickers he'd ever seen. He actually took a picture of it and then counted it all up.
The totals? One father, one mother, six children, four dogs and one cat.
The driver, presumably the father, was the only one in the car at the time, and TB surmised that he was relishing the quiet.
Since then, TB has shown the picture to a few people, all of whom have cringed in fear of what that would be like.
As an aside, it also made him wonder about the legality of taking a picture of someone else's minivan and then using it publicly.
Anyway, TB wanted to ask the driver what his life was like, but then the light turned green. The minivan turned right, leaving TB to assume that his house was to the left.
Add up the kids and the dog and leave out the cat and you have the number of Ivy League championships that Princeton has, now that the men's golf team defeated Yale by five strokes to win the league title for the first time since 2006.
TB isn't a golfer at all. He's played it enough in the past to realize how frustratingly hard it is to be good, and he knows how easy it is to give away a stroke here or there.
A five-shot win over the course of three rounds is insanely close. A final score of 883-888? Insane.
Even more insane is a one-shot loss over the same three rounds, and that's how close the Princeton women came to making it a sweep. Harvard ended up winning, defeating Princeton 909-910.
That's a combined 1,809 strokes, with one separating the two teams.
Princeton did have both individual champions, as Kelly Shon won the women's title in a playoff and Greg Jarmas won for the men.
The fact that the women came so close stings, but it doesn't take away from what a great weekend it was for the Tigers. It's especially more impressive considering that last year, the men finished fifth and the women finished sixth.
As for the total number of championships, Princeton now has 10. It marks the 21st year that Princeton has reached double figures in Ivy League championships, including each of the last five.
Harvard has reached double figures in Ivy titles five times total. No other team in the league has ever done so.
The Crimson currently have seven Ivy championships for the academic year, with seven remaining. Neither Princeton nor Harvard is in the baseball or softball championship series, so they are competing for two track and field titles and three rowing titles.
Winning 10 Ivy championships each year is a lofty goal, one that Princeton doesn't take for granted.
The men's golf team put Princeton over the top for 2012-13.
The women came close to matching it.
TigerBlog will call it a great weekend of golf for Princeton, one that was a razor-thin margin away from being perfect.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Two-Round Results from Men's Golf at The McLaughlin
Princeton stands sixth of 18 teams through two rounds at the McLaughlin Invitational hosted by St. John's at Bethpage Red on Long Island. At +21, the Tigers are 14 shots off the lead held by Southeastern Louisiana.
With one round to play Saturday, the individual lead is held by Sacred Heart's Pat Fillian at -2. Here are Princeton's individual results:
11 Juan Pablo Candela Princeton 72 70 142 +2
27 Patrick Wasserman Princeton 76 69 145 +5
29 Andrew Maliniak Princeton 72 74 146 +6
46 Eric Salazar Princeton 78 71 149 +9
58 Max Schechter Princeton 77 74 151 +11
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Golf Teams to Begin Fall Seasons This Weekend
Princeton's men's and women's golf teams will start their fall seasons this weekend, the men playing at an Indiana-hosted tournament and the women traveling to Penn State.
The men's tournament, the Wolf Run Intercollegiate at Wolf Run Golf Club in Zionsville, Ind., will feature 14 teams playing a par-71 course that measures 7,195 yards. Ball State, Eastern Michigan, IUPUI, Kent State, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, Missouri, North Florida, Purdue and Toledo will join the Tigers and host Hoosiers. The teams will play 36 holes Saturday and 18 holes Sunday. The forecast looks iffy, especially Saturday, with scattered thunderstorms in the forecast and clouds for Sunday.
The women will stay closer to home at Penn State's Blue Course. The Nittany Lion Invitational will feature Western Michigan, Ball State, William & Mary, Longwood, Monmouth, Bowling Green, Ohio, Rutgers, Bucknell, Butler, Boston College and Ivy foes Columbia and Yale joining Penn State and the Tigers. As with the men's tournament, the teams will play 36 holes Saturday and 18 Sunday. Also as with the men's tournament, the forecast is inauspicious with thundershowers threatening Saturday and isolated thunderstorms Sunday. The Blue Course is a par-72 measuring up to 7,172 yards.
Both teams are scheduled for five fall tournaments, with the women hosting the Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club next weekend.
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