Comments | darlox: The addiction returns

darlox

The addiction returns

Aug 14, 2009 09:43

There's something about the moist heat of mid-August that seems unwelcoming to NFL football. It's a game best played in mud and snow ( Read more... )

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zoethe August 14 2009, 14:49:38 UTC

Unlike most geeks, I can enjoy watching sports. I don't follow the teams, but if there is a game on I neither run screaming from the room nor expound on the ridiculousness of athletic spectatorship. And I can follow the action.

I'm willing to be your "missing link" in geek evolution.

darlox August 14 2009, 15:13:05 UTC

Heh... you'll have to come over to watch a game sometime this season. G informs me that it's a unique anthropological experiment to watch me transform from mild-mannered computer geek to "foaming at the mouth football fan".

I used to scare the cats out of the room by screaming at the TV. It sort of says something that now they just look up, and then go right back to sleep.

zoethe August 14 2009, 15:38:01 UTC

Will be happy to do so - we need to see more of you guys! You should come rock on Wednesdays, too, you know. 9-9-09 we get The Beatles, after all!

darlox August 14 2009, 16:43:39 UTC

*sigh* Wednesdays are tough. Lately, we just haven't been in-town or available. More generally, Wednesdays are our glassblowing night.

But we do need to hang out more often! We need to get better at engineering social occasions around each other's schedules. ;)

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mokatz August 14 2009, 16:43:46 UTC

Dammit, if I had known you were in town, I would have tried to meet you or something. Monica and Ari are out of town and she has been encouraging to go out and "hang with the guys." :P

darlox August 14 2009, 16:44:57 UTC

Heh - we were in town for precisely 11 hours. Showed up at the Stadium at 7 PM, drove back home at 6 AM. ;) That's why we didn't call anybody in advance.

sparklie_lady August 14 2009, 18:11:44 UTC

I have been thinking about ceasing to buy milk for my daughter in order to pay for the NFL package so we can see all Steelers and Giants games...

darlox August 14 2009, 18:25:45 UTC

That seems like a viable plan. PETA will even praise you for your noble efforts to boycott Exploited Cow Juice.

However, since their preferred alternative -- soy milk -- is even more expensive than cow milk, that won't work for your plan to buy a NFL subscription. So I recommend that you go all native American and teach your daughter to live off the bitter, milky juice of pounded acorns, which can be cheaply and easily collected from your neighborhood.

sparklie_lady August 14 2009, 18:32:04 UTC

Oh, no worries, I was just going to give her kool-aid.

butterandjelly August 14 2009, 18:48:52 UTC

You know that I love you but right now, I hate you (just a little bit). Green eyes? Me? ;-)