College Footballers Homage to Rugby

LOL



The best part is at the end of the video when you see the losing teams players lying on the field. Must have been some sort of divine intervention there because two of the laterals were absolutely crazy: one was where the player laterals it by throwing it backwards blindly over his head! The second where the player laterals the ball and it bounces straight and into his teammates hands! If you've ever played football, or rugby, you know that thing could have bounced anywhere!

The Measure of Garlic

After the Tango experiment yesterday, went to LK's place for dinner to celebrate his sister's successful completion of the Nike Women's Marathon.

The menu for the evening-
(1) Jambalaya
(2) Potatoes Two Ways: Garlic Mashed, and Garlic Herb Roasted.
(3) Grilled Lemon/Lime Chicken
(4) Margaritas!

That's just what we banded together to cook. Some friends brought asparagus, salad, desserts etc.

I had garlic duty and some potato cutting and just a little chicken grilling. We erroneously referred to a head of garlic as a clove of garlic. A clove is just one piece of the head, while about 10 cloves make up a head of garlic.

We put a head of garlic into the huge pot (~5 quarts?) of mashed potatoes. We had left over peeled and unpeeled raw potatoes, so we figured we'd roast them like at Crepevine- garlic herb style. More garlic! I minced an additional two heads of garlic for the roast potatoes, about 2 pans worth. I actually remarked that the mashed spuds may be able to take more garlic.

Anyways, it was all very pungent and delicious. My hands still smell of garlic today. Whew!

(i)CBM

Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile?
"CBM," actually - Counter Body Movement. Ouch.

A&W were so sweet to watch the angels this afternoon while we went to an Argentine Tango Intensive Workshop at the Metronome Dance Center. W ran the Nike's Women's Marathon this morning, and A ran the last 10 miles with her. Then they babysat the boys the rest of the afternoon while I got my butt kicked dancing.

It was a lot harder than I thought it would be. It didn't help that we were a 1/2 hour late. Having done some beginning Waltz and Fox Trot, and lots of Swing, I thought it wouldn't be too hard to pick-up. How more wrong could I have been?!

Counter Body Movement kicked my butt. I had a hard time keeping my hips straight and turning my shoulders. The "lead" was in the shoulders to convey whether the follower should cross or un-cross her legs.

Here's a video of the 8-count basic pattern we started off learning. Click Me (Window Media)

It's a beautiful dance. I love it. Right up there with Lindy Hop.

Observations (or misconceptions) after a couple hours learning Argentine Tango:
1. CBM! (see above)
2. At this early learning stage, it is much more improvisational than other dances. Whereas in beginning and intermediate Lindy, you're mostly stringing 8count patterns together and going into the occasional 6count. It appears that in A.T. you could move from one "count" or "step" into any other step.
3. This leads to the extreme importance on the leader to really lead, and the follower to really follow. In Lindy, early on in a pattern, the follower pretty much knows what's coming, "oh we're going into Tandem Charleston." or "eggbeater" or something. But since A.T. is so "step-to-step" (i.e. not really pattern based) the lead/follow relationship needs to be so tight.
4. It's better to wear dress shoes, if not ballroom dance shoes, for A.T. I brought my sneakers with me since that's what'd I'd wear for Lindy- it's a very bouncy and athletic dance. (Those two descriptors aren't very good, and is not meant to say other dances aren't athletic.)
5. The lower half of my body is sore already. Probably those muscles haven't been used in this way in a while.
6. I want to do it again!

Having two little kids, it's hard to go consistently to lessons; esp. since we're not living in the City. I want to get a couple of those videos to brush up and practice at home some. But a few private lessons may be the way to go for us.

G's first thought at seeing Lindy Hop: fun!
G's first thought at seeing Argentine Tango: elegant and graceful!

Go dance!

Update: The photograph (click it!) above is by Monte Leone and was used in a Wines of Argentina print ad I saw in Food&Wine Magazine. Check out his web-site: http://www.photomonteleone.com/

I Saw the Sign

Count yourself lucky if you don't know what this means...

SIG-1 XXXXX process caught a fatal exception
SIG-1 Details:
SIG-1 Process with PID=12146 executing
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
SIG-1 caught signal=11 (Segmentation fault)
SIG-1 code=1: Signal was generated by kernel.
SIG-1 Additional info: address not mapped to object
SIG-1 Faulting addr=0xe9f60f98
SIG-1 end-of-stack=0x7fbfffe0c5
SIG-1 stack size=4294967295
SIG-1 Memory usage:
SIG-1 overall peak reserved=3250286592
SIG-1 currently reserved=3242786816
SIG-1 Free swap space=144358292

The tool is writing some huge core file. X's above are to protect the dignity (HA!) of the offending program.