Nov
14
Saturday Night Open Thread
ByThere’s really not much going on right now, that tends to happen during that weird 15-day gap between the end of the World Series and when free agents hit the true open market. If you’re looking for something to read, check out this post on the high inside fastball by Nick Steiner at THT. That’s some good stuff.
Anyway, here’s your open thread for the night. The Nets, Isles, and Devils are all in action, plus there’s a ton of college football games being played. Talk about whatever you like, just be nice.
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JMK the Overshare, you are from my hometown.
Spill.
Who the hell are you? Do I know you?
I’ll give you a few clues. First name is James, I have a twin sister, I graduated from RHS in ’05, I went to college in Burlington, Vermont and now work in urban planning (and attending law school in September).
We did go to middle school together, though truthfully, I don’t really remember you.
You’re a smart cookie, you’ll figure it out.
Graduated in 05 means you’re a year younger than me. Alas, I went to Hills and not Ramapo so you’re really asking me to rack my memory.
I’m kind of glad you don’t remember me, because, uh, I wasn’t exactly popular.
Bah, you are not on Facebook!
Ehh, I hit my popularity peak in 5th grade (Coolidge). We’re adults—I don’t concern myself with childish plays of popularity. I’m less popular as an adult than I was as a child (hence, RABing on a Saturday night with my cat and a glass of wine).
Another big hint: My last name starts with a ‘k’ and I’m told it translates to “short man” in German, though I’m unsure if this is true.
BTW, I’m on the book of faces. You’ll figure it out. I’m sure of it.
GAH OMG I WENT TO COOLIDGE TOO!!!!
You’re kidding. Holy cow. Ms. Berg gave me all O’s because she had the hots for my stepfather.
I bit Max Armenante’s arm in 3rd grade (you were in 4th) when he stole my pencil. He had to get rabies vaccinations. Ahhh memories. I had Mrs. Christie, the creepy old woman who made me scratch her back for hours.
You probably know (or know of them) the McKay’s, Sangiorgi’s, Van Dyke’s then.
OH MY GOD I HAD MS BERG AND MRS CHRISTIE (THE WITCH WHO WOULDNT LET US WEAR YANKEE SHIRTS) AND MS SERVON!!!!
Aggghhh!!
And why is Max Armenante’s name so familiar?!?!
And the McKays friggin’ ran the place…
Max had an older sister named “Heather”. I think she was a grade above you.
Never had Ms. Servon, though I hear she was better than most. Rick Flair? WOOOOOOOO!I think his name was Dr. Shuck or something like that.
Servon was amazing. Best. teacher. ever. Although I blame her for my fear of tornadoes.
“I bit Max Armenante’s arm in 3rd grade (you were in 4th) when he stole my pencil. He had to get rabies vaccinations. Ahhh memories.”
Again… Endlessly fascinating.
Yeah, I had strange anger issues as a youngster. I locked my sister in the dog kennel for an entire day while our parents were on a cruise. That didn’t go over too well.
All I get is James Leach and James Marino…
Haha, no, Leach was a funny kid, though. You’re close. Your research skills are disappointing, Rebecca. First three letters of the last name are “Kle”.
Still getting nothing on teh internets =( It’s on the tip of my tongue, too….
JMK wishes.
http://www.hiyoooo.com/
What I lack in good looks and charm, I make up for with inappropriate touching, strange masturbatory habits and a heart of gold.
I made one of those up.
I made one of those up.
Heart of gold?
What did I win??!?!?
You win a demonstration of strange masturbatory habits and inappropriate touching. Sound good?
Kleimann?
There we go!
What are the chances two people that went to the same small elementary school are regular contributors on RAB? Next time you’re in town, we should grab a coffee.
Back in the day, I ran Boulder Run (not really).
I’ll be there tomorrow night and some time on Monday.
My school beat #13 Houston! Fuck yea! Partying hard tonight
Any way to watch the Isles game tonight without having center ice? Are they on Versus or anything?
They’re on MSG+
Unfortunately, living in VT, I don’t get MSG+.
Thanks a lot though, Rebecca!
So I’ve been researching all day yesterday and today to write an essay on a topic discussed in the book GloboChrist, which I didn’t understand at all so I gave up after Ch.1. Now I somewhat know some of the points in the book. But all of my research is going to waste as it won’t really help me in what I’m supposed to write and now I’m also changing the subject. Researching starts all over for me. I still have to write the essay itself.
Also, I have a research paper due tomorrow night in addition to this and that’s supposed to take me longer. Fuck this class and my life.
And I havent even started that research paper at all yet. All I know is that I am writing about the impact of globalization on Sikhism in America. I’m stressing out like crazy here.
Check out EBSCO, JSTOR and other online databases. That should help quite a bit with the research aspect. As far as formulating the paper itself, do you have a particular method you often adhere to? I prefer detailed outlines.
Yea, I’m on Ebsco right now. Found 3 articles but I’m still not sure what to right about. There are a lot of ideas in the book. I’ve narrowed it down to three:
Islam and Christianity and the “Clash of Revelations,” not a class of civilizations in the future
Christianity in India and how its increasing
Secularism in Europe; Godless Europe
I’m leaning towards the 2nd one because I can somewhat create a good argument about how its increasing there.
*not class, but Clash of civilizations
I’ve read “Clash” a few times.
I’ll abstain for putting forth any sort of religious opinion, even though it’s an open thread, it’ll be of little use to anyone.
I’m still a bit unclear as to what exactly the paper’s requirement is.
Is it about Sikhism in America (huge population centers in Queens and California, I know–you could try to research how their cultural identity is meshing with the mobile, interactive nu-tech America), Islam as it relates to/is different in its basic tenants from Christianity or about mounting secularism in Europe (there have been quite a few articles from known American Christian leaders of late, as they worry America is quickly following Europe’s secularism)?
Do you get to choose any of these? If so, how are they related to Sikhism in America?
No its not about any religion opinions, which kinda sucks because thats why I signed up for the class. It’s about the effects of globalization on particular religions.
And the Sikhism and Christianity papers are two separate ones BTW.
Globalization as it relates to the industries the practitioners of the religion are in, the cultural adaption/mobility/change of youth culture within the religion?
Yea, that’s pretty much it.
Uhhh, I wrote a paper on the impact of globalization on Islam last year. If you get this, if it’s not too late, I mayeb can help you out
For this paper, this is what I have to do:
“Develop a brief thesis of no more than several sentences about how the new “globalized Christianity”, discussed in various ways in the book GLOBOCHRIST, has become manifest in a certain region or continent of the world – e.g., Europe, East Asia (China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.), South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan), the Middle East, Europe, North America, South America. Your thesis does not have to be proven in advance, but should be plausible or “cogent” based on what you’ve read in the assigned book, found on the internet, or have learned on your own. It cannot be based simply on your own barely informed opinion.”
Easy enough but kinda hard at the same time. The only thing that killed me was that I didnt undertstand and completely read the book so I had to research a lot about it.
And of course, I have to then write the paper itself using “certified documentary sources”
Oh man! I was totally onboard when it was just the thesis. Give me a few minutes and I’ll help you develop a decent thesis. Heads up, though, I’m not particularly well-versed in the changing shifts in global Christianity. I know quite a bit more about global Islam (though not anywhere approaching the level of scholar).
I took a history course in which everything we read/used for writing was a primary source. That was annoying.
Yea it definitely is annoying
Reading first person accounts of the Rawandan genocide was not fun.
OK, total shot in the dark I just threw together.
As traditional states in Western Europe continue to grow more secular, while the divide between Islam and Western beliefs widens, the global Christian imperative to spread and maintain its ideologies is dependent upon the United States’ active role in spreading its culture, the foundation of which is rooted in Christianity.
I like it and its well written…but I dont think its what I’m looking for. I have to focus one idea. I’ve decided to focus on Christianity in India.
Thanks for your effort though. I’d use that if I wasn’t writing this dumb paper.
No problem. Good luck!
One last tidbit: My best friend spent a year in India practicing medicine/studying there. I forget what region he spent most of his time, but whatever. Anyway, he says that Indians there are fascinated by whites, particularly Americans. I can’t personally verify this, as I’ve never been there. More to the point, my friend’s claim stems from his belief that there is still a large degree of, and perhaps I’m reaching for the term, racism. The lighter-skinned Indians are thought to be more prosperous, industrious and “advanced”. Perhaps this is why Christianity, in the modern sense, is noted to be the religion of the prosperous white man, something they strive to be.
Also, he told me that most Indian movies involve an Indian man being much desired by white women.
Take this for what it’s worth—a second hand source that could potentially not be rooted in any reality or real circumstance.
Just throwing stuff out.
The relative social standing of light skin/dark skin in India is, in part, connected to the Hindu caste system. Indo-European invaders (Aryans) entered the subcontinent in succeeding waves beginning around 1500 BCE (the time of the destruction of the Indus Valley civilization centered on Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro). The castes formalized a power structure which relegated the older, native, darker-skinned peoples (Dravidians) to the lower castes.
Christianity entered India very early (traditionally through the missionary work of St. Thomas the Apostle); there is a very old Christian culture that was in contact with various Assyrian, Nestorian and other eastern versions of Christianity and was later influenced by the Roman Catholic Portuguese presence beginning in the late 15th century. The Malabar coast is a center of Indian Christianity.
Protestantism was expanded by Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries in the 18th and 19th centuries as the British Raj established itself.
That’s off the top of my head (history teacher but not an India expert) and I more than likely left off some significant avenues of research, but if you look at the Syro-Malabar rite of Catholicism or the British missions or relatively recent commun ities of Christians and trace their growth and/or connection to the growth of other 20th century missionary efforts in Africa or China you may have a useful approach to fulfill your assignment. I’m sure there is some scholarly literature on JSTORs that would address some of this anyway. Good luck.
I should have added that Christianity has a dual appeal: as the religion of the upper class (British) rulers in the 19th c and the anglicized Indians (Gandhi, for instance) and as a faith that appeals to the poor, oppressed and forgotten like the lowest caste (Untouchables). Of course, the British connection cuts two ways and reduces the appeal of Christianity to nationalists which is often expressly connected to Hinduism.
Good points, NYT. Interestingly (or perhaps not, yeah, it’s not. Nevermind), the biggest ship-jumpers to Christianity are Hindi.
Finally got a PS3! Woo!
How is it? TELL ME EVERYTHING!
It’s pretty awesome. Right now I’ve just got The Show and MW2, but that should keep me entertained for a while.
Get GTA4. Thank me 2 months later when you tear yourself away from your PS3.
MW2 is awesome, enough said.
I envy you on this night. Maybe I’ll go watch the Matrix…
Ahhh I’m considering cracking down and buying one too myself. I kind of want to pick up Dragon Age, I’ve always been into RPGs..
/cliche blogger living in mother’s basement
I want some hotstove.
Trade for either David DeJesus or Matt Murton for LF?
Delmon Young? (He might be non-tendered)
Aaron Rowand?
Adam Dunn? (Basically a DH; LAST in UZR this year)
No to all. I love Dunn for DH but trading wouldn’t make sense with multiple DH options available for just money.
I kinda like DeJesus if the price is right. He’s a tremendous fielder, good baserunner, and used to play center. New Yorker, too I think.
Meh. I’d rather not trade pieces away for what could be only a marginal upgrade. If the price is Swisher-deal-cheap, then, yeah, it’s probably right. However, I don’t think it’d be that low. I’d rather roll with FA signings than trades.
It is the Royals…
I spent part of my evening sifting through contracts of teams like the Royals and Pirates…….does that make me an Evil Yankees Fan™?
Not at all. The thing is, the Royals seem to take our crappy outcast players and we purge the Pirates of anything with moderate value, or so it seems.
Just wait for 2011 on Dunn, then he can be the full time DH and blast 900 home runs over the right field wall.
=]
I like this idea.
Woot Manny Pacquiao fight today!
1.4 mil buys at $55 each, that’s about 75 mil before they even sell one seat in Vegas. Nice business.
How many people bought Tecate?
Came across this: http://media.nowpublic.net/ima.....3a23e9.jpg
Makes no sense. Why T-Mobile?
who do you guys like in the fight?
Cotto
me too but he’s a 3-1 dog. surprised the line is that long.
Because Pacquiao’s good.
Bah Syracuse and their losing ways, it’s gonna take a long, long time for that football program become a power again.
I graduated Syracuse in 2008. I feel your pain.
Heh I actually just graduated from ESF in May, I miss walking by the dome everyday.
I kind of hate ESFers all the good stuff about Syracuse for half the price!
It’s cool, I can totally understand. I definitely took advantage of taking as many SU classes as I could, there’s no way I could afford them otherwise.
Ha, I just put your name into stalkerbook just for shits and giggles, and one of our friends in common was a TA for one of my classes. Small world eh?
No way, which one? Tell me it’s Brad or Seth…
Neither, John Hartigan.
It could happen. I always talk shit on UConn’s football program, but if they can build towards respectability, anyone can.
Oh damn! Crawford wants out of TB.
http://nybaseballdigest.com/?p=17698
Now is there a way for Tampa to say “Uhh yeah forget that we picked up his option…”
Tampa screwed him on a Gentleman’s agreement. He’ll probably be traded mid-season, I would assume. Chances are he’s looking to be traded and sign an extension, right? If so, I’d think that would hurt the Yanks’ chances of getting him through just FA.
No, the report is false. Frank Russo makes stuff up all the time, and Mike Silva encourages it. That site is a disaster.
Good to know. Thanks for the clarification, Moshe.
I should have added this link, which debunks the report:
http://blogs.tampabay.com/rays.....false.html
Is he trying to do a SportsbyBrooks TMZ-styled version of “journalism”?
that damn celebrity gossip source stole my initials.
I cannot believe that on RAB I managed to run into another RABer from my hometown. That is way, way too whack.
Yeah. Give me a buzz when you’re in town. 201 788 4708.
just sent you a text
throwing your number out there on the internet… bold. What if alex gonzalez prank calls you??
This isn’t the NAMBLA message board. Number I don’t recognize, I ignore. Whatevs.
North American Marlon Brando Look A-likes?
I did the same thing (THCM). On another board, I found a dude who’s father was tight w/my late grandfather. Now we’re good friends.
That’s awesome. I always find it funny when things like this happen. One of my best friend’s from Vermont lived next door to a good friend from Rahwah, NJ, and I had absolutely no idea until I visited one and saw the other outside. I thought it was a prank or something.
/Punk’d
“He’s pissed beyond belief.”
Oh, that’s just great. Kennedy for Crawford! (not serious)
OK, does Kennedy/Nova get it done?
Fuck reply fail
It’s funny to note the parallels between Salty’s globalization paper (making the world smaller, although his has a religion focus, but I digress) and the discovery of how closely some of our real-world RAB ties really are.
Yep, the internet and new technologies are bringing people together
My head just exploded
OH MY G-D OH MY G-D THE NETS MIGHT ACTUALLY WIN THIS GAME!!!
NO FUCKING WAY I HATE YOU DWAYNE WADE
Ouch. So close
Basketball season is turning into the reverse of Joe D’s streak in 1941. Too bad the Knicks screwed up such (negative) perfection with a win.
http://www.tennessean.com/arti.....n+sentence
^^^I wish I had teachers like this growing up, though there was one. Ms. Grayson. To this day I still believe she moonlighted as a stripper. She reeked of hangover and cigarettes every morning. But she was fine. Oh yes, you dirty, dirty skank. Tell me all about prepositions while I peer down your blouse. Tell me…
Free Sandy Binkley. New RAB t-shirts?
Hell yeah. I should really learn Photoshop. It would be graphic, yet beautiful.
Please do.
Tennessee is having quite a news day. http://www.tennessean.com/arti.....ged+e-mail
“The e-mail from Trooper
Josef GoebbelsBrent Gobbell states, in part, “You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member … you call him a racist.” It also includes a list of racist epithets.The message concludes, “There is nothing improper about this e-mail. Let’s see which of you are proud enough to send it on … BE PROUD TO BE WHITE”
Wow, Tennessee. Just…wow.
That’s just a white cop from Tennessee who’s tired of the persecution, right there.
Brandon Jennings drops 55 tonight. Knicks make a mistake by passing on him?
Too early to tell. Not that Jordan Hill excites anyone…
OH MY GOD MODERN WARFARE 2 AMAZING
Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
May 2010
MO PLEASE MAKE IT SO !!!!
I don’t know why I’m watching, I thought I’d sworn it off, but I wish the pundits on The Sports Reporters had talked even half as passionately about the World Series as they just did some mid-season NFL games.
That has to be the worst show on ESPN, and that’s saying a lot.
Yeah, I used to enjoy it when I didn’t know any better. Woops.
I don’t see how any show that is 33% Lupica ranting could be enjoyable.
All you need to know about that show, and ESPN as a whole really, is that everyone (save for Neyer and KLaw) there swore up and down that Gaudin should start WS game.