FB: Liberty League

[Frank Rossi]

So, 'gro and RT and all the other RPI and Union guys...

I'm depending on all of you to plan my day aside from the tailgate pregame show and actual game broadcast.  I'll admit, there's a little leeway in terms of swaying certain tailgate events I might partake in...carbombs, etc. 

So, let's see a proposed schedule of locations and events that will give me a great day since, hey, this week SUCKED!  It's not often everyone sort of gets to enjoy this RPI/Union game without added sidelights (we go from everything riding on this game in 2005 to almost nothing besides the Shoes in 2006 -- which is the way it should be for real rivalries).

I'm anxiously awaiting my itinerary...Boys?

[union89]

So, 'gro and RT and all the other RPI and Union guys...

I'm depending on all of you to plan my day aside from the tailgate pregame show and actual game broadcast.  I'll admit, there's a little leeway in terms of swaying certain tailgate events I might partake in...carbombs, etc. 

So, let's see a proposed schedule of locations and events that will give me a great day since, hey, this week SUCKED!  It's not often everyone sort of gets to enjoy this RPI/Union game without added sidelights (we go from everything riding on this game in 2005 to almost nothing besides the Shoes in 2006 -- which is the way it should be for real rivalries).

I'm anxiously awaiting my itinerary...Boys?

Frank, this is an 'away' game for us....let's see what the 'boys of Troy' have to offer.  Last year, U89 left an open invite on this site to all Engineers to come back to an hour of open tab at Geppetto's.  After the spanking, every one of the RPI folks limped back over the bridge to Troy.

['gro]

10am interviews phase I
12pm interviews phase II (7 second delay per FFC regs)
1-4pm game
4:30 console audino, wipe away tears
4:35 chicken noodle soup dance at 50yd line
5:30 Ruck

the rest gro has no ideas.

On my way to nashville... 518... gro is BACK.

[Pat Coleman]

Send Keith an e-mail. It's so so hard to understand how something could get forgotten by a guy who writes 4,000 words a week for us.

(That's sarcasm, just to be clear.)

[labart96]

Send Keith an e-mail. It's so so hard to understand how something could get forgotten by a guy who writes 4,000 words a week for us.

(That's sarcasm, just to be clear.)

TGP wasn't going to give Keith a hard time since from what TGP has read, Keith seems like pretty much an unabashed North/South D3 guy anyway.  If you read his bio it even says he went to an ODAC school and covered it for a couple years afterwards.  He's not going to know as many of the Eastern rivalries as well as the members of the LLPP would. 

Cut the guy some slack.

[union89]

Send Keith an e-mail. It's so so hard to understand how something could get forgotten by a guy who writes 4,000 words a week for us.

(That's sarcasm, just to be clear.)

TGP wasn't going to give Keith a hard time since he's pretty much an unabashed Midwest D3 guy anyway.  It's not like he's going to know as many of the Eastern rivalries as the LLPP would. 

Cut the guy some slack.

There was never any real ballbustin'......TGP, you gettin' soft on us??

[labart96]

Send Keith an e-mail. It's so so hard to understand how something could get forgotten by a guy who writes 4,000 words a week for us.

(That's sarcasm, just to be clear.)

TGP wasn't going to give Keith a hard time since he's pretty much an unabashed Midwest D3 guy anyway.  It's not like he's going to know as many of the Eastern rivalries as the LLPP would. 

Cut the guy some slack.

There was never any real ballbustin'......TGP, you gettin' soft on us??

still pickin up all the pumpkin pieces after last weekend's stomp. 

[mattvsmith]

Now... back to gro's travel dilemma. Do airports shut down from 10am to 3pm? When searching for a shoesapallooza plane ticket Gro had to choose between the crack of dawn 6am flight or a late afternoon flight with a longer stayover and wouldn't hit the skreets of schenectady until 11pm. WTF?  Top that with the fact that you can't get anything out of Chattanooga for under 5 bills (again, WTF?) so gro is traveling to Nashville tonight to stay at the crack motel of his choice before hopping on the 6am bird back to NY.

'Gro,

The short answer to, "Do airports close down from 10 am to 3 pm?" is: "More or less."

Airlines operate in "blocks."  All inbound planes will land within 30-40 minutes of each other.  They will dump the people off, crews will get on board to clean, fuel, and restock the plane (known as a "turning" a plane) and then the airline will herd the cattle back onto the plane, and (almost) all flights will leave within 30-40 minutes during the outgoing block.

Outside of blocks, airports are dead.  Because airlines all share the same brain, they all schedule their blocks at about the same time.  If American has a 7 am block, US Airways insists on a 7 am block because if they had to have a 7:30 block, they are convinced they would lose marketshare.  So everyone tries to pile in an out of airports at the same time.  This is also why security gets clogged up at 5 a.m.  Everyone is trying to make the early block.  If you come to security at 9 a.m. it will be dead and you can basically walk through without any wait time.  (Note bene: these times I am using are figurative, not actual times, which vary from airport to airport depending on location and schedules.)

The Rev shows wakes up at 2:15 a.m. so tht he can arrive at PHX at 3:30 and start work by 3:45.  Rev finishes and goes over to ASU at 12:15.  Rev passes out later.

Cheapest days to fly are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  Sometimes Thursday AM and Saturday AM will be cheaper, too.  Most expensive are Sunday nights, Mondays, and Fridays, sometmes Thursday PM being put at a premium in order to gouge the people who get an early jump on the weekend.  If possible, try to buy tickets at least 14 days out.  Some airlines have 21-day prices, but these are rare "Southwest"-ish fares.  The closer you get to the departure daye, the more expensive fares are becuase of the way they control yield (seat inventory).  In some rare cases, an airline will learn that it was too tight with fares, and in the last few days will re-open the cheaper seats.  But in order to get into one of these you either a) have to have a friend who works yield management in an airline, or b) be a psycho traveler who lives on the internet for years until you figure out the system, or c) become a yield analyst at an airline (whic is almost as bad as death).  The Rev was a price analyst (I made ticket prices) in 2004/early2005 and hated that job even more than scraping dead deer off the road for the Chenango County highway crew in 1990 for $4.25 an hour.  The dead deer job had more meaning and deeper job satisfaction.

Anymore aviation questions, please feel free to request consultation avec le Rev.

[Regulator]

TGP, it's all good. Humanities is like 24 out of 128 credits (and if you need some sleep you can read up on gro's required classes like themodynamics and differential equations woo!!)... the funny thing is every humanities class has technology mixed in it somehow. Even the dinosaurs class that RT took, all the dinosaurs had frickin lasers attached to their fricken heads.

Reg.....did 'Gro just post "woo" in his message.....NNR has been hammered for similar behavior.....you may need to bash half full Miller Lites of his cranium for that one.

U89-
Get off Gro's NS.....I believe that NNR used the word "WOOT" at the end of his emails....which means:
"w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.

"I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"

I also think Gro was being saracstic...when NNR thought that saying woot at the end of a sentence would be cool.

U89-
cool or uncool?

[mattvsmith]

Top that with the fact that you can't get anything out of Chattanooga for under 5 bills (again, WTF?) so gro is traveling to Nashville tonight to stay at the crack motel of his choice before hopping on the 6am bird back to NY.

I forgot to mention: Chattanooga is pricey because its a backwoods market, like Syracuse or Rochester (or Albany prior to SW entering the market).  People in markets like this have no choice but to pay through the nose because there's no other way to escape.  So airlines bend them over in order to make up revenue they lose by selling tickets in hot markets under cost.

In Tennessee, the best place to fly out of is Memphis because it's a Northwest hub.  Any hub-to-hub trip will be cheaper than to/from an outlayer airport.

From Chattenooga, The Rev reckons your best bet (i.e. cheapest) option is Atlanta which is Delta's primary hub, and also the primary airport for ATA.  Or is that Air Tran?  I always get them confused.

[mattvsmith]

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Too bad "Borat" didn't run into Jenn Sterger.

"Iz so niiiice!"

[Regulator]

Now... back to gro's travel dilemma. Do airports shut down from 10am to 3pm? When searching for a shoesapallooza plane ticket Gro had to choose between the crack of dawn 6am flight or a late afternoon flight with a longer stayover and wouldn't hit the skreets of schenectady until 11pm. WTF?  Top that with the fact that you can't get anything out of Chattanooga for under 5 bills (again, WTF?) so gro is traveling to Nashville tonight to stay at the crack motel of his choice before hopping on the 6am bird back to NY.

Anymore aviation questions, please feel free to request consultation avec le Rev.

Rev- If Reg drops an elbow of a stewardesses head for banging her cart off regs shoulder for the thrid time, what punishment will he receive.

#2- Reg recently took a trip to Italy, where on the direct flight home, they cancelled the flight all together, two week prior and forgot to tell Reg until he showed up for his 9:30am flight (Reg got home by flying to London, then back to DC, which my airline set up)....what compensation should Reg ask for?

#3- What happens when people check bags without you in front of them?  Are the people like <holding up size 22 thongs> "Yo Billy, check this ish out dude!, I could wear these as a tank top!"

[mattvsmith]

College named after
RPI:  Stephen van Rensselaer, upstate NY's first major slum-lord
Union:  Well, nobody really.  Union was the only name they could think of.
Hobart:  John Henry Hobart, Western NY's first openly gay Episcopalian Bishop

Hey now.  That one hurts.

[mattvsmith]

245 Men and Masculinity

This course offers a reinterpretation of men's lives from the perspectives of history and sociology, informed by pro-feminist men's studies. Students assert that masculinity is problematic—for men and for women—but also, subject to change, since it is socially constructed and historically variable. Students focus on men's lives in American society from the late 19th century to the present, and explore the varieties of masculinities in the diversity of race, class, ethnicity and sexuality. This course allows men and women to come to a deeper understanding of men as men, and to re-think the male experience.

The course syllabus includes small-group discussions, guest lecturers, and films. Course
requirements typically include three bidisciplinary essays: a biography exploring the problematics of masculinity; an analytic of men in groups; and speculation on solutions and social change.

Now that's LIBERAL arts

This is the kind of gob****e that causes there to be "hate" in The Rev's love-hate relationship with his alma mater.

t's run by Rocco Capraro, a dork of the highest order.  The Rev fell afoul of him when said Dean asked the Rev to move into a house called The SHAC (Student Have A Choice [against substance abuse]).  Rev told him NO WAY because Rev wanted to pledge Sigma Chi.  Dean was aghast!  Rev added, because SHAC is for dorks with missing chromosomes and glandular problems.  Dean was more aghast.  Dean said Rev would be forced to drink mass quantities of booze, forced to date rape, and forced have sex with Farm Animals. Promises! Promises!  None of it materialized.  The Rev was forever a marked man.

The Rev is proud to be a member of this micro-society, LLPP, inc., in which men can be men without deans blacklisting us.

[Senor RedTackle]

one form of celebration that RT does not recommend after RPI wins this Sat...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15643614/

ZING.....!!!!!!!!!