BigTime Entertainment

June 26
Shadow Lounge
Presented by: BigTime Entertainment
doors: 6.15pm
show starts: 6.30

Showcase event including:
I'm Leaving the City, Patrick McCann, and others

$7 in advance (you can contact me however you'd like to do this and i'll get you a ticket)
$10 at the door.

I gosta sell 30 of these suckers so yeah... help me out.

sleep... must be nice

So, i feel like on average I get almost "enough" sleep generally in 1-5 hr spurts. recently, however, the sleep scene has been inhibited by a series of reoccurring dreams.

1. right as my alarm is going off in the morning: Spinach Dip. I have this freaking dream where I'm at fucking work and a ticket comes in for spinach dip, i make it, put the ticket up, ding the bell, and then i turn around and a new ticket for spinach dip is right there... again. It's this horrible loop of being stuck in spinach dip hell, putting bread in the oven, heating the dip, burning my fingers and making a sloppy god damn mess.
I hate spinach dip. I generally have violent feelings against those fuckers who order it.

2. less of a dream and more of an auditory hallucination: the sound of the ticket printer is etched in my brain. seriously... this is no joke, that sound is all i can hear sometimes. It wakes me up in the middle of the night.

3. even less awesome is this dream where I'm stuck in the walk in cooler... that shit is cold in there, i hate going in there. In my dream I go in to pull something out and can't get the door back open and have to sit there on a tub of chicken wings for the duration of the dream... generally i wake up and i'm freezing my ass off (isn't may supposed to be warm??? fucking pittsburgh weather)

The whole dream thing is getting pretty stupid... It's preventing me from sleeping properly and it just plain freaks me out. I'm not one to remember my dreams regularly, so the fact that I currently am remembering three reoccurring dreams is strange.

Fucking 'spin' dip.

How much do I hate myspace.com?

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*about this much

*scaled to fit in the state of Pennsylvania

anyway... so yeah, I hate myspace a lot. it's ugly, irritating, and generally like wandering into a bad neighborhood on the interwebs.

However, it does have the perk of being a free way for musicians to promote their music online and interestingly enough, it recently (who knows how) got me in contact with some dude at a booking company. I guess he stumbled across my page, listened to the samples on it, and contacted me about potentially booking me at the Shadow Lounge for some 30 min set in June.

sweet right? yeah.

teep... why the hell not????

WORDS :)
tet- Vietnamese New Year celebration
byte- typically eight adjacent bits as process by a computer (I don't know why were kwestioning this... "it was 3am" is my best
defense)
tye- a knot or tie. Used in mining to define a trough for washing ores, nautical term to describe a chain or rope which passes through a mast piece.
sere- to parch, desiccate, or wizen (once again, the kwestion here was based on being sleepy and full of boggle uncertainties)
hiver- it's slightly unclear... there's not a clear definition listed, but it is listed under the "related forms" in the 'hive' entry.
beek- to bask, or warm in the sunshine or fireplace. also applies to wood, the act of seasoning by exposure to heat.
teek- it's a type of wood (I KNEW IT)
soe- a large wooden cask for holding water
soke- a district over which local jurisdiction was exercised in Old English Law
taw(s)- to shoot a marble (v. trans.), also as a noun meaning a fancy shooting marble
wont- custom or habit "he was wont to rise at dawn" (WOOT)
skite- a kwick, offhanded blow or strike. a joke or prank (no way... what a great word)
rite- a ceremonial act (once again... plagued by exhaustion, this was kwestioned)

NO DICE:
dyet- attempted with "alternate spelling of diet"
tate- looks like it's only a proper noun
rees- adding an 's' does not make it plural... it's a verb but the addition of the 's' does not make it transitive.
reer, reers, reered- all not words. not even close.
yeek- attempted with "yeek, a mouse". I'm torn on this one... mostly because i think that exclamations should be spelled as creatively as possible. for the record... i would count this if it were played again.
peet- acronym. attempted as an alternate spelling for 'peat'
teep- attempted as an alternate spelling for 'teap' which, as we've recently learned, is also not a word
sewar- alt. spelling for 'sewer'
tik- I don't think there was even ant attempted justification.

SIDENOTE:
'quat' was used and defended against in the most recent boggle game i've played.

door jam pull ups

Both door jams at the BGC are conveniently ekwipped with a small ledge the perfect size to use for pull-ups. The only catch is that I am actually terrible at pull-ups, as in, can't really do them (especially in the off season).

as I did last summer I have begun the rigorous training campaign for pull-ups. It involves me hanging on the door jam and attempting pull ups when nobody is around.

current count: .5
half a pull up? yes. which is mostly because i'm tall enough that unless i totally hang from the jam i start half way there.

by the end of the summer hopefully i'll be able to get rid of that decimal.

Top five reasons...

why the BGC needs a deep frier:
1. you can deep fry anything
2. business will undoubtedly pick up upon purchasing a fryer
3. jay denat has said that he "would eat a whole tomato plant, if it were deep fried"
4. everyone wants to see that
5. look beyond the fryer, see the future of garden centers everywhere, a revolution of a combination business


why the BGC can't logistically own a frier:
1. wakenbake + wooden shed=fire hazard
2. hannah is a very soft doggie
3. productivity would inevitably come to a crashing halt
4. like everything else in or around the BGC, mulch would infiltrate it
5. The BGC would have to invest in a high tech security system: i.e. more than the padlock on the jump-able wooden fence for fear of fryer theft

I think about boggle far too much

Official Boggle rules are unclear on how to accept or reject words. Since I have yet to come across a "boggle dictionary" (which would solve some issues pretty effectively) the accepted words are sometimes up for debate.

For example, are words known to be acceptable for use in a scrabble dictionary but the word does not appear in the dictionary in use considered legal?
If you've seen the word used in online boggle (ex. wordsplay.com) but have no idea what it means, and it does not appear in the dictionary in use... does it count?

I think it'd be interesting to play a few rounds of the bogg someday by the following rules just to see how many of the words we can actually define that we use commonly (for example: 'tew,' 'tet.' 'hoy,' etc...)
If a player challenges a word in use, the player who used it must provide a reasonable definition. any undefinable words are then discounted (and obviously looked up)

Learning is fun. Right?

boggled: part 2

after a rainy afternoon of ten rounds of boggle, a few words were left up to kwestion. most were looked up on spot, but there were a few that even I didn't try to pass during game-play.

acceptable
tined- an object having tines, ie. a fork. (i don't know why we couldn't come up with this definition on spot and then had to look it up)
tun- a large cask for holding likwids
bine- a twining pland stem
wot- verb 1st & 3rd person sing. present of 'wit' meaning 'know' (archaic)

acronyms:
jit- a fairly common acronym for 'just in time' a product purchasing method for corporate businesses.
wint-
-attempted with "alternate spelling to 'went'"
boem


not acceptable, not acronyms:
nined
- attemped with "she sure nined that hole"
wints
-attempted with "plural of wint"
chyf
-alternate spelling of slang 'kife'???
exsail
kvott

kwestionables:
the definition for 'loe' from dictionary.com was a little tough to understand
'deb'-is considered informal for a debutante .

something's loose

Best ME hype from the deuceisloose8:

Back-door finals at ME regionals was an interesting game to witness, this tall visorly girl with a ponytail from Maryland stood out as running the show by catching and throwing (i'm told that's Katie Mercer?). Maryland seemed to have both offensive and defensive strategies run through Mercer.

More impressively however, is Molly Moore from Pitt. This girl is a running machine, it doesn't ever look like she gets tired.
Unlike a lot of college players who seem to rely on one or two skills (or strategy alone), Molly (22) has the versatility to adapt to any situation on the field and dominate. She's also totally ripped.

-2euce

i've got the fever

for boggle

Harris Grill: The only things standing between you and a good time is us

It's lucky I don't take 'sexual harassment' seriously. So one of my supervisors walks into the kitchen and announces to the whole kitchen (two dudes on line, one dude on salads, one dude doing dishes, and me on line) something to the effect of "GOD Damn it's getting hot in here"

He rips open his chef coat to reveal himself wearing a white women's t-shirt that is so small that his chest hair is pooching out the top and it really only covers his chesticals.

He says:
"Next time you're getting intimate with your partner.... think of this"
and sprints out of the kitchen screaming "SEXXXXYYYY" and laughing... undoubtedly to do a repeat performance for the bartenders. about 20mins later he comes back to the kitchen and says

"you know whats unfortunate about this whole thing" as he buttons his coat back up "the next time you're getting it on, you're going to think 'there was something i was supposed to think ab-- SWEET JESUS.... i'm out' and it's totally going to ruin the moment"

boggled

after a post-work, late night boggle session the following words came under investigation. Obviously none of them were used for point scoring, but for future reference, this might be useful:

acceptable words:
Wat-- a Buddhist temple or monastery in Cambodia or Thailand
Tog-- a coat or cloak
Pish-- interjection used to express disdain
Tewed-- to prepare by beating or working as in leather, hemp, or taw
quat-- the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant. (holy crap, I wouldn't have even tried to use that word....... again)

Not acceptable words:
Myte-- Danish for "fable" or "myth" (foreign languages don't count)

Tey
Teap
(Not even close... but are usable acronyms)


Shwim (just checking... on a whim, mostly because shwimming was also there... and i didn't find "swim" or "swimming" somehow)

There's also some debate as to what dictionary to use. There aren't any particularly good online boggle dictionaries, scrabble dictionaries are for a different game altogether, so good old dictionary.com has been the staple... maybe that should change