Month: March 2007

And the Great Thaw of 2007 is Upon Us…

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The weather has been warmer lately. Highs pushing 70 earlier this week, although we did have snow flurries last night. Today and tomorrow were/are going to be a bit cooler, but still highs above freezing. The snow is pretty much gone from most of the yards, just the piles from plows remain, but they should be gone soon as well.

As I wait for the lake to open up and water ski season to start, I’m watching way too much basketball, keeping tabs on the Badger Hockey team (up 3-nothing over Michigan Tech) and finishing up my Think Tank presentations for this weekend.

Many of you are probably wondering what is Think Tank. Well, it is a conference put on by the Wisconsin Water Skiing Federation about water skiing. Somehow, it is the largest water skiing conference in the world. I guess that just goes to show that when we can’t go skiing up here, we still think about skiing. In an effort to revitalize the conference, this year it is sporting a new location. It has moved to the Chula Vista Resort in the Wisconsin Dells. It’ll be my first time going to a water park since high school. I guess I’m too busy water skiing in the summer to take time off to go down water slides.

Meanwhile, each day on the drive home from work, I look out at Lake Monona from the beltline just waiting to glimpse some open water. Haven’t seen any yet, but tomorrow, I’ll do a drive by the landing to get an up close look at the lake. I’m still hoping to hit the water by the 26 so I just have a little more than a week left to make that deadline.

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Go Badgers!!!

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Granted the Badger Men’s B-Ball team is getting lots of press, but there are still other Badger team’s alive in the post season and we don’t want to forget about them. It is a very busy week in Badger athletics.

Thursday night the men’s hockey team takes the ice in the WCHA Final Five. Friday night the women’s hockey team square of in the Women’s Frozen Four and the women’s basketball team is alive in the WNIT. Some wrestlers and swimmers are heading to the National Championships as well. Meanwhile, the Badger Men’s Track team brought home 1 National Championship already this year. Hopefully, we’ll bring home some more hardware to match that. The likelyhood of that happening in these team sports? I’ll rank them this way in most likely to happen to least likely to happen… Women’s Hockey, Men’s Basketball, Men’s Hockey.

Anyway… on to the WCHA Final Five sponsored by a frozen pizza company. Love that logo.

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Mascot Madness

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Saw this post over at Chicks Dig the Long Ball and it makes for an interesting read.

However, I’m confused by one grouping…

Somehow they put the Badgers into the Aquatic Animal group. Not saying Badgers are anti-aquatic, but don’t they live in holes in the ground? That, and I think they require water just as much as the other average mammal. The origin of the term “Wisconsin Badgers” doesn’t even have anything to do with the prevalence of the Mustelidae in the region. It has more to do with the fact that Badgers live in holes in the ground.

You’d think before someone would write the definitive grouping of mascots, they do some research or admit they don’t know.

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The Number 23

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I also caught the movie The Number 23 recently, another movie where Jim Carey tries to play it straight instead of being a funny man. Does it well too.

The movie itself moves a long a little slowly but has an interesting story. I won’t go into details, but it was a decent story, I kinda figured it out a little bit before the end, but it kept my attention to the end.

The movie isn’t anything to run out and see in you’re local megaplex, but watch for it on DVD. It’ll be worth watching.

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Pans Labyrinth

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Suppose I’ll write up a quick review of the movie Pans Labyrinth. Caught this at the theater the day after the Oscars. I’d heard good things about it and decided it was time to see it.

The movie itself is very good. However, it is a very depressing movie. Well acted, good story, well done special effects with easy to read subtitles. Yes, it is subtitled, so be prepared to read.

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Water Skiing News from Malaysia

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While over here in the states, we have to fight for every bit of water skiing news coverage, over in Malaysia the seem to get pretty good press. Funny thing is, most of the news articles I find about water skiing come from the far side of the world, places like Australia. Or they are about some water skiing squirrel (go ahead, look at them). The squirrel gets more press than the 2006 National Champion Show Ski Team from Madison.

Meanwhile, try searching for show skiing and all you get is stories about shows that might be about skiing (likely down hill) or potentially some show that on TV that had skiing in it, but very little about actual show skiing.

While over at the Rowboat they are warning all up and coming show directors to be wary about taking people out of show acts… Who knows what they’ll do in retaliation? I also like the idea of some bling on the throttle.

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Night at the Museum on the IMAX

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Finally managed to see this one on the IMAX. The show times never cooperated very well and the fact that I knew it was going to be on the IMAX for a while made me a little lax. With 300 coming out soon on the IMAX, time was running out.

I’d have to say that this movie was better than I expected, but I expected little. It had enough of a story to keep me interested, much more of a story than I thought it would have. Effects were good, characters were well cast, and the fact that it was on the IMAX probably helped it out a bit. This is definately what I call a popcorn flick meant for the whole family and worth watching. This isn’t a ground breaking movie or anything, but it is entertaining.

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