Sunday PM

Here's to the USA team on their victory in the Ryder Cup, the biannual golfing competition between the US and Europe. I spent a few more hours in front of the TV today, and while today's singles matches (one-on-one) definitely had excitement, it wasn't quite at the same level as yesterday's two-man theater (two-on-two).

For the shallow-golf-knowledge crowd, the Ryder Cup is one of the few times where scores are maintained on a, "who wins the hole", or match scoring basis. In the regular weekly tour events, scores are maintained on a "stroke play" basis: lowest cumulative score after four rounds wins. In match play, you can just totally screw up one hole, but you only lose that hole. If you play lights out the next hole, you can win that hole and cancel out the poorly played hole. If you win more holes than the other guy in the 18 hole match, you win one point for the team. If you tie, you each get a half point. There are 28 matches scheduled over the three days. The first team to 14 1/2 points wins the Cup. (There are a few more rules, but that's the gist of it.)

BBQ over at 2's tonight. She's trying to get prepared to entertain a few friends later this week, and she isn't exactly an experienced chef on the grill. We did chicken breasts and asparagus. Not bad.

I'm boycotting Sunday Night Football on NBC. (I'm not that big of an NFL fan to start with, but that's not the point.) They advertised their broadcast of tonight's game so many times during the golf, that if they were held to human standards, they would have been written up for public indecency. Of course, their rah-rah studio crew includes Kieth Olbermann, and I refuse to watch or listen to him spout his elitist gibberish.

In case you missed it, Europe's new Super Collider is broken. I'm not sure what it does, but it sounds like a lot of pork-barrel funding. I wouldn't be surprised if they found some US dollars behind it. We back everything.

So have a great week.

BCOT