The ISU men’s and women’s basketball teams, both playing Oklahoma, each hit a season-record 11 three-pointers Saturday. The four teams combined for 31-of-71 on three-point shots overall in the day at Hilton Coliseum. I wonder if they keep records for something like that.
Official attendance was a combined 26,830, which has to rank up there too, somewhere behind the sold-out WNIT/NIT doubleheader in March 2003.
October 25, 2008: IL 108 goes all of a few hundred yards to the east in Kampsville before coming to a ferry across the Illinois River. IL 100 along the river is pretty scenic.
March 22, 2003: North end of IA 107 at the Clear Lake city limits. This used to be where it intersected IA 106. The number, continuously in use since the second half of 1920, was decommissioned in 2003 — except where it wasn’t.
Since Cerro Gordo County’s 2003 agreement was done separately from the Second Great Decommissioning, the segments inside Meservey and Thornton (above) were still on the state rolls for nearly another decade. The county was in charge of maintenance and presumably plowing, though. The last vestige of IA 107 officially was extinguished June 30, 2011.
(Warning: Rant ahead.)
I have a seven-year-old, perfectly functional TV and VCR. I have been told I need to install an adapter to continue to get cable TV. After its installation, it is no longer possible to record one station with the VCR while watching another. I expressly asked about this three times when I picked the adapter up, and either was assured that wouldn’t be a problem or they didn’t understand the question.
I honestly expected this would be the situation given my experience of the digital television switch with broadcast channels, which is its own ongoing disaster of a story. But I held out hope. I finally got my suspicions confirmed with another phone call. “But you can get a DVR for $22 a month.” Of course I would like to pay more for something I used to be able to do without extra cost or effort, whether that’s recording a TV program without worrying about accidentally changing the channel, or watching a football game at 11 AM on Saturday in September.
Fortunately, Mediacom allows for more than one adapter, and there is at least one guide out there for how to use a two-adapter system. “Sounds like an awful lot of work,” another tech told me when I asked if such a solution was feasible. It wasn’t a lot of work in 1986.
Mediacom has also been intentionally vague about when the analog cable will actually be cut. If you look at the FAQ to find out “when,” the answer is, “Now. The conversion is currently taking place.”
I also am no longer able to eliminate channels I don’t want from the lineup.
I’m not too worry about the situation because I have a device to let me watch TV on my computer, but I won’t know if that will also be rendered inoperative until it happens.
Ironically, the same day this was going on, I missed out on a package delivery because I do not have a landline.
Finally, while I’m going full Andy Rooney: Remember when it didn’t use to cost six bucks to eat a “value meal” at Burger King?
UPDATE FEB. 17: My feelings on age, right here.
May 19, 2004: Old county road sign near Gordonsville, Minnesota. (Same trip as 105.) The road runs one mile from US 65 at the Iowa border north to County Road 1.
Maybe the Cyclones.com writer copied and pasted from a game story about Royce White, since he’s had a lot of double-doubles too.
Chelsea Poppens scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Hallie Christofferson added 14 points as Iowa State pulled away in the second half for a 66-47 Big 12 victory over Kansas Wednesday in Hilton Coliseum. … Poppens’ performance marked his 19th double-double this season.
Emphasis added. I know all too well how easy it is to slip up while writing.
Poppens has more double-doubles than Baylor’s Brittney Griner this season (19 vs 12). However, Griner has much more in her career (33 vs. 20). Both of them are going to be around another year.
None of that should obscure the larger point: The Cyclone women got a much-needed win even if it took a half to wake up.
Assorted thoughts that didn’t fit in the narrative, plus random pictures. (Photo galleries to come later. Much, much later.)
Texas’ attention to US route signage is generally exemplary.
The Alamodome and the Alamo have zero aesthetic similarity. Pity.
Last dances in Aggieland
May 19, 2004: BGS for I-35’s northernmost exit in Iowa. Former IA 105 was never assimilated into the county road system after its decommissioning. Today, the exit is the site of the Top of Iowa Welcome Center and a casino, Iowa’s equivalent to the Missouri fireworks depot.
The Big East fired West Virginia this morning, clearing up the way for the Big 12 to release schedules we weren’t sure were going to arrive before the end of August.
The good news for Iowa State is the lack of a Dec. 1 game, although that means playing through the conference without a bye.
The Cyclones and the Big 12 as a whole will be playing some of the toughest schedules in the nation. Big 12 champion Oklahoma State, Mountain West champion TCU and Big East champion West Virginia are all there. ISU and WV meet for the first time ever on the football field Nov. 24 in Ames.
As I pointed out earlier, this is the first official schedule since 1904 without Missouri or Nebraska on the docket (they didn’t play in 1918 because of Spanish Flu), and the ninth season overall in ISU history without either of those two teams.
The only seasons without at least one of Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska were 1892, 1893, and 1903. Despite Hawkeye fans’ wishes, that isn’t expected to change soon.
August 2002: US 104 lives, 30 (now 40) years after decommissioning. This is at the east end of the route, and northeast end of US 62, in Niagara Falls NY.
