Toni Ann Savoca

Okay after I got done being all teary eyed from reading the tributes to Officer Bowden I put this name into google. This was the woman who responded to my email to Subway. I found a hit that lead me to the American Decency site. I won't link to it here because it's so filled with neo-con religious rubbish that I find it offensive. However I looked at their mission and their top three issues right now.

Apparently a lot of people (okay I only saw three letters, which is not a "lot of people") are offended by a few Abercrombie & Fitch salesmen (all men) who are shirtless. Their kids see this and ... well I don't really know what the "terrible consequences" are supposed to be. This makes me wonder if the boys are still playing "shirts and skins" basketball in school anymore. It definately seems like some people need a reality check. (in a world where people are dying for Allah to drive us out of Iraq, millions of people don't have food or a place to live and any number of other important problems, this is what they focus on????)

Also the scene from "Desparate Housewives" week before last where one of the husbands is into bondage and wanted his wife to try it is also another "Grave Social Problem". Hello? It's a comedy, people! (and a pretty farcical one at that) <raises hand to get the waiter's attention>Can we have another reality check over here?

I found the rest of the material there offensive to me and left pretty quickly. Now, I'm sure to go to Hell! :)

But the note I found on that site was virtually identical to the one I got so I suspect that there is no such person as "Toni Ann Savoca", it's a pseudonym used by an admin assistant on form letters. Or maybe it was made up by a sysadmin to put into a script to send email automatically.

To Our Friends Who Are Still In The Desert

This morning as I was driving to work I noticed a white cross by the road next to the intersection of Nifong and Forum. Last week I'd seen what looked like someone's valentine bouquet that they threw out the car window on about the same spot. This morning when I saw the cross I realized what it was. The cross said "Thank You Molly" on it so I knew it was a tribute to slain Columbia Police Office Molly Bowden, who died the week before after fighting for a month following being shot during a routine traffic stop.

For some reason this struck me more strongly than any of the soldier deaths I'd experienced or learned of. The 5th Engineer trooper Tony lost last year when they were in Iraq, the EOD captain I knew through Chris from when I was stationed at Fort Wood, the sergeant who worked for Verb who was killed in a traffic accident in Germany or the soldier who was killed crossing the street while home on leave all those years ago.

I suspect that part of it is because we're soldiers. Death is part of the business and we know that going in. Most of us have considered it, our own or others (or in the case of the officers, the death of our troops). I know (intellectually) that the same is true of police officers. They know it's dangerous and dying might happen. But I recall when I heard about the situation on the radio. I wanted to go where the suspect was hiding out and "put paid" to him. Assist in the kharma so to speak. However I also realized that I'm only an old broken fat ex-soldier and soldiers are never the ones you want doing police work.

There's been enough stuff on TV and films now that lots of people know what it means when a soldier toasts "Absent companions". But I still prefer the old Foreign Legion toast. It reflects a good deal of their history, the "march or die" philosophy that developed along with the "never give up" attitude. So let me say to Officer Bowden

"To Our Friends Who Are Still In The Desert"

<drinks toast and throws the glass in the fireplace>

Hello? HELLO? Is this thing on?

I got a note back from a customer service rep at Subway. She apologized for offending me with their TV commercials. That sounds like she didn't even bother to read what I wrote since I was pretty clear that some of the TV spots were funny, some were lame but the RADIO ad was the stupid one. Never did I use the word "offend". She did say that they screened their ads before a target audience before approving them so I guess it's just my quirky perspective which makes me thing those are stupid. Everyone else must thing they're cute/funny.

The game last night was fantastic. Jack had us sit down on the couch for our 'group therapy' session and he portrayed the anal retentive touchy-feely 'case worker' perfectly. I wanted to pull his eyeballs out (me or just my portrayal of a 16 year old juvenile delinquint?). We did some bits from everyone's past so that we all knew how the others had erupted (become a nova, a mutant). Andy's was the village back in China 2,000 years ago (I was Pu Mok the village headman and blacksmith) and he did a great bit where he says something and moves his mouth after, like the dubbed HK kung fu flicks. Sharon's was at the mall and it was 'like, whateeever'. Jason's was pretty ooky. I was his dad and Sharon his mom and we were getting into it because she brought me lite beer home. Then Andy played the 'other Garland' and they talked it out.

Once we started playing again we were typical juvie kids, sneaking out of the cafeteria to go someplace we weren't supposed to. It got weird when we finally got into the basement and the guards there had all this high tech military gear. Into the final room and there was a pitch black deep pit. Turned out some other sort of mutant was in there and after an ooky negiotations between Francis (Andy) and him we let him out. Carnage (of course) ensued and we managed to escape the school.

New Game

Jack's Aberant game starts tonight. I'm going to move the old chair Jeff gave me into the living room so he has a separate place to sit since he's going to start the whole thing off with "group therapy". We're teenage superheroes in a super villain reform school so it's going to be interesting. He ginned up his own system based on White Wolf's Aberant and the rules from some other (better written) game that he calles "X". I think I'm going to make notes and log it all to a website like I did for the Midnight playtest (and wished I would have for Jason's campaign).

Oh, I saw the other lame Subway commercial the other night. A girl put the sandwich on the roof of her beetle (which was snow covered) while she looked for her scraper to clean the car off. Of course when she found it and got out of the car all the snow had melted already. Not the worst but still kinda lame. I did send them a note yesterday about their lame radio ad (tongue pole guy). When I did that for Sonic they sent me a coupon for 10% off. We'll see if Subway is cool like that.

How to help?

By and large radio ads are much worse than TV commercials. I don't need to hear 2 McDonald's ads consequetively. And no, they don't serve food so I'm not going there anyway.

I wanted to send a note to Subway. Their TV spot with the girl and the snowman is funny as hell. The radio spot with the guy whose tongue is stuck to the pole is stupid. Am I supposed to emulate this guy and put my tongue on a pole? However I am supposed to emulate him and eat Subway sandwiches. It's doesn't equate. While the marketing folks who came up with that can be as moronic as they please I think I'll refrain. Their latest TV one is not quite as stupid as this but a whole lot less funny than the first one, although I can't bring it to mind right now.

And the whole "taste loss" beer commercials. I can help them! If your beer has lost it's taste then try starting with Real Beer! Something that has taste in the first place! (with the caveat that any beer which is free is automatically beer and not goatpiss - which most of this 'beer' is) Hell even if you like a mild pilsner (what most of these pale American 'beers' are, or at least try to be) there are a lot of good ones out there so you don't have to drink Miller or Budweiser or any of that drek.

When I went to play WoW last night I couldn't get on blackhand (the server where my highest characters are) so I played on the one Marlin and Vonne are on. I joined their guild, which is a lot more chatty than Sovereign usually is.

I need to make a list of stuff I need for or need to work on for the house. I still haven't gotten blinds for the back window or replaced the copper gas pipes with stainless steel ones. But the new grill worked out great. Although I talked over some ideas for getting it setup on the far end of the island. As it was John was there making pancakes while Jack was cooking the beef bacon and I made eggs and potatoes so it was kind of crowded in front of the stove. Oh, I need to send out a note. BBL

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang

Walla walla, bing bang

From The Witch Doctor by David Seville. No idea what it's relevance is to anything but it's kinda catchy.

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That was from yesterday afternoon. I was listening to the Dr. Demento 25th anniversary CD.

We're getting set up to merge the unix and windows oncall into one so we got windows admin ids this week. Hopefully we'll get some training done over the next few weeks so that we know how to deal with common windows server problems. And I need to gin up a common unix problem list so that we can construct the answers for the winders guys.

My new waffle maker and griddle came today. I haven't opened them but they going to be pretty cool. And someone was talking about bringing pancake batter tomorrow for the brunch. Erik has started coming too and Brian and Jill are going to try to attend. Cool.

All for now, more later.

A blinker would be nice

Blogspot has popup comment windows now. I saw them on Erik's blog and I found the place to set them to on but I can't get them to work yet. Ah well.

I saw a few ads for LeAnn Rimes new show. I saw an ad with her on some site I was at yesterday. So I went out to find her official website (it seems like more musicians have them than actors). I discovered that she's only 22 and has been singing since she was 13. Impressive, she carried herself like she was much older, late 20s or mid 30s even. Now to listen to some of her music to see if I like it. I should also go get Toby Keith's album with "Beer For My Horses" on it.

Got the food processor at Wal-Mart last night. Got a splatter screen and a cheap sauce pan too although I've finally gotten notice that the good one (the pan) I ordered had shipped. Now if the new waffle iron would get here ... I did get a good stock pot with two strainers and a nice glass lid the other weekend. Don't think there's too many things I still need for the kitchen (besides cleaning out things I don't need or use). After I finish Alton's gear book I'll need to go through it and make a list so I know for sure.

Bush has nominated an Intelligence Chief now. Not much on the web about his record or positions but he's a career diplomat so that has a certain amount of "baggage" itself. Perhaps since he's not from Intelligence he won't have the predjudices which would make him ineffective in that slot. From what I read the various Intel agencies are even more parochial than East Coast Ivy League schools. Perhaps because they donate more than their fair share of graduates to the field. Wonder if they ever hear the definition of "cooperation" in school ...

CIA Chief Warns of Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat

Does this sound familiar? Is it any more True this time? Granted the CIA isn't really in the business of truth (or facts) but still.

However I read up on Porter Gross's background back when he was appointed and I find even less reason to trust him when he says something. I mean he got rid of a pile of professional intelligence officers to replace them with his sychophants. Not a move which strikes me as the most professional and in the best interests of producing reliable intelligence. Not quite the "I wouldn't trust him if he told me the sky was blue" but not too far off.

Erik just called and tells me he saw a food processor on sale at Wal Mart so I need to go.

GenCon Madness

Well yesterday the pre-registration for GenCon started. Jay's college buds are now on a yahoo group to coordinate their plans for going. The server was swamped and things looked grim but their POC got in and got 3 rooms reserved. Aaron got his as did Jay. Jeff is going but Andy can't.

Last week when they started talking about this again I sent a note to Bryan to ask if I could get it off, pointing out that for the last two years (or three?) they haven't needed (or wanted?) our help for the Back2School rush. Networking for new WinXP systems are getting so good that the default settings usually work to get them on the res hall network. Of course getting all the spyware and virii off their systems is another matter entirely ...

But Bryan came back with a firm definate "maybe" so all is not yet lost. It would be nice to know so I could book a room or space on someone's floor but all in good time.

I need to get a check off for the IRA and then get my taxes done but I'm dreading it. Since I bought a house last year they'll be more complex then they have since I graduated college and had to start doing them. However I use H&R Block's website and that makes it pretty painless relatively speaking.

We're nearing the end of Jason's Vampire campaign. We had our first face-off with the Tremere who are trying to bring back Simon Magus week before last. Tonight should close things out. Then on to Jack's Aberant game. He's ginned up a home made system based on something else so there're no rules for me to go read. That kind of leaves me feeling lost and bewildered but I'll get over it. I kind of redid my character "Monkeyboy", the sole surviving member of the RadNulls (a wannabe gang who throws themselves off buildings to "trigger" their super powers). The first session is supposed to be a "group therapy" kind of thing with all of us sitting on the sofa. I'm going to break out the old chair Jeff gave me so Jack can sit in it facing us. Now he just needs one of those jackets with the tweed elbow patches and a pipe.

Jack's Gourmet

Well last week one of the email guys was selling lunches from this place to raise money for "Meals on Wheels". He made a persuasive case and I ordered two of them (since they were only $10 apiece). However they weren't delivered on Friday before I had to leave for Op Center duty so they went into the refridgerator.

Yesterday and today I tried them and I was not at all impressed. Box lunch sandwiches (which is to say "dry_bread + some_meat ne sandwich;" - 'ne' is perl for 'not equal to') with some sort of pretty bad pasta salad (they might try a bit more olive oil and some actual spices). The cookies were okay but not good enough to support the whole thing. Today's had a soggy sandwich I didn't even try to eat. The same bad pasta salad. But the fruit salad looked a little better (yesterday's had pretty much three pieces of melon and a whole lot of pineapple - okay but not much of a 'salad') but still not enough to support the whole thing.

So I've never eaten at Jack's Gourmet and now I never plan to. I should have just given the twenty bucks entirely to the charity instead. D'oh

Recreation?

Too much TV or too much computer gaming?

I've noticed lately that I'm either playing WoW or watching TV (usually the SciFi channel). There are a few nights where there are a series of shows I want to watch. Last night, for example, I usually catch "The Simpsons" and then "Arrested Development". I then saw "Desparate Housewives" (more on that below) and "Enterprise". It was kind of like Fridays (when I watch "Andromedia", "Stargate SG-1", "Stargate Atlantis" and "Battlestar Galactica" all in a row).

And it's not like I still have that strange notion that your recreation time must be "productive", that you "have to get something done" as far as your fun. If I fritter away my recreation time then that's fine if I've enjoyed what I was doing. That's the whole point of recreation, to get away and do the fun.

I saw last night, that they're advertising the "Final Enterprise Episodes". I guess that Rick Berman and Brannon Bragga have finally killed Star Trek then. I wonder if they're planning on another one and what the (stupid) premise will be. Last night's show wasn't too bad. They're doing some more things with the Andorians (good I think) but they did (or have) introduced the Romulans about 150 years too early (typically bad). Or maybe it's only 50 years too early. That's not quite so bad since Romulans live as long as Vulcans (200+ years) so it would mean that some of the characters introduced now might theoretically be around at the time of classic Trek.

Strangely this doesn't bother me a whole lot but then I suppose that's because I've given up on the show and expect nothing as far as good stories or plot consistency. I'm not invested any more. They're going to do something stupid with the plot so when they don't it's surprising rather than the converse. Continuity, that's the term I was looking for. Keeping things within the setting the same in this show as they've previously established in the other shows. Something Bragga cares nothing for (if he doesn't downright do everything he can to NOT make things consistent).

It's a bit sad though since I like most of the cast. Blalock (T'Pol) and Park (Sato) are nice to watch and I like Trinnear (Tucker) and Bakula (the captain). I especially like John Billingsley (Doctor Flox). I hope I can see what they're all working on next. I also hope the crew gets good jobs, since the production values (sets, costumes, special effects, etc.) are good. However I hope Berman and Bragga Rot In Hell For All Eternity.

I watched all of an episode of "Desparate Housewives". It was pretty amusing and I heard a wonderful line.

Doctor "So you're fine with a life of repression and denial?"
Bree "We're W.A.S.P.s doctor, denying the elephant in the room is 'What We Do'."

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Well the snoopy upgrade went to hell. I had to roll it back and that took three hours to finish. We'll have to test it some more and see if we can make it work better in the lab.

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Valentine's day is today. Lorie didn't want to do anything and since we're not really dating I figured that if I went overboard with stuff it would just be ... hmm, not even sure what word to use. Ah well.

Well enough for now.

Advertising meetings

Last weekend I saw Mel Gibson's film "What Women Want". Sharon maintained that it's not a very girl-friendly movie but I was thinking about that as I listened to assorted radio commercials that I think are stupid. I was trying to picture what the ad meeting was like for these. How many other ideas might have been on the table which were even more abysmal and wondering if I should be thankful that the results were only as bad as they were and not worse. (Perhaps proof that three times zero can be a negative number some times.)

It's "Sci-Fi Friday" again which means new episodes of Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica and Monk. Brunch tomorrow with more biscuits to make. Then I have to do the snoopy upgrade on Sunday. Oh Joy! But at least it will be done. And then I get to go back to a perl oracle script which is only kinda working.

Biscuits

Well they turned out a whole lot better last night. I used my idea about getting the butter incorporated into the flour better and Brand's idea about the flour on the wax paper. Between the two of them the dough was cohesive enough that it didn't stick and I could use the cutter. They rose more than they had the last time and they still tasted good.

Although I commented that I could move on to muffins now, Jack insisted that it wasn't time to leave the biscuits yet.

Other Things

I finished reading the first John Ringo book (which I'd read the fourth of a bit ago). It was what I expected, military sci-fi fluff. But it was pretty well done and the lingo was good, the action fast, the hero heroic, etc. There was one bit which made me want to play some of my computer wargames again ...

O'Neal: "What are we gonna do?"
Platoon: "DANCE SIR!"
O'Neal: "With who?"
Platoon: "THE DEVIL!"
O'Neal: "Are we gonna lead or are we gonna follow?"
Platoon: "WE'RE GONNA LEAD!"
O'Neal: "Damn Straight! Scouts out!"

It hits that same center of my brain that gets all tingly when I hear bagpipe music (especially "Gary Owen" - the theme song for the 7th Cavalry). Thankfully I'm too old, fat, tired and broken to go out and enlist again.

And why does the cover art never match what's in the novel? I realize the answer is that publishers just buy a mixed bag of art and then try to use it where they can. But still. On the last one there were two people, a man and a woman, in t-shirts and camo pants with Big Honkin' Guns. While the hero's wife was in the story it was only at the beginning and she was never fighting, hell, she had been in the freaking Navy.

On this one we see one of the Posleen (the bad guys) and they look approximately like they should. And there's a guy in big armor (which could be the armored combat suits in the story) but he's got a clear faceplate on his helmet and the previous story had distinctive mention of the fact that there was no faceplate on the armor and it wasn't clear.

At least the story is reasonably good (once you understand you're reading fluff).

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Brand and I talked about my biscuits last night. He offered some suggestions and we talked about the chemistry. We'll see how they turn out tonight. I'm going to try to rub the butter into the flour more and put more flour on the wax paper in an effort to get a dough which is less sticky (yet still looks and tastes good).

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I'm still working on the OS upgrade for snoopy. I got the php problem fixed late last week (the authentication problem got fixed early in the week). I took a look at the php error logs and figured out it was a kerberos htaccess problem (which I knew from our bengal apache upgrade a few months ago). After I fixed that it worked but now I realized that I hadn't put on the stuff for the pager gateway. So I'm installing the new version of that. We'll see how it goes.

I'm also working on a perl script to clean out our radius oracle table so it doesn't exceed it's table space every few months. I've never written anything which needed to connect to oracle so it's more learning. After this one I need to write one to automate the system imaging process somewhat.

Smoke and Mirrors

I've been reading a bunch of things on Social Security and have come to a few conclusions. Granted they may be based on bad info but from what I've been able to tell this is reasonably accurate.

The main problem is two-fold. First, there are more retired people (those getting benefits) than working people (those paying benefits). Unless either the workers get busy "making copies" to increase the workforce in the next generation or the retirees start dying off faster this isn't fixable (if nothing else changes). Certainly nothing a "politician" can do about it (why yes, that is sarcasm). Second, the government keeps borrowing from the trust fund holding all the money to pay it's bills. (Kind of like paying your rent from your savings but if you're spending more than your salary it's gonna happen. But eventually your savings is gonna be gone, which is what Bush said at the state of the union.)

So the government needs to pay back the trust fund. However as long as we keep up the deficit spending this isn't going to happen since there's no money to pay it back with.

But to fix the root problem (the first one) since increasing the workers paying is unlikely you really have to cut benefits or otherwise decrease the money going out to match the money coming in. It's basic math. Zero plus two minus three does NOT equal zero, no matter how hard you try to make it work.

And privitizing the accounts is only going to further reduce the amount of money that comes into the trust fund (zero plus one minus three) so that's not really an answer either. Unless your goal is to get friends who run investment firms nice big juicy government contracts.

So it's all smoke and mirrors. And not even particularily clever ones at that.

Ek, Monday

Well the biscuits on Saturday were well received. To my mind they were good but I only made one batch. According to Alton's recipe they should have made 18 biscuits but since I (again) couldn't get them to stick together enough to be cut I had to "drop" them again and only got 15 out of the recipe. I want to poke around Food TV and his website to see if someone had this problem (too wet a dough) and how to fix it without messing up anything else in it. Melissa made sausage gravy which was wonderful and went well with the biscuits. We didn't have a big turnout but Lorie got to come again which was nice. Given that I didn't make enough biscuits I guess that's okay.

Fog

It was pretty foggy this morning as I drove in to work. Visibility was down to less than 100 meters. I saw, at one point, a white car with no lights on. An evil part of me hopes he got the accident he was so obviously begging for but that no one got hurt too badly. Even now, when I came back from the dentist, visibility was up to about three or four hundred meters but people didn't have their lights on.

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I listened to part of the "presidents's" speech last night. Heard some on his social security section. While it's obvious that something needs to be done and it could very well be that privatization (or at least the option for something personal) may be a workable idea, I couldn't help but ask myself which investment firms would get all of these accounts and federal money? A rhetorical question really since I'm fairly certain that whoever owns the firm(s) chosen will be long time friends of the Bush family. And they'll make a whole pile of new money off this, while benefits are cut to poor and middle class people.

I read something this morning which was asking (or at least point out) all the unasked questions and all the missing information. It was a valid point that if we fight the terrorists in someone else's country it's a better option (from our point of view) than fighting them here. Invading their country to create a situation which will draw them there is morally and ethically questionable but hey, neo-cons apparently have no problem compromising what passes for their "ethics".

His pointing toward us as the largest growing industrialized nation is iffy when you consider that China grew 9.5% compared to our 4.4. But then I suspect he's never been good at math and people who are make him nervous (so none work for him).

Calling Iraq "free and sovereign" is clearly the product of the glasses he's got on. Look at yesterday's death toll if you're skeptical.

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But let's move on to something less demoralizing, at least for Sci-Fi fans. Battlestar Galactica.

I've been following it closely and talking to my friends and I'm really enjoying it. One of the little things they do (which demonstrates caring on the part of the writers and crew) I really like is the fighter pilot lingo they use. Calling Captain Adama the CAG and talking about Commander Adama's LSO. Not having "the chops" to "fly vipers". For those who haven't read much naval military fiction here's a little bit of a glossary.

CAG = Commander, Air Group. Name for the officer who is in command of all the squadrons stationed on an aircraft carrier. A senior officer responsible to the ship's captain (or the battle group commander) for all air operations and everything related to the aircraft and their pilots.

LSO = Landing Signal Officer. The officer who watches every landing to ensure that the safety of the ship isn't endangered by an aircraft's landing approach. He can "wave off" an aircraft and the pilot then has to "go around" and try to land again.

"Call the ball" = "The ball" is a term for a number of different (throughout history) landing signal lighting systems which are used so that the pilot will know wheather his aircraft is on the proper approach vector to make a safe landing. The LSO will ask the pilot to "call the ball" which indicates that he sees the correct lights and is on his proper approach vector. The pilot will tell the LSO "I have the ball".

"The Chops" = a term used to indicate that a pilot has the technical and physiological skills to fly a certain type of aircraft.

Here are a few more that I know of that we should watch for. I'll explain them when I hear them. :)

"Bust a check ride"
"Air Boss"
"Alert 5" (they've used the term "Alert Vipers" for this one already)
"Bingo"
"Furball"
"CAP" (they've used this one too)

There's a pretty good dictionary at http://www.tailhook.org/AVSLANG.htm but a lot of them probably won't translate to sci-fi too well.

Whoa! Excellent!

And they're giving a star to Keanu Reeves. Hell, they even admit in that article that he has no talent. While it's not as lame as the DiCapprio thing it does seem to illustrate a disturbing trend in Hollywood.

Of course I have enjoyed some of his films (which isn't to say that their good movies).

Lifetime Achievement Award???

At the age of 30? Does that mean he's gonna die soon?

I speak of Leonardo DiCaprio, who received the award at the Sundance Film Festival. Apparently because he made one of the highest grossing movies ever and slept with a supermodel. Damn, that's pretty measily criteria for a lifetime award. No 20 or 30 years of wonderful films, ... I can't even to begin to list the other criteria I might have used were it me deciding who to give it to. I think we have, yet again, a new definition (and picture) of Lame.

Those were biscuits?

Okay on Saturday (at the Brunch club) I tried Alton's recipe for waffles. Now my waffle maker is a fourteen dollar special from Wal-Mart so it's not the best. And I thought I had all the hardware (what he calls your cooking tools) I needed but the scale I was using wasn't graduated finely enough (it was hard to discern what 227 grams of flour was, not to mention 6 grams of baking powder or baking soda).

However everyone seemed to like them. So I was encouraged. Then Sunday I decided to give the biscuit recipe a try, since this is what I really wanted to make (being Mister Biscuits-and-Gravy).

I had gotten a new scale so that was going to work better. I had all the ingredients and some experience at his recipes. However after I got the dry works (the flour and stuff) and the wet works (the egg, buttermilk and such) ready I realized that I needed wax paper. I thought I had some but the pantry refuted the claim. So I tried aluminum foil. HA It only got worse from there, it turned out alunimum foil wasn't non-stick enough and they turned into drop biscuits, kinda. Plus I baked them for about a minute too long.

They didn't burn (were a nice golden brown) and tasted fine (a bit too dry/crumbly for my tastes) but I hope to do better with them this Saturday.

Then Jack answers my "what to eat at tonight's game" email with "biscuits!". We'll see.