The Whistler

No big surprise. Hadn't heard about it.

Last year Eids was 8th in the country in winning percentage and goals against. His save percentage was a bit lower, but his .914 put him at 23rd and he'd have to get to .919 to get to 11th. And to top it off he led the country in minutes played. So he was good, very good, last year.

What happened now? I'm surprised that the clownies have done as well as they have since they lost 3 players at the Christmas Tourney.

I think our jobs will fill up just fine without subsidies to out of state students, but a compromise would be to rebate somebody's ND tuition if they stay in state. Paying a MN kid to go to school here and leave as soon as they graduate is bad economics. For my two cents I don't have a problem with my neighbors kid leaving after school. I wish them the best in what ever they decide.

What do our Universities exist for? I would say they should exist to give OUR kids the best education we can give them to prepare them in whatever they choose to do.

What I learned was to NOT schedule classes Friday afternoon.

What can I say, I went to college to learn.

Well true enough, but rock solid goalies are hard to find and unfortunately it's the one position that we seem to struggle on more than any other. I remember Blais saying the position is so important that they should call the game "goalie."

I'll admit that I cut some classes on Friday to make it in time to get a pitcher.

Eids did always give up the soft one, then he'd make some terrific saves. He wasn't losing games for us, but he wasn't stealing them either. A comment on Dell's performance this weekend. If he wasn't on his game we would have been in danger of losing at least the Saturday night game even though we dominated the game.

Buck pitchers followed for 2 for 1's. Not telling my kids about that. No way could it be 30 years ago. So how about the in booth juke boxes that didn't work but still had Dean Martin and Patti Page on them.

The goalie situation has been quite a turnaround from last year. Dell couldn't break in last year. When he got a rare chance he wasn't that good and Eids was generally very good. Now the skate is on the other foot.

As someone has already pointed out the current library already has computers. But I'd also bet that Job Service has computers to use to apply for jobs. And finally I'll say it again. The library board did a survey and reported that 98% of the public had access to the internet. Are you going to tell me that everyone who wants internet doesn't have it? I also agree that we have no obligation to provide internet to everyone. But if we did, then there are a LOT of more cost effective ways to do so. Why do we need to build a 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 million dollar building just so a few freeloaders can do Facebook?

I disagree. At least to how they usually play the Sioux. We usually wind up winning but it's not easy and we haven't looked as good doing so.

while I don't see that we need to provide access to the net that point is already moot. We do provide the internet in the existing building. In the future we will have more space as there are less printed materials. Also the study the library did showed 98 percent had internet access. There is no unmet need. There is just unmet greed.

It's irrelevant for everything but bragging rights, but I see UND has moved into #1 on the KRACH.

Last year the new library was 10 million 1/4 percent, then it went to 15 million and finally ended at 21 million and one percent. Of course that won't be the final cost. The 9 mills the library gets has a surplus that can be tapped for the add-ons. The book industry is changing. Borders is in danger of bankruptcy. Very soon most books won't even be published on paper, although available as a print on demand. Mike Jacobs today said that we need meeting rooms. Don't we have them sitting empty pretty much all the time at the Alerus? The "scientific" study the Library Board commissioned, with our money, said that 98% of the people had internet access. I'm guessing the other 2% don't want it. The only reason why the library thing is coming up is because Fargo built a new one. I'm sick of the GF people needing my money to build up their egos.

12am on my 19th Birthday. Was kinda a let down as I'd been drinking there for a year.... I did make the barkeep card me.

If you're traveling North from Buxton it was right before the first tree claim.

I think it went down around 1997 or '98. Probably vandalize by NDSU students.

Yes there were studies. The Alerus gang said that the study was flawed and didn't include things like charging for parking. Then they had John Schmisek, the city finance guy, adjust their figures to account for the alleged errors in the study. That brings up another interesting item. Why is it that they assumed parking fees in their study but took seven or eight years to implement them?

Well a convention center is what the Alerus gang wanted in the first place. They promised us concerts and things that we'd make money on. The thing is the public didn't want a convention center. The public voted one down before the Alerus scam. And why should they want to spend an enormous amount of money. After all you and I don't own a hotel so why should our money be spent dragging in customers for them. That brings up an interesting point. At an informational meeting for the convention center it was revealed that the hotels absolutely would not tolerate a lodging task to pay for the convention center. Now restaurants and shopping get a little business off of that, but nearly everyone attending for a convention rents a hotel room. It seemed to me that if the people getting the biggest advantage out of the convention center were unwilling to pay for it, then there really was no reason to build it. And of course that place was never built. I see no moral reason to make me pay for someone else's convention business. The fact that the Alerus sits empty for months makes it very hard to come up with a complimentary business. That's why all the non subsidized hotels are being built down by the shopping. I've studied the matter and financially the Alerus is a huge loser for the city..http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/what-kind-of-idiots-spend-3-6-million-in-cash-to-bring-in-1-7-million/ The Ralph could host the large conventions like the teachers or political parties no problem. The hotels could host nearly every business convention. The place should never have been built. But it was because of the lies the Alerus gang made to get it approved. It seems to me that the first thing to do to turn it around is to get some new people in there instead of the liars that screwed it up to start with.

Amsoil curse.

So you're a glass half empty kind of guy.

That's not completely true. Ralph Englestad had announced his gift (in 1997 I think) well before ground was broken for the Alerus. The powers that be refused to consider not building it. In fact one citizen (ok he's kinda a goofball) put together a petition that was rejected by the council on technical grounds. OK fine, but the city council could have called a vote based on the intentions of those that signed the petition. The fact is that the Alerus gang seems to be quite hostile to the Ralph. They are always falsely blaming the Ralph for their own failure in the concert business. Last year the Ralph had concerts when the Alerus didn't hold any. The year before the Ralph didn't compete during the time frame of the disastrous Britney Spears concert. Either way, they knew the Ralph was coming and it would have saved us the seven or eight million a year the Alerus costs us. (Two sales taxes plus various other subsidies.)