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While you were sleeping!!!!
“Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry entered the record books twice on Saturday night, breaking the NBA single-season mark for 3-pointers and tying the mark for most 3-pointers in a game in a 121-118 overtime victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Curry held the previous single-season record of 286, which he set last season, and now has the three highest single-season totals in NBA history. He has 288 3-pointers so far this season. “I never would have thought at this point in the season I would be closing in on 300 and all that kind of stuff,” he said. “That doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve always tried to push the envelope and keep getting better, but a lot has to go right to get to this point.”
Curry made 12 of his 16 3-point attempts against the Thunder, tying the mark for most 3s in a game held by Kobe Bryant and Donyell Marshall. Curry rolled his ankle at 10:29 in the third quarter and missed five minutes to have it retaped. After re-entering the game, he scored 31 of his 46 points in 18:18 of action, shooting 9-of-15 from the floor, including 8-of-11 from 3-point range. Curry is shooting 50 percent (11-of-22) on shots from 30 feet and beyond this season, easily the best percentage of any player with at least five attempts. His 11 makes from that distance are the most this season; no other player has more than two, according to ESPN Stats & Info. Curry also became the first player in NBA history to make at least 10 3-pointers in consecutive games. He made 10 of 15 attempts Thursday against the Orlando Magic. The Warriors are 53-5 after the victory and one game ahead of the Chicago Bulls’ 1995-96 pace toward a record 72 wins.”
Amazeballs.
I don’t have cable and it wasn’t until late afternoon that I realized the game was on ABC. I almost missed it!!
WWWwwhhhheeeeeeee!!!!
I fell asleep on the game in the 3rd quarter so I’m happy to see that the Warriors pulled ahead to win!
Oh, bummer! You blew it, GG!!
But…they managed to win without me meta 😄😄😄
Hmmmmmm……….
When I saw that shoot last night, the first thought to come to my mind was “Dog” Curry is great. Then I thought I wonder if POTUS watch that game. It was a great game. I remember watching Curry play at Davidson and he was good then.
bella, I was also wondering if POTUS was able to watch the game. If he did, I’m sure he enjoyed every minute of it!
Not into spectator sports anymore (used to be big MLB and NFL fan, but basketball had limited appeal to me, though Marques Johnson at UCLA was a fav, and no one can beat what Tyus Edney did during 1995 March Madness), but Steph is beyond belief — he’s got such grace and control when making those 40-foot baskets, just incredible.
I’ll bet PBO was glue to his TV, enjoying ever minute of Steph’s performance.
Meta RT’d other tweets from NBA legends last night (King James, Magic Johnson), but this from one Millennial superstar to another is my fav:
Steph in 2016 is by far the greatest thing of the year — the routine mass shootings, KKK/GOP/MSM is just so depressing.
Not sure if you saw this, Arapho:
It is in conjunction with the Everytown/White House
i think that it is always difficult to compare stats from Different eras….
because the stat takes on new meaning depending on who the player is playing against…. Comparisons are being made between Steph and Bird…but you have to look who Bird played against…Jordan…Kareem…Magic….and then there was Rodman…the greatest rebounder…these players were all Hall of Famers…yet bird was able to accomplish his stats….
players should be look at in the era that they are in…
GA PF58.
Agree that comparisons shouldn’t be made between different generations of athletic prowess, but it’s hard to deny Steph’s grace in making something difficult look so easy.
I think Marques Johnson played the same position as Steph (point guard), and he was poetry in motion on the court.
P.S. - I defer to anyone, anywhere for basketball analysis. Know very little about the game (except for the obvious — make a basket, don’t dribble, be a team player), but when Steph is on his game, he’s a joy to behold.
Good point, pf.
Basketball’s version of Beast Mode! WOW!
We watched the game last night. My husband and I were screaming and our dogs were going crazy because of our yelling. I have watched basketball all my life. I saw Chamberlain , Jerry West, Kareem, and many more, in person, but I have never seen the likes of Steph Curry. I am in awe of his talent. I know I have never seen a game like that one. I hope someday I can see him live too.
That’s indeed wonderful news! Thanks meta for posting it.
You’re welcome GGail!
Love, meta (AKA Hf2) :) :) :)
YIPES! I’m sorry HF 😘
Uh oh, my brain just had a birthday and it shows 😄😄
That’s fine GGail. I’ve been mistakenly called “meta” before (not by you), and I love it, because meta as a legendary TODer is what I often aspire to!
Also, Happy Belated Birthday to you!!
Thanks HF2 😘
Yes, meta is one of a kind 😎
GM Hope. The whisper of PBO will reverberate across the world overtime. :)
LP FTW!!
ON MY FB……………………INDEED!
Good Sunday Morning TODVille!~
Thank you LovelyPlains. I enjoy these tweets. More than words, they express vividly what’s going on in Wackoland.
My pleasure, NCLB!
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The “Check, Please!” episode “Chef’s Choice” airs 8 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday, 10:30 p.m. Sunday and 4:30 a.m. Tuesday on WTTW-Ch. 11; more at checkplease.wttw.com.
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Is the Dixie Kitchen still in business today? I hope it is 😊
Made me hungry
Unfortunately not in Chicago. They’ve moved to the ‘burbs…. Evanston & Lansing.
Nice. Thank you so much, LP.
YW, Africa!
“Pentagram is pleased to announce that Paula Scher’s acclaimed map paintings will be presented in a new exhibition, Paula Scher: U.S.A., opening tonight at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York. For this exhibition, Scher has created 10 new cartographic paintings and prints focusing on the United States. Each map views the country through a different set of data, such as population demographics, transportation flows, geography, and climate. In her paintings, Scher renders information and data culled from headlines, maps and diagrams in torrents of hand-drawn typography. Obsessive, opinionated and more than a little personal, the maps provide an exuberant portrait of contemporary information in all its complexity and subjectivity….
…In the new show, the works depict the U.S. swirling in patterns of information, layered with hand-painted boundary lines, place names and commentary. The paintings and prints have straightforward titles like “U.S. Area Codes and Time Zones,” “U.S. Driving Times and Mileage,” and “U.S. Geography and Climate,” but the information can in no way be interpreted as literal fact. In fact, some of it may be quite inaccurate—Scher calls her style “abstract-expressionist information”—and the paintings celebrate a personalized understanding of the diversity of the country. “It’s an election year, and I am fascinated by the ways different parts of the country think, and looking at demographics and geography in the U.S. and making connections,” Scher recently told Slate.”Can be viewed in person at the: Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, The gallery is located at 505 West 24th Street, New York City, adjacent to the High Line. The show remains on view through March 26.
Love this! I’m sort of a map nerd too. Weird, I know. 🤓
‘Weird, I know.’
:D :D :D Nah. We’ve come to accept you in all your guises.
LOL! 😄
Good West Coast morning LP, Chipsticks & TOD family.
Gooooooooooal 3 for ManU, 2 for Arsenal!!!!!
⚽️⚽️⚽️🎉🎉
WHEW! 😄😄😄
thoughtful collection of toons LP! The GOP is a clusterF*ck I’m hoping that in itself is the thing that gets whichever Dem is the nominee into the whitehouse this year.
Thank you, Alice! ….BTW the Tide will be visiting the White House Wed :( :( A recent profile of Nick Saban described one way he would entice recruits was ” If you want your son to meet the President, come play for Alabama” …..this will be the 4x….smh
This is all I have for my squad in 2011
That is Robert Gibbs’ son BTW (both of his parents were Auburn professors)
Yea but Trump knows about the KKK, it’s terrible history and what it stands for.
TODVille, I need help.
How do I “like” a comment posted here? I received many “likes” but don’t know how to express the same. There are so many thoughtful comments or posts, humorous tweets worthy of “likes” and yet, I don’t know how to “express my sentiments”.
Thank you.
that’s a good question. I know how to like a reply to a post. but I don’t know how to like a post outright.
I think you have to use the WordPress Reader app on your phone or tablet to “Like” comments. The website only lets you “Like” blog posts.
Thank you both.
You are most welcome NCLB. 😅
“Google-owned Waltham-based robot maker Boston Dynamics pulled the covers off its newest robot Tuesday night to reveal a better balancing, more athletic model of its two-legged Atlas robot. As is customary for Boston Dynamics, it posted a video on YouTube that demonstrated Atlas’s newest abilities, and suggested that warehouses could be the first place that the human-shaped robots could be put to work. The most human-like of the company’s creations yet, the robot is a serious upgrade from previous klutzy models, one of which fell over and broke an arm, and relied on wires for commands and power. But in the video, the “humanoid” ambled through the woods, tracked robot steps through snowy ground, stacked 10-pound cartons on shelves, and then showed itself out by pushing open a door and stepping into the daylight. When an engineer gave it a rough push with a wooden pole, the robot fell over. But then it got right back up. The Internet responded with a resounding gasp – 12 hours later, it was seen more than 2 million times. The reason everyone’s going bananas? No one’s yet seen a robot execute maneuver with such ease and nonchalance. It all looks stunningly normal….
All the more so because Atlas is notoriously clumsy. The limits of its humanoid locomotion were on painful public display last summer, when an earlier model of the Atlas robot competed in a contest hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – DARPA. Teams of some of the world’s best robotics engineers directed various models of humanoids to perform tasks akin to emergency response in dangerous or unstable environments. A handful of teams chose Atlas as their model. For two days the robots, including Atlas, stalled and stumbled their way through obstacle courses, sometimes dropping tools, sometimes keeling over onto the floor. By comparison, the new Atlas model’s abilities look almost Olympian….continued”
I must confess that I am afraid of these humanoid robots, though I wish I had one to do some chores for me.
Coming too close to the Age of Terminator for my taste.
Thank you, vc! Happy Sunday to you.
Hello, my Lady Meta! How are you? I’m nursing seed-visions of you stepping off the June flight with boxes of non-chocolaty treats and VC written over most of them. :D :D
Hey, buddy! I think I remember you saying you don’t care for pastries? But then, most people say that. LOLz.
You are right; just pulling your leg. :D :D I don’t care for filling, of any sort; I do enjoy flaky pie crusts tho. Weird, I know, but I tend to scrape out fillings and eat the crust if it’s flaky enough, and IF I’m in a situation where I need to eat something and my choices are limited.
Exquisite. Thanks, vc. :)
Just ran across this very interesting twitter account…
That is so gorgeous!
He really does look like Prince!
D-ette, you (like LPlains) find the *nicest* bits of information! :) I loved ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ - bought both the novel and the movie - and never once gave a thought to the author’s background other than he was French. Of course your posting this pic made me take a peek at ‘the Google’. Not sure how authentic it is but this quote made me giggle.
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ahem …
/in exasperation/ What’s wrong with your throat now?
Yea, yea, I know you’re the ‘toon specialist and I seriously, seriously thank you for choosing those with discretion. This goes beyond that - these guys periodically find *weird* stuff. :D
No… your spelling. I know I am stickler for that.
What spelling :???:
Only true desis speak and understand Queen’s English.
also. too. #cheat.
VC had kind words for me which obviously made you jealous so I had to correct :???: this so called mistake you tried pointing out :D :D
#criminalcohorts
:D :D #jj
Sigh!
‘ your posting OF this pic made me take a peek at…’
or ‘yoU posting this pic made me take a peek at…’
Is that it? Or should I have used “peAk”? Geez louise… I don’t get why I’m held to a higher standard…. ;) ;) *chuckle-chuckle*
I used the invisible hand to show that AMK was just making things up (changed it from Peak to peek in the original)….only for you my dear friend :)
:shock: total :shock:
Did I actually write ‘peak’? :cry: That’s what I get for allowing that guy’s insidious spelling/language to seep into my subconscious. I actually have to think twice whenever I write “also” in a sentence because ‘also too’ now comes together in my head and - shockingly - feels alright! I won’t even mention that there are a few other words (like ‘first’) that I have to pause momentarily before writing to friends. I would sue him if I thought I could get good recompense!
ask yer bff.
Old school snarkmaster! 😎
😀
Recently read a book about the family ‘The Black Count’- fascinating background on the man and the era.
Man, you gals and guys sure are determined to educate me! Hadn’t heard of this one before, Susanne; will keep my eyes open next time I’m book shopping.
yup. as simple as that.
Swiss voters ‘reject’ plan to expel foreigners for minor crimes.
People in Switzerland are on course to reject a plan to automatically expel foreigners who commit minor crimes, early projections suggest.
The proposal has been put forward by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party.
The vote comes amid growing unease at rising immigration and the problems which, the party says, come with it.
But opponents said the law would create a two-tier justice system unfairly targeting foreigners, who make up around 25% of Switzerland’s population.
Almost two million foreign passport holders live permanently and legally in Switzerland, but as gaining Swiss nationality is a complicated and expensive procedure, and is not conferred automatically at birth, these foreign nationals include many who have never lived outside of Switzerland.
A projection by the gfs.bern polling institute suggested that 59% of voters said “No” to the proposal. The official result is expected later on Sunday.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35680760
Good for them.
“Twitter is Trump’s preferred social media platform for direct communication with his followers, haters, and—most importantly—the journalists who obsessively cover his carnival-like presidential campaign. It’s where Trump goes to personally insult his enemies and opponents, but it’s also where he seeks evidence of his greatness, and regularly retweets (in his idiosyncratic style, quoting entire tweets rather than using the network’s built-in retweet tool) praise for himself.”
h/t @StoneKettle
“At the time of the account’s creation, Gawker Media Executive Editor John Cook expressed some concern that the joke behind the account was far too obvious, and wouldn’t trick anyone but a complete idiot.
Today, Donald Trump proved him—and all of us—right.”
BRAVO Gawker!!!
LOL!
The guy is an empty suit, way out of his league.
I can remember Iran in the time of the Shah when women did not wear the hijab. I also remember the sadness when it all changed. Women gain their freedoms & then men try to take them away - but we forever carry on the fight for the right to own our bodies and our souls. It seems to be a never ending battle - and not only in Iran.
I call the new lie making the rounds that PBO liberal policies are responsible for Trump. Nope.
Then why are all the GOP/Indies/KKK/ voters behind DT aka IL Douche all the way and the Republican party can’t sway them away. The Republican party is ready to JOIN Trump if he’s the nominee but it’s Obama’s fault……go figure.
Sweet!
egg.sack.lee.
a tip for ya, miser desi.
aand I am outta here.
smh - Now I can’t even say ‘Only you!’ Sweet dreams, when you get around to it.
bbl …..
ok, last one.
True
This young man is stroke survivor. Check out his speaking vs. singing. Pretty amazing how the brain works!
Morning Must Read/Share…consider kicking in if you can:)
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/02/28/kickstarter-bleg-the-school-of-authentic-journalism/
Did any one hear about this - or am I late to the party?!?
Was this before or after Sanders got his ass handed to him yesterday?
After…which calls into question her judgment in he first place.
Look at what she posted in Oct of last year…this woman’s clearly got ISSUES.. I didn’t even know she was in such a high position in the DNC.
So while we were all attacking and blaming DWS for her incompetence, there was this Putin mole right up there probably causing trouble within the ranks….
ok ok ok, I thought her name sounded familiar but I just couldn’t place it. Now I know, I guess it makes sense now.
Yeh, we heard!
President golfing Andrews.
@WestWingReport
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/28/what-bernie-sanders-doesnt-understand-about-black-voters/
Thanks for posting my Toons thread this morning, NW!
You are welcome, LP!
so now we KNOW for sure that the inspiration for BernieBros…come from the head man himself
Heh, the Trump battle flag is hilarious.
Thanks LP for the toons, the Steve Curry shots, and the robot video.
My pleasure, Sjterrid :)