Some New Found Respect For Mac Engel

[goshan]

TVs and computers are part of a modern decor.
It is very traditional and dated to think they don't add to symmetry or the overall design aesthetic.

 

[LaTunaNostra]

TVs and computers are part of a modern decor.
It is very traditional and dated to think they don't add to symmetry or the overall design aesthetic.

Then call me an old fart.

Anything electronic, anything with WIRES, no matter how hidden, is essentially ugly.

Stone, brick, hardwood, glass, carpeting, leather, wall textures, hangings...they're all muddied by the aluminum and artifical....unless of course, your idea of 'aesthetic' is some MTV crib chock full of every gadget on the market- half of which you don't know how to run.

I can identify a vulgarian who has no appreciation of architecture, art, and creature comforts, with a two second glance at his/her sci-fi living room.

A vulgarian AND/OR an engineer.

 

[arglebargle]

Boy, not going to get along with anybody....:

I don't like the TV in every room thing personally, especially the folks who feel they have to be on 24 hours a day. I am much to distractable for that.

On the other hand, I kinda like the clutter of electronic gizmos. But then I do like Mad Science as well. Plus we have eleven (at last count) active computers in the house.....

Not fond of the antiseptic, sterile perfection of some places, where the rooms look like no one is actually allowed to live in them.

And yeah, there's a big 32 inch tube in the TV room. Mostly there 'cause I don't think anyone wants to try to haul the monster out and re-wire inside the cabinet. However, if it was to fail the day before a Cowboys game, there would be a new one in by kickoff, that is for sure!

 

[SultanOfSix]

Defense suffers a meltdown in final month
Just about every number, almost all negative, has found its way into print or on the airwaves about this Cowboys defense and its abysmal performance in December.

The defense allowed 152 points in five December games; they gave up 150 total points in their previous eight games.

"We just need to be aggressive," linebacker Akin Ayodele, above, said. "Nobody is playing scared. After the New Orleans game, guys were concerned with getting beat. We're not being football players and just being instinctive. You need to fly and go to the ball. That's when anything can happen."

This seems to be the standard final quarter collapse of a Zimmer coached defense, whether it's the last quarter of a game, or the last quarter of a season. Someone who knows offense always finds a way to expose his scheme, whether it was Norv in 2003 with Miami, or it was Payton in 2006 with the Saints.