Better Know A Citizen - Nibbish
Posted by Andrew on Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 8:49 am
Name: Pete
SBG Moniker: Nibbish
Hometown: Miltona, MN
Town I Currently Live In: Carlos, MN (moved a grand total of 20 minutes down the road)
Profession: IT guy at the local hospital
Bats: L
Throws: L
Positions: P/1B/OF
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: Executed a straight steal of home plate in an 9th grade game. Struck out the side in 9 pitches later that year
Hobbies: Golf, Listening to Music, Playing various Video Games
What are you known for around the WGOM? If anything, it's being proven wrong almost instantaneously upon typing something in the game logs.
If you could have a nice, polite dinner with any 3 people - dead or alive - who and why? Bill James, Bill Watterson, Kanye West (the first two, because they have interesting takes on fairly traditionalist topics, and Kanye because he talks, blogs, and acts like a 15 year old girl. If I could intermingle 30 minutes of interesting discussion with 5 minutes of insane jabber, my night would be complete)
If you could pick any 3 people - again, dead or alive - to go out and party (or if you're not the party type, go for martini's or whatever it is you do) who and why? Babe Ruth, Steve McQueen, Joel McHale (hopefully there would be other relatively famous people in this bar, hopefully they would be doing dumb things, Joel would provide witty comments - the other two would just hang around and be awesome)
Sports Allegiances: Primarily the Twins and Vikings. I don't really live and die by any others.
Favorite Books: Sherlock Holmes (complete works), Moneyball, Our Dumb World - I'm afraid I'm not a heavy reader, but I'm always open to suggestions.
Favorite Music: Oasis, The Arcade Fire, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, MF Doom... basically anything from Hard Rock to Guilty Pleasure Pop to offbeat Rap to Electronic
Favorite Baseball Movie: A close match with Major League barely beating out The Sandlot
Favorite Non-baseball Movie: Serenity or The Departed
Favorite Food & Drink: Lasagna / Dr. Pepper
Favorite TV Show(s): The Office (US Version)
Favorite Twins Player, historically: Wish I could still use him for the next question, but I loved watching Johan Santana pitch
Favorite Twins Player, currently: Mauer, though Casilla is gaining ground
Best Twins Memory: My dad let me stay up late watch games 6 and 7 of the 1991 series. I was 8 at the time, so it was a BIG deal to me. He taught me how to score the game for game 7.
Favorite Sport to Play: Golf
Favorite Sport to Watch: Baseball
If I could live anywhere in the world, I'd live in: Probably Colorado, though I'm a fan of the lakeshore around some of Alexandria's lakes, too.
If I was commissioner for a day, I'd: Contract the Brewers. Then reinstate them. Then contract them again, just to see the look on Selig's face face (then explain that it was all a joke as they dragged me out of the building.)
If I had Bill Smith's job I'd: Make Bert Blyleven the Twins pitching coach. Then give him free reigns and watch the magic happen. 170 pitch complete games for everyone! Not only that, but think of how many new faces we'd see, with the rotating door to the DL!
Favorite Ballpark: I've sadly only been to the Metrodome. I'm well aware of its mediocrity, but it's all I've got.
Favorite blogs: WGOM, Seth Speaks, Aaron Gleeman, Nick & Nick's, Pulling a Blyleven (when it's updating, anyway)
Which of Calvin's alter ego's do you like best? Why? Spaceman Spiff ruled. Combining genuinely funny lampoonings of classic sci-fi with the overall awesome imagination the strip had. It was just great stuff. Also, whenever snowmen or cardboard boxes were involved, you knew magic was going to happen.
Oasis and Foo Fighters are 2 of my favorite bands too. Which song of each might you get caught singing along to in the car/shower? In the shower, I usually do the unoriginal but classic "Wonderwall", in the car though, you can bet I'll be driving with the windows down rocking out to "Headshrinker"'.
Which Sherlock Holmes story is your favorite? You can really pick any of the pre-Reichenbach Falls stories, but I actually still like A Study in Scarlet the best.
Steve McQueen - really cool guy or coolest guy ever? You've seen the mugshot (Google "Steve McQeen mugshot" if you haven't)... Coolest guy ever.
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Two of my brother's kids were born at your hospital (I'm assuming you are at the place in Alex).
Right you are, same place I was born in, myself.
The funny pages got a lot drearier when Watterson retired. But, you got a hand it to the guy, he went out on top. Plus, he never cheapened his work by licensing it out to be printed on every mug, cap, or t-shirt.
Good calls on Watterson. I modeled myself after Calvin's father.
and on the Sherlock Holmes stories. I went through an obsessive phase with mystery stories as a kid and those were some of the best (I'm also a big fan of Hercule Poirot). What do you think of the two PBS versions of Holmes (Rupert Everett and Jeremy "Jeremy" Brett)??
I'm more familiar with the Rupert Everett version, but what I've seen of Brett's makes me think I'd probably find his performance superior.
Mom is a HUGE Jeremy Brett fan. She refuses to watch any Sherlock Holmes where he is portrayed by anyone else.
I'll have to check out more of his, in that case. Any easy way to facilitate that?
TV Links to the rescue. All for search results star Brett as far as I can tell.
I always loved the day when Calvin asks his father to read him a bedtime story and his father starts reading from one of the patent applications on which he was working.
"So Fig. 1-A..."
On a side note... today is the 218th Anniversary since the first patent was given (to Samuel Hopkins for improvement in the making of Pot Ash and Pearl Ash by a new apparatus and process.
Nibbish... You and I work about a mile from each other. You drive past the road to my house on your way to work, and I occasionally delivery mass quantities of food to Broadway Clinic right in front of the hospital.
I was just driving around Lake Carlos this morning, pretending that I was looking at lakeshore to purchase (that is still way out of my price range).
If you ever golf at Geneva Golf Club, you can see my house from of few of the holes.
Have you played the new Miltona 9 yet?? I haven't made it up there and was wondering how it turned out.
I haven't had a chance yet.
I actually haven't been able to go golfing for much other than the beer drinking league lately, but we're supposedly having the year end tourney front and back, so I guess I'll find out soon.
For the record, both my brother and sister used to live in Alex (at different times). They both work for the triple letter company.
Some friends of the family work there. Nice to get occasional free tape and related supplies.
Calvin and Hobbes was awesome. Steve McQueen was awesome. The Sand Pebbles, The Cincinnati Kid, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt - there are so many great roles it's impossible to pick a favorite. And he was the absolute coolest bounty hunter ever in Wanted: Dead or Alive. To this day I still want a sawed off Winchester rifle.
I love Steve McQueen. He was one of my drinking buddies in my BKAC. I have a Steve McQueen subsection in my DVD collection.
I have a question for you, Nibbish.
What exactly is your avatar? Is it an enemy from Descent or some other old computer/video game? Is it something from an anime? Abstract expressionism? The resolution is too low and I can't properly make it out, but it has driven me mad not knowing what it is.
It is a purple hulk from Descent. Good eye.
It's the only smallish picture I had on my work computer when I made the account, so I used it. I'll probably change it eventually, but I'm lazy when it comes to stuff like that.
Aha! I thought I recognized the grainy blur. That was a pretty fun game, but it was always too difficult for me.
We were supposed to attend the 5yr Melin Family Reunion on the north shore of Lake Carlos this summer, but it was postponed until next year. Beautiful place. My Melin and Norin ancestors immigrated to there in the 1870s. And I'm related to the (former?) owner of Pete's SuperValu in Alec. I envy you -- I'd love to live there during the summer months.
heh - some serious mind games if you were commish / GM for a day.
Rhubarb Runner- If you ever do come up this way, drop me a line. The Carlos Creek Winery near Lake Carlos is really cool, and some new owners are doing some cool stuff there. It is the biggest winery in Minnesota.
Also, I was told that the founder of Pete's (now County Market) donated land for a new elementary school in Alex. I go to Pete's quite a bit... nice people.
It is a beautiful area during the summer.
...of course, since I'm a fan of snow and winter and the like, I think it's a beautiful place during the winter, but my wife disagrees with me on that point.
I agree with you on the winter. Nothing better than driving around the lakes after a good hard frost or fresh snow on the trees. It was a bit ugly up here the past 2 summers with how hot and dry it was though.
My wife is from Glenwood (although she was born in Breckenridge).
Side trips to Alec have diminished wince we've had kids. Typically me and My father-in-law will stay in Glenwood to watch the Twins while my wife, her sisters&mom go shopping in Alec. Then Father-in-law and I go fishing when they get back. I sure like listening to the Twins on the radio around 8pm while fishing on Lakes Minnewaska or Pelican or Reno.
We'll be back up there over Labor Day, but to paint grandma's house.
What do you generally fish for?
Walleyes and Northerns.
I'm not very good catching them, though. Father-in-law is. I just don't have the feel for getting the hook set.
Sunfish (with bobbers) when the kids are with.
You should call yourself "The Mind of Miltona" and go with the tagline "Only from the Mind of Miltona."
That's Moss' two cents, anyway.
You know, I skipped right over the nod to Serenity. Thought it read Serendipity.
It's good to see there are other Browncoats out there.
Joss Whedon fan alert: He's got a new series coming to Fox. And praise be, it's got Faith.
+five by five
"I swallowed a bug!"
Whew, good to know I'm not the only one who read Serendipity instead of Serenity.
I watched that, then immediately went out and bought Firefly and watched every episode about six times in a week or so, just because it was awesome. (and I was single at the time.)
same here. I had seen maybe 4-5 of the Firefly episodes on broadcast or SciFi reruns. Saw the movie, bought the series and the film DVD. That series got completely clusterf***ed by some dumbasses at the network.