I love lamp

By: Melissa | March 2nd, 2008

I spent much of this past weekend on a huge project for work. At one point, we got stuck troubleshooting precious precious IChat behind the company’s brand spanking new firewall. Frustrations grew very quickly but when my co-worker randomly announced “I love lamp,” the ice broke and everyone got back on track to figure out the problem. Brilliant.

So the Quakes beat SJSU 3-0 on Saturday. Jay Ayres, Shea Salinas, and some Swedish dude on trial scored the goals. Soccer Spin has the line-up and a few post-game comments from Yallop. According to the coach: “Strikers are what we really need at this point” and if no-one acceptable is available from the waiver draft, there may be a scouting trip to England or Costa Rica. Bigsoccer user willykirk has a pretty good report from the game:

i stayed until about the 65 min, and thought this largely reserve side bossed the spartans around just as i expected. apart from a couple of defensive gaffs SJSU failed to punish us on and a free kick outside of the box, the possession was almost entirely ours and the score should’ve been 5-0. i thought the swedish trialist looked pretty good-really strong and layed off a lot of nice balls for yuri and then later fabrice, but maybe it was the competition. he should have had more than one goal too.

Pozniak played very well in the holding mid spot–even when SJSU was able to put him under pressure now and then he would spread the ball wide to either riley, salinas or the right back and right mid (wasn’t sure who they were) and i don’t remember much to criticize other than his failure to get a shot off when he pushed all the way forward a couple of times.

salinas looked very well again– such quick feet. they had a hard time even trying to foul him. did make a couple great moves to get to the endline but his cross was hit way too hard.

i thought riley looked better too–his touch has improved and he and salinas are really starting to click–only one miscommunication that led to a giveaway that i saw.

*Cough* - spits out coffee - *Cough* *Cough*. FABRICE! Oh, I’m so pleased (crosses fingers poster didn’t just get Fabrice confused with Smarte)! And that Salinas/Riley connection. I just know its going to be amazing come the start of the season. If I was writing slash fiction, those two would be going at it like rabbits right about now.

Also, there will be one more scrimmage, against UC Berkeley this coming Friday afternoon before the team heads to that Carolina Cup thingy. I’ll probably check out the scrimmage and report back. I’m assuming it’s at that stadium on campus that sits on top of a fault line. I’ve been hanging out with a dude who works in the Cal Seismology department and he says you can really see the damage if you look underneath the stadium. So, in a way, there is a slight element of danger to this game and sh*t like that always makes these things little bit more exciting than usual.

And I’m out. Big shout out to the handful of Australia fans who braved the wrath of over 40,000 Mexico fans and loudly celebrated when the Socceroos equalized today’s game.