63 thoughts on “July 26, 2011: Nope”

    1. i had turned it off well before that, but thankfully, mlb's already got it up and open:

      i'm shocked gardy made it through that inning with out strangling someone.

      2. This highlight was not available last night at around 1 am when I checked. I was wondering what the heck mlb.com was thinking by instead showing the Twins score on GIDPs and whatnot. Glad that they got it up today.

        1. Wow. That could have easily been five outs and one walk, that double could have easily been a single with an out recorded at second if Casilla would have grabbed it. Then Nishi maybe could have caught the single.

          ERA of 0.00 looks unsustainable vs batters hitting .400/.500/.600 against, but that maybe should have been .200/.333/.200, which looks a lot better. Give him more chances, I want to see where this converges.

          (So it turns out that I want more mop-up middle relievers. Surprise, surprise.)

      3. After a week of paying minimal attention to the Twins, I didn't start yesterday, though I am absurdly excited to see Cuddyer pitch...

      5. Judging by pitchf/x, it looks like he throws about as hard as Livan did when he was with the Twins.

    2. We need some WGOM Alert function for that. I actually called my mom since I knew she stopped watching and really wanted to watch her favorite player pitch.

  3. Mo chailín is packing up her part of the apartment today to move out in the morning. She's moving back to the UK. This is in all likelihood the last time I'll ever see her. I know it's for the best that we both pursue our own things, but it sucks so hard. I've been on the verge of breaking down and/or throwing up all morning.

  5. Last night, after the game, I decided to check out the first pilot of the original Star Trek now that it's streaming on Netflix. Even adjusting for the era, I can see why it was dropped. Woof. It's no small miracle the show survived to launch five spin-off television series and eleven feature films.

    2. Speaking of which, I watched a Star Trek: TNG episode in which Picard meets a metamorph, a female who becomes whatever men want her to be, and I finally realized the actress playing the metamorph was the one who played Jean Gray in the X-Men movies. I'm guessing it was no coincidence that she already knew Patrick Stewart when she was cast for the role of Jean Gray.

      1. That's probably a coincidence. Actors have no pull when it comes to getting other actors unless they're A-List actors, and even then it's not common.

        1. I wasn't really thinking of it as "pull" as much as him suggesting that they give her a look. But your probably right that it was a coincidence. But they did know each other pretty well considering almost the entire episode was them together and it was about Picard trying to resist her because she was being delivered to another alien for an arranged marriage.

          1. him suggesting that they give her a look.

            That could be possible. It's not like Famke Janssen is a secret in Hollywood or anything, but he may have mentioned her if he enjoyed working with her.

    3. The original series needs to be looked at in context of its era and its impact on television. For instance, it had the first interracial kiss on TV. That being said, I have watched little of the series while I've probably seen every episode of all the other franchises.

      1. The original series needs to be looked at in context of its era and its impact on television. For instance, it had the first interracial kiss on TV. That being said, I have watched little of the series while I've probably seen every episode of all the other franchises television series. FTFM

          1. peckish jane knew nothing of star trek; first she saw was the new fancy-schmancy movie. even though it was before my time, i tried to explain the significance of the original series in context of the times, the message through out most of the rest of the franchise, and how disappointed i was that they threw it all away for the new movie.

      2. I wasn't talking about the entirety of the original series, though; I was talking about the first pilot episode. As I said, even given the context of the era, I've seen better productions featured on MST3K.

    2. I just finished the last of my leftovers. I went with the hoison pulled pork sandwich by adding a little more hoison mixed with soy sauce. Good stuff!

  7. Anybody know why Span didn't play last night for Rochester, even though it went extras and he just had a day off?

      1. Because he's being traded to the Nationals for a parking pass and a middle reliever?

      1. Morning felt alright. Afternoon felt like a train wreck. Can't tell you how much time I spent staring at a blank screen, as if the thing would write itself.

  9. I got a pre-course work packet to complete before I get to Prague. It's entirely in Comic Sans. Either the course writer was aware of Comic Sans usefulness to dyslexics or I may be in for it.

    2. Oh Comic Sans. My first long term boss at my current job used to use pink Comic Sans for her IM and e-mail communications. Nothing quite like getting chewed out for something that isn't your fault in pink Comic Sans.

  10. w00t! ESRI used a screenshot from our NetControl map in the keynote speech by their CEO at their international users convention. Yes, it's cleverly hidden, but it's there, and it got a shout out too.

    (lower left of the screen on his "Designing and Managing Transportation" slide - "Tracking Trains", 1:24:27 from the end)

    2. A friend of mine works at ESRI. Their headquarters are about 20 miles from my house. I applied for work there a couple times.

        1. I don't use ESRI personally, but I feed all our engineering data to the guys that are creating the graphic front end. We're the guys behind the curtain, so to speak.

    2. At least Percy Harvin's hands are closer to his shoelaces than most receivers to catch McNabb's passes.

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