63°F on my bike ride in to work this morning. I was legitimately cold.
I told my wife yesterday that it was about 80º to warm (it was about 78º). I think she now thinks there's something wrong with me.
You like -2 degrees? There is something wrong with you. I could get on board with 45-50 degree temps, but I'd like for it to stay above freezing for a few more months yet.
So long as the roads are in good shape, I am a big fan of winter. I prefer to try to warm up far more than I enjoy trying to cool down. Plus, winter means barleywines for added warmth. (which reminds me, I should probably get working on this year's...)
Yes you should.
You know, all it takes is a bit of AC to create the right environmental conditions for drinking barleywines...(or a trip to SF during the summer).
Every day in July exceeded 80 degrees in the Buff. I don't know if that has ever happened before. This summer has been awful.
/ducks meat/
I prefer to try to warm up far more than I enjoy trying to cool down.
This has been my stance since forever. You can always add another layer, but you can only take off so much.
I'm the exact opposite. Being too warm is merely uncomfortable (at least until you get into heat stroke range). Being cold actually hurts - the wind at your nose & ears, not being able to move your fingers.
I with you, MagUidhir. It's hard for it to get too hot for me. When I get chilled, though, it seems like it takes forever for me to warm up.
Which, of course, will not be helped by my move to north-central South Dakota. So far, it looks like the only down side, though.
I'm with CoC. Summer drains me of life. This stop in Arizona has been horrific.
Dido. *loads chamber for the next "but it's a dry heat" commentor*
I was in Yakima for a week, where it's bone dry. I had a massive headache for three days, and felt constantly dehydrated. I imagine Arizona would be hard for me to get used to.
Yeah, Yak took me some getting used to at first. I needed water every half hour and headaches were ever-present. Even after living there for three years, I endured a few days of the same thing when I came here. Now that I'm finally used to it, I'm leaving on Sunday. Oh well.
If it is just cold vs. heat, then yeah, I can get on board with cold. However, real cold weather inevitably comes with ice, snow and wind. Heat comes with dry and sunshine. You don't have to warm up your car, defrost windows or check the news for closures.
Late to this, but heat comes with humidity. Plus you have to cool off your car and check the news for highways buckling in the heat.
I'm in the -40 beats 100 with dewpoints over 70 camp.
cheaptoy, it's almost like you and I grew up in the same state or something. I can't tell you how frequently I hear "Stop being so Minnesotan!" from the Mrs. when it comes to matters of temperature, receiving praise, etc.
yeah, i'm with you two as well. my family and peckish jane has frequently ostracized me for such leanings.
Its good to know I'm not alone with this, and even better that a couple of the people that share these opinions are people my wife has actually met so I can tell her that I'm not the only crazy person she knows.
Sheenie thankfully wholeheartedly agrees that winter in Minnesota is much, much more comfortable than summers in New Orleans.
Count me in on the cold is better than hot club. People say "you must love LA because it's so warm in the winter" and I say "No, I love it because it's nice and 70 in the summer."
I've always said that I wouldn't move south from StL for the winter, I'd move to San Diego for the summer.
Having lived in San Diego, I can legitimately question that logic. Early summer is known as the "June Gloom."
Of course, when your baseline is paradise, that's kind of like complaining about condensation on the outside of your beer glass.
I would gladly trade my Seattle June Gloom for SD June Gloom.
Earlier this summer, I mentioned that I'd prefer sub-freezing conditions to the 110+ heat indices we'd been having. People looked at me like I was a lunatic.
The last few days have been beautiful, and I do enjoy being able to golf without sweating, but I'm looking forward to winter.
Hey Mags (and others of course) when you are back on the 'net, check out this pretty good EPL Preview. Although I don't buy the full-on Man City love, it looks like this could be a good resource through the long EPL season.
I can't wait for the year when ManU and Chelsea both get really old and injured. Fingers crossed.
Oy...it's just around the corner for Chelsea.
As with everything, money gives you the ability to buy younger. My hope is that the Glazer financial situation would drive ManU into the ground, but the idiots keep buying the high-risk bonds while wearing their yellow and green scarves.
Someday...perhaps.
I might whip up a little something for Saturday morning for when the new season kicks off.
Yes, please. (If you need any help or additional words for the column, let me know - I'd be happy to try and help)
I wasn't planning on a comprehensive team-by-team or anything, but more a general overview of the offseason and what to look for going forward.
If anyone else wants to write something up, anything at all, do so and email it to me acm006 via googleemailservices.
Also, how about a table prediction contest? We'd need a good way of scoring this. I'll make that it's own post right now.
Just didn't want it to sound like I was ordering you to do so for my amusement. I might write up something, but don't hold your breath waiting for a submission from me.
If you write something, by all means I'll include it, if you get around to it. I'm far from a soccer expert, so the more voices the better.
Ms Wake was also furious the TV series suggested she had had a love affair with one of her fellow fighters. She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.
(emphasis added)
Women in war are often treated like women in entertainment; men write stories about how they're accessories to the men in the field. Julia Roberts said that during her first ten years of playing lead roles, she was romantically linked in the media to every single one of her co-stars.
I know we have a few golfers around here and lots of "sports fans." Does this story do anything for anyone?
Woods shoots 77 for worst score ever at PGA Championship, spends most of day in sand and water...The only other time he posted a higher score in a major was that 81 in the third round of the British Open, played in awful conditions at Muirfield
It would be fun to see Tiger challenge the majors record...I just don't know if he can get "it" back sufficiently to win at the pace he needs to.
At this point, I don't think he'll ever actually win any tournament again.
Nice to see that Steve Stricker (Madison representative) tied a Majors record.
I remember saying he'd break every record if he didn't have some weird massive personal breakdown. I always thought he was too dull for that to actually be the case. Oops.
It would have been fun to see Tiger challenge the Majors record but at his age, and obviously declining skill, I'd be surprised if he wins more than 1 additional major.
I have a hard time imagining him not winning at least 1 more major. Jack won his last major, number 18, at age 46; Tiger doesn't even turn 36 until December of this year. IF he can get his head back on straight and his balky knee back in order, I think he'll win again.
-also-
The guy has 71 PGA wins and the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history. Admittedly, he has had a terrible run since winning the U.S. Open in '08, but he has tied for 4th at the Masters both this year and last and he tied for 4th in last years U.S. Open. It takes some pretty decent golf to pull even a top 10 finish in those events.
Tiger will be 36 in December and I think age and his body will be his ultimate downfall (I know Jack won 6 majors after age 35, but two were in his 35th year and he won only 3 between 36-40). I'm not saying Tiger's going to shoot 77 every time he's out there and I am sure he will be among the leaders in most tournaments, but winning Majors is a lot different than coming in 4th. One day he'll put it all together and win a Major and we'll think he's back, but then age and body will bring him down to the pack.
Spoiler Alert: Stories Are Not Spoiled by 'Spoilers'. "Even ironic-twist and mystery stories -- which you'd be forgiven for assuming absolutely depend on suspense or surprise for success -- aren't spoiled by spoilers, according to a study by Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt of UC San Diego's psychology department, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science."
I'm not really shocked by this- how many movies have you seen or books have you read with a big twist at the end that you can watch or read over and over, even when the "best" part isn't a surprise for you any more?
The obsession over spoilers seems on the surface to be rather recent. I'm sure others can speak more to this, but all of the older movie trailers I've seen basically serve as an entire plot synopsis.
The Mrs. is one of those who very often reads the end of a story before reading the middle. If she doesn't like the ending, she often will abandon the book.
Me, I like the suspense. Plus, I have an ample capacity for forgetting endings and twists, so re-read stories are often like new!
one of those who very often reads the end of a story before reading the middle
I've never understood doing this- but then, I read very quickly, so I can usually just power my way through an uninteresting book in a day or so and go and re-read a book that I know is good!
Given the time, I think it's useful to have both experiences. Not knowing what will happen next tends to make you focus on what is happening and how it happens. Once you know that, a repeat experience can allow you to focus on why it happened and more thoughtfully consider themes, etc.
What actually bothers me more than knowing how the story will end is knowing how soon it will end. If possible, I like to watch television and movies without a clock in sight. I find it to be a huge distraction knowing that things will be wrapped up in XX minutes. Somehow I don't have as much trouble with that reading books (where it is always apparent how many pages remain), but even then it bugs me on some level. Perhaps that's one reason I like baseball so much, you never know how long it's going to be until the end of the game.
Yeah, I hate watching an interesting TV show, and glancing at the clock and realizing that either it's getting wrapped up really fast, or it's "To be continued...". Maybe if I hadn't figured out how to set the clock on my DVR...
Yeah, I'll pile on. If a story can diverge in two different paths, the amount of time remaining can make it obvious which way it's going.
I try to do the same when watching poker on television. "Whoop, it's 10:57. This must be the last hand."
AH! That's the comparison I wanted to make but I couldn't remember what I was thinking of.
A classic case of this is the fiction of Guy de Maupassant - a master of sucking you into the level 1 of a story only to find at the very end that you were at a different, surprising level of understanding.
I avoid spoilers, as I generally don't like to watch something where I know what's going to happen going in. For the exact same reason, I avoid trailers. Between the genre and the footage presented, I can usually tell you most of what's going to happen, outside of maybe a surprise death or two.
/dies
I totally saw that coming, you hack.
Back in the day, trailers used to practically tell the entire plot of the movie (don't you hate that?) -- now days, they practically show you all the cool CGI effects in the movie.
Right. No story is necessary!
Trailers still often do that, and studies show that people are more likely to go watch a movie if the ending is spoiled in the trailer.
Ugh...I guess that doesn't surprise me. People suck.
see, when a chick flic rom-com can be easily summarized in half a sentence, it's HARD to not give anything away in a trailer.
This part has interested me as well:
Numerous recent scandals about fictionalized memoirs have inspired them to explore why it matters that a story be true. "Why does it matter," Christenfeld said, "whether something happened to one person in five billion or to no one? If the story is still a good story, why do we care?"
I mean, if I wanted to argue why the difference matters, I'm sure I could come up with a dozen talking points to that effect. What interests me isn't so much that it matters to some people that a story is true or not, but the degree to which people are outraged when stories turn out to be fiction. Working theory: maybe I'm just more cynical than average.
This reminds me of when truth.com (or one of those) made a commercial years ago, shot with a simple handheld, where a thin, bandanna-wearing lady with cancer sang a lullaby to her baby, knowing she didn't have much time left.
It was 'discovered' that it was an actress without cancer, and the smoking community went nuts. I can't find the scandal in there, no matter how I try. A commercial presents a fictionalized account in order to make people believe in something? Unheard of!
according to a study by Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt of UC San Diego's psychology department, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science.
so, this article is a spoiler of the study then?
Groundskeeper Willie signs with the Orioles. Not sure if it is a major league or minor league deal.
JoeCStrib: #Twins min lg 1B Kennys Vargas (batting .322 for rookie-level Elizabethton) gets 50-game suspension, testing positive for Phentermine.
The Milkmaid didn't have the cell with her for me to do the research but wanted to get me a new beer, but she ended up with this. I guess that's the chance you take. I was hoping, with just two reviews, that they had bad bottles. Not the case.
Now to figure out why a metallic and otherwise flavorless beer made the journey over from Rochester, New York.
I would blame the Red Wings.
Their tagline also has the word "Snapper" in it. So, you may be on to something.
"We had good guys, by and large, [but Moss] walked in the locker room and vomited on it," he told the league's website.
Honestly, what on earth did Moss do? Walk in Milton Bradley style with an F Childress t-shirt?
So, Childress cut Moss without talking to Wilf. More and more, it seems clear that Childress is a whining idiot who reacts in the moment.
I'm not surprised he thought the locker room was full of "good guys." They probably all are, compared to him.
He wanted a "kick-ass" offense, but ended up with a tummy ache. Poor, Chili.
Numbers can't help from being a thug.
Fox Sports North is currently showing the 06 BoSox game where Kubel hits the walk-off grand slam in the 12th
That game is five years old?! Wow.
Johan is so good.
2006 was so good.
Didn't realize that was just Kubel's 5th career homer and he ended up having a terrible season.
And how did I forget that was Batista's last game?
I did not forget that part of it. Poor dope. (Still, I can't believe that was five years ago, either)
Terrible is relative, it's not like he was a step down from RonDL that year. Also, I believe all the Kubel backers thought he was getting jerked around that year and could have benefited from playing more regularly.
63°F on my bike ride in to work this morning. I was legitimately cold.
I told my wife yesterday that it was about 80º to warm (it was about 78º). I think she now thinks there's something wrong with me.
You like -2 degrees? There is something wrong with you. I could get on board with 45-50 degree temps, but I'd like for it to stay above freezing for a few more months yet.
So long as the roads are in good shape, I am a big fan of winter. I prefer to try to warm up far more than I enjoy trying to cool down. Plus, winter means barleywines for added warmth. (which reminds me, I should probably get working on this year's...)
Yes you should.
You know, all it takes is a bit of AC to create the right environmental conditions for drinking barleywines...(or a trip to SF during the summer).
Every day in July exceeded 80 degrees in the Buff. I don't know if that has ever happened before. This summer has been awful.
/ducks meat/
This has been my stance since forever. You can always add another layer, but you can only take off so much.
I'm the exact opposite. Being too warm is merely uncomfortable (at least until you get into heat stroke range). Being cold actually hurts - the wind at your nose & ears, not being able to move your fingers.
I with you, MagUidhir. It's hard for it to get too hot for me. When I get chilled, though, it seems like it takes forever for me to warm up.
Which, of course, will not be helped by my move to north-central South Dakota. So far, it looks like the only down side, though.
I'm with CoC. Summer drains me of life. This stop in Arizona has been horrific.
Dido. *loads chamber for the next "but it's a dry heat" commentor*
I was in Yakima for a week, where it's bone dry. I had a massive headache for three days, and felt constantly dehydrated. I imagine Arizona would be hard for me to get used to.
Yeah, Yak took me some getting used to at first. I needed water every half hour and headaches were ever-present. Even after living there for three years, I endured a few days of the same thing when I came here. Now that I'm finally used to it, I'm leaving on Sunday. Oh well.
If it is just cold vs. heat, then yeah, I can get on board with cold. However, real cold weather inevitably comes with ice, snow and wind. Heat comes with dry and sunshine. You don't have to warm up your car, defrost windows or check the news for closures.
Late to this, but heat comes with humidity. Plus you have to cool off your car and check the news for highways buckling in the heat.
I'm in the -40 beats 100 with dewpoints over 70 camp.
cheaptoy, it's almost like you and I grew up in the same state or something. I can't tell you how frequently I hear "Stop being so Minnesotan!" from the Mrs. when it comes to matters of temperature, receiving praise, etc.
yeah, i'm with you two as well. my family and peckish jane has frequently ostracized me for such leanings.
Its good to know I'm not alone with this, and even better that a couple of the people that share these opinions are people my wife has actually met so I can tell her that I'm not the only crazy person she knows.
Sheenie thankfully wholeheartedly agrees that winter in Minnesota is much, much more comfortable than summers in New Orleans.
Count me in on the cold is better than hot club. People say "you must love LA because it's so warm in the winter" and I say "No, I love it because it's nice and 70 in the summer."
I've always said that I wouldn't move south from StL for the winter, I'd move to San Diego for the summer.
Having lived in San Diego, I can legitimately question that logic. Early summer is known as the "June Gloom."
Of course, when your baseline is paradise, that's kind of like complaining about condensation on the outside of your beer glass.
I would gladly trade my Seattle June Gloom for SD June Gloom.
Earlier this summer, I mentioned that I'd prefer sub-freezing conditions to the 110+ heat indices we'd been having. People looked at me like I was a lunatic.
The last few days have been beautiful, and I do enjoy being able to golf without sweating, but I'm looking forward to winter.
Hey Mags (and others of course) when you are back on the 'net, check out this pretty good EPL Preview. Although I don't buy the full-on Man City love, it looks like this could be a good resource through the long EPL season.
I can't wait for the year when ManU and Chelsea both get really old and injured. Fingers crossed.
Oy...it's just around the corner for Chelsea.
As with everything, money gives you the ability to buy younger. My hope is that the Glazer financial situation would drive ManU into the ground, but the idiots keep buying the high-risk bonds while wearing their yellow and green scarves.
Someday...perhaps.
I might whip up a little something for Saturday morning for when the new season kicks off.
Yes, please. (If you need any help or additional words for the column, let me know - I'd be happy to try and help)
I wasn't planning on a comprehensive team-by-team or anything, but more a general overview of the offseason and what to look for going forward.
If anyone else wants to write something up, anything at all, do so and email it to me acm006 via googleemailservices.
Also, how about a table prediction contest? We'd need a good way of scoring this. I'll make that it's own post right now.
Just didn't want it to sound like I was ordering you to do so for my amusement. I might write up something, but don't hold your breath waiting for a submission from me.
If you write something, by all means I'll include it, if you get around to it. I'm far from a soccer expert, so the more voices the better.
RIP Nancy Wake, WWII's most decorated woman. Choice quote from the obit:
(emphasis added)
Women in war are often treated like women in entertainment; men write stories about how they're accessories to the men in the field. Julia Roberts said that during her first ten years of playing lead roles, she was romantically linked in the media to every single one of her co-stars.
I know we have a few golfers around here and lots of "sports fans." Does this story do anything for anyone?
It would be fun to see Tiger challenge the majors record...I just don't know if he can get "it" back sufficiently to win at the pace he needs to.
At this point, I don't think he'll ever actually win any tournament again.
Nice to see that Steve Stricker (Madison representative) tied a Majors record.
I remember saying he'd break every record if he didn't have some weird massive personal breakdown. I always thought he was too dull for that to actually be the case. Oops.
It would have been fun to see Tiger challenge the Majors record but at his age, and obviously declining skill, I'd be surprised if he wins more than 1 additional major.
I have a hard time imagining him not winning at least 1 more major. Jack won his last major, number 18, at age 46; Tiger doesn't even turn 36 until December of this year. IF he can get his head back on straight and his balky knee back in order, I think he'll win again.
-also-
The guy has 71 PGA wins and the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history. Admittedly, he has had a terrible run since winning the U.S. Open in '08, but he has tied for 4th at the Masters both this year and last and he tied for 4th in last years U.S. Open. It takes some pretty decent golf to pull even a top 10 finish in those events.
Tiger will be 36 in December and I think age and his body will be his ultimate downfall (I know Jack won 6 majors after age 35, but two were in his 35th year and he won only 3 between 36-40). I'm not saying Tiger's going to shoot 77 every time he's out there and I am sure he will be among the leaders in most tournaments, but winning Majors is a lot different than coming in 4th. One day he'll put it all together and win a Major and we'll think he's back, but then age and body will bring him down to the pack.
My next vehicle -- like a Prius, but with lasers!!!!
Spoiler alert
I'm not really shocked by this- how many movies have you seen or books have you read with a big twist at the end that you can watch or read over and over, even when the "best" part isn't a surprise for you any more?
The obsession over spoilers seems on the surface to be rather recent. I'm sure others can speak more to this, but all of the older movie trailers I've seen basically serve as an entire plot synopsis.
The Mrs. is one of those who very often reads the end of a story before reading the middle. If she doesn't like the ending, she often will abandon the book.
Me, I like the suspense. Plus, I have an ample capacity for forgetting endings and twists, so re-read stories are often like new!
I've never understood doing this- but then, I read very quickly, so I can usually just power my way through an uninteresting book in a day or so and go and re-read a book that I know is good!
Given the time, I think it's useful to have both experiences. Not knowing what will happen next tends to make you focus on what is happening and how it happens. Once you know that, a repeat experience can allow you to focus on why it happened and more thoughtfully consider themes, etc.
What actually bothers me more than knowing how the story will end is knowing how soon it will end. If possible, I like to watch television and movies without a clock in sight. I find it to be a huge distraction knowing that things will be wrapped up in XX minutes. Somehow I don't have as much trouble with that reading books (where it is always apparent how many pages remain), but even then it bugs me on some level. Perhaps that's one reason I like baseball so much, you never know how long it's going to be until the end of the game.
Yeah, I hate watching an interesting TV show, and glancing at the clock and realizing that either it's getting wrapped up really fast, or it's "To be continued...". Maybe if I hadn't figured out how to set the clock on my DVR...
Yeah, I'll pile on. If a story can diverge in two different paths, the amount of time remaining can make it obvious which way it's going.
I try to do the same when watching poker on television. "Whoop, it's 10:57. This must be the last hand."
AH! That's the comparison I wanted to make but I couldn't remember what I was thinking of.
A classic case of this is the fiction of Guy de Maupassant - a master of sucking you into the level 1 of a story only to find at the very end that you were at a different, surprising level of understanding.
I avoid spoilers, as I generally don't like to watch something where I know what's going to happen going in. For the exact same reason, I avoid trailers. Between the genre and the footage presented, I can usually tell you most of what's going to happen, outside of maybe a surprise death or two.
/dies
I totally saw that coming, you hack.
Back in the day, trailers used to practically tell the entire plot of the movie (don't you hate that?) -- now days, they practically show you all the cool CGI effects in the movie.
Right. No story is necessary!
Trailers still often do that, and studies show that people are more likely to go watch a movie if the ending is spoiled in the trailer.
Ugh...I guess that doesn't surprise me. People suck.
see, when a chick flic rom-com can be easily summarized in half a sentence, it's HARD to not give anything away in a trailer.
This part has interested me as well:
I mean, if I wanted to argue why the difference matters, I'm sure I could come up with a dozen talking points to that effect. What interests me isn't so much that it matters to some people that a story is true or not, but the degree to which people are outraged when stories turn out to be fiction. Working theory: maybe I'm just more cynical than average.
This reminds me of when truth.com (or one of those) made a commercial years ago, shot with a simple handheld, where a thin, bandanna-wearing lady with cancer sang a lullaby to her baby, knowing she didn't have much time left.
It was 'discovered' that it was an actress without cancer, and the smoking community went nuts. I can't find the scandal in there, no matter how I try. A commercial presents a fictionalized account in order to make people believe in something? Unheard of!
according to a study by Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt of UC San Diego's psychology department, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science.
so, this article is a spoiler of the study then?
Groundskeeper Willie signs with the Orioles. Not sure if it is a major league or minor league deal.
The Milkmaid didn't have the cell with her for me to do the research but wanted to get me a new beer, but she ended up with this. I guess that's the chance you take. I was hoping, with just two reviews, that they had bad bottles. Not the case.
Now to figure out why a metallic and otherwise flavorless beer made the journey over from Rochester, New York.
I would blame the Red Wings.
Their tagline also has the word "Snapper" in it. So, you may be on to something.
GENNY!!!
This made me laugh.
Honestly, what on earth did Moss do? Walk in Milton Bradley style with an F Childress t-shirt?
So, Childress cut Moss without talking to Wilf. More and more, it seems clear that Childress is a whining idiot who reacts in the moment.
I'm not surprised he thought the locker room was full of "good guys." They probably all are, compared to him.
He wanted a "kick-ass" offense, but ended up with a tummy ache. Poor, Chili.
Numbers can't help from being a thug.
Fox Sports North is currently showing the 06 BoSox game where Kubel hits the walk-off grand slam in the 12th
That game is five years old?! Wow.
Johan is so good.
2006 was so good.
Didn't realize that was just Kubel's 5th career homer and he ended up having a terrible season.
And how did I forget that was Batista's last game?
I did not forget that part of it. Poor dope. (Still, I can't believe that was five years ago, either)
Terrible is relative, it's not like he was a step down from RonDL that year. Also, I believe all the Kubel backers thought he was getting jerked around that year and could have benefited from playing more regularly.