We're just one calendar month away from the start of the MLB season. That doesn't make it sound so bad.
38 thoughts on “February 1, 2012: Home Stretch”
Home stretch? 8 days (max) to PTBNLR, baby #4!
We're sitting at the 8 week mark.
Still six weeks from the due date here. First really tough day for Mrs. Ghost today.
EAR is having a pretty good go of it.
She's been cleaning grout in out kitchen and painting walls.
If the baby's room was done, she'd probably relax. I'll probably finish that when she's in the hospital.
BTW, seeing that we've got three births coming along in two months here, I just want to point out that last summer, I gave up on the Twins' season when that was still cool.
Happy birthday! I'll try to remember to make an addition to the birthday list.
Ads on the side of Facebook are getting "clever" -- by adding lots of spaces to their title link, it invisibly covers the 'X' cancel at the right corner of the ad, essentially hijacking the link.
Internet advertising has become so incredibly annoying. I would possibly less annoyed if they ever advertised anything I was interested in, but no. It's always some terrible movie hijacking my browser with a full screen Flash ad.
And that's why I always have Flash disabled in my main browser. Well, that and most ads blocked in the first place.
When I got my daughter a used iMac (last of the PowerPC) she complained that Flash wouldn't work on it. She's now realizing that it's a feature, not a bug.
I can't install anything (like an ad-blocker) to my work laptop, but I personally like marking all Facebook ads to be removed for reason "Other"
Since moving to Wisconsin I kept getting ads for Packers related things. I marked all of those as "Offensive".
Though our office is in Minneapolis, our company's HQ is in St. Louis, and I get lots of ads for save money on Missouri insurance. And the best eats in downtown St. Louis. I could buy the streaming MLB service and get Twins games, but I'd have to watch them at the office.
Internet advertising has become so incredibly annoying
After weather.com put up an annoying mortgage ad with a disgusting dancing woman, NBBW and I both bailed over to wunderground.com.
The Soul Train has left the station. Don Cornelius, dead at 75.
httpv://youtu.be/dPdfPxAF8BM
This card from last year's Bowman Draft Picks makes me angry.
I think they mispelled "Twins" on the jersey.
No, he played college at Texas, but some Topps moron couldn't make that leap to the majors. Even though the back of the card says "Drafted by Minnesota Twins"
Doesn't look like a UT jersey. Or are my eyes playing tricks on me?
Oh crap, you're right, he was at NC, wasn't he? Even worse, a Photoshop error too.
The 4ltr spews out a trade suggestion today: how about KG to the Nuggets.
My head might explode if that happens.
Editing part 2 of the pod is coming along nicely. I don't want to promise too much, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's posted by 2PM Central.
Editing is done. Audacity is exporting it and I'll upload it to the server and post it. This episode clocked in at around 1:05, so it's a good thing we built in the intermission.
Edit: Even at 64 kbps mono, it's gonna take more than an hour to export, according to Audacity's estimate. We'll see how fast I can get it posted.
That sounds really slow. Encoding a single, hour-long audio file should take much less time than that, something like minutes. I wonder how much extra work Audacity is having to do.
Audacity is really, really slow, at least in my experience. A friend of mine and I like to fool around over rap instrumentals, and it was nice to have a free program that let us do this. It certainly had its limitations, though. Obviously I'm not sure what other multi-track audio recording programs are like, or if they're faster, but I don't have the coin to find out.
This file ended up having 8 different layers, so that probably had something to do with it. It came out at 31.5 MB, which is only 5 MB larger than Episode 1, but it's twice as long, so the different compression settings really helped.
If you've ever used Pandora, you know its recommendations can be lame, or puzzling, or laughably bad. But how about creepy?
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who thinks Buble' milquetoast.
some cool video effects here by grad students at Illinois
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzPWK6FVLo
Does the site use a plugin called Math Jax? I'm getting a configuration file error from it when I log in.
Yes. That makes you and bhiggum with the problems. I must be missing some simple configuration options. Does this semi-random mathoverflow question cause any errors? If not, I'll try to copy more of their config.
Home stretch? 8 days (max) to PTBNLR, baby #4!
We're sitting at the 8 week mark.
Still six weeks from the due date here. First really tough day for Mrs. Ghost today.
EAR is having a pretty good go of it.
She's been cleaning grout in out kitchen and painting walls.
If the baby's room was done, she'd probably relax. I'll probably finish that when she's in the hospital.
BTW, seeing that we've got three births coming along in two months here, I just want to point out that last summer, I gave up on the Twins' season when that was still cool.
It is related, at least at the R household.
Exciting. My last PTBNL was announce one year ago today: http://snapped.bjhess.com/emma
Happy birthday to the little one!
Happy birthday! I'll try to remember to make an addition to the birthday list.
Ads on the side of Facebook are getting "clever" -- by adding lots of spaces to their title link, it invisibly covers the 'X' cancel at the right corner of the ad, essentially hijacking the link.
Internet advertising has become so incredibly annoying. I would possibly less annoyed if they ever advertised anything I was interested in, but no. It's always some terrible movie hijacking my browser with a full screen Flash ad.
And that's why I always have Flash disabled in my main browser. Well, that and most ads blocked in the first place.
When I got my daughter a used iMac (last of the PowerPC) she complained that Flash wouldn't work on it. She's now realizing that it's a feature, not a bug.
I can't install anything (like an ad-blocker) to my work laptop, but I personally like marking all Facebook ads to be removed for reason "Other"
Since moving to Wisconsin I kept getting ads for Packers related things. I marked all of those as "Offensive".
Though our office is in Minneapolis, our company's HQ is in St. Louis, and I get lots of ads for save money on Missouri insurance. And the best eats in downtown St. Louis. I could buy the streaming MLB service and get Twins games, but I'd have to watch them at the office.
Internet advertising has become so incredibly annoying
After weather.com put up an annoying mortgage ad with a disgusting dancing woman, NBBW and I both bailed over to wunderground.com.
I'm not sure there are enough words for how cool this is: Edison's Files Reveal the Only Known Voice Recording of Someone Born in the 18th Century
Crazy.
thats awesome
The Soul Train has left the station. Don Cornelius, dead at 75.
httpv://youtu.be/dPdfPxAF8BM
This card from last year's Bowman Draft Picks makes me angry.
I think they mispelled "Twins" on the jersey.
No, he played college at Texas, but some Topps moron couldn't make that leap to the majors. Even though the back of the card says "Drafted by Minnesota Twins"
Doesn't look like a UT jersey. Or are my eyes playing tricks on me?
Oh crap, you're right, he was at NC, wasn't he? Even worse, a Photoshop error too.
The 4ltr spews out a trade suggestion today: how about KG to the Nuggets.
My head might explode if that happens.
Editing part 2 of the pod is coming along nicely. I don't want to promise too much, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's posted by 2PM Central.
Editing is done. Audacity is exporting it and I'll upload it to the server and post it. This episode clocked in at around 1:05, so it's a good thing we built in the intermission.
Edit: Even at 64 kbps mono, it's gonna take more than an hour to export, according to Audacity's estimate. We'll see how fast I can get it posted.
That sounds really slow. Encoding a single, hour-long audio file should take much less time than that, something like minutes. I wonder how much extra work Audacity is having to do.
Audacity is really, really slow, at least in my experience. A friend of mine and I like to fool around over rap instrumentals, and it was nice to have a free program that let us do this. It certainly had its limitations, though. Obviously I'm not sure what other multi-track audio recording programs are like, or if they're faster, but I don't have the coin to find out.
This file ended up having 8 different layers, so that probably had something to do with it. It came out at 31.5 MB, which is only 5 MB larger than Episode 1, but it's twice as long, so the different compression settings really helped.
If you've ever used Pandora, you know its recommendations can be lame, or puzzling, or laughably bad. But how about creepy?
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who thinks Buble' milquetoast.
some cool video effects here by grad students at Illinois
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzPWK6FVLo
Does the site use a plugin called Math Jax? I'm getting a configuration file error from it when I log in.
Yes. That makes you and bhiggum with the problems. I must be missing some simple configuration options. Does this semi-random mathoverflow question cause any errors? If not, I'll try to copy more of their config.
I've also seen the problem, but not consistently.