Looks like there are 22 days until the Twins' first spring training game. I'm getting antsy again.
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For those who love Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Psychonauts), some great news today. He set up a pledge drive to make a new adventure game, asking for $400,000 in 40 days. It's been 8 days into the pledge drive and he's already raised 1.3 million!
I'm making a video game too. If everyone here promises to give me $400,000 I promise I won't disappear with it.
I played Costume Quest recently, which was all concept, very little gameplay...a common gripe with Schafer. He'll have to regain my trust first.
I would like Rare to do a similar Kickstarter for an HD sequel to Blast Corps.
I skipped them, but now that I've seen some there are some pretty funny ones.
"Rather than being anti-pet, my reading of the article can be summarized as thus: Poop contains a lot of pathogens - many of which we have little-to-no understanding of. Be careful when handling poop."
Words to live by.
The best was the response to that comment:
"Well, there goes that hobby"
one of my favorites:
"You usually need about 50 people who are infected and 50 who are not, in order to see a statistically significant difference."
That statement is totally BUNK! Statistical significance only tells us whether or not to reject the null hypothesis. Obviously, this idiot doesn't understand statistics.
The internet loves cats.
That is some crazy shi...stuff. I am amazed.
What an interesting read. My dislike of cats has been reinforced. Puppies and Fireworks are for wins.
I love cats, but that's some crazy stuff.
Of course, now that little cat-poop creatures in my brain are telling me to disregar......what were we talking about again?
There's a lot to admire in a well-written article that presents difficult scientific concepts and information in layman's terms. Too bad there are few writers who have the ability to craft such an article.
I much prefer deGrasse-Tyson over Sagan. Neil doesn't seem to need the face time. Oh, you were talking about writing...nevermind.
For all you Battlestar Galactica and Portlandia fans out there:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njr3aFpTMyQ
Once the rehearsal began that was utterly fantastic.
Dw, can you get the wolves game log tonight?
Line on the Wolves game tonight: Dallas -2.5, O/U 190.5, Money line: Dallas -133, Minnesota +120.
I think the Wolves are going to win tonight and I like the over. Thoughts (I don't actually gamble, ever.)?
Some of Accuscore's projections:
Love, 23.5 points : after the suspension, I'm going OVER
Pekovic, 8.6 points : who's going to guard him? OVER
Rubio, 7.9 assists : OVER
And now the line has moved: O/U 192. Money line: Dallas -129, Minnesota +117
Money coming in on the Wolves and the OVER.
It's been way too long, but today in the TJ archives:
-Two years ago he was heading to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics. He explained, "For a columnist concerned mostly with stick-and-ball sports, writing about the Winter Games is a bit like writing about an art competition. I can't tell you who's winning, only what looks good to me."
"With the exception of hockey, the Winter Games are filled with sports that receive mainstream coverage in the States once every four years, making the event feel a bit like an American Idol audition in a meat locker. . . . In Vancouver, ice will play the role of Simon Cowell."
Later, he added, "Skiers and snowboarders, bobsledders and lugers are volunteering for risk and pain, kind of like people who buy tickets to a Steven Seagal movie." When was a Steven Seagal reference last relevant?
-Three years ago he wrote a profile of Dick Jonckowski, the PA announcer for Gopher basketball and football. It was an extremely interesting and well-written profile with none of the usually hacky flourishes.
-Four years ago, he responded to backlash of him praising the Johan trade saying, "Gentle readers - and bloggers who remain ever-hopeful of gainful employment - hate everything about the deal, especially the anonymity of the Mets prospects headed to Minnesota." He added, in his defense, that Minnesotans were also wrong about the Garnett trade because "it brought in a player - Al Jefferson - who is younger, cheaper, equally productive, still ascending and better in the fourth quarter, and two first-round draft picks, and a couple of other promising players."
-Six years ago he was also at the Winter Olympics and wrote a completely forgettable profile about the fun-loving woman on the US ski team. Completely mailed in (not that I blame him because, after all, the Winter Olympics are really boring).
-Eight years ago (how scary is that!) the Twins had just signed Jose Offerman. "Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said Offerman will give him a veteran option but won't affect the status of lefthanded-hitting outfielder Mike Ryan, who served as a pinch hitter late last season. 'I'd like to have Mike Ryan on my club,' Gardenhire said. 'Keeping Jose might affect someone like [righthanded-hitting outfielder] Lew Ford.'"
-Back in 1995 with the strike ongoing, the Twins decided to cut the cost of Spring Training games (played by scabs) by fifty percent. How generous of them. The Twins also announced the signing of Mike Loynd and Don Carman as replacement players (in case Jeff A. wants to update them as "former Twins").
Eight years ago (how scary is that!) the Twins had just signed Jose Offerman. "Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said Offerman will give him a veteran option but won't affect the status of lefthanded-hitting outfielder Mike Ryan, who served as a pinch hitter late last season. 'I'd like to have Mike Ryan on my club,' Gardenhire said. 'Keeping Jose might affect someone like [righthanded-hitting outfielder] Lew Ford.'"
Funny enough, none of that happened. Ryan crapped out, Ford led the team in OPS, and Offerman managed to have a decent but not great role on the team.
the Winter Olympics are really boring
Not the curling part!
I really enjoy the winter Olympics. Pretty much all of it.
i'll admit to being an olympic nerd, summer and winter.
Guilty. I end up crying a lot. Especially at those commercials with Morgan Freeman's voice over, or the ones with the little kids doing Olympics stuff, and then they say "they'll always look this way to their moms" or something. Man, I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it.
So buy yr kids McDonald's.
Tried that on the way home from the hospital this morning. AJR gave up using french fries as lik-m-stiks for ketchup and began using just her fingers. And I want to go back to get a second happy-meal toy. They're star-wars themed battle tops, and I want to challenge HPR to a test match.
Yeah, that KG trade was awesome.
I especially liked the part where the offensive black hole Al Jefferson was praised as being a better fourth quarter player. It's easy to get yours at the sake of everyone else's when you palm the ball for 20 seconds each possession and then force up a contested shot.
2007-now
Player A: 38.9 WS, .204 WS/48
Player B: 27 WS, .120 WS/48
The masking is probably unnecessary. He is younger and cheaper though!
Al Jefferson - who is younger, cheaper, equally productive, still ascending and better in the fourth quarter, and two first-round draft picks, and a couple of other promising players."
Has anybody ever visited heard of the Wes Westrum Baseball Museum in Clearbrook? I just discovered it and may have to find a way to visit.
That's (kindof) my old neck of the woods, but Clearbrook was never in any of our sports districts (except wrestling?) so I never really have been there. Heard Wes' name bandied about, though.
Now when will league pass broadband be on either XBOX or PS3?
I bought a PS3 two nights ago. Part of the reason was that I couldn't get MLB.TV on my Xbox. Oh well.
Does it include ads? Having DVR functionality would be nice, but no ads was worth using it with the Roku.
I assume that requires Xbox Live Gold, though, eh? No way will I ever pay for that.
Paging sean.
I just noticed that the LaTeX which was working is no longer working for my scheduled TNHP post.
$$\int hit$$
Yeah, I removed it last night due to sporadic problems people were having. I'm hoping to make it dynamically load just on posts tagged with "math".
Who said it?
Anyone who voted for Griffin over Love needs to start watching League Pass instead of SportsCenter highlights; Love has been the best power forward in either conference, and by the way, haven't we all wanted to step on Luis Scola's face at least once?
For those who love Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Psychonauts), some great news today. He set up a pledge drive to make a new adventure game, asking for $400,000 in 40 days. It's been 8 days into the pledge drive and he's already raised 1.3 million!
I'm making a video game too. If everyone here promises to give me $400,000 I promise I won't disappear with it.
I played Costume Quest recently, which was all concept, very little gameplay...a common gripe with Schafer. He'll have to regain my trust first.
I would like Rare to do a similar Kickstarter for an HD sequel to Blast Corps.
there could be something to that "crazy cat lady" thing -or- your cat might be giving you the shifty eyes.
I was just about to post the same thing. Science is cool.
agreed.
Excellent read, but the comments burn my eyes.
yeah, i... wow.
I skipped them, but now that I've seen some there are some pretty funny ones.
"Rather than being anti-pet, my reading of the article can be summarized as thus: Poop contains a lot of pathogens - many of which we have little-to-no understanding of. Be careful when handling poop."
Words to live by.
The best was the response to that comment:
"Well, there goes that hobby"
one of my favorites:
The internet loves cats.
That is some crazy shi...stuff. I am amazed.
What an interesting read. My dislike of cats has been reinforced. Puppies and Fireworks are for wins.
I love cats, but that's some crazy stuff.
Of course, now that little cat-poop creatures in my brain are telling me to disregar......what were we talking about again?
There's a lot to admire in a well-written article that presents difficult scientific concepts and information in layman's terms. Too bad there are few writers who have the ability to craft such an article.
Moss, you made a great comment here. I second it.
Ditto. All of a sudden I really miss Carl Sagan.
They're making a sequel "The Cosmos" with Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's going to air on FOX and Seth McFarlane is involved, but I'm still cautiously optimistic because of Tyson's involvement.
I much prefer deGrasse-Tyson over Sagan. Neil doesn't seem to need the face time. Oh, you were talking about writing...nevermind.
For all you Battlestar Galactica and Portlandia fans out there:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njr3aFpTMyQ
Once the rehearsal began that was utterly fantastic.
Dw, can you get the wolves game log tonight?
Line on the Wolves game tonight: Dallas -2.5, O/U 190.5, Money line: Dallas -133, Minnesota +120.
I think the Wolves are going to win tonight and I like the over. Thoughts (I don't actually gamble, ever.)?
Some of Accuscore's projections:
Love, 23.5 points : after the suspension, I'm going OVER
Pekovic, 8.6 points : who's going to guard him? OVER
Rubio, 7.9 assists : OVER
And now the line has moved: O/U 192. Money line: Dallas -129, Minnesota +117
Money coming in on the Wolves and the OVER.
It's been way too long, but today in the TJ archives:
-Two years ago he was heading to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics. He explained, "For a columnist concerned mostly with stick-and-ball sports, writing about the Winter Games is a bit like writing about an art competition. I can't tell you who's winning, only what looks good to me."
"With the exception of hockey, the Winter Games are filled with sports that receive mainstream coverage in the States once every four years, making the event feel a bit like an American Idol audition in a meat locker. . . . In Vancouver, ice will play the role of Simon Cowell."
Later, he added, "Skiers and snowboarders, bobsledders and lugers are volunteering for risk and pain, kind of like people who buy tickets to a Steven Seagal movie." When was a Steven Seagal reference last relevant?
-Three years ago he wrote a profile of Dick Jonckowski, the PA announcer for Gopher basketball and football. It was an extremely interesting and well-written profile with none of the usually hacky flourishes.
-Four years ago, he responded to backlash of him praising the Johan trade saying, "Gentle readers - and bloggers who remain ever-hopeful of gainful employment - hate everything about the deal, especially the anonymity of the Mets prospects headed to Minnesota." He added, in his defense, that Minnesotans were also wrong about the Garnett trade because "it brought in a player - Al Jefferson - who is younger, cheaper, equally productive, still ascending and better in the fourth quarter, and two first-round draft picks, and a couple of other promising players."
-Six years ago he was also at the Winter Olympics and wrote a completely forgettable profile about the fun-loving woman on the US ski team. Completely mailed in (not that I blame him because, after all, the Winter Olympics are really boring).
-Eight years ago (how scary is that!) the Twins had just signed Jose Offerman. "Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said Offerman will give him a veteran option but won't affect the status of lefthanded-hitting outfielder Mike Ryan, who served as a pinch hitter late last season. 'I'd like to have Mike Ryan on my club,' Gardenhire said. 'Keeping Jose might affect someone like [righthanded-hitting outfielder] Lew Ford.'"
-Back in 1995 with the strike ongoing, the Twins decided to cut the cost of Spring Training games (played by scabs) by fifty percent. How generous of them. The Twins also announced the signing of Mike Loynd and Don Carman as replacement players (in case Jeff A. wants to update them as "former Twins").
Funny enough, none of that happened. Ryan crapped out, Ford led the team in OPS, and Offerman managed to have a decent but not great role on the team.
the Winter Olympics are really boring
Not the curling part!
I really enjoy the winter Olympics. Pretty much all of it.
i'll admit to being an olympic nerd, summer and winter.
Guilty. I end up crying a lot. Especially at those commercials with Morgan Freeman's voice over, or the ones with the little kids doing Olympics stuff, and then they say "they'll always look this way to their moms" or something. Man, I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it.
So buy yr kids McDonald's.
Tried that on the way home from the hospital this morning. AJR gave up using french fries as lik-m-stiks for ketchup and began using just her fingers. And I want to go back to get a second happy-meal toy. They're star-wars themed battle tops, and I want to challenge HPR to a test match.
Yeah, that KG trade was awesome.
I especially liked the part where
the offensive black holeAl Jefferson was praised as being a better fourth quarter player. It's easy to get yours at the sake of everyone else's when you palm the ball for 20 seconds each possession and then force up a contested shot.2007-now
Player A: 38.9 WS, .204 WS/48
Player B: 27 WS, .120 WS/48
The masking is probably unnecessary. He is younger and cheaper though!
Al Jefferson - who is younger, cheaper, equally productive, still ascending and better in the fourth quarter, and two first-round draft picks, and a couple of other promising players."
Pek!
Nah, Pek came in the Wally to the C's trade.
Has anybody ever
visitedheard of the Wes Westrum Baseball Museum in Clearbrook? I just discovered it and may have to find a way to visit.That's (kindof) my old neck of the woods, but Clearbrook was never in any of our sports districts (except wrestling?) so I never really have been there. Heard Wes' name bandied about, though.
Peyton Manning's face combined with every NFL logo.
Obviously.
I think the Bears' one is my favorite.
I like the Cardinals.
That Vikings one looks like Brad Childress.
Could make for a decent avatar for someone.
Perhaps someone who's still got a certain journalist staring at us all the time?
Journalist?
Mmmhmm, touche.
I like the Cowboys one where the cowboy and the horse he's riding both have the Peyton face. They're all excellent.
I gotta go with the Dolphins.
I think the Bears is the best, but the Broncs makes me laugh the most.
Moss votes Raiders.
Has anyone ever done John Elway's face on the Broncos' logo? That would be awesome.
It's time for rejoicing, cheaptoy: MLB.TV will be on Xbox this year.
Now when will league pass broadband be on either XBOX or PS3?
I bought a PS3 two nights ago. Part of the reason was that I couldn't get MLB.TV on my Xbox. Oh well.
Does it include ads? Having DVR functionality would be nice, but no ads was worth using it with the Roku.
I assume that requires Xbox Live Gold, though, eh? No way will I ever pay for that.
Paging sean.
I just noticed that the LaTeX which was working is no longer working for my scheduled TNHP post.
$$\int hit$$
Yeah, I removed it last night due to sporadic problems people were having. I'm hoping to make it dynamically load just on posts tagged with "math".
Who said it?
Chuck Barkley?
sounds like Reusse.
Eh, I was close.
You didn't mention his comments about Ricky.
i'm not sure how this warrants making the hardball talk page, but here it is.
Sounds like he's a true Twin.
slow baseball news day
It's because Gleeman works there.
nice: Gophers hockey on NBC Sports (formerly Versus)
not so nice: Mike Greenlay (FSN Wild guy) is the color guy.