He might want to be careful what he says in interviews.
what I really like about Perkins is his love of the bullpen car.
oh, yea, an Arctic Cat or Polaris bullpen ride would be sweet.
I wonder what Perk thinks of Dicknbert slagging on his buddy all the time.
I should try to get tickets behind the Miller Park visitors bullpen again and ask him. (not that he responded to my "Go Ponies!" last year.)
DB: I mixed up Kevin Correia and Kevin Slowey the other day. That happening to you? GP: No. Slowey is one of my closest friends. Correia is one of the funniest, quirkiest people I have met. They do have that in common.
So, in two years when Kevin Correia is gone, will Dick not be accepting or condoning profanity with regards to his hatchet job on him?
What we should've said to Dick is "Do you think Vin Scully would say something like that?"
Oh, snap!!
I don't think he would say that either.
That ain't no half-gallon Perkins.
I think they're both right.
Oops. Anyone know how to shrink this?
how's that? Just add something like width="500" to scale it back
easier to add "width=XX%" where XX is an integer. Try 30%. That way it rescales with viewer size.
But if someone is on a very wide screen, it will be gigantic.
No, just 30 percent of gigantic.
I added width="75%" to the image tag.
Thanks
GP: I was a math guy in college. I’ve always liked math, so it’s got a lot to do with that, too. To me, you read it and it adds up...
Wonder if GH could get him to participate in a Nation Has Problems post.
That would be sweet!
I read about him sponsoring a 5K and his wife being a marathoner and I didn't think I could love him more. Then I did.
Do they ever sell DVDs of a player's career highlights? Because I'll want a Ben Revere DVD in a few years.
He already has one Gibby.* Someday they'll have to name it after him.
*Interesting in the video that Amsinger said "your first career Gibby."
Heck, I'd be happy with a compilation of several years of GIBBY nominees.
Would be nice to show the kids the Buehrle play.
And Joe Mauer's fakeout to tag the Yankee at the plate.
If it was the NFL, they'd be fining his @ss for an altered equipment/uniform. Thank God it's not the NFL.
I'm pretty sure MLB lets you write on your underbrim, but not the crown of your cap. Was it LaTroy or another former Twin got in trouble for a Kirby tribute? I know there were similar Darryl Kile tributes that had to be dissuaded. But I've never heard of fines for the first offense.
I have no idea what the rule is for gloves (for non-pitchers, that would have been unacceptable for a pitcher's glove).
I knew it was going to be a big pay in event on this year's taxes and it was. Filed last night about 10PM. Plenty of time to spare!
Congratulations on not making a zero-interest loan to the gubmint!
(which is less impressive when interest rates are near zero, I suppose)
I would also like an MP3 collection of games Vin Scully has called through the years.
There was a thing once where you could buy CDs of particular games, but they were CD-priced.
I'm thinking 100 games for $20-30?
When I was a kid, my parents had the 1969 compilation record, "Martin's Marauders". Audio from Herb, Halsey, and Merle Harmon, as I recall. I hope they still have it somewhere.
More proof that my guy, TonyO, is fab.
It's possible to pull mp3s off of non-download-enabled soundcloud streams.
I have done that and will listen sometime soon, perhaps on a commute.
I'm not sure if there's any other bird watchers 'round these parts except for myself and AMR, but...
I drove from Mankato to Le Center for a hearing this morning. It's a 35 mile drive. Along the way I was able to see:
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Trumpeter Swan
Pelican
Goose
Mallard
Bufflehead
Kildeer
Gull
And lot of other more common birds (robins, juncos, etc.).
It's a good time of year for bird watching.
I had a flock of waxwings in my yard last week before the snows. Its been a couple of years since Ive seen them.
other than that, havent had too many odd birds.
Saw the Redwinged Blackbirds on Good Friday in the Twin Cities. It's snowed like a foot since then.
Driving back from NU on Easter Afternoon, seemed like every pond along the Old Fort Road was infested with Shovellers. I kept pointing them out to the kids and they didn't care. Probably thought they were deformed mallards or something.
Kids also aren't impressed about the Swans. Did they come back from the brink? I can't say I saw one until 7 or so years ago. Might have been that I moved to the Mississippi Flyway.
I think swans must be coming back, since I've seen a bunch of 'em the last couple years. I've probably seen some shovellers recently, but driving past w/o solid ID. Dark-eyed juncos invaded my in-laws' over the weekend. I understand they have a brown creeper right out their front window too, so I'm looking forward to finding that. Redwings populate the ditch near our parking lot. I've been waking up to their calls every morning lately. They're so common by my apartment that I forget to mention them entirely.
The snow has the robins flocking. Yesterday, there were three grackles in with them on our crabapple (pronounced: cr&schwa;-bopple).
Herons are back on their nests. There's a huge rookery on an island straight down from our house. When I see them flying overhead in the summer, I consider them commuting.
The pileated woodpecker came back to our suet feeder after spending most of the second half of the winter away.
We've also been getting a few bald eagles in the area (they love the areas around Carlos State Park, and we're definitely within flying distance of them). They've been landing in the trees around the area. Not in our backyard yet, but it seems like a matter of time.
No robins, no waxwings, no doves yet. Just tons and tons of redpolls and juncos...and the occasional grackle.
A bald eagle once perched in the giant cottonwood at our old house.
Apparently, it had wanted to eat something in our yard (squirrel/rabbit?), because there were signs of struggle and feathers in our yard.
I understand that it's illegal to possess bald eagle feathers, but what does one do when the eagle leaves them there in your yard and your kid picks them up and brings them inside?
Guano from a bald eagle should be fine to keep, right?
We have Cooper's hawks that like to feast on their prey in our giant cottonwood tree. When they get a blackbird, our lawn gets covered with an absolute explosion of feathers.
A small price to pay for doing the Lord's work. Our feeder gets overrun by blackbirds every so often, and we end up having to cease filling the feeders until they move on.
use some Safflower seed in your bird feed and it keeps the blackbirds/grackles/squirrels at bay
They don't like it? Do they abhor it enough to keep them from just picking it out and eating the sunflower seed?
yeah, I guess they dont like it
what I have found out is that the hoard of grackles will slowly disappear and the stragglers will just kind of hang out under the feeder and look for the good stuff that the goldfinches throw out.
I'm more amused than disgusted by it. The rabbit and squirrel carcasses get to me more, but the husband is in charge of burials.
Sounds fun. I for one side with the predatory animal nine times out of ten. Nature shows always make it seem fortunate that the little caribou got away. But now that wolf pack goes hungry tonight. As does the family of Arctic fox (cutest North American land mammal?) that were gonna lick off the bones tomorrow.
You missed my tales last summer of a local cardinal couple raising the most darling cowbird chick.
Cowbirds are the best (except when they're preying on rare species).
somebody saw just one too many mothers die in Disney animated movies as a kid. 😉
I understand that it’s illegal to possess bald eagle feathers, but what does one do when the eagle leaves them there in your yard and your kid picks them up and brings them inside?
Ethically, I think you need to turn those kids in to the authorities.
I will definitely be contributing to domesticating birds when we find a house to buy.
I saw the biggest pheasant rooster on the side of the road yesterday. I was hoping a fender would clip him and I could take it home for dinner, but no such luck.
One of the great things about my trips between Gettysburg and Onida is all the pheasants I see every time.
My in-laws currently have a pair living in their grove. I've seen 'em walking across the yard the last two times we were visiting. I'm hoping we don't hunt the home property this fall, they make lots of babies, and stay local for hunting in '13.
On a bike ride this last weekend saw a hooded merganser in a CT river (all white except for green head with rock-star feathers).
I saw a merganser on a golf course once upon a time. It was cool.
Thankfully, we are immune to this attack: no 'admin' user. All admins on this site should use strong passwords though.
"admin" modem/router passwords and default garage door opener codes are just asking to be hit
I'm glad we have a lax password policy at work for remote consoles.
Then I remember the root password isn't the default. *shakes fist*
Work passwords are the worst for me. I have to remember several, which change all the time, and require me to use capital and lower case letters, symbols, and numbers. I can't remember this crap. I understand I have sensitive work but just let me use the password "sandwich" and I swear I'll have a lot more brain cells to use remembering work stuff.
Password managers == awesome. Still have to memorize the password for the manager admittedly, and the password to login to get to the manager.
I had a similar problem at a previous job. I built up a pattern using the keyboard (123qweasd, etc) and just use the shift key in the right places to the get the right mix. Next month, 234wersdf! Worked great for a few years.
we are under the thumb of nonsensical IT edicts from on high here. Passwords that have to be changed every X weeks and have to be "complex" in ways that are not computationally complex and have to be different from any password in your password history. Fi!
My friend at work has this posted on his cubicle wall
so you should be able to crack his password!
That is why I use 1Password. Also, little need to remember anything other than the master and the most key of other account passwords.
Yes. The essential passwords should actually be passphrases. I personally use Diceware to create my passphrases. Then, I use this impossible to search for game to easily generate the five dice throws at once:
Didn't want to splurge for an Enigma Machine?
He'd have to call a buddy of his who specializes in Enigma machines to verify its provenance.
I have three different sets of passwords that include a two-digit number. Gotta update it? +1.
My admin password is so strong even I can't remember it.
The study builds on recent American research that found acetaminophen -- the generic form of Tylenol -- can successfully reduce the non-physical pain of being ostracized from friends. The UBC team sought to determine whether the drug had similar effects on other unpleasant experiences -- in this case, existential dread.
In the study, participants took acetaminophen or a placebo while performing tasks designed to evoke this kind of anxiety -- including writing about death or watching a surreal David Lynch video -- and then assign fines to different types of crimes, including public rioting and prostitution.
Researchers followed 3,775 men and 1,575 women from 1985-2009 with a mean age of 51 years from the Whitehall II study. Using a combination of hospital data, results of screenings conducted every five years, and registry data, investigators identified mortality and chronic diseases among participants.
....
The study determined that participants with low adherence to the AHEI increased their risk of cardiovascular and noncardiovascular death. Those who followed a "Western-type diet" consisting of fried and sweet food, processed food and red meat, refined grains, and high-fat dairy products lowered their chances for ideal aging.
The AHEI was developed by Haaahhhvahhhhd, and can be summarized by the picture below:
that's weird. the image keeps disappearing. What evs. the figure WAS here.
I thought "broken" summarizes it pretty well.
Avoid bacon
BANNED.
gotcha covered, big guy.
oooooh.
Have they decided if eggs healthy or malefic this year?
The study determined that participants with low adherence to the AHEI increased their risk of cardiovascular and noncardiovascular death. Those who followed a “Western-type diet” consisting of fried and sweet food, processed food and red meat, refined grains, and high-fat dairy products lowered their chances for ideal aging.
That's a lot of variables in there. It's a hard thing to analyze, but some things on the list are going to be much worse than others. Refined grains are probably the worst, but eating a lot of rice can also be terrible and isn't addressed at all.
Ft. Myers trailing 4-3 in the 7th. Miracle are 11-0 to start the season.
And Miguel Sano hits a grand slam to put Fort Myers up 7-4!
Nevermind. Sano just hit a grand slam to make it 7-4. Sounded like a long one. "Sano way that just happened!"
"Just Sano."
Miracle now 12-0.
Break up the Miracle!
On a lark I decided to go to tonight's game (wife and kids are visiting the mother and law and stubhub tickets are cheap!) I'll be bringing my nice camera, so hopefully, I'll have some decent shots to add to the game recap once I get home.
Oh, and if you happen to see someone in the 4th row up from 3B who looks like a rpz, that'd be me.
Sweet seats! How much on Stub Hub? I'm looking to go next Thursday.
They were actually 4 rows up from the divide, but they were still really awesome. I paid $13 for it, which I thought was a steal. Around 4:30, I saw better tickets going for a low at $8.
Good to know. Hope you had fun!
if the Twins were thinking ahead, they would have played a double header today
Following the discussion of audio above, I'm listening to my genre "baseball" on iTunes.
"Who's on First?" is up. Reminds me of a tale I haven't shared yet:
AJR got a stuffed snow owl for her birthday. She wanted to name it "Pete" but I kindof talked her into naming it "Who" and I'm working on retroactively naming her stuffed duck "What". (Duck is currently called "Duck".) Shenanigans should ensue once I can get the bear to be called "I Don't Know".
wow -- the epicenter of the Pakistan/Iran 7.8 earthquake was 82 km deep!
(which, now that I look further, isn't as impressive as it looked initially)
I see reports that the quake could be felt as far away as Abu Dhabi. wow
Answer Man: Glen Perkins
He might want to be careful what he says in interviews.
what I really like about Perkins is his love of the bullpen car.
oh, yea, an Arctic Cat or Polaris bullpen ride would be sweet.
I wonder what Perk thinks of Dicknbert slagging on his buddy all the time.
I should try to get tickets behind the Miller Park visitors bullpen again and ask him. (not that he responded to my "Go Ponies!" last year.)
So, in two years when Kevin Correia is gone, will Dick not be accepting or condoning profanity with regards to his hatchet job on him?
What we should've said to Dick is "Do you think Vin Scully would say something like that?"
Oh, snap!!
I don't think he would say that either.
I think they're both right.
Oops. Anyone know how to shrink this?
how's that? Just add something like width="500" to scale it back
easier to add "width=XX%" where XX is an integer. Try 30%. That way it rescales with viewer size.
But if someone is on a very wide screen, it will be gigantic.
No, just 30 percent of gigantic.
I added width="75%" to the image tag.
Thanks
Wonder if GH could get him to participate in a Nation Has Problems post.
That would be sweet!
I read about him sponsoring a 5K and his wife being a marathoner and I didn't think I could love him more. Then I did.
Glen Perkins: G.O.A.T.
Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, Revere shows his range:
Do they ever sell DVDs of a player's career highlights? Because I'll want a Ben Revere DVD in a few years.
He already has one Gibby.* Someday they'll have to name it after him.
*Interesting in the video that Amsinger said "your first career Gibby."
Heck, I'd be happy with a compilation of several years of GIBBY nominees.
Would be nice to show the kids the Buehrle play.
And Joe Mauer's fakeout to tag the Yankee at the plate.
Apparently, Revere had "Pray for Boston" taped to his glove and also ran into the wall to make another catch in the third inning.
If it was the NFL, they'd be fining his @ss for an altered equipment/uniform. Thank God it's not the NFL.
I'm pretty sure MLB lets you write on your underbrim, but not the crown of your cap. Was it LaTroy or another former Twin got in trouble for a Kirby tribute? I know there were similar Darryl Kile tributes that had to be dissuaded. But I've never heard of fines for the first offense.
I have no idea what the rule is for gloves (for non-pitchers, that would have been unacceptable for a pitcher's glove).
I knew it was going to be a big pay in event on this year's taxes and it was. Filed last night about 10PM. Plenty of time to spare!
Congratulations on not making a zero-interest loan to the gubmint!
(which is less impressive when interest rates are near zero, I suppose)
Vin Scully and the Sword of Damocles
the best.
I would also like an MP3 collection of games Vin Scully has called through the years.
There was a thing once where you could buy CDs of particular games, but they were CD-priced.
I'm thinking 100 games for $20-30?
you could do this
For half that price, I might be sending the guy $50.
As it is... tempting...
Oh man, Herb, Ray Scott, and Halsey audio here. Tears to my eyes
When I was a kid, my parents had the 1969 compilation record, "Martin's Marauders". Audio from Herb, Halsey, and Merle Harmon, as I recall. I hope they still have it somewhere.
More proof that my guy, TonyO, is fab.
It's possible to pull mp3s off of non-download-enabled soundcloud streams.
I have done that and will listen sometime soon, perhaps on a commute.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
I'm not sure if there's any other bird watchers 'round these parts except for myself and AMR, but...
I drove from Mankato to Le Center for a hearing this morning. It's a 35 mile drive. Along the way I was able to see:
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Trumpeter Swan
Pelican
Goose
Mallard
Bufflehead
Kildeer
Gull
And lot of other more common birds (robins, juncos, etc.).
It's a good time of year for bird watching.
I had a flock of waxwings in my yard last week before the snows. Its been a couple of years since Ive seen them.
other than that, havent had too many odd birds.
Saw the Redwinged Blackbirds on Good Friday in the Twin Cities. It's snowed like a foot since then.
Driving back from NU on Easter Afternoon, seemed like every pond along the Old Fort Road was infested with Shovellers. I kept pointing them out to the kids and they didn't care. Probably thought they were deformed mallards or something.
Kids also aren't impressed about the Swans. Did they come back from the brink? I can't say I saw one until 7 or so years ago. Might have been that I moved to the Mississippi Flyway.
I think swans must be coming back, since I've seen a bunch of 'em the last couple years. I've probably seen some shovellers recently, but driving past w/o solid ID. Dark-eyed juncos invaded my in-laws' over the weekend. I understand they have a brown creeper right out their front window too, so I'm looking forward to finding that. Redwings populate the ditch near our parking lot. I've been waking up to their calls every morning lately. They're so common by my apartment that I forget to mention them entirely.
The snow has the robins flocking. Yesterday, there were three grackles in with them on our crabapple (pronounced: cr&schwa;-bopple).
Herons are back on their nests. There's a huge rookery on an island straight down from our house. When I see them flying overhead in the summer, I consider them commuting.
The pileated woodpecker came back to our suet feeder after spending most of the second half of the winter away.
We've also been getting a few bald eagles in the area (they love the areas around Carlos State Park, and we're definitely within flying distance of them). They've been landing in the trees around the area. Not in our backyard yet, but it seems like a matter of time.
No robins, no waxwings, no doves yet. Just tons and tons of redpolls and juncos...and the occasional grackle.
A bald eagle once perched in the giant cottonwood at our old house.
Apparently, it had wanted to eat something in our yard (squirrel/rabbit?), because there were signs of struggle and feathers in our yard.
I understand that it's illegal to possess bald eagle feathers, but what does one do when the eagle leaves them there in your yard and your kid picks them up and brings them inside?
Guano from a bald eagle should be fine to keep, right?
We have Cooper's hawks that like to feast on their prey in our giant cottonwood tree. When they get a blackbird, our lawn gets covered with an absolute explosion of feathers.
A small price to pay for doing the Lord's work. Our feeder gets overrun by blackbirds every so often, and we end up having to cease filling the feeders until they move on.
use some Safflower seed in your bird feed and it keeps the blackbirds/grackles/squirrels at bay
They don't like it? Do they abhor it enough to keep them from just picking it out and eating the sunflower seed?
yeah, I guess they dont like it
what I have found out is that the hoard of grackles will slowly disappear and the stragglers will just kind of hang out under the feeder and look for the good stuff that the goldfinches throw out.
I'm more amused than disgusted by it. The rabbit and squirrel carcasses get to me more, but the husband is in charge of burials.
Sounds fun. I for one side with the predatory animal nine times out of ten. Nature shows always make it seem fortunate that the little caribou got away. But now that wolf pack goes hungry tonight. As does the family of Arctic fox (cutest North American land mammal?) that were gonna lick off the bones tomorrow.
You missed my tales last summer of a local cardinal couple raising the most darling cowbird chick.
Cowbirds are the best (except when they're preying on rare species).
somebody saw just one too many mothers die in Disney animated movies as a kid. 😉
I understand that it’s illegal to possess bald eagle feathers, but what does one do when the eagle leaves them there in your yard and your kid picks them up and brings them inside?
Ethically, I think you need to turn those kids in to the authorities.
I will definitely be contributing to domesticating birds when we find a house to buy.
I saw the biggest pheasant rooster on the side of the road yesterday. I was hoping a fender would clip him and I could take it home for dinner, but no such luck.
One of the great things about my trips between Gettysburg and Onida is all the pheasants I see every time.
My in-laws currently have a pair living in their grove. I've seen 'em walking across the yard the last two times we were visiting. I'm hoping we don't hunt the home property this fall, they make lots of babies, and stay local for hunting in '13.
On a bike ride this last weekend saw a hooded merganser in a CT river (all white except for green head with rock-star feathers).
I saw a merganser on a golf course once upon a time. It was cool.
In light of what happened yesterday in Boston, here is the poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye. It begins:
If that's not Carlos Arredondo in poetic form, I'm not sure what is.
Hey, Mags!
Wow, NBC Sports going all in on English Premier League coverage next year.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/premier-league-taking-over-american-tv-nbc-massive-181033318--sow.html;_ylt=AqcFbVP1Wq6QKl1UkCQHE1ULcykA;_ylu=X3oDMTFoZnA0Y2I3BG1pdANCbG9nIEluZGV4IGJ5IEF1dGhvcgRwb3MDMQRzZWMDTWVkaWFCbG9nSW5kZXg-;_ylg=X3oDMTFrODdzYXZuBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANhdXRob3IEcHQDc2VjdGlvbnM-;_ylv=3
It will be nice not having to scramble to find pirate feeds of the Tottenham game.
That is awesome. No more hoping the one ESPN game a week isn't a stinker.
here is the SI story to break its down a little more clearly. 20 games on the NBC mothership! wow.
WordPress attack alert.
Thankfully, we are immune to this attack: no 'admin' user. All admins on this site should use strong passwords though.
"admin" modem/router passwords and default garage door opener codes are just asking to be hit
I'm glad we have a lax password policy at work for remote consoles.
Then I remember the root password isn't the default. *shakes fist*
Work passwords are the worst for me. I have to remember several, which change all the time, and require me to use capital and lower case letters, symbols, and numbers. I can't remember this crap. I understand I have sensitive work but just let me use the password "sandwich" and I swear I'll have a lot more brain cells to use remembering work stuff.
Password managers == awesome. Still have to memorize the password for the manager admittedly, and the password to login to get to the manager.
I had a similar problem at a previous job. I built up a pattern using the keyboard (123qweasd, etc) and just use the shift key in the right places to the get the right mix. Next month, 234wersdf! Worked great for a few years.
we are under the thumb of nonsensical IT edicts from on high here. Passwords that have to be changed every X weeks and have to be "complex" in ways that are not computationally complex and have to be different from any password in your password history. Fi!
My friend at work has this posted on his cubicle wall
so you should be able to crack his password!
That is why I use 1Password. Also, little need to remember anything other than the master and the most key of other account passwords.
Yes. The essential passwords should actually be passphrases. I personally use Diceware to create my passphrases. Then, I use this impossible to search for game to easily generate the five dice throws at once:
Didn't want to splurge for an Enigma Machine?
He'd have to call a buddy of his who specializes in Enigma machines to verify its provenance.
I have three different sets of passwords that include a two-digit number. Gotta update it? +1.
My admin password is so strong even I can't remember it.
Heh.
This may come as a surprise, but eating a crappy diet may be bad for your health.
The AHEI was developed by Haaahhhvahhhhd, and can be summarized by the picture below:
that's weird. the image keeps disappearing. What evs. the figure WAS here.
I thought "broken" summarizes it pretty well.
BANNED.
gotcha covered, big guy.
oooooh.
Have they decided if eggs healthy or malefic this year?
I'm going to post on The China Study. Preview -
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That's a lot of variables in there. It's a hard thing to analyze, but some things on the list are going to be much worse than others. Refined grains are probably the worst, but eating a lot of rice can also be terrible and isn't addressed at all.
Ft. Myers trailing 4-3 in the 7th. Miracle are 11-0 to start the season.
And Miguel Sano hits a grand slam to put Fort Myers up 7-4!
Nevermind. Sano just hit a grand slam to make it 7-4. Sounded like a long one. "Sano way that just happened!"
"Just Sano."
Miracle now 12-0.
Break up the Miracle!
On a lark I decided to go to tonight's game (wife and kids are visiting the mother and law and stubhub tickets are cheap!) I'll be bringing my nice camera, so hopefully, I'll have some decent shots to add to the game recap once I get home.
Oh, and if you happen to see someone in the 4th row up from 3B who looks like a rpz, that'd be me.
Sweet seats! How much on Stub Hub? I'm looking to go next Thursday.
They were actually 4 rows up from the divide, but they were still really awesome. I paid $13 for it, which I thought was a steal. Around 4:30, I saw better tickets going for a low at $8.
Good to know. Hope you had fun!
if the Twins were thinking ahead, they would have played a double header today
Following the discussion of audio above, I'm listening to my genre "baseball" on iTunes.
"Who's on First?" is up. Reminds me of a tale I haven't shared yet:
AJR got a stuffed snow owl for her birthday. She wanted to name it "Pete" but I kindof talked her into naming it "Who" and I'm working on retroactively naming her stuffed duck "What". (Duck is currently called "Duck".) Shenanigans should ensue once I can get the bear to be called "I Don't Know".