The tiny town of Leith, ND (pop. 16) is a target of a white supremacist group that wants to buy up property and win local elections to build a place for their type to hang out. Seems like the local bureaucracy is about to thwart that. It seems like this dude isn't too smart... he should have come up with a plan. However, for my money, I would think that buying a plot of land out in the middle of nowhere and building your own city would be a lot easier than trying to take over a small town.
Well, yeah. If he was smart, he would have bought up the land, brought his people in, kept quiet, taken over the town, and then unleashed his agenda. But, again, that requires planning and foresight. He's an idiot.
I saw part of the Brewers/Braves game last night at work. Maybe some of you have seen this by now, but Carlos Gomez hit a home run and cocked off to the pitcher all the way around the bases. When he got to home plate, Brian McCann had stood up and was blocking the plate, providing a counterpoint. Soon enough the thing almost turned into a brawl. Gomez had the crazy eyes all the while - seriously, he looked sort of terrifying - and he ended up getting tossed, along with some others. It was a bizarre and somewhat embarrassing scene.
Weird. I even went to look last night and didn't find anything. I either read from my unrefreshed browser or got distracted, I guess.
Once in a while I come here and there are recent LTEs that don't show up on my computer. I don't understand why, I just know that it happens.
Happens usually, maybe always, when two LTEs are posted at near the same time. I was waiting on a replacement plugin to get past beta before trying it and it has. This could be fixed soon I hope.
Which reminds me, many thanks for all the work you do on the infrastructure around here, mate. It is very much appreciated.
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I wasn't able to join in the discussion about it last night because I didn't see it until later at night and by that time, I think everyone here realized the Twin's had the assbats going and went to bed. But, I believe I completely agree with Craig Calcaterra's take and also thought the crazy eyes were crazy.
On the plus side, the Braves can be used as the team to root hard against since the Yankees didn't make it.
They would have qualified even if this brouhaha hadn't happened. Did you see how few people were in the crowd last night? There was probably more people at Target Field.
26,517 yesterday at Target Field versus 19,558 at Turner Field. The Phillies-Marlins game, in Miami, drew 19,188.
Rain threatened, so maybe people stayed home.
Also, Braves fans have seen this before. Get excited now and that's how foolish you'll feel when they wilt a few games into October.
nothing like seeing several bodies in the road to start off your day...
oy - assuming you're talking traffic accident or some such - tough luck there hj.
brutal - a few years back, my good friend saw the immediate aftermath of pretty horrific accident. said that as he drove by the scene, he looked down into the cab of a car in the ditch and realized that the driver of the vehicle, still upright and buckled-in, had no head. hope yours wasn't that gruesome.
My brother has found two bodies on the side of the road; in both instances, he actually had met the deceased. Horrific detail under the spoiler. If you're squeamish, don't look. I'm not kidding.
Nick crept up to check on the driver to see if he was alright, but couldn't find him in the dark until he accidentally stepped in the guy's brains.
Nick made the call and the police were there fairly quickly. After hearing the full story, the cop asked my brother if he needed a cigarette, which he happily accepted.
I've seen aftermaths a couple of times, but bodies have always been gone by the time I drove by, thankfully. I guess my "closest call" is that I've twice been talking to a guy at a bar just before he left and ended up dead. In one instance it was a gruesome crash (alcohol was not blamed, as he actually hadn't had anything to drink that time) and in the other, the guy left Sunset Bowl in North Mankato, and didn't get very far before he got pulled over by a cop. The cop said he had to take him in, and apparently he said "I can't let you do that" and he jumped over a bridge into the river without warning. I know they hadn't found his body after a couple days. I'm not sure it was ever found, actually.
Okay, now I'm depressed.
I once did a tour of the DC medical examiners office (the morgue) with a friend who was working with the Public Defender there. Got up-close-and-personal with a death-by-motorcycle. Yum-mo.
There were eight people in that car!? Combined with this morning's fog and I think I have an idea of the cause.
That's how Lisa "Lefteye" Lopez died, too. Something like...12 people in an SUV? She was the only fatality, IIRC. It's amazing there weren't more.
This reminded me of a conversation in the last Gleeman and the Geek podcast when Aaron was talking about never wearing his seatbelt. He got pulled over and fined for it and it was about 10 minutes of talk about it, where both Bonnes and Aaron agreed that seatbelt laws were stupid. They reasoned that since motorcyclists didn't have to wear seatbelts, why should people in cars?
If you read this story, you know why. If you get ejected from a car you have a much greater chance of dying due to the speed and the tons of metal rolling on top of you, then if you use seatbelt and stay in the vehicle. Motorcycles are simply death machines, there is no advantage or disadvantage to being attached to them.
The conversation put me off that podcast a little, I figure in the future I will just use the fast forward more judiciously.
Not to mention the cost to the taxpayers if their stupidity lands them on life support
Not to mention the potential impact on the driver of another car in a multi-vehicle accident. Oof, the more i hear about this podcast...
besides all the reasons above, think of the night's newscast. after they report on accidents, they always say one of two things. either they say, "and the driver was wearing their seatbelt," in this almost sympathetic tone of voice, like yeah they were doing what they were supposed to. or, they say, "and the driver was not wearing their seatbelt," with a little hint of a smarmy tone, kind of like, jeez what an idiot.
That entire segment made me want to dope slap the both of them. It's a bit alarming how Gleeman cultivates his "I'm gonna be 19 forever" image.
I read your tweeted review and then I listened and I thought, man, how could CH miss this? This is the worst thing in the podcast.
I've met Bonnes a few times and he's always been gracious and I believe that he's a good guy, but some of the things he says on that podcast are infuriating. I listen for Gleeman's baseball thoughts. When he's actually talking baseball, he's fun to listen to. The other stuff, though, is pretty much intolerable.
Oh, and I would NEVER sponsor the show. Their sponsorship plugs are terrible. My favorite was one time when Ticket King was a sponsor. Earlier in that show, Aaron talks about buying tickets to a game on Stub Hub. Then, he tells me I should buy my tickets from Ticket King. If that's such a great idea, Aaron, why are you using Stub Hub?
I expect a certain level of stupidity in the conversation, and I knew from previous podcasts (and his blog? and radio?) that Gleeman does not wear a seatbelt. I ought to expect more of Bonnes, who has two nearly adult children, but I've started to take his moniker for his wife – The Voice of Reason – more literally over the years.
Honestly, I think what really got to me was two schlubby white guys comparing a number of brown & black men's bodies as if they were merely scrutinizing cuts of meat.
That was a moronic discussion.
When i was about 4, i featured my right leg and have a big ass scar on the bridge of my nose from going face first into the dashboard, and that was at a low speed of like 20-30 mph. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be on an accident at speedwithout wearing a seatbelt because yikes.
making the rounds. Good lord. [edit: apparently from last season at Minute Maid. still, proof that one's actions can have lasting consequences]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzm0nh2Q1ak
heh, you've never seen that one before?
I hope she's been roundly ridiculed for that crap.
Yeah, she should have punched that lady in the gut and taken the ball right back.
But really, the first thing I do when I'm at a ball game and have any chance of a foul or home run or tossed-in-the-stands ball, I scan the stands to see where the nearest kid is. They'll get it.
Someone gave CER a foul ball at her second-ever Twins game (she had just turned two, it was a Jacque Jones ball) and it made her day and with it mine.
Once or twice I've seen no kids around and I've proclaimed "Alright! I get to keep any ball I catch!"
I wonder what I would do. I so badly wanted a foul ball when I was a kid and never got one, but I'm not sure how I would have reacted if an adult caught one and just handed it to me as a pity gift. I was a very proud kid. Perhaps if I was 5 or 6 I would have liked it, but I wanted to catch it myself to show the world how good I was.
I still kind of want to catch a foul ball, but if I did it'd probably just collect dust somewhere. If it was a home run ball, and a somewhat significant one, I would have a hard time handing it over.
I once got hit by a foul ball as a kid (it had bounced around a fair amount first, no big deal). My aunt then picked it up and I got to keep it.
I also caught a Kubel HR ball at the greatest game I've ever been to (in Baltimore, I think we've discussed it before). I wasn't giving that one up. But I'm with AMR otherwise, and if a foul ball came to me, I've always planned on giving it to a kid.
I can count the number of MLB games I attended as a kid on two fingers, and as an adult I've only had a couple of shots at catching a ball. One fell short a couple of rows, and the other, a foul ball by Placido Palanco off Brad Radke (I think it was this game), came down in the row right behind me. Two guys trying to catch it at the same time both muffed it, and I reached up and plucked it out of the air. They even put me making the catch on the Jumbotron at the Metrodome right after. It was very cool. I keep it in my sock drawer and it's a treasured souvenir, but if I ever catch another it will go to the nearest kid. At Coors field a few years ago we sat in the left field seats and went early for batting practice. I was hoping we could get one or two for the daughters, but no such luck.
I got one once, had another bounce off my hand and had a third one hit me in the side. That third one was when I was sitting over the first base dugout at the Metrodome. It came in pretty low and the guy in front of me ducked and it hit me. It didn't hurt, but I had an impression of that ball on my side complete with the stitches for about a week afterwards.
I have no problem with an adult catching a foul ball and keeping it fair and square. However, it should be pointed out that this ball was being tossed from a coach or player to the kids and that the woman ripped it out of the hands of the girl. I can't believe she wasn't soundly booed by everyone around her.
I don't know why y'all are being so hard on this poor woman. It was a big deal to her. She'd carefully planned this whole trip, all the way from her home in Leith, ND, just to see if she could get a ball.
She's gonna have a surprise when she finds out what they did to the town in her absence.
Not that I wanted the Tigers to clinch last night, but this is pretty cool.
I've probably beat this dead horse a thousand times, but I can't help myself. I'm not buying what these guys are selling.
"Pay for play has no part in the amateur setting," Burke said, noting that the value of a full scholarship and direct support services at Purdue has a value in excess of $250,000. Plus, student-athletes with a full scholarship have no loan to pay back, an expense that could run upwards of $200,000 at Purdue.
It seems to take a lot of mental gymnastics to on the one hand acknowledge that some student athletes are being compensated with something of $200K+ in value, and then on the other hand claim that they are amateurs. It reminds me of the old joke (there are other versions):
They’re telling this story about Lord Beaverbrook and a famous actress. In a game of hypothetical questions, Beaverbrook asked the lady, “Would you live with a stranger if he paid you a million pounds?”
“Yes,” she answered.
“And if he paid you five pounds?”
The irate lady fumed, “What do you think I am?”
“We’ve already established that,” returned Beaverbrook. “Now we’re trying to determine the degree.” —The U. of California Pelican
Iowa State's AD seems like quite a prick to bring this to Twitter:
Jamie Pollard @IASTATEAD
Ask a student body member with thousands of dollars of debt at graduation how they feel about a student-athlete saying they should be paid?
To which I might respond, if I was a member of the Iowa State student body, why don't you ask me how I feel about the football team's graduation rate? Alternatively, why don't you ask me how I feel about college football coaches and their multi-million dollar contracts?
I took it to mean that $200K was the cost of financing the loan, although looking at the numbers, $200K @6.8% for 10 years works out to $100K interest, roughly. If you do the extended 30 year term it vaults up to $337K, but then you probably have to start considering the time value of money.
6.8%? Oy. I'm glad I got my loans when interest rates were reasonable, so I'm sitting at 1% right now.
I’m sitting at 1% right now.
how in the world...?
I wish i could say specifically, but i think i just got lucky when u went to school that rates were low and consolidation was possible. Plus, street like the years of not missing a payment, they lowered my rate by half a percent.Also, full disclosure, but my loans were mostly just for tuition, and my mom picked up the rest, which helped immensely to keep the loan down. It's why I've vowed to do the same for my kids.
My undergraduate loans were at 8%, plus they took 10% off the top as a fee. I don't know if they still do that.
Well you should consider the time value of money right away or never use a loan to buy something like a house or education.
I suppose we could ask the average graduate how the football team at their school meshes with the school's mission and whether the time and resources spent on such activities could be better spent on achieving the school's mission.
Boy, my tuition could be lower if I weren't paying to subsidize student athletes, facilities for use only by student athletes, multi-millionaire coaches and athletic directors, the multi-million dollar buyouts of former/ineffective coaches and athletic directors, etc.
I am not really sure to what degree college athletics impacts tuition. At most large universities there are plenty of capital expenses which are very expensive and at least somewhat superficial--nicer student gyms, new dorms, other new buildings. As much as I find the current state of D1 football and basketball distasteful, I am sure that a lot of the money going to those programs would not be donated to the English department. Having a successful sports program surely results in some increased school pride, which probably results in higher donations that do go to academics. I am skeptical about their ROI, but I generally find it more offensive that they pretend some of these athletes are students.
Certainly per-student expenses aren't that much higher. But they're probably somewhat higher. And though the funds might not be directed into academic programs, they are more likely to be directed into things that directly impact your average student's experience (nicer student gyms, dorms, etc.) than happens when the funds go to things that only serve student athletes.
I question whether schools with heavy sports investments really do get enough donations to off-set those costs, but your point is taken; I just don't know if sports really bring in the bucks.
They (tuition costs) are undoubtedly affected by the typical DI or DII college sports program's capital costs, which generally are not covered by sports revenues, but rather by general revenues.
Sure, but to what degree? My intuition is that it is small in the grand scheme, but I admittedly haven't seen any hard data.
TCF Bank Stadium cost $303.3 million to build, according to the Repository, distributed between State costs (48 pct) and U costs (52 pct).
The University has been charging all U of M students a mandatory Stadium Fee of $12.50 every semester since planning for the project began, and is continuing this fee despite the stadium being finished. The cost of the stadium was $288.5 million of which the university had to pay 52 percent, and with an average of more than 50,000 students in a given year, in one semester the university makes more than $625,000 from the stadium fee, meaning they receive more than $6.25 million every 5 years from students.
So, $25 per year in direct fees per student, plus additional, small amounts of indirect costs from budgetary crowding out. [note: the opening paragraph of the article cites $303.3 million, while the body cites $288.5 million.]
Sporting events DO charge for admission, too.
TCF Bank Stadium is the stadium project that REALLY torques me off. What, were the Gophers threatening to leave? How has it improved the quality of play?
You've got to be kidding right? College football for a supposed D-1 school in the Metrodome was dreadful. What ever the evils of college football (and there are legions) it should be played on campus. Plus TCF makes revenue for the University, which means it that its request for state $$$ is less. The stadium is used for the band and rec sports too and even academics at times. Plus the other parts of the stadium are rented out some 350 days a year. On Friday a concert for the students will be held for homecoming (Hoodie Allen and Passion Pit). U2 concerts, outdoor hockey and a large outdoor concert next year (yet to be announced) also occur there and would never happen at the Metrodome.
Finally the stadium hasn't improved the quality of play but who said it would. Tim Brewster has a lot more to do with that sad fact than any stadium. TCF has improved the quality of attending a Gopher game -- by leaps and bounds IMHO.
Plus TCF makes revenue for the University
Yes, including $625k per year, from every student regardless of whether that student partakes of any events in the stadium or not.
I agree that on-campus is much better than off-campus. But if the stadium is such a great deal, why are students being charged mandatory stadium fees?
I don't even disagree on that part of it. At least in part to Ubes above... I take some pride in my schools' athletics, but it doesn't translate to dollars for me. Maybe I'm rare in that regard, but I doubt it.
I do wonder how effective football and basketball are as marketing tools, since that is essentially what they are being used as. I am sure there is some impact, but it seems like a difficult exercise to quantify that impact.
I can only really speak for myself (and probably my brother, who I know felt the same way), but when I was a HS senior starting my college decision making progress I was a huge sports nut. Rooting for teams was essentially my only hobby. The sports teams of the universities I applied to never even entered my mind as a consideration on where I would go, which ended up being a DIII school where the only people on campus who cared about any of the teams were the players and coaches. I suspect most people without any delusions of playing professional sports have a similar mindset, so I doubt schools would lose a lot of enrollment if they didn't have a strong football/basketball/whatever team.
Again, though, that is purely based on a SSS of 2.
Well, ok, I admit to being hyperbolic. I even attended a couple games in my time there (they were free). I also lived with a former RB from the team who I think had set the school or DIII TD record, or something, and he was possibly the most annoying broski I've ever met, so I did have some disdain for the football team as well.
broskis are unavoidable in sports, to be sure. But there also are a lot of good people involved at a place like the Alma Mater, and, I'm sure, everywhere else. Kind of like life.
The use of the spoiler tag for non spoilers got tired real fast.
I'm trying so hard not to giggle in a meeting right now
well played
Yes, well done, strat. HTRC's are now a thing in my mind.
i won't get into the boring specifics, but i just had one of those moments where you figure out a trick at work that results in saving loads of time, and in this case for a very mind-numbing, repetitive task.
in these situations, i've noticed the joy of the new-found ability going forward and the rage of how much time you wasted in the past definitely cancel each other out.
Won't that eventually turn into disappointment that you now have more time to figure out how to fill?
almost exactly cancel each other out, but it depends on how long you've been doing it the long way and how much going forward you can reap from it.
one big one for me was array functions in Excel, which I had been manually doing a lot of stuff for three or four years. but now I've been using them for seven plus years. spoiled kids today hardly even have to learn array functions given new functions like SUMIFS.
yeah, this particular example had to do with excel.
This guy just missed qualifying for a Darwin Award.
So, Rick Reilly wrote a second piece about the reader feedback on his "I Know a Few Native Americans Who Are Okay with the Redskins Name" article. Here's a couple of letters he published.
Thank you for standing up for the right of white people to call native Americans “redskins.” I mean, African-Americans call each other the N-word, so why would anyone object if an NBA team called itself the N's? Everyone is just too politically correct. I mean, in the 1930s there was a colorful term for every ethnic group. But there certainly was no prejudice; it was just good clean fun. Thank goodness we have people like Rick Reilly who recognize that since many women seem comfortable with the B-word, no one has any right to consider it offensive. Thank you, Rick Reilly for standing up for the right to call any group any name you want as long as there are some members of the group who don’t mind.
– Eric Schenk (Mill Valley, Calif.)
Your argument that some Natives have accepted the name and made it their own is flawed, because it still does not mean that this name is not offensive. Being a tribal member from the Chippewa Cree tribe in Rocky Boy, I take offense to the name. I have been to a Washington game and that was the last time I will ever set foot on their corporate land. The things I saw at the stadium and surrounding community are extremely demeaning to Native Americans. Having people play “dress up” with replicas of sacred cultural items is insulting and it gives our children a cartoon version of who we are. I know it’s my job to teach my children right from wrong, but for this garbage to be allowed in our country is embarrassing. The people you interviewed are not representatives of all Native Americans, and your presentation of such is one-sided. I hope you don’t ever have to sit down with your child and explain why other people are playing dress up with what your people consider respected aspects of your culture. Then you can tell your child, “Nothing’s wrong, because those people say they’re honoring us.”
– Zane Rosette (Rocky Boy, Mont.)
Reilly responds:
This is the best argument to get rid of the name — all the offending costumery and store-bought face paint and Halloween headdresses that go with it. More than the name itself, the Native Americans I spoke with were most offended by the inconsiderate fan hoopla that rides shotgun with it.
If Reilly had more goodwill overall I'd consider that he wrote the article to get the conversation going, but I think this is just a lot of backpedaling from a guy who constantly forgets that he's not untouchable as a result of his huge contract to write opinion pieces about sports.
This isn't even a good debate. It's offensive, and we know that because of the culture it belittles. "But, we're used to the name" is not a strong enough counterargument that it should even be given a forum to speak.
I made the mistake once or twice while I was at Illinois to refer to Chief Illiniwek as a "mascot."
NOOOOO! He's an "honored symbol". Never mind the silly, made-up dance, or the war paint and Sioux headdress that don't represent the Illiniwek people.
That said, I always thought the U of I logo was pretty cool.
I've always enjoyed the Bison as a mascot. The animal is a magnificent, powerful, beautiful beast. The idea of a herd of Bison as a symbol for a team is terrific. Plus, we don't have to rationalize the use of that animal.
SBGville used to be the Warriors, with an Indian head in full headdress as a symbol. Oy. My high school was the Cardinals, as in the robe wearing clerics.
I'm sure at least a few around here remember (bS?) that DKville used to be the Indians, changing their name to the Huskies (another fine animal symbol, in my opinion) when I was a wee lad, also to much hue and cry from the local old white people.
Runner daughter's HS mascot was also "Warriors" with an indian head logo. The logo was/is phased out.
I know one of the major objections to UND's team mascot wasn't necessarily that it was demeaning, but when you see rival t-shirts of a buffalo mounting an indian with accompanying words, yeah, it's demeaning.
Or a shirt from UND of an Indian mounting a buffalo. To pretend that UND fans haven't engaged in demeaning behavior is to be delusional or uniformed.
My alma mater, UW-LaCrosse was the Indians back when I was in school but changed it to Eagles in 1989.
Oh yeah, the Univ of Illinois logo is fantastic.
So is the UND Fighting Sioux head.
I think there's a better argument to be made to keep those team names.
But the name the Washington football club uses is well south of my line of "potentially acceptable".
When I went there(around a decade ago) the Chief was the major issue at the University. Administration was divided. Professors were uniformly against it as a racist symbol. Alumni, especially rich alumni were nearly universally for 'tradition'. The University lost multiple lawsuits and paid out a lot of money for squelching free speech about the topic from students talking to prospective athletes about it to protestors getting kicked out of basketball games.
I had no idea about it before I went there. If I had I might not have.
The only thing I took away was that people are way too invested in their mascot names. Especially the racist ones.
[rant] Other than this one, is there a content-based website left that does not splash a huge advertisement over the first page you open on it? And is it really necessary to break up a 500 word article over ten pages just to inflate click counts? I understand the desire to monetize web properties, but how far does it have to go and at what cost in annoying and alienating users? Honestly, I think it's time to completely reconsider web metrics and revenue models with a mind toward improving the user experience and creating a better return on web advertising investments. Because I really don't care who Miley Cyrus rubbed her ass against today, I just want to know what the weather's going to be like tomorrow. [/rant]
this reminds me. Is it about time for another wgom fundraiser?
Can I humbly suggest that the "Donations" page be amended to display some information about our operating costs and how much we've raised from Citizens, perhaps with a distinction between how much the Politburo (e.g., spoons, sean, and others intimately involved in operations) has spent and how much the rest of us have provided? Transparency is good, and should help us shame ourselves into donating enough to keep the lights on again.
for donor information, I would suggest displaying total donors, total donations, high, low, and average donations.
1. we will be having a fundraiser coming up in the near future. i broached the topic, but haven't followed up on it recently.
2. i don't see any large issue with that, but in reality, there wouldn't be much to report. sean did indeed keep the lights on the first 2-3(?) months of the site (if i recall correctly, he refused compensation), but after that the entire enterprise (as far as i know) has been citizen funded. we have 2 expenses (again, as far as i know): domain name and hosting. so far that first fundraiser has kept things going this whole time.
3. i can whip up some information regarding donations, sure (fun fact: i won't name names, but in addition to the usual suspects donating, we had a few from named, but rarely seen lurkers, and one entirely unknown entity). also, we didn't do it last time, but maybe we should set some sort of goal. easy suggestion: 2 years worth of expenses?
1. I was just thinking about running it soon. Payment for keeping the lights on for another year is due February.
2. All correct.
Well you're doing it at a decent time for me (if medical bills are taken out of the equation) since i just got a promotion and a really solid raise yesterday.
Congrats, shooter!
Thanks. I'm doing the same job I've been doing since February, but I was able to get my official title from engineer I to engineer II, which is a nice step up in the pay grade. It's the biggest raise I've ever gotten without changing companies, which makes me feel good about my decision to change jobs a year plus ago.
The biggest offenders are the ones that draw you in with a potentially interesting list, then do one item per page. Maybe they're the ones you're talking about.
As for the fundraiser...it might be. hj, where are we on that? Are we good for a while?
I don't even bother clicking on list-based articles because I don't like being played. My concern is that poorly conceived ad-based revenue models create incentives for the worst kind of content pandering and click-baiting, and that advertisers don't really get much return on their investments. The current system just debases all content in a race to the bottom. I'm positive about the former, but would need to study the latter to see how advertisers feel about the status quo.
You guys are both secretly discussing my website, right?
I'll say it again:
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1. Google Chrome
2. Ad Blocker extension
3. DoNotTrack extension
4. ?
5. Profit!
A browser from an ad company being used to block ads ;).
is he hoping for a Mariano Rivera type farewell tour?
Enter Blandman.
Fortunately we arrived in Alberquerque just fine.
Unfortunately our large suitcase zipper was torn open from stem to stern.
Fortunately the bag had been set off to the side and everything was still in it just as we had packed it.
Unfortunately we had hoped to wait until Christmas to get a new one.
Fortunately there is a Kohl's in Santa Fe where we'll be at. 30% off coupon bazinga!
Unfortunately our coupon is back home.
Fortunately we should still be able to get the discount.
Unfortunately the car rental was out of economy cars.
Fortunately we were upgraded for free. Chrysler 200 bazinga!
Whatever, Five Guys!
Not 10 lines. Super Cool Beez is coing to complain.
I hope he's smoking a coing when he gets there.
I rented a 200 when i was in Charlotte a couple months ago and i was not impressed and a little mortified by the gas mileage for a car off that size. (Though it was better than a typical fleet car.)
we'll cross that bridge gas station when we get to it
We got a free upgrade from a Ford Focus to a new Hyundai Elantra in Baltimore. For a fleet car it was okay.
I've rented two Fords in the past year, a brand new Fusion and a brand new Escape. I would totally buy either, but I particularly loved the Fusion largely because it was great to drive and I got about38 mpg.
I've been eyeing those new Fusions, but we're in no position to buy a new car for several years, if not longer. I have no idea what will happen when my Volvo finally gives up the ghost.
We got upgraded to a brand new, loaded Taurus in Denver a few years back. It had plenty of power up in the mountains, which was nice, and very comfortable when we took it from Denver to Pike's Peak, Salida, and back to Denver in one day. I don't have the scratch to buy one, but I wouldn't turn down one as a gift.
I drive a Ford Escape periodically as a company car. I think I'd buy that for the wife to drive when she needs a new car (which I hope is years from now).
our Mariner is essentially an Escape. Hybrid solves the mpg
The Escape I had wasn't a hybrid, but had the (I think) 4 cylinder with the EcoBoost, which also helped with mpgs. I'm a big proponent of the idea of the turbo-charged four for fuel savings. Course, I'm a bigger fan of diesels for the same reason and because I have one and love it.
Despite two bad experiences with diesels in the family, I'd certainly buy one if the vehicle made sense. I wish we had more of them in this country.
Volvo's turbo five-cylinders are awesome engines, but unfortunately the fuel economy with the high-pressure turbo is basically the same as a six cylinder when driven sanely, and an eight when driven with whatever "gusto" is in Swedish.
I have many suggestions on things to do in New Mexico. Start with the Adovada.
chile frito at the Woolworth's?
Sure, and then the Shed for dinner.... /drool
So I really, really need a new job because my current one, while enjoyable, is going to drastically change for the worse on January 1, 2014. There's not much out there, and I just got a call about one today through my network, but it's in a practice area I really don't want to go. I doubt it'll be much better (if any) than my current one even after the drastic change for the worse. Ugh.
That's a bummer, man. It definitely sucks when crappy workplace changes are on the horizon. (Especially when it's a mass shutdown/layoff). Best off luck on the job search.
says the man that just got a big fat promotion and raise...
(but seriously, congrats. you're buying whatever of your beers you give me next time i see you.)
Uh, Happy New Year?
That sucks, Will. I hope you can find something better than the option you listed.
Well, the good news is that I'll still have a job January 1 with the exact same benefits, salary, etc. so I can't complain too much. Still, I really hope I'm not there when it happens.
A follow to an oblique reference from brianS earlier about the goings on in a small SW ND town:
No matter the horrible minority opinion, its adherents could still be smart.
That, I think, would depend on how one defines "smart", which might actually be a pretty interesting discussion.
Evil people can be smart, or at least, savvy.
I saw part of the Brewers/Braves game last night at work. Maybe some of you have seen this by now, but Carlos Gomez hit a home run and cocked off to the pitcher all the way around the bases. When he got to home plate, Brian McCann had stood up and was blocking the plate, providing a counterpoint. Soon enough the thing almost turned into a brawl. Gomez had the crazy eyes all the while - seriously, he looked sort of terrifying - and he ended up getting tossed, along with some others. It was a bizarre and somewhat embarrassing scene.
i thought you said you read every LTE on this site.
So close.
There was a little bit of a discussion about it.
Weird. I even went to look last night and didn't find anything. I either read from my unrefreshed browser or got distracted, I guess.
Once in a while I come here and there are recent LTEs that don't show up on my computer. I don't understand why, I just know that it happens.
Happens usually, maybe always, when two LTEs are posted at near the same time. I was waiting on a replacement plugin to get past beta before trying it and it has. This could be fixed soon I hope.
Which reminds me, many thanks for all the work you do on the infrastructure around here, mate. It is very much appreciated.
[dido]
I wasn't able to join in the discussion about it last night because I didn't see it until later at night and by that time, I think everyone here realized the Twin's had the assbats going and went to bed. But, I believe I completely agree with Craig Calcaterra's take and also thought the crazy eyes were crazy.
Also, I still miss Gomez.
how come McCann did not get ejected?
Probably just as important as how big of a d-bag McCann is would be this top ten list of Crazy Carlos Gomez Faces.
Gomez suspended for tonight's game. MLB meanwhile approves of McCann laying down the unwritten rules and he remains unpunished.
On the plus side, the Braves can be used as the team to root hard against since the Yankees didn't make it.
They would have qualified even if this brouhaha hadn't happened. Did you see how few people were in the crowd last night? There was probably more people at Target Field.
26,517 yesterday at Target Field versus 19,558 at Turner Field. The Phillies-Marlins game, in Miami, drew 19,188.
Rain threatened, so maybe people stayed home.
Also, Braves fans have seen this before. Get excited now and that's how foolish you'll feel when they wilt a few games into October.
nothing like seeing several bodies in the road to start off your day...
oy - assuming you're talking traffic accident or some such - tough luck there hj.
yup.
brutal - a few years back, my good friend saw the immediate aftermath of pretty horrific accident. said that as he drove by the scene, he looked down into the cab of a car in the ditch and realized that the driver of the vehicle, still upright and buckled-in, had no head. hope yours wasn't that gruesome.
My brother has found two bodies on the side of the road; in both instances, he actually had met the deceased. Horrific detail under the spoiler. If you're squeamish, don't look. I'm not kidding.
Nick made the call and the police were there fairly quickly. After hearing the full story, the cop asked my brother if he needed a cigarette, which he happily accepted.
I've seen aftermaths a couple of times, but bodies have always been gone by the time I drove by, thankfully. I guess my "closest call" is that I've twice been talking to a guy at a bar just before he left and ended up dead. In one instance it was a gruesome crash (alcohol was not blamed, as he actually hadn't had anything to drink that time) and in the other, the guy left Sunset Bowl in North Mankato, and didn't get very far before he got pulled over by a cop. The cop said he had to take him in, and apparently he said "I can't let you do that" and he jumped over a bridge into the river without warning. I know they hadn't found his body after a couple days. I'm not sure it was ever found, actually.
Okay, now I'm depressed.
I once did a tour of the DC medical examiners office (the morgue) with a friend who was working with the Public Defender there. Got up-close-and-personal with a death-by-motorcycle. Yum-mo.
There were eight people in that car!? Combined with this morning's fog and I think I have an idea of the cause.
That's how Lisa "Lefteye" Lopez died, too. Something like...12 people in an SUV? She was the only fatality, IIRC. It's amazing there weren't more.
This reminded me of a conversation in the last Gleeman and the Geek podcast when Aaron was talking about never wearing his seatbelt. He got pulled over and fined for it and it was about 10 minutes of talk about it, where both Bonnes and Aaron agreed that seatbelt laws were stupid. They reasoned that since motorcyclists didn't have to wear seatbelts, why should people in cars?
If you read this story, you know why. If you get ejected from a car you have a much greater chance of dying due to the speed and the tons of metal rolling on top of you, then if you use seatbelt and stay in the vehicle. Motorcycles are simply death machines, there is no advantage or disadvantage to being attached to them.
The conversation put me off that podcast a little, I figure in the future I will just use the fast forward more judiciously.
Not to mention the cost to the taxpayers if their stupidity lands them on life support
Not to mention the potential impact on the driver of another car in a multi-vehicle accident. Oof, the more i hear about this podcast...
besides all the reasons above, think of the night's newscast. after they report on accidents, they always say one of two things. either they say, "and the driver was wearing their seatbelt," in this almost sympathetic tone of voice, like yeah they were doing what they were supposed to. or, they say, "and the driver was not wearing their seatbelt," with a little hint of a smarmy tone, kind of like, jeez what an idiot.
That entire segment made me want to dope slap the both of them. It's a bit alarming how Gleeman cultivates his "I'm gonna be 19 forever" image.
I read your tweeted review and then I listened and I thought, man, how could CH miss this? This is the worst thing in the podcast.
I've met Bonnes a few times and he's always been gracious and I believe that he's a good guy, but some of the things he says on that podcast are infuriating. I listen for Gleeman's baseball thoughts. When he's actually talking baseball, he's fun to listen to. The other stuff, though, is pretty much intolerable.
Oh, and I would NEVER sponsor the show. Their sponsorship plugs are terrible. My favorite was one time when Ticket King was a sponsor. Earlier in that show, Aaron talks about buying tickets to a game on Stub Hub. Then, he tells me I should buy my tickets from Ticket King. If that's such a great idea, Aaron, why are you using Stub Hub?
I expect a certain level of stupidity in the conversation, and I knew from previous podcasts (and his blog? and radio?) that Gleeman does not wear a seatbelt. I ought to expect more of Bonnes, who has two nearly adult children, but I've started to take his moniker for his wife – The Voice of Reason – more literally over the years.
Honestly, I think what really got to me was two schlubby white guys comparing a number of brown & black men's bodies as if they were merely scrutinizing cuts of meat.
That was a moronic discussion.
When i was about 4, i featured my right leg and have a big ass scar on the bridge of my nose from going face first into the dashboard, and that was at a low speed of like 20-30 mph. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be on an accident at speedwithout wearing a seatbelt because yikes.
making the rounds. Good lord. [edit: apparently from last season at Minute Maid. still, proof that one's actions can have lasting consequences]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzm0nh2Q1ak
heh, you've never seen that one before?
I hope she's been roundly ridiculed for that crap.
Yeah, she should have punched that lady in the gut and taken the ball right back.
But really, the first thing I do when I'm at a ball game and have any chance of a foul or home run or tossed-in-the-stands ball, I scan the stands to see where the nearest kid is. They'll get it.
Someone gave CER a foul ball at her second-ever Twins game (she had just turned two, it was a Jacque Jones ball) and it made her day and with it mine.
Once or twice I've seen no kids around and I've proclaimed "Alright! I get to keep any ball I catch!"
I wonder what I would do. I so badly wanted a foul ball when I was a kid and never got one, but I'm not sure how I would have reacted if an adult caught one and just handed it to me as a pity gift. I was a very proud kid. Perhaps if I was 5 or 6 I would have liked it, but I wanted to catch it myself to show the world how good I was.
I still kind of want to catch a foul ball, but if I did it'd probably just collect dust somewhere. If it was a home run ball, and a somewhat significant one, I would have a hard time handing it over.
I once got hit by a foul ball as a kid (it had bounced around a fair amount first, no big deal). My aunt then picked it up and I got to keep it.
I also caught a Kubel HR ball at the greatest game I've ever been to (in Baltimore, I think we've discussed it before). I wasn't giving that one up. But I'm with AMR otherwise, and if a foul ball came to me, I've always planned on giving it to a kid.
I can count the number of MLB games I attended as a kid on two fingers, and as an adult I've only had a couple of shots at catching a ball. One fell short a couple of rows, and the other, a foul ball by Placido Palanco off Brad Radke (I think it was this game), came down in the row right behind me. Two guys trying to catch it at the same time both muffed it, and I reached up and plucked it out of the air. They even put me making the catch on the Jumbotron at the Metrodome right after. It was very cool. I keep it in my sock drawer and it's a treasured souvenir, but if I ever catch another it will go to the nearest kid. At Coors field a few years ago we sat in the left field seats and went early for batting practice. I was hoping we could get one or two for the daughters, but no such luck.
I got one once, had another bounce off my hand and had a third one hit me in the side. That third one was when I was sitting over the first base dugout at the Metrodome. It came in pretty low and the guy in front of me ducked and it hit me. It didn't hurt, but I had an impression of that ball on my side complete with the stitches for about a week afterwards.
I have no problem with an adult catching a foul ball and keeping it fair and square. However, it should be pointed out that this ball was being tossed from a coach or player to the kids and that the woman ripped it out of the hands of the girl. I can't believe she wasn't soundly booed by everyone around her.
I don't know why y'all are being so hard on this poor woman. It was a big deal to her. She'd carefully planned this whole trip, all the way from her home in Leith, ND, just to see if she could get a ball.
She's gonna have a surprise when she finds out what they did to the town in her absence.
Not that I wanted the Tigers to clinch last night, but this is pretty cool.
I've probably beat this dead horse a thousand times, but I can't help myself. I'm not buying what these guys are selling.
It seems to take a lot of mental gymnastics to on the one hand acknowledge that some student athletes are being compensated with something of $200K+ in value, and then on the other hand claim that they are amateurs. It reminds me of the old joke (there are other versions):
Iowa State's AD seems like quite a prick to bring this to Twitter:
To which I might respond, if I was a member of the Iowa State student body, why don't you ask me how I feel about the football team's graduation rate? Alternatively, why don't you ask me how I feel about college football coaches and their multi-million dollar contracts?
Seems they're double counting 1. Scholarship = $250,000, 2. No Loan = $200,000.
I took it to mean that $200K was the cost of financing the loan, although looking at the numbers, $200K @6.8% for 10 years works out to $100K interest, roughly. If you do the extended 30 year term it vaults up to $337K, but then you probably have to start considering the time value of money.
6.8%? Oy. I'm glad I got my loans when interest rates were reasonable, so I'm sitting at 1% right now.
I’m sitting at 1% right now.
how in the world...?
I wish i could say specifically, but i think i just got lucky when u went to school that rates were low and consolidation was possible. Plus, street like the years of not missing a payment, they lowered my rate by half a percent.Also, full disclosure, but my loans were mostly just for tuition, and my mom picked up the rest, which helped immensely to keep the loan down. It's why I've vowed to do the same for my kids.
My undergraduate loans were at 8%, plus they took 10% off the top as a fee. I don't know if they still do that.
Well you should consider the time value of money right away or never use a loan to buy something like a house or education.
This.
Even more forbidden zoney:
Sure, but to what degree? My intuition is that it is small in the grand scheme, but I admittedly haven't seen any hard data.
TCF Bank Stadium cost $303.3 million to build, according to the Repository, distributed between State costs (48 pct) and U costs (52 pct).
So, $25 per year in direct fees per student, plus additional, small amounts of indirect costs from budgetary crowding out. [note: the opening paragraph of the article cites $303.3 million, while the body cites $288.5 million.]
Sporting events DO charge for admission, too.
TCF Bank Stadium is the stadium project that REALLY torques me off. What, were the Gophers threatening to leave? How has it improved the quality of play?
You've got to be kidding right? College football for a supposed D-1 school in the Metrodome was dreadful. What ever the evils of college football (and there are legions) it should be played on campus. Plus TCF makes revenue for the University, which means it that its request for state $$$ is less. The stadium is used for the band and rec sports too and even academics at times. Plus the other parts of the stadium are rented out some 350 days a year. On Friday a concert for the students will be held for homecoming (Hoodie Allen and Passion Pit). U2 concerts, outdoor hockey and a large outdoor concert next year (yet to be announced) also occur there and would never happen at the Metrodome.
Finally the stadium hasn't improved the quality of play but who said it would. Tim Brewster has a lot more to do with that sad fact than any stadium. TCF has improved the quality of attending a Gopher game -- by leaps and bounds IMHO.
Yes, including $625k per year, from every student regardless of whether that student partakes of any events in the stadium or not.
I agree that on-campus is much better than off-campus. But if the stadium is such a great deal, why are students being charged mandatory stadium fees?
The use of the spoiler tag for non spoilers got tired real fast.
+10 to Zo from Bo.
dido.
i've partook, but yeah, agreed.
Screws up following along via RSS feed, too.
MGMT Presale
Starts: Friday, Sept 27 10:00 AM
Ends: Friday, Sept 27 10:00 PM
Password: stylz
/gets off free's toes/
Man that's two presales this week that people have posted. Looks like I need another gig.
In fairness, I don't expect many people to actually use the one I posted...in contrast to at least a few of yours.
I hope the Yankees give it to him.
That's 14.5 Huge Terry Ryan Contracts.
I laughed. A lot.
I'm trying so hard not to giggle in a meeting right now
well played
Yes, well done, strat. HTRC's are now a thing in my mind.
i won't get into the boring specifics, but i just had one of those moments where you figure out a trick at work that results in saving loads of time, and in this case for a very mind-numbing, repetitive task.
in these situations, i've noticed the joy of the new-found ability going forward and the rage of how much time you wasted in the past definitely cancel each other out.
Won't that eventually turn into disappointment that you now have more time to figure out how to fill?
"Hey, Miss Doesn't-find-me-attractive-sexually-anymore, I just tripled my productivity!"
yeesh, that's just too perfect.
almost exactly cancel each other out, but it depends on how long you've been doing it the long way and how much going forward you can reap from it.
one big one for me was array functions in Excel, which I had been manually doing a lot of stuff for three or four years. but now I've been using them for seven plus years. spoiled kids today hardly even have to learn array functions given new functions like SUMIFS.
yeah, this particular example had to do with excel.
I was going to guess delegation.
This is old, so maybe it was linked at the time, but I can't resist: Angel Hernandez: Blowing Calls for Twenty Years.
This guy just missed qualifying for a Darwin Award.
So, Rick Reilly wrote a second piece about the reader feedback on his "I Know a Few Native Americans Who Are Okay with the Redskins Name" article. Here's a couple of letters he published.
Reilly responds:
If Reilly had more goodwill overall I'd consider that he wrote the article to get the conversation going, but I think this is just a lot of backpedaling from a guy who constantly forgets that he's not untouchable as a result of his huge contract to write opinion pieces about sports.
This isn't even a good debate. It's offensive, and we know that because of the culture it belittles. "But, we're used to the name" is not a strong enough counterargument that it should even be given a forum to speak.
I made the mistake once or twice while I was at Illinois to refer to Chief Illiniwek as a "mascot."
I've always enjoyed the Bison as a mascot. The animal is a magnificent, powerful, beautiful beast. The idea of a herd of Bison as a symbol for a team is terrific. Plus, we don't have to rationalize the use of that animal.
My alma mater, UW-LaCrosse was the Indians back when I was in school but changed it to Eagles in 1989.
Oh yeah, the Univ of Illinois logo is fantastic.
So is the UND Fighting Sioux head.
I think there's a better argument to be made to keep those team names.
But the name the Washington football club uses is well south of my line of "potentially acceptable".
Pence is pretty funny.
Philo - you've got mail.
[rant] Other than this one, is there a content-based website left that does not splash a huge advertisement over the first page you open on it? And is it really necessary to break up a 500 word article over ten pages just to inflate click counts? I understand the desire to monetize web properties, but how far does it have to go and at what cost in annoying and alienating users? Honestly, I think it's time to completely reconsider web metrics and revenue models with a mind toward improving the user experience and creating a better return on web advertising investments. Because I really don't care who Miley Cyrus rubbed her ass against today, I just want to know what the weather's going to be like tomorrow. [/rant]
this reminds me. Is it about time for another wgom fundraiser?
Can I humbly suggest that the "Donations" page be amended to display some information about our operating costs and how much we've raised from Citizens, perhaps with a distinction between how much the Politburo (e.g., spoons, sean, and others intimately involved in operations) has spent and how much the rest of us have provided? Transparency is good, and should help us shame ourselves into donating enough to keep the lights on again.
for donor information, I would suggest displaying total donors, total donations, high, low, and average donations.
1. we will be having a fundraiser coming up in the near future. i broached the topic, but haven't followed up on it recently.
2. i don't see any large issue with that, but in reality, there wouldn't be much to report. sean did indeed keep the lights on the first 2-3(?) months of the site (if i recall correctly, he refused compensation), but after that the entire enterprise (as far as i know) has been citizen funded. we have 2 expenses (again, as far as i know): domain name and hosting. so far that first fundraiser has kept things going this whole time.
3. i can whip up some information regarding donations, sure (fun fact: i won't name names, but in addition to the usual suspects donating, we had a few from named, but rarely seen lurkers, and one entirely unknown entity). also, we didn't do it last time, but maybe we should set some sort of goal. easy suggestion: 2 years worth of expenses?
1. I was just thinking about running it soon. Payment for keeping the lights on for another year is due February.
2. All correct.
Well you're doing it at a decent time for me (if medical bills are taken out of the equation) since i just got a promotion and a really solid raise yesterday.
Congrats, shooter!
Thanks. I'm doing the same job I've been doing since February, but I was able to get my official title from engineer I to engineer II, which is a nice step up in the pay grade. It's the biggest raise I've ever gotten without changing companies, which makes me feel good about my decision to change jobs a year plus ago.
The biggest offenders are the ones that draw you in with a potentially interesting list, then do one item per page. Maybe they're the ones you're talking about.
As for the fundraiser...it might be. hj, where are we on that? Are we good for a while?
I don't even bother clicking on list-based articles because I don't like being played. My concern is that poorly conceived ad-based revenue models create incentives for the worst kind of content pandering and click-baiting, and that advertisers don't really get much return on their investments. The current system just debases all content in a race to the bottom. I'm positive about the former, but would need to study the latter to see how advertisers feel about the status quo.
You guys are both secretly discussing my website, right?
I'll say it again:
.
1. Google Chrome
2. Ad Blocker extension
3. DoNotTrack extension
4. ?
5. Profit!
A browser from an ad company being used to block ads ;).
Bud Selig to retire following 2014 season.
is he hoping for a Mariano Rivera type farewell tour?
Enter Blandman.
Fortunately we arrived in Alberquerque just fine.
Unfortunately our large suitcase zipper was torn open from stem to stern.
Fortunately the bag had been set off to the side and everything was still in it just as we had packed it.
Unfortunately we had hoped to wait until Christmas to get a new one.
Fortunately there is a Kohl's in Santa Fe where we'll be at. 30% off coupon bazinga!
Unfortunately our coupon is back home.
Fortunately we should still be able to get the discount.
Unfortunately the car rental was out of economy cars.
Fortunately we were upgraded for free. Chrysler 200 bazinga!
Whatever, Five Guys!
Not 10 lines. Super Cool Beez is coing to complain.
I hope he's smoking a coing when he gets there.
I rented a 200 when i was in Charlotte a couple months ago and i was not impressed and a little mortified by the gas mileage for a car off that size. (Though it was better than a typical fleet car.)
we'll cross that
bridgegas station when we get to itWe got a free upgrade from a Ford Focus to a new Hyundai Elantra in Baltimore. For a fleet car it was okay.
I've rented two Fords in the past year, a brand new Fusion and a brand new Escape. I would totally buy either, but I particularly loved the Fusion largely because it was great to drive and I got about38 mpg.
I've been eyeing those new Fusions, but we're in no position to buy a new car for several years, if not longer. I have no idea what will happen when my Volvo finally gives up the ghost.
We got upgraded to a brand new, loaded Taurus in Denver a few years back. It had plenty of power up in the mountains, which was nice, and very comfortable when we took it from Denver to Pike's Peak, Salida, and back to Denver in one day. I don't have the scratch to buy one, but I wouldn't turn down one as a gift.
I drive a Ford Escape periodically as a company car. I think I'd buy that for the wife to drive when she needs a new car (which I hope is years from now).
our Mariner is essentially an Escape. Hybrid solves the mpg
The Escape I had wasn't a hybrid, but had the (I think) 4 cylinder with the EcoBoost, which also helped with mpgs. I'm a big proponent of the idea of the turbo-charged four for fuel savings. Course, I'm a bigger fan of diesels for the same reason and because I have one and love it.
Despite two bad experiences with diesels in the family, I'd certainly buy one if the vehicle made sense. I wish we had more of them in this country.
Volvo's turbo five-cylinders are awesome engines, but unfortunately the fuel economy with the high-pressure turbo is basically the same as a six cylinder when driven sanely, and an eight when driven with whatever "gusto" is in Swedish.
I have many suggestions on things to do in New Mexico. Start with the Adovada.
chile frito at the Woolworth's?
Sure, and then the Shed for dinner.... /drool
So I really, really need a new job because my current one, while enjoyable, is going to drastically change for the worse on January 1, 2014. There's not much out there, and I just got a call about one today through my network, but it's in a practice area I really don't want to go. I doubt it'll be much better (if any) than my current one even after the drastic change for the worse. Ugh.
That's a bummer, man. It definitely sucks when crappy workplace changes are on the horizon. (Especially when it's a mass shutdown/layoff). Best off luck on the job search.
says the man that just got a big fat promotion and raise...
(but seriously, congrats. you're buying whatever of your beers you give me next time i see you.)
Uh, Happy New Year?
That sucks, Will. I hope you can find something better than the option you listed.
Well, the good news is that I'll still have a job January 1 with the exact same benefits, salary, etc. so I can't complain too much. Still, I really hope I'm not there when it happens.
He should be doing great, he nearly got a huge contract, after all.
Im not the biggest Correia fan, but he didnt completely soil himself like other starting pitchers. So a 'job well done'.
He was okay. I mentioned it to make a joke about his huge contract.
Not soiling oneself = Twins pitching success
I'm so old, I remember when folks didn't like Baker and Slowey.
I'm a fair bit younger than you, and I still remember when pitchers like Bradke couldn't make it out of the first.
new season of Parks and Rec starts in 10 minutes. horray
thanks for the reminder. anyone know the typical lag time until it's hulued?
Not long. One day or two, if it's like last season.
To celebrate, Sheenie and I just had a dinner of waffles, and all the bacon and eggs I could eat.
I'm eating a turkey leg wrapped in bacon.
Brinner!
After the episode at Jerry's house last season, Sour Cream went around the house singing "Eggs, Bacon and Toast" for about a week.