Buxton, a center fielder for Class A Fort Myers, injured his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch in the eighth inning of Friday night’s 11-7, 17-inning loss to Daytona.
It sounds more like it was the pitcher that injured Buxton's wrist. And while I'm on a grammar rant, I saw a billboard for Off! over the weekend that said this, verbatim:
"Every day there are 8 minutes less of sunlight. Get back out there." Oy.
Keep fighting the good fight, Rhu twayn. I'm right behind you. with the white-out.
At least they didn't fail with the "day is 8 minutes shorter" trap. The amateur astronomer in me cringes with that one.
Can somebody pinch hit for game log duty today? I have to take my daughter to the airport this afternoon for her trip to Europe and I'm not going to have time. I also just realized that today is the two-year anniversary of my heart attack. Time sure does fly when you're alive.
I can do it
Thank you, sir.
Happy Anniversary - I'm glad you're alive!
I just got excited when I realized the numbers in 7/21/14 are all divisible by 7. Your realization is considerably more momentous than mine.
people who ignore any digits from the year deserve Y2K
😛
I knew it was coming. I've only heard one song from it so far. It was so-so, but I'm excited to check out the rest.
hmmm. Not sure if I want to give this another listen. I heard maybe two songs I liked and a couple were cringe-worthy. Which bums me out cuz i really liked Acid Tongue.
somehow, this happened on my Droid. Anyone have an idea how, so that I might be able to repeat it some day?
I had a feature like that on a camera that would take a sequence of several snapshots, but yours looks like it made an animated gif out of them. That's a cool trick.
mine will do a super-fast sequence, but I don't recall selecting that mode, nor understand how it resulted in an animated gif.
Does your camera upload to Google's Cloud service? I know that they have some stuff like that. My wife's noted that their scrapbook functionality is sort of interesting for when you're away for the weekend, with a lot of pictures regarding a couple of sources.
what type of phone is it? I know some HTC models can do something like that.
I got "Love in the Time of Cholera" for $1 at the library book sale.
Can't beat that! LitToC was one of my wife's favorite books.
My friend is a rather recent convert to the vegetarian-type diet. As such, she's very ardent and dedicated (though generally not pushy about it).
As a result, her husband (my best friend and roommate from college) is also not eating as much meat.
I eat meat, though I fully grasp why someone would choose not to support the livestock practices that produce much of the meat Americans consume.
I eat meat because I like meat, I don't always have time to prepare healthy meals with meat alternatives, and ...well... I like meat.
I know it's a choice, so I try to offset the choice in other ways. I am (or try to be) an ecologically aware consumer, going out of my to conserve electricity and water, recycle & compost (soon), drive fuel efficient vehicles & carpool and try my best to support locally produced grocery items (even if they cost more). I try to be sure that my family eats more whole grains, fruits and vegetables and smaller portions of meat (if they eat any at all). Sometimes though, we still go with fast food burgers and nuggets because hour+ commutes and full time jobs get in the way of preparing dinner in time for bed. When we do, I view it as a necessity. I don't like for my daughter to be so familiar with Wendy's/McD's, but sometimes, there just isn't enough time in the day.
Even after making my position clear last night, my friend had had a few cocktails and felt compelled to proselytize. The thing that stuck was her claim about water usage for beef production because I'd said I was more concerned about other things, like access to fresh water and droughts, than I was about meat production. She thought that was hypocritical because the two are linked, pointing out that beef takes a lot more water to produce than the items on her plate. I admitted that I'd heard that, but I didn't really know how much water it takes to make a lb of beef. After a while, the subject changed, but when I got home, I looked it up. The numbers are truly staggering, (though still not compelling enough for me to abstain from meat).
Gallons of water used daily, in Millions:
Irrigation* - 128,000 *not sure how much, if any, of this is used for animal feed. Maybe none since livestock is listed separately, but holy cows!
Livestock - 2,140
So, then I looked a little more and found this in a linked source:
Given the fact that freshwater problems mostly relate to blue water** scarcity and water pollution and to a lesser extent to competition over green water***, this means that grazing systems are preferable over industrial production systems from a water resources point of view. and
The water footprint of meat from beef cattle (15400 litre/kg as a global average) is much larger than the footprints of meat from sheep (10400 litre/kg), pig (6000 litre/kg), goat (5500 litre/kg) or chicken (4300 litre/kg).
Mostly because I'm stubborn and have enough else to worry about, I'll still eat meat. But I'll definitely watch for locally grazed beef, try to eat more poultry and pork and generally be more aware of I'm buying & eating. I'll have to make sure to give her some credit.
**Blue water – Fresh surface and groundwater, in other words, the water in freshwater lakes, rivers and aquifers
***Green water – The precipitation on land that does not run off or recharge the groundwater but is stored in the soil or temporarily stays on top of the soil or vegetation. Eventually, this part of precipitation evaporates or transpires through plants.
EDIT: Perhaps I should have just made this "LTE" a post, sheesh.
Eat game.
Yeah, I do that too. Unfortunately, my wife doesn't.
I did not know that game didn't drink water.
They drink water, but they drink it whether you eat them or not.
I line up pretty much exactly where you are. We have meatless meals at least as often as we have meat. We have a convenient source for beef that we know is grazed (not exclusively grazed, but largely so) given the in-laws' production, and we've gotten much better about sourcing - though we could be better about that too. Usually, I have no problem paying more for better sourced food. One of the things that makes me sad about people who are vegetarians because they don't want to support factory meat is that they're also choosing to not support meat done responsibly.
Assuming the ratio of freshwater usage has remained constant over the last nine years, this means that water usage at home (I assume this is what is meant by domestic) takes up just over 1% of freshwater usage. This also assumes that the thermoelectric usage doesn't include usage that doesn't interfere with water flow (such as using the flow of a river to generate electricity). This means that if every person at home cut their water usage in half, we would be saving half of a percentage point on water. I don't have a pool or a water fountain, etc., so I'm not sure what the point would be to go out of my way to conserve water at home. I don't go around wasting water, but I'm not going to kill off my yard to save that little of water when it would have so little of an effect even if everybody did it.
Fwiw, in a typical year in california, the Dept of Water Resources figures we use 2.3 million acre-feet for outdoor residential use, 3.3 MAF for indoor residential use, 34 MAF for agricultural uses, and another 3.4 MAF for industrial and commercial uses.
This does not fully include private well water resources. Only surface resources.
That residential use figure translates to roughly 124 gallons per capita per day. The average in New Mexico is 107, and nationally, 98 (2005 estimates per USGS).
Resources used for production are going to be considerably higher as you move up the food chain. In the interest of full disclosure, I'd like to see how much water it takes to make a kg of human of the vegetarian/omnivore/carnivore varieties. I'm not finding that on my google search results, though...
I don't see people refusing to eat meat having any effect on actual water supply or usage in the slightest, but if it makes her feel better- sure, go ahead and do it. In the long run, if water gets scarce then production methods will either change to use less or beef production in those areas will stop entirely.
The Great Plains were once vast grasslands supporting millions of buffalo. If one wants to get all enviro-picky about things, one might advocate for the elimination of most human habitation and crop cultivation and the return of the sea of grass. Ruminants are adapted to grass, of course.
the elimination of most human habitation
Cool idea... Any volunteers?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeJ20gHYagI
Gleeman linked to this article about the Gladden/Lombardozzi fight, but I want freealonzo to notice the final bullet point.
:o) I guess there can only be one Robert Pollard who was kind of a jock.
Apparently August 2014 will have five Fridays, five Saturdays, and five Sundays, which happens once every 823 years. I wish all the forwarded garbage about it would happen only once in 823 years.
Sorry, I feel better listening to this each time:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSA7kKNu2Y
That would happen on average every seven years, not 823. If the month starts on a Friday, that will happen. Never trust a forwarded email.
Someday I'm going to start a facebook page that just copies all these stupid memes. It's going to be called "You People Really Believe This Nonsense, Don't You?"
The story itself goes pretty deep into the forbidden zone, but today's news that
Governor Perry is deploying National Guard troops to the border
was broken by a buddy of mine from high school. It's pretty cool seeing his name in the byline making the rounds in national media.
Also tangentially related to the story, the featured image on the NPR.org of Perry in front of an Iowa flag was taken at my high school. I actually recognized the brick and thought "Is that my old lunch room?" Lo and behold, it was.
The conservative candidates here are tripping all over themselves in this election season trying to promise they'll waste the most man-hours at the border.
I'm watching the Yankees-Rangers game because it's the only baseball I can get on my tv. Now, I missed the all-star game because I was travelling, but i think this game will make me hate Jeter quite a bit. I wanted to punch my own face when Tim Kurkjian went "out on a limb" for something he'd get "killed" for by putting Jeter as only the sixth best Yankee of all time. Ugh.
Anyway, I didn't read the whole article yet, but looking at the list I think we should just make Puig and Gomez the co-faces so we can have a little Damn fun.
I'm so old, I remember when Paul O'Neill was a first-ballot HOFer.
I have the Rangers-Yankees game on and the announcer Dave O'Brien was talking about Adrian Beltre and Hall of Fame chances. He said that really, only broadcasters and baseball insiders talk about it, but not a lot of general baseball fans dont because Beltre has bounced around from team to team. But "if her put ups those big number, say in the Bronx like Jeter, people would be talking"
siiigggghhhh
Oof, I missed that one because I've got the sound pretty low. Think I'll keep it that way.
Adrian Beltre: 74.2 rWAR
Derek Jeter: 72.2 rWAR
Nuff said.
Count. Teh. Ringz.
Adrian Beltre: 500 Freakouts when someone touches his head.
Derek Jeter: 0 Reactions, 10 people missing assumed dead.
Apparently sleep came, because no one seems to be around today.
I had to work for it. I woke up three hours early yet again, but willed myself to fall asleep after a rough hour of trying.
Why can't we have nice things?
wrist injuries? Made up.
It sounds more like it was the pitcher that injured Buxton's wrist. And while I'm on a grammar rant, I saw a billboard for Off! over the weekend that said this, verbatim:
"Every day there are 8 minutes less of sunlight. Get back out there." Oy.
Keep fighting the good fight,
Rhutwayn. I'm right behind you. with the white-out.At least they didn't fail with the "day is 8 minutes shorter" trap. The amateur astronomer in me cringes with that one.
Well, four this week.
? X
X ?
? ?
X X
Last week's answers
Yikes. I knew 3 and 8, but I drew blanks on the rest.
I recognized #6 from previews.
Nothing else to add, but I feel like I should be able to get #5.
Argh, I was just typing #6.
Obsessing over the others.
#4?
Nope. I took a stab with that as well.
Can somebody pinch hit for game log duty today? I have to take my daughter to the airport this afternoon for her trip to Europe and I'm not going to have time. I also just realized that today is the two-year anniversary of my heart attack. Time sure does fly when you're alive.
I can do it
Thank you, sir.
Happy Anniversary - I'm glad you're alive!
I just got excited when I realized the numbers in 7/21/14 are all divisible by 7. Your realization is considerably more momentous than mine.
people who ignore any digits from the year deserve Y2K
😛
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97x89qJxgPM
Hey Philo: new Jenny Lewis album.
I knew it was coming. I've only heard one song from it so far. It was so-so, but I'm excited to check out the rest.
hmmm. Not sure if I want to give this another listen. I heard maybe two songs I liked and a couple were cringe-worthy. Which bums me out cuz i really liked Acid Tongue.
somehow, this happened on my Droid. Anyone have an idea how, so that I might be able to repeat it some day?
I had a feature like that on a camera that would take a sequence of several snapshots, but yours looks like it made an animated gif out of them. That's a cool trick.
mine will do a super-fast sequence, but I don't recall selecting that mode, nor understand how it resulted in an animated gif.
Does your camera upload to Google's Cloud service? I know that they have some stuff like that. My wife's noted that their scrapbook functionality is sort of interesting for when you're away for the weekend, with a lot of pictures regarding a couple of sources.
what type of phone is it? I know some HTC models can do something like that.
I got "Love in the Time of Cholera" for $1 at the library book sale.
Can't beat that! LitToC was one of my wife's favorite books.
My friend is a rather recent convert to the vegetarian-type diet. As such, she's very ardent and dedicated (though generally not pushy about it).
As a result, her husband (my best friend and roommate from college) is also not eating as much meat.
I eat meat, though I fully grasp why someone would choose not to support the livestock practices that produce much of the meat Americans consume.
I eat meat because I like meat, I don't always have time to prepare healthy meals with meat alternatives, and ...well... I like meat.
I know it's a choice, so I try to offset the choice in other ways. I am (or try to be) an ecologically aware consumer, going out of my to conserve electricity and water, recycle & compost (soon), drive fuel efficient vehicles & carpool and try my best to support locally produced grocery items (even if they cost more). I try to be sure that my family eats more whole grains, fruits and vegetables and smaller portions of meat (if they eat any at all). Sometimes though, we still go with fast food burgers and nuggets because hour+ commutes and full time jobs get in the way of preparing dinner in time for bed. When we do, I view it as a necessity. I don't like for my daughter to be so familiar with Wendy's/McD's, but sometimes, there just isn't enough time in the day.
Even after making my position clear last night, my friend had had a few cocktails and felt compelled to proselytize. The thing that stuck was her claim about water usage for beef production because I'd said I was more concerned about other things, like access to fresh water and droughts, than I was about meat production. She thought that was hypocritical because the two are linked, pointing out that beef takes a lot more water to produce than the items on her plate. I admitted that I'd heard that, but I didn't really know how much water it takes to make a lb of beef. After a while, the subject changed, but when I got home, I looked it up. The numbers are truly staggering, (though still not compelling enough for me to abstain from meat).
Gallons of water used daily, in Millions:
Irrigation* - 128,000
*not sure how much, if any, of this is used for animal feed. Maybe none since livestock is listed separately, but holy cows!
Livestock - 2,140
So, then I looked a little more and found this in a linked source:
Mostly because I'm stubborn and have enough else to worry about, I'll still eat meat. But I'll definitely watch for locally grazed beef, try to eat more poultry and pork and generally be more aware of I'm buying & eating. I'll have to make sure to give her some credit.
**Blue water – Fresh surface and groundwater, in other words, the water in freshwater lakes, rivers and aquifers
***Green water – The precipitation on land that does not run off or recharge the groundwater but is stored in the soil or temporarily stays on top of the soil or vegetation. Eventually, this part of precipitation evaporates or transpires through plants.
EDIT: Perhaps I should have just made this "LTE" a post, sheesh.
Eat game.
Yeah, I do that too. Unfortunately, my wife doesn't.
I did not know that game didn't drink water.
They drink water, but they drink it whether you eat them or not.
I line up pretty much exactly where you are. We have meatless meals at least as often as we have meat. We have a convenient source for beef that we know is grazed (not exclusively grazed, but largely so) given the in-laws' production, and we've gotten much better about sourcing - though we could be better about that too. Usually, I have no problem paying more for better sourced food. One of the things that makes me sad about people who are vegetarians because they don't want to support factory meat is that they're also choosing to not support meat done responsibly.
Assuming the ratio of freshwater usage has remained constant over the last nine years, this means that water usage at home (I assume this is what is meant by domestic) takes up just over 1% of freshwater usage. This also assumes that the thermoelectric usage doesn't include usage that doesn't interfere with water flow (such as using the flow of a river to generate electricity). This means that if every person at home cut their water usage in half, we would be saving half of a percentage point on water. I don't have a pool or a water fountain, etc., so I'm not sure what the point would be to go out of my way to conserve water at home. I don't go around wasting water, but I'm not going to kill off my yard to save that little of water when it would have so little of an effect even if everybody did it.
Fwiw, in a typical year in california, the Dept of Water Resources figures we use 2.3 million acre-feet for outdoor residential use, 3.3 MAF for indoor residential use, 34 MAF for agricultural uses, and another 3.4 MAF for industrial and commercial uses.
This does not fully include private well water resources. Only surface resources.
That residential use figure translates to roughly 124 gallons per capita per day. The average in New Mexico is 107, and nationally, 98 (2005 estimates per USGS).
Resources used for production are going to be considerably higher as you move up the food chain. In the interest of full disclosure, I'd like to see how much water it takes to make a kg of human of the vegetarian/omnivore/carnivore varieties. I'm not finding that on my google search results, though...
I don't see people refusing to eat meat having any effect on actual water supply or usage in the slightest, but if it makes her feel better- sure, go ahead and do it. In the long run, if water gets scarce then production methods will either change to use less or beef production in those areas will stop entirely.
The Great Plains were once vast grasslands supporting millions of buffalo. If one wants to get all enviro-picky about things, one might advocate for the elimination of most human habitation and crop cultivation and the return of the sea of grass. Ruminants are adapted to grass, of course.
the elimination of most human habitation
Cool idea... Any volunteers?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeJ20gHYagI
Gleeman linked to this article about the Gladden/Lombardozzi fight, but I want freealonzo to notice the final bullet point.
:o) I guess there can only be one Robert Pollard who was kind of a jock.
Apparently August 2014 will have five Fridays, five Saturdays, and five Sundays, which happens once every 823 years. I wish all the forwarded garbage about it would happen only once in 823 years.
Sorry, I feel better listening to this each time:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSA7kKNu2Y
That would happen on average every seven years, not 823. If the month starts on a Friday, that will happen. Never trust a forwarded email.
Someday I'm going to start a facebook page that just copies all these stupid memes. It's going to be called "You People Really Believe This Nonsense, Don't You?"
The story itself goes pretty deep into the forbidden zone, but today's news that
was broken by a buddy of mine from high school. It's pretty cool seeing his name in the byline making the rounds in national media.
Also tangentially related to the story, the featured image on the NPR.org of Perry in front of an Iowa flag was taken at my high school. I actually recognized the brick and thought "Is that my old lunch room?" Lo and behold, it was.
Now that's what I call art.
Wow. Good thing he doesn't cheer for the Orioles or summat.
Wow. That's more work than I've ever put into anything.
http://www.nbcsports.com/baseball/mlb/who-face-baseball-once-derek-jeter-retires
#9 on new faces of baseball made me cry.
Where's Torii? Face of the
FranchiseSport.I'm watching the Yankees-Rangers game because it's the only baseball I can get on my tv. Now, I missed the all-star game because I was travelling, but i think this game will make me hate Jeter quite a bit. I wanted to punch my own face when Tim Kurkjian went "out on a limb" for something he'd get "killed" for by putting Jeter as only the sixth best Yankee of all time. Ugh.
Anyway, I didn't read the whole article yet, but looking at the list I think we should just make Puig and Gomez the co-faces so we can have a little Damn fun.
I'm so old, I remember when Paul O'Neill was a first-ballot HOFer.
I have the Rangers-Yankees game on and the announcer Dave O'Brien was talking about Adrian Beltre and Hall of Fame chances. He said that really, only broadcasters and baseball insiders talk about it, but not a lot of general baseball fans dont because Beltre has bounced around from team to team. But "if her put ups those big number, say in the Bronx like Jeter, people would be talking"
siiigggghhhh
Oof, I missed that one because I've got the sound pretty low. Think I'll keep it that way.
Adrian Beltre: 74.2 rWAR
Derek Jeter: 72.2 rWAR
Nuff said.
Count. Teh. Ringz.
Adrian Beltre: 500 Freakouts when someone touches his head.
Derek Jeter: 0 Reactions, 10 people missing assumed dead.