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October 10, 2014: Unclean Break

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This is the anniversary of one of the most devastating breakups of my youth, and for some reason, the date has never left me. Strange, particularly since we remain friends to this day.

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  1. Boarding my flight to Ohio for Nationals. Hopefully come Sunday night, the Austin Crows have repeated as national champions.

    Coincidentally, our first match tomorrow is against Minnesota.

    2. Wow, a shot of Kirk on the bridge cut to an exterior shot of the Enterprise from Star Trek: Enterprise? Half-baked, BBC! No wonder why the British are always copying our best TV shows.

      2. slightly apropos, the Mrs was watching Miss Congeniality two nights ago. Shat was playing Shat in the movie. It was a bit of a stretch for him.

  6. its my annual cry for help in "I can't remember how to post my top300 Twins spreadsheet from my outdated spreadsheet (and my lack of knowledge on all things techwise". I have it as a draft, but I'm pretty sure I did it wrong.

    1. Check back Monday, or Tuesday maybe. I'll try to write a guide on converting something from Excel/OO.o Calc to a pretty table here by then.

        1. Nate Tubbs:

          Tables are defined with the <table> tag.

          Tables are divided into table rows with the <tr> tag.

          Table rows are divided into table data with the <td> tag.

          A table row can also be divided into table headings with the <th> tag.

          Those are the basics.

          <table>
          <tr> <th>Firstname</th> <th>Lastname</th> </tr>
          <tr> <td>Joe</td> <td>Schlabotnick</td> </tr>
          </table>

          gets you

          Firstname Lastname
          Joe Schlabotnick

          So here's my dumb suggestion if you are using Excel:

          1. Add a first column in your Excel file and fill it with the text <tr>
          2. Add a last column in your Excel file and fill it with the text </tr>
          3. Add a column in front of every data column and fill it with the text <td>
          4. Add a column after every data column and fill it with the text </td>
          5. Manually change the field separators in the header row to <th> before and </th> instead of the <td> and </td>
          6. Copy your spreadsheet and paste it into your draft. It will have extra spaces representing the (implied) tabs between fields, but no big whoop
          7. before the first data line, add in the <table> tag and after the last data line add in the </table> closer for the tag.

          Comments, guys? Is there a simpler way to do this? Did I miss anything?

        2. That is the easiest way, but I wanted to add pictures. I also needed to check if things would work when the cells have commas in them.

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