50 thoughts on “February 13, 2015: Jason Goes to Hell”

      2. Yup. I'm going to share it with my "Masters of Public Policy Community Gardening" younger brother.

    2. Nice result, good to see.

      I'm forced to wonder about adverse possession though... they were squatting on that land an awfully long time.

      2. It wasn't exclusive possession, and they didn't occupy the land, so I'm not sure that would apply. They didn't actually live on that property, so squatting isn't really the right word to use here.

        1. Squatting isn't probably quite the right word, true. But they don't need to live on the property for adverse possession to apply. The only real problem is exclusivity, and that would probably depend on whether certain parcels were continuously used by the same people, and whether the group as a whole could claim joint ownership (I don't know the answers on those, but they'd be fun to argue).

          2. They basically had a verbal contract with the previous owners. The new owners basically bought it out. Considering they had use of the lands for many years before and after the new owners bought it, I would think they would have a good case for continuing to use it. In either case, I think the company knew that if they just kicked them off the land, it would be terrible PR no matter what legal rights they had. Instead, they turned this into great PR for the company and the new development.

  2. As of this morning the featured image of posts will be derived from the title of images in the media library. The format is active <what> <slug> <title of the image>. For example, to add an image to the rotation for the Cup of Coffee, it would be active category cup-of-coffee Child and Woman Pouring Coffee.

    The what can be either tag or category. The tags are checked first in alphabetic order. If nothing was found then the categories are checked in alphabetic order.

    The slug is what WordPress uses in its URLs. It usually is the title of the tag or category lowercased, with spaces converted to dashes, and most non-alphanumeric characters deleted. For example, Cup of Coffee's slug is cup-of-coffee.

        1. Cup of Coffee images all updated. All 84 of them. I didn't recognize a few of them so now I'm wondering if there are any that haven't been used.

          1. I know I threw an image into the library a month or two ago that was coffee-related. I'm not sure it actually translates all that well to the CoC dimensions, so I figured I'd let those with a better sense of that decide whether they actually wanted to use it or not.

            1. I saw it and now I'm not sure why I didn't add it. The dimensions are off but it might work anyway. Looks like the aspect ratio isn't too far off the required size.

  3. Another nice win by the Gophers hoopsters last night. Although they tried giving it away late (a recurring theme this season). 5-7 in the B1G has them in 10th placebut the gap is narrowing between bottom feeder and mid table.

    1. They're at the exact same record (at least conference wise) as they were at this point last season, but trending in the opposite direction. Hollins has totally turned his season around.

  5. With the Half-Baked Hall project (new ballot being posted shortly), I have lost all desire to continue Pixel Perfect Memories (I also rarely play vids anymore). If anyone wants to take over, go for it.

    1. Not that I'm interested in continuing PPM (I don't play them anymore), but I've been thinking about starting a feature for talking about board games. Perhaps I could take the normal monthly spot?

      1. Could perhaps expand it to games of the virtual or physical sort. At the Movies has movies in the title but includes plenty of television discussion. Not that you need to keep the PPM moniker. If you want a different category name, let me know and it will be done.

  6. The new IRS scam season has begun in earnest. Just got a robo-call from "Officer Julie Smith of the Internal Revenue Service" from an unidentifed land line in Los Angeles, demanding that we call "immediately" before they "take action".

    I weep for America.

    1. I had a client almost fall prey to one recently. Call from Dominica saying there was a warrant out for her arrest for tax evasion and they knew a lot of her personal information. She already has an anxiety disorder. God I hate these people.

  7. Need a rabbit hole to go down today. Here ya go: Baseline Cherrypicker.

    Baseball edition
    Statements of the form "Jack Morris won more games in the 1980s than anyone else" are fascinating. Although they're true, they rest on cherry-picked years that may or may not illustrate a deeper truth in context. (And we see them all the time: see my college degrees cherry-picker for another area.) For baseball, there are thousands of statements just like the ones here that you can make about any single cumulative stat over the game's history--10,296, to be exact. Printed out, all the statements you could make with the data here (which now includes individual franchise and league leaderboards) would take about 120,000 pages, single-spaced. This visualization lets you hone in on the patches of interest.

    If you just run your mouse over the chart and read the text that pops up, you'll start to get the general idea. (On a phone or tablet, try tapping.) Or see below for a fuller explanation.

    2. Every time I go on facebook, I'm amazed at the human ability to accept facts that confirm what we already believe and reject facts that don't.

  10. My daughter got a hold of my wife's iPad today, signed up for an Internet hosting site (a free one) with my wife's email account, and started a website.

    OMG.

        1. You are getting old.

          but I couldn't come up with a decent "b" word about skating (Skate and B_ Girl).

  11. I see legendary announcer Gary Owen passed away. When I was working in radio, our station carried syndicated programming overnights called "Music of Your Life". The music skewed older (lots of big band and crooners, but played newer artists like Diana Krall and Michael Buble before he got super famous). Owens was one of the announcers. Of course I recognized him from Rowan and Martins Laugh In and Space Ghost, but he came across as a super cool person and a person you would love to hang out and let him tell stories.

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