What if they played a baseball game and nobody came? I guess we will find out.
I am glad that it's the free game of the day on MLB.tv!
They should keep the broadcasters at home as well and just have the sounds of the stadium on the audio
there'd be too many audible f-bombs.
With no fans, did they have the stadium PA announcer? Did they play the walk-up music for the players?
I can't answer those questions, but I can say that this gif is fantastic.
The dude who did that is an immediate all-time fave.
finally got home. i've been waiting for this: video courtesy of MASN, audio set to ballpark sound only.
I can hear ass-slaps in the dugout.
Paging AMR and other history buffs - apparently, large Wall Street banks and brokerage houses have been greedy opportunists providing a valuable service for at least the past 150 years.
I want to know more about where exactly this Maya Kicaksa village was, how it was situated.
I know where New Ulm was a few years later: some of the buildings are still there (particularly foundations), and streets are in the same locations.
This is from Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota By Gwen Westerman, Bruce M. White, Minnesota Historical Society, Jan 1, 2012.
New Ulm is close to the mouth of the Cottonwood River!
I want to know: was it on Shag Road? Where the Quarry is now?
Further into town like where the Kraft plant or Hy-Vee is?
so, Oberyn. My first thought was to go here and think, huh, spoons is a Zelazny fan? My second thought was to go here. Mmmm, Bell's.
Oh, yea. GoTcha.
My first thought was Spooks isn't caught up to the current season yet.
I love that fight. After reading it in the books, I couldn't wait to see it acted out.
Wait, what?! If it was Oberon, I would have gone to Shakespeare first, I promise.
Good God, I've seen little league games cleaner than the Padres' defense today. Yeesh
so, pity me, please.
I am trying to wade through budget/expenditure data for my unit over the past 4 FYs, including the current FY. And discovering things that I probably should have known, but didn't. And discovering things that our agency's budget office folks really, really should know how to do but don't, like how to use the SUMIF and SUMIFS functions in Excel. Yes, dear lord, we are tracking expenditures in Excel. Very, very poorly.
our budget office chief has my office manager copying and pasting ranges of cells from a global expenditure tab to like EIGHT different tabs by hand. She then uses formulas to generate subtotals (for ranges of budget object codes) and rolls these subtotals into yet another tab to summarize.
Not surprisingly, this is a recipe for errors galore. Jesus wept.
Why am I doing this? Because I've learned belatedly that I've outspent my budget allocations for several ranges of object codes. Things like "shit I have to purchase so that my staff can do its jobs." Because our budget office has never actually allocated remotely enough money to cover our core expenditures for OE&E, and we then do an end-of-year dance of transfering money around (mainly, stealing money from my personnel budget from unfilled positions to then cover OE&E).
How ridiculous is this? In two consecutive years during the worst of the budget crisis, my budget allocations for core OE&E categories were either zero or NEGATIVE, and I had to hold positions vacant to pay for OE&E. Yea. Anyhoo, we've gotten in the habit of ignoring the allocations (Because Bullshit). Now, the new sheriff in town tells us mid-year that we can't outspend allocations (which, remember, were bullshit) because we are going to have an agency-wide "strategic" discussion about how to spend unexpended personnel dollars. Uh huh. So this is why I am trying to untangle all this crap.
I have heartburn. #firstworldproblems, I know. But still. I am going home to drink.
*send you a bottle of a fine spirit*
A couple months ago, I got bumped into a leadership/management/dont really have a fancy title but it comes with responsibility role rather hastily, because the guy who had the job before was let go. Now, I have to deal with this year's budget and how money was terribly allocated (things needed repair and was never discussed last year) and trying to prioritize what goes to the top for next year/getting estimates/all that jazz while at the same time trying to do my normal daily work, but this year with added workload.
I have been a little overwhelmed by just everything, as I am probably a little under qualified for this job. Im learning, and learning fast, but there is just SO MUCH and Im just not dealing with it well and I just feel awful about that.
As someone who works with Excel every day, your story gave me fits.
You need to start linking in that bad boy. No need to copy paste, you can just have cells reference other cells on other tabs.
Thus my hives. Re-freakin-diculous.
Yes, but at least his story doesn't involve formulas like this: =SUM(100)+SUM(113)+SUM(SUM(145.3+1600+15+.01+2000+'C:\Users\Scooter\Desktop\[CY3Re~(1)(1)(2).xls]Sheet1'!$D$101+31.45+3)+5+10+30350.12+16)+.01+14-158+'C:\Users\Scooter\Desktop\[Book28.xls]Sheet1(1)(1)'!$C$6+50000+16.23+SUM(1513)
For several hundred cells on 16 different tabs (except usually about 5 times longer).
Something's wrong. It doesn't add with what's on our system. When did the errors happen? I don't know, let's compare this spreadsheet monthly to see if there's an element that was typed over/mistyped/final version not used.
That was one of my first projects. (Can you believe that someone who kept their records like this went insolvent?)
I haven't seen anything _that_ kind of bad since.
A-hahahahaha!
Legitimately felt a bit nauseous looking at this.
you can just have cells reference other cells on other tabs.
"I tried that once, but then I did something and it all went to #REF! errors.
Then I had to go home, so I saved it before closing because I didn't want to lose my work."
Yea. Sorting tab A when tab B has absolute references to tab A cells is bad.
In my case, my people are unduly complicating things. Just use SUMIF or SUMIFS to get summary info from tab A for subsets of the data to populate a summary table in tab B. That is what we need for tracking and strategic planning purposes: to know how we are spending by functional category and whether we are above or below our expected burn rates.
Kids today and their SUMIFS. Back when I was a young Excel jockey, we had to learn to use array functions!
(Actually, I still do that. Did it today in fact. I don't trust the syntax of SUMIFS.)
Hey, I spent five minutes today to learn SUMIF and SUMIFS. I'm a Stata guy. But I gotta teach staff how not to do stupid things on a platform I don't use.
Cribbage update:
I beat AMR in game 1 fairly closely. In game 2, he squeaked by me because of a pair during play on the final hand (without that pair, I would have one once the hands were counted despite his being counted first). In game 3, he thoroughly trounced me. So, for those of you scoring at home, these means AMR gets to further mess with a spooky run game! (and I maintain a two-year streak of early eliminations)
But you win the race to post about it, Pirate!
Cribbage update:
AMR defeated DreadPirate 3-1 .
Game 1: DP got out ahead right from the start, and when I felt I was getting in rhythm, he'd get the cut or cards and get his lead back up or more. I was glad to get out of there unskunked. (I might have lost by 26.)
Game 2: AMR got out ahead early but DP chiseled away at it. Going into the last hand, DP was about 12 out with the deal, AMR needed 8 to go out. I had six points in my hand 557J, the cut of A got me nothing. I needed help. I started with the J, hoping DP would lay a 5 I could double-up. He laid a 7! I pair it up and win! (He followed up J77 with a 6 and I couldn't believe my luck: a run! only J776 is 30 points, so I couldn't lay a 5. Didn't matter.)
Game 3: After the first hand (DP's deal), we were tied. On my deal, I pulled ahead. A bit later, I was dealt 556699. I was ruing that I had to send DP a pair of 5s, only to discard into my crib! I had 12 points in the hand and 12 in the crib that time. DP's next (?) deal saw him with 0 in hand, 0 in crib (he did manage a few pegging). I think I beat him by 40.
Good game, Dread Pirate.
That last time I feel like you pegged with a nine on every hand.
Fien on DL with a sore shoulder and Michael Tonkin called up. At least the Twins will get a chance to see a reliever that can actually strike somebody out (other than Perk). Hopefully, he pitches well enough that he'll be allowed to stay when Fien returns. Unfortunately, this means Boyer and/or Stauffer will be used in more critical situations against righties. Thompson has pitched well, but I think his numbers against righties are a mirage since his K rate against them is very low. The best part of this might be that Zach Jones will get a well-deserved promotion to Rochester. He's one of the three guys at AA that throws close to triple digits. He has an 11-1 K-BB ratio in 6 innings with no HRs allowed.
Make that 13-1 in 7 IP for Jones after getting the save on Wednesday.
The Astros are the only team in the AL West above .500.
Are our game logs secretly being watched? o-O
Good spycraft there.
What if they played a baseball game and nobody came? I guess we will find out.
I am glad that it's the free game of the day on MLB.tv!
They should keep the broadcasters at home as well and just have the sounds of the stadium on the audio
there'd be too many audible f-bombs.
With no fans, did they have the stadium PA announcer? Did they play the walk-up music for the players?
I can't answer those questions, but I can say that this gif is fantastic.
The dude who did that is an immediate all-time fave.
finally got home. i've been waiting for this: video courtesy of MASN, audio set to ballpark sound only.
I can hear ass-slaps in the dugout.
Paging AMR and other history buffs - apparently, large Wall Street banks and brokerage houses have been
greedy opportunistsproviding a valuable service for at least the past 150 years.I want to know more about where exactly this Maya Kicaksa village was, how it was situated.
I know where New Ulm was a few years later: some of the buildings are still there (particularly foundations), and streets are in the same locations.
from the miracle of teh Google:
[Embiggen]
This is from Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota By Gwen Westerman, Bruce M. White, Minnesota Historical Society, Jan 1, 2012.
New Ulm is close to the mouth of the Cottonwood River!
I want to know: was it on Shag Road? Where the Quarry is now?
Further into town like where the Kraft plant or Hy-Vee is?
so, Oberyn. My first thought was to go here and think, huh, spoons is a Zelazny fan? My second thought was to go here. Mmmm, Bell's.
Oh, yea. GoTcha.
My first thought was Spooks isn't caught up to the current season yet.
Funny thing.
Wait, what?! If it was Oberon, I would have gone to Shakespeare first, I promise.
Good God, I've seen little league games cleaner than the Padres' defense today. Yeesh
so, pity me, please.
I am trying to wade through budget/expenditure data for my unit over the past 4 FYs, including the current FY. And discovering things that I probably should have known, but didn't. And discovering things that our agency's budget office folks really, really should know how to do but don't, like how to use the SUMIF and SUMIFS functions in Excel. Yes, dear lord, we are tracking expenditures in Excel. Very, very poorly.
our budget office chief has my office manager copying and pasting ranges of cells from a global expenditure tab to like EIGHT different tabs by hand. She then uses formulas to generate subtotals (for ranges of budget object codes) and rolls these subtotals into yet another tab to summarize.
Not surprisingly, this is a recipe for errors galore. Jesus wept.
Why am I doing this? Because I've learned belatedly that I've outspent my budget allocations for several ranges of object codes. Things like "shit I have to purchase so that my staff can do its jobs." Because our budget office has never actually allocated remotely enough money to cover our core expenditures for OE&E, and we then do an end-of-year dance of transfering money around (mainly, stealing money from my personnel budget from unfilled positions to then cover OE&E).
How ridiculous is this? In two consecutive years during the worst of the budget crisis, my budget allocations for core OE&E categories were either zero or NEGATIVE, and I had to hold positions vacant to pay for OE&E. Yea. Anyhoo, we've gotten in the habit of ignoring the allocations (Because Bullshit). Now, the new sheriff in town tells us mid-year that we can't outspend allocations (which, remember, were bullshit) because we are going to have an agency-wide "strategic" discussion about how to spend unexpended personnel dollars. Uh huh. So this is why I am trying to untangle all this crap.
I have heartburn. #firstworldproblems, I know. But still. I am going home to drink.
*send you a bottle of a fine spirit*
A couple months ago, I got bumped into a leadership/management/dont really have a fancy title but it comes with responsibility role rather hastily, because the guy who had the job before was let go. Now, I have to deal with this year's budget and how money was terribly allocated (things needed repair and was never discussed last year) and trying to prioritize what goes to the top for next year/getting estimates/all that jazz while at the same time trying to do my normal daily work, but this year with added workload.
I have been a little overwhelmed by just everything, as I am probably a little under qualified for this job. Im learning, and learning fast, but there is just SO MUCH and Im just not dealing with it well and I just feel awful about that.
As someone who works with Excel every day, your story gave me fits.
You need to start linking in that bad boy. No need to copy paste, you can just have cells reference other cells on other tabs.
Thus my hives. Re-freakin-diculous.
Yes, but at least his story doesn't involve formulas like this:
=SUM(100)+SUM(113)+SUM(SUM(145.3+1600+15+.01+2000+'C:\Users\Scooter\Desktop\[CY3Re~(1)(1)(2).xls]Sheet1'!$D$101+31.45+3)+5+10+30350.12+16)+.01+14-158+'C:\Users\Scooter\Desktop\[Book28.xls]Sheet1(1)(1)'!$C$6+50000+16.23+SUM(1513)For several hundred cells on 16 different tabs (except usually about 5 times longer).
Something's wrong. It doesn't add with what's on our system. When did the errors happen? I don't know, let's compare this spreadsheet monthly to see if there's an element that was typed over/mistyped/final version not used.
That was one of my first projects. (Can you believe that someone who kept their records like this went insolvent?)
I haven't seen anything _that_ kind of bad since.
A-hahahahaha!
Legitimately felt a bit nauseous looking at this.
you can just have cells reference other cells on other tabs.
"I tried that once, but then I did something and it all went to #REF! errors.
Then I had to go home, so I saved it before closing because I didn't want to lose my work."
Yea. Sorting tab A when tab B has absolute references to tab A cells is bad.
In my case, my people are unduly complicating things. Just use SUMIF or SUMIFS to get summary info from tab A for subsets of the data to populate a summary table in tab B. That is what we need for tracking and strategic planning purposes: to know how we are spending by functional category and whether we are above or below our expected burn rates.
Kids today and their SUMIFS. Back when I was a young Excel jockey, we had to learn to use array functions!
(Actually, I still do that. Did it today in fact. I don't trust the syntax of SUMIFS.)
Hey, I spent five minutes today to learn SUMIF and SUMIFS. I'm a Stata guy. But I gotta teach staff how not to do stupid things on a platform I don't use.
Cribbage update:
I beat AMR in game 1 fairly closely. In game 2, he squeaked by me because of a pair during play on the final hand (without that pair, I would have one once the hands were counted despite his being counted first). In game 3, he thoroughly trounced me. So, for those of you scoring at home, these means AMR gets to further mess with a spooky run game! (and I maintain a two-year streak of early eliminations)
But you win the race to post about it, Pirate!
Cribbage update:
AMR defeated DreadPirate 3-1 .
Game 1: DP got out ahead right from the start, and when I felt I was getting in rhythm, he'd get the cut or cards and get his lead back up or more. I was glad to get out of there unskunked. (I might have lost by 26.)
Game 2: AMR got out ahead early but DP chiseled away at it. Going into the last hand, DP was about 12 out with the deal, AMR needed 8 to go out. I had six points in my hand 557J, the cut of A got me nothing. I needed help. I started with the J, hoping DP would lay a 5 I could double-up. He laid a 7! I pair it up and win! (He followed up J77 with a 6 and I couldn't believe my luck: a run! only J776 is 30 points, so I couldn't lay a 5. Didn't matter.)
Game 3: After the first hand (DP's deal), we were tied. On my deal, I pulled ahead. A bit later, I was dealt 556699. I was ruing that I had to send DP a pair of 5s, only to discard into my crib! I had 12 points in the hand and 12 in the crib that time. DP's next (?) deal saw him with 0 in hand, 0 in crib (he did manage a few pegging). I think I beat him by 40.
Good game, Dread Pirate.
That last time I feel like you pegged with a nine on every hand.
Fien on DL with a sore shoulder and Michael Tonkin called up. At least the Twins will get a chance to see a reliever that can actually strike somebody out (other than Perk). Hopefully, he pitches well enough that he'll be allowed to stay when Fien returns. Unfortunately, this means Boyer and/or Stauffer will be used in more critical situations against righties. Thompson has pitched well, but I think his numbers against righties are a mirage since his K rate against them is very low. The best part of this might be that Zach Jones will get a well-deserved promotion to Rochester. He's one of the three guys at AA that throws close to triple digits. He has an 11-1 K-BB ratio in 6 innings with no HRs allowed.
Make that 13-1 in 7 IP for Jones after getting the save on Wednesday.
#youthmovement
#itshappening
[hopefully]