I downloaded an app to count down the days and hours until I leave for Minnesota. I have to get out of here for good.
42 thoughts on “June 22, 2015: Pointless Downloads”
So after attending Saturday's game, I can check "Wrigley Field" off of my list of ballpark experiences. I swear the place was majority "Cubbies" fans, especially lower level. Creepy.
I was listening to the game, and I had to remind myself that the Twins were at home. Every time I heard the crowd cheering, I thought something good happened... nope.
I had the same experience yesterday. Granted, there was nothing for the Twins to cheer about.
My section was by the right field pole and we had several Torii worshippers. One guy even had a Torii article he cut from the newspaper and kept looking at it and holding it like it was his diploma.
Did anyone else watch Deadly Adoption this weekend? Probably the funniest thing I've seen all year.
Had my parents in town this weekend. Dad and I spent Father's Day together with Miss SBG. Then, they took off and we took Miss SBG to the skating rink, where she started working on some new elements. She's now doing things like "toe loop" and "Salchow" and "Lutz" that I had heard of before she ever started skating. Believe it or not, Women's Figure Skating is a sport that I have a lot of interest in now. These girls work hard. My daughter is in a jump class and a core strengthening class, in addition to several hours on the ice. She's eight. I love watching girls at all levels of skating and when I'm in the arena, I really look to see who are good skaters and who aren't.
Life is funny.
AMR, I was glad to see you had an umbrella this morning.
I didn't leave it on the bus!
(Unlike my last umbrella, unlike my binoculars on Friday.)
I did not see you, but I saw your bus and decided to focus on getting where there was less rain rather than determining if you de-boarded there.
I wasn't on that bus.
/waggles eyebrows
So you got the earlier bus and saw me right before or after the library, eh?
I saw you on Marquette; I was on a different numbered bus entirely! (The reasons for this are actually quite mundane, but it was fortuitous as far as spycraft went.)
with due apologies to New Guy for picking that scab.
Some of the rhetoric about Hunter was over the top, but the idea that he was going to be a good player for the Twins was wishful thinking.
Oh don't even worry about me. I regret starting that whole big thing.
You shouldn't regret it, NG. It was an appropriate, and probably needed, reminder.
What bS said.
nd a poll of active baseball players by ESPN The Magazine this past winter voted Bryce Harper as the league’s most overrated player for the second consecutive year. Harper, hitting .344/.476/.720 this year, seems unlikely to make it to a three-peat.
Obviously, if you haven't played the game, you don't know how to evaluate talent.
ID the AU*
Which Twins player (former, current, or future) signs his name this way?
*Topps has included some great "new" players' autograph cards in recent sets which I'm excited about
This was one our our better memes over the years.
A few sports-related shots in this week's Invisibles Quiz. Seemed easier than usual to me. Only ones I couldn't get were 5 and 8, and it seems like I should know 5, but couldn't quite place it. The ones I got were...
1. Clerks
2. Field of Dreams
3. Midnight Cowboy
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
6. Up in the Air
7. Primal Fear
#7 was the only one I didn't have, besides #5 & #8.
Thanks for running with this; I've had too many other irons in the fire, so I'm more than happy to hand Invisibles off.
7 took me a couple tries, but clicked immediately once I started thinking about that genre.
And I'm happy to keep it up since I enjoy them, glad I wasn't stepping on toes by jumping in. If I think of it on Monday and don't see a post, I'll add one.
O.K. ISIS now you've gone too far. C'mon Obama how you going to respond to this?
Could be a smoke screen. (Kidding. Thank you flip.)
Yea, Iowa. What next, driver's licenses for the blind?
In fifth & sixth grade my closest friend was blind. He lived out in the country, and his grandfather would kind of do anything he asked him to do. He came to pick us all up to run to the store or something, and on the way back he let my friend's 6 year old brother steer the car, and then let my blind friend behind the wheel. It was an empty gravel road, and his grandfather was there just in case, but to this day it's still one of the moments I was the most fearful of my life during.
So after attending Saturday's game, I can check "Wrigley Field" off of my list of ballpark experiences. I swear the place was majority "Cubbies" fans, especially lower level. Creepy.
I was listening to the game, and I had to remind myself that the Twins were at home. Every time I heard the crowd cheering, I thought something good happened... nope.
I had the same experience yesterday. Granted, there was nothing for the Twins to cheer about.
My section was by the right field pole and we had several Torii worshippers. One guy even had a Torii article he cut from the newspaper and kept looking at it and holding it like it was his diploma.
Did anyone else watch Deadly Adoption this weekend? Probably the funniest thing I've seen all year.
Hey guys, new Games We Play post is up!
Had my parents in town this weekend. Dad and I spent Father's Day together with Miss SBG. Then, they took off and we took Miss SBG to the skating rink, where she started working on some new elements. She's now doing things like "toe loop" and "Salchow" and "Lutz" that I had heard of before she ever started skating. Believe it or not, Women's Figure Skating is a sport that I have a lot of interest in now. These girls work hard. My daughter is in a jump class and a core strengthening class, in addition to several hours on the ice. She's eight. I love watching girls at all levels of skating and when I'm in the arena, I really look to see who are good skaters and who aren't.
Life is funny.
AMR, I was glad to see you had an umbrella this morning.
I didn't leave it on the bus!
(Unlike my last umbrella, unlike my binoculars on Friday.)
I did not see you, but I saw your bus and decided to focus on getting where there was less rain rather than determining if you de-boarded there.
I wasn't on that bus.
/waggles eyebrows
So you got the earlier bus and saw me right before or after the library, eh?
I saw you on Marquette; I was on a different numbered bus entirely! (The reasons for this are actually quite mundane, but it was fortuitous as far as spycraft went.)
Grantland is suggesting a certain sub-replacement level player might get MVP votes this year.
ii had a feeling that's where it was headed...
You can't put a priice on liidership.
with due apologies to New Guy for picking that scab.
Some of the rhetoric about Hunter was over the top, but the idea that he was going to be a good player for the Twins was wishful thinking.
Oh don't even worry about me. I regret starting that whole big thing.
You shouldn't regret it, NG. It was an appropriate, and probably needed, reminder.
What bS said.
Obviously, if you haven't played the game, you don't know how to evaluate talent.
ID the AU*
Which Twins player (former, current, or future) signs his name this way?
*Topps has included some great "new" players' autograph cards in recent sets which I'm excited about
This was one our our better memes over the years.
A few sports-related shots in this week's Invisibles Quiz. Seemed easier than usual to me. Only ones I couldn't get were 5 and 8, and it seems like I should know 5, but couldn't quite place it. The ones I got were...
#7 was the only one I didn't have, besides #5 & #8.
Thanks for running with this; I've had too many other irons in the fire, so I'm more than happy to hand Invisibles off.
7 took me a couple tries, but clicked immediately once I started thinking about that genre.
And I'm happy to keep it up since I enjoy them, glad I wasn't stepping on toes by jumping in. If I think of it on Monday and don't see a post, I'll add one.
O.K. ISIS now you've gone too far. C'mon Obama how you going to respond to this?
http://www.clickhole.com/article/disgusting-isis-just-released-2-star-review-aeropl-2620
One man's Pitchfork is another man's terrorist.
Trying not to get too excited, trying not to get too excited, trying not to get too excited...
Could be a smoke screen. (Kidding. Thank you flip.)
Yea, Iowa. What next, driver's licenses for the blind?
In fifth & sixth grade my closest friend was blind. He lived out in the country, and his grandfather would kind of do anything he asked him to do. He came to pick us all up to run to the store or something, and on the way back he let my friend's 6 year old brother steer the car, and then let my blind friend behind the wheel. It was an empty gravel road, and his grandfather was there just in case, but to this day it's still one of the moments I was the most fearful of my life during.
You just need someone to tell you where to go.
... Louisiana....
You know, I am ok with this scenario. Probably less likely to shoot someone accidentally than is true of many slack-jawed yokel or dudebro hunters.
But a gun for "personal protection," not so much.
Was mostly pointing to the 'omg, not an easy task fully sighted' portion of the story.
The second half of Norway-England has been a barn burner.
Anyone get trees blown over this morning?
NY Liberty suspend Isiah Thomas application for part ownership. Huh.
Watching USA-Columbia on tape. Spoiler for Spoons.
I forgot to mention on account of being in the hospital, but my brother went to the US/Nigeria game on the 16th. He said it was a great time.
Holy crap.