I've eaten others in the family (stinkhorns: Phallus ravenelli and... another Phallus). Books say to cook them in the egg stage, but I think they're better when old and flaccid and no longer covered in goo. Put them in soup as replacement noodles. Think of tripe in Pho.
"I think they're better...no longer covered in goo."
Hard to argue against that
well the stinky foul-smelling goo isn't gooey or foul-smelling when it's an "egg".
But it is the reason you don't pick them at the same time you would for any other mushroom.
If anyone likes WTF, Steve Albini, or the modern musical process in general, I would recommend the recent podcast which combined all 3.
For the first two years I lived in SoCal, I never wore anything other than short sleeve shirts and shorts. Today, it will be sunny and 65, and I'm wearing a thick sweater and jeans and I'm sure I'll wear a jacket when I go to Junior's baseball game this afternoon.
Speaking of cold... yesterday our office was functionally without heat. It was 52 degrees when I came in in the morning. It got all the way up to 60 by the end of the day, after we'd had our boiler looked at. Today is much better, but I had to shovel snow this morning, so once again I find myself just wanting to curl up in a nice warm bed. (Still, my first time having to shovel my own driveway! Definitely prefer it to having to shovel my parents' driveway. It has been a long time...).
Still, my my first time having to shovel my own driveway! Definitely prefer it to having to shovel my parents' driveway.
When we bought our house I told Mrs. Hayes I was buying a two-stage snowblower. I've never regretted that purchase. When I was a kid my folks had an arrangement with the next-door neighbors: we handled the snow, he handled the grass in the summer. On top of our two houses, though, Pa expected that I clear the snow for everyone else on our block. (Two neighbors were elderly, the other was a longtime family friend.) At least we had a single-stage blower, but there were days when it took a couple hours to get it all done.
Still, as I was frequently reminded, that beat mucking out hog stalls...
There might well come a day when I'd like a snowblower. Right now, I can use a little extra exercise, and our driveway isn't all that big as it is. Soon enough, I'll have help from the kids (I already asked Aquinas to handle the small sidewalk between the driveway and the front steps). But someday...
When we lived in St Paul, I had probably 200' of sidewalk and a 12' x 30' driveway - shoveled it all by hand.
At our current residence, we have ~15' of sidewalk and a driveway that's basically an extension of the road which is contracted for plowing through the HOA - we were gifted a one-year-old snowblower from my M-I-L's estate the first winter in our home and I've only used it twice.
Similar: our old house had a 80' x 20' (est using bing maps) driveway and was on a main thoroughfare, so the plowlines were horrible. Plus walkway around the double garage, and a concrete patio that I liked to keep clear.
Always shoveled by hand. 95% of that by me.
The new house has 40' x 12' driveway and maybe 20' of walkway, and I barely shoveled yesterday or today. (HPR did some both days before breakfast. Gets him some leeway with other chores... he's learning so quickly!)
Sometimes shoveling is the homeschool P.E. for the day.
No way I'm buying a snowblower now.
I still get to do 90% of the shovelling when it's severely cold. I also shovel the deck when I can, but that's easy because there's no lifting: just pushing off the side.
Bing maps because the Google Maps photos were taken in the summer when foliage blocks decent measurements.
Snowblowers have the added advantage of getting to do small engine/mechanical maintenance.
Thanks to my snowblower I know how to replace valve stems and seat the bead on a tire.
Twins sign Byung-Ho Park: four years, twelve million dollars.
$12M total? That's about what we paid Tommy Milone last year or Kurt Suzuki in 2014 on a yearly basis.
Anyway, about twice that much. Don't forget the original posting fee.
Right, forgot that part. Pro rate that and we're up to about $6M/per, which is what we paid Kurt Suzuki this year.
Well, that gives him a pretty low bar to have to clear.
hj - are you sure LEN3 didn't call it?
By Phil Miller
The Pohlads dont spend enough money!!!11!!1!!!
From Gleeman:
reports from Korea suggest that Park felt the Twins low-balled him during negotiations but basically just accepted anyway because he wants to play in MLB.
#Negotiating!
Happy camper. Yay!
It's odd that what we do as fans is basically root against the players. Player X didn't get what he's worth? Yippee! Player Y gets paid too much? Curse him!
Go owners, I guess.
The owners have it crazy good. Imagine how much crazier good it was for them pre Curt Flood.
The problem is it is very clear to us laymen what the players are making, yet we don't know the exact dollar amount the owners are making. If they put the numbers up side by side on the ESPN infographics I'm sure more people would root for the players.
I'm not sure that they've ever had it as good as they have it now. Revenues have exploded, cities build them new stadiums, franchise values are through the roof.
They treated players like chattel in the pre-free agency days, sure, but the money now... wow.
True. They definitely have more money now. Less control, but they still have a ton of control.
If they put the numbers up side by side on the ESPN infographics I'm sure more people would root for the players.
Also put the cost of tickets side by side. I think you'll find more people rooting for the fans.
Part of me's still leery from the Nishi experience. Park won't have that minimum-salary indentured-servitude (that players coming through the typical system do) in which to show if he's worth more.
Part of it is that if a team has a (near-) fixed salary budget, paying more to one player means less for another, which might mean some penny-wise, win-poor moves.
Part of me is just finding humor in the bluntness of the leak. If I could make $3M/year, would I be able to walk away even rational analysis might show me to be worth $5M/year? What's my utility-weighted risk/reward calculation?
A simple request:
Please refer to him as Park Byung-ho here in the basement since Koreans typically have their family name first and given name second. If we as a society are culturally sensitive enough to refer to Kim Jung-Il that way, surely we can afford the courtesy to an athlete.
A reasonable request. I'll do my best to do so, for sure.
Do Koreans prefer the full name always be used? If we were to shorten it, would we use his last name like most players or his first name like Ichiro?
I wonder if he's related to my sister?*
*he says, knowing Park is the most common surname in Korea
Except Will tells us to use it as his forename! (Not sure if that's the term.)
Will said to use it as his first name. His surname (family name) is still Park.
Surname means last name, not family name.
Type in "surname definition" in Google.
That's fine, as far as it goes. When all people follow the same naming convention, surname = last name, and that's from where the definition shown arises ("family name" and "last name" as equivalent and synonymous definitions).
Yet, surname literally means after-name; using that when family names come before given names results in two contradictory meanings.
Dropping the term for non-western conventions will alleviate any further confusion we may have on the topic.
To answer my own question, "forename" is an acceptable alternative to "first name". To expound, I would not consider it an acceptable alternative to given name in non-western conventions.
I would also recommend Googling "sur" as well. Sur means "over", not "after"
It really doesn't matter: Park is the most common Korean surname, whether it's placed via Western or in non-Western convention.
I like the Danish:
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Norse súrr (“sour”), from Proto-Germanic *sūraz, from Proto-Indo-European *sūr-.
Adjective[edit]
1. sur (neuter surt, definite and plural sure, comparative surere, superlative surest)
2. sour (having an acid, sharp or tangy taste; peevish or bad-tempered)
3. acid
4. surly, cross, annoyed, sulky, sore
5. hard, rotten, annoying
Sur- = super- = above, beyond, further
I did mix personal interpretation with pedantry. I'll be more careful next time.
Park is the most common Korean surname, whether it's placed via Western or in non-Western convention.
Our disagreement is all over whether "surname" is an appropriate word when "family name" and "last name" are not always the same. I still disagree with you, but... I don't care near as much as it's appeared. Really, this came out of a language joke that didn't quite work.
I'll probably use whatever it says on the Roster.
It's not a matter of cultural sensitivity if that's how he selects to use it in America.
I'd think it's more like grammar and language syntax. Does family name go first or last? In English, last. In Chinese, first. In Korean and Japanese, it's complicated.
If he wants it that way and communicates it that way, I'll use it that way. Otherwise, I mean no disrespect by using it the formal way it's written on the roster.
This assumes the Twins – or the media – give Park Byung-ho a choice regarding how his name is articulated. Western naming conventions are imposed on many folks, whether regarding the order of names or disregard for things like suffixes designating gender.
This is a very common issue for international students at our university.
I'm familiar with the situation.
Many may find it easier to accept one naming convention than having some use one and others another.
Others will go so far as adopting western alternatives to their given names to prevent that confusion.
Should we assume that Park's name order was only accepted under duress?
I can see that being a possibility ("... basically just accepted anyway because he wants to play in MLB").
But until I hear otherwise, I'll give MLB.com and b-r.com the benefit of the doubt and use the western order. Probably.
Furthermore, I see no-one referring to Japanese players by their family names first.
Twins.mlb.com 25-man roster has him listed as "Byung Ho Park" ... all the rest of the team is listed First Name Last Name.
Also, there's a Hicks back on the roster!
I understand the argument for convenience and conformity. My concern is respect. One's name is integral to one's identity. Rendering it in the fashion which is customary in the person's native culture is respectful of their integrity of self. If we were conscientious with our courtesy for long enough there'd eventually be no need to worry about convenience.
Whether or not the Japanese have adopted Western conventions when transliterating their names into a romanized form should not inform our notions about what practice Koreans ought to adopt with their names. That's like saying, "Well, the Russians are doing this, so the Poles should be obliged to do the same, too." Them's fighting words in many places.
I'm unfamiliar with Korean convention, but familiar (to some degree) with conventions of the two countries which surround Korea (so: excluding the 10 mile border with Russia but including Japan which is across the sea).
I would hope its not disrespectful to Poles that if one is completely ignorant of their ways, trying to guess by looking at Russians (and Germans... "Russia and Germany:Poland::Japan and China:Korea" seems a more or less a legit analogy).
Given the Korean uniforms, it appears that traditional order is always preserved in Korean script and that both orderings are used in Roman letters. If I had to guess a pattern, western order for worldwide audiences (WBC and Olympics), while traditional order for regional audiences (Asian Games). Can something used by the national team in some instances be considered disrespectful without other strong evidence?
DP used the North Korean dictators' names as an example of traditional ordering being preserved in western usage. It would not surprise me to find differences in preferences between the West-rejecting North and the globally-exposed South?
I hope this isn't coming across as arguing, I'd like to think we're exploring, dialectically. I'm open to being convinced that "Park Byung-Ho" is the most preferred order.
I was looking at some photos of KBO players. They put full names on their jerseys. Most had their last name first. However, our guy's jersey said B.H. Park.
When in a jersey with Roman Letters, it's B. H. Park. This appears to be what the WBC (MLB influence) and Beijing Olympics unis were like.
I've seen other photos of a different Korean national team (Asian Games) with names Family Given, like Park Gwangyeo and Kim Hyunsoo. No photos of our guy from behind, but it would have read Park Byungho
When in Korean script, it's 박병호 (Bak Byeong Ho*). But it's already accepted that the family name 박 is "Park" when westernized.
*I just learned that Korean script is actually an alphabet (with letters stacked into syllables that end up looking to westerners a lot like Japanese or Chinese symbols). Preteen AMR, the one that learned the Greek, Hebrew**, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets (at least as well as World Book Encyclopedia presented them***) would be so excited. Still a bit ticked I couldn't find a good source on Hindi. I didn't learn the languages, mind you, just found it fun to write to myself in code and read (without translation) a few things I found written, or to write out place names.
**mostly forgotten. Letters were too hard to write and I didn't know how to simplify. Also: too similar to each other.
***World Book didn't have a good entry on Arabic: I got that from a book from inter-library loan. I tried that with Greek, too, but it was too focused on Modern Greek pronunciation and I got lost in the weeds adding mus before betas so I could get the betas to pronounce as /b/ and not /p/. Or something like that. 2000+ years and it seems that consonants and vowels have had more than one shift in them.
We should have been friends in sixth grade. That was the year I tried to learn Russian from an old book of my father's (with cassette tape!). I didn't get very far in terms of spoken Russian, but I loved writing out the alphabet.
I'll have to pass you notes in Cyrillic-scripted English.
I stink at Cyrillic handwriting, but I love its look. I actually brought the Cyrillic script "de" д into my signature. And now it's stuck, even though people have read my first name as "Dan" because of it.
Just installed my Xmas present to myself: Black Friday deal from Samsung -- low end soundbar to replace my low end home-theater-in-a-box that I had been streaming to from my computer. Similar sound quality, but a lot fewer wires and dust-catching speakers. And heat. Windows 10 doesn't support the Bluetooth that I would have needed, but the auto-on option is a nice feature.
CC to CH - the eagle has landed ... sans guts! Some postal worker somewhere is rocking out to Eve of Destruction, Sky Pilot and Ohio. I certainly do appreciate your efforts, but perhaps a track-listing via email will have to suffice.
Well, at least they delivered the box so we know, right?
Tru dat
Red Sox sign David Price for $217 million over seven years. That's $31 million per year. Greinke must be thrilled.
Yeesh. No one's going to be upset about that contract in Boston after a couple years months into the season.
Everyone should click through for the pic of Quade with two pairs of glasses.
I didnt know Dinkleman got into coaching. Good for him!
Sixers lead Lakers by 10 with 1:15 left in Kobe's final game in Philly.
The 28-game losing streak is over! Sixers beat Lakers by 12 in Kobe's final game in Philly.
Good for the Sixers and good for their fans, too. I think all of us can relate to what it's like to root for a terrible team. Even if it's just one game, at least they can be happy with their team for the moment.
Kobe had 20 points, but was 7-26 from the field and 4-17 from 3. SEVENTEEN SHOTS! my goodness.
Steph Curry hasn't taken 17 threes in a game this season.
Steph Curry has never shot 17 threes in a game in his career.
They had a big emotional intro for him and a highlight video for his final game in Philly. He was obviously psyched up and made 3-of-4 threes in the first 90 seconds. He made 1-of-13 threes the rest of the game.
Wild win 2-1 in Chicago. That's a huge win for them.
Yes, nice to see the Wild get a big win! Local High School Hockey team got their first win tonight too. The boy is playing JV. Wow, how time flies. When I first started visiting WGOM, my son was a Mite. Now, he is a 6'2" defenseman. And I am old and short.
I was in and out of that game.
Judging by twitter, Dubnyk was doing cartwheels blocking shots.
That is big, hope it's the end of the skid.
Speaking of thinning blood. Now that the weather is getting colder, I have the chills quite a bit. Don't know if it is the blood thinners, or just psychosomatic. Heating pad and my blanket are my friends.
How would AMR cook it?
I've eaten others in the family (stinkhorns: Phallus ravenelli and... another Phallus). Books say to cook them in the egg stage, but I think they're better when old and flaccid and no longer covered in goo. Put them in soup as replacement noodles. Think of tripe in Pho.
"I think they're better...no longer covered in goo."
Hard to argue against that
well the stinky foul-smelling goo isn't gooey or foul-smelling when it's an "egg".
But it is the reason you don't pick them at the same time you would for any other mushroom.
If anyone likes WTF, Steve Albini, or the modern musical process in general, I would recommend the recent podcast which combined all 3.
For the first two years I lived in SoCal, I never wore anything other than short sleeve shirts and shorts. Today, it will be sunny and 65, and I'm wearing a thick sweater and jeans and I'm sure I'll wear a jacket when I go to Junior's baseball game this afternoon.
Speaking of cold... yesterday our office was functionally without heat. It was 52 degrees when I came in in the morning. It got all the way up to 60 by the end of the day, after we'd had our boiler looked at. Today is much better, but I had to shovel snow this morning, so once again I find myself just wanting to curl up in a nice warm bed. (Still, my first time having to shovel my own driveway! Definitely prefer it to having to shovel my parents' driveway. It has been a long time...).
When we bought our house I told Mrs. Hayes I was buying a two-stage snowblower. I've never regretted that purchase. When I was a kid my folks had an arrangement with the next-door neighbors: we handled the snow, he handled the grass in the summer. On top of our two houses, though, Pa expected that I clear the snow for everyone else on our block. (Two neighbors were elderly, the other was a longtime family friend.) At least we had a single-stage blower, but there were days when it took a couple hours to get it all done.
Still, as I was frequently reminded, that beat mucking out hog stalls...
There might well come a day when I'd like a snowblower. Right now, I can use a little extra exercise, and our driveway isn't all that big as it is. Soon enough, I'll have help from the kids (I already asked Aquinas to handle the small sidewalk between the driveway and the front steps). But someday...
When we lived in St Paul, I had probably 200' of sidewalk and a 12' x 30' driveway - shoveled it all by hand.
At our current residence, we have ~15' of sidewalk and a driveway that's basically an extension of the road which is contracted for plowing through the HOA - we were gifted a one-year-old snowblower from my M-I-L's estate the first winter in our home and I've only used it twice.
Similar: our old house had a 80' x 20' (est using bing maps) driveway and was on a main thoroughfare, so the plowlines were horrible. Plus walkway around the double garage, and a concrete patio that I liked to keep clear.
Always shoveled by hand. 95% of that by me.
The new house has 40' x 12' driveway and maybe 20' of walkway, and I barely shoveled yesterday or today. (HPR did some both days before breakfast. Gets him some leeway with other chores... he's learning so quickly!)
Sometimes shoveling is the homeschool P.E. for the day.
No way I'm buying a snowblower now.
I still get to do 90% of the shovelling when it's severely cold. I also shovel the deck when I can, but that's easy because there's no lifting: just pushing off the side.
Bing maps because the Google Maps photos were taken in the summer when foliage blocks decent measurements.
Snowblowers have the added advantage of getting to do small engine/mechanical maintenance.
Thanks to my snowblower I know how to replace valve stems and seat the bead on a tire.
Twins sign Byung-Ho Park: four years, twelve million dollars.
$12M total? That's about what we paid Tommy Milone last year or Kurt Suzuki in 2014 on a yearly basis.
Woohoo, called it.
Anyway, about twice that much. Don't forget the original posting fee.
Right, forgot that part. Pro rate that and we're up to about $6M/per, which is what we paid Kurt Suzuki this year.
Well, that gives him a pretty low bar to have to clear.
hj - are you sure LEN3 didn't call it?
The Pohlads dont spend enough money!!!11!!1!!!
From Gleeman:
#Negotiating!
Happy camper. Yay!
It's odd that what we do as fans is basically root against the players. Player X didn't get what he's worth? Yippee! Player Y gets paid too much? Curse him!
Go owners, I guess.
The owners have it crazy good. Imagine how much crazier good it was for them pre Curt Flood.
The problem is it is very clear to us laymen what the players are making, yet we don't know the exact dollar amount the owners are making. If they put the numbers up side by side on the ESPN infographics I'm sure more people would root for the players.
I'm not sure that they've ever had it as good as they have it now. Revenues have exploded, cities build them new stadiums, franchise values are through the roof.
They treated players like chattel in the pre-free agency days, sure, but the money now... wow.
True. They definitely have more money now. Less control, but they still have a ton of control.
If they put the numbers up side by side on the ESPN infographics I'm sure more people would root for the players.
Also put the cost of tickets side by side. I think you'll find more people rooting for the fans.
Part of me's still leery from the Nishi experience. Park won't have that minimum-salary indentured-servitude (that players coming through the typical system do) in which to show if he's worth more.
Part of it is that if a team has a (near-) fixed salary budget, paying more to one player means less for another, which might mean some penny-wise, win-poor moves.
Part of me is just finding humor in the bluntness of the leak. If I could make $3M/year, would I be able to walk away even rational analysis might show me to be worth $5M/year? What's my utility-weighted risk/reward calculation?
A simple request:
Please refer to him as Park Byung-ho here in the basement since Koreans typically have their family name first and given name second. If we as a society are culturally sensitive enough to refer to Kim Jung-Il that way, surely we can afford the courtesy to an athlete.
A reasonable request. I'll do my best to do so, for sure.
Do Koreans prefer the full name always be used? If we were to shorten it, would we use his last name like most players or his first name like Ichiro?
I wonder if he's related to my sister?*
*he says, knowing Park is the most common surname in Korea
Except Will tells us to use it as his forename! (Not sure if that's the term.)
Will said to use it as his first name. His surname (family name) is still Park.
Surname means last name, not family name.
Type in "surname definition" in Google.
That's fine, as far as it goes. When all people follow the same naming convention, surname = last name, and that's from where the definition shown arises ("family name" and "last name" as equivalent and synonymous definitions).
Yet, surname literally means after-name; using that when family names come before given names results in two contradictory meanings.
Dropping the term for non-western conventions will alleviate any further confusion we may have on the topic.
To answer my own question, "forename" is an acceptable alternative to "first name". To expound, I would not consider it an acceptable alternative to given name in non-western conventions.
I would also recommend Googling "sur" as well. Sur means "over", not "after"
It really doesn't matter: Park is the most common Korean surname, whether it's placed via Western or in non-Western convention.
I like the Danish:
Sur- = super- = above, beyond, further
I did mix personal interpretation with pedantry. I'll be more careful next time.
Park is the most common Korean surname, whether it's placed via Western or in non-Western convention.
Our disagreement is all over whether "surname" is an appropriate word when "family name" and "last name" are not always the same. I still disagree with you, but... I don't care near as much as it's appeared. Really, this came out of a language joke that didn't quite work.
I'll probably use whatever it says on the Roster.
It's not a matter of cultural sensitivity if that's how he selects to use it in America.
I'd think it's more like grammar and language syntax. Does family name go first or last? In English, last. In Chinese, first. In Korean and Japanese, it's complicated.
If he wants it that way and communicates it that way, I'll use it that way. Otherwise, I mean no disrespect by using it the formal way it's written on the roster.
This assumes the Twins – or the media – give Park Byung-ho a choice regarding how his name is articulated. Western naming conventions are imposed on many folks, whether regarding the order of names or disregard for things like suffixes designating gender.
This is a very common issue for international students at our university.
I'm familiar with the situation.
Many may find it easier to accept one naming convention than having some use one and others another.
Others will go so far as adopting western alternatives to their given names to prevent that confusion.
Should we assume that Park's name order was only accepted under duress?
I can see that being a possibility ("... basically just accepted anyway because he wants to play in MLB").
But until I hear otherwise, I'll give MLB.com and b-r.com the benefit of the doubt and use the western order. Probably.
Furthermore, I see no-one referring to Japanese players by their family names first.
Twins.mlb.com 25-man roster has him listed as "Byung Ho Park" ... all the rest of the team is listed First Name Last Name.
Also, there's a Hicks back on the roster!
I understand the argument for convenience and conformity. My concern is respect. One's name is integral to one's identity. Rendering it in the fashion which is customary in the person's native culture is respectful of their integrity of self. If we were conscientious with our courtesy for long enough there'd eventually be no need to worry about convenience.
Whether or not the Japanese have adopted Western conventions when transliterating their names into a romanized form should not inform our notions about what practice Koreans ought to adopt with their names. That's like saying, "Well, the Russians are doing this, so the Poles should be obliged to do the same, too." Them's fighting words in many places.
I'm unfamiliar with Korean convention, but familiar (to some degree) with conventions of the two countries which surround Korea (so: excluding the 10 mile border with Russia but including Japan which is across the sea).
I would hope its not disrespectful to Poles that if one is completely ignorant of their ways, trying to guess by looking at Russians (and Germans... "Russia and Germany:Poland::Japan and China:Korea" seems a more or less a legit analogy).
Given the Korean uniforms, it appears that traditional order is always preserved in Korean script and that both orderings are used in Roman letters. If I had to guess a pattern, western order for worldwide audiences (WBC and Olympics), while traditional order for regional audiences (Asian Games). Can something used by the national team in some instances be considered disrespectful without other strong evidence?
DP used the North Korean dictators' names as an example of traditional ordering being preserved in western usage. It would not surprise me to find differences in preferences between the West-rejecting North and the globally-exposed South?
I hope this isn't coming across as arguing, I'd like to think we're exploring, dialectically. I'm open to being convinced that "Park Byung-Ho" is the most preferred order.
I was looking at some photos of KBO players. They put full names on their jerseys. Most had their last name first. However, our guy's jersey said B.H. Park.
When in a jersey with Roman Letters, it's B. H. Park. This appears to be what the WBC (MLB influence) and Beijing Olympics unis were like.
I've seen other photos of a different Korean national team (Asian Games) with names Family Given, like Park Gwangyeo and Kim Hyunsoo. No photos of our guy from behind, but it would have read Park Byungho
When in Korean script, it's 박병호 (Bak Byeong Ho*). But it's already accepted that the family name 박 is "Park" when westernized.
*I just learned that Korean script is actually an alphabet (with letters stacked into syllables that end up looking to westerners a lot like Japanese or Chinese symbols). Preteen AMR, the one that learned the Greek, Hebrew**, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets (at least as well as World Book Encyclopedia presented them***) would be so excited. Still a bit ticked I couldn't find a good source on Hindi. I didn't learn the languages, mind you, just found it fun to write to myself in code and read (without translation) a few things I found written, or to write out place names.
**mostly forgotten. Letters were too hard to write and I didn't know how to simplify. Also: too similar to each other.
***World Book didn't have a good entry on Arabic: I got that from a book from inter-library loan. I tried that with Greek, too, but it was too focused on Modern Greek pronunciation and I got lost in the weeds adding mus before betas so I could get the betas to pronounce as /b/ and not /p/. Or something like that. 2000+ years and it seems that consonants and vowels have had more than one shift in them.
We should have been friends in sixth grade. That was the year I tried to learn Russian from an old book of my father's (with cassette tape!). I didn't get very far in terms of spoken Russian, but I loved writing out the alphabet.
I'll have to pass you notes in Cyrillic-scripted English.
I stink at Cyrillic handwriting, but I love its look. I actually brought the Cyrillic script "de" д into my signature. And now it's stuck, even though people have read my first name as "Dan" because of it.
Just installed my Xmas present to myself: Black Friday deal from Samsung -- low end soundbar to replace my low end home-theater-in-a-box that I had been streaming to from my computer. Similar sound quality, but a lot fewer wires and dust-catching speakers. And heat. Windows 10 doesn't support the Bluetooth that I would have needed, but the auto-on option is a nice feature.
CC to CH - the eagle has landed ... sans guts! Some postal worker somewhere is rocking out to Eve of Destruction, Sky Pilot and Ohio. I certainly do appreciate your efforts, but perhaps a track-listing via email will have to suffice.
Well, at least they delivered the box so we know, right?
Tru dat
Red Sox sign David Price for $217 million over seven years. That's $31 million per year. Greinke must be thrilled.
Yeesh. No one's going to be upset about that contract in Boston after a couple
yearsmonths into the season.Dombrowski's specialty.
Holy bejeebus
Twins announce minor league coaching staffs.
Everyone should click through for the pic of Quade with two pairs of glasses.
I didnt know Dinkleman got into coaching. Good for him!
Sixers lead Lakers by 10 with 1:15 left in Kobe's final game in Philly.
The 28-game losing streak is over! Sixers beat Lakers by 12 in Kobe's final game in Philly.
Good for the Sixers and good for their fans, too. I think all of us can relate to what it's like to root for a terrible team. Even if it's just one game, at least they can be happy with their team for the moment.
Kobe had 20 points, but was 7-26 from the field and 4-17 from 3. SEVENTEEN SHOTS! my goodness.
Steph Curry hasn't taken 17 threes in a game this season.
Steph Curry has never shot 17 threes in a game in his career.
They had a big emotional intro for him and a highlight video for his final game in Philly. He was obviously psyched up and made 3-of-4 threes in the first 90 seconds. He made 1-of-13 threes the rest of the game.
Wild win 2-1 in Chicago. That's a huge win for them.
Yes, nice to see the Wild get a big win! Local High School Hockey team got their first win tonight too. The boy is playing JV. Wow, how time flies. When I first started visiting WGOM, my son was a Mite. Now, he is a 6'2" defenseman. And I am old and short.
I was in and out of that game.
Judging by twitter, Dubnyk was doing cartwheels blocking shots.
That is big, hope it's the end of the skid.
Speaking of thinning blood. Now that the weather is getting colder, I have the chills quite a bit. Don't know if it is the blood thinners, or just psychosomatic. Heating pad and my blanket are my friends.