We're starting to shore up our plan of attack for August. Just need to keep the clouds away.
If I was going to pick anywhere to see the totality, I'd go to that one mountaintop in Montana next to the Idaho border.
As it is, either AJR or LBR has day camp that week, so I'll be at home. I'll probably take the afternoon off (eclipse peaks here around 1pm) unless it's cloudy.
SoCal hasn't seen a total solar eclipse at least since it was a Spanish colony (or at least parts of it were).
For a second, I thought you were channeling Moss.
also, we failed to celebrate Palindrome Day yesterday. Damn. Can we roll back time? It looks the same as yesterday as it did when it was tomorrow.
But . . . it's Palindrome Week, is it not?
Damn.
how did you not say "dammit i'm mad" instead?
Only for your m/d/y people. Us d/m/y people have to wait until November.
woohoo, d/m/y homie!
High fives, guys.
Sorry guys, I'm a data jockey - YYYYMMDD for me
Missed it by that much.
Yeah, I'm actually ISO8601 too. I just needed to poke fun at m/d/y.
Dido
For a while I was using my company's old mainframe Y2K workaround:
YYYMMDD where YYY is the number of years after 1900.
I'm an astronomer, so for any data/programming I do, it's always Julian Date. As I type this it is currently 2457946.538194
What sort of objects do you study?
Heavenly.
He said objects, not bodies. I'd have given you credit if you'd said MACHOs
::looks it up::
Yeah, I'd have given me credit for that too.
Dude - you're an astronomer: sidereal!
I do (or more like did, considering my teaching load) stellar populations. So I observe stars, but with a goal of learning about how galaxies form rather than actually learning about the stars themselves.
Ugh, d/m/y. I prefer yyyymmdd (slash and dash as you like). d/m/y seems like writing one hundred twenty-three as 321.
Well, either are better than the American standard.
You know . . . it would be great if the countries where you drive on the left side of the road were all in the same category for this.
Yes! That would be fantastic. Sweden switching from the left to the right would have been even more confusing, though, since it wouldn't necessarily have been clear when the switch was being made--March 9th or September 3rd?
Americans write it the way they say it. Does the majority of the world actually say "eleven July, 2017?"
The 11th of July, 2017? Yes. Yes they do.
in Spanish, they call it the dog brown, not the brown dog.
That graphic makes it look particularly bad. Just balance the bottom of the East Asia-Iran axis's inverted Pyramid on the plinth of the majority of the world.
Further, England shouldn't get out of this so easily: Americans are just using their system (based on their language). Not sure who they got it from (the Germans or the Romans, I assume)... maybe it's a hybrid which explains the problem.
I find DMY to be less tolerable, so I'm happy with the muddle.
i was waiting for a pedantic and indignant response from you.
I play to type.
When I saw the image, "plinth" got in my head, and I wanted to use it.
Further the whole exaggeration to make the US* system seem horrifically stupid.
*Also used in Canada (outside Quebec) and Portugal. Portugal's use began in the early 1900s, so not Brazil. (But why not Mozambique, Angola, or East Timor?)
Another advantage of YYYYMMDD: No one uses YYYYDDMM, so there's no confusion (as long as the dates can be assumed to be from the mid-13th century or later).
If the year is trivial, (because the events happen in the same year), the USA/CAN/POR system is just as good.
While the rest of the world may have an advantage in using the metric system, the US has the advantage in date formats (except over Iran and east Asia).
and here's the pedantic and indignant reply i was waiting for. 😎
Last Sunday was my first Twins game since August 2015. All of my previous seats have been fully exposed, so sitting underneath the second deck in the left field bleachers was a new experience. I don't know if that area tends to be more acoustically saturated because of a shell effect from the cantilevered seats above, but I really struggled to get comfortable sitting there. The PA felt particularly relentless, especially when playing the "get noisy" type of clips – which apparently now happen every. single. time. an opposing batter gets two strikes on him. I don't remember the Metrodome ever making me feel like that, even during a postseason game. It also seemed like there were more frequent in-your-face ads on the scoreboards & ribbon strips than I remember from previous visits to the LOL.
I hate overly loud PAs, especially with the commercials and whatnot. We had bad luck with that in Tacoma last weekend but on the flip side there were a bunch of empty seats a few rows back where the sound was a lot better. It would be nice if they invested in more speakers so that each individual speaker wasn't cranked up so high.
Fun Fact: This is what a 513' HR would look like down the lines at A&H Park. @TheJudge44 would have almost hit it into PA 😲😳💪 pic.twitter.com/deqNbWa4Nh
— Trenton Thunderâš¡ (@TrentonThunder) July 11, 2017
Sad ex-Twins news: Livan Hernandez has filed for bankruptcy.
It's only Chapter 13, so not a huge deal. He must have some form of income to be able to do Chapter 13. He's able to keep his stuff for the most part. He just has to stick to a plan to pay back his creditors for 3 to 5 years. I don't know if his MLB pension is enough to meet the requirements for Chapter 13, but it wouldn't surprise me if he still has endorsement deals, etc., in South Florida. He did play at the celebrity softball game on All-Star weekend as well.
Future total solar eclipses in your lifetime. 46 more for me.
Can't count 'em unless you see 'em. Pics or it didn't happen.
We're starting to shore up our plan of attack for August. Just need to keep the clouds away.
If I was going to pick anywhere to see the totality, I'd go to that one mountaintop in Montana next to the Idaho border.
As it is, either AJR or LBR has day camp that week, so I'll be at home. I'll probably take the afternoon off (eclipse peaks here around 1pm) unless it's cloudy.
SoCal hasn't seen a total solar eclipse at least since it was a Spanish colony (or at least parts of it were).
For a second, I thought you were channeling Moss.
also, we failed to celebrate Palindrome Day yesterday. Damn. Can we roll back time? It looks the same as yesterday as it did when it was tomorrow.
But . . . it's Palindrome Week, is it not?
Damn.
how did you not say "dammit i'm mad" instead?
Only for your m/d/y people. Us d/m/y people have to wait until November.
woohoo, d/m/y homie!
High fives, guys.
Sorry guys, I'm a data jockey - YYYYMMDD for me
Missed it by that much.
Yeah, I'm actually ISO8601 too. I just needed to poke fun at m/d/y.
Dido
For a while I was using my company's old mainframe Y2K workaround:
YYYMMDD where YYY is the number of years after 1900.
I'm an astronomer, so for any data/programming I do, it's always Julian Date. As I type this it is currently 2457946.538194
What sort of objects do you study?
Heavenly.
He said objects, not bodies. I'd have given you credit if you'd said MACHOs
::looks it up::
Yeah, I'd have given me credit for that too.
Dude - you're an astronomer: sidereal!
I do (or more like did, considering my teaching load) stellar populations. So I observe stars, but with a goal of learning about how galaxies form rather than actually learning about the stars themselves.
Ugh, d/m/y. I prefer yyyymmdd (slash and dash as you like). d/m/y seems like writing one hundred twenty-three as 321.
Well, either are better than the American standard.
You know . . . it would be great if the countries where you drive on the left side of the road were all in the same category for this.
Yes! That would be fantastic. Sweden switching from the left to the right would have been even more confusing, though, since it wouldn't necessarily have been clear when the switch was being made--March 9th or September 3rd?
Americans write it the way they say it. Does the majority of the world actually say "eleven July, 2017?"
The 11th of July, 2017? Yes. Yes they do.
in Spanish, they call it the dog brown, not the brown dog.
That graphic makes it look particularly bad. Just balance the bottom of the East Asia-Iran axis's inverted Pyramid on the plinth of the majority of the world.
Further, England shouldn't get out of this so easily: Americans are just using their system (based on their language). Not sure who they got it from (the Germans or the Romans, I assume)... maybe it's a hybrid which explains the problem.
I find DMY to be less tolerable, so I'm happy with the muddle.
i was waiting for a pedantic and indignant response from you.
I play to type.
When I saw the image, "plinth" got in my head, and I wanted to use it.
Further the whole exaggeration to make the US* system seem horrifically stupid.
*Also used in Canada (outside Quebec) and Portugal. Portugal's use began in the early 1900s, so not Brazil. (But why not Mozambique, Angola, or East Timor?)
Another advantage of YYYYMMDD: No one uses YYYYDDMM, so there's no confusion (as long as the dates can be assumed to be from the mid-13th century or later).
If the year is trivial, (because the events happen in the same year), the USA/CAN/POR system is just as good.
While the rest of the world may have an advantage in using the metric system, the US has the advantage in date formats (except over Iran and east Asia).
and here's the pedantic and indignant reply i was waiting for. 😎
Last Sunday was my first Twins game since August 2015. All of my previous seats have been fully exposed, so sitting underneath the second deck in the left field bleachers was a new experience. I don't know if that area tends to be more acoustically saturated because of a shell effect from the cantilevered seats above, but I really struggled to get comfortable sitting there. The PA felt particularly relentless, especially when playing the "get noisy" type of clips – which apparently now happen every. single. time. an opposing batter gets two strikes on him. I don't remember the Metrodome ever making me feel like that, even during a postseason game. It also seemed like there were more frequent in-your-face ads on the scoreboards & ribbon strips than I remember from previous visits to the LOL.
I hate overly loud PAs, especially with the commercials and whatnot. We had bad luck with that in Tacoma last weekend but on the flip side there were a bunch of empty seats a few rows back where the sound was a lot better. It would be nice if they invested in more speakers so that each individual speaker wasn't cranked up so high.
Twins checking in on controllable starters.
What teams aren't interested in good starting pitchers under team control?
Well, the ones trading them at least.
And that happens a lot?
he's a compiler
Sad ex-Twins news: Livan Hernandez has filed for bankruptcy.
It's only Chapter 13, so not a huge deal. He must have some form of income to be able to do Chapter 13. He's able to keep his stuff for the most part. He just has to stick to a plan to pay back his creditors for 3 to 5 years. I don't know if his MLB pension is enough to meet the requirements for Chapter 13, but it wouldn't surprise me if he still has endorsement deals, etc., in South Florida. He did play at the celebrity softball game on All-Star weekend as well.