This CoC will serve as our sign up for the best of 2017 guest DJ spots. First come first served. Don't be shy, just sign up.
52 thoughts on “December 1, 2017: Best Of”
I took a year off -- I'll take the August dog days again please.
Hmmm . . . August 2018 seems like a long time to wait to find out what your best of 2017 song is.
hadn't had my cup of coffee yet. haven't since...ever?
Anyway, I actually know of one or more 2017 songs, so I'll still take a signup.
One song? I’m in.
Я нахожусь в (in).
I'm in.
yep, we'll do 2018 DJ sign up a little later. for now, just this month.
in case anyone doesn't remember, this is just for one day to highlight your favorite new music of 2017. we'll go in order of your volunteering LTE's timestamp. there are no guarantees that someone before you won't play the same thing, so get your name in the hat quick.
also, just sign up, you, whoever you are . don't annoy me and speak up after i set up the schedule.
Narrowing it to one will be hard, but I'm in.
Remembering what I've heard that is new this year will be hard, but I'm in.
In.
Sure, I'll do it. Also:
there are no guarantees that someone before you won't play the same thing
Yes, I think I can guarantee that it won't happen to me.
Sign me up
Yep, me too.
I'd be a lot more able to help if you were doing the best of 1977....
Someone got his seasonally rare sparrow on the MOU's splash page... Permalink
By the MOU's definition, it wasn't "rare" until this morning, as December 1 is the start of "Winter", making this the second county record for the season.
Cool. Is inter-species flocking a common thing with sparrows? (Or other bird families?) If the other species were to move on to new territories (or migrate?) would the Clay-colored move along as well?
It's pretty common in a lot of birds outside of breeding season. Migrating warblers (several species) will hang out with the local Chickadees for a day, which also means they're hanging out with nuthatches and woodpeckers.
Many species of blackbirds (plus Starlings) will be in those big, late-summer flocks. (Another example similar where an introduced non-native hangs out with its native equivalents... House Sparrows are in a separate family than the natives, and our New World Blackbirds fill the same ecological niche as Starlings do in the old world, more or less.)
Snow Buntings, Longspurs, and Horned Larks...
Gulls and Terns
Ducks and Geese
Doves and Pigeons
Shorebirds
etc.
I think that if the CCSP woke up one day to find the other Sparrows gone, it wouldn't hang around much longer, but it would find another place it felt safe.
A lot of these birds that aren't where they should be rely on "local information".
It won't migrate with them, but migration is a bit of an instinctual thing in these species (happening overnight). And the House Sparrows are nonmigratory and the White-throats are probably done migrating.
If the bird disappears before spring, the most likely reason will be that it perished rather than that it moved on.
Wintering range for this species is pretty much Mexico.
And in my head I hear the Monty Python troupe pronouncing "non-mi-GREAT-ery'
Nice--congrats!
The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union seems like it should be the title of the next coen brothers movie
Especially now that they're not adapting The Yiddish Policemen's Union anymore 🙁
Nice.
I thought I heard (but didn't see) some white-throated's when I was in Minny last week.
There are a lot downtown.
I mentioned on Monday the sudden death of a young, incredibly talented colleague. His funeral was in Stevens Point yesterday; I counted at least thirty colleagues in attendance, including a vice provost. Here’s a piece that captures just a sliver of how incredible & wonderful Colin was , not only as a colleague, but as a person in the world. As one of his longest-standing colleagues observed in a eulogy yesterday, Colin truly embodied the values of a liberal education.
Dang. Dude got a lot out of his 26 years.
Not meaning to get into the substance, because FZ, but is anyone else going bonkers today reading about Flynn and wondering what is next?
I'm 35, so obviously I've lived through history. But I've never felt more like I'm living through a historical event than right now.
I grew up in the Sixties and paid attention. Environmental disasters. Racial injustice and unrest. A corrupt administration with an authoritarian bent. Interminable military entanglements. Political polarization. Economic volatility. Social upheaval. For me, it all seems like a rerun.
When people mention tragedies involving dozens of deaths (or hundreds of deaths, heaven forbid) I always think back to Bhopal.
Perhaps it will be determined that the President and all his men have been less than truthful. The left will roil. The right will dither and delay. The sun will set and rise. I no longer have any faith that anything means anything to anyone anymore.
Ecclesiastes 1:2?
Pretty much exactly what zee German said.
My thought on this was that Flynn wasn't just another person though? There's only so many people above him... Maybe I'm too naively optimistic, but I'm still watching the news closely the past few days.
i've had work to do tonight, so live coverage of the senate has been the perfect background spectacle. all the voting time for amendments and droning calls of roll (not going to be many surprises) are sufficient and benign background noise. plus, there's the occasional parliamentary procedure and argument/retort(/sometimes a little more argument) to provide a brief mental break.
I would have made mine smothered, covered, diced, and capped.
I totes love that he went back to pay for the sandwich later that day.
You may have heard that the World Cup draw was today. I have even bigger news for you here, though, I have conducted the draw for the National International Invitational Tournament in my super-official Excel spreadsheet. Here are the results
Pot 1 — Italy (10 Elo rank), Netherlands (11), Chile (15), Wales (25)
Pot 2 — Paraguay (26), United States (26), Ecuador (29), Slovakia (30)
Pot 3 — Venezuela (32), Ukraine (34), Ireland (35), Bosnia and Herzegovina (36)
Pot 4 — Scotland (38), Czechia (39), Turkey (40), Austria (42)
Group A: Chile, Slovakia, Ukraine, Czechia
Group B: Wales, EnglandEcuador, Ireland, Scotland (I swear I didn't do this on purpose)
Group C: Netherlands, Paraguay, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria
Group D: Italy, United States, Venezuela, Turkey
If you elect me as the next president of the USSF, I pledge to arrange for this NIT of soccer—this IIT—to become reality! Maybe not more fun than Copa America, but more fun than the Gold Cup.
USA! USA! USA!
Man I can’t believe the USMNT got placed in the group of death.
Tyus Jones goes back to the bench and been blown out by double digits most of the game. HMMMMMM
The Yankee hired ESPN yakker Aaron Boone as their manager.
I am going to go on record and say this will not work out.
I took a year off -- I'll take the August dog days again please.
Hmmm . . . August 2018 seems like a long time to wait to find out what your best of 2017 song is.
hadn't had my cup of coffee yet. haven't since...ever?
Anyway, I actually know of one or more 2017 songs, so I'll still take a signup.
One song? I’m in.
Я нахожусь в (in).
I'm in.
yep, we'll do 2018 DJ sign up a little later. for now, just this month.
in case anyone doesn't remember, this is just for one day to highlight your favorite new music of 2017. we'll go in order of your volunteering LTE's timestamp. there are no guarantees that someone before you won't play the same thing, so get your name in the hat quick.
also, just sign up, you, whoever you are . don't annoy me and speak up after i set up the schedule.
Narrowing it to one will be hard, but I'm in.
Remembering what I've heard that is new this year will be hard, but I'm in.
In.
Sure, I'll do it. Also:
there are no guarantees that someone before you won't play the same thing
Yes, I think I can guarantee that it won't happen to me.
Sign me up
Yep, me too.
I'd be a lot more able to help if you were doing the best of 1977....
I already took care of that (though the video's down).
I'm in.
In
Someone got his seasonally rare sparrow on the MOU's splash page...
Permalink
By the MOU's definition, it wasn't "rare" until this morning, as December 1 is the start of "Winter", making this the second county record for the season.
Cool. Is inter-species flocking a common thing with sparrows? (Or other bird families?) If the other species were to move on to new territories (or migrate?) would the Clay-colored move along as well?
It's pretty common in a lot of birds outside of breeding season. Migrating warblers (several species) will hang out with the local Chickadees for a day, which also means they're hanging out with nuthatches and woodpeckers.
Many species of blackbirds (plus Starlings) will be in those big, late-summer flocks. (Another example similar where an introduced non-native hangs out with its native equivalents... House Sparrows are in a separate family than the natives, and our New World Blackbirds fill the same ecological niche as Starlings do in the old world, more or less.)
Snow Buntings, Longspurs, and Horned Larks...
Gulls and Terns
Ducks and Geese
Doves and Pigeons
Shorebirds
etc.
I think that if the CCSP woke up one day to find the other Sparrows gone, it wouldn't hang around much longer, but it would find another place it felt safe.
A lot of these birds that aren't where they should be rely on "local information".
It won't migrate with them, but migration is a bit of an instinctual thing in these species (happening overnight). And the House Sparrows are nonmigratory and the White-throats are probably done migrating.
If the bird disappears before spring, the most likely reason will be that it perished rather than that it moved on.
Wintering range for this species is pretty much Mexico.
And in my head I hear the Monty Python troupe pronouncing "non-mi-GREAT-ery'
Nice--congrats!
The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union seems like it should be the title of the next coen brothers movie
Especially now that they're not adapting The Yiddish Policemen's Union anymore 🙁
Nice.
I thought I heard (but didn't see) some white-throated's when I was in Minny last week.
There are a lot downtown.
I mentioned on Monday the sudden death of a young, incredibly talented colleague. His funeral was in Stevens Point yesterday; I counted at least thirty colleagues in attendance, including a vice provost. Here’s a piece that captures just a sliver of how incredible & wonderful Colin was , not only as a colleague, but as a person in the world. As one of his longest-standing colleagues observed in a eulogy yesterday, Colin truly embodied the values of a liberal education.
Dang. Dude got a lot out of his 26 years.
Not meaning to get into the substance, because FZ, but is anyone else going bonkers today reading about Flynn and wondering what is next?
I'm 35, so obviously I've lived through history. But I've never felt more like I'm living through a historical event than right now.
I grew up in the Sixties and paid attention. Environmental disasters. Racial injustice and unrest. A corrupt administration with an authoritarian bent. Interminable military entanglements. Political polarization. Economic volatility. Social upheaval. For me, it all seems like a rerun.
When people mention tragedies involving dozens of deaths (or hundreds of deaths, heaven forbid) I always think back to Bhopal.
Assuming you mean this from a lawyerly perspective? As in ~ what a plea deal portends for others?
Ecclesiastes 1:2?
Pretty much exactly what zee German said.
My thought on this was that Flynn wasn't just another person though? There's only so many people above him... Maybe I'm too naively optimistic, but I'm still watching the news closely the past few days.
i've had work to do tonight, so live coverage of the senate has been the perfect background spectacle. all the voting time for amendments and droning calls of roll (not going to be many surprises) are sufficient and benign background noise. plus, there's the occasional parliamentary procedure and argument/retort(/sometimes a little more argument) to provide a brief mental break.
that, and, you know, how crazy this all is.
I would have expected congress to kiss us first, but then again I'm used to disappointment.
On the lips, like Mike with Fredo?
sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
I would have made mine smothered, covered, diced, and capped.
I totes love that he went back to pay for the sandwich later that day.
You may have heard that the World Cup draw was today. I have even bigger news for you here, though, I have conducted the draw for the
NationalInternational Invitational Tournament in my super-official Excel spreadsheet. Here are the resultsPot 1 — Italy (10 Elo rank), Netherlands (11), Chile (15), Wales (25)
Pot 2 — Paraguay (26), United States (26), Ecuador (29), Slovakia (30)
Pot 3 — Venezuela (32), Ukraine (34), Ireland (35), Bosnia and Herzegovina (36)
Pot 4 — Scotland (38), Czechia (39), Turkey (40), Austria (42)
Group A: Chile, Slovakia, Ukraine, Czechia
Group B: Wales,
EnglandEcuador, Ireland, Scotland (I swear I didn't do this on purpose)Group C: Netherlands, Paraguay, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria
Group D: Italy, United States, Venezuela, Turkey
If you elect me as the next president of the USSF, I pledge to arrange for this NIT of soccer—this IIT—to become reality! Maybe not more fun than Copa America, but more fun than the Gold Cup.
USA! USA! USA!
Man I can’t believe the USMNT got placed in the group of death.
Tyus Jones goes back to the bench and been blown out by double digits most of the game. HMMMMMM
The Yankee hired ESPN yakker Aaron Boone as their manager.
I am going to go on record and say this will not work out.
Bret's brother, eh?