30 thoughts on “February 20, 2020: Excavation”

1. First in shoes, first in booze, and last in the American League. What a cool website.

   1. Brown Shoe Company is a fixture downtown, although it changed its name a few years ago. Was a bit surprised I hadn't heard of any of the society's board members, but that's not a bad thing.

   2. Great web site.

2. So I was just consulting with my supervisor about a client (and other clients) who I'm struggling with, and as it turned out I had butt dialed that client and she heard the entire consult, my frustration and all.

   How's everyone else's day going?

   1. Vendor apparently canceled an order for one of my customers which I didn't know about, an order already held up for a whole other headache of a reason. Customer was expecting it shortly and I got to tell them they have to wait a few more months. That's been fun.

   2. If that was a sitcom pitch, it would be rejected as too unlikely.

   3. That's a tough one.

   4. Thanks for the perspective...pretty good, all things considered. My coworker made me a cake because it was my birthday last week. He somehow incorporated apple, vanilla pudding, apple Crown, and a spiced rum frosting.

   5. How do butt-dials even happen?

      My phone is in a case (book-style), which I close before putting in a pocket, and I have password protection.

      Not dogging anyone. I just don't understand the mechanics.

      1. Your butt must not be a tech-savvy.

         1. What's weird is that my butt figured out how to use the fingerprint id on my phone.

            1. Siri knows how you abused photocopiers back in the day.

            2. Maybe it wasn't your butt, it might have been smarty pants.

      2. Easy. You don't turn off the screen and just jam the phone in your pocket.

         1. Or leave Siri enabled. I butt dialed my wife while helping with my son's baseball practice a couple of weekends ago. She listened to the whole thing, and then started texting me back a transcript of everything I said. "Good job, Bryan, good job!" "Dante's running on this on, ok?" "There you go, right up the middle, keep going, keep going!" etc.

            1. Aha. Spyware. See, I have a Droid and don't have voice stuff enabled.

               Somehow, my dad, with a cheapo, not-so-smart phone, has managed to butt-dial me several times.

               1. My dad was regularly butt dialing my wife a few years back. He eventually discovered that he was telling someone "no" but the voice activation on the phone heard him and would call "Mo". He disabled voice activation after that.

3. New concept from my daily politics email. Overton window.
   Man, am I going to feel smart throwing that one around.

   1. I'm guessing a lot of TV pundits are also unfamiliar with the concept.

4. Dan Szymborski released ZiPS yesterday so now the FanGraphs 2020 projected standings are available. The Twins are at 91 wins with a 67% chance to make the postseason. By wins, they're the fifth-best team and by fWAR, they're the fourth-best.

   1. So, you're saying there's a chance!

5. Smart people ruin everything

   1. Sorry.

   2. The transporter was "invented" by Gene Roddenberry because he didn't have money in his budget to create a shuttlecraft for every time the Enterprise crew needed to go to a planet.

   3. Speaking of, Picard has been pretty good so far.

      1. I am in week two of a 3-month free trial. I guess I had better start watching.

   4. Disruption field gonna disrupt.

6. I've never liked Josh Donaldson, but this picture gives me some warm fuzzies.

7. This is hilarious.

   JR Rider & Kevin Garnett talk about the time a young KG made the mistake of talking trash in front of MJ 😅 pic.twitter.com/VfL57upGhB

   — Jumpman History (@HistoryJumpman) February 20, 2020

   1. All the

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