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February 19, 2013: Well, They’re Seasonal

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The apartment above us is corporately owned and only occupied about three months out of the year. The guy is here now, and he may as well be tap dancing in combat boots. These walls are so thin I expect his leg to come crashing through my ceiling one of these days.

54 thoughts on “February 19, 2013: Well, They’re Seasonal”

  2. In an old Brooklyn tenement I once lived in, a (rather hefty) gas repair guy put his knee right through the hardwood floor in front of the oven. Thank goodness the super was the one who had to pay for both the gas repair and then the subsequent floor repair.

            2. Oh, makes so much more sense than
              "They were all in love with Di, and they were doin' it in Texas."
              Which explains why I ended up with the false lyric I did. (Are BHSurfers lyrics supposed to make sense?)

              1. Are BHSurfers lyrics supposed to make sense?

                Depends on the lyric. "Julio Iglesias / Jacked off in outer space-ias" is pretty clear, I suppose!

              2. I remember when Phil Hendrie was on WCCO he had a fake old man character who spent the entire show one day complaining about Butthole Surfers. It was fantastic GOML radio with all the Good Neighbor listeners chiming in without getting the joak. (Despite only being in my early teens when he was on CCO, I loved how much he trolled Minnesotans and listened as much as I could.)

  3. Heads up to all the players of the Half Bakef Crap baseball keeper league. The league has been open for a while and invitations should have been sent. If you haven't joined yet, take a look at the span folders and such, or give me a shout and I can resend the invite:

    robzk at the yahooish provider.

    1. Compared to Keith Law's version, Rosario is the only difference in inclusion. Sano and Meyer have almost identical rankings. BA likes Buxton considerably more, but after that it seems like a random sorting.

      1. I suppose they don't comment much on players not in, but Rosario's exclusion seems odd. Position change problems anticipated or something?

        1. If you have a BA subscription, you might be able to find out on his player page.

          What I can see is that he's ranked #7 Twins prospect after the 2012 season and Hicks is at #5 (Buxton isn't listed apparently). Meaning someone else is ahead of him according to BA.

      1. Best part of that link:

        KevinHuyghe 6 pts
        Musberger would have suggested you ride Katherine Webb

    1. I have no idea why I did it, but reading the comments on that story proves, definitevely, that a vast majority of 4ltr readers are illiterate.

      1. The third comment is "WAR what is it good for."
        Maybe I read too many Jon Bois tweets, but that cracked me up.

    1. That's both a handy chart, and a nice reminder that although those big companies are acquiring other big companies, its still not hampering the increasingly easy to find craft market.

  8. remember that "reusable plastic grocery bags are dangerous to your health" report? Well, there's been an epic response written by the SF Dept. of Public Health. (h/t Andrew Sullivan's Dish)

    1. 1This paper has not been submitted for rigorous scientific peer review and publication.

      That's what I'm sayin.

    1. This seems to track closely with population locations, as apparently the largely uninhabited expanses of various continents haven't received any meteorite strikes in four thousand years!

          1. Ah. For some reason I was under the impression it was only from asteroids. I'm not sure why, since I knew meteor showers are from various comets.

      1. If it hits water, it's not going to get recorded. It would leave no crater, and with no chance of retrieving any material no one would bother triangulating its path. It would have to hit with someone watching it hit, and I've never heard of that happening on land or in water.

        That said, this last one in the Urals DID make partial landfall in a lake and left a hole punctured in the ice.

        1. I think the data includes lots of hits that nobody observed directly (or at least didn't write down).

          Now you can see the location of every recorded meteorite impact on Earth going back to 2,300 BCE

          follow the link in the article to the underlying data. It is way cool. there are only 5 SIX recorded strikes in Minnesota -- near Fisher, Euclid, Bemidji, Champlin and Arlington, respectively. [and one near Hardwick]

          1. That's what I'm talking about! The unobserved strikes are based on crater history or triangulation of observed meteor paths. Water strikes leave no craters (unless you count something on the order of Chicxulub), so you would almost have to observe it to record it.

            1. Wednesday? I was thinking the same thing, so yeah, crap, the middle of the week would be not much fun for me either. Well, there's always next year!

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