Well, now they're chasing the other Texas-based team.
37 thoughts on “September 16, 2015: Another Way In”
Stupid head cold. I can blame my this on my niece, right? She herself wasn't sick, but she's 3 1/2 and goes to daycare, so I assume she's just a plague ship unto herself.
Or is it ragweed allergy?
If it is, it's a new allergy.
I'll just say that CCR is not Cross Canadian Ragweed. Errr Ames.
I'll be at the game tonight in the Legends Club. It's good to know people with money and tickets they can't use.
The only other time I was in a box Ryan Doumit hit a walk off double.
Don't feel like waiting for the next movie day:
I've been going through some of Season 2 of Parks & Rec lately, and noticed a couple things that the writers either laid down way in advance, or went back and used:
Tom: “I want to open up my own club one day, maybe call it something like Club a Dub Dub, or the Club Marine. Sort of a submarine-themed club. Or Tom’s Bistro. The word ‘bistro’ is classy as shit.”
Chris (played by Will Arnett): ”Honestly, if you wanted to, you could go triplets right off the bat, Leslie.”
Awesome. I remembered the first one, but not the second.
I'm going a little crazy waiting for the last season to be released on Netflix, since I still haven't seen it. No word that I can find anywhere though...
yeah, i haven't seen it yet either for the same reason.
The NBC app had them for awhile, but that was while they were airing. I have no idea, but would probably guess they have been removed by now. But it still might be worth checking if you have a device to watch on.
A book I had requested at the library about a month ago has just become available. I'm gonna have to plow through it to get to "Infinite Jest" at all. I'm gonna need all the time I can manage for that one.
Same thing. Just got notification that I can pick up a 700 pager I've been waiting on for a month, but I still have a decent chunk left of another library book.
Then I'll be putting some work into IJ. I was gonna go straight to it to get a good start, but I totally forgot that library request.
Just in time for the Amazon series that starts in November.
Yeah, that's why I'm reading it. We watched the pilot back in the spring. It was really good and I'm glad they picked up the entire series.
And the library just notified me that Young Hornblower : three complete novels just came in on my reserve list.
Nice. Big day for libraries today.
I picked up book yesterday that I'd requested a few months ago. Fortunately, it's a mere 276 pages once you discount the endnotes and index. And the point size is on the generous side.
Have you read Hornblower (or, more accurately, Forester) before? I read a few of those novels years back after being introduced via David Weber's Honor Harrington series. From what I remember, they were pretty great reads. Enjoy!
Picked up the 2nd Hornblower At Halfpriced Books yesterday ...read 1/3 of it last night. Fun stuff. Also grabbed a couple of Tim O'Brien books. I love that place almost as much as the library.
Typically, the reconstructive surgery, generally known as Tommy John surgery, will involve an autograft of the palmaris longus tendon (mostly seen as an accessory tendon) or an allograft of tissue from a cadaver or donor. The new tendon is attached by drilling holes in the medial epicondyle of the humerus and the sublime tubercle of the ulna and lacing the tendon through them in a figure eight.
So Johnson whacked someone and is set for his third and fourth TJ.
I know these big mergers happen in all sorts of industries, so clearly there is a big economic benefit to being a bigger company controlling more of the marketplace (less competition, less redundancy, etc.). But other than those, I just don't get how this makes sense.
Their problem: The behemoths InBev and MillerCoors are losing market share to smaller, craft breweries.
Their solution: Get even bigger! Merge all the similar beers! Make ourselves even LESS like the breweries that are doing well and expanding rapidly!
Seems like doubling down on your current issues instead of changing to try to improve.
It sounds like they have no response to craft brewers other than price, so they'll become the economy brand. To do that, they need to cut back on expenses and eliminate competition in that area of the market, and the best way to do that is a merger like this.
Heineken bought Lagunitas!?!
I didn't read the above article, but I heard that the other day. Isn't it just a partial share? Lagunitas has international aspirations.
50%. They no longer qualify as a craft beer because of it.
Fortunately, for the time being, it still qualifies as damn fine beer.
What I've read says that despite craft beers' growing popularity in the states, internationally there's next to nothing. Seems like this may be a way for a smaller brewery to get international exposure, and start increasing demand world-wide.
It also seems to me that buying up smaller breweries seems like a logical way for InBev and Miller to grow their sales and fight off stagnation: buy up the smaller places that are starting to gain ground, not unlike Google or Facebook buying up smaller tech firms.
They are both doing that as well.
But long live the local brew!
Also page the brewing citizens. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
In my travels, China is a beer wasteland, but that's no shock.
I was actually able to find American imports in Bangkok to a very limited extent. It was at a (fantastic) restaurant serving traditional Thai food but owned by an ex-pat. They had some sierra Nevada and some rogue and some others I can't recall.
As for England, man, the English are friggin stubborn and still think American beer is crap, largely because we really don't do real ale and because of Bud. That said, I ran across cans is Sixpoint at a bar in a mall by my hotel. They also had a Sixpoint cask and another cask from 21st Amendment, so while there's room to expand that easy, it's still pretty sparse.
I wonder how much Europeans actually want beer from the US. Even aside from the just thinking it's all crap, it seems like each country (or even region within a country) has their own local favorite, and often not much is available outside that. EU means they could easily get beer from other EU nations, but no one seems all that intent on doing so, so how likely is it really that large numbers would switch to something even harder to get, and presumably more expensive?
The Sixpoint I had was actually reasonably priced. Cans help quite a bit with that. The two casks there were basically contract brewed by a big English brewery, so that's a possible means for getting US beers around the world.
But to your larger point of whether Europeans even want US brews, that's a much tougher nut to crack. I suspect Germany would be really hard to get into since each region basically had their own style and that's what they drink (because I'm conceived they're all robots.)
The Scottish sales guy I was in England with enjoyed the Bengali Tigers he had, but overall the general hopiness of our beers is probably an even harder sell to the British palate.
Stupid head cold. I can blame my this on my niece, right? She herself wasn't sick, but she's 3 1/2 and goes to daycare, so I assume she's just a plague ship unto herself.
Or is it ragweed allergy?
If it is, it's a new allergy.
I'll just say that CCR is not Cross Canadian Ragweed. Errr Ames.
I'll be at the game tonight in the Legends Club. It's good to know people with money and tickets they can't use.
The only other time I was in a box Ryan Doumit hit a walk off double.
Don't feel like waiting for the next movie day:
I've been going through some of Season 2 of Parks & Rec lately, and noticed a couple things that the writers either laid down way in advance, or went back and used:
Awesome. I remembered the first one, but not the second.
I'm going a little crazy waiting for the last season to be released on Netflix, since I still haven't seen it. No word that I can find anywhere though...
yeah, i haven't seen it yet either for the same reason.
The NBC app had them for awhile, but that was while they were airing. I have no idea, but would probably guess they have been removed by now. But it still might be worth checking if you have a device to watch on.
A book I had requested at the library about a month ago has just become available. I'm gonna have to plow through it to get to "Infinite Jest" at all. I'm gonna need all the time I can manage for that one.
Same thing. Just got notification that I can pick up a 700 pager I've been waiting on for a month, but I still have a decent chunk left of another library book.
I have about 50 pages of The Man In The High Castle left, then The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger to pick up from the library and read, which is another 300 pages.
Then I'll be putting some work into IJ. I was gonna go straight to it to get a good start, but I totally forgot that library request.
Just in time for the Amazon series that starts in November.
Yeah, that's why I'm reading it. We watched the pilot back in the spring. It was really good and I'm glad they picked up the entire series.
And the library just notified me that Young Hornblower : three complete novels just came in on my reserve list.
Nice. Big day for libraries today.
I picked up book yesterday that I'd requested a few months ago. Fortunately, it's a mere 276 pages once you discount the endnotes and index. And the point size is on the generous side.
Have you read Hornblower (or, more accurately, Forester) before? I read a few of those novels years back after being introduced via David Weber's Honor Harrington series. From what I remember, they were pretty great reads. Enjoy!
Picked up the 2nd Hornblower At Halfpriced Books yesterday ...read 1/3 of it last night. Fun stuff. Also grabbed a couple of Tim O'Brien books. I love that place almost as much as the library.
I've seen both BBC Iaon Gruffudd mini-series, but haven't read any of the books. I've read the 21 Aubrey/Maturin books, though.
Josh Johnson to have his THIRD TJ surgery. I'm just wondering where he's getting all these body parts to transplant.
There are two arms for the usual ligament. After that they either switch to the leg or get them from cadavers. Or maybe both.
As far as I know, this is the first time for "after that" isn't it?
Yes. From The Repository:
So Johnson whacked someone and is set for his third and fourth TJ.
I don't drink beer, but I hear these all taste the same anyways, right?
I know these big mergers happen in all sorts of industries, so clearly there is a big economic benefit to being a bigger company controlling more of the marketplace (less competition, less redundancy, etc.). But other than those, I just don't get how this makes sense.
Their problem: The behemoths InBev and MillerCoors are losing market share to smaller, craft breweries.
Their solution: Get even bigger! Merge all the similar beers! Make ourselves even LESS like the breweries that are doing well and expanding rapidly!
Seems like doubling down on your current issues instead of changing to try to improve.
It sounds like they have no response to craft brewers other than price, so they'll become the economy brand. To do that, they need to cut back on expenses and eliminate competition in that area of the market, and the best way to do that is a merger like this.
Heineken bought Lagunitas!?!
I didn't read the above article, but I heard that the other day. Isn't it just a partial share? Lagunitas has international aspirations.
50%. They no longer qualify as a craft beer because of it.
Fortunately, for the time being, it still qualifies as damn fine beer.
What I've read says that despite craft beers' growing popularity in the states, internationally there's next to nothing. Seems like this may be a way for a smaller brewery to get international exposure, and start increasing demand world-wide.
It also seems to me that buying up smaller breweries seems like a logical way for InBev and Miller to grow their sales and fight off stagnation: buy up the smaller places that are starting to gain ground, not unlike Google or Facebook buying up smaller tech firms.
They are both doing that as well.
But long live the local brew!
Also page the brewing citizens. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
In my travels, China is a beer wasteland, but that's no shock.
I was actually able to find American imports in Bangkok to a very limited extent. It was at a (fantastic) restaurant serving traditional Thai food but owned by an ex-pat. They had some sierra Nevada and some rogue and some others I can't recall.
As for England, man, the English are friggin stubborn and still think American beer is crap, largely because we really don't do real ale and because of Bud. That said, I ran across cans is Sixpoint at a bar in a mall by my hotel. They also had a Sixpoint cask and another cask from 21st Amendment, so while there's room to expand that easy, it's still pretty sparse.
I wonder how much Europeans actually want beer from the US. Even aside from the just thinking it's all crap, it seems like each country (or even region within a country) has their own local favorite, and often not much is available outside that. EU means they could easily get beer from other EU nations, but no one seems all that intent on doing so, so how likely is it really that large numbers would switch to something even harder to get, and presumably more expensive?
The Sixpoint I had was actually reasonably priced. Cans help quite a bit with that. The two casks there were basically contract brewed by a big English brewery, so that's a possible means for getting US beers around the world.
But to your larger point of whether Europeans even want US brews, that's a much tougher nut to crack. I suspect Germany would be really hard to get into since each region basically had their own style and that's what they drink (because I'm conceived they're all robots.)
The Scottish sales guy I was in England with enjoyed the Bengali Tigers he had, but overall the general hopiness of our beers is probably an even harder sell to the British palate.
The French are just Assholes.