August ← 2009 ← FREE KRAUT!

DLD 08.31.09: Mac and Cheese Monday 120

Seven is an awkward number to end at. It feels wrong somehow, irresponsible, even dangerous, like passing scissors to someone blades first, or buying a purple shirt. But that’s when the well ran dry, so I guess we’ll have to risk it. 1. Stats 2. Quotes It goes to show that thinking up the right ...

Weekend catchall thread 14

1. Not-Corey -> Oakland, Buddha Stick -> Sacto. Having another player who can play in the field (multiple positions no less) makes sense, though it goes without saying that I would just as soon have seen Nomar released to make room. 2. Cahill’s pretty good when he throws strikes and keeps the ball down (though ...

The Adventures of Tina Marason, Bear Spotter: DLD 082709 73

Via Sully and his minions: All Teams Are the Same, Chapter MXVLI Perhaps Travis Buck just got lost? Apposite-slash-analogy of the year: the only marginally-less-plausible Bucky Dent Oh, if I’d only known when I was a fourteen-year-old girl that I would spend an hour in Rob Lowe’s trailer twenty-five years later … The detail at ...

Google fail 86

Google fail

Science Tuesday: shape memory polymers 77

Some materials exhibit a phenomenon known as “shape memory.”  Shape memory is exactly what it sounds like: a material that has a native shape that it remembers even upon deformation.  The neat thing is that you can “freeze” the material into a deformed shape, any shape you please, and then upon gentle heating the original ...

DLD 8/24/2009. Why are we here? 34

Ratto thinks the A’s are Ziggy with a cloud over his head.  And I don’t mean Brad Ziegler, though he might have a cloud over his head too. The A’s play the Mariners tonight, for anyone who’s so completely bored with life that they have to tune into something so meaningless.  There will also be ...

Crapshoot: DLD 082109 59

Good luck Bad luck

BANANA SUIT IS FAKE!!! DLD 082009 66

This is precisely why we need tort reform Amazing photo, genius post, and of course several commenters beat me to the observation that that’s clearly Dr. Pierre Chang Obama’s meeting with Yeah, plenty of stoopid in this (and, yes, Byg has his Twyt on), but this is … odd/alarming/questionable: I’d love to tell you what’s ...

Yoo-NYY Watch: DLD 081909 97

They’re not BOOing, they’re chanting … Ugh, Jesus, the NYT’s sportswriting, while technically accomplished, sucks: Monday night’s Yankee loss was apparently all about the A’s continually just barely getting lucky, while last night’s return to the normative order was foreordained: An outburst was coming Also: Tyler Kepner thinks A-Rod’s a pussy: It was the second ...

Is this the beginning of the Spartacust-Buddha Stick platoon? 7

Lineup: Kennedy 3B, Davis CF, Suzuki C, Hairston LF, Garciaparra 1B, Ellis 2B, Everidge DH, Sweeney RF, Pennington SS Seems as though the intent was to start Crosby at 1B again today, but his calf is still tight.