There’s not a lot I can say that isn’t TMI or that won’t sound like I’m complainy or moody.
I’m listening to Public Image Ltd. very loud, tho.
The MP3 played……Poptones-ah!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I think I understand the thinkers chewing over the possible scenarios like termites chewing on an undermaintenanced 80 year old Craftsman. However, as a feeler, I just want to be there on October 5th. The idea is to get there alive. I don’t care where the game is, or if the A’s play the Yankees, Orioles, Rays, Angels, or Rangers in that game. They’re all just FKing meat. EVEN WEAVER. EVEN SABATHIA. They’re meat and they will be eaten. That’s just how it is.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I love advance planning. I am super bummed I set a trial next week. The A’s better not need a win on wednesday’s day game. I don’t need the distractions.
I planned to take Weds off months ago…last year the midweek Weds game to end the season was cool in so many ways. This year’s tailgate brunch plan promises to crank the awesome up to 11.
About an hour ago I told Nurse U tonight that if Weds turns out to be decisive I may pull the kids from school to go with me.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I’m also big on the advance planning, and it should be easy to tell from my posts about the scheduling and television stuff that I have a few minor geeky obsessions.
I’m glad you cats are having fun with it. I’d be down for geeking out on it if the A’s weren’t involved.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Here‘s the information about transferring tickets via email. I think anyone can do this, not just season ticket holders, but I’m not totally sure. Also not sure if the parking pass can be transferred that way (I’d guess not).
If Ed or one of the other people on your side of the bay (nm?) doesn’t end up taking them, and you want to try the online transfer thing, let me know tonight or even tomorrow morning. I can pay via paypal or check or whatever.
I doubt these would show up as “my tickets” in GM’s account since they were delivered as paper tickets. However the original owner should be able to effect a transfer if I can get to her in time.
The only downside, other than the parking pass, is that andeux won’t get to see the sweet picture of Michael Wuertz (I think) that’s printed on the paper tickets.
The parking pass is good for (non-vip) parking at any other game, so if you’re going later in the week or can get it to someone else who is you can still get some use out of it.
Turns out anyone with an mlb.com account can do it. Total awesomesauce. Almost makes up for the fact that I don’t get to watch pennant race baseball from the first row.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
My wife tells me I should just stop pussyfooting around and start a cult already.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I used to have three. It was great and I knew at the time it wouldn’t last forever, but still, it’s sad to not have the top point any more.
Speaking of, do any of you FKers have experience with requesting a disability accommodation? My repeated whining about my early morning schedule has led my bosses to suggest that they would move me to a later schedule, but not because I could be happier and much more productive, only if I force them to. My sleep disorder only exists when I have to get up at 3 am, not when I’m on more normal hours and Google tells me this kind of issue doesn’t always get formally recognized as disabling. But I don’t actually want to take anyone to court, I just want to give the HR people enough cover that they can approve the move.
Hee hee! I’d forgotten about calling myself that. Lotta good lines in that. Reads better in stanza form though.
Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most collusive
Around the whole park, and he grew more abusive!
“These lux boxes suck! The sinks reek of pruno!
“You’ll never sell these to Cisco or Mizuno!
“Concourses a crush of bad food and worse potties,
“Pissing revenue streams off, and also fly hotties!”
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
The one comment at the bottom of the page (on EBX, not **) is hilariously grumpy. I assume that you took a shit in spineman2001a275’s cereal bowl right before composing the poem.
I am feeling pretty good about the home stretch. That road trip was excruciating for us fans, but the team mostly played well, in tough situations. It’ll take a scorching hot finish to knock us out…the A’s are not giving this away. And WC-1 is totally in reach. And all the stuff lenscrafters said is encouraging. And this team is about the most fantastic thing ever. This next week is going to be fun.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Thats my thought, if we take care of business BAL-TB will settle themselves into the #2 spot.
The one I dread is BAl sweeps this weekend, so do we, the WS get off the floor and take out TB who then takes out Bal, leaving us and slegnA. The only 1 game I dont like is Weaver.
I’m actually okay with Anaheim sweeping this weekend so long as Baltimore & Tampa get swept and the A’s sweep Seattle. Being one back of Texas come Monday, two above Baltimore & Anaheim for that top spot isn’t too bad a position. We’d only need to take 2 of 3 to force a game 163 and turn it into a 4 game series. Otherwise, then we’d have to hope the Angels either choke against the Mariners best pitching or are at least forced to play out the final day of the season and use Weaver on Wednesday.
I know the smart root is for the the Angels and/or Tampa/Baltimore to gag this weekend, but I can’t help myself. I’m rooting for Texas to lose until they choke us out, and I really want to keep an Angels/Tampa/Baltimore tie for WC2 in play.
The first Angels-Rangers game will completely affect who I root for the rest of that series. Pretty much, I want one of them to sweep the other. A Rangers sweep pretty much knocks the Angels out of the WC, and an Angels sweep potentially stages our final series with the Rangers as a fight for the division.
I’m thinking Weaver will take Dempster easily. My rooting interest is actually based on how well we do. If we win, I want the Angels to win to move us closer to the West. If we lose, I want the Rangers to win to keep us up on the WC. But really, with Baltimore, Tampa, & Anaheim all sitting within 2 games of us, 3 over all, I think we really need to win big this weekend.
On this test probably not well unless you read a lot about the Revolutionary War in your free time…you learned this stuff but since it’s not part of your everyday life anymore you’ve likely forgotten a lot of the details.
I actually have read a lot about the Revolutionary War in my free time. I’ve forgotten most of it because I tend to forget things. I actually have read a lot about the Revolutionary War in my free time.
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
I graduated high school…barely…I think I was 9th from the bottom in my class…partly due to an injury my senior year and partly due to the fact I was a dipshit who hated doing homework.
I still hate homework. I’m only a marginal student. I NEVER studied in high school or non-nursing classes in college. Shit just came naturally to me. Especially history and geography. I never even took the fking plastic off my world geo class a few years ago. Fking A in the class.
Now? I can study and study and never make an A. But you give me a nursing task where I have to apply my knowledge in a real setting and I’d rock your world.
The key to getting good grades in college, for me at least, was attending all the lectures and taking thorough notes. I knew what parts of the material the professor thought were the most important, was never really surprised by an exam question, and on those exams where you had to choose 3 out of 6 or whatever to write essays on the problem was choosing the 3 I’d be best at, not trying to find 3 I could answer at all.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Physics makes more sense on acid, when you can get all those damned numbers out of the way.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Nursing school questions are totally different. There are no questions that are “knowledge-based”. Ex: “Define ABG.”
There is a question and you have to apply your knowledge. Then the answers aren’t three BS answers and one correct answer. There are six CORRECT answers and you have to pick the BEST answer, or the answer with the highest priority.
Key for me, and I’d recommend this for anyone in a technical field, is to make sure you understand the material as it is presented. If you don’t get it the first time, get help. If you have to do anything more than a light review for an exam, you’re fucked.
That’s how I felt in Geometry class when I asked the teacher to explain what numbers are. I felt I couldn’t progress any further in math without an understanding of what numbers truly are.
I’m still waiting.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Start with the Peano axioms to construct the Natural numbers and define the successor operator.
Define + (and its inverse -). The closure of the Natural numbers under these operators is the integers.
Define * (and its inverse /). The closure under these operators is the rational numbers.
Define the real numbers as the set of Dedekind cuts of rational numbers (or as equivalence classes of limits of Cauchy sequences).
Finally define the complex numbers as the algebraic closure of the reals.
If you want to go on to transfinite numbers, you’re on your own.
This all makes sense in respect to working with numbers and giving rule and definition to the work, and using the work in the greater world around us, but it doesn’t give me any framework whatsoever on how to imagine numbers or feel numbers or make the axioms mean anything to me or believe in them as “real.”
It’s like when I worked for the State, on an archaic computer program that made no sense, and nobody told me why we were doing the work we were doing or if it even had any value to anybody whatsoever. Yet, I made my cheatsheet of F1 does this and F3 takes you to the menu that does that, and eventually memorized it and was able to navigate the program. Yet, I never really understood anything. It was always surreal.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Well, ultimately math, and any other science that relies on it, lies on that kind of formalistic basis of definitions and axioms. There are different ways of doing that, but even those that call themselves intuitionist are really just picking a different set of axioms. So if you want to know what a “number” really is, I’m not sure there are different answers, but I don’t think there is a different kind of answer.
I get what you’re saying about feel, though. Historically, most math didn’t start with the formalizations. (It’s actually pretty weird that the Greeks started doing geometry and number theory that way so long ago.) People developed math to describe the natural world, to solve problems in physics or engineering, and the formalization came later. The formal rules are chosen (for the most part) in such a way to correspond to our understanding of natural phenomena, but ultimately they exist on their own, independent of those natural phenomena.
For me a lot of the attraction of math was that it made sense out of things that I already got intuitively, and allowed me to extend that intuition into more complicated systems. As I got deeper into it, there were some parts that I really liked learning and thinking about, and others where my intuition came up short and it started to seem like a lot of formal symbolic manipulation.
Unfortunately it’s a lot easier to communicate the formal parts to someone else than it is to communicate the feel.
I’m still going to try to communicate my feel when I get a deep feeling, in hopes of sparking an epiphany in someone.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I’m going to have to take some time to learn about this Brower cat and Intuitionism.
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Heh. Yeah, that is probably the best idea. But if you used the hour that you were supposed to be in class instead by studying the toughest material…
At least I remembered to go to class for all my tests. Well, except for one (which miraculously was cancelled the day of the test. I seriously think I used multiple lifetimes of luck on that one).
They should’a had codpieces to go along with, tho.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I need to go on a soul cleanse. Is WD-40 the right product to use, or should I step right up to Billy Mays’ ashes?
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
The only thing I dislike about the White Sox is watching their games on WGN with The Hawk…aka the worst announcer in the history of western civilization…he gone!
When I was a student I could always bluff my way through essay questions which makes me pure evil as the giver of tests now….I can smell BS from a mile away and I require specifics…(evil laugh)
Not for K’s eyes: The three-team tiebreaker scenario for two wild card spots if they all finish 92-70 (Tampa Bay goes 6-0, Baltimore goes 3-3 and Oakland goes 4-2) is so bizarrely convoluted that I’m not attempting it until at least Monday. The quick and dirty is: the A’s would apparently host a playoff game against one of them on Thursday. If the A’s won they would be the #1 WC. The team that lost in Oakland would fly back across the country and play the third team in an elimination game on Friday. The winner of that game would then come back to Oakland on Saturday to play the actual WC game.
i think of all the people in my old country i write with, about 2 know how to write. and i don’t mean just put one word after another and make sense. i mean HOW. punctuation is… confusing to them. mind, these are educated adults. this, for example, is from a 40-yr old psychologist expresses her political sentiments on FB.
SRA. PRESIDENTE …POSIBLEMNTE UD ESTE MOLESTA CON “””SU PUEBLO”””…….PERO SU PUEBLO ESTA “””””MUY “””” MOLESTO CON SU GABINETE , LOS COMENTARIOS DE ELLOS Y LOS COMPORTAMIENTO QUE TIENEN CON LOS CONCIUDADANOS ……Y LA GESTION REPRESORA .QUE USTED LLEVA COMO REPRESENTANTE …………………………………………….DE LA NACION ARGENTINA………………..NO SE OLVIDE POR FAVOR :””””””QUE EL PUEBLO LE OTORGO EL CARGO DIGNIFICANTE EN EL QUE ESTA””””””””””””””””……………….PERO EL PUEBLO TAMBIEN SE LO PUEDE ………..
everything’s spelled right though, and that’s gotta count for something i guess. but really, it’s like a whole country doesn’t know how to put a comma after a word.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
reminds me though. there are english-speakers who sometimes use two periods, like this.. are these supposed to be ellipses gone wrong or periods gone wrong?
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Many older radio people….enjoy writing their scripts that way. But nowadays….it is discouraged because when the scripts must be reformatted for the web…it is a tremendous pain in the ass….to go back and take them all out.
Yes. I don’t like it myself, because I would read those as very long and unnatural pauses, but many people swear by it. ALSO THERE ARE SOME FORMER PRINT PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO TYPE THER SCRIPTS IN ALL CAPS which is even more annoying.
“Lisp or scheme”, huh? Sounds like a couple of hustling Queens I know downtown!
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That’s right, dear…I’m watching all these hot girl on girl DVD’s purely for educational reasons…now could you get me some energy bars and lots of water and then close the door and leave alone until Monday?
The office was dark as Bed sat at his desk working on building his VORP empire to even greater heights. He had screwed over a lot of people getting to the top and many thought the deaths of sirbed, 1 Iron and BD were by his hand.
Bed took a sip of Cherry Coke Zero and growled “get in here!” Brian29 entered the room. “Can I help you sir?” Brian29 said. “You can help me by dying.” Bed said as he fired his pistol. Bed dialed attijah’s cell number. “I need some squirrels for a little cleanup job. Send me your best workers and have the pigeons fly them here asap.” Bed put his phone down and looked out his window. It was good to be a gangsta.
I want to see the guest episode with Dallas Braden and his bat “Spot.”
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Is that a gurgling mass of writhing maggots in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
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Umm, Grandma, since you’re dying anyway, I know some people who wanna make a snuff film. It’ll pay for your funeral expenses so us grandkids don’t have to!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Definitely agree with part 1; don’t watch enough film to say on part 2. But yeah, the best TV stuff now is the best TV stuff ever pretty much, at least on the drama side.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Yeah the comedy side I’m not as sure about but dramas are better than ever. As far as movies they either seem to be about comic books or indie dramas about an albino cat looking for his roots.
Talk about laying a giant ostrich egg. I blame myself, though. I forgot to use my Stanford coffee mug yesterday morning because WHO THE FK PLAYS COLLEGE FOOTBALL ON THURSDAY.
Up next…a story about a dog that found his way home after being lost for 3 years who killed his master for having taken him in the car and dropping him off in a field somewhere miles away from home 3 years ago.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I like the Lou Reed video where he rips his own face off.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I could probably name/describe 30 videos from 1982 alone
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It’s a party trick almost as popular as naming members of the 1984 Expos roster.
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Generally, I’m a high-demand niche product at parties, kind of like cocaine.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I can describe elements of videos. Steve Perry sitting on stairs with his hat…the trombone player in Susudio. But to really remember them it has to be like the waterfall coming out of the screen at the duran duran comcert for the Reflex.
And one should be about toothless waifs who want to grow up to be moonshiners.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Okay…too mean…not mean enough…too stupid…you’ve posted that four times already…did that on AN…did that on .com…maybe next month…no one will get it…hmm, maybe if I had some chopsticks and dry ice…okay, this will work.
Oh shitballs, Bedringham, that’s totally how I think when I’m communicating on the kinky site… Trying not to communicate too much or too little… Compliment but don’t over-compliment… show interest but don’t look too stalkeresque… It gets kinda nerve-racking after a while.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
bent over and tied to a tall bench, with a sweet man in front of me and a mean woman with a strapon behind me.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I thought the .22’s were for Hello, with the higher calibers saved for more serious communications.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I shudder to think what the life-sized Larry Hagman’s gonna be made out of!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
that and organic compost from Ed Begley Jr.’s pot garden.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
And he’s got a LOT of dirt on Howie Mandel. No wonder the poor bald bastard washes his hands 57 times a day!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I’m what the teenagers on the bus call “the heshe with the hat”
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Yay. I like making you laugh once in a while in between the cringing.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I put a space before the first word, and then bold the space.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I put a space before the first word, and then bold the space.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I put a space before the first word, and then bold the space.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I put a space before the first word, and then bold the space.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Slow-onset terminal nihilism is such a meh affliction.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
1.Yoenis Cespedes homers (22) on a fly ball to left center field.
2.Chris Carter called out on strikes.
3.Brandon Moss homers (20) on a fly ball to right field.
4.Josh Donaldson strikes out swinging.
5.Josh Reddick homers (31) on a line drive to right field.
Pitching Change: Koji Uehara replaces Mike Adams.
Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter George Kottaras replaces Derek Norris.
Coaching visit to mound.
6.George Kottaras strikes out swinging.
HR/K/HR/K/HR/K — ladies and gentleman, your 2012 A’s.
The Cust Family’s School Of Power Hitting & Rodeo Clowning”
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The Father Desme belt completes the Preppy look with a bit of monastic flair.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I shared this joke verbally with my wife, except she heard
“Bed said ‘I’ve lived with myself long enough to finally become a racist'”, which to her was far funnier.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I don’t think it meant anything, tho. It often doesn’t.
As for me, I’m racist against the Daytona 500. I hate that race.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Bed: He’s fuzzier than a bearded tribble with a mold fetish.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
BeD’Marcus, I’m getting branded next year, you know?
I hope Bridget can be there with healing salves and old sailor curses.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
That sounds like her kind of a gig and besides I think she’s getting bored with me and my middle class tastes…well, middle class in that I don’t have the money to be really kinky.
Money my ass. Home Depot is the kinkiest store in the whole world.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
In related news…I’ve taken my polo shirt and khaki pants off and I am now putting the rope around my neck…all I need now is some lube and Bridget the Midget and we can get this party started.
I talk all the mad kinky sh!t, yet YOU’RE the one who doesn’t play safe?
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Put me down for complaining about something in a lounge in November…also I’ll probably spend most of December talking about myself…March I’m saving for posting about the taglines.
Put me down for mocking the December 21sters and/or making a last minute flipflop and rejoining them out of desperation and/or promises of free promotional items.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Ah yes the end of the world crowd…I think we all now the world will end when the Raiders have a 35 point lead in a Super Bowl with 30 seconds remaining.
See, you don’t actually have a “Dirty Job” no, you’re a millionaire who will do ads for just about anything so please don’t say an education isn’t something worth having.
Next on “Dirty Jobs,” I walk the city streets with scissors, cutting the social safety net, as well as the exposed arteries and veins of hoboes I pass on my way.”
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I am equally scared of becoming a person who believes her own bullshit and becoming a person who doesn’t believe her own bullshit.
Yet it’s so hard to remain mildly enthusiastic about one’s own bullshit when the whole concept of communicating in words is a total eye-roller.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Time to shuffle off to the bedroom for snuggle time and sleep.
I have the damn restless legs tonight, tho. I wish Romney was here so I could kick his ass repeatedly. That would make me feel better.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
We just recently create a hand written master document with all our passwords on it and put it an out of the way place. I only hope that I remember where we put it when I need it.
i hate the different rules that make it so you end up with 100 variations of the same basic thing but since you don’t know what rule you were originally abiding by now that you’re trying to log on again, you don’t know if you’re going for the no caps one or the with a number one or the one with at least one punctuation or what.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
She over-acts her part, but the rest of that cast is great. Weird that she’s the main reason to start watching the show, yet I think it could survive just fine without her. Still the show’s not bad. Quite a few funny moments.
You and I are highly unlikely to exist in a civilization that has produced only 70 billion people, yet we find ourselves in just such a civilization. Our circumstance, which seems difficult to explain, is easily accounted for if (1) many other civilizations exist and if (2) nearly all of these civilizations (including our own) die out sooner than usually thought, i.e., before trillions of people are produced. Because the combination of (1) and (2) make our situation likely and alternatives do not, we should drastically increase our belief that (1) and (2) are true. These results follow immediately when considering a many worlds version of the “Doomsday Argument” and are immune to the main criticism of the original Doomsday Argument.
I guess the Doomsday Argument makes a certain amount of sense, but it has such a humanistic focus.
I don’t give a shit how many humans are born or die, just as long as the Singularity comes out of the process. We are the anthill in charge of building God.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Humans think they’re the evolutionary pinnacle, and frame the future as if they’re in it the whole time and as if when they’re gone, the future is gone with them.
Myopic fools.
It’s my opinion that if an outside observer could watch infinite multiverses be born and die over and over again and compile the data from the observations, the observer would not be able to answer the “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” question, or the “Which came first, biology or technology?” question.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
The way that abstract is written, it seems to have humanistic focus, but I think it applies equally to any form of life where population increases exponentially via reproduction.
within the limitations of a system with limits, yes.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
My gut feeling says this is all a non-isomorphic preliminary map little better than “Here There Be Dragons!”
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I’m not sure I really buy his conclusion. This is similar to the anthropic principle. A priori it’s extremely unlikely that, among all people (or among all entities in the universe), I am who I am, but nevertheless I am, and there isn’t really any conclusion that can be drawn from that.
That’s why I don’t buy his premise. “You and I” existing in a civilization that’s produced 70 billion is actually highly probable because “you and I” are simply a random sampling of that 70 billion. In a civilization of more than one at any given time will always produce a “you and I.” I think his starting point is an over complication of what SPWC noted above of the overestimation of humanities place in the universe.
Oh yeah, it’s definitely an anthropic principle type argument. Note that he does invoke a “many worlds” hypothesis in the abstract, which is often considered a precondition for anthropic arguments to not be total garbage. I guess I’m kind of sympathetic to the anthropic principle, in the sense that it can be fun to think about, but I sure am glad that my day-to-day work has a (slightly) more solid statistical footing.
A very interesting possibility happens if Baltimore goes 3-3, TB 6-0, NYY 2-4, TEX 0-6, OAK 4-2, LAA 6-0. There would be two three way ties for the division, as well as a six way tie for the 2 wildcards. There would be two two day “tournaments” for who wins each division (for example TEX plays LAA in LAA, winner plays OAK at home), followed by what I assume two one game scenario (Winner gets wild card, loser goes home).
I know it’s unlikely, but unless the A’s can pull away, I’ll root for it.
Also, the Angels going 6-0 would be annoying as hell. Granted they do basically have to go 3-0 for the A’s to overtake the Rangers but that’s such a longshot I’m ignoring that at least until Sunday night.
The A’s overtaking the Rangers is a huge longshot, but I don’t think the Angels sweeping the Rangers is unlikely at all. They’ve got Weaver and Greinke going, and Santana has been pitching well lately.
This is what Bud Selig thinks about when he pleasures himself.
You know what I’d do if I had a six-way tie for four spots?
I’d add the Central winner to the mix and have a semi-random drawing (weighted towards # of wins) for the 8th AL playoff team, and then add an extra round (3 game series) to accomodate the extra teams.
Then, I root for a Kansas City-Oakland ALCS!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Yeah, but he’d love it too, because he’s still a geeky fan underneath it all.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
So…I just glanced up from my desk at the monitor we have here with Fox News playing on it, just in time to see someone in Phoenix shoot himself on live television.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
They were following a carjacking that escalated into a high speed chase. Guy being chased eventually goes off road, runs out of the car for a while, then stops and shoots himself in the head.
This was all on a chopper camera, so it was captured from a distance. Sam Shepard looked like he was going to scream when they came back on the air.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
There’s not a lot I can say that isn’t TMI or that won’t sound like I’m complainy or moody.
I’m listening to Public Image Ltd. very loud, tho.
The MP3 played……Poptones-ah!
I think I understand the thinkers chewing over the possible scenarios like termites chewing on an undermaintenanced 80 year old Craftsman. However, as a feeler, I just want to be there on October 5th. The idea is to get there alive. I don’t care where the game is, or if the A’s play the Yankees, Orioles, Rays, Angels, or Rangers in that game. They’re all just FKing meat. EVEN WEAVER. EVEN SABATHIA. They’re meat and they will be eaten. That’s just how it is.
Weaver seems like he would be too stringy. Sabathia could be delicious.
I’m totally obsessing over the scenarios, BTW, but that’s because I absolutely love this stuff and I missed being a part of it.
me too.
I love advance planning. I am super bummed I set a trial next week. The A’s better not need a win on wednesday’s day game. I don’t need the distractions.
I planned to take Weds off months ago…last year the midweek Weds game to end the season was cool in so many ways. This year’s tailgate brunch plan promises to crank the awesome up to 11.
About an hour ago I told Nurse U tonight that if Weds turns out to be decisive I may pull the kids from school to go with me.
Sigh. I hate being busy in the fall :(
I’m also big on the advance planning, and it should be easy to tell from my posts about the scheduling and television stuff that I have a few minor geeky obsessions.
Much obliged for the public service!
I’m glad you cats are having fun with it. I’d be down for geeking out on it if the A’s weren’t involved.
I jst remembered I passed on the friday ptbnl tickets. Wow I am a dumbass
Meanwhile I took the Saturday tickets and now am not sure I will be able to use them.
bummer
Bummer, but I’m sure one of us would take them off your hands.
If you, or anyone else, would like them I’d be quite happy to sell. The problem is getting them to you in time.
where do you live?
Glen Park. You’re in the Mission, right? I could easily drop them for you tonight if you’re interested.
thinking about it, I think I shouldn’t because of trial this week.
Choose two:
legal, success, pennant race baseball
asvd
But the A’s are on trial and need your support!
I just got off the phone with the prosecutor, I am guaranteed to be in court all wednesday afternoon.
This fucking season better be decided tuesday
That’s messed up. You should move against him/her for sanctions.
That will be in limine #11
Quick, settle!
WHAT HE SAID!
We can transfer them to will-call with a little help from our friends.
ORLY? Well then, if anyone is interested lemme know.
Here‘s the information about transferring tickets via email. I think anyone can do this, not just season ticket holders, but I’m not totally sure. Also not sure if the parking pass can be transferred that way (I’d guess not).
If Ed or one of the other people on your side of the bay (nm?) doesn’t end up taking them, and you want to try the online transfer thing, let me know tonight or even tomorrow morning. I can pay via paypal or check or whatever.
Your parking pass guess is correct. Those don’t e-transfer.
I doubt these would show up as “my tickets” in GM’s account since they were delivered as paper tickets. However the original owner should be able to effect a transfer if I can get to her in time.
Actually, I am apparently able to do this by just typing the bar codes. They now appear in “my tickets.” I’m seriously impressed by this.
andeux, you’re in. I’m going to need an email address to transfer them to. Not sure if it needs to be linked to an mlb.com account, but I assume not.
Cool!
The only downside, other than the parking pass, is that andeux won’t get to see the sweet picture of Michael Wuertz (I think) that’s printed on the paper tickets.
you could always mail that
Awesome.
APL at SONICdotNET
The parking pass is good for (non-vip) parking at any other game, so if you’re going later in the week or can get it to someone else who is you can still get some use out of it.
Sent. Let me know if it worked. I put my paypal email in the message.
Received. Will paypal tonight (how much?) when I am home with appropriate password.
Take your time. They’re $38 each.
You can load into “my tickets” using the codes, though. Or, at least, ST holders can.
Turns out anyone with an mlb.com account can do it. Total awesomesauce. Almost makes up for the fact that I don’t get to watch pennant race baseball from the first row.
It is definitely cool. And ticketmaster hasn’t figured out how to charge a $12.50 convenience fee yet.
I cannot take them.
I just told the prosecutor I am going to ask for sanctions.
Not against me, I hope.
against him for forcring me to be in trial Wednesday from 1:30-4:40
Just settle.
“Sorry [client], my 3 hours are more valuable than your 5 years.”
offer is only 3 years. so maybe….
I need four for Saturday, but I assume those would be impossible to pair up with two more, should you be forced to bail.
Yeah, those aren’t very pairupable unless you exchange them.
Haven’t seen much of ptbnl lately.
I believe he was in the land of baguettes and accordion music.
yup, yurp.
Back and going back again on Sunday.
What can I say, I love Paris in the austral springtime.
when you leave, autumn leaves.
Take us with you!
You’d miss the end of the regular season/start of the postseason.
How come I don’t get to choose any?
Because your awesomeness is too much to handle.
My wife tells me I should just stop pussyfooting around and start a cult already.
Hell, you’re lucky if you even get two.
…or one, for that matter.
whoever did that diagram chose fast and free.
I think this only makes sense if you’ve already chosen Legal, and now get to choose only one of the other two.
Oh, duh, I read that as a job in the legal field. Wonder why.
(me too, it took me a while to get it)
I used to have three. It was great and I knew at the time it wouldn’t last forever, but still, it’s sad to not have the top point any more.
Speaking of, do any of you FKers have experience with requesting a disability accommodation? My repeated whining about my early morning schedule has led my bosses to suggest that they would move me to a later schedule, but not because I could be happier and much more productive, only if I force them to. My sleep disorder only exists when I have to get up at 3 am, not when I’m on more normal hours and Google tells me this kind of issue doesn’t always get formally recognized as disabling. But I don’t actually want to take anyone to court, I just want to give the HR people enough cover that they can approve the move.
I just learned from yesterday’s Jeopardy that Fred S. Upton (but not that one, the real one) is Kate Upton’s uncle.
Hee hee! I’d forgotten about calling myself that. Lotta good lines in that. Reads better in stanza form though.
Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most collusive
Around the whole park, and he grew more abusive!
“These lux boxes suck! The sinks reek of pruno!
“You’ll never sell these to Cisco or Mizuno!
“Concourses a crush of bad food and worse potties,
“Pissing revenue streams off, and also fly hotties!”
The one comment at the bottom of the page (on EBX, not **) is hilariously grumpy. I assume that you took a shit in spineman2001a275’s cereal bowl right before composing the poem.
I am feeling pretty good about the home stretch. That road trip was excruciating for us fans, but the team mostly played well, in tough situations. It’ll take a scorching hot finish to knock us out…the A’s are not giving this away. And WC-1 is totally in reach. And all the stuff lenscrafters said is encouraging. And this team is about the most fantastic thing ever. This next week is going to be fun.
I too am going to bed with little anxiety tonight. GMmade me a little parinoid about the Rays. hopefully the white sox actually care tonight.
longoria solo HR in 9th 3-2 rays
Thanks, and go As.
The Rays have a lot to say about whether Baltimore gets the #1 WC.
Thats my thought, if we take care of business BAL-TB will settle themselves into the #2 spot.
The one I dread is BAl sweeps this weekend, so do we, the WS get off the floor and take out TB who then takes out Bal, leaving us and slegnA. The only 1 game I dont like is Weaver.
I’m actually okay with Anaheim sweeping this weekend so long as Baltimore & Tampa get swept and the A’s sweep Seattle. Being one back of Texas come Monday, two above Baltimore & Anaheim for that top spot isn’t too bad a position. We’d only need to take 2 of 3 to force a game 163 and turn it into a 4 game series. Otherwise, then we’d have to hope the Angels either choke against the Mariners best pitching or are at least forced to play out the final day of the season and use Weaver on Wednesday.
I know the smart root is for the the Angels and/or Tampa/Baltimore to gag this weekend, but I can’t help myself. I’m rooting for Texas to lose until they choke us out, and I really want to keep an Angels/Tampa/Baltimore tie for WC2 in play.
That’s where I’m at. I don’t think we can make it, but I’m still rooting for it.
The first Angels-Rangers game will completely affect who I root for the rest of that series. Pretty much, I want one of them to sweep the other. A Rangers sweep pretty much knocks the Angels out of the WC, and an Angels sweep potentially stages our final series with the Rangers as a fight for the division.
I’m thinking Weaver will take Dempster easily. My rooting interest is actually based on how well we do. If we win, I want the Angels to win to move us closer to the West. If we lose, I want the Rangers to win to keep us up on the WC. But really, with Baltimore, Tampa, & Anaheim all sitting within 2 games of us, 3 over all, I think we really need to win big this weekend.
Me too. I can’t give up hope until the ‘E’ is in the GB column.
I see the A’s lost today…I’ll probably never recover from the loss.
Give out my first big test tomorrow to my freshmen…see if they’ve been paying attention or not?
How do you expect they’ll do?
I think they’ll do well…it seems like a smart bunch.
How would we do, asked the guy who graduated from HS in the 1970s?
On this test probably not well unless you read a lot about the Revolutionary War in your free time…you learned this stuff but since it’s not part of your everyday life anymore you’ve likely forgotten a lot of the details.
Is #7 triangular trade?
Sorry, you’ll need to write your question using a #2 pencil.
Do I get extra credit for using Ticondaroga pencils and then start pushing the pencils back to Boston?
I don’t hand out extra credit unless you use the $20 bill method.
I actually have read a lot about the Revolutionary War in my free time. I’ve forgotten most of it because I tend to forget things. I actually have read a lot about the Revolutionary War in my free time.
Heh…this made me laugh.
That’s nice, but I’m pretty sure someone hacked into my account.
I am not sure I ever did. My transcript still shows I am 5 units short
I graduated high school…barely…I think I was 9th from the bottom in my class…partly due to an injury my senior year and partly due to the fact I was a dipshit who hated doing homework.
I still hate homework. I’m only a marginal student. I NEVER studied in high school or non-nursing classes in college. Shit just came naturally to me. Especially history and geography. I never even took the fking plastic off my world geo class a few years ago. Fking A in the class.
Now? I can study and study and never make an A. But you give me a nursing task where I have to apply my knowledge in a real setting and I’d rock your world.
I became a good student in college…I wasn’t nearly smart enough to get by without working at it at that level.
The key to getting good grades in college, for me at least, was attending all the lectures and taking thorough notes. I knew what parts of the material the professor thought were the most important, was never really surprised by an exam question, and on those exams where you had to choose 3 out of 6 or whatever to write essays on the problem was choosing the 3 I’d be best at, not trying to find 3 I could answer at all.
Taking good notes and being able to read the profs was my method as well…if I was to do it over I’d probably just go with using bribe money.
Sophisticated electronic cheating FTW
the key to my college success were the hours between midnight and when the paper was due.
Been there…done that.
This for me, except change “paper” to “problem set”. Physics makes way more sense at 3am.
Physics makes more sense on acid, when you can get all those damned numbers out of the way.
you can’t go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions. what are you going to land on, one-quarter, three-eighths?
Nursing school questions are totally different. There are no questions that are “knowledge-based”. Ex: “Define ABG.”
There is a question and you have to apply your knowledge. Then the answers aren’t three BS answers and one correct answer. There are six CORRECT answers and you have to pick the BEST answer, or the answer with the highest priority.
how about you just sit there and shake your boobs
Thanks, and go As.
Doesn’t work with females.
don’t think of it as work…
Have you tried
Thanks, and go As.
Key for me, and I’d recommend this for anyone in a technical field, is to make sure you understand the material as it is presented. If you don’t get it the first time, get help. If you have to do anything more than a light review for an exam, you’re fucked.
That’s how I felt in Geometry class when I asked the teacher to explain what numbers are. I felt I couldn’t progress any further in math without an understanding of what numbers truly are.
I’m still waiting.
Start with the Peano axioms to construct the Natural numbers and define the successor operator.
Define + (and its inverse -). The closure of the Natural numbers under these operators is the integers.
Define * (and its inverse /). The closure under these operators is the rational numbers.
Define the real numbers as the set of Dedekind cuts of rational numbers (or as equivalence classes of limits of Cauchy sequences).
Finally define the complex numbers as the algebraic closure of the reals.
If you want to go on to transfinite numbers, you’re on your own.
This all makes sense in respect to working with numbers and giving rule and definition to the work, and using the work in the greater world around us, but it doesn’t give me any framework whatsoever on how to imagine numbers or feel numbers or make the axioms mean anything to me or believe in them as “real.”
It’s like when I worked for the State, on an archaic computer program that made no sense, and nobody told me why we were doing the work we were doing or if it even had any value to anybody whatsoever. Yet, I made my cheatsheet of F1 does this and F3 takes you to the menu that does that, and eventually memorized it and was able to navigate the program. Yet, I never really understood anything. It was always surreal.
Well, ultimately math, and any other science that relies on it, lies on that kind of formalistic basis of definitions and axioms. There are different ways of doing that, but even those that call themselves intuitionist are really just picking a different set of axioms. So if you want to know what a “number” really is, I’m not sure there are different answers, but I don’t think there is a different kind of answer.
I get what you’re saying about feel, though. Historically, most math didn’t start with the formalizations. (It’s actually pretty weird that the Greeks started doing geometry and number theory that way so long ago.) People developed math to describe the natural world, to solve problems in physics or engineering, and the formalization came later. The formal rules are chosen (for the most part) in such a way to correspond to our understanding of natural phenomena, but ultimately they exist on their own, independent of those natural phenomena.
For me a lot of the attraction of math was that it made sense out of things that I already got intuitively, and allowed me to extend that intuition into more complicated systems. As I got deeper into it, there were some parts that I really liked learning and thinking about, and others where my intuition came up short and it started to seem like a lot of formal symbolic manipulation.
Unfortunately it’s a lot easier to communicate the formal parts to someone else than it is to communicate the feel.
I definitely appreciate your attempt.
I’m still going to try to communicate my feel when I get a deep feeling, in hopes of sparking an epiphany in someone.
I’m going to have to take some time to learn about this Brower cat and Intuitionism.
Heh. Yeah, that is probably the best idea. But if you used the hour that you were supposed to be in class instead by studying the toughest material…
At least I remembered to go to class for all my tests. Well, except for one (which miraculously was cancelled the day of the test. I seriously think I used multiple lifetimes of luck on that one).
Shit doesn’t come naturally to me. I have to sit and push and strain and grunt…
Eat more fiber.
That is also a good way to get some reading done, if you know what I mean.
Do you think a 100 years from now comedians will still be making jokes about airline peanuts?
If peanut butter sandwiches are banned from some schools for allergy reasons, why are peanuts still served on airplanes?
My guess…it’s fun to watch people die from a peanut allergy in a closed enviroment way above ground.
Fed a man peanuts 30000 feet above Reno, just to watch him die.
I think that is the perfect response…Gold star!
Giants totally fail at rookie dress-up.
Zentai’s kinda kinky.
They should’a had codpieces to go along with, tho.
Someone gave me a Cherry Coke Zero to drink today…I had them killed on the spot.
Good man.
OMG dan. Johnson.is PH for the sox!!
flys out
de azaground out
youkolis single one on for dunn dunn dunn dunnnnnnn
K. Shocking.
Fernando Rodney’s acher thing is kind lame, but I like how carlos pena comes over immediately and Fernando explains to him what he hit.
“See the DDs up there in section 207?”
Yes.
Thanks, and go As.
September: The month when you look back and wish you’d tried harder in those games in May.
Going on a body cleanse starting Monday….just need to pick up some motor oil and worcestershire sauce.
Spoonful of epsom salt in a glass of water. Chug.
Dont’ leave the bathroom for about 12 hours.
Thanks, and go As.
I need to go on a soul cleanse. Is WD-40 the right product to use, or should I step right up to Billy Mays’ ashes?
I use those ashes to clean all the tough stains around my house.
In my next life I’m going to be a hedonist.
I’m hedonizing the next couple of days. It’s not that satisfying so far.
Ur doing it wrong!
I’m developing a healthy dislike of the White Sox. They’re completely useless, and not even out of it.
The only thing I dislike about the White Sox is watching their games on WGN with The Hawk…aka the worst announcer in the history of western civilization…he gone!
When I was a student I could always bluff my way through essay questions which makes me pure evil as the giver of tests now….I can smell BS from a mile away and I require specifics…(evil laugh)
The trouble with the Rays is that it feels like they’re never going to lose again. And I don’t think the A’s will go 5-1 in the next six games.
Two pursuing teams that have more money or established talent. If the A’s make the playoffs, they will have earned it.
if the a’s win 2-3 v seattle then baltimore has to play well in the last series v. the rays. TCB against seattle, and the rest takes care of itself.
Not for K’s eyes: The three-team tiebreaker scenario for two wild card spots if they all finish 92-70 (Tampa Bay goes 6-0, Baltimore goes 3-3 and Oakland goes 4-2) is so bizarrely convoluted that I’m not attempting it until at least Monday. The quick and dirty is: the A’s would apparently host a playoff game against one of them on Thursday. If the A’s won they would be the #1 WC. The team that lost in Oakland would fly back across the country and play the third team in an elimination game on Friday. The winner of that game would then come back to Oakland on Saturday to play the actual WC game.
What I really want is a three way tie between Tampa, Baltimore and the Angels for the second spot with us comfortably above the fray.
So polls are part of a liberal conspiracy now…sure, why not?
When the facts fail to fit your story, change the story to reframe the fact.
i think of all the people in my old country i write with, about 2 know how to write. and i don’t mean just put one word after another and make sense. i mean HOW. punctuation is… confusing to them. mind, these are educated adults. this, for example, is from a 40-yr old psychologist expresses her political sentiments on FB.
everything’s spelled right though, and that’s gotta count for something i guess. but really, it’s like a whole country doesn’t know how to put a comma after a word.
reminds me though. there are english-speakers who sometimes use two periods, like this.. are these supposed to be ellipses gone wrong or periods gone wrong?
Many older radio people….enjoy writing their scripts that way. But nowadays….it is discouraged because when the scripts must be reformatted for the web…it is a tremendous pain in the ass….to go back and take them all out.
interesting. is it a notation for pauses?
and i bet grep would help reformatting, but writing grep searches is a pain all of its own.
Yes. I don’t like it myself, because I would read those as very long and unnatural pauses, but many people swear by it. ALSO THERE ARE SOME FORMER PRINT PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO TYPE THER SCRIPTS IN ALL CAPS which is even more annoying.
THAT’S TERRIBLE.
almost as bad as no caps.
i can dig your dig, but i disagree. descenders and ascenders are key to legibility.
I think you want sed for this one, rather than grep. Or maybe perl, if shit is getting crazy.
well, indesign comes with grep and i understand it briefly, so that’s what i reached for it.
Newer TV people are still being taught to write scripts that way.
Now…wait…a…minute…here…I…like…using…the…(…)…when…I…write.
no….. “”””quotes”””””????
“I’ll work on it.” Bed said.
from = how. ((((i can’t write either.)))))
This stuff is starting to look more and more like code. Lisp or scheme, in this case.
“Lisp or scheme”, huh? Sounds like a couple of hustling Queens I know downtown!
queen should totally be the name of a programming language (but it’s not, as far as I can tell).
That’s right, dear…I’m watching all these hot girl on girl DVD’s purely for educational reasons…now could you get me some energy bars and lots of water and then close the door and leave alone until Monday?
The office was dark as Bed sat at his desk working on building his VORP empire to even greater heights. He had screwed over a lot of people getting to the top and many thought the deaths of sirbed, 1 Iron and BD were by his hand.
Bed took a sip of Cherry Coke Zero and growled “get in here!” Brian29 entered the room. “Can I help you sir?” Brian29 said. “You can help me by dying.” Bed said as he fired his pistol. Bed dialed attijah’s cell number. “I need some squirrels for a little cleanup job. Send me your best workers and have the pigeons fly them here asap.” Bed put his phone down and looked out his window. It was good to be a gangsta.
wait so attijah IS one of your fake names?
Thanks, and go As.
We’ll find out after the cliffhanger at the end of season 3.
meh.
Thanks, and go As.
I want to see the guest episode with Dallas Braden and his bat “Spot.”
Will it involve you waking up next to Suzanne Pleshette?
Only if we’re lucky.
Assuming “we” excludes her.
I can’t help but think that Mila Kunis could do better than the second male lead on Two and a half Men.
It’s a little dead in here tonight…speaking of dead…next up 16 jokes about necrophilia.
better bed than dead.
I think that might still be up for debate.
Is that a gurgling mass of writhing maggots in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
That’s 1.
Umm, Grandma, since you’re dying anyway, I know some people who wanna make a snuff film. It’ll pay for your funeral expenses so us grandkids don’t have to!
The family that kills grandma in a snuff film together…stays together.
little-known fact. the first draft of a classic beatles line was over grandma, not over me.
Is this Homeland show any good…I know it won the Emmy but the Emmy’s suck so that doesn’t tell me much.
I’m gonna just go out on a limb an say “no”
Most TV fucking sucks.
Thanks, and go As.
Gosh…I think TV is better than ever and much better than film these days.
Definitely agree with part 1; don’t watch enough film to say on part 2. But yeah, the best TV stuff now is the best TV stuff ever pretty much, at least on the drama side.
Yeah the comedy side I’m not as sure about but dramas are better than ever. As far as movies they either seem to be about comic books or indie dramas about an albino cat looking for his roots.
I might have laughed harder at the most recent season of Louie than anything else ever on TV.
A thousand times this.
A friend of mine absolute loves it. She says it’s her favorite show ever. It’s at the top of my “long wait” netflix list.
Angry batgirl appearance in 3…2…1…
Talk about laying a giant ostrich egg. I blame myself, though. I forgot to use my Stanford coffee mug yesterday morning because WHO THE FK PLAYS COLLEGE FOOTBALL ON THURSDAY.
Up next…a story about a dog that found his way home after being lost for 3 years who killed his master for having taken him in the car and dropping him off in a field somewhere miles away from home 3 years ago.
“A Dog Named Colby Lewis”
next on Lifetime
Tee hee!
Like most people I dream in Bryan Adams videos from the 1980’s.
I watched plenty of videos, but aI bet there are fewer than 30 that stand out so much I truly remember them. I may need to think about this…
And this assumes of course that you cant say “band on stage playing” is memorable.
I like the Lou Reed video where he rips his own face off.
In related news…I also bought a polo shirt today to go along with my new khaki pants.
I could probably name/describe 30 videos from 1982 alone
It’s a party trick almost as popular as naming members of the 1984 Expos roster.
Those are both good. You’re fun at parties, I reckon.
I do my best party tricks on my knees.
Generally, I’m a high-demand niche product at parties, kind of like cocaine.
I can describe elements of videos. Steve Perry sitting on stairs with his hat…the trombone player in Susudio. But to really remember them it has to be like the waterfall coming out of the screen at the duran duran comcert for the Reflex.
We’re Here…We drink NearBeer…Get used to it!
Over my next 10 posts…5 will be about VORP…3 will be about me…and 3 will be about my math skills.
And one should be about toothless waifs who want to grow up to be moonshiners.
Okay…too mean…not mean enough…too stupid…you’ve posted that four times already…did that on AN…did that on .com…maybe next month…no one will get it…hmm, maybe if I had some chopsticks and dry ice…okay, this will work.
Oh shitballs, Bedringham, that’s totally how I think when I’m communicating on the kinky site… Trying not to communicate too much or too little… Compliment but don’t over-compliment… show interest but don’t look too stalkeresque… It gets kinda nerve-racking after a while.
This is why I just post the first thing that comes to my mind…sorry about that, everybody.
Favorite sexual position?…figure four leglock.
bent over and tied to a tall bench, with a sweet man in front of me and a mean woman with a strapon behind me.
pfft….that’s how we say hello to each other in Arkansas.
I thought the .22’s were for Hello, with the higher calibers saved for more serious communications.
In truth we usually settle things by dueling banjos.
You tell em’ I’m coming and Buddy Bell is coming with me!
Sometimes you just have to say fuck it…and then build a life sized Barbara Eden out of mashed potatoes.
I shudder to think what the life-sized Larry Hagman’s gonna be made out of!
well used lung tissue most likely.
that and organic compost from Ed Begley Jr.’s pot garden.
Bitch is set for life with all that St. Elsewhere green.
And he’s got a LOT of dirt on Howie Mandel. No wonder the poor bald bastard washes his hands 57 times a day!
Only 57 times a day?…pfft..what a pussy.
you go 10 years without thinking about somebody, then whamm-o, twice in one day.
I’m a pine cone cowboy.
I’m what the teenagers on the bus call “the heshe with the hat”
I have a post I’ve been working on since about June of 2009…it’s almost ready.
Sounds like my sci-fi novel.
My first one took about a year to write but only a few weeks to be dismissed.
Can Eric Patterson finally put it together in Oakland?
“Ryan Langerhans: Will He Produce At Home?”
lol
Yay. I like making you laugh once in a while in between the cringing.
Langerhans jokes are the gift that keeps on giving for A’s related blogs.
Thunderbutt and I are some of the priveleged few who saw Langerhans don an A’s uniform.
You were in Boston at the time, eh? Way cool.
Yup. It was the Travis Buck game.
Like Islets in a raging sea.
Okay, now you’re creeping me out.
Please don’t kill me!
We’ll find out after the cliffhanger at the end of season 3….(by the way I hate that we can’t repeat posts on FK)
I put a space before the first word, and then bold the space.
I put a space before the first word, and then bold the space.
I put a space before the first word, and then bold the space.
I feel like you’re trying to tell me something.
Slow-onset terminal nihilism is such a meh affliction.
I’m too tri-polar to ever feel meh about anything.
Okay, no more secrets…now who wants to give me their social security number?
Don’t make me send you my life story document.
Hell…that sounds like a good read to me…well, at least a better read than my 1,437 page report on FIP.
1.Yoenis Cespedes homers (22) on a fly ball to left center field.
2.Chris Carter called out on strikes.
3.Brandon Moss homers (20) on a fly ball to right field.
4.Josh Donaldson strikes out swinging.
5.Josh Reddick homers (31) on a line drive to right field.
Pitching Change: Koji Uehara replaces Mike Adams.
Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter George Kottaras replaces Derek Norris.
Coaching visit to mound.
6.George Kottaras strikes out swinging.
HR/K/HR/K/HR/K — ladies and gentleman, your 2012 A’s.
Bed looks at the names…doesn’t recognize them…goes back to flexing in the mirror.
KK said it too, that inning was the season in microcosm.
too bad cust isn’t around to enjoy his true outcomes influence on the team.
He’s too busy on the rodeo clown circut.
The Cust Family’s School Of Power Hitting & Rodeo Clowning”
Yep, I kind of loved that inning.
WE WANT CLOGGED BASES!
yeah, enough with the rallykilling!!
I think I’ve lived in the South long enough to finally become a racist.
But are you lynching chairs in your front yard?
Not yet but I did buy some rope today.
In related news…I bought some rope to go along with my polo shirt and khaki pants.
The Father Desme belt completes the Preppy look with a bit of monastic flair.
I shared this joke verbally with my wife, except she heard
“Bed said ‘I’ve lived with myself long enough to finally become a racist'”, which to her was far funnier.
It’s true….I fucking hate white, bald, dead sexy preppy bastards and all they stand for.
Kitty’s reply was “M’row!”
I don’t think it meant anything, tho. It often doesn’t.
As for me, I’m racist against the Daytona 500. I hate that race.
NASCAR HATE…A Redneck Love Story.
He was a good ol’ boy from the sticks…she was an uptight gal from the city….soon his charms would sway her to vote for the GOP and stop flossing.
Burt Reynolds. Valerie Bertinelli.
in…
TRENCHMOUTH!
4 left turns don’t make a right.
3 good titles may or may not make a trilogy.
Bed: He doesn’t just run jokes into the ground…oh no, he buries those bastards so deep no one will ever find them.
I have to say my plan to brush my teeth with Oreo cookies is not working out as well as I planned.
Bed: He’s creepier than Michael Jackson doing a Toys R’ Us commercial.
Bed: He’s fuzzier than a bearded tribble with a mold fetish.
Speaking of creepy commercials…Eddie Money looks absolutely bat shit in that 2 tickets to paradise ad.
YES. That ad is horrifying.
I cringe every. single. time!
When given the chance to fight or flee I usually curl up in a ball and cry for my mommy.
given the chance,
i’ll die like a baby
on some faraway beach.
You haven’t lived until Bridget the Midget has given you a back rub using a hot poker and some saran wrap.
BeD’Marcus, I’m getting branded next year, you know?
I hope Bridget can be there with healing salves and old sailor curses.
That sounds like her kind of a gig and besides I think she’s getting bored with me and my middle class tastes…well, middle class in that I don’t have the money to be really kinky.
Money my ass. Home Depot is the kinkiest store in the whole world.
In related news…I’ve taken my polo shirt and khaki pants off and I am now putting the rope around my neck…all I need now is some lube and Bridget the Midget and we can get this party started.
I talk all the mad kinky sh!t, yet YOU’RE the one who doesn’t play safe?
We get freaky in Arkansas, baby!
Put me down for complaining about something in a lounge in November…also I’ll probably spend most of December talking about myself…March I’m saving for posting about the taglines.
Put me down for mocking the December 21sters and/or making a last minute flipflop and rejoining them out of desperation and/or promises of free promotional items.
Ah yes the end of the world crowd…I think we all now the world will end when the Raiders have a 35 point lead in a Super Bowl with 30 seconds remaining.
Dear Mike Rowe,
See, you don’t actually have a “Dirty Job” no, you’re a millionaire who will do ads for just about anything so please don’t say an education isn’t something worth having.
Next on “Dirty Jobs,” I walk the city streets with scissors, cutting the social safety net, as well as the exposed arteries and veins of hoboes I pass on my way.”
He seems like the kind of guy who actually believes his own bullshit.
I am equally scared of becoming a person who believes her own bullshit and becoming a person who doesn’t believe her own bullshit.
Yet it’s so hard to remain mildly enthusiastic about one’s own bullshit when the whole concept of communicating in words is a total eye-roller.
Good night, FKerinos! Gotta get my rest for the big day tomorrow. And for the next five days. And for the week or three after that.
(sagh)
Bed: He’s a triple brown bagger just in case the first two fall off.
Time to shuffle off to the bedroom for snuggle time and sleep.
I have the damn restless legs tonight, tho. I wish Romney was here so I could kick his ass repeatedly. That would make me feel better.
whenas in silks my julia goes, then then methinks, how quickly flows the liquefaction of her clothes.
next, when i cast mine eynes and see, that brrrrrrave vibrrrrration, each way free, oh… how that glittering taketh me!
—
kinda wish the one poem i knew by heart was a gerard manley hopkins instead, but this one is dirty enough that maybe it fits me better.
by which i meant, of course, good night!
(scene)
Bed sits alone in his office. He hears someone enter and stands up. “Hello, who’s there?” He says. (Bang!) a shot is fired. Bed slumps to the ground.
Who shot Bed?
Find out next season on….The Lounge!
I love Cash Cab. I want to go to New York and just do nothing but hail cabs all day, every day, for a decade or so, to see if I can get the Cash Cab.
I will totally do that with you. I FKing love Cash Cab.
When I was in NY I was eyeing every cab that came by for Ben Bailey.
I am aghast at how often they pick up people that have no idea what the Cash Cab is. AGHAST, I say.
I fell asleep before 8 and now I’m awake. Unable to sleep. Any night owls out there?
kinda. watching tv
I might do the same. Watcha watching?
new girl on tivo
Unsurprisingly, I’ve never heard of it. Any good?
i like it. some people thin zoe dechenel (sp) is too cutie
I am also trying to log in to some work things and can’t remember the passwords
We just recently create a hand written master document with all our passwords on it and put it an out of the way place. I only hope that I remember where we put it when I need it.
mine are all variations so I hit it eventually. Right now I am trying to get inot someone elses email. Its terrible frustrating.
success!
i hate the different rules that make it so you end up with 100 variations of the same basic thing but since you don’t know what rule you were originally abiding by now that you’re trying to log on again, you don’t know if you’re going for the no caps one or the with a number one or the one with at least one punctuation or what.
She over-acts her part, but the rest of that cast is great. Weird that she’s the main reason to start watching the show, yet I think it could survive just fine without her. Still the show’s not bad. Quite a few funny moments.
Today’s arXiv find (mostly for K)
I guess the Doomsday Argument makes a certain amount of sense, but it has such a humanistic focus.
I don’t give a shit how many humans are born or die, just as long as the Singularity comes out of the process. We are the anthill in charge of building God.
Humans think they’re the evolutionary pinnacle, and frame the future as if they’re in it the whole time and as if when they’re gone, the future is gone with them.
Myopic fools.
It’s my opinion that if an outside observer could watch infinite multiverses be born and die over and over again and compile the data from the observations, the observer would not be able to answer the “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” question, or the “Which came first, biology or technology?” question.
I don’t disagree with any part of this.
The way that abstract is written, it seems to have humanistic focus, but I think it applies equally to any form of life where population increases exponentially via reproduction.
within the limitations of a system with limits, yes.
I don’t get nor agree with his original premise so it basically negates everything he seems to follow with.
My gut feeling says this is all a non-isomorphic preliminary map little better than “Here There Be Dragons!”
I’m not sure I really buy his conclusion. This is similar to the anthropic principle. A priori it’s extremely unlikely that, among all people (or among all entities in the universe), I am who I am, but nevertheless I am, and there isn’t really any conclusion that can be drawn from that.
That’s why I don’t buy his premise. “You and I” existing in a civilization that’s produced 70 billion is actually highly probable because “you and I” are simply a random sampling of that 70 billion. In a civilization of more than one at any given time will always produce a “you and I.” I think his starting point is an over complication of what SPWC noted above of the overestimation of humanities place in the universe.
That’s why the Rastas have it right. I and I build a cabin, I and I plant the corn.
why rastas have it wrong: i and i won’t bow.
Oh yeah, it’s definitely an anthropic principle type argument. Note that he does invoke a “many worlds” hypothesis in the abstract, which is often considered a precondition for anthropic arguments to not be total garbage. I guess I’m kind of sympathetic to the anthropic principle, in the sense that it can be fun to think about, but I sure am glad that my day-to-day work has a (slightly) more solid statistical footing.
WARNING: Crazy wildcard speculation ahead:
A very interesting possibility happens if Baltimore goes 3-3, TB 6-0, NYY 2-4, TEX 0-6, OAK 4-2, LAA 6-0. There would be two three way ties for the division, as well as a six way tie for the 2 wildcards. There would be two two day “tournaments” for who wins each division (for example TEX plays LAA in LAA, winner plays OAK at home), followed by what I assume two one game scenario (Winner gets wild card, loser goes home).
I know it’s unlikely, but unless the A’s can pull away, I’ll root for it.
Trouble is, the A’s would then have to go 1-2 against the Mariners before sweeping the Rangers, which gets a little nerve-wracking.
Also, the Angels going 6-0 would be annoying as hell. Granted they do basically have to go 3-0 for the A’s to overtake the Rangers but that’s such a longshot I’m ignoring that at least until Sunday night.
The A’s overtaking the Rangers is a huge longshot, but I don’t think the Angels sweeping the Rangers is unlikely at all. They’ve got Weaver and Greinke going, and Santana has been pitching well lately.
Santana has a rather atrocious career record in Arlington.
At Arlington: 24 HRs in 87.2 innings.
At the Coliseum: 2 HRs in 69.1 innings.
Yikes.
Due to improve!
Thanks, Foss.
This is what Bud Selig thinks about when he pleasures himself.
You know what I’d do if I had a six-way tie for four spots?
I’d add the Central winner to the mix and have a semi-random drawing (weighted towards # of wins) for the 8th AL playoff team, and then add an extra round (3 game series) to accomodate the extra teams.
Then, I root for a Kansas City-Oakland ALCS!
Nah, Selig would hate that. It would screw up the TV schedule for the whole postseason.
Yeah, but he’d love it too, because he’s still a geeky fan underneath it all.
So…I just glanced up from my desk at the monitor we have here with Fox News playing on it, just in time to see someone in Phoenix shoot himself on live television.
And then Fox cuts to a commercial. Wow.
Somebody Budd Dwyered himself?
R. Budd Dwyer. Couldn’t sleep for a week. thank you Hardcore video.
or was it target?
you mean target. but i just tried googling hardcore video to fact-check and, well, those weren’t facts i saw.
f-acts, more like.
Fortunately, no.
They were following a carjacking that escalated into a high speed chase. Guy being chased eventually goes off road, runs out of the car for a while, then stops and shoots himself in the head.
This was all on a chopper camera, so it was captured from a distance. Sam Shepard looked like he was going to scream when they came back on the air.
*Shepard Smith, oops.
Shep Smith?
Apparently they were on a five-second delay and he was yelling at the crew to cut away before the suicide aired, but it didn’t happen.
Now there is a little flame war erupting on Twitter between CJR and Buzzfeed over it.
You know, up until about a half hour ago, I was ready to leave work at a reasonable time. Ugh.
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Working in an office with Fox News constantly on the TV sounds bad enough under normal circumstances.
Yeah, I think the Geneva Convention has something to say about that.
Only because it is a liberal conspiracy.
All the monitors are muted, but we have CNN and NY1 on, too. It’s part of the job.
Didn’t anyone ever warn you about putting the Lounge before the Bed?