It’s from a FARK.com photoshop thread from 2005. A lot of the entries have disappeared from teh intarwebz since then, including whatever stupid attempt I made (I’m known as SECSManiac on that site).
It isn't Dirty Dancing 'cuz it doesn't make you vomit.
Aw, they were always my fav. Lots of time travel through trees and everything being pretty shades of blue and singing to align with the vibrations of the universe and magical gnomes.
Coming down from them… okay, that’s less awesome.
I just wish there were hallucinogens for the busy people on-the-go who don’t have the time investment for hours in a day.
I am pleased to report that, on the very dawn of my 41st birthday, I did my morning set of exercise with a pronounced ease. Gee, as if I were 40 all over again
If that’s not a euphemism, no.
No I just do very little of the body stabilization exercises, two minutes of laying sideways on one elbow, then facing down on both elbows, then the other side, then facing up, all the time keeping the body straight and tense. It helps protect the spine when you get hit or crash awkwardly
In honor of EC’s birthday, my (partial) all-slav baseball team:
2B- Erick Ajvar
SS- Dick Croat
3B- Eric “Cevapi” Chavez
C- Bruce Bosnia
LF- Rakija Henderson
P- John Montenegro, Curt Pljeskavica
Al “The Mad Hungarian” Hrabosky may or may not qualify based on how much Slav is included in his ancestry. But in trying to find out, I’ve now learned that he was born in Oakland!
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I revise my work calendar in three month installments. When I was doing this yesterday it pleased me greatly to see the April 1 Opening Day sitting there in Outlook, my day off already booked.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I keep getting friend requests on Facebook from people I supposedly went to high school with, but I have no idea who they are. And my high school wasn’t that big. I think I’m losing it.
But the stupidity is an essential part of the scam – its the filter that ensures that only the greediest/dumbest recipients of the message respond to it.
FK that. The Kings already owe the City of Sacramento tens of millions. I don’t want the city or county issuing arena or stadium bonds, period. Publicly financed stadiums are money pits of debt and false job creation promises.
Once the money has been spent, the worst thing to happen is to lose the team and lose whatever benefits they were providing to the community (assuming the city isn’t sinking more cost in order to keep them).
I would LOVE if the Maloofs would sell to someone who would privately finance an arena like the Giants privately financed their stadium.
I agree with you that emotionally it would be a net loss for Sacramento County and environs, but financially, the Kings moving is a win, especially if the new owner is forced to pay off the $70m the Kings owe the City.
Scout.com published their top 50 A’s prospects — link
I’m surprised by Dan Straily’s position. Do people know if scout.com is one of those outfits that favor prospects who favor high floor prospects rather than high ceiling?
If this mess continues for the next 5 years or so, perhaps it’d finally get the ball rolling on the first step to fix HOF voting: relieving the BBWAA of the vote entirely.
I was only pointing out likely HOFers not necessarily guessing when they’d actually get in. Though you’re pointing out the other kind of dumb part of the voting process. They’re either HOFers or they’re not. First ballot, second ballot, what difference does it really make?
I get what you’re saying, but I actually kind of like that convention. There is a pretty big gulf between Maddux and Glavine, even if both deserve a plaque. The first-ballot thing recognizes that.
Frank Thomas has to deal with the fact that they’ve never let a DH into the Hall yet, on top of the steroid hissy fit (not saying that he’s implicated, but neither is Berkman, right?).
As part of A’s FanFest on Sunday, January 27, the A’s will host a BlogFest for A’s Bloggers. Select bloggers will have the opportunity to interview A’s manager Bob Melvin as well as A’s players. To be considered to cover A’s BlogFest, complete and submit the form below by Friday, January 18 at 5 p.m. PDT.
I’ll talk to my wife about it and see if it’s okay. I’ll tell her that if I commit, it’s something I can’t back out on, unlike attending a tailgate or a party.
There were ten players in MLB last year who were 40 or older before the season started. Nine of them were near replacement level (0.4 WAR or lower), the tenth was worth 1.9 bWAR (or 1.1 fWAR). Who was this MVQ (Most Valuable Quadragenarian)?
Although I think it must be a pitcher, because of such big discrepancy in two WAR values. So someone with low enough ERA – 1.90 to 2.20 for a reliever or a 3.50 – 4.00 for a starter, with not really stellar K/BB/HR ratios. Colon could be one, but I think he is still a few years short. Ditto Uehara, but apart from perhaps being too young, I think he had stellar K/BB.
Moyer is one of the oldies, but he had 6+ ERA I think, so he’s out. I think it must be a reliever, but apart from Rivera and Saito, who sucked too, cannot think of any decent 40+
The point is not that it is likely. But if we are into semantics, then we are into semantics. 8.1 innings in which you make all your outs through strikeouts, don’t walk anyone and don’t allow a home run would have been worth 1.2 fWAR for a NYA pitcher in 2012
Sure. B-Ref has Doug Sisk on 1982 Mets with 0.6 WAR in 8.2 innings.
I don’t think one can filter for IP on FG. I can only think of a couple who come close to having such a short season and being good – Motte in 2008, Chapman in 2010 – but they both pitched a bit more (Motte 0.6 WAR / 11 IP, Chapman 0.7 WAR in 13 IP)
Rivera (because he got hurt so early), Thome, Moyer, and Saito were all among the 9 near or below replacement level, as was GM’s guess.
Your thinking is spot on.
I think some of you Oakland enthusiasts might find this interesting. Daniel McPartlan, a local photographer who donates tons of his time taking photos of the adoptable animals at Berkeley Animal Care Services, has a new blog. He is digging up old newspaper photos of Oakland, finding that exact spot, and then taking the same picture today. It’s pretty fascinating looking at them.
Thanks for the link, 13th and 14th blocks of Broadway were so beautiful, its too bad most of the masonry buildings are gone.
Such a shame the building on 12th lays vacant, guessing its a retrofit issue.
We needed to authorize a request for transfer of Mia’s immunization records, but they only accepted fax. They told us they’d fax it to us, but my wife didn’t have a fax machine. I asked the clients I’m working with this week if I could receive a fax and then send the signed copy back out, but then waited for hours for a fax to come in, unsure if my not having received the documents was due to them not having sent it yet or the temperamental nature of this specific fax machine.
It never came in, so my wife managed to print out a form from the internet and sign it, then scan it an email it to me for faxing. When I tried to fax the printed document, I got an error message–twice–which came about 10 minutes after each time I tried to send the fax.
In the end, I ended up using an e-Fax service to send the scanned image. It was much easier than fiddling with that bloody fax machine.
az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
We do the same. We use a service that costs peanuts and gives you a faux fax number that people can dial to and that you can send “faxes” from to real fax machines
My Japanese colleagues told me it’s because fax is the best way to send a map of how to get to your home or office, which is handy in a place where street names and numbers are not usually much help. The map we had of how to get to our Tokyo bureau included a note about which side of the Mild Seven cigarette machine the door was on.
I gotta think that fax machines will vanish relatively soon, once document scanning becomes more ubiquitous in small offices and schools and stuff like that.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
As long as there are thousands of separate islands of electronic medical record systems, patient portals and other health tech software suites that don’t talk to each other, the abomination that is fax will live on.
I’m tired of separate information islands. I want a fully integrated standardized world information network, preferably one I can be uploaded into and live digitally without a body.
I can see the fax surviving as an option for transferring medical records–but hospitals and doctors’ offices really need to get with the times and accept emailed PDFs.
az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
I don’t get it either, especially when I have to then make sure that the paper version of the fax gets to me so that I can then scan it and email it to myself so I have a record of it.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Our mortgage company let us do everything through email, which was nice.
I don’t buy the manipulation argument. With a good scanner, I could scan a sheet, print out a photoshopped version of the original document, and fax it. There’s nothing stopping anybody from manipulating documents with a fax.
PDF all the way!
az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
I graduated as an LPN. I went back for my RN. I graduate with my RN in May. I’m then going back for my BSN. It’s a process. :) Some people stop after the LPN, which is why there is a “graduation”.
I’m glad somebody’s making Virtual Boy Games. That system was craptastic! Aweserrible! Utter garbageliciousness… Basically, it was fun until your head started to hurt, which was about five minutes in.
Heh. I think his last season is more indicative in what to expect going forward, though, as he was only used as a reliever there. So, I do think he has some value, especially as a league minimum player
Walker is probably a top ten prospect, more towards the end, so let’s peg him with $25MM of surplus value. Franklin is a 25 – 50 hitter, more towards the front of that group, so let’s give him $20MM.
Upton is owed $38.5MM over next three years. Without the relievers, for this to work out for Seattle, Upton should generate between $80MM and $85MM of value, or in other words be a 5-6 Win player. With the relievers, you are probably talking about a straight 6 WAR production. He only had one six WAR season, but he is in his prime.
From the timing perspective, it doesn’t seem that the Mariners would want to cash in in order to peak right now, as they have probably the greatest core of prospects, with Paxton, Walker, Zunino, Hultzen, Franklin…
On the other hand, they only have Felix signed till 2014, so who knows what their plans are
If you say hes 4 WAR for the next 3 years at $5, $5.5 and $6m a win youre at $66m in production at a cost of $38.5m for a surplus value of $27.5m. So Walker plus Franklin is $45m which before the relievers is a negative surplus value of $17.5m not counting the relievers which lets say 3 WAR over the next 4 seasons of Furbush and 5 seasons of Pryor or another $16.5m in the hole.
If Seattle was going to contend in the next three years it would be worth the $34m expected loss (some of which would be mitigated by the time value of wins and the increase in the certainty of production from Upton compared to the prospects). But they will not, so why the hell would you do it?
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
I think Jack Z feels like his job is in jeapordy because he is trying to contend to early. They have a great minor league system… They just need to go with it.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
I’ve been doing melty beads as ET. My mom put them all on the refrigerator.
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Aww, how cute! It’s like 1st grade all over again!
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I skipped 1st grade.
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Like skipped over, or played hookey and smoked cigarettes behind the gym?
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Me too.
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But then they made me repeat second grade the next year when I changed schools.
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Not me. I just stayed a year behind in little league and was teased mercilessly for awhile.
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Oh, I got teased, and kicked in the nuts a handful of times, as well.
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My Little Pony???
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Nurse Jen, a cat, and a rainbow horse.
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You should put boobs on your mom’s fridge.
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I was going to put them on the Christmas tree, since she said it looked like a Christmas ornament.
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A boob tree? Santa would never leave!
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Only if Santa was Mike.
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How do you know he isn’t? Have you ever seen them together?
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Well, I sat on Santa’s lap this year and he didn’t grope me, so I just assumed.
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Then he wasn’t the real Santa.
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It could be because he was paralyzed after I sat on him.
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HO HO HO, BITCHES.
no?
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That is a tiny door knocker.
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That is SO badass!
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It’s from a FARK.com photoshop thread from 2005. A lot of the entries have disappeared from teh intarwebz since then, including whatever stupid attempt I made (I’m known as SECSManiac on that site).
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You are amazing.
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That’s missing the cupcake I made.
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Updated:
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Neat! Nurse Upgrade and her colleagues make kinda similar stuff out of the multi-colored plastic pop-off tops from medicine vials.
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I’ve been coordinating the menus for a party I’m throwing and a birthday dinner I’m cooking for a friend later this month.
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And? What’s on the menu, Chef?
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The party will be barbecued pork ribs with a dry rub, and stuffed mushrooms.
As for the birthday dinner, I dunno yet.
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The first one sounds good. The second one leaves a lot to be desired.
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Ew. Opposite for me.
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“I dunno yet” sounds better to you than pork ribs and stuffed mushrooms?
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OH. I thought you weren’t down for stuffed mushrooms.
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Love mushrooms.
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Mushrooms are vile.
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They sure have been to me. The “Reality is a puzzle, the answer is death” six hour death trip was the worst.
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Also my least fave hallucinogen. Though I haven’t tried bath salts yet.
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I’d try bath salts, but I’m scared I’d eat someone’s face off.
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Better to eat than be eaten. At least in this context.
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And now you know why all the ladies love ozz.
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Nom nom
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Aw, they were always my fav. Lots of time travel through trees and everything being pretty shades of blue and singing to align with the vibrations of the universe and magical gnomes.
Coming down from them… okay, that’s less awesome.
I just wish there were hallucinogens for the busy people on-the-go who don’t have the time investment for hours in a day.
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Amen!
Five Hour Energy, meet Three Hour Acid!
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you are a fascist
just fyi
::comes::
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YOU SICK BASTARD
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THAT’S NOT HOW I SPELLED IT
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Something sleazy about those colons.
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TMI
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(rolls eyes)
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eyes rolls
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leftover sympathy weight gain from the pregnancy, eh?
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Are you in my bushes? My neighbor threw out a block of cheese and four rolls, and it’s on the sidewalk. JesusKitty hasn’t stopped by to eat it yet.
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Is anyone in their right mind not in your bushes?
I am pleased to report that, on the very dawn of my 41st birthday, I did my morning set of exercise with a pronounced ease. Gee, as if I were 40 all over again
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eyes rolls
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My morning exercise consists of getting out of bed, and it’s never easy.
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Do you walk your dog in the morning?
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If that’s not a euphemism, no.
No I just do very little of the body stabilization exercises, two minutes of laying sideways on one elbow, then facing down on both elbows, then the other side, then facing up, all the time keeping the body straight and tense. It helps protect the spine when you get hit or crash awkwardly
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You didn’t mention the 200 lb weights that you support while doing this.
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Congratulations.
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Thanks, Kay
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Happy birthday!
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Oh yeah, and that!
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Oh yeah, and thank you
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Thank you
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a) Holy hell, you’re 40?
b) Happy Birthday sir.
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a) not any more
b) thanks
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Alles gute!
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danke!
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Happy Birthday, EC!
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Sretan rođendan!
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what he said, whatever that is
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Hvala!
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In honor of EC’s birthday, my (partial) all-slav baseball team:
2B- Erick Ajvar
SS- Dick Croat
3B- Eric “Cevapi” Chavez
C- Bruce Bosnia
LF- Rakija Henderson
P- John Montenegro, Curt Pljeskavica
M- Whitey Herzegovina
U- Balkan Bob Davidson
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Not Moravian enough.
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methinks you win the day!
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Possible tagline?
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sans context, it’s kind of a non-sequitur.
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Which I love, but I can see why others wouldn’t.
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How could you pass over Sweet Ljubljana Whitaker at 2B?
I also think Dave Stewart should be on there just because of his great Split-fingered fastball.
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Al “The Mad Hungarian” Hrabosky may or may not qualify based on how much Slav is included in his ancestry. But in trying to find out, I’ve now learned that he was born in Oakland!
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Awesome
NSFW
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That’s an old one, but still good
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I’d never seen it.
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SFW similar ad
Is it spring training yet? Where is the baseball?
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Bartolo ate it for dessert… :(
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I revise my work calendar in three month installments. When I was doing this yesterday it pleased me greatly to see the April 1 Opening Day sitting there in Outlook, my day off already booked.
I keep getting friend requests on Facebook from people I supposedly went to high school with, but I have no idea who they are. And my high school wasn’t that big. I think I’m losing it.
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Either that or the Nigerians are getting smarter.
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But the stupidity is an essential part of the scam – its the filter that ensures that only the greediest/dumbest recipients of the message respond to it.
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Well, I accepted these people’s requests, so query whether it is serving that function anyway.
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Of course my reply was solely with reference to Nigerian phishing scams.
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I know, and I realized that I should have said “more selective” or “into social engineering” rather than “smarter,” but by then it was too late.
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Are we talking about mushrooms again?
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NO!
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I’ve had very similar experiences, but I’m not sure that should in any way be comforting to you.
Aren’t there some Kings fans here?
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Hunh.
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This deal just makes too much sense not to happen. Stinks for Sac though. I’d rather they have a team than OKC.
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FK that. The Kings already owe the City of Sacramento tens of millions. I don’t want the city or county issuing arena or stadium bonds, period. Publicly financed stadiums are money pits of debt and false job creation promises.
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Sorry Kay, but I can’t get behind the Kings hate. The Kings leaving will be a net loss for Sacramento city and the surrounding areas.
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Once the money has been spent, the worst thing to happen is to lose the team and lose whatever benefits they were providing to the community (assuming the city isn’t sinking more cost in order to keep them).
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I would LOVE if the Maloofs would sell to someone who would privately finance an arena like the Giants privately financed their stadium.
I agree with you that emotionally it would be a net loss for Sacramento County and environs, but financially, the Kings moving is a win, especially if the new owner is forced to pay off the $70m the Kings owe the City.
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Just in time for a four-game homestand starting tomorrow. That’ll be some fun atmosphere.
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Woj may have jumped the gun a bit. Sounds like the Maloofs are hoping for a Sacramento-based offer that would net them more cash.
Also, the fact of Clay Bennett heading up the relocation committee that would decide whether to allow a move to Seattle is just amazing.
Scout.com published their top 50 A’s prospects — link
I’m surprised by Dan Straily’s position. Do people know if scout.com is one of those outfits that favor prospects who favor high floor prospects rather than high ceiling?
Hall of Fame: Zero new members.
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SuSlu voted yes on Bagwell, Biggio, Piazza, and Schilling. No on Bonds and Clemens.
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booo.
We need to lobby her for rains
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I’m sad that Kenny Lofton didn’t get enough votes to stay on the ballot. 64.9 career rWAR.
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Plus side: No Jack Morris, and he only has one more shot.
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And he’s not going to look good next to Maddux.
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yup
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If this mess continues for the next 5 years or so, perhaps it’d finally get the ball rolling on the first step to fix HOF voting: relieving the BBWAA of the vote entirely.
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Maddux and Glavine likely go in next year. Randy Johnson & Smoltz the following year. Then Griffey. Then no one again.
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Maddux and Johnson were a lot better than the other two. I feel like they should each go in alone with Glavine and Smoltz getting the nod in 2016.
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I was only pointing out likely HOFers not necessarily guessing when they’d actually get in. Though you’re pointing out the other kind of dumb part of the voting process. They’re either HOFers or they’re not. First ballot, second ballot, what difference does it really make?
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I get what you’re saying, but I actually kind of like that convention. There is a pretty big gulf between Maddux and Glavine, even if both deserve a plaque. The first-ballot thing recognizes that.
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Like a nice round Topps card number.
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YES
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pedro 2015 too
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Wow. Forgot about him. So here’s how it goes down.
2013: Maddux, Biggio
2014: Johnson, Martinez
2015: Griffey, Glavine, Smoltz
2016: Kendall, Eckstein
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Wait, it’s 2013 now, isn’t it. FK.
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Any bets on Big Hurt? The other one I’ve seen mentioned is Kent but he seems very Piazza-esque to me.
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Frank Thomas has to deal with the fact that they’ve never let a DH into the Hall yet, on top of the steroid hissy fit (not saying that he’s implicated, but neither is Berkman, right?).
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Do we think Griffey will be immune from the steroid thing?
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no
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I think they let Thomas in in part because he was outspoken against steroids.
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They have to let a DH in eventually (though I’m sure some members of BBWA don’t think so) and Thomas is a very good choice. Of course, Edgar is too.
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McGwire before Edgar.
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McGwire played 1B, not DH.
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I’m aware of that.
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So how is he relevant to the question of who is the first primarily-DH player to get inducted?
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Boobs
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The Croat wins again.
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They’ll say he’s a 1B, not DH
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I stand by my idea of abolishing the Hall Of Fame. Keep the physical building and rename it the National Baseball Museum.
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By the way, what’s up with almost 50% voting for Lee Smith? That’s just silly.
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But SAVES!
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Me thinks you left out a “t” in the first word…☺
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Butt saves? How does one accomplish those?
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Is it when I hip check the douchey dudes trying to hit on my friends at dance clubs?
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Then what’s it called when Gay Friend shouts “Hey, you fucked my friend in your laundry room!”?
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I believe its pronounced “touche”
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It’s ok, I’m a big believer in double standards. The rules that apply to others just shouldn’t apply to me.
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Also, you know Im not actually a douche at clubs, because pretty much all of my female friends I have met in them.
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That’s fine. I still think I should be exempt from rules.
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You should do well in a GOP primary then
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Yes, I’m quite willing to contradict myself at every opportunity.
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as ozz’s surrogate, i can assure you ozz would never contradict himself
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Also, at least eight people voted for Clemens, but not for Bonds. The hell?
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racism
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Yes. That one shocks me too.
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East coast bias.
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Presumably some preposterous standard involving convicted vs aquitted.
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This is probably correct. You know how much I stopped caring about this steroid thing? I completely forgot that Bonds had been convicted.
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Though in both cases the prosecutions were for obstruction of justice/perjury rather than steroid use per se.
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I nominate whoever is willing to heckle Tounces.
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Seriously, if someone wants to go I’d be happy to tweak the site to make them seem super-qualified.
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I nominate MikeV
He can ask questions about the A’s use of email.
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Pass.
I nominate elcroata
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Pretty sure he already has a standing invitation.
I re-nominate as long as he begins and ends every question with “boobs.”
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*Re-nominate MikeV.
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Meow I can get behind meow this. As long as meow he says meow boobs meow like in meow Super meow Troopers.
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You get me.
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I nominate Jennifer.
She can invite the players back to her basement and it won’t seem as odd among all those bloggers.
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Ahem.
Author here.
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You should totally go.
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Definitely
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thirded
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How many do we need for a quorum to pass this thing?
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Lets just dog-pile h’ and tape our ‘suggested’ queries to their person!!!
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tape? A stapler would make it more likely they stayed on..
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Agreed!
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I’ll talk to my wife about it and see if it’s okay. I’ll tell her that if I commit, it’s something I can’t back out on, unlike attending a tailgate or a party.
Also, an FKwiz for all those of a certain age:
There were ten players in MLB last year who were 40 or older before the season started. Nine of them were near replacement level (0.4 WAR or lower), the tenth was worth 1.9 bWAR (or 1.1 fWAR). Who was this MVQ (Most Valuable Quadragenarian)?
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Rickey
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And Julio Franco
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Rickey.
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Yeah, yeah. We would also have accepted “elcroata.”
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That should also have been “supertricenarian”.
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Was Chipper 40 before the season started?
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Good guess, but not quite. Turned 40 in April.
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Pettitte? Is he old enough?
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Turned 40 in June.
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Oh wow. I never would have gotten this question right.
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A-Rod
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Ryan Howard
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both made me laugh
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Bartolo?
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Rickey
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Giambi
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Mariano? Thome?
Although I think it must be a pitcher, because of such big discrepancy in two WAR values. So someone with low enough ERA – 1.90 to 2.20 for a reliever or a 3.50 – 4.00 for a starter, with not really stellar K/BB/HR ratios. Colon could be one, but I think he is still a few years short. Ditto Uehara, but apart from perhaps being too young, I think he had stellar K/BB.
Moyer is one of the oldies, but he had 6+ ERA I think, so he’s out. I think it must be a reliever, but apart from Rivera and Saito, who sucked too, cannot think of any decent 40+
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OK, forget Rivera, I thought he pitched more than he did
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Rivera didn’t pitch enough to have a WAR
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There is no minimum to have a WAR. He didn’t pitch enough to accumulate almost 2 WAR, for sure, but he surely did accumulate some positive one
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0.4 FWIW
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Actually he didn’t have a Win Above Replacement. He had .4 Wins above replacement.
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Semantics FTW!
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Very nice recovery.
Your original statement remains wrong, though. Rivera pitched 8.1 innings. 8.1 innings is enough to have 1 WAR.
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PTBNL bait: highest WAR with < 9 IP?
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bWAR – 0.6
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The point is not that it is likely. But if we are into semantics, then we are into semantics. 8.1 innings in which you make all your outs through strikeouts, don’t walk anyone and don’t allow a home run would have been worth 1.2 fWAR for a NYA pitcher in 2012
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I was just curious.
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Sure. B-Ref has Doug Sisk on 1982 Mets with 0.6 WAR in 8.2 innings.
I don’t think one can filter for IP on FG. I can only think of a couple who come close to having such a short season and being good – Motte in 2008, Chapman in 2010 – but they both pitched a bit more (Motte 0.6 WAR / 11 IP, Chapman 0.7 WAR in 13 IP)
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As well as the aforementioned Sisk, Eric Gunderson on the ’94 Mets (0.6/9) and Kent Petersen on the ’52 Phillies (0.6/7).
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who pulls a guy with 25 strikeouts in the 9th?
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Nobody. He gets injured
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Closers gotta get his saves.
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Rivera (because he got hurt so early), Thome, Moyer, and Saito were all among the 9 near or below replacement level, as was GM’s guess.
Your thinking is spot on.
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Darren Oliver
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Correct!
And the other LVQs, not yet named: Vizquel, Contreras, Miguel Batista, Henry Blanco
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Contreras?
Looks up.
Contreras.
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Congratulations, sir!
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Rivera didn’t pitch last year.
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He did, albeit very little
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Yeah, I thought he got hurt in the Spring, but you’re right. Either way, he’s not the answer.
I think some of you Oakland enthusiasts might find this interesting. Daniel McPartlan, a local photographer who donates tons of his time taking photos of the adoptable animals at Berkeley Animal Care Services, has a new blog. He is digging up old newspaper photos of Oakland, finding that exact spot, and then taking the same picture today. It’s pretty fascinating looking at them.
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Thanks for the link, 13th and 14th blocks of Broadway were so beautiful, its too bad most of the masonry buildings are gone.
Such a shame the building on 12th lays vacant, guessing its a retrofit issue.
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1212 Broadway, aka the Old Oakland Bank Building? It’s not vacant; I know people who work in it.
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Oops, I was thinking of the NE corner of 11th St.
Why do businesses still insist upon using fax machines as their only method of transferring records?
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This one irks the hell out of me, too
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We needed to authorize a request for transfer of Mia’s immunization records, but they only accepted fax. They told us they’d fax it to us, but my wife didn’t have a fax machine. I asked the clients I’m working with this week if I could receive a fax and then send the signed copy back out, but then waited for hours for a fax to come in, unsure if my not having received the documents was due to them not having sent it yet or the temperamental nature of this specific fax machine.
It never came in, so my wife managed to print out a form from the internet and sign it, then scan it an email it to me for faxing. When I tried to fax the printed document, I got an error message–twice–which came about 10 minutes after each time I tried to send the fax.
In the end, I ended up using an e-Fax service to send the scanned image. It was much easier than fiddling with that bloody fax machine.
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We do the same. We use a service that costs peanuts and gives you a faux fax number that people can dial to and that you can send “faxes” from to real fax machines
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It’s HIPAA compliant!!
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What do Happy Hippos have to do with that?
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I thought I read somewhere that faxes are still really common in Japan
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I recall that too.
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So are CD’s and DVD’s.
The culture of trusting online commerce in Japan is 3-5 years behind the US.
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It’s true–we did a ton of faxing in Japan.
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My Japanese colleagues told me it’s because fax is the best way to send a map of how to get to your home or office, which is handy in a place where street names and numbers are not usually much help. The map we had of how to get to our Tokyo bureau included a note about which side of the Mild Seven cigarette machine the door was on.
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I gotta think that fax machines will vanish relatively soon, once document scanning becomes more ubiquitous in small offices and schools and stuff like that.
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As long as there are thousands of separate islands of electronic medical record systems, patient portals and other health tech software suites that don’t talk to each other, the abomination that is fax will live on.
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Agreed.
I’m tired of separate information islands. I want a fully integrated standardized world information network, preferably one I can be uploaded into and live digitally without a body.
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I can see the fax surviving as an option for transferring medical records–but hospitals and doctors’ offices really need to get with the times and accept emailed PDFs.
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I don’t get it either, especially when I have to then make sure that the paper version of the fax gets to me so that I can then scan it and email it to myself so I have a record of it.
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WHen refinancing, our mortgage company told us a PDF emailed (hard copy to follow) was unacceptable because “email can be manipulated.”
Fax was fine though.
SLF tried to explain that a PDF is exactly the same thing as a fax, they come from the same machine, to no avail.
TO be fair, I think the quote came from the clerk handling the papers and wa trying to wrap his brain around why the pdf was unacceptable.
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Our mortgage company let us do everything through email, which was nice.
I don’t buy the manipulation argument. With a good scanner, I could scan a sheet, print out a photoshopped version of the original document, and fax it. There’s nothing stopping anybody from manipulating documents with a fax.
PDF all the way!
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Ours sent a notary to my office. Which seemed nice, until the process took an hour and a half.
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this
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The mortgage company probably wanted to do all the manipulation on their own, with no interference from you.
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this
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When I was a clerk, the judges exchanged all of their draft opinions, memos, and comments via fax. This was only four years ago.
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Well, Dr. Asshole’s office called and offered me a job this morning. Damn it.
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This is bad because…?
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I’m still in school.
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I don’t understand your school. You keep passing tests and graduating and stuff like that, but then you are still enrolled??
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I graduated as an LPN. I went back for my RN. I graduate with my RN in May. I’m then going back for my BSN. It’s a process. :) Some people stop after the LPN, which is why there is a “graduation”.
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Bull Shitting Nurse?
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Bigger Salaried Nurse.
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Bitch, Suck my Nuts.
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Not even if you paid me.
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You retired?
LOL
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heh
Science as it really happens, for example:
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Lots of good ones there, I think my favorite is
People are still making NES games. As an old person, this makes me happy.
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I’m glad somebody’s making Virtual Boy Games. That system was craptastic! Aweserrible! Utter garbageliciousness… Basically, it was fun until your head started to hurt, which was about five minutes in.
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That is adorable.
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It’s a little thing, but I love how instead of dropping the leash, the kid crouches down and very gently puts it on the ground.
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That was my favorite part too!!!!
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The trade would’ve been Taijuan Walker, Nick Franklin, and two relievers going to AZ. That’s pretty underwhelming for the Dbacks.
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its not like cliff pennington was part of the package
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Two top 30 specs and a two good relievers?
Sounds good to me
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Top 30 MLB or Top 30 Seattle
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MLB
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Remember hes signed for 3/38.5
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One reliever with one good year (Furbush), and one reliever who is still a relieving prospect (Pryor), just to be more precise
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Furbush has had K/BB > 2.5 for each of the last two years.
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No, he hasn’t :)
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Im a dumbfuck and counted his seattle season seperately from his detroit year last year.
I take it back.
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Heh. I think his last season is more indicative in what to expect going forward, though, as he was only used as a reliever there. So, I do think he has some value, especially as a league minimum player
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I have no idea why seattle would make that trade.
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A quick take, from a monetary point of view:
Walker is probably a top ten prospect, more towards the end, so let’s peg him with $25MM of surplus value. Franklin is a 25 – 50 hitter, more towards the front of that group, so let’s give him $20MM.
Upton is owed $38.5MM over next three years. Without the relievers, for this to work out for Seattle, Upton should generate between $80MM and $85MM of value, or in other words be a 5-6 Win player. With the relievers, you are probably talking about a straight 6 WAR production. He only had one six WAR season, but he is in his prime.
From the timing perspective, it doesn’t seem that the Mariners would want to cash in in order to peak right now, as they have probably the greatest core of prospects, with Paxton, Walker, Zunino, Hultzen, Franklin…
On the other hand, they only have Felix signed till 2014, so who knows what their plans are
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I think projecting him to be a 5 to 6 WAR player is high.
Yes hes in his prime but he hasn’t eclipsed 3 WAR in 2 of the last 3 years.
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True.
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If you say hes 4 WAR for the next 3 years at $5, $5.5 and $6m a win youre at $66m in production at a cost of $38.5m for a surplus value of $27.5m. So Walker plus Franklin is $45m which before the relievers is a negative surplus value of $17.5m not counting the relievers which lets say 3 WAR over the next 4 seasons of Furbush and 5 seasons of Pryor or another $16.5m in the hole.
If Seattle was going to contend in the next three years it would be worth the $34m expected loss (some of which would be mitigated by the time value of wins and the increase in the certainty of production from Upton compared to the prospects). But they will not, so why the hell would you do it?
Yeah, esp. Walker in that stadium, could be magical.
I feel bad for Seattle, it’s almost like they are the “A’s” now, no one wants to go there.
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reply fail to DFA*
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I think Jack Z feels like his job is in jeapordy because he is trying to contend to early. They have a great minor league system… They just need to go with it.