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"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
1. About a week or 10 days ago I first heard the song “Thrift Shop” by a guy called Macklemore. It is now my favorite song ever. In a couple months I will be sick of it and hate it. I am not 14 years old.
2. I am concerned that SF may win by a lot tomorrow.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Although I think it will go much like the Falcons game. The 49ers will start slow as Roman runs a bland offense for the first couple of series and checks the Ravens defensive schemes. Then he’ll unleash a gameplan designed to exploit the holes in the Ravens defense.
I heard they were out of beer. Also that a band of bat-wielding thugs who hate hipsters were gonna watch the game there, Probably you should go somewhere else.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Home with kids. For them the best parts are, in order:
1. The Puppy Bowl
2. Soda
3. Popcorn Chicken
4. The ads
5. The halftime show
6. The football. Though they both do care enough to want the Niners to lose.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
if we root for the niners to lose, then the ravens win. it’s a lose/lose. i hate the ravens SO MUCH. and so many of my friends are real niners fans. my heart hurts. i think i’m just going to drink.
I was disappointed in my conditioning last year and have been making a big push to cut back on the alcohol calories, but there’s no way I can make it through 3.5 hours of Ravens-Niners without oiling my screws a little bit.
Also, every time someone refers to sibling rivalry, old-school/smashmouth football, how disrespected the Ravens are, or how the 49ers have never lost a Super Bowl (because that somehow has an effect on today’s game).
i hate the ravens so much. and i have for so long. but i don’t think i’ve ever been more apathetic about a sb than i am about tomorrow. wtf is wrong with me.
I’m sure Yankee fans from 1949-1964 were pretty apathetic about the small handful of World Series’ in which their team did not appear.
That should pretty much apply to Pats fans over the last 10 years, right? Don’t feel bad. You root for your team for the right reasons and are not a bandwagoneer.
I want the Niners to lose but for Satan’s minions to burst through the Superdome floor and drag Ray Lewis screaming into agonized hellfire before the trophy presentation.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
The funny thing about the Raiders is that I don’t particularly hate them, perhaps because of them having such a long track record of futility at this point — or maybe because I almost worked for them a few years ago — but still… THAT FUCKING MONSTROSITY THAT DESTROYS OUR OUTFIELD EVERY YEAR
TBH if something like Coliseum City happened I wouldn’t really care about them either way. A lot of my friends like them, but I grew up when they were in LA, and fuck LA.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser
Yeah, I mean — my formative sports years involved 3 straight rookie of the year awards, the bash brothers, 3 straight world series, 2 of the best quarterbacks football has ever seen, and Jerry Rice.
I mean cmon. How can I be anything but an A’s/Niners fan
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser
beautiful stuff, babe. my childhood was in new england. they all sucked. then they were okay in 1986, but that will always be overshadowed by that creepy thing that happened.
For me, being a Niners fan really came down more to the fact that all of my mom’s brothers were Raiders fans. And my mom’s brothers are the biggest bunch of drunken assholes I’ve ever known. I don’t just mean during the games, or the season. I mean all the fucking time. I can’t stand any of them.
They are completely independent of football. Hell, they can be independent of baseball too. Don’t see why we can’t enjoy a drink together even if there isn’t a game.
I haz a sad. I really felt like he was turning a corner in his career. But I guess injury was inevitable. I don’t think any of us hurt him. Having a drink might actually have helped.
you might change how you feel when you live here again. it’s not the team that bothers me, it’s the fucking bandwagoners. i can’t even count the number of my friends–just on fb!–who changed their profile pics to giants and now 49ers who never even watched a game or cared before they made it to the big show.
i don’t know why it pisses me off so much, but it does. and there it is.
Yeah, true, but this probably happens everywhere. I sometimes think that those of us raised with east coast sports fan sensibilities are less likely to be such bandwaggoners.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
We’re settling into a pretty good rhythm. She’s great (except when she isn’t) and hasn’t had any of colic/illness/etc issues that can make these early months awful.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
i know you are hanging in there and these first few months can be really rough with sleeping, etc. you and your lady are in my thoughts, even though i don’t post often these days. <3
Why? Id rather them want a boondoogle in LA than here.
Despite living and growing in SF I like Oakalnd, and the people of the city deserve to not have their problems compounded by spending huge chunks of money on a football stadium for a team that cant even fill the seats at its current place and is unlikely to generate any real economic activity.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
We’re crossing streams here, I don’t really give a shit about the Raiders either way and sure as hell don’t want a boondoggle ( I think its 2 ‘g’s and 1 ‘o’ btw ;) ) either way.
I was more talking to the fact that the Raiders ‘want’ a stadium in Oakland as opposed to our beloved A’s.
if i had never loved you before, i would love you now for typing “boondoogle” and now i need to use that word in regular conversation for the end of all time.
i think i am just still in mourning. gawd my boys looked like such shit two weeks ago, and i still smart over the last sb and the FUCKING GINTS (intentional misspelling, BOTH TEAMS) BANDWAGONING FUCKHEADS.
thank you! it is the midpoint between winter solstice and spring equinox. it is one of our biggest high holydays. you secularios call it groundhog day. ;)
i appreciate that. our big ritual is on lunar imbolc, which is next saturday. today was solitary imbolc ritual for me, which was planting tomato seeds in their tiny greenhouse. very satisfying.
(i’ve been meaning to ask this–is it okay that i don’t type “FKing?” i don’t want to, and there don’t seem to be children here, where i need to mind my language. but is it outside of protocol?)
I definitely do not know enough about quantum entanglement to explain that to you.
My senior year of college, I took a seminar with Susskind where we had to get in front of the class and give an explanation of some topic in theoretical physics. I tried to summarize some stuff about black hole thermodynamics and pretty much just embarrassed myself.
As I understand it (which is a very important caveat here), one possible solution to the paradox presented by AMPS is that high-energy Hawking radiation is not suppressed in the way that had previously been assumed and that’s what fries Alice.
I just don’t get why they think there is a wall of fire out there besides someone said well I think Alice burns the fuck up and everyone was like oh shit I cant say why that is as incredibly stupid as it sounds, fk maybe it isn’t stupid.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
I may (read: likely) am horribly wrong, but my take was that the “wall of fire” is metaphorical and that when you hit it something horribly bad happens as if hitting a wall of fire.
That was my suspicion initially – that it was a firewall more in the computer sense, blocking the flow of information – but a cursory reading of the AMPS paper indicates that it is literal and (if I understand right) refers to a surface of very high energy Hawking radiation that Alice would fall through.
Though the “no drama” scenario did support people who suggested that our entire local universe could have crossed over the event horizon of an ultra-massive black hole without anyone noticing.
I just signed up for Twitter yesterday and followed you. You are prolific.
Someday, when bluetooth is in essence a brain-to-internet interface implanted in your brain, you’ll be one of the first to record every second, emotion, and thought of your life for posterity. When uploading consciousness becomes possible (hopefully by 2050), you’ll have a photographic memory of age 50 or so, on. 25,000 years from now, you’ll be known as a digital elder, because your code is so FKing ancient! Of course, you’ll be a very different sentient being then, seeing as how your IQ will be so digitally-enhanced it is nearly unfathomable for an unenhanced human to effectively contemplate.
I tend to be very proactive about stuff like that and I noticed someone with no tweets or followers and I just figured it was a spam account.
Shoot me an e-mail (flashfire at speakeasy dot net) unless you want to tell me the account here, and I’ll correct that. My bad.
As for the rest, there are many more who are much busier on Twitter than I am, if you dig around enough to see. ;-) Over the time I’ve had it, I’m only averaging about 20 tweets a day.
I don’t know if I’m a fan of Twitter, per se. I just figured that since it’s on my phone, I may as well follow a few people, so I followed the McCarthys, Old Hoss Radbourn, Slusser, Jane Lee, and you. You’re fascinating as a (seemingly) contradictory combination of a very private man and a very heavy public sharer… a blend of old-school establishment conservatism and new-school social liberalism. I can see you use it as a public communications tentacle network, so in essence, much of your feed borders on mundane, but I skim-read so quickly that I can take it in like a whale ingests krill, and notice the bigger and tastier ones in the process.
If there’s anyone else remotely interesting you suggest following, I’m open to suggestions.
My name there is Temple Kirk, like it will be legally once my lazy ass gets around to filing papers.
I don’t have any particular rhyme or reason for how I use Twitter. I saw it as a good way to talk some sports, have some interactions with people, and share photo stuff. I also post a lot of random things – cooking stuff, the cat, places I go and so on.
I probably can’t give you great recommendations but I follow various athletes, some local news-related stuff, local food trucks if I have that craving, some other A’s fans I know here and there, etc.
I guess I’m one of the last holdouts. It would just be another venue for me to make dumb flippant comments, something Twitter seems specifically designed to encourage. I do enough of that here and a couple other places, but at least I’m not making them directly to athletes who will then re-tweet them to all 80,000 followers.
Yeah I never saw the point really, but now that I have signed up, I find it kinda fun to use it. Since I just started, I’m pretty much doing it for me anyway.
But yes, dumb flippant comments are the ordre du jour here.
I had to start TWO IVs on the patient. They were on blood thinners, so it just gushed even though I applied pressure. Which reminds me, I forgot to wash my shoes.
I hope you wear Crocs or something easy to wash. Sometimes Partner in Crime will obliviously come home after a 24 hour call and leave a bunch of bloody footprints everywhere.
I had to do it. The temptation was too great.
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You and Bed just hafta promise that if ETs show up in our lifetimes and land on Earth, I get to do the Watcher of the Skies Lounge that day.
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done and done.
I am at Phil’s Sliders in Berkeley for my first time ever. The burgers are really good. The tater tots are sublime.
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Agreed on Phil’s, though you could have been having a beer with sslinger and me just down the block at 3rock first.
Wow, how did you do that in this current environment? But in essence, I agree on all points. sslinger
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Please elaborate. I’m very curious now.
Phil Collins, for the first time ever, felt a great temptation to open up a sublime burger joint in
BerkeleySudbury.Burt Reynolds witnessed the conception of his own dad, and frankly, that’s what’s wrong with him.
Is anybody listening?
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Steaks again tonight for mom’s birthday. Had some drinks.
I just ate a bowl of whipped cream.
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Was it covering a hooker?
@Kay: Ska punk band Sublime, for the first time ever, felt a great temptation to open up a Tom Collins joint in Long Beach.
@Jennifer: I just threw up a little in my mouth. Used whipped cream is NOT delicious.
I love 30Rock, even in reruns. “In other global warming news, a tornado hit downtown Detroit, putting out several fires.”
Would this be a good time to live-blog my first episode of Girls?
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To be contrary to FSU, I will complain and mock you for it.
No one could directly complain or mock you for it.
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So many missed opportunities.
How come some people can reply correctly
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cool!
By the way, very clever, Kay. I like it.
I was scurred..everything was gone. Not gonna lie, almost checked fk.gov, .org, etc
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I checked fk.xxx and holy shit, wow.
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Is it as bad as action36.com?
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I appreciate that DFA shared those homemade porn videos the suburban girls sent him. A couple of them were really great.
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Why thanks
Is anybody listening? Oh, no reply at all.
1. About a week or 10 days ago I first heard the song “Thrift Shop” by a guy called Macklemore. It is now my favorite song ever. In a couple months I will be sick of it and hate it. I am not 14 years old.
2. I am concerned that SF may win by a lot tomorrow.
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2. I’m hopeful.
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Although I think it will go much like the Falcons game. The 49ers will start slow as Roman runs a bland offense for the first couple of series and checks the Ravens defensive schemes. Then he’ll unleash a gameplan designed to exploit the holes in the Ravens defense.
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1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0 is even cooler than thrift shop, which is amazing.
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1. Me too, and me too.
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1. My new favorite song ever #edbait
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related upgrade bait
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That is well done, and totally adorable.
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I know–I love it!
It’s official. I am in love with Gin Wigmore. I want to have her babies.
hi. are you all freaking out yet?
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No, mostly because UC and I are going to go back to mad dog in the fog to preserve our mojo.
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this is good magick. i like your style.
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I heard they were out of beer. Also that a band of bat-wielding thugs who hate hipsters were gonna watch the game there, Probably you should go somewhere else.
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where are you going?
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Home with kids. For them the best parts are, in order:
1. The Puppy Bowl
2. Soda
3. Popcorn Chicken
4. The ads
5. The halftime show
6. The football. Though they both do care enough to want the Niners to lose.
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if we root for the niners to lose, then the ravens win. it’s a lose/lose. i hate the ravens SO MUCH. and so many of my friends are real niners fans. my heart hurts. i think i’m just going to drink.
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Nope. I feel great. How about you?
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i am excited about aikido
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You’re taking aikido?
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i am going to start classes. i found a dojo near my house and i am really beyond ecstatic about it.
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And you have class tomorrow?
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no. i am dating the sslingers tomorrow, and that i can’t wait for.
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Cool!
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You want to date the sslingers? Ask the Mr. who Fran Tarkenton was.
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i will try to remember to ask this.
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Norseman?
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I am such a big fan of polyamory, it’s not even funny.
Fran Tarkenton, otoh…
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Lucky!
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you have fun stuff happening! i wish we could all be together, but you can’t fuck with your magick/mojo. we will be in touch all day.
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I am freaking out at the prospect of fucking San Franciscans holding two pro sports titles at the same time.
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so it’s not just me?
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What if that means the Warriors and Sharks will win it all this year too?
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i am so okay with that for some reason.
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San Francisco hate is pretty much the only milieu in which East Bay residents and virulent homophobes willingly intermingle.
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Pretty much.
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That’s of course absurd. You left out Hells Angels.
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Brilliant!
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You & ms. s both. Watch out, witchy, she’s gonna rival you in the drinking category today, especially if the 49ers start winning.
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Don’t you mean “when?”
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i can’t freaking wait!
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I was disappointed in my conditioning last year and have been making a big push to cut back on the alcohol calories, but there’s no way I can make it through 3.5 hours of Ravens-Niners without oiling my screws a little bit.
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Every time someone mentions that Kaep used to be a pitcher, take a shot.
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Also, every time someone refers to sibling rivalry, old-school/smashmouth football, how disrespected the Ravens are, or how the 49ers have never lost a Super Bowl (because that somehow has an effect on today’s game).
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Wait until the Warriors win the title and they hold the parade in SF.
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I can’t wait that long. I’ve only got 40 years or so left. At best.
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Freaking out is inefficient in regards to sports fandom.
The Niners are going to win and Ray Lewis is not.
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this.
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i hate the ravens so much. and i have for so long. but i don’t think i’ve ever been more apathetic about a sb than i am about tomorrow. wtf is wrong with me.
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I’m sure Yankee fans from 1949-1964 were pretty apathetic about the small handful of World Series’ in which their team did not appear.
That should pretty much apply to Pats fans over the last 10 years, right? Don’t feel bad. You root for your team for the right reasons and are not a bandwagoneer.
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I want the Niners to lose but for Satan’s minions to burst through the Superdome floor and drag Ray Lewis screaming into agonized hellfire before the trophy presentation.
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i don’t really know what my problem is, beside the crazy bandwagoning. maybe it’s just that. i love all of you who are true fans so much.
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I’m less a “true fan” than I am a “hater.”
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The funny thing about the Raiders is that I don’t particularly hate them, perhaps because of them having such a long track record of futility at this point — or maybe because I almost worked for them a few years ago — but still… THAT FUCKING MONSTROSITY THAT DESTROYS OUR OUTFIELD EVERY YEAR
TBH if something like Coliseum City happened I wouldn’t really care about them either way. A lot of my friends like them, but I grew up when they were in LA, and fuck LA.
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this is true. i keep reminding G that everyone our age only had the 49ers when they were growing up here, and that is okay.
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Yeah, I mean — my formative sports years involved 3 straight rookie of the year awards, the bash brothers, 3 straight world series, 2 of the best quarterbacks football has ever seen, and Jerry Rice.
I mean cmon. How can I be anything but an A’s/Niners fan
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beautiful stuff, babe. my childhood was in new england. they all sucked. then they were okay in 1986, but that will always be overshadowed by that creepy thing that happened.
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that sounded weird, and i want to clarify. the space shuttle thing fucked my world that year. i’m old, yay!
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For a second I thought you meant Buckner and was quite concerned.
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For me, being a Niners fan really came down more to the fact that all of my mom’s brothers were Raiders fans. And my mom’s brothers are the biggest bunch of drunken assholes I’ve ever known. I don’t just mean during the games, or the season. I mean all the fucking time. I can’t stand any of them.
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BUT WHAT ABOUT THE STRAWBERRY MARGARITAS?
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They are completely independent of football. Hell, they can be independent of baseball too. Don’t see why we can’t enjoy a drink together even if there isn’t a game.
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okay, good. even thought it hurt tyson ross. i will never forget that day.
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I haz a sad. I really felt like he was turning a corner in his career. But I guess injury was inevitable. I don’t think any of us hurt him. Having a drink might actually have helped.
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i like strawberries.
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Me too.
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i also like mashing strawberries with you
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I like hanging out with you. The strawberries are just icing on the cake.
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<3
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♥
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This.
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Same here.
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This. Although the better the Niners get, the more bitter Raiders fans seem to be.
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well…the better the gints get, the more bitter and mean i am. just saying… :( :( :(
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I don’t really begrudge them their success. Part of it may be that I just don’t think they’re all that great, even if they have won 2 WS.
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you might change how you feel when you live here again. it’s not the team that bothers me, it’s the fucking bandwagoners. i can’t even count the number of my friends–just on fb!–who changed their profile pics to giants and now 49ers who never even watched a game or cared before they made it to the big show.
i don’t know why it pisses me off so much, but it does. and there it is.
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Fair enough. But my parents are Gnats fans, so I’m happy for them when their team does well.
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Yeah, true, but this probably happens everywhere. I sometimes think that those of us raised with east coast sports fan sensibilities are less likely to be such bandwaggoners.
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maybe that is it. G and i just began a huge discussion around sociology viewed through the lens of sports fandom.
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Pissed me off to no end about the Giants. Doesn’t bother me this time.
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how are you and your family doing, nm?
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We’re settling into a pretty good rhythm. She’s great (except when she isn’t) and hasn’t had any of colic/illness/etc issues that can make these early months awful.
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i know you are hanging in there and these first few months can be really rough with sleeping, etc. you and your lady are in my thoughts, even though i don’t post often these days. <3
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I will quote one of my own songs here…
“Most humans are stupid and insane. They get nothing out of me but avoidance and disdain.”
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Well aren’t you in a fun mood this morning!
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Actually, I’m 92% in a good mood, and 8% in something of a spiritual semi-trance.
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I agree. Fuck LA.
I am worried that the Raider’s stadium is going to happen in Oakland and be a huge boondoogle again. For that reason I kinda hope they move back to LA
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Ugh, my worries as well, but at least they want Oakland…
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Why? Id rather them want a boondoogle in LA than here.
Despite living and growing in SF I like Oakalnd, and the people of the city deserve to not have their problems compounded by spending huge chunks of money on a football stadium for a team that cant even fill the seats at its current place and is unlikely to generate any real economic activity.
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you said it twice now!
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We’re crossing streams here, I don’t really give a shit about the Raiders either way and sure as hell don’t want a boondoggle ( I think its 2 ‘g’s and 1 ‘o’ btw ;) ) either way.
I was more talking to the fact that the Raiders ‘want’ a stadium in Oakland as opposed to our beloved A’s.
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Ugh, sorry I’m destroying english again…
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hi brian. i miss you.
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Miss you too!
[ hoists beer in toasting arc ]
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[hits it with mine and thank goddess, the glass does not break!]
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I second that emotion
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Hugs, okay so lets make good on this bocce thing finally, I vote a Wednesday night in the near future round 6pm, who’s in!
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can we go, too?
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You and freeseatupgrade already expressed interest, so, YEAH!
I think AV would be down too.
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yes! AV took us there for my first time and it was so fun! and i ran into two people i hadn’t seen for the end of all times!
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Im in. cant be either of the next two wednesdays for my schedule
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we need to talk march for my schedule, please.
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Ack, you guys are like scheduling w/ dentists!
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my life is crazy good. can you wait that long? also, we need to sched. soon for that to happen.
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Feb 20th then Mr Busy?
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I have a date every day till next friday and I have thing the wednesday after that. If you wanted to pick a non wednesday day I could do next week.
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Weds Feb 20 might work well for me. Sooner than that not so much.
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Doesn’t have to be a Wed, just nicer when its not so crowded, Tues/ Thurs?
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i will look at the calendar and fb you both and AV
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Sawesome.
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tuesdays are great for me
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If it’s a not-Wednesday, I’m in.
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We’d be in too if that’s not too much of a crowd, and given a date that works.
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YAY
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what about the week of feb 25th, but not that monday? or the week of march 4th but not that monday?
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WoO!
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Not-Wednesday it is!
The key is early mellow happy hour vs late night amateur-hour.
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Oh yeah. I too wish the A’s wanted a stadium in Oakland.
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Really really hope for new ownership that wants the A’s in Oakland in the next 5 years, pretty pls?
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there is really no reason we shouldn’t do a bit of collective magick around this, if there are enough people who truly want it
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Levitate the Coliseum, LETS DO THIS!
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i love how you overestimate my abilities. :D
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There’s no overestimating your majik.
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<3!
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I say we get some juju going the next gate’.
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so down with that.
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Any boondoggle that involves state-issued bonds I want no part of.
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unless they’re locked in for 30 years at stupid-low interest rates and no balloon payments, of course.
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I think I have this wrong…
I mean I don’t want 2 billion in debt for a 1/2 billion stadium like in Miami.
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if i had never loved you before, i would love you now for typing “boondoogle” and now i need to use that word in regular conversation for the end of all time.
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love you too
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The other day I used the word “shenanigans” while talking to a 19 year old, and she didn’t know what it meant. I despair for our collective future.
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wow. i do love that word, too. i call them all the time. ;)
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How many meows did you get in during the conversation.
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I just can’t pull off stuff like that.
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I think you mean:
Oh come on meow, I just cant pull off stuff like that.
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Thanks for making meow point.
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i love how you are up and it is 3:38 a.m.
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I tend to stay up late, sleep for 3 or 4 hours, do some shit, then nap for 3 or 4 more hours.
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mee-row.
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i think i am just still in mourning. gawd my boys looked like such shit two weeks ago, and i still smart over the last sb and the FUCKING GINTS (intentional misspelling, BOTH TEAMS) BANDWAGONING FUCKHEADS.
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Can football really have bandwagoners? I mean the season is too short to really matter.
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it seems to be happening.
So I was told by a police officer that I had to stop making out with my date today, apparently making out isn’t a sufficient reason to block traffic.
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wtf.
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to be fair we were blocking traffic
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it sounds romantical to me.
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romantical is a great non word
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it’s a real word. and not. and i love it. it makes me feel happy inside.
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I’ve been using that word for years. GMTA
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that word actually appears a lot in regency era novels.
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Really? Weird.
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it’s been a study for me. did you know that i love words?
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I did not know that. You don’t use enough of them here.
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i don’t. i’m working on that.
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Damn you people that have better things to do than talk to me via teh interwebz.
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I believe what the officer is trying to tell you is that your date isn’t hot enough for you to be making out long enough to block traffic.
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That is just factually inaccurate.
She has perhaps the prettiest eyes I have ever seen. And freckles. And other things that would not be appropriate for me to mention.
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hey!
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ik,r? That officer clearly has no taste. Or is gay and jealous.
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You and my friend Will are definitely in the conversation.
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hey!
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you know this is about pretty eyes, right?
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Have you seen my eyes?
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i have. i like them. but mine are the best physical thing about me. you have other nice things, too.
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so do you.
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:D we are agreed.
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You get Slusser or DFA, but not both.
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that does seem to be the case.
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I’m one of her favorite people!
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you are. and it is written for all of posterity to see!!!! :D
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Shit. You’ve already won me over with the first two things and now you’re saying there’s more?
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i don’t even know what i am scrolling to. what are the first two things?
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Eyes and freckles.
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oh, the freckles.
happy imbolc! i meant to type that this morning to you all.
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You too!
what is imbolc?
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thank you! it is the midpoint between winter solstice and spring equinox. it is one of our biggest high holydays. you secularios call it groundhog day. ;)
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Happy today, regardless or what day it is!
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i appreciate that. our big ritual is on lunar imbolc, which is next saturday. today was solitary imbolc ritual for me, which was planting tomato seeds in their tiny greenhouse. very satisfying.
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I like and respect how much you seem to relish every moment of life.
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it is my mission. every breath we take could be the last; why not enjoy life?
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groundhog day is stupid. I like imbolc better.
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<3 imbolc fucking rocks. it is my favorite, aside from samhain/hallowmas.
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(i’ve been meaning to ask this–is it okay that i don’t type “FKing?” i don’t want to, and there don’t seem to be children here, where i need to mind my language. but is it outside of protocol?)
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I’m gonna pop some tags, only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I’m, I’m, I’m hunting, looking for a come up, this is fucking awesome
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so….
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Spell the fucking word any FKing way you feel comfortable. Fuck convention, or what any of these FKers think.
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So all forms of fucking expression are welcome!
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thank you. it feels somewhat bandwagonny and inauthentic for me personally to type the FK stuff.
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there are no rules.
I use fucking a lot but its just a silly play on the name.
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good. i’ve really never been good at rule following. i’m glad there are no rules. :P (still, i expect someone to tell me if/when i violate protocol.)
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This isn’t an old-school leather bar. I don’t know what protocol there would be to violate.
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Just the one that says “fucking” cannot precede “Ozz” or “Ozzman” unless it’s the good kind.
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heh.
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which are……
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seculario halloween. :D
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Speaking of, a friend of mine apparently got good-naturedly chewed out by Bill Murray the other day for holding up the line at the grocery store.
wow, leonard is here. he likes you.
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I don’t guess Benito would be interested in a little face time with Leonard.
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please no. that wound on his side is still really awful and scary.
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Poor baby.
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it’s been a scary ride
WAIT! FSU! was that song that grandpa clothes song?????
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yup.
Also their whole pro gay rights rap is awesome
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share, please.
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Yeah, that was really good.
i can’t stop singing the flacco song in my head.
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I don’t know it, and I don’t want to know it. I have a good song in my head.
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The wheels on the bus?
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no! here it is and we have been singing it for 4 years. the flying monkey song from wizard of oz, but you sing: o-ee-o, flaaaaaaaa….co.
This is pretty rad. I haven’t actually tried downloading/playing it.
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Physics is so fking sexy.
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PS can the two of you explain this to me
Why does Alice burn up?
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I definitely do not know enough about quantum entanglement to explain that to you.
My senior year of college, I took a seminar with Susskind where we had to get in front of the class and give an explanation of some topic in theoretical physics. I tried to summarize some stuff about black hole thermodynamics and pretty much just embarrassed myself.
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As I understand it (which is a very important caveat here), one possible solution to the paradox presented by AMPS is that high-energy Hawking radiation is not suppressed in the way that had previously been assumed and that’s what fries Alice.
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I just don’t get why they think there is a wall of fire out there besides someone said well I think Alice burns the fuck up and everyone was like oh shit I cant say why that is as incredibly stupid as it sounds, fk maybe it isn’t stupid.
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I may (read: likely) am horribly wrong, but my take was that the “wall of fire” is metaphorical and that when you hit it something horribly bad happens as if hitting a wall of fire.
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That was my suspicion initially – that it was a firewall more in the computer sense, blocking the flow of information – but a cursory reading of the AMPS paper indicates that it is literal and (if I understand right) refers to a surface of very high energy Hawking radiation that Alice would fall through.
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Basically all i know is that I would not like to be alice.
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That is true even in the “no drama” scenario.
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Though the “no drama” scenario did support people who suggested that our entire local universe could have crossed over the event horizon of an ultra-massive black hole without anyone noticing.
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right. but at least in no drama, Im clueless.
If information can be retrieved from a black hole and like Alice I was pushed in one, could I still argue with people on Kraut?
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no
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I mean, unless FK crossed the event horizon with you.
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FK jumped the event horizon long ago.
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DFA dragged us in with him.
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Yeah, not fire in the “stuff you see in your fireplace” sense, but fire in the “high intensity gamma rays will really FK you up” sense.
I’m going to go with 49ers 31, Ravens 27.
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49ers 38, Ravens 17. Kaepernick runs for over 100 and throws 2 TD passes, one to Moss.
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I’d be cool with that too.
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I just signed up for Twitter yesterday and followed you. You are prolific.
Someday, when bluetooth is in essence a brain-to-internet interface implanted in your brain, you’ll be one of the first to record every second, emotion, and thought of your life for posterity. When uploading consciousness becomes possible (hopefully by 2050), you’ll have a photographic memory of age 50 or so, on. 25,000 years from now, you’ll be known as a digital elder, because your code is so FKing ancient! Of course, you’ll be a very different sentient being then, seeing as how your IQ will be so digitally-enhanced it is nearly unfathomable for an unenhanced human to effectively contemplate.
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Now that is an endorsement.
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Oh shit, I think I blocked you!
I tend to be very proactive about stuff like that and I noticed someone with no tweets or followers and I just figured it was a spam account.
Shoot me an e-mail (flashfire at speakeasy dot net) unless you want to tell me the account here, and I’ll correct that. My bad.
As for the rest, there are many more who are much busier on Twitter than I am, if you dig around enough to see. ;-) Over the time I’ve had it, I’m only averaging about 20 tweets a day.
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I don’t know if I’m a fan of Twitter, per se. I just figured that since it’s on my phone, I may as well follow a few people, so I followed the McCarthys, Old Hoss Radbourn, Slusser, Jane Lee, and you. You’re fascinating as a (seemingly) contradictory combination of a very private man and a very heavy public sharer… a blend of old-school establishment conservatism and new-school social liberalism. I can see you use it as a public communications tentacle network, so in essence, much of your feed borders on mundane, but I skim-read so quickly that I can take it in like a whale ingests krill, and notice the bigger and tastier ones in the process.
If there’s anyone else remotely interesting you suggest following, I’m open to suggestions.
My name there is Temple Kirk, like it will be legally once my lazy ass gets around to filing papers.
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@JoseCanseco
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No. That is all.
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Come on. I love his mayor of Toronto stuff!
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Found you and fixed it. Sorry about that.
I don’t have any particular rhyme or reason for how I use Twitter. I saw it as a good way to talk some sports, have some interactions with people, and share photo stuff. I also post a lot of random things – cooking stuff, the cat, places I go and so on.
I probably can’t give you great recommendations but I follow various athletes, some local news-related stuff, local food trucks if I have that craving, some other A’s fans I know here and there, etc.
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Have you followed the beat writers, like SuSlu, Jane Lee, etc?
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Those two, OldHossRadbourn, the McCarthys… Cher… definitely Cher.
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I’m following you.
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[from the bushes]
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Is that surprising?
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Um… check the bush next door.
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I think she waxes.
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I know she waxes.
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Yay. I’ll make sure to drop some interesting gibberish on occasion.
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I did too this past week! I think I need to hunt all of you down to follow
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I guess I’m one of the last holdouts. It would just be another venue for me to make dumb flippant comments, something Twitter seems specifically designed to encourage. I do enough of that here and a couple other places, but at least I’m not making them directly to athletes who will then re-tweet them to all 80,000 followers.
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I wouldn’t even make comments if I were to be on the twitter.
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Yeah I never saw the point really, but now that I have signed up, I find it kinda fun to use it. Since I just started, I’m pretty much doing it for me anyway.
But yes, dumb flippant comments are the ordre du jour here.
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Alright, I’ve now gotten around to following those of you I could find with minimal effort (mine’s just my real name).
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OH! So that’s you!
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It is me! I was wondering if I should leave some sort of FK heads up on twitter when I followed someone, but that sounded like too much work.
I love that I can wear the same gold pants to A’s and Niners games.
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Yeah… no.
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Gross.
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Wrong shades.
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Theyre still gold. How many shades of gold pants do you own?
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The correct answer will always be “not enough.”
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gano primiro
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Fewer than you.
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win
i’m hungry.
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I’m currently baking chicken enchiladas.
Hello.
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Howdy. How’s life on the nursey beat? Cleaned up anything gross lately?
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I hate school. I am poor. Nothing too exciting. I started an IV at work Saturday, and it looked like a crime scene when I was done.
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Ah, he probably still got more fluids in than he spilled out.
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I had to start TWO IVs on the patient. They were on blood thinners, so it just gushed even though I applied pressure. Which reminds me, I forgot to wash my shoes.
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I hope you wear Crocs or something easy to wash. Sometimes Partner in Crime will obliviously come home after a 24 hour call and leave a bunch of bloody footprints everywhere.
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Nike. Crocs are banned in our facility.
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Should be banned everywhere, really.
Those weird vibram toe shoes, too.
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One of my direct-reports used to where those damn things every so often.
So I laid him off.
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He got laid!!!
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I tried to perform a minor cosmetic surgery on myself yesterday, but got dizzy and lightheaded and had to stop.
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You didn’t want one of those obnoxious perky turned-up nose tips anyway.
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backwoods breast reduction
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Don’t even joke about that; MikeV’s fragile enough as it is.
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IK, R?
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Oh, please. Like you were gonna ever get to see them.
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oh. :-|
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You can always send him what you remove.
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LOL
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What? It’s just fat. I’ve rendered them useless, anyway.
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