As a child I dreamed of living in an A-frame.
In my childhood imagination it was on a lake and I could store a boat on the inside and the house wrapped around a small berth, seemed soooo cool but as an adult it sounds like A LOT of fking bugs!
Still want to live on a lake though, instead I live 6 blocks from the EBMUD sewage plant but I do have frogs croaking about.
Kink and transgender ones, for the most part. Tonight’s was an animal play munch… people who like to do kink while roleplaying as their spirit animals… human “dog” and “pony” trainers, etc.
Went to a Beer Week event where they were pouring from old kegs that had been stored for a year or two. Some really nice stuff, a nice mix of bitter hops, malty sweetness, and even sour. I’m loving Beer Week this year.
The best part of my day today? Well, I tried like hell to wipe a smudge off my instructor’s forehead. Didn’t realize it was Ash Wednesday. It went downhill from there.
They listen to the man with the kooky hat as if he’s the mouth piece of god. About as looney toons as you can get close enough to worship for me to make a distinction.
Agreed. It doesn’t sound like there’s any charge at all, just dividing the cost by some number of commuters (and a shitty headline, that isn’t M&R’s fault)
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Here’s an idea – how about just opening the bridge to traffic after the 3.5 day shutdown, instead of this completely unnecessary “party”. What a total waste of public money, not to mention the continued deprivation of a vital road link for those who want to go to escape from SF.
It isn't Dirty Dancing 'cuz it doesn't make you vomit.
In this case, I agree. This bridge may be in service for a century or more. An extra 36 hours of inconvenience in order to have a ceremony and make a bunch of seed money for maintenance in the process doesn’t hurt my feelings.
It turns out that the key to getting free drinks is telling people you’re not drinking. And, you know, being friendly and non-douchy/non-creepy. Because people don’t buy drinks for people they don’t like. True story.
There were indications that Pistorius did have fears about his safety. In an interview with the Daily Mail before the London 2012 Games it was revealed he slept with a pistol next to his bed and kept a machine gun by a window.
In the last 24 hours she was tweeting about her hopes for Valentine’s Day, writing: “What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow??? #getexcited #ValentinesDay”.
On my way down to Key West shortly. For rainout day 2 tomorrow…ooh, Marlins Park tours for $10! Hey, the ballpark ambience in February will be the same as during a game in May!
“There’s a scenario where the TV recognizes that it’s you and says ‘Hey, I know what you like. I know what you want to watch’, versus the environment we’re in today where the TV literally is not interested in you at all,”
I could have been okay knowing my TV doesn’t have figurative interest in me. But it literally is not interested in me at all. Literally!
I mean, how am I supposed to go on after that?
A lot of words on that test were a bit of a judgement call for me, because I have seen them before and could surely understand them in the context of a sentence, but that’s different from trying to come up with a definition when the word is sitting there by itself.
Also, ec is probably going to wipe us all out on this one.
One obvious flaw is that it omits all technical language. Presumably it wouldn’t be too hard to add examples from various fields and extrapolate the results (eg. if you know what a pion is then you probably know the word neutralino too). But that does beg the question of how large the typical technical vocabulary is.
Your lead may actually be bigger. On further review, I may have confused some words I don’t know with words I do know. Welter and swelter, for example.
Yeah, I wonder what my total vocab would be. If my English vocabulary is 21k and I assume my Croatian matches an average score you guys had in English (~30k) and I estimate my Spanish and German to be below English at some 15k each, and all the rest to sum up to, say 5k, I would still be way short of 100k.
I wonder if the 30k croatian bit is true. English has a truly ridiculous number of words compared to most other languages, so they might not be on the same scale.
Is that a fact? That English has more words than other languages? I mean you copy the words from other languages, but Germans create words for concepts.
So, what you call bus station is Bushaltestelle and so on. If I had to guess, I’d side with German. And as for English versus Croatian, I don’t know which one has more, but I’m pretty sure that there are at many words I know in Croatian that I do not know in English, and I sure know one word in Croatian for every one I know in English
I’ve heard English has the most words as well, so it’s a pervasive rumor at least.
I agree that German w/ all its compound ‘franken’-words ( not Fränkisker ;P )has to be a close second.
My comment was based just on hearsay, so I did some wikipedia follow-up and found some good info:
Comparisons of the vocabulary size of English to that of other languages are generally not taken very seriously by linguists and lexicographers.
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Linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum has gone so far as to compare concerns over vocabulary size (and the notion that a supposedly larger lexicon leads to “greater richness and precision”) to an obsession with penis length.
That whole thing is part of a psychology experiment to see how many check boxes people are willing to click on if they think it will show how smart they are.
Pretty much this. It’s easy to jump on the A’s are medically incompetent bandwagon every time because they typically deserve it. But here, it’s really much ado about nothing. Small thing. Should/could have healed with rest. Didn’t. Still didn’t seem too big a deal. Checked out. Decided to fix it now.
And yet given Balfour’s reputation it wouldn’t surprise me if he did. There’s quotes saying he felt the pain at the end of last year too and continued to pitch through it. I suspect the pain itself is really minor and they just wanted to check out to be safe and found a small tear. This sounds like the sort of thing that would take a dozen office visits, physical therapy, and a couple of year before you even sniffed an MRI or surgery if you weren’t a professional baseball player.
I’ve sort of been assuming that Balfour would get injured this season after pitching so much down the stretch last year. Wasn’t expecting it to be his knee though.
I’m currently in a taqueria located in what used to be a German restaurant back in the 60′s. It’s got ceilings like a high class IHOP.
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As a child I dreamed of living in an A-frame.
In my childhood imagination it was on a lake and I could store a boat on the inside and the house wrapped around a small berth, seemed soooo cool but as an adult it sounds like A LOT of fking bugs!
Still want to live on a lake though, instead I live 6 blocks from the EBMUD sewage plant but I do have frogs croaking about.
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I like frogs.
What discussion groups are you attending?
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Kink and transgender ones, for the most part. Tonight’s was an animal play munch… people who like to do kink while roleplaying as their spirit animals… human “dog” and “pony” trainers, etc.
Went to a Beer Week event where they were pouring from old kegs that had been stored for a year or two. Some really nice stuff, a nice mix of bitter hops, malty sweetness, and even sour. I’m loving Beer Week this year.
My a cappella band Hookslide has a show in the East Bay this weekend – Saturday, 7pm, at James Logan High School in Union City. For the Facebookish:
https://www.facebook.com/events/355153871248739/
You should come. It’ll be fun.
going to a free vodka event. see you drunk at 9p
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For not liking drunk girls, you sure like to get your drink on! ;)
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i like drunk dfa.
The best part of my day today? Well, I tried like hell to wipe a smudge off my instructor’s forehead. Didn’t realize it was Ash Wednesday. It went downhill from there.
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You wear an ash smudge on your forehead on Ash Wednesday?
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Catholics do, I think its supposed to be palms from last years palm sunday by the pool.
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So a facepalm, you’re sayin.
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heh
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If you’re Catholic.
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uh huh. And they worship a dude wearing a big ugly hat. Organized religion is stupidly weird.
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I always liked the censers though, those are pimp.
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To be fair, Catholics don’t worship the pope, they just believe a guy who’s (supposedly) never had sex is infallible.
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They listen to the man with the kooky hat as if he’s the mouth piece of god. About as looney toons as you can get close enough to worship for me to make a distinction.
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Existence is insanity. Everything from there on is just icing on the cake.
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Ha! Here let me whip that jesus off for ya.
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Hahaha. Did you lick your thumb before doing it, mom style?
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I think I said, “what the fuck is that?” Then went in with the index finger. Like, held her hair back with my other hand and everything.
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Fantastic.
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If she didn’t thank you she’s an ungrateful little bitch.
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I wanted to crawl under the table and die. We were at nursing club, standing in front of the entire club. People actually shouted “NOooooooo!”
I swear my finger felt weird after. Not ET-style, but weird nonetheless.
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That was the hand of god you felt.
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He bitch slapped me today, that’s for sure.
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That would have been the Hand of Magdalene
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That’s awesome
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Heh. Nicely done.
$37 to go walk on the new bridge for the opening, wtf?
I was planning on it but not so much anymore…
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Drivers-will-pay-toll-for-Bay-Bridge-party-4273030.php
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I know, that totally blows. I was excited about the prospect, but not at that price.
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That’s not how I read it.
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Agreed. It doesn’t sound like there’s any charge at all, just dividing the cost by some number of commuters (and a shitty headline, that isn’t M&R’s fault)
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Upon a second read I think you are correct.
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Here’s an idea – how about just opening the bridge to traffic after the 3.5 day shutdown, instead of this completely unnecessary “party”. What a total waste of public money, not to mention the continued deprivation of a vital road link for those who want to
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I like the point that a major infrastructure project should be celebrated. There’s more to life than “necessary”
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In this case, I agree. This bridge may be in service for a century or more. An extra 36 hours of inconvenience in order to have a ceremony and make a bunch of seed money for maintenance in the process doesn’t hurt my feelings.
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How about celebrating on the bridge while they do that 3.5 days worth of work?
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That makes too much sense.
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Here’s an idea — pay for the party with the leftover money and time from being ahead of schedule and under budget.
A really hot, way outta my league girl bought me a shot tonight. The bar is a half hour away, but I’m gonna have to go back there more.
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Yay!
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It turns out that the key to getting free drinks is telling people you’re not drinking. And, you know, being friendly and non-douchy/non-creepy. Because people don’t buy drinks for people they don’t like. True story.
Guns don’t shoot people, three time Olympic champions who can’t tell their Valentines and their burglars apart do
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How romantic! Bet she didn’t see that coming.
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There’s a joke about guns being phallus stand-ins here.
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A man can only take so much of that.
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His friend Kniforius doesn’t run into this kind of problem.
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Eeeesh.
On my way down to Key West shortly. For rainout day 2 tomorrow…ooh, Marlins Park tours for $10! Hey, the ballpark ambience in February will be the same as during a game in May!
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Do they make Stanton stand out in the OF all day? If so then you really aren’t missing anything.
In the Former Soviet Union, the TV watches you!
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The TV couldn’t care less about your day. It just wants to relax, open up a few commercials and zone out after work.
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I could have been okay knowing my TV doesn’t have figurative interest in me. But it literally is not interested in me at all. Literally!
I mean, how am I supposed to go on after that?
29,900
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25,400.
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A lot of words on that test were a bit of a judgement call for me, because I have seen them before and could surely understand them in the context of a sentence, but that’s different from trying to come up with a definition when the word is sitting there by itself.
Also, ec is probably going to wipe us all out on this one.
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Yeah, I forced myself to actually come up with a definition if it was on the border.
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20k
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29,400 for me. Interesting how many words I recognize and have a sense of but aren’t able to actually define.
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Exact same as me.
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31,800
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35,700. Chances are I cheated once or twice.
I’m surprised to realize that I don’t remember my score on the English portion of the SAT, other than that it was disappointing.
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600. And I was proud of it, too.
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35,500
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yeah, but you probably took the test in English, not ‘Murican.
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One obvious flaw is that it omits all technical language. Presumably it wouldn’t be too hard to add examples from various fields and extrapolate the results (eg. if you know what a pion is then you probably know the word neutralino too). But that does beg the question of how large the typical technical vocabulary is.
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31.9k
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28,200
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28,100
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The 100 words I have on you is entirely composed of monosyllabic grunts.
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Your lead may actually be bigger. On further review, I may have confused some words I don’t know with words I do know. Welter and swelter, for example.
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A tricorn is 3 horned horses, right? And a funambulist is someone who makes walking for enjoyable?
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36,300
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Same.
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21,200. Needs moar Croatian
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You might’a beaten me in ‘Mericun. But I’d beat you in Cro… um… Crat… Corat… grr… That other lang-u-age.
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Yeah, I wonder what my total vocab would be. If my English vocabulary is 21k and I assume my Croatian matches an average score you guys had in English (~30k) and I estimate my Spanish and German to be below English at some 15k each, and all the rest to sum up to, say 5k, I would still be way short of 100k.
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I wonder if the 30k croatian bit is true. English has a truly ridiculous number of words compared to most other languages, so they might not be on the same scale.
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Is that a fact? That English has more words than other languages? I mean you copy the words from other languages, but Germans create words for concepts.
So, what you call bus station is Bushaltestelle and so on. If I had to guess, I’d side with German. And as for English versus Croatian, I don’t know which one has more, but I’m pretty sure that there are at many words I know in Croatian that I do not know in English, and I sure know one word in Croatian for every one I know in English
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I’ve heard English has the most words as well, so it’s a pervasive rumor at least.
I agree that German w/ all its compound ‘franken’-words ( not Fränkisker ;P )has to be a close second.
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Fränkischer *
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My comment was based just on hearsay, so I did some wikipedia follow-up and found some good info:
So there you have it.
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Heh!
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So… I have almost as big a penis as EM?
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LOL
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Let’s go to Krka National Park. You don’t need words there.
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That whole thing is part of a psychology experiment to see how many check boxes people are willing to click on if they think it will show how smart they are.
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I had some similar thoughts.
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I was expecting some sort of “O RLY?” page at the end, where it picks the hardest couple words and asks for definitions.
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It just seemed like too much work tbh
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38,900.
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner
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SHE’S AN ENGLISH MAJOR FERCRYINOUTLOUD!
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Shouldn’t her answer be “all of them”
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“… and then some”
Balfour torn meniscus, out 4-6 weeks. THEY STILL LET HIM FKING THROW HIS SIDE SESSION
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Are we assuming he SAID that he felt to the team before continuing on?
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If he felt it while he was throwing and didn’t stop than he’s dumb.
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I think lot of things hurt in the beginning of ST, you can’t just stop for every one
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Pretty much this. It’s easy to jump on the A’s are medically incompetent bandwagon every time because they typically deserve it. But here, it’s really much ado about nothing. Small thing. Should/could have healed with rest. Didn’t. Still didn’t seem too big a deal. Checked out. Decided to fix it now.
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And yet given Balfour’s reputation it wouldn’t surprise me if he did. There’s quotes saying he felt the pain at the end of last year too and continued to pitch through it. I suspect the pain itself is really minor and they just wanted to check out to be safe and found a small tear. This sounds like the sort of thing that would take a dozen office visits, physical therapy, and a couple of year before you even sniffed an MRI or surgery if you weren’t a professional baseball player.
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I’ve sort of been assuming that Balfour would get injured this season after pitching so much down the stretch last year. Wasn’t expecting it to be his knee though.
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At least it’s the beginning of ST. Should be ready near the beginning of the season.
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I’m glad he waited until now to get it checked out if he started feeling it at the end of last season.
Best Valentine of the day.