Howdy folks…I hope you had a nice Christmas or just a nice Wednesday, depending on how you look at things. This lounge comes near the end of 2013 which means it’s time for New Year’s Resolutions!
My three resolutions this year are…to get seven hours of sleep a night, start to learn Spanish, and get a hole in one on the golf course.
Hey, I used the Oxford comma in that last sentence…I must be getting soft.
So here’s a lounge to post your New Year’s Resolutions or to talk about FIP…whatever floats your boat.
Lounge away…
It’s not muggy…it’s actually quite nice out today.
My posts in this lounge make more sense if you read them in the voice of Ric Flair…WOOOOOOO!
I got rid of my iPhone (too complicated for me) and I switched to a Samsung Galaxy Note. It only took me three hours to learn how to turn it on…so far so good. My wife likes her iPhone but she’s better at this stuff than me…in my defense…I once helped build a barn, so…yeah, I got nothing.
Really if you can make a Disney produced Lone Ranger movie with not one but two scenes of Indians being slaughtered, a guy ripping out another guys heart and eating it, and a white guy playing Tonto that runs close to two and half hours long you have to do it.
Awoke at 10:45 am from a very vivid dream in which he was at the A’s-Tigers ALCS Game in 1972 where Bert Campaneris got hit in the ankle by Lerrin LaGrow and threw the bat back at him in retaliation…. except in the dream, the ballgame wasn’t in the past. It was in the Oakland Coliseum as we know it today, with Mt. Davis in center field, the current third deck tarps and signage and twin Diamond Vision screens, Dick Callahan announcing over the PA and my friends in the RF Bleachers going crazy. I was sitting behind the third base dugout and got kicked out for screaming some very choice obscenities at LaGrow and Billy Martin, who ordered the beaning and was taunting me from the first base dugout as they dragged me away…I must have serious unconscious baseball issues to have dreams like this, esp. with the Tigers (wonder why that is? Damn you Verlander!! LOL). The third base umpire actually tossed me out, with the words “You’re fired!!” What was also strange was all the uniforms were from now, from today’s baseball era. The A’s were wearing the current gold alt uniforms, not the Charlie Finley pullover tops from back then. It was if the 1972 incident was wholly transposed into the present day, SO strange.
My A’s related dreams involve soft lighting, Tony LaRussa, and long talks in the dugout about how to use a bullpen.
Anytime I walk into a stadium and see they only have bench style bleacher seats I think to myself…I’m too old for this sit.
My 90’s college breakfast of champions
1. No sleep whatsoever
2. 1 Egg McMuffin
3. 1 pack of Peanut M&M’s
4. 1 Diet Coke
5. Go to an easy state school like KU
My two year old got me a black Raiders hoodie for Christmas…so that’s why she wanted to borrow the car the other day. Oddly enough my wife got me a poorly drawn picture of I don’t know…something, made with crayons.
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Darth Vader is actually Lando Calrissian’s godfather.
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Rosebud is actually what Orson Welles named Joseph Cotten’s third nipple.
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Breaking Bad is actually a documentary set in the mid 1980’s about a really bad break dancer named Walter White.
You know I’m not really sure I want to go sail away with Styx.
Don’t worry, theirs is a fixed-track circular boat ride a la It’s A Small World. A Grand Illusion.
“Come Sail Away” is high on my list of songs whose first half is so amazing that I almost pump my fist when it comes on the radio and whose second half is so boring in comparison to the first half that I end up changing the station. Number one on this list is “Over the Hills and Far Away.”
Wrong! On both!
Come Sail Away is garbage all around. Over the Hills and Far Away has an awesome riff during the fade out, and an even cooler ending.
Hmm, the ending to Over the Hills is pretty cool. For some reason, though, I’m always disappointed within second of the full band kicking in, and then I give up on the song.
I’ll give you the fact that the loud full band part of the song isn’t as good as the opening, but none of it is bad. It also has one of Jimmy’s cooler melodic solos, as opposed to his fire-spitting ones.
The guitar playing is undeniably outstanding throughout. I think it’s Plant’s screeching, after the uncharacteristically subdued opening, that turns me off.
Fair enough. You’re still going to have to defend your love for the first half of EEEEYYYYYYYYAAMAMMMMMMMM SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYLLLEEEEEEEEEEEENNGG AAAAYYYYYYWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY, though.
I like wailing along with it in the car.
That voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
You have to embrace the earnestness of his delivery of such absurd lyrics:
On board, I’m the Captain
So climb aboard
We’ll search for tomorrow
On every shore
Now see I don’t like the first half but the second half I can get into a bit on that song.
I’m not cool enough to wear Dockers.
An idea for the lounge…post a song each lounge that you want FK to hear. It can be something well known or obscure or anything you want you really.
If you like the idea then post a song…if you don’t just pretend I never posted this.
I like the idea – my only concern is that pages with any significant number of youtube embeds in them get reaaaaaaaaally slow to load.
Fair enough…obviously I don’t know how such things work. I guess maybe 10-20 people post in each lounge…I’m not sure how many embeds would slow the site down.
i slowed a page recently with about 10 embeds. but if you just put the link without the embedded screen, that slows nothing.
(there was another page recently that reached 2500 comments. that one is emBEDed. and slow as hell.)
Hmm…I think our 2K lounge was a one time deal…we almost broke the internet. So perhaps we should just post links to the song rather than the YouTube player. Again I’ll leave it up to the crowd as to whether or not this is a good idea.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is the greatest collection of tags of all time, but certainly the greatest on KQED’s news blog:
The Moneyball film really is the gift that keeps on giving for poor Art Howe. 2o years from now when the Academy gives Phillip Seymour Hoffman the Irving R. Thalberg award I’m sure the producers will choose the Pena Got Traded scene in the montage, twisting the knife just a little bit more in Art’s ribs.
pfft…I never saw Moneyball…Joe Morgan said it sucked.
this song has been tormenting me for days now. the first sound is like the opening note of wild thing, how it drops from the sky like a bomb. but you almost don’t hear that. the song already exploded into motown horns, guitar stabs like early clash, and a bassline as bubbly as it it relentless. and lyrics laying an angry hook on top? excuse me while i skank with fists for an hour…
Paper Walls by Marc Cohn…if this actually worked.
…and of course I posted the YouTube player…which I’ve never been able to do before…even when I do it right I do it wrong.
Ooooh, fun. That part that jumps into the harmonica/guitar unison is pretty awesome. Also, gotta love that really high-tension snare sound.
This album has been in my car almost nonstop for a month now, but this track in particular is gorgeous.
Ooops. Reply fail. Meh.
I liked that quite a bit…I like instrumental tracks.
The rest of the album trends on the heavier side, but it never loses that cinematic feel. Love it.
It looks like the entire album is on YouTube…I’ll give it a listen.
cinematic feel. or, i thought, soundscape.
So Nebraska was incredible. American Hustle was only good. Kinda expected the reverse reaction.
Huh…this wound up here. Shrug?
Interesting…we actually saw a really good action movie yesterday that most people probably haven’t heard of…I think it was called Die Hard?
It was fun watching my wife watch it for the first time…she loved it but then doesn’t everybody love Die Hard?
Nobody doesn’t like Die Hard. It’s universal.
I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like the movie…not sure I want to.
me
Tsk tsk.
hi, i’m nobody (though not the emperor thereof). and it’s 20th century fox.
Tsk tsk.
I cannot wait to see Wolf of Wall Street, many reviewers are going totally apeshit about its greatness.
That’s number one on my list of movies I want to see. I should have some free time somewhere in 2017.
For whatever reason, I wasn’t all that excited about it, but holy crap, that’s changed quick. Supposedly it’s completely off-the-wall crazy.
I’m always excited about a Scorsese movie.
Also, this is pretty much a perfect trailer. Huge kudos to the trailer editor.
Upstream Color Upstream Color Upstream Color.
Is this the sequel to Sheena Easton’s immortal “Sugar Walls”?
Sorry, I refuse to talk about Sheena Easton unless mountains of blow are involved.
talk about dry humor.
I’m a fan of dry wall humor.
pfft…Gruden…BRING BACK JOE BUGEL!
When that reindeer tried to run over my grandma she grabbed it, stabbed him, gutted him, and we ate him for dinner…you don’t mess with my grandma…she’ll cut you.
If loving you is wrong, I don’t want to be right…well, actually now when I think about it, I hate being wrong, so I guess maybe we should just be friends.
Okay, close your eyes…now I want you to imagine Tom Cable in a rose colored speedo and only a rose colored speedo.
What do I want off the McDonald’s $1 Menu? Nothing, ever.
Those Wendy’s hamburgers aren’t hip at all…they’re a bunch of squares.
But it’s Hip to be Square.
Yes, yes it is.
This interlude into fast food posts was brought to you by your colon.
What’s your favorite movie scene of all time?
Howard Beale, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.”
Cowboys dining around the fire in Blazing Saddles.
The USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws. I love every thing about it, the lead up where they’re all comparing scars and how the three actors play off each other…amazing acting, writing and cinematography.
Mine is the Ned Beatty “Corporate Cosmology” speech to Peter Finch in the conference room.
I also love the restaurant scene in “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” when Terry Jones explodes.
Steve Buscemi’s “No tipping” scene in Reservoir Dogs is up there.
Maybe the final scene in Paths of Glory? Very powerful.
Paths of Glory is a great movie.
That movie makes me fall asleep every time.
That opening of Reservoir Dogs encapsulates pretty much everything about the way Tarantino writes: curly dialogue that tangents off into nowhere that implicitly speaks volumes about the characters.
Concur’d.
I’d say the discussion between Jules and Vincent in Pulp Fiction is the perfect example of Tarantino’s technique. It’s all friendly banter about Royales and foot massages until they arrive at Brett’s place and Jules ultimately says:
“That’s an interesting point… let’s get into character.”
Good stuff.
Ooh, tough one. Probably the concluding crescendo of Apocalypse Now. Honorable mentions for Nicholson eating lunch with John Huston in Chinatown, and “You have to answer for Santino, Carlo.”
Chinatown is fking phenominal. Also its still how LA politics are opperated today, its all about water and power
Ooooh, good question. Can’t narrow it down, but: The climax at the end of Children of Men.The dancing scene in WALL-E. The opening of Melancholia. The end of Brazil.
maybe trite, but the scene in godfather where michael kills sollozo and mcclusky
It’s not trite…it’s one of the more famous scenes of all time.
That is a really hard question that would take some pondering. But off the top of my head, the scene in Tootsie when Dustin Hoffman lets the cat out of the bag that he’s a man on live TV.
Im with everyine else; so tough to choose. Im pretty sure I will reply again in a month at 3am. But for now I will go with 1of 2 from the Untouchables. Either the train station, or when they ride out on horseback to stop the bootleggers from crossing back across the border on the bridge.
I love The Untouchables…it’s in my all time top 10.
Ditto. Actually had the movie poster up in my room as a kid.
In my room growing up I had Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marcus Allen and Heather Thomas posters up in my room.
You lived the dream.
I did indeed.
Ooh, because it just came on TV, the scene from Godfather II where Hyman Roth cuts up and serves the cake shaped like Cuba to the assembled mobsters, talking of who will take over what, then Michael tells the story of seeing a Cuban rebel blow himself up rather than be captured.
any of the ones where Pacino and DeNiro are drinking coffee together
Thanks, and go As.
how ’bout keitel drinking alone?
I’m not sure this is it for me, but the Holy Grail needs some love. Either the French insults or black knight scenes.
oppressed peasant.
Thanks, and go As.
im not dead yet also
And the brave Sir Robin song, and the grenade instructions, and…
Basically, the whole movie.
this
i go for adlibbed soliloquies or extended crane shots. either way really.
so, in no order…
tears in the rain, bladerunner
dr strangelove’s hand comes alive, strangelove
it’s all part of the cosmic unconscious, repo man
or…
evil
cuba (jump to 2:10)
fellas
um… *monologues. (i totally forgot what soliloquies meant for a sec.)
Ah! Speaking of monologues: Ellen Burstyn’s monologue she gives to her son in Requiem for a Dream.
Plate. of shrimp! (same scene as cosmic unconsciousness, I know)
Have you seen Weekend and Enter the Void?
The 1967 Godard Weekend.*
oh. i thought you meant the sequel to friday…
yes, of course. but i remember that tracking shot way less lively in terms of the camera interacting with the space.
i never finished enter the void. don’t know why.
I was more referencing that Weekend is nearly all tracking shots, that Soy Cuba shot is incredible btw!
Enter the Void is tough, if you look at it as an art film it’s much easier to sit through. Lots of OOBE tracking shots too, most of the dialog being improvised. The lead wasn’t even an actor before filming.
Gaspar Noe is one of the only somewhat ‘widely distributed’ directors out there trying to do something new with film, that said- they are difficult to watch, lack conventional narrative (which is usually what gets most people), and are quite brutal at times. Some of the scenes in ETV are insanely beautiful, it also has the best impression of a psychadelic experience I’ve ever seen in cinema.
holy shit with the tracking shot in true detective.
Helluva scene from a great episode.
The Springtime for Hitler musical opener in The Producers.
pfft…Gruden…BRING BACK LANE KIFFIN!
I may just name all the former Raiders head coaches in some manner in this lounge…that’s just how I roll.
They’re just a Shell of their former glory.
Which is extremely Madden-ing.
Joe Morgan just told me that Billy Beane only likes soccer teams that refuse to steal bases.
Merle Haggard is such a bad ass name. If that was my name I would spend hours each day introducing myself to people just so I could say the name.
Where are the posts about the Houston Oilers?
sfgate
If gay guys can help the team win no one is going to care outside of the nut jobs. Most pros only care about getting paid and winning not who their teammate is sleeping with.
I miss those uniforms.
Oilers is a much better team name than the Texans.
The Texans are not the Oilers; the Titans are.
No no no, the Jets are the Titans.
I thought the Jets were the Thrashers. And the Coyotes are the Jets.
Wait, they moved to Manitoba and took up hockey?
Their coach probably didn’t emphasize what sport they were playing enough, and they got confused.
Jet?
Right, I know the Oilers became the Texans. I just meant for the city of Houston that the Oilers is a more fitting name than the Texans.
Should’ve been the Eulers.
With a newborn to go along with the two year old I’m guessing that seven hours a night of sleeping resolution is about as likely as the Raiders winning the Super Bowl this year…good thing I took up meth.
Speaking of two year olds…Norv Turner laughs like one when you tickle his belly.
The more you know…
The main reason Mike Shanahan and Al Davis hated each other is Davis closed all the tanning booths at the Raiders practice facility.
I’m not going to tease Art Shell…he was a Hall of Fame player, a pretty darn good coach the first time around and a hell of a man.
Now…Mike White on the other hand was so boring his name was Mike White.
Great player to be sure. You could make a case that Shell and Upshaw were the best pair of lineman to play together ever.
I didn’t like him all that much as a coach the first time, seemed overmatched in the game management aspect.
John Rauch and Bill Callahan both coached the Raiders to Super Bowl defeats…Al Davis later had them executed.
I don’t know much about John Madden…apparently he’s some sort of video game producer.
My favorite hot tub party ever? Probably that time I kicked Natalie Portman, Christina Hendricks and Salma Hayek out of the tub so I could hot tub it up with Eddie Erdelatz, Marty Feldman, and Red Conkright…those dudes knew how to party.
I’m not going to tease Tom Flores either…I love Tom Flores.
…and now Hue Jackson would like to say a word about his favorite subject…Hue Jackson.
Dennis Allen is possibly a former football coach who used to coach football players playing the game of football
You haven’t yet mentioned the embarrassing 2014 season, when head coach Charlie Weis and offensive coordinator Sonny Dykes “led” the Raiders to, uh, never mind.
(Bed reads Soaker’s vision of a Raiders future…thinks about it…runs away screaming.)
So someone else committed suicide today.
I don’t know how to respond to this other than to say hi Jennifer.
Thanks, Bed. You keep me entertained. I’m going to be okay.
Glad to hear it.
Sorry dude. The holiday season is really hard on some people.
Well, I guess I’m here at Free Kraut to stay…I couldn’t cut it in the Mexican League.
My three favorite coaches?
1. Tony LaRussa
2. Tom Flores
3. Lou Brown
I like this one:
I’m sorry, but this conversation begins and ends with Dean Smith.
Dean stealing Old Roy led to KU getting Bill Self so I’m cool with Dean.
Kansas Basketball: 8 coaches in 115 years and the worst one is the guy who invented the game.
Dean gave Ol’ Roy to KU in the first place.
…and we appreciate all the heart breaking tournament loses. I think most KU fans have a soft spot for both Dean and Roy.
Anytime a sports announcer says “isn’t it ironic?” I want to yell at the TV “I doubt it will be.”
In honor of the long lost Oz here are my Top 5 Ozzy Osbourne songs.
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Crazy Train should be our national anthem.
I WANT MY MTV!…well, not really…I’m 40.
why is there a sixteen and pregnant marathon?
Whoa, it’s college bowl game season! Who’s Cal playing?
Cal vs KU in The Toilet Bowl
There are 35 bowl games this year and ESPN is adding about 3 more next year (including the “Bahamas Bowl” which doesn’t sound bad at all), so a matchup like that isn’t at all implausible.
Wow…that’s a lot of crappy football games…I get my fill of those watching the Raiders.
Worst part is the non-shitty games don’t start until Monday (and that’s only because this family will enjoy watching Oregon run all over Texas)
I really don’t watch much college football. Outside of the NFL, PGA and KU hoops I don’t watch much sports period.
Fine…I have a poster of John Paul Stevens in my garage…DON”T YOU DARE JUDGE ME about my love of 93 year old retired Supreme Court justices!
I loved him in Led Zepplin.
No one rocks a bow tie like that badass.
In the future, Ed will just be Ed, but he’ll still be going on about cricket.
india south africa is going on right now
suspended due to bad light
Damn! I have money on that game.
relax its a 5 day test match. we are only on day 1
Keep me posted, Ed. I have all my Euros wrapped up in this bet.
well, SA has only got one wicket and Vijay almost has a century. I bet after dhoni bats tomorrow they declare.
It must have been the power play.
I finally got my cherry pie.
I finally got mine in 1991.
I don’t want to get all political here but…red grapes are tasty.
blue grapes are better!!!!!
Well, I think you live in a more blue grape kind of state. We’re red grape state folks here in the South.
I think we can agree to disagree about our earlier agreement where we had a disagreement about agreeing to disagree about said agreement but then disagreed about agreeing about the agreement in which there was little to disagree about.
party of the first part
I bless the rains down in Topeka.
Kiss Me, I’m Dutch…actually you should stay away as far as possible from those bastards.
How dare they process their cocoa with an alkalizing agent!
Will their reign of terror ever end?
The Edit Button: Making Bed look a little less stupid since 2012.
It was 1981. I was hanging out in the green room at The Tonight Show studio in Burbank. It was 2 pm and Ed McMahon was on his fifth Brandy Old Fashioned. He was slurring his words as he told a story about how Johnny Carson had once killed a man with his thumb, his left thumb to be exact. Erik Estrada was in the room going on and on about how CHiPs was changing the face of television. We all knew he was just trying to impress Charlene Tilton who was looking pretty good in her Jordache jeans. George Carlin was doing a run through on his bit for the show that night, and he had brought some top notch Colombian cocaine, which Redd Foxx was cutting on a bathroom counter top. I took a deep breath and thought to myself…there’s no place I’d rather be.
The 11:30 p.m. West Coast SportsCenter killed the Tonight Show star.
It’s possible I enhanced my pleasure with thoughts of a naked Charlene Tilton, though frankly Valerie Bertinelli was a little more up my alley.
that is impressive
I’m not cool enough to drink Ovaltine.
J-Lo on the Down-Low Part VIII: The Yellow Roses of Texas
J-Lo goes on a journey of self discovery while traveling with an all female group of Barber Shop singers in 1950’s West Texas.
The Infield Fly Rule: Is whenever Kurt Suzuki comes to bat with someone on base.
see also:automatic double play
I don’t think I’ve seen Die Hard.
Well, it’s a fun movie. I’ve seen it oh, once or twice.
Are you from this country?
I was 4 when it came out.
I’ll lend you my VHS tape.
Yes, but it’s a Christmas classic.
Now I have a machine gun.
Ho.Ho.Ho.
Nnamdi Asomugha to retire as a Raider…odd career. He only played nine seasons and he was really only good for about three of them. I don’t get the whole one day contract to retire thing, especially for a guy that has no chance of getting into the Hall of Fame.
He seems like a good guy and he made a lot of money, is married to Kerry Washington and hopefully he walked away from the game early enough to have his health.
He’s married to Kerry Washington? Cripes.
He’s a handsome Cal man. The world is his oyster.
Cal education, show-stopping wife, some $30MM+ in total career earnings…I’d say he’s had a pretty good run.
While he never won too many football games he certainly won in the game of life.
Where are the posts about AfterMASH?
Things are getting a little dusty here…and no, I don’t mean I’m about to cry…I mean someone needs to do some dusting in here.
When I was younger I got out of bed in the morning feeling great…now when I get up it’s a lot of groaning, and my body sounds like a bowl of Rice Crispies as it snaps, crackles and pops. Damn, it’s good to be a Bedster.
I have enough chest hair to star in a 1970’s TV cop show.
Like most people I spend a lot of my free time making Sophie B. Hawkins mix tapes.
Okay, time for Plan B…I need a trampoline and some WD-40.
I’m on my way to Antarctica!
I had a nice send off yesterday. Got back from a couple of days with my in-laws and found the back door open. No signs that anyone broke in — that door just doesn’t shut right some times. But it did mean that the laundry room froze. Once I got it warmed up again, one of the washing machines started gushing water from a busted hose. I shut it off, but not before it flooded the room pretty good, so I had to spend a half hour soaking it all up with a mop.
I hear it’s a dry cold…best of luck in Antarctica. I always get a kick out of hearing about the lives many of you cool folks lead.
Coo. Although I don’t know from the stroy if you are going or just feel like you are
Damn, have fun in Antarctica! What are you going for?
For work. Same project that I have been on for the last 3+ years.
Incredible, man.
I posted this last year already, but I like the photo, so here it is again:
hmm… sideways image is sideways
Fixed.
ZOMG. cosmic secrets revealed. the south pole is actually the east pole!!!
That is hella cool. Please post it every winter.
Perfect!
Awesome. Hope you aren’t traveling on a Russian (or Chinese) ship.
No boats. New York Air National Guard.
Did you see these recently-discovered photos from the Shackleton expedition?
I saw links but haven’t gotten around to checking them out.
Our winter-over had an awesome find several years ago. Before they detonated the buried Old Pole station, he had gone down there with other winter-overs and found an undeveloped roll of film that dated back to when the station was still active (they switched over to the dome sometime in the 70s). He put together an awesome slide show switching between old photos of the active station and photos that he took from the same vantage points showing a desolate and decrepit station buried under the ice.
the south pole is hot right now.
http://rt.com/news/australia-ship-trapped-antarctic-970/
and… lol…
http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/Simularan-Antartida-condiciones-vida-Marte_0_1057094331.html
they’re sending 15 argentine army kids to belgrano II station to spend a polar year… because it is similar to conditions on mars… and this is a chrono-biologic experiment toward future exploration… of mars… by argentines… who are oh so very close to a space program…
as evidenced by the current 15th day in a row of blackouts in buenos aires because of peak summer temps, and people protesting in the streets because in the dark there is no way to keep food fresh or police protection to keep away the marauding thieves looking for food, that is, if the thieves can make it out to thieve instead of staying put and dying with their families from, duh, generator exhaust in the house. in other words, ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja. (translation: ha ha ha, etc…)
Would you rather have more money or more friends?
money. I have friends
this
Money is just a tool to me so I’d always take more friends…it would allow me to dump all my Chiefs fans friends, they’ve been unbearable this year.
Would you rather be smarter or funnier?
I don’t think I could possibly be either one.
Funnier. I’ll always take the laugh.
Would you rather live the lifestyle you want and live to 65 or live a healthy, restrictive lifestyle and live to 80?
what is my lifestyle? i like that one
80…I’ll be pissed if I die young.
Ask me again when I’m 64 and 364 days.
I’m getting a divorce…from Apple.
I got rid of the iPhone and now I’m dumping the Apple laptop. My wife loves her Apple products but I guess I’m a boring PC guy. I’m going to get another Toshiba laptop…I’m on an old one right now. I’ve had good luck with Toshiba.
I really like my lenovo yoga
I went on their website…it’s a sharp looking device.
Id recomend it though it might be more power than you need
Me too. I’m not a huge fan of my Ipad.
I got talked into switching everything to Apple by a clever Hawaiian I’ve had dealings with.
I’ve been using a first-gen one alot recently, and it just does. not. cut. it.
I don’t understand why the damn things swept the world.
marketing, apple honks, etc.
Thanks, and go As.
and full size is so unwieldy. I enjoy the smaller tablets of today, but SLF’s ipad 2 is my least favorite between the kindle fire samsung whatever it is, my galaxy phone and SLF’s iphone
I agree!
Wow, really? How dim do you have to be…
On a side note, man, insidebayarea.com’s front page got even uglier, I didn’t think this was possible.
I was really stoked for html 5, but in the end I think a lot of GD’s were better off w/ 4…
I’ve been thinking about switching to the all gold teeth look myself.
And they’re trying to impose a paywall too (after something like 20 articles each month). The idea has only failed for a few hundred real newspapers so far, maybe it’ll work this time!
Newspapers have to do something…people need to realize good journalism costs money.
They could start by trying good journalism.
I can’t speak to the quality of Bay Area newspapers, but there are plenty of great journalists who no longer work in the field, and this is not a good thing for our democracy. We need strong, professional journalists digging for the stories we need to hear about, and that costs money.
Yes, there does need to be a new model, whereby content is valued enough to not only have readers pay for it, but to create a viable career model. Currently it strikes me that studying journalism in college is approaching art history/philosophy levels of uselessness as it relates to future careers.
Unfortunately I cannot visualize that model.
Very well put, FSU. I have no idea how they fix it either. It’s something that worries me though and I hope someone comes up with something.
Politicians too easily hide from journalists. the answer lies in Yellow journalism I am afraid. The only motivation for actually having to push politicians is opposition to them.
I feel the best way to keep politicians in line is good journalism. It’s brought down Presidents and helped turn the tide against corruption and wrong headed wars. Without good journalism you aren’t going to have an informed electorate to be in opposition.
right. But “good Journalism” does not exist. THe powerful pols have the ability to limit access to those they don’t like. Access is more valuable to ABC news than a good scoop. the pols know it and create an atmosphere that suits them.
Fox is the only large group actually trying to dig out dirt on Obama, and who knows if MSNBC is doing the same for the GOP
I disagree that good journalism doesn’t exist. I see and read good journalism when I look for it. Access to politicians isn’t how you break news. Talking to staff and digging into their motivations, and who backs them is how you do it.
I agree with all those points. maybe my stance should be more subtle like, good journalism does not exist in major media companies than run the major newspapers and TV news networks/
I agree that a lot of corporate media is awful, especially inside the Beltway. I can be a little pollyannaish (is that a word?) when it comes to journalism, but I really do believe that when it’s done right, it can change the world. I hope we can find a way to make it a profession that young, smart and aggressive people want to go into again.
This I’ll agree with. Good journalism certainly does exist, but it’s not on CNN.
Look at what Glenn Greenwald has done with the NSA, for example.
Greenwald’s is certainly important journalism, but it’s not very good – he’s far too concerned with putting himself in the middle of the story.
I’ve read Greenwald only a handful of times and he’s not my cup of tea but I’m glad he’s out there.
He also ditched the Guardian as well.
this. its all about him and his high horse instead of the story that he also happens to be mostly write abou
I completely agree. As much as I dislike Sullivan, I think the people like him and Ezra Klien could wind up creating brands that sustain (some) real journalism. Unfortunately, local-level stuff is much harder to make work on a crowdsourced model.
Local corruption is likely to rise due to the fact that there isn’t the local metro beat reporters going to board meetings and hitting the bricks for local stories anymore.
That might not prove true. In the Bay Area at least a wave of muckraking blogger types has definitely filled some of the void from the reduced local newspaper staffing. They’re not as professional to be sure, and carry slants/biases that pro newsies (claim that they) are not subject to. But the bloggers often work harder, since they can stay on a story like a dog with a bone, in cases where the editors make pros move along to the next thing.
That might work in more tech savvy places like the Bay Area, where I would assume more people read blogs.
The lack of good local journalism was never more clear to me than the lack of follow-up on the Lehigh cement plant shooting in Cupertino in 2011. The shooter killed himself after being hit several times by three sheriff’s deputies, who fired a total of 44 shots at a nearly stationary target, who apparently was trying to commit suicide-by-cop. The questions I had at the time were:
1. Why such awful shooting?
2. What was being done for the homeowners, whose garage door, cars (both were in the driveway), and other property were heavily damaged by the excessive gunfire? (I happen to know more about this incident, since a co-worker knows this family).
3. What measures are being taken to prevent this kind of piss-poor police work in the future?
Instead, the bay area media dropped the story after the perp was shot down.
this.
So true. I can get my news 100 better places than the Chron… maybe if they actually did some good local coverage it might be interesting
slegnA going for Mulder.
Did you know that slegnA backwards is Angels?
…and put me down as thinking Fox Mulder has a better chance of being a top notch pitcher next year.
Arte Moreno believes the answer is out there.
Apparently he thinks the answer involves paying millions to aging sluggers.
I’m not cool enough to eat at Pizza Hut.
Well, it looks like I’m going to lose the bet…today is when I predicted the sequel would be born. My wife went with Sunday. I feel like maybe she has inside information.
Indiana Jones and the Assisted Living Facility of Doom.
I just got a text from Bridget the Midget. I guess her love affair with Chris Christie was more of a one night stand kind of deal. Apparently he’s into stuff too kinky even for her. She says he’s great pals with Richard Gere and Gere got him into using ferrets in…uh, unique ways. Besides, Christie was too much of a RINO for Bridget. She’s a life long Libertarian so she’s set her sights on Rand Paul. She plans on wooing him by making jokes about unemployed people and reading long passages aloud from Atlas Shrugged. I sure hope these two crazy kids can make it work.
Scrambled eggs: A good way to start the day or a communist plot to overthrow America?
What’s your favorite Pop Tart flavor?
yes
…and doctorK gives the proper response.
Peanut butter
Kinky
Cherry.
Jell-O or pudding?
Fine! Duck the question you cowards!
pudding you half wit
HOW DARE YOU! THIS MEANS WAR!…oh wait…yeah, pudding is better.
The Ed & Bed Debate Hour is brought to you by Earl Campbell’s Hot Links.
JIMMIE DEAN YOU HALF WIT
Our show would be great…I’d mostly talk about myself and you’d go between reading cricket scores and calling me names.
I have a meeting with Bill Lawrence
We’ll make dozens of dollars!
I hope its ok that I dropped your name. they always like a local commercial actor from 30 years ago to be attached to a project
Hey, my name will open doors all over Hollywood…mainly due to the fact that a lot of out or work actors named Brian are doormen in Hollywood.
Both my mom and my mother in law are flying in on Monday…seems like a good time for a golf trip…I wonder if the kid can stay in there another week or so?
please tell me you booked the flights so they arrive at the airport at the same time.
SLF’s dad lives over an hour from the airport and when my family and SLFs step sister fly in for christmas, there is always a two days of utter confusion about who is going to be picked up from the airport and when
They aren’t even arriving at the same airports…we have it all set up thankfully. We all thought the kid would be here well before Monday so they’re coming to see him and help out for a bit. I’m enjoying today because it’s likely the last quiet, restful day I’ll have in a long time.
Get Mrs. Bed to use some of that Hawaiian strength and magic to hold on through the weekend and aim for 2014. 14 is a better number to be on the end of young Blanda’s birthdate than 13 anyway. Also, you can record the obligatory “first baby of the New Year” story on your local news, then save it in some file format that will be obsolete and unplayable before Blanda’s 18th birthday.
We are so close that it would be fun if he was a New Year’s Day baby. I’ll go tell my wife that we’re changing his name to Blanda.
Since I won’t be here on Sunday after the Raiders loss I’d like to post this in advance…
FU Manning you amazing, great, seemingly nice and decent person you.
Dennis Allen is a football coach who fails at coaching football players playing football.
HOW CAN YOU DROP THAT PASS (Insert any Raiders receiver here)
It’s all Reggie McKenzie’s fault!
Mark Davis’ bowl cut is dead sexy.
Hey, great back to back 4-12 seasons.
I picked the wrong season to stop sniffing glue.
Next year we’re going all the way.
By including the Mark Davis statement I take all of these comments in the spirit of Opposite Day which I’m sure is what you intended. So McKenzie is awesome and we’re going 12-4.
WooHoo! 12 wins…that normally takes about 3 seasons.
you misunderstood his comment. 12/4. twelve wins, four seasons
That seems more realistic.
My google-fu must be really weak. I just spent 30 minutes looking for the Bill Walsh Coors Light commercial (“12 and 4 is pretty good”) and couldn’t find it.
Some of the preliminary mock drafts are projecting Blake Bortles to the Raiders (Bridgewater should already be gone). You’ll probably want to watch the Fiesta Bowl, following the Rose Bowl on Wednesday.
I can already hear Chris Berman’s 1980’s themed nickname for him…Blake Bortles & Jaymes.
I had to Google “Blake Bortles” to reassure myself that you didn’t just make that name up.
Without caring enough to investigate tie breakers, it looks like the Raiders could draft anywhere between second and ninth. I’ll still root for a win Sunday, but I certainly don’t expect one, and better draft position is a fine outcome too.
It does sound like a fake name from a bad football movie. I’ve heard the name but I won’t pretend I know anything about him.
They need to hope for Clowney or Barr. Drafting a QB just to throw him in the fire would be a stupid mistake.
Thanks, and go As.
If the Raiders think a franchise quarterback is available they’ll draft him. That’s what any NFL team would do.
Worked out well for the Redskins!
Thanks, and go As.
Well, they did win their division last year and and RG3 was rookie of the year, he got hurt. The Colts are going to the playoffs back to back seasons because they drafted a franchise quarterback so yeah, that’s why teams don’t pass up on guys they think are great quarterbacks.
The Colts were already a somewhat finished product, they just happened to lose Peyton Manning for the year at exactly the right time for that franchise and then put Andrew Luck into that system the next season.
Now, I will say that over the last handful of years, QBs have been coming out a lot more NFL ready. There is beginning to be a blend between a lot of college and pro offenses so a lot of rookies can step right in and play.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m really hoping for Clowney. I’m a firm believer in building a team from the lines first. The offensive line (when everyone is healthy) really is quite decent, but the defense needs work. Clowney would hugely help with that. I also wanted Star Lotulelei last year, for the same reason. It’s all about the lines. Good line play makes everybody look better.
#JustinSmithisG-d
I’m just hoping we get 2-3 starters out of the next draft. If the Raiders spend their cap room wisely on free agents, and draft well they could get better fairly quickly.
Where are the posts about Rick Steves?
Did I tell you guys that i got chuck taylor low tops with ED written on the side?
I did
Ed who?
It’s part of his endorsement deal with Viagra.
I really shuld get paid for all the times I say E.D.
Shoulda been a nurse.
I don’t believe I’ve ever worn Chuck Taylor low tops…mainly due to the fact that I don’t live in the late 1950’s.
You’ve got a little Chip Hilton in you, though.
I had to look that one up. I will say I always wanted a tough name like, Chip or Alice.
I thought you said you were a Republican.
Well, to be fair I say a lot of things.
You really are a republican
If folks want to think I’m a Republican that’s fine…just as long as no one ever thinks I’m a Broncos fan.
I am cool enough to own every song that Mike + the Mechanics ever did.
I miss you guys.
you know where we are at
I know.
You and all the other fine folks of FK are what keep me coming back for more…well, that and nevermoor pays me in waffles for every post I write about VORP.
(Bed sits in his office staring off into the distance wondering…wondering if there are any food related questions that he has yet to ask? He knows that when he runs out of food related questions to ask on an A’s baseball related blog that all will be lost, and his soul will be doomed to roam the Earth in search of a time and a place that no longer exist.)
There’s always beverages.
The new frontier in Bed questions.
If I can work in a J-Lo on the Down-Low-Bridget the Midget mash up post where they do coke with stars of the late 70’s early 80’s somewhere in LA then I think I will have reached my peak here on Free Kraut.
I’m going back to Sacto, Sacto, Sacto…I’m going back to Sacto, I don’t think so.
I have successfully installed three consecutive apps on my Android phone in a row…I am one tech savvy bastard.
Do they have a putters anonymous help group? I bought my third Ping putter today. I may have a problem.
The first two are at the bottom of the pond next to 18, right?
Heh…I’m not much of a club thrower…I just drop F-bombs. I think I have around 12 putters in an extra golf bag at the moment. I get dissatisfied with them quickly because clearly any missed putt can’t be my fault.
I’ve always said, when you have the chance to watch the Belk Bowl, you do it.
In Soviet Russia Belk Bowl watches you.
The thing about mediocrity is, you get to beat up on Cincinnati in a bowl game nobody cares about, whereas Duke earned themselves the right to get shredded for 500 passing yards by Johnny Manziel.
Who do you like in the Berkeley Bowl this year?
My daddy in law is the fish monger!
My daddy in law’s second cousin’s friend from college makes $1,345.87 a day working at home on a Google Chrome, you can too at http://www.thesekindofpostsarefullofshit.com
Original Bowl or Bowl West? Or both?
OG, thin Japanese guy named Ted, awesome guy, will talk your ear off and it will be interesting.
interesting. I mostly go to the new one but i hae a soft spot for the old
I like Organic Vegetables to kick Bulk Nuts-and-Grains’ ass.
Those unis for the Tar Heels are an atrocity.
Really? I thought they looked sharp:
That picture makes them look a lot better than the replay I just saw. The video on TV had way too much blue.
There’s no such thing as too much Carolina blue. You probably hate the sky too.
We haven’t seen blue sky around here all month :(
Carolina blue is nowhere near the best blue.
Looks like Duke blue that got left out in the sun for a few days.
Best blue
yes
duke blue is dead. long live queen blue!
(and queen pink, and queen yellow, and queen green, and queen mauve, and queen etc.)
That is adorable!
OK, so this is not so bad. I blame channel 7 for my initial comment.
That guy, TJ Logan, is a freshman…the Tar Heel starting offense is almost entirely freshmen and sophomores. They could actually be good next year.
Thank you everybody for a fun 2013 here on Free Kraut. I look forward to talking with you again in the new year.
Best wishes and stay classy.
Good luck with Baby Blanda!
Also, fuck the Broncos.
Sounds kinky.
good luck bed.
Healthy baby mojo!
It’s going to be a fucking miracle if I don’t get the flu this season.
Didn’t you have to get a flu shot for work?
Oh, totally. But half the people we’re seeing per day didn’t nd they’re trying to give it to me. So far I know of one who got the shot and tested positive.
My niece who works in urgent care in Minnesota says it’s absolutely nuts, they’ve got flu patients everywhere.
Puig Loaiza’d.
Article doesn’t suggest DUI, and 110 in a 70 isn’t that bad as these things go. Loaiza was going >120 on Hwy 238, which IIRC is a 55 zone. While drunk.
did that ever finalize? did he get a DUI? I have a memory that he blew a .08 or something
My vague recollection is that it wasn’t an outrageously high number, and that it was charged as a misdemeanor.
DUIs are natually Misdos. the third? fourth? can be charged as a felony. Or accidents.
I never heard what happened with that one, or coco’s to be honest
Unless you have 21 million dollars and can write a big check.
Thanks, and go As.
that doesn’t really happen with DUIs.
Rapes, however, when the elected DA is a season ticket holder and personally meets with the accused, are another story.
Yeah, that was outrageous. At least it gave him a new nickname – Sexual Assault Panda.
i just wanna know what the monterey bay peninsula is.
I want to reply:
“When I am in santa cruz, its my penis”
But I am not a big dick joke guy. it makes me uncomfortable typing this. i left the comment window open for a couple minutes before posting.
don’t worry. monterey peninsula isn’t that big.
monterey bay on the other hand. yowza… the canyon goes all the way down to the bottom on that tall drink of water!
FYI – my birthday is coming up if anyone wants to get me this bookend:
CBS should ditch its coverage of the remainder of this hideous football game, and just show blimp shots of the Bay Area for the next couple hours.
The long shot of some Raiders fans holding a “your fired” sign was pretty good.
Get a brain, morans.
I’m not sure that I’m happy about having to go to GB instead of Dallas/Philly. That said, I think the Saints have a good shot of winning that one, which means no Seattle until/unless we make the championship.
Yeah, 5th seed avoids going to Seattle until the NFC Championship.
I’m not sure Green Bay can contain Kaepernick. They haven’t come close to doing it yet.
Thanks, and go As.
Is that true, or do they reseed?
They reseed. So if #3 & #5 go, #5 gets #1.
Seattle will play the lowest-remaining seed.
Of course it’s altogether probable that New Orleans and SF wins.
Yeah – the NFC is screwy this season, having two crummy division, and two awesome ones.
That’s what I thought. Just wanted to make sure I’m also rooting for the Saints next week.
Especially since Seattle’s first playoff game will be on Saturday, January 11th. I would think it is exceedingly likely that they get the night game. There is no way in fking hell they are losing at home on a Saturday night.
What does time of day have to do with it?
Having been to a handful of Hawks games, definitely feels louder there at night.
I do not have the numbers, but some people in the office were saying that their awesome home record in general, is even better during games after 5pm. Small sample not with standing.
Well, per this, Seattle’s divisional playoff game will actually be the afternoon game.
Today is the Baseball Solstice, the midpoint between the last game of the World Series and the first game of spring training — at least according to this blogger, i haven’t done the math but it seems plausible.
maybe south sudan can send relief…
Bwahaha!!
So I guess I won Gigs fantasy football league.
Clearly I know more than everybody else about fake football.
Thanks, and go As.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Turtle Men.
So, car takes a bit longer to start. battery?
First/easiest thing to check: while car is off, turn on the headlights. If they stay bright, your battery is fine. If they dim or flicker, your battery may be weak.
Second easiest thing to check is the battery terminal connections. Are one or both connections dirty, laden with white oxidized powder, etc? Scrape battery terminals and the car’s connection ends with wire brush or facsimile to get good clean contacts, then try again.
Dammit – I can’t believe how hard this is hitting me.
Two of my best friends would have been there right around when he started, but not for his big years.
I was there starting in fall of ’85, so I got to enjoy that ’85-’86 team, especially when we beat Michigan in the tournament (my brother is a UM grad).
I really wanted Duke to win that. FKing last-second turnovers.
Duke choked away a 21 point halftime lead? That’s a shame.
you type that with such conviction.
or
wow, sarcasm does come through over the internet.
(he thinks we are talking about basketball, or that everything is basketball, or both)
I root against Duke in everything. Basketball, cheerleading, think tanks, Nobel prizes, you name it. If a Duke scientist claims to perfect cold fusion I am rooting for his experiment to fail. If humanity has to suffer and wait an extra few years for clean energy until a Harvard physicist gets it right, that’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.
I always enjoy watching some slow-footed Big Ten team get its ass kicked by the Pac-8 or Pac-10 or Pac-12 representative, going all the way back to the days of Hayes and Schembechler. I make no exception today even though it’s Furd.
I’m also on the Cardinal bandwagon today.
I’m not universally opposed to rooting for my usual rival teams. It depends on the level of venomous loathing I carry for them year round. For instance, I’ll root for the Chiefs or Chargers in the right postseason matchup this year, but no there’s no circumstance imaginable where I’d root for the Broncos.
My speculation on the difference between Cal-Stanford and UNC-Duke: In North Carolina it’s all about basketball and those two programs are Top 10 or better more often than not. The Bay Area rivalry is football, with basketball an afterthought. Cal and Stanford have never been good at the same time; Stanford has made these occasional forays into the upper echelon, Cal only briefly has done that, but for most of my life both teams have been in the mediocre to suck range. Other than football I think Old Blues and Furdies get along very well, though students and, famously, mascots, may get carried away once in a while.
If Denver played against Hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil on FK.
Broncos v Duke?
Ooooh good one!
Boise.
You still have to be nice to my sister though.
Thanks, and go As.
I just want to bring sexy back.
And welcome Nicholas. He was found by my ex on the 26th. He has to keep St. Nick.But he can bring him for visits. Except he growls around other cats, which is weird for a kitten.
ATTI!
Welcome Nicholas! What color or pattern is he?
I’ve drank more on Jan 2nd than 1st, SUCCESS!
Just thought I’d share, New Years is for amateurs.