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  1. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 10:11 am

    Jesus. Another Crosby?

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  2. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 10:35 am
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  3. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 10:36 am
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    • salb918 Mar 24,2010 10:39 am || Up

      I think that blogger is treading into tin-foil hat territory.

      • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 10:49 am || Up

        I disagree pretty strongly.

        Yes, metaphors that circulate outside of their originating interpretive communities can unintentionally seem threatening/hostile/inexplicable — but an actual gun (or a brick, or a fertilizer bomb, or a noose) in someone’s hands ain’t a metaphor. This is inflammatory rhetoric, aimed at people who are already angry and are primed to take action including and beyond normative political behavior.

        Let me put it this way: if Keith Ellison was sending out material with this sort of imagery, I think he’d (quite rightly) be questioned by law enforcement as to his intentions.

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        • andeux Mar 24,2010 10:56 am || Up

          TINSTAAFK
        • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 11:17 am || Up
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        • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 24,2010 6:54 pm || Up
          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • salb918 Mar 24,2010 6:58 pm || Up
      • mk Mar 24,2010 11:39 am || Up

        These things are difficult to gauge, but the problem with Palin in this regard is that she has no awareness of where to draw the line between political mobilization and incitement.

        This is partly because she is stupid, and partly because she is a saleswoman, not a candidate. As wanton as politicians can be, there are repercussions for doing crazy shit, like not being able to get non-crazy people to vote for you. But she’s not running for anything, she’s selling books and TV shows. Since she can grow her wealth without growing her customer base, she is inclined to give that base whatever they want without regard for how it will play to anyone else. So you have this feedback loop of crazy, and really nothing to mitigate its intensification.

        I’m not saying anything is going to happen, but I am saying that she is a particularly unreliable steward of this “movement”.

      • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 1:16 pm || Up

        I’m in between. I think the images are tasteless, but I don’t think she’s in the inciting violence category. I would, of course, never vote for her anyway so I’m biased.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  4. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 10:51 am

    TWFMcCS

    “Tiger Woods was fantastic for me.”

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  5. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 10:52 am
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  6. mk Mar 24,2010 10:53 am

    A few more out of context quotations:

    1 This is Kansas, for Pete’s sake. Let’s start acting like it.

    2 Glenn Beck is a fucking asshole. I’ve met him.

    3 I really need to read some books about white people.

    4 Tito said today:”I did not come 2 America for dependency,I came 2 America for liberty!”

    5 Maybe describing a missed encounter you had makes you sound deep, yearning, and soulful, whereas “SWM, 43, potbelly, good sense of humor, minor league hockey fan” does not.

    6 It’s a semiotic jungle out there.

    • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 11:13 am || Up

      6. Sweet Ba’al Almighty, it’s the shopping-is-bad school of semiotics. I don’t take people like that seriously unless they’re willing to go all Ted K.

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      • andeux Mar 24,2010 11:51 am || Up

        I think it’s more “fetishization-of-shopping-is-bad.”

        TINSTAAFK
        • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 12:01 pm || Up

          No, I know these people. It’s shopping-is-bad.

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  7. salb918 Mar 24,2010 11:30 am

    The Great Grocery Smackdown

    He was right. In the grocery section of the Raynham supercenter, 45 minutes south of Boston, I had trouble believing I was in a Walmart. The very reasonable-looking produce, most of it loose and nicely organized, was in black plastic bins (as in British supermarkets, where the look is common; the idea is to make the colors pop). The first thing I saw, McIntosh apples, came from the same local orchard whose apples I’d just seen in the same bags at Whole Foods. The bunched beets were from Muranaka Farm, whose beets I often buy at other markets—but these looked much fresher. The service people I could find (it wasn’t hard) were unfailingly enthusiastic, though I did wonder whether they got let out at night.

    • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 12:00 pm || Up

      In an ideal world, people would buy their food directly from the people who grew or caught it, or grow and catch it themselves. But most people can’t do that.

      6. Sweet Ba’al Almighty, it’s the shopping-is-bad school of semiotics agricriticism. I don’t take people like that seriously unless they’re willing to go all Ted K.

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      • salb918 Mar 24,2010 12:06 pm || Up

        Don’t worry, in his practical world, you get your produce at Wal-Mart.

    • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 1:19 pm || Up

      Wal-Mart is hard because their business idea is good (efficiency -> lower prices), many implications are bad (drives local business out, sucks for their workers), some implications are good (they now do check-cashing at non-usurious rates, driving exploitative local business out).

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. salb918 Mar 24,2010 11:31 am

    Dear Pandora,

    Seriously, I don’t likeIf you keep playing Elliot Smith. I’ve told you many times, I will kill myself in emulation. Please stop.

    Thanks,
    salb918

    • salb918 Mar 24,2010 11:43 am || Up

      Nice fix.

      • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 12:02 pm || Up

        I was worried it was a little OTT. Glad you approve.

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        • salb918 Mar 24,2010 12:12 pm || Up

          If you had done it for any of the suicidal musicians whose music I enjoy, I might have been upset (and seriously, how come nobody told me about Joy Division when I was 15 and angsty?).

          • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 3:22 pm || Up

            In college, I played zither for The Suicidal Musicians Whose Music You Enjoy

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            • JediLeroy Mar 24,2010 3:27 pm || Up

              iFSU, suicidal musicians’ music enjoys YOU

              az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
              • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 3:32 pm || Up

                I’m going to be laughing for three days at that

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                • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 3:50 pm || Up

                  three day olds, dude.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • JediLeroy Mar 24,2010 3:12 pm || Up

      Aww, Elliott Smith is my favorite musician, ever.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
  9. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 11:51 am
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    • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 24,2010 6:41 pm || Up

      Yours for a mere $0.99, plus your soul.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  10. salb918 Mar 24,2010 12:07 pm
    • salb918 Mar 24,2010 12:09 pm || Up

      It’s not that I don’t like Ramirez – >10 K/9 is nothing to sneeze at – but it just seems organizationally odd. The A’s are amazingly thin at SS: Pennington, Rosales, and then who? Not that Petit is great shakes, but he’s fairly high on the depth chart.

      • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 12:35 pm || Up

        Recent rash of bullpen owies could be a factor. That, and the Rumpelstiltskin Factor of turning cheap undervalued arms into bullpen commodities.

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      • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 1:23 pm || Up

        I don’t like Ramirez. Just an ugly FIP for a RP (both actual over SSS and projected).

        Is Petit now Jeter backup or something?

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • salb918 Mar 24,2010 1:30 pm || Up

          Ramirez was waived by NYY, we acquired him from TEX.

  11. salb918 Mar 24,2010 12:17 pm

    GameCrush:

    On GameCrush, guys are Players and girls are PlayDates. Players pay to play and PlayDates get paid to play. Guys can browse PlayDate profiles (there are currently around 1,200), view photos, and even chat with girls for free.

    For $8.25 you get 500 credits, which is enough for one game (400 credits) and a 100 credit tip at the end. An Xbox Live game will last 10 minutes, while a casual Flash game will get you six minutes of face time with your PlayDate. That’s literal face time, because you can video chat with your lady while playing a casual Flash game. Again, what goes on in that video chat is up to you and your PlayDate. GameCrush says it modeled its pricing structure after the cost of buying a girl a drink at a bar. In a bar, you’re basically buying the opportunity to chat a girl up. GameCrush is hoping players will look at their service the same way.

    H/T: marginalrevolution

    • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 1:06 pm || Up

      Better clear the browser memory so mrssalb918 doesn’t see you reading this and mk’s mr link.

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      • salb918 Mar 24,2010 1:08 pm || Up

        I am considering donning a wig and making some cash on the side.

        • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 1:25 pm || Up

          Don’t let your desire to spend time with your kids and watch ballgames hold you back.

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    • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 1:24 pm || Up

      Clever, but I bet it quickly gets overrun by porn sites unless they have some sort of internal control.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  12. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 12:49 pm

    nevermoor-bait/euphemism watch:

    earning myself a chastising punch in the shoulder from the Speaker

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    • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 1:26 pm || Up

      Now that’s what a call a fun evening.

      More seriously, that’s been a GOP issue since the ’04 election when Bush couldn’t identify a single mistake.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 12:54 pm

    Interesting, but, I think, misleading, at least as presented. Most people, even if they’re paying for less-affordable housing that reduces their commute time to near-zero/walkability, already own a car — leaving aside the issue of whether those who can would be smarter to ditch the car and rely on PT/carshare/rental, the increase in time/money expense of commuting for people who “drive ’til they qualify” is likely only marginal.

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    • salb918 Mar 24,2010 1:13 pm || Up

      We’re weekend drivers – we walk to work and walk the kids to school. But having a car is a near necessity – there aren’t stores close enough to make a quick run for groceries or diapers without turning it into a major trek, the weather is bad enough that sometimes walking is not an option, driving the three miles to Market Basket instead of the one mile to TJs/Whole Foods saves us close to 30% on our grocery bill, etc.

      The convenience of having a car is quite high for us, so we keep it for use on weekends and the occasional weeknight.

      • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 1:36 pm || Up

        In an ideal world, people would buy their food directly from the people who grew or caught it live just footsteps away from their workplace, or grow and catch it employ themselves. But most people can’t do that.

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        • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 3:17 pm || Up

          and when they do, their brothers throw them under the bus in a bloodless coup.

    • andeux Mar 24,2010 1:16 pm || Up

      I had pretty much exactly the same thought when I read that. But it’s not clear either way how they’re measuring the cost of the extra driving.

      Back of envelope calculation: 250 work days/year x 100 miles/day (long round-trip commute, but many people do that much) x $0.50/mile (supposed average marginal cost of driving) = $12,500 /year. That would be 20% or more of household income for many people.

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 1:35 pm || Up

        Well, but again, that $12.5k/y is the cost at a 50mi distance — not the marginal increase from the base that our hypothetical commuter already pays per annum for car transport (and if we’re talking a hypothetical median commuter, then I’d guess they already commute something pretty close to that). So, yes, absolutely — commute expenses (and time — they don’t seem to be accounting for that, and I think they should: time spent commuting is time that has to be spent paying for someone else to watch the kids an extra hour, spent buying prepared foods for b/l/d, etc) should be factored in to “affordable housing” assessment; but I don’t think that people who centrifuge are doing themselves as much economic damage as Yglesias seems to want to imply.

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        • andeux Mar 24,2010 2:11 pm || Up

          You’re right that the 100-mile commute vs. not owning a car difference is bigger than the 200-mile commute vs. 100-mile commute difference. And (after thinking about it a bit more) I think you’re right that the $.50/mile figure I cited is an average cost, not a marginal cost, so the marginal cost is a bit lower.

          But only a bit. The fixed cost of owning a car that you don’t use a lot (depreciation, insurance, and maintenance) is pretty low. Maybe a couple thousand a year. So most of that cost, probably more than $10K worth, really is the marginal cost.

          TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 1:32 pm || Up

      I totally disagree.

      First, if you can walk to work you’re already saving at-work parking (cheapest near me is $18/day). Second, your car is going to last a lot longer because you aren’t putting 50 miles a day on it. Third, if affordability is your primary concern you can absolutely sell your car. I live without one, but couldn’t if I lived in, say, Novato where housing is far cheaper.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 1:39 pm || Up

        Disagree with me, or with Yglesias and his pointyheaded technocratic minions?

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        • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 2:25 pm || Up

          You.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 3:00 pm || Up

            Most people … already own a car

            You and I are the smart, sensible ones. The idiot a-holes who live in the Marina and drive to work in the Financial District are the problem {cough}GwenKnapp{cough}.

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            • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 3:09 pm || Up

              Fine, but most of my post was about the marginal cost of driving to work even if you own a car

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 3:24 pm || Up

                I’m not seeing where you and I are in disagreement.

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                • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 3:51 pm || Up

                  either (1) you think the increased cost of owning a car and not driving to work is only marginally lower than owning a car and driving to work or (2) I’m misreading you.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 3:54 pm || Up

                  2.

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                • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 4:42 pm || Up

                  Then what does this mean and/or what is your view?

                  the increase in time/money expense of commuting for people who “drive ’til they qualify” is likely only marginal.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 4:49 pm || Up

                  People who, say, rent in the Marina and drive to work downtown — if they move to Novato in order to buy, the increase in their transport costs is likely only marginal.

                  You or me, we move to Novato to buy, our transport cost increase is huge.

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                • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 4:55 pm || Up

                  Ok, but the $5/day toll adds up (so a bit less marginal) and, more importantly, if you live in the Marina and drive downtown you (by definition) are not concerned about affordability indexes.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 5:03 pm || Up

                  re: “more importantly,” exactly my point!

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                • andeux Mar 24,2010 5:27 pm || Up

                  But that’s just wrong. Novato->SF is 36 miles, so using my ballpark estimate above that’s something like an extra $8K /year. And, as nm points out, another $1K+ for tolls.
                  That’s a lot, even compared to the fixed cost of owning a car in the first place.

                  If your point is “well, those kinds of people probably own a luxury SUV and drive it to Tahoe every weekend anyway,” that’s not really relevant to the original issue.

                  TINSTAAFK
                • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 5:35 pm || Up

                  But if they’re moving from renting in the Marina to owning in Novato, they may actually be reducing their annual housing expense by enough to offset most of that difference.

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                • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 5:50 pm || Up

                  9K/year = a lot of money.

                  The mortgage on 80% of a $625,000 purchase costs ~2800/month. 9K/year = $750/month. $2050/month pays the mortgage on 80% of of a $440,000 purchase.

                  So unless your house is a LOT cheaper, your cheaper mortgage is eaten by transit costs. And that’s assuming there was driving and parking at work every day in the Marina.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • salb918 Mar 24,2010 6:31 pm || Up

                  I don’t think it’s quite so clear cut, though.

                  Perhaps you can’t afford to buy the 625K house, so the choice is either purchasing in Novato and building equity in your home, or renting in the city. Also, I would venture to guess from my experience in Boston that food (grocery and/or dining out) are cheaper outside the city than inside.

                • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 8:04 pm || Up

                  Good point. I’m just saying that a little cost/month has a significant impact in house size.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 5:43 pm || Up

                  Also: again, presuming they already have a car and drive — that’s 6mi/d they’re driving already (minimum; and high-impact/low-mpg city driving), plus minimum $20/d parking at work, plus possible parking charges at home if they don’t have a garage …

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                • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 8:04 pm || Up

                  Can’t count the parking at work, they’re doing that both times.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 11:29 pm || Up

                  Hunh? That’s like saying you can’t count the first $2K/mo housing expense and the car payments/insurance, b/c they’re doing that both times. Therefore, doing anything different is infinitely more expensive.

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                • nevermoor Mar 25,2010 12:00 am || Up

                  Wrong. Assuming they drive to work no matter what, the parking at work is an invariable cost.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  14. mother pucker Mar 24,2010 1:35 pm
  15. nevermoor Mar 24,2010 2:51 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  16. Poppy Mar 24,2010 3:04 pm

    So… two of the only three A’s promos that I really want are being given away on the same weekend, when I can’t go: BobbleSteele on 4/17 and (I’ve just discovered) the calendar on 4/18. Ice Cream will be getting the bobble for me, but would anyone be able/willing/eager to use my two tickets on Sunday 4/18 to get me a calendar?

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • batgirl Mar 24,2010 8:41 pm || Up

      Aw crap. Just as I was going to offer to get your calendar, your post made me realize that I’m likely to be out of town that weekend and now must find someone else to get my BobbleSteele. Grumble Grumble.

      • Poppy Mar 24,2010 9:32 pm || Up

        I’m sorry… :(

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  17. nevermoor Mar 24,2010 3:09 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 3:29 pm || Up

      Are you using YA in a different sense than Sullivan?

      Anyway, it was worth it for the link to this, which is truly fucking excellent.

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      • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 3:53 pm || Up

        I actually don’t read enough Sullivan to have that come to mind (I seem to only see him giving Malkin awards)

        I was going for yglesiasm by someone else.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 4:12 pm || Up

          Ah. “Yglesias Award” in Sully’s usage is “partisan (of either side) giving some dipshit on his own side a good fisking/smackdown.”

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  18. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 3:55 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • Poppy Mar 24,2010 4:29 pm || Up
      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • andeux Mar 24,2010 4:32 pm || Up

        No it isn’t.

        TINSTAAFK
        • green star oakland Mar 24,2010 4:54 pm || Up
          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
          • Poppy Mar 24,2010 5:18 pm || Up

            I’m sending $5 and LB’s address to this person.

            There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
            • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 5:23 pm || Up

              That may be the best thing ever.

              At least we now know where they’re coming from.

              • Poppy Mar 24,2010 5:27 pm || Up

                I will even do twins and trips, not four tho, thats gunna cost ya extra

                (I’m doing that procrastination thing again, can you tell?)

                There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
                • andeux Mar 24,2010 5:38 pm || Up

                  If you give me $5, I’ll procrastinate for you.

                  TINSTAAFK
                • Poppy Mar 24,2010 5:45 pm || Up

                  I’ll give you two tickets to the April 18 A’s game if you get a calendar while procrastinating for me.

                  There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
                • mk Mar 24,2010 5:52 pm || Up

                  I’ve got tickets to that game. If you don’t get any takers, I’d be happy to send you my calendar.

                • Poppy Mar 24,2010 6:03 pm || Up

                  Wooyay! That would be neat, thanks… :)

                  There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 4:46 pm || Up

      I’m actually surprised some of those things are on there. Of course, if I actually wanted any of the valuable ones, I’d pick someone who cost more than $5.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 4:57 pm || Up

        For instance, I wouldn’t want someone who lowballed their own brick-throwing or gasline-cutting services.

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      • mk Mar 24,2010 5:06 pm || Up

        Yeah, in this context, I don’t think there is any difference between “I will do this for $5” and “I will do this for free”. They both mean “I will do this as a lark”.

        • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 5:36 pm || Up

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  19. monkeyball Mar 24,2010 4:30 pm

    Whoa! Craigslist has just switched from a pulldown menu of neighborhoods to a multiple-selections-allowed checklist!

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    • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 4:43 pm || Up

      Party like it’s 2002!!!

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Mar 24,2010 4:51 pm || Up

        Searching in concentric circles helps enable my car-free existence.

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      • Poppy Mar 24,2010 5:17 pm || Up

        LOL

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  20. Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 5:25 pm

    Guys, I’m trying not to bore you all with autobiographical shit on here, but I was just fired by my brother. Well, he basically fired me on Saturday. When he realized that I was less than thrilled to cover the business while his wife took a vacation, he told me not to come in anymore.

    So, there’s that.

    • Poppy Mar 24,2010 5:31 pm || Up

      So I should turn around and go back home now?

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 6:14 pm || Up

        prolly.

        • Poppy Mar 24,2010 6:43 pm || Up

          So you’ll be in Oakland to collect your unstamped, unmailed birthday present in person? (How long does dry ice last?)

          There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • andeux Mar 24,2010 5:50 pm || Up

      Condolences? Congratulations?

      That seems rather shitty of him. Are you gonna get out of FLA before he changes his mind?

      TINSTAAFK
      • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 6:14 pm || Up

        Yes, bit of both, really.

        No more swag, though, guys. Sorry.

    • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 5:51 pm || Up

      Good or bad news?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 6:15 pm || Up

        Bit of both.

        I really don’t want to do it any longer, but I also am not thrilled at all to be vilified like that going out the door.

        • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 8:05 pm || Up

          Yeah, that’s pretty shitty.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • salb918 Mar 24,2010 5:53 pm || Up

      Maybe it’s a, uh, sign.

      • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 6:14 pm || Up

        Speaking of signs, some unemployed asshat, disgruntled over your having beaten him to the Grill post, may have posted a DLD over at ** and they may have posted a certain THT article from earlier this week in it. Served with assorted snark.

    • mk Mar 24,2010 5:54 pm || Up

      That blows. Is it a salvagable thing? Like you got pissed, he got pissed, but a few deep breaths later you might be back at work Monday?

      • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 6:15 pm || Up

        It’ll blow over between us. It ain’t ever gonna be right between his wife and me.

        • dmoas Mar 24,2010 7:55 pm || Up

          You didn’t order someone to make a sign that said “I want to fuck your wife, how about it bro?” did you?

          • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 8:08 pm || Up

            Worse, he expected her to work at her family’s business.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 8:24 pm || Up

              this.

              • dmoas Mar 24,2010 9:04 pm || Up

                LB, when are you going to learn? A woman’s place is at that ho… Um… wait, that doesn’t sound quite right. No, now I can see where you could be a little confused.

    • Soaker Mar 24,2010 6:46 pm || Up

      I wouldn’t worry too much about the hole in your resume. “I tried working for my brother for a while but things just didn’t work out between us.” Most future employers will accept that explanation.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 24,2010 6:52 pm || Up

      Perhaps he’s subconsciously acting all dickish to make it easier for you to leave and for him to let you go.

      Between this, and mk attending A’s home games, I’m smelling a Kraut tailgate a’brewin’.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • batgirl Mar 24,2010 8:45 pm || Up

      um, yay? Let’s go with yay! Also, sounds like your brother is being a total weasel, so I’m sorry about that.

      • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 9:10 pm || Up

        He is, which is strange because it’s not in his nature.

        He just thinks he’s protecting his wife.

  21. Poppy Mar 24,2010 5:29 pm

    Is WordPress solely responsible for the line that says “comment is submiting” when I post a comment, or is that something that can be corrected? It’s been driving me batshit for… well, for however long we’ve been here.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 5:51 pm || Up

      Not WordPress, the addin that allows posting comments without the page refreshing. I’ll look at it.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • nevermoor Mar 24,2010 8:06 pm || Up

        I think I got it, but submits are happening too fast for me to see right now.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • Poppy Mar 24,2010 9:35 pm || Up

          I’ll trust you.

          There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • dmoas Mar 24,2010 7:59 pm || Up

      Do you have a problem with sub dwelling insects?

  22. andeux Mar 24,2010 8:15 pm

    I hope this isn’t midseason form.

    TINSTAAFK
  23. batgirl Mar 24,2010 8:47 pm

    OK you legal types… I’m on a jury as an alternate. Do I have to sit in on the deliberations, or do they release me before that starts, provided the other jurors have all made it through the trial?

    • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 9:11 pm || Up

      ask sal. He’s won awards.

    • Soaker Mar 24,2010 9:11 pm || Up

      My recollection, the last time I sat on an Alameda County Superior Court jury, was that I felt very sorry for the lady who was the alternate. She sat in on the trial (several days) but she was not in the room for the deliberations (not sure where she spent that time, which was the better part of a full day), the rest of us came to our conclusion, and her opinion never counted for anything.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • Ice Cream Mar 24,2010 10:40 pm || Up

      In my experience as an alternate juror (murder trial–not a question of if he did it but to what degree) I was released and did not get to deliberate or sit in on deliberations.

      I did get to have lunch at Black Angus, however.

      Where is the good in "good-bye"?
      • Leopold Bloom Mar 24,2010 10:56 pm || Up
      • dmoas Mar 25,2010 8:06 pm || Up

        I had the same experience on a restraining order violation. Only as 2nd alternate, I got the shaft of having to sit through the whole thing only to be told to leave.

        • batgirl Mar 26,2010 10:39 am || Up

          I’m a 2nd alternate as well. Hmm, so I guess I won’t have to wait around for the deliberations. Good. I suppose I would like to give my 2 cents after sitting through two weeks of testimony. But to be honest, my trial has been so dull and convoluted, I don’t have a burning desire to tax my brain to the level that would be required to sort this mess out.

          • dmoas Mar 26,2010 5:55 pm || Up

            I “lucked” into two half days. But really didn’t care much for the outcome either.

  24. Poppy Mar 24,2010 9:35 pm

    Why do we still have Patterson? Don’t they know I don’t like him?

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  25. mikeA Mar 24,2010 10:29 pm

    Cahill appears to have put on some weight.

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