- In college, I played flugelhorn for the Generous Procrastinators
- Ugh.
If Reddick not in deal, Bailey would have been traded to Texas
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) December 29, 2011
- there is trade interest in Balfour
- Of course Pujols is backloaded!
- Might signing Madson to a 2y deal and shipping him out in July make sense?
- Jeezus, Marine Layer is all over the place on the redev-blowup thing. This is good news for
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Translation: “thank god I escaped that shit show in Oakland. Thanks Billy.”
well, at least Reddick is equally enthused about the trade
other than playing time, what is there to look forward to from a professional players point of view?
PS josh, there were 4 WS won in the non historic facility to which you are moving.
Knowing that you can strike out four times, commit three errors and trip on the dugout steps, and yet nobody will notice?
no dugout railing, you can enter and exit wherever you please
He says nothing about the team winning there.
I think its implied by “history” that the A’s stadium does not have any.
Well in a couple of years it won’t.
Wouldn’t have much to say after this past September.
The parking lot has no mayor.
6. That’s what happens when you don’t actually know what you’re talking about, and just pass on wisdom received from others. Examples: he lists “your municipality’s General Fund and school district” as a winner, which is utter crap. The reason the State did this was as a budget savings; there’s not a remotely equal amount of money going back to localities. What ML writes wasn’t true the many times the feds did it (sending formerly federal program responsibilities to states without the funds to run them) and it’s not true here either.
He’s also taking an awful lot of vengeful glee at the Baseball Oakland folks for having their dreams crushed, which is unseemly.
Until someone tells me otherwise I assume the ways and means to get VC are dead, but what about the Coliseum site? Isn’t the land already owned by the city/JPA and most of the infrastructure in place? Those were the things that ReDFuns were supposed to pay for. While the project wasn’t immune to the 86’ing of ReDfun the effects wouldn’t be as bad as VC or any other projects.
Yeah, his slant there was a too over the top. He was definitely wearing his bias there.
2.
Since when does a LHB attempting to spoon the ball over the third baseman’s head = line drive???
Thanks, and go As.
HE is going to develop a power. Just look at him
The power of slap-hitting?
He’s too handsome NOT to hit line drives, if we’re being honest.
He’ll be played by Brad Pitt in a movie
Scouting is overrated
If the A’s don’t employ a reverse giambi shift on him, its proof positive of a conspiracy to buy the red sox vote for moving to San Jose
Now that I’m not a partisan baseball fan anymore, I’m starting to think that the business model behind the pro game really really sucks and I hate it. It makes me wonder if baseball would be best played once a week, with one pitcher allowed per team, and no relievers except in case of injury.
Why wouldn’t a crappy pitcher just fake injury? Isn’t the more effective way to limit rosters to 10 players?
10 players with one multi-positional sub.
I like it.
The players should also be celibate and live in a monastery the other six days of the week.
We’re getting Desme back!
K’s brilliant/insane thought of the day:
A decent full-employment WPA-style program could totally be done for a trillion a year. If you cut the military’s balls off and absorb a couple of million displaced military people into the program, you could do it for 1.25 trillion.
I call it my Paul/Roosevelt plan.
What do we get for this $1.25 TT? A really good neighborhood watch?
Art, infrastructure projects, expanded social services, and the end of unemployment as we know it.
Of course, my other brilliant/insane thought of the day is to hunt the homeless and poor for sport/reality TV filler.
#Hunger Games
I just read that, and while I liked the first part from a trashy-pulpy scifi perspective, I can’t shake the feeling that I was reading a Twilight book toward the end.
Agreed.
Ok, not just me. The second part wasn’t bad enough to wreck the whole thing, though.
Yeah, a coworker recommended it to me. I didn’t care about the romance part at all. Then I saw the series next to Twilight and I was like WTF did you convince me to read?
I just finished it and I liked it. Though you’re right the romance angle was on the Twilight side. I have trouble imagining how they pitched it to the publisher. They fight to the death, yes, but it’s for kids!
Also, I listened to it on audio book, and it’s read by the female shrink from Law & Order.
I recently read them. I quite liked the first two, but found the third lacking. But unlike Twilight, the love triangle isn’t the focus of the books.
But is Pants the main character?
I’m afraid I don’t quite get this reference.
Me either. Listening to the audiobook, I couldn’t figure out the spelling of Peeta. I was going back and forth between “Pita” and “Peta” but I knew neither was correct.
I do like the name Peeta for a baker’s son…
Me too. And I loved his special skills. And I adore the fact that Katniss is a female bad ass.
It was the attention to detail brought to the simple idea of a true “Survivor” that made me like it. The actual Hunger Games don’t start until half way through the first book. When the third book felt so rushed, I was disappointed.
Pants
I’m halfway through the second book now, and it’s keeping me reading. Just enough pulpy action for me; a little predictable in places; the romance thing is kind of working now that you see the pressure she is under.
And yes, I quite like the sci-fi female lead without resorting to vixen-dom. Katniss is no Susan Calvin, but who is?
Can unemployed soldiers to all those things? Sculpt? Build Mag-Lev systems, care for abused children? Won’t their PTSD get in the way?
The key is to make the jobs for the worst afflicted/dumbest/dreggiest of society into therapeutic/educational situations that they get paid to be a part of, as opposed to being patients or recipients or victims or parasites. Eventually, if people heal/grow/learn, they’ll provide more value in return and take up less social resources to keep them afloat.
Either that, or fund the dregs of society on a “Street News” model. The hoboes get newspapers for free and sell them for money. My model though, would be called “Drugs For Dregs,” in which the CIA would give the hoboes drugs, which they could consume and/or sell for money. It would drive the prices down drastically and cut the cartels’ legs out from under them. If demand is too high to acquire cheaply from foreign suppliers, grow/make the rest here at home, taking people out of the unemployment line and putting them back to work. Yeah, it’s a subsidized program, but it could be offset through other savings elsewhere.
Anyway, this is all silly, because we haven’t even decided what the hell our purpose is as a species yet, and we don’t know if we value our data, technology, and creations higher than we value ourselves. Call me back and/or send me to the ovens then.
I really agree with the first paragraph here. Historically our fed jobs programs post-WW2 have done OK with people who go into them with some skill sets, like industries which have aged badly like car manufacturing or typewriter repair. But those programs have failed almost without exception to get employment for the hardest-to-serve (preferred euphemism for “the worst afflicted/dumbest/dreggiest”), because ultimately they’re always market-based…govt pays to train and serve, but then they still have to land a job with a private employer with little incentive to hire an ex-felon or homeless person.
Hell, I’d have govt pay everyone to do almost anything in times of high unemployment. It just makes good economic sense.
Well it only makes sense if the output is useful. I refuse to believe that anyone is so drug infested and uneducated that they’re completely useless. I would insist on finding a use for them. I wouldn’t have the government subsidize useless tasks.
Neither I nor Keynes agree with you. While useful output would be nice and should certainly be a goal (roads bridges fiberoptics etc etc), the mere act of employing people, circulating their salaries into the economy and removing (some of) their drain on the existing social safety net, is a clear positive for an economy in recession. I sure hope the US tries a stimulus package one of these days.
I don’t know this “Keynes” person. Was she in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League?
Not even Annabelle Lee could strike her out!
Right. An improvement in policy would be to dump money out of helicopters. Anything better targeted that that would be an even bigger improvement
Wouldn’t this just cause inflation without increasing real wealth?
Nope. People would buy, companies would produce, etc. etc. In an economy at its current state where “natural” inflation would be negative, you are not going to see the inflation you would at other times (and, in fact, people who have warned of inflation have uniformly been wrong since the crisis started). It would certainly “weaken” the dollar against foreign currencies, but that would be good too.
Isn’t this basically what’s happening now, with the easy money policy. The only reason there’s no massive inflation is that there’s no demand for anything.
I believe in the old adage “You can’t push on a string”.
I’m not in agreement on a weaker dollar being good. It makes commodities more expensive for us and that’s bad for US businesses that need them to make things and for less well off people who drive cars and heat houses. The latter isn’t a big deal in California, but it sure is here.
Weaker dollar attracts money from other countries, while keeping internal prices unchanged. Exporting is a way to increase demand for domestic goods.
And no, easy money policy is insufficient in the case of this crisis (for the first time since the depression), which is why more is necessary.
1) It does not keep internal prices unchanged as long as energy and metals are largely imported. This affects food, transportation and manufactured goods
2) A weaker dollar does not attract money from other countries if it is expected to continue weakening. Nobody wants to invest in a depreciating asset. It’s only if it is expected to strengthen that it attracts investment
Not invest, buy.
If a US made widget costs $6, you’re more likely to buy that if you can get $6 for EUR 3 than for EUR 4. Regardless of what will happen in the future.
Fair enough on import-affected goods, but the flip side is that it gives national competition a leg up against those foreign imports, expanding demand for their products (which have a higher multiplier anyway since the purchase price is likely re-spent in country)
Hmmm….you’re talking basically about cutting prices on American goods and services. I agree you don’t want to price yourself out of the market, but I’d much rather our goods were the most desirable rather than the cheapest.
I don’t think Americans are all that good at being the mass market leader in low cost stuff. We’re a feisty, creative and independent minded bunch. We’re better at innovation than solid quality/low cost/mass market stuff.
It’s OK to cut prices in a recession I guess, but in the long run I don’t we’d be successful as the world’s Wal-Mart.
Plus we’re full of ourselves and believe in our own exceptionalism and all that.
All of this is current-crisis focused. Post-crisis I think we should reestablish a surplus by adding a tax bracket and removing loopholes.
The trouble with the current crisis is that no matter how much we damage our currency the Euro goes one step worse. It’s hard to keep up with them.
You mean a higher tax bracket? I think that’ll probably happen. Removing loopholes is harder. People just love ’em. You’ll get a fight there. People seem to want to remove all loopholes except the ones they benefit from.
Obviously those are hard (there’s an entire party that cares more about not raising a penny more revenue than any other issue besides beating Obama), but they’re the right policy. And you’re absolutely right that everyone loves the loopholes they benefit from.
Some cost basis reporting requirements tightened up starting today. That will help reduce the easiest cheating method available to the rich and the masses alike. The top rates on capital gains and qualified dividends are still 15% and raising them for 2013 requires nothing more than inaction by Congress, something they’ve been exceptionally good at. If they do further extend the cuts it’s up to a re-elected Obama to show a little backbone. It’s hardly a comprehensive solution to the deficits but it would make a decent dent.
I think it’ll be tough to raise capital gains rates in an election year with high unemployment but you never know.
I don’t think there’s a consensus that the deficit is a worse problem than stagnation and unemployment.
Yeesh, one 12 hour flight and a day of traveling later, I have ~800 unread comments to go through.
First world problems.
Sorry for fouling Canada with all the Charter 77 garbage…
You should just demand Mike email you and give you a recap..
Darn. Josh Reddick is an Oakland A now.
A hipster monk. What could be more DIY than an ascetic life of celibacy?
Betting that’s a moleskin bible.
Brother Desme?
Brother lost weight.
PEDS!
Is he not a Father yet?
Those things are packed with sugar.
and crumbs!
LOL!
MB
Remember that comment I made about the A’s and what they could spend on the 2012 draft? You asked me to expand on it and now it’s a 4 page monster, when would you like me to post it? I can save it for Monday or post it tonight to give folks something to talk about until DFA finishes his piece.
Which I’ll probably disagree with and comment repeatedly on.
Whenever you like. I’m no CA. Not even an A.
I was offering you a break from posting on Monday. It’ll be up in a bit.
Appreciate the consideration. Srsly tho, we got no schedule, responsibility, hierarchy, or anything. I mean if someone wants to organize/impose one, they can, but whatevs.
Good points all.
Not really feeling the need for an imposition at this time.
yeah…let’s not.
I´ll flag you both!
E-mail me, biatch!
Can we flag people? I thought there were rules so therefore there can’t be any violations, but I guess since there are no rules you don’t need infractions to flag stuff. This post has been flagged for removal
Yes, you can flag something by sticking a small flag on your monitor next to the offending comment.
Got a chuckle from me.
Me too. ASVD.
Hee. Although I was taken aback by the flag next to my comment. I feel like I’ve been branded with the letter F.
Looks like a P to me.
Sorry, that was me.
(cowers in fear)
Yeah–back in the day, all new posters had the ability to edit anybody’s comments. I’ll try
notto self abuse it.(gulp)
Fixed.
Yep.
hi, blue n fuzzy. Home.
Tis where the heart is.
good point.
My heart’s in my chest. I’m not overly convinced it’s in a good home though.
What. You never seen Alien?
Triple-fixed.
Congratulations, you’ve been completely neutered.
Pshaw!Psnipped!
See… fixed!
Are you kidding? This is an A’s blog:
That looks like the Braves’ A
Close. It’s Hawthorne’s.
I always knew he was a slut.
K has been branded F by many an African-American youth riding mass transit.
if only it was emale rather than aggot.
Education these days… what do they know anyway?
Put yours up. Ill have mine ready to go Monday. PS I think there is going to be a lot less that we disagree on in this one.
Sarchasm filter, reset to “subtle”.
I’ll post this afternoon.
No I got the sarchasm… I was just saying that with regard to the recent trades and approach I don’t think were that different.
spelling filter, reset to “avoid superflous ´h´”
I’m a furry blue muppet… superfluous (note spelling) is what I do.
I always found misspelled comments about spelling the funniest thing there is. I have to say, I feel great as TCCC (The Chief Comedy Contributor)
Is Reddick worth even as much as Sweeney?
I like HRs much more than ground balls through the hole between SS and 3B.
not really? I mean probably insignificantly so.
Even considering health and service time? That’s surprising to me seeing as how Reddick has already had some major league success.
Yeah, well SSS and yes from a we have more service time way for sure. I just don’t really care about which 1 WAR OFer it is. Reddick might OBP < 300.
Reddick’s .243/.300/.449 line in 184 AAA games should be weighed more heavily than his small sample major league performance. It’s very difficult to see a COF worth playing full time with that kind of OBP performance in the minors.
That’s not a much bigger sample than his major league time, but the OBP is indeed a horrendous indicator. I’m hoping against hope that he can do the centerfield thing.
I was assuming you were only talking about the 87 games this year in which he hit .280/.327/.457, which would constitute “success”.
But if we were to add the 60 or so MLB games in the two previous years when he hit abysmally, his career major league line of .248/.290/.416 is actually a rather clean translation of his minor league line.
Well, shit.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c%3Frel%3D0” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>
My wife and I are drinking White Russians right now.
She’s never seen the movie, though. I’ll rectify that some other night.
I’ll bring it to the tailgate with Plastic Fantastic.
Wow, that’s awesome. My wife and I thank you kindly in advance.
God thats all I drank freshman year. ugh.
Can we hope that there’s a 10% chance that last year is more in line with what he can do for us and a 90% chance he’ll be utter garbage that all the predictors indicate? I’m willing to hang my hat on that 10% for a half a season or so, mostly because I’ve got nothing better to do.
Interesting footnote: Sickels predicted in his 2010 book that Reddick needed at least 500 AAA at bats to get the strike zone under control. Could 2011 have been an indication that Sickels was right? Worth a 10% chance, I think.
Is that any different from AAAA players who put up shinier numbers in AAA their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc time through the league?
Reddick was 24 last year in AAA, young enough that his improved strike zone numbers could represent real improvement and not just league familiarity.
I’m not glad the A’s pressed to get this guy but I won’t discount the possibility that some or all of his improvement was real. None of his numbers were so eye-popping as to scream fluke or sample size smokescreen.
Right, I am not trying to argue that Reddick is an AAAA player.
My point is that it’s a knock against a player if said player comes with the caveat that they need a certain amount of time at a particular level before they can produce numbers. Obviously, it’s not as big of a demerit as if the player can’t produce numbers period, but it’s a knock nonetheless.
Why is that a knock?
Isn’t it implied when you send a guy to A-ball that he’s going to need a specific amount of time before he’s A) ready for a promotion to AA and B) need multiple seasons before he’s ready for the Show.
From my perspective, Sickels was merely citing (in his opinion) specifically what it would take before Reddick would be ready for the major leagues.
It’s a “knock” because it’s worse than not needing as much time.
There’s an nth% chance of anyone becoming anything in baseball so yes, in lieu of any other options, that’s what we’ll have to hope for.
The deal still sucks and hope is in the sense that I hope a million dollars legally finds it’s way into my bank account, but I sure as hell don’t count on it.
FWIW, ZiPS has Reddick at 85 OPS+ in 2012
He´s worth more, especially if the “K” lands on the triple-letter square
It’s all moot, no proper nouns allowed!
Is anybody curious about the inner workings of a precinct during the Iowa Caucus? I went to one in 1988 and would love to make a post about it (say next Tuesday) if there’s any interest.
yes
Yes. We have the NV Democratic Caucus coming up on 1/21. As it’s noncompetitive I don’t think it’s much more than a recruiting center for campaign workers though. I could have changed registration to GOP but didn’t think I could stand it.
Absokrautly!
I’d
tapread that.Alrighty, then. Expect a post on this Monday night.
Yay!
Even if they aren’t… do it anyway. We’ll talk about clown porn in your post pretty much no matter what.
Fuck, who could possibly turn down the chance to talk about clown porn?
Nice bowl win for BYU.
I know their decision to go independent in football was all about television rights. Under the current bowl system with all the fixed conference affiliations independence, unless you’re Notre Dame, means settling for table scraps, in this case the invisible Friday morning game.
Welcome to the West Coast Conference. It’s a fun brand of basketball. BYU with its alumni base and big arena seems pretty far out of scale though. I can’t see them finding long-term financial satisfaction there.
I wonder why they couldn’t do something with the Big 12
BYU took $$$ to sell its home game rights to ESPN. To get them to walk away from that deal would require some sweetheart provisions in the agreement with whatever conference they were joining. The Big 12 already has an issue with that with the University of Texas and probably doesn’t care to have to give special treatment to a second school.
Ah
Heh – Iowa State has a Woody.
We had an impoverished/between-homes friend house-sitting while we were away. When we got home last night we found that we no longer had any laundry detergent and that our bed now has a very nasty stain on the mattress that is hard to identify because any odour has been masked by a liberal application of cedar oil.
What’s the protocol, Emily?
whisky tango foxtrot.
Stop being so big-hearted.
Laundry Detergent – sure, whatever. Dude probably had a shitload of laundry or something.
Mattress Stain – ok, we have a problem here.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m assuming the two are related (since the sheets aren’t stained).
oh.. DUH. Washed the sheets 600 times.
Yea, um.. There’s an issue there.
Thanks, and go As.
Damn liberals.
I dunno…any stain that required that much attention by a (presumably) not terribly responsible houseguest probably derives from something more foul than you’d care to rest yourself upon for the remainder of the mattress’s life.
But baking soda is magic. Try scrubbing with a damp rag, maybe add some vinegar for foaming action, then blow dry.
Unfriend Bloom on facebook
[sigh]
IT WAS COCKTAIL SAUCE, OKAY?! I FELL ASLEEP EATING SHRIMP!
You fell asleep eating Salb???!!!!
he needed a lot of cocktail sauce.
MonkeyBloomBait. The hybrid has been stolen!
Hey Bloom, when’s Deadwood Ep 2 gonna write itself? Ima gonna rewatch it and prepare.
this weekend. maybe tonight but more likely tomorrow.
trying to decide how and what to do about **.
My last post was to wish Taj a happy new year.
Seems as good as any to finish with.
Damn.
I feel bad.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m definitely quitting the front page/mod thing. I think I might give it up completely. Though I thought the last exodus was going to be mine as well…
Got no cause to.
I know — and like I said elsewhere, I’m fully aware that I’m not the reason for the exodus. I just don’t like being the catalyst, even.
Not that it will matter in the long run, though. I’m just as happy at FK as I ever was at the OC.
Thanks, and go As.
Wow. Blez really is Billy Beane based on reading his latest comments on there. Even worse, he actually thinks this is about you.
Yeah, basically.
It’s making it quite a bit easier to not worry about being banned, that’s for sure.
Thanks, and go As.
There have been a few times I considered going back, but while that wasn’t the initial reason I left, it’s probably a huge part of why I’m not likely to go back. He’s basically let **** kill the site and it’s pretty clear based on those comments that the status quo is just peachy with him.
who is going to create compelling content?
Now? No one.
But will anyone over there notice?
Yep. And the PT Doctrine will spread like wildfire.
PT Doctrine?
PT Doctrine:
1. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and to have them validated; rational critique of an opinion constitutes a personal attack
2. If the mods don’t like you, you’re FKed
I mean the largest A’s blog on the net had what 300 comments about the team moving to SJ getting “approved”? The place is dying
yeah but there’s like 1,000 comments (and, uh, 50 recs?) about the blogfather being a power abusing tyrant!
Thanks, and go As.
It’s pretty sad to watch
It’s even sadder to implicitly endorse with your name on the letterhead.
He has no idea what goes on.
…wait, I thought he was Toonces, not Towlie…
NM
You referring to Toonces or Blez? It’s an apt statement for both but at least Blez has the excuse of not being around all the time to bear witness. Toonces is just oblivious to the damage he causes.
Blez.
Blez can just make the adminstrator take the fall whenever he wants. He’s already given him the dreaded vote of confidence.
Don’t tempt me I’m in withdrawl!
My last post was a gratuitous kick at the body lying in the street
You know I didn’t sit down intending for This To Be My Last Post! When I hit send it just clicked for me.
I got to bash the guy, talk about prospects and finished with a kind word. That pretty much sums up my time in the Old Country!
yes it was and i bet it felt good
What do you call the carrier you use to protect your weasel from electromagnetic waves while you go to work?
A ferret-day-cage.
AT&T?
Why haven’t the extremes of the US political spectrum, from Nugent to Kennedy, been able to solve our reliance on foreign petroleum products?
Also works as a reply to ptbnl’s query.
Okay, Mikey, I got an Android.
…
..
.
Now what?
Did you get one with lady parts, boy parts, or both?
Did you really have to ask?
Um… I recommend Handcent SMS instead of the default messaging app. You’ll also need to go into the settings of your regular messaging app and turn OFF notifications, or else you’ll get 2 popups or whatever anytime you get a text.
I use Skyfire for my web browser – a lot of people also use Dolphin HD. The built in browser is OK, but the two I listed are much better.
Dunno if you have Swype or not, but it’s kinda cool to play with. I use “Swiftkey X” as my everyday keyboard.
Oh, and install the Amazon App Store. They give away a paid app for free every day, sometimes it’s worth it to check out whatever they’re giving away.
Also stuff like Netflix, Hulu, etc are good. Also the funnest game evar is called “Alchemy”
Thanks, and go As.
And I have no FKing clue what anything you just said means.
My cellphone has actual buttons.
HAHAHAHAH LOSER.
Actually my favorite part of having a google phone is that it’s got google maps (and, thus, Navigation) built in. I don’t need a Garmin or TomTom or whatever, I can just use my phone for nav.
Thanks, and go As.
I’ve only tried to use it a couple of times, but I didn’t like the android’s navigation. TomTom was far superior to what I was getting and didn’t require me to give up my phone for the process.
the phone fumbly for navigation, and my google navigation has a weird ass way to get me to alameda, and i imagine a lot of other places, but its better than having 2 things.
I don;t care for things
One stays in my car, the other my pocket. Everything has it’s home.
hmmmm, interesting. Tell me more
Not the preferred approach for street-parking SF dwellers. When I was shacking up with the future Mrs Upgrade in the Mission I got so sick of replacing windows I just left my truck unlocked and empty with glovebox open.
One morning I got in my truck to head back to Oakland and got about a block before I saw in the rearview mirror a guy sitting up and looking confused, after apparently having spent the night under the camper shell in my truck bed.
What drives me nuts is when you don’t replace the radio, and leave the empty glove box open, and leave the doors unlocked, and some dumbFKer still breaks a window to get in.
trof.
I had a wing window broken out of my truck once and the only thing they took was an am transmitter I had to broadcast my walkman to my am only radio.
See, that’s all your fault, being in the city and all. I also stuff it under the seat out of sight.
/spwc
If only I could apply your “get paid to contract two” plan to my genitals.
Is that tuck rule?
I was never as happy as when daughter #1 decided to get rid of her car after moving to the Mission.
I live in a worse area (folsom triangle) and have had good luck for two years, but the ex had her clean nothing in it car broken into
I used to have a friend who lived in the city. Had her car stolen twice, the second time it was just driven around the block and just left there leaving her stranded.
Folsom triangle? Never heard that one before.
micro neighborhood basically mission and s van ness
the little part that juts out by highway 50, where the outlet mall is.
outlet mall?
Folsom Factory Outlets.
I was making a suburban Sacramento geography joke.
You in Sac?
she is
aww… you’re so sweet!
Yes, I live in Rosemont, three doors down from where Bed grew up and less than a mile from where JediLeroy used to live.
Orangevale.
She was racking up large amounts of parking tickets, and finally found out it had been towed when she parked a few inches into a no-parking zone. That’s when she decided enough was enough.
Yeah, google maps when in an unfamiliar (and reception-friendly) locale is the bomb
I’m holding out for a foldable pocket tablet unit.
2014?
Um…can I just send it to you?
No… but I hear you can email him if you want your phone to work.
Just to endorse a bunch of this:
I use Dolphin HD for my browser, and Swiftkey X for my keyboard. The Amazon store is good, but also kind of evil – you get stuff for free, but it’s quite clunky about updating apps, and apparently there’s some questionable strong-arming of developers going on. I use it anyway.
I also installed an app called Zedge for a ton of themes and ring tones.
Also, you can use it to make phone calls!
Oh yea, Zedge is fun too.
Thanks, and go As.
Speaking of techy shit, I’m looking for a new wireless router, any suggestions?
…um, I’d ask you.
I was hoping mikev would pipe in on that one.
he’s off doing something else, I suppose.
The bastard.
he might be answering emails.
He and Slusser are sipping champagne and whispering sweet nothings in each other’s ears.
Oh shit. Well, that might be the last we hear from mikev. Bloom’s gonna death penalty him.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If not, he’d better. Or else I’m banning him from… um… nothing.
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WAY more thorough than I could be.
Thanks, and go As.
Cool, thanks
In memory of my Grandpa, who used to sing this to me when I was a kid, and who passed away early this morning:
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You’re having a tumultuous end of the year. I’m sorry to hear about your Grandpa.
Man, everything happens at once…sorry for your loss.
Damn. RIP, Grandpa.
Thanks, and go As.
Condolences. I can only hope that it was a good passing.
Condolences to you and your family.
he produced at least one great gradson and a gaggle of great great-grandkids.
He must have been proud
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Im really sorry dude. That kinda stuff is really hard, but the best part about grandparents is the stories and those live on forever.
Sorry amigo. I’ve no doubt that the strength of your wonderful extended family will sustain you through this and all things.
Sorry JL.
Thanks, guys. He’d been suffering from dementia for the last few years, and had forgotten all but two or three of his family members. It was definitely his time. While I’m sad to see him go, I’ll always remember him fondly. I was lucky to have wonderful grandparents who were close to me.
This is the best way for it to be, especially if he was suffering from disease, etc.
These are always awkward for me. I lost all of my grandparents by the time I was in the 6th grade and didn’t get to have near the memories I’d have liked (my papa actually took my to my first A’s game). So when I hear about people who are losing them in their late 20’s and 30’s I can’t imagine the feeling, and at the same time have that little nagging jealousy.
Having that close family is something you can’t replace..
Aging grandparents are one of the drivers for traveling so much with Lily.
2 weeks before my father died we managed to get over to London. They spent their last afternoon singing songs and eating ice cream together, which will likely be her abiding memory of him.
It’s nice to get a good memory. My mom went several years ago in rapid fashion. We brought the kids over knowing that she was probably going to hospice within the next day. She had spent the previous 24-36 hours in very bad shape, but when the kids came for about an hour she was her old self. I will never forget that little time, and I dont think they will either.
My father’s mother lived to 99. She had said, years earlier, “We’ve lived too long” (Grandpa made it to 96).
I hadn’t seen her in a couple of years; she was in a rest home near my father in Florida. I went to FL for a visit and went with Dad over to the home. She was a lump in the bed, in diapers. I think she possibly recognized me but she couldn’t speak. With my presence the scene was too much for my Dad, who started crying. She died maybe 2 weeks later. I have a lot of great memories of my grandmother but unfortunately that one was the last one and it’s pretty prominent.
Yeah. That’s a tough situation.
My grandmother was hit by a car 11 months ago, and it would have been absolute chaos if she had not been 110% clear about her wishes.
Since we are on this subject: all of you should write down (in several places and to several people, on paper) what you want to have happen in various medical circumstances. It saved my mom a lot of heartache in a difficult time.
Yes my mother was in a coma last year, and her husband had to decide what to do. He started making funeral arrangements. She recovered and yelled at him.
Yeah. Whatever it is you want, be crystal clear about it on paper. And do it today.
Ouch!
we were required to do that in my wills class.
Write (and execute if you wanted) a advanced directive
and FK
I place Bloom in charge of all decisions for my books…
YAY!
I LOF BOOKS!
Sorry for the loss, but at least you have good memories of him.
My condolences JL
Awww. My thoughts are with you. My 91 year old Grandpa came out to CA and spent 2 weeks with us in November and it was wonderful.
Sorry to hear that (and sorry for being a day late seeing it).
John Sayles sings a filk of that song in Eight Men Out.
Major bummer. Really sorry to hear that. While we were up in PDX we visited my GMiL, who is in a rest home with dementia. She surprisingly had a very good day and was even lucid at times. The sight of her great grandchildren brought tears to her eyes. I had a long talk with llama 1 about how children have a gift of making the elderly happy. It made me miss the 3 of my 4 GP that have passed away.
I’ll never forget one of the last talks I had with my GP. He was coming in and out of sleep, sitting on his rocking chair and watching CNN. At this point he would sometimes forget which (of the the 15) grandsons I was and he would occasionally talk nonsense. I asked him what he thought of Ahmedinejad – he was great fan of politics – and he mumbled something unintelligible. Then I asked him what he thought of Kim Jong Il. His face snapped to me, his eyes met mine, he got that ultra-lucid look and yelled, “KIM JONG IL CAN GO TO HELL!”
Sorry to hear about that.