The first female U.S. president will not be Hillary Clinton, Michele Obama, or Oprah Winfrey.
It will be Stephanie “Lady Gaga” Germanotti.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I think it’ll be a conservative, like in England, because as the GOP loses their cranky-old-white-men population share, they’re going to need votes from somewhere and women strike me as more likely than youth or minorities.
Nikki Haley in 2016, maybe. More likely further down the road.
I, of course, would love for it to be Elizabeth Warren, on an Obama-esque trajectory, but I have a hard time seeing it.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
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I’m sorry, but some of those faces looked multiethnic and subject to a judgement call, and their imposing a wrong answer on my judgement made me say “FK this” and quit after a couple of minutes.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Can you explain what a “quality meeting” is? My gf’s dad is a quality engineer (six sigma) and neither she or I really understand what the entails. I mean the basic idea is just “don’t FK up”, right?
They actually are all exactly what they sound like. For whatever you do, you make a “map” of the “process”. That way I could walk off the street tomorrow and do the thing the right way. Then I have to have a plan to control everything so after the consultants leave we don’t just go back to doing it the old way (you know..they way that works..)
If it sounds even more painful than before, you are starting to get it.
Yeah, that’s pretty much my take. In ours we go over the product portfolio and look at the percentages of DOA, OBD and other failures. It’s loads of numbers, so I always look for some that represent some baseball stats and think of them in those terms. The most difficult thing about those are that they are mostly right after lunch, in a dark conference room and the guy who leads has a very soothing voice. It is a hell of a challenge to stay awake.
In fact the team is an offensive force, and has a reasonable pitching staff as well.
It’s a team set up nicely for an owner new to online leagues because it’s not in need of a rebuild or in a bad financial situation so you can concentrate on figuring out the game.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
I might be interested, but put me at the bottom of the list, ‘cuz someone with a passion for saber should have the chance before me.
I’d be like an 80’s Steinbrenner or 00’s Peter Angelos-type owner… all passion and no brains…
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That’s kinda why I wanted you to join the league. I’m sure there is some pretty awesome stuff you could do with the SQL dumps the game engine can spit out.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
I’m so sick of actually going through the process of painstakingly creating music.
I wish I could just stick a USB cable in my ear and hear what’s in my head on the speakers. Radiohead gone dubstep with dual lead vocals by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and the late Warren Smith…
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\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
This Vanity Fair piece (Michael Lewis) is a few months old — it suggests that many cities are on a demographic collision course with their payroll expenses. 75% or more to public safety leaves libraries (and animal shelters) pretty much screwed. He uses San Jose as an example — particularly scary since it’s considered relatively healthy. Many days-of-reckoning coming as to what’s a can’t-live-without-it local government service.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
Also: I suspect that Lewis, for all his recent/historical disdain of the finserv sector, has plenty of MotUs whispering in his ear about how they’d like to get ahold of all those sweet sweet underregulated/undermanaged we need to fix those darn pension funds …
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Here’s what I know: the City of Alameda Animal Shelter was burdened with overheads that included 25% of a Captain (not the Chief of Police) whose total annual comp was $342,000 per year, and 25% of a newly-minted Lt. whose comp was around $210,000. The Shelter Director made about $120,000. Non-profit rates for experienced folks we hired were about 60% of those negotiated rates.
I believe that public and private sector bargaining are structurally different, in that there is no market discipline involved in the former — you can’t outsource the PD to China, and the taxpayers have not been represented effectively at the table by management-side bargainers who will be doing something else when the bill (esp. pensions) comes due. That difference is reflected in the numbers above, in a city of 75,000 pop. Municipal bankruptcies are likely to ensue in significant numbers, unless those costs can be rationalized.
And I’m a librul.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
Step 5: destroy what’s left of all public pension systems
Step 6: change the rules so FinServ companies can lay all sorts of unreasonable charges on retirees, draining what retirement funds they do have even further
Step 11: A quick and precipitious decline into mandatory death for all who are unable/unwilling to work.
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While I wouldn’t (ever) deny that there are forces at work whose goals you list (and I’ve blogged about it), I do not think that’s all that’s happening to account for the numbers above, which are grossly out-of-line, methinks, on an absolute scale. If you could Hay-point what that Captain does (I watched), he’d be equivalent to a low-middle private sector manager — one who, I’m sorry, does not add That much value.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
I was just watching myself play guitar for a few minutes and realized…
I only use my middle finger to fret major and minor chords. When I’m playing power chords or leads, I don’t use it at all.
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yup. big time. My middle finger is pretty soft in the middle, with one callused spot on the edge.
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i think that’s standard practice. i think the only time i ever used my middle finger was playing a major scale and the middle finger would start on the root so that my index was free for the 3rd which is one fret up the neck from the root. or maybe for a trilly sort of half-step hammer-on. otherwise, the only other contribution the standard rock guitarist can expect from a middle finger is that it subconsciously becomes untucked from that one-digit claw it makes while staying the F out of the way of the playing fingers, and inadvertently flips off everyone.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
I guess I didn’t notice it so much because my main instrument is bass.
I’m pretty sure that the callus I do have on my middle finger is mostly from playing my fretless bass.
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If you’ve got billionaires on one side and millionaires on another, you guys can figure out how to divide some money up. And ultimately they did. And it was the right thing to do.
#TARP
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And I did a little crossover on him. He claims that he could have stolen the ball. Everybody who was there knows that that’s not true. The second time, he might have stolen the ball. The first time he didn’t know I had that move on me.
#Boehner
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I think I threw the card away last week, as part of a big (ongoing) cleanup, for the guy I used years ago . Of course. I’ll see if I can dig up the name somehow.
Pretty sure it was Brian Van Tress. He was fine – wired up a new line so it would serve both the house and cottage. Seemed to be very responsive and efficient.
26 years old. Has played 2B/3B/LF. 5’7″ 180 lbs and (reportedly) average tools across the board. Maybe maybe maybe an above average hitting tool. Rumor is the A’s are out-bidding the Yankees by $2 million overall. BA’s Ben Badler expected he’d need to start in AA or AAA but with Sizemore out…
We’re not content with just Cespedes, but the Yankees are the Yankees? While that statement is annoying, that suggests that even if we don’t get Garcia, the A’s might target Soler (of whom I have not heard an update recently).
I haven’t been able to find a link to the audio of today’s intrasquad game on the A’s site or on MLB.
I’m a registered member with a password, but there are no games to click on in the usual menus… at least not for me.
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I guess it was too much to hope for a Buancast of an intrasquad game. :(
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\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
the weekend games, like all weekend games, will air on 95.7 FM in the Bay Area with Vince Cotroneo and Ray Fosse.
Something seems to be missing there.
On the Japan telecasts, apparently there was an issue with CSN having a lot of scheduling congestion with the Sharks and Kings on those days. The 3 a.m. live audience is limited to a few of us true diehards and they weren’t able to clear satisfactory time slots for delayed broadcasts.
Isn’t he the one behind the “let’s stick a stadium over a highway in the heart of earthquake country only a stone’s throw away from where a double decker collapsed”?
In Grunwald’s defense, the idea of decking the 980 and turning it into usable space isn’t totally insane. A nice green park, for instance, could be a really cool way of reconnecting West Oakland to downtown, to start correcting the grievous wrong done when the 980 came to be. But there’s not enough room for a ballpark there without seizing houses on either side, which simply will never ever happen. And Grunwald imagines that Caltrans will just make things happen fast and cheap because his idea is so compelling. That ain’t the Caltrans I know.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
“I got to see a priceless thing driving back to my apartment,” Scott said. “I see all the Boston fans walking around, and I mean they were crying crocodile tears. People were like this, walking side by side.”
Scott wrapped his arm around a reporter’s waist and began to wail to demonstrate.
“It was like someone shot their dog. I rolled down the window and I’m like, ‘Ah, hah, sucks doesn’t it, when someone laughs or makes fun of you when things aren’t going your way.'”
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
Speaking of hate: Tar Heels at Duke Saturday, 4:00 pm PST. All right-thinking people should root against Duke always, of course. But if you need an extra incentive, know that the Duke fans themselves nicknamed their star freshman “Austin-tatious.” Yuck.
monkeyball, you’ll be pleased to hear that your Durham friends snubbed another of your targets of scorn, when they refused to issue press credentials to Grantland for the game.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
This season, Thursdays in Oakland are Throwback Thursdays. Every Thursday home game in 2012 will feature a nostalgic baseball experience complete with live organ music, half price ticket offers, and 10,000 fans upon entry will receive a commemorative scorecard and complimentary bag of peanuts.
I was just going to post this same thing. I like the sound of live organ music. I hope it’s “Fingers O’Sullivan” or whatever the guy from last year was named.
Every Thursday home game in 2012 will feature a nostalgic baseball experience complete with live organ music, half price ticket offers, and 10,000 fans upon entry will receive a commemorative scorecard and complimentary bag of peanuts.
In time, Andrew Breitbart might have aged into greater self-control and a higher concept of public service. Premature death deprived him of the chance at redemption often sought and sometimes found by people who have done wrong in their lives and work.
And this is where it becomes difficult to honor the Roman injunction to speak no ill of the dead. It’s difficult for me to assess Breitbart’s impact upon American media and American politics as anything other than poisonous. When one of the leading media figures of the day achieves his success by his giddy disdain for truth and fairness—when one of our leading political figures offers to his admirers a politics inflamed by rage and devoid of ideas—how to withhold a profoundly negative judgment on his life and career?
I’ve never understood the “don’t speak ill of the dead” thing.
It seems like you should speak ill of the dead more readily than of the living, seeing as how the dead can’t have their feelings hurt by your caustic commentary.
I’d say you could speak ill of the dead if you had been willing to speak ill of them while they were living. If you didn’t do the latter you don’t have the right to do the former.
I’m OK with not speaking too much ill about the recently dead (excepting the truly evil types like Saddam, Ceaucescu, etc.), because someone loved them. But once they’re in the ground they’re fair game, I say. And the deliberate dealers in falsehoods and hatred for crass political benefit, like Breibart…well, you reap what you sow.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Yeah, I think the “not speak ill of the dead” has more to do with those who are grieving than the person that died. It can be hard enough to lose someone you loved, but having to hear all the shit that was wrong with that person is just piling on the hurt.
Isn’t it interesting, that speech considered “hate” coming from the right, is “truth” when said by the left. Such as here, or inferred here. I have never heard people here attacking Waters or Pelosi or Bill Maher as being full of hate.
Many here talk about “fairness” but it seems to only apply when it supports their views. Sorry, thats just wrong. Both sides are full of deception and attacks. Of course, both sides also have truth in their favor
I happen to believe that, objectively speaking, right-wing pundits engage in hate mongering way more that left/liberal ones do. I don’t think it’s even close.
That said, I agree that Maxine Waters is a jerk.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Case in point, when General Petraeus was called “Betrayeus” by liberal congress persons while working under President Bush. Then praised, and considered the right man for the job, when selected by President Obama.
I disagree. You can definitely have a situation where both sides are bad AND one side is much worse than the other. I think that pretty well describes our current politics (for more than just name calling).
Wrong. The right has actively A) conspired with racists to drudge up anger about a black president B) Actively used violent language about their political opponents.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Give the angry rightists truth serum and the racism will spew right out like a faucet.
The non-angry ones prolly aren’t racists tho.
Who’s on the right and not angry other than Tutu and Jeb Bush, tho?
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Cats know that to oppress someone else, one must oppress one’s own self, and we all know they’re far too lazy for that!
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We obviously won’t agree on this, but no. The truth is that the right-leaning pundits have so much more access to media outlets that the hateful rhetoric simply dwarfs their lefty equivalents. There is no leftist Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, at least insofar as anyone hears what they have to say.
Your “Betrayus” example actually proves this, because the only reason it became generally known was that the rightwing agitprop machines grabbed it and screamed it from the mountaintops. The original MoveOn.org message would have died a quieet largely unheeded death otherwise.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I think that if there was such thing as a “Cold Civil War,” the left would win, because they embrace tech, society, change, and the future, whereas the right is afraid of tech, suspicious of society, fights tooth and nail against change, and wants to stop heading into the future and turn a 180 back into an idealized past that never was in the first place.
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Both sides have elements who embrace tech/society/change/future and who fight it. I certainly know plenty of lefties who yearn for a simple, electronic-free lifestyle living off the land and having only contact with their immediate neighbors, if that. There are plenty of righties who love recent technological advances. These preferences have more to do with upbringing and life experience then political leanings.Whether one or the other side has a stronger preference is hard for me to say, but neither side has a monopoly on either one.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
What exactly do you think that Pelosi clip proves? The youtube title claims she called the anti-Obamacare protestors Nazis, but she didn’t. She (accurately) said they were carrying swastikas to townhall meetings. In other words, the protestors were calling the the Democrats Nazis. Pelosi was pointing out how ridiculously over the top the protestors’ rhetoric was. That’s a completely legitimate thing for her to say.
Lets talk about what Gingrich did to Clinton. Gingrich singlehandedly caused more political problems for this country than anyone else in the last 50 years.
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Jerry Falwell’s emergence during the Reagan years produced lasting change in the GOP. Ike, Goldwater and Nixon didn’t have to deal so much with the religious wingnuts.
there’s a little bit of that in this 3-part series. this first one just scratches the surface so you gotta watch all 3. and i gotta watch more adam curtis stuff.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Reminds me: we should organize a FKup at Raley sometime this summer. (Night game, pls.) After reading ML’s piece, I’m thinking maybe one at Stanfurd during the college season might be fun.
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I finished reading it about a week ago. I was thinking about throwing up a book discussion post on FK… but I don’t think that I have many dazzling insights to share about it. Anyone else read it?
I was given my copy by gonealookin so he’s read it. I’ve been having trouble finding time to read, so I’ve had it for months without making much progress. At least now I’ve imposed a deadline for myself.
It’s been a while so I’d be too rusty on it to have any substantial comments. I did enjoy most of it. In any case I read for escapist pleasure, not to analyze; I hated English classes in high school for sucking all the fun out of reading, and at Cal I took whatever the minimum requirement was and then got the hell away from the English department. So I wouldn’t be much fun in a book discussion.
I mostly wanted to bitch about Aparicio Rodriguez. His name obviously refers to Luis Aparicio. But he’s a super-slick fielding shortstop for the Cardinals, so that just brings to mind Ozzie Smith. Plus, the slick fielding Latin American shortstop is definitely a archetype in MLB, but usually signs as an international free agent, while Aparicio Rodriguez set the NCAA record for consecutive errorless games. Any one of those things on it’s own wouldn’t bother me, but the combination just drives me crazy for some reason.
Looks like the Pearl are going to be back next year, and they’re looking for hosts. We had fun going to one of their games last year – this year maybe we should make it a true FKup.
’bout time the Humboldt Crabs had some serious competition.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
How about a Cal game? Their field may be like the Coliseum to Stanford’s Warrantless Wiretap Park, but (like the Coliseum) it’s cheap and close to BART.
And as I’ve mentioned before, the only time I went I saw freshman Tyson Ross beat a Long Beach State team that included Evan Longoria.
I went to a game at Snodfart the weekend before last (a baseball game, that is; I went to my first ever basketball game there last night). It’s nice. I bought an expensive seat, but next time I think I’d bring a chair and do general admission.
“There’s something sick about an administration which is so pro-Islamic that it can’t even tell the truth about the people who are trying to kill us,†Mr. Gingrich said to applause from a crowd in a small airport hangar here. Mr. Gingrich accused the White House of being unwilling to discuss threats from some Muslims. And he slammed President Barack Obama for mounting a “war†on the Catholic Church over contraception but apologize to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over the burning of Qurans.
Mr. Gingrich made headlines Monday when he said it was “not possible†to “fix†Afghanistan and suggested its citizens should be told to, “figure out how to live your own miserable life.â€
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
Step 1) Make enemies out of EVERYONE.
Step 2) Incite terrorist attacks.
Step 3) Spend a decade at war with those you pissed off while blaming them.
Step 4) Profit.
You know how I was talking about my aunt’s paranoia the other day about the gov’t trying to herd people into smaller spaces close to highways, etc? Just got this via e-mail from her, obviously collected from a friend of hers:
Smart Meters: Opt-out Now!
“The SmartMeter opt-out process is simple. Call (866) 743-0263 or visit PG&E’s website. and click the smart meter opt-out link. Mine arrived within 2 weeks.
SmartMeters are a necessary part of the plan to implement a worldwide energy grid as part of a one world government. Countries all over the world are rushing to fund and install SmartMeters.
We in California have the ability to opt-out because of a February 1st CA Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decision. Enough citizen fury regarding health, safety and privacy concerns convinced the PUC to give the outraged citizens a choice before their anger spread to more of their customer base. Right now according to the San Jose Mercury News, only .08% of PG&E customers have opted-out. And just because each customer who opts out is saving the utility money in equipment, doesn’t mean we don’t have to pay to reject this assault on our freedom. Billions of dollars was gifted to PG&E in rate increases and to the industry in stimulus money for the purpose of installing SmartMeters; we are paying for this without our consent and without it ever having been discussed by our elected representives. It adds insult to injury to be charged to opt out. There is a $75 one-time fee plus $10 per month for meter reading to opt out; $10/$5 if you are low income. This is extortion! A lawsuit may be required to demand a refund.
PG&E invented an arbitrary deadline of May 1, 2012 to opt out. If you’ve avoided getting a Smart Meter until now (because you had the presence of mind to attach a sign to your meter or kick installers off your property), you will get a Smart Meter unless you “opt-out” before May 1st. And here’s a surprise: if you have a dumb meter and opt-out so you can keep your dumb meter, you still get billed the $75!
To learn about the hazards of Smart Meters and how it is part of the global agenda to control us, see Refuse SmartMeters or Stop SmartMeters. And do inform your neighbors so they might replace their meters as well. The radiation from your neighbors’ equipment affects you as well. If you would like an updated flyer to distribute, please reply to this email and I’ll be happy to send you one (this format doesn’t allow for Word documents). I found that most of my neighbors didn’t know that SmartMeters are controversial; they thought it was a harmless way for PG&E to save money reading meters remotely. –Judi at email, (removed)
And there are two videos in the e-mail, one to do with “Privacy Concerns of SmartMeters” and the other to do with “Health Risks of Electromagnetic Fields and Radio Frequency Radiation.”
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
They installed a smart meter at our house and I will say there is one thing I quite like about it. I can track daily how much energy we use, and it’s been helpful in trying to cut down on usage. It is super easy to see when usage spikes and then track down what causes the increase. (Not that I monitor it excessively, but I do look if we have a new appliance, etc.)
I should look into that. BTW still loving the Sonic phone, so much so that I’m going to switch my business lines there after we move. Should save $30 or so a month, which will add up. Thanks again for the rec, which I think originated with you?
Cool. Yeah, I’ve been a satisfied customer of theirs for a long time (though they only started doing phone a couple of years ago) and have converted a few of you fkers now.
I was sold on the day I set it up. Plugged the modem in, no insta-internet. Called the number, the call was PICKED UP BY A PERSON. I told him what was up, he said “hang on [2 minute pause] now try.” AND IT FUCKING WORKED.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
just a gag. Although ICI crashed at a friend house for a summer while he went….somewhere he really didn’t say.
ANyway he told me how to work the toaster, what to do with this and that, and said “don’t turn off the power strip going to the closet unless there is a fire.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
A 41-year-old Enochs High School teacher in Modesto has resigned and moved in with an 18-year-old student.
The reaction has been largely shock, disapproval and betrayal.
The teen’s mother has waged a very public campaign on Facebook since last week, when her daughter moved out of the family’s home and into a Modesto apartment with the man. He has left his wife and children, one of whom is a junior at Enochs.
Modesto police are investigating whether there was inappropriate contact before the girl turned 18 in the fall.
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
Yeah, it’s weird…I can’t imagine having had a kid when I was 25, though that’s what my parents did. OTOH, I am kind of envious of parents who will still be relatively young when their kids finish high school.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I was 24, and still a senior at Cal, when I had my first. It was whole lots of crazy and I’ve paid for it in myriad ways, but I was an empty nester in my late 40s. My best friend growing up has 9-year old twin boys. Hmmm….
Its also strange for me because I worked Juvi for a few years and the clients are all teenagers. It would freak me out to work with juveniles that were the same age as my kids.
Its kinda freaking me out right now. Mostly because I just got a text telling me that one of my formers was just a homicide victim
My aunt had 4 kids, each about a year or 2 apart. When the third one got to kindergarten she was lonely around the house so they decided to up again and had #s 5 and 6.
And then some of us change our plans when we reach our 40s, and adopt. I think it was the correct decision,(for us), even though it will push back our “alone” time in retirement. BOY, are kids worth it!
I dunno — I Do know I’m a much better parent for becoming one later. Relative scale. Effect attenuated by the fact that you have much more potential to FK’em-up than to improve them, but at least I reduced the damage potential.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
We had the eldest Ace when we were 23, but in all things marriage and parenting I tell the kids/friends/etc to not look at ANYTHING we did because we were married at 18. So we had several years to “grow up” as a married couple before we started having kids.
When we talk to the kids about getting married and having kids we tell them dont even think about kids until you have had 1) your time as a single person having fun and 2) time with just you and your SO having fun with each other.
Now we made the great plan of spreading kids out really wide, so we had a kid at 23 and will have the litllest Ace graduating HS when we are like 51. But it is wierd to talk to my old HS friends. One is still single and the other just had his first kid late last year. I can’t imagine being near retirement and having kids just out of the house. My hope is that I’m still mobile enough to have a few fun years with Mrs. Aces once the kids are gone.
…unless she was the one who sent it to you in the first place…
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I have received this voice mail message from an unknown Arizona number about 20 times now.
Hello. This message is for Hugo Diaz. If you are not Hugo Diaz, please hang up or disconnect.
I always followed instructions and hung up and disconnected right then, at that moment, although certainly starting to think, “Man, this is getting ridiculous,” and “Is Hugo Diaz trying to steal my identity?”
But just now, I was going to re-post the message as a facebook status update and I listened to a little more of it.
If you are Hugo Diaz, please continue to listen to this message. You should not listen to this message so that other people can hear because it contains private information, and by continuing to listen to this message, you acknowledge you are Hugo Diaz.
Is it ridiculous that I am worried–enough so that I hurriedly paused and avoided listening to the rest of the message, to avoid hearing it and thus becoming Hugo Diaz.
If anyone can provide me with legal assistance, or spiritual assistance, I’d appreciate it. Sincerely, not-yet-hugo-diaz.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
obnoxious yes, but not really fradulent. It’s a collection agency and they were given a wrong number, someone mistyped a number, or it used to be old Hugo’s #.
Now of course the problem is all the BS they are putting in saying you must be Hugo to listen. Because the only answer unfortunately is to wait until you get a person, tell them to remove this number from their records because you are not he, and then pray to gods you got a competent enough agent that they actually do what they are supposed to.
But yeah the 20 times not only is obnoxious, but it seems to me like that could be over what is allowed by law (not like there isnt some technicality that will let em off the hook, but at least the spirit of the law.)
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Thanks all for the feedback; elcroata your phone call would have left me speechless. One response I thought I’d get but didn’t was an allusion to Apricot’s Diego Chavez cartoons
That article triggers lots of crackpot alarms for me, starting with the four exclamation points and seven question marks in the first two sentences. The photos don’t really seem to match up with the text description of the experiment — was the microwave water compared against stove heated water (like the text says) or against purified water (labels in the photos). From the photos alone, I would deduce a completely different experiment, which demonstrates that some water purification technique can effectively remove some sort of bad chemical, but just heating the water in the microwave doesn’t help (and if this was the experiment, you would draw exactly the opposite conclusions about whether microwaves will denature chemical compounds!). I don’t want to trash talk a student’s science fair project (particularly based on a second hand account), but the experimental design could be a lot better, starting by using a large number of plants in each group.
I’m sure that there are interesting questions to ask about what effect microwave ovens have on the complex molecules found in food. Probably a lot of these questions have been studied in detail — I have no idea about that state of that research. But it’s pretty hard for me to believe that microwaves cause any sort of chemical change to water.
Ok, that’s all for now. AV, if you were just trolling, then nice work.
i guess that is what trolling is. sorry. i thought it was hilariously and ontopicly dumb. did you catch the “my channeled messages” link?
seriously though. web archeology is frickin fascinating. these things just float around for years. is there a repository somewhere? would love to trace original sources.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Alright, I’m gonna lean on my FK database one more time: anyone use an internet fax service that they’ve found to be easy and reliable? I’m considering getting rid of my fax machine at the office since it hardly ever gets used these days. So much is via email these days, it seems like I could get away with having just an an e-fax service.
I don’t recall the last time I used a fax. Why not just get rid of it and say “We don’t have a fax machine, please use email like the rest of modern society.”
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
I just had someone ask me if they could fax me a Drs note for an upcoming surgery they would need time off for. As much as I wanted to ask them if they could go back and place some bets for me since they clearly are in 1998, I just asked if they could scan the doc instead and email it.
I have used e-fax before for work/home. I believe you can get a free account if you don’t much care about having a local area code. To have a local number, I think it was $15/month. Worked reasonable well. Eventually, I realized that there wasn’t any occasion where a fax would have been preferable to scanning something and e-mailing it as a .pdf, so I got rid of the account.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
Love it. Beautiful, great location, proximate to both 580 and Highway 13 for commutes. If I did not have kids in public schools and could afford it I’d live there in a second.
Thanks, Free — looks like a tight-knit bunch of neighbors — with some grey and/or missing hair. We’ve been wanting to be closer-in, in friendlier confines. There’s an incredible range of value to be had in the East Bay at any given price. Trying to be patient … appreciate the word!
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
K’s brilliant/insane thought of the day:
The first female U.S. president will not be Hillary Clinton, Michele Obama, or Oprah Winfrey.
It will be Stephanie “Lady Gaga” Germanotti.
I think it’ll be a conservative, like in England, because as the GOP loses their cranky-old-white-men population share, they’re going to need votes from somewhere and women strike me as more likely than youth or minorities.
Nikki Haley in 2016, maybe. More likely further down the road.
I, of course, would love for it to be Elizabeth Warren, on an Obama-esque trajectory, but I have a hard time seeing it.
Yeah. I like Elizabeth Warren a lot, too.
I’m super pumped to vote for her this coming fall. Maybe even to the point of volunteering some time for the campaign.
There’s still a good chance she’s my first non-votable political donation.
Your data suggest a moderate implicit preference for Black People compared to White People.
Your data suggest a strong implicit preference for Herman Cain compared to Newt Gingrich.
yes, I was bored at work…
Your link leads to a java stack trace. But I congratulate you on not preferring Gingrich!
Ooops. This one better?
Nope, that’s the entry page in case I want to take the test. I guess they don’t like people linking to their results.
I wasn’t linking to the result, I don’t think you can. I was linking to the test in case someone needs to kill 15 minutes…
I tried, but the concept pissed me off.
I’m sorry, but some of those faces looked multiethnic and subject to a judgement call, and their imposing a wrong answer on my judgement made me say “FK this” and quit after a couple of minutes.
try sitting through a quality meeting – everything is better than that
Can you explain what a “quality meeting” is? My gf’s dad is a quality engineer (six sigma) and neither she or I really understand what the entails. I mean the basic idea is just “don’t FK up”, right?
Do you have a process map detailing everything?
Do you have a control plan in place? Can you quantify your improvements/savings?
That just makes me more confused. Process map? Control plan? I obviously don’t work in the corporate world (Thank Kraut).
They actually are all exactly what they sound like. For whatever you do, you make a “map” of the “process”. That way I could walk off the street tomorrow and do the thing the right way. Then I have to have a plan to control everything so after the consultants leave we don’t just go back to doing it the old way (you know..they way that works..)
If it sounds even more painful than before, you are starting to get it.
Yeah, that’s pretty much my take. In ours we go over the product portfolio and look at the percentages of DOA, OBD and other failures. It’s loads of numbers, so I always look for some that represent some baseball stats and think of them in those terms. The most difficult thing about those are that they are mostly right after lunch, in a dark conference room and the guy who leads has a very soothing voice. It is a hell of a challenge to stay awake.
I’ll take your quality meeting and raise you monthly call listening and rating.
So, OOTP peoples — DFA, grover, elcroata, danbot, whoever else:
We officially have an opening in The GUBA
The open team is the Taipei Tigers and they have one of the top hitters in the game
In fact the team is an offensive force, and has a reasonable pitching staff as well.
It’s a team set up nicely for an owner new to online leagues because it’s not in need of a rebuild or in a bad financial situation so you can concentrate on figuring out the game.
Thanks, and go As.
My spam blocker at work won’t allow me to go there, so that probably answers the question of whether I’ll be playing…
Which page? The forums or the HTML pages?
Thanks, and go As.
All three links
commies. :(
Thanks, and go As.
I might be interested, but put me at the bottom of the list, ‘cuz someone with a passion for saber should have the chance before me.
I’d be like an 80’s Steinbrenner or 00’s Peter Angelos-type owner… all passion and no brains…
Nah, you don’t really need to have a passion for saber.
The most advanced stats OOTP has are FIP, Zone Rating, and VORP.
Supposedly OOTP13 will have WAR, but I don’t know what calculation it will use.
Thanks, and go As.
MINE!
That’s kinda why I wanted you to join the league. I’m sure there is some pretty awesome stuff you could do with the SQL dumps the game engine can spit out.
Thanks, and go As.
DFA expressed a lot of interest so I hope ya’ll have fun.
He’s yet to register or post. Come join in.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m so very interested, but I don’t think I have time at present, I’ve got a lot of music to write…
I’m so sick of actually going through the process of painstakingly creating music.
I wish I could just stick a USB cable in my ear and hear what’s in my head on the speakers. Radiohead gone dubstep with dual lead vocals by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and the late Warren Smith…
sounds awesome.
Im registered. Im just perusing the forums. What should I be doing?
http://www.theguba.net/forums/showthread.php?143613-Welcome-to-the-GUBA
if you wanna join and take a team
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I think Michael Fitzgerald nailed it in regards to what happened to Stockton over the last 10 years or so…
Yeah, without Malone…
You could probably change a couple of facts and the city name and write that article for almost every city from Lodi to B-Field.
This Vanity Fair piece (Michael Lewis) is a few months old — it suggests that many cities are on a demographic collision course with their payroll expenses. 75% or more to public safety leaves libraries (and animal shelters) pretty much screwed. He uses San Jose as an example — particularly scary since it’s considered relatively healthy. Many days-of-reckoning coming as to what’s a can’t-live-without-it local government service.
Much of that pension
badgerwolverinbuckeyeing is bullshit.Fixed
Also: I suspect that Lewis, for all his recent/historical disdain of the finserv sector, has plenty of MotUs whispering in his ear about how
they’d like to get ahold of all those sweet sweet underregulated/undermanagedwe need to fix those darn pension funds …Here’s what I know: the City of Alameda Animal Shelter was burdened with overheads that included 25% of a Captain (not the Chief of Police) whose total annual comp was $342,000 per year, and 25% of a newly-minted Lt. whose comp was around $210,000. The Shelter Director made about $120,000. Non-profit rates for experienced folks we hired were about 60% of those negotiated rates.
I believe that public and private sector bargaining are structurally different, in that there is no market discipline involved in the former — you can’t outsource the PD to China, and the taxpayers have not been represented effectively at the table by management-side bargainers who will be doing something else when the bill (esp. pensions) comes due. That difference is reflected in the numbers above, in a city of 75,000 pop. Municipal bankruptcies are likely to ensue in significant numbers, unless those costs can be rationalized.
And I’m a librul.
I guess I disagree with this. As I see it:
Step 1: dismantle private-side unions
Step 2: reduce private-side pay
Step 3: argue public-side is overpaid by comparison
Step 4: dismantle public-side unions
Step 5: destroy what’s left of all public pension systems
Step 6: change the rules so FinServ companies can lay all sorts of unreasonable charges on retirees, draining what retirement funds they do have even further
Step 11: A quick and precipitious decline into mandatory death for all who are unable/unwilling to work.
While I wouldn’t (ever) deny that there are forces at work whose goals you list (and I’ve blogged about it), I do not think that’s all that’s happening to account for the numbers above, which are grossly out-of-line, methinks, on an absolute scale. If you could Hay-point what that Captain does (I watched), he’d be equivalent to a low-middle private sector manager — one who, I’m sorry, does not add That much value.
Partial repeal of Prop 13!
I was just watching myself play guitar for a few minutes and realized…
I only use my middle finger to fret major and minor chords. When I’m playing power chords or leads, I don’t use it at all.
Can you tell the difference between your middle and ring fingers, callus-wise?
yup. big time. My middle finger is pretty soft in the middle, with one callused spot on the edge.
i think that’s standard practice. i think the only time i ever used my middle finger was playing a major scale and the middle finger would start on the root so that my index was free for the 3rd which is one fret up the neck from the root. or maybe for a trilly sort of half-step hammer-on. otherwise, the only other contribution the standard rock guitarist can expect from a middle finger is that it subconsciously becomes untucked from that one-digit claw it makes while staying the F out of the way of the playing fingers, and inadvertently flips off everyone.
Yeah, the flip-off everyone style is pretty common. Très punk rock!
I guess I didn’t notice it so much because my main instrument is bass.
I’m pretty sure that the callus I do have on my middle finger is mostly from playing my fretless bass.
1. I’m giving 25% odds that it’s a prank and will be the setup for the rollout of his BIGDEATH.com expose site.
Also, higher odds on tox screen coming back positive for coke.
That one crossed my mind too.
Machiavelli’s Seven Day Theory?
Bill Simmons interviews Obama on Grantland
I’m not an NBA fan, but it’s a pretty cool read.
Thanks, and go As.
#TARP
3rd deck?
#Boehner
OBAMA URGES TEENS: BE LIKE OMAR!!!
Video.
Berkeley/Oakland folks–anyone have a good rec for a phone line/jack install technician?
I think I threw the card away last week, as part of a big (ongoing) cleanup, for the guy I used years ago . Of course. I’ll see if I can dig up the name somehow.
Thanks, but don’t knock yourself out. Just trying to find someone who can do it a bit more affordably than AT&T at our new warehouse.
Pretty sure it was Brian Van Tress. He was fine – wired up a new line so it would serve both the house and cottage. Seemed to be very responsive and efficient.
Wonderful–thank you!!
How long have you been in CA?
About 22 years–what do you mean?
I’m going to stop now and only look somewhat like an idiot.
You can check out any time you want…
Adonis Garcia.
26 years old. Has played 2B/3B/LF. 5’7″ 180 lbs and (reportedly) average tools across the board. Maybe maybe maybe an above average hitting tool. Rumor is the A’s are out-bidding the Yankees by $2 million overall. BA’s Ben Badler expected he’d need to start in AA or AAA but with Sizemore out…
Someone shorter than me!
At 5’7″, 180, the name “Adonis” seems a little off.
exactly my first thought
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From the original Spanish article:
We’re not content with just Cespedes, but the Yankees are the Yankees? While that statement is annoying, that suggests that even if we don’t get Garcia, the A’s might target Soler (of whom I have not heard an update recently).
I really hope that is what that means.
Also, his VWL triple slash: .270/.313/.461/.773. Dude doesn’t walk much but he might be able to hit.
Lots of useful info from the Slusstress:
Monday at earliestJune.In news not furnished by the Slusstress, Bryan Grunwald is still an idiot.
In other news, ordered list tags in comments not working right for me, though I haven’t excluded user error as a factor.
I haven’t been able to find a link to the audio of today’s intrasquad game on the A’s site or on MLB.
I’m a registered member with a password, but there are no games to click on in the usual menus… at least not for me.
The link says
Oops, my bad. One of like a dozen errors I managed to make in that one comment. It’s like I’m playing third base.
FSU to third!
Oh… I was looking on their wensite…
I should have edited that, too. :)
I guess it was too much to hope for a Buancast of an intrasquad game. :(
It’s just that the CSS is cutting off the numbering, and I can’t figure out how to fix it. Will try again soon.
oops, forgot the actual link. Sorry Susan.
fixed.
Me too, but…
Something seems to be missing there.
On the Japan telecasts, apparently there was an issue with CSN having a lot of scheduling congestion with the Sharks and Kings on those days. The 3 a.m. live audience is limited to a few of us true diehards and they weren’t able to clear satisfactory time slots for delayed broadcasts.
It looks like Slusser just left out a name.
http://twitter.com/#!/vincebaseball/status/174277207643000833
I assume this is behind the Grunwald comment (and yes, he is an idiot).
Yes. The contract is for an EIR for the Coliseum area. By definition, you’d never study as an alternative a site which was in a different area.
Isn’t he the one behind the “let’s stick a stadium over a highway in the heart of earthquake country only a stone’s throw away from where a double decker collapsed”?
Yup. And he thinks it’d be easy.
:facepalm: The new bay bridge segment will take less time and be much less expensive that that idiocy.
In Grunwald’s defense, the idea of decking the 980 and turning it into usable space isn’t totally insane. A nice green park, for instance, could be a really cool way of reconnecting West Oakland to downtown, to start correcting the grievous wrong done when the 980 came to be. But there’s not enough room for a ballpark there without seizing houses on either side, which simply will never ever happen. And Grunwald imagines that Caltrans will just make things happen fast and cheap because his idea is so compelling. That ain’t the Caltrans I know.
Luke Scott is occasionally right on
omg awesome
Thanks, and go As.
Then he threw a seven-foot spear at them.
I saw that. He killed a guy. Did he throw a trident?
/Finnick Odair
LOL
Speaking of hate: Tar Heels at Duke Saturday, 4:00 pm PST. All right-thinking people should root against Duke always, of course. But if you need an extra incentive, know that the Duke fans themselves nicknamed their star freshman “Austin-tatious.” Yuck.
monkeyball, you’ll be pleased to hear that your Durham friends snubbed another of your targets of scorn, when they refused to issue press credentials to Grantland for the game.
Yeah, Iunno … if, say, a stringer working for Sarah Vowell asked for media credentials, I wouldn’t give ’em to her, either.
meh – Duke/UNC is like the NCAA version of Boston/NY.
{chortle}
(calm Carolina blue ocean…calm Carolina blue ocean…)
Well okay then:
https://twitter.com/#!/susanslusser/status/175317020831784960
Did we know this? Not sure it beats a free dog, but ok.
I was just going to post this same thing. I like the sound of live organ music. I hope it’s “Fingers O’Sullivan” or whatever the guy from last year was named.
TWSS
It’s nice enough, but there are only 5 Thursday home games, so the free peanuts budget won’t be all that high.
I wonder if nostalgic baseball experience will consist of a good team playing?
I believe they plan on giving away rose-colored glasses to the first 10,000 fans.
I count six home Thursdays, but yeah.
announced attendance
1. Frum’s take on Brietbart is good:
I’ve never understood the “don’t speak ill of the dead” thing.
It seems like you should speak ill of the dead more readily than of the living, seeing as how the dead can’t have their feelings hurt by your caustic commentary.
I’d say you could speak ill of the dead if you had been willing to speak ill of them while they were living. If you didn’t do the latter you don’t have the right to do the former.
I’m OK with not speaking too much ill about the recently dead (excepting the truly evil types like Saddam, Ceaucescu, etc.), because someone loved them. But once they’re in the ground they’re fair game, I say. And the deliberate dealers in falsehoods and hatred for crass political benefit, like Breibart…well, you reap what you sow.
I read Canseco after Saddam. Much funnier statement.
Yeah, I think the “not speak ill of the dead” has more to do with those who are grieving than the person that died. It can be hard enough to lose someone you loved, but having to hear all the shit that was wrong with that person is just piling on the hurt.
I like that aspect of Orson Scott Card’s work. A lot.
Isn’t it interesting, that speech considered “hate” coming from the right, is “truth” when said by the left. Such as here, or inferred here. I have never heard people here attacking Waters or Pelosi or Bill Maher as being full of hate.
Many here talk about “fairness” but it seems to only apply when it supports their views. Sorry, thats just wrong. Both sides are full of deception and attacks. Of course, both sides also have truth in their favor
I happen to believe that, objectively speaking, right-wing pundits engage in hate mongering way more that left/liberal ones do. I don’t think it’s even close.
That said, I agree that Maxine Waters is a jerk.
This depends on our political/social views, not on the truth. I suspect that a conservative would say just the opposite.
Case in point, when General Petraeus was called “Betrayeus” by liberal congress persons while working under President Bush. Then praised, and considered the right man for the job, when selected by President Obama.
By the very same people?
To the extent that your point is partisans on both sides say horrible, untrue, and inflammatory things, I agree completely.
The difference, and I think it’s an important one, is that the Republican leadership keeps pace with most of this stuff.
Boehner, for example.
Basically, yes. Neither side is innocent of it, and it’s silly to act like one is better than the other. They’re not.
There are degrees of dishonesty, and differences in magnitude. Saying “neither side is perfect” doesn’t lead to the conclusion “they’re equally bad.”
I disagree. You can definitely have a situation where both sides are bad AND one side is much worse than the other. I think that pretty well describes our current politics (for more than just name calling).
Wrong. The right has actively A) conspired with racists to drudge up anger about a black president B) Actively used violent language about their political opponents.
I agree on both points.
Give the angry rightists truth serum and the racism will spew right out like a faucet.
The non-angry ones prolly aren’t racists tho.
Who’s on the right and not angry other than Tutu and Jeb Bush, tho?
Link?
I just root for cats.
They are overwhelming liberals though.
Cats know that to oppress someone else, one must oppress one’s own self, and we all know they’re far too lazy for that!
and they are so against that Schrodinger experiment.
…or are they!??!
Thanks, and go As.
I think of cats as being rather libertarian, meself…
We obviously won’t agree on this, but no. The truth is that the right-leaning pundits have so much more access to media outlets that the hateful rhetoric simply dwarfs their lefty equivalents. There is no leftist Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, at least insofar as anyone hears what they have to say.
Your “Betrayus” example actually proves this, because the only reason it became generally known was that the rightwing agitprop machines grabbed it and screamed it from the mountaintops. The original MoveOn.org message would have died a quieet largely unheeded death otherwise.
Are you talking about when MoveOn.org published the full page ad in the NYTimes? Or are you saying Rush did that?
Tutu — what method are you using to add links to your comments. I’m getting an extra http:// that I have to manually remove from all of them.
Sigh…
Number of people who directly saw or were informed about the ad by MoveOn and other like-minded folks: perhaps 100,000
Number who heard about the issue after the dittohead types started blasting it everywhere: probably 10 million.
There is a difference of orders of magnitude in the reach of the quasi-populist right versus left; you can’t seriously believe otherwise.
Uh, but that amplifier effect is precisely why MO.o placed the ad — it’s why anyone places a political ad in the NYT.
I think that if there was such thing as a “Cold Civil War,” the left would win, because they embrace tech, society, change, and the future, whereas the right is afraid of tech, suspicious of society, fights tooth and nail against change, and wants to stop heading into the future and turn a 180 back into an idealized past that never was in the first place.
Both sides have elements who embrace tech/society/change/future and who fight it. I certainly know plenty of lefties who yearn for a simple, electronic-free lifestyle living off the land and having only contact with their immediate neighbors, if that. There are plenty of righties who love recent technological advances. These preferences have more to do with upbringing and life experience then political leanings.Whether one or the other side has a stronger preference is hard for me to say, but neither side has a monopoly on either one.
What exactly do you think that Pelosi clip proves? The youtube title claims she called the anti-Obamacare protestors Nazis, but she didn’t. She (accurately) said they were carrying swastikas to townhall meetings. In other words, the protestors were calling the the Democrats Nazis. Pelosi was pointing out how ridiculously over the top the protestors’ rhetoric was. That’s a completely legitimate thing for her to say.
Lets talk about what Gingrich did to Clinton. Gingrich singlehandedly caused more political problems for this country than anyone else in the last 50 years.
That’s an interesting assertion. I’d say that ObL, Sirhan Sirhan, and Ken Starr are in the conversation.
Fox News may beat all of them.
I agree with this.
Thousand time this. Very few people listen to politicians. Most all listen to what news tell them about politicians
not a person
has no hands
Murdoch, then.
Corporations are people too!
corporations are people!
Thanks, and go As.
Jerry Falwell’s emergence during the Reagan years produced lasting change in the GOP. Ike, Goldwater and Nixon didn’t have to deal so much with the religious wingnuts.
there’s a little bit of that in this 3-part series. this first one just scratches the surface so you gotta watch all 3. and i gotta watch more adam curtis stuff.
Tagline!
Really nice writeup by Marine Layer on his mini-tour of NorCal college and minor league parks.
Reminds me: we should organize a FKup at Raley sometime this summer. (Night game, pls.) After reading ML’s piece, I’m thinking maybe one at Stanfurd during the college season might be fun.
Oh, this reminds me, I’ll try to finish The Art of Fielding in time for the 4/21 FKup and will bring it along for whoever would like to read it next.
Yes please! I was planning to have a general swag-swap table alongside the martini bar anyway.
If you want the book it’s now officially earmarked for you. I think a swag-swap table is a great idea!
I finished reading it about a week ago. I was thinking about throwing up a book discussion post on FK… but I don’t think that I have many dazzling insights to share about it. Anyone else read it?
I was given my copy by gonealookin so he’s read it. I’ve been having trouble finding time to read, so I’ve had it for months without making much progress. At least now I’ve imposed a deadline for myself.
It’s been a while so I’d be too rusty on it to have any substantial comments. I did enjoy most of it. In any case I read for escapist pleasure, not to analyze; I hated English classes in high school for sucking all the fun out of reading, and at Cal I took whatever the minimum requirement was and then got the hell away from the English department. So I wouldn’t be much fun in a book discussion.
I mostly wanted to bitch about Aparicio Rodriguez. His name obviously refers to Luis Aparicio. But he’s a super-slick fielding shortstop for the Cardinals, so that just brings to mind Ozzie Smith. Plus, the slick fielding Latin American shortstop is definitely a archetype in MLB, but usually signs as an international free agent, while Aparicio Rodriguez set the NCAA record for consecutive errorless games. Any one of those things on it’s own wouldn’t bother me, but the combination just drives me crazy for some reason.
Otherwise, I enjoyed the book quite a bit.
2012 Rivercats promo dates
LOL at April 19
Alternative title: “Badge up night. You get one free one”
I had floated May 26 vs. Reno (7:05 start) a while back. Probably need to post something to get momentum built…
fireworks!
Sure, no problem.
Soon as I get over my depression.
Or pull my head out of my ass.
Or get over whatever the fuck is keeping me from being a useful, contributing member of society.
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Probably post something Friday night.
Looks like the Pearl are going to be back next year, and they’re looking for hosts. We had fun going to one of their games last year – this year maybe we should make it a true FKup.
’bout time the Humboldt Crabs had some serious competition.
How about a Cal game? Their field may be like the Coliseum to Stanford’s Warrantless Wiretap Park, but (like the Coliseum) it’s cheap and close to BART.
And as I’ve mentioned before, the only time I went I saw freshman Tyson Ross beat a Long Beach State team that included Evan Longoria.
I’d be down for that.
schedule
I went to a game at Snodfart the weekend before last (a baseball game, that is; I went to my first ever basketball game there last night). It’s nice. I bought an expensive seat, but next time I think I’d bring a chair and do general admission.
What is this.. I don’t even… wat.
Thanks, and go As.
Apparently the GOP strategy is:
Step 1) Make enemies out of EVERYONE.
Step 2) Incite terrorist attacks.
Step 3) Spend a decade at war with those you pissed off while blaming them.
Step 4) Profit.
New indoor baseball facility in Albany. Whoo-hoo! I am definitely gonna get some cuts in at the batting cages this year.
awesome.
I see parties there in my future
DF bait: this is great!
also, FK you, Iowa.
If they’ve gotta pander to something to sell their trucks, then pander here!
First hearing on Hayden repeal on 3/13 at the Capitol. I will BARK-blog an alert, and repost.
You know how I was talking about my aunt’s paranoia the other day about the gov’t trying to herd people into smaller spaces close to highways, etc? Just got this via e-mail from her, obviously collected from a friend of hers:
And there are two videos in the e-mail, one to do with “Privacy Concerns of SmartMeters” and the other to do with “Health Risks of Electromagnetic Fields and Radio Frequency Radiation.”
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.
All I sent back in return was:
“I’d appreciate it if you left me out of e-mails like this. Thanks.”
I nicked the census man!
“Vyv, eat the telly!”
So far apparently only 4,000 people have opted out. PG&E said they expected 150,000 opt-outs. That’s out of 15 million customers.
Caveat: hard to trust anything PG&E says about anything these days.
Can’t opt out, PG&E will blow up my house. Can’t opt out, PG&E will blow up my house.
They installed a smart meter at our house and I will say there is one thing I quite like about it. I can track daily how much energy we use, and it’s been helpful in trying to cut down on usage. It is super easy to see when usage spikes and then track down what causes the increase. (Not that I monitor it excessively, but I do look if we have a new appliance, etc.)
I just switched to time-of-day metering, which should save a few bucks a month given our usage.
I should look into that. BTW still loving the Sonic phone, so much so that I’m going to switch my business lines there after we move. Should save $30 or so a month, which will add up. Thanks again for the rec, which I think originated with you?
Cool. Yeah, I’ve been a satisfied customer of theirs for a long time (though they only started doing phone a couple of years ago) and have converted a few of you fkers now.
I was sold on the day I set it up. Plugged the modem in, no insta-internet. Called the number, the call was PICKED UP BY A PERSON. I told him what was up, he said “hang on [2 minute pause] now try.” AND IT FUCKING WORKED.
If we ever start soliciting ads, they’re #2 on the call list (these guys are #1).
“Snow Floss Kraut”?
I can FLOSS with KRAUT?!?
I like ’em. Tells me when I have to upgrade the lamps for the hydroponic garden in my closet.
You have a hydro garden? LOL.
just a gag. Although ICI crashed at a friend house for a summer while he went….somewhere he really didn’t say.
ANyway he told me how to work the toaster, what to do with this and that, and said “don’t turn off the power strip going to the closet unless there is a fire.
Nice ICYP Toaster for the Illicit Growers?
This is pretty great. Anyone ever notice that Arencibia looks like Jamie Kennedy?
awesome!!!
Because balance must be maintained.
If there’s one thing that has been reinforced by the destruction of my marriage it is this: Love is Teh Awesome.
Link to story.
Awww sweet :)
Cue the Beat-les.
https://twitter.com/#!/CaughtOffBase/status/175398633699688448
I dunno. They might make a good couple.
I hope he means that literally and not figurative.
Yeah, this is pretty FKing creepy.
he is 41 and has a 16 year old. I guess that was the norm when I was a kid, but man, that sounds wrong.
Yeah, it’s weird…I can’t imagine having had a kid when I was 25, though that’s what my parents did. OTOH, I am kind of envious of parents who will still be relatively young when their kids finish high school.
:fuckyeah:
Thanks, and go As.
God bless you, I know I would not handle it well.
I think my age 28 scare was the first time I thought, “yeah, I guess I could do it.”
I wanted to wait until 25 at least.
That… didn’t happen.
Thanks, and go As.
I was 24, and still a senior at Cal, when I had my first. It was whole lots of crazy and I’ve paid for it in myriad ways, but I was an empty nester in my late 40s. My best friend growing up has 9-year old twin boys. Hmmm….
Your kids are all my age right?
Yup, roundabout.
So make sure they steer well clear of the skinny hipster with the appetites.
Just don’t let them go to popscene (but if they do I will treat them well after we make out)
Its also strange for me because I worked Juvi for a few years and the clients are all teenagers. It would freak me out to work with juveniles that were the same age as my kids.
Its kinda freaking me out right now. Mostly because I just got a text telling me that one of my formers was just a homicide victim
If you get the first ones out the way early enough there’s time for a second round!
I passed on that route, but I sure can see it’s worked well for you.
My aunt had 4 kids, each about a year or 2 apart. When the third one got to kindergarten she was lonely around the house so they decided to up again and had #s 5 and 6.
My dad was 21 when he had his first kid. That’s how come I have a brother who is 18+ years older than me.
And then some of us change our plans when we reach our 40s, and adopt. I think it was the correct decision,(for us), even though it will push back our “alone” time in retirement. BOY, are kids worth it!
I dunno — I Do know I’m a much better parent for becoming one later. Relative scale. Effect attenuated by the fact that you have much more potential to FK’em-up than to improve them, but at least I reduced the damage potential.
Also ditto
Yup – even allowing for all the other differences (country, gender, multiplicity), my parenting in my 40s is a lot better than it was in my 20s.
Ditto
We had the eldest Ace when we were 23, but in all things marriage and parenting I tell the kids/friends/etc to not look at ANYTHING we did because we were married at 18. So we had several years to “grow up” as a married couple before we started having kids.
When we talk to the kids about getting married and having kids we tell them dont even think about kids until you have had 1) your time as a single person having fun and 2) time with just you and your SO having fun with each other.
Now we made the great plan of spreading kids out really wide, so we had a kid at 23 and will have the litllest Ace graduating HS when we are like 51. But it is wierd to talk to my old HS friends. One is still single and the other just had his first kid late last year. I can’t imagine being near retirement and having kids just out of the house. My hope is that I’m still mobile enough to have a few fun years with Mrs. Aces once the kids are gone.
i said it before and i’ll say it again. “molesto.”
I actually worked on that school project. Wow!
I’m buying this:
Just looking at the image of that woman… I was thinking it was something… a little… dirty.
You should send that to your aunt…
…unless she was the one who sent it to you in the first place…
My cat is just as furry as the one from that ad (but much cuter!). There is white cat fur on everything around here.
I have received this voice mail message from an unknown Arizona number about 20 times now.
I always followed instructions and hung up and disconnected right then, at that moment, although certainly starting to think, “Man, this is getting ridiculous,” and “Is Hugo Diaz trying to steal my identity?”
But just now, I was going to re-post the message as a facebook status update and I listened to a little more of it.
Is it ridiculous that I am worried–enough so that I hurriedly paused and avoided listening to the rest of the message, to avoid hearing it and thus becoming Hugo Diaz.
If anyone can provide me with legal assistance, or spiritual assistance, I’d appreciate it. Sincerely, not-yet-hugo-diaz.
No sir, Mr. Diaz.
I don’t know. But Hugo, perhaps it’s ti for you to finally listen to the full message.
The only thing my research produced is that your name is Mark
put the phone number in google, area code and all. there are a bunch of websites that track obnoxious/fraudulent phone practices.
obnoxious yes, but not really fradulent. It’s a collection agency and they were given a wrong number, someone mistyped a number, or it used to be old Hugo’s #.
Now of course the problem is all the BS they are putting in saying you must be Hugo to listen. Because the only answer unfortunately is to wait until you get a person, tell them to remove this number from their records because you are not he, and then pray to gods you got a competent enough agent that they actually do what they are supposed to.
But yeah the 20 times not only is obnoxious, but it seems to me like that could be over what is allowed by law (not like there isnt some technicality that will let em off the hook, but at least the spirit of the law.)
Call them back and tell them you’re not Hugo Diaz, you’re Rubin [sic] Sierra.
Or call them back and tell them you’re Hugo Fuckyerself.
WIN!
If I had mjdittmer’s number, I’d call him, tell him I’m Hugo and ask if anyone had left any messages for me
Christ, what a Diaz call.
Also, gotcher email. Tell Hugo to email me. But only if he’s Hugo.
Thanks all for the feedback; elcroata your phone call would have left me speechless. One response I thought I’d get but didn’t was an allusion to Apricot’s Diego Chavez cartoons
i’m bringing back the microwave debate.
http://2012indyinfo.com/2012/02/11/microwave-test-an-eye-opener-employee-news/
That article triggers lots of crackpot alarms for me, starting with the four exclamation points and seven question marks in the first two sentences. The photos don’t really seem to match up with the text description of the experiment — was the microwave water compared against stove heated water (like the text says) or against purified water (labels in the photos). From the photos alone, I would deduce a completely different experiment, which demonstrates that some water purification technique can effectively remove some sort of bad chemical, but just heating the water in the microwave doesn’t help (and if this was the experiment, you would draw exactly the opposite conclusions about whether microwaves will denature chemical compounds!). I don’t want to trash talk a student’s science fair project (particularly based on a second hand account), but the experimental design could be a lot better, starting by using a large number of plants in each group.
I’m sure that there are interesting questions to ask about what effect microwave ovens have on the complex molecules found in food. Probably a lot of these questions have been studied in detail — I have no idea about that state of that research. But it’s pretty hard for me to believe that microwaves cause any sort of chemical change to water.
Ok, that’s all for now. AV, if you were just trolling, then nice work.
i guess that is what trolling is. sorry. i thought it was hilariously and ontopicly dumb. did you catch the “my channeled messages” link?
seriously though. web archeology is frickin fascinating. these things just float around for years. is there a repository somewhere? would love to trace original sources.
The snopes.com message board has some nice snark.
Not that I’m a fan of overusing the microwave, but talk about a ton of assumptions made from one experiment.
Alright, I’m gonna lean on my FK database one more time: anyone use an internet fax service that they’ve found to be easy and reliable? I’m considering getting rid of my fax machine at the office since it hardly ever gets used these days. So much is via email these days, it seems like I could get away with having just an an e-fax service.
I don’t recall the last time I used a fax. Why not just get rid of it and say “We don’t have a fax machine, please use email like the rest of modern society.”
Thanks, and go As.
I just had someone ask me if they could fax me a Drs note for an upcoming surgery they would need time off for. As much as I wanted to ask them if they could go back and place some bets for me since they clearly are in 1998, I just asked if they could scan the doc instead and email it.
Clearly neither of you have worked with the 65+ owner of a boutique called “La De Da” or “Frannie’s Gifts-n-things.”
Hey!
No personal experience with it, but your sonic account includes a free outgoing and incoming (including a fax #) e-fax service.
And they’ll also clean out your sump pump!
MindSump.BlownPumped.I have used e-fax before for work/home. I believe you can get a free account if you don’t much care about having a local area code. To have a local number, I think it was $15/month. Worked reasonable well. Eventually, I realized that there wasn’t any occasion where a fax would have been preferable to scanning something and e-mailing it as a .pdf, so I got rid of the account.
Anybody have an opinion about the Upper Glenview neighborhood in Oakland, for two ol’ FXing sexagenerians?
Love it. Beautiful, great location, proximate to both 580 and Highway 13 for commutes. If I did not have kids in public schools and could afford it I’d live there in a second.
Their Neighborhood Association website.
Thanks, Free — looks like a tight-knit bunch of neighbors — with some grey and/or missing hair. We’ve been wanting to be closer-in, in friendlier confines. There’s an incredible range of value to be had in the East Bay at any given price. Trying to be patient … appreciate the word!
Don’t know but I think Jon Carroll lives there. He refers to it every now and then in his columns.
Example.
Thx Ice, baby — he ol’ , too.
umm, so i have new fire2wire cable and adapter. But I’m too tired to deal with it. So… just listen to Foster the People over and over again?
All the other Jobs with their fucked up interface
Better run better run, outrun my USB cable
you make me cry.
this board lacks future ed.
at least I have my pumped up kicks.
That’s really dangerous, I hear.
only for the other kids.
hello!