OFFTOP 06.19.2009 Absolute Boredom Edition

1. Not I.
2. Miles ahead of Citysearch and the like. I use Yelp when going to new cities all the time.
3. Nope.
4. Flying to Cincinnati tomorrow, drinking and watching baseball all weekend.
5. Not really, no. Freddie, definitely.
6. Give it a good catcher so it can realize its true potential.

Oh, and on another topic, Portland is on the verge of losing the Beavers. This distresses me, and the arrival of MLS, while nice, will not fill the void. I love AAA baseball.

$11,000 is a lot to spend on dental work.

I haven’t ever heard of Alice and Kev, but thanks for pointing me that way. It looks interesting.

Never used Yelp before. I tend to stick to what I know on the interwebs.

I live in Tonasket, so the good Mexican comes from the local taco stands.

Deep-sea fishing and doing yard work with some M’s games sprinkled in.

I haven’t paid much attention to the Sounders, though I should.

Send it down to Tacoma to get stretched out and learn how to pitch.

1. Alice and Kev looks interesting. I have never played Sims and I don’t really even know what it is. But this I’ll read.
2. I use Yelp semi regularly. I generally get a second opinion though, if I’m unsure.
3. I don’t know ANYTHING about the Eastside.
4. No plans whatsoever besides training my dog and fencing my yard. And working my ass off.
5. I haven’t been paying as much attention to the Sounders as I would like.
6. I am not sure I’ve ever seen a bobblehead in real life.

I’ve always been curious about them – they seem to be the kind of band I’d like quite a bit, but I’ve never really gotten too deep into their catalog. Where should I start?

Both! I use it all the time, but some of the reviewers are insane. My store’s only sub-four start rating was a one. I e-mailed the person that left it and asked what we could do to improve our customer service, which seemed to be her main beef. Without going into details, I will just say that her expectations of what constitutes “acceptable customer service” were outlandish. This was not made apparent in her review at all, and this is extremely frustrating.

Also, the fact that you have to pay for advertising to be able to publicly respond to customer complaints (some of which I am sure are mean-spirited and patently untrue) without violating the TOS is absurd. Luckily I haven’t had to deal with such things, but if it ever happens it will suck. Some of the more batty one-star reviews are hilarious though. And it certainly has its uses.

Also compelling. There’s likely no welfare system of any type – food banks, etc… but I wonder what would happen if she went to a church. Are there churches?

1. Read a few entries when I saw that thing going around, thought it was mildly amusing, never went back and don’t really care to.
2. Yelp is useful. I use it in conjunction with Chowhound.
3. The Eastside of… Seattle? No. But, let me tell you about a few taco trucks in East L.A…
4. Hoping to get away to Utah. Zion, Bryce, Monument…
5. Having lived out of region for a while now I find it terribly difficult to care for that team.
6. All it needs is a little TLC.

However, I am going to Las Vegas next week, and I’ve got baseball games to play in most weekends until late August, so that’s cool.

In the meantime, it’s all about saving and kicking student loans in the ass.

If so, you should come by and put a bullet through my fucking brain say hello.

I have no idea who Alice and Kev are. From what I gather it has something to do with the Sims, which I was addicted to for a week or so at one point.

I stumble across Yelp through Google searches, and it is hit or miss.

I haven’t really found a mexican place I like in the Seattle metro area, but I’m from Yakima and stuff there is truly “authentic.”

Big plan for the summer is the drive across the country to move to Nashville.

Don’t follow Sounders news much, but watch them when they are on TV.

I think the good snarky Morrow comments have already been taken.

I can’t stop listening to them.

Flip Flop Fly Ball. Infographics about baseball stuff. More trivial than statistical but still kinda neat.

But still the quest continues.

Did you hear about the Indian who drank too much tea?

Setanta’s gone bust. This means that a whole bunch of Premiership games that were supposed to be televised in this country now might not be – ESPN is apparently in on the bidding to pick up the pieces, but if they don’t that’s 46 less Premiership games that won’t be shown here.

I went to the Washington Brewers Festival tonight. It’s was a .75 mile walk from my new house. I’d recommend going. It poured, but it was fun and tasty. I might go back on Sunday.

Jacob Miller – Collectors Classics
Lee Perry – Arkology
Congos – Heart of the Congos
Steel Pulse – True Democracy (more English-style, but still very nice)
The Chantells – Children of Jah

And kind of obscure, but check out Billy Boyo (Zim Zim and the DJ Clash reissue). He died young and didn’t have a large body of work but put out some stone grooves.

I’m several years into a game of Out of the Park Baseball 10 (which kicks ass by the way) when I get a trade proposal from the Giants. Guess who San Fransisco hired after finally getting rid of Sabean? None other than Bill Bavasi. Poor Giants fans.

“Without further adieu”

In this story, a new (female) sports fan talks about how she now “gets” soccer, by telling us the hottest players.
Well done. Very well done.