OT, Jan 28-- we're gonna need an even Bigger OT!
by msb on Jan 28, 2011 10:50 PM PST
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FAN FEST! FAN FEST! what to do, what to do... Swing Ichiro's bat, try on Chone Figgins' batting glove or hit a simulated Felix Hernandez fastball.
It's Hawaii weekend at the Seattle Aquarium, plus hula dancers! Ukulele virtuosos!
See the baby tortoises (tortois?) at the Woodland Park Zoo
It's the NHL All Start Weekend (as I am sure you all know) and a columnist in Calgary thinks it needs spicing up
What else is happening this weekend .. well, Cher plays The Colosseum at Caesars Palace...
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Is that tortoise eating rocks?
And this makes me want to go to the zoo. It’s been awhile.
Dawg! He put da team on his back!
Zoos are awesome.
Seriously. Take someone’s kid along if you need to justify it but the fact is that zoos are just about the most awesome things in existence.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 29, 2011 1:22 AM PST up reply actions
At the summer camp I used to work at we would go to the once a summer
I’m sure I had more fun than the kids did.
Eat shit bum!
On the subject of zoos...
Top 5 Animals I Do Not Ever Want To Meet In The Wild
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1. Candiru (also known as the Amazonian dickfish)
2. Funnel spider
3. Box jellyfish (2 and 3 are the most venomous animals in the world)
4. Spitting cobra (the regular ones are bad enough but these buggers actually aim for your eyes)
5. Siafu
There are actually only a very small number of known instances of humans being killed by wolves.
For example, according to the wikis, a little more than 3,000 people were documented to have been killed by wolves in the 250 year period 1580 to 1830. In the last 60 years alone, 5,500 people have died from box jellyfish stings off the coast of Australia. There’s a population difference but it’s not that large. North American wolves are a lot less aggressive than European ones, too.
I think the fear of wolf packs has more to do with our literature than an actual relative fear.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 29, 2011 8:26 AM PST up reply actions
More people are killed or injured by domesticated dogs in the US than by sharks
But we get Shark Week and cute dog competitions. Kind of strange. They should have a show called When Fluffy Attacks!
It would be strange, but hey, that pesky media and its overreactions!
See also: airline travel, child abductions by strangers, murders, everything ever about health/diet, etc
Something like 3 times as many people died as a result of not flying from the fall of 2001 to 2002 compared to the people who actually died in the WTC bombing.
Humans are really, really good at pattern recognition; the downside of this is that we tend to notice a lot of patterns that aren’t really there, and exaggerate ones that we do see. For example, see baseball analysis prior to sabermetrics.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 29, 2011 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
I mean, the WTC plane hits. Or the PFIBI incident, depending on what you want to call it.
Way, way, way more people died from not flying than who died in the 1993 bombing, of course.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 29, 2011 10:42 AM PST up reply actions
But then you have to consider 2nd and 3rd order effects
Iraq/Afghanistan!
That seems kinda high. Only like 200-500 people are killed in the US a year once you take into account all the guys tooling around in their little Cessnas and stuff.
Even at the recent general aviation fatality rate of 22 fatalities per million flight-hours (many times the rate of airline carrier fatalities), you’d need to lose 409 million flight-hours to save 9000 lives. At 2001 traffic rates, that represents every flight in the United States for 15 years.
by D.Szymborski on Jan 29, 2011 2:09 PM PST up reply actions
The book I got this from, by the way, is Daniel Gardner's The Science of Fear.
And as it turned out I had the numbers mixed up. The people who died as a result of driving more and flying less (approximately 1.600 according to psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, but six times as many who were on the planes that crashed during the PFIBI, and 319 times the total number of people killed by the anthrax attacks that happened at the same time.
By the way, big fan of your work, Dan.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 29, 2011 2:21 PM PST up reply actions
Stupid going away from the computer for a minute to check a source and then forgetting where you left off.
That second sentence should read “The people who died as a result of driving more and flying less (approximately 1,600 according to psychologist Gerd Gigerener) were a little more than half the number of people who actually died in the WTC attacks but six times as many as who were on the planes…”
by Johnny Slick on Jan 29, 2011 2:29 PM PST up reply actions
Thanks for reading.
Actually, I misread what you wrote, so it was a moot point anyway!
by D.Szymborski on Jan 29, 2011 5:39 PM PST up reply actions
Did she do this herself?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Irrelevant
Most people probably don’t meet them alone in the wild. I could escape any of those other things pretty easily.
A box jellyfish? Not really.
If you’re stung by a box jellyfish, you have something like 5 minutes to wash off the nematocysts or, if you don’t do that in time, take antivenin. Then you die. Since you’re going to be out swimming at the time, this might not be so easy to do, as evidenced by all the deaths over the last 60 years. Also, from what I gather their stings are massively painful; your body essentially shuts itself down from shock due to the pain.
The funnel spider is, unlike other poisonous spiders, mean and aggressive. The siafu (also called pinching ants) don’t, I think, actually kill a lot of people but they’re still pretty nasty.
http://blessedquietness.com/yarn/pinching.htm
When pinching ants get on you, they don’t bite at once. I have heard anyone with experience tell the same story. The ants climb up inside your clothes, and you never feel them. They seem to give a signal, and suddenly they ALL start biting at once. They have huge pinchers, and they grab hold and don’t let go. There are many stories told about them.
My story is that, as a kid, I went out at night into the dark to relieve myself before going to bed. We were visiting friends, and needed to take care of the call of nature, so my brother and I went out into the dark and took care of things. In that short time, while standing smack in the middle of a pinching column on its way somewhere, we were covered. The ants all hit as we were walking into the house of our friends, and my folks had to strip us and pull the ants off one at a time.
That leaves the candiru (I think you probably already know what a cobra is; now just picture a nastier cobra who doesn’t even need to bite you to mess you up badly). From Burrough’s Naked Lunch:
“[A] small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your arsehole or a woman’s cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru’s life-cycle in situ.”
So I guess you could avoid these all pretty easily by not going to Australia, Africa, or South America, but that kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
by Johnny Slick on Jan 29, 2011 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
If the candiru could strike from afar
The world would end.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
There are a very limited number of box jellyfish that kill, and kill that quickly.
Majority are only painful.
Oh lordy that was not a good movie
I had heard good things, but I watched it and it was just kinda dumb. but wolves!
Its super Bi-Polar.
Happy, Laughing, sunny. RAIN, WIND, SNOW, WOLVES!
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 9:59 AM PST up reply actions
I'm a skier too!
What skis do you use? Or do you demo? My dad recently took a trip up to Red in B.C. with a couple of friends and really enjoyed it. It’s a pretty small and old mountain, but had excellent snow for only having a peak elevation of ~7200 ft. Have you been anywhere cool?
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Jan 31, 2011 11:58 AM PST up reply actions
My equipment is all rossignol
I haven’t been to many places for skiing, but will get to go to Aspen next winter so I’m excited for that. And still hoping to add Whistler at some point.
The absolute worst place I’ve skied is at Big Bear in Lackawaxen, PA. East coast skiing blows. Absolute best place, and I have a hard time anywhere ever passing it, was Zauchensee about an hour south of Salzburg. Just a fabulous experience all around.
I use mostly Nordica.
I’ve been to a couple really nice places for skiing, though never to Aspen. I routinely go to Lake Tahoe, as it’s only a 3 hour drive from the Bay Area, but I’ve also been to many places outside state lines. My dad took me to Park City in 2002 for the Olympics and we had some excellent skiing. I’ve also been to Sun Valley, which is always nice. I haven’t skied in Colorado since I was 4, but from what I hear it’s gotten insanely expensive.
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Jan 31, 2011 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
Skiing/Snowboarding in general has gotten expensive.
I live about 40 minutes from Mt. Baker and will end up spending about $120-130 anytime I go (with my wife)
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
It's gotten pricier, but I tend to spend all day on the slopes
so $50-60 for ~10 hours of skiing doesn’t strike me as horribly expensive. Cheaper than one seahawk game for instance
See I never go enough to get into "ski shape" So I spend maybe 4 hours.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 12:31 PM PST up reply actions
The trick is to spend like 4 hours on the slopes, then take a 1-2 hour break where you booze up
then go back for another 4 hours that you cannot feel soreness
I hit a tree while sober.
I don’t think I should booze up.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 12:46 PM PST up reply actions
Well, soberiety obviously didn't work.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I would love to try skiing but it does seem expensive.
Not owning skiing equipment, how much does it cost to rent ski/snowboard equipment? Also, is it easy to find it for a size 16 shoe?
If you have size 16 feet you might not need skis.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
by Thingray on Jan 31, 2011 1:01 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Do you have an REI membership, or access to one?
It can be cheaper to take equipment with you to the hill, and they take pretty good care of their stuff.
If you’ve never been before, contact whichever ski resort you’re planning on visiting and check on lessons. A quick half day lesson on the basics typically comes packaged with skis/boots/poles and a full day ticket for a discount price. I’d really recommend doing this, it can be a miserable experience otherwise.
I’d also recommend White Pass for a beginner, lots of shorter runs at lower difficulty levels, especially now they’ve opened up the backside of the mountain.
And if you rent at the mountain, call ahead about the boots.
They may only have a limited number that size, I wear a 14 boot and have run into trouble with that. It’s been my experience that the earlier you arrive, the better the equipment as well. Resort gear can get pretty beat, especially years with less snow coverage.
Thanks for the info.
Another skiing question I have is I’m wondering where a good place would be to go to have a weekend skiing trip would be.
I remember Mt. Baker being a lovely mountain and all, but there doesn’t seem to be any loging near the ski areas. Are there places in the cascades that are set up for something like this? I’m picturing it like I see it in movies, where you waltz out of your hotel room and go right up to the ski area.
You're close enough to Whistler that you should just go there.
They – more than any other resort in the cascades – have true ski in/ski out lodging.
Both Stevens and Snoqualmie have ski lodges on site I believe.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Growing up in Yakima I have no experiences with a weekend trip to the Cascades
Schweitzer over in Sandpoint, ID can be great but the snow conditions can be a deal breaker. Maybe :30 from Sandpoint to the top of the mountain, and there are plenty of lodgings available on the mountain (cost can really go up fast)
Big White in Kelowna Canada is great. I’d really recommend this one. And don’t take gear with you (exchange rate).
If you do Baker for a beginner.
Goto the upper lodge
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
This is a fun and traumatizing idea...
Nice list.
Poisonous animals in general are pretty freaky. See also: the duckbilled platypus. It looks so cute, and then it stings you with its hindclaw. I don’t think those stings are fatal to humans but they are painful from what I’ve read.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 29, 2011 9:32 AM PST up reply actions
1. Any animal from Austrailia.
Seriously. Goddamn deathtrap of a continent.
Dawg! He put da team on his back!
Thats a wallaby bro.
And they don’t take kindly to people misidentifying him. I would run now.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Jan 29, 2011 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
Especially if one of those fuckers is on the road
Stay to the bush and leave my car alone, and don’t come into the city.
DROP BEAR
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by JY on Jan 29, 2011 2:02 PM PST up reply actions
LOOK UP. STAY ALIVE.
Dawg! He put da team on his back!
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I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
by HititHere on Jan 31, 2011 11:05 AM PST up reply actions 4 recs
Garbage day is a very dangerous day.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 31, 2011 2:21 PM PST up reply actions
Hmm
1. Kimono Dragon
2. Swimming near a Blue whale.
3. Polar Bear
4. Piranhas
5. Literally anything else bigger then me in the ocean.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 9:51 AM PST up reply actions
I didn't think Blue whale where violent at all.
People are so small to them they don’t give a fuck.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Jan 31, 2011 9:54 AM PST up reply actions
They aren't.
I would just have a giant anxiety attack.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 9:58 AM PST up reply actions
*Komodo Dragon
Although imagining a dragon in a kimono is very pleasing.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 31, 2011 9:55 AM PST up reply actions 5 recs
A friend of mine swam in a river with piranahs.
Said they weren’t that big a deal, just don’t be bleeding. He was way more worried about the tiny fish that swim up your hoo hoo.
Interestingly enough, a search for "kimono dragon" came dangerously close to NSFW territory.
But this one’s fine.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
On the same subject. List of 5 animals you would want to encounter in the wild.
1. Bengal Tiger
2. Badger
3. Red Panda
4. Snow Leopard
5. Pack of cougars.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 9:57 AM PST up reply actions
Favourite joke time!
Q. How do you titilate an ocelot?
A. Oscillate it’s tit a lot.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 31, 2011 10:03 AM PST up reply actions 9 recs
#6organism
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 10:22 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
What is your opinions of wolverines?
Dawg! He put da team on his back!
They are not nearly as awesome as Saint Bernards.
In fact, they exhibit a special lameness only reserved for themselves, totem poles, and knights.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 9:48 PM PST up reply actions
Pineda is 6'7 or so and Franklin is probably 6'0 if that.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Damn he is massive.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Jan 29, 2011 12:52 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Pineda's huge.
Huge. I don’t know exactly how tall, but he looked bigger than the A’s Chris Carter, which is impressive. I wouldn’t be surprised if Pineda’s 6’7".
Baseball reference has him at 6 ' 5", 180 pounds.
Something tells me that’s incorrect. Maybe he was that size when he first signed, at age 17.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
My B-Ball scouting report listed me at 6'3.
I barely scrape 6’1
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
Speaking of Nick Franklin
Larue has a piece this morning — the thing I found interesting was how self-possessed he was for a kid
How was it?
Hard to tell from the tight video of the dugout chats but the clapping sounded very sparse, like not so many folks were there. But maybe because there were 1200 other things to do.
Pretty good, actually.
it ebbed and flowed with the guests, but nothing was embarrassingly empty. Felix got a standing ovation, as befits royalty.
He was hilarious during the dugout portion.
Very animated and articulate, full of beans. I hope we give him the moon to stay beyond his current contract.
At Fanfest right now.
Got here at 10 but too late for Felix voucher. Ended up getting ackleys autograph, tried to start a little small talk but it was pretty obvious he didn’t have the time or patience for that. Also got a Kyle Seager head shot signed!
The lines are ridiculous but that’s to be expected. I did the mariners last fan standing which was fun and won a round so got a hat/two view reserved tickets. Tried to leave and come back to get a Pineda autograph but was too late.
Currently waiting in line to knock the shit out of a t-ball so I can do something Jose Lopez never could, hit a ball over the centerfield wall.
by cedarA on Jan 29, 2011 1:39 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Someone call Russell Branyan.
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Jan 29, 2011 2:31 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Well this would be an interesting way for him to get hurt this season
by seattlebruin on Jan 29, 2011 2:31 PM PST up reply actions
The joke was that they'd fight and he'd rip the jersey off of him so that he'd go away.
Laugh out loud! I need this season to start so that players do something that sets me up for the easy jumper. Right now I feel like I’m half court granny styling it.
...and now I'm here
Pretty easy mistake to make when you get dressed in the dark in unfamiliar surroundings.
Pretty sure Fett can back me up on this one
Thank you Robert and Eyebrows for sitting with me as I waited patiently for my shot at Last Fan Standing trivia.
Between that, Felix, seeing more LLers and collecting a ton of loot, it was a good day.
Did you get in?
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 29, 2011 8:41 PM PST up reply actions
I did! I had to wait about two hours, but it was all worth it.
The first round of questions was about Mariners opening day starting pitchers, and the next was members of the 1997 ALDS squad.
How was the competition?
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 29, 2011 9:10 PM PST up reply actions
Surprisingly decent.
In years past I skated to easy victories, but this time around there were a few fans who really knew their Mariners.
I got in the first hour and won a game
then had an epic battle naming off players on the 2001 ALDS Roster. We came up with players like Paul Abbott, John Halama, Jose Paniagua and Charles Gipson, but we whiffed on Al Martin and Norm Charlton in the obvious category and Tom Lampkin and Ed Sprague in the perhaps-not-so-obvious category. Pitman ruled it a tie.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 30, 2011 5:13 AM PST up reply actions
Same thing here today...
Won the first round pretty easily, but in the championship, it was M’s catchers from 1996-2010… Two of us lasted til the very end but we ended up tying… Couldn’t remember greats such as Wiki Gonzalez, Rene Rivera, or Ed Sprague.
My championship category was Mariners Most Valuable Pitchers since 1984
This is an award that Ron Villone won.
by Mariner John on Jan 30, 2011 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
Did you guys get Raul Ibanez on the board?
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 31, 2011 2:02 AM PST up reply actions
Also incredibly admirable:
“Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier; taking on the dacoits in the train was my duty as a human being.”
Would that everyone had that sense of justice—of right and wrong. I know we’re not all trained soldiers with massive knives, but that statement…I want to believe in that. I want to be that person if it ever comes down to it.
The NYT's Tyler Kepner
talked to Gil Meche last week about his retirement. Don’t know if this is behind a wall or not.
bwahaha
TheRealMariners Jack Zduriencik on Manager Wedge’s intensity: “People ask me why you hired him. I say I was afraid during the interview not to.” #MarinersFF
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 30, 2011 3:14 PM PST reply actions 5 recs
I imagine it was something like...
Dawg! He put da team on his back!
Okay, here's a baseball one.
Worst position player that you genuinely enjoy watching and rooting for that is neither a Mariner nor has ever been an iconic one (minor league player from 9 years ago is fine).
...and now I'm here
Rob Johnson!
Just because I love that he counts as not a Mariner.
by Mariner John on Jan 31, 2011 12:25 AM PST up reply actions
In history and not a position player, Larry Andersen for sure.
For position players, Jeremy Brown at first, but since he retired Nick “Shaggy” Swisher.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 6:31 AM PST up reply actions
Endy Chavez
Fuck you Yuni
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Jan 31, 2011 9:52 AM PST up reply actions
David Eckstein
He gave short me incorrect aspirations about playing baseball professionally.
(I got tall and I still suck at it.)
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Jan 31, 2011 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
Jesus Guzman!
One time Mariner minor leaguer who ended up getting a shot with the Giants.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
And now with the Pads!
He may actually have a chance to break camp too since his only real competition is Brad Hawpe and Jorge Cantu.
Hooray!
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I loved Edgardo Alfonzo for his name.
I kept liking Omar Vizquel after he was traded. Jay Bell and Gregg Jeffries were neat because they were really good the first Griffey baseball for SNES.
So is there a way to get Firefox to stop shitting on my computer?
I have a brand new laptop, virus scan software, and Firefox still manages to cause my computer to heat up and slow. I don’t even have other programs running. I don’t mind using Chrome, but I’m used to the Firefox layout and would rather not get used to a new browser if I can help it.
...and now I'm here
Firefox has massive memory leaks.
Unless you’re a computer programmer who can crack open the Firefox source code (open source!) and debug line by line, you are pretty much going to face this problem. In some instances it’s more tolerable, but really, this is what Firefox has been doing since one of the early 3.x releases.
Obviously there are optimizations available for the browsing experience, but the proc and memory it takes up is just an inherent, consistently ingored flaw in the program itself.
The only time I notice FireFox having issues with memory
is when shitty as Flash crashes. Usually I can do a control, alt delete, end the plugin thingy and the world goes back to normal.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Get in the habit of shutting down your browser before you go to sleep or leave your computer unattended for more than an hour
You can set Firefox to re-open your last set of tabs, either natively or by installing Tab Mix Plus where I know for a fact that’s a setting. The longer Firefox is open, the more memory it leaks.
It doesn't appear to, at least not to the extent that Firefox does
I think most browsers leak, but from everything I’ve read Chrome is far less leaky. I’m not particularly technical, but I know that the main difference between Chrome and Firefox under the hood is that Chrome treats every tab as if it were its own browser, where Firefox does not. From what little I understand, this allows Chrome to isolate problems within a tab before they cause issues with the whole browser. Whether this has to do with leaks or not, I’m not sure, but it seems like it might.
The last time I used Chrome (which was in fairness a couple years ago) it didn't leak memory as badly but it was really buggy.
Like, it used to crash all the time. Very annoying. That’s probably been fixed since then but you know how it is… once you decide not to use one product you get used to the other one.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
I just switched to Chrome about two weeks ago
and so far, on both my home iMac and my work PC (on a ridiculously huge and slow network) I haven’t experienced any crashes. There are definite cultural differences, but I like Chrome pretty well so far.
I should add that I use IEX whenever I go to bbref or similar sites...
…because the PITA that is Microsoft doesn’t support copying and pasting tables out of Firefox into Excel. You can look at the exact same webpage in two different browsers but if you copy and paste a table from Mozilla into Excel it spits everything out into one line, so you can’t even run the convert text to columns wizards anymore.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 8:50 AM PST up reply actions
Do you know how to import Web tables into Excel?
Data—>Import external data—>new web query
This will open a browser. Go to the page containing the data you want in Excel, and tables on that page should have handles (yellow boxes with arrows) on them. Click the handle for the table you want to export, and it should paste the data into Excel for you no problem. I think this works with any browser you have set as default – my work browser is set to IEX as a default so I can’t test it with FF or Chrome but if those are set as default it should work.
It’s just so much easier to do this than to copy/paste and make sure everything formats right. And importing Web tables also offers you the chance to refresh the data every time the Excel sheet is opened.
I would say that selecting text, hitting Ctrl-C, and then tabbing over to Excel and hitting Ctrl-V is easier than that.
The refreshing the data issue is a good point, although I rarely use stuff that gets refreshed by itself (honestly, most of what I do with this involves websites generated by a baseball game that I play; I reformat the data into something I then post on a dynasty message board. Yes, that is probably the nerdiest thing ever written on these boards). I might have IEX set as the default browser on my laptop, though, which could be what’s causing this, I guess.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 9:56 AM PST up reply actions
This isn't Microsoft.
This is how the Gecko engine generates tables from the source code. Excel renders with tab spacing for the table (seriously, copy out of Excel and paste into a basic text editor, like Notepad, and you’ll see everything sorted by tabs). The tab character is an RTF character, but the web renders almost always in UTF.
Trident (the IE engine) renders the table HTML as RTF content, so everything is sorted by tabs. Gecko does not.
So I'm shooting a music video for a friend tomorrow and I'm looking for stuff to parody.
What are your favorite low budget music video moments?
How big was the budget on Sabotage?
If it was low then I’d like to recommend the entire thing.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 31, 2011 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
If you liked Sabotage
I’d recommend watching this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N_yF7I1VIE
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
Not available in my country :/
Sorry about that.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 31, 2011 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Search for the music video "Grum - Through the night"
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 10:36 AM PST up reply actions
That. Was. Awesome.
That’s exactly how I imagine Hot Fuzz would have been if it focused on the Andies instead of Angel.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 31, 2011 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
When thinking of cheeseball videos I always turn to Motley Crue's early work
Looks that Kill and Shout At The Devil are both awesome. Your video should include at least one flaming pentagram.
Might as well throw in a girl writhing on the hood of a car, also
by tootthekazoo on Jan 31, 2011 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
You could give everybody crazy glowing eyes like that "Turn Around Bright Eyes" video.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
You should parody the video for the Replacements' Bastards of Young
But, instead of a speaker, have it be a single shot of an iPod or something.
With Heroes 3 music!
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I wish I was capable of getting excited about it, but they've been in a long decline since 3.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 31, 2011 4:41 PM PST up reply actions
"In 2012, the organization's name will change to the Miami Marlins, and the franchise will have a revamped uniform and logo."
says MLB.com’s Joe Frisaro
Or else the name of a minor league baseball club.
Which was, coincidentally, what the minor league team in Miami was called for years. I always liked that kind of heritage. See also: the San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Angels, Milwaukee Brewers. It would have been cool if the Mariners had been named the Rainiers instead.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
Everyone in the country would learn our geography, too.
We’d join such educational mascots as the 49ers, 76ers, and Coyotes.
Can they make the Marlin wear a hat that has a different logo on it?
Also, how about giving it a bottle nose?
A very long time ago....
Although I did notice it was on TV last night. Saw it in the listings, but I watched a bunch of stuff about K2 instead.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Well, gosh , what more do I need to know?
" Naive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition. "
Not nearly as fun as a porn-cone.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
My brain wants to play with this for a while
by royalcurve on Jan 31, 2011 11:58 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
He was Naive the first time!
But she forced the issue on the heart shaped water bed!
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 31, 2011 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
To piggyback on this, I started watching Party Down yesterday.
Fantastic show, and I’m sad I didn’t know more about it when it was on. Having seen Veronica Mars and now Party Down, I can forgive Rob Thomas for bringing 90210 back.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Jan 31, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
"I can forgive Rob Thomas for bringing 90210 back"
What? Did I miss something?
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Sorry, Rob Thomas was the writer/director/producer for Veronica Mars and Party Down, both of which are fantastic shows.
But he’s also responsible for bringing 90210 back from the dead.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Jan 31, 2011 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
Different Rob Thomas, thankfully.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Jan 31, 2011 12:04 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, that was my first thought.
I was trying to figure out how that worked.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Don't slander Rob Thomas.
He got off that show before it started. Two of Apatow’s writers (who also created Life as We Know It, starring Kelly Osbourne) were the show runners.
Anyone like poets?
My friend and alumni from my school has had a video go viral.
He’s an amazing poet and I had the pleasure of seeing him perform live.
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA
uh.... not poetry?
Impressive though.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
No, he's a poet.
Check out some of his other videos.
S for Lisp
V for Virgin
Drunk Text Message to God
And here he is on Def Poetry.
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Jan 31, 2011 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
I'd classify what he's doing as more spoken word stuff.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Or slam poetry.
Which I don’t consider poetry.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
So what's an example of what you would consider poetry?
Not trying to mix words here, just trying to learn. You’re an English major right? You have a better understanding of language than I do.
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Jan 31, 2011 12:43 PM PST up reply actions
It's one of those things that's contentious at this point.
I can’t say that it’s particularly definitive at the moment, but from what I’m getting out of his work, it’s pretty much designed to be heard out loud, not read on paper. The delivery is huge for him, and is a large part of what makes his work.
I tend to come down on the slam poetry being its own thing camp because I’ve seen too many performers who were almost entirely the act and actually trying to read what they wrote was agonizing. This guy actually has some talent though in both areas. Not really my cup of tea though.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I think this falls under the same basic discussion of what is/isn't art
I recently watched the Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop and made a comment to my wife about how, while a lot of graffiti is just gang-related vandalism, some of the people are genuine artists. She said no matter what style graffiti is she views it as trash and not art in any way, shape, or form.
Slam poetry and the various styles of spoken-word poetry still qualify as poetry to me, although it is completely different from any traditional poetry.
by tootthekazoo on Jan 31, 2011 3:08 PM PST up reply actions
I think of it as kind of theatre/movies distinction.
Both stem from the same thing and there are plenty of crossovers within it, but what is emphasized in one or the other is different.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 31, 2011 3:17 PM PST up reply actions
I once read a book, so I'm with JY on this one.
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Jan 31, 2011 4:00 PM PST up reply actions 6 recs
I'm sorry, I think I missed something here.
perfectstrat seemed to put stock in JY’s blanket announcement that his friend’s thing is “not poetry” because JY was an English major. I thought I’d suggest that, as a person who also has an English degree (though I admit that it’s not as advanced as JY’s, if I recall correctly), I think perfectstrat is permitted to use that term.
Right well...
I think some people may have bristled over me saying it’s not poetry because usually when people say “x is not literature/art/a prospect/whatever”, they’re shitting on it, in so many words.
I’m not doing that. I’m saying that there’s a distinction in the aims and intent of written poetry versus spoken word/slam type stuff. The problem is that I don’t have a word that encompasses both terms, like acting covers theatre and movies, or a term that distinguishes written poetry from spoken word, so I just said “hey, one is this, one is that”. As for the whole educational thing, I have no interest in going down that particular route, and I think CapSea’s comment was just designed to diffuse that.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 1, 2011 4:09 PM PST up reply actions
Well, I would have added a winky face, but then it wouldn't have been funny.
Semi-colons should be limited to rectal cancer survivors and high school English papers.
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Feb 1, 2011 6:50 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Torres to Chelsea for £50M, David Luiz to Chelsea for £18M+Nemanja Matic, Charlie Adam to Liverpool for £14M.
I’d say that 325M for Andy Carroll is kind of proof enough though.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 31, 2011 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, and Luis Suarez to Liverpool for £24M.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 31, 2011 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
He cheated in the World Cup and bit a guy!
He’s rad.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 31, 2011 12:27 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
He cried about it!
When I think every single person would have done the same thing. Also, ha ha ha ha Ghana.
Liverpool are spending insane amounts of money to solidify eighth place
I’m so glad I’m a fan of a club that’s run with some sense of fiscal sanity.
£35M for Andy Carroll!
Amazing! People said Villa were nuts for spending £18M on Darren Bent!
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 31, 2011 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
Is Carroll really a replacement for Torres?
Or was Torres trying to force his way out?
Hodgson kind of screwed himself by leaving Fulham
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 31, 2011 2:25 PM PST up reply actions
Damn straight!!!
Although last year was freaking insane. Fulham almost winning the Europa Cup? Are you kidding me?
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 3:42 PM PST up reply actions
It won't bite Liverpool because their ownership group is pretty solid and they'll be in the black.
But the same cannot be said for a lot of other Premiership clubs. I know that I for one would like to see better revenue sharing in the Football League but they have weird notions about these things over there. Or maybe we do. I had an English friend marvel at how the uber-capitalist USA basically encourages socialism in its sports (not exactly because they’re still run by the government but there’s significantly less classical capitalism compared to the BPL).
No, they won't
FFP regulations won’t do shit.
by Graham MacAree on Feb 1, 2011 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
So does Torres going to Chelsea mean that the Sounders have to wait till summer before we buy him?
If so that’s super lame.
by Robert on Jan 31, 2011 12:57 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Torres in the USA would be AWESOME.
That dude would score like 100 goals.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 2:20 PM PST up reply actions
No kidding
2055: As we approach the last two hours of the transfer window, I can tell you English clubs have already broken the £100m barrier for transfer fees spent this month – and that’s before the mooted deals for Fernando Torres, Andy Carroll and David Luiz are taken into consideration. Unbelievable. By way of comparison – just £29m was spent by English clubs this time last year. I repeat what I said at 1830… English football has gone absolutely mad.
It's like the invention of the Premier League all over again
the mid-90’s were like this, and they were ridiculous.
I can only imagine that Gareth Bale is now valued at around 1.3 billion GBP
The past few days only highlight the spectacular fail that was the Guardian’s ‘exclusive’.
I wonder what he'll do now.
I can’t imagine he’s actually retiring.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Write for Fangraphs!
They’re hiring people left and right. Everyone seems to be writing for them these days.
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Jan 31, 2011 12:34 PM PST up reply actions
This makes me wonder:
Where do you all go for MLB-wide coverage? I used to be huge into Neyer, but now just read FanGraphs and Posnanski. Who else am I missing out on?
Calcaterra, Fangraphs, BP, Baseball Analysts, THT, and Posnanski are my main go-tos.
Occasionally I’ll read Olney and Verducci as well.
hmmm
from Blog Huddle:
He’ll work with our already excellent stable of writers from Jeff Sullivan to John Sickels to make sure that we have the best baseball coverage you’ll find anywhere
Looks like Neyer will have to change his name in order to conform to the “SBN excellent stable of writers” naming convention. Jrob Sneyer? Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but whatever.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 7:59 AM PST up reply actions 6 recs
I just saw Green Hornet last night
I’m pretty sure Seth Rogen was on crack for the entire process of making that movie. Did anyone else see it? I’m not sure I recommend it, but it was definitely bad-movie-funny.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 31, 2011 2:23 PM PST reply actions
I'm disappointed at how bad that movie seems to be
I haven’t seen it yet but I had pretty high hopes for it.
I thought it was funny, but more as a postmodern take on the superhero genre.
The Seth Rogen character is a bit like what Batman would be like if Batman were an actual person. And, well, if people liked to run around wearing capes and stuff. I thought it was legitimately funny and I enjoyed it a whole hell of a lot more than Step Brothers, for example.
I think that a lot of the negative reviews didn’t quite get the fact that the Green Hornet is supposed to be a sexist jackass whose only real saving grace is that he has a lot of money.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 3:45 PM PST up reply actions
The plot, action scenes, directing - all of those were top notch.
The script was the biggest load shit possible and completely ruined what could have been an amazing movie.
...and now I'm here
I felt like the script was intentionally hilariously bad.
The movie was definitely entertaining, but it was by no means a cinematic masterpiece.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 31, 2011 5:00 PM PST up reply actions
Gondry did The Science of Sleep, right?
How was that movie?
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 31, 2011 5:10 PM PST up reply actions
Eternal Sunshine is my favorite movie, and it's not particularly close.
I think that’s why I didn’t see Science of Sleep, actually; I was worried that Gondry couldn’t do it again.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 31, 2011 5:54 PM PST up reply actions
He can't but Science of Sleep is still worth seeing
it’s nowhere near as good as Eternal Sunshine, but if you know that going in you’ll be OK watching it because it’s definitely an interesting film.
I went and saw it with a bunch of film students in college
who all wanted to debate it endlessly after wards. I thought it was okay, and a little bizarre towards the end.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Never watch a film with film students
unless you want to be pretensious-ed to death afterwards. Or unless it’s a Pauly Shore movie.
It's hard to avoid at USC
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I did have one really cool cinema major roommate
he was from Graham Washington and was totally into old kung fu movies and bizarre Japanese cinema.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Anyone seen Never let me go, based on the Ishiguro book?
would it count as a scifi film, because the the big ‘secret’ of the plot?
Some people have said that, yes.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 31, 2011 3:17 PM PST up reply actions
Alternate History, new technology (not necessarily new but), Utopia/Dystopia....
Sure, I’ll call it Sci-Fi, but I probably would not describe it as Sci-Fi to most people because they would expect alien robot space travel. But the premise is in the Sci-Fi realm.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 31, 2011 3:31 PM PST up reply actions
That is an interesting word.
“Dys” makes me think of something negative, yet “topia” makes me think of something positive. I have no strong feelings about “n”.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Topia just means "place", or is derived from something that means it.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 31, 2011 3:42 PM PST up reply actions
So the "U" in utopia must be pretty damned important!
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
You are a cunning linguist
Utopia: Ideal
Dystopia: not so bueno
Autopia: vintage Disneyland ride
Amblyopia: Lazy eye
Onomatopoeia: Word that sounds like what it’s describing, like “boom”
by pdb on Jan 31, 2011 3:44 PM PST up reply actions 5 recs
Autopia was an awesome ride!
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Funny story.
“U” just means “not”. The whole utopia thing was started as an idealized, fictitious country anyway, so it kind of makes sense, but I had always mentally lumped that “u” with the “eu” that’s the prefix in “euphony”, so I didn’t know any of this until I looked it up a few minutes ago.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 31, 2011 3:48 PM PST up reply actions
I tried to look it up but then got distracted looking for vintage pictures of Autopia
serious research = not my forte
Autopia was the reason my dad and stepmom were terrified of me ever getting a driver's license.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 31, 2011 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
Can you use it in a sentence?
“Last Friday, Thingray was usober.”
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I wish I knew the Greek word for sober but otherwise I don't see why not.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 31, 2011 3:52 PM PST up reply actions
"Nepho" is apparently the Greek word for sober.
So unepho would be drunk I would suppose?
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
That sounds like some United Nations relief organization that brings delicious noodle soup to the impoverished
by pdb on Jan 31, 2011 3:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Also a great hangover cure!
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jan 31, 2011 3:58 PM PST up reply actions
If you put booze in pho, would you get a hangover if you had too much soup?
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
If memory serves, the "U" means something along the lines of "no".
Thomas More’s Utopia, which was the original, depicted a place that didn’t actually exist. And even that utopia was a bit of a dystopia in that by the end of the book More was talking about how it wasn’t really that great of a place to live in.
by Johnny Slick on Jan 31, 2011 3:47 PM PST up reply actions
Sorry Slick, JY kind of stole your thunder..
But feel free to join in!
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Unless they're driving.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
It was kinda both I guess
U for the takers, and Dys for the givers. But as mentioned below, most Utopia stories tend to show the ugly reason that it’s impossible by the end
I read it for summer reading.
It was a decent book, but I wouldn’t call it sci-fi. Now if it were say, When the Tripods Came, then it’d be different.
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Feb 1, 2011 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
Holy shit Google Voice is awesome.
Who else is stuck in fucking Houston waiting for a goddamn flight to open up to the northeast? With a broken phone and a Kindle as your only always-on contact with the outside world?
Fuck snow, and fuck anyone that likes snow.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Fuck you, asshole
Snow represents everything good- it’s fucking fairy dust from the angels and the heavens. Snow is love, man.
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
by Corco on Jan 31, 2011 8:47 PM PST up reply actions 6 recs
Listen here, snow's all well and good when you're in fucking Arizona, not where people actually want to go in planes.
But I’m going to be stuck in a shitty hotel overlooking the discount streetcorner in Cuntspittoon, TX for the next two days because nature decided to have a fucking ice party over the northeast yet again.
I’ll like snow again when it stops preventing me getting to my own bed, but for now give me my anger and soak your balls in some ice water if you like the cold so much.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Jan 31, 2011 9:48 PM PST up reply actions 7 recs
I can't figure out where this place is
When I google it, I just get calls from the I.T. department
Hells yeah!
Time for a road trip to Cuntspittoon, TX!
Snow sucks
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Oh snap, Jamey Wright's coming back.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Jesus Colome at least strikes people out
Jamey Wright induces groundballs which I understand the value of, but a guy who’s career K/9 is below 5 and career BB/9 is above 4 is not a guy I want to watch.
And those career numbers include Jamey Wright when he was good.
Define "good."
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 3:10 PM PST up reply actions
To pitch?
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Whether 'tis Knoblauch in the mind to suffer the slings and overthrows of outrageous putouts.
by ThomasG on Feb 1, 2011 9:57 AM PST up reply actions 10 recs
This one is so horrendous it had to be greened.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Don't blame me.
I make a horrible pun and it’s greened yet I make a clever Fibonacci joke and not one rec.
it's all in how you sequence things
sequence….hello? Is this thing on?
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 3:43 PM PST up reply actions
L'Hopital's worth it.
Because you just opened the door to an avalanche of horrible math puns…
by ThomasG on Feb 1, 2011 3:52 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
God, this joke is so derivative.
Dustin Ackley is going to make Joe Morgan look like Joey Cora.
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
It was functional.
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 9:39 PM PST up reply actions
Did Carlos Marmol set the record this year for K/9?
I can’t find anyone else who even gets over 15. Ridiculous.
Oliver Perez put up the 19th best season K rate in baseball history
Erik Bedard’s 2007 was 21st!
Zack Greinke, new Milwaukee Brewer
picked the Steelers to win the Super Bowl. I can’t think of another instance where it’d be so funny/acceptable for someone to pick the Steelers. Well, maybe this person.
So I installed Media Monkey because I was told that it was amazing at finding album art and fixing ID3 tags.
Turns out its not! I fubr’d my entire collection by making every song say that it belongs to the same random album. Does anybody have recommendations on how to fix it and of any programs that does what I was originally attending (Album art and correct ID3 tags). I currently use Windows Media Player and iTunes 10.
My media collection is 13 gbs so I would like something that could automate the process for me.
The Zune software actually fixed the damage Windows Media Player did to my library.
Although i’d note that prior to WMP11, I had a habit of manually editing ID3 tags importing album art to the extent that I’d sometimes spend hours making sure my collection was properly catalogued. I’m not sure Zune could actually fix yours, given the catastrophic failure of ID3 tags at this point…
I used to do the same with my collection
Hours and hours spent updating each line manually. Eventually I had to give it up because it was becoming the only thing that occupied my free time
More or less that was what happened
I think when I finally gave up for good was when Winamp toasted a huge chunk of my tags and I decided to just stop.
Sorry for your troubles. As harkening mentioned above, Zune is pretty good about doing wholesale tagging since it has a good database
by tootthekazoo on Feb 1, 2011 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
Reasonably good database.
If you get a boxed set of certain things like “This string quartet does all the works of this composer” it doesn’t have enough brainpower to distinguish between individual CDs most of the time. But that’s not a problem most people would have I guess.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 1, 2011 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
1995 ALDS Game 5 will be showing next Monday 8pm on MLB Network
The game was ranked as the 15th greatest baseball game since 1960. That’s kinda cool.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 31, 2011 11:44 PM PST reply actions
Surprised it managed to outrank 2004 ALCS Game 4
I suppose it was a clincher.
I forget, who was in that series again?
It’s mostly been lost to the dustbin of history, from what I remember
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 6:52 AM PST up reply actions
I believe it was between the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees
if memory serves me correctly (and memory does start to erode in old age), the Mariners won in five games
I like you but you really need to work on this lying/exaggeration thing
if it was the playoffs, as you claim, obviously the Yankees must have won, because that’s what they do.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 8:32 AM PST up reply actions
I just like to stir shit up
On an unrelated note, did you go to the tournament over the weekend?
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 8:37 AM PST up reply actions
I did not unfortunately
tickets were more expensive than anticipated, and I was mostly interested in walking the North Course, which was only used Thursday and Friday.
Instead, I used the opportunity to get in multiple rounds of golf figuring that half the population of the city interested in playing golf would instead be at the tournament this weekend
When you play Torrey Pines do you ever play the North Course?
are both open to the public?
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 8:43 AM PST up reply actions
Almost always play the North actually
I probably play the North five times for every time I play the South.
Essentially, my friend that I play with and I are both 80’s shooters, depending on how hard we’ve been working anywhere from 82-83 up to like 89-90. The North is just as scenic as the South, and has Torrey’s real signature hole (the downhill par three sixth), is significantly cheaper ($24 at twilight as opposed to $37), and much easier to get tee times on.
The South is lots of fun because of the history, but it’s just too challenging for us when most of the point is to just hang out, play, have fun and get in weird side bets. If the South were significantly more scenic or easier to get times on, it would probably be worth it, but the North is just too convenient to pass up.
I thought so it just sounded like you never played the North
I miss those days. I only get out 3-4 times a summer these days, which I’m increasing this summer even if it kills me, and because of that my routine mid/high 80’s is now a high 90’s/low 100’s. I still love playing, though, and it bugs me I don’t get out more.
To avoid continuing down this LLLJ-strewn path, anybody else find they don’t have time to do stuff they love to do as they get older/more responsible?
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 9:00 AM PST up reply actions
Playing golf more often seems a difficult task if it actually did kill you.
I would like to play more (by which I mean at all). I played all the time growing up but as soon as I hit 18 and the junior discounts stopped, I stopped playing. Couldn’t handle the transition from paying $10 to paying $30 for a round of golf.
Also, I steadfastly refuse to play public courses on weekends or weekday afternoons. I’m not a person who handles waiting in line well. I very much miss the many evenings I spent at my local, being amongst the last people on the course and walking through 9-hole loops in ~40 minutes. I might never be able to enjoy golf as a 6-hour commitment.
That's my whole problem with it
Golf on the weekends is an eight hour day. If I had eight hours to spend playing golf, I would happily do it, but that’s a big fat chunk of my weekend gone.
I do like going to the course by my house after work in the summer, though, I can usually get 9 holes in before it’s too dark and it’s not too bad most afternoons because I don’t typically tee off until 5 or so.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 9:14 AM PST up reply actions
I miss doing stuff like that
the Seattle munis were great for sneaking on at night and playing 8-10 holes with no one in front of you.
I just had that experience again for the first time in forever – got on a four star course for like $20 twilight rate, and they sent me out right in front of a tournament, so played the first nine holes by myself with no one in sight and had a cart. Played as slow as I possibly could and finished nine holes in an hour twenty
This is a two part question:
Are zombies the new vampires? It seems that I’m finding a lot of people that I wouldn’t expect to have any interest in zombies (I’ll be blunt, young girls) are starting to talk a lot about “zombie apocalypse” and “I love zombies!” I know zombies have hovered around the mainstream for decades, but now it seems like we’re hitting a point where they are more popular than ever.
Part 2, what’s your favorite zombie movie?
Zombies are indeed the new vampires, and like vampires they are not real, Coach
I hate how trendy things like vampires and zombies are/have been/always will be. That said, there are some good zombie movies. Shaun Of The Dead and Zombieland are recent favorites, but I will always have a soft spot for Dawn of the Dead because it’s awesome.
Zombie movies are interesting because in a lot of cases zombies stand for something else – in Dawn of the Dead, they’re mindless consumers, for instance – so the average zombie movie is far more interesting to me than the average vampire movie.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 9:29 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
um
Zombies are indeed the new vampires, and like vampires they are not real, Coach
I'd rather be considered "insane" and be prepared
than “sane” and be unprepared.
by Coach Owens on Feb 1, 2011 9:39 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Well then I have both wonderful and terrible news for you.
by Robert on Feb 1, 2011 9:42 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
This seriously might be the best OT post of 2011, already!
I want a man with slow hands. I want a lover with an easy touch.
I'm pretty sure it's insane to prepare for a fictional happening
so by definition being unprepared would mean you’re sane.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 9:44 AM PST up reply actions
I think there's a fair argument that sanity would hinge on the extent of preparation.
I mean, if he bought a case of canned soup at Costco “just in case”, I think that’s probably okay.
I spoke to somebody recently who said her father completely believes in 2012.
I wonder how many of those people are out there.
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 1, 2011 11:13 AM PST up reply actions
That would suck. All the holiday dinner planning, office parties, obligatory shopping, etc.
None of the presents.
Yup, that's the problem with the world ending
guess I’m not getting any new socks this year
by seattlebruin on Feb 1, 2011 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
You should get many pairs of nice new socks this year
so you can wear your new socks in 2012 when the world ends! Gotta look sharp.
I was just observing that the date is unfortunate.
If the world is going to end, it would at least be nice to go out on a high note.
My theory is that personally, my world could end 10 minutes from now.
Hit by a bus, heart attack, random kangaroo stampede… So the fact that some people say “THE WORLD WILL END ON THIS DAY” doesn’t really change my approach to life.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I should cash out my 401k as well!
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Everybody knows that the world will end on February 14th, in the year 2016
by tootthekazoo on Feb 1, 2011 11:53 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Because the commercialization of our holidays finally causes the downfall of capitalist scum?
by seattlebruin on Feb 1, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
Here's hoping it ends in a downpour of anvils.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
No, that's what the lady said in the beginning of Ghostbusters 2
by tootthekazoo on Feb 1, 2011 3:00 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Valentine's Day. Bummer.
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by JY on Feb 1, 2011 3:26 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I hope it's late in the day so I get dinner first.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Yes, because God personally forbid Oregon from turning 157.
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 3:15 PM PST up reply actions
What I love about the whole 2012 mythos...
…is that there’s no evidence that the Mayans even believed that was the date the world would end. It simply marks the last day of their “long count” extended calendar, at which point… they would start a brand new long count calendar. I wonder if 500 years from now people will be saying that the ancient Americans predicted the world would end this December 31st, every December 31st.
You are the absence of matter in a black hole of fun.
I want a man with slow hands. I want a lover with an easy touch.
The thing is with this crap, you're either wrong or your dead.
Even if you’re right, there’s no I-told-you-so moment.
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 10:16 PM PST up reply actions
I was kidding with him in an obtuse manner that he "sucks."
But if you wanna go all bitch up on this, we can do this, you hag. I just pulled out your goddamn weave. Your move, Russian.*
*Did I do okay with the accent? I was trying “Jersey Shore,” but I kept feeling “The Hills.”
I want a man with slow hands. I want a lover with an easy touch.
I was really replying to the whole thing. And it is my move. And don't call me Russian.
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 2, 2011 11:24 AM PST up reply actions
I wonder how many Walking Dead ripoffs we could see on televsion.
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 1, 2011 9:41 AM PST up reply actions
Several, I'm sure
And a zombie TV show with no gore on basic cable will be so awesome
/sarcasm
by tootthekazoo on Feb 1, 2011 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
I can imagine the CW doing a zombie show...
“Look Billy, I really love you, even though you texted Alyssa “zomg u r so hot” I can forgive you for that… but stop eating my leg."
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 1, 2011 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
It'd probably end up being something like Tina's dream from Bob's Burgers.
Hot zombie-on-zombie action.
I'm trying to give that show a chance, but so far I don't like it at all.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Was it on this Sunday?
I saw the 1st Season Marge almost cheats on Homer with the bowling instructor episode.
I didn't see any of the animated shows in this last Sunday.
I think they were all missing because of the Pro Bowl on Fox, and they don’t come back until after the Super Bowl.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Oh yeah, the Pro Bowl. I completely forgot about it.
I assume it was terrible, like most all star games.
I was just wondering if anyone won it.
"Making hitmen legal would really help the unemployment rate."-Thingray
I flipped to it once, and it was 42-7 (NFC winning).
I didn’t look at it after that.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Leon Washington, second alternate!!
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
There are already more than enough Twilight ripoffs it seems.
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by JY on Feb 1, 2011 12:27 PM PST up reply actions
Dead-Alive.
I love when the zombie lady munches on her own ear after it falls into her custard. Also, the whole lawn mower scene.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Hilariously, it seems the budget was $3,000,000 and it grossed just $242,000 in the US.
Zingaya!
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
From the director that brought you Lord of the Rings...
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 1, 2011 1:17 PM PST up reply actions
Shaun of the Dead, hands down.
Nothing else even comes close.
Zombies have been a hipster nerd thing for several years now
this isn’t really a “new” phenomenon by any stretch.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I hear that all the cool zombies live in Williamsburg now
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 9:51 AM PST up reply actions
Portland became too mainstream
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Now that we're on TV all the cool kids want to move here and ride tall bikes while drinking PBR and growing organic beards
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 9:53 AM PST up reply actions
I didn't want to say anything because then people would know about it and it wouldn't be cool any more
way to blow the secret, squaresville.
I've only really gotten to know what the hipster scene is all about in the last year or so thanks to Echo Park and Downtown LA.
So I wasn’t sure. It just seems like Zombieland helped propel it to a new level since Jesse Eisenberg seems to be a hipster hero.
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 1, 2011 9:57 AM PST up reply actions
People were doing Zombie walks and talking about the impending apocalypse
at least as far back as 2007, probably longer to be honest.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I think Steampunk is the next stupid nerd obssession to jump the shark.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I want it to go away forever
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Looking up proof I found a not-so-horrible site.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Google Trends says Steampunk probably won't be going away for a while.
Though Sugarland going Steampunk certainly is pounding a nail into the coffin.
Since my livelihood is tied to steampunk, I’d prefer if it sticks around until I’m 62 1/2.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
There are many, many worse things out there than steampunk.
Dragonball Z, for instance, does not seem to want to go away. Actually, I think steampunk is kind of cool myself. I am sure it can be overdone like with that Steampunk Sarah Palin comic book but that group that calls itself otakus overdo everything. You can’t blame the art for the actions of the people who like it.
Well yeah.
I mean, first it was hobos, and zombies are kind of like hobos…. I think…
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by JY on Feb 1, 2011 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
Vampires were the new Zombies.
Dustin Ackley is going to make Joe Morgan look like Joey Cora.
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Tree-fiddy.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
by Thingray on Feb 1, 2011 12:19 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Yeah zombies are the new vampires.
It makes sense from a cultural standpoint.
The original Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorites because 1) zombie hari krishna 2) in the original draft of the script everyone dies horribly 3) it was actually making social commentary with everything happening in a mall, which frankly is a little uncommon for a horror movie. The remake kind of cast that part aside.
I’m also a fan of the Evil Dead series, but hey, what sane person doesn’t love Bruce Campbell?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 1, 2011 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
Aren't pretty much all zombie movies making a social commentary on the mindlessness of consumerism?
I mean, not literally all of them but isn’t that sort of the point of the whole zombie thing?
That was George Romero's thing when he was first getting started.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 1, 2011 6:37 PM PST up reply actions
Well, and not counting movies from 1943, my sense anyway was that just about everything since at least had Romero's vision in mind.
I am no zombie movie-ologist, however, and have not studied zombie moviemetrics in my spare time.
I am glad that other people use the phrase, "I'm no ***oligist, but..."
Dustin Ackley is going to make Joe Morgan look like Joey Cora.
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
All the goddamned time
I remember that at some point “I’m no marine biologist, but…” became something my friends and I used for everything. Car’s not working, but I think I know how to fix it? “I’m no marine biologist, but I think your battery is dead.”
We really hit the bigtime with that though because at one point we heard somebody use that on Sportscenter and we lost our fucking minds
I'm sorry, I just don't buy it
I think it’s amazing that Romero gets away with the ‘searing social commentary’ line when he’s really just making schlocky grindhouse movies. If all you need to do to break into the ranks of the respected cultural critics is film people looking vapid and glazed, then every shitty porn flick just got upgraded to ‘serious movie’ status.
I know why Romero puts this crap out (‘hey man, Vietnam was on TV every night, so gut-munching is REALLY about Nixon’), but I don’t know why he gets away with it.
by marc w on Feb 1, 2011 11:03 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
In any case, his later work is missing something.
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by JY on Feb 1, 2011 11:19 PM PST up reply actions
I'm a huge horror movie fan...
but I’m not a Romero fan.
However I’ll give him certain aspects of his movies being more than just about zombies. I know there are some stories I can look up to provide examples.
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 2, 2011 8:01 AM PST up reply actions
Pretty much all horror is at some level social commentary.
Romero is just better at vocalizing it.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 2, 2011 8:43 AM PST up reply actions
I guess this gets into a semantic discussion of what 'some level' means
But you’re clearly right that Romero’s a better self-promoter.
Also, its not like a director can just say "My movie is about [This], and you better believe me!"
Night of the Living Dead is a critically acclaimed film and its mostly critics that see the social commentary, the Vietnam war, and the hero being black, which you didnt see often in 1968.
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 2, 2011 8:46 AM PST up reply actions
Right.
Night dealt with some aspects of racism and sexism (to a lesser degree), Dawn, or at least two-thirds of it, was sort of about consumerism (look we’re in a mall), and Day…. I don’t know, it’s harder there because most of it was on that military base and they were trying to re-train certain zombies to be normal, so it might have been about government and science, but that feels way more stretched.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 2, 2011 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Also, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness FTW.
“You loved me, once.”
“Ma’am, you got really ugly.”
Opening up google this morning was interesting
The banner isn’t on the front page right this second, but I thought this was fascinating. I figure if even I enjoy this, some of you artsy types might too
Yeah this thing is really cool.
I have always wanted to visit a famous art museum but just never had the chance. Now I can take virtual tours and see the art in really high quality. Obviously it’s not the same thing as seeing it in person, which I will do someday, but this is a nice alternative and these images are really stunning
Great, time for the neurotic over-analyzer in me to take over for a few days
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/poll/_/id/4426/may-we-proposition-you
Pretty sure for #6, what needs to happen is that we figure out the likelihood of each player being named MVP and then go back to postgames with that player for 2-3 years and then hedge our bets accordingly.
I think if the Packers win, it’s Aaron Rodgers and he will thank teammates first
AEG and Farmer's insurance announce a naming rights partnership
to a proposed NFL Stadium in Los Angeles
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
This one is hilarious
because they’ve secured naming rights to build a stadium in a location they don’t have the rights to build on!
Also I’m still trying to wrap my head around where they’d fit this stadium.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
LA=Huge media market.
They’ll make it happen somehow.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I'm not so sure that they want it to.
Right now they can show every game in every timeslot. If you put a team in LA you lose at least one game a day and potentially more with blackouts. I wouldn’t be surprised if the NFL is just fine with LA staying open. I mean hell they passed over it to put teams back in Cleveland and Houston.
They passed over LA because the other cities had already been promised teams,
and they both already had stadiums in place. There is no way LA goes without a team if they get the stadium built, and there is no way they don’t get a stadium built because everyone wants LA to have a team.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
And yet we get the same fucking teams every single week
Giants, Cowboys, Jets, Colts, Raiders and Chargers
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
LA is the perfect ace in the whole for the league to have.
And the Chargers play relatively close so its not like they are leaving money on the table.
And people in LA under the age of 30 love the Chargers anyway
kinda like people from SD love the Lakers
They'll build the field vertically and then invent and install a groundbreaking new gravity-bending machine
Allowing the game to be played on a vertical surface
by tootthekazoo on Feb 1, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
In your mind it is.
To me it’s the exact second the Seahawks lost XL. I guess where I think Seahawks you think Steelers.
My handwriting is terrible.
This Oatmeal comic reminded of that. Except my handwriting never looked good. Even if I try to write neatly, my handwriting looks like a small child’s. If I’m writing quickly it’s borderline illegible. How good or bad is your handwriting? How has it changed over the years? Has it got demonstrably worse since you started using computers with more regularity?
My handwriting is, and always has been horrible.
You almost have to put a gun to my head to make me write something instead of typing it.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I have pretty neat handwriting.
The field of architecture pretty much demands neat handwriting. Even though most of the drafting is done on computers, sometimes it’s quicker and easier to sketch by hand. This keeps me in practice with my lettering thankfully.
My signature, on the other hand, has completely degraded.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 1, 2011 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
Are you not doing rough drafts by hand?
In the structural design firms I’ve worked for, there was a lot of sketching sections and details for the drafters to turn into CAD. Or maybe you don’t use drafters?
I'm an intern, so I'm essentially a drafter.
But, yeah, I do some sketches for other drafters to work up.
Also, sometimes if we’re designing something, or doing a quick revision to a drawing, we’ll just sketch it up by hand.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 1, 2011 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
When I write
it looks like a handwritten memo from Michael J. Fox in an earthquake. In a falling elevator.
I want a man with slow hands. I want a lover with an easy touch.
I used that joke already.
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 10:51 PM PST up reply actions
I have awful handwriting
to the point where I never take notes on paper any more, because I have a laptop at my work so I can take it to meetings and then have some hope of understanding what I wrote. Which is not the case when I write by hand.
Cursive is fucking stupid and I am glad its dying a painful death.
by Robert on Feb 1, 2011 12:23 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The only advantage of teaching it is to refine motor skills.
But as a handwriting style, it’s really really dumb.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 1, 2011 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
Not really.
When I took the GREs, they wanted me to write an entire non-disclosure paragraph in cursive. I could only remember the weird s and r, so basically I just didn’t pick up my pen until I hit the end of the line.
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by JY on Feb 1, 2011 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
That was the scariest moment of the SATs for me.
You mean I have to write this in cursive!? But I haven’t done that since the fifth grade!
Okay, time to start the next section of the test now that everyone's done.
Uh… I’m still on the second sentence of this oath.
I was really drunk the night I signed the back of one of my debit cards
So for the next 4 months till I lost it, I had to sign my bar tabs with “GO SOUNDERS” with three exclamation points that had hearts in them.
by Robert on Feb 1, 2011 1:36 PM PST up reply actions 6 recs
Fact check says: partially
The incident in question did actually happen, but Robert is mistaken when he claims a need to sign bar tabs with a signature that matched his debit card signature. You can legally sign whatever you want on a card slip and it is valid. It’s purpose is only as an acknowledgement, not an identity matching device.
Furthermore, it is actually forbidden by credit card agreements that stores refuse your card if it is signed on the back. So A) they have no reason to ask for ID as there’s no recourse for them if you fail to show it to them and B) they are not allowed to accept cards that have “see ID” written on the back instead of a valid signature.
I wish the credit card companies actually did something to businesses that fail to honor their agreements
I have tried to explain this to many businesses and the people working the register don’t seem to care. And the CC companies don’t seem to care that they are asking for my ID either.
I want to have that little bit of recourse knowing that if my card is stolen and used, that I will be able to get reimbursed. If the clerk checks the ID of the thief, and it ‘matches’ then I am out of luck as far as the CC companies are concerned because the clerk ‘positively’ identified the cardholder and completed the transaction.
Same with me
Mine’s basically ’Here’s some vertical squiggles (for the M) aaaand here’s some indistinct garbage’
I only write in cursive.
It’s half illegible, but it’s faster than lifting the pen.
Dustin Ackley is going to make Joe Morgan look like Joey Cora.
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
My handwriting is very legible to me, but nobody else can ever read it
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
I just don't care if other people can't read my handwriting
by seattlebruin on Feb 1, 2011 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
My handwriting had only gotten smaller since first grade and has not improved in any way.
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by JY on Feb 1, 2011 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
I print in rather neat block lettering most of the time.
I was told my handwriting resembles that of a serial killer. I was told this in the middle of my senior thesis presentation. By my thesis advisor.
My handwriting has somewhat improved, but I have to italicize it in order for other people to read it.
Now I have this weird pseudo-cursive handwriting.
You got slurved!
My handwriting sucks a bit, but is instantly recognizable to me so that's cool
I am completely amazed at how terrible some people’s handwriting is though. Whenever a new customer enters my shop I have them fill out a short info sheet (name, address, insurance info, etc.) and the shit that people try to pass off as handwriting blows my mind.
My wife likes to ask customers stupid questions, but in a way that they don't think twice about it.
A customer will call and she’ll say “Do you know your account number?” and then when they say “no”, she’ll say “Do you know your last name?”.
Amazingly, people are usually just happy that they know the answer, and don’t even think about the fact it was a stupid question.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Internet laughing acronym!
Seriously though, I see a disturbing amount of “Aubrun.” Also, people screw up their street names. Mostly though, I love making somebody fill one of those out and then asking them about every line:
“And your last name? First? And that’s 11345… the street name?”
I can see that as a typo,
but to simply write it that way? How can you not know how to spell the name of the city you live in?
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Yeah I don't get that.
I get messing up numbers or having some letters look like other letters out of illegibility but I don’t get completely missing how to spell your city.
Damn it.
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 3:32 PM PST up reply actions
michael J. Fox.
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 3:23 PM PST up reply actions
I am frequently informed that I "write like a girl."
I credit this to my impressive legibility.
…
Though the little hearts I put over my lowercase I’s may have something to do with it.
Conversely, I am told I write like a man, which is a credit to my impressive illegibility.
I do a cursive-print hybrid that just becomes letter-resembling scribbles.
You! Cake or death?
I just reviewed an application I sent in about a week ago and realized I managed to fuck up both of my parents' names.
I went over that application nearly 20 times but I never noticed it, I guess I assumed I knew how to spell their name so why bother checking that part?
Any one else mess up pretty bad on an app/interview before.
You got slurved!
Last month I sent out an email with an application for a position in the IT industry
in which I stressed my 15 years in the IT industry, my knowledge of systems design and deployment, my project management skills, and most importantly my tremendous attention to detail.
I forgot to attach my resume to the email.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 1:25 PM PST up reply actions 5 recs
But it seems to have worked out for you.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
by Thingray on Feb 1, 2011 1:26 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Fortunately that was not for this job
it was, however, for a job I really wanted at the time. But as you say it’s working out OK.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
They need a "retract" button for emails.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Gmail has one but you have to hit it within some ludicrously short timeframe like 5 seconds or so
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
I can catch and delete emails from my "outbox",
but I only have about a second to do it. They need something were you can delete them after they have been sent (but before they’ve been opened obviously).
There have been plenty of times where I’ve forgotten an attachment, or realized I misspelled something right after I sent it. It would be nice to be able to go retrieve it.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
It has a time limit setting now!
I’ve got mine at 10 seconds. Gmail also has a Labs feature that reminds you to attach something by scanning the email and finding the root-word “attach.” It is invaluable, but I’ve learned to lean on it so much that I probably only attach about 15% of attachments when emailing from my work’s Outlook
I'm assuming you faxed them a photocopied version of your resume the next day.
And phoned ahead to notify them.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
That was a dig at all the funny resumes I see, not at you.
The best is when people take pictures of their resume with a digital camera, scan it, and send it as a .tif or jpeg.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I just had a situational interview
Questions like: “Tell us about a time you solved a problem”, and “Describe a time when you had to deal with a lot of stress”, blah blah. I’m not sure why I thought it was a good idea at the time, but one of the stories I told required the caveat “We weren’t drinking at the time…”
I did not get the job.
by Craptastic-J on Feb 1, 2011 1:35 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I would have such a hard time not being a smart-ass in that style of interview.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I had a hard time restraining myself as well
and apparently could have used a bit more restraint. Humor was not appreciated.
I am not a fan of this type of interview.
After your 4th or 5th foster home the names all kind of blend together, huh?
"Making hitmen legal would really help the unemployment rate."-Thingray
by ToddK on Feb 1, 2011 1:51 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
His mom left before he was even born.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
When I do that, it's usually phone-related.
I hate using the phone, and am probably worse at leaving messages, but not every voicemail inbox has the option to delete messages and that led to some interesting times when I was freelancing as a copy editor.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 1, 2011 2:08 PM PST up reply actions
.
“Hey George, I just got done editing this piece of shit that you had Bob write, and it’s truly an abortion of an article. I fixed it up pretty decently but I think you’ll need to review the su—
—wait I’m calling Bob not George aren’t I?
………………
……………………………………………………………………….*click*"
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Sounds like the December 14, 2009
edition of the Best Show On WFMU.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 2:41 PM PST up reply actions
I've definitely called the wrong reporter for a story before.
Talk about an interesting conversation.
That’s why I no longer preface phone conversations with anything besides “Is this [name]?”
Just because this post may not contain a pun, I have not surrendered my pun-alienable rights.
by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
Personally I hate it when people start out conversations with "Who am I speaking to?".
It immediately makes me feel like they’re combative.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Would "to whom am I speaking?" make you feel better about it?
"Making hitmen legal would really help the unemployment rate."-Thingray
When people start out conversations like that, I know they're not a copy editor.
“Whom am I speaking to?”
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by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
I typically don't correct my client's grammar, they tend to get upset about that.
But to answer your question, I don’t really care how they phrase it, I just think it’s a rude way to begin a conversation. I understand that they may need or want to know my name, and I’m more than happy to provide it. But I’d prefer that they at least tell me why they’re calling first. I might not even be the person they need to speak to.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I never tire of hearing the following exchange.
Person 1: How are you?
Person 2: I am good. You?
Person 1: I am well. (Pretentiously condescending emphasis on well.)
Without fail, I hear this at least once a day.
I have a white person in my office who always starts a conversation in Spanish.
I have no idea why, but I always respond to her with random things like “Burrito tequila chihuahua bueno”
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Yes, I heard that often.
One of my good friends freaks out about that sort of thing. There was one colloquialism/turn of phrase I used I used a while back that was grammatically incorrect and she corrected me while laughing at what I was saying.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 1, 2011 3:53 PM PST up reply actions
I use "I am well" as a joke sometimes.
Does that make me a pretentious snob?
"Making hitmen legal would really help the unemployment rate."-Thingray
And that's why I always answer that question "I'm alive."
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by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 4:06 PM PST up reply actions
"Hi, this is Michael. Is [name] available?"
This seems to serve as a great phone greeting when I’m trying to get hold of a specific person.
Has anyone else never had a job interview?
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 3:57 PM PST up reply actions
For most of my jobs, I never had an actual "interview".
But I have been through a couple of them. The “interview” for my current job involved drinking beers and shots and singing karaoke.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Nothing formal.
At my first job the owner just asked me what my background was as a musician. Current job I was brought in sight-unseen to do some contract work. They decided to keep me around after that, so I never interviewed.
My job at Toolhouse the boss brought me in to tell me that he wasn't going to hire me.
Then hired me 3 months later.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 5:51 PM PST up reply actions
Dear smart and cLLever friends.
Trying to think up a great name for a dodgeball team.
Looks like the leading suggestion right now is “Las Flamas Blanca”
Interested to hear some more ideas from you guys.
If you do go with that, it should be blancas.
Adjectives are pluralized in Spanish.
Unless that’s intentional.
by Eyebrows on Feb 1, 2011 3:03 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Not intentional, my issue was that when I tried to do the translation on Google Translate, it told me "Llams" which even if correct, wouldn't work for us.
Since we are trying to pluralize “La Flama Blanca” just as it is in Eastbound and Down.
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 1, 2011 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
"Llamas"*
But you say “Las Flamas Blancas” is the way to go?
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 1, 2011 3:14 PM PST up reply actions
Dodge This
And then point at your weiners
by tootthekazoo on Feb 1, 2011 3:10 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Just have an arrow pointing down under the words.
I devised this graphic so you can visualize what I’m talking about. Maybe you can even add BITCHES after “DODGE THIS.” Your preference.
DODGE THIS
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I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
by HititHere on Feb 1, 2011 3:14 PM PST up reply actions 7 recs
Check it and see...
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
OoOOOOoOOOOoO
(The idea is to wear t-shirts with a bunch of large black Os on them, in hopes that they will camouflage the dodgeballs as your team jumps and scurries around).
by katal on Feb 1, 2011 4:06 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
It's pronounced oh-oh-oo-oh-oo-oh-oh.
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by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 4:24 PM PST up reply actions
Let me know if you want to go more lowbrow because then I've got a bunch for you.
...and now I'm here
Alright champ.
- Two Balls, One Face
- Testicool Cats
- Quagmire’s Counselors (“want me to drag my sack across your face?”)
- The Best Ickles.
- Sackless Teabaggers (get it? because balls are in their face!!)
- Rumple Titskins
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Feb 2, 2011 1:59 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I had more yesterday but I'm banking. I'll come back to this if I remember.
...and now I'm here
I love the Quagmire idea.
That was one of his best lines ever.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Additionally...
If you’re in a losing effort, once per game find an opportunity to shout “These balls are making me testy!”
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by JY on Feb 2, 2011 2:13 PM PST up reply actions
In some cultures, they only eat vomit.
I’ve never been there but I read about it… in a book.
The standard for my group of friends is "Team Shower."
Dustin Ackley is going to make Joe Morgan look like Joey Cora.
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Big Red Balls.
Or Big Red Balls That Hurt
BRBTH in da HOUSE!!!
I want a man with slow hands. I want a lover with an easy touch.
Oh well. I hear that newspapers and telephones are the wave of the future.
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 1, 2011 3:21 PM PST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure we'll all be exclusively sending telegrams by 2013
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 3:23 PM PST up reply actions
click click click Mayans were right stop click click click earth collapsing stop click click click did you see two and a half man last night lol stop click click click
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 1, 2011 3:27 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Speak for yourself. I'm working on telepathy.
Right now I got the gym door thing down pat. Up next: setting fire to things.
Wazzu93 has telepathy, or you do, I'm not sure which.
But he knew what you were thinking before you even did.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
She.
The internet: not just for dudes anymore.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 1, 2011 3:49 PM PST up reply actions
Well open mouth, insert foot Thingray.
My apologies.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Still, it was wrong of me to assume.
I apparently do not have ESP, telepathy or telekinesis.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Storage is cheap
but Mozy’s getting ridiculously expensive. They’re doing away with their $5 all-you-can-backup plan and going really big – $10 for 125GB and then $2 for every additional 20GB. I have about 450GB of stuff I need to back up – does anybody use any online backup service that they’d recommend?
I can’t use Carbonite because a large majority of my files are on an external drive, and Carbonite doesn’t support that unless you get their small business plan.
Oh and I know I could just get another external drive
but I want something off-site. I’m paranoid.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 3:42 PM PST up reply actions
Get a new external drive, copy everything over, throw it into a bank safety deposit box or something.
Problem solved!
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by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 4:10 PM PST up reply actions
I'd have to string a really long ethernet cord between me and my bank to provide nightly updates though
I add stuff to my drive on a pretty regular basis.
by pdb on Feb 1, 2011 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
Wireless, duh!
"Making hitmen legal would really help the unemployment rate."-Thingray
by ToddK on Feb 1, 2011 4:40 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It saves artists time in the studio because they don't have to hit every note with perfect pitch.
So, yes.
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by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 7:40 PM PST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure you can autotune in real time.
Also, people are often known to lip-sync live. That’s not something that just started 5 years ago.
Both. You are both SO correct.
Here’s $20. Go get yourselves some Fugazi albums.
I want a man with slow hands. I want a lover with an easy touch.
Yeah, but you can tell when they're being autotuned, too.
And it’s really obvious. This is going to be to this generation what synthesizers were to the 80s: something that sounded cool then but really faddy and era-specific now. Either it’s just going to fall out of favor except for teen idols and stuff like that or else they’re going to improve the process a lot to the point where you won’t be able to tell anymore.
Either way, I look forward to our robotic overlords of the future.
There's no way it could work without it being obvious, at least to anyone who has played music before.
Either it’s in tune completely, or it’s not autotuned. It’s pretty easy to tell.
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by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 10:00 PM PST up reply actions
I really, really disagree.
I mean, they’re clearly not at that technology right now, but what about it would make it impossible? You’d look at autotuned files compared with regular vox, figure out what about the wave structure or whatever makes the first not sound like the second, and then develop an algorithm that figures that out.
I totally agree that it’s easy to tell as of right now, which is part of why it’s so much like the synthesizer, a device which nowadays sounds a whole hell of a lot like a piano or whichever instrument you want it to sound like with vary degrees of success (good: strings, not so good: vocals) but which back then sounded a lot like a synthesizer.
by Johnny Slick on Feb 1, 2011 10:28 PM PST up reply actions
Why I say it's impossible is because the transitions between notes will always be harsh.
There is no in-between with autotune. Either the notes are one note or the other.
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by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 10:35 PM PST up reply actions
I forgot about that aspect.
it just seemed as though every song on something I was watching had a verbal whawha pedal thing happening.
I think horizontal stripes in Northwest Green look terrible.
Dawg! He put da team on his back!
by JAH on Feb 1, 2011 9:35 PM PST up reply actions
That is not Northwest Green
Northwest Green is teal and an absolutely terrible color. This is Sounders/Seahawks neon green and the greatest color in the history of the world.
Not as a stripe. I actually like it when it's a solid color.
Dawg! He put da team on his back!
It's awesome.
I love it. If the Sounders had a shirt of that design I would own one for every player on the team.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 2, 2011 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
Soccer style gear is starting to remind me of NASCAR
I look at that jersey and it’s the Seattle Qwest, not Seahawks. Plus that looks fairly form fitting which ahahahaha
I'd just love to see Red Bryant in a form-fitting jersey.
And by love, I mean bllleeeeeeeeeeeech
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by thehemogoblin on Feb 1, 2011 8:34 PM PST up reply actions
The Sounders
In a span of a year they took my favorite uniform set in sports and turned it something that I wouldn’t be caught dead in. And the new kits would have been amazing if they just skipped the duct tape :(
The bra strap is completely inexplicable.
And now I kinda feel bad for that OFF TOP where we made fun of the Timbers.
The Timbers shirts are so much worse
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 2, 2011 8:50 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
At least we have the courtesy to keep our bras on the inside
by pdb on Feb 2, 2011 8:51 AM PST up reply actions
Every MLS team will have shirts like that soon enough.
That’s adidas and there’s not a lot the Sounders can do about it.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 2, 2011 8:55 AM PST up reply actions
But hey at least you can say you were first!
I just love the fact that there’s a Portland team that’s not affiliated with Nike.
by pdb on Feb 2, 2011 9:03 AM PST up reply actions
Somehow it's very fitting that the Cowboy's has a collar.
And aren’t the Seahawks sponsored by Bing?
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 1, 2011 9:18 PM PST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure the creator just took whomever sponsored the stadium the team plays in.
Personally, the branding is the single thing I think I dislike the most about soccer-style unis. And not just because my non-Sounders team of choice (Fulham) has semi-crappy phone manufacturer LG as its sponsor.
I dig the one on the left.
I’d buy that.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Has anybody seen what a giant ninny Jon Kitna is being?
CNN.com is a gateway to Internet pornography and we need to do away with that filth.
Jon you are a terrible quarterback and Seattle hates you. Now please retire before you embarrass yourself and this city any further.
Also lolz at former Arizona Cardinal Josh McCown also being a dickless bitch.
I wince at Hasselbeck in that
“Sex is an awesome thing, but here’s how god designed it.”
But McCown is funnier.
Well that seems like an overly dramatic music selection.
To get this back to OT land, worst/funniest pairings of music and subject matter?
I remember hearing about this guy and how he was touring with Ron Jeremy and having open debates with him.
And that him and Ron have become friends.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 4:09 PM PST up reply actions
Cute until the fangs come out and he viciously charges into the mirror
Smashing it to bits in a frenzy of fangs and claws.
This is followed by the “cute” spider turning and spewing a stream of venom at the cameraman, and the last thing you hear is the bloodcurdling screams as the poor sap’s eyes melt out of his skull, and the sizzling of the camera disintegrating.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
A lot of people are going to get confused since you changed your name and are now posting spider gifs.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 2, 2011 11:48 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Somebody needs to put this to some hip hop music.
Get ya hands up.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 3, 2011 7:28 AM PST up reply actions
I don't know much about or really have a desire to become interested on any real level in rugby
but I will say that the logo for Harlequins F.C. is kind of something else:
The White Stripes broke up.
Meh. I would have been a lot sadder about seven years ago. But their last few albums have sucked for the most part.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 2, 2011 10:15 AM PST reply actions
There's an infatuation?
The only infatuation I’ve seen is people talking about how much she sucks.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 2, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
There's that contingent
But there’s also that group that, whenever someone makes a snide comment about her drumming, feel the need to point out – emphatically – that she plays minimalistically on purpose and that she is really, really, (no, REALLY) good despite her apparent shortcomings. Even musicians I respect – some drummers – fall into this group. I assume there’s a legitimate reason they feel this way. I just don’t get it.
I assumed that, given both your comments, you fell in the latter group.
Meg White is the modern Ringo.
I don’t know any drummers (that aren’t fucking wankfests) that don’t respect Meg.
by Aaron Campeau on Feb 2, 2011 11:58 AM PST up reply actions
It that post?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 2, 2011 12:25 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
If this was intentional, brilliant
But I’m guessing not
He does accidentally a verb now and then.
This is different though.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 2, 2011 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
So is crippling illiteracy fun?
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 2, 2011 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
How come when I Google "crippling illiteracy" the first images that appear are Oprah, and Vince Carter?
Hmm.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Well based on that Robert should be rich as fuck.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 2, 2011 1:54 PM PST up reply actions
Or black.
Whatever
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 2, 2011 1:57 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
We've talked about hiking in WA a bit before. So I just wanted to share this video I found today.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 3:47 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
That almost looks computer generated.
Awesome video. I wouldn’t mind getting up there. I did enjoy my trip to Goat Rocks last year, I’ll definitely be doing that again this summer (hopefully with less rain).
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Really?
Bummer.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Take a week and drive to Montana.
Same thing but with no people and no need to bring your rain coat.
Still, you have to take the extra week off to drive to and from Montana.
Not that I wouldn’t love to go do some hiking there.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I was just going to say the same thing.
I’m so used to going anywhere I want and not running into very many people, no matter how gorgeous the terrain. It was an eye opener when I went snowshoeing in Snoqualmie last year before Opening Day. People fricking everywhere!
That's what you get with it being so close to a major metropolitan area.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Yes and no.
You might not get the days you want, or a permit at all, but if you do it’s not overrun with all the rest of the folks that left the city.
Good point.
But it’s very hard to plan a backpacking trip when you don’t know what days they’ll give you a permit for. In my circumstances, between job, family and sports commitments it’s very important that I am able to plan in advance.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Gotcha.
Looking at that permit process though, it looks like you know before April 1 what you’re approved for, which gives you anywhere from 2 1/2 to 6 months advance notice. :)
That could work.
I’m assuming if you don’t get dates that work for you, then you can decline the permit or something?
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
They're only overnight permits, at least.
It seems feasible to get up there early in the morning and complete a day hike.
Its about a 4,000 ft elevation gain.
Doable. But you’ll be exhausted.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 5:46 PM PST up reply actions
Ya its why I passed it up when my brother went. (It also overlapped when I was going to Hawaii)
Generally-speaking, there are two ways to approach this area. The traditional way is to approach from the Snow Lakes trailhead about 4 miles outside of Leavenworth on Icicle Creek road (trail 1553). From the trailhead, you have roughly 10 miles and 6000 feet of elevation gain before you reach the bottom of the Enchantments. This way in is often described as grueling and long, which is fairly apt. The other way that many people approach the basin is from the Stuart Lake trailhead another 9 or so miles beyond the Snow Lakes trailhead (trails 1599 and 1599.1). From this trailhead, you’re looking at around 6 miles and about 4400 feet of gain to the top of the basin, but don’t be fooled – 2300 of that 4400 feet is gained in a single mile up Aasgard Pass. This route is often described as a level above the Snow Creek route, but many people actually prefer this way in.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 7:18 PM PST up reply actions
That's about a 20% slope.
That’s insanity.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 3, 2011 7:30 AM PST up reply actions
Wow.
Pack light so you can make the climb, but on the other hand you’re going to need plenty of supplies for something that grueling. I see why people say it’s an amazing hike, but also not for beginners.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Getting a permit isn't that hard. You just don't really get to pick the date.
My brother and his wife went last year. And he was rammed by a goat while trying to take a pee.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
Rammed by a goat while trying to pee.
Now that’s a story to bring home from a trip.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
He's really lucky he didn't get gored because he would've bled out up there.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 7:20 PM PST up reply actions
If I remember correctly a man was killed by a goat in the Olympics last year.
They sound funny, but they really are dangerous.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I remember that story
Gored in the thigh and bled out before help could come. Sharp horns + vicious = dangerous creatures, no matter how silly it seems.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
They're all wonderful.
Ignorance question. How the hell does he film (especially the Enchantments) like it’s from a helicopter only lower?
I was looking for a picture of me using it but can't find one.
He using a glidecam which looks like this -
Its a counter balance system for the camera that help eliminate shock or bouncing. Its not as extravagant as a full steady cam system but it does the job. He’s also moving pretty quickly which makes it hard to stay steady so a couple of times I can see that he used the smooth cam filter in final cut.
I did find a picture of me holding something similar. Though mine was just the arm of a actual steady cam system.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 3, 2011 7:56 AM PST up reply actions
My brother absolutely loves his Glidecam
though it took him about three days to figure out how to weight the thing right.
Mine is never perfectly balanced.
Its always “just close enough”
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 3, 2011 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
I'm also being stared at by about 30 people.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 3, 2011 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe they thought it was an RPG.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Who was sharing the dream with you?
Charter Member: Dave Sims Sweet Hat Club // Career .384 BA, .543 OBP for Rocky Diablos
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Feb 3, 2011 12:43 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
God I hope so.
I still have a ton of the old episodes on DVD.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
If he's not,
then whoever is doing this should go die in some horrible way.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
To bad there isn't music videos anymore to make fun of.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 2, 2011 5:51 PM PST up reply actions
I'm excited that the return of Beavis and Butthead will mean that they will play videos on MTV again
even if only during the show.
by pdb on Feb 2, 2011 5:53 PM PST up reply actions
That's kinda the point though.
And you’d never run out of shows to make fun of
what are they doing?
they’re wang chunging.
he’s living on the edge!
On the edge of wuss cliff.
by pdb on Feb 3, 2011 1:16 PM PST up reply actions
That storm just sounded insane.
Figures Milwaukee would get a storm of the decade (and Marquette its first snow day in years) when I’m back in Washington.
You! Cake or death?
Great article by Drayer.
Damn it’s fun to have a prospect exceed expectations.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 2, 2011 5:40 PM PST up reply actions
Well, the government took over ATDHE.net and it's ilk
Now there’s nowhere for .me to watch sports. Poor little .me.
by yuniform on Feb 2, 2011 6:43 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Well, 5 minutes in and I'm impressed the Verizon website is still up. I figured it's be down by now.
You’d think Verizon would of been smart and offered early upgrades for people that are in the middle of their contracts. I don’t have a smartphone, but I was planning on getting one with my next upgrade, which doesn’t come till December. I may have considered getting the iPhone 4 had they offered an upgrade discount right now.
Instead, a full price 32GB phone is an absurd $750! That’s hilarious. Especially considering I can pay full price for a Droid X and still get it for almost $200 cheaper.
RIP Dave Neihaus.
Fun fact!
Asurion-backed Wireless Phone Protection (insurance)…
Droid X: $5.18/month premium + $99 deductible in case a new phone is provided
iPhone 4: $9.18/month premium + $169 deductible (16 GB)/$199 (32 GB) in case a new phone is provided
Four dollar premium and near-full-contract for a replacement! WHAT THE FUCK!
Verizon employee says:
FUCK YOU, IPHONE!
Here you go
Kiss an hour goodbye
Amazingly, I have yet to encounter any questions
pertaining to aliens, pawn shops, ghosts, alien ghosts or ghosts of alien nazis
Who was the first man on the moon?
1. Neil Diamond
2. Buzz Aldrin
3. Neil Armstrong
4. Buzz Lightyear
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 3, 2011 1:11 AM PST up reply actions
Trick question!
The moon is in a TV studio in Culver City. Everyone knows that. Thus the first man on the “moon” was probably some lowly PA that had to bring coffee to “Neil Armstrong”.
by pdb on Feb 3, 2011 6:51 AM PST up reply actions
I just saw the Mythbusters about the moon landing :)
by msb on Feb 3, 2011 8:00 AM PST up reply actions
I had always heard people joke about the landing being faked and obviously never bought into it.
But when I watched the Mythbusters episode about it, the arguments that the skeptics had for the landing being faked weren’t as crazy as I thought they would be. Excellent episode indeed
According to a study, 25% of Americans, aged 18-24, believe that the moon landing never happened.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 3, 2011 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
25% of Americans, aged 18-24, are crusin' for a bruisin' from Buzz Aldrin.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 3, 2011 2:48 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
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“This is clearly staged. Aldrin should be much smaller than the moon and if he were actually in space, he wouldn’t have his helmet off due to lack of oxygen and freezing temperatures.”
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 3, 2011 2:54 PM PST up reply actions 7 recs
Do you have a link for that?
Not that I doubt you, but I revel in our cultural stupidity
I don't.
But it was in the “The Cosmic Grid” article from Astronomy Magazine from 2009.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 3, 2011 2:51 PM PST up reply actions
Damn it.
I should have spent more time researching history facts instead of sports and movie facts.
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 3, 2011 8:30 AM PST up reply actions
That is very entertaining.
I’m awfully slow at the clicking, though.
by msb on Feb 3, 2011 9:16 AM PST up reply actions
My computer is awfully slow at processing the clicking it seems.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 3, 2011 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
Same here.
And now it’s counting the first question automatically wrong because my time runs out before it loads. Oh well. I wonder how big the database of questions is, I haven’t seen the same question twice yet.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 3, 2011 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
I'm fast enough that it makes me wonder about some of those top scores
You need to click it w/in a split second every time to get 1900-2000. Seems crazy. I can’t break 1800.
I got something in the mid 1700s and thought "good enough".
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 3, 2011 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
I literally cannot read fast enough to crack 1,900
it seems that some people just guessed on every question and got wildly lucky
by seattlebruin on Feb 3, 2011 12:04 PM PST up reply actions
Thats really damn lucky.
Near impossible.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 3, 2011 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
Well let's see
there’s 200 points per question and you get twenty seconds to answer, so the math is pretty simple. It means you lose 10 points every second.
The best score is 1,972, which means the user lost a total of 28 points or, 2.8 seconds over the course of the game.
This means that this user answered every question correctly in an average of .28 seconds for all ten questions
by seattlebruin on Feb 3, 2011 12:08 PM PST up reply actions
If the questions are the same each time
They probably just memorized the answers, and clicked as fast as possible through them without having to read the questions at all.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
They are not
he guessed at all of them.
by seattlebruin on Feb 3, 2011 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
I think the odds of that are 1 in 1048576
And thats just the odds of guessing correctly.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 3, 2011 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
Has anybody else had an extremely annoying issue trying to navigate between "My Blogs" in SBNation..
because of the “Green” ad that flips open every time you hover over it? And that it’s almost impossible to navigate your blogs list without passing over it?
Some sort of mistake there.
Or is it actually "Adblock" that you are referring to?
Is that only a Chrome application?
by Kenneth Arthur on Feb 3, 2011 9:09 AM PST up reply actions
It is indeed actually AdBlock
go to addons.mozilla.org and search for it if you’re running FF.
by pdb on Feb 3, 2011 9:18 AM PST up reply actions
"The most powerful episode of Wonder Woman yet..."
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 3, 2011 9:19 AM PST up reply actions
I heard some of the TVSquad people badmouthing it.
If Joss Whedon can’t do Wonder Woman, I have no faith in Kelley being able to do it.
Along the same lines ...
“The Thing is an upcoming science fiction horror film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., written by Eric Heisserer, and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton in the lead roles. It is a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film of the same name. Matthijs’s film will take place right before the first film, with the original Norwegian crew that discovered the alien.”
I wonder if I could sneak onto that truck....
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
"Truck Day" has a whole different meaning in Baltimore.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
The memories of Sonics Truck Day are still too raw
by pdb on Feb 3, 2011 11:24 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Please quit poking the wound.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
Because if you don't have an excuse, then you're just a creepy alcoholic.
Besides Truck Day pales in comparison to Couch Day.
Just say you're chinese.
GET OFF ME!!!
by the other side on Feb 3, 2011 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
Here it would be Prius day anyway.
...and now I'm here
They have hybrid and electric trucks now.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
... Here it would be Prius day anyway.
...and now I'm here
KSK really nailed it with their
“Kanye West picks the Super Bowl winner” post. Those posts are the best thing about Super Bowl week.
So Friday Night Lights ends next week
and it got me to thinking. I have watched the whole series, and in the almost five years of the series, in my opinion there hasn’t been one bad episode. There have been a few subplots I didn’t really care for (Landry killing a dude), but overall, every episode has been really quite good.
I can’t say that about any series I can think of off the top of my head – even The Wire had a couple stinker episodes in Season 2. What series are you a fan of that you can truly say there’s never been a single episode that has entirely sucked?
Venture Brothers.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
The pilot wasn't that good though.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 3, 2011 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
I'm not sure that I remember that specific episode.
Which one was the pilot again?
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
The pilot is not to be confused with the first episode, Dia de los Dangerous, which was good.
The pilot was The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay. Basically, Dr. Venture is presenting a new device to the UN, which is stolen by a ninja who gets off on technology (literally). Scamp is seen but has no skin. The Monarch sends henchmen in a fake meteorite that crashes into the Venture compound but no one notices or cares. The boys get lost in New York and propositioned by a hooker, which they naively misinterpret, and eventually Brock shows up to take them back/do what Brock does.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 3, 2011 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
I may not have ever seen the pilot.
That doesn’t ring a bell at all.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
It aired a year earlier and at some time in the wee small hours of the morning.
They don’t replay it much, I don’t think.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Feb 3, 2011 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
I discovered Venture Brothers a little after it came out, so I had to catch up.
I’m guessing I missed the pilot.
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
You're better off not seeing it.
Some of the voices and personalities are way off. (Hank is a little too “Southern, aw shucks gee whiz!”), the animation is pretty low quality, and the plot is boring. Brock is still Brock though, so at least they got him right on the first try.
by Eyebrows on Feb 3, 2011 1:32 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I don't recall ever seeing a truly awful M*A*S*H episode.
There were some that were definitely subpar by the show’s standards but, overall, they were all very good.
I think you're not penalizing Friday Night Lights enough for the murder subplot.
It’s the equivalent of that damn dating plan on season two of Sports Night.
Not in my mind
The murder subplot started, got ridiculous, then the writers wrapped it up really fast when it was obvious that everyone hated that subplot. had it gone on longer it would have been a whole lot worse.
Went off with Saracen to Chicago, never to be seen again
nobody really knows, I don’t think – they didn’t close out his story. They have said they’re bringing most everybody back for the finale, though, so we may find out then.
by pdb on Feb 3, 2011 2:41 PM PST up reply actions
When the cheerleader cheated on her paralyzed boyfriend with his best friend is when I turned off the show.
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 3, 2011 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
You have missed one of the best dramas on network TV
it’s really, really good and very rarely about romantic oddness like that.
Yeah, I remember being kinda bored by parts of the first season, as well.
Looking forward to NBC airing it sometime this year.
I believe it starts in early April
but the DVD of season 5 will be available in late March.
by pdb on Feb 3, 2011 1:17 PM PST up reply actions
It's fantastic but don't expect it to be about football
it’s a great drama about life that has a football context to it. It’s incredibly well written and depicts a married couple in probably one of the most realistic ways TV has ever seen.
by pdb on Feb 3, 2011 1:46 PM PST up reply actions
The Shield
7 full seasons with a setting that could get stale real quick, and they kept it fresh and excellent for 7 years
Deadwood.
Again, though, this benefits from being a relatively short-lived series.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 3, 2011 2:49 PM PST up reply actions
So, uh, don't know if anybody knows this but Super Bowl XL will be on NFL Network tonight
starting at 10:00.
Thanks for the info Coach!
I’ll be sure to tune into that so I can relive in gory detail one of the worst sports days of my life!
I actually have wanted to rewatch it.
Have never seen it since the Bad Day
I have less than zero desire to rewatch that game
just like I never want to watch UCLA-Florida from 2006 again either
I don't see how these are related.
Dustin Ackley is going to make Joe Morgan look like Joey Cora.
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Has anyone else seen "An Idiot Abroad"?
I watched it for the second time last night, and that’s a pretty funny show!
"I've seen prison breaks with more organization and cooperation than this"
I like it but it makes me slightly uncomfortable
but that’s what a Ricky Gervais show is all about, I guess.
by pdb on Feb 3, 2011 2:48 PM PST up reply actions
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