OT--February 22 "Is it Spring yet?" edition

Apparently he’s happy with the exchange because pinstripes will make his butt look smaller (twitter, I’m too lazy to look it up right now).

…for fans of dingers and/or the other team.

Of course, I don’t wish for an earthquake, but the last time we had one in California I was in bed and it was like being on a boat or a waterbed.

and says that you could see a wave run through the road

and he says that during the quake the land visibly rose and fell, like a boat wake on a lake but faster. He said it was one of the coolest things he’d ever seen. I, meanwhile, was crapping my pants in my downtown high rise thinking I was a dead man. I would have much rather had his experience.

I remember listening to an M’s game when a little one hit, and Dave described the astro turf in the coming as having waves in it.

It was pretty lame too, I was in a library and there some weird building movement sounds that I attributed to some sort of construction until a TV in the lobby said it was an earthquake.

But the earthquakes I have been in were more like a slow, powerful shaking from side to side than a rumbling wobbly thing like in a lot of movies. It’s scary as fuck. I do not like it.

Those bear things are horrifying.

I’ve only ever seen their beers in the Northeast, with the exception of the occasional festival appearance here.

Distribution map.

Maybe it’s a capacity kind of thing? Hmmm.

Wow, that is amazing.

http://mynorthwest.com/374/632575/Brendan-Ryan-I-did-not-think-it-would-be-an-ongoing-battle

But I love that whole thing they do. I have the Blue Planet and Planet Earth series (serieses?) on DVD. My cat loves them and so do I.

And drink water, or get water and then drink it. Maybe I should bring my phone so I can look up baseball stats though.

If you run/bike have any of you tried watching video on an Ipad or other tablet? Is it practical?

lockers!

dugout?

Huh? Wha? What was I doing?

Is that arguing that the chain of custody being broken is easier than trying to prove any errors in the sample, which Braun clearly still thinks is what happened

Chain of custody broken for two days? So is he arguing the sample was compromised?

The public defender in me feels compelled to say that breaking a chain of custody for 2 days is not a "technicality.’ It’s incompetence.

Look, if MLB can’t establish where a sample was for two days, they deserve to lose. Unacceptable.

I just blocked all cookies from girlscouts.org.

I wonder if I’ll still be able to see the ones selling them outside my local grocery store.

Or at least, it’s hard to tell until we know what the redactions are.

I could see doing that in a boozed up theater being a lot of fun.

Here’s an announcer calling Larry Fitzgerald touchdown

boy, its been a long time since I watched Quick change..

Feel terrible for the guy. I bet that’s career over.

Which, for a variety of reasons, was terribly inconvenient for most of the class to take at that time so the professor added a second date for those that couldn’t take it on Friday: Saturday night 7:00-9:20.

If there’s one thing I thoroughly dislike about online tests for classroom courses is that it’s almost if professors feel it gives them license to schedule a test whenever they damn well please. I’ve had tests scheduled for early Sunday mornings before.

Wow.

because midnight confuses people.

http://gregjohns.mlblogs.com/2012/02/27/long-time-scout-frank-mattox-passes-away-suddenly/

“Devastating news to the baseball and scouting communities that Frank Mattox has died. A terrific person. He was very loyal to the Mariners.”

This has always been about the building. If the public and private stakeholders can get the framework of the building plan and financing finalized, I think a team will eventually come.

Getting a team is obviously the most exciting part of the process, but I think it’s more about getting a team, not getting a specific one. If we’ve learned anything about the NBA over the past decade, it is that there are always some distressed teams and owners looking for a better situation. A new building finalized in Seattle and potential ownership is a pretty attractive lure for a team.

When 22 teams claimed they were “losing money” that set off the NBA lockout, certainly there would be some team out there in need of a change of scenery. Or they were just bullshitting their financial woes (not surprising either.)

What is happening in that picture?

It was also cool that Bret McKenzie, Nat Faxon, and DEAN PELTON all won Oscars.

but pumpkin made me hesitate for just that one second prior to agreeing with you.

cabbage?

What are you basing potatoes on? I like fries, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, scallped potatoes, pierogies, and the rest, but I think I’d mourn the loss of cheese more than I’d mourn potatoes.

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/4/20/427863/your-sanitized-ll-hof-ball

Is that just a reflex from Twilight? I don’t get it. I’m iffy on Prometheus, but Idris Elba will probably tip me at some point.

I’m afraid that Avengers is going to be really corny and just not compelling in any real way. Nothing in the first 2 trailers really impressed me. I’m no Avenger fanboy, though, so I just want an exciting action flick out of it which it’ll probably deliver on.

Dark Knight Rises has the biggest potential to fail in my opinion (well, so does Prometheus). I hope to jeebus it doesn’t, but mannnnn that’s alotta hype to live up to. But, hey, the IMAX intro was fucking AWESOME and I have nothing but faith in Nolan so you know I’m all in. I really, really hope it doesn’t lay on the political overtones too much with the whole occupy movement crap because holy shit I could care less about that. Keep your politics out of my Batman.

I’m deathly afraid that Prometheus will suffer from awful prequel syndrome. It just looks so slick in the preview and lacks all the gritty, industrial, worn-in looks of Alien. Like, think about how the aesthetics of the Star Wars prequels compared to the original trilogy and compare that to Prometheus and Alien. I know Scott is being all dodgy and obtuse about how they connect, but come on guy. You copied your own trailer from Alien for the new flick. It’s a prequel.

I have full faith in Peter Jackson and The Hobbit. Trailer looks gorgeous. December cannot come soon enough.

Sorry, this post got long.

Django Unchained

There’s a place down the street from my apartment that makes fantastic margaritas, but they also make a drink that’s a margarita aside from the fact that it uses key lime juice and vanilla vodka. Everything else is the same; other ingredients, proportions, etc (though no salt on the rim, obviously.) It’s a very similar kind of drink, but on the few occasions last summer I wanted something like a margarita but didn’t actually want tequila, it was perfect.

In actual margarita suggestions, I’ve added rosewater, pomegranate juice, cucumber and tabasco; I would recommend all of them.

I would bet a place like Food Conspiracy would either have it or know where you could get it.

Though he wasn’t my favorite Monkee, still.

aw.

I love The Monkees.

in “Oliver” on Broadway in 1964…

He looked the healthiest of the bunch. Mike Nesmith however, looks a bus, magic bus hit him.