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Security Holes [Friday 2008.05.16|04:00]
xkcd_rss
True story: I had to try several times to upload this comic because my ssh key was blacklisted.
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[Thursday 2008.05.15|20:18]
yolohiker
Review of the Blastmatch Fire Starter

I'd been looking for a waterproof fire starter. While I already had a butane lighter, but needed something while boating. The Blastmatch was attractive for a couple reasons. First, it contained the flint inside a plastic housing that was integrated with the striker. Second, you use a single hand to ignite your tinder. This is nice, because if you have to shield your tinder from the wind, or you need to hold a bear at bay while you light a signal fire...you know, your average outing.

While I didn't make the below video, it demostrates the product very well. I'd recommend it.

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Sideways Galaxy NGC 3628 [Friday 2008.05.16|04:13]
apod

Dark dust lanes cut across the middle of this gorgeous Dark dust lanes cut across the middle of this gorgeous


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Krispy Green [Friday 2008.05.16|12:09]

picturing_food

[vanessafrida]
 

I am a huge fan of Krispy Kreme Donuts…. I think they are little pieces of heaven.Unfortunately, Krispy Kreme isn't in Singapore, so to satisfy my occassional craving, I have been working on a donut recipe….I wanted something different. I wanted a little asian twist to it…give it a little something extra.

I have come up with these little babies…it has a matcha glaze to it, and I must say they are pretty good! 

Click here for the recipe and step by step pictures

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The Third Time Definitely Wasn't the Charm [Friday 2008.05.16|03:05]
taxabletalk
We constantly hear "if you don't succeed at first, try, try again." Of course, if you're a Bozo taxpayer, that should be changed to, "If you fail once, and you fail...
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We're On To You, Celizic. [Thursday 2008.05.15|21:31]
fire_joe_morgan
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Rebecca Anstett is having a glass of wine, packing for the cottage, and wondering how the cat is goi [Thursday 2008.05.15|21:04]
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Let Sleeping Mussels Lie [Friday 2008.05.16|11:51]

picturing_food

[vanessafrida]



These tazzie mussels were really well marketed with this tagline.

Click here to read more

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Reminder: The Annual Meeting is Saturday [Friday 2008.05.16|02:44]
chipsofgranite

The Annual Meeting is this Saturday evening. If you can’t make it in person, there is still time to let us know who has your vote for important club matters. To do so, drop Lisa a line.

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Night and Day, You Are The One [Friday 2008.05.16|02:13]
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So, I promised to get back to you on this quirky Brian Bannister day-night split issue. First, just as a reminder, here are Banny’s day and night splits for this year.

Brian Bannister by day (this year):
– 4-0, 0.62 ERA, 29 ip, 12 hits, 3 runs, 2 earned runs, 0 homers, 7 walks, 18 K.
Batting average against: .126; OPS: .320; OPS+ -10(!)*, Babip: .156.

Brian Bannister by night (this year):
– 0-4, 8.02 ERA, 21 1/2 ip, 33 hits, 19 runs, 19 earned, 5 homers, 5 walks, 11 K,
Batting average against: .344; OPS .960; OPS+ 158(!), Babip: .350.

Obviously it’s a very small sample size. Still it’s weird and, as mentioned here, his career numbers (also a relatively small sample size, though he is 10-1 during the day) are also quite skewed toward day baseball.

So, I asked Banny about this (through the magic of phone texting*) … his answer in a moment. First a quick look at the whole question of day-night splits … I have always been led to believe that it’s easier for hitters in the daytime. I think that’s just something as baseball fans you grow up believing. Well, it only makes sense. You would expect the light to be better.

*I don’t know … sometimes I wonder why old farts my age do not want to embrace new technologies. I keep hearing about people who hate phone texting … it’s moving us apart and all that. You know what? I love the phone text. I’m really not bothered at all that people aren’t talking as much as they used to talk … it seems to me that before there was a lot of POINTLESS talk going on. You wanted to call someone to ask one question, and you ended up having to talk about a lot of about the weather and gas prices and shallow family updates (“Yep, the kids are growing up all right!”). If I want to talk to someone, I can do that. But if I just want an answer, whammo, phone text … one question, one answer, no fuss. Nobody types more than they had to in a phone message — it’s a monument to conciseness.

To me this is like the pay-at-the-pump technology — I have heard some people say, “Well, this just makes us the kind of society where people don’t talk to each other as much.” No, it makes us the kind of society where I don’t have to deal with the person in the gas station who, in my general experience, had absolutely ZERO interest in my life except for what pump my car was at. Which is understandable. The days of people going into the filling station to talk to Goober about happenings around town are pretty far back in the rear view mirror. I swear, I think sometimes people just make up reasons to hate progress.

But, as Bill James often asks: Is it true? Do hitters have more success in the daytime.

And as Bill James often finds out: No. It’s not true.

Major League Baseball averages for day games, 2000-2007: .265/.335/.425
Major League Baseball averages for night games, 2000-2007: .267/.335/.426

There you go. So … forget that whole line of thinking, please. Teams scored very, very slightly better at night, are just slightly more likely to hit doubles and triples at night, and strike just an itty-bitty bit less often at night. Everything else, best I can tell, is identical. I don’t think this says batters hit BETTER at night … it seems likely to me that more often starting players play at night (managers seem likely to use backup catchers and rest some of their stars in a day game after a night game). I would guess that if you could ever remove the noise, day and night work out to be the same thing.

I think that if you really consider the factors, this makes sense. Lights are now so much better than they ever were before. Maybe hitting during the day was an advantage, you know, when they were playing night games in the Negro Leagues and the lights were roughly about the same height as Eric Montross. Plus, these players play more than twice as often at night so that becomes more the norm. Plus, there are advantages to hitting at night too — less glare, maybe, a more consistent light, and whatever else.

In other words, I don’t think any crazy day-night splits can be easily explained by baseball talk like “He hides the ball better at night” or whatever. Many point to the strange case of Bronson Arroyo, who ever since he has arrived in Cincinnati has had extreme night-day splits.

This year:
Night: 2-2, 4.46 ERA
Day: 0-2, 15.43 ERA

Last year:
Night: 8-9, 3.93 ERA
Day: 1-6, 5.35 ERA

2006
Night: 9-5, 2.52 ERA
Day: 5-6, 5.29 ERA

Well, a couple of things. For one … before he got to Cincinnati, he had not shown this nutty day-night tendency. So maybe it’s a lifestyle change. Maybe the day problems gotten to his head. Maybe he has vampire issues. Maybe it’s just a weird fluke. Or maybe there’s something deeper. I don’t really know. But I have a strong suspicion this doesn’t have much to do with hitters seeing the ball better against him during the day or whatever.

To Banny. I texted him the question: So what’s the deal with the day-night split? He texted me the sort of answer that, once again, explains why he’s the coolest guy in the game:

“The hitters tell me my fastball looks faster when they’re still a little hungover.”

So there you go. And then, because he is Banny, he delved a little deeper. “I don’t change anything,” he wrote. “The reasons have to do with:

1. Facing lower OPS lineups during the day.

– There could be something to this. Look at the lineups he’s faced in day games:

April 2: Threw seven shutout innings against Detroit — Edgar Renteria was the only Tigers player who got a hit the whole game (he got three). This was more or less the regular Tigers lineup, but Curtis Granderson was out, and Jacque Jones was still with the club.

April 8: Five tough innings against New York — really fought off the Yankees, allowing five hits and four walks. Derek Jeter did not play.

April 14: Complete game three hitter against Minnesota, which played without Joe Mauer and Michel Cuddyer.

May 11: Eight innings, two hits, zero runs against Baltimore … Michael Young did not play.

2. The difficulty of sweeping a team.

– Brian believes, a lot of people believe, that most teams play differently when they’ve won the first two games of a series (or, in the case of Baltimore, the first three). Maybe they get content. Maybe they lose a little edge. I’m not sure I completely into this … I haven’t really studied how teams do in third games after they’re won the first two. I probably wouldn’t know how to study it. I do know that Pete Rose says the same thing … he said what those great Reds teams had (did I mention this book … oh, never mind) was a killer instinct and this sort of unquenchable desire to win games just because they just really, really liked winning games, and really, really hated losing them.

Anyway, Brian has pitched a couple of times with his team facing a potential sweep, and he thinks that’s given him an edge. And he’s been on the other side of it too, and that’s given the other team an edge.

3. And it’s a small sample size, plus the day conditions have generally benefitted my pitching style so far this year (No Texas and hurricane conditions).

- This part is definitely true. Banny’s struggles at night are, in large part, due to two games. He got hit pretty good by the California Angels … I thought the Angels basically attacked Banny early in the count, had a good plan, and hit him a little bit. The other tough performance was in Texas, a home run park, and the wind was howling out, horrible conditions for any pitcher and especially Banny. He has given up five homers all year, three of them in that game. In those two games combined, he pitched 9 2/3 innings and gave up 12 runs. Take away those two games, Banny’s ERA is 1.99 this year.

Which just goes to show you how small a sample size we are dealing with here. I think it’s something worth watching because, hey, it’s baseball, and it’s Banny. But my opinion is that this is more or less just small sample size talking.

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Gay Marriage [Thursday 2008.05.15|20:25]

prock
So, in light of the recent ruling in CA, I thought I'd post a theory I've recently come up with. )
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I've had it with Obama! [Friday 2008.05.16|03:27]
fcpokerblog
I can't believe what he said, it's just shocking news...
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Shouldn't have lowered my defenses [Thursday 2008.05.15|20:20]

patrissimo
Living in a nice artificial world, where I'm protected from nature, it's easy to forget just how much plants hate me. I did some outdoor sprints this evening, when it had cooled off a bit, and on a break I foolishly lay down on the grass with no shirt for 30 seconds or so. Then it started itching, and I realized my mistake.

Half an hour later, Shannon took this picture of my back:



30 seconds of direct contact with nature, and that's what happens to my body. And people wonder why I want to go live at sea where the air is cleansed of biological weapons such as pollen...
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On the Lighter Side [Thursday 2008.05.15|20:17]

rcfox
[mood | amused]

I saw this today at Fark: The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products. Yes, the catalog that a certain coyote used to battle a certain Road Runner..... Including the ACME Aspirin, and boy did Wile E Coyote need that....
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Substituting Physical and Human Capital [Friday 2008.05.16|01:42]
greg_mankiw
A student befriends me on facebook, leaving this message:

Your econ textbook helped us out tremendously this year.....especially because our teacher has no clue what she's doing, and so we have to read the text to understand what's happening.
This reminded me of a professor I know who once told me that he liked to assign the most confusing textbook he could find. By comparison, his lectures would seem like paragons of clarity.

He was joking (I think).
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This is not at all what I had hoped it would be about [Thursday 2008.05.15|20:06]

evwhore
via [info]captainparanoid in e-mail:

Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million

Free association: originally it was an idea for dinner
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A Letter to My Son, on Starting Out In Life [Friday 2008.05.16|01:50]
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Dear Seth,

You’re only three years old, and at this point in your life you can’t read, much less understand what I’m going to try to tell you in this letter. But I’ve been thinking a lot about the life that you have ahead of you, about my life so far as I reflect on what I’ve learned, and about my role as a dad in trying to prepare you for the trials that you will face in the coming years.

You won’t be able to understand this letter today, but someday, when you’re ready, I hope you will find some wisdom and value in what I share with you.

You are young, and life has yet to take its toll on you, to throw disappointments and heartaches and loneliness and struggles and pain into your path. You have not been worn down yet by long hours of thankless work, by the slings and arrows of everyday life.

For this, be thankful. You are at a wonderful stage of life. You have many wonderful stages of life still to come, but they are not without their costs and perils.

I hope to help you along your path by sharing some of the best of what I’ve learned. As with any advice, take it with a grain of salt. What works for me might not work for you.

Life Can Be Cruel
There will be people in your life who won’t be very nice. They’ll tease you because you’re different, or for no good reason. They might try to bully you or hurt you.

There’s not much you can do about these people except to learn to deal with them, and learn to choose friends who are kind to you, who actually care about you, who make you feel good about yourself. When you find friends like this, hold on to them, treasure them, spend time with them, be kind to them, love them.

There will be times when you are met with disappointment instead of success. Life won’t always turn out the way you want. This is just another thing you’ll have to learn to deal with. But instead of letting these things get you down, push on. Accept disappointment and learn to persevere, to pursue your dreams despite pitfalls. Learn to turn negatives into positives, and you’ll do much better in life.

You will also face heartbreak and abandonment by those you love. I hope you don’t have to face this too much, but it happens. Again, not much you can do but to heal, and to move on with your life. Let these pains become stepping stones to better things in life, and learn to use them to make you stronger.

But Be Open to Life Anyway
Yes, you’ll find cruelty and suffering in your journey through life … but don’t let that close you to new things. Don’t retreat from life, don’t hide or wall yourself off. Be open to new things, new experiences, new people.

You might get your heart broken 10 times, but find the most wonderful woman the 11th time. If you shut yourself off from love, you’ll miss out on that woman, and the happiest times of your life.

You might get teased and bullied and hurt by people you meet … and then after meeting dozens of jerks, find a true friend. If you close yourself off to new people, and don’t open your heart to them, you’ll avoid pain … but also lose out on meeting some incredible people, who will be there during the toughest times of your life and create some of the best times of your life.

You will fail many times but if you allow that to stop you from trying, you will miss out on the amazing feeling of success once you reach new heights with your accomplishments. Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Life Isn’t a Competition
You will meet many people who will try to outdo you, in school, in college, at work. They’ll try to have nicer cars, bigger houses, nicer clothes, cooler gadgets. To them, life is a competition — they have to do better than their peers to be happy.

Here’s a secret: life isn’t a competition. It’s a journey. If you spend that journey always trying to impress others, to outdo others, you’re wasting your journey. Instead, learn to enjoy the journey. Make it a journey of happiness, of constant learning, of continual improvement, of love.

Don’t worry about having a nicer car or house or anything material, or even a better-paying job. None of that matters a whit, and none of it will make you happier. You’ll acquire these things and then only want more. Instead, learn to be satisfied with having enough — and then use the time you would have wasted trying to earn money to buy those things … use that time doing things you love.

Find your passion, and pursue it doggedly. Don’t settle for a job that pays the bills. Life is too short to waste on a job you hate.

Love Should Be Your Rule
If there’s a single word you should live your life by, it should be this: Love. It might sound corny, I know … but trust me, there’s no better rule in life.

Some would live by the rule of success. Their lives will be stressful, unhappy and shallow.

Others would live by the rule of selfishness — putting their needs above those of others. They will live lonely lives, and will also be unhappy.

Still others will live by the rule of righteousness — trying to show the right path, and admonishing anyone who doesn’t live by that path. They are concerned with others, but in a negative way, and in the end will only have their own righteousness to live with, and that’s a horrible companion.

Live your life by the rule of love. Love your spouse, your children, your parents, your friends, with all of your heart. Give to them what they need, and show them not cruelty nor disapproval nor coldness nor disappointment, but only love. Open your soul to them.

Love not only your loved ones, but your neighbors … your coworkers … strangers … your brothers and sisters in humanity. Offer anyone you meet a smile, a kind word, a kind gesture, a helping hand.

Love not only neighbors and strangers … but your enemy. The person who is cruelest to you, who has been unkind to you … love him. He is a tortured soul, and most in need of your love.

And most of all, love yourself. While others may criticize you, learn not to be so hard on yourself, to think that you’re ugly or dumb or unworthy of love … but to think instead that you are a wonderful human being, worthy of happiness and love … and learn to love yourself for who you are.

Finally, know that I love you and always will. You are starting out on a weird, scary, daunting, but ultimately incredibly wonderful journey, and I will be there for you when I can. Godspeed.

Love,
Your Dad

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Here today, gone tomorrow. [Thursday 2008.05.15|21:27]

timprov
[music |Williams, Dar - Traveling Again]

Back on Tuesday.

(Weekend in Palo Alto. I hope to have online access so I can do a wolverine mood theme on [info]komododaikon, get email, etc, but no guarantees.)
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Nina Hevern , fragile flower that she is, is totally wilting from the heatwave. [Thursday 2008.05.15|19:20]
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[Friday 2008.05.16|03:12]

one_happiness

[hazey_sunshine]
[Current Location |da17 6hb]
[mood | tired]
[music |deftones - my own summer (shove it) [the matrix soundtrack]]

Happiness is my turquoise glitter lava lamp making my room appear underwater.
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Georgia eats. [Friday 2008.05.16|01:01]
meadowparty

On the first season of Feasting on Asphalt, Alton Brown and his crew stopped at a tiny place in Toccoa, Georgia, called Shirley’s Sole Food Café. Ethan Martin, a likely first-rounder in this year’s Rule 4 draft, goes to school in Toccoa, and when I finally put two and two together the night before I flew down there, I figured I had to eat a meal at Shirley’s as sort of a pilgrimage. Unfortunately, I was there on a Friday, which is all-you-can-eat fish fry night at Shirley’s, meaning I didn’t get the menu that Alton et al got on their visit. The meal was slightly disappointing, although I was impressed that nothing tasted fishy. The fish is fried in large batches and placed in warming trays up front; you walk along the counter and point to what you want. The fried shrimp were the best option, in a crunchy crust (like panko, but can you really get panko bread crumbs out there?), while the fried tilapia ended up a bit chewy. It was $12 for the fish fry, plus another $8 if you wanted fresh steamed crab legs … which I did, receiving more crab legs than I could eat. They were fresh and had a lot of meat, but the meat itself was a little bland, lacking that distinctive undertone of sweetness that, for me, has always separated crab from lobster.

This week, I was driving down 19/41 to Griffin to see Tim Beckham when I passed McGhin’s Southern Pit Barbecue and saw the parking lot was pretty full for lunchtime on a weekday, so I pulled in. It certainly looked the part, and the menu was pretty straightforward without a lot of descriptions – the type of place that assumes you know your Q. However, it turned out to be more evidence that, as JC Bradbury told me last year, there is no good barbecue in Georgia. I went with a pork/beef platter, which came with piles of shredded meat plus two sides and “cracklin’ cornbread.” That cornbread was the only item on the plate to which I’d give an average grade (it was plus, plenty of fat in it and no sugar). Both meats were very dry and more chopped than shredded; I hate to be forced to add sauce to pulled pork or beef because it needs the moisture, and it was worse because the sauce was North Carolina style, heavy on the vinegar, which to my palate means one-dimensional. The baked beans were also too vinegary and more like a soup than actual baked beans. I didn’t even touch the coleslaw because it was sitting in a pool of a mayo-based dressing; God only knows what microbes might be living in there. For dessert – I had room – I got the peach cobbler, when in Rome, etc. It was more of a deconstructed peach pie, with a pie crust mixed in with the filling of a peach pie. (A cobbler dough is more akin to a biscuit dough than a pie crust dough, lighter and a little cakey rather than the flaky and tender and very fatty characteristics of pie dough.) The filling was overcooked and had way more cornstarch than needed to thicken it. I have to give the waitress credit, however; when I said I didn’t know what Brunswick stew was and, after she described it, decided not to order it as a side, she brought a tiny dish of it to me anyway so I could try it. I wish I could have said better things about the food, but I’m not going to lie to you – it just wasn’t good.

It’s also time for another update on Paschal’s. I went to the original location on MLK Jr. Drive in downtown Atlanta for breakfast, and the food was generally quite good and was made to order. I decided to branch out and try the salmon croquettes, a platter that comes with two eggs cooked to order, home fries, and a biscuit. The waitress actually asked me whether I wanted my eggs scrambled hard, medium, or soft, which is the first time I’ve ever been asked that; I went with soft, and they were perfect for me, although if you like ‘em runny they may seem overdone. The biscuit was excellent, very soft, but without much of a crust – the top was golden, but it was like a thin layer of parchment paper rather than the traditional semi-hard crust. The supposed star of the dish, the croquettes, were obviously made from tinned salmon and had a fishy taste that couldn’t really be avoided.

I also revisited the Paschal’s in the Atlanta airport before my flight home, and at the suggestion of one of you, tried the collard greens. They had a strong cured-pork flavor – I’m assuming ham hock – and the sweetness of a little sugar, although nothing can disguise the fact that collard greens, even cooked properly for hours, are bitter. And this time around, I got my quarter-dark fried chicken, which could not have been more perfectly cooked.

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Hilary Likos Mills is tired of migraines.. [Thursday 2008.05.15|18:43]
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Rebecca Anstett and Emma (the cat) are going to the cottage for the long weekend... (this ought to b [Thursday 2008.05.15|18:15]
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Wow Berkeley... [Thursday 2008.05.15|18:43]

ucberkeley

[angelrinoa]
Another shooting?.

??? This is getting kind of ridiculous.
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English 135AC Final - Hutson [Thursday 2008.05.15|18:37]
ucberkeley
[dwill8]
A huge favor:

Can anyone tell me what Hutson said about the final? I missed the day he actually talked about it, and the only things he said when I was there were that there were both identifications and an essay. Will the essay just be on the last two autobiographies?

Thanks!
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McCain vs Obama: The Farm Bill [Friday 2008.05.16|00:38]
greg_mankiw
Obama supports the farm bill. Clinton scolds McCain for opposing it.

Score one for McCain (for reasons spelled out in a previous post).
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ESPN commercial…. [Friday 2008.05.16|01:01]
38_pitches

Is funny. Can’t help but laugh at it. They asked me to be a part of the shoot but it was done during spring training and I didn’t think flying up to Orlando for the day and back was the smart thing to do when not being able to play and going through rehab. Love Peter Gammons as Tito, rubbing his head.

After everything that’s happened and all that has been said and done I laughed. I have yet to see one they have done that wasn’t funny.

Much needed day off for the guys. This has to be one of the weirdest schedules I’ve ever been part of.

Watch out for the Rays. People made all kinds of fun of me last year when I mentioned that would be a place to consider, luckily for them I didn’t, but that’s a good young team. Joe Maddon is one of the men responsible for my career and I think the world of the guy, and I think they’ve got immense amounts of young talent. Troy having a bit of a revival has certainly helped too. Great to see him back in the game and doing fantastic, couldn’t happen to a nice guy. They’re going to be good for a long time, and in a tough division, and from what I understand they’ve just tipped the iceberg on the wealth of young pitching talent they’ve got coming up.

My rehab is going well. We’ve increased the workload and distance in my throwing program and so far so good.

38 Studios has made a few more hires recently and I just cannot grasp the talent level we have, teamwide, in the company at this stage. Lots happening and still so much to do.

Doesn’t look like we’ll have the desired (by me anyway) coming out party at SD Comic Con this year, for about a billion reasons. The main one is that we just aren’t ready to do it and if we were to go through with it, we’d be intruding on development as well as pushing things that aren’t ready. We’ll still be there and we’ll certainly have something to show, but it won’t be the ‘lift our skirts’ to the world I said it might be last year.

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Sandra Ling kicked off the dogwalking tan season today. Hello, melanomas! [Thursday 2008.05.15|18:00]
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Spencer Sun is trying to see how long he can go without updating his status. Shit. [Thursday 2008.05.15|17:58]
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[Thursday 2008.05.15|20:34]

cathealth

[childlight]
 Sabrina is still at the vets and although she feels rotten she isn't as bad as we expected. She sat in mom's lap and purred and pawed. The doc won't let her come home because he doesn't want her around other cats. Mom's other cats are behind of their vaccinations. I know some people will think we are terrible because of that but with them being indoor only and because of their reactions mom decided to hold off. Charlie turns from sweet cuddle boy to dangerous tiger then he gets so upset he wheezes for hours afterwards. Grace on the other hand is a marble statue who then hides under the bed for a week. Of course I wish we could go back now and change that. Tink is only 1 month behind on her vaccinations. And all fo my own cats including 2 of my ferals are up to date on theirs.

The vet is not sure if what Sabrina has is just a nasty virus or panleuk. But I think he is preparing for worst case scenario. On symptoms I don't know of her vomiting. She had the fever 104.2 or 104.7 I can't remember. She is coughing and although she is eating a little on her own now she went for a few days without eating and being force fed. She is also congested and when she breaths she keeps blowing a snot bubbles with her nose. And then there was the air in the bowel issues.

So all the other cats are getting their vaccinations tomorrow but doc says it will take 10 days to go into effect.

Is it possible that she just had a cold or virus and the distemper vaccination she got Friday gave her a mild form of the disease?
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Dawn-Ann M. Calhoun (now MacGillivray) '96 [Friday 2008.05.16|00:07]
mvhs_alum_syn
Updated 15-May-2008. I'm working in Pleasanton at a civil engineering company working in the roads and bridges group. We basically keep tabs on all the construction going on with the bay bridges and roads in Alameda county. I got married in October and we're working on making a baby!!
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[Thursday 2008.05.15|17:45]

ucberkeley

[heyrey]
O_O; 94 DEGREEZ
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Tina Liao is searching for crashpads in london + paris in june...help? [Thursday 2008.05.15|16:59]
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What Are You Doing with Your Stimulus Check? [Reader Poll] [Thursday 2008.05.15|16:30]
lifehacker_part
Unless you made a fistful of cash last year, you've got a stimulus check either already in your bank account or on its way. Naturally, the goal of the stimulus package is to add a bit of fuel to the...
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Put Google Reader in Your Sidebar [Google Reader] [Thursday 2008.05.15|16:00]
lifehacker_part
In the wake of the recent Google Reader for iPhone update, web site Mozilla Links saw an opportunity to make good use of the new mobile interface by putting Google Reader iPhone into your Firefox...
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Good news/less good news [Thursday 2008.05.15|20:10]

cathealth

[figgyscott]
Good news:
Mocha has been most likely ruled out for having FIP (a fatal feline virus).

Less good news:
Mocha can now go see the vet dentist Monday to have her mouth examined for signs of stomatitis (overreaction of her immune system to plaque on her teeth). Best course of action if that is the diagnosis is to pull her back teeth.


x-posted to my own blog too.
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Help with new MP3 player [Thursday 2008.05.15|20:11]

schmengie
I guess its time to start looking for an MP3 player to replace my Dell DJ30. Its worked great for 3 years but the charge that kept for 8 hours now keeps for 3. Saddenz..this Dell fits all my needs. Simple user interface and even simpler computer interface using Dell Explorer which is basically Windows Explorer but for the MP3 player. Simple cut and paste into playlists, simple editing of artist names and albums etc etc.

So I am looking for suggestions based on a few firm do's and don'ts
I will never buy anything Ipodish as every Ipod bought by my kids sucks and has to be replaced
Must be simple to use. I also would like a fairly easy to see screen since I am getting older.
Computer interface needs to be very simple. I have Itunes installed for my kids and cannot stand it
The Dell is 30GB and getting full. I guess 160GB is the going size these days

I think most everything else I would be interested in is SOP these days....

Fathers Day is around the corner...suggest away

Edit
a quick search finds the Microsoft 80GB Zune
Any thoughts?
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I'm actually proud of California today [Thursday 2008.05.15|17:00]
jpmassar
"In light of the fundamental nature of the substantive rights embodied in the
right to marry — and their central importance to an individual’s opportunity to
live a happy, meaningful, and satisfying life as a full member of society — the
California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil
right to all individuals and couples, without regard to their sexual orientation.

It is true, of course, that as an historical matter in this state marriage always
has been limited to a union between a man and a woman. Tradition alone,
however, generally has not been viewed as a sufficient justification for
perpetuating, without examination, the restriction or denial of a fundamental
constitutional right."
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Jeong Kim www.blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm. [Thursday 2008.05.15|16:18]
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Check Back Tomorrow [Thursday 2008.05.15|16:15]
paul_depodesta
Check back in tomorrow, as I'll have a new post concerning the question of the relative importance of power, speed, and defense at Petco.

In the meantime, two quick guidelines that I probably should have mentioned upfront:

1) Per MLB rules, I am not able to discuss players from other teams. Therefore, if you ask me about trade rumors or what I think of other players, etc, I can't answer.
2) There have been a lot of questions regarding my time at the Dodgers that I haven't published. I am simply not permitted to speak about anything relating to the Dodgers. Sorry. I didn't want you thinking that I was blowing off all of those questions.

I hate losing day games.
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Stefan Amshey is cooling off. [Thursday 2008.05.15|15:42]
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Mel Maloney L. is happy to be back in Boston but not so happy to be sick. [Thursday 2008.05.15|15:29]
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Lauren Cooney Boarding plane back to SF. Less than 24 hrs in Seattle, but one helluva productive tri [Thursday 2008.05.15|15:12]
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David Holt is trying to find a reasonable place to get tires put on my Motorcycle. A Nail got my re [Thursday 2008.05.15|15:04]
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Phil 170 Notes [Thursday 2008.05.15|15:37]

ucberkeley

[angeliquestratt]
I have had health issues this semester, and Professor Rozemond has given me a few extra days to complete the final. She suggested I get the notes from someone else in the class.

Is anyone in the class willing to let me copy the notes? I can offer dinner, coffee and/or my gratitude.
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Hexayurt [Thursday 2008.05.15|15:35]

patrissimo
Cool.

(inside joke: "Burning Man - free with piece of Hexayurt")

He's also got a good article on saving the world's poor:
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Panettone Bread Pudding [Thursday 2008.05.15|16:57]

picturing_food

[vyxle]


With Amaretto Sauce!
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Rumor Alert: New "Half-Blood Prince" Photo and More [Thursday 2008.05.15|17:25]
leaky_cauldron
We have a few pieces of news and rumors regarding Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to update you on. First, thanks to Oclumencia for alerting us they have posted what they believe to be a new photo of Harry...
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Run the Ultimate Boot CD from Your Thumb Drive [How To] [Thursday 2008.05.15|15:00]
lifehacker_part
The Pen Drive Linux weblog details how to install the Ultimate Boot CD, a popular system recovery tool, directly to your thumb drive so you can carry your emergency recovery toolbox in your pocket....
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Whee... [Thursday 2008.05.15|15:18]

evwhore
Power outage on our block at work. The new UPSes are getting a good workout...
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