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Billy's having fun - he knows he air-mailed it. I like the attitude on the club right now, and it's better to see hom cutting up in this instance instead of getting riled about the error. Koch knows better than anyone that he's not usually going to have a 4 or 5 run cushion each outing, so better to laugh it off now and not worry about it.

Cool avatar, Cheat! I always really liked that flying sock logo. I also feel bad for BD.

Sorry. It's a very obscure reference to a bit by comedian Emo Phillips, aka "Emo the Magnificant - the World's Greatest Trombone Player." I'v enever been accused of being in any way hip or current...

Yeah, if we didn't have an 8-run lead going into the 9th, the less-than-stellar outing could have been a problem. Then again, 7 walks by Garland should have led to more than a single Yankee run too. No complaints though - a win is a win and a 5rbi day from Magglio's always a good day.

Hah, very good stuff. The "Tick" connection is just anotehr Seinfeld in-joke. Patrick Warburton (doing Supe's voice here) was "Puddy" on Seindfeld, and did the live Tick for it's short run. He's perfect as a cardboard-cutout type superhero. And that too-good-even-for-a-superhero superhero is where the parody character the Tick came from in the first place. It all comes around again. Cosmic. I like the lines form the short like "How can they not see me, I made this costume as bright as I could," because it similarly lampoons the history of the comic medium. In 1938 on a 4-color print press, everybody not 'larger than life' took on some muted, muddled combination of the 4 inks they loaded up, while the SUPERHEROES all got portrayed in vibrant unmuddled 4-color glory(!). It shows a good sense of the history of the medium to make jokes like that I think.

He got away pretty unscathed the first two innings, considering he gave up 4 walks and was hit hard. Luckily the Yankees stranded like 5 guys those two innings. After that he settled in and did pretty well. Gotta give the Yankees pitchers credit, we stated in the game but their pitchers were sharp and we didn't have the bats we had in KC.

There is a way to do it, depending on how you built the animated gif and what software you used. Several of the softwere packages have a frame rate setting. If the one you are using does not, you can 2x, 3x, 4x etc., each still ovver multiple frames to effectively slow it down. That will slow down the initial playback because so much redundant data has to download, but if the gif is indexed right it should still be quite small.

I've had a bash now and again, but I don't have any mandolin-bearing friends close by these days. If I recall, standard tuning had the four strings as basically the four lowest strings on a guitar but ordered in revers, and the paird strings were octaves at the low end and doubled tones at the high end. Or am I imagining all that? I wish I did have a mandolin around as I started getting more into Irish trad folk stuff, but I was able to use a friend's bazouki for a while and that filled the bill. Odd how an Eastern European instrument like that got so totally absorbed and accepted in Celtic folk circles. I want to get a tenor (4 string) banjo now. I had a 5-string bluegrass bamjo for several years but I sold it during one of the whacky instrument sell-off periods we all seem to go through. I've developed an appreciation for the Narvin Kimball-Preservation Hall type of jazz banjo accompaniment of late.

Ah, making a campfire with the ol' twig and berries...

What Cable operation? I got BrightHouse (formerly Time-Warner Cable) down here.

Actually has bitten me on the ass. You ever forget to make your pick of the month selections in the Columbia House record club and they send you some crap music of their choice and they don't let you return it. Ouch, right in the ass. What am I saying - of course that's happened to you, I've seen some of the crap you must have gotten stuck with and now have in your collection...

I agree completely in that openly anyone attacking abortion or gay marriage and saying "Jesus would be totally into this" is misrepresenting that they know the will of Jesus. I kind of think he'd like an action figure though. Or a line of fine 'miracle wines'... there's an unexplored marketing goldmine...

Mondo Mucho Lucho Libre!

Ah, Emo. The guy who's dog shops in Downtown Downer's Grove, right? No, Emo, the genre that signle-handedly started a long-winded and sometimes ugly music critiquing/mudslinging thread here a few months back. I sworn to my D.C. musician friends not to listen to the genre because they blame it for the demise of the D.C. live music scene back in the 80s. Keep up the playing, though, all y'all music-heads.

I plan on drowning a cute, innocent kitten after each Sox loss this season. Here Fluffy, Fluffy, Fluffy....

Bad weather or not, I'd still rather be there. I'll make do on a field trip to the Keys with my ecology students that Mon-Wed, but I'll be with you in spirit (whilst working on my tan and ordering another round of rum runners of course).

Did Moses have Turrete's? Now that would be funny. "Let My People Go... BLOWJOB! BLOWJOB! ASSHOLE!"

I've been putting all mine on my free Earthlink space and it has been trouble free, except for the abysmal 3rd party sitebuilder interface they use.

Touche'

I was actually trying to make a bad joke about leavened bread, but it seems I have fallen woefully short. "He said SOCKET, NOT SPROCKET!" What, you mean the electrician's convention is NEXT week?"

I've tried to get my mind off the game by working with my institution's IT people to scare up some archived emails coroborating the fact that our President and Managing Director has been bilking us out of a lot of money the past few years. Tonight we were able to piece together that a direct-mail fundraising campaign that this bastard said only brought in $2,800.00 actually brought in over $200K that never appeared on the books. The frigging front office was actually complaining about all the mail coming back in so the fundraising head at the time (long since fired because he 'only brought in $2,800.00' in the above campaign) actually had to farm the return processing out to a caging corporation. Scary thing is this 200K is small change compared to some other stuff we've been slowly ferreting out. I assume I'll be fired shortly... Somebody gots some 'splaining to do... :fyou Corporate Scumbags :fyou

I sense some levity in that post... I thought that was a Passover nono?

[sappy] I went to my Junior Prom with (don't laugh) the love of my young life, and it almost didn't happen. I had been tripping all over myself trying to work up the courage to tell this girl how I felt about her for months (we were hangout friends but she and she alone seemed oblivious to the fact that I had become completely smittten with her). So the prom is fast approaching and I'm just letting it go by with no luck in growing a backbone... So one Friday or Saturday night a week before the prom, I'm playing with the garage band dujour at a neighborhood church hall, and few girls we'd never met before hang out until we're done and we strike up a conversation. Within about 10 minutes I had given my number out to one of the girls who very casually said 'mind if I call you some time?' Sure, whatever, there was nothing-doing with the girl I really cared about and I had to cut out and I gave her my number... A frigging half-hour later I'm dropping off gear at home and the phone rings - it's this 'can I call you sometime' girl, yapping on and on, 'I liked your band..., do you write your own stuff?... yada yada...' and somewhere she sneaks in (and I ACCEPT!) and invitation to HER prom. I finally come to my senses and realize that I'd be the biggest idiot in town if I shell out wads of cash to take a girl I don't know/don't care about/can't remember her name to her prom and don't at least take a chance and ask the single-greatest-thing-on-two-feet if she'd go with me to mine. Fortunately, the proms were on a Friday and Saturday so no conflict, (and one tux rental!) and fortunately the object of my affection said yes, and also 'what the hell took you so long?' - go figure. We dated for 6 months after that, broke up for a few months (her idea *grumble*), got back together (yippee! I had lost my virginity in the interim and apparently that made me desirable - go figure). Got back together just in time for senior prom season, and stayed 'together' through a year and a half of college (two different colleges unfortunately *grumble*) before we broke up for good. A really great friendship somehow grew out of that ugliness and even though now we're a half-dozen states away with families of our own, we're always connected in a scarycool kind of way and she remains among my favorite people on the planet. Something I cannot say about my other exes. [/sappy]

That about says it all. Get it back on Wednesday.

Nice sig... NOW CUT IT OUT!