Quote of the Day [2.15.12]
“Crack is whack.”
Whitney Houston (RIP) to Diane Sawyer
I can’t watch this team
My brother can not watch the Orioles. I can’t either now that they are terrible. This team, this organization can not do anything correct. No pitching. No hitting. No defense. This is hell.
The worse part about being an Orioles fan is that you know that we haven’t hit rock bottom yet. There is worse to come. Truly the Angelos need to be impeached.
Link of the Day [6.01.11]
The Lodsys story makes me sick. It (software patents) are stifling innovation. I think software shouldn’t be patentable. It’s like thought or music. Someone somewhere has thought about it already. You can’t patent an idea.
Link of the Day [1.07.11]
Weird facebook thoughts about about not going public and just playing with their own money. No idea if this is the right thing to do. It’s the ruthless thing to do: make money hand over fist outside of the scrutiny the regulators. It’s with Goldman Sachs who themselves don’t have too much of a good thing.
I don’t know where this is going. Just read the link. I just need a link to keep the streak alive. Seven days baby!
http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2011/01/why-facebook-doesnt-want-to-go-public.html
20th win is O so sweet!
I got the Nolan Riemold bobble head. I had to get the next one, Adam Jones. I find myself down at Camden Yards trading in an unused season ticket for a $1 seat in upper reserve, section 384. I was hoping for a win.
Kevin Millwood on the mound look lost from the get go. Several straight hits in the first and the Marlins were up 2-0. The second inning was more of the same leaving the Marlins ahead 3-0. I was ragging Millwood as he left the mound at the end of the inning. He looked defeated already, and it was still only the second inning. I thought it was going to be a long night of Marlins hits and runs and Orioles futility.
Then the bottom of the third started off with a Craig Tatum double. Then another hit, and another, and another. Finally, the Orioles were up 5-3 and the night felt better. But these are the Orioles and no lead was safe. Will Millwood cough up the lead in the next inning? He didn’t. He came back and pitched respectable going 5 innings and only allowing 4 runs.
Jason Berken continuing with his great relief pitching pitches a nice couple of innings of shutdown ball. David Hernandez finishes up the eighth. Matt Albers comes on for the junk ninth, gives up a run but closes out the win. Why was Albers even pitching? Or even Hernandez? Silly Orioles wasting their guys.
The offense came alive tonight. Jones had a screaming line drive homer, and Miggy came through to seal it with a 3 run homer. Woot!
As the game started I was stewing in my misery in upper reserve 384, drinking a few drinks. Then these guys showed up. They were hilarious. They started cheering. I started cheering. We got on the jumbotron three times! They should’ve been the Fan of the Game, but they had disappeared before then. Dancing and cheering was their forté, and after every score, high fives all around. We cheered. We cheered! We won!
Baseball is so much more fun when you win.
Real Ravens Fans?
Real Ravens Fans?
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
In the current issue of ESPN, the magazine, (Feb ?) they asked fans of
this year’s losers who they’ll root for in the Big Game. Here’s who
the Ravens fans are gonna be rooting for. This one is hard to believe.
No true Ravens fan would cheer for the Colts. They asked the wrong
people. Must’ve been fair weather fans.
When I read this I did a spit take and snapped my head back! I may not
be a die hard Ravens fan, but I won’t root for them over the Saints.
F*CK THE P*L*CE
Driving home in the rain and a state trooper pulls in behind me from York to Greenspring on Timonium. I eye him wondering why he pulled in behind me. Does he think I’m speeding? Acting weird? Suspicious? Maybe he just wants to get to the on ramp to 83. That is most likely it.
We’re at the light by the Sunoco. Another car pulls in next to me on the right turn lane as the light turns green. I go. So does this car. Except he’s following me across the intersection. Dude thinks that his lane can go straight. I’m fucking surprised. The light rain doesn’t make it any better. I’m moving my car to the next lane over lucky that there is no traffic in the other lane.
The dude goes over the curb. I”m stopped honking my horn. I’m waiting for the flashing lights.
Fucking state trooper doesn’t do shit. He’s just watching the whole thing unfold still stopped at the light. I let this guy go. The fucking cop lets this guy go. Then he’s following me. Me? Dude, that guy just was up on the curb. Light ’em up and ticket ’em. Shit why aren’t you pulling that dude over? Where the fuck are COPS when you need it?
“This is Dave Epithicus-erectus, one of the very few in captivity. His diet consists of black coffee and sarcasm.”
Hey! I ran into this!http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/technology/internet/15adco.htmlI was trying to check the scores of the Orioles v Yankees game over the weekend to see the NY media's take on the almost demolition of the high and mighty Yanks by the lowly Os. But every time I hit the Sports page, the anti-virus adware would pop up and tell me I had a virus. Cool, but I'm running a Mac. Can't you at least make it look like I'm not runing an MS OS?I mean, come on. You can sniff my OS in the http request can't you? How hard is it to parse the user-agent string in this day and age?It's a pretty lame way to get attention. But don't switch to the Mac, keep the stupid people on MS OSes, please.
“Flash is kind of useless if the content is unviewable.”
This is why the new smartphones don’t allow Flash. The user experience is the suck. I wonder what happened to his battery life just then.
No news vista
I whole heartedly agree this UI trend must stop. It makes OS X look like Vista. I guess that’s why they touted the Windows native look and feel.
People with the smaller monitors have been complaining that with tabs there is less screen space. That’s what Expose is for. Open new window without the tab bar. Switch via Expose (or cmd-~). But just suck it up and wonder why you have a tiny screen. Upgrade bitches!