Too much sportsball on today. We’ve settled on Yanks-Astros for now.
A local reporter captures chilling footage of a man eater:
omg this is everything pic.twitter.com/NxIaZzzzks
— David Mack (@davidmackau) October 13, 2017
I got nothing else. Open thread!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Could be a small bobcat, just saying.
Corner Stone
I am really dying to take a ding dang nap, but…Verlander throwing that nasty cheese…
zhena gogolia
Some say . . . .
smintheus
I haven’t followed baseball in decades, and I’m still getting used to the idea that the Brewers are now in the National League – which dawned on me a few years ago. But what the heck, the Astros are in the AL these days?!
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Naps good.
/Wisdom 101
cope
Just as evil and threatening as every feline I have seen in my life, any precautions necessary should be taken immediately.
Watched Liverpool draw this morning and now I’m just trying to stay up long enough for the Cub’s game tonight. Brats, onion rings, potato wedges and chopped fruit bowl to sustain us until game time.
Baud
The lean and hungry type
Nothing is new, I’ve seen her here before
Watching and waiting
Ooh, she’s sitting with you but her eyes are on the door
So many have paid to see
What you think you’re getting for free
The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar
Money’s the matter
If you’re in it for love
You ain’t gonna get too far
Watch out boy she’ll chew you up
(Oh here she comes)
She’s a maneater
(Oh here she comes)
Watch out boy she’ll chew you up
(Oh here she comes)
She’s a maneater
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@NotMax:
Naps good… Nats, not so much.
Go Big Blue!
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Is Penelope Trunk any good?
FlyingToaster
I took a nap rather than watch Michigan crush my alma mater; right now I’m about to be engaged in standing next to the violinist making sure her bow is going the direction it’s supposed to go. Boring but necessary.
jl
That was a pretty aggressive report. Reporter sounded pretty aggressive and sure that ‘some say’ it was a cougar.
NYT reporters better steer clear. Too controversial and might require a response that ruffles ‘some’ feathers.
Edit: the cat seems to have a ‘WTF, am I in trouble again?” look on its face. which was fun.
Calming Influence
Of course that’s not a cougar. It’s obviously a tiger.
hedgehog mobile
Watched Iowa State, um, dismantle Kansas. mr h is working on replacing one of the doorknobs and I am going to go get new windshield wipers. I can hardly bear the excitement!
Major Major Major Major
I just finished Thai order-in at a friends’ place. I ordered the wrong version of a dish and got meat without rice, so I guess I’m “paleo” now ??
Gonna head out to a cafe in a bit and write the dialogue for Monday’s comic strip, and then work on my writers’ website idea. Maybe play some video games or watch some cartoons. Super unwinding from mandatory teambuilding week, enjoying having some me time for once.
The air is fine today too, not very smoky in SF.
Ajabu
I guess you can determine if it’s a cougar by whether it responds only to young men.
Or so the pop culture tell me.
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
Arm up everybody, you may need to defend yourself.
efgoldman
@FlyingToaster:
As my grandmother used to say, “you can put your oy out like that!”
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
If you’ve never seen them (and even though some are infused with wartime stereotypes), the Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons are a gas.
HeleninEire
@Corner Stone: Aren’t you the “boss nap” guy? Read that and got really jealous.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Did you see Cole’s tweet about having to go to the market because he ran out of wet food and is afraid of Steve?
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: I have Rick and Morty to catch up on, but I’ll take it under advisement.
Might also watch Lore.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@HeleninEire: I took a nap yesterday, but I had my flu shot the night before and felt like crap; the pups grew restless when my nap started to infringe on their dinnertime.
Brendancalling
Sitting in a bar on lower Broadway in Nashville, having a well-earned post-run beer. 14.71 Miles, could have hit 15 but I was pooped.
My new running shorts arrived yesterday: ranger-panties, a reference Cole probably gets immediately. Incredibly light, incredibly, um, short. And so sheer you can basically see a detailed outline of my junk. I was almost embarrassed to wear them.
donnah
Showed my ‘53 Pontiac Chieftain at a cruise-in and had a nice chat with another woman who attends with her classic car. She said she was driving her young granddaughter in her car and the little girl asked her to please roll up her window. The woman replied, “You just use that handle there beside you on the door to roll it up”.
Her granddaughter exclaimed, “Well, what will they think of next?”
sukabi
@Brendancalling: careful you don’t have a Cole inspired sit down in the park…only to find you’ve been displaying your junk for all to see…?
jl
Couldn’t help repeating this comments from thread below. Because nice to see at least some Times personnel blowing off the management’s BS, and it is a very important informative post by Krugman on Trump/GOP tax slash scamplan.
I am very sorry to report that Paul Krugman seems to be ignoring the NYT advice that it is best to act like an impotent nonentity.
His blog post today is about the GOP tax cut, and titled Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies,. Easy to find on the search machine.
It;s very good, thought rather long dry and detailed.
jl
Also, I am looking for a name for Trump/GOP that will remind us that the GOP is almost as bad as Trump. And in some ways worse, since GOP is very consciously dedicated to horrible policy, whereas Trump don’t care that much, whatever gets a rise out of the room, or some important or famous last person in the room who flatters him, or looks like a GREAT DEEELZ is good enough for him.
Only thing that has come to mind so far is GROMP.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@Brendancalling: I’m on my way to Nashville right now, almost done with a four-plus hour drive to see Jason Isbell at the Ryman tonight.
An hour or so ago I suggested to Mr. Mingobat that we listen to my Jason Isbell playlist. Mr. Mingobat responded, “Why? We’re seeing him tonight.”
Concert road trip: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG.
HeleninEire
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Gosh. I am the worst sleeper ever. I am sure I was an insomniac before age 12. When I was working full time getting a graduate degree and living an hour away from school and work I thought “This behooves me.” Yeah I’d like a good night’s sleep. Just once.
Villago Delenda Est
Don’t underestimate the power of the common housecat who imagines he or she is a lion.
Betty Cracker
@donnah: Haha! That’s awesome. Must be so much fun to have a vintage car.
NotMax
Roasted 7 lb. pork loin yesterday. Gonna be chowing down on various iterations of pork for ~10 days.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Incipient loaf of potato bread doing its thing in the super duper bread machine.
@Major Major Major Major
The theme music, rock ‘n’ roll style.
rikyrah
@NotMax:
sounds delicious ?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Major Major Major Major:
I’d like to hear about your website idea, 4M. You gonna make the BJ writing group tomorrow morning?
bystander
The local news clip makes more sense if you see the video that caused the local news guy to be covering in the first place.
I do wish we knew what happened about the “cat” in the video.
JMG
We’re broiling haddock tonight, with green beans and a salad using the last of the greens (including pea greens) we bought at the farmer’s market on Tuesday. Also crab cakes for a starter.
Jay C
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap:
Maybe it didn’t translate well from
Hungarian GermanFascist, but I’m unsure who old Seb is threatening here (and how). Does he mean “we” (and who might that be?) will be able to “damage” “the left”* in “our” capacity as private citizens? Or is it “the left’s” “private citizen capacity” that is beingobliquelyincoherently threatened? I haz a confuze,,,,,*Presumably defined as anybody who disagrees with him/thinks he’s an idiot/has no idea who Sebastian Gorka is – IOW, probably a vast majority.
Betty Cracker
For those who’ve been following the Women’s March convention controversy, the WM people finally admitted they fucked up.
dmsilev
Adventures in grocery shopping: I rarely go to Whole Foods, but did today, and the person ahead of me was purchasing literally 100 pounds of ground beef (ten nicely wrapped packages at 10 pounds each). And nothing else, so of course this was in the Express lane. Maybe she had a pack of snobbish wolves to feed?
MomSense
Sitting outside at a brewery drinking a beer. The dog is chewing a stick and looking just cute and sad enough that people are giving her nibbles of barbecue and french fries.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
Glad to hear it. They got a heated email from me.
Brendancalling
@sukabi: I think we’ve already established I’m shameless.
Brendancalling
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): afterwards, come by the Basement East for Honky Tonk Saturday Night. Great bands, no cover, hard Country
MomSense
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA):
I am soooo envious. Jason Isbell is one of my favorites. He, Jamestown Revival, and Honey Honey are on heavy rotation for me.
ruemara
@dmsilev: sounds like one of our regulars is planning a cookout for us.
Villago Delenda Est
@Betty Cracker: Big time. Bernie is after all a guy who thought “women’s issues” were a distraction.
NotMax
@dmsilev
30 pounds of sirloin, please.
Sure I read that prices were gonna drop at Whole Paycheck since Amazon took ’em over. Stopped in there during the monthly grocery shopping excursion to look and saw no evident changes whatsoever.
Major Major Major Major
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Is that tomorrow? I’ll think about waking up for it. Really beat from the week and have a lot of sleep to catch up on, though.
Anyway, the gist is that you would have your account, which has Works, which have sections and sub-sections, which are re-orderable. So a book or a story at the Work level. Then you also have pages (with text descriptions and other fields) for characters, settings, and objects/other, all of which you can associate with works/sections/sub-sections like you would tag a blog post. You can also associate them with each other as makes sense, like objects are in settings. These would all be viewable across various indeces, so if I want to see all the chapters with my character Cornelius Archibald Finch or even just check what he was wearing at his last occurrence, I could go to his page and look at the “appearances” panel. (If I’ve tagged him in the chapter already, the link to his page will be available in the sidebar.) Etc.
Lastly you have snippets, which are blocks of text associated with a work that can, if you want, be ‘promoted’ to sections/subsections and slotted in where they would fit. That was based on a suggestion from somebody here.
Sound useful?
Steve in the ATL
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA):
I don’t see this marriage surviving the weekend.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@jl: You’re overthinking it. Dolt45 is GOP. That’s all you need. And also, they ARE as bad as him, he simply speaks simply out loud.
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
Sounds fantastic.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@Brendancalling: Just might do that. Thanks for the recommendation.
@MomSense: I had tickets to see him in Athens, Georgia almost a year ago, but couldn’t go. This is fine with me, though — Jason Isbell and the Ryman Auditorium are a great match of artist and venue.
I like Jamestown Revival. I’ll have to check out Honey Honey.
NotMax
@dmsilev
At Whole Foods prices, when the cashier hit the Total button, expect a message flashed up on the screen: Continued On Next Register.
:)
MomSense
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA):
Not only is he a great musician and songwriter but also a thoroughly decent person. I first learned about him when my oldest played Children of Children for me and said he can’t listen to it without crying because it reminds him of us. That was it. Fan for life.
dmsilev
@ruemara: I’m holding out for at least some buns and maybe some paper plates first.
Brendancalling
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): great dancing too. I’ll be wearing a pale yellow snap shirt with brown and blue flower embroideries.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@Steve in the ATL: Eh, we’ll be all right. We like each other well enough and neither of us feels like being single again. There’s a lot to be said for compatible bullshit thresholds.
(Also, love, mutual respect, same priorities, sense of humor, etc. But bullshit thresholds also too.)
FlyingToaster
@NotMax: Prices for items with local competition went down.
Organic Ground Beef is available at , , and every Farmer’s Market hereabouts, so that got cheaper. Organic brisket and roasts aren’t generally available, so that didn’t.
Most of the Annie’s lunchbox offerings droppped ‘way down, because at least half of them are available at Target. Heh.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Major Major Major Major:
Yup, TaMara posted that we meet at 9:30 PST.
The site sounds interesting, but I’m not certain I quite get it. Would it be a thing writers use to organize their own stuff? Would it be used to workshop projects in progress (and get feedback) with/from other writers?
NotMax
@FlyingToaster
Pet peeve. When it comes to food, the term organic is both meaningless and can be affixed willy-nilly.
Hell, coal is organic.
Major Major Major Major
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Organize your own stuff. It was an organizational tool I wanted so I decided to make it while learning a new programming language. I imagine it can have other applications, no reason there couldn’t be a share/feedback mechanism.
donnah
@Betty Cracker:
It is SO much fun! You meet some of the nicest people anywhere and we all love to show off our “beauties”. My car is pretty large and she drives like a parade float, but I love every minute driving her. She has no power steering or power brakes, so my biceps get quite a workout. That’s known as “Armstrong Steering”. haha!
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@MomSense: If We Were Vampires snuck up on me. I was listening to it the first time, thinking, “yeah, this is pretty good,” then I got all weepy at the end, out of nowhere.
Love him.
NotMax
In case anyone might be interested friends’ long running (almost 15 years now) tech-centric radio show just starting. Today’s ostensible topic is about changes to Windows 10 (but they never stick strictly to the designated topic).
Streams online here.
Ruckus
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA):
My take is that you have to be very lucky to find these up front. Most of the time they have to be worked on, out and polished to be a usable metric. Which can be fun but does have pitfalls.
NotMax
@donnah
Starter pedal on the floor or too upscale a model for that?
jl
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant):
” he simply speaks simply out loud. ”
I read that as ” he simply speaks simply out lout. ”
So, you think we need ‘GROMP’, is that right? Thanks. I’ll use it from now on.
NotMax
@NotMax
Should add that if you have any tech questions (topic related or not), their toll-free number will get you through with vastly greater certainty than with any similar syndicated program.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@Brendancalling: We’ll try to get there. Mr. Mingobat’s feeling it from the drive, but I think he’ll get a second wind once the concert starts.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Major Major Major Major:
Well then, it sounds very useful to keep track of your characters, their appearances, and such. Definitely!
donnah
@NotMax:
I’m not sure what you mean. It has a gas pedal and a brake pedal, starts with a key. Automatic transmission, straight 8 flathead engine. I had to buy a 6v battery at the tractor store because a 12v won’t do!
FlyingToaster
@NotMax: My personal standard for “organic” is “weird shit isn’t getting added into it”. We get our meat either from the farmers or from a local family-owned market. Since WarriorGirl won’t eat much meat, there’s a fair amount of “Bell&Evans ChickenTenders” in the mix.
The farmer’s markets crowd are pretty strict: it says flat out, grass-fed beef, no antibiotics. Free-range or coop-raised chickens. Most of them won’t use the term “organic” for meat.
One local chain (Hannaford) used to use Canadian certification for their organic products, because the US certs are meaningless.
lollipopguild
@Major Major Major Major: Horse Manure is organic.
Major Major Major Major
@lollipopguild: Huh?
NotMax
@donnah
Example of floor starter pedal.
Betty Cracker
@donnah: One of my uncles found an old car in a pasture (not Cole’s — something from the 50s) and restored it to showroom condition. Took many years, but he’s a gear head so enjoyed it. He met a lot of cool people showing it off too. :)
lollipopguild
@Major Major Major Major: I actually meant to reply to #60 where he said “coal is organic”. Lots of things can be labeled organic but we do not eat them. Sorry for the mixup.
NotMax
@Lollipopguild
Anything which includes carbon atoms in its makeup is organic.
Which was the point.
Twinkies are organic is a true statement.
J R in WV
@NotMax:
“Hell, coal is organic.”
Yes, it is. That’s why they’re allowed to use it in charcoal briquettes. Really!!
The Lodger
@NotMax: Not necessarily. There are inorganic carbon compounds. From Britannica (indirectly): Compounds of carbon are classified as organic when carbon is bound to hydrogen. Carbon compounds such as carbides (e.g., silicon carbide [SiC 2]), some carbonates (e.g., calcium carbonate [CaCO 3]), some cyanides (e.g., sodium cyanide [NaCN]), graphite, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide are classified as inorganic.
NotMax
@>The Lodger
Would amend my comment above if possible. You do bring up a solid point.
donnah
@NotMax:
Oh, she’s nicer than that! Granted, you can see through some parts of the floorboard to the pavement underneath, but she has a gas pedal, brake pedal, and there’s a floor switch for the brights. No extra starters required.
Betty, I bought my Pontiac with a restored transmission, a new coat of paint, and a retuned engine. Her interior is all original and is admittedly shabby, but I adore her. She’s periwinkle and white, just as pretty as a picture. If I had the money to spare, I’d consider redoing her interior, but since I don’t, I’ll just enjoy her as she is.
schrodingers_cat
@The Lodger: @NotMax: Organic compounds are the ones with carbon concatenation or long chain of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached to them. By that definition gasoline is organic as is your example of Twinkies.
Betty Cracker
@donnah: Periwinkle and white! That sounds sharp! May you enjoy many miles together! ?
J R in WV
My Grandma had (I think) a Dodge, which had a starter switch on the floor. It was replaced by a 1965 Plymouth, so must have been a mid-1950s auto at the latest.
Lots of those cars also had a floor mounted hi-beam switch. My wife and I got our first car when we got married, $400 for a ’62 Plymoth Fury III with dashboard push-button transmission and a 318 V-8. We drove that car for 3 years, from WV to Key West to Mississippi back to WV.