Our first family computer was a TSR from Radio Shack, which used a daisy wheel printer. Damn, that thing was loud. You know when you run your thumb across the teeth of a comb? It was that, except amplified through Satan's bullhorn.
I had one when I was a kid. Brother typewriter with a serial port that I would connect to my Commodore 64. I used the primitive word processing software to write SCI-FI stories that I sent off to the magazines.
Apropos: Our friends at Red Cub Rebellion will be drinking from stadium cups that have Johnny Sins on it. I have no idea who that is [looks down and to the left].
USA Today DC bureau chief threw a “girls night” for a Trump appointee and it was paid for with public money. Oh and said Bureau chief is supposed to moderate the VP debate
Got 14 pieces of mail yesterday....some kind of dirty. Slowdown is impacting deliveries. Our mail carrier is PO'd. Still, he is now working 60 hours a week with overtime.
Whistleblower: DHS told him to stop reporting on Russian intelligence because it made Trump look bad, manufacture intelligence to fit into Trump's Potemkin Village, and to create reports on American journalists
also: whistleblower says former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen knowingly lied to Congress as they purposely pumped up suspected southern border terrorist infiltrators to 3,755 from 3.
Oakland A’s outfielder Ramon Laureano and the Houston Astros have brewed up quite a feud this summer, but Laureano got the last laugh on Wednesday, or at least the most recent one.
The center fielder lined a hit to the gap in left-center in the bottom of the 9th inning, breaking a tie and giving Oakland a walk-off victory over their nearest competition in the AL West division.
Laureano was originally drafted by the Astros in 2014 and then traded to the A’s in a minor deal before blossoming into a star. Tensions have run tight between the two parties this year, as Houston has hit him with pitches four times, with one of those peggings inspiring a benches-clearing brawl that resulted in a four-game suspension for Laureano and a 20-game penalty for the Astros coach who instigated it. On Wednesday, Laureano got a chance to clap back in a meaningful fashion — the standings.
The San Francisco Giants beat the Seattle Mariners 10-1, but don’t let that aesthetically-pleasing score fool you.
It wasn’t good. It wasn’t impressive. In fact, I’d go so far as to call it pathetic.
A nine-run win? In this economy?
On most nights a 10-1 win is noteworthy; it’s the talk of the town.
But on Wednesday it paled in comparison to the Atlanta Braves, who decimated the Miami Marlins 29-9. And it paled in comparison to the Milwaukee Brewers, who stomped on the Detroit Tigers 19-0.
It wasn’t as high-scoring as the series opener, but Dodgers-Diamondbacks was just as wild and sloppy on Wednesday. It took 10 innings to decide things for a second straight night, with the Dodgers emerging as 6-4 victors.
Chris Taylor singled home the free run to start the top of the 10th, then after a walk scored on a single by A.J. Pollock.
Blake Treinen made the two runs hold up in the 10th, picking up his first save as a Dodger. This came one night after Kenley Jansen threw a season-high 31 pitches, rendering him unavailable for this one.
The bullpen combined for five scoreless innings, allowing a hit and a walk, with six strikeouts.
Dust off yer claymores, boys. We have a rebellion to suppress! Take their... FREEEEEEEDOM!
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/shetland-islands-independence-scotland-a4544606.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1599763090
LA cops let obvious drunk walk away from his car crash
https://www.foxla.com/news/lapd-investigating-officers-who-let-apparent-drunk-driver-stumble-away-from-crash-scene
does the lapd do anything other than sell drugs and hassle minorities?
Sometimes they shoot minorities
RIP Diana Rigg (Avengers tv show, Bond, Game of Thrones)
Old Lady Tyrell was the best
Pour out a poisoned bottle for her
Solid character
😞
Daisy
Duck...she also does not wear pants nor skirts like Donald, or the Oregon mascot Puddles
Hill Puppy Farm
from The Great Gatsby. Forgot her last name.
Buchanan.
It's the name of Katy Perry's daughter with Orlando Bloom. Literally, Daisy Bloom. Frankly, I think she should have been named Algae
Fuentes
TIL: She married Richard Marx in 2015
Red Ryder
Ridley
Our first family computer was a TSR from Radio Shack, which used a daisy wheel printer. Damn, that thing was loud. You know when you run your thumb across the teeth of a comb? It was that, except amplified through Satan's bullhorn.
I had forgotten all about daisy wheel printers. I think my dad had one back in the day.
I had one when I was a kid. Brother typewriter with a serial port that I would connect to my Commodore 64. I used the primitive word processing software to write SCI-FI stories that I sent off to the magazines.
We had a Model 3 with just the cassette loader. didn't have a printer until we got the original IBM-PC. Got an Epson dot matrix printer.
Dot matrix was plenty loud also.
Yup, I made a "Cone of Silence" for one: cardboard box with sound baffles on the inside.
I used a plain cardboard box, with the top folded in. Helped a little. Inkjets were so much quieter, once they came along.
The future is now
https://twitter.com/omarjimenez/status/1304065750324391936?s=21
(It’s drone footage of San Francisco with music from Blade Runner)
It's a boy
Is that a stack of sex coins in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
https://twitter.com/dtmooreeditor/status/1303789066102636555?s=21
you find the most interesting history, DC.
Twitter provides even when I’m not looking.
That is interesting!
Dad joke alert
https://twitter.com/paul_winginit/status/1304021712644775936?s=21
And then later today he was shit talking about some Sinn Fein advisor because I guess he’s from a military family, people are complicated
*golf clap* Well played, sir.
That's fitting.
If the color of your sky is a Crayola crayon, what is it called?
Greige
Kind of a yellowish-grey; so dim the Queen won't wave.
government building grey
Same
surprisingly, same here.
raw sienna
sounds like a dicey porn film
Well it was in my Crayola box...
Apropos: Our friends at Red Cub Rebellion will be drinking from stadium cups that have Johnny Sins on it. I have no idea who that is [looks down and to the left].
https://www.secrant.com/ole-miss-sports/ole-miss-put-adult-star-johnny-sins-on-its-stadium-cups-honoring-healthcare-heroes/91777788/
Today in La Rona
I'm a university student in Oxford. I'm smart.
https://www.wcpo.com/news/education/higher-education/miami-u-news/miami-student-threw-20-person-house-party-a-week-after-covid-19-diagnosis
Miami University President:
"Those early weekends in August, we saw an uptick in parties and gatherings,” he said. “I think that’s what is responsible for the surge today.”
Ya think so?
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Woodward book: Trump brags he saved MBS from prosecution re: Kashoggi murder
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-woodward-i-saved-his-ass-mbs-khashoggi-rage-2020-9
USA Today DC bureau chief threw a “girls night” for a Trump appointee and it was paid for with public money. Oh and said Bureau chief is supposed to moderate the VP debate
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1304060058096087045?s=21
The postal sorting machine removal rate is approximately double its recent historical rate
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/usps-removed-711-sorting-machines/index.html
Got 14 pieces of mail yesterday....some kind of dirty. Slowdown is impacting deliveries. Our mail carrier is PO'd. Still, he is now working 60 hours a week with overtime.
Whistleblower: DHS told him to stop reporting on Russian intelligence because it made Trump look bad, manufacture intelligence to fit into Trump's Potemkin Village, and to create reports on American journalists
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/09/911188416/whistleblower-alleges-dhs-tried-to-alter-intelligence-to-match-trumps-claims
also: whistleblower confirms Portland confrontation was purely a re-election photo op
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/09/stunning-new-disclosures-blow-huge-holes-trumps-potemkin-facade/
also: whistleblower says former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen knowingly lied to Congress as they purposely pumped up suspected southern border terrorist infiltrators to 3,755 from 3.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/whistleblower-complaint-border-threats-congress
Turns out political appointees can be bad, who knew?
The amazing thing about this administration is that they can have 24 hours that would cripple a normal government and it doesn’t even slow them down
I can't be a madman, because nobody has stopped me.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1304042651147284480
PRO
Marlins score 8 runs in the first four innings, still end up losing by 20.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=401226319
Oakland A’s Game #41: Ramon Laureano walks off against his former team, A’s beat Astros 3-2
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2020/9/9/21430194/oakland-as-game-41-houston-astros-score-result-walk-off
Oakland A’s outfielder Ramon Laureano and the Houston Astros have brewed up quite a feud this summer, but Laureano got the last laugh on Wednesday, or at least the most recent one.
The center fielder lined a hit to the gap in left-center in the bottom of the 9th inning, breaking a tie and giving Oakland a walk-off victory over their nearest competition in the AL West division.
Laureano was originally drafted by the Astros in 2014 and then traded to the A’s in a minor deal before blossoming into a star. Tensions have run tight between the two parties this year, as Houston has hit him with pitches four times, with one of those peggings inspiring a benches-clearing brawl that resulted in a four-game suspension for Laureano and a 20-game penalty for the Astros coach who instigated it. On Wednesday, Laureano got a chance to clap back in a meaningful fashion — the standings.
Let's Go Oakland! 👏👏👏
Laser Laureano does it again.
And he did it again today with a great diving/sliding catch in the top of the ninth to help preserve the A's win and Hendriks save.
Giants sail past Mariners 10-1
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2020/9/9/21430124/san-francisco-giants-seattle-mariners-final-score
The San Francisco Giants beat the Seattle Mariners 10-1, but don’t let that aesthetically-pleasing score fool you.
It wasn’t good. It wasn’t impressive. In fact, I’d go so far as to call it pathetic.
A nine-run win? In this economy?
On most nights a 10-1 win is noteworthy; it’s the talk of the town.
But on Wednesday it paled in comparison to the Atlanta Braves, who decimated the Miami Marlins 29-9. And it paled in comparison to the Milwaukee Brewers, who stomped on the Detroit Tigers 19-0.
End of the Panda era at SF.
Pablo gets DFA'd for [checks notes] Justin Smoak, a player the Brewers are paying $5m this year to NOT play.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/09/giants-designate-pablo-sandoval-for-assignment-dfa.html
I doubt that any team will claim Panda. He might stay in the organization and get another short stint later this month.
wow. He survived longer than I thought he would.
It's totally gonna be Giants-Dodgers in Round 1 of the playoffs.
It's the one team the Dodgers seem to have problems with. Though the Padres look much better than earlier in the year.
Extra effort gives Dodgers another win over the Diamondbacks
https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/9/21430059/dodgers-extra-innings-diamondbacks-recap
It wasn’t as high-scoring as the series opener, but Dodgers-Diamondbacks was just as wild and sloppy on Wednesday. It took 10 innings to decide things for a second straight night, with the Dodgers emerging as 6-4 victors.
Chris Taylor singled home the free run to start the top of the 10th, then after a walk scored on a single by A.J. Pollock.
Blake Treinen made the two runs hold up in the 10th, picking up his first save as a Dodger. This came one night after Kenley Jansen threw a season-high 31 pitches, rendering him unavailable for this one.
The bullpen combined for five scoreless innings, allowing a hit and a walk, with six strikeouts.
England has Banksy. LA has this guy:
https://twitter.com/AsteriskTour/status/1304105151221952515
CAL
Go Bears.
It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage...
but you'll look sweet on the back of a bicycle built for two.
HAL 9000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WQ1tdxSqI