Month: August 2010

Now I Shouldn’t Be Listening

Last night the FRS had the night off and still lost ground in the standings (both Tampa & NY won.) Tonight they are getting their butts kicked by the second worse team in Major League Baseball. I hear the Fat Lady warming up.

You can’t even notice, but I updated the theme for the blog. Tomorrow I may even update the version of WordPress I’m running. Try and contain yourself.

How can you still have a headache when you are taking Ultracet for back pain?

We have pretty much decided to keep the current Emperor’s Dynasty going by buying a new grown-up car next year. Take a guess what the leading competitor is? And no it is not a Mini…

Started down, went up, back down, back up, still up.
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I Can’t Watch

The FRS on on ESPN tonight and I can’t watch.

I’m sitting here listening to the game in front of the PC. This is the 3rd and final game in this series against the Tampa Bay Rays who are one of the teams ahead of them in the Sox’s road to the playoffs. They really needed to win all three of these games and they started right by winning Friday, but they lost last night. On Friday there were only 34 games left in the season and the Red Sox were 5-1/2 games behind both the Rays and the MFY. That means they will have to win 6 more games than either one of those two teams to make the playoffs. If the Yankees and Rays play at the same pace they have so far this year they will finish those remaining 34 games at a record of 21 wins and 13 loses. So to pull ahead the FRS will have to play 27-7 ball, and while that pace is not impossible, it is highly improbable.

According to Baseball Prospectus the Red Sox’s chances of making the playoffs, as of this morning, stood at 18%, 13.5% or 7.5%, depending on which version of their “playing the rest of the season a million times” you believe, regular, ELO or PECOTA. And they find themselves in the position that either Tampa, Baltimore or Toronto has been in for the last decade, playing good enough baseball to make the playoffs except for the fact that the Yankees and themselves were in front of them.

Update: After last night’s loss the FRS odds of making the playoffs now stand at 11%, 10% & 4.5%

Started down, still down.
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Bug Splat

The MMC held its 11th Annual Bug Splat Rally tonight. Can we call it that even if we skipped the year? The first one was in 1999 and for some reason there wasn’t one in 2002.

We only had six cars show for the event, maybe the rains in the area scared a few people off. Last year the event ran through a couple of light showers and most if any caught bugs were washed off by the finish. This year we dodged the rain, but we also dodged almost all of the bugs too.

The Biggest Bug Trophy ended up in the hands a new member couple with their 3″ long streak of moth wing dust. The Closest to the Target was awarded to a small speck about a half inch away from Avery Green Dot. Once again Most Bugs and Cleanest Car Awards were given to the cars that showed up for the run in that condition. The only thing that turned out better than last year was our new route that traveled on a couple of twisty road through rural Aiken County.

Started down, still down.
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Still Got Nothing

Didn’t have much to say last night, so I didn’t say it. Tonight? Pretty much the same.

Started down, went up, back down, back up, down again, still down.
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What Were They Thinking?

We received the second disc (of 4) of the British TV show Life on Mars yesterday. We watched the first episode yesterday, there are only 2 on each disc, and today we watched the second. After finishing the two episodes we investigated the extras, of which there was just one, The Return of Life on Mars. We decided to watch it and were greeted with this disclaimer: SPOILER WARNING This documentary contains discussions about key plots and events taking place during Life on Mars series 2.

Mmmmmm…oh, what the heck, let’s watch it anyway. After about 20 minutes they started showing scenes of shows that we hadn’t yet seen. We watched for about ten more minutes before the producers started explaining how Episode 7 was setting up for the series final show that we turned it off not wanting to have the ending spoiled. What the heck were they thinking by putting this sort of thing on the first disc? I know at least they warned us, but shouldn’t this have been on the last disc?

I burned a copy of the documentary to save for watching after we’ve seen all eight episodes. Turns out it is only 45 minutes long, so we have just 15 minutes more to see, but it will be the right thing to wait for it.

Started down, still down.
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Happy 15th Birthday Windows 95!

Task bars & email & short cuts, OH MY!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GWQgb015Lc&start=105

Funny, I don’t remember this video included in my copy of the operating system. Probably because I had the 13 floppy disk version of it. I have thoughtfully cued the video up to the 1:45 mark so you can get right to the worlds first Cyber Comedy starring Jennifer Anniston & Mathew Perry. Let me know how many seconds you can take of it. My buddy Mark was still using 95 to run the CNC program upload/download system in the back of the plant until just about 6 months ago.

Its raining in Beantown so the FRS’s game against Seattle was postponed, they’ll play two tomorrow. This means quite possibly they will lose ground in the standings without even playing a game.

Started up, went down, went up, back down, still down.
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Billions & Billions of Words

While shuffling through Netflix’s Instant Watch titles looking for tonight’s dinner theater I found available, Cosmos, Carl Sagan’s ode to humans and their understanding of the known universe. Perfect. Or so I thought.

I remember being mesmerized when watching it 30 years ago. But tonight we couldn’t finish watching the whole first 60 minute installment. Part of it was, what were state of the art special effects in 1980 seem almost cheesy in 2010. Another part of it was the narration. What to me did sound earnest and enthusiastic back then, sounds only marginally less annoying than that guy who does the those Comcast commercials with Shaquille O’Neal. Donna put it best when she said, “Its like being in a high school science class.”

With the failure to finish Cosmos, that made us bat .500 over the weekend for torrented and instant watch entertainment. We also didn’t finish Episode 1 of the Americanized version of Life on Mars and the failed marriage movie, Serious Moonlight, with Tim Hutton and Meg Ryan.

We did finish a second failed marriage movie, Did You Hear About the Morgans? Even with the predictable plot, the one dimensional Hugh Grant and the ever so annoying Sarah Jessica Parker we both enjoyed it.

We both also enjoyed TiMER, a little quirky sci fi I want to get married flick and an alcoholic hit man falls in love movie entitled You Kill Me which ended up winning the best movie of the weekend award.

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