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:: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 ::

So we sent a fax to the wrong number w/o a cover sheet. Our mistake. And we get a reply fax with the note,

To whom are you sending this to?

Idiots!

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:: Matthew 3:49 PM [+]    ::
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El Duque goes to San Juan, so hot.

I will eventually put it witty and interesting commentary on the pictures (just like my lovely narrative for the Europe pictures).

Things that piss me off, realizing in the template that I misspelled "Pinstripe," as "Pinestripe." Damnit, damnit, damnit.

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:: Matthew 11:26 PM [+]    ::
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A few more pictures:

Duke on beach, me in pitching pose.
Duke on the bed.
Duke outside stadium.
Duke outside hotel. Note the car rental company's name.
Duke outside stadium, again.
Duke safe at JFK.
Hiram Bithorn at night.
Hotel view.
In the photo booth.
Lauren and Terr with beer.
Lauren in the AM.
Lauren misses the Duke.
Carrolls at Hiram Bithorn.
Maid takes care of Duke.
Matt and Terr in fort.
Matt and Terr in rain.
Matt and Terr in rum bar.
Matt and Terr with beer.
Packed with pillows.
Packing up the Duke.
Sweethearts.
Terr and Lauren in fort.
Vlad.
Youppi!

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:: Matthew 1:34 PM [+]    ::
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In response to my sister's email about me seeing Kevin Millwood - Phillies pitcher - pitch a no-hitter yesterday at the Vet:

It was totally cool. In the 4th I said to Terr, "wouldn't it be funny if Ledee decides the game." (Ricky hit a homer in the first - and later a spectacular catch in center field - though he's no Bernie.) Then in the 8th I finally noticed that it was a no-hitter (Millwood walked a couple so I knew there had been baserunners) and I turned to my friend Duff and said "Hey! Did you notice he hasn't given up a hit," and he said "I was trying not to jinx it." So I'm glad I didn't screw it up - it was very cool to see. Like our trip to Montreal (when people were cheering on Vlad) it's always good to see people psyched about baseball. Everyone was up on their feet cheering when Millwood had someone to two strikes. And cheered until he gave a second curtain call. One more thing I can cross off of my list-of-things-to-do: see a no-hitter.

It's funny that we didn't score the game b/c Terr and I had talked about it and there was a promo where if a person under 14 scored the 4th, 5th and 6th innings correctly they won something. So I'll bet a lot of people did end up scoring it. I only saved my ticket stub.

Anyway, very exciting.

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:: Matthew 11:47 AM [+]    ::
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Fun, fun, fun. Not fun (at least not while drunk).

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:: Matthew 7:38 PM [+]    ::
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A.Word.A.Day--Bronx cheer

Bronx cheer (brongks cheer) noun

1. A rude sound indicating disapproval, made by sticking tongue partly out between the lips and blowing air out, in a simulation of flatulence.

2. Any expression of derision or contempt.

[Probably after Bronx, NY, the home of Yankee Stadium, where Yankees fans often expressed their opinion of the umpire's decision or an unfavorable play that way.]

Bronx cheer has a rather unusual synonym: raspberry. How in the world could a sound like that come to be known as a raspberry? To learn this we take a peek at the fascinating working of rhyming slang. "Raspberry tart" was used as a code for "fart" and then the rhyming part was dropped. Other examples of rhyming slang are "butchers" for "look", as in "Take a butchers at this!" (from butcher's hook); "apples" for "stairs" (from apples and pears); china for mate (from china plate). Best-known rhyming slang was used by generations of London Cockneys, but similar rhyming slang is found in many other parts of the world. -Anu

"Travis also notes in the Post that, contrary to UK reports, Tom Cruise will go to next week's Academy Awards with Penelope Cruz. `I think it's very gutsy of him because the Oscars will be crawling with Aussies and they might give Tom the Oz equivalent of a Bronx cheer because he's a bit unpopular with them for dumping Australia's sainted Nicole,' the Kiwi-born columnist waxes. Sainted?"
Peter Holder, et al; Sydney Confidential; The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia); Mar 18, 2002.

"It wasn't a unanimous Bronx cheer. Many fans stood and applauded for Martinez. Years of excellence outweigh one bad game. Still, it was an out-of-body experience to hear any boos for Pedro on Opening Night at Fenway Park."
Dan Shaughnessy; Voices of Fans Are Heard; Boston Globe; Apr 13, 2003.

This week's theme: toponyms (words derived from place names).


X-Bonus
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

Thanks to Dan Carp.

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:: Matthew 11:14 AM [+]    ::
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Pictures!

Back in the duffel.
Beers at Hiram Bithorn.
Terr and me w/ pina coladas.
Double fisted.
Duke arrives.
Duke at breakfast.
Duke at the field.
Duke does YMCA.
Duke during the rainout.
Duke eats pizza.
Duke gets coffee.
Duke gets out of water.
Duke goes to elevator.
Duke in JFK.
Duke in sand.
Duke in taxi.
Duke in the stands.
Duke in trunk.
Duke in water.

I'm sure I'll make something out of this - but I figured I'd put it up here first.

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:: Matthew 11:10 AM [+]    ::
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So a while back, I had this post about dating and war.

And here's the follow up as reported in Savage Love:

What you were thinking when you advised a 40-year-old guy to tell a 20-year-old barista about his sexual feelings for her? I was thinking about writing you to complain when a barista who works in the coffeehouse I run informed me that a man told her he had written the letter about her! Gross! Who wants to serve someone while possessing the knowledge that he spends "way too much time thinking about exploding [his] rocket all over her"?!

Let me clarify things for people with crushes on baristas: People get crushes on customer-service workers all the time. Think what a hellish existence they would have if everyone with a crush felt compelled to let them know about it. I don't care if there's a war on: Keep it to yourself. If you are one of the people considering making this bold move, please do everyone a favor and don't. Print my letter, Dan, because I have a hunch that hundreds of men around the country have told hundreds of baristas that they wrote that letter in Savage Love. Sign me...
Start Telling Annoying Retards Baristas Unlikely Conquests, Knowing Savage

Thanks for sharing, STARBUCKS.

Well there goes my whole pick up line. I'll just have to go the straightforward route now. Or hope that they aren't a barista at Starbucks.

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:: Matthew 5:02 PM [+]    ::
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AL ERA - as of today.
1. R. Hernandez, KC 1.04
2. E. Loaiza, CWS 1.31
3. M. Mussina, NYY 1.86
4. D. Wells, NYY 2.03
5. R. Clemens, NYY 2.08

Go Yankees.

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:: Matthew 10:14 AM [+]    ::
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A preview of pictures to come. I mean that both in terms of where they were taking and what we are doing (the picture was taken at a bar - though it is hard to see).

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:: Matthew 9:12 AM [+]    ::
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Happy Earth Day.

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:: Matthew 8:36 AM [+]    ::
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Puerto Rico: so hot. Made nytimes.com today oddly enough.

Until Sunday night at the earliest, Later.
:: Matthew 11:19 AM [+]    ::
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Check the boxscore and see how much walking helps. The Jays had 8 baserunners (5 hits/3 BB) and scored zero runs. The Yankees had 12 baserunners (4hits/8 BB) and scored 4 runs. I think only one of those walks turned into a run, but the Jays threw a lot more pitches (150 in 8 innings: 18.75/inning) compared to the Yankees (136 in 9 innings: 15.11/inning). That's a lot more pitches to make a mistake on - and probably were. Mondesi and Soriano both homered with no outs (Soriano on the first pitch of course). Probably a tired pitcher trying to get ahead. I think that makes sense - and I don't have the databases to look any further into it.

The thing that started this rant was seeing that 6 Yankees went 0-fer today, but only 2 did not get on base at least once. By contrast 6 Jays went 0-fer and 5 of those did not get on base at all. Delgado, the monster that he is, had one hit and 2 BB. I say, walk that guy all day if there's no one getting on base in front or behind him. I know that San Fran is having the same problem (Alfonzo sucks)!. And I can't find the article about San Fran.

Glad to see Soriano getting some defensive respect (#2).

In any case, go Yankees.

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:: Matthew 7:06 PM [+]    ::
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Only because I left it in a comment in Lorene's journal: Network for Good. Volunteer.

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:: Matthew 6:39 PM [+]    ::
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Neocons.

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:: Matthew 6:26 PM [+]    ::
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I'm very proud of this one: "neocon unknowledgeable".

This is the 4th one I've gotten. There were 10 posts between my last two - about one hour's time.

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:: Matthew 5:44 PM [+]    ::
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WHACK! Vinnie-based animal whack, but one nonetheless.

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:: Matthew 4:51 PM [+]    ::
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Just missed, just missed again.

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:: Matthew 4:49 PM [+]    ::
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Not a true googlewhack, but 1 - 1 results nonetheless. This one is Vinnie-based.

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:: Matthew 4:34 PM [+]    ::
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The Upper Deckers are headed to The Vet next Sunday. So hot. Playing SF - first time to see Bonds.

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:: Matthew 10:22 PM [+]    ::
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Changing from weather.com to weather.gov - much better pictures, no double pop-up ads.

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:: Matthew 10:14 AM [+]    ::
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I think it's that Mendoza is still on the Yankee payroll.

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:: Matthew 9:38 AM [+]    ::
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The Moose is loose! So hot.

Just looking at the box score and besides Moose and Bernie being outstanding, the Blue Jays only had 27 at-bats - I was confused for a moment as to how that could happen without it being a perfect game. But it's due to the team LOB (3) balancing out with the walks.

It's good the see the Yankees doing the little fundamental things. Posada threw out two baserunners the other day on the same day that Soriano stole two bags. Last night Almonte stole second and the Yankees turned three double plays. Is it me or has Soriano turned the double play himself a lot this year? Does he not trust Almonte, or does he often include Jeter?

The NYT article has some cool stuff about Mussina and Posada.

It's amazing he's never won 20 games," said Posada, who hit his fifth home run in the fourth inning. "It's amazing he's never thrown a no-hitter. He always comes close, with the stuff he's got. I cannot see him not winning 20 games, the way he pitched today.

After looking at that quote, I just want to say Fuck Carl Everett.

There was this little kid sitting in front of us that was totally digging Terr's yelling, and started yelling "You suck" to the Blue Jays. Good to see that the new generation of Yankee fans will be as well-tempered as the current one.

Here are two other quotes we learned from the dude:

When we're up:
"Give the pitcher a wedgie!!"

When we're pitching:
"Hey Posada, pick up the bat and hit him with it!!"

Good stuff. Great game.

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:: Matthew 9:27 AM [+]    ::
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Oh yeah - now it's getting easier. There were 14 posts in between my first one and second one - about 15 to 20 minutes.

"Gaudily Standoffishness"

Googlewhack page

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:: Matthew 4:25 PM [+]    ::
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With many thanks to Vinnie, I finally pulled off a googlewhack. "Standoffish okapi." Vinnie learned this with "incarnated okapi," though we did pull up two different websites. Here's a look at the Googlewhack page immortalizing me.

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:: Matthew 3:43 PM [+]    ::
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32% Evil
With a style rating of 51%
This score reflects a pathetic level of evil with sufficient style to look cool.

Yeah, that's right, I look cool. Thanks to Fuzzy for the work interruption.

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:: Matthew 1:32 PM [+]    ::
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Anyone still have Windows 95? I'm wondering if the sound that Brian Eno wrote for the startup is the same on Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

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:: Matthew 1:20 PM [+]    ::
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So this quote is from Jayson Stark's latest column:

Pedro Martinez said recently that if Piazza was going to charge Guillermo Mota in spring training, he should have gone after Roger Clemens in the 2000 World Series, too. Asked about Pedro's comments by the New York Post's Kevin Kernan, Piazza quipped: "So, what are his thoughts on the Kennedy assassination?"

Now, sure Piazza is a funny, thinking-man's-man, but didn't he charge at Clemens? Not so hard as at Mota but it was the WS and Clemens is one big dude. I also think this is the second or third time that Pedro has ripped that play. What's his deal? Playing for a losing team getting him down?

Enough ranting about that for the moment. All of last night's pizza and beer has given me a slight headache behind my left eye which is causing a little too much twitching.

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:: Matthew 9:29 AM [+]    ::
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DS show over the weekend:

Good show. I enjoyed it - right direction for DS. If anyone knows how many people showed up each night, I'd be interested to find out. Two things about my personal experience. One, is that it's very cool that my brother shows up to each show without provocation. And two is that while I should have been lynched, I wasn't and that's hot.

Yankees bullpen couldn't hold the game, again. Only the second time this year, but it does account for their two losses. I don't know who gave up the runs - I didn't want to read the recap. Some people ask me "Isn't it unfair that the Yankees win all the time? You wouldn't like that would you?" My answer is that I wish they won 162 regular season games each year. I can't take the losing. Another fine outing by Roooooger. 1 earned run through 7 or something like that.

I watched three web casts of the game because I was finishing up some stuff at work. ESPN's GameCast, Foxsports' GameTrax and MLB's version. I'll finish this later - going to play some Age of Empires with Duffman.
:: Matthew 9:50 PM [+]    ::
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Hmmm... is Bush II already positioning?:

'We Believe There Are Chemical Weapons in Syria,' Bush Says

I mean, why bring the troops all the way home just to send them back? Just continue pounding through the region.

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:: Matthew 1:44 PM [+]    ::
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So how exactly did DS get Adidas to showcase "Too Darn Hot" in their commercials?

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:: Matthew 1:31 PM [+]    ::
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Summary of 1.69 oz. bag of M&M's. An ode to How Much Is Inside?

Red: 10 (one slightly smushed)
Orange: 9
Yellow: 11 (two are smushed)
Green: 8
Blue: 10
Purple: 5
Brown: 11
Total: 64 (3 smushed)

Brown looks like the winner, just slightly ahead of yellow which had two smushed M&M's. Looks like purple is the big loser, maybe because the current contest is to find a bag of all purple M&M's, so they've had to skimp in the normal bags.

Though I may be the loser after this post. But there are others.

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:: Matthew 3:35 PM [+]    ::
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Hey all right, I got a Canadian visitor - or at least someone who works for a Candian firm.

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:: Matthew 2:53 PM [+]    ::
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Googlewhack!

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:: Matthew 2:51 PM [+]    ::
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Know about dumb people? Later.
:: Matthew 9:55 AM [+]    ::
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Funniest part about drinking at the stadium in high 30-degree weather: drinking Miller Lite out of the bottles that say "Now in a Stay Cold Bottle." Fucking great, just what I needed - my beer to stay cold.

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:: Matthew 1:39 PM [+]    ::
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I support everyone going to Lorene's journal and reading all her posts (and all the dumb comments). Later
:: Matthew 11:50 AM [+]    ::
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This from the guy that runs internetcamera.com:

Proof that Saddam left Iraq and has been hiding in NYC is starting to emerge.
Reports indicate that he is using his funds to regain power. Witnesses claim
that he is developing small pockets of supporters by approaching strangers and
buying them drinks. Unconfirmed reports indicate a trend where he approaches
groups that are very drunk. This allows him to gain instant popularity and
dominance when he buys them rounds of shots. It also increases his changes of
getting laid. Experts find this methodology very similar to the approach he
used in running Iraq. None of those contacted will admit to going home with
him but as one witness put it "I was so drunk I would not have been surprised
if I woke up next to Bin Laden." Others claim that they thought he was just
an "old nasty drunk looking for attention".

So far the strongest evidence comes from the photos on the camera he left at a
bar. Use the following link to view these photos:

Link

Worth a quick trip at least. You don't actually need to put in your email address - just go to the bottom and click "I Agree."

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:: Matthew 10:21 AM [+]    ::
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Game was excellent - Yankers win 2-1 on strong pitching by Mussina (8 K's) and two dingers (Posada, Mondesi). Best seats I've ever had, they were about 8 rows back, slightly off to the right. I even had an attendant wipe the water off of my seat. I meant to go to the Clubhouse (which I think is a bar in the Stadium), but I didn't make it there because the game was so good.

It was damn cold at points, but unbelievably great. We were just under the screen, and the security people would hand out any balls that rolled back onto the field. When you have the good seats, you don't even have to catch a foul ball - they give it to you (well, not me).

I was hoping to find some interesting articles about the game, but ESPN, NYTimes, YESNetwork and AP all basically have the same story. In summation: it was short (2.5 hrs), it was cold (38deg), it was awesome (WIN!).

But I got to reading some ESPN Page 2 articles and really like this one. It touches upon damning somebody before a judge and jury decides their fate (in this case, Kirby). But it also has some good stuff from Bob Costas. I saw him on CenterStage the other day and he was great - good mix of interesting, funny and intellectual. He spoke shortly on one-liners and jabs in the media against athletes. It was summed up nicely by Wiley (the guy who wrote the Page 2 article),

All I know for sure is, there's an awful lot of crap written and said about who's a good guy and who's a bad guy, a bunch of unknowledgeable, exploitive, easy-bake crap, crap that comes down so heavy sometimes I feel like I should wear a hat ... racial, immature, jealous human crap.

In any case - that's the most interesting thing this hungover UberPlexer can come up with at the moment.

I'm going to an NYU film screening with Dan Moran (who also stars in one of the films) tonight if anyone is interested in going. It's around 8pm in NYC.

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:: Matthew 10:07 AM [+]    ::
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Yankee game, Yankee game, Yankee game! So hot!

Look for me on tv - I actually have good seats; thanks to someone who gave them to my cousin Laura. Free tickets! So Hot!

Goddamn it, I'm excited.

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:: Matthew 5:07 PM [+]    ::
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So yesterday I had someone visit from Emory - there were some guesses that it was Mikey F., but I'm pretty sure it wasn't. Reason why: that somebody from Emory came from the "Out Like..." sayings - and the person who emailed me another saying sent me an email around the same time.

Note: I am not a stalker - just interested in what the stupid tracker can tell me (so if you're reading this from Emory - don't worry).

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:: Matthew 10:04 AM [+]    ::
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Very exciting, another "Out Like..." saying randomly emailed to me. I'm very intrigued that all of the email I've gotten about "out like..." sayings have been from aol.com users.

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:: Matthew 9:42 AM [+]    ::
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Fucking Duffman, funny motherfucker. I'm a big fan of The Beatles, but this is good stuff.

And who can beat "Carrot Top, why don't you dial down the center of my nuts?"

All in the spirit of Maddox. Duffman is right, Maddox does rule.

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:: Matthew 8:24 PM [+]    ::
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Update: so I did not, as suggested below, open up gamecast for the Yankee game. And damn me because Matsui, or should I say, GODZILLA, just hit a two-out grand slam. Thank god for SportsCenter tonight.

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:: Matthew 5:55 PM [+]    ::
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Baseball Is Not For The Faint Of Heart

My favorite quote:

Chicks dig number guys. No, really. Can't get enough of 'em. Only thing better in a woman's eyes than a guy completely out-of-his-mind obsessed with the outcome of his favorite team's baseball game is a guy who can demonstrate that obsession by rattling off numbers in support of it.

However, I'm also partial to:

Your spouse will be in the other room, reading Tolstoy or the Times, wondering when and if you're ever going to care about anything serious, anything besides your silly game.

And as a tease, I really like reason number 8.

It's a beautiful thing, the start of a baseball season. Can't wait for my first game next Tuesday... walking out into Yankee Stadium... the rush... the game... the feeling of vertigo walking down after one too many beers...

Hope to have a good report on Puerto Rico in two weeks (Easter Weekend). The only preliminary news I can report is that for an extra dollar the concessions guy will throw some rum into the virgin pina coladas.

But what am I doing writing?, there's a game on espn's gamecast right now. Later.


:: Matthew 4:30 PM [+]    ::
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Mmmmm, french bashing and more french bashing.

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:: Matthew 3:26 PM [+]    ::
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It's good to see that people outside of NY still care. I've been noticing more and more that people are still affected by 9/11, maybe it's getting just slightly, for lack of a better word, detached and we can start talking about what happened.

For all the seriousness involved in a post like this, it's still nice to see that tech geeks abound - IM is still a normal communication method.

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:: Matthew 11:31 AM [+]    ::
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From Vinnie:

The national doctor of Iraq calls in all of Saddam's body doubles to his office and says to them, "I have some good news and some bad news.... the good news is that Saddam is still alive. The bad news is that he's lost an arm."

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:: Matthew 11:26 AM [+]    ::
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Thanks to Lorene for helping me set up the archive - which I'm sure you all can't get enough of. I still want to finish my stuck-up piece on burlesque, so the archive may come in handy some day.

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:: Matthew 10:42 AM [+]    ::
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Interesting article on why this is the right war to be fighting (April 7, 2003 article). Which is more and more what I believe - just wrong public relations team.

But the end of the article gets all high and mighty about the british.

"The British are a warrior race. Waging war is something we are very good at. One example - the number of Americans we have accidentally killed in Iraq is zero.

"Throughout history we have invariably been on the right side. We rarely start a fight but we know how to finish one.

Right side: WWI, WWII, Napoleonic Wars, etc. - quite a few...

...but, not "invariably," as evidenced by:

Wrong side: Arab-Israeli War, Hundred Years War, The War of Jenkins' Ear (or at least I'm pretty sure they lost - it's sort of vague) and I'm sure plenty of others, including all of the wars they lost as the British Empire came apart.

Smarmy limeys.

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:: Matthew 11:01 PM [+]    ::
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All right, the tracker is back up.... so just a few more notes. Read two posts below if you haven't already.

Screen colors: 32 bit (96 hits); 24 bit (57 hits); 16 bit (28); 8 bit (1, but does it really matter? Who the hell has a screen with 8 bit colors?).

On domains and countries: .net is first and then unknown, followed by .com, .edu and my personal favorite, .us, because I don't think I know about anyone with a .us address. Now I just need a .gov domain to visit, so I can bitch about security clearances correctly.
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:: Matthew 9:38 PM [+]    ::
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Just want to say that it's a good thing that Righetti:Boggs is not the same as Mussina:FuckingCarlEverett.

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:: Matthew 9:26 PM [+]    ::
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So I don't run a tracker on my weblog, but I do on my main page. So a few observations about who visits my homepage:

Most commonly I get the following visitors: nwrk.east.verizon.net (this is my roommate and myself - I can tell the difference b/c he runs a different Windows release); my ip address at work; proxy2.cc.stevens-tech.edu (a few suspects); csfb.com (Lorene) and rational.com (Fuzzy). Thanks to all for actually showing up.

I also got my second Macintosh user today. But I don't recognize the ip address.

Someone visited me from Northern Arizona University on Sunday. There is a slight possibility that this is the person who emailed me some "Out Like" sayings. I need to check the email at work to see if the times sync up.

On that note, both Google and Yahoo have found my humble abode of aljfkds.com. They are the only two referrers, though I have had two instances of links from a hotmail account (so far I haven't figured out who this is). Yahoo has found me twice while looking for funny aim profiles. However, the profiles really aren't that funny nor have I kept up on that portion of the site.

The "Hours of the Day" chart is interesting for two reasons. One is that no one has visited between the hours of 05:50-05:59 and 07:00-07:59, which begs the question, "Who the hell visited at 6 am?!" I could have gotten the 5am one on Saturday night, but missed my opportunity. If anyone can hit one of the empty times, I'll invite you to our upcoming bottoms party. The other interesting bit is the hit count during working hours; a table:

Hour Beginning:	8:00	9:00	10:00	11:00	12:00	13:00	14:00	15:00	16:00	17:00
Number of hits:	3	3	7	6	7	15	8	14	11	17

Rightfully so, the two earliest hours have not gotten many hits. Then people start to get bored (or at stevens-tech.edu, wake up). And then you all go to lunch and don't want to start to work again - time to surf the web - the second highest hit total (and 5pm - 6pm, the highest total, is also when people are probably bored as hell and mad they're working late). But around 2pm everyone gets productive - for about an hour.

I should have done the second row as a percentage of hits during the work hour to hide the low hit totals, but the sum was 91 and I figured it wouldn't change the values too much so it wasn't worth all the damn trouble.

Wednesday is the highest day, by far (27% of hits in just 14% of the week).

Another quick table - this trend was hard to pick up b/c of the setup of the tracker's table (starts at 00:00 hrs). But without further ado, People Falling Asleep: A Retrospective Table.

Hour Beginning:	23:00	00:00	01:00	02:00	03:00	04:00	05:00
Number of hits:	14	10	5	2	1	1	0

My first month, February had an average of 2.78 hits per day. March was 3.80 and April, so far, is 5.43. [Note while I'm thinking about it: I'm not counting reloads - just unique visitors.] But throwing this into an Excel graph, finds that there is a nice exponential fit (R-squared: 0.9985) with the line,

y=1.9745e^0.3347x.

If this increase continues, I should have a million visitors per month by about July 2005. Also, the thousandth visitor would come in early July of this month and the millionth visitor would come in March 2005.

Seriously doubt that any of those will happen unless I start adding some juicy tidbits here (or run around to a shitload of different computers and pull up aljfkds.com).

So damn it, the tracker server just went down - so I'll add it in hopefully later.

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:: Matthew 8:20 PM [+]    ::
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Yeah, that's right - I'm first on Google when searching for Pinstripe Destiny, the story of the 1996 New York Yankees.

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:: Matthew 8:00 PM [+]    ::
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Updated the "Out Like" sayings.

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:: Matthew 3:22 PM [+]    ::
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spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and

piracies and its
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and

the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

e.e. cummings

Later.
:: Matthew 12:48 PM [+]    ::
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Donnie Baseball. Brings a tear to the eye.

I now don't do anything but watch the YES Network (and possibly go out drinking).

Later.
:: Matthew 10:00 PM [+]    ::
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Matt Carroll (noun): completely serious, stablegrave, no-nonsense, poker-faced, sedate, solemn, somber, and staid.

Yeah, that's right. Later.
:: Matthew 2:37 PM [+]    ::
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Fun: going out drinking.
Not fun: going out drinking with a pretty bad cold.
Fun: drunk dialing.
Not fun: waking up your friends, showing up at their place and throwing shit around (though it was fun at the time).
Fun: a soft, warm bed.
Not fun: waking up with the same cold and a raging hangover.

Although, to my credit, I am resuscitating the economy by single-handedly keeping the Kleenex people in business.

And I remembered a joke that I learned at a bar - which is usually not the case (and I probably forgot about the other ten I heard last night).
Q: What's the difference between OJ Simpson and Christopher Reeves?
A: Christopher Reeves got the electric chair.

Not really that funny, but I remembered it.

Later.
:: Matthew 9:51 AM [+]    ::
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Who owns the record for most double plays hit into (350 career)?

That's right, fucking Cal Ripken. I hate that guy. Keeping the streak going, despite serious hitting and fielding drop-offs.

Later.
:: Matthew 7:01 PM [+]    ::
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From Savage Love, words I will take to heart - probably in the next millenium:

"Stop fucking around, and tell her how you feel. What besides your morning coffee place have you got to lose? There's a war on, motherfucker! The whole fuckin' world is falling the fuck apart! Take a goddamn chance!"

Later.
:: Matthew 12:27 PM [+]    ::
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I'm a sandwich junky. I love sandwiches, in pretty much any form. Ziti sandwiches are even acceptable, mmm..... carbs. My brother Terrence was the first person to point it out to me; at Pierce I would put just about anything between two slices of bread. Dagwood's sandwiches are pretty much the only reason to like the Blondie comic strip. The reason I've been thinking about sandwiches, besides the fact that it's lunch time, is this comment on John Scalzi's Whatever (Book Season! post - which concerns his upcoming Book of the Dumb) by Andrew Cory:

"Something that might be of interest for your book of dumb (assuming that you are looking for such things, and that it fits), is what I like to call “the Sandwich question”. It goes like this:
Humanity developed cooked meat about the same time as it discovered fire, basically way back in the beginning...

"Humanity invented bread somewhere between 8000bc and 5000bc.
Thus by 3000bc at the latest, humanity had all the tools necessary for the Sandwich.

"But it took until 1762ad for someone to slap a piece of meat between two pieces of bread. Why in the name of the gods did this not happen sooner? Or if it did, why is the Earl of Sandwich remembered today?

"This is, I think, an example of collective dumb on the part of the whole human race...

I wholeheartedly agree.

Later.


:: Matthew 12:18 PM [+]    ::
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A telling quote from the KennyBlog:

"Before I get started, I just want to finish off the highlights of the party:
Beer pong - Evidently, this is de rigeur for parties that include anyone who is or has ever been a resident of New Jersey. I'm making no judgement here, I'm just saying."

True, true, true.

Later.
:: Matthew 9:51 AM [+]    ::
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I realized last night, while talking with my Mother, that this is the first time I've been sick post-college. (BTW, I've been sick recently.) It's also the first time that I've really taken care of myself: plenty of rest, made two pots of chicken soup, the right medicines, soft tissues, etc. It's nice to have a job with no homework or debilitating stress. I will add that Fuzzy has been especially nice, turning off all the tv's, radios and alarm clocks that I've left on for hours.

But I'm starting to get better and I'm damn proud of myself.

Later.
:: Matthew 9:34 AM [+]    ::
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Oh beloved Jeter, get well soon.

That was the subject line from an email my sister Lauren sent to me.

Only Rob Neyer seemed to touch upon the fact that Huckaby shouldn't have been blocking the plate (or further, be able to knock Jeter off of the base after he was called safe).

Update: The New York Times blasts Jeter in this article. Seems like Mr. Araton thinks that Jeter should have been "more gracious" after Huckaby tried to leave him a message. This guy is ragging on Jeter for no good reason in my opinion. I don't think it was a dirty play (as some have suggested, most notably Enrique Wilson right after the game), but I still think it was an illegal play, and an illegal out - as outlined above.

Piss me off (even more).

Later.
:: Matthew 1:27 PM [+]    ::
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