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September 29, 2017 | |||||
Big Changes For Team Ernie Coming Up. Looks Like I'll Be Punching A Clock Again.Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that handshaking – also known as dexiosis – was practiced in ancient Greece as far back as the 5th century BC; a depiction of two soldiers shaking hands can be found on part of a 5th-century BC funerary stele on display in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin and other funerary steles like the one of the 4th century BC which depicts Thraseas and his wife Euandria handshaking. The handshake is thought by some to have originated as a gesture of peace by demonstrating that the hand holds no weapon. The Thai New Year's Day is 13 April every year, but the holiday period includes 14–15 April as well. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart and with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia, in keeping with the Buddhist/Hindu solar calendar. The holiday is known for its water festival which is mostly celebrated by young people. Major streets are closed to traffic, and are used as arenas for water fights. Celebrants, young and old, participate in this tradition by splashing water on each other. Traditional parades are held and in some venues "Miss Songkran" is crowned. It can be tempting to buy a knife block, or buy a set for a friend who's into cooking as a housewarming gift. Don't do it. The money you spend on a knife set packed with subpar knives could be used to buy fewer excellent knives that will last a lifetime. The "right" knives for your kitchen depends on the type of cooking you do, of course. There are a four multi-purpose knives that every home cook should have, just because they're good at just about anything you throw at them: a 8 or 10 inch chef's knife, a 3 or 4 inch paring knife, a long serrated bread knife, and a 7 or 8 inch santoku. Full knife sets are often packed with redundant knives you'll never use, and maybe one or two you'll use until it's dull, when it becomes more of a hazard than a help. You know I tried to find some information on a new defunct website called viewersvenue.com which billed itself as the predecessor to such sites as adult friend finder and ashley madison. Most of their web archive links don't show shit either, so it's not hard to imagine why they're gone, especially when you consaider how little they spent on advertising themselves.
Yeah Puerto Rico got buttfucked, made no worse not by the existence of the Jones Act, but by the ineptitude of their local government because the local truckers themselves seem willing to get shit done but don't have the means. The folklore surrounding black cats varies from culture to culture. The Scots believe that a strange black cat's arrival to the home signifies prosperity. In Celtic mythology, a fairy known as the Cat Sìth takes the form of a black cat. Black cats are also considered good luck in the rest of Britain and Japan. In Western history, black cats have often been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens, specifically being suspected of being the familiars of witches, or actually shape-shifting witches themselves. In Germany, some believe that black cats crossing a person's path from right to left, is a bad omen. But from left to right, the cat is granting favorable times. In the United Kingdom it is commonly considered that a black cat crossing a person's path is a good omen. Furthermore, it is believed that a lady who owns a black cat will have many suitors. |
September 28, 2017 | |||||
I Feel Like I've Been Moved To The Green Mile.Power kites are controlled by 2 to 5 lines, the simplest of which provide steering by pulling either end of the kite. More lines can provide different functions. These are: Adjusting the angle of attack: Pulling on lines attached to the front edge of the kite will reduce the angle of attack and thereby reduce the pull of the kite.; braking: A line pulling the trailing edge down causes a braking effect that can be used either to make the kite turn quickly if applied to only one side, or to bring the kite down if applied symmetrically; and distorting the kite: Useful when the kite is lying on the surface of the water. A fifth line is occasionally used to do this and thereby makes relaunching much quicker and easier. Two line LEI controllers are found on target kites, recreational, and special-application kite systems. They almost always have a wrist leash attached to one of the lines so that the kite will come down if the bar is released. While midsummer heat waves start to leave us, there are still days where even some sun worshippers begin begging for shade. Instead of forcing family dinners and lazy afternoons indoors, outfit your garden, deck or patio with an umbrella. This everyday item can make all the difference when it comes to a comfortable outdoor space. The size of your umbrella will determine how much shade your space will receive. Think about how much shade you want and how much room you have. Overcrowding your patio with a too-large umbrella won't look or feel good. An adequate umbrella base is a must — don't be fooled into thinking that securing it into a table will provide enough stability. Not only do bases hold umbrellas steady in high winds, but they also help keep them straight in sunny weather. A rosé is a type of wine that incorporates some of the color from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine. It may be the oldest known type of wine, as it is the most straightforward to make with the skin contact method. The pink color can range from a pale "onion-skin" orange to a vivid near-purple, depending on the varietals used and winemaking techniques. There are three major ways to produce rosé wine: skin contact, saignée, and blending. Rosé wines can be made still, semi-sparkling or sparkling and with a wide range of sweetness levels from highly dry Provençal rosé to sweet White Zinfandels and blushes. Rosé wines are made from a wide variety of grapes and can be found all around the globe.
Seriously, people die and I don't really give two shits. A dog dies and I'm all busted up. Anyway. OLD AND BUSTED: smoke em if ya got em. THE NEW HOTNESS: identify em if got em -- first the starburst can and then this green and silver can and then this mostly greeen can. That's three drinks before lunch, so you probably shouldn't drive. Never Back Down is a 2008 martial arts film directed by Jeff Wadlow and starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, and Djimon Hounsou. The film was released on March 14, 2008 and closed on June 5, 2008 after 84 days at the North American box office with $41,627,431 worldwide against a budget of $20 million. The film was met with mostly negative reviews, earning a score of 22% on Rotten Tomatoes; the consensus being: "Though not without its pleasures, Never Back Down faithfully adheres to every imaginable fight movie cliché". The film is rated PG-13 for "mature thematic material involving intense sequences of fighting/violence, some sexuality, partying, and language – all involving teens". An unrated version called the "Extended Beat Down Edition", featuring nudity and more blood, was released on DVD in July that year. Also, still no joy on the name of this cxruise ship. |
September 27, 2017 | ||||||
And Now On To Chapter Four: Death.Reddi-wip was invented in 1948 by Aaron "Bunny" Lapin, who attended the University of Missouri before attending the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Starting out during the food rationing era of World War II, he invented Sta-Whip as a cream substitute using vegetable oil. After the war, he invented Reddi-Wip in 1948, using real cream, along with a new valve more suitable for whipped cream, with fluting to create a pattern and a tilt-to-open design that pops back to the center to preserve the propellant gases. The appearance of red eyes in pictures, known as the "red-eye effect," occurs when a camera captures light reflecting from the retina at the back of your subject's eye when a flash is used at night and in dim lighting. Light rays travel through the cornea and pupil of the eye to focus on the retina, a layer of light-detecting cells at the back of the eye. From here, the retina converts the light rays into electronic pulses that travel along the optic nerve to the brain to create visual images. When a camera flash goes off, the pupils of your subject's eyes don't have time to constrict to reduce the amount of light entering their eyes. Therefore, a large burst of light reaches their retinas, reflects the red light back, and is captured on film. A pilot chute is a small auxiliary parachute used to deploy the main or reserve parachute, and is connected to the deployment bag containing the parachute by a bridle. The spring-loaded pilot chute is used in conjunction with a ripcord. When the user pulls the ripcord, the container opens, allowing the pilot chute compressed inside and loaded with a large spring inside it to jump out. Spring-loaded pilot chutes are mainly used to deploy reserve parachutes. They are often also used to deploy the main parachute on skydiving students' parachute equipment.
Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice... The Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American worldwide consumer products company focused on the production, distribution and provision of household, health care and personal care products. Under its "Hill's Pet Nutrition" brand, it is also a manufacturer of veterinary products. Colgate-Palmolive has long been in competition with Procter & Gamble, the world's largest soap and detergent maker. P&G introduced its Tide laundry detergent shortly after World War II, and thousands of consumers turned from Colgate's soaps to the new product. Colgate lost its number one place in the toothpaste market when P&G added fluoride to its toothpaste. Today, Colgate has numerous subsidiary organizations spanning 200 countries, but it is publicly listed in only two, the United States and India. Any idea where those Colgate products were delivered?
Sure, it's a pain to fit a stroller on a bus. The newer wheelchair accessible buses that ride closer to the ground make it much easier to get a stroller onto a bus than ever before. Once you are on the bus, however, seats need to fit around the protruding wheel wells. This causes a bit of a bottleneck about one third into the vehicle that's annoying during rush hour even without any strollers. Throw a couple Gracos into the mix and your transit commute becomes a live action Tetris game. Can you show me where is this guy playing Tetris with his kid? The Audi TT is a small 2-door sports car marketed by Volkswagen Group subsidiary Audi since 1998, it was manufactured and assembled by the Audi subsidiary Audi Hungaria Motor in Gyor, Hungary, using bodyshells manufactured and painted at Audi's Ingolstadt plant. Each of its three generations, the TT has been available as a 2+2 Coupé and as a two-seater roadster employing consecutive generations of the Volkswagen Group A platform, starting with the A4. As a result of this platform-sharing, the Audi TT has identical powertrain and suspension layouts as its related platform-mates; including a front-mounted transversely oriented engine, front-wheel drive or quattro four-wheel drive system, and fully independent front suspension using MacPherson struts. The TT was first shown as a concept car at the 1995 Frankfurt Motor Show. The design is credited to J Mays and Freeman Thomas, with Hartmut Warkuss, Peter Schreyer, Martin Smith and Romulus Rost contributing to its elegant award-winning design.
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September 26, 2017 | |||||
Big Changes For Team Ernie Tomorrow."A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" is a song written and composed by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston for the Walt Disney film Cinderella. In the song Cinderella (as sung by Ilene Woods) encourages her animal friends to never stop dreaming, and that theme continues throughout the entire story. The theme of the song was taken from Franz Liszt's Etude No. 9 Ricordanza of the Transcendental Etudes. This song was also performed by Lily James for the soundtrack of the live-action version of Cinderella in 2015. Medical adhesives are found in bandages, medical and surgical tapes, medication patches and other wound care products. An estimated 0.3 percent of people report a skin reaction to medical adhesives, according to an article published in the January-February 2015 issue of "Dermatitis: Contact, Atopic, Occupational, Drug." The overwhelming majority of these reactions, however, are not due to an allergy to medical adhesive. Rather, the reaction is due to nonallergic irritation caused by chemicals in the adhesive. This condition, known as irritant contact dermatitis, appears virtually identical to an allergic skin reaction -- so the confusion is not surprising. The M/V Sea Achmed is 38,000 ton Liberian flagged vehicle carrier owned and operated by Abou Merhi Lines International, currently underway off of the southern coast of Ghana. Can you provide me any information on this passenger carrier? Perhaps a little closer look at the architecture in the background, might do you some good?
Gelato is made with a base of milk, cream, and sugar, and flavored with fruit and nut purees and other flavourings. It is generally lower in fat, but higher in sugar, than other styles of ice cream. Gelato typically contains less air and more flavoring than other kinds of frozen desserts, giving it a density and richness that distinguishes it from other ice creams. Can you tell me what company services this gelato stand? When deciding between an electric shaver, beard trimmer, cartridge based razor, double edge safety razor, or even a single edge razor, as a consumer you have quite a bit too chose from. But how do you cut through all the marketing speak and actually find one that would be perfect for you? Enjoy a perfect close shave with our most advanced shaver yet. Norelco's three shaving head design with V-shaped blades position every hair into the best cutting position while Contour Detect heads follow every curve and contour for a closer and more comfortable shave. |
September 25, 2017 | |||||
Between Michael Vick, Colin Kaepernick and The Rest Of Those Kneeling Fuckheads, The NFL Is Forever Dead To Me.There are only two things a person can do for me to forever see them as irredeemable piece of shit: abuse animals and disrespect the flag. That's it. Everything else -- rob, cheat, steal, murder, whatever -- I can bring myself to eventually get past. But these two sins are, in my eyes, absolutely and completely unforgivable. Buffalo Wild Wings was founded in 1982 by Jim Disbrow, Scott Lowery, and Bernard Spencer. Disbrow, Lowery, and Spencer came up with the idea one weekend when they got together in Kent, Ohio, for Disbrow to judge an amateur figure skating competition at Kent State University in 1980. They decided to open up their own restaurant, first in Columbus, Ohio, and then in Westerville, Ohio one year later. On September 11th of 2017, customers at the Eastvale, California franchise complained that an employee muted the sound for the United States National Anthem at the start of the Monday Night Football game claiming that it was too controversial and that it was not company policy to play it. The franchise owner later apologized and clarified that there is no policy regarding this matter. The Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Classic is rich with the nostalgia of days gone by, but the hidden suspension gives you the authentic look of a hardtail without the bone-shaking ride. The Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail Classic motorcycle FLSTC is fully equipped with modern touring capabilities and even has a removable motorcycle windshield. You get the comfort of standard cruise control and a low center of gravity, plus standard ABS, and a High Output Twin Cam 103B engine with 6-speed cruise drive transmission, providing more performance power for passing, hill-climbing, and riding with passenger and luggage. In an announcement in late 2016, restaurateur and chef Ryan Scott said that he'll be closing Potrero Hill's popular sandwich shop Market & Rye at the end of August. If you recall, Scott closed Market & Rye's West Portal location in 2014 to dedicate himself to the Potrero Hill location and Mason (the former Mojo Kitchen) right next door; however, Mason too was shuttered only four months later. Regarding Market & Rye's closure, Scott said in a press release that “we had a lot of fun, but I'm so focused on Finn Town together with my cookbook launch, expanded radio show and media appearances, that it makes sense to step away.” The building's landlord is reportedly accepting applicants for potential new restaurants at 300 De Haro St.
PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION PLEASE: What brand of body lotion is this? And no, I'm not talking about the Softsoap Shea Butter, I mean th eother one. And while you're at it, what is she holding a spray can of? Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are a group of conditions that can occur in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. Problems may include an abnormal appearance, short height, low body weight, small head size, poor coordination, low intelligence, behavior problems, and problems with hearing or seeing. Those affected are more likely to have trouble in school, legal problems, participate in high-risk behaviors, and have trouble with alcohol or other drugs. Other types include partial fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder and alcohol-related birth defects. Some accept only FAS as a diagnosis, seeing the evidence as inconclusive with respect to other types.
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September 23, 2017 | ||||||||
Insert Your Favorite Roofer Showing Up This Morning Joke Here.
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September 22, 2017 | |||||
Well, Two Weeks On And I Still Have A Damaged Roof And No Screens In My Pool Cage.Any kind of pool can enhance the visual appeal of your backyard, but infinity pools turn your property into a luxurious oasis. These pools use optical illusions to trick the eye into perceiving the edge of the pool to stretch into the horizon, which is an appealing display that many individuals deeply appreciate. Infinity pools tend to look especially beautiful when they are situated at the top of a hill or near a larger body of water. If you rarely spend any time in your backyard, change things up this summer by adding a reason to be outdoors. Infinity pools enhance the aesthetics of your backyard while also serving various functions. In 1997, Boston Beer CEO Jim Koch returned to his hometown of Cincinnati to purchase the Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewery, where his father apprenticed in the 1940s. This was also an important step the company took to reduce reliance on contract brewing. Boston Beer launched Hardcore Cider in 1997, and Twisted Tea brand in 2000. In 2007, the Boston Beer Company purchased the former Schaefer Brewing Company brewery in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley. The brewery had been owned by Diageo North America, Inc. and used for the production of Smirnoff Ice malt beverages since 2001. Tommy Hilfiger Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures upper market apparel for men, women and children, and a wide range of licensed products such as footwear, accessories, fragrances and home furnishings. The company was founded in 1985, and today is sold in department stores and over 1400 free-standing retail stores in 90 countries. In 2006, private equity firm Apax Partners acquired Tommy Hilfiger for approximately 1.6 billion, and in May 2010. Daniel Grieder was appointed CEO in July 2014, while founder Tommy Hilfiger remains the company's principal designer, leading the design teams and overseeing the entire creative process. In 1997 they won a FiFi Award for Men's Fragrance of the Year for the fragrance "Tommy". Global sales in retail through the brand in 2013 were US $6.4 billion, and $6.7 billion in 2014.
Bing cherries are a variety of sweet cherries that originated in the Pacific Northwest, in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States. Bing cherries are large, dark and firm cherries that ship well, but will crack open if exposed to rain near harvest. A dry-summer climate is required for the harvest of the bing cherry, making them especially well adapted to the climates of the Pacific Northwest and California. Since my date is such a fan of bing cherries, what wine would you recommend she order for our Friday night get together? Norton AntiVirus is an anti-malware software developed and distributed by Symantec Corporation since 1991 as part of its Norton family of computer security products. It uses signatures and heuristics to identify viruses. Other features included in it are e-mail spam filtering and phishing protection. Symantec distributes the product as a download, a box copy, and as OEM software. Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security, a related product, held a 61% US retail market share for security suites as of the first half of 2007. Norton AntiVirus has been criticized for refusing to uninstall completely, leaving unnecessary files behind. |
September 21, 2017 | ||||
It's All About The Bollocks.Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at a person or people and when non-consensual, is a punishable offence in criminal law, and depending on jurisdiction is a battery but may also constitute an assault. Although pieing may be intended as a simple practical joke, it can be a political action when the target is an authority figure, politician, or celebrity and can be used as a means of protesting against the target's political beliefs, or against perceived arrogance or vanity. Perpetrators generally regard the act as a form of ridicule to embarrass and humiliate the victim. In pieing, the goal is usually to humiliate the victim while avoiding actual injury. For this reason the pie is traditionally of the cream variety without a top crust, and is rarely if ever a hot pie. A tent city is a temporary housing facility made using tents or other temporary structures. Informal tent cities may be set up without authorization by homeless people or protesters. As well, state governments or military organizations set up tent cities to house refugees, evacuees, or soldiers. Tent cities set up by homeless people may be similar to shanty towns, which are informal settlements in which the buildings are made from sheets of plywood and corrugated metal, tarps and sheets of plastic, and other scrap building materials. One of my favorite movies of all time is Shawshank Redemption, and from that movie, one of my favorite supporting roles is Brooks Hatlen, a very reasonable man played by veteran actor James Whitmore. In addition to almost opening up Heywood's throat, Brooks -- and his baby crow named Jake -- is responsible for a memorable catch phrase that that I use quite often; Easy peasy, Japanesey. I know, not very politically correct, but don't forget Brooks had been imprisoned in 1905 and had 50 years of incarceration under his belt. So anyway, in honor of Brooks, I present to you: EASY PEASY and then JAPANESEY. Find them. Cetaphil is a line of skin care products from Galderma Laboratories, including cleansers, bar soap, cream, lotion, and moisturizers. Cetaphil products are commonly sold at grocery stores and pharmacies throughout the United States, Canada and India. In Indonesia, Cetaphil entered the market in January 2013 partnering with Parazelsus Indonesia as its Indonesian distributor. The brand makes products for people with sensitive, dry or acne-prone skin as an alternative to harsher types of soap. Cetaphil is highly used and known for its line of scent-free lotion and moisturizers, and can be applied to all types of skin because of its simplicity and non-harsh chemical build up. |
September 20, 2017 | |||||
This $6,500 Hurricane Deductible Eats Cock.The abbey of Leffe was founded in 1152 on the Meuse River in the province of Namur in southern Belgium. Like many monasteries across Europe, the Premonstratensian canons of the abbey brewed ale, starting in 1240. Using knowledge passed from generation to generation and ingredients found in the wild near the abbey, the canons developed a unique ale with a subtle taste and high alcohol content, brewed only at the abbey. The abbey has been damaged by both natural and human circumstances over the years: it was destroyed by a flood in 1460, a fire swept through the settlement in 1466, billeted troops damaged the brewery in 1735, and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1794 resulted in it being abandoned and the brewery destroyed. In 1952, the production of Leffe beer was continued after a partnership with the Flemish based Lootvoet brewery in Overijse. As an accessories brand, Tom Ford is still trying to get its sea legs. The line of bags and shoes is successful, but Ford has yet to have the kind of breakthrough, blockbuster hit that would send the business into the stratosphere. Handbag design is notoriously difficult to master for brands that have always been known, and now Ford appears to be looking for his signature, both literally and figuratively. These bags, which are part of Fall 2014, mark Ford's first true foray into logos and branded hardware. On the two shoulder bags, the large, gold “TF” is advertised as hidden, which appears to mean that the leather flap covers it if the wearer prefers. What's unclear from the available photos, though, is if the bag's structure also allows the monogram to be visible while carried, similar to the scheme that Louis Vuitton worked out for the Capucines. A splinter is a fragment of a larger object or a foreign body that penetrates or is purposely injected into a body. Splinters may cause initial pain through ripping of flesh and muscle, infection through bacteria on the foreign object, and severe internal damage through migration to vital organs or bone over time. Splinters commonly consist of wood, but there are many other types. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, common types of splinters are glass, plastic, metal, and spines of animals. This park bench really looks like it could be a splinter hazzard so I'd like to sand it down and repaint it. Can you show me where I'm headed to?
The grassy knoll is a small, sloping hill inside the plaza that became well-known following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The knoll was above Kennedy and to his right (west and north) during the assassination on November 22, 1963. This north grassy knoll is bounded by the former Texas School Book Depository building along the Elm Street abutment side street to the northeast, Elm Street and a sidewalk to the south, a parking lot to the north and east and a railroad bridge atop the triple underpass convergence of Commerce, Main and Elm streets to the west. Because of persistent debate, answered and unanswered questions, and conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the possible related role of the grassy knoll, the term "grassy knoll" has come to also be a modern slang expression indicating suspicion, conspiracy, or a cover-up. Can you find this grassy knoll? Many housecleaning products come in plastic bottles with a nozzle, sprayer or pump mechanism. The main body of the bottle is usually made from high-density polyethylene, which can be recycled. The spray mechanism, however, can be constructed from different materials -- often a metal spring housed inside plastic. Mixed materials often cannot be recycled, but in the city of Los Angeles, the bottle and the spray top can be recycled in the blue bin. The bottle and the sprayer do not need to be separated because they are ground up in processing. Alternatively, spray bottles may be repurposed if they can be thoroughly cleaned and are appropriate for the new liquid you use them for. |
September 19, 2017 | ||||||
There Are A Lot Of MLB Players Who Hail From The Various Caribbean Islands.At 800 AM AST, the center of Hurricane Maria was located near latitude 16.2 North, longitude 62.8 West. Maria is moving toward the west-northwest near 9 mph, and this general motion is expected to continue through Wednesday. On the forecast track, the eye of Maria will move over the northeastern Caribbean Sea today, and approach the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico tonight and Wednesday. Maximum sustained winds are near 160 mph with higher gusts. Maria is a potentially catastrophic category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Maria is forecast to remain an extremely dangerous category 4 or 5 hurricane while it approaches the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Swells generated by Maria are affecting the Lesser Antilles, and these swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. A slow cooker, also known as a Crock-Pot, is a countertop electrical cooking appliance used to simmer at a lower temperature than other cooking methods, such as baking, boiling, and frying. This facilitates unattended cooking for many hours of dishes that would otherwise be boiled: pot roast, soups, stews, and other dishes. A basic slow cooker consists of a lidded round or oval cooking pot made of glazed ceramic or porcelain, surrounded by a housing, usually metal, containing an electric heating element. The lid itself is often made of glass, and seated in a groove in the pot edge; condensed vapor collects in the groove and provides a low-pressure seal to the atmosphere. A split-finger fastball is a pitch in baseball derived from the forkball. It is named after the technique of putting the index and middle finger on different sides of the ball, or "splitting" them. When thrown hard, it appears to be a fastball to the batter, but appears to the batter and observers to suddenly "drop off the table" towards home plate—that is, it suddenly moves downwards, towards the dirt. Despite the use of the word fastball, it is considered the easiest of the off-speed pitches to hit. Who can hit this split-finger fastball?
Sort of. It was not this one by the sidewalk, but this one of the other side of the driveway that came down. The curveball is a type of pitch in baseball thrown with a characteristic grip and hand movement that imparts forward spin to the ball, causing it to dive in a downward path as it approaches the plate. Its close relatives are the slider and the slurve. The delivery of a curveball is entirely different from that of most other pitches. The pitcher at the top of the throwing arc will snap the arm and wrist in a downward motion. The result is the exact opposite pitch of the four-seam fastball's backspin, but with all four seams rotating in the direction of the flight path with forward-spin, with the axis of rotation perpendicular to the intended flight path much like a reel-type mower or a bowling ball. The "curve" of the ball varies from pitcher to pitcher, and is considered an intermediate off speed pitch. Who can hit this curvy curveball?
A knuckleball is a baseball pitch thrown to minimize the spin of the ball in flight, causing an erratic, unpredictable motion. The air flow over a seam of the ball causes the ball to transition from laminar to turbulent flow. This transition adds a deflecting force on the side of the baseball. This makes the pitch difficult for batters to hit, but also difficult for pitchers to control and catchers to catch; umpires are challenged as well, as the ball's irregular motion through the air makes it harder to call balls and strikes. The knuckleball is the most difficult off speed pitch for a batter to make contact with. Who thinks they can hit this moose knuckleball? Have you ever wondered why Home Depot and Lowe's lumber carts wobble on four casters, when they are built with six casters? Upon closer inspection, you'll find the two center casters are lower than the other four, requiring you to tilt the cart in one direction or the other to get four of the six wheels to touch the ground. This configuration makes the cart more maneuverable, helps the cart climb over bumps in the parking lot, and helps to keep the load more secure during transport. |
September 18, 2017 | |||||
Well That's A Load Off Of My Roof.Well, I managed to get the guy out to pull the tree off of my roof, and he tipped up on three wheels twice while wrestling that big heavy motherfucker to the ground. Which is all the more interesting when you consider staff from NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and NOAA's National Geodetic Survey capture these images using specialized remote-sensing cameras aboard NOAA aircraft flying above the area at an altitude between 1,640 and 4,921 feet. Once the aviators shoot the imagery, it is posted online for the public to access. By comparing the aerial — not satellite — imagery collected with baseline coastal datasets, response agencies can assess any damage to major ports and waterways, coastlines, critical infrastructure and coastal communities. This can help maintain or restore safe navigation and prioritize areas in need. Gas tungsten arc welding, also known as tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding, is an arc welding process that uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode to produce the weld. The weld area and electrode is protected from oxidation or other atmospheric contamination by an inert shielding gas such as argon or helium, and a filler metal is normally used, athough some welds known as autogenous welds, do not require it. A constant-current welding power supply produces electrical energy, which is conducted across the arc through a column of highly ionized gas and metal vapors known as a plasma. Gas tungsten arc welding is most commonly used to weld thin sections of stainless steel and non-ferrous metals such as aluminum, magnesium, and copper alloys. CSR Marine has been serving Puget Sound boaters since 1977. Known as leaders in marine repairs and installations with an excellent reputation, the team at CSR Marine is made up of an exceptional group of talented people waiting to serve you. CSR has the most experienced crew of NMEA and ABYC certified technicians in the Puget Sound area. CSR has produced top notch racing bottoms for sailors at the highest level of competition, specializing in marine hull and bottom paints. They have experience in fiberglass, gelcoat, polyurethane and bottom paint, keel and mast repair, as well as, mechanical repairs on gas or diesel engines. They perform expert woodworking for both exterior and interior for the classic yacht lover. CSR Marine continues to develop and improve on methods and materials to provide modern solutions.
THINGS I WANT TO DO TODAY: first I need a haircut so I look civilized for my hula hoop lessons, then after that I'll be tired so I'll need to take a break. Plot out my day for me. The name of the Paulaner brewery refers to the order of friars that resided in Neuhauser Straße in Munich who were part of the order of Saint Francis of Paola. The friars had brewed beer for their own use since 1634. The beer that was permitted to be sold on holidays was a Bock style which gained local fame. After the abolition of the Neudeck Cloister in 1799, the building was converted into a penitentiary. Franz Xaver Zacherl, the brewer, purchased the former cloister brewery and continued the "Starkbier" tradition with the product Salvator, which is Latin for "Saviour". In 1928 the brewery merged with the Gebrüder Thomas brewery creating Paulaner Salvator Thomas Bräu. Paulaner is one of the six breweries who provide oktoberfestbier for Oktoberfest, the German beer festival dating from 1810, the others being Augustinerbräu, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbräu, Löwenbräu and Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu LIFEWTR believes inspiration is as essential to life as water, because it moves us forward by unleashing our creative potential. That's why they're excited to partner with artists and turn every LIFEWTR bottle into a canvas for new art. Every few months, they'll be launching a new series of LIFEWTR bottles focused on a unique aspect in art — putting the spotlight on three new artists. |
September 16, 2017 | ||||||||
Insert Your Favorite Weekend Joke Here.
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September 15, 2017 | ||||
Still Trying To Get My Shit Together. Got Internet Back Last Evening Tho.Christopher McCandless was an American hiker and itinerant traveler, who also went by the name "Alexander Supertramp". After graduating from college in 1990, McCandless traveled across the North American continent, and eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992. There, he set out along an old mining road known as the Stampede Trail, with minimal supplies, hoping to live simply off the land. Almost four months later, McCandless' decomposing body, weighing only 66 pounds, was found by hunters in a converted bus used as a backcountry shelter along the Stampede Trail on the eastern bank of the Sushana River. His cause of death was officially ruled to be starvation, although the exact cause remains the subject of some debate. A 2007 film adaptation of Into the Wild, with Emile Hirsch portraying McCandless, received a number of awards. The movie closed with a quote by McCandless, "Happiness is real only when shared." Substitute teachers find jobs by first completing the application and interview process from their local school district. Once approved, they will either be enrolled in an automated calling system or more currently, via a system that uses the internet to post available substitute teaching assignments. Substitutes can also find work by contacting private schools in their district. Most substitute teachers in the U.S. can be assigned to work in all academic subject areas as needed. The substitute is generally responsible for closely following and continuing with the lesson plans left by the teacher, and to maintain student order and productivity. As with locum tenens physicians, the idea is that continuity exists between the work done by the substitute and that done by the other professional. The prominent single star on the Texas flag gives the flag itself the commonly-used name "Lone Star Flag" (which, in turn, gives rise to the state's nickname: "The Lone Star State"). The current design of the flag was introduced to the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 28, 1838, by Senator William H. Wharton, was adopted on January 25, 1839, and eventually became the current state flag. The flag, flown at homes and businesses statewide, is highly popular among Texans and is treated with a great degree of reverence and esteem within Texas. In 2001, a survey conducted by the North American Vexillological Association rated the Texas state flag second best in design quality out of the 72 Canadian provincial, U.S. state, and U.S. territory flags ranked. The flag's design earned 8.13 out of 10 possible points. A radome -- which is a portmanteau of radar and dome -- is a structural, weatherproof enclosure that protects a radar antenna. The radome is constructed of material that minimally attenuates the electromagnetic signal transmitted or received by the antenna, effectively transparent to radio waves. Radomes protect the antenna from weather and conceal antenna electronic equipment from public view. They also protect nearby personnel from being accidentally struck by quickly rotating antennas. Large cruise ships and oil tankers may have radomes over 3 meters in diameter, covering antennas for broadband transmissions for television, voice, data, and the Internet. |
September 14, 2017 | ||||
It Was Like When Your Mom Told You To Just Wait Until Your Father Gets Home.It was a very surreal feeling, picking and choosing through your possessions and deciding which ones you were going to try to save and which ones you were going to leave to the mercy of Mother Nature. Wedding photos were a must, of course. As were parents of my parent's wedding and my father in uniform. And birth certificates, and vehicle titles. Last years taxes, too? But what about two years ago? Five years? My discharge certificate and DD214, sure. But what all of my Air Force paperwork; copies of EPRs, letters of appreciation (and reprimand, haha) and other keepsakes? I boxed up Ike's ashes -- of course -- but what about his other keepsakes like bowls, chains and dog tags? Where do you draw the line between that which can be sacrificed and that which can not? I prepared every single firearm I have for transport to my neighbor's house; thank goodness he's not anti-gun. I first filled the seven range bags I have, but those only housed so many, even at double occupancy. The rest I wrapped in bath towels secured with a few spins of duct tape, then placed them in plastic bags. All of my pistols -- including my father's .38 and Lord Humungus -- into a fucking suitcase. Can't leave those behind, not only for their sentimental and monetary value, but because who the fuck wants firearms left in an exposed home? Half of the ammunition I have are in those .50cal ammo cans, or sealed spam cans. All of the rest -- save the few handfuls I brought with me over to the neighbor's for an emergency -- I moved to shelving that was at least five feet up. I hoped that combined with my being eight feet off the ground, would protect it from a pretty decent storm surge. Especially when people are sharing videos from Fort Myers beach like this and this -- where Irma has pulled all of the water out to sea, like what happens immediately before a tsunami hits -- you have no reason to suspect they'd be anything but spot on. I've posted the occasional inadvertent picture of my television setup. All of those photos and knick-knacks and candles and shit? All mashed towards the back to make room for speakers and receivers and UPSs and signed celebrity photos and computers and books and artwork and shit I didn't even know I had. I didn't care if anything was scratched or chipped or knocked over because, well there stood a very real chance that it wouldn't be there the next day anyway. I flipped one half of the couch over onto the other, hoping to save at least one side. I put my dining room tables on top of my dining room table. What fucking good are chairs without a table? I dunno, but I fucking did it. I boosted the generator on top of a table, along with five gas cans. Letting that drown wouldn't be any good. And when everything that could be put up was put up, we prepared to move ourselves and our important shit over to the neighbor's house. It took five trips to carry everything, and each time there's less and less of yourself in your own home. After the last trip, when we were preparing to go -- to REALLY go -- I took one last look at my house. Would it still be there tomorrow? I didn't think so. I looked around and all I could think of was, I should have done more, I should have put more things up high, I should have put more things in plastic. But the wind whistling through the remaining pool cage screens reminded me there wasn't any time for that. It's a weird thing knowing your fate is already sealed, and there was absolutely nothing you can do about it except wait to find out what happens. I snapped the shutters closed, pushed the pin lock in and made my peace with it. In the end, at the eleventh hour and right when it looked like were going to take the brunt of it, Irma juked east right as it hit Naples and vented her wrath through Bonita Springs -> Lehigh Acres -> Labelle instead of plowing straight through Cape Coral -> Punta Gorda -> Port Charlotte as the forecasters originally predicted. Had a butterfly not flapped its wings somewhere on the other side of the world, you may very well be looking at photos of my neighborhood instead of someone else's. That's a pretty weird thing to wrap your head around. |
September 13, 2017 | |||
Some Flooded Neighborhoods Are Facing $25,000 Fines If They `Illegally` Pump Water Out.Hurricane Irma set records in two ways: top sustained winds (185 mph, beating the 175 mph from Hurricane Andrew) and lowest central pressure (914 mb, just ahead of the 915 mb estimated for Hurricane Isabel in 2003). The only hurricane recorded anywhere in the Atlantic with stronger sustained winds than Irma was Hurricane Allen (1980), at 190 mph. Irma racked up a 37-hour stretch with top winds of 185 mph. This beats the global record of 24 hours at or above 185 mph set by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Irma spent a total of 3.25 days at Category 5 strength, most of it in a long stretch from Sept. 5 to 8. This puts Irma in a tie with the 1932 Cuba hurricane as the Atlantic storm with the most hours at Cat 5 strength. Before Irma, no Atlantic storm in the satellite era (1966-present) had racked up three consecutive days as a Cat 5. Only Hurricane Ivan (2004) spent more time as a major hurricane (Cat 3/4/5) than Irma's 8.5 days. THINGS TO FIND: Man this whole hurricane ordeal has been one big fucking rollercoaster, let me tell you that. Thankfully my neighborhood has this far been a looter free zone.
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September 12, 2017 | |||||
I Have Weathered The Storm.I am here. Both me and The Boss Lady -- and Bianca -- are alive and kicking. The house has sustained mild to moderate damage, but it could have been a lot worse if storm surge had come in. Out on the lanai we've lost about 30 screens in the pool cage. But will take quite a while since screen is hard to come by right now. Mild roof leak over office caused some damage to ceiling and wall. But the real corker is one of the big royal palm trees came down and dealt a glancing blow to my garage roof. I managed to climb up and sawz-all off most of the top, but the trunk itself is going to be there for awhile; trying to roll or pull it off will cause more damage to the roof and destroy the concrete driveway below when it falls. Have to wait until we can find some guy with a hydraulic arm or maybe a forklift to lift that side off the house and set it on the driveway for dismemberment. In the meantime, have backed one car out -- very hinky driving under a 5,000lb tree hanging over youe head like one of Wile E Coyote's fucking AMCE contraptions -- but TBL's car is trapped for the time being. Fortunately, I had the foresight to turn off the water, power, and propane before we evacuated to neighbor's house, and when I turn the propane back on everything in the house works fine -- stove, fireplace, etc -- but there's a mild propane smell emanating from the tank in the yard. I suspect when the tree toppled, the roots pulled on a propane supply line and caused a leak in one of the valves or whatnot. For now the propane is turned back off until Balgas can get out here and inspect. Probably a few hundred bucks to get that taken care of. In the meantime, we cook on an electric griddle and the charcoal grill just to be safe. But we're alive and well and not under 10-15 feet of water, which is what the initial storm surge projections were the morning of, so that's something. Had Irma not made her last minute turn eastward and heading inland around Naples, things would have turned out very differently. I'm guessing it will be around $1500-$1800 to have the pool cage rescreened, about $1000 for the leak over the office, about $500 to have the tree taken down and disposed of, and shiiiiitt maybe $2000-$2500 for the roof/gutter damage caused by the tree, and eh, maybe $300 or so to have the propane leak fixed? ? So I'm ballparking around $5000-$5500 in damage. And what's my homeowners's insurance hurricane damage deductible? $6500; meaning every bit of this is all going to come out of pocket. C'est la vie. I haven't been able to venture out much to check the damage in surrounding areas. There is no gasoline to be had, debris in the road -- I DON'T HAVE BIG RED ANYMORE GODAMMIT -- I am in one of the few neighborhoods with power, and many neighboring areas are dealing with localized flooding. No internet. Doing this update via mobile hotspot from my phone; Verizon is waiving all data charges for the next week. Some of the links below may be a little dated, as they're the very last of what I had stored before my four day hiatus for Irma. Will post more when I can.
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September 9, 2017 |
This Will Be My Last Post For A While. Hopefully Not Permanantly.Well, things seem to have taken a turn for the worse here for Team Ernie, and I mean that in the literal sense. For the last two weeks, all the models predicted Hurricane Irma (and its storm surge) would pass well east of us, coming shore near Miami and following up the eastern coast of Florida. Run from water but hide from wind, as the saying goes. And so that's what happened... everyone on the east coast evacuated north, and those of us on the west coast just hunkered down and prepared for a few weeks without utilities. And then last night -- last fucking night with less than 36 hours to go -- the whole thing flip flopped and now we're in the bullzeye. I know what you're thinking, "Get in your car and run!" Unfortunately, it's way too late for that. I know that sounds crazy and with the storm set to hit tomorrow morning, 24 hours should be enough time to get the fuck out of dodge, right? Under ideal circumstances, yes. Under hurricane evacuation circumstances, no. You run a much greater chance of getting stuck in the I75 gridlock, perhaps running out of gas, and having to weather the fucking hurricane in your car stalled out on the highway. The time to run was two days ago, which is what everyone on the east coast did. This sudden shift of Irma's track 200 miles to the west was, well, just shitty luck for us west coasters. The Boss Lady and I have all of our valuables packed up and will be riding out the storm -- along with Bianca -- in my neighbor's two story house. He's a retired homebuilder and I can assure you, his house (14 feet above sea level) is built like the probverbial brick shithouse. On the flip side, I fully expect my home (8 feet above sea level) to be completely demolished. Some days the bear eats you, right? |
September 7, 2017 | ||||
Sunday Looks Like It's Going To Be Very Exciting!While I would be more than happy to have gone through this dance for absolutely nothing... both cars are gassed up, I have two 16x20' tarps, 40'x100' of 6 mil plastic sheeting, a generator with 40 gallons of gas, 7 cases of bottled water, 3 cases of sparking water (we're not barbarians), a 65 gallon water bladder in bathub, 2 lifestraws, enough canned/dry goods for 4 weeks, 10 MREs, 2 weeks of dehydrated emergency rations, 30lbs of dry dog food, a freezer full of ice, 3 cases of shitty light beer, 2 cases of red wine, 2 handles of vodka, 1 bottle of bourbon, 45 rolls of shit tickets, 1 med kit, and enough guns to pound those North Korean cocksuckers all the way back to the 39th parallel. Still, I sincerely hope this is all for naught. But if my fears turn out to be well founded, consider this. A female friend of a friend asked us, "Can you guys help me put plywood up?" Being the gentlemanly motherfuckers that we are, we agree. Initial plan was to put it all up yesterday evening. But she calls it off, hoping to delay for one more day. "Hmmmm," I ask, "why didn't she do this earlier this weekend?" "SHE DIDN'T WANT TO DRILL HOLES INTO HER HOUSE OF SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO." Meaning, she doesn't have pre-cut plywood shutters, she has absolutely fucking NOTHING. There are no pre-cut pieces of wood waiting to be popped into place, she's never put shutters on this house at ALL. "Holy FUCK, does she even have the stuff she needs to do this?" "She has the hardware, I think." WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? To put this task into perspective, there isn't a single sheet of plywood available for sale anywhere in South Florida. Not. One. Single. Sheet. Same for Plylox hurricane clips to hold plywood over the windows. Same for masonry drill bits. And masonry screws. And saw blades -- and that's assuming she even has a saw and a drill. But even by some miracle if she did have these things, by waiting to the very last minute it means the slightest hiccup -- missing a few clips, a broken drill bit, a drill battery that won't hold a charge -- and the process comes to a grinding halt because it's impossible to get a replacement. In short, if the storm swings a little more east than they're currently predicting, she's fucked. |
September 5, 2017 | ||||
Shit Is About To Get Real, Yo.When I think of a prepper, I think of some douchebag mall ninja dressed in XXXL tactical clothing popping radiation tablets and talking about fighting the government. So when someone asks if I'm a prepper, I always answer, "No, I'm but a prepper but I am prepared." At any given time I have two or three cases of bottled water on hand, a generator with gasoline, two or three weeks worth of dry and goods (for The Boss Lady and Bianca), batteries, flashlights, tarps, and of course ample means to defend mi casa (and my neighbor's casa). But you can only be so prepared when you're talking about doing this passively; I can't keep hurricane shutters up 24x7x365 and there's only so much food you can stockpile before it starts to go bad. But now we here in SWFLA have entered what meteorologists call the Cone of Probabability. I of course, call it the Cone of Buggery, because anyone in said cone stands a substantial chance of getting buttfucked. As of this morning, we now begin what I like to think of as, active preparation. Outside plants and decorations get brought inside. Hurricane shutters go up. Candles get dug out and unwrapped. Flashlights get checked and batteries and bulbs replaced. Gas cans get dumped into the generator, freeing those cans up to be refilled. Photographing my house and its contents. Plastic bags get set aside and electronics get unplugged and ready to be wrapped up. Food gets sorted and prioritized. Magazines get loaded. All signs point to Irma continuing as shown and then Saturday night/Sunday morning, when it's directly south of the western coast of Florida, take a dramatic 90 degree right turn and sending it north and directly into my fucking living room. So at this point, I don't think it's a matter of if we're going to get hit, but how hard. My hope is Irma drifts to a more sourthernly track, taking it over Cuba -- aka "American's speed bump" -- which saps its strength before it makes that swing north into Florida. But only time will tell. Until then, preparataions will be made. And don't be surprised when I post a GoFunme to put my fucking house back together. |
September 2, 2017 | ||||||||
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September 1, 2017 | |||||
I've Said If Before, And I'll Say it Again A Hundred Times. Fuck The French.Yeah, do you remember two years ago, right after the terror attacks in Paris, when We Were All Charlie Hebdo? Because evidently they don't. But they're French. So you know, what did you expect from those bunch of pussies? The Young Electric Sign Company is a privately owned manufacturer of electric signs, based in Salt Lake City, and founded by Thomas Young in 1920. The young sign painter had left England just a decade earlier to immigrate with his family to Ogden, Utah. In the beginning, his shop specialized in coffin plates, gold leaf window lettering, lighted signs and painted advertisements. As the science of lighting and sign-making advanced, so did Tom Young's signs. In 1933, YESCO opened a branch office in the Apache Hotel in Las Vegas, and erected their first neon sign in Las Vegas for the Boulder Club. Perhaps the world's most recognized electronic sign, Vegas Vic was designed by and built by YESCO and upon its installation in 1951, the 40'-tall electronic cowboy immediately became Las Vegas's unofficial greeter. The flag of Norway is a red with an indigo blue Scandinavian cross fimbriated in white that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side in the style of the Dannebrog, the flag of Denmark. The current flag of Norway was designed in 1821 by Fredrik Meltzer, a member of the parliament. However, the king refused to sign the flag law, but approved the design for civilian use by royal order in council on 13 July 1821. The constitution of 1814 explicitly stated that the war flag was to be a union flag, hence the common flag was used by the armies and navies of both states until 1844. In 1920 the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company was formed to manufacture taxicabs. During the 1910s and 1920s the company was involved in considerable illegal activity relating to mobsters and in particular to the Chicago Outfit. Yellow Cab was involved in a bitter rivalry with Checker Taxi at the time which led to a number of shootings, deaths and firebombings. Yellow Cab was sold in 1996 to Patton Corrigan, who in turn sold controlling interest in 2005 to Michael Levine, a third-generation taxicab operator from New York City. The Levine/Corrigan group has also purchased the Checker Taxi Affiliation in Chicago, to reunite the Checker and Yellow Cab companies once again.
Two observations. First, I was hoping to find an image of the Iron Candy shirt but the iron-candy.com website is now tits up, so I tried the wayback machine and even found a link for Iron Candy Apparel, but no joy as all the images are dead. And as for Sabine, you can see the four panelled windows and the rounded break in the curbing. The legal status of prostitution varies from country to country -- sometimes from region to region within a given country -- ranging from being permissible but unregulated, to an enforced or unenforced crime, or a regulated profession. It is sometimes referred to euphemistically as "the world's oldest profession" in the English-speaking world. Estimates place the annual revenue generated by prostitution worldwide to be over $100 billion. Can you find your way to the this green flexible pipe on the Avenue of Whores? |
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