Archive for January 24th, 2012

Sentiment.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

My opinion of baseball is well established.

My opinion of the New York Yankees is perhaps less well established; in brief, I consider them as an organization to be the representatives of Satan on Earth.

That being said…

After Posada finished his opening statement, Diana Munson, the widow of Yankees great Thurman Munson, spoke. She credited Posada for inspiring her to watch baseball again. Posada had considered Thurman Munson, who died in 1979 when the plane he was piloting crashed in Ohio, a hero.
Diana Munson said she now has loved two Yankees catchers in her life.
“I think he and Thurman would have been best buds,” Munson said.

Lot of cedar pollen in the air today. That must be why my eyes are watering.

(Hattip: His Grubes.)

A quick one that kicked over my giggle box.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

HTTP Status Cats.

I’m particularly fond of this one. (Yes, that is a real status code, although it is technically HTCPCP, not HTTP. See RFC 2324. Yes, there are documented implementations of this.)

(Credit where credit is due: TJIC on Twitter.)

This obit watch does not compute. Warning! Warning!

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

The Onion A/V Club is reporting the death of Dick Tufeld, noted television announcer and voice actor, perhaps most famous as the voice of “Lost in Space”‘s Robot.

TMQ watch: January 24, 2012.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Before we jump into this week’s TMQ, we thought we’d mention D.J. Gallo’s list of the worst college basketball blowouts in Division I history. “Long Island 179, Medgar Evers 62”. It took all of Long Island to defeat one guy? And “Texas 102, San Marcos Baptist 1”. “San Marcos Baptist Academy was — and is — a boarding school for teenagers.”

After the jump…

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Like Saunders through the hourglass…

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

…so go the Washington Wizards.

Flip Saunders out as coach. 51-130 over three seasons, but the Wizards started 2-15 this season.

(Thanks to Lawrence for the tip.)

Noted.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Today is “Bad Website Day” over at Lawrence’s.

We’re talking really bad. Awesomely bad. Eyeballs bleeding bad.

So bad that I’m linking to his posts, rather than the websites themselves, just for your protection.

See how kind and caring I am?