For those who work on bus or maybe have to deal with this at work, I present Pat Williams, defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings, weighing in at 300+ pounds:
Pat Williams – “Yes, I’m playing next week.“
In other news, I’m somewhat surprised how many stars are on my map. Kinda spiffy.
Slashdot Poll: I Backup My Personal Data..
First post:
Backup? Never.
My personal data isn’t worth backing up.
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Slackware 12.2 Released
“Well folks, it’s that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.2! Since we’ve moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.2 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 12.1) and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user.”
First post:
Great Work!
I’m sure both of you still using Slackware will be very pleased!
Reply:
I’m sure both of you still using Slackware will be very pleased!
There’s somebody else?
Don’t complain. You don’t have to read this.
Oh, this morning (3AMish) I was editing some PowerTrip morning show. Funniest stuff I’ve heard in a long while. Then I realized: no one is going to listen to this. I closed without saving. Probably lost thirty minutes of work.
Ok, well, I don’t really have much to say, it’s just been so long that I (almost) feel bad.
I haven’t read Slashdot in a while. I just opened it up a few minutes ago and saw:
Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 2008-12-03 18:50
Posted by samzenpus on 2008.12.03 18:50
from the l33t-5ki11z dept.
Medicine
Peace Corps Online writes "Vascular surgeon David Nott performed a life-saving amputation on a boy in DR Congo following instructions sent by text message from a colleague in London. The boy’s left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous; there were just 6in (15cm) of the boy’s arm remaining, much of the surrounding muscle had died and there was little skin to fold over the wound. ‘He had about two or three days to live when I saw him,’ Nott said. Nott, volunteering with the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, knew he needed to perform a forequarter amputation requiring removal of the collar bone and shoulder blade and contacted Professor Meirion Thomas at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before. ‘I texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do it,’ Nott said."
Pretty amazing, but that’s not why I posted that. Recently, Slashdot has begun letting users tag stories with relevant words to group similar stories. For instance, some of the tags for this story are "science, medicine, sms," and the one that made me laugh and is the reason for this whole post, "canyouhearmenow."
(Tags have to be one word: "can you hear me now" would be five separate, unrelated tags.)
In other, unrelated news, after the Wild’s 6-5 loss to the Avelanche, Tenna-B (aka Brandon Mileski), the producer of the Common Man program, guaranteed the Common Man that in their next game the Wild would not give up 4 goals. As a matter of fact, he went so far as to say that if the Wild would give up four goals, he would pack up and leave town.
Good thing they won 4-0.
I can’t find the official stat, but Monday – the aforementioned 6-5 loss to the Avs – was the first time in team history that the Wild lost a game when they had scored 5 goals. I think they were around 65-0-1. That’s pretty impressive.
Listening to Chad Hartman today.
He was talking with a caller about the Jake Brown accident.
In case you didn’t know, he had a 40 foot free-fall. From the article:
He slid limply down the last few feet of the transition and lay motionless for nearly five minutes. Everyone in attendance rose to their feet and waited for Brown to get up, which took some time.
They were talking about that last part: “waited for Brown to get up.” Guy has a 40′ fall. This is probably the only “sport” where medics didn’t immediately show up, put him on a stretcher, and send him off to the hospital.
Caller: “What could the medics have been doing that would have been more important than helping a guy that just had a forty foot fall?”
Chad: “Watching the replay?”
His sidekick, “Doogie,” has already called the Vikings first pre-season game (this Friday, I believe), a “Must win.”
Tomorrow marks a momentous occasion:
The PA and Dubay “Sports Abyss” comes to a close as the Vikings finally begin training camp.
Yawn.
Also, Dan Cole the Common Man will begin selling hope for the 2007-08 Vikings season.
Speaking of the Common Man, probably half of his show today consisted of “It is so hot” jokes, with emailers/callers also chiming in. Some of my favorites:
PA and Dubay started out with KG trade talk. They played a bunch of KG highlights.
I remember when Kevin Harlan was the Timberwolves radio play-by-play guy. Man, he was good. That’s back in the Marbury days. Man, that could have been good. KG + Stephan Marbury…
What a mess the team has been. I’m not even going to get into it – it’s not that big of a deal to me. I’m not a big bball fan anyway.
Well, let’s see:
Thursday
Get out the brooms… San Antonio Spurs (West) swept the hapless Cleveland Cavaliers (East) out of the finals in what PA called the most uninteresting NBA Finals since, oh, mid 70’s when he started watching ball. Neither the NBA or NHL playoffs did well with TV ratings. The NHL had a game on NBC that was NBC’s lowest rated show ever. Ouch.
In a less-notable sweep, at least less-notable nationwide, the Twins swept the Braves out of town. AL usually beats up on the NL in inter-league play. It was rematch of the ‘91 World Series, which, I found out, is considered one of the if not the best World Series in MLB history. Wow. Didn’t know that. You can listen to PA and Dubay talk about it if you wish.
We now enter the Sports Abyss on the PA and Dubay show until NFL training camp starts.
Friday
Almost took my first ever spill off of a roof. I stopped to think about it and decided to pass. I slid about three feet – not much, but it was only about six feet to the edge. I’m sure the ten foot drop wouldn’t have killed me, but it didn’t interest me much either.
Ah, nothing like a short little twelve hour work day to kick off the weekend. Just think about all the money I’m making…
History
Well, I’m not sure if it was this exact week, but the Ambassadors and Melodies were at camp this week. This week, two years ago, the 2005 Ambassadors lost their piano player. I can still remember the look on John’s face. The piano player (he’ll go unnamed) wrote farewell notes to most if not all of the other guys, but not to me. I wasn’t disappointed at all.
Done
I think I’m done. Oh, for those of you who don’t know, you can comment on stuff. I know it’s boring, but you took the time to read it. Your fault, not mine.
Chris Hawkey on Corey Roufs:
“He talked trash like he worked for waste management.” (Listen)
PA on the ANA win over OTT with CP suspended:
“No Pronger, no problem.”
PA and Dubay had Mark Parish of the Minnesota Wild on today. (They also had Chad Greenway on, but I’ll pass on that…)
PA held a NHL last-name-of-players spelling bee for him.
Dubay was allowed to help Parish.
As they were trying to spell (Jere) Lehtinen of the Dallas Stars, Dubay said, “No. No O. There’s definitely no O in Lehtinen.”
Well I thought it was funny.
Other names included (Ilya) Kovalchuk of the Thrashers, (John) Grahame of the ‘Canes, (Sandis) Ozolinsh of the Rangers, and (Kim) Johnsson (pronounced You-n-sen) and Branko Radivojevic of the Wild.
Fun stuff. By the way, he missed Grahame, Kovalchuk, and Johnsson.
One of my personal favorites is Nikolai Khabibulin. There’s plenty of “good” ones.
story goes like this.
twins pitching rotation: a solid 1-3 (liriano, santana). 2 is iffy (brad radke) and 4,5 are weak. so they need a pitcher. the trade deadline was yesterday, august 3, at 3pm central.
dubay (of pa and dubay) says that the twins could get greg maddux from the atlanta braves for a bag of (base)balls.
common man jumps on it and says “why would we want a guy that we could get for a bag of balls? do you think we could get anyone to give up a good player for a bag of balls?”
and common’s producer (“tennabe”), as the trade deadline expires, wonders “why haven’t we traded for maddux yet? do you think the twins can’t find a bag of balls? maybe brad has been throwing batting practice again and we can’t find a bag of balls anymore. we’re out of balls.”
(brad had been giving up quite a few home runs this year, especially during the first inning.)
so, anyway, i thought it was funny. had to be there, i guess.