I love New Orleans. I just had a delicious fried chicken lunch from the Freret Street Po Boy and Donut Shop. Highly, highly recommended.
Finally beat Super Mario Bros without dying on my NES emulator!
Err...I mean...I was studying.
My 3-year old has keeps asking me to play "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (AKA, the country boy song) and then telling me that she loves the "O-Os" and wants to get a "JJ Hardy shirt". Bring on baseball season!
Now I just need to find somewhere to get a toddler jersey...
2012 Baseball Prospectus annual arrived today. Best bathroom reading ever. Icing on the cake- Ken Tremendous wrote the foreword this year.
Ken Tremendous is my favorite person.
I just picked up a copy for my Kindle....$7.99.Originally Posted by Icterus galbula
Me too. I'm sad that FJM is long gone but he's pretty active on Twitter.
I started watching Parks and Rec a while back. There's a whole bunch of subtle FJM references (something called Murbles, something that sounds like VORPies) that made me very happy.
Yeah, I always liked that he named his production company "Fremulon". The FJM guys have reunited on Deadspin a couple times but I'm afraid he's probably too busy with Parks and Rec to do it again. I'll take that trade off though, P&R is one of my favorite shows on TV.
Junior writes some of the best P&R episodes too.
I love P&R and think it's the single best show on TV, but FJM was just so, so good that if it was up to me I might trade the show to get the blog back.
I would in a heartbeat. Full year of content> a couple dozen episodes
I was in line at Chipotle yesterday and the kid in front of me (looked maybe 13 or so) got to the register and had forgotten about sales tax, so he was about 40 cents short on his order. He had this sad little pile of cash in his hand and looked so crestfallen and embarrassed. Having done that before and being bailed out by the people in line behind me, I started reaching for my wallet to get a dollar out to cover the kid's sales tax, but before I managed it, the cashier just voided the transaction, took whatever cash he had, and told him it was fine and not to worry about it. I thought that was very nice. Warmed my heart.
Food with Integrity?
My earlier sharpness has been dulled a bit by the filet mignon, potatoes au gratin, and spinach.
I heart listening to Joe Angel call baseball games...that is all.
We had an awesome Metro operator riding home on the Orange line today. There was a suicidal track jumper at one of the stations, so everything was really backed up and crowded. Most Metro drivers are pretty boring ("Red Line to Glenmont. . .this is Judiciary Square, doors opening on the right," etc.). But this guy was different. Some quotes:
-"Thank you for riding Metrorail. Somebody jumped in front of a train at Foggy Bottom, so we're running a little behind, but we'll get there."
-"Attention, customers in large groups. A tip for when you exit the train: all the doors lead to the same platform. So you will not lose your party if you go out a different door than them."
-"To the customers in the fourth car back, please stop sticking your body parts between the doors to try to force them open. It doesn't work and it just means we can't move."
-"This is Metro Center, doors, all 24 of them, opening on the left. Customers on the platform, please back up and let everybody off, this isn't working otherwise. And spread out!"
He consistently kept us informed and tried to manage the unusually large crowds inside and outside the train. Most operators don't seem to give a hoot. If I knew his name, I'd send a complimentary note about him. I had to switch to the Red Line at Metro Center to get home and I was actually sorry to get off.
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