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Our baseball team just played their last home game as The Cleveland Indians.
If I owned the team and MLB was pressuring me to drop the name after 106 years I would have changed to to the "Cleveland Steamers" with a stylized steam train logo that vaguely resembles a turd.
Google it if you don't get the joke.
What’ll happen to Chief Wahoo?
They got rid of him prior to the 2019 season as a condition to host the all-star game that year.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
The giant Chief Wahoo sign that stood over gate D at old Municipal Stadium is now at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
That’s sad, it doesn’t affect me much because the only Cleveland I like is the Browns, but I’m still bitter about the Jazz going to Utah, the we had the Hornets, then the NBA did some weird expansion team thing so that Charlotte can keep their history, and now we’re the Pelicans.
I wasn’t even born when we lost the Jazz name, but I feel like it’s uniquely New Orleans. I couldn’t imagine being and Indians or Redskins fan and having that yanked away.
I remember when the Jazz moved to Utah. It made absolutely no sense to keep the name "Jazz" because it's so ingrained into New Orleans' culture yet it's the absolute last thing that could possibly be associated with Utah and Salt Lake City.
Yeah, they should have changed the name to Utah weak beers.
I guess that wouldn't have been so catchy.
Chief Wahoo should have been retired. That name belongs to the fish, and there it should stay. They're impressive fish.
Cleveland Steamers would be a great name. You wouldn't even have to do much with the logo. There wouldn't be a real need to try to suggest what you are talking about, because you'd have the browns and the steamers in the same city.
Every generation, 10 year old boys would think they'd found something new. It would be an introduction to humor for each subsequent generation.
I just got pictures of my house flooding.
Mentally I am hurting right now. I'm 3 hours away and couldn't setup sandbags even if I wanted to because it'd take too long to get home.
You mean again? What's causing this flooding?
Yep. I have no idea what's causing it to flood, it hasn't flooded in this neighborhood since my neighbor built in the 1950s.
My only guess is that the debris is clogging up the drainage. Lake Charles saw that after Laura last year.
Water creates flood.
Yeah, usually. There WAS a molasses flood in Boston at one point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Wow, that is insane. That’s a lot like getting stuck in tar.
Hell, DD, you're having a frickin' horrible time. I hope the house gets a chance to dry out soon.
Is this just regular rain that is causing flooding, or is it the remnants of another storm?
We finally got a bit of rain on Tuesday. It didn't flood anything.
Tropical Storm Nicholas did hit last week or the week before which brought in a lot of rain, but it has just been raining every single day.
With the ground already saturated, it probably doesn't take much for the water to start rising.
I've had some baby spider running around on my computer screen this morning. It may not be a baby spider, actually, as it is far too small and fast for me to be able to count it's legs, but I'm saying it's a baby spider. It also tends to stay over around the bezel, and once into the black, I can't see it at all.
Kind of puts me in mind of any DDay post.
That was perhaps the greatest thing I ever added to a signature.
I made it home this weekend and got my camper setup.
My 30 amp plug didn't quite make it to my plugin and so I had to plug into a normal plugin with a converter. I didn't realize that the plugin was faulty from the hurricane and it caused a hot connection to the camper. At first it shocked my son trying to open the camper and then it shocked me when I was walking barefoot down the metal steps. It was so bad that I blacked out and came to on my butt on the ground. I had some pretty nasty chest pain and a splitting headache.
The first thing I did yesterday was drive to Metairie because it was the closest place I could find a 30 amp extension chord.
You are not having a good summer.
It certainly hasn’t been boring, that’s for sure!
We're as dry as you are wet.
Irrigation water was turned off a couple weeks back. That happens around this time of year, though it may have happened a few weeks earlier than normal this year due to how low the reservoirs have gotten. Normally, we start getting rain, so irrigation isn't so necessary. This year, though....things are starting to look decidedly dry.
The 10 day forecast shows rain everyday here.
We need to figure out teleportation so that we can teleport the rain from here to there.
Hey Mr. Fish Guy (aka Shaggy Hiker), what the heck?! https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur...emerge-arizona
They ain't fish.
Still, that's pretty cool.
One of the oddities of the west is that the southwest, like New Mexico and Arizona, tend to get the bulk of their annual precipitation in summer monsoon storms. The northern states, like Idaho, tend to get the bulk of their annual precipitation in the winter.
They sort of look like the tracers on The Matrix.
I hate mobile development.
Do you mean that you hate development for mobile devices, or that you hate developing while YOU are mobile. After all, you've been seeming pretty unsettled, of late.
That’s a good point. I’d say I hate the former and tolerate the latter.
What are you using for mobile?
I used Cordova in VS for a tablet application, but MS removed Cordova support after VS2017, so that's out.
Angular/Ionic/Cordova.
The client I'm doing this for is responsible for the API which is causing some bottle necks on my end, but really the pain lies with trying to debug via Android Studio and XCode.
Haven't tried that one.
A long time ago I used Eclipse for an Android app. Is that even a thing any longer?
Eclipse... now there's a name that I haven't heard in a long, long time.
I saw an eclipse a couple years ago. That was cool.
In fact, it was downright cold. The temperature must have dropped twenty degrees during the totality.
I drove seven hours to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to watch it. The temp didn't drop much at all there. It took me over 12 hours to get home after an emotionally unstable truck driver intentionally crashed her truck in Elizabethtown, KY then a huge pileup closed I-71 between Cincinnati and Columbus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Total Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017
The next total eclipse is supposed to pass directly over Cleveland, but it will be on April 8, 2024 and we rarely see the sun here between mid-October and late April.
That’s crazy, it looked like it happened all at once.
That was a bad video. It didn't even begin to capture what happened. For one thing, it took hours. The moon doesn't move THAT fast. Furthermore, the camera used for that video wasn't capable of capturing the scene. That video makes it look like the sun becomes a smaller, but still round, light in the sky. That wasn't the case at all. During the totality, there was a freaky black hole in the sky, not a round, though smaller, light.
It was just my GoPro laying in the grass then sped up to 8x normal speed. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Were you at totality? That 'small sun' looks like you weren't quite at 100%. The sun is so bright that even a percent or two off would leave enough light to overwhelm the sensor.
I wouldn't have driven seven hours to only get to partial totality. That's why I chose to go to Hopkinsville.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
GoPro cameras automatically adjust the aperture for low light conditions and they are really not meant for this type of videography. I got much better still photos of the eclipse using my Nikon D3300 on a tripod. The GoPro video was just an afterthought.
I was in a 90% one time. It was just a bit north of Cincinnati, and I guess it had to be in 94. It was pretty cool, because I was out in the deciduous forest. The gaps in the leaves turned into camera obscura, and projected little crescents on the ground. The day felt 'off', though not dark, but a forest full of crescent sun spots was interesting to see.
May 10, 1994. I watched it from my dad's driveway in suburban Cleveland and it was about 90% as well. I know what you mean by the "off" feeling. Usually you can look in the general direction of the sun, but that day it hurt just to glimpse the annular eclipse out of the corner of my eye. I didn't see the crescents in the tree shadows that time as I was out in the open, but I did see it in 2017 under a small maple tree. It was something I was not expecting, but very cool to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Solar eclipses aren’t real.
Yeah, they're kind of hidden from you. Heck, I was looking right AT the sun, and I saw it be hidden. Who KNOWS what was happening back there.
Tomorrow the New York Jets play the Atlanta Falcons in London. What did the British do to deserve this?
Is this a boat race?
HA! That's along the lines of my thoughts, too. I thought we were trying to project a GOOD image.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
Dirty birds and dirty planes. Poor Brits.
The game is certainly living up to expectations.
"Pass interference on the Browns"
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As if I needed yet another reason to HATE the NFL... :mad::down:
It doesn't matter. That was a terrific game...if you don't like defense. They may meet again this winter.
Doesn't matter? It was the turning point of the game! It should have been a turnover on downs giving the Browns the ball at the LA 41 yard line, instead it gave LA the ball at the Browns' 26 against their already gassed defense who should have been off the field. The officiating in that game could not have possibly been worse if the game was fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
It doesn't matter because the Browns are going to win their division, but not take the top seed...which is certainly looking like it will go to the Bills.
Well, OK, if the Browns are going to go and get their ENTIRE team injured, then I guess they won't be winning the division....but otherwise they could have.
I am currently losing this week in fantasy football to my 7 year old son who insisted on drafting Joe Burrow as his number 1 pick. The only way I can win now is if his defense gets negative points. Who is his defense you ask? Oh, it's the Buffalo Bills.
My son is also number 1 in our league.