OT: How to not pull your hair out in frustration at this wreck of a season.
by Merope on Aug 31, 2011 9:46 AM PDT
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Help your fellow McCoven out by sharing some, family friendly, things to do after the game turns sour, so you know... like, after the 3rd inning.
The 3 artists currently getting the most play on your musical device?
What dvd is in your dvd player (or netflix cue or your equivalent)?
Best app?
Best Twitter feed?
What video game(s) are you playing?
What books are you reading?
And here's a template :
3 artists:
Dvd/Netflix:
App:
Twitter:
Video game:
Books:
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3 artists: They Might Be Giants, Elvis Costello, and the Mr. has been listening to, and hating the new Chili Peppers. [he always hates their new stuff at first, so we’ll see]
Dvd/Netflix: Frasier and The Simpsons season 9 disc 1
App: Some hiking thing that shows trails near your location.
Twitter: Aside from the obvious… SETI has some interesting stuff.
Video game: The Mr. just got the new Madden and he’s been playing some Golf thing. Tiger Woods ’09?
Books: He’s reading something Game of Thronesy and I’m reading Nine Hills to Nambonkaha [only ~60 pages in and finding it meh]
Golden Earing, The Beatles, Metallica
The Killer
Angry Birds
Whitney Cummings
I don’t play video games
I’m reading “The Glorious Cause” by Jeff Shaara
I recently discovered how awesome Golden Earring is.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 31, 2011 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Great stuff. One of their songs (not Radar Love, but a great song nonetheless) came up on my Grooveshark the other day and it was so damn awesome.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 2, 2011 1:34 AM PDT up reply actions
3 artists: Nick Cave, Kamelot, the Protomen
Dvd/Netflix: West Wing Season 2 (rewatching, I just downloaded the whole mess.)
App: the SBNation App, obviously. Obviously.
Twitter: Collectively, the McCoven who have just given up and started making ASOIAF analogies.
Video game: League of Legends. It’s pretty frighteningly addictive, to the point where I’ve made a vow to myself to only play on weekends or with the lady friend.
Books: rereading Tad Williams’s Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn “trilogy.” It’s fantasy comfort-food basically.
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 31, 2011 10:13 AM PDT reply actions
My next door neighbor is the currently ranked #1 League of Legends player.
#notveryinterestinginterestingfacts
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. Stolen 6/11/11.
Job 1:14-15
I just downloaded it so the girl and I had something to play
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 31, 2011 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Heroes of Newerth is better
LoL has some pretty shitty elements to it, and personally I had issues with the graphics. Normally that’s not something I care about, but they were bad enough that I couldn’t direct some moves. I don’t know if they still have the in-game bonuses for more experienced players, but if they do that’s pretty awful as well.
None of this matters, though, because when Dota 2 comes out it’s going to stomp everything.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
3 artists: No Doubt, Save Ferris, Mighty Mighty Bosstones (kind of in a ska mood this week)
Dvd/Netflix: We use this mostly for the kids. So right now I’ve got Hoodwinked 2 sitting on the counter for them; also just received Tiny Toons Season 1, Vols 1 and 2 from Amazon yesterday. Watched Full Metal Jacket for the first time over the weekend via Netflix streaming.
App: MLB At Bat 11
Twitter: Today I’ve been enjoying oldjacket, obsgiantscompul, and giantsnervana go back and forth. My favorite depends on what’s going on that day
WAIT – I meant to say mccoveychron. Duh.
Video game: BlackOps. Should I try Portal 2? Never played Portal.
Books: “The Baseball Codes”. About to launch into the Walking Dead compendium. Plus some others.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
The 3 artists currently getting the most play on your musical device?
LITTLE DRAGON, THE LONELY ISLAND (Incredibad), PASSION PIT
What dvd is in your dvd player (or netflix cue or your equivalent)?
SPORTS NIGHT, COUPLING (queued)
Best app? too much tweeting and facebooking for me
Best Twitter feed? too many
What video game(s) are you playing?
MLB 10: THE SHOW, GAME DEV STORY (iPhone)
What books are you reading?
HEROES, ROGUES AND LOVERS: TESTOSTERONE AND BEHAVIOR
LOVE Sports Night. Felicity Huffman when she was funny and witty, not whiny. Also, great writing.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
by can of corn on Aug 31, 2011 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
HEROES, ROGUES AND LOVERS: TESTOSTERONE AND BEHAVIOR
Maybe it’s just because I’ve been arguing about gender issues in a fantasy series for the past three days, but that sounds kinda interesting.
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 31, 2011 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m writing a spec pilot that’s all about gender issues and I think I’ve settled on testosterone being the substance that drives the plot. There’s a lot of anecdotal and ethnographic research on top of the biochemical studies. Interesting so far. Some good ideas have come from it.
by Every6thDay on Aug 31, 2011 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t disagree. It’s amazing y’all still feel so oppressed.
by Every6thDay on Aug 31, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
bgunn's list
3 artists: Mott the Hoople, Nuetral Milk Hotel, and Peter Tosh (been sorting through the old vinyl since I DJ’d last month)
Dvd/Netflix: Wife ordered up some Elizabeth Taylor from NFlix: Butterfield 8 and Suddenly, Last Summer (which was great—B8 remains unwatched).
Also got a Direct TV and DVR at our place in Grass Valley and it had 3 months of free Showtime, so we’re getting caught up on the franchise, weeds, dexter.
App: Nothing of note, OpenTable is my most-used app, that or K&L online.
Twitter: Nah, I’m not that cool. I let all of you aggregate the cool baseball tweets for me. Thanks!
Video game: Did you say pinball? I didn’t think so.
Books: Bob Mould’s autobiography SEE A LITTLE LIGHT: The Trail of Rage and Melody love it.
Am still attending G’s games daily. Rehab’s for quitters.
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
3 artists: Look for yourself! The charts say my top 3 artists over the past 7 days are Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons, and the Rolling Stones.
Dvd/Netflix: Decided I needed something to kill time, so I’m going to go back and watch every episode of 24. I’m 1/3 of the way through season one.
App: Not a huge app guy, really. Would it be lame to say that I think the mlb.tv at-bat app is awesome? Watching baseball on my phone?! The future rules.
Twitter: TrippingOlney is pretty funny. Everyone knows about FakeAPStyleBook.
Video game: I play maybe an hour or two of Starcraft 2 every week. Not a ton, but it’s fun.
Books: Hah, who has time. I read newspapers and political blogs and MCC when I have free time.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Damn. Of course MLB.tv! Should’ve put that.
by Every6thDay on Aug 31, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
3 artists: I mostly just do shuffle, but I’ll say Wilco, Adele, My Brightest Diamond
DVD: a bunch of Nat Geo stuff inspired by my wife reading Guns Germs & Steel currently. Also I must admit the Giants 2010 highlight DVD
App there’s one for re EPROM tees I’ve used a lot lately. Also I use the Infinity and the HBO apps all the time.
Twitter: I really like Molly Knight
Games: I belong to GA
Books currently reading Clash of Kings. Visit from the Goon Squad is next up
And I’ll throw a movie rec out too: Tabloid (plus really everything Errol Morris has ever made right down to the Bravo series and the Miller commercials)
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
3 artists: Motion City Soundtrack, The Beatles, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Dvd/Netflix: Chaplin
App: I play Carcassone all the time.
Twitter: I don’t really pay attention to Twitter anymore…
Video game: Darksiders
Books: Just finished Blankets. Need to finish Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
3 Artists: Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Beach Boys
DVD/Netflix: Gangs of New York
Best App: I don’t have any
Twitter: Don’t use twitter
Video Game: Fallout New Vegas
Book: The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
Adoptive father of 18th round draft pick and future ace, BRANDON ALLEN
by Nnamdi Asomugha on Aug 31, 2011 1:06 PM PDT reply actions
listomania
3 artists: Banda de Turistas (super catchy song “todo mio el otoño” on loop), RHCP (new album), Beatles
Dvd/Netflix: Haven’t watched a movie in a minute…the dark knight on a flight, i guess?
App: MobileMouse, to control PC while I clean the apartment
Twitter: lolwut?
Video game: halo reach
Books:
Just finished the SNL book, wow Chevy Chase
School started up again, and my global strategy class has assigned: “The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism”
3 artists: Stephen Malkmus, Airborne Toxic Event, The Sounds
Dvd/Netflix: Star Trek: Original, Star Trek: TNG, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
App: Google Books, Angry Birds, Sega: MLB Manager
Twitter: Michael Ian Black, Patton Oswalt, Doug Benson
Video game: COD: Black Ops, Madden 2012, MLB The Show 2011
Books: “The Tragedy of Arthur”, “Packing for Mars”, “Dexter is Delicious”
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. Stolen 6/11/11.
Job 1:14-15
3 artists: Riff Cannon, Hello Saferide, Eluvium. And Nicki Minaj but we don’t have to talk about that.
Dvd/Netflix: Louie S1.
App: I don’t have any of those. This phone is for calling cabs and taking pictures of people on the bus.
Twitter: Either @kellyoxford or @OneAngryQueer
Video game: Oh, jeez. The last one I played seriously was Resident Evil 4 on the Wii.
Books: Currently reading The Ball Is Round by David Goldblatt.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
3 artists: Lupe Fiasco, Daddy Yankee, and Imogen Heap. Quite the variety.
Dvd/Netflix: Sailor Moon. The BF and I are currently on the second part of the R series, which is the second “season” of the five in the Sailor Moon anime.
App: My phone isn’t smart enough for apps.
Twitter: I don’t know. Twitter is boring. Read mine (@chelmrtz) and you’ll find out.
Video game: Pokemon, of course. Currently raising a team of Porygon-Z, Whimsicott, Dugtrio, Scizor, Beheeyem, and Matine.
Books: The Greatest Game Ever Pitched: Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, and the Pitching Duel of the Century by Jim Kaplan. Giant Steps told his mom to buy it for me for my birthday. Also reading boring crap for my online class in technology and civilization.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 31, 2011 9:20 PM PDT reply actions
Smogon JUST released their B/W movesets
I’m so happy. I’m putting together a Ninjask/Tyranitar/Excadrill/Reuniclus/Garchomp/Porygon2 team, because Garchomp is not an Uber.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I keep thinking about raising Reuniclus but I never get around to it. What’s your moveset for him?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 1, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Reuniclus@Life Orb
252 HP/4 DEF/252 SPA
Bold Magic Guard
Recover
Psychic
Focus Blast
Shadow Ball
Excellent type coverage, my Ninjask can Baton Pass Speed Boosts to cover its awful speed, and the Porygon2 is a Trick Room user so even when Ninjask goes down I can compensate for the speed. It’s pretty bulky and hits like a truck (apparently; I haven’t started building the team yet) and with two ways to fix the speed problem I figure he’ll work out quite nicely.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Oh
And Magic Guard negates the Sandstorm damage from Tyranitar’s Sand Stream so 4/6 are Sandstorm immune (and of course Garchomp gets 20% evasion and Excadrill gets double speed in sand). Apparently it negates poison/burn damage as well.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Nice. Looks like a good build.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 1, 2011 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
3 artists: They Might Be Giants, PJ Harvey, Trio Kavkasia (Georgian folk trio)
Dvd/Netflix: Dr Who, Luther (BBC – it’s got Stringer, yo!)
App:craftgawker
Twitter: I rely on McC for all my twit needs.
Video game: Uh, I watch my husband play Resident Evil 4
Books: Right now: Passage by Connie Willis
Get well soon, most of the Giants roster!
I'll bite
3 artists: Blue Scholars, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Dirty Heads
App: Cyanide and Happiness
Twitter: BestWorstAdvice
Video game: Fifa
Books: Catch 22, Life of Pi, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Sep 1, 2011 12:58 AM PDT reply actions
Sweet!
We’re both reading One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. Are you enjoying it?
Adopted Giant: Ryan Verdugo. The next Javier Lopez.
goldenbearlair.com
Finished it.
Loved it.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Sep 3, 2011 2:08 AM PDT up reply actions
3 artists: Clams Casino, Why?, Japandroids
Dvd/Netflix: I don’t think I’ve watched a movie in at least a year.
App: Endomondo Workout Tracker
Twitter: my twitter feed is basically just baseball stuff (McC, Baggs, LL, etc) and a few food trucks.
Video game: Playing bad company 2 while I wait for bf3, just starting the new deus ex game and waiting for dead island to come out
Books: I really need to read more.
The first six innings are overrated.
3 artists: The Joy Formidable/Cake (I only grabbed their singles while I decide whether to get the whole album), The Bravery, The Arctic Monkeys
Dvd/Netflix: Just watched Hoodwinked Too, which was disappointing, and Sucker Punch, which I liked. Next up is Priest and Source Code. I’m currently watching Psych for the billionth time as well.
App: MLB At Bat is the only thing that needs to exist in the App Store
Twitter: Extrabaggs is the only one I ever go to.
Video game: MLB 2k10, OOTP 8 and 12, Pokemon Leafgreen/Pearl/Black
Books: are the reason Shawn couldn’t go fishing with his dad that one time.
Side Note: Has anyone else played the new OOTPs? I got the free version (8) which I greatly enjoyed, and since then have played 11 and 12 which both had some great elements, but had some serious problems. In my 12 franchise I just had three straight seasons of 100+ wins, yet my attendance isn’t great because I traded a couple players (while retaining a lot more – Cain, Lincecum, Bumgarner, Romo, Posey, Belt, Sandoval are all still on the team in 2016). I also apparently have to offer these idiots $30M a year to extend them, which wouldn’t be so bad if my budget ever went up. And maybe it wouldn’t happen if the other teams weren’t giving out those kind of deals – at least I assume they are, because I’m one of something like five teams out of 30 that is operating at a profit, so I can’t trade Bryce Harper (with a 1.000 OPS) because he’s making $10M and no one has any money. Not to mention every one of my seasons seems to play out like this one for the Giants from an injury standpoint. I like that the scouting is consolidated and a lot of other things, but the drawbacks keep pushing me toward OOTP 8.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I have OOTP 11 and I love it
I do go very slow with it (I play out every game from a managerial aspect), so I’m not that far ahead. Financials always seem to be a problem, even in OOTP 8- I took 4 years rebuilding the Giants, won the World Series, and had my fan interest go up to 10 out of 100. Woohoo! I have not encountered those problems, yet, and my injuries seems realistic enough. I do love both versions though
Adopted Giant: Ryan Verdugo. The next Javier Lopez.
goldenbearlair.com
3 artists: Hm…Mainly shuffle for me, so I can’t give a good answer to this one.
Dvd/Netflix: I don’t watch many movies.
App: Pandora.
Twitter: LOLTWITTER
Video game: FIFA I’ll play with friends, but I don’t play video games much anymore.
Books: Currently reading One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest for pleasure, Tale of Two Cities for school. One Flew I’m probably 100 pages in; it’s a very, very cool book. Any book suggestions? I’m young, so I probably haven’t read it yet. Probably going to read No Country for Old Men soon too.
Other: Playing varsity soccer, OOTP, writing
Adopted Giant: Ryan Verdugo. The next Javier Lopez.
goldenbearlair.com
Shift-A.
[T]hings to do after the game turns sour, so you know… like, after the 3rd inning.
One only: keep watching.
It is not ours to pick and choose what is comfortable or pleasing to watch: we endure or we don’t.
Outside of game times (besides hours of life wasted here):
The 3 artists currently getting the most play on your musical device? Our “musical device” is a CD player in the living room; it is a 7-disc changer currently loaded with a variety of assorted chamber music, mostly string quartets.
What dvd is in your dvd player (or netflix cue or your equivalent)? The last three eposodes of The Franchise (on HDD), which, owing to illness, I did not get to watch as broadcast.
Best app? My text editor.
Best Twitter feed? What the fuck is Twitter, and why?
What video game(s) are you playing? Posting on the McCoven.
What books are you reading? Being at present compelled to be a valetudinarian (c.f. The Sign of the Four), I am re-reading some “comfort books”, having moved from Roderick Alleyn to Gervase Fen, which is sort of from the sublime to the ridiculous. When healthier, I explore candidates for this list.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
You know
I never found Conan Doyle’s novels to be anywhere near as good as his short stories. Holmes doesn’t need 200 pages to figure out who did it.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I'm inclined to agree.
I think as Doyle was breaking into the publishing world, novels were what were wanted. I agree that he found his pace in the short stories. They are today valued, I’d say, for different reasons than they were when first published; back then, they were seen as very clever puzzles, but today their chief attraction is as tickets to a world in which “it is always 1895” (as Vincent Starrett famously put it).
I think the best overall edition, as to both textual purity and enlightening background information and critical analysis, is clearly the Oxford Sherlock Holmes set, which can be had used for (so Bookfinder tells me) as little as about a hundred bucks (not bad for 8 hardcover books).
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
3 artists: Social Distortion, Gaslight Anthem, Al Green
Dvd/Netflix: Want to see ‘Everything Must Go’ & ‘The Conspirator’
App: Tetris, match.com (dont judge me), LOLSBN
Twitter: N/A
Video game: The latest Transformers game with Jr
Books: “Its All in Your Head” – Stephen Pollan and “Shadow Country” – Peter Matthiessen
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
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