The Yankees turned a triple play in the second inning tonight. So in the fourth with runners on first and second and no outs they turned a double play. From one of the Yankee beat reporters:
Category: Crazy
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+ POOL
I thought I had blogged about this before, but maybe not. It’s a crazy concept so perhaps I was waiting for it to get closer to reality. I donated to the Kickstarter ages ago, just on the off chance it could work.
The concept is a floating pool in the East River off of Brooklyn Bridge Park. That’s my neighborhood. The technology is to filter the water so it uses filtered river water.
This would be 5 minutes from my office.
Can it work? Who knows? They’ve met with city planners, engineers, boatloads of folks. And they just launched the Float Lab to actually test the technology in the river.
If they can pull this off, it will be the coolest urban enhancement ever. And yes, I bought a tile…
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404 Day
For the non-techies, to a web server a 404 error is a “page not found” error. You typed www.cutekittens.com/extracute but that’s not a real page.
In the olden days, you would get a generic web server page. But as tech folks realized that this was a common occurrence, they started developing custom error pages that were at least amusing.
I like this one, both for humor and realism:
Here are several good ones…
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Paternity Leave? Really?
So a Mets player’s wife went into labor early and the player missed opening day and the next game (span of 3 days). The latest MLB collective bargaining agreement entitles baseball players to 3 days of paternity leave. No big deal, right?
Sports radio went crazy. For the record, when I used to drive more I listed to WFAN a lot and Mike Francesa is generally one of the top sports radio guys (yes, that’s a low bar). I enjoy listening to him a lot (not that I do much anymore). But the reaction from him didn’t really surprise me. Again, this is sports radio.
To the Mets credit (full disclosure, I’m a Yankees fan), the manager stood by the player.
First of all, if you’re accusing Dan Murphy of not wanting to play — this guy played 161 games last year. Wore himself out. Played with all sorts of discomfort. The man had his first child. He is allowed to be there. The rules state that he can be there, so he went. There is nothing against it. There’s nothing wrong with it.
And to his even greater credit, the player himself just took the high road.
And looking at the comments on the NY Daily News site, the fans are totally on the players side. The latest results of their poll for “Do you think Mike Francesa is over the line questioning Daniel Murphy’s paternity leave?” has Yes at 87%.
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I Could Do That
Ha.
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Don’t Try This At Home
School science project + wife who likes to drink tea = SWAT team busting down your door.
And they are out $25K for their troubles…
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Aerial Yoga
Yes, that is a thing. For my wife’s sister’s birthday, her daughter in law organized a group class here.
It looks something like this. Silks are hung and you can stretch, hang, flip, do all kinds of funky things. Needless to say, my girls loved it. Victoria learned to hang herself upside down.
Danielle learned all kinds of moves.
I did it too, but there is thankfully no photographic evidence…
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Generic Brand Video
The original copy came from here. Then these guys turned it into a video.
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