Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1179 (SoD #1627) - SPACE THRILLERS - Throwback Thursday on Sunday 1908.04
Hi Mom,
I haven't really talked to you too directly in a while, Mom. Sorry. I am all business sometimes with introducing my weekly collection of nonesuch and such and so.
I have been thinking about you a lot lately. I miss you.
I cried a little today. I was surprised. It's weird how feelings catch me by surprise when I didn't even know they were burbling under the surface.
You would not care so much about all these things posted here. But there's a whole collection of wonderful things here for this week, posting the Throwback late in the week.
No real commentary here from me, but scroll on if you like art, Baseball, basketball, Brian Eno, Chicago Cubs, comic books, Detroit Tigers, space, Sports, Star Trek, state of the hate nation, or Throwback Thursdays. Those are my categories for this post.
Happy Sunday.
"There are no shortcuts, you have to do the work." "Yes, I know, but are there any shortcuts?"— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) July 28, 2015
COOL ART SITE
https://damnthedesign.bigcartel.com/
“First, I would say I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to bring home a World Series for this city because I know what the people in Michigan are like, how prideful they are, how hard-working they are and how much they’re proud of where they’re from, even though where they’re from may not be the quote-unquote fanciest or luxuriousest or tropical or nicest to look at, but they’re very proud people, I consider myself one of them and I wish I could have made those people extremely proud with winning them a World Series to give them more of a reason to be proud of where they’re from.”
“It’s all that I’ve ever known, and putting on that uniform, I just always felt like I was a kid playing for my mom’s hometown team, my grandparents' hometown team. I was proud that my little cousins got to go to school and brag that their cousin played for the Tigers.”
-Nick Castellanos-
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27311388/double-amputee-throws-td-wows-stafford-lions
https://sports.yahoo.com/steph-curry-forcefully-responds-donald-070651286.html?src=rss
It's been a while since Steph Curry has gone directly at President Donald Trump on Twitter, but that's exactly what he did Saturday.
In an early morning tweet, President Trump called the city of Baltimore a "disgusting, ratand rodent infested mess." Those words caught the attention of CNN anchor Victor Blackwell, who responded with an emotional monologue defending his hometown.
Blackwell's words caused Curry to react. The Warriors superstar defended Baltimore and took shots at President Trump.
Nearly two years ago, Curry and Trump got into a war of words over the Warriors' invitation to the White House to celebrate their 2017 NBA title.
After Curry said he didn't want to go to the White House, President Trump withdrew the team's invite.
Instead of going to the White House that year, the Warriors spent time with school children in the Washington D.C. area.
[RELATED: Why Steph is proud of Warriors]
Curry knows the difference between right and wrong. The words directed by President Trump at the citizens of Baltimore were wrong.
Kudos to Curry for saying the right thing at the right moment.
Steph Curry forcefully responds to Donald Trump's remarks on Baltimore originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-hall-of-famer-grant-hill-slams-president-donald-trump-offensive-tweets-baltimore-elijah-cummings-002746608.html
While he wasn’t born in Baltimore himself, NBA Hall-of-Famer Grant Hill’s connections to the city run deep.
His father was born in Baltimore, and Hill would often spend time in the city with his family and friends.
That’s why, when President Donald Trump slammed the city and its congressman in a series of posts on social media this weekend, that Hill was one of many around the country who took offense
“It hurts. It’s unconscionable to think that the President of the United States would say that about a segment of the population,” Hill told CNN’s Van Jones on Sunday afternoon. “I have great memories and fond memories of my time in Baltimore, my grandparents, and spending summers there.
“Obviously Baltimore has gone through some challenges and struggles, like most cities have, in recent years, but the people there are good people.”
— Yashar Ali đ (@yashar) July 27, 2019
TERRORISM HAS NO PLACE IN THIS WORLD!— Enes Kanter (@EnesKanter) August 4, 2019
Hate and ignorance will be driven OUT.
We condemn this act of evil that aims to divide us.
LOVE will WIN in the end,
Evil will NOT prevail. #ElPaso
A man evaded security, cut through a fence, brought in his assault rifle, and shot up a garlic festival. But 45 will tell you that the “real criminals” are the children at our border. Make it make sense. #gilroyshooting https://t.co/qhBkvfW4gU— April (@ReignOfApril) July 29, 2019
Friends,
We are so pleased to announce the release of Chapter 07. We have come a long way from childhood in Odena.
Here in Year 34-37 we return to Julia in Brooklyn, as she corresponds, via phone, letter and email, with her friends back home. At first the missives reveal nostalgia and loneliness, but when a massive weather event floods Red Hook and then the new Gowanus desalination plant fails, threatening New York’s food supply, Julia begins to make plans to return to Odena.
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Star Trek: Picard Timeline Updated and Explained: How Hugh, Data, and Seven of Nine Fit In
Ryan Britt
The new Star Trek: Picard trailer is perfectly suited for any viewer new to Trek, but it also contains a lot of layered mythology and timeline questions for decades-long fans of the various shows.
If it’s been a while since you engaged with The Next Generation, Voyager, or the Star Trek movies released nearly 20 years ago, some of the references in the trailer might seem a little confusing, or at the very least, very quickly glossed-over. Where was Data the last time we saw him? What is the history of the Borg up to this point? What’s the deal with Seven of Nine again? Is Picard living on a farm? (No, it’s a wine vineyard.) Okay, but why?
So that it’s all in one place: here’s a selected chronological timeline of important stuff featured in the show: from Hugh, to Data, and Seven of Nine; to Picard’s family, to Troi, and a certain supernova.
keep reading...https://www.tor.com/2019/07/26/star-trek-picard-timeline-updated-explained/
https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/07/28/0029249/is-hiring-broken
Is Hiring Broken? (rajivprab.com)
Posted by EditorDavid from the if-it-is-broke-fix-it dept.
DevNull127 writes:Hiring is broken and yours is too," argues a New York-based software developer whose LinkedIn profile says he's worked at both Amazon and Google, as well as doing architecture verification work for both Oracle and Intel. Summarizing what he's read about hiring just this year in numerous online articles, he lists out the arguments against virtually every popular hiring metric, ultimately concluding that "Until and unless someone does a rigorous scientific study evaluating different interviewing techniques, preferably using a double-blind randomized trial, there's no point in beating this dead horse further. Everyone's hiring practices are broken, and yours aren't any better."
For example, as a Stanford graduate he nonetheless argues that "The skills required for getting into Stanford at 17 (extracurriculars, SAT prep etc) do not correlate to job success as a software developer. How good a student you were at 17, is not very relevant to who you are at 25." References are flawed because "People will only ever list references who will say good things about them," and they ultimately punish people who've had bad managers. But asking for source code from past sides projects penalizes people with other interests or family, while "most work product is confidential."
Brain teasers "rely on you being lucky enough to get a flash of inspiration, or you having heard it before," and are "not directly related to programming. Even Google says it is useless." And live-coding exercises are "artificial and contrived," and "not reflective of practical coding," while pair programming is unrealistic, with the difficulty of the tasks varying from day to day.
He ultimately criticizes the ongoing discussion for publicizing the problems but not the solutions. "How exactly should we weigh the various pros and cons against each other and actually pick a solution? Maybe we could maybe try something novel like data crunch the effectiveness of each technique, or do some randomized experiments to measure the efficacy of each approach? Lol, j/k. Ain't nobody got time for that!"
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/Buster201907251/revisiting-worst-deadline-trade-your-team-ever-made
This is the one I remember as the most painful...
Detroit Tigers: Trade John Smoltz to the Braves for Doyle Alexander (Aug. 12, 1987)
Future WAR traded away: 66.4
WAR acquired: 6.3
This is often cited as a win-win transaction because Alexander went 9-0 with a 1.53 ERA in 11 starts down the stretch for the Tigers. Let's cut through it though: It wasn't a win-win trade. Maybe if the Tigers had won the World Series instead of flaming out in the ALCS against the Twins, you could ignore that Smoltz went on to a Hall of Fame career. But you can't. So: bad trade for the Tigers; franchise-altering trade for the Braves.
New York Yankees: Trade Jay Buhner to the Mariners for Ken Phelps (July 21, 1988)
Future WAR traded away: 23.1
WAR acquired: 1.0
As Frank Costanza says to George Steinbrenner, "What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for? He had 30 home runs, over 100 RBIs last year, he's got a rocket for an arm, you don't know what the hell you're doing!"
It's not often that a deadline deal enters popular culture folklore, but this one did thanks to "Seinfeld." As Steinbrenner says on the show, his baseball people loved Ken Phelps -- a 33-year-old platoon DH who would hit 17 home runs for the Yankees over two seasons while Buhner would hit 307 for the Mariners.
Chicago Cubs: Trade Josh Donaldson, Matt Murton, Eric Patterson and Sean Gallagher to the A's for Rich Harden and Chad Gaudin (July 8, 2008)
Future WAR traded away: 41.7
WAR acquired: 4.4
It would take five years before the Cubs realized the mistake on this one as Donaldson didn't break out until 2013. He had been a supplemental first-round pick in 2007 and was catching in Class A when the trade was made. With the A's, he eventually overhauled his swing and a move to third base helped him relax and he became the 2015 AL MVP (after a trade to the Blue Jays). The injury-prone Harden was great down the stretch with the Cubs in 2008 (5-1, 1.77 ERA in 12 starts), but he lost his one start in the division series as the Dodgers swept the Cubs.
Special Lou Brock note: The Cubs traded Brock to the Cardinals for Ernie Broglio on June 15, 1964 -- the trade deadline at the time. Brock would earn 41.8 WAR with St. Louis and make the Hall of Fame. Broglio went 7-19 for the Cubs over three seasons. The trade deadline in those days wasn't really like it is now, but if you want to make this the worst deadline trade in Cubs history, that works.
Read more
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/Buster201907251/revisiting-worst-deadline-trade-your-team-ever-made
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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you soon, Mom.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1908.04 - 10:10
NEW (written 1708.27 and 1907.04) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. Dropped "Talk to you tomorrow, Mom" in the sign off on 1907.04. Should have done it sooner as this feature is no longer daily.
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