Now We Got ‘Em Right Where We Want ‘Em

The Chicago White Sox will still be reeling from their lopsided 14-2 win tomorrow, so much so that they will probably win by a closer score in game 2. Once the FRS are down two and their backs are against the wall, then they will kick it in and sweep the final three games to advance to the American League Championship Series.

Two years ago their rally cry was “Cowboy Up” and they lost to the Yankees in the ALCS. Last year it was “Why not us?” and they won it all. This year it is “Just 11 more wins.” Right now though it had better be “Not 2 more losses.”

Simple PHP Gallery

Added a couple of new things to the web site. If you came via the old blog page address you saw the main one. New index file in the root directory. Depending, you might have seen that image before. Once a couple years ago that is what the front page looked like and there were three links, one to each of my blogs. Unless there is a simple two step process to move the new Word Press blog into the root directory this is the new site.

Also we have installed Simple PHP Gallery to handle photo posting. This thing is simple to use, hence the name, all you have to do to add a quick gallery is upload a directory full of images under the main one and poof, there you go. So far I just have two online and the style is the default supplied, so there is no cohesiveness to the site – yet.

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Thanks Donavan

Donavan, who’s email address is Washburn@ypo.co.jp, was kind enough to send me a note this morning alerting me to a hot stock pick. It is currently trading at 15 cents a share with a 12 month projection of $1!

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I know I’m going to go empty my current 401K porfolio and put it in this company. In a year you will be able to say, “I knew him when.” Thanks again Donavan.

Hey, wait a minute, he sent it to the ASCO global list, everybody knows…

Odds & Ends

I have decided to only restore 2005’s posts. 2002 through 2004 will languish in a file on my hard drive. Maybe when I get around to it I will go back and read through them and publish a “Greatest Posts” page. There are only 2 surviving 2004 posts and those are the Mr. Fletcher’s Ride photos and are part of a series that will finish up later this month. When that happens I’ll probably create a separate gallery for the images. Speaking of separate galleries for images, that is more than likely what will happen to the photo meme posts which weren’t restored along with the rest of this year’s posts.

The FRS won today big time over the hated Yankees and clinched the wild card playoff berth. In honor of this accomplishment I have given them their own category here on the blog. A five game series with the Chicago White Sox starts Tuesday afternoon in the Windy City. The Wild Card route is how they made it into the playoffs last year and look what happened then, they won it all. As a matter of fact the last three World Series champs have been Wild Card teams. So here we go…

We got a late start this morning, so we skipped the planed bicycle ride and decided to take a Miata drive instead. We got about a mile away from the house when we ran into a wall of light rain. Quickly turned around and found a spot to remove the boot cover. Then, still top down made another u-turn and proceeded with the drive. We managed to keep dry as we kept making direction changes to stay under the partly blue in the sky. While we took a walk around the North Augusta mile walking track the top went up as a precaution. The top made a cycle one other time while we were still moving to avoid a passing soaking rain, but after that it was a nice little drive.

Part of it was to go check out where our used-to-be-local Mazda dealer went to. There is a for sale sign in front of the old building, but it looks like they are still selling Izuzus there. The new digs are way over on the west side of Augusta and is the former Honda dealership building. There were still quite a few Hondas on the lot (I guess the new Honda store isn’t completely finished) and there were a lot of Mazdas on the other half. Only three new Miatas MX-5s were on hand and they were off in a corner. One red Grand Touring with black top and interior, one black Grand Touring with the tan/brown interior and one silver Touring. All of them with a supplemental sticker adding $599 dollars to the MSRP for premium handling, 5 year warranty and a couple of other bogus add ons…

New color scheme in honor of Halloween.

West Wing is on at 8:00 PM on Sunday nights, not 9:00 PM, so I gotta go…

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Question For English Majors

Is irony used correctly in the following sentence?

During a Cleavland Indian at bat in the fifth inning, with a fan pounding rhythmically on an Indian type drum in the outfield supporting an offensive rally, was the public address system operator being ironic by playing a recording of the bugle call Charge at the same time?

FRS II

FRS IIYou know you are in trouble when the ace of your staff is a knuckleballer. Today Tim Wakefield fooled some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. Even though the Red Sox didn’t win it was not entirely Tim’s fault. Randy Johnson pitched well, but he was beatable and even though Manny smacked a couple of monster home runs, they never got the offense going against him. I think it was more the sputtering offense and stupid base running that doomed the FRS to an 8 to 4 loss.

At least Cleavland lost today too. That means that even if they lose tomorrow and the Indians win they will still have a shot at the playoffs. The 2 teams would play a winner take all game on Monday to see who will advance to the “real” playoffs as the American League Wildcard team.

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Gravatar Failure

Tried this evening to get the gravatars back. It worked fine in MT, but I couldn’t get the WordPress plugin to work right for me. I tried several different parameters for the plugin, but it wouldn’t work consistently, so I pulled it from the comments area.

They have this rating system so that some people can use more provocative images if they want and bloggers can choose not to show them. First I left any rating out of the plugin and it would show one person’s image but not another’s. So I cut and pasted the example into my template with it’s “R” parameter and the gravatars shown would change. Then I plugged in “X” and different ones would show. Keep in mind that everyone of the gravatars used by my comment posters are innocuous at best. Making matters worse was when I tried jockeying the size while keeping the rating the same, different ones would show than with just the rating. One combination caused no gravatars to show. At one point I would get a brief wink of the image before the square would turn black…

Sorry commenters, but you will just have to live with seeing your name there.

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