gehringer_2

I say, "Let them eat", what could go wrong?

A number of years ago I worked on some natural gas storage tech with super high surface area activated carbon. It 'worked' in terms of the carbon storing the gas at liquid like densities, but this was a synthetic carbon that was produced as powder and no-one ever found a way to pelletize it to sufficient strength without killing the surface area. That work was with GRI back in the day so I wondered given the Chicago connection. It wasn't what killed the project but an amusing unforeseen glitch with storing nat gas by adsorption is that you can start with safety odorized gas going in, but you get de-odorized gas coming back out. Oops.

I had thought Shelton had just disappeared but he did knock around the minors for a couple more seasons and in fact was able to OPS at 950+ twice at AAA only crash on call-up each time. So maybe a mental block thing or maybe he had been right on the edge for handling MLB velo or spin and just fell off at a younger age than most. I've always had a theory about guys having career arcs that start young with great reaction time, then build with strength and eventually fall off as vision as reaction time are lost. A great player may cross those limits at 19 and 40 and have a 20yr HOF career in between, a marginal player may only get a couple of years in his mid to late 20's when he peaks high enough to stay in the majors.

any connection to GTI?

I don't know exactly what the top is for the type of fiber they run to houses. I believe the fiber itself is capable of at least 10gbit/sec. My router has one 5 gbit/sec ethernet port but the service is capped at 1g.TBH, not that many sites will transmit to you that fast anyway.

I didn't say they could make it work, I just said it would at least be a plan! Seriously, I think SY may have to make some changes in his org and they won't be popular with either the fans or SY himself because there are some fan fave ex-players in the org now who might need to face a tougher performance review than SY has given them so far.

Sell all the old guys at the deadline - restock picks, bring up GR, lose big - call this an investment year. At least that would be a plan. And maybe a new director of scouting....

IDK how good that strategy is. Once you block one the momentum to block others might might actually build instead of subside.

What's the word on Edvinsson?

actually this is another one you can blame on SCOTUS, but it was the Burger court. Ruled in 1978 that states could not prevent nationally chartered banks from charging higher rates than a state allowed by its own regs. Before that a lot of states had pretty reasonable caps. The problem in that era was that inflation was taking off, making the locally legislated caps a loser for the banks. And of course in 1978 credit cards didn't have nearly the market penetration they do now. This is why if they do something it should be more nuanced than a simple caps on rates. If you cap them at say 10% and inflation goes about 7% no bank is going to offer you credit at that low a return and suddenly you have a big drag on the economy, If you cap the rate so high that the business/inflation cycle is never a problem, it's probably too high to give consumers any serious relief.

I have to believe SY feels he was brought up too soon and he over projects about it. Plus maybe he picked up some of it from Scotty (who hated young players, esp on D) along the way. But no-one they bring up now is going to be cast into the same kind of pressure to be 'the guy' he was. There are established players on this team in Larkin, Seider, Raymond, etc. And it's a different league - with all the speed it's a younger man's game than it used to be.

no issue with anything here baseball wise but FWIW, this Sept Oregon did roll back decriminalization 👮‍♀️. Sure though, that's only one brick in a wall of political goofy out there in terms of something like a stadium project. They've already had lots of money issues over the Trailblazer's arena, and that was even with Paul Allen's money doing the driving.

Yup, just got a $5 bump from ATT also. We're now at $75 as part of a bundle with DTv, which we really should drop because we totally under use it other than Tigers and Wings games, but are too lazy to do anything about it. I got the 1G service as an early adopter and when I was working I was moving a lot of large files on and off the cloud all the time so it was appropriate. I still move a 70G backup set to the cloud but only about once/mo now so it's a good question whether I still need it. I guess at this point I'm spoiled by being able to do a MacOS system reload or Linux Release upgrade from the cloud in 10min.

What I don't understand at all is that when Lalonde arrived, I thought the team's play took a real step forward - much improved offensive flow etc., yet as time has gone by they seem to have turned right back into the team we fired Blashill for. So how does that happen? Has Yzerman leaned on Lalonde to have the team play more pedantically? Of so why not just leave Blashill there? Have Yzerman's moves with the roster actually left Lalonde with a team that can't do what the team he had 3 yrs ago could? Not good news if that is true. The whole progression - or lack thereoff, is hard for me to figure. Sure they are waiting for players, but what kind of team are they trying to build - where is it going? Right now everything seems ad hoc - like a bunch of pieces that don't fit together.

It looked like they got to 3-1 and decided they could mail it in the rest of the way. Lalonde's seat must/should be getting warmer.

didn't help that Johansson was beaten like a drum on the play either.

Seider needs to keep his ass out of the box. Tie game.

Petry can't knock down the puck then either he or Compher lose Zebras and they give up a PP goal, then the Wings immediately take another penalty....😡

seems like a little mix and match going on in the D pairings tonight.

Can't be serious? In the universe of possible Trump world options, Lindsay would be a shot out of the park. Came through the JAG office - actually practiced law in the public service. He'd probably get himself fired in 8 wks.

Sadly, I don't find it hard to believe that one out of every 8 or 10 or ten Obama/Biden voters wouldn't vote for a woman -- and when all is said and done it may have been that simple. Does seem to run counter to the logic in MI where we've elected other women, but Prez is still different from all that.

Did they maybe cut bait on Ned too soon though? He hasn't bee great since we moves him but at least he's been available, as compared to say Husso.

Granted it's hard, but whether it's hard or easy the standard has to be to do it least do it marginally better than the guys you're competing against. BTW - have we written off Wallinder?

so the schedule will all be downhill from here, right? 🤔

UCF also has a field not too far away I'm sure they'd be glad to rent out.