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random thoughts. rants. general nonsense.

I attended the penultimate Oakland A's home game at the Coliseum last night. After 56 years in the town and stadium, they're (very controversially) moving next season. But, I'm here to talk about the end of the game.

Bottom of the ninth, tied 4-4. No outs. An A's hitter hits a single! Next batter strikes out, but the runner steals second on the third strike while the catcher is distracted. One out.

Batter up. Smack! A beautiful grounder whooshes past the shortstop. The runner from second races for home - the outfielder rockets the ball there as the runner passes third base - will the catcher tag him out?!

No! The ball bounces, the catcher misses it, and the runner slides into home, knocking the catcher's face guard clean off! A photo finish! A's win!

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Now, I'm not a sports guy myself. But, who says that baseball isn't the greatest sport in the world? :D
 
In my 26 years of life I have just now realised that the word "rewind" refers to tape being literally wound around a spool. 🤯🤦‍♂️
 
You're lucky not to remember having to do this all the time:

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Then you might not be old enough to remember the confusing time before MC Hammer invented the word "stop" back in 1990.
 
I actually did have to do that once or twice 😅
I had a few audiobooks on cassette that were very well used. I never used them for music or had a Walkman.
I did have a special device just for playing mp3 files though. Imagine that, kids!
 
I vaguely recall making a mixtape once by playing my own CDs on the stereo, and recording them with the tape deck in that same device. We had a cheapo input microphone, so I recorded introductions to the songs, like a radio DJ.

Don't think I ever listened to that tape, though. 🤪
 
I used to do that too, except with songs off the radio. Made a really nice Christmas mix for my family that way - taping hours of radio and then using a dual-tape-deck stereo to cut the ones I liked best into a mixtape. My grandparents legit enjoyed it and used/talked about it years later, so I know it wasn't just an attaboy for a kid making something.
 
Cassettes were a game-changer. I used to, like many, listen to the radio on my “boom box” and hit record when a song o liked came on. Before that you needed to buy the record or, god forbid, the 8-track. Oftentimes buying a whole record just for one hit song.
 
I still use tapes sometimes, there's a certain charm to the format. I'm 22 but I swear I'm not just trying to grasp for an era before my time, I did grow up with (second-hand) tapes. Now my record collection is just me being pretentious.
 
I've noticed this really annoying trend over the past couple of years where headline put random phrases in quotes for no reason at all:
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I don't know why this irritates me so much, but it's become a real pet peave.
I think it's just the sheer redundancy of it. Getting rid of the quotation marks makes absolutely no difference to the content of the headline. It feels like they're just doing it to bait me into clicking so I can find out who dared to say the phrase 'was in Wiltshire'.
It feels like every other headline does this now. Even the BBC.
 
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^ LOL, that does suck! :p

My pet peeve is the word "utilize." Four letters and two syllables more than "use," and for what?! Technically, utilize means to use something for a different purpose than its intended one. "When my dog's frisbee got stuck in a tree, I utilized a billiards cue to dislodge it" is technically an appropriate use of the word, but it's also a completely unnecessary one. And if someone says "I utilized PowerPoint for my presentation to the team," they're using the word incorrectly, because that's exactly what PowerPoint is freaking for!

And, look, people: you're not fooling anyone - or, at least, you're not fooling me. You think, even if it's only subconsciously, that gratuitously saying "utilize" instead of "use" will make you sound smart, but it actually achieves the exact opposite result. And it's freaking aggravating as heck. 😝
 
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