Bet you wish they kept them dirty birds on just a little longer ;). There's a pretty good chance this is going to be another long season for me and Falcons/dawgs so this might be the last time I get to trash talk. Give me a second.
Every time I read an article about some team getting public moneyto build a stadium I get a little aggravated. The Atlanta area is building 3 stadiums using city/county funds. Two of them belong to Mr. Blank. I guess as long as the Falcons stadium looks cool it will be worth it (sarcasm).
Edit: roughly $609,000,000.00 dollars in city and county funds. I'm glad I don't live in the Atlanta area. Unlike Milwaukee the rest of the state is not having to pick up the stadium bill.
Edit 2: The Georgia Department of Transportation just refused to fund the 12 million dollar pedestrian bridge (not included in 609 million figure) across I285 for the new Braves stadium. It's currently postponed and there is no way to get from Stadium parking across 285 to the stadium
It looks like the early reviews of the Martian are very positive. 97% at Rotten Tomatoes. The book was unputdownable. I finished it in a day
I hadn't even heard of either the book or the movie until very recently, and the word of mouth has been very high; I'm definitely in the queue for seeing the film... and I'll wait until afterwards to read the book.
Received the new Darkwing Duck omnibus in last month's DCBS order. Third night of reading it to my daughter for a bedtime story. At 400 pages, this one's going to take a while.
Received the new Darkwing Duck omnibus in last month's DCBS order. Third night of reading it to my daughter for a bedtime story. At 400 pages, this one's going to take a while.
Is the omnibus good? I was thinking about buying a copy.
Received the new Darkwing Duck omnibus in last month's DCBS order. Third night of reading it to my daughter for a bedtime story. At 400 pages, this one's going to take a while.
Is the omnibus good? I was thinking about buying a copy.
We're enjoying it a lot. We can make it about 4-5 pages a night. I do my best making voices for each character--as close to what the cartoon was like--and she is enjoying it. She makes me play the theme song on YouTube before we start. It really is a well made book. Great art and engaging story.
It's bringing me back to the days I'd sit and watch cartoons after school. I saw the DVD season packages at Costco some time ago. I should have picked them up, but I got DuckTales and Tail Spin instead.
Received the new Darkwing Duck omnibus in last month's DCBS order. Third night of reading it to my daughter for a bedtime story. At 400 pages, this one's going to take a while.
Is the omnibus good? I was thinking about buying a copy.
We're enjoying it a lot. We can make it about 4-5 pages a night. I do my best making voices for each character--as close to what the cartoon was like--and she is enjoying it. She makes me play the theme song on YouTube before we start. It really is a well made book. Great art and engaging story.
It's bringing me back to the days I'd sit and watch cartoons after school. I saw the DVD season packages at Costco some time ago. I should have picked them up, but I got DuckTales and Tail Spin instead.
I like the darkwing dvds but I think ducktales is the best disney cartoon
Yogi is one of the great catchers of all time. It's a shame that he's known for the things he may or may not have said, and not for how good he was behind the plate and with a bat.
Yogi Berra played in 18 All-Star games and won 10 World Series titles. In 1950, he only struck out twelve times in 597 at-bats. And he signed three baseball cards that my friend Bill mailed to him when Bill was a kid around 30 years ago.
Yogi is one of the great catchers of all time. It's a shame that he's known for the things he may or may not have said, and not for how good he was behind the plate and with a bat.
The thing about "It ain't over 'til it's over" is it perfectly sums up what's so cool about baseball. Until the very last out, the game is always theoretically winnable. A football game is often over long before the clock says so, same with basketball.
If their paper works like the paper I worked at does, this story probably wasn't edited at all by the newspaper. There is likely one person (not an editor, and probably someone with not a lot of experience) on the day shift responsible for moving stories from the wire to the paper's website, writing the headlines, and formatting the text. The stories that end up in the print edition don't get edited until the night shift comes on, but they'll also pull the stories directly from the wire, not from their website, so they probably won't ever see the mistake.
I think they've had about 12 hours to fix this error, and several comments to fix it, since it is an online news outlet. A simple online edit, by the writer, or the webmaster, is all that would be required.
I think they've had about 12 hours to fix this error, and several comments to fix it, since it is an online news outlet. A simple online edit, by the writer, or the webmaster, is all that would be required.
No correction so far.
#YouHadOneJob
To be quite honest, most wire stories that go out on newspaper websites rarely get corrected. Something this egregious should be, of course, and it would be at some newspapers, but not much time is devoted to online wire stories like this. The editors are much more concerned with the print edition and any local content, and they are already overburdened. Whoever wrote the headline is too busy checking the wire and getting the next story online. The webmaster is only concerned with making sure everything is working properly. The simple fact is that wire stories that will quickly cycle out tend to be ignored once they're released. Newspapers no longer have the man-power to do everything they should.
I think they've had about 12 hours to fix this error, and several comments to fix it, since it is an online news outlet. A simple online edit, by the writer, or the webmaster, is all that would be required.
No correction so far.
#YouHadOneJob
To be quite honest, most wire stories that go out on newspaper websites rarely get corrected. Something this egregious should be, of course, and it would be at some newspapers, but not much time is devoted to online wire stories like this. The editors are much more concerned with the print edition and any local content, and they are already overburdened. Whoever wrote the headline is too busy checking the wire and getting the next story online. The webmaster is only concerned with making sure everything is working properly. The simple fact is that wire stories that will quickly cycle out tend to be ignored once they're released. Newspapers no longer have the man-power to do everything they should.
OTOH, this typo has probably generated more clicks in a few hours than they usually get in a month.
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The Atlanta area is building 3 stadiums using city/county funds. Two of them belong to Mr. Blank. I guess as long as the Falcons stadium looks cool it will be worth it (sarcasm).
Edit: roughly $609,000,000.00 dollars in city and county funds. I'm glad I don't live in the Atlanta area. Unlike Milwaukee the rest of the state is not having to pick up the stadium bill.
Edit 2: The Georgia Department of Transportation just refused to fund the 12 million dollar pedestrian bridge (not included in 609 million figure) across I285 for the new Braves stadium. It's currently postponed and there is no way to get from Stadium parking across 285 to the stadium
And the Dawgs crushed Steve Spurrier.
Not a bad weekend.
It's bringing me back to the days I'd sit and watch cartoons after school. I saw the DVD season packages at Costco some time ago. I should have picked them up, but I got DuckTales and Tail Spin instead.
RIP, Yogi
And just to clarify, I am by no means a Yankees fan. That ended around ’82, ’83.
http://news-sentinel.com/news/us-and-world/New-York-Yankees-Hall-of-Fame-catcher-Yogi-Bear-has-died--He-was-90-
No correction so far.
#YouHadOneJob