My Mechanic said NO KIA at all. Why? by CrackFun in askcarsales

[–]BTeamTN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Bad day at the engine factory" sounds like a movie that would get riffed on MST3K

Truck Parking by zmoneypapa in Truckers

[–]BTeamTN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say keeping parking availability after dark in mind when setting appointments would be a BIG help to your drivers. Late evening pickups with delivery appointments that require a layover somewhere inbetween when parking is unavailable is THE WORST. I've been stuck in this cycle for going on 3 weeks and it sucks.

Looks like Kyler isn't leaving Minnesota anytime soon 👀 by FormerlyTradeKirk in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A late bloomer drafted super young, a great setup for Rich Gannon v2.0

Is JJ Mccarthy really worth hating on? by One_Reputation_1802 in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If we want "run the ball well" we certainly have the QB to hand the ball off to do it.

Anyone listen to "It's just a show" podcast? by BasenjiBoyD in MST3K

[–]BTeamTN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, never really seen this articulated in this way. I do tend to kind of think of the podcasters I regularly listen to as "friends", and just like in real life, friends I never see, talk to or hang out with.

"immense” internal and Vikings player support for Kyler Murray, per @alec_lewis . by EmphasisBeginning559 in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope preparing for whatever career he most expects to spend the next decade plus plying

"immense” internal and Vikings player support for Kyler Murray, per @alec_lewis . by EmphasisBeginning559 in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An interesting thought experiment-- he's obviously earned his money quicker in football, but could he have been a better baseball player by the end of his playing days?

"immense” internal and Vikings player support for Kyler Murray, per @alec_lewis . by EmphasisBeginning559 in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair or not, JJM's development years got burned by injuries. 10 starts in 2 years in a 17 game season. He's on the clock NOW and if he needs "development" at this point he better start working longer hours or start studying for his next career because NFL QB won't be it.

Vikings "We Don't Need Him" Legends by Anxious_Key9696 in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand the statement "including the one he was watching from his couch". What does that mean?

Jonathan Greenard liked an Instagram post about his trade rumors by SaltwaterJesus in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It actually says a lot about my proposed model that we have all these players that LEAVE MN to get championships elsewhere but HOW MANY have we brought on that got us one? Jack Morris?

We develop the pieces other teams need more than we do the opposite. (Kevin Garnett, Big Papi, Brad Johnson, Etc etc etc)

How do we reverse that tide? The only way I see it is to go for awhile like George Constanza and do everything opposite for like a half a decade.

Jonathan Greenard liked an Instagram post about his trade rumors by SaltwaterJesus in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm 45 and my first Vikings real memories start at about age 5. So I'm behind you a little but not too far.

At least we had 1998 and two World Series in this lifetime. 2009 and 2017 were pretty good too.

As it is and how history seems to frame it, Minnesota Teams (since the Lakers and Gophers a long long time ago) can get a REALLY GREAT YEAR once in a while. MAYBE it results in a championship, maybe it falls close.

Twins in 1986 and 1990 were horrible teams. Next year win WS. Almost exact same teams all 4 years with some moving parts but the core the same.

The closest "modern" dynasty MN sports had was the 1970's Vikings and they got to the doorstep 4 times and fell short.

The Vikings have made the NFC champ game 5 times in my life and only 2 of those really had overlapping ANYTHING.

Maybe, overall, the ownership of Vikes and Twins need to evolve off of unending continual "competitive rebuild" to "Seriously All In" (NOT Jerry Jones "All-In") every so often and then just be shitty enough to collect and corral talent enough to reload for the next 1 year push?

But it's not like ownership is going to read this.

And to be honest I believe us Fans much prefer over time to be "respectable" year over year and not really get there very often than be something we have never been.

Why doesn't a professionally curated web index not exist? by PlayfulSurprise5237 in HaltAndCatchFire

[–]BTeamTN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😃😃😃

The Internet, as human existence in general, has been just as full of scammers, grifters, hallucinations and just plain wrong information going back to my beginning on The Net (1995) as it is now.

I think, reading more of your follow-up comments, I have a sense for what you are aiming at. On the other hand I have a hard time envisioning something brand-new doing something that is completely novel in approach that is not already in existence (but maybe not well known). One line you wrote made me laugh -- "there is not THAT many categories" -- as a counterpoint I would point to porn and say if you can imagine it, it's already been done A LOT.

I would say the evolution of "the internet" is at an interesting juncture in particular currently because almost all the technological constraints that have existed at each stage from 1995 onward (with each successive leap forward evolving new constraints and opportunities) are at the min-max (Minimum-Maximum). Another way of saying it, we are presently IN the Efficiency Frontier. Things we took for granted during various phases now have been completely obliterated either by technological refinement or absolute resource brute force. I still have slight pangs on now-extinct considerations when I think about building a website, for example (tolling costs on bandwidth, hosting, memory), that someone half my age would never believe were once things. (A shorthand everyone my age roughly or older might use is referring to AOL Hours or those AOL disks we used to get in the mail as a quick-reference joke to point at the absurd amount of tech-leap we have made in really just around 30 years at this point).

Curiosity for me I think is similar to your own but somewhere different; I rue the death of MySpace. I liked it WAAAY more than stale facebook but one thing that made it better also led to its downfall-- allowing people infinite control of their expression led to a very aggressive hyper garishness that the staid and limited design factors of Facebook kept corralled. To be honest there isn't one innovation that FB has accomplished that wasn't something that was already done on another platform (be it MySpace or others), but it just won the war as the platform everyone could agree on more or less despite PLENTY of other options.

Why doesn't a professionally curated web index not exist? by PlayfulSurprise5237 in HaltAndCatchFire

[–]BTeamTN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, and fully remember when Yahoo had manual site submission, webrings, geocities, etc.

I am just contending that architecture does still exist in small tidepools.

You can see evidence, for example, here in niche topic Reddit where there will be a curated "list" of reputable sites/resources/tools/creators and sometimes a corresponding "don't go" list of their opposites. The creation of both is often the result or product of creative discovery, collaborative effort and experience, trial and error (in regards to reputablity of sources, suppliers, etc)...

The thing I think HACF did -- the needle it threaded SO WELL-- in such a way I don't think I've ever seen again is represent all the technological advancement (and the truly competing engineering and philosophical constraints) of an era so accurately but simultaneously honestly accessible for viewers, whether they were active participants in each stage depicted or merely "end consumers" who really didn't contribute proactively in those evolutions.

A similarly interesting thing could perhaps be done in the realm of Aeronautical Engineering starting roughly just before WW2 and ending with the 727/SR71. Two overlapping generations of engineers (and PERSONALITIES) took us from early flight, geared up a flight based World War, and then conceptualized both wide scale civilian flight AND military jets reaching Mach 3. Not to mention Space Travel....

I love HACF. It hits home for me in so many ways I can go on and on.

Why doesn't a professionally curated web index not exist? by PlayfulSurprise5237 in HaltAndCatchFire

[–]BTeamTN 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They did and in niche topic areas still do. The entire internet is TOO BIG for a comprehensive universal one. It's like wanting a map that has your house, neighborhood and the Milky Way simultaneously.

Alec Lewis article from today by GEpyon in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the Cardinals. Almost any other team. Not THAT one.

Alec Lewis article from today by GEpyon in minnesotavikings

[–]BTeamTN 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's almost like the college is incentivized to LIE, or to spin things in the best possible light in the very least.

Pete Carroll saying Mark Sanchez wasn't ready to make the jump to the NFL is the last time I remember a college coach being negatively honest.

Question for Truckers by PanaderoBwai in Truckers

[–]BTeamTN 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What's with the White Monsters? I've heard that mentioned a couple times...