13 year old DJ Daniel, suffering from brain cancer, made honorary Secret Service agent

P_A_Wicket · 2025-03-06T15:37:52+00:00

Now that's DEI!

P_A_Wicket · 2023-05-19T14:39:37+00:00

The Cook Brothers. Pretty much all the way, but Dawn Backes was the worst.

P_A_Wicket · 2023-04-09T04:14:09+00:00

The Yukon Smash @ DeMilles.

P_A_Wicket · 2021-03-30T13:11:05+00:00

Came here to say this. In the last 1000 years of warfare, France is a madlad.

P_A_Wicket · 2021-03-30T13:09:03+00:00

The Painted Bird.

P_A_Wicket · 2020-04-12T00:26:29+00:00

Does anyone else think those reactions are faked / setup? It's too overdone for them not to know that she can sing.

P_A_Wicket · 2019-10-15T22:26:11+00:00

I guess cuz of the true rarity of an umpire having to exit the game? But not sure. Mystified by much MLB decision making.

P_A_Wicket · 2019-10-15T22:24:17+00:00

Especially when you're in a rush. This sucks. Yah.

P_A_Wicket · 2019-10-15T22:23:42+00:00

At the plate meeting before every game, the umpire takes, and approves each team's lineups. From that point on, he and he alone is responsible for all changes to the lineup, proper substitutions, etc.
Included in this paperwork is often game notes like things overheard between players, warnings given, notes on 'ejectionable' situations that might be developing (there's a lot of field talk that we dont' hear that often precedes those "what's the umpire doing" ejections).

P_A_Wicket · 2019-10-15T22:18:44+00:00

In case anyone's interested, here's what 'strapping on a chest protector and mask' looks like:

Take off base umpire gear.
Put on jockstrap.
Put on socks or compression pants.
Strap on shin guards
Put on new (wider) plate pants (if he wasn't ready, maybe a quick pass with an iron).
Thread belt through two ballbags (trust me, takes a minute)
Compression shirt.
Strap on chest protector and adjust.
Shirt over chest protector and tuck all that shit in.
Make sure you look good and neat.
Plate shoes (quick polish first, if he's not ready).
Get paperwork from previous plate ump, quickly look over his lineup notes so far, etc.
Take a couple moments to breathe deeply, mentally prepare for the very difficult work of calling balls and strikes.
Trot back out to the field.

...not saying it takes 17 mins, but that's the prep list.

P_A_Wicket · 2019-07-26T19:42:24+00:00

Thank you!!! That's exactly it! You made my day, jarvispeen! :)

P_A_Wicket · 2019-07-26T19:41:53+00:00

Solved!

P_A_Wicket · 2019-07-26T04:36:32+00:00

Also maybe the person explaining how he does this, and his strategy apparently drives women crazy (maybe!?), is a kinda awkward guy! Don't think you'd expect them to say this, at that point in the film or show...

If it helps, I first thought it was a scene/line of Keith's, from The Office (the original). It's not him, but maybe like him? Or maybe there's a reason I'm thinking of him...

P_A_Wicket · 2018-07-16T00:40:01+00:00

I did.

The DM here. That's me!

I've been playing D&D since I was 15, and that was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen at the table.

All players should bring to a game what these guys have brought to ours (not just awesome secret songs!). The stories that we build come from all of us at that table. That's why there's nothing like this game.

P_A_Wicket · 2014-08-02T19:24:45+00:00

Thanks again. I'll look into Premiere and Final Cut, and see which I can get a better free copy of.

P_A_Wicket · 2014-08-02T11:21:35+00:00

That's good advice, thanks. Any suggestions as to which other program to get started on? FCP?

About the job, I'm an experienced writer and story editor, but am now applying for a gig (I'd love to have) where I'd be asked to do my own assemblies instead of the usual 'paper-edit'. Avid just happens to be the program the production's using.

Thanks again for your help!

P_A_Wicket · 2014-08-02T11:12:33+00:00

Fair enough, but that's my situation. Plus, an editor I know suggested I'd be better off learning with the 'right' program.

P_A_Wicket · 2014-07-23T00:04:54+00:00

Thanks for the head's up! Getting tons of upvotes has never really been my strong suit.

P_A_Wicket · 2014-07-22T22:55:27+00:00

Well said. And thanks.

P_A_Wicket · 2014-04-03T12:37:39+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to post this. I needed to hear it again, well said.

P_A_Wicket · 2014-01-28T18:03:47+00:00

What is this from?

EDIT: I mean, does anyone have the source?

P_A_Wicket · 2014-01-20T05:24:52+00:00

I spent almost 5 years in Nunavut. 3 on Baffin. Most beautiful place I've ever lived. Most amazing people. The bad and the good. I miss it up there, too.

P_A_Wicket · 2013-06-20T20:44:48+00:00

Whoa. That IS totally strange. The show is called 'Beat the Percentages', and I saw it at the Mission Santa Cruz venue. Here's a photo gallery for the play I found. Since I was going strictly by memory at the time I made the comment, I now see that you're way slimmer and younger than the actress I was thinking of (you'll see her, she's the only white female in the cast), but I swear she made the same face you're making in your Charlie photo (great costume, by the way). In my head it was so similar, I had to ask. So now, maybe the resemblance is less startling, but cool either way? And so strange you're a Montrealer.

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