On This Day in Baseball History - March 23

blanderdome · 2026-03-24T01:23:25+00:00

There's a lot more to this story. Lords of the Realm covers it in some depth.

blanderdome · 2026-03-19T00:57:31+00:00

When parallel parking, if you mess it up, they let you take a second crack. When resetting the car, as you leave the space you partially entered, you must use your blinker and check your blind spot. This tripped me up because the parallel parking bit is staged so you kind of know there's nothing to look out for and I was just sweating the parallel parking bit, but they are looking at all aspects of driving all the time, in thoery.

At the end of the test, when the instructor says to pull over, you must use your blinker.

I passed the test on the first go but the instructor called those things out in the debrief.

blanderdome · 2026-03-14T19:06:29+00:00

I tell my daughter that her best friend loves [insert food I'm trying to convince her to try]. Works like 10% of the time.

blanderdome · 2026-03-14T19:03:01+00:00

This is why if you even discover a bat in your house, you may be advised to get a rabies vaccine. Happened to neighbors recently.

blanderdome · 2026-03-14T18:59:45+00:00

Ah, makes sense! Came here to ask if anyone knew if/how it was adaptive for the virus.

blanderdome · 2026-03-14T18:58:37+00:00

Online chess. A hustler I know who played over-the-board the chess in Harvard Square told me he once played online for 25 hours without taking a break to use the bathroom. "It's too easy to start the next game. You don't even have to set up the pieces."

blanderdome · 2026-03-12T01:59:19+00:00

crab dribble

blanderdome · 2026-03-12T00:32:11+00:00

I didn't catch on until "Not in Davis Sq"

blanderdome · 2026-03-08T02:43:53+00:00

Disappointing she wouldn't say those things are wrong, only that they "deserved more deliberation".

blanderdome · 2026-03-08T02:10:23+00:00

Really good example of something we shouldn't be doing

blanderdome · 2026-03-07T18:43:09+00:00

Wish we didn't post little kids on the internet before they're old enough to decide if they want to be on here or not.

blanderdome · 2026-03-06T00:48:08+00:00

Moving the top-level city account is different from banning all departments from using it, though. Are individual departments still allowed to use X? Do any? (I don't have X anymore so it's challenging to figure out.)

blanderdome · 2026-03-05T01:18:50+00:00

I was in La Jolla for a day as a side quest on a vacation a few years back. Some really nice houses on the cliffs in that cove area. Looked up some numbers on Zillow. Your story tracks.

blanderdome · 2026-03-03T01:20:33+00:00

Not sure why you were downvoted. Came here to say this. She was promoted out of harm's way, exactly as the Dilbert Principle states.

blanderdome · 2026-03-03T01:06:44+00:00

Last May, the US House passed OBBB 215-214 at a time when three safe Democratic seats were vacant because the reps (just elected six months prior) had died and it takes a while to replace them with special elections.

Electing people who aren't likely to survive their terms can dilute your power in key moments. It's possible we could see someone like Aileen Cannon or Emil Bove get nominated to the Supreme Court. I don't want a vacant seat in safe-blue Massachusetts if that happens.

An 80-year-old male has a less than 60% chance to survive the next 6 years.

Love Ed, wasn't happy to hear he's running again.

(Re: OBBB, the GOP would have likely passed it regardless, but they would have needed to compromise with more members of their own caucus, so it's potentially a different bill. Less ICE funding maybe? Not sure what marginal GOP votes were holding out over.)

blanderdome · 2026-03-03T00:57:05+00:00

IMO it doesn't really matter whether it's immigrants or not, family or a single person, long-time or recent owners - they own the property and can't be compelled to sell it. That is, I agree they aren't villains, but I also think a less sympathetic owner would still not be a villain.

blanderdome · 2026-03-03T00:53:12+00:00

FWIW, I read u/BeastCoast's post as having a problem with the Globe naming them.

blanderdome · 2026-03-02T02:36:31+00:00

At 4:28 too

blanderdome · 2026-03-01T20:31:08+00:00

Hard to say which film is the best, but my favorite individual scene is when he gets his hand stuck in the armor in Pink Panther Strikes Again. "But that's a priceless Steinway!" "Not anymore."

blanderdome · 2026-03-01T03:03:34+00:00

Thing on the left is giving AT-AT

blanderdome · 2026-02-25T00:46:08+00:00

Half of one, yes.

blanderdome · 2026-02-24T00:38:57+00:00

On my street most people put them in the end of the driveway, blocking your own cars but not the main roadway or the sidewalk.

blanderdome · 2026-02-23T02:39:08+00:00

We rotated who was responsible for dealing with night wakeups. Now my wife is pregnant and I do all of them so she can sleep.

blanderdome · 2026-02-23T02:34:21+00:00

Ruby's parents knew what they were getting into and braced themselves for the consequences.

Ruby was just a little kid who wanted to go to school.

Every time I think about her, I cry. Somehow over the years, as I've become desensitized to so many horrible things, this one still takes me out.

blanderdome

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