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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Comic 783: Lost the Plot
[Alt: Yes, I understand that the turn is half a mile past the big field, but my GPS knows that, too. This would be easier if you weren't about to ask me to repeat it all back to you.]
Hi there. I am Aloria, here to comment on xkcd 783, and I hate you all.
Can someone explain to me what the fuck Randall Munroe's problem is? We get it dude, you're super smart and tech-saavy and doomed to live in a world populated by morons who just don't get technology and science like you do. Maybe if you weren't such a condescending douche, you could try educating some people instead of constantly portraying them as clueless retards in your pictoblog, erm, webcomic.
This is essentially an artificial, unrealistic scenario for GOOMH fodder. Not true GOOMH, mind you, but that special brand of xkcd-fanboy GOOMH, e.g. "wow, I have a GPS and some of my friends don't, too! lololol Randy is such a mindreader." I dislike the implication that not knowing about GPS technology is commonplace; ads for TomToms and the like are everywhere, rental cars often come with them, and I haven't had a cell phone in the last 3 years that didn't have it. Additionally, I can think of only a few instances where someone would incessantly babble directions after being repeatedly told they weren't needed. They all involve people of diminished mental capacity (elderly, socially clueless, etc,) none of which deserve Randall's condescension. These sorts of folks would blather on regardless of the reason given; you could tell them you're familiar with the area or have a map and they'd still talk. It has nothing to do with GPS ownership status. Take out the GPS aspect, and you basically have a comic bitching about how some people don't listen, or like to talk a lot, or are overly concerned about you getting lost.
That last point is sort of important, you see, because GPSes aren't exactly infallible. I have two, actually (I'm the kind of jerk that carries two cell phones,) and they've tried to get me to drive into the Hudson River, make an nonexistent left hand turn, and suggested many creative ways of violating traffic law and/or killing people. They can also be vague or confusing, and sometimes the addition of visual landmarks is helpful in situations where you know the GPS will throw someone off. People cognizant of that fact aren't deserving of mockery, either. This strip reads to me like a weak grab for smug self-superiority (much like this blog post! wheee!)
103 comments:
your GPSs are obviously cursedReplyDelete
(has stephen king used this idea yet?)
If you replace GPS with Map then this comic was still irrelevant 400 years ago.ReplyDelete
And I am also the sort of asshole who carries two cell phones.
I carry one cellphone and it doesn't have gps. Crap.ReplyDelete
captcha: compu. Which reminds me of COMPU-toon, which is the kind of comic that would make jokes about such "novelty" item as GPS.
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 9:58 AM
I carry eight cell phones.ReplyDelete
Suck on those eggs you two-cell-phone-carrying-gps-incompetent-xkcdsucks-posting ninny!
why does he repeat back every line that his "friend" saysReplyDelete
phone conversations do not work that way
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 10:10 AM
Timofei: you need one cell phone in each pocket to cook each nut.ReplyDelete
- UndercoverCuddlefishAugust 24, 2010 at 10:11 AM
the idea that your gps suggests creative ways to kill people is more humorous than anything randall has written in a very long timeReplyDelete
One of the most heart-warming aspects of this comic is the fact that the forum is full of people who think Randall is wrong about GPS techno-snobbery. Isn't that a victory you guys should be celebrating?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Sam: Because otherwise Randall would have to do something complicated like drawing odd lines coming out of the phone, which would lead us to comment on his poor drawing ability.ReplyDelete
I have never experienced a situation where my GPS tried to send me into a river or off a cliff or anything. Never. I hear these stories all the time, and I just can't fathom how this situation could possibly arise.ReplyDelete
See, my GPS device has me following these roads that may or may not exist. Usually they do exist, and in this case I'm safe because there are no roads leading off cliffs or into the ocean. But even if they did, or even if there was some horrible error in the map that made a phantom road where there is none leading into the river, the software simply wouldn't send you down that road. It GOES NOWHERE. That is not your destination, and even in erroneous map-fantasy land that doesn't lead to your destination, so it simply isn't a road that could -possibly- be part of the route the device has calculated.
I mean, what happens in these situations where you are being led into the ocean? Is the rest of the route emerging on the other side? Is your destination -in- the river (it can't be, because there's no road there)? HOW DOES THIS POSSIBLY WORK?
Disclaimer: I have only used Tomtoms and the worst open source navigation software I've ever come across for a month while waiting for a new tomtom. But even that garbage didn't try to murder me.
Disclaimer 2: I may be slightly drunk.
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 11:24 AM
Randall apparently has a super magical phone that sticks to his face only when he has to write something down using both hands. otherwise he must hold it like a regular phone.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 11:26 AM
What Munroe is apparently too dense to comprehend is this: most of the people who own GPS devices are not tech-savvy people. They're just people with money. It's not like he belongs to some cabal of people with the latest gadgets. In actuality he's about 15 years late on the joke.ReplyDelete
GUYS! I think I was on to something! Randall is really turning into Charles Boyce!
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 11:30 AM
The biggest problem with this particular comic is it's painfully unfunny. The "joke" is people give you long directions when you don't want them (because you have a GPS). The punch line is a mass of text about tricking someone so they will finally reveal their address. Yes, we've all had situations where we've gotten directions that a) we don't want, and/or b) are stupid. That's not really LOL-worthy, it's just an observation of a thing that happens sometimes. Only most of us don't repeat ourselves that much.ReplyDelete
A much better version of the same idea would be something where he's repeating directions back. "Uh huh, get on the freeway. Get in the left lane when it gets to the construction.... past the giant armadillo statue... what's the house number?" And then the last panel is a map-style image showing the character looking on a GPS and finding a better route. This is better because 1) it doesn't clog up the white space with repetitive, useless text, it has colorful directions that some people might find humor in. 2) it has a visual punch-line. The image of the GPS illustrates what the character suspected: that the person on the phone sucks at giving directions. 3) instead of the joke being "I have a map/GPS/whatever," the joke is "some people are bad at directions." This is nice because it makes the character seem less like a self-righteous dick and makes him seem clever.
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 11:31 AM
11:24 - Non-existent shoulders obviously :PReplyDelete
- Randall MunroeAugust 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM
@11:24 - bitches don't know bout my sticky-phoneReplyDelete
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Fred: the river incident occurred when the GPS believed I was about half a mile away from where I actually was. So the GPS starts chirping "in 20 feet, turn right," because the bridge it intended for me to turn onto was not actually 20 feet away.ReplyDelete
Other incidents occur when the road it wants to send me down no longer exists and the map has not been updated, or the road goes UNDER another road (like an overpass,) but the GPS thinks they connect. For example, there was a road connecting to FDR drive in Manhattan that my GPS always tries to send me down, but doing so would require driving through a huge building that stands in its place.
Manhattan also prohibits turns on certain cross town streets between 10 and 6: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/streetprog.shtml, and my GPS doesn't take that rule into account.
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM
> I haven't had a cell phone in the last 3 years that didn't have it.ReplyDelete
My cell phone is 3 years old, and it doesn't have GPS. It also doesn't have text messaging, but that's because I disabled it. It's a phone, dammit, not a do-everything device.
> I can think of only a few instances where someone would incessantly babble directions after being repeatedly told they weren't needed.
My parents do this on a consistent basis. They are fairly normal folks who just don't believe that I find a top-down view of Google maps easier to navigate in my head than landmarks.
I live in a somewhat rural area and when my boyfriend and I have people over for parties we have to give people some simple directions in order for them to find our place. Occasionally people will say, "just give me your address, i have a GPS" and i tell them, "well there is a bridge out that will render your GPS helpless... please just listen to these easy instructions and you will find my place just fine."ReplyDelete
i dont know if there is a point to this story.
i don't know if there is a point to anything.
You could write XKCD comics, Emily. Unfunny existentialist ones from your last sentence, and every other kind from your second-to-last.ReplyDelete
Hey aloria, you keep talking about "your GPS", well guess what. Unless you run your own satellite network, you mean "your GPS device(s)".ReplyDelete
well, Jacob, whateverReplyDelete
Who is this aloria girl? I like her style...ReplyDelete
783 is just the latest in a LONG line of comics in which Randall Munroe condescendingly sighs and asks: "Why aren't other people as smart as I quite clearly am?"
That said, it's still the best comic he's done in the last week.
I'm the coolest.ReplyDelete
and the drunkestReplyDelete
(unless poore is about)
- patrickAugust 24, 2010 at 2:11 PM
His comic is appropriate for probably 95% of driving situations.ReplyDelete
The other 5% of the time, you have situations where:
- The GPS map database does not have the numbers properly aligned on the destination's street. This makes things especially difficult when the destination is on a busy street where the houses/businesses don't clearly display their street numbers, but you can't slow down to look for street numbers without pissing off everyone driving behind you.
- There are closed roads that still linger in the GPS map database, new roads that haven't yet been added to the GPS map database, impossible turns onto overpasses (as noted above by others), and instructions to turn onto roads that, unbeknownst to the GPS map database, briefly terminate, only to resume a few blocks further (yes, this has happened to me a couple times, normally in bumfuck areas where the people drawing maps didn't want to linger around too long for fear of being lynched, did I mention I live in the South?).
- You enter a multi-lane freeway and immediately need to get over to the other side of it or you will miss your exit. This happens the most in & around cities and can be really harrowing if it's rush hour and you have to make 20+ turns to get back to where you were going, adding as many minutes to your trip (has happened to me several times, btw).
Now imagine for a moment that you are one of those hyper tech-savvy individuals who inexplicably owns two cell phones. Due to one of the above situations, at one point you actually do need a human to set you back on course, and when you call your destination's home phone on Cell Phone A they're like "What the fuck area code is this?? Never seen it before in my life. Must be a wrong number or a telemarketer, let it go to voicemail", because you usually call them with Cell Phone B, which happens to have run out of batteries on your way out, raising the question, WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, TECHNOPHILE?
Also, in british comedy terrible directions are a staple, usually a farmer telling you to go past the field, then turn when you see the big tree, if you see the scarecrow you've gone too far, and you have to carry on until you see Ned, then you can turn right, but only if the moon is in the first quarter, and the stars are right, otherwise you have to carry on until the bridge but not the big bridge.ReplyDelete
if tl;dr, randall sucks.
Oh patrick, the road terminating thing is a major PITA-- they're all over New Jersey; just another reason why the state is hell incarnate.ReplyDelete
Jughandles (another hellish NJ idiosyncrasy,) can also confuse the GPS.
We probably only saw half of this phone conversation. Here's the whole transcript:ReplyDelete
XKCD Guy: "Looking forward to seeing your new place! What's the address?"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "Well, you take the 495 -"
XKCD Guy: "Yes, I'm taking 495, but I have a GPS, so really I just need the street address."
Non-Aspergers Guy: "Yeah, same, but not exactly reliable are they? So just make sure you're going south on 18 -"
XKCD Guy: "Then south on the 18, okay, but I have a GPS, so if you just want to skip to the street address, I can..."
Non-Aspergers Guy: "Jesus, I know you have a GPS, but shut up for a sec okay? Now, Highland Road comes a mile after the big intersection, so -"
XKCD Guy (in braying, nasal voice): "Thanks, I'm glad to know Highland Road comes a mile after the big intersection, but I keep saying I HAVE A GPS!!! Can you tell me the street address?"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "What the fuck, why are you repeating every fucking direction I give you? Who cares about your fucking GPS? I had one three years ago, what, you think you're flash? Look, I'll tell you the street address, but the street is kinda tucked away and hard to find, so make sure that when you get past the 7-11 you -"
XKCD Guy: "Technically that's just more information on how to get to your place, not the address itself. If you could -"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "SHUT THE FUCK UP, I was about to TELL YOU THE ADDRESS, are you even listening to me you FUCKING MORON! I am just. Trying. To HELP!"
XKCD Guy: "I appreciate that you want to help, but I'm IGNORING you and just waiting for the -"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "What, so you're just openly admitting to ignoring me? Because you have a fucking GPS and want to show off about it?"
XKCD Guy: "Listen, I just remembered I need to mail you a letter. What's your address?"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "You sarcastic, smug little bitch, no wonder I moved away from you."
XKCD Guy: "Mhm... Okay..."
Non-Aspergers Guy: "Listen. I am going to come down to your house right now. Take your fucking GPS. And throw it out of the fucking window. Then, purely because I want to keep our friendship and I want to stop you from becoming even more of a douche, I'm going to take you to a bar and try to help you meet some actual girls. There's this girl called Megan who I've seen downtown a few times who I'm sure you'd like... Now, say one more word about your GPS, and I'll beat the everloving shit out of you. Just say 'great, thanks, I'll see you in an hour.'"
XKCD Guy: "Great, thanks! I'll see you in an hour!"
We probably only saw half of this phone conversation. Here's the whole transcript:ReplyDelete
XKCD Guy: "Looking forward to seeing your new place! What's the address?"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "Well, you take the 495 -"
XKCD Guy: "Yes, I'm taking 495, but I have a GPS, so really I just need the street address."
Non-Aspergers Guy: "Yeah, same, but not exactly reliable are they? So just make sure you're going south on 18 -"
XKCD Guy: "Then south on the 18, okay, but I have a GPS, so if you just want to skip to the street address, I can..."
Non-Aspergers Guy: "Jesus, I know you have a GPS, but shut up for a sec okay? Now, Highland Road comes a mile after the big intersection, so -"
XKCD Guy (in braying, nasal voice): "Thanks, I'm glad to know Highland Road comes a mile after the big intersection, but I keep saying I HAVE A GPS!!! Can you tell me the street address?"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "What the fuck, why are you repeating every fucking direction I give you? Who cares about your fucking GPS? I had one three years ago, what, you think you're flash? Look, I'll tell you the street address, but the street is kinda tucked away and hard to find, so make sure that when you get past the 7-11 you -"
XKCD Guy: "Technically that's just more information on how to get to your place, not the address itself. If you could -"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "SHUT THE FUCK UP, I was about to TELL YOU THE ADDRESS, are you even listening to me you FUCKING MORON! I am just. Trying. To HELP!"
XKCD Guy: "I appreciate that you want to help, but I'm IGNORING you and just waiting for the -"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "What, so you're just openly admitting to ignoring me? Because you have a fucking GPS and want to show off about it?"
XKCD Guy: "Listen, I just remembered I need to mail you a letter. What's your address?"
Non-Aspergers Guy: "You sarcastic, smug little bitch, no wonder I moved away from you."
XKCD Guy: "Mhm... Okay..."
Non-Aspergers Guy: "Listen. I am going to come down to your house right now. Take your fucking GPS. And throw it out of the fucking window. Then, purely because I want to keep our friendship and I want to stop you from becoming even more of a douche, I'm going to take you to a bar and try to help you meet some actual girls. There's this girl called Megan who I've seen downtown a few times who I'm sure you'd like... Now, say one more word about your GPS, and I'll beat the everloving shit out of you. Just say 'great, thanks, I'll see you in an hour.'"
XKCD Guy: "Great, thanks! I'll see you in an hour!"
fuck doubleposts. fuck this blog pretending to eat my first post. fuckReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 2:46 PM
Funny. Could've ended a little better. Maybe give him an address in Alaska, or Chile.ReplyDelete
- Ex-ambivalentAugust 24, 2010 at 2:52 PM
That other half of the conversation makes it a LOT better.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 3:04 PM
I miss Carl already.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 3:50 PM
Of course it's possible that the guy lives in an area where the GPS tends to be unreliable, but that's obviously not the case. Any sane person would tell their friend that fact either before giving directions or right after the other guy says, "I have a GPS." The comic was still awful though.ReplyDelete
aww I hate you too aloriaReplyDelete
It goes without saying that the most recent comic sucks ass, I wonder what fresh hell randy has cooked up for us tomorrow
FUCK YOU GUYSReplyDelete
I was fapping away and I read some of this comments post but TOO MANY WORDS so I find this aloria's blog and in a fit of shameful self abuse I attempt to relive myself to the blog picture BUT I CANT ENLARGE IT
Fuck you and your info-sec chastity belt, I had to google pictures of naked ladies and that took me like, thirty seconds.
I hate myself, I think I'll go smash some plates and cut my self with the shards.
AHAHAHAHA INTERNET COCKBLOCKReplyDelete
It's so nice to see aloria back doing what she does best :3ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Remember when XKCD made kinda funny jokes about GPS?ReplyDelete
Also WB Aloria, I thought your numerous substitutes-for-human-contact cats had devoured you whole or something since your posts stopped happening before I got here.
That or you and Carl were both sock-puppets of the same cruel web-geek, and "Rob" was actually a housewife in central Montana with far too much free time and a penchant for becoming the next Stephanie Meyers. I'm not certain anything in that sentence is false.
...And Randall/Stickman is a jackass, but that's not new.
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 7:11 PM
>Also, in british comedy terrible directions are a staple, usually a farmer telling you to go past the field, then turn when you see the big tree, if you see the scarecrow you've gone too far, and you have to carry on until you see Ned, then you can turn right, but only if the moon is in the first quarter, and the stars are right, otherwise you have to carry on until the bridge but not the big bridge.ReplyDelete
Randall already did that comic, and it was much better than this latest one.
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Even if you know the gps will be unreliable, you still give the address, because the gps will recalculate the route every time you miss where it thinks you should go. Not EVERY turn will be wrong. It's still partially useful. So you still start with the damn address.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 9:12 PM
784: Combine the first two panels into one, and it could be A Softer World. Just like his previous Megan comic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Bizmit: the 'full transcript' was so great I was happy to read it twice :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Guess what everyone, Randy broke up with his girlfriend!
- Jimbobbowilly (Max William Gore)August 24, 2010 at 10:08 PM
With http://xkcd.com/770/ that makes perfect sense, cuddlefish at 9:34 PM!ReplyDelete
- qwantzuxAugust 24, 2010 at 10:15 PM
OMG I LOVE "A SOFTER XKCD"!ReplyDelete
Last panel should read "To take these sleeping pills".
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Wow just wow 784 is a new low on the depressing scale.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 10:27 PM
yawn. doesn't he have any new ideas?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 10:35 PM
@10:17, 10:27 - Maybe he's going through some kind of an early mid-life crisis. I would imagine that the condescending attitude embodied in comics like Monday's permeates into his everyday behavior. He acts kind of arrogant and think he's really funny, thought-provoking, and original, while at the same time his peers are becoming increasingly annoyed by his behavior and wish he would just grow up & get a real job.ReplyDelete
Just thinking aloud here is all.
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 12:18 AM
Color and shading on XKCD, omg! But I'm not sure it makes sense. [url=http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=63651]10nitro's comment in the thread upsets me.[/url]ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 12:18 AM
Oops, this blog doesn't use BB Codes, sorry for the fail.ReplyDelete
HTML works.ReplyDelete
Sorry about the spamming but...ReplyDelete
We need to let the world know that XKCD sucks.
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 12:32 AM
Randall already did that comic, and it was much better than this latest one.ReplyDelete
That's because Penny Arcade came up with the joke for him.
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 3:14 AM
I dare say that if 784 came out like 3 years ago, back when xkcd was good, I would have probably enjoyed it and thought it good.ReplyDelete
- UndercoverCuddlefishAugust 25, 2010 at 4:21 AM
the art in the latest one is actually pretty damn good for stick figure picturesReplyDelete
unfortunately it is paired with "you make me want to kill myself" as the entire content of the comic so um
go for it randy
the shading isn't actually that good but it looks like it does so uh, congratsReplyDelete
the joke isn't that bad. it's clearly ripping on asf but whatever.
it's definitely a theme though. the attitude, i mean.
goomh randy i had like four intersecting dreams last night.
oh and i can tell today's goatkcd is great.
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM
Somebody help me, I don't get 784.ReplyDelete
Although I like the art. Nice looking but still maintaining that simplistic style. Why the hell can't Randall do that for all his comics? Lazy dick
- LostInSpaceAugust 25, 2010 at 11:30 AM
@Fred, my GPS has never tried to get me to drive into the river, but it has tried to get me to drive into wire fences along the road, off cliffs, onto countless nonexistent roads, make u-turns on the freeway, and turn the wrong way on one-way streets. Some of the time, I think perhaps there *used* to be an old road there that no longer exists (probably my fault for not updating the software), but other times it is clear that no road ever exists (see: cliff).ReplyDelete
- LostInSpaceAugust 25, 2010 at 11:45 AM
CAPTCHA: nopallin: exactly my thoughts on the 2012 election
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Palin came out in public support of Dr. Laura, saying it's unfortunate that she had to quit her job due to her 1st amendment rights being threatened over the n----r issue.ReplyDelete
- Being FiniteAugust 25, 2010 at 12:47 PM
Most disturbing to me is the comic's silly notion that its protagonist is somehow superior because he relies on a GPS gadget instead of learning directions himself.ReplyDelete
Are children who rely on calculators superior to those who can do arithmetic in their heads? Are people who only use contact lists superior to those who can actually remember their friends' phone numbers? Are people who only watch movies superior to those who read the books they're based on? Are people who ride Segways superior to those who walk?
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 2:33 PM
Being Finite, I'm gonna answer your questions in reverse order:ReplyDelete
depends on 1) whether your definition of superior includes any sort of ridiculousness factor, 2) the nature of the terrrain; NO (though Randall may believe otherwise); in my opinion, no, and I am always a bit astounded when people don't know the # of e.g. their sig. other, best friend, etc.; most definitely not, b/c they have no fucking clue what they're doing
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 at 12:47 AM
Hi Aloria,ReplyDelete
yes I can explain, because I have been in the same situation several times. Recognizing myself in this comic had me chuckle. No, it's got nothing to to with feeling superior. It's just that I'm not very good at spontaneously memorizing a long-winded explanation how to get from A to B.
"...and after the third crossing, no wait, the second...just after you have passed the gas station...you remember the gas station...blah blah blah" If you get it wrong oder forget a part, you're lost. And want to cut it short "oh just give me street name and number" its close to a personal insult. =:-O
I enjoy reading this blog, and one post isn't going to change that. It is, however, extremely disappointing.ReplyDelete
In four years of geocaching, first with a Garmin and now my Droid, I have never experienced the hilarious failures you luddites guffaw about. Oh? You don't like being called on your anti-intellectualism? Maybe you should think before you throw "elitist" around like it was applies to anyone who would even consider using technology in their daily lives.
I'm just going to keep raging here because that's what this site is for, right?
XKCD is often absolute crap. Most of the rest of the time it's mediocre, now. But if you really think this situation is unrealistic, maybe you should RETURN YOUR GRANDPARENTS' PHONECALLS. Or your parents'.
Or if you *are* the generation which is still proud of figuring out the this newfangled 'telephone' dealy, then accept this: We will gladly help you adjust to new technology, with the patience you require. We don't look down on you. We know we'll need help adjusting to the technology of tomorrow. All we ask is to be allowed to commiserate about it later. Get the fuck off our lawn.
This strip is hilarious if you've been in his shoes. Sorry XKCD isn't accessible enough for you - except I'm not sorry at all. Randall's attempts to be more accessible at the expense of the funny *have been decried often on this very site*, and I agree.
- UndercoverCuddlefishAugust 26, 2010 at 1:40 PM
@tratan "agreement chuckles" and luddites on my internetReplyDelete
yes, someone who thinks that GPS technology is less than perfect is a luddite. that's the only explanation! it isn't that GPS devices are frequently terrible.ReplyDelete
everyone in my family, from the olds to the youngs, knows about GPS and mapping. they have known about it for a while. in fact, even before GPS was commonplace, Mapquest was pretty common, and giving the address was seen as the standard way of telling people where something is. you looked up the address on Mapquest. it sometimes gave you bad directions, but you could always call and ask for help or just pull over to ask for directions.
indeed, the only time I've had people attempt to give me detailed directions somewhere have been in person when neither of us had a computer or GPS device, or when they knew I didn't have one, or I expressly asked them "how do I get there?"
people understand that technology exists even if they don't know how to use it. I'm not sure why you're so angry that we dare to criticize Randy's shitty comic which asserts otherwise.
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- AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 at 6:28 PM
I agree with tratan, actually.ReplyDelete
This post is filled with amazing amounts of rage and hatred, and it completely misses the point of the comic. I've been in this situation before, where someone insists on giving you directions when you have a GPS and you tell them so. It's painful, irritating, and awkward, especially when their directions are drawn out and filled with doubt as they try to decide which route to send you on.
So yes, you may not have encountered this. Sorry if you assume everyone else is like you and declare that Randall must be a condescending douche for not accommodating you, but as for the rest of us, a chuckle is in order.
Just fyi, Andrew, people who have subscribed to receive new comments by email can see the fact that you deleted your post in order to leave it "anonymously," which makes you look like a tool who can't stand behind his remarks.ReplyDelete
For those who are wondering, Anon 6:28's blogger profile is here. His name is Andrew Wiley. Say hello, Andrew!ReplyDelete
Oh dear, he didn't even manage to fully delete the post from the blog. I feel silly for pointing out obvious things now. Maybe he'll figure out how to fully trash it later?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Wow, you guys really over-analyze this comic.ReplyDelete
It's a bad comic written and drawn by a douchebag. Is that domain taken?
"xkcdisabadcomicwrittenanddrawnbyadouchebag.com". It's available. I need to start a fucking blog.
if writing your blog provides you enjoyment, as it does everyone who writes here, go for it! but uh, we've got the better search term.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Here's the thing:ReplyDelete
xkcd is mediocre about 95% of the time. It's occasionally funny and this comic is one of those occasions.
Well, by funny I mean, "I giggled inside of my head".
The person who wrote the rant on this comic wrote it with a pre-conceived standpoint. This comic could have been pure gold (it wasn't, but that's not the point) and you would have still posted something negative.
Occasionally xkcd is funny, but you'll never admit that because just like Randal you have a fan base that enjoys what you post, and fuck those who don't.
we say we like the comics all the time. is it so impossible for you to believe that someone might dislike something you enjoy?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 at 7:30 PM
No, because everything I enjoy is awesome.ReplyDelete
I totally understand your blog, I'm just playing devil's advocate because I'm an asshole. I don't particularly like the writing in this post though, it's preachy without a cause. Most of your posts here have a pretty good point behind them but whoever wrote this one has no good points to speak of, besides the lack of infallibility associated with GPSs. That point can be rebutted by pointing out that the writer of this post is exactly the kind of person who the comic is making fun of, which is somebody who doesn't understand how to update the software on their TomTom. That's probably why she hates it so much.
I actually run an anti-Twilight site that solely exists to hate on Stephenie Meyer's literary abomination, so I know how fun it can be to be an asshole.
For the record, this blog makes me laugh more than xkcd. Kudos on a good site. Thumbs down on your default Blogger template though. Boo.
Anon 7:17:ReplyDelete
It would probably be best if you refrained from trying to read my mind again, especially on what I like to call "futanari Fridays."
ugh, stop using words like "rebutted." this is not debate club.ReplyDelete
especially when your "rebuttal" relies entirely on false assumptions. aloria happens to work in computer security and knows a great deal about computers and technology in general. I think she's using a Droid or one of the other innumerable Android-based phones. her unwillingness to rely entirely on GPS devices is probably based on experience with them being unreliable before. it happens.
based mostly on Google Maps and Mapquest directions, it's pretty easy to see why. there are some roads and small towns where maybe the mapping information is incorrect--this road doesn't connect to that road, and so on. and there are lots of places where, even when the directions are entirely correct, the road is just confusing. weird intersections and streets changing names can make the directions difficult to follow, especially if you aren't paying a lot of attention to every detail.
really all this complaining is doing is proving Aloria correct about Randy being a condescending douche--you just happen to be one of those condescending douches, so see no problem with it!
I'm guessing conversations with the people who tried to give you directions despite your saying "I HAVE A GPS AND A LARGE PENIS" went something like this:
Douche: "Hey, what's your address?"
Normal Person: "500 Fatty Boulevard. Do you know how to get there?"
Douche: "I'll just enter that information on my GPS DEVICE, which I have, because I am awesome, and it will guide me there infallibly!"
Normal Person: "Actually it's kind of tricky and the directions are kind of weird. I could help you if you--"
Douche: "NO I HAVE A GPS DEVICE SILENCE LUDDITE AND STOP TRYING TO OUTPERFORM THE TECHNOLOGY TO WHICH YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY SUPERIOR"
you, of course, just interpreted their protests as not understanding how GPS works instead of as being someone who, being more familiar with the area than you, understands that the GPS might give you some less than helpful instructions and offering to provide real, human assistance. with that conversation as ammo, you come here to argue that people really are exactly as stupid as Randy depicts them, and that he deserves agreement chuckles for saying that people who don't use technology are stupid and don't understand technology.
that is pretty much the definition of being a condescending douche. you are mocking and mischaracterizing people who do not use or trust your highly imperfect technological instruments, and calling them stupid and inept.
back when we still had cars and drove places, it used to be common practice among people I knew to verify the directions Google Maps or a GPS was trying to give you against the actual, reasonable way that people go.
I still frequently question the wisdom of Google Maps directions when I ask it for biking directions. it frequently tries to send me on routes which, while they exist, are more complicated and circuitous than the routes I usually take (which, I should note, are signed bike routes with sharrows, so it isn't just preferring those to normal streets).
it's called a reality check or a sanity check. it is actually really helpful to navigation. you should try it sometime.
I know enough about computers to run Xubuntu and Slackware without constantly pissing my pants, at the very least.ReplyDelete
Oh, and I know how to use the GPS on my Droid and Blackberry Bold, quite well, thanks.
Oh, and why the fuck would anyone buy a TomTom when GPS software is on pretty much any phone that isn't of the Fisher Price "buh my phone only needs to make calls I enjoy toting around five billion separate devices" variety?ReplyDelete
Yeah, even my phone has GPS on it, and I have one of the cheapest models out there. I haven't subscribed to the service, mostly because I have a map if I get lost, and I know the city pretty well otherwise. That and navigating to new places is an enjoyable challenge, rather than an inconvenience to be avoided.ReplyDelete
Rob and aloria:ReplyDelete
I *tried* to post anonymously because my Blogger account only exists because I helped someone else set up a blog, and I didn't want to post here as if it was mine.
Now that I've disabled my profile, that isn't a concern. Sorry if I didn't understand Blogger after using it for about 30 minutes in total, most of which was spent figuring out the simplest way to get the "someone else" an account in the least confusing way possible.
But yea, I've been reading this blog quietly for a while now, and generally, I agree. XKCD just isn't that funny anymore, and I, too, would be pleased if Randall went to a pictoblog.
However, what you posted here isn't really a post or a criticism, it's a rant. Normally, the comics are carefully deconstructed to show flaws, poor delivery, and poor choice of comedic content, but here, you followed the logical fallacy of "poisoning the well," where rather than attacking the content, you attacked the author. The only thing you've really proven in my mind is that you hate Randall.
that's not what poisoning the well means, kidReplyDelete
"Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say."ReplyDelete
Opening paragraph: "Can someone explain to me what the fuck Randall Munroe's problem is? We get it dude, you're super smart and tech-saavy and doomed to live in a world populated by morons who just don't get technology and science like you do. Maybe if you weren't such a condescending douche, you could try educating some people instead of constantly portraying them as clueless retards in your pictoblog, erm, webcomic."
Seems pretty simple to me.
that isn't preemptive, kid. that is, in fact, describing the premise of this comic. nice try though!ReplyDelete
One of the few things that makes me hate blogs is when the administrator deletes comments because he doesn't agree with them. You even left a response to a comment that you apparently don't want anyone else to see.ReplyDelete
Ooh, here's an idea:
Can someone explain to me what the fuck Rob's problem is? We get it dude, you're super smart and tech-saavy and doomed to live in a world populated by morons who just don't get technology and science like you do. Maybe if you weren't such a condescending (and patronizing) douche, you could try educating some people instead of constantly portraying them as clueless retards in your comment thread.
I seem to have changed less than ten words.
Anyway, I'll go back to reading silently now. Feeding the trolls is only fun once.
commenting on the blog is glitchy as fuck, dude. Carl (the administrator, the only person who can delete comments) is not here, and has never once deleted a comment that was not spam. he usually doesn't even delete spam comments. actually he frequently approves the ones that are obvious spam that are pending on old posts.ReplyDelete
but keep up with the paranoia if you like, it's totally cool.
I'm not sure why you think I care about people who don't understand technology and science instead of about people who are just fucking cowardly morons.
Heh. I had fun raging in my previous post, and thanks for the polite response. I do still love your blog, and like someone else said, it is usually funnier than the actual XKCD nowadays.ReplyDelete
I've seen Carl compliment xkcd strips, though I can't recall him really liking any recent ones. I'm curious as to which ones you consider high quality, and I don't see a list for that on the left. Would you mind listing one or two? It's fine if it's old ones. In fact, what do you think of the Centripetal Force strip?
My calling you all Luddites was... not really thought out. Sorry (: After reading and comprehending (I hope), it looks like you think people like my grandparents don't exist. What I mean is, you *seem* to be saying that everyone understands GPS technology. I'd say the fact that you think GPS's often fail to direct people to their destinations provides a counter-example (since I disagree with that idea) but that's just me. Personally, I have had a conversation with my father's step-father that flowed almost exactly like the one in the comic, except that I ended up waiting until he got to the last two street names instead of tricking him. I asked for the address three times. He wasn't senile, he just had no idea what a GPS was, and was used to giving directions. He literally mentioned a barn and a country store. Now, there is *nothing wrong* with someone in their 70's not knowing about GPS systems. He lived a full life (I miss him). He was a cook in the army, drove trolleys, and amazing at refurbishing furniture. My brother and I have the utmost respect for him. And yet, we did laugh about him trying to give us directions. It relieves the stress of a frustrating situation, and it brings us together by sharing a common experience of our generation. And while it seems disrespectful, I insist that it is not meant that way.
According to the census bureau, in 2000, 51% of US households had at least one computer.
While the numbers are surely much higher now, please accept that not everyone is familiar with this fairly new technology.
I apologize for the above, it's 4:15AM. I enjoy your blog very much.
"I've seen Carl compliment xkcd strips, though I can't recall him really liking any recent ones. I'm curious as to which ones you consider high quality, and I don't see a list for that on the left. Would you mind listing one or two? It's fine if it's old ones. In fact, what do you think of the Centripetal Force strip?"ReplyDelete
I know I've gone on record as saying I liked his ASW parody during his parody week (though I think he could tighten the dialog). I liked the centripetal force one (if you mean "No Mr Bond I expect you to die!"), and most of the early ones are still pretty all right. I actually tended to enjoy his various quasi-existentialist/absurdist "seize the day" types, which is pretty uncommon for the nerds here but they were my favorites when I still enjoyed XKCD, and I still enjoy the older ones.
I don't recall specific recent ones I've enjoyed but there have been a few of them, and they were never as good as the old ones.
"What I mean is, you *seem* to be saying that everyone understands GPS technology."
mostly I'm saying that he's being a smug and condescending douche to people who don't understand it, but also that most people will not continue to attempt to give you directions if they say "it's cool, I can find it."
it's true I am outright saying that any claims that people, after you have expressly said "I do not need directions, just the address," will ignore that request directly, are probably grossly misremembered or misrepresented. I'm not saying it's dishonest, but people are not that rude, and it's more likely that, if they continue, they are expressing skepticism for your confidence in your machine, or that you were not sufficiently clear in your request for directions.
memory is an unreliable thing, see. people tend to remember what they want to remember, and they never remember things they didn't think to consider or notice when the event happened.
"I'd say the fact that you think GPS's often fail to direct people to their destinations provides a counter-example (since I disagree with that idea) but that's just me."
it's not that they "often fail," it's that they definitely fail on occasions (if you disagree with this you are flat out wrong), and that there are parts which are tricky to navigate with a navigational aid, and that the GPS is unreliable in those areas, not because its directions are wrong, but because computers aren't notoriously good at telling people "this bit is kind of weird."
"And while it seems disrespectful, I insist that it is not meant that way."
not to be a dick or anything, but you're aware that bigots always defend their bigotry by saying that it's not intended as bigoted, right?
like, racists say "I didn't mean to be racist" and sexists say "I didn't mean to be sexist." perhaps that's okay with you, but where I come from you can be a bigot without actively thinking "man, I'm going to be a bigot here." or to tone it down a bit, I would say that most disrespect was not intentional disrespect. most of it is, in fact, people assuming that mocking someone is all in harmless fun. people don't /intend/ to be dicks or condescending or disrespectful most of the time, it just kind of happens. saying you didn't intend for it is not really a defense.
Thanks for the reply, sorry I rambled so much.ReplyDelete
'it's true I am outright saying that any claims that people, after you have expressly said "I do not need directions, just the address," will ignore that request directly, are probably grossly misremembered or misrepresented.'
I understand that you believe this. Looking back, though, I'm confident that I'm right. It is very common for older people not to be interested in technology anymore, having seen it change so much in their lives that following it becomes pointless. That's a stereotype, yes, but one that is supported by 3/4 of my grandparents and most of their church friends. These people really do grouse about the internet. They don't understand the limitations of GPS, and they aren't interested. They see me all excited about this latest thing, maybe feel a bit insecure about being in the dark, and fall back to what they know: street-by-street directions. It really does happen this way in real life. At the risk of seeming even more bigoted, maybe it's more common in Southern Baptists who grew up outside of cities (i.e. most of my family and their friends).
You've convinced me that I was being disrespectful by laughing about it later, though. I can live with that. They don't respect a lot of the things I do, either, but on the balance we value each other.
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2010 at 8:06 AM
Damn, you children are so sensitive for people who make fun of others in their spare time.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I spend my free time poking fun at bad books but I can take a joke at my expense :) I expect it. In fact, I post a lot of the hate mail that I receive because it's funny.
Is it so hard for you to understand that when you post on the internet people are going to make assumptions about you based on what YOU write? I made assumptions based on your words and it's your fault if you mis-communicated yourself to the point that said assumptions seemed obvious to others and false to you. You must assume that your readers know nothing about you because, most of the time, they won't. All they have to go on is your words, which poorly communicated your stance on this issue.
Grow thicker skin, kiddos. You run a blog about how much you hate something, be prepared to have people disagree with your reasoning even when they agree with your cause.
And yes, I know that I'm a condescending douche. It's because I'm better than you. You're probably not tech savvy enough to realize that I'm being sarcastic. Or smart enough to realize that everything I write is steeped in irony.
/sarcastic douchery
poor whiny debate club kid, can't handle when people call him on the fact that he's entirely fucking wrong. "it's the AUTHOR'S fault that I read things into the text that aren't there!"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2010 at 8:34 AM
You're cute when you're angry.
Proof that GPS devices are TRYING TO KILL US ALL:ReplyDelete
and you aren't very good at being condescending and dismissive. or at backpedaling, really, but nobody's actually good at that so much as some people are capable of more spectacular feats of idiocy than others.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2010 at 3:50 PM
Not to mention it's pretty much this:ReplyDelete
Probably the most boring entry I've ever read. We get it aloria, you're all bitter and need to get laid, but people don't come here to see how many swear words per sentence you can crank out. Carl's reviews are a lot more interesting, and I hope this is the last time you write an entry for a comic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 7:45 AM
What "me" said.ReplyDelete


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NASA astronauts will be heading out to conduct critical repairs on the International Space Station early Saturday morning. The 6 1/2-hour spacewalk, the first in a series, will replace a faulty piece of cooling equipment.
Astronaut Rick Mastracchio is a seasoned veteran, while his partner Mike Hopkins is on his first-ever spacewalk. But NASA officials emphasize that the scenario does not resemble the recent blockbuster Gravity.
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Still, the station is in a bit of a tight spot. On Dec. 11, a valve inside the orbiting outpost's cooling system quit working. One of the two cooling loops had to be shut down, and as a result, so did a lot of the station's electronics, which generate too much heat to be handled by the internal atmosphere.
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Initially, engineers hoped they could fix the problem remotely. But over the past week, it's become apparent that a series of spacewalks is the best solution. The spacewalks will remove a 780-pound pump module, which contains the faulty valve, and replace it with a spare stored outside the station. Astronauts performed the same repair when a different fault caused the pump to shut down in 2010.
The process is tricky. The enormous mass of the module means astronauts must move it slowly and carefully. In addition, the cooling system uses ammonia, a toxic chemical that could pollute the station's atmosphere if astronauts accidentally carried any of it inside.
Adding to the difficulty is that one of the spacesuits had a serious problem the last time it was used. Luca Parmitano was wearing Suit #3011 on a July spacewalk when he noticed water leaking into the back of his helmet.
"The water kept trickling until it completely covered my eyes and my nose," he said in a July interview. He and his partner rushed back into the airlock, and it later became clear that he had come close to drowning in space.
NASA now believes that the water came from part of a cooling system inside the spacesuit. It has replaced some parts of Suit #3011 and is taking additional precautions. Astronauts will wear absorbent pads in the back of their helmets. And they'll be carrying homemade snorkels. The snorkels will connect to the midsection of the suit and should provide a last resort if astronauts find their heads immersed in water.
The first spacewalk will begin shortly after 7 a.m. Eastern time Saturday. Additional spacewalks are scheduled for Dec. 23 and on Christmas, Dec. 25.
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GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE: Hi there.
CORNISH: So tell us a little bit about what went wrong up there.
BRUMFIEL: Well, first off, NASA wants you to know that this has absolutely nothing to do with the recent film "Gravity." Sure, one of the astronauts, Rick Mastracchio, is a seasoned veteran. The other one, Mike Hopkins, is on his very first spacewalk. But the similarities end there. The problem is with the cooling system. There's a lot of electronics aboard the space station and it all has to be kept cool. Part of that system failed earlier this month and as a result, they've had to shut down some of the systems on the station. Without those, they can't get resupply missions and they can't do a lot of the science they were hoping to do. So NASA says this is not an emergency. It's a critical fix and it needs to get done.
CORNISH: So give us some detail about the repairs. What are they doing?
BRUMFIEL: Right. So what they're going to be doing is switching out a pumping unit. This is one of three units that's stowed outside the station, the sort of frame. And it was brought up by the space shuttle. They'll be going out there, and they'll be pulling out this unit and putting another one in. Now, the tricky part about this is this thing is really heavy. It's 780 pounds. While weight might not sound like an issue in space, if you could imagine maybe putting a refrigerator on roller skates and pushing it across the floor as fast as you can, then trying to stop it, it's hard to stop. So all that mass has to be managed very carefully.
The other tricky bit is that this cooling system uses ammonia. And ammonia is toxic. So if the astronauts got it on their suits, they came back into the station, they could pollute the atmosphere.
CORNISH: And then, Jeff, I understand that there's been an issue with the spacesuits. Tell us more about that.
BRUMFIEL: Yeah. In July, an Italian astronaut, Luca Parmitano, was on a spacewalk when he started to notice water leaking into his helmet. Now, the water was coming from the system that keeps that astronauts cool. And I'll let Parmitano describe what happened next.
LUCA PARMITANO: The water kept trickling until it completely covered my eyes and my nose. It was really hard to see. I couldn't hear anything. It was really hard to communicate. I just - I went back using just memory, basically, going back to the airlock until I found it.
BRUMFIEL: Honestly, he almost drowned.
CORNISH: And I hear that the solution is snorkels. Is that true?
BRUMFIEL: Yeah, it is true. It's not the only solution. NASA thinks they've actually repaired the suit. But they're not 100 percent sure, so they're taking some additional precautions. And one of those is snorkels. They've had the astronauts fashion out of some spare tubing a sort of breathing device that they could put inside the suit. If water starts coming into the helmet, what they can do is they can grab on to the snorkel and breathe air out of the midsection of the suit. That should give them enough time to get back inside. But again, I really want to emphasize this is not "Apollo 13." This is not "Gravity." NASA expects everything to go quite smoothly.
CORNISH: That's NPR's Geoff Brumfiel. Thank you so much.
BRUMFIEL: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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DURHAM, N.C. – Down twice late in the match, junior Hanna Mar was able to battle back both times to win her match in a third-set tiebreaker, leading the seventh-ranked Duke women's tennis team past No. 27 Virginia, 4-3, Friday at Ambler Tennis Stadium. The Blue Devils move to 12-3 on the season, as well as a perfect 3-0 in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) play.
"I thought we played well, even after we lost the doubles point, I told the team that we were playing really well," said head coach Jamie Ashworth. "We talked after doubles that we had to fight and to compete. We had to force them to hit shots and that is exactly what it came down to. As a whole I thought we competed as well as we could. I was really happy about that."
In doubles action, Duke dropped the doubles point for just the third time this season after splitting matches on courts one and three. On court one, the 57th-ranked pair of sophomores Annie Mulholland and Ester Goldfeld dropped Erin Vierra and Stephanie Nauta, 8-4, while junior Marianne Jodoin and senior Nicole LIpp dropped a hard fought match to Li Xi and Maria Fuccillo, 8-4. In the second position, the duo of junior Hanna Mar and senior Mary Clayton battled back from a 3-5 deficit to level the match at 5-5, but were unable to slow Julia Elbaba and Hana Tomljanovic, eventually falling 8-5.
After the break, the Cavaliers returned to the courts with momentum, taking leads on all six singles courts. In the fourth position, No. 94 Jodoin claimed her 19th consecutive singles victory after downing Li Xi, 6-2, 6-2, while Lipp fell to Caryssa Peretz, 6-0, 6-0, on court six.
In the third position, Clayton, a native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recorded her 27th career ACC victory after downing Tomljanovic, 6-4, 6-3. With her 27 conference victories, Clayton sits in fourth on Duke's all-time list.
On court five, Mulholland fell behind early against Erin Vierra, but won three consecutive games to force the set into a tiebreaker, where Mulholland cruised, 7-2, to claim the set. In the second set, Mulholland overcame a 2-4 deficit to top Vierra, 7-5.
After falling 6-3 in the first set against No. 15 Elbaba, 52nd-ranked Goldfeld battled through the second set to find the match level at 5-5. After breaking serve to take a 6-5 lead, Goldfeld painted the line with a serve in the next game, forcing Elbaba to send the return long, and pushing the match into a third set. In the final set, Elbaba bested Goldfeld, 6-3 to level the match at 3-3.
With the score tied at 3-3, the match turned to court one where Mar and Nauta faced off. Mar dropped the first set, 6-3, to 65th-ranked Nauta, but rallied in the second, 6-1, to force the match into a third and decisive set. In the third set, Nauta took a commanding 5-2 lead, but Mar responded by breaking serve to level the match at 5-5. After trading games, the match went into a third-set tiebreaker where Nauta took a 5-1 lead, but again Mar responded with a number of clutch shots to come back to win the tiebreaker, 8-6, and clinch the match for Duke.
"This is a big match for us and is a big match for us every year," Clayton said. "I think it will really help us as we move forward to get this win. Being down and then coming back gives us a ton of confidence. It was great to see Hanna fighting off match points in the third and coming back and winning. It just gives us incentive to always keep fighting."
The Blue Devils return to the courts Saturday at 3 p.m. as they play host to Virginia Tech at Ambler Tennis Stadium.
"Our team knows that we have to do the little things to win," Ashworth said. "We have talked about that for the past 10 days, and we need to play ever point like it's the last point. If you don't win it, that's fine, but you need to make someone come up with a shot to beat you, and I thought we really kept fighting today."
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1. #19 Hanna Mar (DUKE) def. #65 Stephanie Nauta (UVA) 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (8-6)
2. #15 Julia Elbaba (UVA) def. #52 Ester Goldfeld (DUKE) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
3. #99 Mary Clayton (DUKE) def. Hana Tomljanovic (UVA) 6-4, 6-3
4. #94 Marianne Jodoin (DUKE) def. Li Xi (UVA) 6-2, 6-2
5. Annie Mulholland (DUKE) def. Erin Vierra (UVA) 7-6 (7-2), 7-5
6. Caryssa Peretz (UVA) def. Nicole Lipp (DUKE) 6-0, 6-0
Doubles Competition
1. #57 Annie Mulholland/Ester Goldfeld (DUKE) def. Stephanie Nauta/Erin Vierra (UVA) 8-4
2. Julia Elbaba/Hana Tomljanovic (UVA) def. Hanna Mar/Mary Clayton (DUKE) 8-5
3. Li Xi/Maria Fuccillo (UVA) def. Marianne Jodoin/Nicole Lipp (DUKE) 8-4
Match Notes:
Virginia 8-7; National ranking #27
Duke 12-3; National ranking #7
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (6,4,3,5,2,1)


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BOULDER -- A 75-year-old Erie man accused of harassing two cyclists along County Line Road in September by following them and relentlessly honking his SUV's horn tried to take a plea deal on Thursday, but a Boulder County judge rejected the plea until the victims in the case could have a say.
James Ernst negotiated a deal with Boulder County prosecutors to plead guilty to two counts of harassment and two counts of improper use of a horn, but Boulder County Judge Noel Blum said he would not accept the deal.
"The victims need to be apprised of any proposed plea and given the opportunity to appear on these cases," Blum said, adding that given the high-profile nature of the case he was surprised the victims were not notified.
Two cyclists recorded a video of Ernst driving his SUV behind them on County Line Road in September while honking his horn. The men put the video on the Internet, and it garnered thousands of views and comments. The incident highlighted the ongoing tension between some motorists and some cyclists in Boulder County's roads. Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said that the issue is among the top issues among county residents.
The Colorado State Patrol investigated the video, tracked the SUV to Ernst, and ticketed him in two cases. He is charged with two misdemeanor counts of harassment, two counts of illegal use of a horn, and two counts of driving too slowly. Ernst has not obtained an attorney to represent him and told prosecutors on Thursday that he just wanted to conclude the case.
He told Blum the same.
"This has put a lot of stress on me, sir," he said.
Blum reset the case for Feb. 21 and said he does not foresee any issues with concluding the case at that time once the victims are notified of the pending plea agreement.
Outside of the courtroom on Thursday, Ernst, who has declined to offer his side of the story to reporters, said the media has gotten it all wrong. He said he honked his horn at two cyclists who were rude to him and pounded on his SUV.
"I am riding on the road that is too narrow for bicycles, no shoulder, double-yellow line for miles," he said.
He declined to answer specific questions and instead waved at a video camera taping his comments and walked away.
Pierrette J. Shields can be reached at 303-684-5273 or email@example.com.


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Column published Dec. 6, 2012 in The Mexico Ledger
100 Years Ago
"Lester Miller, of this city, and T. W. Jackson, both students in Westminster College, walked to this city Saturday morning, from the Capitol of the Kingdom in six hours. Prof. Highley and Dr. Atkinson, of the Westminster, made the same trip, but were a little behind the boys. They all made the return trip walking."
50 Years Ago
"More than a million dollars has been poured into Audrain County this year in crop control payments to farmers for keeping part of their land idle. Nearly half the money was paid over to the farmers last month, giving the Audrain County economy a strong pre-Christmas spurt and putting into the hands of the individual farmers some ready cash for paying taxes or having a Merry Christmas. The money came from the federal feed grain, wheat stabilization and barley programs. Total payments authorized for Audrain farmers for this year were $1,099,149.47, according to Mrs. Mary Bosler, chief clerk of the Audrain Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service."
25 Years Ago
"Bell ringers for the Salvation Army Christmas project in Mexico collected $708.49 last week, nearly double the $423 received the previous week, according to Leonna Jackson, chairman. The goal this year is $2,000...Bishop Dotcy I. Isom Jr. presiding prelate of the third episcopal district of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, received the key to the city from Mayor Pro Tem Leila Inlow at the St. Paul CME Church Friday night. The bishop was in town to preside over the winter council of the Kansas-Missouri Conference, held Friday and Saturday at the local CME church."
10 Years Ago
"Members of the Happy Homemakers Club met at the Iron Skillet Restaurant in Kingdom City Dec. 4 for their annual Christmas dinner. After a short business meeting was held Estella Rothermich, president, installed the new officers for 2003. A Christmas gift exchange revealed secret pals for the past year."
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Dawid Bielski's curator insight, January 6, 2015 10:28 AM
Technologia dąży także w nauce nie tylko w grach czy telewizorach :) postęp technologiczny pomaga i w nauce.
Don Dea's curator insight, January 15, 2015 12:34 AM
Though the economy and education have long been topics of top concern to Americans, we haven't worked to create strong linkages between the two. They are more like two castles with a large moat between them. Yet there is nothing more important we can do as a country than to build the world's most effective educonomy -- that is, seamlessly integrate our educational system, our employers, and our job creators. Unless we get education and the economy working together more effectively, America will relinquish its role as leader of the free world.
54321ignition's curator insight, September 20, 2013 6:59 AM
There's more to developing digital content than just repurposing existing textbooks
ThePlanetaryArchives/San Francisco CA's curator insight, September 30, 2013 5:15 PM
"Another Brick In The Wall" - Pink Flloyd
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Our education system is nothing more than child-care with some
indoctrination thown in.
See/hear "The Wall" by Pink Floyd (40+ years ago.)
Let the children play until they are old enough to decide what they are interested in learning. That's completely different than training them from Day 1 to "sit still, be quiet, and obey authority." Training a 5-year old to become a "worker" or 'Businessman" is not education, but it may be child abuse.
Andrea Solimene's curator insight, April 4, 2013 9:53 AM
diventare un crocevia di startupper e luogo dove chiunque è in grado di aggiungere valore all'ecosistema è ben accetto. Anche solo per leggersi un libro in attesa del treno, perché gli innovatori per prima cosa fanno questo: risolvono problemi. E a Termini una sala d'attesa decente non c'è. Tanto meno con libri dedicati!
Joshua OCock's curator insight, March 27, 2013 10:02 AM
Very interesting - but I'm not sure things will stay this way for long..
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Charts help you see the big picture of social media for your business
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It's important for businesses to select the right individuals to manage social channels and to use specific metrics to analyze feedback and success.
Learn more about social media strategies from this infographic, which presents an 8-step strategy for successful social media marketing...
Philippe Trebaul's comment, September 29, 2013 7:14 PM
Thank you for your interesting and constructive reactions :) Philippe
Philippe Trebaul's comment, September 29, 2013 7:14 PM
Thank you for your interesting and constructive reactions :) Philippe
Sieg Holle's curator insight, February 28, 2014 10:09 AM
Will try to use this to make a government cancer treatment game.
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Interesting ideas for presenting questions in a board game format.
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I can actually say I'm one of the 57% that feels this way.
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And try these great templates that are built into the Prezi now...
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Good selling has always involved story. It is what draws the prospective buyer in and helps them to see what problem(s) you are offering to solve.
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Well, yeah, content is what you pay to get into the game, but its the stories that make it work for you.
Dr. Karen Dietz's comment, January 7, 2013 4:54 PM
Thank you Rick, Clayton and Marty for your comments! It takes work to bring stories into online content and any kind of selling activity but the rewards are immense. And of course, we get better at it over time. Happy storytelling!


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Flaming Gold: An oil syndicate murders an old friend of Doc Baxter as part of a plot to steal oil-rich land from honest ranchers.
Illegal Entry: The Doctor desperately tries to prevent a cholera epidemic from spreading in Los Angeles.
The Big Frame Up: An unhappy wife murders her husband and tries to pin the deed on his brother.
The Big Gamblers: Young outlaws try to lure an aging lawman into a deadly gunfight.


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DURHAM, N.C. - Despite keeping a potent Seminole offense in check, the Duke University volleyball fell 3-0 (16-25, 24-26, 22-25) to No. 13 Florida State Thursday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Duke's defense turned in a solid performance, holding Florida State to .193 hitting for the night. Prior to tonight's match, the Seminoles led the ACC and ranked 10th nationally in hitting percentage at .287. Both teams recorded 10 blocks while Florida State held a slight edge in kills (42-36) and digs (56-54), unforced errors came back to haunt the Blue Devils in the end.
"We are a different team from when we played them seven weeks ago," said head coach Jolene Nagel. "We are constantly developing, but we are still not as consistent as I would like. It primarily shows in our service game and sometimes with our serving, too. We need to work on our consistency. I think it's maturity. It's coming with time, but it's a painful process as we go through it right now. I am definitely happy with the way this team keeps getting in the gym every day and working hard."
Freshman Elizabeth Campbell continued her strong play, leading Duke with 11 kills along with eight digs, two blocks and an ace. Rookie Emily Sklar tallied seven kills, seven digs and two blocks while senior Christiana Gray added six kills and five blocks.
Only one FSU player reached double-digit kills in junior Ashley Neff. Neff, who is one of only two players in the country to rank in the top 10 nationally in both blocks per set and hitting percentage, finished the match with 10 kills on .381 hitting and led all players with seven blocks.
"Their middles are really good," said Campbell. "They are really active working around to the right side as well, and they are good at closing their blocks. We were just making a lot of errors and we weren't passing that well in the first set. But we picked it up after that and our passing definitely got better. Our serving got tougher, so we kept putting them out of system."
A slow start to set one gave Florida State the opportunity it needed to stake a 1-0 advantage. FSU began the match with a 10-4 spurt, aided by Duke miscues. The Blue Devils were unable to cut into the deficit and the Seminoles won the set, 25-16.
The second set began much like the first with Florida State taking a 6-1 lead. This time Duke respond and rallied to tie the game at 14-14. The two teams proceeded to trade points until Duke eked ahead, 24-23, following a block by Campbell and Chelsea Cook, one of five on the night for Cook. The Seminoles tied things up at 24-24 and retook the lead on a Blue Devil attack error. A block from Neff and Fatma Yildirim sealed the 26-24 victory, giving FSU a 2-0 lead.
Duke fell behind 6-1 in set three before an 8-0 Blue Devil run forced a Seminole timeout. Sklar recorded two of her four third-set kills during the rally, which freshman Laura Williams capped with her second ace of the match. Florida State chipped away at the Duke advantage, tying the score 22-all on a Duygu Duzceler ace. Duzveler added a second ace to give FSU the lead and the Seminoles iced the match with a kill by Marija Milosavljevic and a solo block by Neff.
"I think our errors made the difference," added Nagel. "We have to limit our errors. If we can do that, we will put ourselves in a position to win those close sets. Until we can get rid of those, it is going to be difficult to dig ourselves out of that every time."
Duke wraps up the home portion of its schedule Saturday, playing host to Miami at 7 p.m., in Cameron Indoor Stadium.


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COLORADO SPRINGS — It was a sprained ankle that threatened McKenna Spillar's senior season. But the Dakota Ridge cross country runner, if she had anything to say about it, wasn't going to let that happen.
Spillar rehabbed the nagging injury until she finally returned to the course a month ago. Then on Oct. 27 at the 5A state championships at the Norris Penrose Event Center — coming off a 5A Jeffco League championship and third-place finish at regionals — Spillar completed her comeback with a seventh-place finish in 19 minutes, 23.2 seconds.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Never mind reasonable expectations. It's Brett Cecil!!!
We may take a long lunch today and see if we can sneak in at least the first half of the game somewhere, although we guessing that finding a bar with the game playing will be something akin to Diogenes' search for an honest man.
Points of reference
Dustin McGowan came up in a pretty similar situation in 2005 in his first start. In his July 30 debut against the Texas Rangers, McGowan went five innings, giving up one run and two hits while striking out six and walking three. That sort of start from Cecil would be more than welcome.
RTing ourselves
Mentioned this on our Twitter thingy, but for the sake of those of you not so inclined to follow our brain farts over there: Travis Snider, since his two homer game in Minny: .495 OPS, .254 OBP, .241(!!!) SLG. The Pasty White Hope is pressing.
UPDATE! Postgame madness!!
Jays win! Pennant!!!1
Seriously, that was totally frickin' epic. We're going to towel ourselves off.
48 comments:
- The Ack said...
Let's-go Ce-cil.
Added bonus, reduced pressure pitching in front of a projected 14,000 fans on the Tuesday afternooner.
Not to get all high and mighty over the shit attendance to date, but every time I hear Ricciardi preface denials of trading away Doc with "unless the economy affects us in a way that ownership tells us to slash payroll"....well, let's just say a little piece of my 2010 boner dies.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- Ian H. said...
Has there been more than 20,000 in attendance other than the home opener this year? To me it seems like the numbers are down quite a bit over last year.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Numbers are down, big time. But that'll change come July, August, and September, when we're in the thick of the race.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Not to be an apologist, but...
The crowds haven't been awful so far...They have gone back to what they were a couple of years back, but the Jays aren't alone on that front.
Still, it would still be nice to get some decent crowds out to see how well this team is playing.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Ok, fuck it. We're a total apologist.
An attendance post is coming this week.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- The Ack said...
How dare you question my reactionary non-researched throwaway comment. HOW DARE YOU.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- Drew - LtB said...
The Jays aren't alone. Quoth Dave Cameron, blogger for the also first place Mariners:
I've never been at a game with fewer people than tonight's. CF bleachers empty... and this was Felix Day, with a good, interesting team.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Cecil starts with a strike out!
RoY! Cy! MVP!
- May 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- The Ack said...
OK, so, let me get this off my chest before the Tao drops his attendance post which will surely make total sense and thus render me vanquished.
It's embarrassing to me when I turn on the ballgame and see a first place team playing in front of homecrowds of < 20,000 (the closed, cavernous Dome increases the shitty appearance factor by about 12). It makes me uncomfortable, and I know that makes me a loser.
Also, I get that it's easy for me to say, since I don't live in the GTA and thus can use the old "if I lived there, I'd go to "X" games" line. The flip side is that I'll probably drop upwards of a thousand bucks on a long-weekend road trip to catch a series.
So, you know, stop listening to the horseshit downer doom and gloom media coverage and go to the fuckin' games, Toronto.
/end rant.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- eyebleaf said...
I've been to three so far, Ack. I'm doing my part. I'm off all of July. I imagine I'll be walking up numerous times.
Hit me up if you want to go to a game!
- May 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Cecil's hanging in there. Now if only the offense could start hitting Anthony Reyes like he's Anthony Reyes.
- May 5, 2009 at 1:49 PM
- The Ack said...
Reading back my last comment, I know I come across 100% fucking loudmouth douchebag, but it's too late to delete it.
I guess my fears are rooted in a payroll slash and a return to a $50M (reverse-boner) payroll era when the team appears so close to a return to glory.
- May 5, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Darren Priest said...
I don't think you sound like a loudmouth douchebag, but I am a loudmouth douchebag, so maybe my views are skewed.
Great start so far by Cecil. Where are the gaddam bats?
- May 5, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- eyebleaf said...
- May 5, 2009 at 2:26 PM
And there goes the win for Cecil Fuckin' bullpen
- May 5, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
- May 5, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Scott Richmond was announced at AL Rookie of the Month!
Woop woop!
- May 5, 2009 at 2:56 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
So Cecil's line was:
Nails. Boner. Pennant!
- May 5, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
And yes, for those of you just tuning in, this is a one-man game thread.
- May 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Fuck off, Tao.
- May 5, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Aaron Hill! M!V!P! M!V!P! M!V!P! M!V!P!
- May 5, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Ian H. said...
Scott Richmond AL Rookie of the Month? Hot damn! I better start building my Scott Richmond shrine.
Hill - MVP
Rios - MVP
There's an awful lot of singles in this game, isn't there Tao?
- May 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
They must not be using the juiced balls today.
- May 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Adam Lind!!!!!!!1
Lind is so awesome, he makes my brain melt.
- May 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM
- eyebleaf said...
- May 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
(And somewhere, Vernon Wells is yelling "Goddamnit!!!1" at another pop out.)
- May 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM
- Ian H. said...
I change my MVP vote to Adam Lind ...
nope wait, Scott Rolen.
I'm glad I took my blood pressure medication today, because the ticker's getting quite the workout today.
- May 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Vernon Wells has a bout of Tourette's when he pops one up.
Se7en in the Se7enth!
- May 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Remember how last year, there really wasn't an MVP candidate amongst the position players? To the point where people were talking about Scutaro and his .712 OPS as the MVP?
Yeah, we don't think that will be an issue this year.
- May 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Most annoying commercial on Blue Jays Radiocasts. Is it
1) The Macleans ad with the obnoxious woman announcer, or
2) The Super 8 ad - "As long as you make it Super!"
(We've actually grown to love the Home Hardware, iTravel2000 and AlarmForce ones, before anyone suggests them.)
- May 5, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Jays win!
All sorts of exclamatory tomfoolery!
- May 5, 2009 at 3:55 PM
- Ian H. said...
The Super 8 ad is very very bad. If you listen closely, it sounds like the guy is saying "I've got free breakfast and internets". Yes, internet plural. Bad, ad. BAD AD!
- May 5, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- Darren Priest said...
I think he says internets because that one of many stupid ways hip people are referring to the web now. See also: tubes, interwebs.
I can't believe the Jays came back today. And I missed it because I was driving home. Last I saw, Carlson had given up the lead.
- May 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- The Ack said...
Holy shit! 22K attendance! Clearly, my pre-game knuckle-rap jolted slumbering Jays fans. Clearly.
- May 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
You have a special power, Ack.
But with great power comes great responsibility.
- May 5, 2009 at 4:34 PM
- The Ack said...
If you are referring to the power of douchebaggery, then yes - yes I do.
oh, and MF'n PENNANT.
- May 5, 2009 at 4:37 PM
I think the attendance figures are skewed bc we haven't seen the Yanks or Sox in town. So no Massholes and douchebag New York front runner fans crowding the bathroom lines.
- May 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- Ice Cream Jonsey said...
The Super 8 ad is probably the worst thing in my life right now. Which - I realize that makes me a very fortunate person, especially in these difficult economic times, but still. I had become completely sick of it before Romero's first start, I remember that much.
However, the Super 8 ad has been the best argument against moving Snider up. Imagine a commercial break... making it through the ad... and then play resuming with Rios, Vernon and Snider going through a half-inning on four pitches. Immediately followed by JO-ANNNNNNAAAAAAA!!!
Wells and Snider are the fuckin' millionaires here, they can be the ones to develop patience, because I'm a month into the season and completely out.
- May 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM
- MK Piatkowski said...
On the attendance front, I'm doing my part. I've seen 4 already, am organizing a group outing from work for the first of the Yankees games, have tickets for the two remaining cheap games, and have schedule a few more but don't have tickets yet.
This team is fun to watch. Really annoyed I didn't get to see any of it today because I had to do interviews.
Richmond rookie of the month? Ernie Whitt just went into hiding.
- May 5, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Well I've been off the continent and probably am horribly late with this comment, but has anyone seen Gerry Dee's interview with Doc??
Awesome!! Clearly Dee will meet an untimely death soon though for the mockery.
- May 5, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Saw the Doc-Dee interview on Hum and Chuck. That was a riot.
- May 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Maclean's lady makes me want to cut her.
- May 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Attendance is shit cause there's been shit opponents and shittier weekend opponents. Toonie Tuesdays were also taken away.
If you replace Boston with Oakland, and New York with Baltimore, the average attendance jumps 5k.
Yea it sucks that there's under 20k for a 1st place team but it's early May. Beat the Yankees next week and you'll see people buying into things.
- May 5, 2009 at 10:27 PM
- Joanna said...
I'm very impressed you got 43 comments, Tao.
- May 6, 2009 at 12:15 AM
- Drew - LtB said...
I'll take...backhanded compliments for $45 please
- May 6, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Joanna, Tao's the hot spot dontcha know that already? Bret Cecil's debut bring so many people ,comments and wackjobs!@ Anon 10:27 PM It's really pathetic about attendance BUT don't feel bad. I get the YES network and at the first Red Sox game, Yankees Stadium looked like the Skydome in terms of attendance! @ Drew, is that $45 dollars Canadian OR US?:)
- May 6, 2009 at 12:40 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Backhanded comments are how Joanna repays me for linking to her blog in the comments.
If I link to Hum and Chuck in a post, she rewards me with hostile contempt.
- May 6, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Ian H. said...
I wonder what the attendance will be like for the Halladay/Burnett showdown next Tuesday. Hopefully at least 30,000! It will be one for the ages, for sure!
- May 6, 2009 at 11:04 AM


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Nick Zanotto brought some very valuable items from the Bay Area with him back to Siskiyou County last weekend.
Zanotto, 31, a 1999 Weed High School graduate, is the Senior Manager of New Sales and Services for the San Francisco Giants and has worked for the team for the past five years.
On Saturday, he brought the 2010 and 2012 Giants World Series trophies for fans to see and take photos with in Mount Shasta.
The stop in Mount Shasta was part of a tour that started last Tuesday in Sacramento and is going to cities throughout the state and to places such as New York City.
When asked what was going through his mind when he brought the trophies up to Redding and Mount Shasta, Zanotto replied, "I just wanted to make sure nothing happened to the trophies," he said. But, he said, things went very well when he brought the trophies. "People were very respectable. It was great."
And, by the long lines of fans on Saturday, folks were very excited to see the trophies in person. Around 600 fans attended the event in Mount Shasta.
"There's a lot of Giants fan in Siskiyou County," Zanotto said. "To be a part of it was pretty amazing."
And, he ran into a number of people he knew growing up and was able to catch up with old friends, he said.
"It was a great opportunity to catch up with people I haven't seen in awhile," he said.
Zanotto is ecstatic to be working for an organization he grew up rooting for and said it is a surreal, wonderful experience.
"It's an unbelievable thing to be a part of," he said.
Growing up in Weed, Nick said that his father, Aldo Zanotto, took him to a number of Giants games.
"I had a lot of passion for the team from an early age," he said.
In high school, Zanotto played three sports, basketball, football and baseball and earned all-league honors in baseball and basketball.
"It was a great experience," Nick said about his time palying sports in Weed. "It teaches you life lessons for when you're an adult."
Nick and his father traveled during summers to MLB parks around the country when he was in high school. During that time his passion for baseball and perhaps working for an MLB team grew and he knew he wanted to work for a major league baseball team.
He went on to college at Saint John's University in Queens, New York and graduated with a degree in sports management. He interned with a minor league team, the Stockton Ports, and eventually went to work as a sales executive with the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres before he went to work for the Giants.
Zanotto said that he is in charge of sales representatives who sell season tickets, group tickets and luxury suites, among other services. Nick said that he loves the job and working with the public and the chance to be part of a major sports organization.
"I have a lot of passion for it," he said.
This was the second time Nick has been part of bringing a trophy to Mount Shasta. In 2011 he brought up the 2010 trophy. The day of the event it was blizzard like conditions. But, around 200 people braved the harsh weather to see the trophy.
Nick asked if he could be part of bringing the trophy to Mount Shasta since he is from the area, when the trophy first came to Siskiyou County in 2011. This year, he said the Giants organization asked him to be part of bringing the trophy up to Siskiyou County.
Nick said one thing that he has loved about the trophy events is seeing the young children who have such a passion for the Giants and seeing the look on their faces when they see the trophies. And, it's special, he said, to see people who have been fans for years and supported the Giants "though thick and thin," be able to share in not one but two championships in a two-year span.
"It was amazing to see 50 years olds with tears in their eyes," Zanotto said. "It means so much to them. It shows the passion they have for the team."
One of Nick's most memorable experiences with the Giants took place after the team won the World Series in 2010 and he took part in the parade through downtown, walking ahead of cable cars that were transporting the players.
"It was one of the best days of my life," Nick said. "There was such joy and excitement."
Weed High School graduate Nick Zanotto: Working for the Giants
Nick Zanotto brought some very valuable items from the Bay Area with him back to Siskiyou County last weekend.


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