Dan Gould

I shied away from this for a time due to the instrumentation but once I tried it I loved it.

Congratulations, and do tell us all about it afterwards.

So some angry yahoo says fuck during a 10 second interview and that's supposed to make Smith look bad? ← Sure. Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. (Not to mention that Smith or his producer is technically responsible for an FCC rules violation. If it were a different network Smith might have gotten suspended or even fired over this.) ← What a crock of shit that is. First of all, "why are you still out here?" is a perfectly reasonable question to ask a moron who is ignoring an evacuation order. Secondly, show me ANYONE who has gotten fired for something like this, let alone a case where a network's "star" anchor gets fired. And lastly, the FCC has authority over THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES, not cable. Fox is a CABLE network and thus not under the authority of the FCC and thus NOT in violation of any "rule". Randy has it exactly right. The yahoo looks stupid. Smith unwittingly broadcast an obscenity. Big fucking deal. And I can't STAND Smith or Fox News. Now what may be interesting is if networks start using a seven second delay on "man in the street" interviews to avoid having this happen in the future. Had it happened on a network that the FCC has authority over and might have instituted a fine, then you probably would see that start to happen. But since there will be no fine, I imagine there won't be any long-term effect.

Blame the Weather Channel my friend! BTW, that Jim Cantore dude has got some cojones and even he kept his ass out of NO! ← Now, we can only hope Anderson Cooper gets blown away. ← Can we get a package deal and have Shepherd Smith of Fox News get the Dorothy treatment?

BTW, for those of you who can access, the Times has some pretty impressive pictures in a slide show pop up on the home page.

Blame the Weather Channel my friend! BTW, that Jim Cantore dude has got some cojones and even he kept his ass out of NO!

I tend to agree with you that the media wants a major disaster. There's lots of reporting to do when that happens. I was really objecting to the suggestion that it was the "experts" who are to blame for overhyping things. They did and continue to do, the best they can with the information they get, and the reality is that as horrible as the destruction will still be, we should thank our lucky stars (and Mother Nature) for keeping the eyewall to the east, and the weakening of the storm that did occur.

Not only is this unfair, but its not accurate either. The Weather channel is reporting, in an article with a timeline just after 10 AM, And And as Berigan points out, storm tracking was quite accurate. As I mentioned yesterday at 9 AM, And the lede of the Weather Channel's current Tropical report:

For some of us, the more fortunate ones, the better question might be: Which BN have you not heard that you really want to hear? That would allow me to continue to ignore all of the post Lion-Wolf stuff which, to paraphrase from a line in the movie ]I]The Big Chill, "I COULD have listened to them, I CHOSE not to. I'm not hung up on this completion thing." Except for that Inner Glow thing. Still wanna hear that someday.

This is ridiculous. The New Orleans office issued their warnings based on a DIRECT HIT on New Orleans. Fortunately, that didn't happen (barely). Ever hear of "To err on the side of caution"?

Statistically speaking, I'd say the odds are against the Yanks... they've got 10 more road games than home ones left, whereas it's the exact opposite with the Bosox. And both teams have much better percentages at home this year. ← This is true, but for that to make the difference, it all depends on what the Sox do in the next ten games of this season-long home stand. After that, its an even split between home and road games, so the Sox need to win about 9 of 10 on the balance of this home stand and hope that we get some help from whoever the Yanks play so that we can pad the lead before the first Yankee series of the month. The odds ought to favor the Sox, but realistically, Marty is probably right and the division will come down to the head-to-head results.

And central pressure of 907 MB. According to the National Hurricane Center, Andrew was 922. Camille was 909. The only lower central pressure was the Labor Day storm of 1935, at 892.

NBC just said 212 gusts!!!!

Winds of 175 as of 11 am. This is an incredible and truly frightening storm.

Mandatory Evacuation Ordered for New Orleans

Make that 160 mph winds, Category 5, as of 6 am. Hurricane Center "Strike Probability" chart shows New Orleans as the number one most likely point of landfall, together with some other LA town, Buras. This could be incredibly ugly. My wife just told me that FEMA's model for a Category 4 or 5 Hurricane hitting New Orleans predicts 60,000 deaths, potentially.

While I don't believe it can happen, the fact of the matter is that it is simply remarkable that the Sox have reached this point in the season in the position they are in, considering the injuries to Schilling and Foulke. Would the Yanks be talking playoffs right now if they'd gotten four starts from the Unit or Mussina all year, and had an ineffective Mariano Rivera go from blowing saves and losing games to missing six weeks with knee surgery? Don't think so.

Shows how crazy baseball can be: KC butchers a game ending DP and the Yanks somehow string together five straight hits for a ridiculous comeback. Then the Sox blow a six run lead at home where they were riding a 14 game win streak. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Do so with a Pez Dispenser.

What recording is that?

That's the man. Didn't Jeffrey also, at one time, incorporate into his homerun trot, flying like a plane? ← It was the "one wing down" thing....kinda irratating! ← I think he called it "flap down."

Well that didn't keep me from deleting the threads discussing the recent One Night Preserved Box Set auction/distribution.

Just click on the "Google" button on the left side of the tool bar and then, from the drop-down menu, select "Clear Seach History." ← And ever since my wife installed the google tool bar, I've been hesitant for certain searches (NOT porn, more along the lines of celebrity cheesecake). Thanks for the tip, Ron!

I gotta re-listen because I definitely don't remember extended "goodbyes" from the group.

Lucky us, I woke up to having power and a benign, sunny sky. But if we don't hear from Marty or Evan, we may presume that they're without.