1. Intro

It has been a tumultuous time. Not only was Fanfest cancelled, but Apple left Macworld. I have some very deep (i.e., boring to you, but you know how to scroll, so quit whining, I only post twice a year) things to say about this, but first, let us clear our minds with the following:

Q: CONAN! What is good in life?

A: The Senior Hip Hop Choir.

(Really, go watch it.)

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hi folks. I've been reading a blog by Joe Posnanski and I think he's fantastic. In fact, he is the only sports writer I'm reading regularly now.   He wrote an article about Ziggy which is worth a read, but in some ways is the least enlightening thing I've read by him so far, simply because AN hashes things out so thoroughly.  I really like the pieces he wrote about Stan Musial, both the first one and the follow-up where he debunks the story he told in the first one.

There's your link.  Dump away. 

I have some personal ramblings after the jump in easy-to-ignore form.

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Greetings entities.

A small but vocal subset of ANers know and use the poorly named "Apricot's Killfile", as celebrated(?) in past diaries Fanposts like this legendary poetry slam. Well, to be honest, it's just Xbox who uses it. Anyway, I have asked Daniel Martin, the excellent actual author of killfile for Greasemonkey to update it for AN3, and he claims that it is now working. For those who don't know what killfile is, here is a story for you.

In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of a giant snowman waving. And there was an old lady whispering hush to annoying AN users. In fact, she used a script called killfile.user which allowed users of Firefox browser to selectively block the posts from her screen. Goodnight room, goodnight phone, goodnight red balloon. Oh, before you go to sleep, remember you need to install Firefox, Greasemonkey, and then get the killfile script, which will make Firefox install the script (you may need to unblock the popup). Then restart Firefox and look for the "kill/hide comment" links next to every commenting user. This script should work across the SB Nation 3.0. Goodnight nobody, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

Now onto a couple of token links.

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Where is the DLD?  Has it been eaten by the Fanshots?  

I tried posting a Fanshot, and (1) it failed, and (2) it doesn't feel the same as having your links lovingly ignored by a hundred hardcore fans. 

 So. Here is my Link Dump, complete with dumping thought process as a debugging trail for future DLDers and psychologists. This will make it useful to AN3 debuggers and very boring to humans.

 {Hey, the cursor randomly jumps out of the textbox when I type too fast and loses focus, much like myself.}

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Icky weekend.  Here some links and cartoons.

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Uh, did I miss the Link Dump?

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Hi folks, the Apricot bunch was planning to go to the Rivercats-A's showdown on Thursday and report all about it with pictures and delightful commentary. Oh, it was going to be grand.

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Okay, by jlaff's request, it's on again.

Here's how it works. I've opened up a new Moneybutt server at
http://owlmelon.com/cgi-bin/photo.pl

Photo Submission Deadline: November 17th, 11:59pm.  

Submission Instructions: Open an account at the MB server above, click on the link "add pictures or entities" and follow instructions. You will need your pictures hosted somewhere on the web with a URL. Post here if you have trouble.

Everyone is encouraged to submit photos. Don't worry if your photos aren't slick enough.

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Looks like the A's might actually take some time looking for a new manager.

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