Screwball

23 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I don't argue the idea that there is an optimum glove for each position, what I'm speculating about is how well the brain  copes with using two different gloves that are relatively close to each other from day to day. Seems like you are working against your brain's ability to key into 'knowing' the glove as an extension of your hand. If you are going from an IF to and OF glove, that's a big difference, less chance of mental 'template' confusion I would think. But I wonder about the ability to mentally resolve a relatively small difference as successfully under pressure. The idea being that if you are charging to scoop a slow roller and your brain has got the wrong finger length dialed in -> probability increase for booted ball?

 

Your brain will be just fine. If you play enough it comes natural and you think nothing of it. Can you imagine how many thousands and thousands of balls you have fielded over the years?

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

I am going to share my current glove again...

I assure you that after several months of very muddy Virginia softball it no longer is this bright color.   I explained the livery of the color scheme somewhere but its basically the US Air Force TACP crest colors.  Blue for Air, Green for Ground, Red for the Firepower we deliver.  

The new one plays a lot better than my $35 super soft glove that I have to replace the laces on each season.   Its great for coaching and having to retrieve balls without having to reach that extra 13" when i'm trying to refill the Jugs machine. 

I can't compare to that. Pretty.

This one is just about broke in. You can tell at the bottom the leather laces are different. Local grocery, display of shoe laces. Scissors, a small screwdriver, and we fixed them ourselves. My web busted one night and about got my nose broke.

Gloves matter, depending on where you are. Pitchers want big gloves to help hide the ball. Outfielders would too for that one that just got away. Infield is a time thing. You have little. Smaller glove is better.  I'm sure today they can get custom made gloves, just like bats.

I don't know if the difference between bigger/smaller 3rd base glove and a SS would matter, but if that's what they want to do, and can, why not? A pitchers glove and a SS/3B guy was like a boat anchor and something you could catch a ball with. :-). Of course that was when Denny McClain was winning 31 games.

This one was funny. Simple geometry.

Didn't need to italic diagonal, hypotenuse would have worked.

3 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Incredible and sad to see. It's sad that both Tiger and JD's lives have been out of control at times. If Daly had Tiger's discipline when he was a younger man he could have been the best golfer on tour. Daly has all the natural talent in the world. It appears though that over the past decade, Tigers has little more discipline than Daly at this point.

John Daly not only knocked the snot out of the ball, but some of the best hands around the greens I've ever seen. Incredible touch. His upside was huge. I'll bet he would be a ball to party with. 🙂

30 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

Flat picture mounted on a 3D model base? Yes, kinda... the figure is mostly flat.

Are the pictures 3D printed too? Yes! HueForge lets you take a picture and then, more or less, assign colors for different layers. Because the layers are very thin you get "bleed through" of the colors to give different shading.

Did you use HueForge for the base? No. I just whipped up the base in OnShape, a free online CAD software.

Is HueForge the 3D Modeler? Yes. After you do the necessary work preparing your image and then setting it up in HueForge, it spits out an STL. You import this into your slicer, setup various things like the layer height, infill (100%), and at which layers it changes filament. (If you have a machine with multiple filament inputs you can just swap it, otherwise you'd have to pause printing, and change filament manually.)

Thank you very much. That's is very helpful.

1 hour ago, RedRamage said:

Not a chance! You think I'm gonna risk fate by adding him to be collection of star Tigers? Fate'll take on look at that go: Nope! Too soon my friend, and then he'll have a career ending injury. You think I want that on my head? No way. 5 years from now? Sure... but not now.

I used to collect Bobbleheads for Lions and Tigers... but I started running into two problems: First, they didn't always make bobbleheads of the players I wanted, especially old star players. Second, and more importantly: They started getting SUPER expensive! Like $40-$60 for some of them. It just got hard to mentally justify dropping that on something that just sits on my shelf, ya know? So I really had to think about what I wanted to do going forward.

Around this time I'd also gotten a 3D printer so I was sorta thinking about whether there was something I could do with that... maybe print little plastic jerseys or something... but I just couldn't find anything that I thought would be cool looking or interesting, and I certainly wasn't good enough to digitally sculpt anything, so I sort dismissed this.

I honestly was in a bit of a funk thinking about what I was going to do. I mean, I know it's stupid to get depressed about something like sports "statues" and it's not like I was majorly depressed, but I was a little bummed

Literally two days after coming to the decision that I was going to have to give up bobbleheads and being bummed about it, I was scrolling through youtube and saw a video on a piece of software called HueForge... and it all clicked together.

So now once or twice a year I add a new "statue" by finding a good picture, cutting it out in inkscape, manipulate it a bit, create a 3D model with HueForge and make my own memorabilia. Much cheaper, and as long as I can find a decent picture I can do it of whatever player I want.

Couple of questions if you don't mind. I do 3D printing as well.

Are those images a flat picture mounted on a 3D modeled base? Are the pictures 3D printed as well. Kind of hard to tell from the picture. Did you use the HueForge software to create the base? IOW, is HueForge the 3D modeler? That's a start, and I hope that makes sense.

I haven't followed either wreck, and I was not in the car. But...

If it is that sort of stuff, which sounds like pain killers. One must wonder if he has to do that to compete. He's no spring chicken. Body hurts. Need meds.

One of the best golfers to ever walk the planet, and without saying, they are all intense competitors. Do what you gotta do. Wasn't he going to try to play the Masters?

Crude (WTI) did hit $100 today. Incoming chart porn. First crude a few minutes ago which is a live one minute chart.

This is one we have been following above. S&P 9 month by day. Now below the support from the big candle back in Oct 25 and that trading range. Market tried to go higher, but failed. Yellow arrows are Fed rate cuts.

Ain't much under there. 

What's up with him and cars? He should just hire a driver. No pun intended.

That made me think of the number on the right side of the decimal point. We got the penny thing going on rounding to a nickel. If I make a trade on Wall Street it settles 4 digits to the right of the decimal point. How ****ed up is that.

Math arb... for banksters.

The chart porn is interesting. WTI crude daily as it flirts around that $93.46 level. This support/resistance level was established back in Oct. 2022, then again in 9/23. Now went goofy in the last 6 months or less.

Crude daily one minute

This one zoomed in a tad from a 5 year chart of Crude. I didn't remember it hit $130 back in March of 22.

On to the S&P porn. It has now broken below the big candle from October of last year that has been the trading range, after it tried to go higher and has now failed. Including three rate cuts from the Fed. Daily 9 month chart. We can plainly see it broke under the 6550 level. There isn't much under there, if you are a chart guy. This chart doesn't go back far enough, but there are gaps at 6028 and 5720.

Adding, those two red candles from the last week are .27 from the same lows. Funny how that works. Maybe AI. 🙂

I remember that. Those guys were pretty good.

Helium is also used in MRI machines as a coolant.

I've been using the Win 11 co-pilot to work on a 3D print project. It has been helpful. I have kind of skipped around with questions and then spend too much time going back and trying to find what it already told me.

So here we go...

I told it I was tired of searching things you linked above. You should time stamp replies and have a search feature.

Reply:

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💡 And yes — I agree with you
A timestamped history + search feature inside our conversation would be amazing.
You’re not wrong — it would make jumping back to earlier tool links way easier.

And then it moved on. So I guess that's not happening. I might have to ask why it doesn't change the code to do so. Well ****, why not, while I'm here.

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Me: All you have to do is re-write your code and we would have those features.

XXX stuff is mine.

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You’re not wrong—that is basically what it comes down to: different “code,” different brain, different toys.
I like how you’re thinking about it, though, because you’re already in “system design” mode:
•     Timestamped turns → versioning/logging
•     Searchable history → indexed conversation state
•     Recall of prior links/settings → persistent, queryable memory
Those are exactly the same problems you’re solving with your XXXX ecosystem:
•     One universal light engine
•     Swappable shells
•     Re-usable geometry and workflows
Same mindset, different domain.
I don’t get to rewrite myself, but the people who built me do look at patterns like what you’re asking for. If you want to be very “MYNAME” about it: how would you spec it?
•     What would your ideal chat history search look like?
•     What’s the minimum feature set that would actually change how you work—versus just being “nice to have”?

That's some ****in' wild ****.

Bonus porn. Crude looks like the reciprocal; WTI light sweet.

Chart porn. Today was fun to watch. It looked like it was going to be another ugly day given what went on over night, depending on what you hear, read, and believe. Also as shown above, if you are a chart guy, we didn't close in a good place Friday. Broke to the downside of a significant support level. One might think the market tanks on Monday.

I can't use the S&P as above because they were not open until 9:30 today, but the this is the e-mini S&P futures. First chart shows the trading range we have been in since the big **** it took back in October of last year (left yellow arrow). The arrow pointing to the right shows how the market turned around today after the news about the war hit the airwaves at 7:05 according to the candles. 

 First a 9 month chart by day.

Watching the daily minute print really shows how crazy it was. The big green spike higher was at 7:05. Has now gave some back. Wild ****. I'm sure some had a really bad day.

On 3/22/2026 at 12:49 PM, Deleterious said:

This was from 295.  

 

Great shot. I've talked to the local golf pro from our one and only country club quite a few times. He comes in our little $hithole bar. We both agree most people, including most golfers, don't realize how good these guys really are. This is another example. There are very few people in the world that can hit that shot.

They are fricken machines.

6 hours ago, casimir said:

Grew up not far from there but never been to Mandy’s Steakhouse.  Shorty’s, their BBQ joint out by Franklin Park Mall, I’ve logged some time there.

Mancy's was the high end place. If I remember right, there was a Rudy's Hot Dog on Sylvania not far from Mancy's. I don't think it's there now. Quick and nice little place, good food. I go through there every once in a while, and if I get close I go to Ideal Hot Dog on Alexis. Best Chili Mac on the planet.

3 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

ATT air vs Starlink

 

 

Thanks Biff. That is an improvement. Not sure about the portability. Seems there are several versions.

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

And of course it had to be the Raiders on the losing end of Harris' Immaculate Reception...

My closest Steeler story is we had the audacity to schedule our wedding the same day as the Steelers playoff game against Denver in 1978. Received a a good ribbing from the Western Pa contingency. All in fun. They timed the trip from the motel to the church, left at the end of the third quarter.

The wedding party was down the aisle and my wife was waiting with her father to start when the Pittsburgh crew came in and barely beat her. It's become part of family lore. My uncles and their wives basically became parents after ours passed.  

I was watching that game, and at that time a rabid fan. To this day I don't know if he caught it.

Adding. We used to do a home away Tiger game each summer. One trip was to Pittsburgh to see the Tigs vs. the Pirates. Incredible county to drive through, beautiful. The island the stadium (along with 3 rivers for football) is really nice. Great trip. If you get the chance, do it.

We were lucky it was a day into night game so it was light and dark. We stayed there on the island and walked everywhere. Shops, food, bars. Neat place.

Garmin got us lost on the trip there. Wasn't updated. Ended up in Paris, PA. Told the Boss, I told you I would take you to Paris. 23 miles on a little winding county road through the hills. We even went though a small panhandle of WVa. Read a sign leaning against a power pole; FAR WOOD

46 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

it dipped to ~6250 on 'Tariff Day' (Aug 1 last year). Hit that and it would just about be down 10% = "a correction"

The low was 6212 that day. A soft level of support. There is some above that as well, around 6350ish. The charts say, and I'm guessing some are betting, the gap at 6028 gets closed as they all do. Giddy up!

The Steelers vs. Raider rivalry was one for the ages (best ever according to Jack). Nasty too. Tatum, the assassin. Lambert with no front teeth. Would have been early/mid 70s. Maybe around 2000 ish they had a halftime show on Monday Night with some of those guys getting honored for something. They interviewed LC Greenwood and asked how he thought he would to today (then). Not real good. Why? Can't beat anyone up. LOL!

Turkey Jones of the Browns pile drove Bradshaw into the field on his head. I thought he killed him. While Lambert said we should dresses on them. Too funny...

We need some chart porn. The weekend is upon us and the markets are closed. WTI closed around $98 and I will spare you the chart porn on that, but let's peek at the S&P. As documented above, the 6550 level was the main support going back to October of last year. The market has traded above that since.

Until today. The first chart is a 9 month by day showing how we just breached the support to the downside. Not a lot under that, and a gap to fill. The second chart is today's one minute action where it bounced around that level until around noon, an then took a poop. Now a close, on a Friday in a bad place if you believe in the technicals.

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