Screwball

To the bold above - YES! It's wild the way it talks to you. Very personalized, but it gets even crazier if you use the voice version (I was using only text). I did voice with my phone when I replaced a SSD card in my laptop. Guy had a Aussie accent. Talk about creepy! It was like someone sitting in the room with you. How much to trust with stuff like this? I think that is yet to be seen. I used it as a check on all the research and stuff I had done. I didn't post the numbers above, but Co-Pilot was pretty spot on with its assessments when I compared it to my own research, measurements, and calculations. For example, it told me how many watts my furnace fan would pull. It was a pretty wide range, which isn't good enough to design the system. I could give it a model number for the furnace, and it would get closer, maybe even close enough. But I used an ammeter so I knew "exactly" how many watts I needed under peak load and startup. I don't see how AI can replace a meter, and that difference might be a factor. In this case, one I can't be unsure about. But it is kinda cool - and creepy.

I'm going on old memory so I don't know how accurate my years are (close). I'm also going to date myself. Like I said, I don't remember the name of the league but I thought it was the Federation league but I could be wrong. Our little town of around 20k had a team in that league. They played other teams from Ohio; Mansfield, Toledo, Sandusky, Mt. Vernon, and a few more I can't remember. They later named a field in town after the coach. He had a direct connection to the Cleveland Indians. One of their pitchers played in the Indian's farm system. Another was in the Pirates system. They came from all over the area to play in this league. They drove their own cars to the games. I remember the league from the late 60s to the mid to late 70s when they went away, so it lasted quite a few years. There were a couple of coaches over the years but it finally went away. I don't remember when. Today, as sad as it may be, the field they played on isn't even there anymore. At one time there were probably 250-300 people watching the games on a given night. There was also a 16-18 year old league that played there, so the field had something going almost every night. These guys in the Fed league were all out of high school except for a very few of the best high school guys around. Most of the good high school guys played on a traveling team, many times sponsored by the American Legion. That was popular around the area at the time.

Sounds like if, and when, they go to the electronic zone it will be a percentage of height (top & bottom) as the batter is measured while standing. This includes any part of the ball? IOW, the entire ball does not need to be inside the rectangle? Not sure, been away for awhile.

Thanks. I would love to find more about that era. There was some really good baseball back then. Some of the guys who played in that league were on their way up, or down. They traveled all over the area in their own cars to play a couple or three night games a week after work, and a doubleheader or two on the weekend. Back then fast pitch softball was big too. I never understood that. From the distance they pitch, the reaction time isn't much different - milliseconds. But the balls didn't hurt as much.

Incredible - thanks. It would have been (what I remember) mid-seventies on. I remember delivering the Toledo Blade on Sunday. When I was done, the first thing I would do is read the sports page. In the stat section you could see the MLB stats right along side of the the Federation league stats, if that's what it was called. I remember the guys who I knew were in there. I don't remember about the International league then, though. I think they had a team in Toledo back then? Swayne Field? These teams traveled around the ball yards in their own cars. Probably a 50 game schedule. They called them semi-pro teams. Little ball yard in the middle of nowhere has a few hundred fans because these guys were pretty good. There were also high school traveling teams then too. Around here they called them legion teams because the American Legion sponsored a bunch of traveling teams, or helped. The good old days.

Since the AI stuff is here, I will put this here. To make a long story short I decided to get myself setup to run my furnace and refrigerator in the winter if I run out of power via my truck and an inverter. I have been working on this for a few months. I'm good to go once I get a good enough day to work on my truck for about 20 minutes. But the funny part - enter AI - I decided to ask Microsofts Co-Pilot (there are choices - how wild is that when you think about it) about how to do my particular system. Just wanted to see how it might work. I spent quite a bit of time giving it information and telling it what I wanted to do. It's really wild ****. Like talking to customer service we only wish we had. But creepy. I have everything in place so I was finalizing some of my questions to verify I had done things right. It ended like this; GTFOOH

OMG that guy just killed me. I remember the neighbors telling me they heard me two door down. It was because of him. Nuts. Since I'm here, I have a question for you. I think you are from around the Toledo area. Do you remember, way long ago, and you might not be old enough, a baseball team in Toledo Toledo Merchants? They played in a league with teams from NW Ohio. Sandusky, Mansfield, Mt. Gilead, Tiffin, and others. I want to say it was called the Federation league but I don't remember. I can't find anything by searching either.

And day 8 for the big candle. I want to see where this goes so I know what to do next. Rumblings are rate cuts at the next Fed meeting, guessing the conversation will be for 25 or 50 bps. We have no reports to go by as many are not reporting due to the shutdown. The Pigmen know. 🙂

Not at all. I lived in the belly of this beast for 35+ years. It's a ****ing wonder they find their way to work. The only way they get more ****ed up is if they get bigger. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Good for you - don't get hurt. 🙂

Hearing the name Juan Gonzalez ruined my night. He drove me nuts (short trip) more than any baseball player who ever walked the planet.

Not gonna happen. This is all lip service for the serfs. The women are only part of it. The bigger picture is money laundering and blackmail. Much has been out there for years and nothing has happened.

Doesn't change the point, but I don't see a 5 bubble in the strike zone. ON EDIT; Now I do. I didn't look way up there.

Trading day number 7. Dow has broken out to the upside, but the S&P and NASDAQ are still inside the large candle. This is the S&P chart, and today's print is what the chartist call a Doji. Not a perfect one, but close. Given where the open/close was this one was right in the middle. They are known to predict a trend reversal but in this case I'm not sure that is true. If it was outside that large candle, after this 40% run up since April I might believe it more. But it is what it is. Fun to watch one way or another. The yellow arrow around September 6th is when the Fed cut rates and I called the top. Obviously, that wasn't the top.

Everyone should experience the Indy 500. Doesn't matter if you are a race fan.

When the playoffs started and those people were in the studio I went immediately mute. A root canal might be more fun.

I never looked into it, but it sounds like Canvas is used very widely. It can really do some neat stuff. During COVID I had 20 people, 10 in two different rooms. Canvas was easy to setup video feeds through Microsoft teams to the room I couldn't be in. Worked great for the classrooms, or people who were remote. Log into Canvas and we are good to go. Then of course, there was the cluster **** only the brilliant people who ran our school gave me. Room one - E214. Room two - E102. That's one floor and half a wing apart. I guess I needed the exercise.

I haven't followed so I don't know, but many times history told us criminals are many times not too smart. It's about the biggest and bestest burgle. How cool would it be to plan the greatest heist in history? I was a burglar as a young puppy so I love that stuff.

I really liked Canvas. I always kept a "development shell" which served as inventory to use as needed. But that's only my simple end. I thought it was a very good system. But then there is stuff like what happened today. If I go to class and can't get into Canvas (as well as the kids), we are done, period.

Are you admitting, as a moderator, you read our private messages?

Update on this puppy. After 6 trading days, of all the market action between the sell off candle, which is now 6 trading days ago, two of our indexes are still within that candle. The DOW went above today, which the chartist might call a breakout. The DOW is a piss poor index to watch. Both the S&P and the NASDAQ are still within this candle. Not that that means anything, but I'm getting a kick out of watching it. I would love to find some 108 year old Japanese guy who helped develop the candlestick system to see if there is a tip here. :-)

Wait till AI fixes this ****.

I think it would be the neatest thing EVER to figure out how to rob a place you are not suppose to be able to rob.

That if screwing up quite a few things. I got an email from the college I don't work at anymore saying Canvas, software used for for our entire learning system is down, and on social media a local restaurant posted this; Of course I have an order on AMZN I am anxiously waiting on. Wonder how much it will be delays. I could log in but not track the package.

I think you are already a programmer, so Java might come real easy for you. I tried to learn it once, back around 2005ish? It wasn't my first rodeo. I first learned a little, what was it, basic, that was one of the first DOS languages you could use? Dabbled in C, Java, a real goofy language called "Fourth", visual basic once we had windows (I did kind of like that), and an internal program used in my CAD system. I hated programming, which is why I avoided it, and made sure in every interview I told them I am NOT a programmer, if that's what you want, I'm not your guy. I get the logic and all that, but it's not for me. I think only certain people have the gyro to do that, and I respect them greatly.