The Daily Dose/Thursday, May 27, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 27, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a technology update from the hotel. Today’s Diary.
There are several minor changes to the system following the tech refresh, the almost exciting one being that folios are emailed automatically at checkout now…
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I want to know everything/Except what everybody else knows/Since everyone knows these things, why should I?
Gore Vidal
Washington, D.C.
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The Diary of a Nobody/May 26
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Wednesday, May 26
The only part of the tech refresh still to be completed – at least that I’m aware of – is getting individual system logins back for the front desk computers…We still have them for the system, but there is only one generic Administrator login for individual machines right now, which means you gotta be careful because you don’t want to leave yourself logged into Faceplant or your Google account, at least I don’t…I remember one time at Hotel B Amy, who was then the GM, made a funny post on Faceplant because I had neglected to log off.
The Daily Dose/Wednesday, May 26, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 26, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – The new computer installation at the hotel rolls on. Today’s Diary.
Yesterday we joked about that tech who was helping install our new computers (known as a tech refresh here at the hotel) had some problems with those bastards installing and updating our software and how he might well be here when yours truly reported for duty tonight.
He was!!!…I am not making that up…What should’ve been done by this afternoon was still providing challenges and training opportunities…
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I confess now in my old age that to hear and to listen are two different things.
Gore Vidal
Creation
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The Daily Dose/Tuesday, May 25, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 25, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, the computers are being replaced. Today’s Diary.
At 0530 Candace said she was retiring to her room for as much sleep as would be allowed her and 15 minutes later the tech – who never did offer his name – fled, too…He said he was mainly a “front-end hardware guy” and that his work was done for now adding, spellbindingly, that “it’s in the hands of the software guys now. All the hardware’s basically in place and ready to go…They’ll call me when they need me again.”
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…he speaks from himself, for himself, with the voice of someone whose literary style creates the impression that he has earned the right to speak.
Fred Kaplan
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
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The Daily Dose/Monday, May 24, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 23, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
ANCHORS AWEIGH: To paraphrase something we used to say – not without some regularity – in the Navy, major league baseball would muck up a wet dream. As we discussed last week, they are unable to properly define a no-hitter. Now, they can’t even count to 20,000.
Don’t Get Out Your History Books: The headline said Jose Godoy of the Seattle Mariners had become the 20,000th player in major league history. All right, that’s a nice little milestone but the mark turns out to be false because the article also noted:
The list of big leaguers began in 1871…
Dry, Technical Matter: No it did not. 1871 is when the National Association (NA) began play, however the list of big-league players begins on April 22, 1876, when the first ten players took part in the first at-bat in the National League’s first game.
And You Wonder Why You Don’t Get Invited To Any Parties: Any halfwit knows the National Association does not qualify for major league status. Yes, of course, it was the highest level of professional baseball played at the time. We give it that, but that’s where it ends because the NA was merely a collection of teams that played games when it suited them, with many teams not making road trips because of the cost. This is not the trait of a league entitled to major league status.
Please Pass The Dry, Technical Matter: Proof of the NA’s minor league status – as if more is required – can be found in the major league record book, which ignores NA marks, though it does include records from the several defunct major leagues that dot baseball’s historical landscape.
FunFact: Of the 24 teams that played official NA games, only three – the Philadelphia Athletics, the New York Mutuals and the Boston Red Stockings (now the Atlanta Braves) – played all four seasons.
The Bottom Line: We’re sorry, Godoy is no more the 20,000th player in big league history than you are, and some research shows he was actually the 19,674 big league player. Source: baseball-reference.com. The wait for 20,000 continues.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – For the 3,235th time, Sparrow requests you ring the bell at the hotel’s front desk. Today’s Diary.
Shortly thereafter you can hear him farting around at the sundry stand and when he gets to the desk with his crap and says “yoo hoo” as if I’m a chocolate drink and yelps “ding ding ding ding ding ding”…Christ, I’m ready to drag him out back for summary execution…Finally, he rings the bell (a typically weak ring, as if pushing the button all the way down is hard) and I head out…He looks as impudent, breezy and flippant as he sounded, but ol’ Sparrow is service personified, treating him like I wanted a loan from him and he was out the door – heading to work it appeared – in short order.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
It was hard to believe he had evolved through the natural process of conception, birth and growing up.
McKinley Kantor
Andersonville
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The Daily Dose/Sunday, May 23, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 23, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. 9/11 Prisoners: – US authorizes transfer of three more Guantanamo detainees who have never been charged with anything to other countries, though – hilariously – no countries are currently lined up to receive them…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters don’t like terrorism any more than you do, but how come we are holding people for upwards of 20 years without charging them with anything?
2. Israel/Hamas War –People have fought in the Middle East longer than the US has been around, but maybe if the US gave other nations the dignity of conducting their affairs without the benefit of US interference, maybe things like this wouldn’t happen as often.
3. Lauren Daigle – Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters tapping monitors in case Billboard Hot Christian Singles chart stuck as You Say extends Billboard all-chart record with 129th non-consecutive week at #1…Envious Morman Tabernacle Choir now getting testy as plans for cool jazz versions of rebooting Onward, Christain Soldiers as Onward, Christian MAGAs hits snag in post-production.
4. COVID-19– Hey guys, we ain’t out of the woods yet…Yes, mask restrictions are ending in places, but if you think those that aren’t vaccinated are going to wear masks you are high – legally in more and more states…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” another round of virus spikes “like, right around the corner and stuff”.
5. President Biden, GOP Fact Check – Everybody just saying whatever the hell they want now…Click here for latest misinformation…From the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Q: Is it Read Free Sunday at The Diary?
A: Yes. It is Read Free Sunday at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s famous Spanglish isn’t much use with the restaurant’s new cook. Today’s Diary
The new cook for the restaurant is pretty funny, tho he’s not really intending to be…He rings the bell at 0550 every morning – ten minutes early – and I stick my head out and nod and say my standard “good morning, I’ll meet you in the back”…The problem is the cook has very little English – far less than my Spanglish – and he usually produces a blank stare and a laff and you get the impression you could probably inform him his mother wore army boots and he’d laff.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever
Marriage, the last refuge of men unable to fend for themselves.
Garrison Keillor
Leaving Home
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