Nostradamus is a Seattle Mariners play-by-play announcer

The back-story here is that during the pregame show, Mike Blowers, a Seattle radio announcer, predicted in jest that Mariners third baseman Matt Tuiasosopo would hit a homerun during his second at bat. Blowers didn't stop there. He also predicted the count, where he would hit it and what type of pitch he would hit. Here's what happened:



And to prove it's not fake: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlesports/archives/180539.asp

If you need to get psyched up before going to preschool...

A great rendition of Herb Brooks' Miracle on Ice pregame speech:


Hat tip: Simmons

Happy 60th to The Boss

Here's a classic early Springsteen performance of Prove It All Night:



UPDATE
Here's a clip from the time Bruce Springsteen stopped to play with a street performer in Copenhagen:


SECOND UPDATE
OK, one more. Here's Bruce performing Thunder Road at the Capitol Theater in 1978, a concert generally regarded as one of his finest:

Steve Nash's new commercial is....um....interesting

If you're going to run on the field, here's how to do it

The Dan Band gets its due

The Dan Band is a recent favorite of The Tao. So it's nice to see they'll be featured from time to time on Jay Leno's new show. Their first performance was pretty good:



Of course, this is not in the same league as The Dan Band's finest work, as the wedding band in both Old School and The Hangover (click link for video; no embedding allowed).

RIP, Patrick Swayze

I don't think I've ever seen an entire movie with Patrick Swayze (maybe Point Break one time?). However, he did participate admirably in arguably the greatest SNL skit of all time, which is all the more sad because both primary actors are now dead.

Craigslist: for all your suicide bomber needs

Here's the link.

Since it will likely get pulled down, here's the full text:

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Mixing mascots and live animals always has comedic potential

This guy has one job -- ride a horse 50 yards -- and he can't even get it right:

Gus Johnson is mildly excited

It's nice to have football back.

Some things just can't be explained

In an upset, ballboy hurts face instead of namesake

Amateur videographers of the world take note. If you are going to publish a poor quality home video on the Internet, backing it up with some wildly inappropriate background music really spruces things up:

I will now ruin your morning

May I please have your stump-print

Sometimes a headline says it all: "US bank seeks thumbprint of armless man." Yeah, that has to be awkward.

So long, lose weight

I have it on good authority that the following farewell email was circulated at PwC by a departing accountant earlier this week:

As many of you now know this friday will be my last day with PwC so I wanted to say good bye and thank you for everything. My decision to leave was not a snap decision as it may have seemed but a well thought out process. It started one night in the audit room as I was helplessly attempting to focus on some inane, completely irrelevant task so I could leave when the green card carrying cleaning lady came into my cage to empty my garbage when my decision was made. I realized that I was actually jealous of her job. I would have gladly emptied the garbage cans in the whole building over any of the nonsense I was doing on my computer. See, at the end of her shift she has made a difference, she has added value,be it minimal, of removing the refuse from the employees cubes. At the end of the day she sees the empty garbage cans and knows that she accomplished something. When trying to apply this mindset to my own work I found it to be impossible. At the end of my shift, I will have documented a control, that was only created for the sake of having a
control, and my work will get picked apart by anal retentive managers, but ultimately find a home in a cabinet somewhere, only to see the light of day again when it is thrown out in 7 years when it is deemed to be irrelevant. I have added zero value to the client, zero value to my own company, and it has made me routinely daydream about ways to off myself. I find it very hard to be motivated when I know the end result of my work has no impact on anything but simply must be completed because PwC audit guide says it must be completed. What makes this entire process worse is the fact that those around you insist

that this work is crucial to the world's existence and it is essential that you never use abbreviations, that your sheets must be as colorful as possible, and all lines must be drawn with a ruler or else it is clear that PwC will come apart from its hinges. I must have missed out on the brainwashing session that PwC provided all senior associate and managers that taught them how to turn obsessive compulsive up a notch.

Anyway...that was how I came to decide that public accounting was not really for me. A couple other pieces of adivce for my coworkers and the company as I part:

I would greatly encourage some kind of weight loss challenge to be implemented firm wide. The herd of water buffalo you call your work force is embarassing and a bit gross. When I call a co worker over from 2 cubes down and they are legitmately out of breath when they get to my cube it may be time to knock off 10 or 80 pounds. The company seems to encourage this obesity; each busy season we get a giant package full of pixie sticks, chocolate and assorted sweets. As much as I would enjoy type 2
diabetes, I think I'll pass.

Do not ever, ever, ever put one male on a team with all females unless you want him to quit and or commit a hate crime. This is inhumane. One can only endure so many conversations about greys anatomy, weddings, and handbags before they wish for a cancerous tumor in their armpit.

I think the joke is old already, enough with the sarbanes oxley. It was fun while it lasted but there is no way anbody can honestly think that this bullshit is necessary. Oh you want me to pull a sample of the HR file to make sure everyones birthday and hire date is accurate? Yea ill jump right on that, and trust me I'll definitely let you know if there is an exception and not just make up answers that result in me doing less work.

You can easily cut some costs and get rid of the HR department. I'm pretty sure you can train a monkey to send out the available list and a timesheet reminder every two weeks.