Sorry for the hijack right off the bat, but I’m having all kinds of problems with my G-mail recently.  The lame-ass Google help function has functioned lamely.

At this point I slightly suspect that I might have picked up some virus or malware.  Can anyone recommend a package for the Mac?  Good ol’ Norton?

[1] Try getting to gmail from another machine.  I’d tend to suspect google having a glitch rather than your mac having caught a virus, esp. if you don’t install random stuff from the web.

I don’t run anything on my mac book pro, but I see e.g..

“5.37 RA, 4.97 ER”

Gosh, that’s AJ?

[1] what browser are you using? can you try a different one?

[2, 4]  Same problems with FF and Safari…and I have the same problem on my second machine.  I shuttle files around so I could have a virus on both.

The principal problem is that I want to “label” some email to get it out of the inbox; when I do that, the email is visible under the “label”—useful!—but still shows up in the inbox—not useful!

ETA:  And if Google has a glitch how come my problem seems to baffle everyone?  Wouldn’t many people have this problem?

Also re [1], I’ve stopped attempting to use the gmail help - go straight to google.

[5] Oh, that’s a feature.

I thought Mac people were always saying Macs don’t get viruses?  Did you try the HTML version of gmail?

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h

Gosh, that’s AJ?

Yep, it’s been ugly.

[7]  What’s a feature?

[6]  What do you mean straight to Google?

[8]  Same issues.

Gmail is the AJ Burnett of webmail.  Ha!  Tied it in!

[5] I see I have a “move to” button, that’s what you want - labels and moves to a folder.  They don’t really believe in archiving far as I can tell.

[9] “Feature” means “something you the user think is a bug but is what the programmer thinks should happen”.  “Straight to google” means “for example google ‘gmail label move’”.

[10]  No, the labels function—or are supposed to function—effectively the same as a folder.  Without over-explaining, I have a limited ability to use the labels as intended, but a couple weeks ago the functionality partly went away such that it makes my life more difficult.

[12] I don’t get it - I move an email to “floop”, it asks if it should create floop, when I do the mail goes to floop and is so labelled, I can find it by searching on labels or by finding the label on the left bar.

I bet you can sort your inbox by unlabelled too…

[1] [8] Because of a lack of viruses, there is no useful anti-virus software for Mac available.

And I don’t want to start a Mac - Windows flamewar.
Use Linux you numbnuts.

[13] I have a label called “floop”.  While my mail currently demands my attention I leave it in the inbox.  When I no longer need to deal with it, I want it to go to label “floop” and not clutter my inbox.  This used to happen fine.  What happens now is that when I move an email to floop, it shows up under label floop AND in my inbox.  This is not what’s supposed to happen.

[13] Nope, they don’t really believe in sorting either, except I guess this new priority thing which thinks I really want to read eBay spam.  They really really really believe in search.

[16] And you’re using move to, not label?  I wonder if you’ve munged your preferences somehow.

[18] I didn’t do anything.  It’s google that’s effed.

SPARTANBURG, S.C.—Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann got her Elvis Presley dates all shook up during a campaign stop Tuesday in South Carolina.

The congresswoman from Minnesota played the Elvis tune “Promised Land” at a local restaurant and told the crowd of 300 that she wanted to say happy birthday to the king of rock `n’ roll.

“Before we get started, let’s all say happy birthday to Elvis Presley today!” Bachmann said.

But Aug. 16 is the anniversary of Elvis’ death, in 1977, and someone in the crowd shouted back, “He died today!”

Bachmann has stumbled over cultural references before. In June, she kicked off her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, calling it the home of American actor John Wayne. The town was actually home for a time to serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

SPARTANBURG, S.C.—Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann got her Elvis Presley dates all shook up during a campaign stop Tuesday in South Carolina.

The congresswoman from Minnesota played the Elvis tune “Promised Land” at a local restaurant and told the crowd of 300 that she wanted to say happy birthday to the king of rock `n’ roll.

“Before we get started, let’s all say happy birthday to Elvis Presley today!” Bachmann said.

But Aug. 16 is the anniversary of Elvis’ death, in 1977, and someone in the crowd shouted back, “He died today!”

Bachmann has stumbled over cultural references before. In June, she kicked off her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, calling it the home of American actor John Wayne. The town was actually home for a time to serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

I need another drink. None of this shit makes any sense to me. However, if anyone has any recommendations to temporarily divert a 1,200 cfs river underlain by cobbles and stiff gray till that still allows for a salmon spawning run, then I’m all fuckin ears (eyes).

[23]  My sister studies riverine erosion.  Is that relevant?

[23] Good enough.  Though we’re trying to limit downstream transport of sediment because it’s, well, quite contaminated. Hence the diversion so we can remove that nasty.

Was Elvis a Navy Corpsman?

ChrisS, if you are interested in talking to my sister and/or her husband (who does the same thing) email me thru the site, I’ll put you in touch if it’s worthwhile.

ETA: worthwhile to you, that is

[24] Get some local convict labor to strip a bunch of staircases from old condemned buildings, lay them end to end across an oxbow, and, uhh…

Mel H 21: even Gary Busey (D.C. Cab) knew Elvis’s birthday (he refused to work on that day)

Jeter!

C-Grand!

Good communication between Goober Hosmer and Bruce Chen.

76th walk of the season for Swish.

That inning was unsatisfying.  At least we made Chen throw a gazillion pitches.

Go Calzone!

Despite how much better Jeter has been the last couple of months, those weak bouncing grounders to the left side still make me cringe.

So what’s going with everyone here at Replacement Level Gmail and Erosion Help Desk Weblog?

Sterling is annoying.

[35] Dunno, I only support Exchange.

At least we get to listen to crickets in the booth.  Gives me that outdoorsy feel.

Fantastic 3-2 pitch, Big Bart.  This inning has sucked.

Colon bubbling like the housing market

Verge of collapse?

Not good at all. The good thing is Cashman was comfortable with his starting rotation 2 weeks ago

What is the on-field delay?

Now who pitches game 2?

[44]
Phil of the Phuture!
The Phuture is now.

What is the on-field delay?

Home run review. I think Butler’s blast.

Jeter seems to have stolen the fountain of youth from Bartolo.

Ugh, that run would have been helpful.

So, Teix? Another slight bummer of a season?

Jeter with a better OBP than Tex. I wonder which contract looks worse now?

This game has become very annoying.

[46]
Thx, Vill.

Leadoff triple to Melky - great way to start the inning, Mr. Hamburgler.

It’s not so much a competition to see who the No. 2 is on this staff, as it is a death struggle to claim the No. 5 spot.

Thx, Vill.

Radio guest voice seems sure that it should have been a ground rule double, rather than home run.

Lorenz is an idiot.  He should be covering High School track meets.

Looks like we got spastic Colon tonight…

After the first inning, it’s slightly awful that Chen’s pitch count is still under 100 in the 6th.

Now pitching for the Yankees…number 37, Bruce Chen.

Chen is the new Spahn.

Now pitching for the Yankees…number 37, Bruce Chen.

Casey Stengel would like a word with you….

Nono Noesi in to replace Chico Marx

According to my calculations, Chen is pretty terrible. According to the Yankees. He’s an above average pitcher.

I’m a velocity junkie.  It pleases me to see Hector hitting 96 on the Royals gun.

Can the wrong call on the Butler home run provide grounds for a successful protest of the game?

1) I demand that all you effers quit the computer talk for a few hours of peace from my reality life.

2) I cannot hear enough chatter about the relative virtue of townie losses versus Yankee wins.

3) I fear there is much truth in the assertion that Colon’s rejuventation liquer has been diverted to Jeter and/or A-Rod. Except we’ll probably get more enjoyment out of Alex reaching 30 HR and Jeter reaching 300 GIJP, so…Colon to the ‘pen.

4) I won’t pretend that I could pitch as well as AJ for that money, that would be just ludicrous. But I can give you 6 hard fouls for half that money, and off the bench at that !

5) This game is gone to shit because Jeter is batting leadoff. Discuss.

Jeter is raking.

1) Okay
2) Me neither
3) agreed
4) I believe you.
5) hard to argue with Derek’s three hits

[66] Jeter is King. I read this here about 4 years ago.

No DP, please no GIDP.

great job Tex

OTF 60: Chen and rain makes me insane

Teixeira is bad at baseball

What is up with Tex? Jeez

[71] he did what I asked. Meh

What? Six more years?

I was expecting more than this. Oh well. Only about 12 years or so left on that contract, right?

ugh

Can we transfer CC’s opt out to Tex?

Cano sucks. I bet we could get Jason Bay for him.

this guy is throwing sloppy meatballs up there

Is this guy throwing whiffleballs?

not a strike to Swish

If Venditte isn’t on a ML roster next year he should be pissed.

That fucking sucked. What the fuck

That fucking crickett must go. Cutter, you are our pressbox representative. Handle this !

Looked like a ball from here… but I’m drinking Baltic Thunder and watching Entourage.

Jeter with a nice 3-4 night with a double—but if he doesn’t get caught stealing in the first inning, the whole complexion of the game may have different.

[87] fewer pimples without the caught stealing?

3 strait whiffs? what are they the Cubs?

I’m generally fatalistic about umpires’ blown calls, but the wrong call on the Butler “home run” continues to rankle me.  I need the wisdom of bebop and OTF to carry me through.

5) hard to argue with Derek’s three hits et. al.

I’ll see your batting average and raise you a Win.

[89] three straight whiffs against complete junk

[91] I’ll see you’re win and raise you an upward trend in LD% and OPS.

Bruce Chen pitching effectively in the tradition of Bob Shirley

Happy Birthday, Jorge!

Now go sit down and enjoy your tapioca

[93] I wish I hadn’t been a dick to Jonathan about the crickett and could find a way to throw a heatmap into this thing.

Come on Mel.. Bob Laverne and Shirley your not serious was his real name.

[97] On Yom Kippur, you may seek forgiveness from Jonathan.

Ah well…can’t win ‘em all. Seems a horrible squander with the Sox loss, though.