Current CFB on TV. Last week, I knew it was on, but never looked. Skimmed, if that, any articles about it the next day. Tonight I turned on the Southern Miss & South Alabama but I've hardly turned around to view it. Volume low but I tell yah, it took a while of listening to sense the familiar ambiance which got me to finally turn around and watch a bit.
Certainly, other than a passing interest, if that, in either team, I could almost care less. However, I think it's going to be more natural for me to have preferences of sorts when the bigger schools start. Some teams I have nominally adopted for years, I could get into. E.g. Iowa State and Missouri come to mind.
Because it's 2020, we now have [spins wheel]... the Plague. Plague warning issued in Tahoe Basin. Scootie yet to deny that she's hanging out with angry squirrels.
I read a couple of weeks ago about a hiker who had come down with it. Thankfully it seems to be confined to South Shore at the moment, while I am not. Also, my local squirrels seem quite friendly.
I also remember a reddit story where an Indian parent, with no intention to move to the US, named their kid Aryan. And they, or the kid, ended up coming to the US.
The University of Southern California has placed a professor on leave after he said a Chinese word that sounds similar to a racial slur in English while teaching a communications class, according to a report.
Greg Patton, a professor at the university’s Marshall School of Business, was giving a lecture about the use of “filler words” in speech during a recent online class when he used the word in question, saying, ““If you have a lot of ‘ums and errs,’ this is culturally specific, so based on your native language. Like in China, the common word is ‘that, that, that.’ So in China it might be ‘nèi ge, nèi ge, nèi ge.’”
Great Character on Person of Interest. played by the awesome Amy Acker.
"Root (played by Amy Acker), born Samantha "Sam" Groves, is a highly intelligent computer hacker and contract killer, obsessed with Finch and the Machine. Aside from her extraordinary intelligence, she has also displayed an uncanny ability in the use of firearms, a very high threshold for pain (S2 Ep2, "Bad Code", where she gets physically assaulted by Denton Weeks; S3 Ep12, "Aletheia", where she is severely tortured but not broken by Control) and a proficiency for social engineering. " - en.wikipedia
I'm waiting for the It's-It factory to open back up so that I can redeem my Living Social coupons for It's-It and the chocolate covered oatmeal cookies. And I think one of them "expired' due to covid so I'll need to see what I can do about that.
I think it was $13 for 12 It's-It and 12 chocolate covered oatmeal cookies. I usually mix Mint Chip and Chocolate.
"FootballScoop reached out to contacts at 8 Big Ten schools (including Penn State). 7 have responded so far (not including Penn State), all 6 have said something along the lines of “We’re not experiencing that here and haven’t heard of anyone in the conference experiencing this. Last we heard was nearly 10 total athletes across all sports.”
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told governors last week to prepare for the "large-scale" distribution of a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by NBC News.
In the Aug. 27 letter, the director, Dr. Robert Redfield, said the CDC had contracted with a pharmaceutical company, McKesson Corp., to potentially distribute hundreds of millions of vaccine doses to health departments and medical facilities across the country in the fall.
Redfield called the effort "massive" and asked governors for their help expediting applications for distribution facilities that will be set up and operated by McKesson.
Rand Paul: "These are out-of-state thugs paid to attack me. It is not plausible that they are protestors who are angry with me as a politician. The FBI should investigate and arrest them. "
Here's my take. I encourage dipshits to try to vote twice in NC. The system is set up to prevent it.
If you try, you'll be denied. It just slows down voting. Lines will get longer in the counties with more dipshits. This state is a swing state and it's a toss-up. If he causes 1% of his voter base to abandon voting, he'll lose this state and he'll lose the whole election. It will be the unintended consequences that DJT deserves because, like everything else, will be completely his fault.
Was Nash even mentioned as a possibility? I don't recall hearing his name, though that could just be that I haven't really been paying attention to Nets News.
The San Francisco Giants lost 9-6, or 6-9 if you’re into the whole niceness thing. And I’m not going to lie to you: I’m not really sure it happened.
No, I didn’t take the day off. And no, my eyeballs didn’t stop working, even if they developed the requisite allergy-like symptoms that come from watching Coors Field baseball two days in a row.
I watched the whole dang thing and I’m just not really sure what happened. It was subtle. You could tell the Rockies — and the ballpark, specifically — had done this before.
The Giants bat around the order in the first inning, putting up 4 runs in the process, and I allowed myself to forget that Tuesday night’s game had ended before Wednesday’s began. The lead stretched to 6-1, and I just kind of figured oh yeah, cool, they’re gonna win.
It was better late than never for the Dodgers, who scored in the ninth and 10th innings to beat the Diamondbacks 3-2 on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.
Extra innings have been an adventure this season for the Dodgers, winning games after the ninth on a leadoff two-run home run and a leadoff sacrifice fly, both firsts in MLB history. But on Wednesday, trailing by a run in the 10th, the winning rally began on a bunt by Chris Taylor that Junior Guerra stumbled as he fielded, then compounded things by throwing wildly to third base, allowing the tying run to score.
Taylor advanced to second on the play, then moved to third on a ground out. Will Smith walked it off with a single to left, giving the Dodgers their fourth straight victory.
Dude is going to go into the HoF wearing a Dodger hat 😃 That got me thinking, who else has a shot at the HoF on this team... Kershaw is obviously a Hall of Famer. Bellinger has a legit shot if he keeps it up. Buehler and May have the talent right now to get there, but you never know with pitchers.
Possibly Seager? If the Dodgers want to pay he'll be a Dodger for life. He's got the hitting skills for a HOF career as a SS but at some point he'll move to 3B.
Seager's got plenty of talent, but the dude can't seem to stay healthy. Do you think the Dodgers are going to sign him to a long term extension? I'm honestly not sure. His contract is over after 2021, and remember they've also got Lux banging on the door.
I think it depends on if they think Lux's throwing problems will be worse at SS. He's hitting so well this year I could see them attempting a shorter, higher AAV contract. Or one with an opt out. Would be a shame to lose him.
Seager will be 28, right in his prime. He'll be looking for a big money long term contract. Plus Boras is his agent. What I could see is the Dodgers keeping him and moving either him or Lux to 3rd.
Is the Lux throwing thing still an issue? I thought he briefly had the yips and got over it.
I think there were some issues during spring training 2. though I don't know how much of that is he got to training late due to Covid. I think if they keep Seager it will be Seager at 3rd and Lux at SS. I think Seager will slow down in a few years. As it is he doesn't have great range. The Dodgers just place him in a better position.
Another guy who's had a phenomenal start to his career and has boatloads of talent is Will Smith. It's early, but he could be a generational catcher for the Dodgers.
I thought about him as well. I'm more impressed with his hitting. Lowest chase rate, very high walk and low strikeout hitter. 4th highest exit velocity. Just very unlucky this year. Looks like he's somewhere in between the way he started and the way he ended last year, closer to the way he started.
FET, a kid No 1 played with in rec and HS played on a travel team with Will Smith in HS.
The question with him is Ruiz and Cartaya. Will they come up and bump Smith such that the Dodgers are willing to trade Smith. Someone is going to have to be traded.
But please no DH. During the game last night Orel said he thought the extra innings runner should be kept. He hated it before the first Dodgers extra inning game but he kinda likes it now. I don't like the runner at 2nd either.
true. Plus I think Will Smith could play 2B, kinda like Austin Barnes was put there a few times in 2017 (?), if they want to keep his bat in the lineup.
In The Midnight Hour is such a great song.
Current CFB on TV. Last week, I knew it was on, but never looked. Skimmed, if that, any articles about it the next day. Tonight I turned on the Southern Miss & South Alabama but I've hardly turned around to view it. Volume low but I tell yah, it took a while of listening to sense the familiar ambiance which got me to finally turn around and watch a bit.
Certainly, other than a passing interest, if that, in either team, I could almost care less. However, I think it's going to be more natural for me to have preferences of sorts when the bigger schools start. Some teams I have nominally adopted for years, I could get into. E.g. Iowa State and Missouri come to mind.
Middle East city gets bombed, man
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/drone-drops-hundreds-of-bags-of-cannabis-dropped-in-tel-aviv-640981
Because it's 2020, we now have [spins wheel]... the Plague. Plague warning issued in Tahoe Basin. Scootie yet to deny that she's hanging out with angry squirrels.
https://www.ktvn.com/story/42582875/fleas-test-positive-for-plague-bacteria-near-tallac-historic-site-kiva-beach
I read a couple of weeks ago about a hiker who had come down with it. Thankfully it seems to be confined to South Shore at the moment, while I am not. Also, my local squirrels seem quite friendly.
Words in other languages that sound like English slurs
Works the other way too. Saying “yup” sounds like Russian for F—.
https://youtu.be/xADcMXHT3HA
...what's that supposed to sound like in English?
That’s a different version than I’ve heard!
I also remember a reddit story where an Indian parent, with no intention to move to the US, named their kid Aryan. And they, or the kid, ended up coming to the US.
USC Communications Professor Placed On Leave after Using Chinese Word That Sounds Like Racial Slur
https://news.yahoo.com/usc-communications-professor-placed-leave-172039179.html
The University of Southern California has placed a professor on leave after he said a Chinese word that sounds similar to a racial slur in English while teaching a communications class, according to a report.
Greg Patton, a professor at the university’s Marshall School of Business, was giving a lecture about the use of “filler words” in speech during a recent online class when he used the word in question, saying, ““If you have a lot of ‘ums and errs,’ this is culturally specific, so based on your native language. Like in China, the common word is ‘that, that, that.’ So in China it might be ‘nèi ge, nèi ge, nèi ge.’”
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ he was speaking Chinese, for fuck's sake
I mean in this case the professor was clearly talking about words in other languages and not specifically using the N word.
Russell Peters had a bit on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrsWp07BwVk&ab_channel=MajedAlossaimi
A country that uses different colors in international sports competitions other than those on its flag.
India uses baby blue for its cricket team
Netherlands love orange
Italia - Azzuri
Australia w/ green/gold
Doesn't Japan play soccer in blue?
Yep! サムライ・ブルー - Samurai Blue
New Zealand comes to mind
Mississippi settles on the new magnolia flag.
https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2020/09/02/mississippi-vote-final-flag-design-november/
Kinda sad that the Mosquito flag wasn't chosen.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/13/mosquito-flag-rise-and-fall-mississippi-icon/3359350001/
I like it. We have tons of magnolias in our neighborhood and I love to see them in bloom.
TIL that the magnolia is the state tree.
Great Character on Person of Interest. played by the awesome Amy Acker.
"Root (played by Amy Acker), born Samantha "Sam" Groves, is a highly intelligent computer hacker and contract killer, obsessed with Finch and the Machine. Aside from her extraordinary intelligence, she has also displayed an uncanny ability in the use of firearms, a very high threshold for pain (S2 Ep2, "Bad Code", where she gets physically assaulted by Denton Weeks; S3 Ep12, "Aletheia", where she is severely tortured but not broken by Control) and a proficiency for social engineering. " - en.wikipedia
She was an interesting character. I liked Shaw.
The whole thing was really well done with good characters, and performances. and disturbingly prescient premise and story lines.
What's for lunch?
Some cheese sticks and sliced pepperoni, followed up with a banana and an apple.
An It's-It
Do you mean that delightful frozen treat that is beloved by most and hated only by undesirables and the mentally ill?
The very same...and I even entertained buying a mint-incarnation, in Scootie's honor...but they were inexplicably sold-out.
I'm waiting for the It's-It factory to open back up so that I can redeem my Living Social coupons for It's-It and the chocolate covered oatmeal cookies. And I think one of them "expired' due to covid so I'll need to see what I can do about that.
I think it was $13 for 12 It's-It and 12 chocolate covered oatmeal cookies. I usually mix Mint Chip and Chocolate.
And I think I've got 3 or 4 coupons.
Either leftover spicy spaghetti with sausage & broccoli or leftover chicken salad in sandwich form.
Probably a pre-made T Joe's salad
Chettinad Chicken. Hurt-so-good spicy. I regret nothing.
Hmmm, I've never had that. I'l have to look for a South Indian place around here.
Not sure yet. Maybe a bagel with cream cheese or a PBJ on Dave's Killer Bread.
I'm sure everyone cared that I ended up having a sesame bagel and cream cheese.
I try not to eat a ton of bread, but Dave's Killer Bread is one of my faves.
It really is good. You can get two loaves at Costco and freeze one of them. Much cheaper than getting 1 in the stores.
I just had a giant plate of hash browns and sunny side up eggs, so probably nothing?
Brunch!
i bought a broccoli cheddar quiche for lunch while i was out getting breakfast pastries.
Left over fried rice from last night, spring rolls
Today in CV19
Penn State FB team doctor: one-third of Big 10 athletes with CV19 have myocarditis
https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html
IMO, this is one of the big reasons the Pac12 is right not to play.
Lee Corso Not So Fast dot gif
https://footballscoop.com/the-scoop/
"FootballScoop reached out to contacts at 8 Big Ten schools (including Penn State). 7 have responded so far (not including Penn State), all 6 have said something along the lines of “We’re not experiencing that here and haven’t heard of anyone in the conference experiencing this. Last we heard was nearly 10 total athletes across all sports.”
Dwayne Johnson and family - Positive for CV19, since recovered.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEppiNRlpvs/
Guess he could not smelllllll what the Rock is cooking
Apparently a contributing factor in Tom Seaver's death.
CDC tells states to prepare for distribution of COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 1
https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-tells-states-prepare-distribution-231945460.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_02
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told governors last week to prepare for the "large-scale" distribution of a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by NBC News.
In the Aug. 27 letter, the director, Dr. Robert Redfield, said the CDC had contracted with a pharmaceutical company, McKesson Corp., to potentially distribute hundreds of millions of vaccine doses to health departments and medical facilities across the country in the fall.
Redfield called the effort "massive" and asked governors for their help expediting applications for distribution facilities that will be set up and operated by McKesson.
I will not be getting that vaccine. I want one that has been tested and been proven both safe and efficacious. That will not be this one.
Hmm...two days before the election? And I'm guessing without any real testing.
Sigh
https://twitter.com/NathanLerner/status/1301197077729468416
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Debate sites/moderators chosen:
Presidential: Wallace (Cleveland, Fox), Scully ( Miami, C-Span), Welker (Nashville, NBC News)
VP: Page (Salt Lake City, USA Today)
Unknown if an audience will be allowed
https://www.vogue.com/article/chris-wallace-presidential-debate-2020-fox-news-donald-trump
Rand Paul: "These are out-of-state thugs paid to attack me. It is not plausible that they are protestors who are angry with me as a politician. The FBI should investigate and arrest them. "
https://fr.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-washington-paul-idAFKBN25O0M6
I hope Biden gives Rand Paul’s neighbor the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I know Biden would never do they but I wish he would.
Also, it doesn’t matter if these people were “out of state” because they are still Americans. Also, DC isn’t even a state.
https://media1.giphy.com/media/l41YdDNnasCOd2TWo/giphy.gif
Barr: "I don't know if it's illegal to vote twice in North Carolina". Disbar this Barr.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1301299333938151424
Here's my take. I encourage dipshits to try to vote twice in NC. The system is set up to prevent it.
If you try, you'll be denied. It just slows down voting. Lines will get longer in the counties with more dipshits. This state is a swing state and it's a toss-up. If he causes 1% of his voter base to abandon voting, he'll lose this state and he'll lose the whole election. It will be the unintended consequences that DJT deserves because, like everything else, will be completely his fault.
And Kirstjen Nielsen doesn't know if Norway is predominately white. These folks are so disingenuous. And that's putting it politely.
he's like a caricature of a yes man.
White House blocks DHS memo about Russia assisting Trump campaign
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-withheld-july-intelligence-bulletin-calling-russian-attack/story?id=72747130
PRO
Wojo: Steve Nash to coach the Nets
https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1301516493818155008
Sounds like a J Kidd type of hire, will be interesting to see if it plays out.
Was Nash even mentioned as a possibility? I don't recall hearing his name, though that could just be that I haven't really been paying attention to Nets News.
A's play Padres on Friday eve, hopefully.
Giants get Coors Fielded, drop series finale
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2020/9/2/21418828/san-francisco-giants-rockies-mlb-final-score
The San Francisco Giants lost 9-6, or 6-9 if you’re into the whole niceness thing. And I’m not going to lie to you: I’m not really sure it happened.
No, I didn’t take the day off. And no, my eyeballs didn’t stop working, even if they developed the requisite allergy-like symptoms that come from watching Coors Field baseball two days in a row.
I watched the whole dang thing and I’m just not really sure what happened. It was subtle. You could tell the Rockies — and the ballpark, specifically — had done this before.
The Giants bat around the order in the first inning, putting up 4 runs in the process, and I allowed myself to forget that Tuesday night’s game had ended before Wednesday’s began. The lead stretched to 6-1, and I just kind of figured oh yeah, cool, they’re gonna win.
MadBum to start on Sat against the Giants.
Wow, for the first time in my life I will be rooting for MadBum.
Is the game in Az? The Giants can tell him to "Get it Out of the Pool"
Dodgers weird extra-inning escapades continue in win over Diamondbacks
https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/2/21419463/will-smith-mookie-betts-extra-innings-dodgers-diamondbacks-recap
It was better late than never for the Dodgers, who scored in the ninth and 10th innings to beat the Diamondbacks 3-2 on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.
Extra innings have been an adventure this season for the Dodgers, winning games after the ninth on a leadoff two-run home run and a leadoff sacrifice fly, both firsts in MLB history. But on Wednesday, trailing by a run in the 10th, the winning rally began on a bunt by Chris Taylor that Junior Guerra stumbled as he fielded, then compounded things by throwing wildly to third base, allowing the tying run to score.
Taylor advanced to second on the play, then moved to third on a ground out. Will Smith walked it off with a single to left, giving the Dodgers their fourth straight victory.
And Jansen got the win. All I saw was the last inning, and a highlight of the earlier solo HR. Which apparently was the bulk of the action.
Yup. Basically the Betts HR and the Dbacks giving away the run in the 10th.
MOOKIE BETTS
Clutch. Can't believe the Red Sox wouldn't give him what he wants. I mean I guess I can since they wanted to get under the Luxury Tax.
Dude is going to go into the HoF wearing a Dodger hat 😃 That got me thinking, who else has a shot at the HoF on this team... Kershaw is obviously a Hall of Famer. Bellinger has a legit shot if he keeps it up. Buehler and May have the talent right now to get there, but you never know with pitchers.
Possibly Seager? If the Dodgers want to pay he'll be a Dodger for life. He's got the hitting skills for a HOF career as a SS but at some point he'll move to 3B.
Seager's got plenty of talent, but the dude can't seem to stay healthy. Do you think the Dodgers are going to sign him to a long term extension? I'm honestly not sure. His contract is over after 2021, and remember they've also got Lux banging on the door.
I think it depends on if they think Lux's throwing problems will be worse at SS. He's hitting so well this year I could see them attempting a shorter, higher AAV contract. Or one with an opt out. Would be a shame to lose him.
Seager will be 28, right in his prime. He'll be looking for a big money long term contract. Plus Boras is his agent. What I could see is the Dodgers keeping him and moving either him or Lux to 3rd.
Is the Lux throwing thing still an issue? I thought he briefly had the yips and got over it.
I think there were some issues during spring training 2. though I don't know how much of that is he got to training late due to Covid. I think if they keep Seager it will be Seager at 3rd and Lux at SS. I think Seager will slow down in a few years. As it is he doesn't have great range. The Dodgers just place him in a better position.
Another guy who's had a phenomenal start to his career and has boatloads of talent is Will Smith. It's early, but he could be a generational catcher for the Dodgers.
"Another guy who's had a phenomenal start to his career and has boatloads of talent is Will Smith."
Unfortunately also said about Puig. I wish there were a way to fit him on the team.
I'm a *huge* Puig fan, but the dude is his own worst enemy.
But Puig Your Friend.
Yeah, which is unfortunate. God that 42-8 run was incredible, until the 43-7 run in 2017.
I thought about him as well. I'm more impressed with his hitting. Lowest chase rate, very high walk and low strikeout hitter. 4th highest exit velocity. Just very unlucky this year. Looks like he's somewhere in between the way he started and the way he ended last year, closer to the way he started.
FET, a kid No 1 played with in rec and HS played on a travel team with Will Smith in HS.
The question with him is Ruiz and Cartaya. Will they come up and bump Smith such that the Dodgers are willing to trade Smith. Someone is going to have to be traded.
They're very deep in catchers in the system.
If the DH becomes permanent (ugh) then that might make it easier to carry multiple catchers and rotate them to keep them fresh.
But please no DH. During the game last night Orel said he thought the extra innings runner should be kept. He hated it before the first Dodgers extra inning game but he kinda likes it now. I don't like the runner at 2nd either.
true. Plus I think Will Smith could play 2B, kinda like Austin Barnes was put there a few times in 2017 (?), if they want to keep his bat in the lineup.
Graterol: off the chain.
https://twitter.com/Cut4/status/1301544995493679104
I can't believe the Red Sox didn't want him. Who cares if he isn't a starter.
CAL
go bears
Square root.
sqrt(3) = 1.732
which is the year George Washington was born. that is one of the few irrational ones that i remember.