I am going to Seattle in a couple weeks to go drink wine, commiserate, and do stupid things with some friends. What's a good day activity in that area? Snoqualmie? Pikes Place? Wine tasting?
Snoqualmie is a short drive from Seattle, about an hour.
- if there is any weather you will need an AWD car or carry chains.
- there are 4 related ski resorts there, not sure what else in the winter aside from fun in the snow. a friend was just snowshoeing there this last weekend.
- there are other equally nice if not nicer mountain destinations. Artist's Point at Mt Baker is amazing, but perhaps at 2-3 hours in the winter, further than what you had in mind.
Pikes Place is great and sort of a tourist must-see place if you have never been.
there is really excellent food all over the place. Japanese and Asian of all sorts.
- dinner at Kamonegi - Pocket-sized space specializing in handmade soba noodles, tempura & other Japanese specialties. the bartender there knows me and is a rock climber .. he has excellent food and drink suggestions.
- sake drinking next door at Hannyatou - great bartenders, great selection of sake and other fun stuff too.
- both owned by the same Japanese woman who is apparently one of the 3 master soba makers in the US.
- even if you dont get resv at Kamonegi, you can put your name down and get some drinks and apps next door while you wait
- also, it is not technically next door, there is a Midnight cookies in between that is good for post-drinking dessert as you are waiting for Uber to go home.
Omakase at Shiro's. Or Kashiba which is the new sushi place started by Shiro. I think it's harder to get Omakase reservations at Kashiba. Or maybe it was they don't take reservations so you just go and wait in line. I think I went by myself and waited 25 min and sat at the bar in front of the chefs.
tbb, HSB, and tbb friend did the Omakase at Shiro's UW game week and it was phenomenal.
I'd pick a QB because they have the most impact on a program - sorry Fernando. I'd probably pick Quinn Ewers from Texas. Having an NFL-caliber QB for a few years would be so nice. Remember when you waited for Goff to just drop some perfect back shoulder fades that were not defendable?
Oh yeah. Wasn't he the guy from Danville, played in spot action as a freshman and showed competitiveness to start as a sophomore but got injured, so was a backup while he was injured. That was part of that 2012 team that was chock full of talented-but-underdeveloped guys like Nick Forbes, Chris McCain, Robert Mullins, Cecil Whiteside, Brennan Scarlett, Hardy Nickerson, Michael Barton, Jalen Jefferson, Kairi Fortt, Nate Broussard, Teddy Agu (RIP), and JP Hurrell. He sat out 2013 due to injury, got frustrated at the log-jam so he entered the portal only to have nearly the entire linebacker room blow up because Tedford was fired. Wilkerson would have started if he only stuck around but he had to walk-on at Arizona and didn't play. I'm sure there's a ton of behind-the-scenes stuff that I don't know, but it was a shame all around.
Yes. That 2012 team also had Hardy Nickerson Jr and Jason Gibson.
The best LB of the infamous 2010 recruiting class did not make it to 2012 because he transferred before 2010 season started. Chris Martin transferred like 4 times in the non-portal era.
I had a job for about 18 months which included a blackberry in 2013-ish, I think because the organization was dominated by lawyers and they knew what they liked. It was rubbish for everything other than email but that email and calendar integration was *flawless*
my primary email before gmail was yahoo. the thing i liked the most was the customizable My Yahoo site. it was my homepage/startup page on my browser for many years.
i guess no uses those types of things anymore, not clear exactly why they fell out of favor.
technically my parents, but: laserdiscs. Great image and sound quality, plus that little throwback to vinyl with having to flip the disc (although their second laserdisc player basically shifted the reader so you only had to sit and enjoy some clunking noises from the player)
Campagnolo components on bikes, ie shifters, brakes, derailleurs, gears. they are still around but it seems that most people prefer Shimamo or SRAM these days, including the pro teams.
i wanted to get all Italian components for my Italian race bike (Wilier Trestina). i was only able to do so by buying the bike in Italy. it was nostalgically great and worked perfectly fine. it was a pain to find spare parts and reliable people to service them when necessary.
the performance was good but quirky. anytime anyone else borrowed my bike there would be lots of complaints and only a few people knew enough to appreciate it.
Not attending class in person as much as I should have and relying too much on Black Lightning note taking services. It was a form of rebellion that I now regret as a wasted opportunity to learn more. I was too immature to think that college was for my benefit, not something that I had to get through.
I was really bad about doing the reading but I always went to lectures, you got the vast majority of what you needed out of them for most of my classes
I was not a rebel. I was a good kid. Up until the time I left home. And then decided to take my birth name at the age of 20, which my step-father viewed as a royal Eff Yew.
I don't know if it counts as rebellion, but pretty much no-one in my very small HS was expecting me to go to SC, and a number of faculty were openly disappointed. Otherwise nothing really, I got both ears pierced during my first semester in grad school but I don't think doing that at 21 is particularly rebellious.
My dad lost his mind screaming at me when I stalled his car in an abandoned parking lot on Fort Ord at age 16, trying to learn stick. Was really pretty weird bc overall he was a super nice dad, but something about this really set him off. Anyway, after I realized the screaming was going to go on for a while, I just calmly got out of the car and started walking home. I refused any further entreaties to teach me how to drive stick, and never learned it.
Similar Dad. Lessons were not in the Volvo with automatic but in 67 Land Rover, not exactly synchromesh. ("What are you doing?!!!, No, no, no., My god, what the hell? etc. etc.)
He was like Doctor Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde was the driving instructor, math tutor, wood shop master, car repair expert, photo darkroom lord,.....yet he declined fly fishing instructor and left that, thank god, to his contemporaries.
Oh, and frankly mainly because of him, I refused to follow like rest of family, and go to Cal...the other part of that was 1969 and over the years of attending games starting as a toddler, the large campus population and weirdness that came into focus as an adolescent turned me off. A deal was made...1. As a HS senior was sent to live with older Cal grad cousin in Piedmont for a week and for him to try to change my mind....toured campus more thoroughly with him, took a bus as a dry run commuting from his house where part of the deal was free room and board for half a year....2. I declined and became persona non grata for weeks.
my 13 yr old nephew is 100% convinced that I joined the Dark Side of the Force. we joke about it all the time, but he knows that i am serious too, but no idea why.
Unibroue (Quebec) makes a strong beer Maudite that has a particularly good rendition of Satan .. and one of my favorite breweries. Fin du Monde is a good one too.
I watched the first season when it was released and ended up buying and reading the books. The adaptations of the story lines from the books are really good, and the cast is great.
Last night’s family movie in Phoenix: Striking Distance with Bruce Willis, Dennis Farina, SJP, Robert Pastorelli and Tom Sizemore. I’ve always enjoyed Pittsburgh, largely due to the 3 rivers, and their proximity to the ballparks. Remember seeing this movie in the theater…a good, solid action flick for Willis, who plays a homicide cop that gets demoted from PPD and ends up working River Rescue. Entertaining though probably not his best work.
Seattle
I am going to Seattle in a couple weeks to go drink wine, commiserate, and do stupid things with some friends. What's a good day activity in that area? Snoqualmie? Pikes Place? Wine tasting?
Snoqualmie is a short drive from Seattle, about an hour.
- if there is any weather you will need an AWD car or carry chains.
- there are 4 related ski resorts there, not sure what else in the winter aside from fun in the snow. a friend was just snowshoeing there this last weekend.
- there are other equally nice if not nicer mountain destinations. Artist's Point at Mt Baker is amazing, but perhaps at 2-3 hours in the winter, further than what you had in mind.
Pikes Place is great and sort of a tourist must-see place if you have never been.
there is really excellent food all over the place. Japanese and Asian of all sorts.
also if you like espresso, sample the well regarded espresso places.
these are a few that i have been frequenting lately ..
- Monorail
- Cafe Vivace
- Analog Coffee
There's a Monorail near where I'm staying. Imma hit that up. Thanks for the recommendation. Starbucks can suck it.
one food/drink experience i recommend
- dinner at Kamonegi - Pocket-sized space specializing in handmade soba noodles, tempura & other Japanese specialties. the bartender there knows me and is a rock climber .. he has excellent food and drink suggestions.
- sake drinking next door at Hannyatou - great bartenders, great selection of sake and other fun stuff too.
- both owned by the same Japanese woman who is apparently one of the 3 master soba makers in the US.
- even if you dont get resv at Kamonegi, you can put your name down and get some drinks and apps next door while you wait
- also, it is not technically next door, there is a Midnight cookies in between that is good for post-drinking dessert as you are waiting for Uber to go home.
I just booked reservations at Din Tai Fung
that place is good. HAG and I have been there, but separately.
it is good to go w/ 4+ people so you can sample a lot of things
Omakase at Shiro's. Or Kashiba which is the new sushi place started by Shiro. I think it's harder to get Omakase reservations at Kashiba. Or maybe it was they don't take reservations so you just go and wait in line. I think I went by myself and waited 25 min and sat at the bar in front of the chefs.
tbb, HSB, and tbb friend did the Omakase at Shiro's UW game week and it was phenomenal.
one of the best things about Shiro's is that it is very reasonably priced as well for the quality and amount of sushi you get.
i havent been to Kashiba or Taneda ..
If you’re in the mood for ice cream - Molly Moon’s. Yum.
https://www.mollymoon.com/flavors/seasonal
you going? i have been there a lot lately.
and if you want to take traitor daughter and boyfriend to dinner, they would appreciate it!
Traitor daughter’s boyfriend going to wear the Husky blazer to supper?
Sooooooooouuuuuuuundeeeeeeers
If you could force one eligible player to transfer to Cal, who would you like that to be?
I'd pick a QB because they have the most impact on a program - sorry Fernando. I'd probably pick Quinn Ewers from Texas. Having an NFL-caliber QB for a few years would be so nice. Remember when you waited for Goff to just drop some perfect back shoulder fades that were not defendable?
Oh for sure! Love Nando but if there were a Goff-style slinger out there for the taking, you’d jump at that
A Cal player who needs only their first name to be identified
Isi, Chidi, LaVelle, Russell, Iheanyi, Nnamdi, Tony, Syd'Quan, Daymeion
Are you referring to Syd'Quan Thompson, Horowitz or Kowalski?
Hartmut
Jaydn
From the past: Marshawn. From the current roster: Fernando.
Jahvid, DeSean
Irby.
Adimchinobe
Jaylinn, Ashtyn, Marloshawn, Khalfani
Jorge
David
Binn
Longest career of any Charger. And dated Pam Anderson. Honestly, I don't remember him when he played at Cal.
He was pretty stealthy.
Somewhere at Casa de Slug I have a football with his signature on it when he still played for Cal.
That is all.
Wilkerson
One of many highly rated LBs that made up one of the highest rated and most troublesome recruiting class in Cal history.
Oh yeah. Wasn't he the guy from Danville, played in spot action as a freshman and showed competitiveness to start as a sophomore but got injured, so was a backup while he was injured. That was part of that 2012 team that was chock full of talented-but-underdeveloped guys like Nick Forbes, Chris McCain, Robert Mullins, Cecil Whiteside, Brennan Scarlett, Hardy Nickerson, Michael Barton, Jalen Jefferson, Kairi Fortt, Nate Broussard, Teddy Agu (RIP), and JP Hurrell. He sat out 2013 due to injury, got frustrated at the log-jam so he entered the portal only to have nearly the entire linebacker room blow up because Tedford was fired. Wilkerson would have started if he only stuck around but he had to walk-on at Arizona and didn't play. I'm sure there's a ton of behind-the-scenes stuff that I don't know, but it was a shame all around.
Yes. That 2012 team also had Hardy Nickerson Jr and Jason Gibson.
The best LB of the infamous 2010 recruiting class did not make it to 2012 because he transferred before 2010 season started. Chris Martin transferred like 4 times in the non-portal era.
Bowie
"Losing" technology that you had (eg, Betamax, plasma). How was it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhqYHaQEp2w
BlackBerry was great - much better for email than an iPhone
I had a job for about 18 months which included a blackberry in 2013-ish, I think because the organization was dominated by lawyers and they knew what they liked. It was rubbish for everything other than email but that email and calendar integration was *flawless*
Oh true! For anything other than email and calendar it was totally useless. But it was so good at those things!
Yahoo!
my primary email before gmail was yahoo. the thing i liked the most was the customizable My Yahoo site. it was my homepage/startup page on my browser for many years.
i guess no uses those types of things anymore, not clear exactly why they fell out of favor.
Yahoo! is still my email and I like it so much more than the Gmail account I also have. I also have MyYahoo as my Chrome landing page!
technically my parents, but: laserdiscs. Great image and sound quality, plus that little throwback to vinyl with having to flip the disc (although their second laserdisc player basically shifted the reader so you only had to sit and enjoy some clunking noises from the player)
Campagnolo components on bikes, ie shifters, brakes, derailleurs, gears. they are still around but it seems that most people prefer Shimamo or SRAM these days, including the pro teams.
i wanted to get all Italian components for my Italian race bike (Wilier Trestina). i was only able to do so by buying the bike in Italy. it was nostalgically great and worked perfectly fine. it was a pain to find spare parts and reliable people to service them when necessary.
the performance was good but quirky. anytime anyone else borrowed my bike there would be lots of complaints and only a few people knew enough to appreciate it.
Palm Pilot. Worked great for its time.
What was your form of rebellion?
Not attending class in person as much as I should have and relying too much on Black Lightning note taking services. It was a form of rebellion that I now regret as a wasted opportunity to learn more. I was too immature to think that college was for my benefit, not something that I had to get through.
I was really bad about doing the reading but I always went to lectures, you got the vast majority of what you needed out of them for most of my classes
I had a policy that I would either do the reading or go to the lecture, but never both. It worked OK for me.
the older I get, the more certain I am that getting out of the house and showing your face is the smart play, who knew I was on to something then
I was not a rebel. I was a good kid. Up until the time I left home. And then decided to take my birth name at the age of 20, which my step-father viewed as a royal Eff Yew.
He's dead now.
Going to Cal. That was 400 miles away from home leaving my single mom and high school senior sister to fend for themselves.
same .. except going to Cal instead of an Ivy League was some form of rebellion against my over-achieving parents.
Cal was only 8 miles from home and my mom especially was very disappointed.
I don't know if it counts as rebellion, but pretty much no-one in my very small HS was expecting me to go to SC, and a number of faculty were openly disappointed. Otherwise nothing really, I got both ears pierced during my first semester in grad school but I don't think doing that at 21 is particularly rebellious.
My dad lost his mind screaming at me when I stalled his car in an abandoned parking lot on Fort Ord at age 16, trying to learn stick. Was really pretty weird bc overall he was a super nice dad, but something about this really set him off. Anyway, after I realized the screaming was going to go on for a while, I just calmly got out of the car and started walking home. I refused any further entreaties to teach me how to drive stick, and never learned it.
Similar Dad. Lessons were not in the Volvo with automatic but in 67 Land Rover, not exactly synchromesh. ("What are you doing?!!!, No, no, no., My god, what the hell? etc. etc.)
Hahah yep! Sounds familiar!
He was like Doctor Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde was the driving instructor, math tutor, wood shop master, car repair expert, photo darkroom lord,.....yet he declined fly fishing instructor and left that, thank god, to his contemporaries.
Oh, and frankly mainly because of him, I refused to follow like rest of family, and go to Cal...the other part of that was 1969 and over the years of attending games starting as a toddler, the large campus population and weirdness that came into focus as an adolescent turned me off. A deal was made...1. As a HS senior was sent to live with older Cal grad cousin in Piedmont for a week and for him to try to change my mind....toured campus more thoroughly with him, took a bus as a dry run commuting from his house where part of the deal was free room and board for half a year....2. I declined and became persona non grata for weeks.
Oy.
joining the Dark Side .. does that count?
i have this poster at home among many other Star Wars themed things in the house
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/x2IAAOSwbLphNTlV/s-l1600.jpg
my 13 yr old nephew is 100% convinced that I joined the Dark Side of the Force. we joke about it all the time, but he knows that i am serious too, but no idea why.
Long hair, drugs, cutting school to go to demonstrations.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
I prefer using the Flying Spaghetti Monster to illustrate a point rather than Satan, but I like his intent. He is part of a non-theistic group
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hail-the-eternal-rebel-satanist-gives-opening-prayer-at-county-meeting-in-reno-as-furious-commissioner-storms-out-in-protest/ar-AA1n9rLk
Unibroue (Quebec) makes a strong beer Maudite that has a particularly good rendition of Satan .. and one of my favorite breweries. Fin du Monde is a good one too.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9ZgAAOSwN6ZjDo2N/s-l1600.jpg
PRO
Pulisic wins US POTY award. Again.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39332229/christian-pulisic-named-us-soccer-male-player-year
I don't know who else you would pick, which has an element of damning by faint praise.
Someone might want to whisper in Jerry Jones ear what that term means
https://www.outsports.com/2024/1/15/24039183/jerry-jones-dallas-cowboy-green-bay-packers-glory-hole
You mean there's a non-engineering use for that word?
Heaven forfend! (insert emoji with raised eyebrow)
GS Warriors' assistant coach dies of a heart attack at the age of 46
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39330553/warriors-assistant-dejan-milojevic-46-dies-heart-attack
warriors game w/ jazz was postponed
Also postponed tomorrow’s game against the Mavs.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Cal MBB hosts UW tonight at 6. Line is -2. When was the last time we were favored in a conference game?
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
DBD AV CLUB
the missus and I finished Slow Horses season 3 last night, another well executed series. Looking forward to season 4
I liked this season, even though many of the things in the finale were pretty easy to figure out. Still, great show. Can't wait for season 4.
Great show! River is a fun character, always oscillating between badass and fuckup/dupe
this looks fun. i had never even heard of it until today ...
I watched the first season when it was released and ended up buying and reading the books. The adaptations of the story lines from the books are really good, and the cast is great.
I have had Slow Horses the book in my TBR pile for like 4 years now. Someday.
might be a good vacation read? Not quite brainless enough for a plane (that's more like the Reacher books for me)
Last night’s family movie in Phoenix: Striking Distance with Bruce Willis, Dennis Farina, SJP, Robert Pastorelli and Tom Sizemore. I’ve always enjoyed Pittsburgh, largely due to the 3 rivers, and their proximity to the ballparks. Remember seeing this movie in the theater…a good, solid action flick for Willis, who plays a homicide cop that gets demoted from PPD and ends up working River Rescue. Entertaining though probably not his best work.