Lunch was a sad combo of cottage cheese and Triscuit while I was in the middle of an 8 hour executive leadership "offsite" via Zoom. Dinner is happily enchiladas, rice and beans from my local taqueria.
I always associate Domino's with my first two years at UCSC because, at the time, they were the only pizza place to deliver to campus at night. It wasn't until I moved off campus in my Junior year that I could get Pizza My Heart after hours as it were.
So today I had leftover stir fry; chicken, cashews & pineapple, but yesterday I started making sandwiches a bit differently (and better). Ditched the mayo & tomatoes, added peppers, rocket and a drizzle of EVOO with ham, salami, red onions & provolone.
All filings or any particular type of filing? Wondering if you mean to include tax returns with your statement, or using a file on wood or metal or putting paper into folders.
If by replace you mean to give protections to ISPs for providing the conduit that is internet service, I say yes.
Other than that, giving social media platforms the ability to evade libel and slander litigation is to the detriment of print media, TV, and radio. It is to the detriment of a free and responsible press.
Yeah, I'd been doing it on my computer, but realized I should switch to my phone so I wouldn't break my streak on the days that I'm not at my computer...but then I broke the streak anyway haha.
I didn't share my graphic until today, but yes, it's interesting! The same message on my phone has black square, but when viewed in iMessage on the computer, it was white.
Wait, actually this is weird: black on my personal phone (dark mode), black on my work phone (light mode), black on the computer when sent from my personal phone to my work phone imesage, but then white when copied form the computer's imessage to another computer's imessage thread.
(That was a long description that probably wasn't clear and also not super interesting.)
I think the color is based on the source of the graphic, not where you post it. On our work Slack, I see gray and black, depending on the player's computing device.
(Thank you rediscovered Edit button. But just noticed that it always edits the original text, not any updates, which is why this is my 5th go to change And to An!)
Has anyone tried AIRPORTLE? You have to guess the airport code, but it's alot harder because there's only three letters to cover, but it's mostly major airports so far I've gotten every time.
but the opposite is like today. I had the first four green at Round 3. from there, it was just guessing which of the half-dozen choices to try. which is also luck.
too many options can be harder than tough rare word.
long(ish) story: back in college (I went to Cal...you?), back in the day of physical dictionaries, came up with two words that distinguished a good dictionary from a pocket one.
Callipygian and smegma.
When one guy called his bro to give the definition of smegma, he got one word in before he fell off the EJC desk he was sitting on in laughter. It was that word.
I just look for the pangram when I read the daily brief in my email. which takes 2 to 60 seconds (at which point I bail). not interested in spending tons of time finding tons of words.
I think when you do Hard, you get an asterisk next to your score (when sharing scores).
I thought I'd turned it on, but it's not. it's help me more than hinder, because sometimes I forget to use a found letter, and this would notify me before letting me enter the word.
I'm a little confused--why wouldn't you use the letters you've already discovered? Or is it reusing them in case a letter appears more than once in the word?
I almost always start with RUSTY, going off the Wheel of Fortune R-S-T-L-N-E
Yeah, for a while I started with IRATE, but recently have moved to ORATE. Apparently studies of the Wordle word list show that O actually appears more often than I, even though in broader English I is in more words.
When building apartments in New Bedford, MA, thou shalt build up to floor three. Up to three shall the number of floors thou shalt build. And the number of floors shall be up to three. Four shalt thou not build, neither thou build five. Six is okay, but seven is right out
Out here they call used to call them "triple deckas". i.e. "Mahky got stabbed out front of his mum's triple decka in Rozzie." But that was before gentrification..
Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy holy hand grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it...
Looking thru the list, I forgot about "Piazza, New York Catcher". Song about Mets and Giants playing, hanging in the Tenderloin, and wondering if he's gay
We have a wedding in Dripping Springs, TX (outside of Austin) on Saturday evening. Currently snowing and there will be a high of 38 and low of 18 for the indoor/outdoor wedding. Before the storm we changed our plans from flying out today to flying out Saturday morning, which looks to have been the right decision.
Double post, ack. Few years ago I dealt with a contract for a rope obstacle course. Only bidder was an outfit in Dripping Springs. Asking the owner about DS, I was informed that Johnny Cash wrote a song - Down At Dripping Springs. Have yet to listen to it but with memory now jogged, maybe later today.
A storm is dumping up to an inch and a half of rain, immediately followed by an arctic blast to freeze all the water. So for the nth weekend in a row it's supposed to be sub-freezing and windy. Meanwhile we keep getting unexpectedly pleasant mid-week weather. Great timing.
I have a dishwasher that I've only used once in the 3+ years I've had the house because it did a horrible job. Either because of my generally low water pressure or maybe the line is clogged.
Rather than address the issue, I've just been hand washing.
decent powerpoint presentations (not sure if that is small enough?)
i really dislike any drag and drop type software where you have infinite flexibility. would rather work with a decent template.
in grad school, one guy who was a lifelong research scientist and never got taken seriously for tenure track jobs told me, "never get really good at something you dislike doing, because you might find yourself doing it for the rest of your life .."
since i dont make very good ones on purpose, rarely do i get asked to do them.
Fundraising reports for the fourth quarter of 2021 are in, and they don’t paint a pretty picture for candidates endorsed by former president Donald Trump. Combined with polling data suggesting a decline in Trump’s relevance to Republican voters, they might just indicate that Trump’s ice-like grip on the party is slowly thawing.
Huskies allow their players to opt in to get $ from jersey sales. When we're ***** done with UA, I demand we do this so I can start rocking my Robby Rowell jersey.
Weird year for Pac-12 recruiting: the two worst programs in the conference last year, LSJU and Arizona, pull in the conference's top two classes (17th and 24th nationally, respectively). Meanwhile ASU signs a whopping 9 recruits, good for 105th in the nation.
After underachieving in Austin, Shaka Smart inherited a real nice nucleus for his system at Marquette, and scored a key transfer from George Mason in SOPH Tyler Kolek...all glory be to the transfer portal!!
They another solid Villanova team for the 2nd time this year...keep an eye on MARQ for your brackets...team could do serious damage come March, folks.
I wonder what Shaka Smart could do with THIS Cal team? Would they be more efficient offensively? Cal’s deep, and has some athletic wings...could these kids execute?
Finally tested negative, after spending 11 days in covid jail. I had flu symptoms days 1-3, then nothing but nasal congestion and drip the rest of the way that slowly waned over the past week. It's been frustrating the past several days seeing that test line get thinner and thinner, till finally this morning no line at all.
I knew that when the line started taking longer and longer to appear, I was getting closer and closer to leaving covid jail. Initially it appeared almost immediately as the fluid reached the bottom line.
Yeah, on day 5 I was feeling mostly fine (fever and aches gone, just a few sniffles) and decided to take a test fully confident it was going to be negative. It turned like marker thick within 30 seconds, like a big "F*** you, you're not going anywhere for awhile." It was very nice to see it revert to pencil thickness within a couple days, then slowly fade away.
Former Washington Commanders employee Tiffani Johnston made new allegations against team owner Dan Snyder on Thursday at a roundtable before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, saying he placed his hand on her thigh without her consent at a team dinner and that he pushed her toward his limousine with his hand on her lower back.
"He left his hand on the middle of my thigh until I physically removed it," Johnston said.
Describing the incident outside Snyder's limousine, she said: "The only reason Dan Snyder removed his hand from my back and stopped pushing me towards his limo was because his attorney intervened and said, 'Dan, Dan, this is a bad idea.' ... I learned that I should remove myself from Dan's grip while his attorney was distracting him."
Here's my favorite CONCACAF World Cup qualifier story:
The US was playing on the road - I forget where - and in the weeks leading up to the game, the host nation told US Soccer which ball would be used. It was the heaviest, slowest rock of a ball on the market, and it's never used for a major competition. US Soccer objected, but the host nation said it was their choice, and so US Soccer commenced practices, trying to kick around this rock.
The US showed up for the game and the host said they actually didn't have that kind of ball on site. US Soccer said "that's ok, we brought ten dozen of them." The host noted that the rule book dictates that the host has to provide the game ball, and the only type they happen to have was the lightest, quickest ball you can find - the opposite of what the US had been training with.
Welcome to CONCACAF World Cup qualifying, where no advantage is left behind!
Hell yeah, we put the Honduras game in St. Paul. The Mexico game is in Ohio. Play Jamaica in Denver. Do it all!
Every road game, they take maximum advantage - every home game we do the same.
fuck the rest of CONCACAF. After years of being served purposefully bad food when we travel, honking car horns outside the team hotel all night, coins, batteries and bags of piss being thrown at the players on the field... all of them can fuck the hell off
why does the ball never look like the (classic) one we used when I was a kid?
why are the pitches diff sizes (which I learned from Scootie's fave TV show)?
[I know baseball has diff sizes, but I don't know of any rectangular fields that allow variance. Altho NHL and Olympic hockey are diff, they are consistently diff...right?]
It is a little weird how much variation FIFA allows in so many aspects of the game. Sure, baseball stadiums can have different sized outfields and such, but the composition of the ball is tightly regulated, and the bases and pitcher's mound have to be exact distances from each other.
I think there are mandated sizes for the goal, the goal box and penalty area, etc. So some things obviously are regulated. It's just weird that the width of the field and the weight of the ball aren't.
If Mexico's gonna make all of CONCACAF play at 7,200 feet of elevation with fans raining beer on every corner kick, Canada has every right to put their home game in the damn Yukon if they think it'd be an advantage.
Yeah, I've read some takes about this Honduras match that the US was somehow being unfair or "afraid to compete" because they scheduled it this way. My thought was that they were just pulling the same shenanigans that every country in the region pulls for their home games.
Back in the day they used to play these matches in L.A. where there would be more Mexico fans than US fans. That's stupid. Play it in Ohio or Minnesota, why not?
Yeah, US Soccer used to put the Mexico game in the Rose Bowl to sell tickets because they needed the money. It was embarrassing.
There's more US fans, now, and I'm sure the TV contracts are really where the money is, anyways. The most important thing of all is qualifying for the World Cup. Do whatever it takes.
I suggest Scotland take a page out of the CONCACAF playbook for their next phase of UEFA world cup qualifying. Wouldn't want to miss a sixth straight finals.
You're right, we should totally stop losing in our traditional manner and replace it with a national team tradition largely built on upper middle class travel teams, ignoring first generation players, and having a domestic league that has done more to bolster the quality of CONCACAF players than the domestic game.
The thing I like the most about international soccer is that national teams play with the personality of their people.
Germans play mechanically but effectively. Brazilians play with beauty and freedom. England shows class at times, but their best years are behind them. The Italians play like their sportscars - either they're incredible or they're broken down on the side of the road.
So what should be the personality of US Soccer? Jurgen Klinsmann, when he coached the US, said the personality of America is to exert our will on the world, and he wanted our national team to do that, too. He thought the US should use its size and physicality to dictate the terms of the game.
Of course, this is harder said than done. But I like the idea. In soccer, anyways.
I mean Scottish soccer SUCKS and I don't think that playing in bad weather would really help, most of the rest of the European powers have shitty weather (or play in it) too. There's more to be said about how television money and the Old Firm have fucked up the pipeline of players in a country of 5 million, but the fact is: just not good enough 🤷♂️
We became aware of Cal Maritime when CJ was looking at schools. He was looking at schools that had rugby programs and Cal Maritime came up as a such a school.
Yep, just on the other side of the bridge on 80 that takes you to the northern side of the Bay. They're actually part of the CSU system. I had a friend who went there when I was at Cal. It's a tiny school (< 1000 students) but apparently they have enough to field a rugby team that gets obliterated by Cal on an annual basis.
The bridge you're describing is the Carquinez Straits Bridge. This is not to be confused with the Al Zampa Bridge which is for westbound I-80 traffic flowing from Vallejo to Crockett.
After retiring from the Navy my dad worked there as exec. director of continuing education. Then he started his own training company. Even though it is in the CSU system it's training ship for students is called Golden Bear.
DBD Test kitchen, lunch division.
Lunch was a sad combo of cottage cheese and Triscuit while I was in the middle of an 8 hour executive leadership "offsite" via Zoom. Dinner is happily enchiladas, rice and beans from my local taqueria.
My condolences! And I thought a couple of 3 hours afternoon mandatory boilerplate training videos this week were bad! Dinner does sound good.
Ugh...8 hours?
not my kitchen, but the lady friend and I are going to Bombera tonight for dinner
Looks good. Never been.
Today, I had a hankering for mass-market pizza. So I went to Domino's. Don't know why. The gut wants what it wants.
I always associate Domino's with my first two years at UCSC because, at the time, they were the only pizza place to deliver to campus at night. It wasn't until I moved off campus in my Junior year that I could get Pizza My Heart after hours as it were.
Sometimes that plasticky cheese really hits the spot. I haven't had Domino's in years and now I kind of want one of those super pepperoni pizzas.
Domino's when I lived in Japan was good. Or I was grading on the curve. but they had a good delivery deal that I used every now and then
So today I had leftover stir fry; chicken, cashews & pineapple, but yesterday I started making sandwiches a bit differently (and better). Ditched the mayo & tomatoes, added peppers, rocket and a drizzle of EVOO with ham, salami, red onions & provolone.
Also a brioche bun really elevates the sandwich.
had houloumi cheese on focaccia. and a can of coke, which I'd not had in a LONG time.
They won't deliver to me.
Exhibit A against living in Florida
https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article257882013.html
Filing, I hate filing.
All filings or any particular type of filing? Wondering if you mean to include tax returns with your statement, or using a file on wood or metal or putting paper into folders.
Papers, documents etc.
Maybe giving his wife a mani-pedi?
That kitty doesn't appear to be pleased.
Let go of the paw.
Money
Facebook loses a quarter of it's stock value today as net membership shrank
Yay!
I left Facebook in 2014 and haven’t missed it at all.
While we're at it, repeal Section 230!
Replace, not just repeal
If by replace you mean to give protections to ISPs for providing the conduit that is internet service, I say yes.
Other than that, giving social media platforms the ability to evade libel and slander litigation is to the detriment of print media, TV, and radio. It is to the detriment of a free and responsible press.
Good
I have Facebook...
I still use it too, to keep in touch with people.
But I don't really care if their stock price drops or whatever.
I meant I have facebook stock.
I thought it was a typo of "I haTe Facebook"
Heh, well that's tough for you.
I didn't get the Wordle today 😭
sorry to hear that! a couple of times over the last several weeks, I've been down to the last guess and been sweating bullets!
I'm at 33 in a row. I think I broke my streak prior to that by doing it on phone, not computer :-/
I've been doing the archives, and first wave of words was tough! lots of 5 and 6s. and a couple of failures.
Yeah, I'd been doing it on my computer, but realized I should switch to my phone so I wouldn't break my streak on the days that I'm not at my computer...but then I broke the streak anyway haha.
have you noticed that the shared graphic from a phone has black misses whereas the computer one has grey ones?
btw, grey or gray?
I didn't share my graphic until today, but yes, it's interesting! The same message on my phone has black square, but when viewed in iMessage on the computer, it was white.
Wait, actually this is weird: black on my personal phone (dark mode), black on my work phone (light mode), black on the computer when sent from my personal phone to my work phone imesage, but then white when copied form the computer's imessage to another computer's imessage thread.
(That was a long description that probably wasn't clear and also not super interesting.)
I think the color is based on the source of the graphic, not where you post it. On our work Slack, I see gray and black, depending on the player's computing device.
grey is English, gray, American
This, though I prefer grey. Single Ls for canceled and jewelry, though.
I know the Earl uses an E.
(Thank you rediscovered Edit button. But just noticed that it always edits the original text, not any updates, which is why this is my 5th go to change And to An!)
Has anyone tried AIRPORTLE? You have to guess the airport code, but it's alot harder because there's only three letters to cover, but it's mostly major airports so far I've gotten every time.
I recently learned the code for Charlotte, and it makes me giggle.
yeah, that shows up a lot on the UAL site.
OK I don't understand why?
Hmm how does one share this pearl of wisdom
was "pearl" intentional usage? ;-)
naturellement!
I posted a lmgtfy below (and referenced Jay and Silent Bob). hopefully that's enough of a hint.
I know what the code is, I don't understand why it's funny!
also they talk about the Charlotte airport a lot in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back...
Me neither!
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=charlotte+airport+code
meh, its a myth!
just did it. took me all six tries!
i LOVE airport codes. going to try this.
nice to know obscure things like SDF is the airport in Louisville (Standiford Field)
but on further investigation it has been renamed Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport
heh..they should petition to change the code to ALI
Thought I had it in 3, but took 5! Sneaky
yeah, getting it in one is luck, not skill.
but the opposite is like today. I had the first four green at Round 3. from there, it was just guessing which of the half-dozen choices to try. which is also luck.
too many options can be harder than tough rare word.
PS Hope that eases the pain, TBB!
The only time I've gotten it in 1 is because I saw someone say, "I hate this word."
hmmmm...if you were Scootie, the word woulda been LASSO.
TRUMP? (I wonder if that has been filtered out of the database.)
I'm guessing TBB's hated word was MOIST.
I don't mind the word, and like MoriBear said, it's useful for cake, but I know it's commonly hated, so that helped me get the Wordle that day.
long(ish) story: back in college (I went to Cal...you?), back in the day of physical dictionaries, came up with two words that distinguished a good dictionary from a pocket one.
Callipygian and smegma.
When one guy called his bro to give the definition of smegma, he got one word in before he fell off the EJC desk he was sitting on in laughter. It was that word.
even for cake?
Same! I thought I had it in 3 but got in 5th try, and I don't even know what that word means.
A piece of broken pottery usually.
I usually hear: ***** of glass
realize that more than 1 word works there, so not much of a spoiler.
WTG's post is a spoiler – in more ways than one – but only when reverse-engineered after knowing the answer.
3 for me! But wouldve been better if the last letter was a T.
It can get tricky when there are a bunch of letters that could fill that last spot and make a word.
what I said! (but more concisely)
in other word games, my older daughter, senior in HS, texts me about NYT Spelling Bee all day long as she is try to get to genius level.
she says school is pretty boring, esp now that 2nd half of senior year has started.
I just look for the pangram when I read the daily brief in my email. which takes 2 to 60 seconds (at which point I bail). not interested in spending tons of time finding tons of words.
do you do "hard mode" where you are forced to use the letters you have already discovered?
people seem to have various strategies, the most common seems to be to have the same two first words every time to "cover as much ground as possible"
i randomly put in a new 5 letter word to start every day. sort of a new adventure ..
I think when you do Hard, you get an asterisk next to your score (when sharing scores).
I thought I'd turned it on, but it's not. it's help me more than hinder, because sometimes I forget to use a found letter, and this would notify me before letting me enter the word.
gonna try it...
I'm a little confused--why wouldn't you use the letters you've already discovered? Or is it reusing them in case a letter appears more than once in the word?
I almost always start with RUSTY, going off the Wheel of Fortune R-S-T-L-N-E
That's not a good first word, you ever try to break codes?
if you did your first 2 words as RUSTY and GLIDE so there is no overlap you would search more of the empty space more quickly
but in hard mode you are restricted to use what you have discovered and it makes it "harder"
if R and Y were correct you could only try 3 new letters
Ohh I see
I always use words with multiple vowels and never use the same word to start
https://twitter.com/akshayvaidya316/status/1486770914188353538
Yeah, for a while I started with IRATE, but recently have moved to ORATE. Apparently studies of the Wordle word list show that O actually appears more often than I, even though in broader English I is in more words.
I want to get as many vowels as possible in the first word. I often start with RATIO.
I just plowed thru about 10 of the archived Wordles – 19 to 28? – and RATIO was not getting the job done...until 28, which was a deuce!
ADIEU is the multi-vowel choice of the hoi polloi, but what they gain with a 4th vowel, they lose with playing D rather than R and T.
Starting ADIEU was the one time I've missed a word (LIGHT). Sadly, I definitely would have had it if I'd stuck to my default starter, SALTY.
Yup, and U is less common than R or T (or S or N).
I've been doing nerds. Sometimes nasty.
(Wait, what are we talking about, again?)
If 7 letter words were the norm, then you could use sequoia. All five vowels are in sequoia.
The Merl Reagle classic this week has "Sequoia contents?" as a clue. I needed to get most of the acrosses to realize the answer is Vowels.
Smart
I often start with AROSE. Saw this on the news.
Today's word was interesting. I got all but one letter right away, but there were many options for that last letter.
I found an archive and did most of the older ones. I often tried FRESH and MOUNT. I've also tried STEAR
Me too!
sad trombone
I knowwww
When building apartments in New Bedford, MA, thou shalt build up to floor three. Up to three shall the number of floors thou shalt build. And the number of floors shall be up to three. Four shalt thou not build, neither thou build five. Six is okay, but seven is right out
https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/local/2022/02/02/glitch-new-bedford-building-code-developer-garden-apartments-wareham-zoning-planning-affordable/9298890002/
Out here they call used to call them "triple deckas". i.e. "Mahky got stabbed out front of his mum's triple decka in Rozzie." But that was before gentrification..
amen, Brother Maynard
Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy holy hand grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it...
A beautiful song
pick your fave Belle and Sebastian song
Dog On Wheels. Love the lyrics.
I like She's Losing It (from Tigermilk). But too many to list
Looking thru the list, I forgot about "Piazza, New York Catcher". Song about Mets and Giants playing, hanging in the Tenderloin, and wondering if he's gay
That's a great song, haven't thought about it in awhile. Thanks for the reminder.
not a topic you'd expect to be sung about by Scots
Un bel di vedremo - Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-r2vu4t9-g
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens. Devastatingly beautiful.
I Want Wind to Blow by the Microphones
Which is also among my top songs to whistle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHKtny5hMvI
Outdoor Miner - Wire
can't go wrong with Wire, altho not usually "beautiful"
Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse
no "I cum blood"? Cannibal Corpse's finest epic composition
that is more of a love song
If We Were Vampires...Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit (with Amanda Shires)
Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin IV
listening right now ...
Weather
We have a wedding in Dripping Springs, TX (outside of Austin) on Saturday evening. Currently snowing and there will be a high of 38 and low of 18 for the indoor/outdoor wedding. Before the storm we changed our plans from flying out today to flying out Saturday morning, which looks to have been the right decision.
Double post, ack. Few years ago I dealt with a contract for a rope obstacle course. Only bidder was an outfit in Dripping Springs. Asking the owner about DS, I was informed that Johnny Cash wrote a song - Down At Dripping Springs. Have yet to listen to it but with memory now jogged, maybe later today.
eek
yup, snowy/icy here today in Austin and I have a leak in my roof. yay
leaks from snow and ice suck - you know it's going away, but it still gives you that fear of disaster
fun fact- for whatever reason, tons of various kinds of distilleries in and around Dripping Springs
just rain in NYC next 2 days, but the midwest storm should dump 5-20 in of snow in the ski resorts north of us which is sorely needed this season.
we are headed up to western MA for the weekend. closer to the 5 in of snow but we'll take it.
Wait, Western Mass? which resort? The Newellbanys go to Jiminy Peak.
Snow tonight here in Albany through tomorrow. Perfect timing - we ski on Sundays.
It was 15 degrees a week ago. It should reach about 70 degrees today.
A storm is dumping up to an inch and a half of rain, immediately followed by an arctic blast to freeze all the water. So for the nth weekend in a row it's supposed to be sub-freezing and windy. Meanwhile we keep getting unexpectedly pleasant mid-week weather. Great timing.
Small task you refuse to do
I will go days handwashing the dishes in my sink because my dishwasher is full of clean dishes and I absolutely hate unloading it.
I have a dishwasher that I've only used once in the 3+ years I've had the house because it did a horrible job. Either because of my generally low water pressure or maybe the line is clogged.
Rather than address the issue, I've just been hand washing.
I don't know why, but when I first read this I was wondering why you were keeping clean clothes in your dishwasher.
You and Dr Ms Newellbany, both.
And me as well. I don't mind doing dishes, but I can't stand putting them away.
I'm the opposite. I will unload the dishwasher if I know that it is clean.
Yup, I'm taking them clean dishes out whey they still hot as hell, burning up my fingers.
decent powerpoint presentations (not sure if that is small enough?)
i really dislike any drag and drop type software where you have infinite flexibility. would rather work with a decent template.
in grad school, one guy who was a lifelong research scientist and never got taken seriously for tenure track jobs told me, "never get really good at something you dislike doing, because you might find yourself doing it for the rest of your life .."
since i dont make very good ones on purpose, rarely do i get asked to do them.
I love PowerPoint!
ugh! (where is the non-heart feedback icon)
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Fundraising reports for the fourth quarter of 2021 are in, and they don’t paint a pretty picture for candidates endorsed by former president Donald Trump. Combined with polling data suggesting a decline in Trump’s relevance to Republican voters, they might just indicate that Trump’s ice-like grip on the party is slowly thawing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/02/trump-endorsed-candidates-are-having-trouble-fundraising-thats-bad-sign-former-president/
Trump considered blanket pardons for Jan. 6 rioters before he left office
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/02/trump-considered-blanket-pardons-for-jan-6-rioters-before-he-left-office-00004738
A US military raid in Syria results in the death of the head of ISIS
https://apnews.com/article/biden-says-us-raid-syria-killed-islamic-state-group-leader-ca598136de014e008f746a35f6f721b0
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/fbi-confirms-purchasing-pegasus-spyware-but-denies-using-it/
Elsewhere in college
Huskies allow their players to opt in to get $ from jersey sales. When we're ***** done with UA, I demand we do this so I can start rocking my Robby Rowell jersey.
https://gohuskies.com/news/2022/2/3/fanatics-to-offer-uw-football-players-nil-opportunity-for-jersey-sales.aspx
Alabama's DC popped for DUI
https://tide1009.com/pete-golding-arrested-for-dui/
De-facto HC of ASU and DC - Antonio Pierce - has resigned.
https://247sports.com/college/arizona-state/Article/Arizona-State-defensive-coordinator-Antonio-Pierce-expected-to-resign-and-seek-NFL-opportunities-per-report-182098698/
"Head coach Herm Edwards and Pierce were named in the new findings from Sun Devil Source."
Is Herm next to fall?
I think he would have to be fired for failure to oversee the program.
2022 National Signing Day winners & losers: Texas A&M, Oregon highlight college football recruiting rankings -
The Aggies and Ducks made waves, while Florida and Arizona State came up short on the first Wednesday in February
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2022-national-signing-day-winners-losers-texas-a-m-oregon-highlight-college-football-recruiting-rankings/
Weird year for Pac-12 recruiting: the two worst programs in the conference last year, LSJU and Arizona, pull in the conference's top two classes (17th and 24th nationally, respectively). Meanwhile ASU signs a whopping 9 recruits, good for 105th in the nation.
After underachieving in Austin, Shaka Smart inherited a real nice nucleus for his system at Marquette, and scored a key transfer from George Mason in SOPH Tyler Kolek...all glory be to the transfer portal!!
They another solid Villanova team for the 2nd time this year...keep an eye on MARQ for your brackets...team could do serious damage come March, folks.
I wonder what Shaka Smart could do with THIS Cal team? Would they be more efficient offensively? Cal’s deep, and has some athletic wings...could these kids execute?
Tosh already going after Lincoln Riley
https://mobile.twitter.com/Legalize_Quack/status/1489069514771763204
[ESPN] Harbaugh staying at Michigan
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1489031932558069772
Think many, including g.oso, totally called this.
Apparently Harbaugh wants GM authority as well....
Funny, every college coach has GM responsibility.
i did call this with a little inside help. ok a lot of inside help
Are you banging Harbaugh's wife?
Today in Covid
Finally tested negative, after spending 11 days in covid jail. I had flu symptoms days 1-3, then nothing but nasal congestion and drip the rest of the way that slowly waned over the past week. It's been frustrating the past several days seeing that test line get thinner and thinner, till finally this morning no line at all.
I knew that when the line started taking longer and longer to appear, I was getting closer and closer to leaving covid jail. Initially it appeared almost immediately as the fluid reached the bottom line.
Yeah, on day 5 I was feeling mostly fine (fever and aches gone, just a few sniffles) and decided to take a test fully confident it was going to be negative. It turned like marker thick within 30 seconds, like a big "F*** you, you're not going anywhere for awhile." It was very nice to see it revert to pencil thickness within a couple days, then slowly fade away.
PRO
TBB will be pleased to learn that the NBA has redesigned the All-Star Game MVP trophy to look like a tiered layer cake.
https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1489259558400774151
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Welp, it has happened again. Another visiting SF fan in a coma due to violence inflicted upon him by LA fans.
https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1489094570872909826
New allegations that the commander of the Commanders is a sexual harasser.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33209242/new-allegations-levied-washington-commanders-owner-dan-snyder-hearing-congressional-committee
Former Washington Commanders employee Tiffani Johnston made new allegations against team owner Dan Snyder on Thursday at a roundtable before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, saying he placed his hand on her thigh without her consent at a team dinner and that he pushed her toward his limousine with his hand on her lower back.
"He left his hand on the middle of my thigh until I physically removed it," Johnston said.
Describing the incident outside Snyder's limousine, she said: "The only reason Dan Snyder removed his hand from my back and stopped pushing me towards his limo was because his attorney intervened and said, 'Dan, Dan, this is a bad idea.' ... I learned that I should remove myself from Dan's grip while his attorney was distracting him."
I don't really follow soccer, but is there a reason the USMNT scheduled a game in Minnesota in early February?
Partially travel, they just played Canada in Hamilton, and partially what Newel said.
Here's my favorite CONCACAF World Cup qualifier story:
The US was playing on the road - I forget where - and in the weeks leading up to the game, the host nation told US Soccer which ball would be used. It was the heaviest, slowest rock of a ball on the market, and it's never used for a major competition. US Soccer objected, but the host nation said it was their choice, and so US Soccer commenced practices, trying to kick around this rock.
The US showed up for the game and the host said they actually didn't have that kind of ball on site. US Soccer said "that's ok, we brought ten dozen of them." The host noted that the rule book dictates that the host has to provide the game ball, and the only type they happen to have was the lightest, quickest ball you can find - the opposite of what the US had been training with.
Welcome to CONCACAF World Cup qualifying, where no advantage is left behind!
Hell yeah, we put the Honduras game in St. Paul. The Mexico game is in Ohio. Play Jamaica in Denver. Do it all!
Every road game, they take maximum advantage - every home game we do the same.
fuck the rest of CONCACAF. After years of being served purposefully bad food when we travel, honking car horns outside the team hotel all night, coins, batteries and bags of piss being thrown at the players on the field... all of them can fuck the hell off
how do they not have a standard ball?
why does the ball never look like the (classic) one we used when I was a kid?
why are the pitches diff sizes (which I learned from Scootie's fave TV show)?
[I know baseball has diff sizes, but I don't know of any rectangular fields that allow variance. Altho NHL and Olympic hockey are diff, they are consistently diff...right?]
Someone should make a field that can be slightly tilted so that the home team is always playing slightly downhill the whole game.
Sounds expensive
It's just the girth. length is the same.
sooooo many possible responses, which perhaps was your intent
It is a little weird how much variation FIFA allows in so many aspects of the game. Sure, baseball stadiums can have different sized outfields and such, but the composition of the ball is tightly regulated, and the bases and pitcher's mound have to be exact distances from each other.
exactly!
I think there are mandated sizes for the goal, the goal box and penalty area, etc. So some things obviously are regulated. It's just weird that the width of the field and the weight of the ball aren't.
It does seem like home field advantage is way more pronounced in CONCACAF than in other regions, and this all explains why.
Canada also forced Mexico to play in a snowstorm when it was on their home turf.
Hell yeah Canada did, and I commend them for it.
If Mexico's gonna make all of CONCACAF play at 7,200 feet of elevation with fans raining beer on every corner kick, Canada has every right to put their home game in the damn Yukon if they think it'd be an advantage.
Yeah, I've read some takes about this Honduras match that the US was somehow being unfair or "afraid to compete" because they scheduled it this way. My thought was that they were just pulling the same shenanigans that every country in the region pulls for their home games.
Back in the day they used to play these matches in L.A. where there would be more Mexico fans than US fans. That's stupid. Play it in Ohio or Minnesota, why not?
Yeah, US Soccer used to put the Mexico game in the Rose Bowl to sell tickets because they needed the money. It was embarrassing.
There's more US fans, now, and I'm sure the TV contracts are really where the money is, anyways. The most important thing of all is qualifying for the World Cup. Do whatever it takes.
because they're chicken
I suggest Scotland take a page out of the CONCACAF playbook for their next phase of UEFA world cup qualifying. Wouldn't want to miss a sixth straight finals.
You're right, we should totally stop losing in our traditional manner and replace it with a national team tradition largely built on upper middle class travel teams, ignoring first generation players, and having a domestic league that has done more to bolster the quality of CONCACAF players than the domestic game.
Salty- reminds me that more than anything we could do to make the rest of the world hate the US would be to win the World Cup
I would be hugely entertained by that tbh
The thing I like the most about international soccer is that national teams play with the personality of their people.
Germans play mechanically but effectively. Brazilians play with beauty and freedom. England shows class at times, but their best years are behind them. The Italians play like their sportscars - either they're incredible or they're broken down on the side of the road.
So what should be the personality of US Soccer? Jurgen Klinsmann, when he coached the US, said the personality of America is to exert our will on the world, and he wanted our national team to do that, too. He thought the US should use its size and physicality to dictate the terms of the game.
Of course, this is harder said than done. But I like the idea. In soccer, anyways.
Sadly, these are all fair criticisms of US Soccer.
I mean Scottish soccer SUCKS and I don't think that playing in bad weather would really help, most of the rest of the European powers have shitty weather (or play in it) too. There's more to be said about how television money and the Old Firm have fucked up the pipeline of players in a country of 5 million, but the fact is: just not good enough 🤷♂️
Oh Snap!
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Cal gets another PWO commitment, this time from a c/o '22 WR out of Oregon who shunned several G5 scholarships.
https://twitter.com/jsking08/status/1489125727353987072
[Rugby] Match cancelled for a weird reason
https://calbears.com/news/2022/2/2/rugby-saturdays-game-versus-cal-maritime-has-been-canceled.aspx
Apparently the Keelhaulers found a way to avoid getting keelhauled without any fault falling on them.
TIL there's a thing called Cal Maritime
We became aware of Cal Maritime when CJ was looking at schools. He was looking at schools that had rugby programs and Cal Maritime came up as a such a school.
The son of a high school friend of Mrs Slug's is a graduate (class of 2020, I think).
My electrician's son attended there for a while.
Yep, just on the other side of the bridge on 80 that takes you to the northern side of the Bay. They're actually part of the CSU system. I had a friend who went there when I was at Cal. It's a tiny school (< 1000 students) but apparently they have enough to field a rugby team that gets obliterated by Cal on an annual basis.
The bridge you're describing is the Carquinez Straits Bridge. This is not to be confused with the Al Zampa Bridge which is for westbound I-80 traffic flowing from Vallejo to Crockett.
Apparently a great school for marine engineers
After retiring from the Navy my dad worked there as exec. director of continuing education. Then he started his own training company. Even though it is in the CSU system it's training ship for students is called Golden Bear.