Health. Last week the missus and I were hit by a horrific cold--tons of head congestion and never-ending exhaustion, but at least it wasn't covid--and now that it's cleared up the missus came down with some sort of horrific food poisoning the other night. Today, I am very thankful that I can breathe through my nose and eat a meal without worry that it will be violently ejected a few minutes later.
I finally bought an electric toothbrush a few months ago following my dentist's recommendation that it may reduce tartar buildup. We'll see if it made a difference when I have my next appointment next month, but it certainly feels like it does a better job than a manual brush.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A U.S. House candidate in Oklahoma has apologized after reports that she became intoxicated at a Valentine’s Day weekend sleepover for middle-school-aged girls, berated several of the children and vomited in a hamper.
Democrat Abby Broyles, 32, told television station KFOR that she had an adverse reaction after drinking wine and taking sleep medication given to her by a friend.
“Instead of helping me sleep, I hallucinated,” Broyles told the station in a televised interview. “And I don’t remember anything until I woke up or came to, and I was throwing up in a hamper.”
She said she was invited to the slumber party by a good friend from law school who was the mother of one of the girls.
Interesting/troubling NYT piece on Ginni Thomas, Republican activist and wife of Clarence Thomas. It's alarming how far the justice system has veered from even the illusion of impartiality.
Unfortunately, due to his job being a lifetime appointment and the inability of the president to fire a SCOTUS Justice, you really have no choice but to root for either his retirement or death.
It's hard not to want to psychoanalyze him. It feels like maybe the shame of him being exposed in those confirmation hearings and Anita Hill's testimony just made him want to go scorched earth on everyone.
I read a profile on him that showed how he encountered racism in a very liberal environment. While I sympathize with his experience and agree that liberals can be very racist themselves, I think choosing respond by aligning with a political movement that is a couple of decades away from reinstituting slavery of African-Americans is a tad bit of an irrational overreaction.
I agree and maybe it was the confirmation hearings that influenced him to go scorched earth. It would be poetic justice for Biden to pick his replacement.
Sources close to Wilcox said the Oregon job initially came with some conditions related to the recruiting philosophy and possibly assistants to retain or hire. Those "spooked" the coach, one person said. Even when Oregon relaxed on some of those items, Wilcox didn't feel he could run the program like he wanted. He turned down Oregon's offer to become coach, sources said.
"It seemed like they wanted him to work in the gray area, and that's really not him," said a source close to Wilcox. "Justin is the kind of guy who likes to recruit kids that aren't interested in the Recaro leather seats. After he made up his mind, he just stuck with it."
Is it though? Cal doesn't do gray area very well. When we do, we tend to get caught. While other programs have built cultures to support that sort of thing.
I meant more paying players through NIL. I don’t consider paying players through NIL deals as gray area but it seems like Wilcox is a bit uncomfortable with this.
Somewhat understandable that the punter depth chart might not be the area most people are most on top of, but you would think the person charged for actually making roster updates and entering the data in the portal would check their work before clicking on "Save".
Reminder that minor league players not on the 40-men rosters are having Spring Training per usual. The Minor League Baseball season is also a go even if the MLB lockout is not resolved.
Dodgers AAA team (OKC) is going to be in Sacramento playing the Giants AAA team 3rd week of April. I plan on going to at least 2 of the games. One during the week and another over the weekend, probably Sunday.
I think Zion is done with the Pelicans when his rookie contract is done after next season, if not before. Hell, unless the Pelicans get a vet to get him to get into shape, no way he's going to be durable next season. Either that or trade him for whatever they can get and he should hope he goes to a team with vets that gets him to get into shape and stop eating.
Went to my first gymnastics meet yesterday. Saw the Cal women defeat Arizona. Enjoyed the experience and will return. It's weird to watch a sport in which judges determine scores and athletes are not directly facing their opponents. (Might it be more interesting if when on the bars someone from the other team was trying to block you or tackle you during a vault?) But the athleticism of the women is undeniable and impressive, not to mention the enthusiasm and constant joy on display.
It's also weird to root against someone in gymnastics. I have not seen people so vicious (yet) as to root for someone to fall off the balance beam.
Maybe this is more acceptable in men's gymnastics? Then again, I went to a men's meet where the Stanford guy screwed up on the high bars and either hit his hands (or possibly even face) on the bars before face planting on the mat. He was able to get up and shake it off though. I think it is just human instinct to not with that on anyone, even a Furdie.
When I was an undergrad at Cal, the men's gymnastic team was excellent and were national champions one year, and conference champs most years. They were quite impressive to watch. The women's team was not at that level, but were still interesting to see.
I’d definitely watch contact gymnastics...like 3 opponents trying to put a body on someone during their floor routine...now that would be something. Or opponents heckling the gymnast on their beam exercise, like a free throw?
[SB] Cal will face Oklahoma on March 11th. In case you missed it, the Sooners have Jocelyn Alo who is currently tied for the all-time HR mark for softball. Alo is tied with Lauren Chamberlain at, who achieve the mark in 220 games, whereas Alo has played in 205.
Cal's Veronica Nelson still holds the D-1 records for walks for career (395) and season (108, 2002). Cal holds six of the top seven walks-per-season, with Nelson holding #1, 2, 4, and 6. Can you guess which Cal player holds the other two (#3, #7)?
Nah. I'm on the college visit circuit now. All non-work dates are reserved for doing the necessary. Conditions allowing - I'm going to DC in April, California in May, London in June, and New York in July.
oh now I really want to go get some tacos. I got some on Fri on the way back from bringing my mom to the dentist. Tacos El Gordo was closed until dinner so I went to Mi Grullense. I think I like El Gordo better.
Up and down around here. Highs in the 30s or 40s for a couple days and then the 50s or 60s for a couple days. I'm all set for the cooler weather though. My nephew and his girlfriend just visited for four days over the long weekend. She works for Outdoor Research and they brought me a bunch of gloves, mitts, and outerwear.
"But yeah, you can find a discounted hooded sweatshirt at any lame department store. What you won’t find at any lame department store is a devil’s bargain like this, where you relinquish your own free will by letting us choose the colors of your two hoodies while you blissfully succumb to the infinite embrace of the unknown.
That’s right. You pay the money. We pick the colors."
--
Heh like all the free shirts in random colors we all have...
Arthur is done. PBS had the last episode of Arthur on Sunday. Arthur was one of the shows No 1 watched. I bet quite a few '09 gang watched it. Along with those with kids.
They ran a week long marathon showing all the previous episodes. My kids watch Arthur and episodes will still be available for streaming on the PBS Kids App.
I stayed up later than planned – was gonna watch an ep of S4 of Mrs. Maisel, but Amazon is dropping eps weekly, so I'll wait til they're all available – and watched Being the Ricardos. Aaron Sorkin "biopic" about Lucy and Desi. Was quite good...similar to his Steve Jobs movie in that instead of their life, it focuses on a few times in their life – in this case, one week (with flashbacks) – to tell their story.
16/19...it'd been awhile since I'd had a Sorkin fix!
We got an OLED for the living room in December and it has been fantastic. The ability to display true blacks really improves scenes that would otherwise be washed out or gray-ish on traditional LCD panels. And the intensity of the colors is really astonishing when displaying a proper HDR source. Like FS said, it wouldn't be a great option for a room with tons of natural light because they can't achieve the same brightness as high-end LCD panels. But otherwise, I found it to be well worth a few hundred dollars more.
we just got an OLED and it is awesome. Basically, our research suggested that OLEDs give amazing intense definition to black and dark colors which makes it pop. If you're in a media room or an area with limited light, OLED is totes worth it. If in a high light room, regular is fine since the OLED benefit will be minimized
I bought a new 82 inch Samsung high quality LED last August and I have been happy with it. I would have preferred an OLED but the price point was still a bit too high for me.
Besides the better dynamic range, OLED also looks the same when you view off center. It's up to you if the advantages are worth it, but I do like our OLED quite a lot.
I have a Samsung Frame, which is a QLED. It's...fine? I don't watch it enough to pay 2x+ more for a little bit better picture. Really depends on how much you watch and in what conditions.
What I do like about my Frame is that it displays art when it's off, so it's hung on the wall and pretty much passes as a painting or framed photo, depending on what I'm displaying that day.
Watched the latest episode of The After Party, it was an animated episode and it was really well done.
I have a theory on the show. I think Xavier got Jennifer 2 pregnant and when she confronted him about the baby being his he fainted and accidentally fell to his death.
I agree and I think Yasper’s musical episode is the best one so far.
The only one I can see with a reason to be upset enough to potentially kill Xavier would be Yasper. Other than him, I can’t see any one that has been interviewed so far hating Xavier enough to kill him on purpose. I could see someone confronting Xavier about something and him accidentally falling off his balcony to get out of the situation.
I watched the latest season of Cobra Kai over 5 days at the gym. I thought the season was good. A couple things surprised me in the last episode and a couple of things didn't. It will be interesting to see what the plan is for next season for a couple of characters.
It's kind of crazy how the next season has already been filmed last November (or finished them) but won't come out until the end of the year. Given the rating success, they will probably film another season by them (so the kids don't age too much).
[NY Times] U.S. Soccer and Women’s Players Agree to Settle Equal Pay Lawsuit
WOW .. big news for something that seemed dead a year ago.
Under the terms of the agreement, the athletes will receive $24 million and a pledge from the federation to equalize pay for the men’s and women’s national teams.
At some point, I'll try to understand more about this new deal and the recent NWSL collective bargain agreements. The two things are tied together because the biggest soccer stars are paid much much more by US national team and just allocated to the US-based club teams. Trinity Rodman (daughter of Dennis) recently became the highest paid NWSL player ever a year after being the No.1 over pick, because she hasn't spent enough time with USWNT to earned the allocated player status (from what I understand).
Would US Soccer be handicapping themselves by agreeing to equal pay here? The big reason the women's teams don't get equal pay is because women's soccer simply doesn't make as much money as men's soccer.
I think the revenue sharing from the World Cups is just a percentage thing. Of course, currently there is a difference in prize money between the Men's and Women's World Cup and this lawsuit is also a push to equalize that.
Outside the international competitions, the women plays more games and those (even just friendlies) are more profitable than the men (who even played that recent World Cup qualifying game in a freezing Minnesota to minimize the number of El Salvador supporters).
That would lead to an interesting argument: that with greater support the women's game will grow and come closer to the men's game financially. That may well happen.
FWIW, I think right now the big difference is in World Cup revenue: the men's tournament absolutely dwarfs the women's tournament in terms of revenue given out to the participating national teams. The women's team was only able to claim they out-earned the men's team in a cycle when the women won the whole thing and the men failed to qualify at all, something that isn't likely to be representative going forward.
But if that revenue gap closes in the future then the argument for equal pay is stronger.
I take a slightly different view. The USSF is a non-profit that's supposed to be making fielding men's & women's teams at different age levels, improving scouting, and so on. It's not a professional organization in the sense of allocating spending purely on the basis of who generates revenue - it's already diverting revenue from men's broadcast revenue to those programs that I mentioned above. I don't have an issue with the broader question of whether the money from the women's world cup from *FIFA* is different, but there's nothing that says that USSF has their hands tied about how they allocate revenues.
Something good in your life right now
Health. Last week the missus and I were hit by a horrific cold--tons of head congestion and never-ending exhaustion, but at least it wasn't covid--and now that it's cleared up the missus came down with some sort of horrific food poisoning the other night. Today, I am very thankful that I can breathe through my nose and eat a meal without worry that it will be violently ejected a few minutes later.
Exactly one year later, I still love my "new" job.
it'll be 10 years for me at my job this year and I still love my job
My wife, kids, house, job.
same for all
My pups
The professional and personal success that my daughters are enjoying.
DENTIST
I finally bought an electric toothbrush a few months ago following my dentist's recommendation that it may reduce tartar buildup. We'll see if it made a difference when I have my next appointment next month, but it certainly feels like it does a better job than a manual brush.
love my sonicare. best part is it times things so it's brainless to be thorough
I have an appointment today to finish repairing a couple of aging fills, finally will be back to just a 6mo cleaning schedule
I prefer going to the dentist over the doctors.
CRUMBLING DEMOCRACIES
Crude oil over $90/bbl
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-%20electronic
Tulsi Gabbard will speak at CPAC. In unrelated news, she also just defended Putin and Russia.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/02/22/former-hawaii-congresswoman-speak-cpac-along-with-trump-other-conservatives/
Tulsi Gabbard isn’t a democrat so it makes sense that she is speaking at CPAC and is defending Putin.
US House candidate sorry for intoxication during sleepover
https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-oklahoma-oklahoma-city-wine-congress-a2fde9506dbccf44fb2f3066645ad8a7
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A U.S. House candidate in Oklahoma has apologized after reports that she became intoxicated at a Valentine’s Day weekend sleepover for middle-school-aged girls, berated several of the children and vomited in a hamper.
Democrat Abby Broyles, 32, told television station KFOR that she had an adverse reaction after drinking wine and taking sleep medication given to her by a friend.
“Instead of helping me sleep, I hallucinated,” Broyles told the station in a televised interview. “And I don’t remember anything until I woke up or came to, and I was throwing up in a hamper.”
She said she was invited to the slumber party by a good friend from law school who was the mother of one of the girls.
Interesting/troubling NYT piece on Ginni Thomas, Republican activist and wife of Clarence Thomas. It's alarming how far the justice system has veered from even the illusion of impartiality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html
Hopefully Thomas retires or dies soon. His wife is crazy.
I hate to root for a guy's bodily demise, but yeah, he offers nothing positive to the world. He's so tragic.
Unfortunately, due to his job being a lifetime appointment and the inability of the president to fire a SCOTUS Justice, you really have no choice but to root for either his retirement or death.
i choose death
As do I.
It's hard not to want to psychoanalyze him. It feels like maybe the shame of him being exposed in those confirmation hearings and Anita Hill's testimony just made him want to go scorched earth on everyone.
I read a profile on him that showed how he encountered racism in a very liberal environment. While I sympathize with his experience and agree that liberals can be very racist themselves, I think choosing respond by aligning with a political movement that is a couple of decades away from reinstituting slavery of African-Americans is a tad bit of an irrational overreaction.
I agree and maybe it was the confirmation hearings that influenced him to go scorched earth. It would be poetic justice for Biden to pick his replacement.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
[MBB] Coach Juwan Howard suspended 5 games, which is the rest of the regular season
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33343690/michigan-men-basketball-coach-juwan-howard-suspended-rest-regular-season-altercation-wisconsin-sources-say
the whole this was ridiculous, as you might expect from grown men trying to macho up and "fight"
Feels like the regular season plus the tourneys would have been the right call here.
[ESPN] The story of Oregon's HC search, including some new info on why Wilcox said no
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/33312298/the-scenes-battle-oregon-football-future-why-dan-lanning-won
What’s gonna happen when the Auburn job becomes available sometime this fall...hmmmm? Lanning will be a candidate.
They can take Musgrave.
Sources close to Wilcox said the Oregon job initially came with some conditions related to the recruiting philosophy and possibly assistants to retain or hire. Those "spooked" the coach, one person said. Even when Oregon relaxed on some of those items, Wilcox didn't feel he could run the program like he wanted. He turned down Oregon's offer to become coach, sources said.
"It seemed like they wanted him to work in the gray area, and that's really not him," said a source close to Wilcox. "Justin is the kind of guy who likes to recruit kids that aren't interested in the Recaro leather seats. After he made up his mind, he just stuck with it."
A little concerning that he doesn’t want to work in the gray area.
Is it though? Cal doesn't do gray area very well. When we do, we tend to get caught. While other programs have built cultures to support that sort of thing.
I meant more paying players through NIL. I don’t consider paying players through NIL deals as gray area but it seems like Wilcox is a bit uncomfortable with this.
7-5 is his ceiling here.
D2 here we come!!
Texas Longhorn staff enters the wrong punter into the transfer portal
https://twitter.com/InsideTexas/status/1495789885017493513
Somewhat understandable that the punter depth chart might not be the area most people are most on top of, but you would think the person charged for actually making roster updates and entering the data in the portal would check their work before clicking on "Save".
TODAY IN COVID
PRO
BMC
https://twitter.com/MetsFarmReport/status/1495523465335562242?t=ut7fmhGx5NKpJDPb0_IlVg&s=19
Reminder that minor league players not on the 40-men rosters are having Spring Training per usual. The Minor League Baseball season is also a go even if the MLB lockout is not resolved.
Dodgers AAA team (OKC) is going to be in Sacramento playing the Giants AAA team 3rd week of April. I plan on going to at least 2 of the games. One during the week and another over the weekend, probably Sunday.
[ESPN] Two sides in MLB negotiation still far apart after five hours of negotiation
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33343989/sources-mlb-players-union-far-apart-latest-meeting-yields-no-game-changer-cba-negotiations
Fear no baseball til June.
I’m guessing a MLB season that more closely resembles the Covid shortened season.
Which will devastate the sport. The world has changed - people WILL continue to stop watching.
Yep, baseball will continue to fall further behind in popularity.
how does baseball still have so much money?
[NFL] DeShaun Watson loses appeal to delay deposition. He has been ordered to give a deposition for 9 (of 22) of the civil cases against him.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33343926/judge-rules-houston-texans-qb-deshaun-watson-testify-oath-nine-civil-cases
[Chess] Teen's gambit
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/sport/rameshbabu-praggnanandhaa-magnus-carlsen-chess-spt-intl/index.html
Zion Williamson ripped by former New Orleans Pelicans teammate JJ Redick for not being a better teammate
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33348507/zion-williamson-ripped-former-new-orleans-pelicans-teammate-jj-redick-not-being-better-teammate
I think Zion is done with the Pelicans when his rookie contract is done after next season, if not before. Hell, unless the Pelicans get a vet to get him to get into shape, no way he's going to be durable next season. Either that or trade him for whatever they can get and he should hope he goes to a team with vets that gets him to get into shape and stop eating.
Let's see what Chuck has to say...
https://youtu.be/uMsrrfabD3A
CAL
Went to my first gymnastics meet yesterday. Saw the Cal women defeat Arizona. Enjoyed the experience and will return. It's weird to watch a sport in which judges determine scores and athletes are not directly facing their opponents. (Might it be more interesting if when on the bars someone from the other team was trying to block you or tackle you during a vault?) But the athleticism of the women is undeniable and impressive, not to mention the enthusiasm and constant joy on display.
It's also weird to root against someone in gymnastics. I have not seen people so vicious (yet) as to root for someone to fall off the balance beam.
Maybe this is more acceptable in men's gymnastics? Then again, I went to a men's meet where the Stanford guy screwed up on the high bars and either hit his hands (or possibly even face) on the bars before face planting on the mat. He was able to get up and shake it off though. I think it is just human instinct to not with that on anyone, even a Furdie.
When I was an undergrad at Cal, the men's gymnastic team was excellent and were national champions one year, and conference champs most years. They were quite impressive to watch. The women's team was not at that level, but were still interesting to see.
there is a cal men's gymnastics alum who regularly competes on american ninja warrior now (the papal ninja)
Nice!
I’d definitely watch contact gymnastics...like 3 opponents trying to put a body on someone during their floor routine...now that would be something. Or opponents heckling the gymnast on their beam exercise, like a free throw?
I miss the "Curtain of Distraction"
that was a pretty good one.
I remember seeing the Speedo Guy game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylmJKJ2Pm7Y&ab_channel=ESPN
I envision one member of each team doing floor exercises at the same time. Full contact allowed. Same with the beam.
add in a little baby oil and I'm there
But, but, it would mess up their uniforms... oh wait ISWYD
tinder bio
[SB] Cal will face Oklahoma on March 11th. In case you missed it, the Sooners have Jocelyn Alo who is currently tied for the all-time HR mark for softball. Alo is tied with Lauren Chamberlain at, who achieve the mark in 220 games, whereas Alo has played in 205.
Cal's Veronica Nelson still holds the D-1 records for walks for career (395) and season (108, 2002). Cal holds six of the top seven walks-per-season, with Nelson holding #1, 2, 4, and 6. Can you guess which Cal player holds the other two (#3, #7)?
Valerie Arioto?
Yup.
In Honolulu. You going?
Nah. I'm on the college visit circuit now. All non-work dates are reserved for doing the necessary. Conditions allowing - I'm going to DC in April, California in May, London in June, and New York in July.
is your kid considering a UK university?
Where in Ca? Maybe we need to schedule a DBDSGBHH.
Happy (Taco) TWOSday!!!
I usually do Taco Tuesday at Kasa (Indian tacos), but have leftover Thai food from last night, so will have that for lunch instead.
But happy TWOSday...
Anyone gonna be on at 10:22 this evening?
And how about in 200 years? 2-22-2222, which is a...(checks)...Friday :-(
And today (in most non-American countries, where dates are day-month-year) is also an ambigram in addition to a palindrome
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/todays-date-february-22-2022-is-special-here-s-why-101645509945723.html
oh now I really want to go get some tacos. I got some on Fri on the way back from bringing my mom to the dentist. Tacos El Gordo was closed until dinner so I went to Mi Grullense. I think I like El Gordo better.
DBD Weather
Wind advisories in Santa Barbara…ocean was choppy as hell.
Up and down around here. Highs in the 30s or 40s for a couple days and then the 50s or 60s for a couple days. I'm all set for the cooler weather though. My nephew and his girlfriend just visited for four days over the long weekend. She works for Outdoor Research and they brought me a bunch of gloves, mitts, and outerwear.
Just had about 10 min of hail here.
https://meh.com/deals/2-pack-men-s-assorted-heavyweight-sherpa-hoodies-3
"But yeah, you can find a discounted hooded sweatshirt at any lame department store. What you won’t find at any lame department store is a devil’s bargain like this, where you relinquish your own free will by letting us choose the colors of your two hoodies while you blissfully succumb to the infinite embrace of the unknown.
That’s right. You pay the money. We pick the colors."
--
Heh like all the free shirts in random colors we all have...
Random? They are all blue & gold!
DBD AV Club
The Good Place fans, I just found this video of the last table read cut in with video of the actual broadcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJl1xtJjM8
I'll give it a watch...altho wasn't a big fan of the last season
I enjoyed it more intellectually than like haha this is fun. They made it challenging for themselves.
I loved the finale. It was so well done.
So anyone watching season 2 of Raised by Wolves?
not yet...considering whether to do so. I started to lose interest at the end of S1
Arthur is done. PBS had the last episode of Arthur on Sunday. Arthur was one of the shows No 1 watched. I bet quite a few '09 gang watched it. Along with those with kids.
https://youtu.be/SFe4w6RJ3Zw
First they canceled Chrissy. Now they've canceled John.
They ran a week long marathon showing all the previous episodes. My kids watch Arthur and episodes will still be available for streaming on the PBS Kids App.
i don't know about the rest of the #09gang but i did not watch it, just a little too old maybe
Started Peacemaker last week and have binged the first six episodes. Such a fun show. 17/19
So you are saying that you REALLY WANNA TASTE IT?
I stayed up later than planned – was gonna watch an ep of S4 of Mrs. Maisel, but Amazon is dropping eps weekly, so I'll wait til they're all available – and watched Being the Ricardos. Aaron Sorkin "biopic" about Lucy and Desi. Was quite good...similar to his Steve Jobs movie in that instead of their life, it focuses on a few times in their life – in this case, one week (with flashbacks) – to tell their story.
16/19...it'd been awhile since I'd had a Sorkin fix!
in the market for a new TV...do I go OLED (megabux) or high-quality LED?
We got an OLED for the living room in December and it has been fantastic. The ability to display true blacks really improves scenes that would otherwise be washed out or gray-ish on traditional LCD panels. And the intensity of the colors is really astonishing when displaying a proper HDR source. Like FS said, it wouldn't be a great option for a room with tons of natural light because they can't achieve the same brightness as high-end LCD panels. But otherwise, I found it to be well worth a few hundred dollars more.
Definitely 4K OLED - LG has some very good ones. Was amazed how thin it is when I upgraded from plasma (don't laugh, it was better than the LED ones)
we just got an OLED and it is awesome. Basically, our research suggested that OLEDs give amazing intense definition to black and dark colors which makes it pop. If you're in a media room or an area with limited light, OLED is totes worth it. If in a high light room, regular is fine since the OLED benefit will be minimized
I bought a new 82 inch Samsung high quality LED last August and I have been happy with it. I would have preferred an OLED but the price point was still a bit too high for me.
Besides the better dynamic range, OLED also looks the same when you view off center. It's up to you if the advantages are worth it, but I do like our OLED quite a lot.
I have a Samsung Frame, which is a QLED. It's...fine? I don't watch it enough to pay 2x+ more for a little bit better picture. Really depends on how much you watch and in what conditions.
What I do like about my Frame is that it displays art when it's off, so it's hung on the wall and pretty much passes as a painting or framed photo, depending on what I'm displaying that day.
I wish I had gotten a frame for the art display feature of the TV.
Finally started Succession. Binge watched the first 1.5 seasons over the last week. Awesome!
And it gets better.
Watched the latest episode of The After Party, it was an animated episode and it was really well done.
I have a theory on the show. I think Xavier got Jennifer 2 pregnant and when she confronted him about the baby being his he fainted and accidentally fell to his death.
I enjoyed Yasper's musical episode more. You Only Get One Shot...Twice!
Interesting theory...we shall see!
I agree and I think Yasper’s musical episode is the best one so far.
The only one I can see with a reason to be upset enough to potentially kill Xavier would be Yasper. Other than him, I can’t see any one that has been interviewed so far hating Xavier enough to kill him on purpose. I could see someone confronting Xavier about something and him accidentally falling off his balcony to get out of the situation.
i agree, that I think it'll just be an accident.
My kids think he is not really dead, just acting
I watched the latest season of Cobra Kai over 5 days at the gym. I thought the season was good. A couple things surprised me in the last episode and a couple of things didn't. It will be interesting to see what the plan is for next season for a couple of characters.
It's kind of crazy how the next season has already been filmed last November (or finished them) but won't come out until the end of the year. Given the rating success, they will probably film another season by them (so the kids don't age too much).
More full-on karate melees please...
Soccer
[NY Times] U.S. Soccer and Women’s Players Agree to Settle Equal Pay Lawsuit
WOW .. big news for something that seemed dead a year ago.
Under the terms of the agreement, the athletes will receive $24 million and a pledge from the federation to equalize pay for the men’s and women’s national teams.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/sports/soccer/us-womens-soccer-equal-pay.html
At some point, I'll try to understand more about this new deal and the recent NWSL collective bargain agreements. The two things are tied together because the biggest soccer stars are paid much much more by US national team and just allocated to the US-based club teams. Trinity Rodman (daughter of Dennis) recently became the highest paid NWSL player ever a year after being the No.1 over pick, because she hasn't spent enough time with USWNT to earned the allocated player status (from what I understand).
Would US Soccer be handicapping themselves by agreeing to equal pay here? The big reason the women's teams don't get equal pay is because women's soccer simply doesn't make as much money as men's soccer.
I think the revenue sharing from the World Cups is just a percentage thing. Of course, currently there is a difference in prize money between the Men's and Women's World Cup and this lawsuit is also a push to equalize that.
Outside the international competitions, the women plays more games and those (even just friendlies) are more profitable than the men (who even played that recent World Cup qualifying game in a freezing Minnesota to minimize the number of El Salvador supporters).
On the other hand, it's a results-oriented business, and I don't see any world cups from the men's team
I also wonder if there are more young girls playing because they've been watching the women play than young men.
That would lead to an interesting argument: that with greater support the women's game will grow and come closer to the men's game financially. That may well happen.
FWIW, I think right now the big difference is in World Cup revenue: the men's tournament absolutely dwarfs the women's tournament in terms of revenue given out to the participating national teams. The women's team was only able to claim they out-earned the men's team in a cycle when the women won the whole thing and the men failed to qualify at all, something that isn't likely to be representative going forward.
But if that revenue gap closes in the future then the argument for equal pay is stronger.
I take a slightly different view. The USSF is a non-profit that's supposed to be making fielding men's & women's teams at different age levels, improving scouting, and so on. It's not a professional organization in the sense of allocating spending purely on the basis of who generates revenue - it's already diverting revenue from men's broadcast revenue to those programs that I mentioned above. I don't have an issue with the broader question of whether the money from the women's world cup from *FIFA* is different, but there's nothing that says that USSF has their hands tied about how they allocate revenues.
shhhhhhh.....
Saw Alex Morgan interviewed on CBS this morning about this. Go Bears!
edited to be consistent w/ the "new format"