That looks pretty cool. Could you imagine this here? I know that people couldn't figure out self-checkout when it first started here. The Louisville Krogers had them back in the late 2000s. Was bad when they first came out.
Arches was cool, tho I was pleasantly surprised by the stunning beauty of Canyonlands, just 30 mins away. No doubt my arrival time of just before sunset helped, but when you do Arches, plan a Canyonlands visit too.
Was texting hag yesterday...I’m putting together a May road trip with the pups...gonna try & bang out Mesa Verde & Black Canyon of the Gunnison, re-visit Teton/Yellowstone/Glacier, and then hit the Washington state trifecta before heading home to SB on 5 from WA. Maybe a little too ambitious, but we’ll see.
I absolutely loved Mesa Verde, would absolutely go back. We did a "sampler pack" spring break a few years ago of Sedona - Grand Canyon - Petrified Forest - Mesa Verde - Bandelier Nat'l Monument with some wandering around in Flagstaff, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque. I know the distances aren't "close" as such but it's comparatively so easy to get around to the amazeballs parks in that part of the country that I need to get back - just did an image search of Canyonlands nat'l park & it's on the list.
Dinosaur National Monument up in eastern Utah near Vernal and western Colorado is cool if some serious fossils are of interest. Went there a few years back on the way to Colorado for a fb game and really enjoyed it.
That's pretty cool. It's like the career minor leaguers that get called up for one game. Heck, I would love to just get in the field for one inning. You get your name in the baseball encyclopedia.
The best stories are the emergency goalies. Each home team is supposed to supply an emergency goalie for each game, to play for either team if they lose both goalies. They sit around somewhere until needed. 99.9% of the time they don't get on the ice. But when they do, it's glorious.
Random observation - reading commentary over NBA all star week, and also concerning ESPN’s top 75 players of all time ranking, it seems that Kobe through his death has been lionized, particularly among younger millennials and older Gen Z’s whose memories of him originate from and are thus tied to their childhood. It just seems interesting to me how his image has evolved since he was being accused of rape and dropped by his sponsors 15-20 years ago. Is that a lesson for those excommunicated from polite society during me too - just hang around? Or does it suggest that your sins can only be cleansed through death?
Kobe definitely has two phases, which he conveniently also changed his jersey number to match. He changed his game and also off-field demeanor between the two phases. Different generations remember the different versions of him.
By the way, I wonder if the same thing is happening with Tiger Woods (to the non-Cal fans). Of course, his philandering did not result in a court case and he also just got seriously hurt...
I don’t think MLB is even in the land of competing with NFL. Maybe NBA, but I think what will happen now is NBA will fall out of reach like NFL has and MLB will start getting passed up by MLS, extreme sports and so on
I agree with this. To make matters worse, I feel like the people that generally watch and enjoy MLB are all AARP members and will be dying sooner than later so they are bleeding both young and old viewers and have lost many African American viewers and players to the NFL and NBA.
No sport in America is close to competing with the NFL. MLB is in the realm of the NBA, but obviously the trend is against them.
I'm skeptical of MLS alone taking MLB's slot, because ultimately that is still a minor league while MLB is the top level of its sport. But pro soccer in general is definitely stealing mindshare (when you add in Americans now following the Premier League, international tournaments, etc.).
Are we ruling out the "death of NFL or American Football" due to the CTE plotline already? The NFL thing is also much more tied to the TV viewership, due to the fewer games and much much higher ticket prices, much fewer people have been to a NFL game than a MLB game (where you can get people who are not into sports at all to go).
That's not the first time I've seen you refer to MLS as a minor league - maybe I'm being too literal, but what do you think it's a minor league of? Or are you thinking about it in terms of audience?
Sen. Rick Scott's 11 point plan is a fever dream. He is a US Senator, for goodness sake - not some youtube crackpot. This is who is running our democracy.
I just noticed that The Last Kingdom final season will drop on Netflix on March 7th, since I have had some discussion about that show here over the past year.
Do you think Abbott Elementary was shown out of sequence? In the last couple of episodes it looks like the sub acts more like he's a new sub, experience-wise. In some of the earlier episodes, it seems like he got more comfortable, only to act more like a new sub in the following episodes.
i think it's possible -- it's been weird bouncing between "i want to be principal" and "oh no i'm new" but it hasn't been enough to take me out of the show
Banshee - started S2:Ep1...after planting the hooks in us with plenty of s-Cinemax eye candy early, they're already starting to back off on the nudity/strong sexual content, which now makes the show entirely pedestrian....will keep at it tho, maybe the producers/directors will let their guard down...;-)
It just seems to elevated to a whole other level in terms of difficulty. A quarter of these words I've never even heard of and its killing the fun for me.
I'm pretty sure this is not true. The original word list (which apparently is embedded in the code) is supposedly unchanged, or else there would be some real outrage from people (more serious people rather than youngsters on TikTok).
Which is probably where the issue lies. I'm in a different demographic that is more associated with youngsters on tiktok (despite me hating tiktok) in terms of patience.
I, uh, haven't had a problem with it. Frankly, I'm getting bored of it because at best - I solve it in 3. At worst, I solve it in 5. I have never lost.
Yeah, if not for the winning streak, I probably would have stopped. I do think there are certain words with too many options that can trip me up on hard mode, but I am also so much better at guess 5 letter words than 1.5 month ago after playing the Octordle (guessing 8 simultaneously) and Secordle (guessing 16 words simultaneously) games.
For me, the website seems to top out at 11 plays max, and 5 wins in a row. I have more like 21 plays and 10 wins in a row, but the website seems to just bump off the older data. Is this what everyone else sees?
Same. My streak was 18 but I had to hurry through the past few days because I had out of town company over the long weekend and didn't get one of them. At least that the excuse I'm using.
I did wordle for the first time in a few weeks and the word was the same word as one of my Qourdle words. I'm going to have to try both tomorrow and see if it is the same.
my thesis advisor would cook up an entire package of bacon for his BLTs. when i asked him if that was not too much, he replied, "what else is the point of a BLT?"
I've talked to people from the Pacific Northwest and Europe, among other places, who are avid bike riders but are astounded by the rudeness and entitlement of Bay Area cyclists. I'm a great supporter of using bicycles but am weary of riders who treat the sidewalk as an extension of the street and imperil pedestrians as well as those who -- again at risk to pedestrians -- careen through crosswalks oblivious to stop signs and red lights. My own travels confirm that in many other locales people on bikes are more prone to respect the rules.
I live off a pretty heavily biked road between Pasadena and Glendale and it is insane how ballsy they get on tight roads with stop signs. I get rolling through uphill stop signs since your pace is ~5mph, but blowing through them at 30+ on the downhill seems crazy.
My time at Cal I practically lived on my Mundo-cycle. I would take it in class with me if I could get away with it. Rode around with a heavy chain and padlock bandolier style. I don't know if it was uncutable, or if the thieves just picked locks what looked to be easier.
Wilier Triestina - the Italian brand of my road bike
The company name originated as an acronym for the phrase “W l’Italia liberata e redenta”, where the W is an abbreviation for "Viva!" (Long live Italy, liberated and redeemed). Triestina comes from the name of the city of Trieste. When Wilier was founded, Trieste was not part of Italy; the name 'Wilier Triestina' reflected a patriotic desire for it to be rejoined.
I parked and locked my shitty bike in front of Kroeber Hall, met my TA right there at that fountain for like 10 mins, then turned around and bike was gone. I have not owned a bike since other than a $10 bike I bought in Craigslist one summer in Chicago
My parents lived just above 580 in the Laurel District. My brother took a couple classes at Merritt College the semester before transferring in to Cal. First day he rode his bike all the way up the hill of 35th Ave and Redwood Road to the school he came out after one class and the bike was gone.
I recall a high school friend who went to UCSB telling me that there's a familiar pattern there. Freshmen show up to college with a nice bike, and it gets stolen. They go out and buy another nice bike, which also gets stolen. Then they buy a beater bike, which of course gets stolen. Lastly, they go out and steal themselves a bike.
It's like the people in NYC that get their battery stolen twice. The same thief comes back because they know the owner has to replace the battery with a new one.
While living in two of the bike theft meccas of Santa Cruz and Venice Beach I learned a valuable trick. Let the bike's frame, handlebars, wheels, etc rust and get a little dirty, but maintain all the moving parts in good working order. It really only works on beach cruisers or older mountain/road bikes, but I never had an issue and always only used a basic cable lock in some very high theft areas.
stolden? it should be easy for you to remember but i understand you thinking it could not be the same word: just think of the cakes that were made after pope innocent viii sent the butter-letter to prince elector ernst in 1490, you know, the ones baked at christmas at the council of trent in 1545 that you remember so well
yes cugel i know it's even more confusing because you knew those cakes originally as strietzel but they've been stollen for *centuries* give it up
First one I was in third grade in Yokohama, Japan. Filed a police report and they found the bike for me. Police asked my mom if we want to call the kid's parents, but she said no and we let him go. I lived in suburb NY, a very nice area, but someone stole it from our garage when it was left open. The most disappointing was when I was at Cal. I lived in a small 4 unit apartment that was secluded and didn't face any street. The entrance door was always locked so I always left my bike outside my door. We knew each other and it was safe. One day other unit was getting carpet fixed, so some workers came in and they took my bike. ;(
CAL
Go Bears!!!
[SB] Bears are on their way to mercy-ruling St. Mary's College. This is how you celebrate putting up 10 runs in the bottom of the 2nd.
https://twitter.com/CalAthletics/status/1496629318344085504
Elsewhere in college
[Forehead slap]
https://twitter.com/devilsdigest/status/1496486668530221064?s=21
Kids will be kids, even at BYU
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/21/us/byu-rocket-fuel-fire-trnd/index.html
Utah is the home of Morton Thiokol, maker of the infamous solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Man hides cocaine in his buttocks. Perhaps that's how "crack" got its name?
https://www.ardrossanherald.com/news/19941345.cocaine-search-dalry-man-refused-unclench-buttocks-police/
Hologram registers in Japan. I wanna try this.
https://soranews24.com/2022/02/23/how-to-use-the-new-floating-hologram-registers-at-7-eleven/
That looks pretty cool. Could you imagine this here? I know that people couldn't figure out self-checkout when it first started here. The Louisville Krogers had them back in the late 2000s. Was bad when they first came out.
Arches
I do not have them. Very very flat feet. This means I am prone to injuries from running. However, I am not in running shape due to bad knees.
I also have very flat feet. Also searching for better arch supports. Custom is the best, but they're expensive.
National Park
I should really get serious about getting myself out to amazing national parks like that.
Arches was cool, tho I was pleasantly surprised by the stunning beauty of Canyonlands, just 30 mins away. No doubt my arrival time of just before sunset helped, but when you do Arches, plan a Canyonlands visit too.
Was texting hag yesterday...I’m putting together a May road trip with the pups...gonna try & bang out Mesa Verde & Black Canyon of the Gunnison, re-visit Teton/Yellowstone/Glacier, and then hit the Washington state trifecta before heading home to SB on 5 from WA. Maybe a little too ambitious, but we’ll see.
Mesa Verde is cool.
I absolutely loved Mesa Verde, would absolutely go back. We did a "sampler pack" spring break a few years ago of Sedona - Grand Canyon - Petrified Forest - Mesa Verde - Bandelier Nat'l Monument with some wandering around in Flagstaff, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque. I know the distances aren't "close" as such but it's comparatively so easy to get around to the amazeballs parks in that part of the country that I need to get back - just did an image search of Canyonlands nat'l park & it's on the list.
Mesa Verde is the one place we haven't been to that I really want to visit.
Dinosaur National Monument up in eastern Utah near Vernal and western Colorado is cool if some serious fossils are of interest. Went there a few years back on the way to Colorado for a fb game and really enjoyed it.
My kids loved dino national monument. The only caveat is that the visitor center/museum was ungodly hot. Well, it was July and over 100 F outside.
PRO
Bruh.
https://twitter.com/NFL_Memes/status/1496162735259856911
haha
#3 Zverev ejected from event after losing a doubles match and then doing this:
https://twitter.com/primevideosport/status/1496433304161165313
I understand it was quite noisy. He made a real racket. (I'll be here all week, try the veal.)
These guys are proud to be minutemen
https://www.si.com/nba/2022/02/22/nba-one-minute-club-daily-cover
That's pretty cool. It's like the career minor leaguers that get called up for one game. Heck, I would love to just get in the field for one inning. You get your name in the baseball encyclopedia.
The best stories are the emergency goalies. Each home team is supposed to supply an emergency goalie for each game, to play for either team if they lose both goalies. They sit around somewhere until needed. 99.9% of the time they don't get on the ice. But when they do, it's glorious.
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/26424427/15-minutes-insane-accountant-nhl-goalie
Sportsmanship done right
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1495861062092132357
Ex-opponent of Cal, Shea Patterson, goes #1 over in the draft. USFL draft, that is.
https://twitter.com/USFL/status/1496274502975512579
How does USFL have a draft before NFL? And what players do they choose from?
Random observation - reading commentary over NBA all star week, and also concerning ESPN’s top 75 players of all time ranking, it seems that Kobe through his death has been lionized, particularly among younger millennials and older Gen Z’s whose memories of him originate from and are thus tied to their childhood. It just seems interesting to me how his image has evolved since he was being accused of rape and dropped by his sponsors 15-20 years ago. Is that a lesson for those excommunicated from polite society during me too - just hang around? Or does it suggest that your sins can only be cleansed through death?
Kobe definitely has two phases, which he conveniently also changed his jersey number to match. He changed his game and also off-field demeanor between the two phases. Different generations remember the different versions of him.
By the way, I wonder if the same thing is happening with Tiger Woods (to the non-Cal fans). Of course, his philandering did not result in a court case and he also just got seriously hurt...
MLB season slipping away with deadline rapidly approaching...once they miss games, it’s gonna get even uglier.
The owners are so foolish; the mind boggles. They are doing this at exactly the time that interest is waning. This could really accelerate that trend.
Agreed. Sure there are people that will keep coming back, but it’s already been passed in popularity by NFL & NBA, and this won’t help.
I don’t think MLB is even in the land of competing with NFL. Maybe NBA, but I think what will happen now is NBA will fall out of reach like NFL has and MLB will start getting passed up by MLS, extreme sports and so on
I agree with this. To make matters worse, I feel like the people that generally watch and enjoy MLB are all AARP members and will be dying sooner than later so they are bleeding both young and old viewers and have lost many African American viewers and players to the NFL and NBA.
No sport in America is close to competing with the NFL. MLB is in the realm of the NBA, but obviously the trend is against them.
I'm skeptical of MLS alone taking MLB's slot, because ultimately that is still a minor league while MLB is the top level of its sport. But pro soccer in general is definitely stealing mindshare (when you add in Americans now following the Premier League, international tournaments, etc.).
Are we ruling out the "death of NFL or American Football" due to the CTE plotline already? The NFL thing is also much more tied to the TV viewership, due to the fewer games and much much higher ticket prices, much fewer people have been to a NFL game than a MLB game (where you can get people who are not into sports at all to go).
NASCAR is coming back so they can take over
That's not the first time I've seen you refer to MLS as a minor league - maybe I'm being too literal, but what do you think it's a minor league of? Or are you thinking about it in terms of audience?
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Trump calls slow-motion invasion of Ukraine "wonderful" and "genius", calls Putin "savvy". Traitor.
https://www.clayandbuck.com/president-trump-with-cb-from-mar-a-lago/
Now it's a hot war after all. Trump can kiss the pro Russian thing goodbye
Three Democrats introduce a bill that would remove tax-free status of muni-bonds used to finance pro stadiums.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33350301/lawmakers-introduce-bill-eliminate-subsidies-pro-stadium-construction-citing-part-washington-commanders-probe
I'm sure the new governor of Virginia will claim it's an attack on him
Sen. Rick Scott's 11 point plan is a fever dream. He is a US Senator, for goodness sake - not some youtube crackpot. This is who is running our democracy.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f-1cf5-d281-a7ff-3ffd5f4a0000
it alternates between juvenile and deliberately obtuse, at the upper end.
Republicans descend into foreign policy factionalism over Russia-Ukraine standoff
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/republicans-foreign-policy-russia-ukraine-00010780
DBD AV Club
I just noticed that The Last Kingdom final season will drop on Netflix on March 7th, since I have had some discussion about that show here over the past year.
I am Uhtred, SON of Uhtred.....
Destiny is ALL
I honestly thought the last season was the final season, I'll be curious to see where they go with this actual final season.
There's still some things they can wrap up. It's a great show.
american auto, grand crew, and abbott elementary continue to do great work all around, grand crew and abbott elementary especially so
American Auto is weird, but I like it.
Do you think Abbott Elementary was shown out of sequence? In the last couple of episodes it looks like the sub acts more like he's a new sub, experience-wise. In some of the earlier episodes, it seems like he got more comfortable, only to act more like a new sub in the following episodes.
i think it's possible -- it's been weird bouncing between "i want to be principal" and "oh no i'm new" but it hasn't been enough to take me out of the show
I'm enjoying American Auto as well. Good cast, clever writing.
Anyone else enjoying The Gilded Age a lot more than they'd anticipated? Terrific show.
George Russell would make one helluva Cal AD....
I am, but I haven't watched the latest episode.
Banshee - started S2:Ep1...after planting the hooks in us with plenty of s-Cinemax eye candy early, they're already starting to back off on the nudity/strong sexual content, which now makes the show entirely pedestrian....will keep at it tho, maybe the producers/directors will let their guard down...;-)
Watched the first half of Seven Samurai - blu ray criterion (a gift from a couple of years ago) with my friend Kaiyo - The Sheri
Today in Covid
Hey, do yourselves a favor when you're filling out the March Madness brackets and follow this simple rule...pick the Big East teams.
Man, that conference is tough.
Wordle bugs?
Not gonna lie, NYT buying it out and putting their own spin has sucked the fun out of it for me.
what is the NYT spin? i dont seem to have noticed ..
It just seems to elevated to a whole other level in terms of difficulty. A quarter of these words I've never even heard of and its killing the fun for me.
I'm pretty sure this is not true. The original word list (which apparently is embedded in the code) is supposedly unchanged, or else there would be some real outrage from people (more serious people rather than youngsters on TikTok).
Which is probably where the issue lies. I'm in a different demographic that is more associated with youngsters on tiktok (despite me hating tiktok) in terms of patience.
I, uh, haven't had a problem with it. Frankly, I'm getting bored of it because at best - I solve it in 3. At worst, I solve it in 5. I have never lost.
Yeah, if not for the winning streak, I probably would have stopped. I do think there are certain words with too many options that can trip me up on hard mode, but I am also so much better at guess 5 letter words than 1.5 month ago after playing the Octordle (guessing 8 simultaneously) and Secordle (guessing 16 words simultaneously) games.
I lost once when I figured out 4 letters in 3rd try but kept missing the final piece in last 4 tries. Sometimes it's really a chance.
For me, the website seems to top out at 11 plays max, and 5 wins in a row. I have more like 21 plays and 10 wins in a row, but the website seems to just bump off the older data. Is this what everyone else sees?
I have only played on my laptop (on my Chrome browser) so maybe that helped, and my 47 match winning streak is still in tact.
Actually, the NYT bug gave me an extra win because I accidentally played that same day (of the switchover) twice.
I have played about a month now, and all my record is there. Unfortunately my streak ended at 20 because I couldn't get it in 6 tries.
Same. My streak was 18 but I had to hurry through the past few days because I had out of town company over the long weekend and didn't get one of them. At least that the excuse I'm using.
if you skip a day do you lose your wins in a row?
Yes
I did wordle for the first time in a few weeks and the word was the same word as one of my Qourdle words. I'm going to have to try both tomorrow and see if it is the same.
DBD Kitchen
i had bought too many ingredients for second city crusted casseroles a few weeks ago so i made more yesterday before things went bad
these ones turned out way better (sausage ring + onions + basil + mozz + parm / pepperoni + onions + basil + mozz + parm)
BLT's last night
my thesis advisor would cook up an entire package of bacon for his BLTs. when i asked him if that was not too much, he replied, "what else is the point of a BLT?"
since then i put at least double bacon ...
A full package for how many people?
"Too much bacon" is not a valid concept.
Dude knows how to live, and I respect you both.
BTW, Grandpa Newellbany lived to be 97 and had bacon daily. DAILY!
That sounds good.
Goldbelly is having a BOGO sale on some vendors.
For example, buy 3 Gino's East pizzas get 2 free. So for $90 you can get 5 of them, which is a pretty good deal.
https://www.goldbelly.com/buy-one-get-one-sale
Bicycles!
I want to ride my...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwvWtZl2ICY
I've talked to people from the Pacific Northwest and Europe, among other places, who are avid bike riders but are astounded by the rudeness and entitlement of Bay Area cyclists. I'm a great supporter of using bicycles but am weary of riders who treat the sidewalk as an extension of the street and imperil pedestrians as well as those who -- again at risk to pedestrians -- careen through crosswalks oblivious to stop signs and red lights. My own travels confirm that in many other locales people on bikes are more prone to respect the rules.
I live off a pretty heavily biked road between Pasadena and Glendale and it is insane how ballsy they get on tight roads with stop signs. I get rolling through uphill stop signs since your pace is ~5mph, but blowing through them at 30+ on the downhill seems crazy.
That is the cover of Queen II, totally prog-rock, on which that song never was included (much later, I think on Jazz) - try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lT4oE4DxE
My time at Cal I practically lived on my Mundo-cycle. I would take it in class with me if I could get away with it. Rode around with a heavy chain and padlock bandolier style. I don't know if it was uncutable, or if the thieves just picked locks what looked to be easier.
Wilier Triestina - the Italian brand of my road bike
The company name originated as an acronym for the phrase “W l’Italia liberata e redenta”, where the W is an abbreviation for "Viva!" (Long live Italy, liberated and redeemed). Triestina comes from the name of the city of Trieste. When Wilier was founded, Trieste was not part of Italy; the name 'Wilier Triestina' reflected a patriotic desire for it to be rejoined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilier_Triestina
there are a lot of Bicycles in Amsterdam!
I parked and locked my shitty bike in front of Kroeber Hall, met my TA right there at that fountain for like 10 mins, then turned around and bike was gone. I have not owned a bike since other than a $10 bike I bought in Craigslist one summer in Chicago
I remember a friend that locked up just his front wheel. Came back out and all that was left was his front wheel.
haha, dope
My parents lived just above 580 in the Laurel District. My brother took a couple classes at Merritt College the semester before transferring in to Cal. First day he rode his bike all the way up the hill of 35th Ave and Redwood Road to the school he came out after one class and the bike was gone.
Every single bicycle I have owned have been stolen. One in Japan, one in New York and one in Berkeley. Have not owned one as adult.
I recall a high school friend who went to UCSB telling me that there's a familiar pattern there. Freshmen show up to college with a nice bike, and it gets stolen. They go out and buy another nice bike, which also gets stolen. Then they buy a beater bike, which of course gets stolen. Lastly, they go out and steal themselves a bike.
It's like the people in NYC that get their battery stolen twice. The same thief comes back because they know the owner has to replace the battery with a new one.
While living in two of the bike theft meccas of Santa Cruz and Venice Beach I learned a valuable trick. Let the bike's frame, handlebars, wheels, etc rust and get a little dirty, but maintain all the moving parts in good working order. It really only works on beach cruisers or older mountain/road bikes, but I never had an issue and always only used a basic cable lock in some very high theft areas.
Whoa, whereas none of my bicycles has ever been stolen. (I always think there should be a "D" in stolen)
stolden? it should be easy for you to remember but i understand you thinking it could not be the same word: just think of the cakes that were made after pope innocent viii sent the butter-letter to prince elector ernst in 1490, you know, the ones baked at christmas at the council of trent in 1545 that you remember so well
yes cugel i know it's even more confusing because you knew those cakes originally as strietzel but they've been stollen for *centuries* give it up
First one I was in third grade in Yokohama, Japan. Filed a police report and they found the bike for me. Police asked my mom if we want to call the kid's parents, but she said no and we let him go. I lived in suburb NY, a very nice area, but someone stole it from our garage when it was left open. The most disappointing was when I was at Cal. I lived in a small 4 unit apartment that was secluded and didn't face any street. The entrance door was always locked so I always left my bike outside my door. We knew each other and it was safe. One day other unit was getting carpet fixed, so some workers came in and they took my bike. ;(
I've become a fan of ebikes in my old age.