Travel to Tahoe was a DISASTER, but not totally unexpected. We stayed in Folsom on Fri night and left to head to Heavenly around 8:30. About 3 miles from Sierra at Tahoe, traffic STOPPED. It took us about 2+ hours to drive the 3 miles. It was brutal. Apparently Sierra at Tahoe's parking lots filled up quickly and there are only 2 lanes so lots of people stopped to try to drop skiers off. We finally got by here around 11:30 and we went to the Tahoe CC overflow lot. Decided to just not ski on Sat, which was probably a good idea. I saw a picture that the gunbarrel lift line was all the way to the Tram.
On Sun, Northstar lots were full by 9:35. We got there around 9:45 but we were going to try to park in our friend's driveway near the base of Homerun. Their neighbor was borrowing the driveway and she said we could park there if we didn't block them in. The plows only plowed enough to fit 1+ car at the bottom so we drove to the Tahoe airport overflow lot. Unfortunately this lot is only serviced by the public bus which comes once an hour. When we got there, a bus just left and the Northstar guy estimated we were 2-3 buses away. So we thought about trying to get an Uber but there was only like 1 or 2 drivers so it was impossible. Enough people left that we got on the next bus and got to the mountain around 11:45. Surprisingly, the lift lines weren't too bad so we were able to get maybe 8 runs in. Left to catch the 2:25 bus back to the airport since I didn't want to take the 3:25 since it probably would be crowded.
This year I've gone more than in the past and I really want to go again. I want to go next weekend but No 3 doesn't so will probably skip. Realistically that will be the last weekend since he leave the next week and I'm gone for 10 after he gets back. And not sure how much snow will be left the last weekend, even with all the snow last week. I guess I could go by myself that first weekend in mar. We'll see.
This was good perspective for me to read because I was just bitching about it taking three hours to get home from Gore Mountain to Albany on Friday (it usually takes 1.5 hours) because conditions were tough. I have it good!
i have not been in a while. depending on snow, considering a trip in mid-Mar so older child's spring break. ideally we would just be in CO but the snow has been spotty and even verging on crappy.
i talked to my Parisian friend about La Tour d’Argent. he said this
Yes I have been there. Amazing place. Plenty of history (Napoleon was there), fantastic views over Notre Dame. House specialty is Duck and it’s the best duck I have ever had. I also remember the wine list. It must weigh about 10kg. They have pretty much any wine you can think about. And for each of them, all years!
in recent times they are down to one Michelin star instead of 3. they apparently had a sale of much of their wine collection as well.
Cal MBB has a gigantic home game on Wednesday. GIGANTIC. I've been thinking that Cal would still dance if they finish the ACC regular season at 10-8, which means they could absorb one more loss. But the bubble watchers continue to punish us for the weak non-conference schedule so we might have to win out.
It would be total BS if Ohio State gets in over Cal, seeing as how they're 0-9 against quad 1. It's like the SEC in football - they're getting rewarded just for playing the games. Maybe I'm old school in that I think you should have to win your games. And don't get me started about USC still being in the mix.
That's probably true. That means we're going to have to beat SMU at one point or another. It looks likely that Cal and SMU are going to be 8 and 9 seeds in the conference tourney, so either we beat them on Wednesday or we beat them in Charlotte.
ESPN currently has 8 teams listed as locks or "should be in" from the BigTen and 8 from the ACC.
But they say the BigTen has 9.8 expected bids and the ACC has 8.1 expected bids.
Even if you assume Indiana gets the 9th Big Ten spot, for this math to math, either Ohio State or USC would have to go over Cal. Either one would be ridiculous.
CATHEDRAL CITY – Junior Gator Robinson recorded four hits on the day – including a home run, but the California softball team dropped a pair of games to close out the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic.
The California women's basketball team played even with Miami for three quarters but was outscored 21-12 in the second which proved to be the difference in a 69-60 loss at the Watsco Center in Miami on Sunday afternoon. It marked the Golden Bears' (17-12, 8-8 ACC) first conference road loss in four games as the Hurricanes improved to 14-12 overall and 7-9 in ACC play.
HONOLULU – The No. 9 California beach volleyball team waited out six hours of lightning delays before finally registering its first victory of the season by blanking No. 16 Hawai'I 3-0 on the final day of the Outrigger DUKE Kahanamoku Beach Classic on Saturday.
The Golden Bears, who also had a scheduled dual against No. 1 UCLA canceled due to the weather, got straight set victories from its No. 4 pair of Grace Hong and Marilu Pally and No. 5 duo of Elle Evers and Savanna Lau. Gia Fisher and Ava Haughy, playing on the No. 2 court, won in three sets.
ATLANTA – The renaissance of the California women's swimming & diving program took another step Saturday when the Golden Bears finished third at the 2025 ACC Championships at McAuley Aquatic Center.
The Golden Bears scored 1,027.5 points to finish behind seven-time defending champion Virginia and runner-up Stanford. Cal scored 163.5 points more than its fourth-place finish last year – its first in the ACC.
ATLANTA - The No. 6 California men's swimming & diving team won its second ACC championship in as many years since joining the conference Saturday, outdistancing rival Stanford on the final day to take home the 2026 crown.
Sophomore Yamato Okadome, who was named the meet's Most Valuable Swimmer, helped bring the Golden Bears home with his second individual title in as many nights, making it a clean sweep of the breaststroke events with a resounding victory in the 200-yard iteration of the event. Okadome set a meet record with a time of 1:48.87, the fastest in the event nationally this season and No. 3 all-time at Cal. He won the race in the A-final by over two seconds.
BERKELEY -- The California men's basketball team never trailed en route to a 72-66 win over visiting rival Stanford today at Haas Pavilion. The win topped off the Golden Bears' first regular-season sweep of the Cardinal since 2009-10 and improved Cal to 19-8 overall and 7-7 in ACC play. Stanford is now 16-11, 5-9.
BERKELEY - California rugby defeated Brigham Young 64-21 Saturday in their return to Witter Rugby Field. Eight different players scored 10 tries in the victory.
It was the Cougars who struck first after an errant pass from Oliver Teague was intercepted by Malae Tanuvasa. Tanuvasa went untouched, running the ball into the tryzone, putting BYU on the board first with a converted try.
BERKELEY – Laura Cilekova posted a straight-set singles win to clinch the 12th-ranked Cal women's tennis team's 4-0 victory over No. 59 Georgia Tech under sunny skies at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
The Golden Bears improved to 4-0 overall (2-0 ACC), while the Yellow Jackets fell to 4-6 (0-2).
BERKELEY – Sophomores Maria Bogachenko and Holly Dunn and senior Julia Bonaguidi each had six-point games but the No. 4 California women's water polo team fell 19-18 in overtime to No. 2 UCLA on Saturday afternoon at Spieker Aquatics Complex.
IRVINE— The California baseball team picked up its first series win of the season Sunday defeating UC Irvine 4-2 on the road at Anteater Ballpark in Irvine.
The rubber-match win saw the Golden Bears improve to 4-3 on the season while the host Anteaters suffered their second straight loss to fall to 5-2.
I don't even care if they sell the team anymore because it wouldn't put them back in Oakland. I'd rather they keep the team and run it into the ground.
I don't see how they can get 20K on a weekday game. How many out of town fans are going to go for a weekday series. Maybe the weekend games will get 30K+ but I see the weekday games similar to a windy weekday night game at the Stick against the Pirates in the 80s.
And in MLB the local TV audience still matters a lot. Las Vegas is a lousy TV market compared to the rest of MLB. It would instantly be the smallest in the league, and unlike in California there are no other secondary markets in which you can pick up more audience. It's all just empty desert outside of Vegas and its immediate suburbs.
For the Raiders it doesn't matter; NFL TV contracts are all national anyway. For hockey, there is much more reliance on the gate than TV and having a smaller arena right on the strip is nice for that. I don't see how this is going to work for baseball.
IMO they would be better off staying in Sacramento and building a stadium there. Much better market than Vegas and would still retain some access to the old fan base.
Go to Cal baseball games!! Sit right behind home plate for same price as right field foul line. It’s virtually all GA yet you’re right there on top of the action. I dropped the A’s as soon it became clear they (the A’s’ brass) didn’t care about me.
Warriors win a close game in the 4th with only 9 players vs Nuggets.
it was tied with 6 min to go and Podziemski went bonkers. Ws had been hitting a lot of 3s as well and everyone seemed to step up w/ all the star power on the bench.
Props to New York Governor Hochul for letting bars open up early so fans can watch the gold medal hockey game. I took full advantage of this, and it was an awesome scene. The bar was PACKED and rowdy as hell.
This was a great winter games. Lots of great moments but the top three highlights for me were the hockey golds (both men and women), Alysa Liu's joyous skating that represented the spirit of Oakland so tremendously, and the mixed doubles curling team of Cory and Korey that won Silver.
Norway's population is the same as Minnesota and they're both hella cold!
I feel like the U.S. should be better at the biathlon because American gun culture should be good for something. We should find somebody in Minnesota who runs marathons and likes shooting guns, and turn them into a biathlete.
we got about 8-10 inches over night in NY suburbs. not nearly the "up to 2 feet" they were projecting. this one was more of a coastal one, so Long Island got the big pile ups around here.
My sister (lives near P'burg, NJ) sent me a picture of their backyard with everything frosted in snow. Says they got about 8 inches so far, expecting another 4 to 6 inches today.
Only about an inch or so of snow near DC. Really windy this morning so hopefully with temps near forty later and the wind it will go away. Northeast getting hammered. Last Friday morning my sister sent a picture of about a foot and a half they got in Iowa.
Wordle
23-day NYT crossword streak ended on the Sunday puzzle.
rooting for NewAlbany to keep his streak alive
I'm still alive!
Got through Sunday just with brute force.
i had 2 mistakes which made it hard to find each other
Wordle 1,710 3/6*
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got it in 3
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Wow. Great guess
I think trying the hard mode has increased my correct answer speed.
agreed, hard mode forces you down the correct path faster
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DBD Tahoe
Travel to Tahoe was a DISASTER, but not totally unexpected. We stayed in Folsom on Fri night and left to head to Heavenly around 8:30. About 3 miles from Sierra at Tahoe, traffic STOPPED. It took us about 2+ hours to drive the 3 miles. It was brutal. Apparently Sierra at Tahoe's parking lots filled up quickly and there are only 2 lanes so lots of people stopped to try to drop skiers off. We finally got by here around 11:30 and we went to the Tahoe CC overflow lot. Decided to just not ski on Sat, which was probably a good idea. I saw a picture that the gunbarrel lift line was all the way to the Tram.
On Sun, Northstar lots were full by 9:35. We got there around 9:45 but we were going to try to park in our friend's driveway near the base of Homerun. Their neighbor was borrowing the driveway and she said we could park there if we didn't block them in. The plows only plowed enough to fit 1+ car at the bottom so we drove to the Tahoe airport overflow lot. Unfortunately this lot is only serviced by the public bus which comes once an hour. When we got there, a bus just left and the Northstar guy estimated we were 2-3 buses away. So we thought about trying to get an Uber but there was only like 1 or 2 drivers so it was impossible. Enough people left that we got on the next bus and got to the mountain around 11:45. Surprisingly, the lift lines weren't too bad so we were able to get maybe 8 runs in. Left to catch the 2:25 bus back to the airport since I didn't want to take the 3:25 since it probably would be crowded.
i was getting text updates on this trip.
1 - HAG and i had a lot snowy Tahoe ski trips
2 - it is a common HS friend that has the swanky cabin at Northstar
3 - i am interested in encouraging HAG to ski more so we can plan some trips
This year I've gone more than in the past and I really want to go again. I want to go next weekend but No 3 doesn't so will probably skip. Realistically that will be the last weekend since he leave the next week and I'm gone for 10 after he gets back. And not sure how much snow will be left the last weekend, even with all the snow last week. I guess I could go by myself that first weekend in mar. We'll see.
I do need to go to VT next year.
VT is famous for East Coast Ice. this year seems to be an exception and we are getting more snow than most of the west
Yikes. That sounds brutal.
This was good perspective for me to read because I was just bitching about it taking three hours to get home from Gore Mountain to Albany on Friday (it usually takes 1.5 hours) because conditions were tough. I have it good!
i have not been in a while. depending on snow, considering a trip in mid-Mar so older child's spring break. ideally we would just be in CO but the snow has been spotty and even verging on crappy.
DBD AV club
Paradise season 2 just started. I'll need to download and watch. Season 1 was really good so I can't wait for season 2.
i am going to watch this. somehow it seems more intriguing than most
i somehow have a "free" Hulu sub. will have to figure it out
not to be confused or mixed with DBD Lunch (PSA for HAG)
DBD Cooking and Eating
Sea Scallops With Sunchokes and Truffles
Recipe from La Tour d’Argent
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013016-sea-scallops-with-sunchokes-and-truffles?unlocked_article_code=1.OVA.QF_Q.lmbvuyWg0KK7&smid=share-url
first i bought some sunchokes and farmers market, then found this recipe, then bought scallops (and oysters and steak) for dinner.
this recipe is a little fussy but not hard. food turned out great. much better than the average meal at home.
What are sunchokes? Similar to artichokes?
they are often called Jerusalem artichokes. i feel like that are more like a turnip and less like an artichoke
oh interesting. I've never heard of them.
i talked to my Parisian friend about La Tour d’Argent. he said this
Yes I have been there. Amazing place. Plenty of history (Napoleon was there), fantastic views over Notre Dame. House specialty is Duck and it’s the best duck I have ever had. I also remember the wine list. It must weigh about 10kg. They have pretty much any wine you can think about. And for each of them, all years!
in recent times they are down to one Michelin star instead of 3. they apparently had a sale of much of their wine collection as well.
Cal
Cal MBB has a gigantic home game on Wednesday. GIGANTIC. I've been thinking that Cal would still dance if they finish the ACC regular season at 10-8, which means they could absorb one more loss. But the bubble watchers continue to punish us for the weak non-conference schedule so we might have to win out.
It would be total BS if Ohio State gets in over Cal, seeing as how they're 0-9 against quad 1. It's like the SEC in football - they're getting rewarded just for playing the games. Maybe I'm old school in that I think you should have to win your games. And don't get me started about USC still being in the mix.
In conclusion, go to the game.
I may try to buy a cheap ticket and go. Tried to convince JimmyChitwood but he declined.
Do it. If our boy JimmyC can't handle the pressure, he'll have to live with that.
I think he is gun shy after getting nice tickets for Clemson a couple of weeks ago.
maybe he's the problem
Yikes, now I’m catching strays…
;-)
i missed the game vs Stanford. was great to see a good win even if we were meant to win that game.
IMO if we get one more loss then we need to win an ACC tournament game.
That's probably true. That means we're going to have to beat SMU at one point or another. It looks likely that Cal and SMU are going to be 8 and 9 seeds in the conference tourney, so either we beat them on Wednesday or we beat them in Charlotte.
ESPN currently has 8 teams listed as locks or "should be in" from the BigTen and 8 from the ACC.
But they say the BigTen has 9.8 expected bids and the ACC has 8.1 expected bids.
Even if you assume Indiana gets the 9th Big Ten spot, for this math to math, either Ohio State or USC would have to go over Cal. Either one would be ridiculous.
[LAX] Cal Hosts UC Davis
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/23/cal-hosts-uc-davis.aspx
UC DAVIS AGGIES (1-3, 0-0 BIG 12) AT CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (3-1, 1-0 ACC)
MONDAY, FEB. 23, 2026 • 5 PM PT
CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STADIUM (BERKELEY, CA)
[SB] Bears Drop Final Two Games At Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/22/softball-bears-drop-final-two-games-at-mary-nutter-collegiate-classic.aspx
CATHEDRAL CITY – Junior Gator Robinson recorded four hits on the day – including a home run, but the California softball team dropped a pair of games to close out the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic.
[WBB] Cal Falls At Miami
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/22/womens-basketball-cal-falls-at-miami.aspx
The California women's basketball team played even with Miami for three quarters but was outscored 21-12 in the second which proved to be the difference in a 69-60 loss at the Watsco Center in Miami on Sunday afternoon. It marked the Golden Bears' (17-12, 8-8 ACC) first conference road loss in four games as the Hurricanes improved to 14-12 overall and 7-9 in ACC play.
[BVB] No. 9 Bears Notch First Win Of Season
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/21/beach-volleyball-no-9-bears-notch-first-win-of-season.aspx
HONOLULU – The No. 9 California beach volleyball team waited out six hours of lightning delays before finally registering its first victory of the season by blanking No. 16 Hawai'I 3-0 on the final day of the Outrigger DUKE Kahanamoku Beach Classic on Saturday.
The Golden Bears, who also had a scheduled dual against No. 1 UCLA canceled due to the weather, got straight set victories from its No. 4 pair of Grace Hong and Marilu Pally and No. 5 duo of Elle Evers and Savanna Lau. Gia Fisher and Ava Haughy, playing on the No. 2 court, won in three sets.
[WSWIM] Bears Place Third At ACC Championshps
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/21/womens-swimming-diving-bears-place-third-at-acc-championshps.aspx
ATLANTA – The renaissance of the California women's swimming & diving program took another step Saturday when the Golden Bears finished third at the 2025 ACC Championships at McAuley Aquatic Center.
The Golden Bears scored 1,027.5 points to finish behind seven-time defending champion Virginia and runner-up Stanford. Cal scored 163.5 points more than its fourth-place finish last year – its first in the ACC.
[MSWIM] No. 6 Bears Repeat As ACC Champions
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/21/mens-swimming-diving-no-6-bears-repeat-as-acc-champions.aspx
ATLANTA - The No. 6 California men's swimming & diving team won its second ACC championship in as many years since joining the conference Saturday, outdistancing rival Stanford on the final day to take home the 2026 crown.
Sophomore Yamato Okadome, who was named the meet's Most Valuable Swimmer, helped bring the Golden Bears home with his second individual title in as many nights, making it a clean sweep of the breaststroke events with a resounding victory in the 200-yard iteration of the event. Okadome set a meet record with a time of 1:48.87, the fastest in the event nationally this season and No. 3 all-time at Cal. He won the race in the A-final by over two seconds.
[MBB] Cal Scores Season Sweep Of Stanford With 72-66 Win At Haas Pavilion
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/21/mens-basketball-cal-scores-season-sweep-of-stanford-with-72-66-win-at-haas-pavilion.aspx
BERKELEY -- The California men's basketball team never trailed en route to a 72-66 win over visiting rival Stanford today at Haas Pavilion. The win topped off the Golden Bears' first regular-season sweep of the Cardinal since 2009-10 and improved Cal to 19-8 overall and 7-7 in ACC play. Stanford is now 16-11, 5-9.
[RUGBY] Bears Run Past BYU
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/21/rugby-bears-run-past-byu.aspx
BERKELEY - California rugby defeated Brigham Young 64-21 Saturday in their return to Witter Rugby Field. Eight different players scored 10 tries in the victory.
It was the Cougars who struck first after an errant pass from Oliver Teague was intercepted by Malae Tanuvasa. Tanuvasa went untouched, running the ball into the tryzone, putting BYU on the board first with a converted try.
[WTEN] No. 12 Cal Blanks No. 59 Georgia Tech To Stay Unbeaten
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/21/womens-tennis-no-12-cal-blanks-no-59-georgia-tech-to-stay-unbeaten.aspx
BERKELEY – Laura Cilekova posted a straight-set singles win to clinch the 12th-ranked Cal women's tennis team's 4-0 victory over No. 59 Georgia Tech under sunny skies at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
The Golden Bears improved to 4-0 overall (2-0 ACC), while the Yellow Jackets fell to 4-6 (0-2).
[WPOLO] No. 4 Cal Drops Heartbreaker To No. 2 UCLA In OT
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/21/womens-water-polo-no-4-cal-drops-heartbreaker-to-no-2-ucla-in-ot.aspx
BERKELEY – Sophomores Maria Bogachenko and Holly Dunn and senior Julia Bonaguidi each had six-point games but the No. 4 California women's water polo team fell 19-18 in overtime to No. 2 UCLA on Saturday afternoon at Spieker Aquatics Complex.
BASEBALL: Bears’ pitching comes up strong/clutch, Prather rakes, leads Cal to a series win vs. the ‘Eaters.
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/22/baseball-bears-take-opening-road-series.aspx
[BASE] Bears Take Opening Road Series
https://calbears.com/news/2026/2/22/baseball-bears-take-opening-road-series.aspx
IRVINE— The California baseball team picked up its first series win of the season Sunday defeating UC Irvine 4-2 on the road at Anteater Ballpark in Irvine.
The rubber-match win saw the Golden Bears improve to 4-3 on the season while the host Anteaters suffered their second straight loss to fall to 5-2.
PRO
BASEBALL IS BACK!!!
Not for those of us from Oakland, it isn't.
True...SELL THE TEAM! Went to a coffee shop in Kings Beach in North Lake Tahoe a couple of weekends ago and they had a SELL flag.
I don't even care if they sell the team anymore because it wouldn't put them back in Oakland. I'd rather they keep the team and run it into the ground.
I don't see how they can get 20K on a weekday game. How many out of town fans are going to go for a weekday series. Maybe the weekend games will get 30K+ but I see the weekday games similar to a windy weekday night game at the Stick against the Pirates in the 80s.
And in MLB the local TV audience still matters a lot. Las Vegas is a lousy TV market compared to the rest of MLB. It would instantly be the smallest in the league, and unlike in California there are no other secondary markets in which you can pick up more audience. It's all just empty desert outside of Vegas and its immediate suburbs.
For the Raiders it doesn't matter; NFL TV contracts are all national anyway. For hockey, there is much more reliance on the gate than TV and having a smaller arena right on the strip is nice for that. I don't see how this is going to work for baseball.
IMO they would be better off staying in Sacramento and building a stadium there. Much better market than Vegas and would still retain some access to the old fan base.
agreed
I did not think they'd ever build in Las Vegas, for any number of reasons. But they are:
https://ballparkexperience.athletics.com/construction
Go to Cal baseball games!! Sit right behind home plate for same price as right field foul line. It’s virtually all GA yet you’re right there on top of the action. I dropped the A’s as soon it became clear they (the A’s’ brass) didn’t care about me.
Warriors win a close game in the 4th with only 9 players vs Nuggets.
it was tied with 6 min to go and Podziemski went bonkers. Ws had been hitting a lot of 3s as well and everyone seemed to step up w/ all the star power on the bench.
good solid win at home
Game 57 wrap: Warriors bench shocks Jokic’s Nuggets, win despite no Porzingis, no Dray, no Steph, no Jimmy
https://dubnationhq.com/p/game-57-wrap-no-spoiler-alert
Watched the last 5 min in the parking lot before driving home from Tahoe. Can't believe they pulled out the win without like 170 mil of player salary.
Olympics wrap up
Props to New York Governor Hochul for letting bars open up early so fans can watch the gold medal hockey game. I took full advantage of this, and it was an awesome scene. The bar was PACKED and rowdy as hell.
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-kathy-hochul-144
i should have done that.
not that we were in VT, but my local dive bar next the house is open from 800a-200a every day!
i asked if people actually come in that early and if they are allowed serve alcohol at that hour. they tersely said yes to both
US beats Canada in OT for mens gold medal hockey.
Canada looked to be a notch quicker for the 2nd half but the US goaltending was phenomenal and kept them in it.
i didnt appreciate that OT meant sudden death 3-on-3 format.
also, i just assumed that the US had won Olympic gold occasionally. this was the first since 1980
yeah, I only knew it was sudden death because of the women's gold medal game. It took me by surprise for that one.
This was a great winter games. Lots of great moments but the top three highlights for me were the hockey golds (both men and women), Alysa Liu's joyous skating that represented the spirit of Oakland so tremendously, and the mixed doubles curling team of Cory and Korey that won Silver.
Norway wins big and no Nobel Prize. Trump has to be pissed.
at the end of the hockey match i was wondering what Trump was going to say about the "loser hockey team" if Canada had won.
Norway, man. Just 5.5 million people and they always win the most medals at the winter games. Ballers.
their budget for XC ski wax is more than the entire US XC ski team budget (at least that is what the commentators were saying)
They have a bit of a home-field advantage for winter sports for sure.
they have an entire group of events named after their country too!
Norway's population is the same as Minnesota and they're both hella cold!
I feel like the U.S. should be better at the biathlon because American gun culture should be good for something. We should find somebody in Minnesota who runs marathons and likes shooting guns, and turn them into a biathlete.
Minnesota is mostly Scandinavian origin too.
Mature topics which we've come to expect from W4C
How Often Do You Fart? This ‘Smart Underwear’ Can Keep Track, Because Figuring Out a Baseline Is Important for Science
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-times-a-day-do-you-fart-this-smart-underwear-can-keep-track-and-figuring-out-a-baseline-is-important-for-science-180988198/
Is this how we get back to 1000 comments?
farting is probably the most universally accessible topic.
WEATHER
we got about 8-10 inches over night in NY suburbs. not nearly the "up to 2 feet" they were projecting. this one was more of a coastal one, so Long Island got the big pile ups around here.
No 1 shows us a picture out their window and it looks like maybe 10 in with more coming today. The Met closed down so he is working from home.
Maybe 2-3 inches overnight in NY's Capital Region. I drove in to work and it was fine.
My sister (lives near P'burg, NJ) sent me a picture of their backyard with everything frosted in snow. Says they got about 8 inches so far, expecting another 4 to 6 inches today.
Only about an inch or so of snow near DC. Really windy this morning so hopefully with temps near forty later and the wind it will go away. Northeast getting hammered. Last Friday morning my sister sent a picture of about a foot and a half they got in Iowa.