i did the thing where i started w/ yesterday's word. in some ways it was a curse to get 3 out of 5 in the first try because it makes it hard to explore the remaining options in hard mode.
i dont mind if i get one or none in the first round or two. the info you get from the "not used letters" is the most important thing to me.
It's not an intentional brag, but squarely in the category of "proud parents". My daughter got a job offer to be a paralegal at arguably the world's #1 law firm, located in Manhattan. It's the interim job before applying to law school. I am so pleased and proud, not for anything that I have done - but for all the hard work, the thoughtful planning, and the born-with-it-smarts that she has. She graduates in seven weeks, is taking an online paralegal certification degree before flying off to backpack around Vietnam before starting in August. In fact, I dropped her off at the airport yesterday after she spent her last school holiday at home knowing full well that she is on the cusp of being a fully fledged adult that I've put into the world, albeit into the hungry maw of Manhattan professional life. That being said, I will probably have to subsidize her until she gets out of law school. Being poor in NYC is not easy.
Investigating the twist-angle dependence of Bernal bilayer-trilayer graphene
most of these words mean little to me. people are generally studying graphene as an example of a 2d material - only a few atomic layers thick - and exploring interesting properties.
None. I switched to my phone as my primary time keeping device. Even then, not allowed to have a phone in a commercial kitchen. And I can't wear anything on my arms or hands in the kitchen. I don't even wear a wedding ring anymore, even though local sanitation laws allow me to wear it because it's one more thing to get unsanitary and/or hurt me.
i have a Garmin smart watch (fenix 6). it is not "on all the time" and i only wear it when being active for tracking workout stats. even tracks ski runs at the major resorts.
it does have a few bonus features which have come in handy.
- topo maps and US trail system. once i got lost in the snow and it helped me get back to the AT.
- incident detection which notices sudden accelerations (or decelerations) and tracks you and sends your bro-in-law a text when you crash your bike and end up in the ER.
When I ran races I religiously tracked workouts and kept a running diary. Since I quit racing I don’t keep track. Recently one of my brothers asked if I wore a smartwatch when I ran. Then he, correctly, said that maybe I didn’t want to know how fast/slow I am these days.
When I do intervals these days, my fast is slower than my slow used to be. Don’t need a watch to figure that out. That’s life! As they say, it beats the alternative.
I used to have a few Swatches (one at a time) and I really liked them. The first was just the clear see through one. Then I was gifted one of the chrono ones. And then later gifted one of the auto-winding ones. The ones i had were just the regular color ones, not one with weird designs or colors. Sometime in my late 20s I stopped wearing watches.
once upon a time w/ a daily Wall St job i had a regular watch and a Friday watch. the Friday watch was a little more casual and went more w/ casual Friday attire.
these days everyday is like a casual Friday i am told.
all this to say, my co-worker liked the idea of the "Friday watch" and said that is the one thing he hoped i would leave to him in my will!
MIAMI -- When the most important baseball game in their country's history was over and World Baseball Classic gold medals dangled around their necks Tuesday night, the members of the Venezuelan national team took the stage in center field at LoanDepot Park and belted every word to "Gloria Al Bravo Pueblo."
The Roki Sasaki experiment continued on Tuesday night, with a loss of command coming to be expected from the Dodgers right-hander despite this game taking place in Surprise. Sasaki got through parts of five innings in a 10-4 Kansas City Royals.
The UIC Flames men's basketball team represents the University of Illinois Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The team competes in the Missouri Valley Conference. From 1994 to 2022, the team competed in the Horizon League. The Flames are currently coached by Rob Ehsan.
California women's gymnastics junior Annalise Newman-Achee and freshman Tonya Paulsson were each named twice to the All-ACC Gymnastics Team at the end of the 2026 regular season. Newman-Achee was one of two gymnasts awarded All-ACC in the all-around and also added a balance beam recognition, while Paulsson was honored on the uneven bars and floor exercise teams. These are the first all-conference honors of each of their collegiate careers.
California women's gymnastics freshman Tonya Paulsson was named the Atlantic Coast Conference's Newcomer of the Week for the fifth time this season on Tuesday afternoon, in what was the final iteration of the weekly conference honors in the 2026 season. Paulsson was also recognized as the conference's top newcomer in Weeks 1, 5, 7 and 9. This is the seventh weekly conference honor awarded to a Golden Bear this season, with Annalise Newman-Achee's Week 1 Gymnast of the Week title and Sage Melkonian's Week 6 Specialist of the Week recognition.
Senior Gia Fisher and junior Ava Haughy of the No. 9 California beach volleyball team have been named the MPSF Pair of the Week, the conference office announced Tuesday.
Fisher and Haughy, playing as the Golden Bears' No. 3 pair, went 4-0 at last weekend's East Meets West Invitational in Manhattan Beach, including three victories over duos from nationally ranked opponents. Fisher and Haughy defeated pairs from No. 5 Texas, No. 8 Arizona State, No. 12 LSU and FIU.
The California women's basketball team (19-14, 9-9 ACC) earned an at-large berth and the No. 3 seed in the third annual NCAA Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament and will host Santa Clara on Thursday at 7 p.m. PT at Haas Pavilion.
California women's water polo freshman Despoina Drakotou has added another award to her Cal-record MPSF Newcomer of the Week honor roll, picking up her fifth set of accolades from the conference this week.
Drakotou scored twice and had three steals and two assists in the Golden Bears' 10-8 win over No. 5 Hawai'i last weekend. Her steal and second goal of the game gave Cal a 7-4 lead in the first half, and she'd later serve up an assist on the Bears' 10th goal of the game, which had been tied during the first half.
Word(le) games
Wordle 1,733 5/6
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Thanks for the assist, HSB!
5. not sure why it says "magnificent"
i did the thing where i started w/ yesterday's word. in some ways it was a curse to get 3 out of 5 in the first try because it makes it hard to explore the remaining options in hard mode.
i dont mind if i get one or none in the first round or two. the info you get from the "not used letters" is the most important thing to me.
Wordle 1,733 5/6*
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Wordle 1,733 5/6
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A rather annoying word.
proud parents
It's not an intentional brag, but squarely in the category of "proud parents". My daughter got a job offer to be a paralegal at arguably the world's #1 law firm, located in Manhattan. It's the interim job before applying to law school. I am so pleased and proud, not for anything that I have done - but for all the hard work, the thoughtful planning, and the born-with-it-smarts that she has. She graduates in seven weeks, is taking an online paralegal certification degree before flying off to backpack around Vietnam before starting in August. In fact, I dropped her off at the airport yesterday after she spent her last school holiday at home knowing full well that she is on the cusp of being a fully fledged adult that I've put into the world, albeit into the hungry maw of Manhattan professional life. That being said, I will probably have to subsidize her until she gets out of law school. Being poor in NYC is not easy.
nice, congrats to them.
i feel the same about "pleased and proud, not for anything that I have done - but for all the hard work,..."
it is great to see them dive into the hard world with enthusiasm.
older one (aka traitor daughter) is presenting at her first serious conference. going to grad school in physics phd program next year. location TBD.
https://summit.aps.org/events/MAR-J36/15
Investigating the twist-angle dependence of Bernal bilayer-trilayer graphene
most of these words mean little to me. people are generally studying graphene as an example of a 2d material - only a few atomic layers thick - and exploring interesting properties.
Very impressive stuff. I don’t know the physics community much, but this looks like a relatively huge meeting.
sadly the session ran more than an hour late and so she was presenting to just people in her lab around 730p at night
Too bad, but on to bigger and better things!
Watch
None. I switched to my phone as my primary time keeping device. Even then, not allowed to have a phone in a commercial kitchen. And I can't wear anything on my arms or hands in the kitchen. I don't even wear a wedding ring anymore, even though local sanitation laws allow me to wear it because it's one more thing to get unsanitary and/or hurt me.
i have a Garmin smart watch (fenix 6). it is not "on all the time" and i only wear it when being active for tracking workout stats. even tracks ski runs at the major resorts.
it does have a few bonus features which have come in handy.
- topo maps and US trail system. once i got lost in the snow and it helped me get back to the AT.
- incident detection which notices sudden accelerations (or decelerations) and tracks you and sends your bro-in-law a text when you crash your bike and end up in the ER.
When I ran races I religiously tracked workouts and kept a running diary. Since I quit racing I don’t keep track. Recently one of my brothers asked if I wore a smartwatch when I ran. Then he, correctly, said that maybe I didn’t want to know how fast/slow I am these days.
When I do intervals these days, my fast is slower than my slow used to be. Don’t need a watch to figure that out. That’s life! As they say, it beats the alternative.
my power output has gone down considerably since i dont ride and train outdoors anymore. it is much less motivating and fun to ride a stationary bike.
still, trying to keep at it a few times a week.
I used to have a few Swatches (one at a time) and I really liked them. The first was just the clear see through one. Then I was gifted one of the chrono ones. And then later gifted one of the auto-winding ones. The ones i had were just the regular color ones, not one with weird designs or colors. Sometime in my late 20s I stopped wearing watches.
i mostly have Timex watches for analog time telling. they are cheap and classy enough.
Currently, my everyday watch is a Casio digital watch. I also have a Citizen Eco-Drive analog watch that is very nice.
once upon a time w/ a daily Wall St job i had a regular watch and a Friday watch. the Friday watch was a little more casual and went more w/ casual Friday attire.
these days everyday is like a casual Friday i am told.
all this to say, my co-worker liked the idea of the "Friday watch" and said that is the one thing he hoped i would leave to him in my will!
I really should wear the Citizen Eco-Drive watch more often. Make it my "Friday watch", for example.
GPS
PRO
Venezuela defeats Team USA to win World Baseball Classic
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48236241/venezuela-defeats-team-usa-final-win-2026-world-baseball-classic
MIAMI -- When the most important baseball game in their country's history was over and World Baseball Classic gold medals dangled around their necks Tuesday night, the members of the Venezuelan national team took the stage in center field at LoanDepot Park and belted every word to "Gloria Al Bravo Pueblo."
Am I a bad American since I was rooting for Venezuela?
Echoing HSB (with emphasis): NO.
no
Seems like most of the stadium was rooting for Venezuela!
Giants win the off-day.
Roki Sasaki continues his spring struggles (Dodgers beat the Royals, 10-4)
https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-scores-standings/111494/roki-sasaki-command-spring-training
The Roki Sasaki experiment continued on Tuesday night, with a loss of command coming to be expected from the Dodgers right-hander despite this game taking place in Surprise. Sasaki got through parts of five innings in a 10-4 Kansas City Royals.
CAL
mens NIT game tonight vs UIC. 1130p ET!
The UIC Flames men's basketball team represents the University of Illinois Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The team competes in the Missouri Valley Conference. From 1994 to 2022, the team competed in the Horizon League. The Flames are currently coached by Rob Ehsan.
[BASE] Bears Fall To Huskies 9-3
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/17/baseball-bears-fall-to-huskies-9-3.aspx
BERKELEY— The California baseball team dropped its fifth straight game Tuesday night falling to UConn 9-3 at Stu Gordon Stadium.
The bad news is that Cal allowed 17 hits and committed 4 errors. The good news is that Campolindo alumnus Hideki Prather hit a lead off dinger.
https://calbears.com/sports/baseball/stats/2026/uconn/boxscore/38255
[WGYM] Cal Duo Picks Up All-ACC Honors
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/17/womens-gymnastics-cal-duo-picks-up-all-acc-honors.aspx
California women's gymnastics junior Annalise Newman-Achee and freshman Tonya Paulsson were each named twice to the All-ACC Gymnastics Team at the end of the 2026 regular season. Newman-Achee was one of two gymnasts awarded All-ACC in the all-around and also added a balance beam recognition, while Paulsson was honored on the uneven bars and floor exercise teams. These are the first all-conference honors of each of their collegiate careers.
[WGYM] Paulsson Notches 5th ACC Newcomer Of The Week Title
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/17/womens-gymnastics-paulsson-notches-5th-acc-newcomer-of-the-week-title.aspx
California women's gymnastics freshman Tonya Paulsson was named the Atlantic Coast Conference's Newcomer of the Week for the fifth time this season on Tuesday afternoon, in what was the final iteration of the weekly conference honors in the 2026 season. Paulsson was also recognized as the conference's top newcomer in Weeks 1, 5, 7 and 9. This is the seventh weekly conference honor awarded to a Golden Bear this season, with Annalise Newman-Achee's Week 1 Gymnast of the Week title and Sage Melkonian's Week 6 Specialist of the Week recognition.
[BVB] Fisher, Haughy Named MPSF Pair Of The Week
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/17/beach-volleyball-fisher-haughy-named-mpsf-pair-of-the-week.aspx
Senior Gia Fisher and junior Ava Haughy of the No. 9 California beach volleyball team have been named the MPSF Pair of the Week, the conference office announced Tuesday.
Fisher and Haughy, playing as the Golden Bears' No. 3 pair, went 4-0 at last weekend's East Meets West Invitational in Manhattan Beach, including three victories over duos from nationally ranked opponents. Fisher and Haughy defeated pairs from No. 5 Texas, No. 8 Arizona State, No. 12 LSU and FIU.
[WBB] Cal Hosts Santa Clara To Open WBIT
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/17/womens-basketball-cal-hosts-santa-clara-to-open-wbit.aspx
The California women's basketball team (19-14, 9-9 ACC) earned an at-large berth and the No. 3 seed in the third annual NCAA Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament and will host Santa Clara on Thursday at 7 p.m. PT at Haas Pavilion.
[WPOLO] Cal's Despoina Drakotou Earns 5th MPSF Newcomer of the Week Award
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/17/womens-water-polo-cals-despoina-drakotou-earns-fifth-mpsf-newcomer-of-the-week-award.aspx
California women's water polo freshman Despoina Drakotou has added another award to her Cal-record MPSF Newcomer of the Week honor roll, picking up her fifth set of accolades from the conference this week.
Drakotou scored twice and had three steals and two assists in the Golden Bears' 10-8 win over No. 5 Hawai'i last weekend. Her steal and second goal of the game gave Cal a 7-4 lead in the first half, and she'd later serve up an assist on the Bears' 10th goal of the game, which had been tied during the first half.