Tamarindo is a town in the Guanacaste Province, on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. It’s known for beaches with strong surf, like Playa Tamarindo and Playa Langosta. To the north, Playa Grande beach is a major nesting site for huge leatherback turtles, and forms part of Las Baulas National Marine Park. The mangrove-lined estuary of Tamarindo Wildlife Refuge protects animals such as howler monkeys and crocodiles. Tamarindo is also home to Joe’s Restaurant in Witch’s Rock Surf Camp, which serves breakfast all day apparently, among other things.
@tbb Last night I had Marination. Had two tacos and the loaded tots. I think the tacos were the Kalua pork and the Kalbi beef. Both were really good. The loaded tots had pork, kimchi, an egg, mayo, scallions. I had maybe half of it.
I ended up going to the one downtown since I couldn't get to West Seattle in time.
I think you went to Marination when you were here.
Just waited an hour for a philly cheesesteak at a food truck that came to Santa Clara's campus. At least I could use my dining points instead of a credit card because otherwise it would've been a bad value loss.
I ended up taking my food and finding a small park down from Pike Place Market and sat on a bench overlooking the water. It was after 8 so it was fairly dark.
More meatless meals, last night Spaghetti with Swiss chard, pine nuts & raisins - paired with a 2012 Brunello, the penultimate bottle from Poggiarellino - a value buy from K&L.
I finally made corned beef & cabbage because the prices finally dropped despite having months left until it theoretically expires. Delicious, but man am I thirsty.
Irish corned beef is not Irish. It is British and the spices come from the far flung colonies of the UK.
Corned beef's adoption by Irish-Americans is perversely a function of British domination over Irish lands, the subsequent starvation via the potato famine, and the perception of it being fancy food in lower-class America in the 19th century.
I watched the first episode of The Drop Out. It was really well done. Despite being knowledgeable about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, through varies articles and podcast, I didn’t realize that she was sexually assaulted while at Stanford. I am assuming the gun shot scene didn’t really happen.
I watched The Inventor and it was good. Not as good as The Drop Out podcast. I don’t recall either mentioning her assault while at Stanford and if they did it must have been very brief and I missed it.
I saw that one a few years ago when it aired and it was fascinating (although at the time I knew very little of the Theranos saga other than vague awareness). I haven't seen The Drop Out, however.
Moon Knight Episode 2 - this is a lot of fun. I'm also glad they're not (for now) tying it into the larger MCU and making it all reference-y and stuff. Ethan Hawke and Oscar Issac are having so much fun chewing scenery.
I watched E1 last night. Was a good jumping off point. I have a question about the opening, but it'd be a bit of a spoiler, so I'll wait a few weeks to ask ;-)
Last weekend, Finnish Customs stopped three shipments headed to Russia at the Vaalimaa border crossing, the agency said in a news release. The artwork was on loan from Russia to museums and galleries in Japan and Italy.
Sami Rakshit, director of Finnish Customs’ Enforcement Department, did not specify the exact number of works or give details about the artists in response to queries from The Washington Post.
Russia’s Culture Ministry was quoted by the Russian news agency Moskva as saying that the artwork had been loaned to Italy from St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum and Tsarskoye Selo state museum and Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery, according to Reuters. The Hermitage Museum did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Purely anecdotal, but I spent (perhaps wasted) some time recently arguing with a user in another forum who thought it was a legitimate possibility that the executed civilians in Bucha could have been a staged event by the Ukrainian government. This despite the fact that satellite footage and eyewitness accounts seem to confirm that the Russian military was in fact killing civilians.
Interesting, not to get Ukrainians to believe the lies, more to get them to distrust the various sources.
WASHINGTON — Andriy Taranov, a board member at the Ukrainian public broadcasting company Suspilne, was sitting in his office last month when he noticed a strange message running across the bottom of the television screen. It said Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, had announced a surrender.
Mr. Taranov was stunned because there had been no chatter about a surrender among reporters covering Russia’s invasion of the country. “There’s nothing like that in any journalist circle,” he remembered thinking. “It looks absolutely contradictory.”
The message was fake, he quickly realized. It had been planted on the chyron of Media Group Ukraine’s live broadcast by hackers.
Since Russia’s invasion began in late February, hackers have repeatedly broken into the social media accounts and broadcasting systems of trusted information sources in Ukraine, like government officials and prominent media outlets. They used their access to spread false messages that Ukraine was surrendering, sometimes using fake videos to bolster their claims.
I really want to go back. Went when I was ~15 to San Jose for 3 days and then the west coast for another 4. Up there with Greek islanders as the most welcoming people I've ever met traveling. Manual Antonio Park was stunning and the monkeys harassing German tourists were hilarious.
Went with my parents a few years ago - drove from San Jose to Arenal, Parque National on the Pacific it was a ton of a fun, but the first night driving around in San Jose with my parents unable to read the map in the car was a bit fraught. We had to stop at every small town and ask which fork in the road to take.
nice place in spots, we stayed mostly in the Jaco to Quepos area but did a day trip into volcano land and spent half a day in some natural springs at a resort which was freaking awesome
I always at least single snooze. If I had a rough night, I have been known to triple snooze. Any more than that and I will be late for my first meeting.
Yes, but as a sort of timer. My alarm goes off at 5:42am and I hit snooze. I get up, get dressed for the gym and head out. By the time the alarm rings again (from the snooze) I should already be in my car. If I'm not and it's going off, I know I'm late for the 6am class
Yes, a single time. I set my alarm 15 min before my 6 AM and 7 AM calls. I snooze once for 10 min and then get up at 5 til, run to the bathroom, and walk next door for my calls.
No, I wake up and either 1) stay awake or 2) set another alarm for 15, 20, 30, etc., minutes later depending on how tired I am. And while I'm setting that new alarm I can assess whether I'm actually tired or if I just don't want to get out of bed.
No, instead I have alarms set for 15 minute increments on my phone that I select based on how urgent it is I need to be up at a certain time and how little sleep I’m likely to get before then
That almost never happens to me. I’m glad I am now able to fall asleep before midnight because I rarely sleep past 7, and there will be stretches where I’m waking up consistently before 6. Never expected to become a morning person
I may have gotten out of Shanghai just in time. Now, most of my friends are doing yoga and cooking hash browns and pork chops, but there's a lot of social media going around where people weren't able to order food and there's some ugliness going on.
Feb 2020 - escaped China to Thailand when the Wuhan outbreak was starting
April 2020 - returned to China right before they closed the border. Sit snugly in zero-covid for 2 years
February 2020 - Decamped to Hong Kong right in the middle of their worst outbreak in 2 years, but sat in aunt's remote apartment with view of the airport for 6 weeks. Ate expensive delivery food from Chinese chains (out where my aunt's place is, there aren't a lot of "local" non-chain places because it's a fairly new development built up in the last 20 years. The burger and pizza places out there are all run by Middle Easterners and Indian families, so it took a while but I figured out to order the Indian food and sharmwa instead of the mediocre pizza and burgers.
March 2020 - Omicron leaps the wall in Shanghai (and elsewhere in China) - everyone in Shanghai is locked down for 4 days (and counting!) while all 28 million people are tested. I am not there.
The missus was noting that despite all the issues with testing etc, local case rates are on the way back up, and I am having a hard time engaging on the issue - not because I’m surprised, because I don’t even know what the point is now.
2) if you're mildly symptomatic, probably not, especially given that it's allergy season around here. I's choose not to chance it just b/c you never know who you'll pass it on to
3) our county schools ask that you do, it also triggers "no questions asked" absences.
tbh if I tested positive on a home test, I'd consider a PCR just to stay one step ahead of my useless circulatory system
I don't think there is a point. Even if cases start going back up, it's hard to envision any sort of reversion to masking/distancing requirements in the near future.
I gather it’s for personal risk assessment about masking inside, but I think we’re all doing that anyway except for when it’s too cold for the 17 year old to eat outside and I occasionally have a lunch meeting with my boss.
I agree, it is about masking and whether to engage in “high risk” behavior like going to a crowded bar. I think it also affects employer requirements to attend things and whether things like courts are in person
that last part is for sure - interestingly (to me at least) the federal agency I support on contract has barred contractors from returning to keep occupancy low, whereas my brother (different agency, different coast) is going back in 3 days a week but their contract has triggers for "at x case rate we're all going home again," which seems very sensible to me.
I really am not looking forward to the return of the days where you lose two days traveling to some random court just to appear for five minutes before a judge
to be a little less vague: the only real change for us pre-omicron was that we had started going to restaurants again, not very often because it wasn't something we were doing that often in the before times. None of us go to bars or coffee shops, and we were still masked for daily errands in places like the supermarket and whatever. My daughter elected to keep her mask on at school when it became optional and has had no downside from several exposures as a result.
Oklahoma passes a bill to make abortion illegal with a mandatory 10 year sentence with life starting at conception. No exceptions for incest or rape. Only allowed if mother's life is in danger.
I've had nonChinese people explain Chinese food or language to me. Sometimes they get this facial expression that suggests they're thinking "oh wait, this person I'm talking to is Asian..."
It is such a weird flex for white right wing men to specifically tell Bernice King that she doesn’t understand her father’s work, but it’s obvious that they don’t think it’s a tell.
I think his take over is complete in the sense that the majority of candidates for governor, senate and Congress use trump rhetoric, MAGA, white nationalist, anti immigration talking points.
The thing that’s funny to me about this whole phenomenon is that it’s based on the extent to which he can whip up the crazies - he’s got no local organizing structure, he controls no funds, he donates no money, it’s all just extortion - which is both a job and a calling for him, so it certainly tracks
Bears win 9-3 vs. Cal Poly and do it via unconventional pitching lineup and a four-run fourth. Neu went with an opener, which he likes to do, then gave the ball to a freshman for three innings and then finished the game with five innings from a "starter".
Chad Hansen is on the Falcon's practice roster. I still think he has some ability and may be able to get some playing time on that dumpster fire of a roster.
Oh ok I hope he makes the roster. Falcons don't have any receivers.
I was thinking more of the guys in the same class. Harper, Treggs, Lawler, Powe, Davis who were all 3* or 4 *. Although I think Anderson might be one year younger than them in the same class as Harris and Rodgers.
David has the fumble issue too. Powe surprisingly played quite a bit of games with Giants but got injured and never heard since. But I had never imagined Anderson would be playing in the NFL when he was a walk-on WR buried in the depth chart at Cal
It’s easy to tell when college basketball season will be over (a few weeks after the number of “this is the best competition out there” tweets on my timeline spike, how long until pro basketball is over? I need to figure out if it’s finally time to mute the name of that flat earther ding dong in New York or if seasonal attrition is going to do the job for me
I feel a touch guilty saying I've lost 40 lbs since August 2019 - Covid didn't really effect that slow decline in weight, but it's plateaued recently. Just gave up snacks, changed to a light breakfast - still drink too much I'm sure. Wife has always planned out meals for the week for ages.
I'm in the same boat as most here. Covid weight is real. I reached my heaviest ever over the holidays and early January decided to get back to taking my health seriously. I'm down about 18-20lbs so far with a goal of another 15-20lbs. I was mindful about what I ate but not really and cou0pling it with intermittent fasting. It's been a whole journey of discovering what works for me and what doesn't. The fasting part is easy, but it's the diet that still hounds me. Not that I have junk food cravings, it's the constant battle of "what to eat." This past week, I decided to go for a more plant based diet and I already fell better about this decision.
telling you, meal planning totally changed things for me. Knowing what we'll eat has made a massive difference. Also, we have gradually shifted away from white rice to brown rice to now focusing on farro and barley as a substitute. Its magical. Pounds falling off after shifting away from rice
At this point, from the trial and error of the past 3 months, pounds aren't what's important to me, it's inches. I'm down 2 notches on the belt. I'm wearing pants I haven't worn since before Covid, and my work wardrobe has expanded significantly to what I can wear to work bc shit fits now. I'm running a lot more these days and lifting on a semi regular schedule, so the minimal differential in weight I'm attribute to fat vs muscle.
true, when I was working out heavy before I blew my Achilles, my shape was radically different. I gained something like 27 lbs of muscle while losing 45 lbs of fat before it all went pear shaped. Getting old is stupid
I had the broken foot fiasco February 2021 which sidelined me for a few months, And bc of the walking boot I was in, it definitely changed my gait and it fucked up my hip. Adding to that, the gym was definitely harder to squeeze in with the last job due to commute time and especially with limited space in classes bc of covid restrictions.
i am about the same weight as i have been since mid-30s but i realize that is 5-10 lbs more than i would like. it would certainly help w/ overall health and being able to ride up hills faster/easier.
but i also realize that the daily alcohol habit will have to go . not sure if i am ready for that.
i have given up most other things in quest for lower cholesterol already ..
Fans. My sister has a few in her house and they're really nice, though expensive. I had a coworker that used to work for them and said their fans were much better before they were sold.
It took a couple reads to figure out that you were talking about BAF, not being a fan of big asses. I was like "damn, HAG likes the junk in his sister's trunk."
Having recently turned 40 I thought I needed to have a colonoscopy so when I went in for my physical I asked about it and to my surprise my doctor said that unless you have a family history of colon cancer they recommend waiting until 45.
I just turned 50 and was given the screening by my MD. Getting the colonoscopy at the end of the month. Wow, the prep does not look like good times.
Steve Martin told a story once that he and a few other male showbiz friends of his would schedule their colonoscopies for the same day so they could all do the cleanse together. They would rent a big hotel room and play poker all night the night of the cleanse. To me, if you have to do it, might as well make a party of it.
re: the prep - yeah definitely sucks and you need to be close to the toilet at all times. from experience, i strongly suggest using the pills; they are much easier to ingest than the liquid. i got a small stomach tho... anyway, here is a coupon that will probably save you money if you want the pills:
I dunno, I’m supposed to schedule one and I think I’d rather go through the cleanse alone. Mind you that’s my default setting for many of life’s activities.
I had gained 10 lbs during Covid and was already a fat ass so in January, when signs of potentially brutal health issues started to appear, the Missus and I decided to change our diets. Cut out as much processed food as possible, eliminated refined sugar, cut down on carbs and alcohol and started weekly meal planning trying for "healthy meals". Meal planning has been a game changer, Saturday mornings we decide on our menu for the week, go shopping for that food and then cook daily. Part of our problem had been at the end of the day, we're tired, started the "whats for dinner" convo and we just went out and grabbed something for convenience. Anyways, have discovered that I can actually eat things besides red meat, bread, booze and candy and not be hungry afterwards. Havent had fast food since December, have lost almost 30 lbs in 3 months, the Missus is getting close to 20 lbs lost and we have a sustainable life change that should add a year or 5 on down the road. Is good.
Last May I made an overnight switch, scared by pre-diabetes diagnoses, to a whole food plant diet that I strictly followed. Doctor had also rx'ed statins which I refused saying give me three months on this new diet. Had blood panels bookending the three months. Lost 21 pounds from 191 to 170 and total cholesterol dropped 74 points (215 down to 141)...no meds used.
By far the most satisfying aspect and why I am in for the long run, was the tremendous improvement in how I felt. It became palpable within a week of starting the new eating.
I was in Weight Watchers for a while with my wife. She lost 8 pounds; I lost 17. While we were there, there was another couple and the guy lost 60, and his wife lost 45. they were going for 100 each. Probably made it too.
Good for you! Having been watching my parents’ various health debacles over the past few years, it’s also the sort of change that won’t only get you more time but better time. That’s important.
Went for my annual medical check last week and showing as ever that I’m a year behind trends, the second year of the pandemic was the one in which I put on 10 pounds
I’m a good 20 pounds heavy in my mid-late 40’s...weight has never been an issue for me until COVID. Years of eating late because of work & lifestyle led to awful habits that have finally caught up with me. I do hit the baseball harder, tho, so there’s that...know what I have to do to lose it, I just lack the discipline.
I've lost 3 pounds by doing the 1980 restaurant diet - starting a meal with small bowl of vegetable soup or small garden before the rest of the meal is served. Keeps me from going back for seconds or thirds (sometimes).
The sad part is that for the most part this isn’t because of my food management getting worse - it’s because I’ve become borderline agoraphobic. I need to walk more. (That, and only eat half a portion at dinner, half later, because we eat too early in this house)
DBD Lunch/Dinner
@tbb Last night I had Marination. Had two tacos and the loaded tots. I think the tacos were the Kalua pork and the Kalbi beef. Both were really good. The loaded tots had pork, kimchi, an egg, mayo, scallions. I had maybe half of it.
I ended up going to the one downtown since I couldn't get to West Seattle in time.
I think you went to Marination when you were here.
Just waited an hour for a philly cheesesteak at a food truck that came to Santa Clara's campus. At least I could use my dining points instead of a credit card because otherwise it would've been a bad value loss.
I ended up taking my food and finding a small park down from Pike Place Market and sat on a bench overlooking the water. It was after 8 so it was fairly dark.
DBD Cooking Academy
More meatless meals, last night Spaghetti with Swiss chard, pine nuts & raisins - paired with a 2012 Brunello, the penultimate bottle from Poggiarellino - a value buy from K&L.
I finally made corned beef & cabbage because the prices finally dropped despite having months left until it theoretically expires. Delicious, but man am I thirsty.
Irish corned beef is not Irish. It is British and the spices come from the far flung colonies of the UK.
Corned beef's adoption by Irish-Americans is perversely a function of British domination over Irish lands, the subsequent starvation via the potato famine, and the perception of it being fancy food in lower-class America in the 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef#19th_century_Atlantic_trade
DBD AV Club
I'm intrigued by Everything Everywhere All at Once. So far it's only in theaters.
It's completely absurd and dense and trippy and so much fun!
I think it is impressive how quickly Apple TV+ has not only ramped up its original content but how good their shows are.
Third episode of Pachinko - it's currently the best thing on.
good to hear! I thought that E1 was ok, but was hoping it'd ramp up.
I watched the first episode of The Drop Out. It was really well done. Despite being knowledgeable about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, through varies articles and podcast, I didn’t realize that she was sexually assaulted while at Stanford. I am assuming the gun shot scene didn’t really happen.
Been meaning to check out the documentary for comparison. I think it’s called The Inventor?
I watched The Inventor and it was good. Not as good as The Drop Out podcast. I don’t recall either mentioning her assault while at Stanford and if they did it must have been very brief and I missed it.
I saw that one a few years ago when it aired and it was fascinating (although at the time I knew very little of the Theranos saga other than vague awareness). I haven't seen The Drop Out, however.
Moon Knight Episode 2 - this is a lot of fun. I'm also glad they're not (for now) tying it into the larger MCU and making it all reference-y and stuff. Ethan Hawke and Oscar Issac are having so much fun chewing scenery.
(Everyone's Chinese is awful)
I think they've said that this series will not have any larger MCU tie-ins. We'll see if that remains true.
Eventually . . . at least in the comics . .. Moon Knight becomes part of the West Coast Avengers
That could certainly happen down the road, even if this particular series doesn't tie in.
I really liked the first episode so I am happy to hear this.
I think it really should have been a continuation of episode 1 to be honest. but it's still a lot of fun.
I thought his signature phrase was "I KNOW YOU'RE HERE DRACULA, YOU BIG FUCKING NERD, WHERE'S MY MONE¥?"
Not the classic "Random bullshit GO!"?
Gary Oldman is brilliant...Kristin Scott Thomas as well...she just sounds like thespian royalty.
Is this a review and endorsement of Slow Horses?
Two episodes in and it’s enjoyable.
I watched E1 last night. Was a good jumping off point. I have a question about the opening, but it'd be a bit of a spoiler, so I'll wait a few weeks to ask ;-)
Or we need DBD DM...
Ukraine/Russia
Art worth 49MM
Last weekend, Finnish Customs stopped three shipments headed to Russia at the Vaalimaa border crossing, the agency said in a news release. The artwork was on loan from Russia to museums and galleries in Japan and Italy.
Sami Rakshit, director of Finnish Customs’ Enforcement Department, did not specify the exact number of works or give details about the artists in response to queries from The Washington Post.
Russia’s Culture Ministry was quoted by the Russian news agency Moskva as saying that the artwork had been loaned to Italy from St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum and Tsarskoye Selo state museum and Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery, according to Reuters. The Hermitage Museum did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/06/russia-sanctions-finnish-border-art/
Purely anecdotal, but I spent (perhaps wasted) some time recently arguing with a user in another forum who thought it was a legitimate possibility that the executed civilians in Bucha could have been a staged event by the Ukrainian government. This despite the fact that satellite footage and eyewitness accounts seem to confirm that the Russian military was in fact killing civilians.
The conspiracy theories can be quite dense.
It's frustrating people are so dense.
Hungary breaks rank and will pay for Russian gas with Rubles. EU proposes cutting funding, but needs to be endorsed by 15 of the member states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/05/hungary-orban-rule-of-law/
Can't help but notice Orban waited until after the election to announce this.
Yep this. Seriously, what does it take to get kicked out of NATO and/or the EU?
Victor Orban is a terrible person.
In all honesty, the EU and NATO should expel Hungary at this point.
Seriously, if he wants to align with Russia then just leave him to it.
Interesting, not to get Ukrainians to believe the lies, more to get them to distrust the various sources.
WASHINGTON — Andriy Taranov, a board member at the Ukrainian public broadcasting company Suspilne, was sitting in his office last month when he noticed a strange message running across the bottom of the television screen. It said Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, had announced a surrender.
Mr. Taranov was stunned because there had been no chatter about a surrender among reporters covering Russia’s invasion of the country. “There’s nothing like that in any journalist circle,” he remembered thinking. “It looks absolutely contradictory.”
The message was fake, he quickly realized. It had been planted on the chyron of Media Group Ukraine’s live broadcast by hackers.
Since Russia’s invasion began in late February, hackers have repeatedly broken into the social media accounts and broadcasting systems of trusted information sources in Ukraine, like government officials and prominent media outlets. They used their access to spread false messages that Ukraine was surrendering, sometimes using fake videos to bolster their claims.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/us/politics/ukraine-russia-hackers.html
Russia runs out of USD, defaults on bond payment by paying in rubles. Bond owner is probably wondering what they'll do with all those rubles.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-says-foreign-banks-rejected-094325950.html
Set them on fire maybe
Trade them for some Levi's 501s and a LADA
maybe I could parlay them into a fancy Niva with a/c and everything! https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/lada-niva-black-edition-2jahre-garan-klima-shz-elektr-gasoline-brown-f6127a92-4b1a-48a4-af0c-bad959d386ea?source=list_searchresults&cldtidx=3&sort=price&lastSeenGuidPresent=true&cldtsrc=listPage
What would you do with all 85 horses of power?
It's almost too much
That out powers my college Honda Civic to be fair.
Get a rear wheel drive and drift all over the DMV
If Tennessee fans throw mustard bottles and golf balls during games, what theoretically would the individual Pac-12 team fanbases throw?
Nothing theoretical about it in Tucson; they sail tortillas onto the field.
Stolen from UC Santa Barbara!
We used to huck oranges onto the field when I was in school.
I seem to recall some got thrown at Gary Payton's family at Harmon. Not a great look.
I remember surgical tubing catapults
In California, the items would represent the diversity of our wonderful state: we'd throw bottle of green goddess dressing and used heroin needles.
Oregon - empty Nike shoe boxes.
I have a tenant in my building who used to run track for Oregon; he gets SO MANY Nike packages it's nuts. I wonder if he has to pay.
if you wear the same size maybe he wouldn't notice if a few packages went "missing"
The mustard bottle is just a way to smuggle in alcohol.
LSJU - nothing. Can't throw stuff on the field if no one shows up to games.
I was going to say empty seats.
UCLA - the same thing Cal is throwing but 30 yards shorter while declaring they're officially better at it.
Wazzu- empty fireball bottles
Costa Rica
I really want to go back. Went when I was ~15 to San Jose for 3 days and then the west coast for another 4. Up there with Greek islanders as the most welcoming people I've ever met traveling. Manual Antonio Park was stunning and the monkeys harassing German tourists were hilarious.
Went with my parents a few years ago - drove from San Jose to Arenal, Parque National on the Pacific it was a ton of a fun, but the first night driving around in San Jose with my parents unable to read the map in the car was a bit fraught. We had to stop at every small town and ask which fork in the road to take.
nice place in spots, we stayed mostly in the Jaco to Quepos area but did a day trip into volcano land and spent half a day in some natural springs at a resort which was freaking awesome
one of my coworkers is Costa Rican and she is absolutely drop dead gorgeous. hubba hubba
So when you inviting her to the tailgate?
I don't think the lady friend would appreciate that
It's for a friend.
Torani Tamarindo
Tamarind is the king of Jarritos flavors.
Toronja or GTFO
Mandarin Lime.
Grapefruit is my fave.
Do you use the snooze button?
I always at least single snooze. If I had a rough night, I have been known to triple snooze. Any more than that and I will be late for my first meeting.
I regularly triple snooze
When I lived at Bowles, my clock had a "SNOOZ" button. My roommate saw this upside down, and he wondered what on earth is a "ZOONS" button?
Yes, but as a sort of timer. My alarm goes off at 5:42am and I hit snooze. I get up, get dressed for the gym and head out. By the time the alarm rings again (from the snooze) I should already be in my car. If I'm not and it's going off, I know I'm late for the 6am class
About 20 times
Only by proxy as my wife uses it, I'd prefer to just set it to the time I need to get up as early morning is usually when I get my deepest sleep
No, not really - but also, I don't use an alarm.
Even when I was employed, no, I usually get up before my alarm anyways.
I often will wake up like 2 min before the alarm is supposed to go off.
yeah that's where i am
Yes, a single time. I set my alarm 15 min before my 6 AM and 7 AM calls. I snooze once for 10 min and then get up at 5 til, run to the bathroom, and walk next door for my calls.
Hell yes! Those extra minutes taste extra sweet
No. And sometimes it means I'll be frightfully late for work.
Today, for instance. An hour late.
No, I wake up and either 1) stay awake or 2) set another alarm for 15, 20, 30, etc., minutes later depending on how tired I am. And while I'm setting that new alarm I can assess whether I'm actually tired or if I just don't want to get out of bed.
So you're saying you always set the new alarm.
No, instead I have alarms set for 15 minute increments on my phone that I select based on how urgent it is I need to be up at a certain time and how little sleep I’m likely to get before then
I set 3 alarms and eventually they all go on snooze, so I am stopping snooze every minute or two for 1 hr until I finally wake up.
I pushed the final snooze button today and woke up 3 hours later. I must have needed the sleep.
You know that moment when you open your eyes and are like... huh... wha... it is *far* too light outOHNOWHATFUCKINGTIMEISIT?!
That almost never happens to me. I’m glad I am now able to fall asleep before midnight because I rarely sleep past 7, and there will be stretches where I’m waking up consistently before 6. Never expected to become a morning person
Elsewhere in college
Conor Vanover transferring away from Arkansas
They are gonna be loaded next year. He's the odd man out.
spongebob nobody cares rainbow dot gif
back to Cal?
He's going to be like Charlie Moore and go to 5 different schools.
Old and Busted: poaching lower division coaches
New hotness: poaching lower division players
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33676088/saint-peter-star-trio-daryl-banks-matthew-lee-doug-edert-enter-transfer-portal
UCF football coach Gus Malzahn involved in automobile crash leaving motorcyclist with injuries
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ucf-football-coach-gus-malzahn-involved-in-automobile-crash-leaving-motorcyclist-with-injuries/
TODAY IN LA RONA
Good thing I'm not one of the DC elite.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/04/06/gridiron-dinner-covid-coronavirus-outbreak-superspreader/
but if you were COCAINE AND ORGIES!!!
sign me up
I may have gotten out of Shanghai just in time. Now, most of my friends are doing yoga and cooking hash browns and pork chops, but there's a lot of social media going around where people weren't able to order food and there's some ugliness going on.
certainly sounds like you did
Feb 2020 - escaped China to Thailand when the Wuhan outbreak was starting
April 2020 - returned to China right before they closed the border. Sit snugly in zero-covid for 2 years
February 2020 - Decamped to Hong Kong right in the middle of their worst outbreak in 2 years, but sat in aunt's remote apartment with view of the airport for 6 weeks. Ate expensive delivery food from Chinese chains (out where my aunt's place is, there aren't a lot of "local" non-chain places because it's a fairly new development built up in the last 20 years. The burger and pizza places out there are all run by Middle Easterners and Indian families, so it took a while but I figured out to order the Indian food and sharmwa instead of the mediocre pizza and burgers.
March 2020 - Omicron leaps the wall in Shanghai (and elsewhere in China) - everyone in Shanghai is locked down for 4 days (and counting!) while all 28 million people are tested. I am not there.
The missus was noting that despite all the issues with testing etc, local case rates are on the way back up, and I am having a hard time engaging on the issue - not because I’m surprised, because I don’t even know what the point is now.
How reliable are reported cases now that testing is primarily at home? Who even knows you are positive? Can you even report that if you wanted to?
in order of asking:
1) probably not that reliable
2) if you're mildly symptomatic, probably not, especially given that it's allergy season around here. I's choose not to chance it just b/c you never know who you'll pass it on to
3) our county schools ask that you do, it also triggers "no questions asked" absences.
tbh if I tested positive on a home test, I'd consider a PCR just to stay one step ahead of my useless circulatory system
I don't think there is a point. Even if cases start going back up, it's hard to envision any sort of reversion to masking/distancing requirements in the near future.
I gather it’s for personal risk assessment about masking inside, but I think we’re all doing that anyway except for when it’s too cold for the 17 year old to eat outside and I occasionally have a lunch meeting with my boss.
I agree, it is about masking and whether to engage in “high risk” behavior like going to a crowded bar. I think it also affects employer requirements to attend things and whether things like courts are in person
that last part is for sure - interestingly (to me at least) the federal agency I support on contract has barred contractors from returning to keep occupancy low, whereas my brother (different agency, different coast) is going back in 3 days a week but their contract has triggers for "at x case rate we're all going home again," which seems very sensible to me.
I really am not looking forward to the return of the days where you lose two days traveling to some random court just to appear for five minutes before a judge
that seems inefficient
to be a little less vague: the only real change for us pre-omicron was that we had started going to restaurants again, not very often because it wasn't something we were doing that often in the before times. None of us go to bars or coffee shops, and we were still masked for daily errands in places like the supermarket and whatever. My daughter elected to keep her mask on at school when it became optional and has had no downside from several exposures as a result.
Yeah, so true.
I read that, it seemed pretty much on the nose.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Oklahoma passes a bill to make abortion illegal with a mandatory 10 year sentence with life starting at conception. No exceptions for incest or rape. Only allowed if mother's life is in danger.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/politics/oklahoma-abortion-ban-bill/index.html
Josh Mandel (R-OH) - who is running for US Senate tries to white-splain MLK to the CEO of the King Center/daughter of MLK.
https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1511436627830362112
I've had nonChinese people explain Chinese food or language to me. Sometimes they get this facial expression that suggests they're thinking "oh wait, this person I'm talking to is Asian..."
It is such a weird flex for white right wing men to specifically tell Bernice King that she doesn’t understand her father’s work, but it’s obvious that they don’t think it’s a tell.
This is the same dude who photoshopped his face onto a black guy's body in his own political ad.
https://twitter.com/bmeiselas/status/1511477982765871104
I think the photo is real, but the filter is really bad (see elsewhere in the thread)
May governor primaries pose big test for Trump’s control over the GOP
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/06/may-governor-primaries-trumps-control-gop-00023197
I think his take over is complete in the sense that the majority of candidates for governor, senate and Congress use trump rhetoric, MAGA, white nationalist, anti immigration talking points.
In that sense you're right, but there's a real question how much his endorsement means - his personal power to affect elections.
his personally endorsed candidates have a real mixed rate of success. Plus he'll often turn on them, like he has everyone else in his orbit.
The thing that’s funny to me about this whole phenomenon is that it’s based on the extent to which he can whip up the crazies - he’s got no local organizing structure, he controls no funds, he donates no money, it’s all just extortion - which is both a job and a calling for him, so it certainly tracks
He's got 100 million, but he's using it to buy cheap hats and expensive, ill-fitting suits.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Bears win 9-3 vs. Cal Poly and do it via unconventional pitching lineup and a four-run fourth. Neu went with an opener, which he likes to do, then gave the ball to a freshman for three innings and then finished the game with five innings from a "starter".
https://calbears.com/news/2022/4/5/baseball-stoutenborough-leads-bears-past-cal-poly.aspx
otherwise the bullpen would have blown the game again.
If you don't pitch relievers in the 7-9th, they can't blow the game in the 7th to 9th.
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PRO
Stephen Anderson to Arizona
https://arizonasports.com/story/3096201/arizona-cardinals-sign-te-stephen-anderson-to-1-year-contract/
Of all the star WRs of Goff era, only the former walk-on Anderson has remained in the NFL.
Chad Hansen is on the Falcon's practice roster. I still think he has some ability and may be able to get some playing time on that dumpster fire of a roster.
sigh
👏🏽 USE 👏🏽 HIS 👏🏽 REAL👏🏽 NAME 👏🏽
I don't know the reference if there is one, but his playing name is Chad Hansen. I guess wikipedia says his full name is Timothy Chad Hansen.
Chad "Handsome"
Ok, that made me laugh.
Oh ok I hope he makes the roster. Falcons don't have any receivers.
I was thinking more of the guys in the same class. Harper, Treggs, Lawler, Powe, Davis who were all 3* or 4 *. Although I think Anderson might be one year younger than them in the same class as Harris and Rodgers.
Harper had a cup of coffee with the Patriots. He muffed a punt in his first game in a tight loss to the Broncos. He tried CFL for a year.
Treggs bounced around practice squads but never made an active roster.
Lawler is having an excellent CFL career, just signed a new contract and is the highest paid CFL WR.
Powe played 2-3 years for the Giants, accumulating very little stats-wise.
Davis is a FA, still trying to play. Still, solid little 5-year career in the NFL as a return specialist.
Interesting how that group all got a chance, at least.
David has the fumble issue too. Powe surprisingly played quite a bit of games with Giants but got injured and never heard since. But I had never imagined Anderson would be playing in the NFL when he was a walk-on WR buried in the depth chart at Cal
Proof of how little I actually know about baseball. George Will annual start of the season baseball quiz.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/george-will-baseball-quiz-2022/?itid=hp_opinions
Got 26/36 although if it wasn't multiple choice, I probably would have only got ~12.
[NHL] Leafs manage to blow a four goal lead midway through the 2nd, lose.
https://www.espn.com/nhl/recap/_/gameId/401350250
Cam Jordan is (still) a delight.
https://twitter.com/camjordan94/status/1511406991612301313
He is great, but his current shift to NFT content in his twitter is going to have me adjusting my twitter filters soon
Yeah, I've had my fill of low-polygon ape NFTs...
A’s free agents: Khris Davis, Mike Fiers head to Mexican League
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2022/4/5/23012048/oakland-as-free-agency-khris-davis-mike-fiers-mexican-league-lmb
Lakers get blown out, get eliminated from the playoffs.
https://lakersnation.com/lakers-officially-eliminated-from-play-in-tournament-contention-with-loss-to-suns/2022/04/05/
Hopefully James and Davis sit out tomorrow night and the Warriors can end the season on a five game win streak to secure the 3rd seed.
buh bye
It’s easy to tell when college basketball season will be over (a few weeks after the number of “this is the best competition out there” tweets on my timeline spike, how long until pro basketball is over? I need to figure out if it’s finally time to mute the name of that flat earther ding dong in New York or if seasonal attrition is going to do the job for me
Mid-June
filter it is
BIG ASS
I feel a touch guilty saying I've lost 40 lbs since August 2019 - Covid didn't really effect that slow decline in weight, but it's plateaued recently. Just gave up snacks, changed to a light breakfast - still drink too much I'm sure. Wife has always planned out meals for the week for ages.
nice. small ass!!!
I wouldn't go THAT far. More like less fat.
l'ass fat
I'm in the same boat as most here. Covid weight is real. I reached my heaviest ever over the holidays and early January decided to get back to taking my health seriously. I'm down about 18-20lbs so far with a goal of another 15-20lbs. I was mindful about what I ate but not really and cou0pling it with intermittent fasting. It's been a whole journey of discovering what works for me and what doesn't. The fasting part is easy, but it's the diet that still hounds me. Not that I have junk food cravings, it's the constant battle of "what to eat." This past week, I decided to go for a more plant based diet and I already fell better about this decision.
telling you, meal planning totally changed things for me. Knowing what we'll eat has made a massive difference. Also, we have gradually shifted away from white rice to brown rice to now focusing on farro and barley as a substitute. Its magical. Pounds falling off after shifting away from rice
At this point, from the trial and error of the past 3 months, pounds aren't what's important to me, it's inches. I'm down 2 notches on the belt. I'm wearing pants I haven't worn since before Covid, and my work wardrobe has expanded significantly to what I can wear to work bc shit fits now. I'm running a lot more these days and lifting on a semi regular schedule, so the minimal differential in weight I'm attribute to fat vs muscle.
true, when I was working out heavy before I blew my Achilles, my shape was radically different. I gained something like 27 lbs of muscle while losing 45 lbs of fat before it all went pear shaped. Getting old is stupid
I had the broken foot fiasco February 2021 which sidelined me for a few months, And bc of the walking boot I was in, it definitely changed my gait and it fucked up my hip. Adding to that, the gym was definitely harder to squeeze in with the last job due to commute time and especially with limited space in classes bc of covid restrictions.
i am about the same weight as i have been since mid-30s but i realize that is 5-10 lbs more than i would like. it would certainly help w/ overall health and being able to ride up hills faster/easier.
but i also realize that the daily alcohol habit will have to go . not sure if i am ready for that.
i have given up most other things in quest for lower cholesterol already ..
Fans. My sister has a few in her house and they're really nice, though expensive. I had a coworker that used to work for them and said their fans were much better before they were sold.
It took a couple reads to figure out that you were talking about BAF, not being a fan of big asses. I was like "damn, HAG likes the junk in his sister's trunk."
heh...yeah I guess I should've been a little more clear...
Having recently turned 40 I thought I needed to have a colonoscopy so when I went in for my physical I asked about it and to my surprise my doctor said that unless you have a family history of colon cancer they recommend waiting until 45.
I just turned 50 and was given the screening by my MD. Getting the colonoscopy at the end of the month. Wow, the prep does not look like good times.
Steve Martin told a story once that he and a few other male showbiz friends of his would schedule their colonoscopies for the same day so they could all do the cleanse together. They would rent a big hotel room and play poker all night the night of the cleanse. To me, if you have to do it, might as well make a party of it.
re: the prep - yeah definitely sucks and you need to be close to the toilet at all times. from experience, i strongly suggest using the pills; they are much easier to ingest than the liquid. i got a small stomach tho... anyway, here is a coupon that will probably save you money if you want the pills:
https://sutab.com/savings
Hope that big hotel room has more than one bathroom. Toilet time will be in big demand.
Cousin Eddie:
Shitter is full!
Trust me, you're going to be in a leave-me-alone mood than a party mood.
I dunno, I’m supposed to schedule one and I think I’d rather go through the cleanse alone. Mind you that’s my default setting for many of life’s activities.
My MD even said 50 unless a family history. Thinking of ordering a Cologard just to get an idea.
I had gained 10 lbs during Covid and was already a fat ass so in January, when signs of potentially brutal health issues started to appear, the Missus and I decided to change our diets. Cut out as much processed food as possible, eliminated refined sugar, cut down on carbs and alcohol and started weekly meal planning trying for "healthy meals". Meal planning has been a game changer, Saturday mornings we decide on our menu for the week, go shopping for that food and then cook daily. Part of our problem had been at the end of the day, we're tired, started the "whats for dinner" convo and we just went out and grabbed something for convenience. Anyways, have discovered that I can actually eat things besides red meat, bread, booze and candy and not be hungry afterwards. Havent had fast food since December, have lost almost 30 lbs in 3 months, the Missus is getting close to 20 lbs lost and we have a sustainable life change that should add a year or 5 on down the road. Is good.
Last May I made an overnight switch, scared by pre-diabetes diagnoses, to a whole food plant diet that I strictly followed. Doctor had also rx'ed statins which I refused saying give me three months on this new diet. Had blood panels bookending the three months. Lost 21 pounds from 191 to 170 and total cholesterol dropped 74 points (215 down to 141)...no meds used.
By far the most satisfying aspect and why I am in for the long run, was the tremendous improvement in how I felt. It became palpable within a week of starting the new eating.
For me, when I lost 17 pounds, that was great, but my cholesterol didn't drop at all. Quite annoying.
I was in Weight Watchers for a while with my wife. She lost 8 pounds; I lost 17. While we were there, there was another couple and the guy lost 60, and his wife lost 45. they were going for 100 each. Probably made it too.
That's awesome. @just getting your body ready for the ND trip I see@
Good for you! Having been watching my parents’ various health debacles over the past few years, it’s also the sort of change that won’t only get you more time but better time. That’s important.
Nice work, FS...congrats to you both.
Congrats for sticking to it. That's quite an accomplishment
Is that an ool party?
nah, there's P in there somewhere...
Went for my annual medical check last week and showing as ever that I’m a year behind trends, the second year of the pandemic was the one in which I put on 10 pounds
I’m a good 20 pounds heavy in my mid-late 40’s...weight has never been an issue for me until COVID. Years of eating late because of work & lifestyle led to awful habits that have finally caught up with me. I do hit the baseball harder, tho, so there’s that...know what I have to do to lose it, I just lack the discipline.
I've lost 3 pounds by doing the 1980 restaurant diet - starting a meal with small bowl of vegetable soup or small garden before the rest of the meal is served. Keeps me from going back for seconds or thirds (sometimes).
The sad part is that for the most part this isn’t because of my food management getting worse - it’s because I’ve become borderline agoraphobic. I need to walk more. (That, and only eat half a portion at dinner, half later, because we eat too early in this house)
I've gained 10 since March of 2020.