A GFCI (ground-fault circuit interrupter) is required for any wall socket within 6 feet of the kitchen sink, kitchen island/countertops, garage outlets, exterior, bathrooms, wet bars, and crawl spaces. The fuse heats up faster than the wire and burns out before the wire can start a fire.
If you could change anything about your house that costs less than $3k, what would it be?
If you're staying in Chicago and plan on shuttling back and forth to the game, a group of us have booked Irish Express, $165 per person. That includes boozy brunch, shuttle to/from game with drinks, wifi, bathroom, and snacks on the way back. If you're interested, please call Eric at Irish Express directly at 847-867-3515, and give him the group name "WRITE FOR CALIFORNIA" and he'll waive the 6% booking fee. There are less than 50 seats available as of this morning.
Also, Newellbany and I will be attending the game but are staying in South Bend and will share whatever pre-game plans we have when they are finalized.
This event brought me to tears. I cried because the soul destroying pain that those families must endure. And I cried out of hopelessness because I think that - after an initial flurry of outrage - nothing will happen.
I'm having a hard time mustering up any meaningful reaction to it other than numbness. If the murder of 20 children at Sandy Hook didn't change anything, I'm not convinced anything will. The regular, senseless murder of schoolchildren is a price the nation is apparently willing to pay for unfettered access to guns.
I had a similar reaction. This nation has shown it is perfectly fine sacrificing innocent men, women and children so that people can continue to have access to guns. In fact, I am convinced that if somehow Biden, Dems and some Republicans actually passed anti-gun legislation and reform, it would just be overturned by SCOTUS on a 5-4 vote.
Probably so. And the three dissenters would probably be Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson. It is possible that Roberts might be swayed to side with federal legislation to require background checks.
But Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett look like hopeless cases to me. Not that I know anything more than anyone else. Just sayin'.
Just one more overwhelmingly sad event. But in the Senate many hearts are hardened and inured to school violence as they are in hock to the gun lobby. It's time for sweeping change in all facets of gun laws, never mind the 2nd amendment which is always upheld as a fig leaf but was never intended by the framers to permit 300+ million guns in the hands of citizens.
I don’t think we need to repeal the 2nd Amendment entirely but we need to actually limit it to what the framers intended, the right of members of regulated state sanctioned militias/national guard to own a gun.
I'm okay with not repealing the 2nd Amendment as long as we recognize that the basis for the 2nd Amendment no longer exists and that gun control laws are, therefore, not unconstitutional.
This is where I think democrats and anti-gun groups fail in messaging, the message and goal should not be repeal the 2nd but to hold it to its original purpose of applying it to members of “a well regulated militia”.
No fuck that. Repeal. Repeal. Repeal. I got so worked up that I wrote to Sen Padilla (I assume DiFi is not capable of doing anything at her age even though she is on the appropriate committee). Feel free to plagiarize if you like!
Senator,
I write you as a lawyer, concerned citizen, and most of all a parent of three school aged girls here in the Bay Area. I strongly feel that we need to start building a movement to repeal the Second Amendment. Essentially every country on Earth has all the same conditions that the GOP/NRA throws up as the proximate cause du jour to explain away the most recent mass killing -- violent video games, increased secularism, mental health issues, and so on and so forth. And yet ours is the only country plagued by so many gun deaths and mass shootings. It does not take a rocket scientist to spot the difference here; the relevant difference is of course the Second Amendment. It seems impossible and fraught but those feelings of fatalism are exactly what the NRA/GOP want you to feel. Those feelings are a gift to the GOP and NRA that they do not deserve. Please do not give into them.
Here is my two step plan ---
1. Repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005. If it means that you have to get of the filibuster, so be it. This issue is too important to just leave on the cruel doorstep of anachronistic procedural niceties such as the filibuster. Once you repeal the PLCAA, DAs in states and cities and plaintiffs' firms honed on tobacco and asbestos suits will start suing in droves. What will come out in those suits is evidence. Evidence of the substantial harm and economic cost (us Americans love quantifying stuff in dollars) that the gun industry wreaks upon our society. That evidence will get out in the public and start to build a movement for step two.
2. Repeal the Second Amendment. It just has to be done. Especially after the steroids that Scalia fed it, but even apart from that. We cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of the interpretation of idealogues on SCOTUS who have demonstrated themselves to be perfectly willing to ditch the plain text of the amendment and centuries of stare decisis in furtherance of their own twisted ideals. Just repeal it. No one designing a new public policy today would enact something like the Second Amendment; indeed no recently established democracy has such a rule. And yet, despite the lie that guns equal freedom, none of these democracies has devolved into an Orwellian police state.
I am more than happy to assist in whatever way possible, but again, please do not give into fatalism that change is impossible. Let's do something about this.
I'm much more concerned that we continue to have people who are enough in command of their faculties to perform the logistics of these events that despite knowing they are most likely going to die, or worse, see causing a multi-casualty, mass destruction incident, regardless of the tool of choice, as their best course of action. In this case, at least preliminarily, there was apparently no history of mental issues, so how do you find and address a ticking time bomb, which *WILL* go off at some point?
Was wondering what was taking them so long to post it. But, yeah, that's a creative way of displaying rage above and beyond the usual because this was such an unconscionable act.
FET -- I once had lunch at the table next to Boris Becker in St Tropez. He was with his agent or something, and it was not too long after the broom closet incident. He didn't look great even then.
SF Giants blow a 8-2 lead going into the top of the 7th. Tyler Rogers and his normally dirty slider fooled nobody and the Mets batted around in the top of the 8th to lead 11-8. Then it got crazier as the lead changed three times over the next 1.5 innings.
Ya. Cobb got bit by it Monday...two infield hits, one a swinging bunt, and a pop-fly down the left field line that needs to be caught at the major league level, before Alonso blasted one.
In a game started on the mound by Buehler, it was a different day off, or lack of one, that keyed the latest Dodgers win over the Nationals. Mookie Betts hit two of the team’s four home runs in a 9-4 triumph, the ninth consecutive Los Angeles triumph over Washington.
Betts was going to get Tuesday off, a planned rest day in the middle of a month-long schedule gauntlet that has the Dodgers playing 31 games in 30 days. But Cody Bellinger, who was set for a Wednesday off day, wasn’t feeling well Tuesday, so manager Dave Roberts swapped off days for the two outfielders.
“I was going to give Mookie a day off today,” Roberts told reporters at Nationals Park before the game, as shown on SportsNet LA. He then added with a smile, “I convinced him to play today, and he’ll be down tomorrow, regardless.”
Things have really hit the fan in Niner-land after a couple of days of OTA's, as oft-injured former 1st-round pick Javon Kinlaw gets into two rather surreal spats with SI reporter and known schitt-disturber Grant Cohn. An emotional Kinlaw even jumped on Cohn's YouTube channel and threatened him...not a good look for any of the parties involved....
Typical elimination road game for the Dubs, trot out the youth to get some experience, go down big with the home team hitting all their shots, have a comeback bid fall short and go home with rested starters ready to close out at Chase. OPJ should be available on Thursday and I'm hoping/expecting them to close it out tomorrow.
And both played well for the parts of the game I was able to watch. Good experience for them and they won't be as rusty should they need them due to an injury
I guess the best part was the Mavs having to play their starters for 6 extra minutes when the Dubs bench came back. Steph Wiggs and Klay only played about 3. If Kerr really wanted to win he would've put Draymond back out there.
A's get timely hits and power from Pinder and Lowrie headline A's 7-5 victory over the Mariners in Seattle....snapping a 13-game losing streak against the M's...
I want to do a quartz “waterfall” island on my kitchen island. I already have quartz countertop on the island, so I just need to add the waterfall portion of it. Anyone know how expensive or difficult this is to do? Is it common to do it all at once or is it possible to add a waterfall?
I also want to tile the plywood under the quartz countertop to make it look cleaner and to hide the plywood that the quartz is sitting on.
We have granite countertops that were fabricated with bullnose edges. The 1-1/4" plywood support is in back of the edge, so that it's not readily visible. Unless you're looking up at the underside.
I think I have bullnose. The edges of the plywood is not visible as it is covered by the quartz.
I am looking up from the underside. I’m thinking of using tile to cover the plywood and then continue the tile down the back of the cabinets to hide all wood. It will be like a tiled waterfall under the quartz.
I’m going to tile a portion of my fireplace and I will probably use matching tile for both projects.
I wish this site would allow pictures to be uploaded in comments.
Yeah, I figured they were mostly all done at once since you typically have 45 degree cuts between the two pieces of material. Other than aesthetics, are 45 degree cuts necessary for the structural integrity?
What is a nosing? I assume you’re taking about the expose plywood that the quartz sits on? I can see the plywood when I am under the island counter, it is painted to try to blend it in.
We are slowly relandscaping our front yard section by section. So my current home improvement for less than $3k would be to get my sprinkler system repaired so that it can function on a timer. I can then use the existing pvc pipes and convert the sprinklers to drip lines.
Just got our 97 year old door handle repaired again this morning for $75. Looks like we can get a more permanent repair done for <$200. It's amazing how the little things (two stripped hex key screws) can really mess with your home's functionality like not being able to use your front door.
I need to get my kitchen backsplash sorted out (I am currently without as I removed it when I got my new counters last month, and I have yet to get someone in to install a new one).
...or get a stainless steel backsplash. We had a stainless steel backsplash fabricated in a diamond pattern for the area behind the sink above the granite 4" backsplash. 20 years old this fall and it still looks good.
We also put stainless above hardwood counters in our basement studio kitchen.
A backsplash is a project we've been procrastinating on for years. The missus wants to install one ourselves but we don't have a tile cutter and I've never done a backsplash before (or any tiling, really). I'm leaning towards a professional installation, unless it's egregiously expensive...
We did this too. Were going to get custom tiles, but the delivery would take too long. Backup plan was some nice glass tiles. However, they were a bit more expensive to install.
One of the reasons I've been procrastinating is because the tile I really want is a fairlyexpensive marble mosaic, and the tile I should get is a 7x less expensive marble subway tile. I think I have made up my mind to go with the subway tile but then I have doubts and...
Is there a structural reason why? I'm not sure I've ever seen that done. Usually a short slab like that has a painted wall above it, or else the slab goes all the way up.
I prefer the cleaner look of tile down to the counter. I modernized my counters with 1 1/2" squared edge replacing an ogee-edged 90s-era granite, and it looks so fresh and so clean!
I somehow accidentally skipped an episode on S3 of Love Death + Robots. I went back and watched "Bad Travelling". Holy shit. That was the best animated short that I've ever seen. (21/19, WB, Netflix) It's a masterpiece 21-minute horror film about morality. And by horror - I don't mean jump scares, but unique imagery and situations that set a new standard on how to tickle fear and repulsion. Also, several days later - I still find myself thinking about the "Jibaro" episode - the season finale that had a simpler story, but its animation was mesmerizing.
I thought that was the best episode of this season and of the whole series to date. I was surprised you didn’t mention it the other day when you posted about LD+R, now I know why you didn’t mention it.
I saw a screening of Race to Alaska last night in Pasadena. It was a fantastic documentary covering the first four years of the 750nm bonkers endurance race from Port Townsend, WA to Kethikan, AK on any craft without a motor. Everything from sailboats to stand up paddle boards were entered. https://r2ak.com/
When it comes to theaters near you I'd recommend checking it out. 19/19 WB
While it's only a single state, Trump had his diapered flabby ass spanked in the Georgia primaries. Trump vowed revenge in Georgia because they wouldn't overturn the election, but his endorsed challengers all got crushed by incumbents Gov. Kemp (+52 percentage points), Sec of State Raffensperger (+19 points), and AG Carr (+48 points). However, MTG won by 53 points and will almost certainly win as the district is about a 50 point GOP lean.
Do you think Herschel no shows the primary debate like he did the GQP debate? I am not sure Herschel can string together 2 coherent sentences in a debate setting.
Why should they? Repubs know they have a built-in base. The worst thing that can happen is they fail to message on culture war issues and they try to message on actual meat-and-potatoes economic policy. That's a sure recipe for electoral disaster.
Dem opponents should be absolutely shameless about saying Republicans don't want to debate them because hey can't stand up to the voter scrutiny.
I don’t think you didn’t know that, I just wanted to say that it is so crazy that US citizens would rather see the US no longer exist as a nation rather than give up their guns. People actually care about owning a gun more than they care about their country.
Indeed. I posit that the 2nd Amendment is unnecessary given that the United States has the best trained and equipped standing army in the world.
The 2nd Amendment exists in no small part because the Framers had a deep distrust of standing armies but recognized that some sort of defensive force was necessary for the defense of the nascent nation. Hence, the opening two clauses of the 2nd Amendment: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,..."
I posit that the Framers, were they alive and well today, would recognize that the 2nd Amendment is not necessary.
The irony being that the Originalists would either ignore or deny the argument outlined above.
I do, how “Orginalist” just ignore those opening clauses. The founders state at the very beginning the requirements to own a gun.
I also take a bit more darker view of the founders and the 2nd amendment. As I believe they mainly intended it as a way for Americans and colonists to more easily commit genocide against Native Americans and hold African Americans in slavery and prevent slave uprisings.
Also, supporters of the 2nd would argue that owning guns is needed in case we need to take up arms against the government and fight that well trained and equipped military.
The US had a standing army since the late 1790’s it may not have been very big at the time but it did exist. The army would fluctuate in size obviously due to conflicts throughout the 19th century with the War of 1812, numerous Indian Wars, Mexican American War and the Civil War.
WWII did see the rise of our modern, standing military army.
It is a bit of a stretch. Not all of the Founders were happy with slavery. Yes, they compromised on it in order to unite the colonies in rebellion but they would not have all had pro-slavery views as their primary reason for drafting that amendment.
I'll stipulate to your darker view. Those ideas and objectives were part of the mental furniture (if you will) of the Framers. You can't get away from it if we're (we = all US inhabitants) going to have a discussion about how the 2nd Amendment came into being and its relevance to today.
The folks who would argue today that we need the 2nd Amendment in case the government turns against us are the folks we need to worry about most - they are the seditionists and insurrectionists in our midst. Those folks do not trust democracy; they want a White "Christian" nationalist state with a theological bent to it.
He's playing at a fairly new venue outside DC next month. Touring for the 50th anniversary of American Pie. Man am I old. Later this year the venue has Gordon Lightfoot, Box Scaggs, Men at Work. Also Vince Gill and Lee Greenwood to mix in some old country.
I think I'd like raclette, but I don't know anywhere nearby that does it, and am also not interested in trying to procure cheese to toast on my own, so...maybe TBell cheese fiesta potatoes are in my near future. Basically the same thing, right?
Wife made "antipasto salad" last night, basically all the antipasto stuff on a bed of arugula with fresh crostini - was perfect for a hot night dinner. Three valleys Zin from Ridge was a decent pairing.
Forgot to ask yesterday, the Missus wants to day trip to either Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard... I know nothing about either except there are beaches, Lighthouses and rich people. Any thoughts?
i think it is a chill NE vibe of nice beaches and nice little towns and food. mostly people go for a week of vacation but i imagine that in a day you will appreciate what it is all about.
the no car aspect appeals to people renting houses and have small kids ..
Been to Martha's Vineyard a couple times, decades ago. Charming. Small enough to bike most of it in a day. Used to have a famous club, Hot Tin Roof, which apparently is gone now. Never made it to Nantucket.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Notre Dame game
If you're staying in Chicago and plan on shuttling back and forth to the game, a group of us have booked Irish Express, $165 per person. That includes boozy brunch, shuttle to/from game with drinks, wifi, bathroom, and snacks on the way back. If you're interested, please call Eric at Irish Express directly at 847-867-3515, and give him the group name "WRITE FOR CALIFORNIA" and he'll waive the 6% booking fee. There are less than 50 seats available as of this morning.
Also, Newellbany and I will be attending the game but are staying in South Bend and will share whatever pre-game plans we have when they are finalized.
oooooh
do it now Oui We
it is done
i should probably book flights and figure out a place to stay
Mater Dei 4-star LB Tre Edwards has Cal in final 4, decision soon. Recruiting pundits say UCLA
Meanwhile San Diego-Lincoln HS 4-star running back Roderick Robinson has Cal in final 8. Decision on May 26th at 10 am, CBS sports.
Add in an academic school to pretend like you give a crap about that? Or to appease the parents?
or maybe I'm just <strike>cynical</strike> a Cal fan.
also UCLA
The hat routine I suppose.
The most Aussie thing you'll read t'day, mate.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-man-arrested-for-allegedly-bashing-footy-fan-with-a-didgeridoo/989a2e54-adf7-453c-9211-ccd9d814b255
NASA's New Horizon spacecraft flew by Pluto. ICYMI: NASA crated a video from data received from it. I never thought I'd ever see this type of stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1fPhhTT2Oo
I assume it's visual representation of the radar since I pluto is too far away to get sunlight.
Uvalde
Guess who is banning guns at their event. I mean, it would be the mother-of-all places to have "good guy with a gun". I wonder what they're afraid of.
https://www.nraam.org/events/2022-events/friday-may-27/nra-ila-leadership-forum/
Looks like most wanted posters at the post office.
This event brought me to tears. I cried because the soul destroying pain that those families must endure. And I cried out of hopelessness because I think that - after an initial flurry of outrage - nothing will happen.
I'm having a hard time mustering up any meaningful reaction to it other than numbness. If the murder of 20 children at Sandy Hook didn't change anything, I'm not convinced anything will. The regular, senseless murder of schoolchildren is a price the nation is apparently willing to pay for unfettered access to guns.
I had a similar reaction. This nation has shown it is perfectly fine sacrificing innocent men, women and children so that people can continue to have access to guns. In fact, I am convinced that if somehow Biden, Dems and some Republicans actually passed anti-gun legislation and reform, it would just be overturned by SCOTUS on a 5-4 vote.
I think it would probably be 6-3, unfortunately.
Probably so. And the three dissenters would probably be Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson. It is possible that Roberts might be swayed to side with federal legislation to require background checks.
But Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett look like hopeless cases to me. Not that I know anything more than anyone else. Just sayin'.
Just one more overwhelmingly sad event. But in the Senate many hearts are hardened and inured to school violence as they are in hock to the gun lobby. It's time for sweeping change in all facets of gun laws, never mind the 2nd amendment which is always upheld as a fig leaf but was never intended by the framers to permit 300+ million guns in the hands of citizens.
I don’t think we need to repeal the 2nd Amendment entirely but we need to actually limit it to what the framers intended, the right of members of regulated state sanctioned militias/national guard to own a gun.
I'm okay with not repealing the 2nd Amendment as long as we recognize that the basis for the 2nd Amendment no longer exists and that gun control laws are, therefore, not unconstitutional.
This is where I think democrats and anti-gun groups fail in messaging, the message and goal should not be repeal the 2nd but to hold it to its original purpose of applying it to members of “a well regulated militia”.
No fuck that. Repeal. Repeal. Repeal. I got so worked up that I wrote to Sen Padilla (I assume DiFi is not capable of doing anything at her age even though she is on the appropriate committee). Feel free to plagiarize if you like!
Senator,
I write you as a lawyer, concerned citizen, and most of all a parent of three school aged girls here in the Bay Area. I strongly feel that we need to start building a movement to repeal the Second Amendment. Essentially every country on Earth has all the same conditions that the GOP/NRA throws up as the proximate cause du jour to explain away the most recent mass killing -- violent video games, increased secularism, mental health issues, and so on and so forth. And yet ours is the only country plagued by so many gun deaths and mass shootings. It does not take a rocket scientist to spot the difference here; the relevant difference is of course the Second Amendment. It seems impossible and fraught but those feelings of fatalism are exactly what the NRA/GOP want you to feel. Those feelings are a gift to the GOP and NRA that they do not deserve. Please do not give into them.
Here is my two step plan ---
1. Repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005. If it means that you have to get of the filibuster, so be it. This issue is too important to just leave on the cruel doorstep of anachronistic procedural niceties such as the filibuster. Once you repeal the PLCAA, DAs in states and cities and plaintiffs' firms honed on tobacco and asbestos suits will start suing in droves. What will come out in those suits is evidence. Evidence of the substantial harm and economic cost (us Americans love quantifying stuff in dollars) that the gun industry wreaks upon our society. That evidence will get out in the public and start to build a movement for step two.
2. Repeal the Second Amendment. It just has to be done. Especially after the steroids that Scalia fed it, but even apart from that. We cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of the interpretation of idealogues on SCOTUS who have demonstrated themselves to be perfectly willing to ditch the plain text of the amendment and centuries of stare decisis in furtherance of their own twisted ideals. Just repeal it. No one designing a new public policy today would enact something like the Second Amendment; indeed no recently established democracy has such a rule. And yet, despite the lie that guns equal freedom, none of these democracies has devolved into an Orwellian police state.
I am more than happy to assist in whatever way possible, but again, please do not give into fatalism that change is impossible. Let's do something about this.
So fucking infuriating.
I'm much more concerned that we continue to have people who are enough in command of their faculties to perform the logistics of these events that despite knowing they are most likely going to die, or worse, see causing a multi-casualty, mass destruction incident, regardless of the tool of choice, as their best course of action. In this case, at least preliminarily, there was apparently no history of mental issues, so how do you find and address a ticking time bomb, which *WILL* go off at some point?
same
Check out the Onion homepage today:
https://www.theonion.com/
Was wondering what was taking them so long to post it. But, yeah, that's a creative way of displaying rage above and beyond the usual because this was such an unconscionable act.
Lawd almighty it's getting crowded on that page...
This says it quite well https://twitter.com/desertrose1969/status/1529336310577647616?s=20&t=JpJVjHKA2M2bjDM3lzTVwA
That’s well said.
Dang, you are right.
PRO
Boris Becker jailed ahead of his deportation from the UK. In other news, Boris is looking old.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/25/boris-becker-moved-prison-for-foreigners-sign-will-be-deported
FET -- I once had lunch at the table next to Boris Becker in St Tropez. He was with his agent or something, and it was not too long after the broom closet incident. He didn't look great even then.
Holy Crap he is looking old. I still remember watching him win in 1985, his first Wimbledon.
Doesn’t even look like the same guy!
SF Giants blow a 8-2 lead going into the top of the 7th. Tyler Rogers and his normally dirty slider fooled nobody and the Mets batted around in the top of the 8th to lead 11-8. Then it got crazier as the lead changed three times over the next 1.5 innings.
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2022/5/24/23140896/giants-mets-recap-joc-pederson-brandon-crawford
My brother's and my text exchange throughout the meltdown/comeback was one for the ages. Long live King Joc.
Dallas almost blew a lead as well.
Gigantes are going through some stuff, man
I wonder if relievers are going through a dead arm period with the shortened spring training. Dodgers relievers were having similar issues last week+.
In fairness to Rogers, he did get a lot of ground balls that found holes and was very unlucky in that inning.
from what I'm reading the stats say the GIants are in a run of bad luck. basebal!
Ya. Cobb got bit by it Monday...two infield hits, one a swinging bunt, and a pop-fly down the left field line that needs to be caught at the major league level, before Alonso blasted one.
Off day? Not for the red-hot Mookie Betts
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/5/24/23140477/mookie-betts-home-runs-dodgers-no-off-day-yet
In a game started on the mound by Buehler, it was a different day off, or lack of one, that keyed the latest Dodgers win over the Nationals. Mookie Betts hit two of the team’s four home runs in a 9-4 triumph, the ninth consecutive Los Angeles triumph over Washington.
Betts was going to get Tuesday off, a planned rest day in the middle of a month-long schedule gauntlet that has the Dodgers playing 31 games in 30 days. But Cody Bellinger, who was set for a Wednesday off day, wasn’t feeling well Tuesday, so manager Dave Roberts swapped off days for the two outfielders.
“I was going to give Mookie a day off today,” Roberts told reporters at Nationals Park before the game, as shown on SportsNet LA. He then added with a smile, “I convinced him to play today, and he’ll be down tomorrow, regardless.”
GBBR
Things have really hit the fan in Niner-land after a couple of days of OTA's, as oft-injured former 1st-round pick Javon Kinlaw gets into two rather surreal spats with SI reporter and known schitt-disturber Grant Cohn. An emotional Kinlaw even jumped on Cohn's YouTube channel and threatened him...not a good look for any of the parties involved....
https://youtu.be/bWYQdWaFXHo
Warriors mount a semi-comeback in 4th Q after being down 30.
Dallas was shooting well from outside and played a solid game when they needed to. lets hope for better at home ...
Typical elimination road game for the Dubs, trot out the youth to get some experience, go down big with the home team hitting all their shots, have a comeback bid fall short and go home with rested starters ready to close out at Chase. OPJ should be available on Thursday and I'm hoping/expecting them to close it out tomorrow.
Yeah, when they trotted out Kuminga-Moody lineups in the first half I knew the Warriors were messing around with this one.
And both played well for the parts of the game I was able to watch. Good experience for them and they won't be as rusty should they need them due to an injury
I guess the best part was the Mavs having to play their starters for 6 extra minutes when the Dubs bench came back. Steph Wiggs and Klay only played about 3. If Kerr really wanted to win he would've put Draymond back out there.
The Dubs do love a Gentleman's Sweep
I was just rooting for the bench to complete the comeback against the Mavs starters.
same
A's get timely hits and power from Pinder and Lowrie headline A's 7-5 victory over the Mariners in Seattle....snapping a 13-game losing streak against the M's...
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/ms-dominance-over-as-ends-at-13-straight-as-seattle-falls-7-5/
Home improvement for less than $3k
the booze i buy improves my house and also my perception of my house
I need to repaint the shutters (probably this weekend). I'll put a smidge of the $3k towards supplies and pocket the rest as labor.
I want to do a quartz “waterfall” island on my kitchen island. I already have quartz countertop on the island, so I just need to add the waterfall portion of it. Anyone know how expensive or difficult this is to do? Is it common to do it all at once or is it possible to add a waterfall?
I also want to tile the plywood under the quartz countertop to make it look cleaner and to hide the plywood that the quartz is sitting on.
You don't have nosing on that? How odd. I think those are done all at once, 45 degree cuts.
Or bullnose.
We have granite countertops that were fabricated with bullnose edges. The 1-1/4" plywood support is in back of the edge, so that it's not readily visible. Unless you're looking up at the underside.
I think I have bullnose. The edges of the plywood is not visible as it is covered by the quartz.
I am looking up from the underside. I’m thinking of using tile to cover the plywood and then continue the tile down the back of the cabinets to hide all wood. It will be like a tiled waterfall under the quartz.
I’m going to tile a portion of my fireplace and I will probably use matching tile for both projects.
I wish this site would allow pictures to be uploaded in comments.
1-1/4? 5/8 is the standard.
1-1/4" is overkill, but granite is heavy. Also, we found that 3/4" plywood flexed (!) under the weight of the granite.
Yeah, I figured they were mostly all done at once since you typically have 45 degree cuts between the two pieces of material. Other than aesthetics, are 45 degree cuts necessary for the structural integrity?
What is a nosing? I assume you’re taking about the expose plywood that the quartz sits on? I can see the plywood when I am under the island counter, it is painted to try to blend it in.
why are you crawling around on the floor of the kitchen?
Kids (2 and 4) and alcohol will do that to you. I get down and scrub my floors and baseboards so I see some things man…
We are slowly relandscaping our front yard section by section. So my current home improvement for less than $3k would be to get my sprinkler system repaired so that it can function on a timer. I can then use the existing pvc pipes and convert the sprinklers to drip lines.
Just got our 97 year old door handle repaired again this morning for $75. Looks like we can get a more permanent repair done for <$200. It's amazing how the little things (two stripped hex key screws) can really mess with your home's functionality like not being able to use your front door.
I need to get my kitchen backsplash sorted out (I am currently without as I removed it when I got my new counters last month, and I have yet to get someone in to install a new one).
...or get a stainless steel backsplash. We had a stainless steel backsplash fabricated in a diamond pattern for the area behind the sink above the granite 4" backsplash. 20 years old this fall and it still looks good.
We also put stainless above hardwood counters in our basement studio kitchen.
Why didn't the counter guys do it?
They would have done it if I wanted slab backsplash, but I want a tiled wall all the way up to the cabinets, which they don't do.
A backsplash is a project we've been procrastinating on for years. The missus wants to install one ourselves but we don't have a tile cutter and I've never done a backsplash before (or any tiling, really). I'm leaning towards a professional installation, unless it's egregiously expensive...
Sit on it for several more years then the answer will come to you.
We did this too. Were going to get custom tiles, but the delivery would take too long. Backup plan was some nice glass tiles. However, they were a bit more expensive to install.
One of the reasons I've been procrastinating is because the tile I really want is a fairlyexpensive marble mosaic, and the tile I should get is a 7x less expensive marble subway tile. I think I have made up my mind to go with the subway tile but then I have doubts and...
Mrs Slug looooves subway tile. We plan to use it in our bath, eventually.
Those custom tiles we wound up not getting would have cost a lot more. The price range of tiles is amazing.
eh, I would argue it's better to have a 4 or 6 inch slab, and then the tile.
Is there a structural reason why? I'm not sure I've ever seen that done. Usually a short slab like that has a painted wall above it, or else the slab goes all the way up.
I prefer the cleaner look of tile down to the counter. I modernized my counters with 1 1/2" squared edge replacing an ogee-edged 90s-era granite, and it looks so fresh and so clean!
Yeah squared edge quartz is all the rage now.
So you would tile over the slab?
I think Cugel is saying a 4 or 6 in piece of slab and then tile above it, vs having the tile directly down to the counter.
I don't think putting tile on the backsplash is that difficult. You can do it Scootie!
Probably a new vanity, sink, lighting and mirror for the kids bathroom.
Yeah, right: who do you think you're fooling?
Socket
..to me, baby.
Site is an interesting website about the local real estate market.
https://socketsite.com/
Seems to be SF centric.
Apparently "local" means "local to SF"
Wrench
and the ever missing 10mm
Got a metric bolt? Can't fine a metric socket. Got a regular bolt , can't find a regular socket.
Amateurs.
DBD AV Club
I somehow accidentally skipped an episode on S3 of Love Death + Robots. I went back and watched "Bad Travelling". Holy shit. That was the best animated short that I've ever seen. (21/19, WB, Netflix) It's a masterpiece 21-minute horror film about morality. And by horror - I don't mean jump scares, but unique imagery and situations that set a new standard on how to tickle fear and repulsion. Also, several days later - I still find myself thinking about the "Jibaro" episode - the season finale that had a simpler story, but its animation was mesmerizing.
I just watched Jibaro. That was truly strange, and I mean that as a compliment
I thought that was the best episode of this season and of the whole series to date. I was surprised you didn’t mention it the other day when you posted about LD+R, now I know why you didn’t mention it.
The animation in Jibaro was beautiful.
I saw a screening of Race to Alaska last night in Pasadena. It was a fantastic documentary covering the first four years of the 750nm bonkers endurance race from Port Townsend, WA to Kethikan, AK on any craft without a motor. Everything from sailboats to stand up paddle boards were entered. https://r2ak.com/
When it comes to theaters near you I'd recommend checking it out. 19/19 WB
Have you seen Maiden? Seems up your alley.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
While it's only a single state, Trump had his diapered flabby ass spanked in the Georgia primaries. Trump vowed revenge in Georgia because they wouldn't overturn the election, but his endorsed challengers all got crushed by incumbents Gov. Kemp (+52 percentage points), Sec of State Raffensperger (+19 points), and AG Carr (+48 points). However, MTG won by 53 points and will almost certainly win as the district is about a 50 point GOP lean.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/politics/trump-perdue-georgia.html
I feel like Herschel Walker's win is good news for Warnock.
It's hard to poke holes in Hershel's policy platform.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1529281988158541825
Do you think Herschel no shows the primary debate like he did the GQP debate? I am not sure Herschel can string together 2 coherent sentences in a debate setting.
I read that all of the Republicans in Georgia have said they won't participate in any debates with Democrats.
Why should they? Repubs know they have a built-in base. The worst thing that can happen is they fail to message on culture war issues and they try to message on actual meat-and-potatoes economic policy. That's a sure recipe for electoral disaster.
Dem opponents should be absolutely shameless about saying Republicans don't want to debate them because hey can't stand up to the voter scrutiny.
they know their lips won't move when they debate.
Another angle on Trump getting smoked in Georgia...
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/25/trump-georgia-five-takeaways-primary-2022-00035017
We've done it, America. The CDC says that the #1 cause of death of American children is now firearms, finally exceeding automotive crashes.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
Repeal the Second Amendment
The United States is more likely to disintegrate than the 2nd Amendment being repealed.
I know that. Doesn't mean I can't say it.
I don’t think you didn’t know that, I just wanted to say that it is so crazy that US citizens would rather see the US no longer exist as a nation rather than give up their guns. People actually care about owning a gun more than they care about their country.
^^this^^
Indeed. I posit that the 2nd Amendment is unnecessary given that the United States has the best trained and equipped standing army in the world.
The 2nd Amendment exists in no small part because the Framers had a deep distrust of standing armies but recognized that some sort of defensive force was necessary for the defense of the nascent nation. Hence, the opening two clauses of the 2nd Amendment: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,..."
I posit that the Framers, were they alive and well today, would recognize that the 2nd Amendment is not necessary.
The irony being that the Originalists would either ignore or deny the argument outlined above.
I don’t understand, well
I do, how “Orginalist” just ignore those opening clauses. The founders state at the very beginning the requirements to own a gun.
I also take a bit more darker view of the founders and the 2nd amendment. As I believe they mainly intended it as a way for Americans and colonists to more easily commit genocide against Native Americans and hold African Americans in slavery and prevent slave uprisings.
Also, supporters of the 2nd would argue that owning guns is needed in case we need to take up arms against the government and fight that well trained and equipped military.
I think your darker view is a stretch - it's really about standing armies, which we've really only had since WWII
The US had a standing army since the late 1790’s it may not have been very big at the time but it did exist. The army would fluctuate in size obviously due to conflicts throughout the 19th century with the War of 1812, numerous Indian Wars, Mexican American War and the Civil War.
WWII did see the rise of our modern, standing military army.
It is a bit of a stretch. Not all of the Founders were happy with slavery. Yes, they compromised on it in order to unite the colonies in rebellion but they would not have all had pro-slavery views as their primary reason for drafting that amendment.
As with many things: this stuff is complicated.
I'll stipulate to your darker view. Those ideas and objectives were part of the mental furniture (if you will) of the Framers. You can't get away from it if we're (we = all US inhabitants) going to have a discussion about how the 2nd Amendment came into being and its relevance to today.
The folks who would argue today that we need the 2nd Amendment in case the government turns against us are the folks we need to worry about most - they are the seditionists and insurrectionists in our midst. Those folks do not trust democracy; they want a White "Christian" nationalist state with a theological bent to it.
I agree with you on this, especially your second point.
When we set our mind to it, there’s nothing we can’t do.
Elsewhere in college
Shanghai University - like MIT - has a swimming requirement to graduate. They announced that the exam will be online.
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3177993/chinese-university-becomes-laughing-stock-after
B-sides - does this mean anything to you?
i like the cake b sides album
That's a good one. They have some fantastic covers.
But of course!
How to say you're old without saying you're old.
It does if you had stacks of 45s.
B’s get degrees. That’s what this means to me.
Baby, D's get degrees. Trust me on this.
American Pie by Don McLean is its own B-side.
the song is so long that you have to flip over the single halfway thru ...
American Pie is 8:32 in time. There are six verses. Verse 4 (begins "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter") begins at about the 4:00 mark.
I hate that song with the fire of a thousand songs. I wish someone would shove that pie up his ass and tell him to shut the fuck up
But I know that you're in love with him
Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym
You both kicked off your shoes.
Man I dig those rhythm and blues!
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the Music died.
don mclean performing at nra annual meeting this week
I saw a story that he just pulled out.
He's playing at a fairly new venue outside DC next month. Touring for the 50th anniversary of American Pie. Man am I old. Later this year the venue has Gordon Lightfoot, Box Scaggs, Men at Work. Also Vince Gill and Lee Greenwood to mix in some old country.
Boz Scaggs - my wife liked him, Men at Work is total crap.
Interesting, never knew that.
Uneasy Rider is on the b-side of the Devil Went Down to Georgia by the Charlie Daniels Band
a funny song/story about driving thru the deep South ... makes me LOL every time.
Means something to me, some of my favorite Sparks songs are B-sides: Barbecutie, Lost and Found, Alabamy Right.
lold. but yes I do know what you mean.
I think I'd like raclette, but I don't know anywhere nearby that does it, and am also not interested in trying to procure cheese to toast on my own, so...maybe TBell cheese fiesta potatoes are in my near future. Basically the same thing, right?
heading to Switz this summer. i think that is on the list of things to eat!
This sounds like Bad Idea.
Oh thank god you're here. Which wine do you think would go best with cheesy fiesta potatoes?
And if you're running out, you know where to go, and as luck would have it, I'm having a HH up on the deck at 5:30 today
😉
tbb bring a tpp
A Taco...Pell...Palooza?
taco party pack
You know... actually almost any red goes well with cheese.
Sink socket, why do you have the socket in your sink, SGBear?
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1529540147284480001?s=20&t=-TnW77Xn57fPnLSBSi6n1w
BREAKING: ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ author Nancy Crampton Brophy has been found guilty of her husband's murder.
DBD test kitchen
Wife made "antipasto salad" last night, basically all the antipasto stuff on a bed of arugula with fresh crostini - was perfect for a hot night dinner. Three valleys Zin from Ridge was a decent pairing.
all the constraints in our house these days make for tricky cooking and ordering and eating out these days ...
- older daughter, lactose intolerant
- younger daughter, giving up meat
- me, high cholesterol
- wife, pre-diabetic
Some of us have all those constraints rolled into one person!
Hitting the jackpot!
Forgot to ask yesterday, the Missus wants to day trip to either Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard... I know nothing about either except there are beaches, Lighthouses and rich people. Any thoughts?
hey you know i once knew a man from nantucket
let's just say the rumors about him were greatly exaggerated
Nantucket -- more compact, easier to navigate. Cute little town where the ferry lands.
i have never been but getting there w/ your car can be tricky.
i would investigate in advance ... so you should plan accordingly.
there are lots of ferries so not worried about that... just wondering what here is to do
i think it is a chill NE vibe of nice beaches and nice little towns and food. mostly people go for a week of vacation but i imagine that in a day you will appreciate what it is all about.
the no car aspect appeals to people renting houses and have small kids ..
Been to Martha's Vineyard a couple times, decades ago. Charming. Small enough to bike most of it in a day. Used to have a famous club, Hot Tin Roof, which apparently is gone now. Never made it to Nantucket.
Nantucket: I think of whaling - sleigh ride
I think of windy beaches and cold water