My latest running shows, the Adidas Ultra Boost, are very comfortable. I had been team Nike because almost every pair I've had were super comfortable, but No 1 said I should try the Ultraboosts and they indeed are super comfortable.
I've tried these before falling in love with Nike Flex about 5 years ago, and thought they were to rigid on the soles. How do they feel on your feet? I like some of the color combos they have over Nike and may give them a try again.
They feel good. I have a pair of Flex's (?), I think they are. Super lightweight with a similar heel. I wear them daily but seem to be uncomfortable if I wear them a long time or walk a long way in them.
The ultraboosts are much more comfortable, maybe because the soles are much thicker?
Cole Haan Zerogrand Wingtips. It's an earlier version. Super light. Really airy. I've worn them for year and without fail, I get a compliment on them every single time I wear them out in public.
Good old fashioned Converse Jack Purcells (the old style that has the blue soles that they don't make anymore). I've just about worn mine out and I have some new ones to replace them and I'm dreading the idea that they might be different enough to make them not perfect.
Rainbow sandals are the most comfortable that I've found. For running shoes Asics Gel Ventures have been my go to for over a decade now. Sperrys are the best boat shoe I've found. And Vans high tops are great everyday walking around shoes for me.
Doesn’t that article show that she was an active plotter to overthrow the election results as well. She may not have been plotting 1/6 but she was plotting a different route to subvert a free and fair election.
Trump fired Esper because he wouldn't do a military coup. He also asked Esper for military to storm capital, to which Esper refused. Proud Boys used instead.
I acknowledge the mockworthy notion of Liz Cheney as a principled defender of democracy given who her dad is, but man, her presentation was really good and her line about how Trump will be gone but your dishonor will remain was excellent
I thought it was well done but I am not their target audience. Hopefully the few moderates or independents saw this because conservatives/GQP/fox viewers sure didn’t watch this and if they do they probably wont find it compelling or convincing.
Which football programs are good at developing talents. Pac-12 TL:DR -- good, Washington; bad, USC, Oregon. Kinda-bad - Stanfurd, ASU, UCLA. Not ranked - Cal
[SB] OU Sooners are crazy good - hot bats, great defense. Win the national championship 10-5 over the Texas Longhorns. OU outscores its opponents 515-48 this season while batting 0.369 as a team with 0.731 slugging and 0.476 OBP. Pitchers only allowed 0.139 avg and 0.193 slugging and 0.224 OBP.
Down by 2, Two outs, man on second, 1-2 count - Tony LaRussa calls for an IBB against Trea Turner. It comes back to haunt LaRussa as Muncy promptly smacks a HR. LaRussa defends himself saying that Turner is great with two strikes against him vs. LHP. Data shows that LaRussa is wrong (0.261 avg). Doyers win 11-9.
Counterpoint…Muncy isn’t healthy, has been awful all year and was in his 1st game back from a 2-week IL stint, which he finished up by being awful in a brief rehab visit to AAA Ok City.
I’m no fan of LaRussa’s, but if you’re trying to keep the deficit at 2, I’d definitely rather roll the dice with Muncy v. the LHP than Turner. With 2 strikes tho, maybe see if you can get him to chase rather than the free pass. If Sousa throws 4 straight outta the strike zone & walks him “unintentionally” instead of the IBB, it’s a non-story.
Not really surprised by this anymore. Also, note that the bats make infrequent contact, nobody is going to hit even 20 home runs, and Neuse faded away. I suppose Bethancourt, Laureano, and Pache offer the most promise. Murphy and Brown are OK but are not of the caliber of Olson and Chapman.
You kinda get the feeling Farhan realized 2021’s 107-wins were unsustainably fluky with the players he had and did not go all in. Despite being valued at $3.5B, they were incredibly frugal in the offseason, signing 2nd tier guys that had question marks.
One of the lucky things about 2021 was relative good health. That hasn't happened this year; they're basically fielding lineups half full of Sacramento River Cats.
I'd expect things to improve if and when more players get healthy.
I'm not sure how the other divisions are doing. I assume the Cubs lead the East and the Phils are sucking since they fired Girardi. I forgot there are 3 WCs now.
The Pads are just living up to expectations from last season. Also a new and experienced manager is making a major difference. Actually the 2021 Pads were really good the first half of the season but fell off a cliff after the all star break.
Hopefully the Pads don’t have a repeat of 2021. Getting Tatis back for the second half of the season should help them sustain their success.
Dubs are 4 point underdogs for Game 4, Steph says he's ready to go, Iggy and Robert Williams III listed as day-to-day. Williams has been dominating the paint so if he is hindered the Warriors have a much better shot. Bummed I won't be able to watch the game.
Most are not but actually I think that is good. High weight and low rep training is not that great for anything other than competitive weight lifting. Lower weight and higher reps are better for football, I think, particularly in light of how grueling of an endurance challenge it can be.
FET: My work buddy, a fellow Cal grad, was a competitive weight lifter but now (early 40s) many of his joints are shot.
All true but I feel if someone did a similar deep dive on any major metro PD or even the LA county sheriffs office they would find equally shocking amounts of problems similar to Baltimore.
The Wire could have easily taken place in any major US city.
I thought it was good. It was sad to see Marlo take his life like that. I was confused why it is still considered an open homicide because didn’t he use his own service gun to shoot himself?
They said a “gun” was found under his right arm, with his walkie in his left...the cops mention that he didn’t drop it the walkie while “fighting” a suspect...maybe the other gun was a burner.
If it’s his own service weapon, it seems a pretty clear case.
It was okay...seemed to cover (and resolve) too much. But I'm assuming its purpose is to set things up for the next 9 eps. Same as S2E1, which also didn't knock my socks off.
I like the (again) Margo callback.
And they have extra features available in ATV+, which are "here's the alt history that occurred", even tho they go thru it quickly at the beginning of the ep.
My wife worked on S2 and S3 and I did a couple weeks of set dressing for S3. It’s filmed mainly on the Sony lot in Culver City. She did most of the dressing on the Mars science lab/rover and other surprises that I don’t want to spoil, so it’ll be fun to see her work.
Oh cool! You guys are what I call “real one percenters” in that you are among the 1% of population that actually has an interesting job that is fulfilling/enjoyable. I salute you from my little nook in the salt mines!
Just saw that. We (finally) got our visas for Japan a couple of days ago. (And our JP Pass vouchers arrived this morning!)
Leaving next Thursday, and purchased three covid test kits where you have a video call with a doctor during the testing process and they send you an official (hopefully negative) test report.
So, maybe don't need them. But will schlep them anyway, because who knows what'll happen over the next two months. Maybe the testing gets reinstated?
That's great! I'm a Japanese citizen so I can go anytime, but have been waiting for the process to ease. Hopefully they get rid of requirements to enter Japan too.
For you, I don't think that there are any requirements now, beyond a test before the flight. But no test after landing, no quarantine at an airport hotel, etc. Just jump on the NEX and head into town (assuming that town in Tokyo). Do have do use the SOS app to register, perhaps?
My wife was born in Japan and became an American citizen about 10 years ago. Tried to get permission to visit as a Japanese citizen (or based on daughter being Japanese), then a visa for me as carry-on. But had to eventually say that she has two passports, which is verboten for Japan. Now we're all out of the family registry and everything!
And had to get "visiting family" visas, which took a fairly long time. Luckily we live in San Francisco where there is a consulate.
Hopefully in a few months, it'll just be like old times: Buy a ticket, go thru immigration, done!
Other clothes
My favorite suit is gone!
I might have accidentally put it in the donation bin.
We are going to a wedding in FL this weekend so I need to get a new one quick.
Dang!
Comfortable shoes
My latest running shows, the Adidas Ultra Boost, are very comfortable. I had been team Nike because almost every pair I've had were super comfortable, but No 1 said I should try the Ultraboosts and they indeed are super comfortable.
I've tried these before falling in love with Nike Flex about 5 years ago, and thought they were to rigid on the soles. How do they feel on your feet? I like some of the color combos they have over Nike and may give them a try again.
They feel good. I have a pair of Flex's (?), I think they are. Super lightweight with a similar heel. I wear them daily but seem to be uncomfortable if I wear them a long time or walk a long way in them.
The ultraboosts are much more comfortable, maybe because the soles are much thicker?
Maybe that's the difference and personal preference. I really like the thinner and bendy soles on the Flex. Thank you for the feedback.
Nike Flex line. I could live in these.
Cole Haan Zerogrand Wingtips. It's an earlier version. Super light. Really airy. I've worn them for year and without fail, I get a compliment on them every single time I wear them out in public.
https://www.colehaan.com/2.zerogrand-wingtip-oxford-mortar-stitchlite/C35446.html
Good old fashioned Converse Jack Purcells (the old style that has the blue soles that they don't make anymore). I've just about worn mine out and I have some new ones to replace them and I'm dreading the idea that they might be different enough to make them not perfect.
Rainbow sandals are the most comfortable that I've found. For running shoes Asics Gel Ventures have been my go to for over a decade now. Sperrys are the best boat shoe I've found. And Vans high tops are great everyday walking around shoes for me.
The Reebok Nano x1 are quite comfortable.
Beach Air Monarchs
https://twitter.com/ShutdownFullcas/status/1534524355446771713?s=20&t=ys52hddnONfyDuwM5pysWQ
The Walk Shop in Berkeley
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
[WaPo] Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Arizona lawmakers to ignore democracy and appoint their own electors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/06/10/ginni-thomas-election-arizona-lawmakers/
She is in my top 5 I would like to see go to jail.
eh, It really should only be Trump, Eastman, and any other plotters of 1/6
Doesn’t that article show that she was an active plotter to overthrow the election results as well. She may not have been plotting 1/6 but she was plotting a different route to subvert a free and fair election.
My top 5:
Trump
Eastman
Guiliani
Meadows
Ginni
She was a supporter of the plot to be sure, but I don't think she helped to organize the attack on the Capitol. Which to me is the real crime.
I agree she didn’t help organize the attack on the Capitol but I believe trying to seat illegitimate state electors is also a crime.
Bye bye Miranda Rights
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3517724-expected-reversal-of-miranda-requires-states-to-step-up-on-policing/
I mean at this point fuck it, let’s just overturn Brown v Board, Marbury v Madison, and anything else of any importance
Reverse the Scopes Monkey Trial and let's embrace iron-age thinking
Who even needs laws? Just arm every citizen and let them all sort it out
You have the right to remain an attorney
JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE PUBLIC HEARING
Trump fired Esper because he wouldn't do a military coup. He also asked Esper for military to storm capital, to which Esper refused. Proud Boys used instead.
https://twitter.com/indy_americans/status/1535095237038809098
Bannon and Ivanka CYA and assert that Trump knew full well that he lost the election, setting the table that Trump was committing seditious treason
Trump says Bannon sucked and demotes Ivanka below Tiffany, saying that the latter was checked out
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-truth-social-jan-6-hearing-ivanka-pence_n_62a352f1e4b0cdccbe4f3f9d
Liz Cheney said Scott Perry was one of several lawmakers who asked for a pardon after seeking to overturn 2020 election
https://thehill.com/news/house/3518381-jan-6-panel-says-scott-perry-among-multiple-gop-lawmakers-who-wanted-trump-pardon/
The video. Very well done. This wasn't a dustup, Jack Del Rio, you nonce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rGmsXweEV0
Apropos: Ron Rivera fines Jack Del Rio $100k
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1535324009457401857
I acknowledge the mockworthy notion of Liz Cheney as a principled defender of democracy given who her dad is, but man, her presentation was really good and her line about how Trump will be gone but your dishonor will remain was excellent
I agree with all of this.
I thought it was well done but I am not their target audience. Hopefully the few moderates or independents saw this because conservatives/GQP/fox viewers sure didn’t watch this and if they do they probably wont find it compelling or convincing.
We thought it was really quite impressive.
Elsewhere in college
Which football programs are good at developing talents. Pac-12 TL:DR -- good, Washington; bad, USC, Oregon. Kinda-bad - Stanfurd, ASU, UCLA. Not ranked - Cal
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/College-football-development-teams-with-most-NFL-Draft-picks-recruiting-rankings-188549876/#188549876_1
Texas RB Bijan Robinson drives a Lambo via NIL
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdMEkWSO9Sv/
@Where's the Cal player with the Prius?@
Don’t you know we only drive Tercels at Cal.
oh duh.
Miami's Tyler van Dyke has a BMW 7 series via NIL
https://twitter.com/ShawnODare/status/1514303804476428292
Quinn Ewers has an Aston Martin
https://twitter.com/DarrenHeitner/status/1534617437282394115
Russia advances to championship. If I remember how this works correctly, they will take on Rocky Balboa for the title.
https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/russia-rallies-from-3-0-deficit-to-beat-newark-catholic-in-state-baseball-semifinals/KFLIQIAZKRDG5HNRQZQLLLVJPU/
[SB] OU Sooners are crazy good - hot bats, great defense. Win the national championship 10-5 over the Texas Longhorns. OU outscores its opponents 515-48 this season while batting 0.369 as a team with 0.731 slugging and 0.476 OBP. Pitchers only allowed 0.139 avg and 0.193 slugging and 0.224 OBP.
https://www.espn.com/college-softball/game/_/gameId/401444869
5-star QB from Saline MI (a suburb of Ann Arbor) commits to ND. Oh, and he's also the grandson of Lloyd Carr.
https://247sports.com/Player/CJ-Carr-46103482/
Lloyd Carr is a good grandpa
https://twitter.com/PeteSampson_/status/1535043705765351425
Good for all these kids getting cars as part of their NIL deals.
PRO
Down by 2, Two outs, man on second, 1-2 count - Tony LaRussa calls for an IBB against Trea Turner. It comes back to haunt LaRussa as Muncy promptly smacks a HR. LaRussa defends himself saying that Turner is great with two strikes against him vs. LHP. Data shows that LaRussa is wrong (0.261 avg). Doyers win 11-9.
https://uproxx.com/sports/white-sox-intentional-walk-max-muncy-home-run-highlight-video/
https://www.fangraphs.com/players/trea-turner/16252/splits-tool?splitArr=56,65,1,62,70,58&splitArrPitch=&position=B&autoPt=false&splitTeams=false&statType=player&statgroup=1&startDate=2002-01-01&endDate=2022-11-01&players=&filter=&groupBy=season&wxTemperature=&wxPressure=&wxAirDensity=&wxElevation=&wxWindSpeed=&sort=-1,1
Counterpoint…Muncy isn’t healthy, has been awful all year and was in his 1st game back from a 2-week IL stint, which he finished up by being awful in a brief rehab visit to AAA Ok City.
I’m no fan of LaRussa’s, but if you’re trying to keep the deficit at 2, I’d definitely rather roll the dice with Muncy v. the LHP than Turner. With 2 strikes tho, maybe see if you can get him to chase rather than the free pass. If Sousa throws 4 straight outta the strike zone & walks him “unintentionally” instead of the IBB, it’s a non-story.
I was watching and it was a head scratcher.
A's lose 8-4 to the Guardians as its bullpen shits the bed
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401355094
Not really surprised by this anymore. Also, note that the bats make infrequent contact, nobody is going to hit even 20 home runs, and Neuse faded away. I suppose Bethancourt, Laureano, and Pache offer the most promise. Murphy and Brown are OK but are not of the caliber of Olson and Chapman.
Giants lose 4-2 to Rockies at home, helped by four errors
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401355091
You kinda get the feeling Farhan realized 2021’s 107-wins were unsustainably fluky with the players he had and did not go all in. Despite being valued at $3.5B, they were incredibly frugal in the offseason, signing 2nd tier guys that had question marks.
This is the result.
The giants are finally regressing to the giants we all expected in 2021.
One of the lucky things about 2021 was relative good health. That hasn't happened this year; they're basically fielding lineups half full of Sacramento River Cats.
I'd expect things to improve if and when more players get healthy.
Except by the time more players get healthy, they may be out of it. Looks like the Padres are taking the place of the Giants this year.
Out of it? They would be in the playoffs if the season ended today. Remember there are three wild cards now.
I'm not sure how the other divisions are doing. I assume the Cubs lead the East and the Phils are sucking since they fired Girardi. I forgot there are 3 WCs now.
The Pads are just living up to expectations from last season. Also a new and experienced manager is making a major difference. Actually the 2021 Pads were really good the first half of the season but fell off a cliff after the all star break.
Hopefully the Pads don’t have a repeat of 2021. Getting Tatis back for the second half of the season should help them sustain their success.
Except Tatis will dislocate his shoulder again and refuse to get surgery or go on the DL.
Dubs are 4 point underdogs for Game 4, Steph says he's ready to go, Iggy and Robert Williams III listed as day-to-day. Williams has been dominating the paint so if he is hindered the Warriors have a much better shot. Bummed I won't be able to watch the game.
Gotta start getting some stops...Draymond needs to show TF up.
CAL
Can't you wear something different if you're going to do this?
https://twitter.com/ThisIsWenhao/status/1534694801400111104
Go Bears!!!
Time to get the bikini body ready
https://twitter.com/CalFootball/status/1535299675162497025
who am I to say, but those weights didn't look very big
Most are not but actually I think that is good. High weight and low rep training is not that great for anything other than competitive weight lifting. Lower weight and higher reps are better for football, I think, particularly in light of how grueling of an endurance challenge it can be.
FET: My work buddy, a fellow Cal grad, was a competitive weight lifter but now (early 40s) many of his joints are shot.
DBD AV Club
Finished We Own This City....sigh, Baltimore...
More like sigh at the “war on drugs”, broken police cultural and tactics, and our broken criminal Justice system.
Along with corruption at the highest level of government, poor leadership, and unmitigated poverty, that’s what makes it Baltimore...
All true but I feel if someone did a similar deep dive on any major metro PD or even the LA county sheriffs office they would find equally shocking amounts of problems similar to Baltimore.
The Wire could have easily taken place in any major US city.
Definitely any poor city, which begs the question - how do you measure the general wealth of a city?
What did you think of the final episode?
we need spoiler tag support.
I thought it was good. It was sad to see Marlo take his life like that. I was confused why it is still considered an open homicide because didn’t he use his own service gun to shoot himself?
They said a “gun” was found under his right arm, with his walkie in his left...the cops mention that he didn’t drop it the walkie while “fighting” a suspect...maybe the other gun was a burner.
If it’s his own service weapon, it seems a pretty clear case.
Good point about the other gun probably being a burner.
I liked most of it a lot, except the final episode seemed too editorial to me. Let me figure it out by myself.
I didn’t mind the editorial stuff only because it was based on a true story.
For All Mankind Season 3 premiered last night - so very much in for this season.
It was okay...seemed to cover (and resolve) too much. But I'm assuming its purpose is to set things up for the next 9 eps. Same as S2E1, which also didn't knock my socks off.
I like the (again) Margo callback.
And they have extra features available in ATV+, which are "here's the alt history that occurred", even tho they go thru it quickly at the beginning of the ep.
Excited as well. Mars, baby!!!
The Mars sets were really cool to see in person. Hard to comprehend how many bricks had to be crushed to make the Mars dust.
You saw the sets? Do tell! Where is it filmed?
My wife worked on S2 and S3 and I did a couple weeks of set dressing for S3. It’s filmed mainly on the Sony lot in Culver City. She did most of the dressing on the Mars science lab/rover and other surprises that I don’t want to spoil, so it’ll be fun to see her work.
Oh cool! You guys are what I call “real one percenters” in that you are among the 1% of population that actually has an interesting job that is fulfilling/enjoyable. I salute you from my little nook in the salt mines!
We'll watch tonight, watched The Offer last night
No more Covid test to enter US!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/10/politics/us-to-end-pre-departure-testing-requirement/index.html
Just saw that. We (finally) got our visas for Japan a couple of days ago. (And our JP Pass vouchers arrived this morning!)
Leaving next Thursday, and purchased three covid test kits where you have a video call with a doctor during the testing process and they send you an official (hopefully negative) test report.
So, maybe don't need them. But will schlep them anyway, because who knows what'll happen over the next two months. Maybe the testing gets reinstated?
At first I thought you said you'll scalp them anyways.
But it's a good idea to bring them along, just in case.
maybe if don't need them, we will scalp them :-)
That's great! I'm a Japanese citizen so I can go anytime, but have been waiting for the process to ease. Hopefully they get rid of requirements to enter Japan too.
For you, I don't think that there are any requirements now, beyond a test before the flight. But no test after landing, no quarantine at an airport hotel, etc. Just jump on the NEX and head into town (assuming that town in Tokyo). Do have do use the SOS app to register, perhaps?
My wife was born in Japan and became an American citizen about 10 years ago. Tried to get permission to visit as a Japanese citizen (or based on daughter being Japanese), then a visa for me as carry-on. But had to eventually say that she has two passports, which is verboten for Japan. Now we're all out of the family registry and everything!
And had to get "visiting family" visas, which took a fairly long time. Luckily we live in San Francisco where there is a consulate.
Hopefully in a few months, it'll just be like old times: Buy a ticket, go thru immigration, done!