A lot of the coverage is written as if it's a free-standing company going out of business, but as far as I can tell, this is a case of a subsidiary being shut down by the parent corporation (Sapporo).
good time to be east of the Green Mountains - they got a lot of rain but nothing quite as bad as Burlington or Montpelier... although I did see the river got really high in Queechee (last time it was that bad it washed away the main bridge through town)
If you're keeping score, James Comer, Rudy Giuliani, Jim Jordan, and Jason Smith have been trying to gin up a conspiracy of corruption against Joe Biden. They breathlessly touted their whistleblower. Then they said the whistleblower went missing. Then they said he was dead. Then they said the found him, but he's trying to protect himself because Biden is out to get him when he's actually a Chinese spy and an arms dealer on behalf of the Chinese government before the allegations came out. What a bunch of dolts.
After Trump botched his own defense in the E. Jean Carroll civil lawsuit because he couldn't keep his mouth shut, the DOJ reverses course and says that Trump was no longer responding as USPOTUS. This means that the case will move out of appeals and to trial in January.
I think it’s more CBS’/general sports media indifference to and apathy towards Cal revenue athletics in general. I have zero confidence that CBS is actually aware of the exorbitant buyout which makes firing Wilcox pretty much a non-starter, save for a disastrous, 3-29 type season. But at any self-respecting P5 school that values winning, a HC with his level of stagnation would be coaching for his job. But Knowlton’s gonna Knowlton…he almost kept Fox around.
To piggy back on SGB’s below…this schedule is as difficult as any I can recall…just a bear, and with a roadie at North Texas, Hugh Freeze’s Auburn roster, Penix, Nix, Caleb Williams, plus a couple of squads that Wilcox basically can’t beat (UCLA, Wazzu), I would be more surprised with 6-6 than I would with 3-9.
I read on Athlon that on a scale of 0 to 5 Wilcox is a 3 so kind of warm. If you are a zero you are a candidate for a bronze statue. If you are a 5 you'll likely be run out of town before the end of the 2023 season if not tarred and feathered beforehand!
I think Wilcox should at least be a 4. Like many people on that list, he hasn’t had a winning season since 2019 and has never had a winning Pac12 season at anytime.
In 7th grade middle school, I talked my mom into buying me a fluorescent yellow windbreaker for when we did our back to school shopping, by either Mossimo or Stussy, can’t remember, but it was f-ing bright. I was so pumped, and wore it on the first day of school. While we were all hanging around before school started that first day, some a$$hole sh-tbird made fun of me for wearing it…I took it off, hid it in the closet and never wore it again…always felt bad about that.
No 2 liked to wear some pink stuff (loved Dora) and had this cool pink polo. Wore it to preschool in Ky and some little punk kid (I assume) said, "boys shouldn't wear pink" and he stopped wearing pink.
Maillot Jaune - the yellow jersey of the Tour de France
since you asked, here is the latest update.
- flat sprint stage today (stage 11 of 21). overall contenders taking it easy.
- not surprisingly, the top two contenders Pogacar and Vingegaard (winners from last 3 years) are in the top 2 spots with a substantial gap to 3rd place and beyond.
- the top 2 are only separated by 17 sec
- there are 10 sec bonuses for each stage winner and plenty of hard mountain stages left, so it should be a close one going into the 2nd half
in "fun" driving stories, younger one runs the Volvo into a fence on their first attempt to drive on the street. goes around bend a little crooked and when i asked them to straighten out they panicked a little and hit the gas instead of the brakes!
You should wire up one of the passenger brakes, like in the Drivers Ed car that Campo had. I used to put my hand near the e-brake just in case it was needed. I bet the Volvo has one of the electric switches that you pull.
No. that was just the first image that came up. They do look pretty cool though. They have had some great colors in the past. I like Merlot Mica the best.
CAL
Single game tickets go on sale today. Get your Auburn tickets.
https://calbears.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=F23H&linkID=cal&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode=
Got two yesterday! $250. each!
Well where you sit, yeah. 250. I think it was 40 or 45 for N end zone up towards the top.
Well, I've bought a few for friends, always been $150 before.
So pumped for this! Thanks hag!!!
Go Bears!!!
Cal's Paulshawn Pasqualotto drafted by the Twins in the 12th round
https://twitter.com/calbaseball/status/1678841362735833093?s=46&t=GQgGzEvm18uQQTwlNk7fFw
If you want to do some light reading from a former Cal prof see the link. It came in an email I got from the National Archives.
https://www.archivesfoundation.org/newsletter/the-unabomber/?goal=0_c756ed33da-f0c46693f7-55174027&mc_cid=f0c46693f7&mc_eid=197469276f
DBD Street Journal
Inflation falls to 3% thanks in part to cheap gas.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/07/12/business/cpi-inflation-fed
Joe did that!
Bidenomics!!
Did we achieve the soft landing?
Stone thrower Elon Musk allegedly used Tesla funds to build him a literal glass house
https://www.engadget.com/tesla-reportedly-suspected-musk-was-using-company-funds-to-build-a-literal-glass-house-193314854.html
Anchor Brewing being shut down as a going concern: https://www.opb.org/article/2023/07/12/historic-anchor-brewing-co-is-closing-after-127-years-with-beer-sales-in-decline/
A lot of the coverage is written as if it's a free-standing company going out of business, but as far as I can tell, this is a case of a subsidiary being shut down by the parent corporation (Sapporo).
The worst part is that it isn't going into receivership. It's being liquidated.
That sucks.
PRO
Ben Joyce is 4 minutes younger than his brother Zach. Ben got drafted 11 rounds and a year later than his older brother - both by the Angels.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37996701/angels-twin-picks-zach-joyce-drafted-halos-brother-ben-team
F1's team Red Bull gives their Dutch rookie the horns after yet another terrible finish - dead last in the British Gran Prix
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/66169108
I’m over here eating popcorn and waiting for the next season of Drive to Survive.
US Pro Soccer to vote on whether relegation/promotion system to be implemented. Ryan Reynolds & Rob McElhenney unavailable for comment.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37996709/usl-set-vote-promotion-relegation-august-source
NL picks up their first All-Star win in 11 years. Camilo Doval gets the win. Kimbrell closes out an interesting game.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37990485/2023-mlb-all-star-game-live-updates-predictions-takeaways
Rooker hit a shot that the 3rd baseman caught and then doubled off the runner on first base. The only A's participation in the game.
Weather
Vermont got a shit ton of rain
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/wrightsville-dam-vermont-flooding-map-latest-b2373729.html
a friend of mine lives up on a hill over Burlington. here is photo he sent me
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mwA1mWYUUuF4zN7FA
I think that bridge is supposed to be higher off the water....
Just a little bit of water.
Wow.
That is a major flood
New Hampshire had a shit ton of ice
https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-meth-federal-charges-71123/44510028
good time to be east of the Green Mountains - they got a lot of rain but nothing quite as bad as Burlington or Montpelier... although I did see the river got really high in Queechee (last time it was that bad it washed away the main bridge through town)
I saw on reddit a golf course that had been open for one day turned completely into a lake (upstate New York)
https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/14wb0p4/flood_damage_on_a_9_hole_course_that_just_opened/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
DBD AV CLUB
[POLITICAL STUFF GOES HERE]
[Poll] Morning Consult poll shows that Trump's lead over DeSantis is now nearly 40 points
https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/2024-gop-primary-election-tracker
DeSantis proving that you can in fact be too much of an asshole for the Maga sector of the GOP
Trump pissed that there are two tiers of justice, normal justice and his type of justice
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-blasts-prosecutor-appointed-not-191214006.html
GOP parties in MN, CO, and AZ are essentially broke due to poor fund raising due to the GOP going all-in on crazy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/state-gop-party-has-just-53-in-the-bank-with-334-000-in-debt-fec-filing/ar-AA1dJAxM
OH NO!
Anyways. . .
Looks like they salted their own earth, so to speak.
Judge Cannon sets trial for August 14th in her satellite office, where the counties are 4-1 or 3-1 Trump voters.
https://news.yahoo.com/mar-lago-jury-selection-maga-083405762.html
Children being sexually groomed by pedophile drag queen? [Checks notes]... sorry, got that wrong... it's a church leader
https://deadstate.org/church-of-scientology-forced-14-year-old-girl-to-marry-senior-official-she-accused-of-rape-lawsuit-says/
If you're keeping score, James Comer, Rudy Giuliani, Jim Jordan, and Jason Smith have been trying to gin up a conspiracy of corruption against Joe Biden. They breathlessly touted their whistleblower. Then they said the whistleblower went missing. Then they said he was dead. Then they said the found him, but he's trying to protect himself because Biden is out to get him when he's actually a Chinese spy and an arms dealer on behalf of the Chinese government before the allegations came out. What a bunch of dolts.
SCOTUS will hear about whether AMT is constitutional
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/to-sabotage-or-not-sabotage-the-tax-code-for-scotus-thats-the-question
After Trump botched his own defense in the E. Jean Carroll civil lawsuit because he couldn't keep his mouth shut, the DOJ reverses course and says that Trump was no longer responding as USPOTUS. This means that the case will move out of appeals and to trial in January.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/politics/trump-carroll-justice-department-immunity/index.html
DeSantis' small-money fund raising isn't going to focus on fleecing rubes. Let's see how that works out for them.
https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-striking-risky-strategy-not-172445039.html
Mine
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Eight coaches who are on the hottest seats for the 2023 season.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2023-hot-seat-rankings-jimbo-fisher-among-seven-college-football-coaches-with-their-jobs-on-the-line/
Absolutely shocked that Wilcox isn’t in the hot seat or start winning now categories.
2023 is going to be brutal for Cal. Tough schedule, other Pac teams are strong. 2024 is our year. Rosebowl, baby!
Better go to the Ucla game this year. It’ll be our last chance to see Cal play in the rose bowl. The stadium, not the game.
I'm already planning on going with No 2 and 3. No 2 will be flying back to Nashville directly from LAX.
I think it’s more CBS’/general sports media indifference to and apathy towards Cal revenue athletics in general. I have zero confidence that CBS is actually aware of the exorbitant buyout which makes firing Wilcox pretty much a non-starter, save for a disastrous, 3-29 type season. But at any self-respecting P5 school that values winning, a HC with his level of stagnation would be coaching for his job. But Knowlton’s gonna Knowlton…he almost kept Fox around.
To piggy back on SGB’s below…this schedule is as difficult as any I can recall…just a bear, and with a roadie at North Texas, Hugh Freeze’s Auburn roster, Penix, Nix, Caleb Williams, plus a couple of squads that Wilcox basically can’t beat (UCLA, Wazzu), I would be more surprised with 6-6 than I would with 3-9.
2024 Sun Bowl or bust!!
Can’t grow a Rose without some Sun.
We’ll maybe get there some day…
I think they forgot Cal football existed.
Just like the rest of the country.
I think Knowlton forgot Cal football existed and about 50% of Cal fans would like to forget it exist.
I read on Athlon that on a scale of 0 to 5 Wilcox is a 3 so kind of warm. If you are a zero you are a candidate for a bronze statue. If you are a 5 you'll likely be run out of town before the end of the 2023 season if not tarred and feathered beforehand!
I think Wilcox should at least be a 4. Like many people on that list, he hasn’t had a winning season since 2019 and has never had a winning Pac12 season at anytime.
He likely would be coaching for his job THIS season at any other P5 school.
Canary as air monitor for NASA in space.
Pros:
Continuous air monitor •Ground-based heritage •Doesn’t require skilled operator •Relatively low mass, low power
•Can consider placing in
several locations •High sensitivity to many toxic gases •Multifunctional potential:
•air •water •food •music
•Probably will work in μgravity •Built in signal processing •Edible
Cons:
Requires fuel (food), water, maintenance •Generates waste products •Overload requires complete system replacement •Quantitative capability suspect •Limited life •Difficult to interface and network •Low precision display
•Could be hard to read in microgravity
Something bright yellow
Oregon jerseys
In 7th grade middle school, I talked my mom into buying me a fluorescent yellow windbreaker for when we did our back to school shopping, by either Mossimo or Stussy, can’t remember, but it was f-ing bright. I was so pumped, and wore it on the first day of school. While we were all hanging around before school started that first day, some a$$hole sh-tbird made fun of me for wearing it…I took it off, hid it in the closet and never wore it again…always felt bad about that.
:/
No 2 liked to wear some pink stuff (loved Dora) and had this cool pink polo. Wore it to preschool in Ky and some little punk kid (I assume) said, "boys shouldn't wear pink" and he stopped wearing pink.
boo!
Maillot Jaune - the yellow jersey of the Tour de France
since you asked, here is the latest update.
- flat sprint stage today (stage 11 of 21). overall contenders taking it easy.
- not surprisingly, the top two contenders Pogacar and Vingegaard (winners from last 3 years) are in the top 2 spots with a substantial gap to 3rd place and beyond.
- the top 2 are only separated by 17 sec
- there are 10 sec bonuses for each stage winner and plenty of hard mountain stages left, so it should be a close one going into the 2nd half
I gave up when Cav crashed out…
that was too bad especially after getting 2nd in the sprint before.
on the other hand, no one seems to be at the level of Phillipsen. 4 for 4 on flat bunch sprints.
on the other hand, they seem to have replaced the bright green sprinters jersey w/ a more muted green color. not sure why ...
Sunburst Yellow 1st gen Miata. Only 1519 made in 1992.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1992-mazda-mx-5-miata-4/
Cameron Frye’s dad definitely has one and rubs it with a diaper….
When Cameron was in Egypt's land: Let my Cameron go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvdfNnYOECs
This is exactly the first thing I thought when I read Cameron Frye.
Around the same vintage of my Miata but I got a white one
Do you still have it? I love my 97. Have had it for 4 years.
Nope. Lasted til 2010 though with 204,000 miles on the original engine
Regular oil changes and I bet it can go 300K+. amazing what a little bit of regular maintenance will do.
I pretty much changed the oil every three to four thousand miles. Brake pads I only replaced once surprisingly
you thinking of getting one?
in "fun" driving stories, younger one runs the Volvo into a fence on their first attempt to drive on the street. goes around bend a little crooked and when i asked them to straighten out they panicked a little and hit the gas instead of the brakes!
Is this making her more hesitant to want to drive?
a little bit yes. but we are still practicing in parking lot on day 5 and seems to have more patience for ramping up more slowly.
You should wire up one of the passenger brakes, like in the Drivers Ed car that Campo had. I used to put my hand near the e-brake just in case it was needed. I bet the Volvo has one of the electric switches that you pull.
No. that was just the first image that came up. They do look pretty cool though. They have had some great colors in the past. I like Merlot Mica the best.
https://carsandbids.com/auctions/rwYb7Lxy/1995-mazda-mx-5-miata-m-edition
If I were to custom paint a Miata, I would go with the Skyline R34 Midnight Purple.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a36697198/legal-midnight-purple-r34-skyline-gt-r-for-sale/